Anti-Japanese War: When I get promoted, the system will explode with soldiers

"Baga, hurry up, stand in the middle of the road."

When Li Shaoyi caused discussion throughout Pujiang, the Japanese in Hongkou also took action. In the past two days, many Marine Corps officers and soldiers took off their uniforms and joined the cause of defending Hongkou.

After discussion, the Japanese high-level officials believed that since Western countries were involved, regular soldiers should not be allowed to participate. If the police stations of the two major concessions, including the marines of some Western countries, were involved, and Japanese soldiers were involved, it would be tantamount to declaring a war, and the Japanese could not bear such a thing now.

So the only option was to let the officers and soldiers take off their military uniforms and become ordinary soldiers to help the local young and middle-aged people defend Hongkou.

Among these more than 20,000 Japanese, about 5,000 young and middle-aged men and more than 1,000 regular marines were found. However, these people had taken off their military uniforms. When they arrived in Pujiang, they all had their own weapons. The Japanese Marines also opened the door of the armory and distributed some standard weapons to them.

Those who can make a living in Pujiang have basically received formal military training. Some of them are even masters of kendo and are very strong.

But they forgot that what they were facing today was not an ordinary Dragon Army, but an army that had defeated several of their divisions in the north.

"Sir, we have established several lines of defense from the western entrance all the way to the interior of Hongkou. Relying on the buildings on both sides, we have also driven out all the Chinese to prevent any spies from infiltrating."

As soon as you see this guy standing, you can tell that he is in the Japanese army. Sitting next to him is a middle-aged man in his forties. This man is Lieutenant Colonel Takushi Miyamoto of the Marine Corps.

This guy was entrusted by the Japanese high-level officials to take full command of this defense. As long as they could hold on and repel Li Shaoyi's attack, the Japanese side could use this victory to put pressure on the National Government and force the Pujiang Police Department to give up all the newly acquired rights.

Of course you have to win the battle. If you lose, it might be just like what Li Shaoyi said, Hongkou will be razed to the ground, so these people will have no way to retreat.

"We are inferior to them in heavy firepower, so I told all my soldiers not to compete with them on the streets. Instead, they should hide themselves in the buildings on both sides and learn how to shoot from the dark."

Lieutenant Colonel Miyamoto sighed helplessly. It was not like he had not fought in the Northeast before. When he fought in the Northeast, he just led his soldiers to charge. Now that he was in Pujiang, he had to change his tactics, otherwise these people would not be able to survive.

He has received accurate information. These people under Li Shaoyi are called police, but in fact they are also elites from all over the place. Judging from their weapons configuration, they are no different from the regular army of the 72nd Division in the north. They are even slightly stronger than those people. At least the proportion of tanks and armored vehicles is much higher.

"Why don't all the Marines come over? We have 3,000 Marines in Pujiang. If they were all gathered here and combined with the 5,000 warriors here, we could definitely hold Hongkou and get rid of Li Shaoyi."

A young officer said angrily that in his opinion this was the weakness of the Japanese authorities. They clearly had regular armed forces in Pujiang, but they couldn't even guarantee the safety of Japanese expatriates. What was the use of them?

"Baga, you short-sighted guy."

After hearing this, Lieutenant Colonel Miyamoto slapped the man twice. He knew that other people were also concerned about this matter. Not only those who had taken off their military uniforms, but also the young people organized locally, who also felt uncomfortable about this matter.

"We must be fully prepared. Li Shaoyi, coming from the north, is completely different from the other Dragon Kingdom generals. If we throw all our armed forces in Pujiang into the battle and are defeated, do you know what the result will be? If we want to seize Pujiang in the future, we won't even have a single person to support us."

Lieutenant Colonel Miyamoto had participated in high-level meetings and naturally knew what those people above were thinking. The reason for not allowing all the soldiers to be involved in uniform was, on the one hand, because they were afraid of armed conflict with Western countries, and on the other hand, it was the reason he mentioned.

Even if we fail now, we can still preserve the Japanese military camps and diplomatic embassies. What will be lost is only the residential area, which is also acceptable.

If a complete failure had occurred, according to Li Shaoyi's approach, he would most likely have directly demolished the Japanese military camps. Just look at the area around Peiping. The Japanese army has been stationed around Peiping for so many years. Now, no one even knows which direction the military camp gates face. They have all been occupied by Li Shaoyi.

According to some staff officers within the Japanese army, Li Shaoyi is very likely trying to replicate everything in Peking in Pujiang, so we must never fall into his trap.

This is what the young people among the people are most disgusted with. They have always been instilled with the idea of ​​forging ahead bravely. When the Long people did not provoke us, we still made them bow their heads. Now that they have reached the doorstep, you have abandoned the so-called bravery and started to learn strategies.

Although the people below were still unwilling to accept it, Japan was a country with a strict hierarchy. Most of the people who came to Pujiang to make a living were ronin in society. When the real officers in the army gave orders, these people did not dare to resist and could only take their weapons and prepare them everywhere.

After more than ten minutes, everyone felt the ground shaking slightly, which was obviously caused by the tanks and armored vehicles.

Lieutenant Colonel Miyamoto also picked up his binoculars on the roof of a four-story building. Fortunately, he did not let his men come over in military uniforms. All of Li Shaoyi's police were in the back, and the two rows standing in the front were Western patrolmen.

Lieutenant Colonel Miyamoto, in his position, naturally could not hear what the Western police were saying. He was holding two official documents in his hands, which should be the Hongkou Rectification Act they had issued, which required checking everyone's identity documents.

If they hadn't had Li Shaoyi's men behind them, perhaps Japan would have endured it and let them in for an investigation. But with Li Shaoyi's men standing nearby with guns, if the investigation really began, how could it have a good outcome? This guy always found fault with the Japanese.