Chapter 56: The Devil Enters the City

Gao Quan glanced at the veteran in front of him in a little surprise, and he couldn't imagine that this old slippery head still had such a loyal side. "Junzuo doesn't have to be too pessimistic, the current situation of our army, the theater and even the Military Commission are all known. Jun Zuo can immediately report the current situation to the theater of operations and ask the theater for instructions on the next operation. I don't think Commander Li in the theater wants to see my Third Army Corps completely wiped out by the Japanese army, right? Although Pang Bingxun is well-informed, his brain has often short-circuited recently after being stimulated by the old devil of Sakagaki, and he didn't even think of such a simple way to turn in contradictions, but when he heard Gao Quan's suggestion at this moment, Lao Pang's eyes immediately lit up, "That's right!" Advise you to wake up the dreamer at a glance! Of course, Commander Li will not sit idly by and watch the annihilation of our three legions! In this way, I advise you to immediately go and activate all the organs you have set up in the city, and I will gather the troops to prepare for the retreat, and now I will send a telegram to the headquarters of the commander of the theater, and if the commander's department really ignores it, I will send a report to the Wuhan Military Commission! I don't believe that the Military Commission is really going to eliminate the number of my three legions! ”

In battle, if a formed army, especially a large army formation such as a corps, is completely annihilated by the enemy, the superior military commander will be responsible for everything. No matter how powerful Chief Li is, he does not dare to risk the world's condemnation, so that Pang Bingxun, the hero of the Anti-Japanese War who was published in major newspapers across the country some time ago, really coexists and dies with Linyi City. Especially when I heard Pang Bingxun say that the residents of Linyi City had already evacuated, the city had already become an empty city, and Chief Li really did not have any extra troops on hand to send them here, it became an inevitable trend to order a retreat.

Of course, since the commissioners of the Military Commission were able to command the 59th Army to reinforce Linyi last time, this time Chief Li pushed the mess of the Third Army and Linyi City to the chairman of the committee, and of course he was also a politician.

The commissioner should pay more attention to Linyi than Chief Li. After the victory in Taierzhuang, the commissioner has always wanted to gather and annihilate the Japanese army again in the Xuzhou area, and the troops of the Fifth Theater are now concentrated near Xuzhou. The Japanese army also mobilized a large army, and the third, fifth, ninth, tenth, thirteenth, fourteenth, sixteenth, and 114th divisions, with more than 200,000 people, surrounded the main force of our Fifth Theater from several directions, and captured our army's positions from several directions.

The chairman of the committee was already a little hesitant at this time. Although there were many troops in the Fifth Theater, they were all tired from a long battle, and their weapons and equipment were far from those of the Japanese army's elite divisions. Whether the Fifth Theater can withstand the Japanese offensive or not, the committee really has no bottom in his heart. At this time, I received a telegram from the Fifth War Zone, which mentioned the remaining strength of the Third Army Corps, and the residents of Linyi had been evacuated. Where is this to decide what to fight? This is clearly for the commissioner to choose, do you still want the number of the third legion?

Even if this legion is to be abolished in the end, it should be reorganized by order of the Military Commission, how can a legion that is still in the formation be sent over for the Japanese to eat? On this point, the commissioner is more concerned than Chief Li. Today he will dare to give the Third Army to the devils, and tomorrow the bigwigs of the local military departments across the country will dare to hang the Central Army of his chairman! Without the cover of the local army, how could the elite troops of the Central Army resist Japan? The shrewd mind of the commissioner figured out what was at stake at the first time, and sent a telegram to the Third Legion, ordering the legion to seek an opportunity to move in in the near future!

As soon as the oracle arrived, Commander Pang immediately arranged for the transfer. There are really not many troops in his descendants now, and in order to prevent the Japanese from tracking and pursuing, it is necessary to leave a broken rear force, so of course this broken rear force is not a high-level independent brigade that is not competent. You can't let his entire legion be cut off for an independent brigade, right?

Gao Quan has no opinion on this, who made him the most "strong" unit in the three army corps now? He has a big burden to bear, and he can't have any objection to this at all.

The corps headquarters and several other divisional and brigade-level units had just begun to withdraw from the outside of the city, and the forward troops of the devils had crossed Yishui. After the devil crossed the river this time, he didn't wait by the river like last time, and the devil's forward troops directly attacked Linyi City.

The city walls of Linyi City are naturally inferior to Luo Wenyu and Juyong Pass, and Gao Quan's independent brigade is not as strong as the 143rd Division or the 13th Army. Fortunately, in Linyi City, Gao Quan prepared a feast for the devils in the morning, and made a show of the battle on the city wall, and after the artillery company fired a round of shells, starting from the artillery company, all the troops of the independent brigade began to retreat in an all-round way.

The Devil's Vanguard was the Ninth Brigade under the command of Guo Qi Deng, who committed heinous crimes in Nanjing. Since Kuniti Deng stayed in Nanjing for a week, his human nature has changed greatly since he returned to the Fifth Division, and now even the commander of Itagaki Seishiro's Division, who used to appreciate him quite a bit, is a little tired of him. This guy is now a whole perverted murderer, only interested in killing people all day long, about strategy and tactics, even the art of commanding operations, the way of controlling the troops, etc., things that are crucial to a commander, this Major General Kuniki has all degraded to varying degrees. Lieutenant General Sakagaki felt that Kuniki was no longer suitable to stay in the army, and he should go to the doctor to treat mental illness, this guy is sick!

It's the same today, Guo Qideng, who escaped his life in the big water of the Yi River last time, couldn't control the crazy thoughts in his heart after crossing the Yi River, led his troops, and fiercely rushed towards the city wall. Just when the soldiers thought that the goods would crash to death on the city wall, they finally regained a trace of consciousness and stopped Major General Kuniki's suicide. Inside the city walls, dozens of shells crossed the city walls, fell into the Japanese army group and exploded. Fortunately, Major General Kuniki is now relatively close to the city wall, which is basically a dead end for cannonball shooting, and the crazy Kuniki Deng can be regarded as having escaped the catastrophe of death.

Kuniti, who was shelled, was even more frantic and ordered his soldiers to climb up the city walls. The soldiers of the 11th Wing wondered why they had to climb the city walls like in ancient wars instead of using artillery chariots and blasting the city gates open. The Japanese soldiers, who were accustomed to carrying out orders, still carried out the orders of their commanders, although on the way to climb, dozens of Japanese soldiers unfortunately fell down, broke their hands and feet, and twisted their necks, and finally the seemingly tall city wall was climbed by the Japanese soldiers.

By this time, the Independence Brigade had withdrawn from another gate, and the city had long since become an empty city. As soon as Kuniti Deng, who was bent on slaughtering the city, led his troops into the city, he began to search the streets and alleys, trying to find civilians in the city to vent his anger. The civilians were not found, but the Japanese troops entering the city were in an unprecedented crisis.