After consideration, Umezu Mijiro, commander of the Kwantung Army, decided to send the 1st Army Division deployed in Qiqihar at this time to the pass, and the defense of Qiqihar was assumed by the newly formed 28th Division.

This 28th Division was formed on the basis of the 3rd Infantry Wing of the 1st Division, which can be described as a branch of the 1st Division.

Speaking of the first division of the Chinese army, I have to sit down and give a brief introduction, the first division, also known as the Guards Division, is the oldest division among all the veteran divisions of the army, and it is also the division with the strongest combat effectiveness, since the beginning of the war, the first division has not participated in large-scale battles, and at the most serious time of the Wuhan campaign, the first division only transferred some of the remaining personnel and reserves to form the 101st Division and participated in the battle of Wuhan.

At the beginning of this year, the Kwantung Army conducted a special exercise against the Soviet Far East Army, and the First Division became the first batch of elite divisions to be strengthened with heavy weapons, and the whole division had more than 30,000 combatants.

The first division is under the jurisdiction of two infantry brigades, namely the first infantry brigade, the second infantry brigade, and one cavalry brigade, and three cavalry wings and one cavalry artillery wing.

In addition, the 1st Division also has a field heavy artillery brigade, which is the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade. The units directly under the division are: the 2nd Anti-aircraft Artillery Wing of the Yokosuka Heavy Artillery Wing (Yokosuka) (note: fortress artillery), the 2nd Tank Wing, the 1st Engineer Wing, and the 1st Heavy Infantry Company.

The Yokosuka Heavy Artillery Wing, a unit directly under the above-mentioned unit, is stationed in Tokyo, the native area of the country.

In terms of combat power and firepower, it was far superior to the former Fifth Division, known as the "Gangjun Army", and after January 41, the First Division added a new tank wing, which was combined with the original second tank wing to form a tank brigade.

The division has 18 Type 92 70mm brigade guns, 12 Type 41 75mm wing guns, 24 37mm rapid-fire guns, 18 97 automatic guns, 30 light tanks (tanks), 7 light armored vehicles, 12 Type 95 75mm field guns, 24 105mm howitzers, and 12 four-year 150mm howitzers. (Excluding Yokosuka Fortress Artillery).

There are more than 500 light machine guns, 190 heavy machine guns, more than 600 heavy grenadiers, and 30 10-year grenadiers. The division and regiment plus the reserve supplementary brigade have a total of more than 70,000 personnel. In terms of numbers, it is almost equivalent to a fully integrated division of the Reading Army, and the combat personnel are comparable. The supplementary staff of the Reading Force may be a little more.

Because there are many ordinary people who volunteer to serve in the role of baggage soldiers, this is not included in the official statistics of the Reading Army.

In addition to the 1st Division and the 1st Division, there were also the 4th and 8th Divisions of the 17 permanent divisions, the 4th Division is also known as the Osaka Division, because Osaka is mostly merchants, and the soldiers of the 4th Division are mostly composed of vegetable sellers and traveling merchants, so this division is named the "Merchant Division", and its combat effectiveness is rated as average combat effectiveness by later historians.

However, this is not the case, although the Fourth Division does not have the absolute main force of more than 30,000 veterans like the First Division, its combat effectiveness is beyond doubt in China at that time.

Of course, the Fourth Division was a little bit of a joke in World War II, so much so that it was called the "nest" division in the camp of the Chinese army.

In the end, every army did not want this "mourning star" division, and the base camp of the army had no choice but to change the fourth division into a division directly under the headquarters of the base camp.

Although there were a lot of jokes in the merchant division, it was well-equipped, and most of the soldiers were veterans who had served for several years, and they still had the strength to fight.

The Eighth Division, also known as the Hirosaki Division, is a standard four-unit division regiment with extremely strong combat effectiveness.

The 1st Armored Division of the Army Tank Division, under the jurisdiction of the 3rd and 4th Tank Wing. Although the tank division suffered considerable losses in the Soviet-Syrian conflict, it had been replenished after the war and was first at full strength.

The Kwantung Army deserves to be called the elite of the empire, with 17 permanent divisions and regiments, and nearly half or most of the seven Guards Divisions are subordinate to the Kwantung Army.

The chariot division that the army had just formed was also subordinate to the Kwantung Army, so it was seen that the Kwantung Army was stronger than the North China Front Army and the South China Front Army.

The three infantry divisions and one chariot division entered the pass by train in three separate ways, while Umezu Mijiro, as the commander of the Kwantung Army, set out from Changchun with the first division and the armored division also acted together.

Just when the vanguard of the Kwantung Army was in full swing to prepare to enter the pass, the main force of the first division of the Reading Army was storming Shimen, and most of the main force of the three infantry regiments of more than 30,000 people had already broken through the city wall.

………………… Jingcheng County, Reading the Army Headquarters.

