"Hay!" The voice of the artillery captain came from the other end of the phone: "Please rest assured, general!" Perform the lowly duties immediately! ”

"Yo Xi!" Yangcheng Saburo nodded with satisfaction, and then hung up the phone.

The artillery brigade of the 9th Brigade roughly judged the position of the [***] artillery position, and then began to test fire, because there was no guidance from the aviation, the shelling of the devils all failed, and all the shells fell hundreds of meters away from the artillery position of the 1st Division and exploded.

Niu Tiangui, the commander of the 1st brigade, who was not far from the artillery, was jumped. Immediately shouted at the commander of the artillery regiment at the top of his throat: "Fuck back fire, hurry up and return fire!" Kill the artillery of the little devils! ”

In fact, there is no need for Niu Tiangui to say, the commander of the artillery regiment also knows that this is just a test shot of devils, and they must be adjusting the firing of Zhu Yuan, and the commander of the artillery regiment immediately ordered his subordinates to adjust the firing of Zhu Yuan.

Immediately after that, the two sides began an artillery battle, but the 70mm caliber Type 92 infantry gun of the devil was obviously no match for the 105 howitzer, and in five minutes, the artillery regiment of the first division successfully destroyed the artillery position of the army.

The artillery brigade of the 9th Brigade suffered the blow of destruction, except for the artillery brigade headquarters, which did not suffer losses, and the remaining three artillery squadrons were all reimbursed with men and guns!

Inside the city, the headquarters of the 9th Brigade.

A communications soldier walked into the headquarters with a heavy face, and suddenly retracted his feet and stood upright: "General! The artillery brigade was shelled by the Zhi Na people, and outside the headquarters of the brigade, all the three artillery squadrons were shattered! ”

"Yaga Yalu!" Yangcheng Saburo was suddenly furious, grabbed the communication soldier in front of him, and roared: "Ozawa Cheng (Artillery Captain) is a fool, let him disembowelment to thank His Majesty the Emperor!" ”

"Hay!" The devil messenger suddenly retracted his feet and stood upright.

After seeing the communication soldiers leave, Yangcheng Saburo sat on the chair with a decadent expression, the empire was already short of resources, artillery and artillery were very precious, and now his own artillery was destroyed, even if he could hold Fucheng County after this battle, I am afraid that his military career should be over.

After killing the devil artillery, the artillery regiment continued to shell the city wall, and finally under the fierce bombardment of [***] artillery fire, the city gate section of the city wall finally could not withstand the collapse of the whole bang.

At this time, the devils on the city wall were already bombed, and the casualties were extremely serious. Seeing that the city wall was collapsed, Niu Tiangui immediately came to his senses, stood on a tiger tank, and pulled the [***] machete in his hand forward and said sharply: "Brothers, attack!" Kill! ~”

"Kill!" Thousands of tiger warriors shouted and rushed towards the gap in the city section of Fucheng County, at this time, light and heavy machine gunners began to shoot wildly at the city, and some of the devil soldiers who wanted to shoot were immediately beaten into a sieve by the dense rain of bullets.

In the bloody fierce battle on the side of the first division, Lai San's third division was not idle, and the first regiment of the vanguard of the third division had also arrived in Anping County, and then launched an attack on Anping, and the three regiments of the defending puppet army were defeated after four hours of fierce fighting, and retreated to Raoyang County in a hurry.

At this time, the Flying Eagle Division was ordered to arrive and carried out wanton bombardment of the outer positions of the puppet army in Raoyang County, which lasted for more than 20 hours.

During this period, the puppet army asked Okamura Ninji for air force support, but Okamura Ninji transferred all the air forces to the Eastern Front to intercept the second division that attacked Texas, and there was no time to take care of anything else.

Therefore, Qi Xieyuan, the former commander-in-chief of the puppet army, ordered all seven divisions of the puppet army and nearly 100,000 people to retreat to the area of Xiaoning County, the second line of defense, in the afternoon, and directly abandoned the Raoyang County area.

Compared with the first division and the second division, Lai San's third division can be said to be unique, and the rapid progress has the strong support of the air force, and the third division is also equipped with a powerful rocket artillery company, which is more than enough to deal with the second devil with relatively light combat effectiveness, and in just one day, it even went down to the second county, and directly advanced the battle line to the area of Xiaoning County.

……… Cangzhou, known as the Army Garrison Headquarters.

Chief of Staff Tanabe Moritake strode into Okamura Ningji's office, and suddenly retracted his feet and said: "General, it's not good, General Qi Xieyuan ordered the seven divisions of the first-line troops of the Imperial Allied Army to retreat without authorization, and the Chinese Army took the opportunity to occupy Raoyang and Anping counties. ”

"Baga Yalu, the pigs are all rice buckets, who made him retreat from Qi Xieyuan!" Okamura roared.

