On the terrace of the Japanese Consulate in the Shanghai Public Concession, the two men looked towards the Shanghai New District. In fact, in their position, they could only see some dark red colors appearing in the ink-stained sky, and a few gunshots could be heard vaguely, but they could not see the situation in the Shanghai New District.

At this time, someone walked up to the terrace and said, "Report to the team leader, the people from the outside launched an attack on the intersection of Shanghai New District."

A man said: "Very good, tell Kawashima that success or failure is here. At all costs, we must attack Shanghai New District."

After the visitor left, another man said, "Nakamura, how confident do you think we are to attack Shanghai New District."

Nakamura smiled bitterly and said, "30%."

Another exclaimed: "Only 30%?"

Nakamura nodded and said, "Miyamoto, our opponent is overseas Chinese. It is quite good to be able to be 30% sure."

In fact, according to the plan previously formulated by the two, the attack on the Shanghai New Area was just a feint attack. The main purpose was to attract the attention of the Shanghai New Area and create opportunities for the personnel within the Shanghai New Area; but due to the hasty and early attack, the personnel within the Shanghai New Area were not fully prepared, so the guest and host were also transferred and could only play a restraining role, while the main force became personnel outside. Therefore, if the personnel outside could not attack the Shanghai New Area, then this operation would be considered a failure. After all, the personnel within the Shanghai New Area were only limited in damage.

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"Observation, offensive, the first person to attack Shanghai New District will be rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver. The top 100 prizes will be awarded 100 taels of silver. Those who dare to retreat will be killed without any decision." Kawashima Naoshima waved his arms quickly and shouted loudly. He has been running in China for many years and collecting intelligence, so he has already practiced a standard Chinese official language, and he can't tell anyone about it.

The commander of the attack on the Shanghai New Area from the outside was Kawashima Natsu. Of course, his external identity was a confidant of Prince Su Shanqi. In fact, this identity is not fake. He has a good personal relationship with Prince Su. The plan for attacking the Shanghai New Area this time was Kawashima Natsu planned and organized for Prince Su. Of course, he also received full support from Prince Su, and even appointed him to command in Shanghai.

Of course, Prince Su didn't know that he was being used by Kawashima Langsu, and was very concerned about this operation. With his full support and operation, he actually gathered more than 300 people, some of whom were the servants of Prince Su, as well as other powerful Manchu family servants and slaves, or Eight Banner soldiers. Prince Su was good at martial arts since he was a child, so his servants were also good at dancing guns and sticks. This time, Prince Su sent more than 50 servants. Now the Qing court is training new troops, so the Manchu people are naturally not willing to remain silent, and they have also organized two new troops. With Prince Su's power, it is not difficult to get dozens of people over here.

Another part is the thieves, flying thieves, and many rascals and rogues who Prince Su used money to buy. At the same time, Prince Su also obtained more than 60 Hanyang rifles.

After Kawashima Natsu gained command, he could not be completely relieved of this group of people. Of course, Kawashima Natsuma did not know that in the initial plan, he was actually just a supporting role in the feint attack, so he was also very concerned about this operation and managed to get more than 70 guns from Japan. They were all retired soldiers, with rich military combat experience, and were also Kawashima Natsuma's biggest trump card.

Now Kawashima Natsu's subordinates have nearly 400 people, and about 130 guns of various types. They are very strong. Therefore, after receiving the order, Kawashima Natsuma was quite confident, not to mention that there were lurking personnel inside the Shanghai New District to attract the attention of overseas Chinese.

However, after the attack began, it turned out to be more than Kawashima Watsu. The defense of the Shanghai New Area was quite tight and the firepower was strong. As a result, the first attack on the Shanghai New Area lasted only less than 10 minutes, and more than 20 people were lost.

Unlike the Shanghai New Area, the defense of the outside world is well prepared. On the one hand, Jiang Shiwei and Liu Lantao did not draw troops from the external garrison troops to reinforce the battle in the Shanghai New Area, so that the external garrison troops maintained complete strength. On the other hand, the Shanghai Office has been closely monitoring the hostile elements in the old Shanghai area. As soon as they set out, someone informed the Shanghai New Area, so the external garrison troops had enough time to gather and arrange and wait for the battle.

Of course, the foreign garrison army is not completely weak. Although there is a battalion of the foreign garrison army, which seems to be quite a lot, there are five intersections in the Shanghai New District, namely two in the old district of Shanghai; two in the public concession; and one in the French concession.

Although the special working group discussed that hostile personnel are unlikely to attack from the public concession and the French Concession, because in that case, the French Concession will definitely be strongly retaliated by the East China government, so the possibility of attacking from the two intersections of the old city of Shanghai is greater, but they dare not completely give up their vigilance against the public concession and the French Concession. In the end, they decided to set up one platoon at the three intersections of the French Concession, and two platoons at the two intersections of the old city of Shanghai are set up two platoons at the two intersections of the old city of Shanghai.

