Fukuoka Castle, southwest of the city.

Otewa Jiro's headquarters is located here, according to his deployment, his headquarters was close to the southeast city before, where he could retreat to the northeast at any time, all the way to Honshu Island, but yesterday part of the Chinese army bypassed the city and attacked in the northeast direction, cutting off his retreat to Honshu Island, that is to say, he and his troops could only be trapped on Kyushu Island, so he had to move his headquarters to the southwest city. Here, his soldiers also occupied the passage to Sasebo and Kumamoto, which was also the only way for him and his army to survive, although many people already had the intention of dying, but who would want to die if they could live?

This is a temple, and the headquarters of Daiwa Jiro is located in this temple, and with the current bombing capacity of the Chinese Air Force, there are basically no buildings in Japan that can withstand the bombing of the Chinese Air Force, and in Fukuoka, a city near the sea, there is no large basement, because it is close to the coast, and the basement is easy to be flooded and damp.

If there is no special reason, Iiwa Jiro believes that the air force of China will not bomb religious buildings such as temples, after all, this temple has been around for some years, and it can be regarded as an ancient building, with some historical and cultural value.

In one of the main halls of this temple, Jiro Oniwa held a military meeting here, and the atmosphere of the meeting was somewhat solemn, and the people who attended the meeting were basically high-ranking officers at the level of captain and above, including Honjo Shigeru, Matsui Ishone, Terauchi Shouichi, Sugiyama Moto, and others, who were notorious in future history. There were a number of other high-ranking officers, but none of them were as notorious as them in the future. At this time, Shigeru Honjo was the co-captain. Matsui Ishine, Terauchi Shouichi, Sugiyama Moto, and others are all team captains.

Sugiyama Moto, a native of Fukuoka, set up defenses in Fukuoka Castle this time. The deployment of troops was completed with the assistance of Sugiyama Moto, because he was a local and was familiar with the building structure, traffic conditions, and terrain in the city, so with his assistance, Daiwa Jiro was able to complete the deployment of defensive measures in this way.

For a quarter of an hour after the meeting began, the hall was silent, no one spoke, and the face of the court was very bad, which was all due to the erosion of the battle situation. It was not because the Chinese army had invaded the city, but because the Chinese army had cut off his retreat to Honshu Island, and the casualties of the Chinese army in the city yesterday made him happy for a long time, after all, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army was obvious to all, even in that kind of extremely heavy casualties and extremely unfavorable situation, the Chinese army was able to stabilize its position and launch a counterattack, and finally occupied those three blocks, although the casualties were very large. Judging from the overall situation of the war, the Chinese army is still in a favorable situation.

Finally, Erro Otewa spoke, "Everyone. As you already know, the road to Honshu Island to the northeast has been cut off by the Chinese army, and it is basically impossible for us to reopen this passage, that is. Even if we were to retreat, we would have to retreat to the southwest. Retreat to Sasebo and Kumamoto. However, an hour ago. Call from the base camp, let's defend to the end, there is no order to retreat, no one is allowed to retreat a step! ”

In the past, as long as the Chinese were called, the Japanese officers were all called the Chinese people, which was a very insulting title with contempt, contempt, and contempt for the Japanese people, but now the Japanese people use the "Chinese army, the Chinese people" to call it, which can only show one thing, the Chinese country has become strong, so strong that the Japanese have begun to admit this in their hearts.

After the words of Jiro Otewa, the officers sitting on the left and right sides began to discuss, and one of them, Matsui Ishine, stood up and said loudly: "Your Excellency Commander, since it is an order from the base camp, I, Matsui Ishine, will never take a step back, I will be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, if I and my soldiers take a step back, please cut off my head, Your Excellency the Commander!" ”

"Me too!" Shigeru Honjo also stood up and said.

"Die or retreat! Every inch of land counts! Loyal to His Majesty the Emperor! Terauchi Shouyi, Sugiyama Moto, and other officers also stood up and yelled.

Listening to the officers' words, Daiwa Jiro's facial muscles kept shaking, but at this time, he was already scolding in his heart. Japan's top leaders have always fooled grassroots officers, soldiers and people to be loyal to the emperor, kill themselves, and carry forward the bushido spirit of not being afraid of death, and use the loyalty of these people to maintain their rule, but Japan's high-level officials and generals know very well in their hearts that these are just tricks to fool low-level officers, soldiers and the people, if it is their turn to die, they do not want to die, from the surrender of Japan in World War II, it can be seen that as long as the Japanese generals above the rank of major general, basically there is no seppuku suicide, Only those low-ranking officers and soldiers would do such stupid things, they have been completely brainwashed.

