The sound of the telescope landing on the ground woke up the dignified Imperial Army Lieutenant General Shigetaro Kazutaro.

After coming down from the roof, Ganji Shigetaro already understood that this small village called Hancun was the burial place of the 33rd Division, and it was also his own burial place.

Knowing this, Jutaro Kan didn't panic anymore. After all, he was a general who had both military theory and actual combat experience, and he immediately understood that with only these stragglers that he had temporarily gathered, holding the position at the entrance of the village and repelling the attack of the Eighth Route Army could only be an unattainable dream. The only thing that can be done is to use the courtyard in the village to fight with the Eighth Route Army, so that they can hold out for a longer time, cause casualties to the attacking Eighth Route Army, and let them see what is the bravery of the Emperor [***] people.

Thinking of the bravery of the Emperor [***] people, Gansu Shigetaro couldn't help but have a wry smile on his face, distorting his originally hideous face into a bit like a clown in a burlesque, indescribably awkward and ugly.

The 1,000 little devils who retreated to Hancun with Gansu Jutaro were basically the remnants of the 33rd Division's baggage wing, engineer wing, field artillery wing, health team, communications team, field hospital, and sick horse factory. The infantry brigade of the 215th Wing, which had strong combat effectiveness and operated with the division headquarters, was basically dead by the Jiaolai River. This is not to blame for the cruelty of the Eighth Route Army Aviation Brigade, the battlefield is originally life and death, who told the little devils of this infantry brigade to organize anti-air shooting when they are bombed?

Although Gansu Shigetaro now has a thousand remnants and has been organized into four squadrons, they are basically soldiers of the technical arms that play a role in support in peacetime, and only these soldiers of the technical arms who are not so tenacious in their will to resist can resolutely lie down and dodge under the repeated ravages of the two fighter formations of the Eighth Route Army, and are lucky to survive. If they were like the infantry brigade, thinking that they could cover their bodies by digging a simple foxhole, and then organize anti-air shooting, under the repeated blows of the Eighth Route Army's fighter machine guns and bombs, they would have to lose an arm or leg if they didn't die, and they would have to kill him just by bleeding, where could they escape to Hancun with His Excellency the division commander!

Some of them picked up a rifle, some carried a grenade, and some didn't take anything, just walked on short and thick legs, swung their arms, and followed His Excellency the division commander into Hancun.

Fortunately, Kanji Jutaro made a timely decision and immediately ordered the three squadrons to return to the Jiaolai River to deal with the seriously wounded, treat the lightly wounded, and bring back the discarded machine guns and artillery. The cannon was not pulled back, because there were no pack horses, and it was a burden to pull back, and it had to be discarded when retreating. Light and heavy machine guns, rifles, and ammunition were brought back, and they were finally fully armed.

He knew in his heart that his own family was fine, and he had no choice but to hope that his hastily organized stragglers would have a heart of loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor, fight to the death, and die a dignified death.

Considering that these stragglers had low combat effectiveness and had to be put to death and survived, Ganji Shigetaro immediately ordered the squadron that held the position at the entrance of the village to resolutely block the attack, concentrate all the heavy machine guns on the position at the entrance of the village, and strafe the infantry of the Eighth Route Army behind the tanks and armored vehicles. The other three squadrons all withdrew into the village, hid in the courtyard, and fought with the Eighth Route Army for the courtyard. At the same time, a squad was dispatched to form a team of supervisors, and all soldiers who dared to escape were killed!

After giving the order, Gansu Shigetaro sat down and drafted a telegram to the commander of the North China Front, General Terauchi Shouichi, the commander of the North China Front, the general of the land minister, Sugimoto, and the chief of the general staff, Prince Kanin Miyazaihito, briefly reporting the 33rd Division's entry into North China since its formation, and the battle of being ordered to reinforce Weicheng, and then reporting the information that the instructor of the Eighth Route Army had a strong aviation and armored force, and finally said that he could not wait for air reinforcements, that the Eighth Route Army had surrounded the village, and that the last moment of allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor was approaching. As a lieutenant general of the Great Imperial Army, he could not fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, so he disgraced His Majesty the Emperor, and was determined to burn the military flag, blow up the radio station, and apologize!

