readx;?“ Chief of Staff, is there no news from the commander-in-chief yet? Listening to the constant explosions outside the headquarters, Lieutenant General Matsuda, who was walking around the headquarters because he was in a hurry, asked this question again that he didn't know he had asked several times today. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Seeing the chief of staff shaking his head, Matsuda continued: "How can this be, from the perspective of time, the commander-in-chief should have arrived outside the city of Dalian, why is there no news at all." ”

The chief of staff had a look on his face that wanted to say something and stopped.

After half a minute, a resolute expression quickly flashed on the chief of staff's face, and then he replied to Matsuda: "Division commander, I'm worried that something will happen to the commander-in-chief!" He did not return to Dalian on time and lost radio contact. I can't really think of any other reason to explain this than an accident. ”

"Yaga, it's impossible!" Matsuda retorted without thinking about it.

"Where is the commander-in-chief with 20,000 elites, even if they are attacked, they will not be wiped out immediately, and there will definitely be time for us to send a telegram. Moreover, outside the capital of the Liaodong Army in Liaodong, where did they get so many troops to attack the commander-in-chief. ”

After some questioning, the chief of staff had no reason to explain all this.

But the chief of staff still insisted on his own judgment and replied: "However, I cannot think of any other reason to explain why the commander-in-chief did not return on time and did not send us a telegram except for the accident." ”

Da Shanyan, who had firmly rejected this judgment just now, was also silent at this time, and fell into deep thought.

As the minutes passed, the determined expression on his face was slowly overshadowed by hesitation.

At this moment, an officer suddenly rushed in and reported: "Division commander, something is not good. The Liaodong Army had already reached a distance of less than three hundred meters from the headquarters. The troops in front will be overwhelmed, and if there are no reinforcements, they will be able to kill the headquarters in two hours at most. ”

After glancing at the city defense map spread out on the table, Matsuda's hesitant face quickly became serious, and then ordered: "Draw two squadrons from the reserve to reinforce it." As long as we do not receive the telegram from the commander-in-chief, then the commander-in-chief may still be on the way back to help, and we still have hope of holding the city of Dalian. ”

No sooner had the officers left on the front foot than a dense burst of gunfire and explosions rang out behind the command.

Suddenly, Matsuda was just about to let someone go to see what was going on, when an officer with an injured arm and a face covered in gunpowder rushed in.

"Division commander, the Liaodong Army occupying the military port has rushed out, and now it has killed a hundred meters behind the headquarters. The opponent's firepower is very strong, and troops must be sent to block them immediately. ”

Matsuda looked incredulous at first, and then asked loudly with anger, "Aren't there four teams surrounding them?" With so many troops, they can't trap hundreds of Liaodong Army, what are they going to eat? ”

"It's really the Liaodong Army that is too cunning, and they dismantle the machine guns equipped on the warship. The bunkers in which we besieged them were like papier-mâché in front of the machine guns, and they could not stop them from attacking at all. Thinking of the tragic battle he had just experienced, the devil officer had a frightened expression on his face.

In the battle just now, whoever was hit by a cannonball from the machine gun would definitely have their arms or legs broken. If he is directly hit by a cannonball, the soldier who is hit will definitely have a bloody hole in the chest the thickness of a bowl.

It can be said that on the way out of the hundreds of Liaodong troops, there were broken arms of the Manchurian army officers and soldiers everywhere, and the entire battlefield was like a Shura hell, very tragic and bloody.

After listening to the report, the dissatisfaction on Matsuda's face was immediately covered with shock. At this moment, he suddenly thought that once these Liaodong troops reached the command headquarters, they would use machine guns to attack the command headquarters. As the commander of the division, will he be hit by a bloody hole by a machine gun shell?

Lieutenant General Matsuda, who was frightened for a while, turned pale with a brush.

In order to survive, in order not to be smashed by machine guns, Matsuda hurriedly ordered in his trembling voice: "What are you doing there?" Chief of Staff, immediately draw a brigade to block in front of this Liaodong Army, and you must block them. ”

The offensive of the special operations detachment was finally blocked, but the situation of the Japanese army was not much better.

In front of several machine guns, no matter where the devil in front of them is hiding, as long as a few shells pass, this devil will definitely be killed.

In just a few minutes, a brigade that came up with reinforcements lost two or three hundred people.

The dense corpses of devils have been piled up in the street in front of the special operations detachment to form a wall of corpses. The smell of blood almost stained the street floor red.

But even so, in order to block the special operations detachment, the remaining devils still rushed forward without fear of death, using their bodies to meet the machine gun shells that kept flying over.

Of course, the dire situation did not get better because the offensive of the special operations detachment was blocked.

In less than half an hour, the devils who blocked several commandos of the guard division sent people to Lieutenant General Matsuda for help.

But excluding the one and a half infantry brigades that had already been dispatched, Matsuda was left with two squadrons of reserves.

After sending out the last two squadrons, facing the subordinates of other troops who came to the headquarters for help, Matsuda could only wave them away helplessly, and defended to the end with the strength at hand.

"Chief of Staff, Dalian City can't be defended!" Matsuda said with a look of desperation.

From the moment it was judged that there was an accident at Oyama Rock, the chief of staff was aware of this result. The already gloomy face did not change much because of this sentence. After taking a deep breath, he comforted Matsuda.

"Division commander, we have done our best to persist until now. It's not that we don't do anything, the soldiers don't have to die, it's really that the Liaodong Army is too cunning, I'm sure, not only Dalian City is finished, but the entire Manchurian Army is finished. ”

After finishing speaking, the chief of staff didn't care about the surprised expression on Matsuda's face, and directly picked up the command knife he hung on the wall.

Then he said as he walked out: "Division commander, there are only soldiers who died in battle in the empire, and I will die on the way to the charge together with the remaining soldiers of the division."

Unlike the chief of staff, who chose to die in battle, Matsuda finally chose to commit suicide by seppuku at the headquarters.

And the remaining thousands of devils in Dalian City were all wiped out in the next two hours.

When Yang Xingguo rushed to the outside of Dalian with his troops, Li Zhilong happened to receive a good news from Li Xiaohu!

"Commander, we have defeated Dalian, from today onwards, Dalian, no, the entire three northeastern provinces, is completely ours." As soon as he saw Yang Xingguo, Li Zhilong was very excited and reported.

Although I don't know the specific losses of the attacking troops, it is definitely an unprecedented surprise for Yang Xingguo to take Dalian in such a short time and destroy nearly 30,000 Japanese troops.

Therefore, Yang Xingguo's face was instantly covered with a smile. (To be continued.) )