[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 1122: The Turtle in the Urn (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Lieutenant General Higuchi Kiichiro eased his nervousness a little, and immediately ordered all the officers around him to immediately return to their units, and counterattack in all directions with the headquarters as the center, and in any case to hold the headquarters and important strongholds such as the airfield, and then gradually counterattack. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the news fed back from the battlefield was not very optimistic, the Chinese army had now captured the entire airport, and the defenders of a squadron at the airport had been completely annihilated, and the Chinese had established a strong defensive line at the airport, apparently trying to use the airport as a stronghold.

Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi was shocked that the fact that the China Air Force was able to parachute such a large group of paratroopers to Tongliao in such a short period of time showed that the transportation capacity of the China Air Force had exceeded the Empire's expectations.

If the Chinese army uses Tongliao Airport as a base and constantly sends reinforcements to the city, not only will Tongliao City not be able to hold it, but I am afraid that even Naiman and the entire eastern grassland will be in danger.

As a last resort, Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi immediately sent a report to the Kwantung Army Headquarters, requesting the Kwantung Army Headquarters to immediately send elite troops to reinforce Tongliao. At the same time, his own worries and speculations were attached for the reference of the Kwantung Army Command.

The battle lasted until the night, and although Li Yuming's troops were unable to take Tongliao City in one fell swoop, they controlled most of the important strongholds in the city.

Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi and the remnants of an infantry wing of the 9th Division were trapped in a small area centered on the garrison headquarters, and the two sides fought fiercely on the roadway as a battlefield.

After a night of fighting, less than 2,600 of the more than 4,000 people in Li Yuming's unit remained, and in addition to the more than 300 wounded, more than 1,200 were killed in the battle.

At this time, the Japanese army confronting them had a whole infantry wing and a puppet infantry division, although the formation was not very complete, but the total strength should not be less than 5,000 people.

In order to take Tongliao as soon as possible, the next stage of the plan will be implemented as soon as possible. Immediately, Li Yuming sent a report to the front command, requesting that reinforcements be sent immediately to reinforce the paratrooper brigade.

Knowing that Li Yuming's troops had taken control of Tongliao Airport, Ma Zheng immediately ordered the two infantry regiments of the 1st Division to immediately board the plane and go to Tongliao, and at the same time ordered the troops in the direction of Naiman to intensify their offensive efforts and not let Naiman's Japanese troops escape.

On the morning of the 21st, with the steady arrival of reinforcements from Ma Zheng's headquarters, and the reinforcements from the Kwantung Army Headquarters were still thousands of miles away, Lieutenant General Kiguchi Jiichiro made an astonishing choice - to abandon Tongliao.

Because they did not expect the Japanese army to retreat suddenly, Li Yuming and others did not reserve troops to intercept the Japanese army at all, and finally let more than 5,000 Japanese troops in the city successfully break through.

After breaking through the encirclement, the 9th Division fled directly to Shuangliao, and two days later joined up with Shuangliao's more than 3,000-day puppet army.

After capturing Tongliao, Ma Zheng ordered Li Yuming's troops to build fortifications on the spot and prepare for the Japanese army's counterattack on Tongliao.

At the same time, the reorganized 1st Division was ordered to immediately send troops back to the Naiman Banner, attack from east to west, and flank Naiman together with the troops on the Western Front.

Speaking of Naiman's Japanese army, after learning the news of the loss of Tongliao, Naiman's defenders panicked. In desperation, Tsumura Osa had no choice but to send a report to the headquarters of the division and regiment of the Tsumura Soichi Division, requesting the headquarters to break through the encirclement and requesting air support from the Kwantung Army Headquarters.

There are also quite a few complaints within the Kwantung Army about Higuchi Jiichiro's abandonment of the city and fleeing, but in view of the fact that Ma Zheng's attack is so sharp, there are also different opinions within the Kwantung Army on this matter. Some people believe that Higuchi Jiichiro abandoned the city and fled, which directly led to the loss of Tongliao Castle and made the imperial army extremely passive in future battles.

Others think that Higuchi Kiichiro is a high-ranking commander's decision on the spot, and it turns out that Higuchi Kiichiro's judgment is correct, if the more than 5,000 imperial troops still stubbornly stay in Tongliao, I am afraid that the 9th Division and the division headquarters will be erased from the imperial battle sequence by the Shina army, although Higuchi Kiichiro's move insulted the honor of the imperial army, but it preserved the entire division.

Lieutenant General Kiguchi Kiichiro knew that something was wrong when he received a telegram from Soichi Tomura, and they suddenly abandoned Tongliao, but it was Naiman's troops who were under the greatest pressure. Because of the current strategic situation, as long as the commander of the Shina people is not a fool, he will definitely send troops to flank Naiman.

Originally, the Japanese army in the direction of Naiman was at a disadvantage, if it weren't for the fact that Soichi Tomura had rich combat experience, placed his position outside the city, and used a reasonable terrain layout to block the battlefield, which caused great trouble to Ma Zheng's department and increased the difficulty of the attack, otherwise Naiman City would have been defeated a long time ago.

Now Ma Zheng's department is attacking Naiman from east to west, which is equivalent to cutting off the back road of the Ducun Sect, and now there are only two roads in front of the Ducun Sect, one is to resist stubbornly, and the other is to immediately abandon the city and break through.