Then he sent his wife a farewell message. Considering the living conditions of his family, in the farewell message, Shigetaro Kanji used a righteous and awe-inspiring appearance to encourage his children to serve His Majesty the Emperor.

After sending the telegram, Kanji Shigetaro ordered the guards to start burning military flags and documents, ordered the code book to be burned, and the radio station to be blown up.

After doing this, Shigetaro asked the guards to fetch a machine gun, moved a square table in the upper room to the door of the house, and set up the machine gun. He took out his pistol, opened the safe, put it on the table, moved a chair, sat down at the square table, tried the machine gun shooting posture, and then sat on the chair with the command knife and the big knife and golden horse, staring at the gate of the courtyard like a hungry wolf, waiting for the Eighth Route Army to hit his gun.

Jutaro is ready for the last dying struggle, can the Eighth Route Army let him get his wish?

After eliminating the remnants of the 213th Wing of the Yue Army, the 1st and 2nd Regiments of the 1st Brigade continued to pursue eastward and caught up with the remnants of the 214th Wing of the Yue Army at the Weihe Bridgehead.

Feng Dafei led the 1st Aviation Brigade of the Eighth Route Army to attack the 33rd Division, which dealt a fatal blow to the army. The greatest losses were the troops directly under the command of the 33rd Division and the 215th Wing, because the brigade led by the commander of the 215th Wing to occupy Pingdu County ahead of schedule and the brigade that went out of the Weihe Bridge to meet the 213th Wing and the 214th Wing were all exposed on the road, and almost all the troops were wiped out. Except for the Akita Brigade that remained in Qingchi, which was not bombed by fighters, the remaining two brigades and the wing headquarters were also bombed by fighters of the Eighth Route Army during the retreat from Qingchi to Weihe Bridge. However, like the 213th Wing, since this area is the most densely populated place of villages on the Changwei Plain, the little devils were able to find a place of invisibility and the losses were relatively small. The devils of the two brigades were lucky enough to survive a thousand people. As soon as the fighters of the Eighth Route Army left, the frightened little devils did not dare to stay any longer, threw down the corpses and excess weapons and ammunition, disposed of all the seriously wounded, and then ran towards the direction of the Weihe Bridge like a lost dog.

After crossing the Weihe Bridge, the tragic situation of the 215th Wing rushed to the Weihe Bridge to meet the retreating brigade: the wreckage of the car and armored car was still circling, the pungent smell of the burning tires made people unable to open their eyes, the wreckage of the car was the corpse of a soldier who had been burned into black sticks, the car was surrounded by stumps, and weapons and ammunition were scattered all over the ground. Depending on the situation, this brigade had just arrived at the Weihe bridgehead, and before it had time to get out of the car, it encountered the fighters of the Eighth Route Army, became a target, and was stewed by the fighters of the Eighth Route Army.

The commander of the 214th Wing just looked at it hastily, and his heart was already miserable, when did the army fall into such a situation, and was bombed by Chinese fighters without the power to fight back, is this Eighth Route Army still the army that the sick man of East Asia said in the primary school textbook of the Great Empire is difficult to return? If we continue to fight like this, how many divisions and regiments will this empire have to be able to fill the black hole that cannot be seen at a glance in the North China battlefield!

The leader of the 214th Wing, who was in a gloomy mood, was no longer in the mood to look at it, but only ordered the soldiers to deal with the wounded who were no longer able to march with the troops.

This army was born to be the most brutal army in the world, not only to the people they invaded, but also to their own wounded. If the battle is won, it is good to say that the wounded can be treated in time. When the escape is defeated, the wounded are often given a grenade, allowing them to kill themselves or die with the enemy. For those seriously wounded who have lost the ability to kill themselves and die with the enemy, they are directly helped to break with rifles. Anyway, at this time, the right to life is not even as good as a butt wiping paper, and no one is pursuing their human rights violations.

