Xiao Siming patted his ass and rode away, but the Japanese army on the east bank of the Yellow River was extremely miserable!

Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando, commander of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, received a report from the air force and learned that the Battle of Luokou had occurred. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as he heard the report of the air force that the Luokou Bridge had been blown up and that the Japanese Army had suffered heavy casualties in the attack on the Luokou Bridge, Ando Toshiyoshi could not sit still at the division headquarters, so he first telephoned Major General Toshiji Miura, commander of the 21st Brigade, and ordered him to quickly reinforce Luokou and find out the situation, and then called Wing Commander Kobori Shigeru of the Fifth Cavalry Wing and Wing Commander of the Fifth Wing of the Field Artillery, Takeda Shin Daisa, and ordered them to immediately reinforce the Luokou battlefield.

After making a few phone calls, thinking about it, Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando did not wait for a return, and took the chief of staff, Nishimura Toshion, in a car assigned to the commander of the Japanese division, and rushed to the Luokou line under the protection of the division guards.

Major General Toshiji Miura, commander of the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, Wing Commander of the 5th Cavalry Wing Kobori Shigeru Daisa, and Wing Commander of the 5th Wing of the Field Artillery, Takeda Shin Osa, had already rushed to Luokou with their troops.

The Japanese fighters that took off from Jinan Airport repeatedly searched and reconnoitred on the west bank of the Yellow River, constantly dropping bombs and strafing them, trying to blow up the Eighth Route Army from its hidden positions and kill all the Eighth Route Army with airborne machine guns and aerial bombs!

The Fifth Field Artillery Wing under the command of Takeda Shin Daisa is setting up artillery positions on the west bank of the Yellow River and preparing to carry out artillery bombardment of the Eighth Route Army on the west bank.

As soon as he saw the arrival of His Excellency the division commander, Major General Toshiji Miura, the commander of the 21st Brigade wearing a gas mask, hurriedly ran forward and directly handed over two gas masks and asked Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando to put on two of them to prevent poisoning.

How long has passed, and the poisonous gas has long since drifted away with the wind, but Toshiyoshi Ando still put on a gas mask and followed Toshiyoshi Miura to watch the battlefield where the smell of blood and the pungent smell of poison are intertwined.

A little farther away from the Yellow River, the Japanese soldiers who had been killed and wounded by artillery shells and suffocated by poison gas bombs were lying on the ground, and the medical soldiers of the 21st Brigade who arrived were busy treating the wounded and putting together the bodies of the war dead in an orderly manner.

After checking the impact point, Ando Toshikichi knew in his heart that the Eighth Route Army had at least ten infantry guns, which was equivalent to the number of infantry guns of the three infantry brigades of the Japanese army.

Such artillery firepower, in the eyes of the commander of the Fifth Division, Toshiyoshi Anto, is nothing at all. You must know that the field heavy artillery wing of the Fifth Division is an artillery wing with 48 cannons, and this kind of infantry artillery is only equipped with the infantry brigade and infantry wing of the Fifth Division.

The problem is that such a trap carefully designed by the commander of the Eighth Route Army was so terrible and ruthless that he used no less than ten infantry guns to fire poison gas shells at the same time, causing a large area of poison gas to cover, and the 21st Wing of the 21st Brigade was caught off guard, which caused such heavy casualties.

Ando Rijiden remembered the fact that the 119th Infantry Wing of the 118th Brigade of the 109th Division of the 109th Division had been reported by the North China Front Army almost suffered heavy casualties in Nianzigou, Yuxian County, Shanxi, and the destruction of Taiyuan Airport reported by the North China Front. In those two battles, the Eighth Route Army unscrupulously used special cigarettes produced by the Great Japanese Empire, causing heavy losses to the Imperial Army. It seems that the news release broadcast by the Central News Agency of the people of China is true, and the Eighth Route Army in front of them is definitely the Eighth Route Army unit that led to the loyalty of Ishida Jinzo Daisa to the emperor and the destruction of 48 fighters at Taiyuan Airport, and is the culprit of the extreme evil!

Such a unit of the Eighth Route Army is simply a bandit who does everything he can, a robber who kills without blinking, a despicable thief, and a disgusting murderer!

In an instant, Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando gave all the most vicious curses he knew to the Eighth Route Army in his mind!

The commander of the 21st Wing, Hideosa Kurisakahara, and the Wing Attached were not dead, but they were all poisoned, lying on the ground, their faces were blue, and they were receiving first aid from the medical corps.

Ando Toshikichi immediately ordered Kuriyahara Hideosa and the wing to be sent back to Jinan immediately for rescue and ensure their safety.

Not only that, Lieutenant General Ando Toshiyoshi also ordered to send Kuriyahara Hideosa back to Jinan in his own car for treatment.

After watching for a while, Ando Toshiyoshi led the way towards the Yellow River.

On the field near the Yellow River, there are also corpses of Japanese soldiers.

Toshikichi Ando bent down and personally examined the bullet site, the size of the wound, and the bullets that fell on the ground of the Japanese soldier's corpse, and found that they were basically hit by Type 92 heavy machine gun bullets and Type 96 light machine gun bullets. Judging from the scene of the soldiers falling on their backs and the corpses superimposed, they should have become the machine gun targets of the Eighth Route Army on the other side of the river when they stood on the side of the Yellow River and observed the opposite bank.