Although Daiwa Erlang scolded fiercely in his heart, he had to show a relieved expression on his face, he nodded and pretended to be satisfied: "Well, Yo Xi, your loyalty to the Great Japanese Empire and His Majesty the Emperor, this commander is very pleased, since the base camp has come to order, we will fight to the death, yesterday's battle, we lost three blocks, and the thousand heroic warriors deployed there were all shattered, this commander is quite heartbroken, but they died well, their death is not worthless, They have at least half a battalion of the Chinese army, everyone, this is a remarkable achievement, what does this mean? It shows that our previous defense deployment is correct, but this is not enough, we can't defend passively, we have an absolute advantage in the city, we are familiar with the terrain and any buildings here, but the Chinese army is not familiar with it, we can't wait for the Chinese army to clear us one by one, so we must fight against the Chinese army! ”

In another time and space during the Second World War in the Battle of Taierzhuang, both sides fought extremely fiercely, although in this battle, the casualties of both sides could not be compared with the casualties of other European battlefields, but the Battle of Taierzhuang was one of the most tragic street battles, because both sides pursued offensive tactics, not giving up a single step, fighting for every inch of land. There are very few high-rise buildings in Taierzhuang City, and the streets and alleys are dense, some are interconnected, and some are dead ends, and controlling the main streets cannot quickly determine the direction of the war. In addition, Taierzhuang does not have the same developed subway and water supply and drainage pipe network systems as large European cities, and it is difficult to dig tunnels in a hurry during the battle. The main area where the street fighting took place between the two sides was in an irregular inverted convex shape, with a length of no more than 600 meters from north to south, a width of about 350 meters from east to west, and the narrowest point was only more than 100 meters, and the area of the theater was only 1.2 square kilometers. In such a narrow area, the Chinese and Japanese armies were often separated by a wall. In order to fight for a house, both sides have to suffer dozens of casualties, and in order to occupy an alley, it is possible to take one or two companies, or even one or two battalions, to fight to the death. Chi Fengcheng, commander of the 31st Division, once described the street battle in Taierzhuang as follows: "At the beginning of the battle, the enemy attacked with all his strength, and I resisted with all my strength. Encircled everywhere, cut off at every turn, small encirclement in the large encirclement, vertical truncation in the horizontal cut, and heroic sacrifice in hand-to-hand combat", which shows the tragic Cheng dù of the battle situation.

Honjo asked, "Your Excellency, how do we fight against the Chinese army?" ”

"When the Chinese army is attacking and cleaning up the forces we have deployed in various urban areas, our soldiers cannot sit idly by, except that if they occupy the troops that we deployed in a block, we also have to take back a block, only by doing so, we can have enough space to fight, if we are not compressed by the Chinese army, then we will be more and more disadvantaged, we can only ensure that we have enough control of the urban area to deal with the Chinese army, Fukuoka Castle is not big, Now that we have 14,000 men on our hands, I have decided to use half of our forces as a mobile counterattack force, and the rest of our forces will be deployed in their respective defensive areas. ”

"Hey!" Everyone stood up and answered with a loud voice.

At this time, Matsui Shigen spoke up: "Commander, you agree with your tactics very much, but if you want to realize your tactics, you must prepare a large number of weapons and ammunition, but our reserves of weapons and ammunition are insufficient, and even the ammunition for arranging defense is insufficient, so where can we get the extra ammunition to fight against the Chinese army?" ”

Hearing this, a trace of anger flashed on his face, this Matsui Ishine was unruly, and repeatedly questioned his orders at military meetings, which made him very angry, he stared at Matsui Ishine for a few seconds and said coldly: "The battle within the city is not a field battle, the distance between the soldiers on both sides is not more than fifty meters at most, and beyond this distance, it will be blocked by buildings, fifty meters away, if you sprint fast, it only takes six or seven seconds, and at this distance there are street lights, eaves, stone pillars and other bunkers that can be used to hide, And six or seven seconds of time, counting the time of unloading the shell, reloading and seconds, a soldier can only fire three shots at most, and hit a high-speed moving target, a soldier's hit rate of more than three achievements is already very high, among these three shots, many soldiers can not hit a shot, that is to say, sprint to the Chinese army fifty meters away, the probability of being hit on the spot is very small, our soldiers can completely rush over and start a white-knuckle battle with the Chinese army, all soldiers are issued a bayonet, the battle is on the rifle, if the Chinese army is killed, Do you understand that they have taken their weapons and ammunition for my use? (To be continued......)