"General, should we make a Qi order...," said Tanabe Moritake, gesturing around his neck.

"No, no, Qi Xieyuan still has the value of use, kill him now, and the 200,000 puppet army will be leaderless and collapse in an instant!" Okamura Ninji waved his hand.

Immediately afterwards, Okamura Ningji said solemnly: "Telegraph Qi Xieyuan, you must stick to Xiaoning County, and those who dare to retreat without permission will be killed!" ”

"Hay!" Tanabe Moritake bowed his head suddenly, and then quickly turned around and left.

…… Xiaoning County is the former enemy headquarters of the North China Appeasement Army.

An adjutant walked into Qi Xieyuan's office quickly with a telegram in hand, knocked on the door and reported: "Commander, Okamura Ningji Taijun is calling!" ”

"Come in." Qi Xieyuan said indifferently: "What did Okamura Ningji say? ”

"Commander, he asked us to stick to Xiaoning County, and he also said that if he dared to retreat, he would not be forgiven!" The adjutant stumbled.

"Hmph, Okamura Ningji doesn't have a backache when he stands and talks, let him try the taste of being bombarded every day, I guess I can't fucking stand it!" Qi Xieyuan not only scolded rudely.

"Commander, now there are tanks on the ground, artillery groups, and planes in the sky, even I can't resist it, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to resist it, now they are storming our outer defense line, the brothers are almost unable to resist, you better hurry up and think of a way!" The adjutant hurriedly said.

"Regardless of Okamura Ningji, order the troops to continue to retreat, even if it is to surrender Lao Tzu, it can be regarded as a bit of capital, in case the troops are exhausted, whether it is surrender [***] or say that it is not good to follow the army." Qi Xieyuan seemed to have made up his mind. He naturally has his plans in his heart, as one of the former direct warlords, Qi Xieyuan is also extremely good at grasping current affairs, if this battle [***] wins, he will not hesitate to lead his troops to surrender, if he wins, then he will immediately order the troops to chase and fight fiercely against [***].

"Commander, there is a way to humble the post, see if we send someone to contact the [***] on the other side, please don't fight so tightly, and our brothers can retreat calmly." The adjutant rolled his eyes.

"Contact with them? Then they will say yes, right? Qi Xieyuan said.

"Let's give way to them, let them take a detour to poke Okamura Ningji's asshole, can they still agree?" Adjutant said.

"Good! It's up to you! After you do it, you will be rewarded! Qi Xieyuan nodded and said with relief.

"Yes!" The adjutant snapped forward and said, "Please rest assured, the commander will guarantee the completion of the task!" Then he turned and strode away.

…………… Temporary Division Headquarters of the 3rd Division.

Lai Sanzheng and several subordinates were discussing the military situation around the map, and suddenly a guard walked in and said uprightly: "Master, a second devil came from Xiaoning County and said that he came to meet Qi Xieyuan of the North China Appeasement Army. ”

"Qi Xieyuan? What can he do with the Han Jian? Missing! Cut that dog down for me! Lai San said extremely unpleasantly.

"Hey! Wait! Chief of Staff Peng Bo hurriedly stopped: "Master, let's let him in first, see what his purpose is, it's not too late to make a decision, maybe it's something beneficial to us." ”

"Alright! Let the dog in! Lai San thought for a while.

"Yes!" The guard snapped to his feet and strode away.

In less than a moment, a middle-aged man in his thirties walked in briskly, wearing a gray robe and a gray hat.

After seeing that person come in, he hugged his fists at Lai San with both hands and said, "Contemptible Xue Ming, General Feng Qi Xieyuan came to discuss a big matter with the commanders!" ”

"What bullshit general, that kid Qi Xieyuan is a big man!" Lai San scolded angrily: "You little man have something to say, let it go, say something quickly!" ”

"Er" Xue Ming was stunned and then said: "Commander Qi Xieyuan sent me to discuss with the two commanders, and our department is willing to make way for [***]." Ask [***] to give us some time to prepare for the retreat. ”

Lai Sanhao Bloomberg glanced at each other, and Bloomberg said: "Why do you make us believe you?" ”

"Our Commander Qi Xieyuan did not really want to join Yu himself, it was really forced by the situation, and now [***] is fighting back, everyone is Chinese, naturally we have to help each other." Xue Mingdao.

"Then why don't you Commander Qi directly lead his troops to surrender, this is meritorious, it's better than being a Han annihilation and being poked in the backbone by later generations!" Bloomberg Road.

"Yes, yes." Xue Ming nodded again and again: "Sir's words, I will definitely report to Commander Qi and persuade him to surrender!" ”

"Alright! You go back first! Give you one night and tell Qi Xieyuan that he must withdraw his troops to the area of Gaoyang County, otherwise he will blame our air force for being ruthless! I believe that your ministry has already experienced the power of our air force in the past few days, right? Bloomberg said.