In addition, there is a machine gun platoon in Shanghai New District, equipped with 6 general-purpose machine guns, one is arranged at each of the five intersections, and two combat platoons are left, and one machine gun is used as a mobile force.

Kawashima Langsu's plan is to concentrate all its superior forces and attack an intersection, striving to open the gap in the Shanghai New District. However, although the two combat platoons only have 80 people and a 6-person machine gun team, Kawashima Langsu cannot fully deploy its personnel at the intersection, so the advantage of the number of people will naturally not be able to be used; and Shanghai Xin has made sufficient preparations at each intersection, built sandbag walls, dug trenches, and formed a three-dimensional crossfire network; and the garrison People's Army is a professional soldier, who has received professional and strict military training, which is not comparable to the rabble that Kawashima Langsu temporarily put together.

As a result, Kawashima Natsu's first attack was severely attacked by the People's Army and quickly retreated. The People's Army was useless even for machine guns. Kawashima Natsu was also quite annoyed. Although he did not expect to break through the People's Army's defense in one go, it was greatly unexpected to him. So Kawashima Natsuma Natsu promised a heavy reward and severe punishment, and moved the silver to the scene; while reorganizing the attack. Moreover, this time he mobilized 50 Japanese and formed a supervision team.

According to Kawashima Natsu's plan, the Chinese were first used to consume the morale and ammunition of overseas Chinese. After the People's Army's troops were exhausted and the ammunition was exhausted, the Japanese launched a final attack and broke through the People's Army's position in one fell swoop. This plan is of course impeccable in theory, but in actual combat, Kawashima Natsu made a big mistake, that is, the plan took too long, and this action must be decided quickly.

Inspired by Kawashima Naruto's heavy reward, the attacking team was also a little excited, and each raised his weapons, swords, spears, swords, and rifles, and rushed towards the People's Army's defense line.

When they rushed to the 200 meters away from the defense line, gunfire sounded on the People's Army's position and launched fierce shooting at the enemy. Even machine guns joined in the shooting. The firepower was stronger than the first time. The people rushing in the front row fell in rows like dead grass in the wind. When the people behind saw it, they dared to rush forward. Although the prize was considerable, they still had to have life to enjoy it. Therefore, they all turned their heads and retreated.

However, this time Kawashima Langsu was not polite and ordered the supervision team to shoot. As a result, more than a dozen people who retreated first were shot and fell to the ground. When the others saw Kawashima Langsu playing, they all stopped and dared not retreat any longer.

Seeing that the retreating teams stopped, Kawashima Nasu ordered the supervisory team to stop shooting and shouted: "You all listen to me. This battle is only allowed to advance, not retreat. Those who break into the Shanghai New Area will still be rewarded. However, those who dare to retreat will be killed at the same time. Let me go back to attack immediately." Then Kawashima Nasu ordered the supervisory team to advance 10 steps, and those who have not turned back to attack in everything will be killed on the spot.

The members of the supervision team are all Japanese veterans and well-trained, and are by no means comparable to these rabbles. After receiving the order from Kawashima Natsu, they immediately raised their guns and stepped forward in a straight line. After 10 steps, they stopped and were full of momentum.

When the retreating people saw it, they did not dare to stop, so they had to turn around and attack the People's Army's position. However, it was not easy to break through the People's Army's position. Every time they wanted to go forward, they had to pay a heavy price. Moreover, when they advanced to the People's Army's position, there were still greetings. Therefore, the enemy attacked had suffered heavy casualties, but they could not move the People's Army's position. However, there was a supervision team behind them, and the enemy did not dare to retreat. They could only rush forward with the bullet and a few smart people simply lay in the pile of dead people to pretend to be dead, so as not to be in a dilemma.

Although no one retreated, Kawashima Natsusu was still annoyed, because the casualties were too great, and the opponent's defense line was still unstoppable. Moreover, nearly half of the casualties during the attacking personnel were killed and killed. If they continued to fight like this, it would probably take long to wipe out all the people. The People's Army's energy seemed to be abundant and the ammunition seemed to be sufficient. And Kawashima Natsusu was not sure whether his last ace could break through the People's Army's position.

In fact, this is another mistake made by Kawashima Nasu, which is that there is no firepower suppression on the People's Army's positions. He has more than 70 Japanese veterans around him, and everyone is equipped with guns. If they are organized to suppress the People's Army's positions, the pressure on the offensive personnel can be greatly reduced. As a result, the People's Army can shoot the attacking enemies without any scruples.
Chapter completed!