Chapter 88: The End of Seishiro Sakagaki
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"Let's go." Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi didn't delay any longer, and quickly drove the Apache to retreat.
And about half an hour after the two retreated, a large group of Japanese soldiers rushed to the area panting, and then began a carpet search, doomed, they found nothing, and left a mystery that they could not solve.
On the side of the Luliang base, it will be dawn in another hour or two, Sun Yue did not feel the slightest sleep, she kept pinching the time, and looked anxious.
"General Wei, they launched a night attack, it's almost dawn this day, and they haven't come back yet, it can't be an accident." Sun Yue's mind was uncertain.
At this moment, a sound of puffing came from far and near, and Sun Yue, who was already familiar with the sound of the helicopter, was overjoyed, and then looked up at the place where the sound was, and only after a while did he see the familiar black shadow.
Sun Yue tried to stay as far away as possible from where Apache had landed, in case he was blown down by the strong air current. Apache landed smoothly at the base, and although Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi showed fatigue, they seemed to be in good spirits.
"General Wei, Miss Tang, why did you go on a mission for so long this time?" A big stone fell in Sun Yue's heart, and he couldn't help but step forward to ask.
"I was lucky to find an important target for the little devil, and in order to ensure the effect of the strike, I took turns to strike several times." Wei Qidong said with a smile.
"I see." Sun Yue nodded, and said, "Seeing that you are all tired, hurry up and take a rest." ā
"You haven't rested much, have you?" Tang Xinyi asked.
"You haven't come back, how can I sleep." Sun Yue said angrily, and then said, "Now I catch you to sleep with me, and I will sleep peacefully." ā
This successive high-intensity blows lasted for several hours, and they were indeed quite tired, Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi fell asleep after they fell, and Sun Yue also slept peacefully.
However, on the Japanese side, as close as the headquarters of the North China Front Army and as far as the Japanese base camp, many people were urgently woken up from their sleep.
"What? The 5th Division suffered heavy losses? Lord Sakagaki killed? "In the headquarters of the North China Front Army rebuilt in Beiping, Shouichi Terauchi came out of the room wearing pajamas inside and a military coat outside, and when he learned this terrifying information, he couldn't help but gasp and shiver, not frozen, but shocked.
"Give me a check on the specific situation, isn't the Fifth Division already occupying northern Jin and preparing to open the last line of defense in Taiyuan, why was it suddenly hit hard?" Shouichi Terauchi didn't believe it, but a voice in his heart told him that it was probably true.
Terauchi Shouichi didn't have the slightest sleep, so he waited for further verification of the news, and it was dawn.
"Your Excellency, Commander." With a heavy expression, a Japanese intelligence officer handed a briefing to Toshiti Terauchi.
On the information stationery, the top prominent line reads: The officers and men of the Fifth Division below His Excellency Seishiro Sakagaki have suffered more than 11,200 casualties according to preliminary statistics.
Seeing this line of news, Terauchi Shouichi felt that his eyes were dark, and he almost stood unsteadily. However, Shouichi Terauchi still forced himself to read the entire content. The details below the intelligence state a number of important losses, with Shosa killed up to thirteen men, including the Supreme Commander Seishiro Sakagaki.
In fact, Sakagaki Seishiro did not die in Wei Qidong's first attack, but was injured and buried, and his soldiers dug him out as soon as possible, and then sent him for treatment. As soon as Sakagaki was carried to the field hospital for emergency treatment, the second wave of Wei Qidong's tornado attack arrived, covering the area he was in before, and Sakagaki escaped.
However, the Japanese army did not expect that not long after, Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi drove the Apache back and launched a third attack.
The lights of the field hospital were too conspicuous, attracting the Apache, and the Japanese army did not have time to carry Sakagaki out, so Wei Qidong fired six rockets in one go, and this time, Seishiro Sakagaki, who had escaped two catastrophes, finally failed to escape again and was sent to the sky by several rockets. Again and again, again and again, the hard-hitting Sakagaki finally couldn't escape bad luck.
The intelligence also stated that China's mysterious forces launched four attacks back and forth overnight, and the interval was not long, two close-range bombardments by night aircraft, and two long-range shellings.
However, the location of the shelling, which had been verified by the air and ground forces, was in the area occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army, about 40 kilometers from the position of the Sakagaki Division.
However, the Imperial Japanese Army sent out a wing of troops to search the area around the area, but they could not find the target, and even the bullet casings found by the air force were missing. That is, the Imperial Japanese Army, after spending a lot of casualties and energy, gained nothing.
With more than 10,000 casualties and the enemy unscathed, this was definitely the worst defeat in the history of the founding of the Japanese Empire.
"One anti-aircraft gun can repel the enemy, why doesn't Sakagaki build up enough anti-aircraft fire around the position?" Although it's a bit bad to talk about a dead person, Terauchi Shouichi is still very sad.
Actually, Terauchi Shouichi knows Sakagaki very well, this person is very arrogant, and he is also very bold, if you give him a wing, he dares to do the business of a division, give him a division, he dares to do the business of an army.
I'm afraid that he was impatient to hide some time ago, and suddenly the enemy didn't attack for a while, so that Sakagaki's arrogant heart was revealed again, and he disdained to use so much power to be a shrinking turtle, and as a result, he was careless and died in Huangquan.
"Die before you get out of school." Shouichi Terauchi sighed, he knew that Sakagaki was very ambitious, and the invasion of Northeast and North China Sakagaki played a pivotal role.
Now the Shanxi operation commanded by him Sakagaki was at the most critical moment, but he himself died in battle, isn't it too appropriate to die before leaving the division.
Of course, in the hearts of the Chinese, the second half of the poem is unworthy, and this kind of bear that has brought great disasters to the Chinese nation should have died long ago.
At the moment, the results have been made, and it is too late to lament all the things that have happened to Sakagaki.
Terauchi Shouichi asked the commander of the 21st Brigade under the Fifth Division, Toshiji Miura, to quickly control the situation and temporarily act as the supreme commander of the Shanxi Army.
After arranging the tasks of the Shanxi troops, Terauchi Shouichi quickly sent a telegram to Tojo Hideki of Chahar, assigning him to quickly lead his troops south to Shanxi to control the situation.
After doing this, Terauchi Shouichi reported the detailed information of last night's bad news to the Japanese base camp.