Seeing the Japanese troops rushing towards him in front of him, the loader Gaoren, who was shooting at the front with his parallel machine guns in his arms, couldn't help but complain: "These little devils are really crazy, why don't they surrender?" ”

"Are you stupid?" The company commander Luo Kebiao, who was intently observing the movements around him, scolded: "This is not simple, if you are replaced, will you surrender?" ”

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In fact, this question is also a question that has always puzzled Westerners, and on this issue there has been the most direct collision between Eastern and Western thoughts. In the eyes of Westerners, there is nothing more precious in this world than life, and it is not shameful to surrender to the enemy when there is no hope of breaking through in the war, or when the ammunition and food are exhausted, and the Western society is also quite tolerant of these surrenderers, and they even think that those captured soldiers have suffered more and are worthy of admiration.

In the Oriental thought, the moral requirements for people are very high, and people praise Wen Tianxiang who "has not died since ancient times, and left Dan to take care of the sweat and green", and Su Wu who "stayed in the Huns for 19 years and held the festival unyieldingly" and so on. These heroes have been praised for thousands of years by the Chinese for their spirit of not losing their will in the face of money, death, vanity and exile, and never surrendering or changing their masters.

In China, if a person surrenders, whether he is forced by a helpless situation, or the straw on the wall is dumped in the wind, as long as he takes the step of "surrender", he will definitely be despised by the world, like Li Ling who surrendered to the Xiongnu (pity Sima Qian), Wu Sangui who "rushed to the crown and was angry for the red face", and Xu Yu who turned his back on Yuan Tou Cao to set fire to the black nest.

And Japan, which is deeply influenced by Chinese culture, is no exception, (after all, it is the nourishment of Tang culture). In Japanese culture, glory means fighting to the death. In a hopeless situation, Japanese soldiers would commit suicide with the last grenade, or carry out a massive mass suicide attack. Because of this, Su Jin has been fighting the Japanese army for more than four years, and the scale of the Japanese Protectorate Army he established is only a few thousand people now, not that Su Jin does not want to expand the scale of the Protector Army, but because it is difficult to find prisoners.

As a soldier, although he admired the spirit of the Japanese army who fought to the last man, this did not prevent Niu Manzhuang from driving the Tiger tank to rush forward at a high speed of 23 kilometers to crush the black earth under the feet of the man.

In the face of the onrushing tanks, some desperate Japanese soldiers roared and rushed forward with bayonets against machine-gun bullets, and after being swept down by the machine guns, they were then crushed into a puddle of mud by the hard tracks. On the battlefield where the gunfire was roaring, there were stumps and broken arms that had been crushed by the tracks. The 57th Division was also tenacious, and did not collapse after being broken through the two lines of defense, but was supported by the leadership of the division commander, Lieutenant General Minoru Kusumoto, and did not surrender or turn around and flee in all directions without expectations, and many squads and squadrons fought to the last man.

"Woo ......"

A black Stuka dive bomber dropped a two-hundred-kilogram bomb near a trench in the distance at an angle of more than 80 degrees with a terrible whistling sound, and in the midst of the shaking of the mountains, a huge blood-red fireball tumbled and expanded with thick black smoke, and a huge explosion spread throughout the wilderness.

The commander of the 57th Division, Lieutenant General Kusumoto Shitaka, took the remaining more than 300 remnants of the 57th Division to hide in a small forest, most of these soldiers were the staff officers, guards and wounded soldiers of the 57th Division.

Minoru Kusumoto, who hadn't closed his eyes for two consecutive days, was wearing a dirty military uniform, and the two generals on his shoulders had become very dim. The battle lasted for two days, the commanders of the 52nd Infantry Wing and the 117th Wing had been killed one after another, the commander of the engineer wing and the captain of the baggage wing were also seriously wounded, and the remaining troops of the whole division were less than 1,000 people.