"Yes! The humble duty must be relayed! Xue Ming hurriedly bowed his head and said.

"Good! Someone to see off the guests! Bloomberg nodded.

"Chief of Staff, what if this is a trick by Okamura Ninji and Qi Xieyuan? If they don't retreat and take the opportunity to strengthen the fortifications, it won't be good for us! Lai San was puzzled.

"It's not going to happen, it's a big deal to waste more shells and aerial bombs, could it be that these puppet armies can build fortifications that are stronger than the devil's bunker turrets overnight?" Bloomberg asked rhetorically.

"Well, no, it's me who is too worried!" Lai Sanyi slapped his forehead and smiled.

"Let's report this to the head office!" Bloomberg Road.

"Well, that's as it should be!" Lai San nodded in agreement.

……… At this time, the 1st Division had already broken into the city of Fucheng and was engaged in the final fierce battle with the remnants of the 9th Brigade.

Division Headquarters of the 1st Division.

Colonel Fang Jun of the Ministry of Communications walked in quickly with a telegram in his hand, and said to Zhang Mingyu and Liu Cheng: "General seat, staff seat, the third division commander Lai is calling!" ”

"Oh? What's the matter? Liu Cheng asked, "Did you encounter any difficulties?" ”

Fang Jun shook his head and replied with a smile: "No, Division Commander Lai said in the telegram that Qi Xieyuan, the commander-in-chief of the North China Appeasement Army of the puppet army, sent someone to contact him!" ”

"Oh, Qi Xieyuan?" Zhang Mingyu and Liu Cheng glanced at each other and asked, "What did you say?" ”

"Qi Xieyuan wants to retreat, send someone to ask the third division to stop the attack and give them some time!" Fang Jun replied.

"Oh, Chief of Staff, what do you think about this!" Zhang Mingyu asked.

Liu Cheng thought for a while and said: "I feel that this matter is eighty percent because Qi Xieyuan can't withstand our strategic bombardment and wants to retreat, but at present, we and Okamura Ningji have not yet decided the winner, so he wants to retreat first and wait and see what happens, if we defeat Okamura Ningji, then it is estimated that he will definitely have to lead his troops to surrender!" ”

is worthy of being a staff officer, and after a little analysis of the situation, he guessed Qi Xieyuan's thoughts.

"Well, I think so too, no matter how capable he Qi Xieyuan is, he won't dare to play with us!" Zhang Mingyu nodded and said solemnly: "Then let's wait and see what happens in this matter, first deal with Okamura Ningci, and then turn around and clean up Qi Xieyuan." ”

"Hmm!" Liu Cheng also nodded silently.

At this moment, the telephone bell in the headquarters rang, Liu Cheng got up to answer the phone, and after saying a few words, Liu Cheng hung up the phone with a happy face and said: "General seat, Division Commander Zhang called and said that Niu Tiangui led the first brigade to break through to Fucheng County, and after several hours of fierce fighting, the ninth brigade of the army was completely annihilated, and the commander of the ninth brigade, Major General Yangcheng Saburo, was captured alive!" ”

"What? Captured alive? Zhang Mingyu also stood up in shock, after so many years of fighting in the Anti-Japanese War, he had never captured an officer above the adjutant officer of the Yue Army alive, and it was difficult for even ordinary soldiers of the Yue Army to be captured alive at the beginning of the war.

There is nothing else, just because the army, from soldiers to middle and high-ranking generals, is all brainwashed by the spirit of bushido, and would rather die in battle than surrender.

Later, with the attrition of the veterans of the Chinese army, some newly-drafted recruits who were not strong-willed were conscripted, and only then began to appear that there was a large-scale arrest of prisoners of war of the Japanese army, but this situation was only for the second- and third-rate troops of the Chinese army and some logistics units, and it was still difficult to catch alive the real main force of the field divisions.

Therefore, the fact that a senior officer at the level of a major general of the Yue Army was captured alive this time is definitely shocking news.

"That's right! It was captured alive. Division Commander Zhang didn't say what happened, but he did capture a devil major general alive, and it can be seen from his saber and military uniform that he is a major general! Liu Cheng nodded.

"Hmmm! Chief of Staff, let's go and see this major general of the army immediately, grandma's, really fucking spineless, actually disarmed and surrendered, it is estimated that all the generals of the army will be ashamed of him from now on! ”

"Haha! This is not a good thing for us, after all, there are two of them, and maybe Okamura Ninji will be forced to surrender to us in the end! Liu Cheng joked with a smile.

"If you want Okamura Ninji to surrender, it is estimated that at least we have to fight to the local area! Otherwise, this old devil wouldn't admit defeat if he said anything. ”

"Let's go!" Zhang Mingyu put on a steel helmet for himself, and then took the lead and strode out of the headquarters. Liu Cheng also hurriedly followed.

(To be continued)