More than 10,000 Japanese troops and more than 20,000 officers and soldiers of the Imperial Association began to surround Baoding City and carry out fierce shooting... The attack of the Imperial Allied Army, under the fierce resistance of the Yue army, left the corpses in one place and retreated. The little devil troops who launched a counterattack, also under the fierce fire of the soldiers of the Imperial Army, hurriedly retreated to their positions... In less than half a day, thousands of troops were killed or wounded in one word. And the little devils who were surrounded by the Imperial Association Army also had to shrink their defensive circle because of huge casualties. And this is what these puppet army units want to achieve..."Report to the division, the little devil has narrowed the defensive circle of the troops, is it not to order all troops, find the right opportunity, and retreat to the predetermined target...."On the mound formed after the collapse of the city wall of Baoding City, which is less than a kilometer away from the battlefield and has become a ruin, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Allied Army, Wang Degui, was holding the telescope in his hand and carefully observing every move on the battlefield, when the chief of staff hurriedly ran up to the mound and said loudly.

"Well, I've seen the situation, and it's almost time. By the way, Division Commander Zhou, is there any new news from the Ninth Regiment now? They had been busy in the ruins for hours, and they hadn't found any heavy weapons? Although we have an army of 20,000 in our hands, in terms of light and heavy machine guns, mortars, grenadiers and other heavy weapons, we are simply a heaven and an earth compared to the little devils... More importantly, heavy machine guns and mortars are sharp weapons in defensive warfare, so we have to be cautious..."Division Commander Wang Degui nodded and looked at the deputy commander-in-chief beside him.

"Brother Wang, the brothers of the Ninth Regiment have just come with good news. So far, they have found 18 mortars, more than 20 grenadiers, 32 heavy machine guns, and nearly 100 light machine guns in the rubble. As for the ammunition, it's innumerable, and several bases have been dug up, enough for us to squander for a while. You can relax, in a defensive battle for a while, there will definitely be no shortage of weapons and ammunition for us..."Division Commander Zhou replied with a smile on his face, "In this case, Chief of Staff, immediately notify all troops, alternate cover, and prepare to retreat... Brother Zhou, after the troops are withdrawn, you are responsible for arranging the defensive positions of each regiment and distributing all the heavy weapons that have just been dug up. If nothing else, when the little devils react, they will definitely attack us at the first time, trying to suppress the spirit of our army, drive us out of this favorable terrain, and then force us to continue to be lackeys for them..."Commander-in-Chief Wang Degui ordered with a serious face..."Brother Wang, you can rest assured. In order to be able to be a Chinese in a dignified manner, I promise to complete the task so that these little devils of the principal can also have a good taste of the true combat effectiveness of our Imperial Cooperative Army. The deputy commander-in-chief turned around and prepared to deliver the order.

"By the way, Brother Zhou, there is one more question. After ordering the regiments to enter the position, they immediately formed a team of supervisors, and those soldiers who did not take a firm position and planned to continue to be Han Annihilators, without any hesitation, immediately shot them. In troubled times, in order for more than 10,000 brothers to live safely, we can only be sorry for those few who are obsessed. You know, we are also forced to do such a thing. Wang Degui then ordered: "Yes, commander-in-chief, I am sure that the brothers will understand your painstaking efforts, and I will do it immediately." Even if the brothers blame me in the future, they will come to me, commander-in-chief, so don't think too much about it, and command the troops with confidence. You know, now that the fate of more than 10,000 of us is in your hands, you must not make any mistakes..."The deputy commander-in-chief said with a solemn face.

With one order after another, through the radio, it was quickly conveyed to the ears of every regiment commander of the Imperial Cooperative Army. The more than 10,000 Imperial Allied troops surrounding the Yue army, except for some soldiers who still stuck to their positions, were responsible for attracting the firepower of the Yue army and covering the retreat of the main force. The remaining 15,000 people, under the command of their respective regiment commanders, quickly withdrew from the battlefield and rushed to the ruins of Baoding City not far away... More than 15,000 people, under the safety of the deputy commander-in-chief, almost without any confusion, quickly entered their respective defensive positions. At the same time, relying on the edge of the ruins of Baoding City, a mound of soil piled up after the explosion of the city wall, condescendingly, quickly built a blocking position. A light and heavy machine gun that had just been dug out was also transported to the forefront of the defensive position in the shortest possible time.

In less than an hour, on the huge battlefield, because of the active retreat of the Imperial Army, it slowly fell into tranquility. The troops of the Imperial Allied Army, in their own positions, with their own hands, bayonets, sapper shovels ... In short, all the tools at your disposal were to build fortifications on top of a mound of earth several meters above the ground. And the little devil, at this moment, is counting the casualties of his own troops in the melee for just a few hours. At the same time, they discussed their own divisions and regiments, and after the rebellion of the Imperial Allied Army, the next feasible action plan.

