[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 362: Longhua Annihilation War (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

The battle in Huangqi Town was soon reported to Chengde, and Lieutenant General Yasui Toji was shocked and furious to learn that the defenders on the front line of Huangqi Town had suffered more than 1,800 casualties in just one and a half hours. I was surprised that the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army was so strong, and I was angry that the 16th Wing was so uncompetitive, and it suffered heavy losses in the first battle with the Eighth Route Army.

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and after smashing the teacup several times and chopping a pear blossom wooden square table, Fujiji Yasui ordered someone to send a harshly worded telegram to the front line of Huangqi Town.

At the temporary headquarters of Huangqi Town, Sukegawa Jinichi looked at these officers in the headquarters, and said with a gloomy face: "Ladies and gentlemen, the battle outside has been going on for almost two hours, and the people of China have captured the first line of defense that we have painstakingly managed, and our army has lost more than 800 excellent soldiers, and at the same time, there are more than 1,000 casualties of the Imperial Allied Army, and the third group of the Imperial Allied Army has basically been wiped out, and all of this was caused in less than two hours. ”

Sukegawa Jinichi's eyes swept over all the officers of the temporary headquarters, and he saw that the officers of the headquarters were full of righteous indignation and anger, obviously stimulated by the person of Beizhi. However, the officers of the Imperial Association Army pulled their heads one by one, looking listless, which really insulted the military prestige of the Imperial Army.

Sukegawa Shinichi said again: "The loss of the first line of defense is a mistake on my part, so I will ask His Excellency the division commander for punishment." But I hope that the next battle will not embarrass the Imperial Japanese Army, let alone our Sendai 2nd Division. The elite 2nd Division lost the defensive line in two hours, which was something that relatives in their hometown did not want to see. ”

"Just now, His Excellency the division commander sent a telegram, ordering our troops to block the enemy at Huangqi Town at all costs, and the Tuba Road in eastern Hebei is also ready to move at this time. If the people of China are allowed to fight back and forth, Chengde will face tremendous pressure. Moreover, after the rebellion of the Chinese people, the economy in the jurisdiction plummeted, and it could no longer withstand the ravages of the Chinese army again. As long as you let go of a soldier, not only will you lose your head, but even I myself will save the honor of the soldier in a special way. ”

Hear the words. All the Japanese officers were shocked, and they all understood that the so-called special way was to commit suicide by seppuku. Once defeated, the wing captain will have to cut his stomach, and the first thing the wing captain has to do before dying is to pull out all of them, the front-line commanders, and shoot them, listening to the rumbling explosions outside and the fierce gunfire, all the officers can't help but tremble in their hearts.

"Captain, please rest assured, the lowly rank and others should use the fearless bushido spirit of the imperial army to keep the people of China out of Yellow Banner Town. If the people of China break through the city defense of Huangqi Town, there is only one possibility, that is, all the jade of our third brigade is shattered on the position! Nakajima Nakasa, the captain of the third brigade, said in a deep voice.

"Yo Xi. Nakajima-kun's words are very good! Now I order that the 2nd Brigade be stationed in the second line of defense immediately, and replace the 1st Brigade, which has suffered more than half of the casualties, with the 2nd Regiment of the 3rd Group of the Imperial Allied Army fighting together, and the 3rd Brigade will hold the center of the town, and if necessary, be prepared for street fighting, and the 1st Brigade and the 3rd Regiment of the Imperial Allied Army will serve as the general reserve. Our only goal is to keep the people out of Yellow Banner Town, gentlemen, please," Sukegawa Daisa said immediately.

"Hay! Empire of Japan onboard. His Majesty the Emperor onboard! The officers said in unison.

Although the battle did not go well, the Japanese army, brainwashed by the spirit of bushido, still had no intention of retreating. Put on a posture of stumbling to the end.

The reaction of the Japanese army was expected by Chen Xudong and others, who had been fighting with the Japanese for a year and a half, and there were no less than 100 battles large and small, so they knew very well the horror of the Japanese.

The Japanese army, which admired the spirit of bushido, was actually far more powerful than the outside world imagined, first of all, they were not afraid of death, believing that death was the highest honor of a soldier. And the most common thing that most soldiers on the battlefield said to each other was, "Let's meet at the Yasukuni Shrine." In this regard, not only was the Central Army of the Nationalist Government much inferior, but the Eighth Route Army was also inferior to the Japanese.