The soldiers of the army acted quickly to deal with the wounded, because there were no minor wounded, and if there were any, they would have run away. Occasionally, there was a seriously wounded person, it was also a blood gourd, and there was no need to treat it at all, so the soldiers just shot it.

It was only a few scattered shots that ended the operation to treat the wounded.

The captain of the 214th Wing led the soldiers to take off their military hats and bow to the corpses of the fallen soldiers, and silently recited the blessing of Amaterasu several times in his heart, and then ordered the troops to run towards Hancun.

Originally, at this time, if the commander of the 214th Wing ordered the Weihe Bridge to be blown up, it might delay the pursuit of the Eighth Route Army, so that the remnants of the 214th Wing could retreat safely to Hancun and join up with the remnants of Gansu Shigetaro. However, the commander of the 214th Wing did not receive an order to blow up the Weihe bridge, although he heard fierce gunfire coming from the direction of Qingchi.

The key is that since the 33rd Division was defeated by the Seventh Brigade in the bloody battle of Zhoucun, the whole division and regiment have been looking forward to the shame, lying on their salaries and trying their courage, training hard, and improving their combat effectiveness rapidly, hoping that one day they will be able to find the Eighth Route Army, which is always sneaking in and ambushing, and show the majesty of the 33rd Division. Although the 33rd Division suffered heavy losses from the bombing of the Eighth Route Army fighters just now, it was an air-to-ground attack, and it was a very unfair battle for all units of the 33rd Division. Now that the Eighth Route Army had caught up, and there was no cannon sound from the earth-shattering artillery group in the direction of the Twenty Lipu Airport that he heard in Qingchi, the commander of the 214th Wing judged that it should be the vanguard of the Eighth Route Army that had caught up. Since it was the vanguard of the Eighth Route Army, the fully formed infantry brigade and the 213th Wing left behind in Qingchi should be able to repel their attack and retreat safely. In addition, there was no order to blow up the bridge, and it could not bear the responsibility of blocking the retreat of the troops in case, so the 214th Wing did not blow up the bridge in the end.

Amaterasu didn't know when he heard the prayer of the commander of the 214th Wing, but the Eighth Route Army seemed to hear it, and drove tanks, armored vehicles, and cars as fast as they could, along the highway, and quickly chased after them across the Weihe Bridge.

By the time the captain of the 214th Wing found out that it was the camouflaged armored unit of the Eighth Route Army that had caught up, it was too late. The little devils who were lucky enough to escape the bombing of the fighters were never lucky again. They shot in vain, resisted in vain, and once again repeated the story of the Akita Brigade and the 213 Wing.

After crossing the Jiaolai River, Wang Dahu found that the remnants of the little devils were gathered in Han Village. Because in order to collect the stragglers, Ganji Jutaro set up a sentry at the entrance of the village and set up a sun flag, for fear that the stragglers who were bombed like frightened rabbits would not be able to find the division headquarters.

Liu Yimin said that defeating the strong with the weak and attacking the big with the small is a last resort, and the real royal road on the battlefield is to bully the small with the big and the weak with the strong, and in the face of absolutely strong strength, all skills will seem redundant and useless.

Now, in the small Hancun battlefield, the Eighth Route Army has an absolute advantage, and there is no need to talk to the little devils so much. Therefore, Wang Dahu took the lead and directly ordered tanks and armored vehicles to take the lead and launch an attack on the devil's position at the entrance of the village, wanting to destroy the little devil's will to resist in one fell swoop, drive the devil out of the village, and annihilate them in the wild.

Li Shanzhu, commander of the 1st Battalion, asked Wang Dahu that the little devils would definitely fight the trapped beasts and use the houses and courtyards of the villagers to fight for our army, and that the soldiers should be ordered to get out of their cars and carry out multi-point assaults under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles, break through point by point, and eliminate the remnants of the enemy from house to yard.

