Oyama Iwa and Kuroki made a wrong decision to send the 4th Division to carry out such an important mission, it was simply child's play! Things have to start with the origin of the Fourth Division, which is also called the Osaka Division and the Merchant Division, which is a first-class standing division in Japan. However, this unit was nicknamed the "Waste" Division because of its extremely poor combat effectiveness, and most of its troops came from Osaka merchants who were full of contempt for imperial power, and they were free and loose and had no fighting spirit. But the original form of this unit did not appear until the Russo-Japanese War, when it was repeatedly defeated, and the upper echelons did not wait to transfer it to the rear as a guard force.

But now Oyama Yan and the others don't know it, they only know that Lieutenant General Oshima Yoshimasa of the Fourth Division is an excellent general, enough to complete the assigned tasks. The 4th Division marched overnight, and had not yet come out of the hilly terrain when the sky was invented, and the marching ranks were filled with grumbling and yawning, and the order not to light the torches was not carried out at all, and from the middle-ranking officers to the low-ranking soldiers, all went their own way. Division Commander Yoshimasa Oshima had nothing to do, he had been leading this unit for more than a year, he knew these soldiers very well, and he did not have much confidence in defeating the enemy.

At about seven o'clock in the morning, the 4th Division, a distance of about 20 kilometers, took six hours to complete. After arriving in Qingxi Town, the languid soldiers cheered up, and the opportunity to make a fortune has arrived! Ignoring the division commander's order to extend reconnaissance, all the soldiers ran into the town, hot water, food, gold and silver, and women were the most critical. Oshima Yoshimasa had to enter the town together, in order for these old soldiers to play a role, they must be satisfied in the town, as for the task of going around to the back of Zhangmu, the agreed time for the attack was twelve o'clock at noon, and it was only ten miles away from there, so there was no hurry.

More than 10,000 soldiers were crammed into the town, and dozens of people were rummaging through boxes and cabinets in every house. What about money? What about women? Why can't you even find a single animal? The streets were full of angry soldiers, and Oshima Yoshimasa felt that something was wrong, and the traces of his departure could be clearly seen in the town - the bedding in the houses was still warm, and the clothes were scattered on both sides of the street, broken!

"Get out of town now! Defend the outside! Oshima Yoshimasa ordered loudly, the signal corps had already joined the search, Oshima Yoshimasa only had a few senior officers around him, and the soldiers not far away ignored the shouts of their division commanders and continued the search unwillingly.

"Boom!" Late, a series of explosions appeared in the town, and the troops of the two divisions of the Zhenguo Army concentrated more than 150 artillery pieces of various calibers, aiming directly at the small town of Qingxi. The damage caused by such firepower is extremely terrifying, let alone concentrated in a small area of no more than 30,000 square meters in the town.

The bombardment did not take care of the civilians, the people of the town had been completely evacuated, and the Provisional Government could provide compensation for the destruction of houses and property, or even build new houses, which was not a problem, as long as it caused the maximum damage to the Japanese army.

The Japanese soldiers in the town seemed to be in hell, with no way to go to heaven and no way to go to the ground, and the cries of despair had no effect at all, only explosions everywhere. Shrapnel and rubble flew, and each shell could take the lives of several or even a dozen people. The shells swept through the town from beginning to end, and then repeated again, they did not lack shells, they did not lack barrels, what was missing was the experience of shelling, so the purpose of the Zhenguo Army was to solve the battle with artillery.

Yoshimasa Oshima was lying in the corner, a shrapnel in his calf, bleeding profusely. But he had no heart to stop the wound now, and in order to save him, a senior officer pounced on him to dodge a close shell, at the cost of the officer and the rest of the people. He knew that this was an elaborate trap and that the news had to be transmitted back to Humen, but in this era of extremely backward communications, wireless telegraphy had just been invented, and the army had not yet been equipped with such extremely expensive equipment. The means of communication of the 4th Division was cavalry, hehe, the cavalry, horses and people were blown up into the sky, there were violent explosions everywhere, and it was impossible to get out!

The carpet bombardment lasted for half an hour, and it was death to run out, hide in a house, and even jump into a small river flowing through the town. There are also some who have a nervous breakdown and shoot indiscriminately with guns. When the shelling stopped, and the soldiers of the Zhenguo Army cautiously touched it from all directions, these recruits saw a pile of rubble, and there was no trace of human habitation at all.

By the time the search began, there were more and more vomiting recruits, human organs, limbs, and many rubbles stained red. Of course, some of the Japanese soldiers survived, either with dull eyes, half-buried under the rocks, and some shivering in the knee-deep river.

"Don't have mercy on these Japanese, all the captives are gathered together, and they must not be treated!" There were constantly officers shouting among the recruits, and although no battle took place, the madness of the Japanese made Lü Liang have long ordered to be careful of the wounded and surrendered Japanese soldiers. As more and more Zhenguo Army soldiers entered the town, some sporadic battles began to appear, several or a dozen Japanese soldiers hid in the rubble pile and resisted stubbornly, a recruit who was squatting and vomiting was hit, the high-intensity training made the nearby recruits react the fastest, they immediately raised their guns to shoot at the place where the shots were fired, the machine guns were also set up, and the two soldiers dragged the wounded back.

Several grenades were thrown over, and the soldiers of the mortar squad were not ready for battle and it was over. Half an hour later, the town was completely occupied, during which there were more than a dozen skirmishes, during which two Zhenguo soldiers were wounded and one was killed. Of the 13,000 soldiers of the 4th Division, 420 were captured, more than 100 were killed by infantry, and the rest died in shelling and burial of houses.

More than 400 sluggish captives were tied up and stood in a circle around the ruins of the town, and the most brutal lesson of the Zhenguo Army's actual combat training and patriotic education was staged.

"Get on the bayonet!" The first group of more than 400 recruits, vaguely aware of what was about to happen, mechanically obeyed orders and loaded their bayonets. "Ready, assassinate!" The recruits did not move, and the Gene Man officer continued to order in an emotionless voice: "Assassination!" "Assassination!" "Assassination!" Finally, a recruit could not stand the huge mental pressure, and rushed forward with a scream, "Boom", the sound of the bayonet entering the flesh seemed so shocking.

With the first person leading, the rest of the soldiers rushed forward one after another, and the three recruits collapsed on the spot, and they faced not comfort and compensation, but confinement and punishment. Thousands of years of feudal rule, agricultural civilization, and hundreds of years of servile rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty have completely turned them into docile sheep, and they only shout powerlessly in the face of butcher knives. Lu Liang wants to make the Chinese people become wolves, wolves that eat meat! This kind of change is not a success of pure propaganda, but also needs practical measures, the attraction of interests, and in the army, what is needed is a killing machine, not a coward, and humanity is not needed here.

Lu Liang was surprised after receiving the news of the victory in Qingxi, when did the Japanese army become so vegetable, it stands to reason that the quality of their officers and soldiers has some advantages, how could they be so easily surrounded and annihilated by the Zhenguo army? Later, when he saw the establishment of the Japanese army, he was relieved, since it was the fourth division, it would not seem so abrupt. Entering the enemy's town without reconnaissance and not taking precautions after entering is obviously the only thing that the Manchu army did!