"Good news, my dear, the Japanese army has retreated!" Yulia Xing, the personal adjutant of Chief Su, hurriedly entered Su Tong's office and gave a telegram to her husband.

Su Tong took the telegram and read it, and breathed a long sigh of relief, lay on the chair and closed his eyes slightly: "Well, I finally captured Beiping!" This ancient capital is finally back in our arms, and now I am relieved. ”

"Honey!" Yulia blinked her big beautiful eyes and asked curiously, "I found out that you seem to have deliberately let the Japanese army go from Beiping, right?" ”

"Hehe" Su Tong smiled, he stretched out his hand and scraped his wife's straight nose, and immediately hugged Yulia in his arms, and scolded with a smile: "In the entire Seventh War Zone, you are the only one who dares to ask me this question in front of me." ”

"Well, I'm just curious! Just tell me. Yulia twisted her delicate body and withdrew.

"Alas, I'm also for Beiping, do you know why there was no large-scale massacre of civilians after Ricao captured Beiping, and the Forbidden City, which was occupied by the Second Division, did not enter the Japanese army?" Su Tong smiled slightly.

Yulia shook her head in confusion.

That's because I have a tacit understanding with Okamura Ninji that I won't bī him to death, and he won't destroy every brick in the Forbidden City in exchange for my net open.

"Why? The Forbidden City is nothing more than a palace, and if it is broken, it will be rebuilt and gone. But the second division is the ace division of the [Japan] book, isn't it a pity to let them go like this? Yulia didn't understand.

"No," you understand Yulia. Su Tong shook his head: "The Forbidden City is a witness to Chinese history, and the ten second divisions are not as good as a Forbidden City." If I am ruined, "I will become a sinner in history, and I will never let the Forbidden City be destroyed in my hands." ”

"Do you understand? When the reconnaissance report from the air reported that there were no Japanese soldiers in the Forbidden City, but there were Japanese soldiers guarding it outside, I knew that Okamura Ninji was leaving a way back for himself and telling me that he had no intention of destroying the city. And I didn't rule out a massive bombing of them by planes, which is also my response to Okamura Ninji, do you understand? Su Tong looked at his wife lovingly and kissed her delicate and crystal clear face gently.

"Oh God, you Orientals are so complicated in their thinking, I understand that I can't see through you in my life." Yulia wrinkled her straight nose coquettishly.

"Haha" Su Tong laughed: "If you don't understand, forget it, as long as I can see through you." ”

"Well, dear, you've been busy all night, let's go in and rest, okay?" At this time, Su Tong's ears came Yulia's delicate voice.

Su Tong looked up and saw that the beautiful woman in his arms was about to drip water in her beautiful big eyes. For some of his wife's requests, Chief Su has always been responsive!

So, in a burst of sneering laughter, Chief Su picked up his wife and strode into the lounge inside, "Close the room......

The sky began to light up, and Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi, commander of the 28th Division of Chengde's garrison, bent down a little uneasily in a hidden observation post and observed the situation on the periphery of Chengde with an observation glass.

During this time, Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi had to go to the front every day to observe the situation on the position, the encirclement of the Chahar army on the opposite side was getting tighter and tighter, and the ground contact with the outside world had been completely cut off, and Chengde had already become an isolated city, with only 30,000 Japanese troops and hundreds of thousands of civilians in the city.

A few days ago, Su Tong, commander of the Seventh Theater of Operations, had already informed Lieutenant General Tatsumi Kusaba that if the Japanese army dared to slaughter the people to vent their anger, then the Seventh Theater would not hesitate to execute all the thousands of Japanese nationals captured in Rehe.

At that time, this tough language angered Lieutenant General Kenta Nakajima, the commander of the 27th Division of the Japanese Army, who had returned from a major defeat some time earlier, and he killed more than 300 civilians in the city that day to vent his anger. This news was reported by agents of the Investigation Bureau hidden in Chengde City, and the next day the Chahar troops outside the city immediately pushed the same number of Japanese expatriates to the Japanese positions outside Chengde and beheaded all of them.

And also strongly announced that as long as the massacre of the Japanese army continues, then the retaliation of the Seventh War Zone will never stop. If the Japanese expatriates in Rehe are not enough to kill, then there are still millions of Japanese expatriates in the three eastern provinces waiting for us to kill.

"Bagaya Road! These stupid Shina people, they will pay for their stupidity! Lieutenant General Kenta Nakajima, who was furious, wanted to take his troops to the city to kill people to vent his anger, but he was rushed to Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi after hearing the news and slapped him a few times.

"You are not a samurai, you can only slaughter civilians, what kind of ability do you have the ability, take your division outside the city to fight the Chahar army, so that at least you have a decent way to die." Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi was by Kenta Nakajima's stupidity.

