After reading Terauchi Shouichi's telegram, Shigetaro's mouth was so shocked that he could stuff a duck egg.

Don't think about anything, don't say anything, I was still excited to enter Weicheng and live the addiction of commanding two divisions and regiments to fight, but who knew that there was a black hole trap in front of me. Lieutenant General of the Imperial Army and commander of the 33rd Division, Shigetaro Gan Ji now has only one word in his mind: withdraw!

Ganji Shigetaro was worthy of being a lieutenant general of the army who had served as the commander of the Ninth Brigade, the principal of the Army Preparatory Non-commissioned Officer School, and the principal of the Army's Toyama School. Once there was a problem with the Weihe Bridge, the 213th Wing and the 214th Wing could not come back.

Ganji Shigetaro immediately ordered the 215th Wing to send a brigade, with a squadron of armored vehicles, to move forward quickly by car, to be sure to control the Weihe Bridge, and to meet the retreat of the 213th Wing and the 214th Wing. The commander of the 215th Wing was ordered to personally lead a brigade and quickly rush back to Pingdu County in a rubber [***] car, control the county seat, build fortifications, and respond to the retreat of the main force. The infantry brigade and field artillery wing, engineer wing, and baggage wing of the 215th Wing, which were operating with the divisional and regimental headquarters, were ordered to return to the east bank of the Jiaolai River, build positions on the east bank, and prepare to meet the retreating troops.

Then, Gansu Jutaro sent an urgent telegram to the 213th Wing on the Kaiyuan front line and the 214th Wing on the Qingchi line, informing him that the 108th Division might have been annihilated, and ordering the 213th Wing to immediately stop advancing towards Weicheng, quickly advance to Qingchi in the southeast direction in a battle formation, join up with the 214th Wing in Qingchi, and then alternately cover and quickly retreat along the road from Pingdu to Weicheng. The 214th Wing at Qingchi was ordered to leave a brigade to meet the 213th Wing, and the main force quickly returned the same way and joined up with the division headquarters.

After giving a series of orders, Tataro was relieved and muttered to himself, "Amaterasu, I hope it's not too late." ”

In fact, it was not too late for Gansu Shigetaro's order to be ordered, and it was indeed preempted to outflank the 1st Brigade and the Cavalry Brigade.

Just before the arrival of the telegram from Shouichi Terauchi, Ganji Jutaro, who was still 60 miles away from Fangzi, faintly heard a burst of artillery sound from the direction of Weicheng and Fangzi on the east bank of the Jiaolai River. At that time, he was not only excited, but also kept ordering the troops to speed up!

Now it seems that the sound of the artillery just now should be the sound of the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army, which is the troops who are using cluster artillery fire to assault the 10th Eighth Division to reinforce the Fangzi Twenty-Lipu Airport, needless to say, these troops are already on the verge of annihilation.

Ganji Jutaro thought about it carefully, and the faint sound of artillery just now did not last long, but the sound was so loud and spread so far that it showed that the scale of the artillery group was very large. The 213th Wing, which may have arrived in Kaiyuan, and the 214th Wing, which arrived in Qingchi, both sensed the abnormality of the artillery sound, so they sent a report asking for instructions on how to act. Fortunately, the telegram from General Terauchi Shouichi came in time, otherwise, if the 213th and 214th Wings had gone for reinforcements as usual, it was estimated that they would soon have entered the pocket of the Eighth Route Army and become undead under the collective artillery fire.

Gansu Shigetaro is afraid when he thinks about it, so the elite Eighth Division and the Tenth Division will be wiped out in an instant when they encounter the main force of the Eighth Route Army's instructor, needless to say, the main thing is that they were destroyed under the bombardment of the Eighth Route Army's artillery group. If the Eighth Route Army did not have a powerful artillery group, Ganji Shigetaro believed that with the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Division and the Tenth Division, if the firepower was deployed, it would be surrounded by 100,000 or 200,000 [***] troops, and it would be absolutely no problem to hold out for three or five days. Maybe you can fight a bloody way and hit the [***] team hard! If the 33rd Division, whose total strength is only half of the 8th and 10th Divisions, recklessly rushes into this terrible firepower net, I am afraid that it will not even be able to jump a few times, and it will be knocked out directly!

