The Tiger Brigade triumphed all the way, and the high-level officials of the National Political Axe cheered and cheered, while the headquarters of the Central China Dispatch Army of the Shanghai Army was shrouded in a gloomy cloud.

In the headquarters, Matsui Ishine looked at the large combat map that was spread out on the large conference table in front of him with both hands and knives, his face became more and more solemn, and he could clearly see from the angle of Matsui Ishine that on the map, a blue arrow representing the [***] team and a red arrow representing the Kawatani brigade collided-for-tat.

Since the Kawatani Brigade sent an urgent telegram two hours ago saying that it had been attacked by the [***] team, there has been no more news, and thinking of the fate of the previous marines, Matsui Ishine couldn't help but chuckle in his heart.

If something happens to the Kawatani Brigade again, then there will only be one Reading Infantry Brigade left under his command, although it is supported by naval ships and air force fighters, but these forces are still somewhat stretched to defend Shanghai at this time.

At this time, because of the appearance of the Tiger Regiment, the current Shanghai is no longer a stable rear of the imperial army.

What is Matsui Shigen worried about, what is it really about, all of a sudden, the chief of staff, Tsukada Tsukasaki, walked in with a solemn expression, and when he came to the front, Tsukada suddenly retracted his feet and stood upright, and saluted in a deep voice: "General, after reconnaissance by the special high division personnel, the Kawagu Brigade has indeed had an accident, and on the battlefield fifteen kilometers southwest of Suzhou, there are corpses of the Yellow Army warriors everywhere. ”

"What?" Matsui Ishone's face was full of shock: "What about Shiro Kawatani? ”

"I haven't found it yet, but it may have been broken." Tsukada replied with a heavy face and lowered his head.

"Yaga Tooth Road! How so? Didn't I already order the Kawaya Brigade to be stationed on the spot? How could more than 5,000 people be so vulnerable? Matsui Ishone couldn't help but be furious.

"General, please calm your anger, the Chinese army is very cunning, after they defeated the marines, they did not stop there, and even took the initiative to attack the Kawagu brigade, at that time the Kawaya brigade had just stopped advancing, and the fortifications had not yet had time to be built, and in a hurry, they could not resist the crazy attack of the Kawaya army." Tsukada bowed his head.

Matsui Shigen gritted his teeth, his face was blue with anger, his clenched hands were bruised, and after a long time, he sighed deeply, and said to Tsukada: "Tsukada-kun, have you found it, the commander of this branch of the army has really extraordinary ability to capture fighters, they must have known in advance that the Kawaya Brigade had not yet had time to build fortifications, so they took advantage of the situation to attack, and after a chaotic battle, the Kawaya Brigade was bound to be in chaos, and defeat was inevitable." ”

"Yes, because there are no fortifications, the Kawatani Brigade is simply unable to resist the armored fighting vehicle group of the Chinese people, according to the surviving warriors of the imperial army, the armored combat vehicle group of the Chinese people is not only very powerful in assault firepower, but also has strong armor protection, and the artillery of the imperial army can't help them!" Tsukada nodded bitterly.

In fact, the surviving devil soldiers may have only seen that their artillery failed to destroy the armored vehicles of the Tiger Brigade, and they didn't know what kind of artillery was used and how far away, so when it reached Tsukada's ears, it became that the Chinese armored fighting vehicles had very strong protective capabilities, and even the imperial artillery could not destroy them, and so on.

And these unfavorable news invisibly aggravated the worries of Matsui Ishine and others.

Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps outside the headquarters again, and a young staff officer walked in quickly, and suddenly closed his feet and saluted Matsui Shigen and reported: "Your Excellency General, Kunshan Urgent Telegram, fifteen minutes, Weiting Station was suddenly attacked by the Zhina Army, and now I am afraid that it has been lost, according to the report of the Imperial Army Scouts, the Zhina people are currently rushing towards Kunshan!" ”

"What?" Matsui Ishine and Tsukada Tsuka's faces changed dramatically when they heard this, and the two of them hurriedly turned around and walked to the map, and Tsukada quickly found Kunshan and Weiting Station on the map.

Tsukada pointed to the map and said in surprise: "Your Excellency General, the Chinese army did not continue to hold Suzhou, do they want to attack Kunshan?" ”

Matsui Shigen stared at the map for a long time and said coldly: "Tsukada-kun, you are wrong, the goal of this branch army is definitely not only Kunshan, but Shanghai!" ”

"Shanghai? General, are you saying that they want to recapture Shanghai? Tsukada was taken aback.

Matsui Shigen nodded indifferently: "Yes, it seems that the commander of this China Tiger Regiment has a lot of ambitions, and he dares to attack Shanghai!" ”

"General, if this is the case, then our situation is very bad, now Shanghai only has the strength of one brigade of the Fifth Infantry Brigade of Reading Force, and it is difficult to resist the attack of the Zhina Army with only the strength of one brigade!" Tsukada said in a hurry.

"Your Excellency General, a garrison brigade of the 10th Army is now in Wujiang, not far from Shanghai, and we can transfer them into Shanghai to strengthen our garrison force!" The young staff officer next to him suggested loudly.

"What? A garrison brigade of the 10th Army? Tsukada and Matsui Ishine were shocked when they heard this, and turned their heads and asked, "How did they appear in Wujiang?" ”

"General Hui, they were also ordered to pursue the Tiger Ben Regiment of the Zhina Army, but when they reached Wujiang County, they lost the trace of the Zhina Army, so they stationed in Wujiang County." Staff Officer Shao Zuo hurriedly replied.

