[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 635: Fighting Xuanhua Again (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

In less than ten hours after the start of the battle, Xuanhua City, which was garrisoned by more than 10,000 troops, was already in danger, and the new commander of the 16th Division, Yoshimoto Sadachi, did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent the reserve to the front line, and at the same time urgently asked the North China Front Headquarters for help. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After receiving the telegram from Yoshimoto Sadachi's ministry asking for help, Tada Jun was shocked, he didn't expect that Yang Chengwu's attack would be so sharp. In less than 12 hours, the newly built 16th Division was beaten out of temper, and even a whole infantry brigade was eaten.

Tada Jun did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the Japanese army stationed in Changping to form the 15th Brigade and immediately go north to reinforce the 16th Division, and at the same time ordered the Japanese puppet army near Beiping to strengthen vigilance.

However, what is depressing is that the railway from Beiping to the Xuanhua front line was damaged by the Eighth Route Army, and the 15th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade could only advance on foot, according to the speed of the troops' march, it would take at least two days for the 15th Brigade to arrive at the front line, and whether the 16th Division could wait for the arrival of reinforcements was really unknown.

In desperation, Tada Jun had to order the troops to immediately collect all the cars in Beiping City, and then let the 15th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade advance by car.

However, what people didn't expect was that when the convoy of the 15th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade had just left Changping, they found that the road leading to Zhangjiakou was also completely destroyed, not to mention the car, and it was very difficult to march even on foot.

What made the commander of the 15th Independent Mixed Brigade even more angry, Nanyun Shinichiro, was that the road was full of landmines, and the soldiers were often bombed.

However, Tada Jun gave Nagumo Genichiro a death order to rush to Xuanhua at all costs, if the 16th Division was completely annihilated by the Shina people because of their late arrival, he Nagumo Genichiro and the entire 15th Mixed Brigade would be buried for the 16th Division, and in desperation, Nagumo Genichiro had to order the troops to grab a large number of livestock from the vicinity and let those livestock mine for the troops.

At this time, the Battle of Xuanhua had entered a white-hot stage, and under the frantic attack of the reorganized Second Division, the 16th Division, which had just recovered a little strength, was quickly beaten back to its original form.

Not to mention the heavy casualties of the headquarters, in less than ten hours all the peripheral positions of the important town of Xuanhua were lost, and now Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi commanded thousands of remnants to hold Xuanhua City, if the reinforcements could not arrive in a short time, the fate of the 16th Division was already doomed.

Xuanhua has been an important military town since ancient times, and the place where soldiers must fight, especially since Zhu Di moved the capital to Beiping in the early Ming Dynasty, the location of Xuanhua is even more important. Once Xuanhua is lost, Beiping, which is 170 kilometers away from Xuanhua, will no longer be in danger, so even with such heavy losses, Yoshimoto Sadachi still has no intention of giving up Xuanhua.

He knew very well that if he abandoned Xuanhua City, even if he was lucky enough to escape with his troops, he would not be able to escape the punishment of military law after he returned. On the contrary, even if he is destroyed together with this small city of China, the Yasukuni Shrine will have its own place.

Yang Chengwu did not save face for Yoshimoto Sadachi, and he sent people to cut off the road and railway between Zhangjiakou and Beiping, in order to concentrate on dealing with the 16th Division in Xuanhua. As the commander of the garrison in the Zhangjiakou area of Ma Zheng's department, Yang Chengwu was naturally very familiar with the situation of the 16th Division, and knew that this was no longer the Japanese field unit that captured Nanjing, the capital of China, a few years ago, and the current 16th Division was a scarred lost dog, and all he had to do was to beat the water dogs.

He did it, and after slowing down the march of Japanese reinforcements, tens of thousands of troops stormed the city of Xuanhua.

Even if the 16th Division desperately resisted and counterattacked, but still could not escape the fate of being annihilated, just when Nanyun Qinichiro's department was still more than 100 kilometers away from Xuanhua, Yang Chengwu's department finally broke through the north gate of Xuanhua City, and the army swarmed to rush into the city at the gap in the city wall, and the tragic street battle began.