The 213th Wing and the 214th Wing sent telegrams back, reporting that orders had been received and that they were being carried out in accordance with them.

Ganji Jutaro breathed a sigh of relief at this time, thinking that he would only stay here for a short time, as long as the 213th Wing and the 214th Wing withdrew, he would immediately lead the troops to turn around and go east, as long as he arrived at Pingdu City and built a solid defensive line, he would not be afraid of the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army. It is said that Liu Yimin's instructor has a characteristic in warfare, and generally does not destroy urban buildings. In this way, his own 33rd Division can level the capital and confront them in one fell swoop, and I believe that it should be no problem to hold out for ten days and a half months. As long as he can hold out for such a long time, I believe that General Terauchi Shouichi, who has returned to his duties as commander of the North China Front, will mobilize troops to repel the attack of the Eighth Route Army and rescue the 33rd Division.

Tataro was a general with theory and actual combat experience, and after giving the order, his mind turned in many small circles, and he calculated the situation of the two sides in the central Lu region. As a commander of his level, he had nothing to eat and drink for a day, and he had pondered the war clearly, and he had already known the situation of the enemy and the enemy in the entire Shandong. He knew that the Jiaoji Road sweeping operation plan formulated by Odaka Guizang was based on the fact that Liu Yimin's main force was not in Shandong, and the combat goal was only to eliminate the remnants of the Eighth Route Army that had broken through from Jiaodong. If he had known in advance that the main force of Liu Yimin's instructor had returned to Shandong, I am afraid that Ogaka Kamizang would not only not launch a Jiaoji Road sweeping operation, but on the contrary, he would urgently strengthen the garrison of Jiaoji Road and strictly guard against it. Now the situation has been reversed, as soon as the 08th Division has an accident, the 33rd Division will become a lone army, and it is naturally impossible to go to the west, and it is needless to say that there are traps everywhere in the south. It is also unrealistic to go north to the sea, because the powerful naval fleet has gone south to support Wuhan and Guangzhou, and without the fleet to respond, to the sea is to die. To the east, it would have been a good choice to return to Qingdao, but unfortunately the road was too far away, and the Jiaoji Road was cut off by the Eighth Route Army, and the 33rd Division could not even see the city wall of Qingdao, so it was chased by the Eighth Route Army on the way and surrounded and annihilated. Only by returning to Pingdu and sticking to the backup is the current best policy. Although it is possible to be surrounded by the Eighth Route Army in Pingdu, it is better to hold on to a fortified city than to be pursued and annihilated on the way back.

As soon as he thought that if the Eighth Route Army defended Pingdu, he and his 33rd Division might be shattered, and Gansu Jutaro felt a little abandoned and betrayed in his heart, and he was so sad that he almost shed tears.

Holding back the sorrow and sadness in his heart, Tataro Gan Ji beat his spirit and pulled his thoughts back to the war in front of him.

It's ridiculous that at this time, the regimental headquarters of the 108th Division in Weicheng was still sending reports to itself, urging the 33rd Division to speed up the march and reinforce the Twenty-Lipu airfield for operations.

Gansu Shigetaro hated Liu Yimin completely at this time, and felt that Liu Yimin was simply an out-and-out liar, villain, and hooligan, obviously he had already attacked Weicheng and solved the 1st 08th Division, and he was still engaged in deceptive tricks, couldn't he be like a samurai, and come to a duel in a dignified manner? This guy, a soldier is not, I despise him!

Gansu Shigetaro thought about it, his spirit improved, and he ordered the radio station to keep in touch with the 10th Eighth Division, and to treat others in his own way, and to deceive the Eighth Route Army. At the same time, they changed to a special password for officers to keep in touch with the troops, ordering them to retreat quickly and concealedly, and to join the division headquarters as soon as possible.

