[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 1077: Breaking the Back Road (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Both troops are hard-nosed, and they both have the belief that they will fight to the last second, and neither of them wants to abandon their positions and run away or attack in vain. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The two commanders, Li Mang and Yamada Daisa, are also red-eyed now, and they don't realize what kind of tragic ending it will be if they continue to hold each other, and the only belief in their hearts is to kill each other.

The two of them were killed, but they were anxious about Ouyang Hu and Nakajima Tokutaro who were watching the battle behind.

Seeing that the battle was temporarily stalemate, Ouyang Hu hurriedly sent the second regiment up, and the corresponding Nakajima Tokutaro also sent the reserves of the two infantry brigades in his hands.

A tough battle turned into a white-knuckle battle because of Li Mang's disobedience to orders, which was undoubtedly good for the Saibei Corps. But it was not a good thing for the 62nd Division, because the fortifications they had painstakingly managed did not do much at all. The angry Yoshio Hongo screamed and scolded Nakajima Tokutaro for being stupid.

In fact, at this time, Nakajima Tokutaro himself reflected that the gains and losses of one city and one place were nothing, but due to the momentary spirit, the whole battle was out of the original track in less than an hour after the battle, which made Major General Nakajima Tokutaro extremely angry At the same time, he had to sigh that the Shina army was indeed not Wuxia Amun.

Tokutaro Nakajima was an extremely decisive man, and like other senior officers of the Japanese army, he was a complete and outright militarist, a man who took neither his own life nor the lives of others seriously.

Seeing that the fighters had broken away from their original plans, Nakajima Tokutaro ordered the artillery wing to immediately fire on the positions of the battle, even though there were still his troops on both sides of the battle.

Perhaps this kind of thing has been seen a lot or experienced, and in the process of artillery shelling, the Japanese infantry under the command of the few remaining commanders left the battlefield in an orderly manner and withdrew.

Although Li Mang and others knew that the Japanese army was cruel and belligerent and inhumane, they did not expect that it would reach such a heinous realm, and they had no choice but to let the remaining more than 200 Japanese troops withdraw from the battlefield.

However, after the Japanese withdrew, the 1st Brigade of the 4th Division successfully occupied the position and opened the first pass to Dezhou.

Although the battle was won, no one in the 1st Brigade was happy, because on the first day of the war alone, the 1st Brigade had dispatched almost a third of its troops.

Moreover, there were not many minor casualties in this battle, and the heavy casualties were beyond everyone's expectations, especially the first regiment, after the battle, there were only more than 500 people left in the whole regiment who could still stand, and it can be said that a brigade lost an entire infantry regiment in the first battle.

The same Hongo Yoshio was not happy, and the entire 62nd Division was only 18,000 men, and the formed infantry brigade was no more than 12. But on the first day of the battle, he lost more than two brigades, and they were also the two most combat-ready infantry brigades, which made him embarrassed.

Furious, Yoshio Hongo reprimanded Nakajima Tokutaro for a long time, and then transferred the commander of the 64th Infantry Brigade, Major General Toyoji Okumura, to the front line to command the battle, while Nakajima Tokutaro and his 63rd Brigade were transferred to the rear as reserves.

After the battle, the most important thing was to lick the wounds, and the 1st Brigade deliberately explained the situation to the front enemy headquarters due to the heavy casualties, and at the same time requested support.

Xu Hu was silent after receiving the telegram, and it took a long time before he came to his senses.

Xu Hu did not rush to call back the first brigade, but asked Xue Zhiqiang on the side: "Old Xue, where has the 5th Division gone?" ”

Xue Zhiqiang thought for a while and said: "It should have passed Qingfeng Ridge, there are mountains and rivers all the way, and the cavalry troops are not easy to walk, and they don't dare to act at will in the daytime, and they have only walked twenty miles at most from last night to today, and it is still very early from the scheduled place." ”

"When will I be able to arrive at my scheduled location at the latest?" Xu Hu asked again.