Just when the commander of the 108th Division was pacing back and forth in the temporary headquarters, anxiously waiting for news. The chief of staff of the division hurriedly rushed to the front of the division commander, with a panicked face... Seeing this, the division commander seemed to know something, and quickly frowned, and asked the chief of staff in front of him: "Chief of staff, has the situation of the troops been counted?" ”

"Hey, Your Excellency Division Commander, the losses of the various wings have been fully reported to me. According to statistics, our 108th Division lost more than 4,000 heroic Imperial soldiers in the melee that lasted almost five hours. Among them, 1,872 were directly killed, and the number of soldiers who were seriously wounded and unable to continue to participate in the battle was as high as 2,496....The total number of troops lost was equivalent to our 108th division, a whole infantry wing, and it completely lost its combat effectiveness. The chief of staff replied.

"Baga, the cunning imperial army, the cunning Chinese. After the successful encirclement of our 108th Division, we will definitely break all the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Association into thousands of pieces to avenge those broken warriors. Bageyalu, Chief of Staff, what about the rebels of the Imperial Allied Army now, how many of them are there now, where are these Imperial Allied troops retreating now, and is there any news on the forward positions..."The division commander clenched the command knife in his hand and asked angrily.

"Hi, Your Excellency Division Commander, after preliminary statistics, in the melee that has just lasted for five hours, I say that this imperial army has wiped out a total of more than 5,000 rebels. In addition, according to the reconnaissance of the forward reconnaissance troops, the remaining 15,000 troops of the Imperial Allied Army have occupied Baoding City, which has become a ruin, and on top of the ruins, they are taking advantage of the favorable terrain to step up the construction of fortifications.

"Nani, the ruins of Baoding City..."As he spoke, the division commander quickly raised the telescope in his hand and looked at Baoding City, which had become ruins a few miles away. Sure enough, in the sky above Baoding City, the smoke and dust produced by the Imperial Allied Army's troops digging fortifications had risen several meters into the air.

"Baga, there are more than 30,000 of my heroic imperial soldiers buried under Baoding City, how can those rebels step on the corpses of imperial soldiers to build fortifications? This is simply an insult to the empire and to the dignity of my imperial army. In order to maintain the dignity of the Great Imperial Empire, we must drive down the Imperial Cooperative Army troops from the ruins. Chief of Staff, order all the artillery to open fire immediately, and all the soldiers of the Imperial Allied Army on the ruins must be driven away...."The division commander was shocked and ordered loudly to the chief of staff..."Your Excellency the division commander, the artillery wing to which my 108th Division belongs has been buried in the ruins of Baoding City in the explosion last night. At present, our army can only muster a few dozen infantry guns and a small number of mortars at most, and it is simply not capable of launching a large-scale artillery bombardment.

"Yaga, how can this be... Ordered the soldiers of the Imperial Army of an infantry wing, Ma Shan, to concentrate his forces and launch an attack on the Imperial Allied Army troops entrenched in Baoding City. The number of light and heavy machine guns equipped with these Imperial Allied troops is less than one-third of ours. As long as our troops take advantage of the fact that their positions have not been constructed and launch a sudden attack, they will definitely be able to take them by surprise. Tell the front-line commander that there are only two hours left until dark, and within two hours, the troops must drive the Imperial Allied army out of the rubble. The division commander ordered with a serious face, "Hey, Your Excellency the division commander, I'll do it right away..." And these little devils who believed in bushido and had long thought that the imperial army was invincible were trampled under the feet of those inferior soldiers of the imperial army when they learned that the corpses of more than 30,000 fallen imperial soldiers were actually trampled under the feet of those inferior imperial army soldiers. An infantry wing, more than 4,000 little devils, without any commander mobilization, indignantly asked his wing commander to fight, ready to launch the first round of attack on the defensive position of the Imperial Allied Army, which was busy... Soon, more than a thousand little devils walked out of the army's camp in a menacing manner. One by one, the little devils, holding the rifles with bayonets already loaded in their hands, almost raised their heads and chests, lined up in the most common offensive formation of the army, and walked towards the position of the Imperial Association Army a few miles away with great arrogance.

"Damn, the little devil is still so arrogant, he doesn't even take us seriously..."Looking closer and closer to his position, it was like a yellow wave rolling towards his position. Wang Degui, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Cooperative Army, who was holding a telescope and observing every move of the army, said with a contemptuous face.

"Commander-in-chief, in the past few years, our Imperial Cooperative Army has no combat effectiveness in the eyes of Yu. However, the arrogance of the little devil is not a good thing for us. Now there are only two hours left before it gets dark, and in these two hours, if we can deal a big blow to the little devil. I think that tonight, the little devil will definitely stop a lot, digest it well, and estimate the real combat effectiveness of our Imperial Allied Army. Just after the commander-in-chief Wang Degui's words were finished, the deputy commander-in-chief next to him said with a smile on his face.