As soon as he thought of using the radio to lure Liu Yimin, the trace of sadness in Ganji Jutaro's heart disappeared without a trace, and he laughed excitedly. After laughing, he held the command knife, looked at the direction of Weicheng, and said triumphantly: "Liu Yimin, you can't think of it!" You will, too! By the time you understand, I have already led the 33rd Division to retreat to Pingdu. If there's a kind of you're going to try it? As long as you don't raze Pingdu City to the ground without artillery, I'll let the corpses of your soldiers pile up in a hill outside the city! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the chief of staff presented the order he had just received from General Shouichi Terauchi. As stated above, it is clear that fighters from the Sasebo base and the Kwantung Army Air Group will be mobilized to cooperate with the North China Front Air Group to form a powerful air cover group to open the way for the 33rd Division and cover the retreat of the 33rd Division to Qingdao. In order to cope with the operations of the 33rd Division, the North China Front Army has ordered the troops of Xuzhou and Yanzhou to launch offensive operations in southern and southeastern Lunan, and the 14th Division of the Zhengzhou Front Line has been dispatched to quickly return to Xuzhou to support the operations in southern and southeastern Lunan. In order to report everything, the base camp has ordered the first and second divisions of the Kwantung Army to urgently mobilize and prepare to secretly enter the customs to participate in the battle and defend the Jinpu Road and Jinan and Qingdao. After the Wuhan Raider and the Guangzhou Raid are over, the base camp will also send the 5th, 6th, 3rd, and 9th Divisions to join the Shandong battlefield and annihilate Liu Yimin's instructor in one fell swoop.

At the end of the telegram, Terauchi made it very clear that if it was extremely critical, it was necessary to find a piece of flat land that was convenient for the plane to land, so that the plane could land and take out Lieutenant General Ganji Jutaro and the battle flags of the various troops.

Shouichi Terauchi's telegram was to cheer up Tataro Katsuta, but the last words made Jutaro Taro sad again. Shouichi Terauchi knew Liu Yimin's instructor too clearly, and when he said this, it showed that the situation of the 33rd Division was extremely dangerous. At a critical time, let the plane take out himself and the military flag, that is, he was afraid that he and the military flag would fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, and once again smear the face of the Great Empire.

However, Shigetaro still felt a little relieved, and the base camp and His Excellency the Commander did not forget that he and the 33rd Division had sent a large number of aviation troops to support. As long as these fighters arrive in Shandong, hehe, no matter how powerful and tough Liu Yimin's instructor is, he can't do anything about himself. He is welcome to pursue, so that the young men of the aviation force will have a target, maybe when Liu Yimin's unit is killed and wounded, he can kill a horse gun and annihilate Liu Yimin?

I'm thinking about the plane, but the plane is really coming!

A group of fighters flew from the southwest of Weicheng, and after passing Weicheng, they flew from west to east along the highway from Pingdu to Weicheng.

Gan Ji Jutaro thought that it was the fighter plane of the army that came to cover him, and he was very happy in his heart, and felt that General Terauchi Shouichi was really vigorous and resolute, and as soon as he received a telegram here, the plane was dispatched over there. As long as there is strong aviation to provide air fire support, there should be no problem in withdrawing to Qingdao.

Jutaro quickly ordered the radio to contact the air force, and the signal team displayed the flag of identification of the troops to avoid being bombed by mistake.

Afraid of what comes. Tataro was afraid that the Imperial Army's fighters would bomb by mistake, so the fighter formation really began to bomb.

It seems that there are a lot of fighters, and when they arrived at the east bank of the Jiaolai River, where the headquarters of the 33rd Division led by Shigetaro Gansu, the group was divided into two, and the 10 fighters continued to advance.

Ganji Jutaro can't see it well, Amaterasu Okami, it's said that the aviation forces of this empire are crazy! began to swoop towards the Great Say's Army!

Jutaro Kanji scolded Baga while hurriedly ordering him to lie down.

