[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 623: Soldiers Siege Kailu (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Major General Suzuki was completely stunned, and his headquarters had just been bombed. Although only one bomb landed on the headquarters www.biquge.info the pen, it killed half of the staff officers of the 24th Brigade, including his chief of staff, Musashi Daisa.

"Yaga, immediately send a telegram to His Excellency Commander Uemura and ask for operational guidance! The 3rd Cavalry Division of the Imperial Allied Army was ordered to come to reinforcements immediately. "Major General Suzuki knows that it may be hanging today, and it seems that it is a foolish decision to come out and fight a positional battle with the Shina people.

However, although the losses are not small now, he still has more than 8,000 troops under his command and the strength to fight. Moreover, he had just observed the Chinese army under the mountain, and found a large number of cars, according to the strength of the Chinese people, this Chinese army has basically achieved mechanization, no wonder the Chinese army still has such physical strength after a long journey.

In this case, his troops cannot be withdrawn at all, and once they withdraw, the person will definitely be pressed up, and then it will really be over, and the only way now is to hold on and wait for reinforcements.

After receiving the telegram from Major General Suzuki, Lieutenant General Kiyotaro Uemura of Tongliao was shocked, and the stupid Suzuki actually set up a position with the Shina people to fight a field battle when the enemy was outnumbered, and what he did not expect was that the combat effectiveness of the Shina people was so strong that in less than three hours, Major General Suzuki asked the division headquarters for operational guidance.

He himself and Major General Suzuki have not worked together for a long time, but the two have known each other for no less than 15 years, and it can even be said that they grew up together, so Kiyotaro Uemura knows Major General Suzuki very well, and knows that if it is not really a matter of life and death, he will not ask for help from the division headquarters.

While ordering Major Suzuki to continue to stand by for reinforcements, Uemura Kiyotaro also sent a telegram to Ueda Daisa of the Aru Banner, ordering the headquarters to immediately dispatch two infantry brigades and two Imperial Concord Corps to the 13th Aobao to reinforce Major General Suzuki with the assistance of the Chariot Wing. In addition, the Japanese troops in Kailu also received a telegram from the division headquarters, ordering them to rush to Aru Banner immediately and be ready to reinforce the Left Banner of Bahrain at any time.

Of course, Lieutenant General Uemura will not forget to inform the commander of the Japanese Eighth Division stationed in the Shuangliao area, Tsukada, so that the Eighth Division can speed up its advance and meet the enemy together.

However, to the horror of Lieutenant General Uemura, shortly after his order was given, another urgent report came from the front, this time even worse, as the forward troops that had broken through into Sozhboga were besieged by the Shina army, and two infantry brigades and one cavalry brigade were all shattered.

The reinforcements from Aru Banner to Bahrain Left Banner suddenly encountered the Chinese army on the way, and the two sides fought an encounter battle, in which the Imperial Japanese Army was defeated again, and the powerful chariot unit of the Imperial Army suffered heavy casualties under the blow of a mysterious artillery unit in China, and almost all of the more than 100 chariot armored vehicles were destroyed, and the only chariot wing of the division was disabled. The more than 6,000 troops who cooperated with the chariot wing only fled back to Kailu with less than 1,000 people, and the rest were all killed.

Now Lieutenant General Uemura is really anxious, this is not only the danger of Major General Suzuki's side, but also the safety of Liaocheng. While appealing to the Kwantung Army Headquarters for help, Lieutenant General Uemura urgently ordered the troops around Tongliao to immediately withdraw to the city, and the Japanese puppet troops in other places should also rush to the nearby county town to prevent them from being broken by the Chinese people.

At this time, Lieutenant General Uemura could only pray that Tsukada's 8th Division could arrive before the Shina people annihilated Suzuki's department, otherwise the 24th Brigade would be wiped out from the battle sequence of the 12th Division, and he, the division commander, would also come to an end. He is a general who does not have many military merits, and the backstage is not hard, once something happens, no one will support him.

However, this year seems to be a bad year, with bad news one after another. The matter on this side has not yet been resolved, and the Kwantung Army Headquarters urgently sent a telegram that a huge contingent of Chinese cavalry has appeared in the southwest of Tongliao City, numbering at least six or seven thousand people. Judging from the direction of travel of this branch of cavalry, their target was Tongliao City.

Lieutenant General Uemura was shocked, he knew the situation of Tongliao City best, the main force had sent him to Kailu and Bahrain Left Banner, Tongliao City and the nearby defenders added up to less than 3,000 people, how could they be the opponent of the Zhina people. More importantly, once the people of China captured Tongliao, it would be equivalent to cutting off the back route of the other troops of the 12th Division, and what awaited the 12th Division at that time would be the fate of the entire army.