"Two days, it is nearly sixty miles from here to Wangtong Town, and at the current speed of the cavalry division, it will not be until tomorrow night. And although Qingfeng Ling Mountain is not high, it is extremely steep, and there are many cliffs, and it is not easy for the cavalry division to reach Wangtong Town smoothly, this time the plan is a bit hanging? Xue Zhiqiang said worriedly.

"It's okay, there is a special operations team in front of the road, and I don't think anything will happen, so let's wait for the situation with peace of mind. Now a regiment asks to send troops to support us, we can be regarded as a hard stubble in this battle, why don't we let the fifth division and the second brigade go up to reinforce the fourth division? Xu Hu said.

"It's okay, I think I'll let the second brigade go to reinforce Ouyang Hu, and by the way, help Ouyang Hu tighten his pockets, don't let the little devil slip through his pocket." Xue Zhiqiang said.

"Okay, let's do it."

After receiving Xu Hu's telegram, Ouyang Hu was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered Li Mang's regiment to withdraw behind the large army to rest and recuperate, and the second regiment took over the attack position and continued the attack.

In the eyes of Yoshio Hongo, Tohachi was undoubtedly crazy, and in the next two days, he launched countless attacks on the positions and commanding heights of the 62nd Division, regardless of casualties.

According to the estimates of the front-line troops, the front-line Tuba Road suffered at least 3,000 casualties in these two days, plus more than 2,000 people killed and wounded on the first day, and at least 5,000 people were lost in the three-day battle, which is equivalent to a complete infantry brigade.

However, Lieutenant General Hongo Yoshio was not happy for long before he was shocked by the bad news coming back from the rear, and the cavalry of a division of the Tsuchiji Road suddenly appeared in Ruchimiao Township, cutting off the rear road of the 62nd Division. The more than 1,700 imperial warriors and a regiment of the Imperial Association Army who stayed in the stronghold of Liuzhimiao Township were all wiped out, and now the army of Zhina is rushing towards Wangtong Town.

After reading the telegram sent back by the defenders of Liuzhimiao Township, Hongo Yoshio suddenly withered on the ground, and no one knew better than Hongo Yoshio himself what place Liuzhimiao Township was.

In addition to hoarding a large amount of weapons, ammunition and equipment, it also secretly stored more than 200 rounds of poison gas bombs newly developed by Unit 731 of the Kwantung Army.

Although it was tricky for those ordinary weapons, ammunition, and equipment to fall into the hands of the Shina people, it did not make Hongo Yoshio feel that frightened. However, the more than 200 rounds of poison gas bombs were different, and it would be bad if the Chinese army used them against his 62nd Division.

What's more, the Japanese Empire has just publicly announced in front of the whole world that it is forbidden to use poison gas bombs against the people of China, and now such a thing has happened later, and this face hurts. If China is held accountable, even if he has a strong relationship, he may not be implicated.

In fact, although the Japanese government and base camp have made solemn promises to the world, they are only verbal, and there is no explicit prohibition on the use of special cigarettes by the troops. It was only the base camp that came forward to formulate a series of regulations to strictly control the use of special cigarettes on the battlefield in China.

According to this regulation, regardless of whether the Japanese front-line unit wants to use special smoke (poison gas bombs), it must ask the commander of the front army for instructions, and it must be in writing. It can only be used after obtaining approval, otherwise the military will not be responsible for any incident.

Originally, Hongo Yoshio did not think about using poison gas bombs in this battle, but it was such a coincidence, just when they arrived in northern Lubei, a telegram came from the Kwantung Army saying that they had recently developed a batch of the latest poison gas bombs, which had not yet been tested on the battlefield, and hoped to be transported to the North China battlefield for testing.

If the effect is the same as expected, then the imperial base camp will order the Ishii troops to produce at full capacity, and if the effect is not good, it will continue to improve, and in order to count the experimental data, the Kwantung Army also specially sent two military doctors to North China to guide the operation.

However, what is speechless is that this batch of special ammunition has just arrived in Liuzhimiao Township and there is a problem, which makes Yoshio Hongo explain to the base camp.