Unfortunately, his order this time was a little late, and when the fighter plane roared down, and when it swept over the heads of the headquarters of the 33rd Division and the accompanying troops, one aerial bomb after another fell from under the belly of the plane, and the sharp whistle of the bomb falling stimulated the swelling pain of the eardrum of Jutaro Gansu, as if it was about to explode through the ear hole.

The bomb landed and exploded, and the air wave set off rolled up the soldiers and threw them into the air fiercely, scattering them all over the ground with broken arms and legs, and the blood drifted on the dust stirred up by the air waves, and immediately turned into black, red, black and red blood clods, which looked extremely bewitching in the sunlight.

The 33rd Division is a garrison division, and its strength is only half of that of a permanent division, but it still has to undertake certain field tasks, so it has no choice but to downsize the division's direct subordinate units. Its search wing had only 319 men and 185 horses; There are only two brigades in the field artillery wing, with a full strength of 1,745 men and 1,259 pack horses; The engineer wing is only equivalent to two squadrons of the engineer wing of the permanent division, with a full strength of 402 people, 15 horses, and two cars; The baggage wing was the worst, with a fixed strength of 370 men and 113 horses, which was also equivalent to two squadrons of permanent divisions. Fortunately, at this time, there were many automobiles in the army, and the division had a direct automobile team, 50 vehicles, which were temporarily incorporated into the baggage wing. At this time, this automobile team was ordered by Lieutenant General Ganji Shigetaro to carry a brigade of the 215th Wing to occupy the Weihe Bridge, and was not here.

Although the field artillery wing of the 33rd Division was limited, it was artillery after all, and it was the preferred target for fighter bombing. No, the field artillery wing, which was building a position and preparing to deal with the pursuing troops in case of rushing, was targeted by fighters. After the first round of dive bombing, the fighters pulled up in formation, drew an arc in the air, and then pressed the nose of the plane and went straight to the artillery position of the field artillery wing.

The first round of dive bombs just now had already blown the devils on their backs, and the road was full of overturned carts, killed livestock, and corpses of the soldiers, and even the car of Tataro Ganji was blown into a flaming fireball. The makeshift positions of the infantry were also ravaged beyond recognition, and everywhere there were cursing of soldiers and cries of wounded soldiers.

Luckily, he crawled on the ground and escaped the blast and shrapnel. This guy participated in the 1932 128 Incident attack on Shanghai, and later went to the northeast to participate in the operation of the Tsushima Zhanshan Section, and he has a lot of combat experience. Just now, he had clearly seen that this was not an accidental bombing at all, but a premeditated bombing and massacre, and the words "The First Brigade of the Eighth Route Army" were written on the fuselage of the incoming plane. Although he is not a Chinese expert in the army, he has the same origin as Chinese, and he knows these words.

His headquarters, his field artillery brigade, his baggage wing, the communications team, the health team, the field hospital, and his infantry brigade will soon be tested by the fire of the fighters of the Eighth Route Army.

Ignoring the danger, he got up and brandished his command knife, shouting loudly, "Enemy attack, pay attention to concealment, organize anti-air shooting!" ”

This guy, he doesn't want to think about it, he only has an infantry brigade here with light and heavy machine guns and rifles, and the other units are all special forces, at most equipped with rifles and pistols for self-defense.

The combat effectiveness of the 33rd Division has indeed improved, and it has not fled as it did during the bloody battle in Zhoucun, when it saw that something was wrong. The soldiers who were lucky enough not to die showed tenacity, and began to set up machine guns and pick up rifles to organize aerial fire.

The artillery positions were largely undamaged in the first round of bombardment, and the artillerymen were busy dismantling and moving their artillery. But they forgot one thing, not only is the cannon in their hands a sharp weapon on the battlefield, they can bomb China's cities and villages at will, slaughtering soldiers and ordinary people, and the Chinese [***] team is also holding a killing weapon in their hands, and they can still send these invaders to hell.

The formation of fighters was very fast, and the artillery positions of the Japanese army were temporarily constructed without any cover. At this time, not to mention the veteran pilots of the First Air Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, who have been tempered on the battlefield and created miracles, even rookies who have taken to the air for the first time also know what it is to shoot targets. No, the fighters of the Eighth Route Army roared and swooped down on the artillery positions of the Japanese Army.