"Yo Xi, immediately send them a telegram, let them come to Shanghai immediately, with their joining, plus our navy and air force, it is a dream for the people of China to recapture Shanghai!" Tsukada said happily.

"No, send a telegram directly to Commander Yanagawa Heisuke in Hangzhou, asking him to order the garrison brigade to rush to Shanghai. Then he ordered the 6th and 18th Divisions and the Kunisaki Detachment to immediately capture Suzhou and cut off the retreat of the Chinese army. Matsui Shigen said in a deep voice: "In addition, immediately send a telegram to the 3rd, 9th, 11th, 13th, 16th, 101st, and 114th divisions, and order them to return to Shanghai as soon as possible, and gather and annihilate the Tiger Ben Regiment in the Songhu area!" ”

The voice fell, and Matsui Shigen said again: "Also, send a telegram to the Kunshan garrison squadron, let them do their best to block the advance of the Zhina army, and buy time for the Hangzhou garrison brigade to rush to Shanghai." ”

"Hay!" Tsukada and the young staff officer next to him suddenly bowed their heads at the same time, and immediately turned around and strode with their sabers; Leave.

…………………

The county seat of Kunshan.

Captain Sakai was patrolling the castle with two guards carrying sabers, and after receiving an alarm call from Weiting Station ten minutes ago, he immediately gathered all the imperial soldiers and puppet troops in the city.

Although the strength of the Imperial Allied Army itself was less than 400 people, as a member of the Emperor [***], Captain Sakai had the confidence and determination to hold on until the reinforcements arrived, because he had just sent an urgent telegram to the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters, and he believed that as long as he held out for one to two hours, a large number of reinforcements would continue to flow from Shanghai.

Poor Captain Sakai did not yet know that Shanghai had reached a point where there were no troops to be mobilized and precarious.

After Captain Sakai made a round, and as soon as he walked down the city, a communications soldier rushed over, suddenly retracted his feet and saluted Captain Sakai and said, "Report to the captain, there is a call from the dispatch army headquarters." ”

"Read!" Captain Sakai immediately waved his hand.

"Commander Matsui ordered us to hold on to Kunshan and make every effort to block the advance of the Shina Army!" The signal soldier hurriedly read.

"Your Excellency Commander didn't say when reinforcements would arrive?" Captain Sakai's face changed slightly and he asked urgently.

The signal soldier shook his head and said, "There are no reinforcements, and the telegram does not say anything about reinforcements." ”

"Yaga Tooth Road! Why not send reinforcements? Why? Captain Sakai was so angry that he slapped the communications soldier a few times, gritted his teeth and roared: "Call back to the commander immediately and ask for reinforcements!" ”

"Hailey!" The communication soldier didn't care about the red and swollen pig face at the moment of being beaten, and hurriedly bowed his head in response, and then quickly turned around and took the order.

………………… Five miles outside Kunshan, the infantry of the three regiments of the Huben Brigade had already disembarked and were rapidly assembling, while the more than 50 armored fighting vehicles of the armored company had already been prepared and were ready to go.

Although the numbers of each battalion have been expanded into the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Huben Regiments, there has been no change in personnel and equipment from the original.

Now that the army's strength in Shanghai is already stretched, then in a small county like Kunshan, there will never be too many left-behind troops of the devils, so there is no need to use artillery battalions at all.

Only the artillery batteries directly under each regiment were enough to suppress the devil soldiers in the city, and it was more than enough for the infantry to use one battalion as the main attack, and the other two battalions were reserved as reserves just in case.

About half an hour later, the three regiments responsible for the main attack on Kunshan City had already been prepared, first the artillery company directly under the city bombarded the city, and then under the cover of the armored company, the officers and men of the three infantry battalions (companies) of the three regiments immediately charged at Kunshan City.

The anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy machine guns of the armored company opened fire with all their might, and hundreds of tongues of fire were particularly dazzling in the dark night, and the dense anti-aircraft machine gun bullets splashed the earth at the head of the city.

Some of the timid ones were even more frightened and incontinent, and the city was suddenly plunged into chaos.

On the other hand, the performance of the devil soldiers is much stronger than that of the puppet army, many devil soldiers are afraid of death in the dense rain of bullets to shoot back, but after a few shots, they were beaten into a sieve by the dense bullets, and even more directly hit the head by the extremely powerful anti-aircraft machine gun bullets, and the whole head burst open like a watermelon, and the brains and dirty blood were suddenly splashed in all directions.

Some of the puppet soldiers who had poor endurance were so frightened that they dropped their guns and turned around and ran, but they didn't run a few steps before they were split in two with a command knife by Captain Sakai, who was supervising the battle with the guards.

"No retreat! Otherwise, it's all dripping, dripping, dripping! Captain Sakai brandished his command knife viciously and roared at the puppet soldiers who tried to escape.

At this moment, a loud bang suddenly sounded under the castle, and Captain Sakai could clearly feel the city wall trembling slightly under his feet.

"Yaga! What's going on? Captain Sakai asked with a roar.

"Your Excellency Squadron Leader, the people of China... The people of China have blasted open the gates of the city and are coming into the city! A ghost soldier hurriedly reported from running over.

Suddenly, the deafening shouts of the [***] team sounded outside the city.

"Yaga Yalu!" The angry Captain Sakai immediately brandished his command knife and roared hoarsely: "Kill Gaga, meet the attack, and drive the people out of the city!" ”

(To be continued)