"Then you mean, evacuate the Imperial Army? Abandoning Shanghai? Matsui asked with a frown.

Tsukada replied in a deep voice with an embarrassed face: "General, please forgive me for being blunt, the current situation is that we want to withdraw, I'm afraid we can't withdraw!" ”

"What? Tsukada-kun, what do you mean by that? Matsui Ishine was sick at the moment, and his thinking slowed down, and he asked in surprise.

"Your Excellency General, at present, all the units of the Imperial Army have been bitten by the Chinese Army, and the battlefield situation of the two sides is staggered together, as long as we order the troops to retreat, then the Chinese will definitely take advantage of the situation to follow and pursue, so that the Imperial Army will not have the opportunity to retreat to the naval ships at all. It is even possible that the people of China will be completely annihilated on the seashore. Tsukada replied with a solemn face.

"Yaga! So what to do? Do you just sit back and watch thousands of imperial troops being wiped out and eaten by the people of China little by little? Matsui Ishone shouted angrily.

"General, I have an idea!" Tsukada Tsukada's face turned grim and he bowed his head and said.

"Say!" Matsui Ishine waved his hand.

"I request that the 3rd Fleet and its sea-based aviation units immediately carry out indiscriminate shelling and bombardment of Huishan Wharf, Hongkou and other combat areas!" Tsukada said in a deep voice with a fierce light.

"What?" Matsui Ishine was taken aback and said, "Indiscriminate bombing? Wouldn't this be the calamity of even the warriors of our empire? ”

"Yes, General." Tsukada nodded and said, "Since we can't evacuate smoothly, then we will burn the jade with the Chinese people!" Make them pay an unimaginable price! ”

"Jade burning?" Matsui Shigen was silent for a while when he heard this, and then suddenly raised his head and said coldly: "Tsukada-kun, do as you say immediately." ”

"Hay!" Tsukada suddenly bowed his head in response, and then turned around and strode away with his saber

In Hongkou, dozens of soldiers from the first regiment, one battalion, three companies and two platoons of the Huben Brigade were chasing a group of devil soldiers, who fought and retreated along the streets, while the soldiers of the second platoon were chasing and fighting all the way, and from time to time the devil soldiers who had no time to retreat were killed.

The second platoon commander was loudly urging the soldiers to continue the pursuit, and at this moment, a shrill engine roar suddenly sounded in the distant sky.

Without waiting for the second platoon commander to react, the bombing began on the side of the military aircraft group in the sky, and the shrill screams of "...... and " sounded one after another.

"Quick...... Take cover...... Devil air strike, hidden ......! The second platoon commander hurriedly shouted loudly.

The officers and men hurriedly dodged in all directions, but the devil's aerial bombs roared like hail and exploded in an instant.

"Boom... Rumble... Boom..."In the continuous explosions, clusters of scarlet fire rushed into the sky along with billowing smoke. The shock wave generated by the explosion immediately engulfed the surrounding buildings and houses, and countless [***] soldiers and devil soldiers were killed in the explosion.

The second platoon commander and the surviving soldiers had just hid in some fortifications, and suddenly, a sharp and piercing cannonball sounded in vain, and the second platoon commander's heart sank, and he suddenly looked up to see countless dazzling fire balls in the air dragging long tail flames whistling and smashing.

"Damn... This is a joke......" Before the second platoon commander finished speaking, a large-caliber naval artillery shell whistled in, and with a loud bang, the fortifications where the second platoon commander and dozens of soldiers were hiding were shrouded in firelight, and the sandbag bunkers and the soldiers' stumps and broken arms were thrown high in the thick smoke and smashed down again.

With this cannon alone, dozens of heroic Tiger Brigade soldiers were killed and wounded, but the situation of the small group of devils they pursued was not much better, and under the bombardment of the powerful naval artillery and the bombardment of the aviation troops, the devil soldiers were also blown to the ground and suffered all losses.

These devil soldiers didn't understand until they died that they would die under their own fire

In a small bungalow less than five kilometers from the front line, Joan Bang set up his headquarters here.

Qiao Anbang, accompanied by Qiao Anguo and others, went up to the roof of the second floor of the small bungalow, raised his binoculars and looked ahead, only to see that the battlefield in front of him was already full of artillery fire and gunsmoke.

Listening to the explosion that could still be clearly heard from a distance of nearly ten miles, Qiao Anbang couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, and said with a solemn expression: "It's bad, this is the devil's naval artillery ......." ”

"Naval guns?" Qiao Anguo suddenly gasped when he heard this, and said in a deep voice: "The little devils are really crazy, do they even care about their own lives?" ”

"It's probably because the devils feel powerless to turn the tide of the war, so they want to burn with us!" Qiao Anbang said in a heavy tone.

"Jade burning?!" Before Qiao Anguo's words fell, a second lieutenant officer hurriedly ran up, stood up and saluted Qiao Anbang and the others: "Brigade seat, the devil suddenly dispatched a large number of planes to carry out indiscriminate and fierce bombardment of the combat area, and its naval fleet also took the opportunity to launch indiscriminate artillery bombardment, and all regiments of our army suffered heavy casualties, and now all regiments on the front line ask for instructions on what to do." ”

Qiao Anbang frowned when he heard this, and paced back and forth anxiously with one hand, if he ordered the regiments to retreat now, he could certainly avoid the shelling and bombardment of the devils, but then the remnants of the devils would have to be successfully evacuated, and even they would not evacuate, and they would just stick to the place, which would lay a hidden danger for the Tiger Ben Brigade to evacuate.