This time, the fighters of the Eighth Route Army did not drop bombs, but fired machine guns and machine guns with earth-shattering sounds, and the bullets splashed like water on the stumbling figures of the artillery of the Japanese Army, causing dust and wailing in the artillery positions.

The artillery of the army was still busy transferring the artillery, and they behaved quite heroically, and as soon as the fighters of the Eighth Route Army concentrated on cleaning them up, the little devils could not hold on. This group of guys, except for cannons, most of them don't even have a rifle in their hands, he can't hold a bolt and fight with an airplane, right? There was no way, the little devil could only give up the cannon and start fleeing for his life. There are also artillerymen who are smarter and lie on the ground with their butts up.

By the Jiaolai River, there is a flat river, and there is not even a small mountain or ravine. When the fighters of the Eighth Route Army rushed down one after another, the figure of the little devil was clearly and clearly presented in the eyes of the plane shooter. This is an advanced bomber made by the military, and each plane has five machine guns and one aircraft gun on board, and ten fighters are 50 machine guns and 10 aircraft guns.

The airborne machine gun is spitting tongues of fire, the airborne machine gun is spitting fireballs, and the machine gun bullet hits the head of the little devil artilleryman, and the head is unscrewed; struck the little devil on the waist, and broke the waist; Hit on the arm and leg, it is like a farmer taking an axe to repair a tree branch during his spare time, and it falls straight to the ground with a click. The most terrible thing is that those machine guns, which were originally used to deal with aircraft, are now used to deal with the artillery of the army, that is, where there are many people to fight, and when the cannon goes down, it is a few devils dancing with the cannonballs, until the blood stain falls on the ground.

The fighters of the Eighth Route Army seemed to be about to completely destroy the artillery of the little devils, and the group chased the clever artillerymen who fled first, and kept firing and slaughtering until the little devils in the crosshairs fell to the ground.

Looking at the tragic situation of the field artillerymen, Tataro Gansu's heart was bleeding, he grabbed a crooked handle, drove to a large car that had been blown up, and opened fire into the air. Fortunately, his chief of staff was alert, and a machine gun that snatched him from his hand should have pushed him to the ground. Otherwise, it is likely to become the target of the next wave of attacks by the fighters of the Eighth Route Army.

Seeing that the field artillery wing of the 33rd Division had been almost ravaged, the commander of the commander who led the regiment felt that it could no longer be fought, and if it fought again, the army without artillery would choose to explode the artillery. It's time to catch up on the little devil infantry!

The fighters of the Eighth Route Army finally pulled up again, and after making an arc in the air, climbed to a certain height, flew towards the infantry position where anti-air shooting had been organized, threw all the remaining bombs, and then turned again, and under the cover of the dust caused by the explosion of the bombs on the infantry position, pressed the nose again and fiercely pounced on the devil infantry position.

When the devil infantry was ordered to build a position, they had already dug some simple foxholes, which had already reduced their casualties. That's why they had the opportunity to organize anti-aircraft shooting. That was the end of their good fortune, though. The fighters of the Eighth Route Army spewed tongues of fire and pounced on them again, and the machine guns croaked so loudly that they could no longer distinguish the sound of bullets entering the flesh and the earth. Machine gun shells exploded in the sound of machine guns, not to mention how cheerful and loud the sound was.

The manufacturing industry of the Great Empire is indeed developed, and the planes created are very fast in diving, the machine gun fire is very fierce, and the machine guns are very lethal, so it is very suitable to destroy the devils.

Machine guns were singing, aircraft guns were neighing, and the fighters of the Eighth Route Army swept over the heads of the Yue Army, sprinkling joyful songs all the way, taking away an ugly life and leaving behind a terrified wail. At this time, the little devils no longer have the hideousness and pride they had when they slaughtered the village and wiped out the households, and they were like evil ghosts in purgatory, staggering, swaying, and suffering.

(To be continued)