The gunfire stopped, and Ma Biao, Zheng Yunshan, Monkey, and Wu Ming, the commander of the Third Regiment who had just led the three regiments to wipe out the remnants of the Japanese army in the west and north directions, all personally led people to rush up and rush into the headquarters of the Japanese army.

In a room riddled with bullets, they found Chihei Sakai, the commander of the 21st Division, who committed suicide by seppuku, and Yuyuki Chiba, his chief of staff.

Ma Biao put the Ying Qiqi rifle in his hand on his shoulder and said, "Hey, these old devils are so hateful, they won't even give us 20,000 yuan!" ”

Wu Ming couldn't help but say: "Ma Biao, you kid is really not satisfied, was it your second regiment that was the first to attack the city?" 10,000 oceans have been earned by you, and you are still thinking about it? ”

Zheng Yunshan said with a smile: "I remember that the commander seems to have said that for the old devil Sakai Qianping, whether he lives or dies, as long as he can catch it, it is 20,000 pieces of ocean!" ”

When Ma Biao and Wu Ming heard this, they immediately commanded their soldiers to rob the corpse.

"Four-eyed, are you so embarrassed to fight with me? My men have attacked here before you, and we have captured this headquarters! Ma Biao said.

"Ma Biao, you guy, if you hadn't transferred the artillery battalion to you, your second regiment would have been able to attack here first than our third regiment? Besides, the capture of the headquarters is the credit of the guard battalion and the arsenal garrison brigade, and it is your second regiment's! Wu Ming didn't give in at all.

Zheng Yunshan and the monkey looked at the brothers who were deliberately arguing, and couldn't help laughing: "Two regiment commanders, we don't want this battle merit in our guard battalion, you slowly theorize, but don't fight, I have to report the battle situation to the commander, but I have to remind you that so many devils have been annihilated in this city."

I'm afraid there's a lot of loot, so I'll have to clean it up quickly! ”

"Deputy Regiment Commander Zhou, immediately lead people to clean up the battlefield!" Ma Biao hurriedly turned his head and instructed the deputy head of the regiment, Zhou Dasheng.

"Deputy Commander Zhao, you too, hurry up and lead people to clean up the battlefield and collect the loot." Wu Ming also instructed the deputy head of the regiment, Zhao Youde.

At this moment, Qiao Youhua suddenly walked in from outside, Zheng Yunshan hurriedly stopped, took the lead and saluted: "Commander, you are here, and I am going to report the results of the battle to you." ”

Qiao Youhua looked at the Japanese headquarters that were in a mess all around, and saluted everyone in return and said, "In this battle, you are very good, so you don't need to be polite." ”

Ma Biao and Wu Ming walked over, and Ma Biao said with a smile: "Head, the commander and chief of staff of the 21st Division committed suicide by seppuku!" The body was in that room. ”

Qiao Youhua said: "Okay, don't care about the dead devil corpses, throw them out of the mass grave outside the city to feed the wild dogs and wild wolves, you have a new combat mission." ”

As soon as the two of them heard this, they immediately dispersed their jokes, as for the so-called war exploits were not important to them at all, it was just a joke that their brothers were amusing themselves in.

"Dragon King, do you mean we're going to go on the offensive next?" Wu Ming asked.

Qiao Youhua said: "That's right, according to the report of the cavalry battalion, they defeated the Japanese puppet reinforcements in Hengshui and other places, and at this moment, the strength of the Japanese puppet army in Hengshui and its surrounding counties has been greatly damaged, and we just continue to attack with a big victory, and we can easily recover the above areas!" ”

Ma Biao also put away his smile and said sternly: "But, head, have you thought about it, even if we can fight Hengshui and other places, but we will definitely guide the forces to be too scattered, once the main force of the Japanese puppet army arrives, I am afraid that we will not be able to stop for a while, and then the gains will outweigh the losses, and we will fall into passivity." ”

Qiao Youhua said: "Who told you that we will divide our troops to guard Hengshui and other places after we capture them?" Just attack the city as much as possible, fight the Japanese puppet army, seize their military warehouses, and destroy their military supplies!

Then we can abandon it as we see fit, Hengshui, and even Shimen and other places are only the outer buffer areas of our defense, and we will not have time to manage those areas as firmly as our existing base areas.

Our real line of defense is now these four counties, after capturing Hengshui and other places, we have a lot of room for maneuver, as much as possible to start the battle outside the base area, understand? ”

Ma Biao, Wu Ming and others immediately stepped forward at the same time and said: "Yes!" Humble duty understands! ”

"Ma Biao, you lead the second regiment along the highway to take Jinzhou and Xinji, and after you succeed, you will advance to Hengshui and recover Hengshui City as much as possible! Wu Ming, you led the three regiments to Wuji County, Shenze County, Anping County, Raoyang County, the Japanese puppet army in the above areas is extremely lacking, you try your best to seize the main force of the Japanese puppet army before the main force, recover the county, the more the better! Qiao Youhua paused and said, "Just leave the stone gate to the guard battalion." ”

"Yes!" Ma Biao, Wu Ming, Zhao Youde, and Zhou Dasheng all stepped forward and quickly took the order.

…………

Beiping City, the headquarters of the North China Front of the Japanese invasion of China.

A large number of high-ranking generals of the Japanese puppet army have already left separately and led their troops south to reinforce Shimen, and only Sugiyama Mototo and Kawabe Shozo are left in the conference room of the headquarters.

Of course, there was also a group of combat staff adjutants on standby in the staff operations room next door.

Both of them were anxiously waiting for the battle situation in the direction of Shimen and the progress of reinforcements from various departments, when suddenly a communications staff officer hurriedly ran over from the communication room.

"What's going on? Shimen or other troops have news? Kawabe Shozo asked without waiting for him to report.

The communications staff officer hurriedly saluted: "Sir, I just received a farewell message from the headquarters of the 21st Division in Shimen. ”

"What? Farewell message? Kawabe Shozo and even Sugiyama Mototo, who was sitting behind the desk, changed their faces greatly, and Kawabe Shozo hurriedly asked, "Tell me, what happened?" ”

"The 21st Division was besieged by the elite units of the Shina Army five minutes earlier, and although all the officers and men of the Imperial Army resisted hard, they were finally outnumbered and annihilated.

Senior Adjutant Tadao Nakajima Nakasa led all the personnel of the headquarters to launch a final charge, and all the jade was shattered, and the dispatcher, Second Lieutenant Ogura, also committed suicide after sending this telegram.

So far, the commander of the 21st Division, Sakai Chihei, and more than 10,000 soldiers have all broken their jade, and sacrificed their lives for His Majesty the Emperor, and none of them survived. ”

After listening to this, Kawabe Shozo couldn't help but turn his head to look at the commander Sugiyama Moto, only to see that General Sugiyama Moto's face at the moment was as black and ugly as a dead father.

He turned his head and asked the communications staff officer without giving up: "What about the reinforcements?" Why didn't the Hengshui garrison brigade, which was closest to Shimen, arrive in time for reinforcements? ”

The communications staff officer lowered his head as if walking on thin ice, and said tremblingly: "Returning to the sir, the Hengshui garrison brigade encountered a surprise attack by the Zhina cavalry on the road, and the losses were extremely heavy, and the remnants had already returned to Hengshui, so they were unable to rush to the aid of Shimen!" ”