The communications staff officer strode into the headquarters with a happy face and reported to Zhang Mingyu: "Military seat, the guard battalion has captured Zhengding, and a brigade of the defenders has been annihilated!" A battalion of the puppet army. ”

As soon as the words fell, another communications staff officer also strode in and reported: "The military seat, each regiment reports, has broken through the city wall, and is expanding the results of the battle into the city!" ”

"Order the regiments and quickly deal with the remnants of the enemy! Anyone with a gun said that he had killed them all! Zhang Mingyu stood up, paced twice, and suddenly said.

"Yes!" The communications staff officer snapped up and walked away gladly.

...... "Kill....kill... Kill! "Wang Zhizhong, the commander of the third company of the first regiment and one battalion, led the three companies of commandos and rushed towards the headquarters of the devils.

The 100 people of the commando team followed the company commander all the way and rushed violently, quickly broke through the devil's defensive circle and entered the inner city.

Wang Zhizhong led the assault team to the block where the devil headquarters was located, only to see that about 500 meters away, there were already devil soldiers using sandbags to build two fortifications across the street, and two Type 92 heavy machine guns were erected.

After spotting the assault team, two heavy machine guns let out a dull roar, and two tongues of fire crossed to block the commando's approach.

Wang Zhizhong waved his hand to stop the soldiers who wanted to continue to charge forward, and shouted: "All of them are hiding on the spot, and the mortar is bombarding him!" ”

The commando artillery quickly set up 60 mortars, "tom tom to.........m tom" a few cannon sounds, the opposite devil machine gun position flashed red, "dong dong..." explosion sounded, the devil machine gunner and the heavy machine gun flew into the sky together.

Wang Zhizhong did not order to charge immediately, but let the artillery continue to bombard for two more rounds, and after blowing up some devil soldiers hidden in the shadows, he suddenly jumped up and waved his big hand: "Brothers, rush!" ”

"Da .........."

"Sudden ........."

Dense gunfire once again rang out in this former prosperous and fierce sound, and the soldiers of the Reading Army in green military uniforms charged forward quickly while firing.

Not long after, Wang Zhizhong rushed to the headquarters of the devil with the commando, which was also the headquarters of Zhengsan by the river, and the first three submachine guns swept at the closed gate.

"Bomb Throwing Group! Above! Wang Zhizhong waved his hand.

Seven or eight soldiers threw the grenades that had been prepared into the compound, and the grenades emitting green smoke fell into the courtyard with a slight sound, and exploded in an instant, several dazzling red lights rose up, and the explosion blew open the already shattered wooden door.

Several soldiers took the lead in rushing in, and when Wang Zhizhong kicked open Zhengsan's office by the river, he saw that there was a mess inside, except for two very beautiful women who were naked/naked, and there was nothing inside.

When the two beautiful women saw the wolf-like people who suddenly rushed in, they were already frightened by the gunshots, and they almost forgot to protect the spring light on their chests, but they suddenly bowed their heads and begged for mercy in words: "Don't kill us, please don't kill us, we are willing to do anything!" ”

Seeing that the two women who kowtowed like pounding garlic said a lot, Wang Zhizhong's guard Zhao Dahu scratched his head and said, "Company commander, what are these two girls doing?" What to do? As he spoke, he couldn't help but glance at the snow-white room on the chests of the two women.

"They're begging for mercy!" Wang Zhizhong looked at the two ladies with an indifferent expression. As if contemplating something.

"Begging for mercy? Why don't we kill them? Zhao Dahu was a little reluctant to say: "The order given to us by the military seat is that as long as the person with the weapon is killed, they didn't take the weapon, did they let them go?" ”

"Give them two pieces of clothing and send them to the prisoners' detention center!" Wang Zhizhong still said with a calm face.

"Yes!" Zhao Dahu and another soldier immediately took off their military jackets, then walked over and handed them to the two women.

The two frightened women took the clothes blankly, and after putting them on, they walked up to Wang Zhizhong without panic, bowed their heads slightly and said in stiff Chinese: "Thank you, thank you... Don't kill... I! ”

Originally, these two women were two comfort women recruited by Kawabe Shozo from the comfort station, and when Kawabe Shozo fled from Shimen in a hurry, he abandoned the two in his headquarters.

was captured by the [***] team, and both of them thought that they would be subjected to inhuman torture, but they didn't expect that the [***] people didn't do anything rough to them, and even gave them clothes. In this way, the two girls did not expect it.

"No thanks! We are Chinese people, not beasts! Wang Zhizhong still said with an indifferent expression.

……………………… In Jingcheng County, a staff officer of the Communications Department ran into the headquarters quickly.

Suddenly closed up and stood up and reported to Zhang Mingyuyu: "The military seat, the stone gate, the stone gate has been knocked down!" Annihilate the defenders of one wing! ”

"Oh!" Zhang Mingyu said awe-inspiringly: "Did you catch the dog by the river?" ”

"Captain Niu said that when his people rushed into the devil's headquarters, they were already empty, and Hebian Zhengsan fled in advance." The communications staff officer replied.

"No wonder, the little devil is so vulnerable, and in less than twenty-four hours, he was completely wiped out by us. It turned out that the commander had escaped! The devils of Shimen have no leader! Liu Cheng stood up and suddenly realized.

(To be continued)