Wang Dahu looked at the sky and replied with a resolute face: "No need, we have to fight quickly, if we delay, the devil's plane will arrive, and if we don't do it, we will become the target of the little devil's group, and the loss will be too great." Ordered the troops to put all the cannons and light and heavy machine guns on the car and carry out a fire assault on the enemy in Hancun. If the little devil dares to carry out a courtyard battle with our army, he will destroy the house and the courtyard. After the battle, our army built houses for the villagers, and all of them were built into brand-new tiled houses to compensate for the losses of the villagers. ”

Wang Dahu is thinking like this, what else do the cadres and fighters of the first regiment say? After all, tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles have a height advantage after driving into the village, and it is much more convenient to shell, strafe, or drop bombs on the devils from the cars than to attack on foot. The only thing I am worried about is that the road in the village is too narrow, and the car can't get in, now it's okay, the regiment commander made it clear, carry out a fire assault on the devil's village entrance position, and once the devil occupies the courtyard and resists stubbornly, he can destroy the courtyard, and he is not afraid that the car will not be able to drive in. This was originally a violation of discipline, and now that the regiment commander has given an order, what are you afraid of?

These devils are indeed all technical troops, usually hiding behind the combat troops to make a fortune, and their minds are full of the idea that the imperial army is invincible in the world, and they never thought that they would be allowed to take up arms and go into battle again. Today's bombing by the fighters of the Eighth Route Army scared them out! No, the little devils on the position at the entrance of the village began to panic, and without waiting for the Eighth Route Army to attack, they picked up their machine guns and started shooting.

As soon as Wang Dahu saw that the bullets of the little devil's machine gun crackled on the tank, he just couldn't get in, so he was happy at once, and roared "rush in, catch the commander of the devil division alive," and gave the order to launch an attack.

Now it was lively, and the ten tanks immediately formed a battle formation, with black smoke coming from behind their buttocks, roaring, and firing artillery while marching towards the little devil's village entrance position. Behind the tank, there were ten armored vehicles, and the machine guns on the roof of the cars were loud to suppress the machine gun fire of the devils. The Eighth Route Army on the car behind used all the infantry guns, mortars, and grenadiers, in a word, to use artillery fire to wipe out the little devil's defensive position at the entrance of the village.

The firepower of the first regiment is already pervertedly strong, and this is even more perverted with the addition of tanks and armored vehicles. With so many cannons slamming at one point, not to mention a person, even an elephant will be torn to pieces.

The little devil's position at the entrance of the village was submerged in a sea of fire, and both the army in the village and the Eighth Route Army outside the village could clearly see the scene of the little devils dancing in the artillery fire.

At this time, there was a scene that neither Ganji Shigetaro nor Wang Dahu could imagine: the remnants of the little devils in the village entrance suddenly exploded, they left the position, and began to flee to the village, crying and shouting while fleeing, just like a person suddenly going insane.

If they were left in the permanent division of the army, these guys who escaped from the battle would be regarded as cowards and disgrace to His Majesty the Emperor, and they would be killed on the spot by order of the commander. Even the three infantry wings of the 33rd Division, which had been reorganized, would also be regarded as shaking the morale of the army and would also be subject to battlefield discipline. Even if the defensive line is shaken, those who flee first will be killed by the machine guns of the Overseers, until the troops break out on a large scale and even the Overseers are dragged into a rout.

But the soldiers of the temporary formation of Gansu Shigetaro are not soldiers of permanent divisions and regiments, nor are they soldiers of infantry wings, they are basically soldiers of technical arms, including artillery, baggage soldiers, signal troops, car repairers, cart drivers, horse breeders, horse doctors, nurses, and so on, the fighters of the Eighth Route Army have blown them up to the ground, and the reason why they fled into Han Village with Gansu Jutaro is because of the concept of discipline on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also the natural reaction of people's sense of gathering when they encounter danger. There was another very important factor why Ganji Jutaro was able to arm them just now, that is, they still had a trace of illusion, thinking that the 213th Wing and the 214th Wing could withdraw and cover their retreat. Imperial planes would also fly to escort them back to Qingdao. These guys don't have the experience of meeting the bayonets of the [***] squadron, and their will to fight is not the same as that of those devils of the murderous combat troops.

