This morning, Major General Yuma Shinohara's right eyelid kept jumping after getting up, and for some reason, Yuma Shinohara suddenly remembered a popular saying in China, the left eye jumped to wealth and the right eye jumped to disaster. Of course, as a high-ranking general of the Japanese Empire, he should have spurned this statement, but for some reason he always felt that another uneasiness was enveloping him.

For this reason, he was not in much mood to eat even the breakfast that the chef had prepared for him, and after eating an egg and a piece of grilled fish, he put down his chopsticks and went to the brigade headquarters to ask the staff officer on duty if anything special had happened.

After checking the duty log, the staff officer said with certainty that there was nothing abnormal, and after Yuma Shinohara breathed a sigh of relief, the staff officer reported with some hesitation that a squad of soldiers from the 231st Wing went out of the city without permission yesterday, but he had not returned until now, and the captain of the Fukuda Wing was planning to send someone out to have a look.

"Yaga!"

Shinohara Yuma couldn't help but curse, a burst of anger in his heart, when is it now, there are still people who dare to go out of the city without permission to have fun, he said without thinking: "You tell Fukuda Aso Daisa, when the people of that team come back, immediately put all of them in a confinement room for three days, starve them for two days, and see if they dare in the future...... Well, wait. ”

Yuma Shinohara suddenly came to his senses, and his face immediately changed. There is something wrong with this matter, even if the squad leader is an idiot, he knows that the battle between Kaihua and Jiangshan is lively, and the Huaxia army may come out at any time, even if he is bold, he will not dare to stay overnight and not return. Since they haven't come back until now, there's only one possibility. They had an accident, and there weren't many forces around here that could wipe out a squad of Japanese troops and not even a single messenger could run back, and Yuma Shinohara couldn't think of anyone else who could do it except for the Huaxia army.

Thinking of this, Yuma Shinohara's face immediately changed. The whole person stood up violently and said in a lost voice: "The people of China...... It must have been the people of Shina who came and immediately ordered all troops to close the city gates and prepare for battle! ”

"Nani?" The staff officer, who had not reflected for a while, couldn't help but ask again.

"Yaga!"

Seeing the stunned appearance of the staff officer, Yuma Shinohara, who was angry in his heart, raised his hand to the staff officer, and the strength of the unsuspecting staff officer turned in a half circle.

"Are you deaf, I asked you to immediately notify the troops below to quickly close the city gate and let all the troops enter combat readiness!" Yuma Shinohara's voice roared again.

"Hai ......"

The staff officer who fell in love with a slap woke up like a dream. He hurriedly ran outside, but before he could reach the door, he heard a muffled explosion in the distance.

Yuma Shinohara didn't have time to ask. Another staff officer stumbled in, and said loudly as he ran: "Your Excellency Brigade Commander, it's not good, the people of China have entered the city!" ”

Nani ...... How is that possible? ”

Yuma Shinohara only felt a thud in his head. The whole person trembled a little. He knew the situation of the 92nd Brigade best. A few days ago, it was originally hit hard by the 348th Brigade of the Chinese People's Brigade, and the strength of the two wings was beaten to just over 2,000 people; although a few days ago a new wing had just been replenished, it was still a question of how much combat strength the newly replenished wing could have, and now that it has encountered a surprise attack by the Huaxia people, it would be good if the troops could give full play to half of their combat effectiveness.

However, Yuma Shinohara quickly responded: "Immediately order the 213 Wing and the 212 Wing to counterattack immediately, and be sure to drive the Shina people out of the city!" ”

"Hay!"

The two staff officers quickly took the order and left, and as time went on. The gunfire in the city also became intense, and soon after another staff officer reported: "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander. The Chinese troops who came this time were their armored troops, and now the city is full of Chinese chariots and soldiers. And the imperial soldiers suffered heavy casualties due to the lack of anti-chariot weapons, and Fukuda Aso Osa and they were almost unable to withstand it! ”

"Chariot troops, the people of China actually sent chariot troops?" Yuma Shinohara, who was not very good, turned even paler. Although he is a bit of a discerning person, he also understands that Hengzhou City may not be able to hold it.

"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, what shall we do now?" The staff officer on the side asked anxiously.