Even when the battle situation reached such a dangerous point, Minoru Kusumoto still tried to straighten his waist, looked at the soldiers and officers who were staggering or sitting or standing with a solemn face, took a deep breath, and then asked Kobayashi Shunichi who was standing beside him: "Kobayashi-kun, the people of Shina are about to rush up, are the people below ready?" ”

Kobayashi Shunichi, the last remaining wing commander of the 57th Division, nodded: "Your Excellency the division commander, I have already arranged it, as long as you give an order, we can immediately carry out the military flag farewell ceremony." ”

Kusumoto Minoru closed his eyes in pain, his originally straight waist was also bent down a little, listening to the gunshots that were getting closer and closer, he knew that he couldn't drag it any longer, so he walked up to a mound next to him, and the nearby Japanese soldiers also stepped forward when they saw this, most of these people were carrying gunsmoke, and there were many wounded soldiers who needed to be helped, and finally the three soldiers of the flag protection team strode to the mound with three wing flags and saluted Kusumoto Minoru respectfully.

At this time, Minoru Kusumoto's face was sad, he strode in front of the flag captain, stretched out his white-gloved hand and stroked the tassels on the three military flags, the Japanese military flag was very similar to the Fengjie held by the diplomatic envoys of ancient China. The flag is a long string of tassels, the top of the wooden lacquered flagpole is gilded, symbolizing the emperor's 16-petal chrysanthemum embossed gold emblem, Kobayashi Shunichi unfolds three military flags with both hands, and the words Hirosaki United, Akita United, and Mino Wing are sewn on the lower corner of the long section sewn on the tassels.

Because the Japanese army has the rule that if the flag is there, the system is there, and if the flag is not there, the system is not there, so any wing flag is a great treasure in the Japanese army, and each wing must select the best second lieutenant officer from the wing as the flag bearer, and set up a special flag guard squadron to protect it, so even if it has reached the final point, Minoru Kusumoto still leaves a complete squad to protect the three wing flags.

Putting down the tassel and the Rising Sun Banner in his hand, Minoru Kusumoto sighed lightly, just now he had sent the last of his troops, mostly composed of wounded soldiers, to buy time for himself, and now it was time to burn the military flag according to the regulations.

He whispered, "Let's start, Second Lieutenant Ono!" ”

"Hay!"

The second lieutenant holding the flag immediately turned around and walked towards the military flag, he put away the three wing flags one after another, and then walked to Kobayashi Shunichi and handed him the wing flag.

For an officer who was deeply poisoned by bushido tea and was determined to expand the territory for the emperor, he had to burn the military flag given by the emperor with his own hands, and he burned it three times in a row, such an action undoubtedly had a huge impact on his heart, which made him feel that he was a sinner of the 57th Division. Kobayashi Shunichi held the military flag with both hands with a solemn gaze and placed it in a shell box in front of the mound, and then took three steps back, drew his command knife, lowered his fingers and lowered his head as if in repentance, and at this time, all the officers and soldiers behind him looked at the three military flags with a gaze like a dead father.

At this time, Second Lieutenant Ono of the flag protection team came over with a bucket of gasoline and poured down on the three military flags.

After the three people's military flags were drenched in gasoline, Minoru Kusumoto personally walked up, he personally lit a match to light the three military flags, and the raging fire suddenly illuminated the entire forest, and the three military flags became a pile of ashes in less than a few tens of seconds.

After the flag-burning ceremony, the officers bowed to the wounded soldiers, and the wounded laughed miserably and found a place to sit down, most of them sat on the grass, they took off their shoes and socks, loaded their rifles, turned the muzzle, stuffed the muzzle of the gun into their mouths, put the thumb of their feet into the trigger and pressed it hard, and with the sound of bumping sounds, one wounded soldier fell to the ground.

Kobayashi Shunichi walked to the seriously wounded lying on the stretcher with a command knife and bowed heavily, those seriously wounded who couldn't move saw this situation and obviously understood the upcoming fate, they thanked Kobayashi Shunichi softly, and then Kobayashi Shunichi waved the command knife in his hand and slashed down at the neck of the seriously wounded, and blood mist sprayed out from the neck of the seriously wounded.

After doing all this, Kobayashi Shunichi walked to the side of the division commander Kusumoto Minoru, at this time Kusumoto Minoru knelt on a mat, and was cleaning his command knife with a pot of sake, when he saw Kobayashi Shunichi coming, he turned his head and said: "Kobayashi-kun, please!" ”

Kobayashi Jun bowed and raised the command knife in his hand, drenched the knife with sake, and after pouring the knife with sake, Minoru Kusumoto took a deep breath, wiped the command knife clean with a white cloth, and then reversed the knife edge to press the tip of the knife against his lower abdomen, he tightened his lower abdomen and stabbed it hard into his stomach.

