Hirose Shousuke stood behind Muto Nobuyoshi with a solemn expression, and after repeated hesitation, Hirose Shousuke mustered up the courage to say to Muto Nobuyoshi in a very low voice: "Your Excellency Commander, I think it seems that we should stop the attack on Chengde!" ”

Muto Nobuyoshi turned around and looked at Hirose Shousuke in surprise and said, "Hirose-kun, are you timid?" ”

Hirose Shousuke shook his head and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, this will be a senseless sacrifice, the will of the [***] team that sticks to Chengde is resolute and has sufficient ammunition, on the other hand, our army has lost all the edge of continuous combat, and now the supply of our division has been insufficient, and it is really worth the loss to launch a fierce attack on Chengde!" This is simply a pointless battle, unless we are given sufficient heavy artillery and bombing support, and if we attack a fortified city like Chengde or deal with a tough bone like the newly formed 1st Division of the Nanjing Political Axe, we should consider the large-scale use of special ammunition to attack the fortification. ”

"Yaga!" Muto Nobuyoshi frowned and said angrily: "As an emperor [***] person, every battle is for His Majesty the Emperor, for the future of the Great Emperor, every drop of blood we shed is valuable, in Chinese we are the end of the strong crossbow, but how can we not know that the same is true of the middle [***] in the city?" In such a tragic and unusual tug-of-war, whoever can hold on for the last five minutes will often be able to win. ”

"I need to win! It is said that this empire needs victory! His Majesty the Emperor needs victory! Hirose-kun! One victory is enough, you understand? Please! Muto Nobuyoshi bowed deeply to Hirose Shousuke, and Hirose Shousuke, who was so ashamed that his face was flushed, said a little excitedly: "Please rest assured, Your Excellency the commander, I will definitely capture Chengde City for you."

When there was a hint of fish white on the edge of the sky, Hirose Shousuke and Muto Nobuyoshi did not sleep all night, the two stood side by side in front of the artillery mirror of the underground headquarters, and the soldiers of the Yue army were entering the position, because Lao Cai had become a cemetery for officers and soldiers, so the 14th Division drew and cobbled together three fully equipped infantry brigades to reinforce the 10th Division and join the main attack direction, while the headquarters of the 14th Division carried out a diversion attack in the direction of Lao Cai.

When the attacking troops began to slowly enter the position, because the artillery shells were exhausted, there was no artillery cover for this decisive attack, and the versatile staff officers of the Yue army explained to the attacking troops below that in order to achieve the sudden surname of the assault, they did not formulate an artillery support plan.

No one is an idiot, even the fanatical young officers who are infinitely loyal to the emperor feel a little out of place, nothing is synonymous with a logistics supply depot, there are not enough guns, there are no shells! It seems that the situation of his own side is really not good.

At this moment, there was a loud trumpet sound in Chengde City? The troops who were slowly entering the position suddenly lay motionless on the spot, and a staff officer next to Muto Nobuyoshi, who was nervous, said loudly: "Immediately find someone who understands the sound of the [***] trumpet, I want to know what this means!" ”

Soon, a logistics staff officer of the army who knew the sound of the horn of the [***] team was found in the command post, and in the face of the rare His Excellency the commander and the commander of the division, the logistics staff officer of the army who was a little excited told Muto Nobuyoshi and Hirose Shousuke that this trumpet was the flag-raising signal of the middle [***].

[***] even want to raise the flag? At this moment, the sky is gradually brightening, and Muto Nobuyoshi and Hirose Shousuke can already see clearly through the high-powered artillery mirror, and there is indeed a flagpole erected high before the collapsed ruins of Chengde Girls' High School? Several Chinese soldiers were escorted down to the flagpole in a neat queue of about 50 Chinese soldiers, and amid the indignant sound of trumpets, a blue sky and white and red flag slowly rose against the morning glow.

At this moment, there were not many bullets in the ruins of Chengde City, and the eyes of the hungry Chinese soldiers were moist, because of the frantic attack and bold penetration of the Yue army, many Chinese officers and soldiers in Chengde City were separated from the main force, and they insisted on using all available means to attack the siege troops of the Yue army in the rubble.

When this national flag was raised from the Chengde Girls' Middle School, they knew that this was another declaration to the army that Chengde was still in our hands, for a while, these bloody sacrifices did not even frown the eyes of the officers and soldiers, and the fierce battle of more than ten days proved that not all the Chinese [***] people are incompetent, and you screamed that the imperial army was swept away by a machine gun like a fart and a weed chicken!

Yes, the Chinese [***] dared to raise the flag within the range of their light and heavy machine guns? Muto Nobuyoshi looked at Hirose Shousuke in great surprise, and the ashamed Hirose Shousuke immediately waved his hand and shouted: "Shoot!" Command the front to shoot, absolutely not let them calmly complete the flag-raising! ”

In the frantic fire of the light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese army, the wooden flagpole was repeatedly shot and tilted, and the Chinese soldiers squeezed the flagpole with flesh and blood in the rain of bullets of the Japanese army, and the bullet passed through the blood mist brought up by ** in the morning sun It looked extremely beautiful, in order to destroy this flag, Hirose Shousuke even ordered to fire a few heavy mortar shells.

After the smoke cleared, a flag-raising death squad composed of 52 Chinese soldiers all died under the flagpole, and a second lieutenant still held on to the flag rope even to death, and the blood of the heroic soldiers seeped into the land of the motherland under them.

Looking at these sacrificed soldiers, most of them maintained their previous appearance when they were full of blood, without panic or retreat! The perseverance of the [***] people in China was vividly reflected by them, and Zhang Xuewu let tears flow on his cheeks, which was the only way he discussed with Li Songtao, Zhao Xinyu, Xu Guohui and others to boost morale and hit the morale of the army! Undoubtedly, this is a tragic choice.

As a commander, is it a so-called duty to make such sacrifices to his subordinates? What exactly are the duties of a military man? How to choose in the face of foreign insults?

Zhang Xuewu and Li Songtao, Xu Guohui, Zhao Xinyu, Zhang Tianpeng, Wang Chuang, Mai Tling and other commanders slowly raised their right hands and saluted, with extremely solemn expressions to see off these heroic and fearless heroes! Today's sacrifice is coming, and I will claim it back tenfold! Zhang Xuewu's sonorous and powerful oath echoed among the ruins and rubble of Chengde City.

When the smoke cleared and the scene of the Chinese soldiers' flesh and blood consolidating the national flag appeared, in an instant, Muto Nobuyoshi seemed to have aged by more than ten years? The spirit of the dragon spirit and tiger in the past seems to have been emptied in an instant?

Muto Nobuyoshi looked at Hirose Shousuke with some decadence and said, "Order the troops to stop the attack and prepare to retreat!" ”

Hirose Shousuke looked at Muto Nobuyoshi in surprise, hesitated for a moment and was about to ask, but Muto Nobuyoshi waved his hand and said, "Please don't say any more, how can we defeat them with such an army?" In order to protect the banner in their hearts, can they sacrifice their lives and forget about their deaths? It is the honor of you and my soldiers to fight against such an army, but it is also the sorrow of you and me! We are no match for them, and if we insist on destroying them, we will lose more than we gain. ”

Muto Nobuyoshi took one last look at Chengde City, which was already in ruins, and said to himself, "I don't know when I will be able to come again!" ”