After looking at the corpses of Japanese soldiers for a while, Ando Toshikichi straightened up, stood by the Yellow River, asked for a telescope, looked at the opposite bank with a pair of old eyes for a while, and silently calculated in his heart, trying to judge the number of light and heavy machine guns possessed by the Eighth Route Army.

After calculating for a while, he couldn't figure out why, Ando Toshiyoshi stopped silently calculating, and walked to the Luokou bridge again.

Major General Toshiji Miura, commander of the 21st Brigade, was afraid that there were concealed heavy machine guns on the Eighth Route Army's position on the other side of the river.

At this time, Ando Rikichi was black and blue, and he could burn people to death if he was angry, but he was wearing a gas mask, and others couldn't see his face and didn't know his anger.

Toshikichi Ando shook off Toshishi Miura's hand that had taken his arm, and still walked towards the bridge.

Standing at the head of the Luokou Bridge, looking at the tragic situation of the bridge that was bombed and only the piers remained, and then looking at the yellow torrent under the bridge and the figures of tanks, armored vehicles, and cars occasionally exposed at the relatively low water level at both ends of the bridge, and imagining the inexplicable scene of the imperial soldiers who were rushing on the bridge when the bridge was suddenly bombed, Ando Toshikichi couldn't help but burst into tears.

After a while, Toshikichi Ando stopped his tears, raised his hand and took off his gas mask, choked up, and asked coldly: "So, His Majesty the Emperor's invincible 21st Wing is over!" ”

Major General Toshiji Miura, commander of the 21st Brigade, Wing Commander of the 5th Cavalry Wing, Wing Commander Shigeru Shigeru Osa, Wing Commander of the 5th Field Artillery Wing, Takeda Shin Osa, and other officers who gathered around the division commander, saw that His Excellency the Division Commander had taken off their gas masks, so they naturally took off their gas masks quickly.

Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando asked this to Major General Toshiji Miura, and Major General Toshiji Miura had no choice but to reply: "Tochiji is too cunning, too murderous, too insidious!" The 21st Wing stepped into the trap of the Eighth Route Army and caused such a big loss! ”

Chief of Staff Nishimura Riwen Osaku interjected: "This Eighth Route Army captured Texas and captured the ammunition stored in Texas by the 16th Division, the 114th Division, the 3rd Mixed Brigade, and the 13th Mixed Brigade. This hateful Eighth Route Army must be eliminated as soon as possible! Otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

The commander of the Fifth Cavalry Wing, Kobori Shirosa, was stimulated by the tragic situation in front of him and his brain was a little watery, so he stood up with his feet together and reported loudly to Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando: "Your Excellency, the 21st Wing has suffered such heavy casualties, and Major General Toshiji Miura bears unshirkable responsibility. Major General Toshiji Miura should be ordered to disembowelment and apologize to His Majesty the Emperor! ”

Major General Toshishi Miura hated it, and he wanted to pull out the command knife, and he chopped Kobori is Fan Dazuo with one sword!

Nishimura Liewin Daisa, and Wing Commander Takeda Shin Daisa, the commander of the Fifth Wing of the Field Artillery, are all silent, just see what Lieutenant General Ando Toshiyoshi says!

Ando Toshikichi is not the kind of Japanese samurai who wants to cut his stomach at every turn, he is a lieutenant general of the Japanese army who went to the Army University, served as a military attache of the embassy in Britain, served as a staff officer of the Kwantung Army, and the head of the Harbin secret service, and now he is the commander of the elite Fifth Division, and he has his own hills and valleys in his heart!

I heard Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando say: "The one who needs to be seppuku is not Major General Toshiji Miura, but Xiao Siming, an officer of the barbaric and murderous Eighth Route Army!" It was he who single-handedly caused the tragedy of the 21st Wing! In addition, the Second Infantry Wing of the North China Garrison Mixed Brigade bears unshirkable responsibility for the tragedy of the 21st Wing! It was precisely because of their inaccurate intelligence that they repeatedly reported that the Eighth Route Army was hiding on the outskirts of Jinan in an attempt to take advantage of the situation to capture Jinan, which led to the division's decision to attack the Luokou Bridge with the 21st Wing, which in turn caused such a tragedy! ”

When he said this, Major General Toshiji Miura, commander of the 21st Brigade, immediately saluted and replied loudly, "Hai! ”

Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando then ordered Major General Toshiji Miura: "Do your best to rescue the wounded officers and soldiers, and save one by one!" ”

Major General Toshiji Miura shouted again, "Hai! ”

Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando pondered for a while, and ordered the chief of staff, Nishimura Riwen Daisa: "Replenish all the divisional and regimental supplementary teams to the 21st Wing, and replenish the training on the spot in Jinan to ensure combat effectiveness!" ”

Nishimura Levin Daisa also shouted, "Hai! ”

After a while, Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando handled the matter in a clear and round manner!

After dealing with these things, Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando showed his fangs, stretched out his hand and pointed to the west bank of the Yellow River, and ordered Takeda Shin Daisa, the commander of the Fifth Wing of the Field Artillery: "Concentrate all the artillery of the division and regiment and cover the positions of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite bank!" ”

Ando Toshikichi originally wanted to use poison gas bombs on the position of the Eighth Route Army, but the wind direction was wrong, so he didn't say anything!

Takeda Shin Daisa said "Hai", saluted and left, and went to the artillery position to direct the shelling.

It didn't take long for the Japanese artillery group to open fire, boom, and the land on the banks of the Yellow River was shaken again! (To be continued.) )