Seeing that the Eighth Route Army was attacking with tanks and armored vehicles, these little devils knew that the 213 Wing and the 214 Wing were broken, and the seven souls had already run three souls, and when they saw the might of the Eighth Route Army's artillery fire covering the position, the remaining four souls ran away with three more souls. The remaining wisp of soul is just enough for them to sober up a little, knowing that if they don't run again, they will really die!

So, the little devil gave up his position and ran away.

Later scholars have a very professional term called chain reaction, which is also very appropriate for the current Hancun army defenders. The escape of the little devils in the village entrance position should have been severely suppressed by the overseers, but it is a pity that the soldiers of these overseers saw the situation in the village entrance position clearly, no, they saw it more clearly than the devils who escaped from the village entrance position. Those guys ran away with their backs back, and they didn't have eyes in the back of their heads, and they couldn't see one tank after another running over the position at the entrance of the village and driving towards the village. The soldiers of the Overseer saw it clearly, and knew that if they didn't run, those tanks, which were originally sharp weapons of the Imperial Army, would mercilessly press their bodies, crushing their arms, legs, even genitals, and heads into specks of dust on the dirt roads in this village. That guy, it's horrible. Don't say that you can't go home to see your mother again, even Amaterasu will dislike him, and he will not let his soul enter the Yasukuni Shrine after death!

In this way, I don't know who shouted, and I don't know who turned around first, anyway, the supervision team that was entrusted by Lieutenant General Ganji Shigetaro to supervise the battle also joined the ranks of escape, and began to shout and move towards the east of the village together with the rout soldiers who had withdrawn from the position at the entrance of the village.

The three squadrons responsible for fighting for the courtyard with the Eighth Route Army behaved in a decent manner after receiving orders. The three squadrons divided the area and defended in squads. The core position of the defense was the courtyard where the division commander, Lieutenant General Ganji Shigetaro, lived.

Although these little devils have not directly fought face-to-face with the Chinese [***] team, they have received strict military training after all, and they have also participated in many exercises, so they know how to deploy in the courtyard defense battle. Therefore, their deployment was still decent, the machine guns were all on the roof, and some soldiers were preparing to drop bombs downwards on the roof, and the rest of the soldiers were also hidden in the corners of the courtyard and in the house, and the muzzles of the black holes were pointed at the courtyard gate, ready to wait for the Eighth Route Army to break through the door and carry out fire strikes.

Although the deployment was decent, it was all a showcase, and it couldn't hide the trembling hands and feet of the little devil soldiers, and the rustling sound of their excited hearts.

The scene on the position at the entrance of the village, and the little devils on the roof have also seen it. They also saw the scene of the soldiers at the entrance of the little devil village and the soldiers of the Overseer team. Originally, these little devils might have dared to bite the bullet and then escape, but the Eighth Route Army seemed to see through their minds. A chariot that had just driven into the entrance of the village found the little devils on the roof of the first courtyard, and the machine guns on the roof of the car directly clashed, knocking the tiles on the roof ridge straight away, and the two little devils were immediately shot and rolled down. That's not all, the second chariot that followed up with a butt smack, a "tom", a cannonball flew away, and directly tore over the roof. At this time, the little devil understood that the Eighth Route Army was ruthless, and in order to eliminate them, he did not hesitate to fire at the houses of the common people. The only advantage they relied on on was that the Eighth Route Army would not shell civilian houses. What are you waiting for if you don't run?

Almost all the devils on the roof slipped out as fast as they could, and then the little devils opened the courtyard doors one by one and joined the ranks of escape.

The machine guns on the tanks of the Eighth Route Army, which entered the village one after another, were even more cheerful, and the bullets flew out, bursting out on the back of the devils, strings of bloody flowers. Unfortunately, smoke has begun to rise over the village, and the sun is gradually obscured, and you can't see the beauty of the blood flowers blooming in the sun.

The devil soldiers have all run away, what should Lieutenant General Shigetaro do about Gansu?

(To be continued)