Half an hour ago, when the 11th Brigade had just been attacked, Tani Shofu got the news.

Because his cavalry, tank wing, as well as two infantry wings of the 36th Brigade Regiment, suffered heavy losses in yesterday's attack, as well as in the night raid of the Separate Brigade, and lost their offensive capability.

Therefore, he dismissed the idea of sending troops to reinforce the 11th Brigade, and instead ordered Major General Tokutaro Itai to lead his troops to hold on, and he himself asked for reinforcements from the 9th and 11th Brigades, which had already arrived in Suzhou.

However, what Gu Shoufu did not expect was that an entire brigade and two full-fledged main field wings could not hold out for even half an hour, and they were defeated and defeated by the independent brigade.

Together with the brigade commander, Major General Itai Tokutaro, they lost contact, so when Xu Wen and Zhou Weiguo launched a surprise attack to the south of the city with hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles, and thousands of armored infantry.

Gu Shoufu jumped three feet high angrily: "Gaya Road, Banjing, how did you command this waste?" Can't a brigade hold out for even half an hour? ”

"And the 9th Division, the 11th Division, why are they stagnating in Suzhou? Don't make it early to join us? Outrageous! ”

Chief of Staff Tian Jiu Lixiong said with a heavy face: "General, according to the report of the forward observation post, the Chinese army that attacked the 11th Brigade of the Imperial Army is all mechanized troops, with a large number of tank fighting vehicles, and the firepower is very strong, and the 11th Brigade is full of infantry and lacks anti-tank equipment, so it will be defeated so quickly!" ”

"As for the 9th and 11th Divisions, they received an order from General Matsui Ishine to postpone their advance and stand by in Suzhou."

After speaking, Tahisa Toshio immediately suggested to Gu Shoufu: "General, the matter has come to this, with only the existing forces in our hands, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist the torrent of tanks and armor of the Chinese army, without further ado, we should retreat quickly, right?"

Withdraw to Suzhou, join the 9th and 11th Divisions, and the independent 5th Heavy Artillery Brigade, only by holding together can we block the attack of the Chinese Army! ”

Gu Shoufu roared in annoyance: "Gayalu, where did the hateful Chinese army come from with so many tanks and armored fighting vehicles? It's incredible! ”

"Now is not the time to pursue this, General, without further ado, please give the order to retreat immediately! If it's too late, I'm afraid I'll repeat the mistakes of the 11th Brigade! Tian Jiu Lixiong urged and persuaded very anxiously.

At this time, violent explosions happened to be heard in the southeast of Wuxi, as well as dense gunshots and deafening shouts of killing.

Gu Shoufu judged that it might be his own alert force that had already exchanged fire with the squadron.

He did not dare to delay any longer, and immediately ordered the 23rd Infantry Wing, which had been disabled, to block the independent brigade.

He himself, Chief of Staff Takushi Toshio and other personnel of the division and regiment headquarters were escorted by the tanks and cavalry wing, which had lost more than half of them, and evacuated first.

Ushijima led the 36th Brigade and the remnants of the 45th Wing, another disabled wing, the remnants of the 45th Wing, then retreated.

Xu Wen and his men easily defeated the small Japanese blocking force in the southeast corner of Wuxi, and commanded the tank armored troops to continue to attack south.

In the south of the city, he encountered the 23rd Infantry Wing, which had been left behind, and the commander of the 23rd Wing had already died, and there were less than 1,000 men left in the whole wing, under the acting command of a large captain.

The devil soldiers lay in the trenches of the offensive position, trying to resist by relying on the fortifications and blocking the attack of the tank armored army of the independent brigade.

However, the bullets they fired, hitting the tanks and armored vehicles of the separate brigades, simply could not inflict any substantial damage on them.

On the contrary, as soon as the guns on the side of the Independent Brigade were fired, the devil's position suddenly turned into a sea of fire, and countless devil soldiers fell under the bombardment of tank shells and the strafing of a large number of vehicle-mounted machine gun bullets.