Xuanhua. Japanese garrison command.

Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, who had just taken office, had a dead face, and he was originally very dissatisfied with the transfer to the commander of the 16th Division, after all, before that, he was the deputy chief of staff of the Chinese Dispatch Army, equivalent to the deputy chief of the general staff, and even if he was released, he had to be transferred to a strong enough field division, and a half-crippled unit like the 16th Division was really not his cup of tea.

In fact, the position reserved for him at the base camp of the Japanese army was the commander of the 2nd Division of the Kwantung Army, and even Yoshimoto Sadachi himself had been notified, and he was ready to take up his post. After all, the 2nd Division was one of the most powerful field divisions in the entire Japanese Empire, and even the 5th Division, which was in China, was inferior to the 2nd Division in some respects.

But people are not as good as heaven, just when Yoshimoto Sadachi was about to go to work, Ma Zheng's headquarters suddenly launched the Battle of Renan, a big battle came down, the second division was wiped out, and only the division commander Yasui Fujiji fled from Chengde with more than a dozen retinues in makeup. At the same time, the main force of the 4th Division, which went to reinforce it, was also completely annihilated, and even the division commander, Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru, was killed in battle.

As for the question of the Second Division's departure and stay, the base camp has not had a clear instruction so far, and it stands to reason that the Second Division has almost been wiped out except for the division commander himself, and it has no value in existing, but after all, the Second Division is one of the first six Zhentai divisions in the Great Japanese Empire, and it has a long history, and this division has participated in almost all the foreign wars of the Great Japanese Empire, and even once fought in Siberia, so it can be said that it has a glorious tradition, and it is a pity to abolish the establishment in this way.

What's more, many people in the Imperial Army used to serve in the Second Division, and many of them were already bigwigs in the Imperial Army, so they would not agree to the abolition of the Second Division.

Because of this, Yoshimoto's question was almost ignored for a while. After the re-establishment of the 16th Division, Sadachi Yoshimoto was appointed commander of the 16th Division on the recommendation of Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro of the 1st Class Ishihara Waner.

After arriving in Xuanhua, Yoshimoto Sadachi was dissatisfied with the troops under his command, not to mention the few soldiers, and there were almost no veterans in the whole division. That's it, even the technical arms necessary for each division and regiment are much worse, there is only one brigade of artillery, and there are almost no cavalry.

More importantly, I don't know what Lieutenant General Tada Jun means, but he actually transferred his half-crippled division to the forefront to confront the powerful Eighth Route Army Suicha Military Region.

Now, before he could thoroughly understand and control the troops under his command, he was attacked by Ma Zheng's department.

What he didn't expect was that the combat effectiveness of the 16th Division would be so weak, under the crazy attack of the Zhina people, this veteran division with a history of several decades could not hold on for even a day, in addition to being eaten an infantry brigade in Shalingzi Town, now even Xuanhua City has been broken by the Zhina people, and I don't know how long this remnant army under his command can hold out.

"Sasaki, how is the situation in the city now, how far are the people of China from the headquarters?" Yoshimoto asked in a deep voice.

"Your Excellency, the commander of the division, the people of China have broken through the north gate, and about a large group of infantry has poured into the city from the collapsed city wall, and now the two sides are engaged in a tragic street battle, according to the battle report ten minutes ago, the people of China have advanced to the vicinity of the Yamato foreign store warehouse, and they should not reach the headquarters in a short time." Chief of Staff Sojiro Sasaki replied immediately.

"Sasaki, do we still have any hope of driving the people out of Xuanhua City?" Saichi Yoshimoto asked very seriously.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, this... This..."

"Honestly, it doesn't serve any purpose to tell a lie at this time!"

"Hai, Your Excellency the division commander, judging from the current situation of the enemy and us, the people of China have already grasped the initiative in the war, and they have a huge number of troops and much more firepower than us, so it is impossible for us to drive the people of China out of Xuanhua City in a short period of time, unless we have reinforcements, and they will appear outside the city immediately!" Sasaki Osa replied in a deep voice. (To be continued.) )