Not only Lieutenant General Uemura was aware of the danger, but Umezu Mijiro, who was in Shinkyo, was also anxious. He is well aware of the ferocity of Ma Zheng's department, that is, a fierce tiger, once he sees the opportunity, he will not let go without waiting for the prey to lose his breath.

In order to prevent the 12th Division from being surrounded and annihilated by the Chinese army, the Kwantung Army Headquarters urgently ordered the 8th Division to immediately set out from Shuangliao to reinforce the Shangcun headquarters in Tongliao. At the same time, the headquarters of the 12th Division in Tongliao City was ordered to immediately withdraw to Kailu, and the defenders of Kailu were held on to wait for reinforcements in order to wait for the arrival of the 8th Division.

After receiving the order, Lieutenant General Kamimura, who felt deeply in danger, immediately ordered all the troops to assemble, and at the same time opened the arsenal in Tongliao City, first equipped the Japanese army, and finally equipped the puppet army, and buried on the spot what could not be taken away. Grain and other materials can be taken away, and those that can't be taken away are burned on the spot, and finally the Japanese army burned Tongliao City with a fire.

Knowing that the Japanese army burned Tongliao City, Liu Fengchi was furious, it was a Chinese city, and it was burned by the Japanese army. According to the information collected by the personnel of the plot report, there were still more than 55,000 people in the city when the Japanese army burned the city, so it is conceivable how many ordinary people suffered this time.

After the news reached Lu Xi, Ma Zheng was also extremely angry. Although Ma Zheng had long been surprised by the brutality of the Japanese army, it was the first time he had heard of such a thing as burning a city.

The furious Ma Zheng immediately ordered Liu Fengchi's troops to immediately encircle the 12th Division, and at the same time arrived with a secret order: "No prisoners of war will be left!" ”。

On the question of Japanese prisoners of war, Ma Zheng has always gone with the flow and adopted the practice of turning a blind eye, whether the prisoners of war were executed or left behind by various units, Ma Zheng did not respond. If you kill it, you will kill it, and if you don't kill it, you will keep it, anyway, all the mines and forest farms need manpower, and there are really not many people who explicitly ask the troops not to keep prisoners of war like this time.

Soon after the Japanese army withdrew from Tongliao, the rapid reaction force of the Chabei Army Division arrived in Tongliao, and learned that the Japanese army had withdrawn westward, leaving a cavalry regiment to help the people in the city put out the fire, while others immediately pursued.

On October 29, Liu Fengchi's troops finally annihilated the Japanese 24th Brigade at the 13th Aobao after paying a certain number of casualties, and then the army quickly attacked Aru Banner. After occupying the Aru Banner, the 50,000-strong army of the 3rd Division continued to advance eastward, heading towards Kailu County, where the remnants of the Japanese army were shrinking.

At noon on the 29th, more than 50,000 people from 8 infantry regiments, 3 cavalry regiments and 2 artillery regiments of the Suicha Military Region surrounded the regiments of Kailu County, and the headquarters of the 12th Division of the Japanese Army, as well as 2 infantry wings, 1 cavalry wing, a baggage wing and 1 gendarmerie brigade were besieged in the city.

Liu Fengchi would not give the Japanese army a chance to break through the encirclement, and after completing the encirclement, the army immediately attacked the city, preparing to completely annihilate this permanent division of the Japanese army in the shortest possible time.

At the same time, Liu Fengchi had already received a telegram saying that the Japanese Eighth Division was rapidly rushing towards Kailu, and that with the marching speed of the Japanese mechanized troops, if they did not take a break along the way, they would be able to reach Kailu in a day and a half at most. That is to say, time is running out for them, and they must hurry.

If the remnants of the 12th Division could not be annihilated in a day and a half, as long as the 8th Division arrived, then the plan to encircle and annihilate the 12th Division would be in vain. You must know that this Eighth Division is extraordinary, and it is by no means comparable to the ordinary Japanese infantry division.

The 8th Division was one of the first six divisions to be established by the Japanese army, and its soldiers were mainly students from the cold northeastern region of Japan, and the discipline was quite strict. In addition, since the formation of the army, it has been fighting abroad, and almost all of the whole army are veterans of a hundred battles, and their combat effectiveness is very strong, and among the 20 permanent divisions of the Japanese army, only the arrogant Fifth Division can compete with it, and even the First Guards Division may not be able to defeat them.

What is particularly memorable is that after the Manchurian Incident in 1931, the Eighth Division participated in the Rehe Operation, and took Chengde with 128 cavalry, and then defeated 3 divisions of the Central Army at Nantianmen, which can be seen in combat effectiveness. (To be continued.) )