The strength of the two sides was not of the same level at all, and under the fierce blows of hundreds of tanks and armored combat vehicles of the independent brigade, the remnants of the 23rd Wing were quickly wiped out.

The armored infantrymen with Garand semi-automatic rifles took advantage of the situation to rush forward and occupy the position of the devil.

It was less than ten minutes before Gu Shoufu and the others fled, and immediately, Xu Wen ordered the tank regiment and the armored regiment to quickly cross the Japanese position and pursue the fleeing devils south.

The infantry quickly boarded the tanks and armored vehicles as their tanks and armored vehicles crossed the Japanese positions.

Gu Shoufu, an old devil, originally ran in a military truck, but while running, the truck broke down and couldn't leave.

Annoyed, Gu Shoufu had no choice but to jump out of the truck, get a war horse from the cavalry wing, and plan to escape on horseback.

As soon as they were delayed, they were caught up by the tank armored forces led by Xu Wen and Zhou Weiguo.

At that time, in order to pursue the devils, Xu Wen ordered all the tanks and armored vehicles to move forward at full speed, and after chasing for a few minutes, he saw some devil cavalry and tank armored troops, surrounding several military trucks.

Without thinking about it, Xu Wen immediately ordered: "Fire immediately!" Kill them for me! Don't let any of them go! ”

The Tiger tank was the first to roar, followed by the Leopard tank, T34 and hundreds of other tanks followed suit.

Hundreds of shells fell fiercely, and suddenly exploded violently.

A large number of devil officers and soldiers, including Gu Shoufu, were blown out, and the military trucks were also torn apart and disintegrated on the spot.

The explosion also affected the devil cavalry around the truck, as well as the tank armored troops, causing a lot of damage to them.

However, at the critical moment when the explosion struck, Chief of Staff Takushi Toshio and several other adjutant guards sacrificed their lives to pounce on Gu Shoufu.

Therefore, although Gu Shoufu was also blown out, he was not killed on the spot, but was seriously injured and fell into a ditch in the distance and fainted.

The tank regiment opened fire again, and fired hundreds of shells, and now the cavalry and tank units of the devils were all killed, and more than a dozen remaining tank and armored vehicles, together with a large number of cavalry, were hit by the explosion, and they burst into flames and exploded one after another, and the people turned on their backs.

Two waves of artillery shells hit the devil tanks that followed Gu Shoufu to break through, and the cavalry lost more than half, and the powerful firepower of the independent brigade could not care about Gu Shoufu, who was uncertain about his life and death, and fled directly in all directions.

Xu Wen didn't know if the two waves of shells had killed Gu Shoufu just now, so he picked up the radio and ordered: "Stop the shelling, all tanks and armored vehicles bypass the range of the shelling just now and continue to pursue the enemy!"

The armored infantry got out of the car and searched for me to see if there was the body of Toshio Tani, the commander of the Japanese division! ”

With Xu Wen's order, all the tanks of the tank regiment except for the Tiger tank led the armored combat vehicles of the armored regiment under the guidance of the Leopard and T34, bypassing the area in front of them that was shrouded in firelight, and continued to pursue the rout of the devil.

The infantry of the armored regiment jumped out of the car one after another, rushed into the battlefield covered by their own artillery fire with guns, and began to look for Gu Shoufu's body in the smoke and firelight.

In the end, a soldier with a submachine gun found the unconscious Gu Shoufu in the ditch, and hurriedly called his comrades to fish him out.

The ditch where Tanisoo was located was not deep, so he was not drowned, but was only stunned by the blast wave.

When he was carried out by the infantry of the Independent Brigade, the old devil woke up and suddenly tried to get up, but was stopped by several infantry of the Independent Brigade with the muzzle of a submachine gun!

When Xu Wen heard the news, he immediately jumped down from the Tiger tank, looked at Gu Shoufu, who was suppressed by his own soldiers, and shouted murderously: "Bring a knife to Lao Tzu, I'm going to chop this dog alive!" ”