"Hehe, it's still Brother Zhou's head turning fast... As long as we can leave most of the little devils in front of us or wipe them out, I promise that we will make the divisions and regiments of the Yue Army supervising the battle in the rear stunned, and take a good look at the real combat effectiveness of our Imperial Cooperative Army in fighting devils. Wang Degui nodded, and said confidently..."Commander-in-chief, how are you going to fight?" The army is still about a kilometer away from us, and we have ten minutes to prepare at most, so we must hurry," replied the deputy commander-in-chief.

"Order the army to attack the three regiments directly opposite, and the fourth regiment will immediately prepare for battle. In addition, twenty heavy machine guns and fifty light machine guns were drawn from various units, all of which were assembled in the positions of these two regiments. In addition, all mortars and grenadiers of the troops were used intensively and aimed at a position of 100 to 200 meters in front of the position. After getting the order to open fire, everyone should not save bullets for me, let's try to leave all these more than 1,000 little devils in front of the position..."Division Commander Wang Degui ordered solemnly, and then, a sneer flashed at the corner of his mouth..."Yes, commander-in-chief, I will go and give the order immediately...."After learning that the devils were attacking, after knowing the diehards in the troops, the remaining soldiers were all gearing up and ready to teach the little devils a good lesson. Vent the humiliation you have suffered at the hands of little devils for several years....

In less than 10 minutes, nearly 100 light and heavy machine guns were lined up and all of them were erected on the position. As for the dozens of mortar grenadiers that were hastily assembled, all of them were aimed at the intended targets and were ready to open fire. At this moment, nearly 3,000 soldiers were lying motionless on the position, holding the weapons in their hands tightly, staring ahead, quietly waiting for the commander-in-chief, Wang Degui, to give themselves the order to fire, and then teach the arrogant little devil in front of him a good lesson.

Finally, in the anxious waiting of everyone, more than 1,200 Japanese troops, lined up in several dense skirmish lines, walked to the artillery fire coverage of the artillery positions behind them. However, Wang Degui, the commander-in-chief who was keeping an eye on the army's every move, did not give the order to open fire. He was waiting, waiting for all the little devils to enter the area covered by the artillery fire.

"All of them, give me a hard beating..." Just when the little devil who was walking in the front had rushed to a range of fifty meters, and the soldiers of the Imperial Association Army lying on the position had already sweated on their heads. The corners of Commander Wang Degui's mouth once again showed a sneer, and he shouted at the two regiment commanders beside him..."Fire... Fire... Da Da ....All Bla..."In an instant, the entire position resounded with the orders of commanders at all levels. Immediately, in the trench more than 1,000 meters long, nearly 100 dense tongues of fire were spit out... A scorching tongue of fire, in just a moment, weaved an impenetrable bullet net in front of the position.

As for those little devils who looked confident and thought they were invincible in the world, they were swept to the ground by this sudden dense firepower net. In just a few seconds, at least half of the little devils fell into the dense strafing of nearly 100 light and heavy machine guns. And just when the hundreds of little devils in the rear quickly lined up on the ground, thinking that they had dodged the dense rain of bullets just now, they felt a little lucky. The whistling sound of cannonballs across the sky quickly reached the ears of these little devils.

When they raised their heads and followed the whistling sound to look at the sky, nearly 100 shells of various calibers had already appeared in their eyes. As the shells got bigger and bigger in their eyes, just when these little devils lying on the ground had not yet reacted from the shock, a dense burst of shell explosions began to sound in their ears..."Boom, boom..."Nearly 100 shells of various calibers, like rain, kept falling in the middle of these devils, setting off patches of blood rain... After just a few rounds of firing, the entire position of the Japanese army was covered in smoke from the explosion of artillery shells... The hundreds of little devils who just felt a little lucky that they had escaped the flying bullets. At this moment, I was already thinking about praying to the heavens, why wasn't I directly killed in the battle just now?

Because, if you just die in the flying bullets, you can still leave a complete corpse after all. However, at this moment, in the midst of the raining shells, I constantly have to endure the torture before death, and more importantly, I can't even leave a complete corpse in one unfortunate way... Finally, in the midst of the dense explosions, some of the little devils could no longer endure this painful torture. They jumped up from the ground, ready to retreat. However, they forgot that there were not only shells that kept falling around them, but more importantly, above their heads, there was an impermeable net of heavy machine gun bullets... Just as these little devils raised their heads, the flying bullets had already burst their brains, and finally, they turned into soft corpses... Two minutes, less than two minutes into the entire shelling, there was not a single outcropping devil in sight on the entire position. The shelling also stopped at the command of the commander-in-chief. And at this moment, all the soldiers on the positions of the enemy and us are holding their heads high and staring blankly at the bloody positions in front of them...

(To be continued)