In the early morning, two infantry brigades of the Japanese army surrounded the county town of Yedong and conducted a thorough search of the surrounding area to ensure safety.

The Japanese brigade headquarters knew the root cause of the entire battle defeat from the rout, and this time, it made careful arrangements.

After the encirclement, the Japanese used aircraft to bomb.

All use incendiary bombs.

The Japanese army also has this thing.

It is mainly fueled by yellow phosphorus, which is very dangerous.

More than a dozen planes skimmed by, and frequent bombing at low altitudes.

The entire county was bombed three times by the Japanese army.

The county town was in flames.

Looking at the fire, the officers and soldiers of the Japanese army outside the city clapped their hands.

The two captains of the Japanese army pulled out their sabers and shouted arrogantly: "Revenge, revenge, revenge for the Shimeji Mushroom Brigade, revenge for the Kurokawa Artillery Special Detachment!" ”

At five o'clock, the light was dark, and the whole county was like a burning stove, with swirling black smoke and collapsed houses, like hell on earth.

"Hey, hey, if the people are still inside, they must all be cooked."

"Yes, yes, barbecue, it's delicious!"

"Replacing soldiers with fire is the best tactic, and our command is finally smart."

The Japanese soldiers talked and laughed and were triumphant.

They all believed that the Chinese army must have been heavily armed here, and it must have been almost burned by the fire.

Some people worry that the Chinese are good at using tunnel warfare and must hide in their burrows.

The other officers laughed at it, in the tunnels, it was okay, but the fire burned down the county, the houses collapsed, covered the entrances and exits, and could suffocate them to death.

Also, the fire consumes a lot of oxygen, and without oxygen, you can't hide it deeply.

Optimism permeated the Japanese positions.

Then, the Japanese army carried out another tempting tactical deception operation against the county seat.

When the fire was about to open, the Japanese advance detachment entered the county seat and began to observe and search, and at this time, the sky was bright.

The fire was still burning, and the Chinese army did not come out, and the Japanese search team could not go deeper, because the fire was too strong, and it smoked people, and for the sake of their monkey fart skin, the devils retreated.

The officer reprimanded the search team.

The original intention was to make a fuss and let the Chinese army come out to fight, and the Japanese army would bombard it with artillery.

The leader of the search detachment told the infantry squadron leader that the fire was so great that it was as if the entire county was burned.

Didn't see the Chinese.

The Japanese army did not know that the Chinese army had long been on guard against this, and the enemy wanted to surround and attack, either by artillery bombardment or by aircraft, so every night, everyone slept in the underground tunnels.

This is true of the army, and the same is true of the common people.

Dig deep holes and accumulate grain!

In fact, the casualties of the Chinese military and civilians were extremely limited, and only a few people were careless, cheating and slippery, and when digging and building basements, they were too shallow.

The entrance and exit were not tightly closed, and they were suffocated by toxic smoke.

How many people, the vast majority of people, are fine.

can be in accordance with Yang Chaoran's requirements and standards, and now, in the underground tunnel, it is beautiful.

"Haha, the devil's cannonball was in vain."

"It's not a shell, it's an airplane bombing, you listen, it's different."

"There's definitely a fire outside, and we feel like the dirt above our heads is warm."

Bali in the west of the city, Balidian Village.

After the Japanese army surrounded the village, they bombarded the village indiscriminately.

Four mountain guns and twelve mortars blasted the village to ruins.

The flames are blazing.

The Japanese also used incendiary bombs.

The whole tossed for more than an hour, leveling the village to the ground.

Looking at the ruins and fires, the Japanese army smiled.

Finally relieved of the hatred.

So, when the fire was a little smaller, the Japanese soldiers stepped forward one after another, untied their belts at the edge of the ruins, and blew water on that side.

Such a lewd action is to express hatred for Yang Chaoran's army, and super happiness after eliminating one.

In Wulibao, east of the city, the Japanese army did the same, in short, everything disappeared, and the Japanese army completed the prescribed actions perfectly according to the predetermined plan.

Japanese soldiers, around the ruins, hand in hand, dancing and singing to celebrate the victory.

If you don't use a knife or a gun, you don't see a single person, you solve the battle, and you win without a fight, and you are happy?

When the news reached the brigade headquarters, the commander of the Japanese brigade located twelve miles south of the county seat, General Kuroki, was relieved.

As for the commanders of the two divisions of the puppet army who followed the battle, they were even more observant and extremely active.

Sing praises to the commander of the Kuroki Brigade and brag about it.

Kuroki immediately took a truck, took the puppet army officer, and moved the headquarters forward.

At nine o'clock in the afternoon, Kuroki arrived at the county seat, climbed the county seat in person, and patrolled the streets.

The whole county is a scorched earth.

The county seat with a population of several thousand, because they are all bungalows, the area is not small, and now, the houses have collapsed, and there is no trace of the past.

"Enemy? Ran away? Why are there no corpses? Kuroki was a little upset.

An infantry squadron leader hurriedly reported and said that the county town had been razed to the ground, and the Chinese army must have been wiped out.

Kuroki is not so easy to deceive: "Then, what about the residents of the county? Why don't you see one? ”

The county seat, the streets, and a large number of ruins were all barbecued by the fire, and the Japanese army could not approach, so they could only say that they might have fled.

"That's true, the people are afraid of the imperial army's crusade, and they are also worried about the bullying of the Eighth Route Army, so they have fled, this is an empty city!" Xu Deming, a puppet army division commander, said flatteringly.

Kuroki frowned: "So, the Eighth Route Army also fled?" We have consumed a lot of precious ammunition in this battle, and we have not gained anything? ”

Senior Commander Xu was frightened: "No, no, the Eighth Road is good at sports warfare, maybe, it really escaped." ”

Another puppet army division commander, Niu Guodong, stepped on him fiercely, and hurriedly made up for it: "Hehe, Taijun, Your Excellency General Kuroki, I think that although the Eighth Route Army is good at sports warfare and guerrilla warfare, they will not escape, otherwise, our intelligence will not be so accurate, they are at their feet, they must be in the tunnel, this is a very simple thing, in the countryside, the people still dig sweet potatoes and hide them." ”

Kuroki admires Master Niu more. "Okay, I will entrust Commander Niu's troops to find tools immediately, actively excavate the ruins of the entire county, we will definitely find the corpse of the enemy, we must see people alive, and corpses when we die!"

General Kuroki is the leader of this unit, a generation, and his words work, the two puppet army division commanders hurriedly agreed, and Commander Niu dispatched an infantry battalion with various tools to dig.

By the way, they also went to villages within a few miles of the city and arrested many people to replace them.

They knew that once the Chinese army in the city did not die, it would inevitably be a fierce battle.

More than 300 people have been arrested.

Quick, dig for me, you must dig down to the bottom, dig out the pit of the eight roads! Whoever doesn't work hard, Lao Tzu will destroy his whole family! "Niu Guodong, a bandit-born traitor leader of the Imperial Alliance, is fierce and vicious, clapping his pistol and shouting.

The Japanese retreated outside the city, with only a handful of soldiers in charge of liaison and checking the results of the excavation.