Of course, Soichi Tomura had another option, which was to immediately surrender to Ma Desheng's department outside the city. However, this choice will definitely not be chosen by Soichi Tomura, because Soichi Tomura will never dare to tarnish the glory of the Ninth Division.

You must know that the Ninth Division, also known as the Kanazawa Division, where Soichi Tomura belongs, is organized in Kanazawa in northwestern Japan, and is one of the most elite divisions of the Imperial Japanese Army. The division was mainly composed of soldiers from Toyama Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture, and Fukui Prefecture, and since its establishment, it has survived the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and now the Pacific War.

From beginning to end, this unit has been fighting on the front lines. In the eyes of the Japanese army's base camp, the Ninth Division was fierce and well-equipped, and its combat effectiveness was second only to that of the Second Division, the Fifth Division, and the Sixth Division.

Whenever there is a bad battle or a tough battle, the base camp always thinks of the 9th Division, and in the army, the 9th Division and the 18th Division (Kurume Division) are considered to be a double gem, and they have a good reputation.

More importantly, the commanders of the Ninth Division were all famous generals of the Japanese Empire, and in the Russo-Japanese War, the Ninth Division was subordinate to the 3rd Army of General Nogi Noshinori and participated in the Battle of Arthur.

In the Lushun Siege, the 9th Division attacked three times, and the commander of the infantry wing to which it belonged was either killed or wounded. After suffering such a large loss, the division immediately plunged into the Battle of Mukden without much adjustment.

With such a force, even if it abandons the city and flees, it is a great shame, let alone surrender voluntarily.

Besides, surrendering would save his life at most, but Tomura Soichi was sure that as soon as the news of his surrender came back to Japan, the Tomura family would suddenly lose face, and the honor accumulated over the past hundred years would be in vain.

What's more, his family that stays in China will also be persecuted and attacked, which happens from time to time in Japan, so he doesn't dare to take this risk.

After consulting with the chief of staff, Soichi Tomura decided to order the Japanese puppet troops outside the city to immediately abandon their fortifications and positions, and all of them withdrew into Naiman City, in case they were broken by Ma Zheng's troops.

After all the troops were withdrawn into Naiman City, Soichi Tomura revised the plan to defend the city, and set up a total of 6 lines of defense from the garrison headquarters at the gate of the city.

Soichi Tomura's plan was very simple, that is, to rely on Naiman City to resist stubbornly, and even if the whole army was broken, he would never surrender to the Shina people.

After receiving the telegram from Ma Desheng, Ma Zheng smiled, this Tomura Soichi is really a hard bone, he didn't break through, let alone surrender, and planned to use Naiman City to resist stubbornly and wait for help.

Ma Zheng would not leave him this vacancy, and immediately ordered the three infantry divisions of the Rehe Military Region and a large number of technical units to complete the final encirclement of Naiman Cheng, and the four gates of Naiman City were impassable by 60,000 troops

In addition, under Ma Zheng's instructions, a large number of heavy artillery units were mobilized to Naiman.

Ma Zheng's meaning is very clear, as long as the puppet army takes the initiative to do it, he can not blame the past. As for the Japanese army, if it is the execution of all the headquarters of the 9th Division, there is no need to report to the command.

The reason why Ma Zheng issued this order was entirely because the headquarters of the 9th Division was one of the main culprits in the Nanjing Massacre in history, and after the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident, the 9th Division was transferred to Shanghai by the Japanese base camp to participate in the Battle of Songhu.

At that time, most of the troops stationed in Shanghai were the elite Central Army of the Kuomintang, where the Japanese army encountered stubborn resistance. For a long time, the Japanese army fell into a bitter battle, and the Kuomintang troops advanced and retreated, attacking and defending each other, and the battle line was in a state of stalemate.

Later, the 10th Army led by Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke successfully landed in Hangzhou Bay, which was tantamount to inserting a knife in the back of the national army's defense line. The defense line of the Nationalist army, which had been held for nearly three months, began to crumble and retreated to Nanjing.

The 9th Division and other Japanese troops immediately followed in the Battle of Nanjing, and the 36th Infantry Wing, which was part of the 9th Division, arrived at Guanghuamen in Nanjing on 9 December, but was unable to advance by the 13th due to the stubborn resistance of the Kuomintang troops.

However, with the fall of Yuhuatai and Purple Mountain outside Nanjing, the Nanjing defense line collapsed, and the Japanese army immediately occupied Nanjing.

After the Japanese occupied Nanjing, in the following month or so, the Nanjing occupation army led by the 6th, 9th, 3rd and 16th Divisions committed the most humiliating crime in the history of mankind in the thousand-year-old capital, and more than 300,000 innocent people were slaughtered.

Ma Zheng remembered this account for each of them, and if this ninth division was unlucky to run into him today, then the fate of destruction would be inevitable.

In case the night is long and dreamy, Ma Zheng ordered Ma Desheng, the commander-in-chief of Naiman's side, to immediately launch an attack on Naiman's Japanese army, and all the troops attacked in turn, never giving the Japanese army a chance to breathe until it collapsed directly.