Yuma Shinohara took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down: "Seeing that the situation is difficult to hold Hengzhou City, you immediately tell Fukuda Aso and let him leave an infantry brigade to drag the people in the city, and the others immediately retreat from the north gate to Jinhua as quickly as possible!" ”

As soon as he heard this Minglin, the staff officer was a little stunned, and couldn't help but say: "Your Excellency the brigade commander, although the people from the branch are from the chariot unit, we still have five or six thousand people now, if we fight to the death, we may not fail, how can we evacuate so easily." Besides, the order given to us by His Excellency the Commander is to hold on to Hengzhou City, and if we just evacuate without permission, His Excellency the Commander will definitely be furious. ”

"Yaga, what do you know?" Seeing that the staff officer actually objected to his opinion, Yuma Shinohara immediately scolded him: "Don't forget, we don't even have an anti-chariot cannon now, what do you let the imperial warriors use to resist the chariot of the Shina people?" Let them hit their heads? ”

It's also quite interesting to say, although Yuma Shinohara has shortcomings such as being ambitious and talented, and being more life-conscious, his views on some things are very different from today's Japanese generals. If other Japanese generals encountered today's situation, they would definitely not say a word, and ordered the soldiers to carry explosive bags on their backs to play "hand-to-hand combat" with the incoming tanks and armored vehicles, as for whether the soldiers could survive, it was not their concern, and it was a huge advantage to be able to exchange a soldier for a tank, and as for those soldiers who could recruit one with only eight cents of stamps, in their opinion, they were simply a bunch of cheap consumables.

And Yuma Shinohara is different, he personally despises this kind of behavior of hitting steel bullets with ****. In his opinion, touching steel bullets with **** was originally a very stupid thing. Since you can't beat others, then run, there's no shame in this, it is precisely because he is so incompatible with the mainstream thinking of the Japanese army that he has been in the position of brigade commander for many years.

After being scolded by Shinohara Yuma, the staff officer didn't dare to say any more, and hurriedly ran to give an order, with the order issued, the Japanese troops everywhere withdrew to the north gate, and then retreated from the north gate towards Jinhua with a swarm of bees.

It stands to reason that Shinohara Yuma's idea is not wrong, in the absence of ideological preparation and anti-tank weapons, even if it is a street fight with the armored troops, it is an act of looking for death, leaving a part of the troops to serve as a broken tail task to cover the withdrawal of the large army is the right choice, but the fault of this matter is that he underestimated the speed and power of the armored forces, the strength of a brigade seems to be a lot, but it is not enough to sprinkle it in such a large Hengzhou city, in the face of the ferocious attack of the armored regiment, The more than 1,000 Japanese troops who remained to act as a blockade collapsed after resisting for more than an hour, and soon an armored unit tore through the Japanese blocking line and pursued it in the direction of the retreat of the 92nd Brigade......

On a dirt road more than 20 kilometers away from Hengzhou City, a long team is desperately rushing towards the north, and this team is naturally the Japanese army that has just run out of Hengzhou City. Although the rapid march lasted for nearly two hours, all the Japanese troops were exhausted, but no one would complain, because they all knew that once they were caught up by the Huaxia, only death awaited them.

At this moment, the Japanese soldiers who were hurrying suddenly heard a whistling sound, which was extremely sharp, obviously a long-range artillery. Yuma Shinohara, who was riding a war horse, looked around with some uneasiness, and the sharp whistling was getting closer and closer, as if it was about to reach the top of his head.

"It's the heavy artillery of the man!" A Japanese soldier next to him shouted loudly.

The voice did not fall. The Japanese soldiers who were hurrying on the road threw themselves on the ground. As soon as Yuma Shinohara listened carefully, he heard a whistling sound getting louder and louder, and he quickly jumped off his horse and buried his face on the ground very skillfully. The shell exploded a hundred meters away, the shrapnel cut through the air, and several trees on the side of the road were scattered, and the sound was so clear that he was so frightened that he lay on his stomach and did not move. I didn't even dare to hum.

"What's going on, how did the people catch up so quickly? How could such heavy artillery come so quickly? ”

Yuma Shinohara's heart was inexplicably confused, and a terrible thought immediately flashed through his mind. And at this time, the explosion of shells was still echoing in the air. He jumped up in a hurry, shouting at the Japanese soldiers who fell to the ground.

"Quick, get up and get out of here!"

"Boom!"

Countless debris flew from all directions in the blast of air, and the smoke and sand almost buried Shinohara under the dust. He struggled to stand up, but then he saw a shattered body next to him, and Yuma Shinohara recognized that it was a staff officer of the brigade headquarters, and his limbs from the waist down did not know where they had been blown up.

At the same time, about five kilometers away from the place where the Japanese troops retreated, more than a dozen No. 2 and No. 4 tanks were parked on the side of the road, several officers of the armored regiment were observing the movement ahead with binoculars, and behind them were more than a dozen M7 priest-type self-propelled guns, which were specially allocated to the armored regiment by Su Jin two months ago, in order to enhance the armored regiment's ability to attack fortified positions.

Although the power of this self-propelled gun with a caliber of 105 mm cannot be compared with the divisional M40 long-legged Tom self-propelled gun equipped by division-level troops today, its high rate of fire and high mobility are the most suitable for armored regiments, which is why Su Jin equipped it with armored regiments. (To be continued.) )