Battle of the Third Reich

The patrol room of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau was not the kind of soft persimmon that was imagined, but it was a powerful unit that made the Shanghai people in the concession change. They not only equipped with military weapons such as machine guns, submachine guns, rifles, but also possessed An independent unit of police armored vehicles.

Of course, it cannot be the Rolls-Royce wheeled armored vehicle owned by the IWC. The group of businessmen on the board of directors will not do the stupidity of repeated investment. For different purposes, the patrol house buys a police made by Ford of the United States. Use armored trucks.

This armored police vehicle was originally a riot vehicle designed and used by the United States in its own country. During the Great Depression, class and racial contradictions in the United States deteriorated sharply, large-scale demonstrations and strikes often occurred, and they often eventually turned into mass riots. The American police desperately needed a police vehicle that could cope with this situation, and the Ford armored police vehicle came into being.

This armored vehicle modified from Ford's six-wheel heavy truck chassis has a closed armored car that can carry 20 fully armed policemen. The outer corners of the car body are curved. The vertical side panels have no protrusions. For outsiders to climb.

There is a firepower platform for up to six people standing side by side at the front of the car box. It is equipped with high-power searchlights and machine gun support frames. The top of the cab is also equipped with warning lights, microphones and high-frequency sirens, which can be used to warn the intimidating people. .

Because it is a police vehicle, the armor of the car box is not very strong, but it is thick enough to withstand the civilian version of the Thomson submachine gun. Driver safety should also be taken into consideration. An armor windshield that can be opened and closed is also installed at the front of the cab.

In order to increase the intimidation of ordinary citizens, the concession painted the whole body of this truck in bright red, and gave it a beautiful nickname "Red Maria".

Historically, after the public concession was occupied by the Japanese, these police vehicles were continued to be used by Wang Puppet police. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, they fell into the hands of the state government. At that time, the Shanghai Police Bureau set up a police motorcade. These Ford police vehicles were changed to a fashionable name called "Flying Fortress". During the liberation war, these police vehicles were frequently dispatched to arrest the Shanghai underground party and revolutionary people. The unique shrill alarm of the "Fortress" has become an important part of Shanghai people's memory of that white terror.

After the founding of New China, these special security vehicles did not lose their power. They were all transferred to the western region at that time to maintain local peace and tranquility.

The "Red Maria" of two public concession patrol houses is now in front of the Japanese Army.

The two security vehicles originally carried out a blockade mission at the intersection of Sichuan Road and Bridge, carrying a total of 30 special armed police officers, led by Lieutenant Stevens, an American patrol officer who once served in the US Army and participated in the famous Saint At the Battle of Miel, he received a Purple Heart Medal.

When the fighting broke out, they heard the gunshots for the first time. At this time, Stevens did not realize that the concession was being invaded, and thought that as usual, a newly opened shop was setting off firecrackers. The patrols all happily discussed that the boss was in trouble, and the consequences of ignoring martial law were very serious. At least, he should be fined three hundred yuan, and he didn't know which team was lucky to fall into the hands of the patrol.

Fortunately, the sentry post at Sichuan Road Bridge was equipped with a telephone, and Stevens’ armored vehicle unit was not caught flat-footed by the Japanese. At this time, the minds of the arresting room were all absent. At this time, an alarm was issued by a Chinese duty patrol officer in the central arresting room. He told Stevens that a Japanese army suddenly invaded the concession and is now attacking people who are full of important people. Chinachem Hotel.

The police officer on duty had no command power and could only ask Stevens to consider at his discretion whether he could immediately come to support him.

The Americans did not consider it at all, and immediately stated that the armored vehicles would attack immediately. As a retired veteran of the United States of America, he never put the Japanese in the eye. Dare to attack the Chinachem Hotel, this group of Japanese people is obviously going crazy, but this is a best chance to become famous. His Stevens name will definitely appear in the front page of the newspaper tomorrow.

Two armoured police vehicles left the Sichuan Road Bridge checkpoint and moved south along the Sichuan Road. After crossing the Beijing Road intersection, Stevens ordered the vehicle to turn left onto Dianchi Road. The crossfire was at the Nanjing intersection. He did not want to be like this. Hastily broke into the battlefield.

What the lieutenant did not expect was that his decision to avoid Nanjing Road led to this small armored convoy, which hit the Japanese army that was detouring from Dianchi Road.

The Japanese were now on high alert and found the oncoming red armored vehicle. The machine gunner did not hesitate to pull the trigger, and the bullet hit a string of Mars on the armor plate of the "Red Maria" cab window .

The thickness of the steel plate did not stop the attack of military rifle bullets. Four unlucky drivers were killed instantly. The armored truck rushed out of the road to the left and hit the Yeguang Real Estate Company building on the side. The driver in the rear car hurried to avoid to the right, and as a result hit the apartment building on the other side of the road. As a result, two red Marias blocked the entire Dianchi Road from left to right.

Lieutenant Stevens, who was standing on the platform of the carriage, hid in the carriage before the Japanese opened fire. At that time, another patrol standing on the platform with him was unlucky, and his shoulders were solidly hit. A shot.

The patrol in the car was unprepared for the collision, and as a result, it rolled on the floor. Everyone on the floor had never encountered such a battle. For a time, screams and exclamations rang out one after another, and there was a cowardly difference. Wet the crotch at one point.

Finally, lead inspector Stevens was an experienced veteran. He roared while kicking and kicking to stabilize his army. The lieutenant told his staff that they might have hit the opponent’s roundabout army. Falling into a dilemma, in this case, only by struggling to gain a chance, can you win the first line of life.

At the same time, Stevens warned these men that if they fled at this time, they would not only lose their jobs, but also be subject to disciplinary action by the Ministry of Industry.

More than half of this group of patrols were of Chinese origin. They did not lack courage to fight. At this moment they met an experienced commander, and their emotions quickly calmed down.

The special armed forces of the public concession possessed the most advanced ordnance equipment at the time. Their opponents were armed gangsters who entered the concession to commit crimes. These people often fought in the army, or had similar backgrounds. They were brutal, cunning, bold and accurate.

After the January 28th Anti-Japanese War, the special armed police dealt with a group of Wang Puppet police and secret agents. Just in mid-July last year, the Special Armed Police’s “Red Maria” was due to police jurisdiction over the road-building area. There was a fierce conflict with the Wang Puppet police, and dozens of Wang Puppets were immediately killed and wounded.

Then in October, in order to catch the Wang Puppet Assassin who had fled into the 76th, he directly blocked the gate of the 76th with a police car. At that time, the concession patrol and Agent Wang Puppet started a gun battle across the gate. Casualties.

Facing the Japanese army now, these armed policemen even gathered courage and fought back with tenacious weapons. Don’t look at these as police officers. Thirty people were equipped with twelve Thomson submachine guns, and they all carried huge one hundred rounds of drums, and the fighting distance was less than one hundred meters. The dense firepower was suppressed. Opposite Japanese soldiers.

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