The second is that these people have a strong will to fight, which can be seen from the fact that the Japanese army, which has rarely surrendered voluntarily in the nearly two years since the start of the war, unless there is an order from the superiors, otherwise it is even surrounded. These Japanese would not surrender even to the last man. Compared with the scene of thousands of people lining up to surrender to the Nationalist Government, the Japanese army was undoubtedly powerful.

As the most powerful second division in the Japanese army's battle sequence, the degree of brainwashing is more thorough than that of ordinary Japanese troops, so it is even more fearless on the battlefield. Hearing Sukegawa Daisa's death order, the first thing that these officers who had been poisoned by bushido thought of was not fear, but to die with the Eighth Route Army.

The second line of defense in Yellow Flag Town was less than two hundred meters away from the first line of defense, and the terrain of the second line of defense was slightly lower than that of the first line of defense. When attacking the first line of defense, the 274th Brigade was in the most disadvantageous upward attack, but at this time it turned into a dive, which was much more advantageous for the Eighth Route Army. In comparison, the Japanese army, which was in a defensive posture, was very disadvantaged.

Chen Xudong and Lu Ming did not give the Japanese much time to breathe, and less than twenty minutes after taking the first line of defense, Chen Xudong gave the order to capture the second line of defense.

Because the breakthrough of the first line of defense was somewhat fluke, Chen Xudong ordered the first regiment to fight steadily. Besides, with the lessons of the past, the little devil will not be fooled a second time, so the second line of defense is bound to be an unprecedented and tragic offensive and defensive battle.

Just when the 274th Brigade launched another full-scale attack on the Japanese position in Huangqi Town, Ma Zheng and others, who had been marching rapidly for more than eight hours, finally came to the outskirts of Longhua County.

Although Longhua is not large, and it is one of the poorest counties with many mountains and few lands, its geographical location is extremely important as the northern gateway of Chengde. Therefore, the Japanese army placed a complete infantry wing and two puppet infantry groups in Longhua Town, the county seat of Longhua County, totaling more than 10,000 people.

Yasui Fujiji's purpose was obvious, he wanted to take advantage of the terrain of Longhua's "eight mountains, one water and one field" to kill and injure Ma Zheng's troops in large numbers. In order to achieve this goal, Yasui Fujiji built a large number of strongholds on the outskirts of Longhua Town, which were used to defend Longhua Town, the county seat.

But what the Japanese army did not expect was that none of their strongholds played much role under the sharp attacks of the special combat team. Ma Zheng's troops went all the way south from Guyuan, easily uprooted nine small and medium-sized strongholds along the way, quietly wiped out more than 3,000 Japanese puppet troops, and touched the periphery of Longhua Town.

At half past two o'clock in the morning of March 4, Ma Zheng's unit launched a surprise attack on the Japanese army in Longhua Town, and more than 15,000 male soldiers descended from the sky like divine soldiers, and completed the encirclement of the Japanese army in the county town in a very short time, and then the Longhua Annihilation War began.

At the beginning of the battle, the Japanese army fell into a very unfavorable situation, although the Japanese army operated in Longhua for a long time and built a large number of fortifications. But the Japanese army did not expect that Ma Zheng's headquarters would have a huge force lurking in the county early on. When the main force launched a full-scale attack on Longhua Town, this force suddenly exerted force and caught the Japanese army by surprise.

At that time, in order to establish anti-Japanese armed forces in Sui, Chacha, Re, Jin, and other provinces and cities as soon as possible, Ma Zheng deliberately transferred a large number of elite troops from the army, let them be broken into pieces, and carried out guerrilla activities behind enemy lines with companies and platoons as units.

At that time, Ma Zheng's order was to develop freely, to do as much position as he could, and for a period of one year, he would let them be officers as many troops as they could pull up in a year.

After more than half a year of development, with the continuous expansion of the territory of Ma Zheng's department, many of the original enemy lines have now become the defense area of the Eighth Route Army, so many small units that were photographed behind the enemy line were built in less than a year, but there are exceptions, and several small troops sent to Rehe have not been rebuilt because of the long distance, and it is one of them that cooperates with Ma Zheng's department to fight Longhua Town. (To be continued.) )