"You idiot" There are 45,000,000 people in China, can you kill them all? Blind slaughter can only arouse the hatred and anger of the common people. Do you know why the opposite army of China has so many heavy artillery but did not bombard Chengde, because they are afraid of hurting the civilians in the city. If you kill all the civilians in Chengde, the army on the opposite side will let go of their hands and feet to bombard Chengde, and then we will have to be loyal to the emperor in the midst of artillery fire! ”

"Hey!" Kenta Nakajima was also woken up by a few slaps.

"Kusaba-kun is right, I'm confused." , Seeing that Kenta Nakajima had already admitted his mistake, "Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi didn't think much of it, and hurriedly taught him a few words and went back. Because the Kwantung Army has already sent a telegram, they have sent the 1st Brigade of Independent Combat Vehicles and the 139th Division to rush to reinforcements, it is estimated that the day after tomorrow, as the commander of the garrison, Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi must be prepared as soon as possible, this morning the atmosphere outside the city of Chengde is particularly several, the observers outside the city came to report, the opposite Chahar army a large number of personnel into the position, it is estimated that the attack will be launched. Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi immediately ordered the entire army to prepare for battle.

On the positions of the Chahar army, the 3rd Panzer Division, the 5th, 102nd, and 11th Infantry Divisions had already entered the advancing positions, and on the airfield behind the Long Mén in Chahar, Stuka Carrier bombshells rose into the air, and above them were groups of U-concave fighters produced by the Messerschmitt Company. Hu Lian, the commander-in-chief of the siege, was standing in front of the observation mirror of the forward command headquarters, carefully observing the situation of the Japanese army's outer positions.

Hu Lian looked at the luminous watch on his wrist that was specially equipped for senior generals, Layton, and the time was 7:59 in the morning.

"Order the troops to begin!" Hu Lian said.

At eight o'clock in the morning, all the artillery of the Fourth Artillery Division outside Chengde City had faded from their gun coats, revealing the artillery that emitted a cold light.

The artillery commander stood next to the various artillery positions, "holding the xiǎo red flag in his hand and pointing straight to the sky." Commands were shouted from his mouth.

"Get into position!"

"Binding the Elements"

"All Elements Set"

"One shot is good, two shots are good, three shots are good, six guns are good......", "Ready to load!" ”

Following the orders of the officers, four burly and sturdy loaders, each holding a tong, clamped a 203-mm shell weighing nearly 100 kilograms and put it on the loading block, and one loader immediately used the feeding stick to push the shell into the chamber of the flattened 203-mm heavy howitzer.

"Bang dang!" The gunner slammed the heavy bolt off and quickly stood up and reported loudly, "Reloaded!" ”

"Ready, put!"

"Woo woo woo" hundreds of pounds of shells flew out of the barrel and flew towards the intended target.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The Japanese artillery position on the opposite side "shook violently" as if it had been stamped by a huge beast, and then burst open like a burst of watermelon, and "bricks and rubble flew all around."

Immediately, hundreds of mén guns of 75, 105, 122, 155 and other calibers on the rest of the positions also spoke. On the outlying positions of Chengde, the bunkers built by the Japanese army drove away countless ordinary people were easily blown to pieces.

Most of the people stationed in the outer positions were Manchu and Mongolian puppet troops, and their morale was low, and they had only two results in the loud explosion: one was that they were blown up by artillery shells without a trace. The second is to be frightened. In the face of the murderous weapons made by human beings, the pre-war rhetoric of vowing to drive the Chahar army out of Chengde has long been blown away by the air of cannonballs.

Twenty minutes into the bombardment, "Stuka from the direction of Long Mén joined the party," and the dropping of 100 to 500 kilogram bombs shook the ground in the city.

Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi stayed silently in the underground command post, "feeling the trembling of the earth, and couldn't help but feel a little dazed in his heart", such a ferocious artillery fire of the Chahar army made him, a man who has been in the army for more than 20 years, also shocked.

He knew that in the midst of such heavy artillery fire, the hastily erected fortifications of the outer perimeter must have been finished.

He did not dare to imagine what kind of terrible blow Japan would have suffered if this war had taken place in the country. No, no, Lieutenant General Kusaba shook his head violently, banishing the terrible thought from his mind. Then it was funny again, there was no navy in China at all, could they have grown wings and flew over?

"Boom......","

Half an hour later, the sound of cannons that sounded like thousands of drums beating in my ears at the same time came to an abrupt end, and hundreds of cannons tacitly stopped firing.

When the few remaining Manchu and Mongolian puppet soldiers emerged from the remnants of the fortifications like ground mice, they were greeted by a surface as barren as the surface of the moon, well, if they had ever seen the moon.

At this time, the Manchu and Mongolian puppet soldiers on the position felt a tremor on the surface of the ground again, and what caught their eyes was groups of xiǎo black dots that seemed to appear from the horizon. Soon, they got closer, and "the black dots were getting bigger and bigger in front of their eyes."

"Battle, chariot, it's the chariot of the Chinese people!" A frightened cry echoed over the barren position