Chapter 42: The City Breaks
The city is broken!
In the yellow rammed earth smoke, thousands of Guards soldiers burst out of their throats to shake the earth, and the earth outside the city that was scorched by cannonballs would be silent, and the corpses were one after another, the snow was white, the blood was red, and the earth was black.
For the sake of this black land, soldiers are willing to spend their lives and blood, whether they are Chinese or Chinese.
When the troops suddenly broke through the city wall, the soldiers of the gun company carrying 37-mm small guns and heavy machine guns were desperate, or carrying gun barrels, or carrying tripods, or carrying water-cooled heavy machine guns, carrying tripods, carrying ammunition, and carrying infantry guns and heavy machine guns to the city when the assault troops were strafing the remnants of the enemy on the wall with machine guns and submachine guns.
The battlements of the city walls are too high for firepower!
It's just that as soon as he shouted out, a combat engineer took out a long canned box from his backpack, which was a kilogram of explosives strips, 100% TNT explosives imported from Germany, and put a pack of water and mud on the explosives box.
One, two, three...... Ten seconds later, violent explosions continued to be heard on the city wall, and the infantry guns and heavy machine guns that were carried to the head of the city were quickly reassembled.
The firing range of the 37 infantry guns is not far, the maximum is only 1.5 kilometers, but it is enough here, the condescending shelling, one by one small shells continue to blast through the defense line of the army, and the heavy machine gunners are holding the machine guns, aiming at any dark blue flow of people in the city, the trajectory of the tracer bullet is not obvious in Bai Yue, occasionally when the stray bullet hits the grass house, the tracer bullet ignites the roof, and the fireworks spread in the city, but more often, they are shooting the bullet towards the city where the government office is located, Although only the roof of the government office can be seen.
Green and red tracer ballistics swayed in the sky above Fushun, and the ballistics and the crowd of charging people were all aimed at a target, the Fushun Bureau, which was the headquarters of the Yalu River Army, at least the information they had received before the war.
In the Houhuayuan of the Zheng family compound in Fushun, dozens of officers and soldiers were burning code books and other secret documents in front of more than a dozen fires, while the sappers were pressing explosives on the telegraph machine, and the sound of gunfire and explosions was getting closer and closer.
"Boom!"
The roof of the living room of the Zheng family's compound, which was close to the bullet, shook off some dust.
Gently flicking the dust off his shoulders with his fingers, Kawamura Keimei turned his head to look at Yusaku Uehara beside him, this engineer expert who had made great contributions to the conquering of Lushun, he was originally from the Fourth Army, and he came to guide the Yalu River Army in its operations, and the result was ...... However, at this time, Uehara Yusaku was there rubbing his saber, which was given by the emperor after the conquest of Lushun.
"Your Excellency, the flags have been burned!"
A staff officer ran quickly into the living room under the shells that fell in the courtyard.
"Got it!"
Keiaki Kawamura nodded, he listened to the gunshots that seemed to be getting closer and closer in the air, and knew that time was running out.
"Uehara-kun, it seems that we can't wait for Dean Ito's "good news"! ”
There was a hint of sarcasm in his words, followed by a heavy sigh.
"In fact, from the very beginning, we were defeated, starting from limiting the scale of the war, hoping that in the future, we can learn from the lessons of the Yalu River Army!"
"Experience?"
Yusaku Uehara smiled and looked at the sky outside the door that was shrouded in gunsmoke, what kind of experience did you learn?
"Commander Kawamura, you understand, this has nothing to do with experience, if it was last year, we would not be like this now, in this situation where we cannot fight and cannot peace, military strength is determined by the economy, and after fighting with the Lu people for a year, we have exhausted the last copper plate, and between China and Russia, we can only make one choice."
Keiaki Kawamura was silent for a moment, he knew how difficult it was to make such a choice.
"The Chinese threat is future, but Lucia's threat is immediate, Tokyo can only choose the latter, maybe we will choose a humiliating truce with the Chinese, but maybe in a few years, maybe ten years, when the strength of Yuben is restored, then the Chinese will pay their price!"
When Yusaku Uehara said this, he glanced at the staff officers and orderlies of the headquarters who had already gathered in the courtyard, and the only troops that the headquarters could mobilize now were these hundreds of officers and soldiers.
"Commander Kawamura, should you say something to everyone?"
Under Uehara's reminder, Kawamura straightened his military uniform, walked to the corridor in front of the living room door, and then held the Meiji 32-style saber given by the emperor in both hands.