Qiao Anbang never imagined that the top brass of the Yue army would be so frustrated that they would carry out indiscriminate shelling and bombing with no regard for the safety of their own troops.

In fact, according to the devil's jade burning style, Qiao Anbang is really not afraid of him, but his current foundation is thin, and he can't fight with the devil, if he has 100,000 troops in his hands now, even if the casualties are one to one, as long as he can win the war, Qiao Anbang will not even frown.

China lacks everything, that is, there is no shortage of people, and there is no shortage of loyal and brave people who dare to sacrifice, if the little devil dares to fight with China, even if his entire Yamato nation is filled in, it will not be enough.

After thinking about it, Qiao Anbang couldn't think of a good way for a while, and suddenly fell into an embarrassing dilemma.

"Brigade, I have a solution, I don't know if it will work." The commander of the artillery battalion, Wang Xuanzhu, suddenly spoke up.

"Say!" Qiao Anbang immediately waved his hand.

"There are a lot of devil expatriates in Shanghai, we can arrest them all, withdraw the troops first, and then let these devil expatriates block in front of our attacking troops as cannon fodder, so that we can capture the devil's position without much effort and drive them all into the sea." Wang Zhuzhu replied.

"No, you don't know about Yu himself, he doesn't have a surname, and since their commander doesn't even care about thousands of devil soldiers, he won't stop shelling and bombing because of some Yu Ben civilians. Besides, Shanghai is an international metropolis, if we really want to do that, it will make the countries of the world mistakenly think that our [***] team is a brutal and inhumane division, and we will not stay in Shanghai for long, if we do something to the devil's diaspora, then when we withdraw, the murderous devils will take revenge on our compatriots, and it will be us Chinese who will be hurt at that time. Qiao Anbang categorically vetoed, in the final analysis, the battlefield is in China, although [***] has the advantage of fighting at home, it will also add a lot of constraints because of the concern for the people of his own country.

If the battlefield was in the book, Qiao Anbang would not hesitate to take Wang Xuanzhu's suggestion, or even more.

However, Wang Xuanzhu's suggestion made Qiao Anbang have a flash of inspiration, and he came up with a good solution, and then turned to the second lieutenant officer and said, "Order all troops, retreat immediately!" ”

"Yes!" The second lieutenant officer snapped forward in response, and then quickly turned around and took the order to leave.

"Anbang, withdraw now, and if you want to attack it again, it's not so easy." Qiao Anguo watched the second lieutenant officer leave, and turned his head to Qiao Anbang in confusion.

"Big brother, don't worry, I know!" Qiao Anbang patted Qiao Anguo on the shoulder and said: "If the devils take the opportunity to withdraw, forget it, if they don't withdraw, hum, I will wipe them out in one fell swoop early tomorrow morning!" ”

After receiving the order, the officers and men of the regiments withdrew one after another from the Gongda Yarn Factory and the Hongkou and Huishan wharves, and due to the joint and fierce bombardment of the devil's naval guns and aircraft, all the regiments suffered heavy casualties, especially the 1st and 2nd regiments, which were responsible for the frontal pursuit, and the several forward companies that were engaged in the pursuit were almost completely wiped out, and only a few people withdrew alive.

Because of the heavy casualties of the troops, the officers and soldiers who withdrew were all filled with anger and anger, and asked their commanders to order them to fight back again, annihilate the army, and avenge the dead comrades.

In Zhabei, in Qiao Anbang's temporary headquarters, all the officers at and above the regimental and battalion level were all present, and after the troops retreated from the front line, Qiao Anbang also withdrew his headquarters to Zhabei.

"Brigade seat, our regiment suffered at least more than 500 casualties in the bombardment of the devils just now, and almost lost one and a half battalions, and now that we are withdrawing, aren't those sacrificed brothers dying in vain?" Zhao Gengyuan, the deputy head of the first regiment, was very puzzled and took the lead in getting up and asked with a little reproach.

"Lao Zhao, calm down, Luzao does this, naturally he has his own arrangements." The head of the first regiment, Kong Xiangjie, was quite calm, and hurriedly pulled Zhao Gengyuan.

"There is a ball arrangement, you Lao Kong, don't stand and talk without backache, the brothers in the first battalion are all with Lao Tzu from Sichuan thousands of miles to fight, and I don't know how many times I have traveled with our old Zhao in the blood, this is all a fucking dead ball, one by one by the devil is not even a scum, not even a corpse can be found!" Saying that, Zhao Gengyuan, a big man with iron bones, couldn't help but cry.

Including Qiao Anbang, everyone present was moved, Qiao Anbang stepped forward and patted Zhao Gengyuan's shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "Lao Zhao, okay, don't fucking look like a girl Yes, you have a ball to cry, can the sacrificed brothers come back to life?" ”

As soon as Qiao Anbang's words fell, Zhao Gengyuan raised his head, wiped a handful of tears, and gritted his teeth and said: "Ge Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu doesn't cry, since the day our Sichuan army hit Sichuan, we haven't thought about going back alive, but the brothers died too miserably, brigade, please give me a battalion, let me lead the team to attack, I want to die with the little devils, and avenge the dead brothers!" ”

"Lao Zhao, don't worry, after tonight, I will let you take the death squad to do the big ticket, as long as you succeed, we will be able to wipe out the little devils remaining in Shanghai in one fell swoop! How dare you go? Qiao Anbang asked deliberately provoked.

"Turtle son land, what dare you not go. As long as we can kill the little devil to avenge the brothers, the sword mountain and the sea of fire, our old Zhao will never frown! Zhao Gengyuan replied loudly with an awe-inspiring expression.

(To be continued)