"Silk ......"

When the tip of the knife was inserted into his left abdomen, Minoru Kusumoto's brows twisted, and his mouth began to hum, and then he gritted his teeth and forcefully pulled the command inserted into the abdomen to the right, and the stomach was pulled apart, and the blue-gray intestines flowed out instantly, and there were even some feces-like objects that flowed out of the broken intestines.

At this time, Kobayashi Shunichi also waved the command knife in his hand hard, and a huge head fell off in an instant. Minoru Kusumoto's body, who had completed the caesarean section, collapsed, and after doing all this, Shunichi Kobayashi threw away the command knife in his hand, took out the southern pistol at his waist, loaded it, and aimed it at his head and pulled the trigger.

"Bang ......"

As the gunshots rang out, Kobayashi Shunichi also fell to the ground like a sack cloth......

With the suicide of Minoru Kusumoto and Shunichi Kobayashi and others, the resistance of the 57th Division was also declared to be over, and the more than 15,000 people of the division were almost all killed except for a very few who fled into Mukden City. And the fall of the 57th Division also meant that the west gate of the entire Fengtian City was opened, and the troops of the 350th Division rushed into Fengtian City......

"Your Excellency Commander, the West Gate has been lost, you better prepare early!" Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, Chief of Staff, strode into Umezu Mijiro's office and shouted loudly.

Umezu Mijiro turned his back to the door at this time, and the whole person looked out of the window motionlessly, as if the whole person was frozen. After a long time, he turned around and said abruptly: "I originally thought that I could create a miracle, but I didn't expect to realize that I underestimated that person too much, I am really ashamed of His Majesty the Emperor!" ”

Yoshimoto Zhen said loudly: "Your Excellency, Commander, this is not your fault alone, after all, no one expected that Su Jin's air force would be so strong, and the power of his armored forces was also unexpectedly powerful, and the empire was really not wronged by such a defeat." And now is not the time to blame yourself, what you have to do now is to get out of the city as soon as possible, and then regroup and lead the Kwantung Army to fight back, and annihilate Su Jin and his Third Army, only in this way is the best allegiance to the emperor! Your Excellency Commander, just now I have sent a reconnaissance force to reconnoiter the East Gate, and found that there is no shadow of the Zhina army in Dongben and the vicinity for dozens of miles, and we can completely withdraw from the East Gate! ”

Facing Yoshimoto Sadachi's comfort, Umezu Mijiro just smiled bitterly and sighed: "This Su Jin is really not simple, and even the way out is left for us." And the worst thing is that we still have to retreat in the direction he pointed, this guy is really terrible. ”

Yoshimoto Sadachi didn't make a sound, and he could naturally see that this was a typical way of playing around the three and one. In the encirclement battle, the enemy army is surrounded on three sides, leaving only one side, on the one hand, leaving a rear road for the enemy, preventing the enemy from jumping off the wall in a hurry, and reducing your own casualties; On the other hand, it is possible to carry out pursuit operations after encirclement and annihilation to expand the results of the battle. And Yoshimoto Sadachi can still vaguely guess the purpose of the other party's this, if Umezu Mijiro and they don't wreak havoc on the people, buildings and arsenals in the city, then this road will be an unimpeded way to survive, but if Umezu Mijiro and they wreak havoc on Mukden or even massacre the people before they leave the city, Su Jin will definitely hunt them down endlessly, and this road will immediately turn from a life road to a dead road.

"Bang dang."

The door was rudely pushed open again, and this time it was the deputy chief of staff, Major General Junhisa Ikeda. I saw him hurriedly walk in and said loudly: "Your Excellency Commander, the people of China have already entered from the West Gate, at this moment they have hit the vicinity of Kasuga Park, and now they are heading towards the Imperial Consulate, and the Fengtian Garrison Wing is blocking it, I have ordered the No. 3 secret airfield to be ready, you can leave Mukden and go to Changchun at any time by transport plane to continue commanding the battle!" ”

Umezu Mijiro shook his head: "The sky of Mukden has been occupied by the Shina people, and it is not safe to take a plane, so I should leave from the east gate with Zhujun, let's leave immediately!" ”

After saying that, Umezu Mijiro didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly left the Kwantung Army Headquarters with the officers and generals of the headquarters who had already been prepared......