"You have overcome many difficulties, obeyed orders, served the country loyally, and fought valiantly against the enemy who had an overwhelming superiority in troops and equipment. The fact that this legion is not in battle today means that the Imperial Army has seen a corpsion-level unit for the first time. However, the lords are said to be samurai, and they must not rush to death. Try to kill the enemy as much as possible, with the blood of the Chinese army! Cleanse us of shame! Please! ”
As soon as the words fell, Kawamura Jingming bowed to the personnel of the Yalu River Army Headquarters in front of him, and the staff officers with guns in the courtyard returned the salute at the same time, since the city was broken, they already knew their fate, and now it was just the last moment.
At 8:45 a.m., the radioman ordered by Keiaki Kawamura sent a farewell telegram to Tokyo that he once again considered his own, and he had already sent a similar telegram as early as Purandian.
“…… The battle has come to an end. Since the Chinese army launched the offensive, with the help of poison gas, although the bravery of our Yalu River officers and men has made the ghosts cry and howl, however, it is difficult to resist the poisonous power of poison gas...... However, our officers and men have died one after another. It is deeply regrettable that since China was involved in this war, Tokyo has been unable to fight over many issues of war and war, and the poisonous gas of the Chinese army is not feared by the officers and men at the front, but the empire's indecision to fight is a great trouble for the empire...... At present, the defense line formed by the officers and men of the Yalu River with flesh and blood has been overcome, and all the remaining officers and men will participate in the general attack...... I think that the empire has been so kind to us that I have broken my bones, and I have no regrets. However, today, Kawamura has a word to tell you, although Lucia is the great enemy of the book, but if China rises, the book will never be peaceful, I sincerely hope that the more than 70,000 loyal souls of the Yalu River army can wake up the book...... Commander of the Yalu River Army, Kawamura Keimeiji 38, March 22, said"
After confirming that the telegram would be sent, Keiaki Kawamura, who was carrying a Western-style 32-style command knife, immediately gathered more than 600 staff officers, guards, and signal corps of the headquarters of the Fifth Division, the last reserve of the Fifth Division, in the Jinzhou Railway Station, which had been bombed into half-ruins.
Although the flying bullets kept passing overhead, Kawamura Jingming, who was carrying a command knife with white temples, still stood straight on the rubble, looking around at the officers and soldiers in front of him, holding command knives or rifles.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the last moment has arrived, and the Great Empire is Banzai! Emperor Banya! ”
"Great Say, this Imperial Banzai! Emperor Banya! Ban Zai! ”
The desperate staff officers and soldiers shouted frantically with their division commanders, and the wounded who were clinging to the wall also waved their arms and shouted that they had received bayonets for suicide.
"Whoosh......"
The bullet that passed by his neck made Chen Guobang, who personally led the troops to charge, only feel a hot stinging pain in his neck, and with a glance, his comrades who followed him were hit in the forehead. The thrill of walking around the ghost gate did not stop Chen Guobang.
On the streets of the city, there were dead bodies all over the ground at this time, and on the walls and door panels on both sides of the road, you could see the flesh blown away by grenades everywhere, and in the blur of flesh and blood, you could even see some broken limbs writhing and moaning in a pool of blood...... Behind the pillars on the side of the road, machine gunners with light machine guns fired targeted short shots from time to time, and from time to time people were knocked to the ground behind the sand barricades of the Japanese army.
"Military ...... Master Jun, said that my headquarters is in the courtyard in front, walk the alley to the west, and tear open the two walls...... You can beat it! ”
A middle-aged man wearing a melon skin hat and a dogskin collar shirt lying on the ground stammered that this group of big-headed soldiers had broken into his shop, and what he was thinking about was to send these plague gods out, so as not to blow up his own house.
"Headquarters? Isn't their headquarters in the government? ”
"Military ...... Jun Ye, I have already changed places, and I will move my nest as soon as I fight, you always go through the alley in the west, grab someone and ask the Zheng family compound to know, Jun Ye, Jun Ye, you ...... You can fight in a different place! ”
As soon as he heard that the army headquarters had moved, he added chapped lips with his tongue, he looked back at the dozen wounded people in the room, and then at the dozens of brothers on the street who were still angry.
But seeing that this piece of fat can't go over and eat two bites, I'm afraid that I can't close my eyes even if I die.
"Dagenzi, you take a dozen brothers to explore the way, if it is their nest, you will shoot two signal flares, one red and one green, understand?"
"Fast hooves, can you still run?"
With a shout, a small private of the first class who had just finished bandaging his wound immediately ran over.
"Sir, you can run!"
"You go to contact the camp now, just say that the little nose has moved the nest, let the camp send me reinforcements, and now we will capture Kawamura Jingming alive!"
(To be continued)