Regarding the question of Japanese prisoners of war, Chen Feng has always gone with the flow and adopted the method of turning a blind eye, whether the prisoners of war were executed or left behind by various units, Chen Feng did not respond. If you kill it, you will kill it, and if you don't kill it, you will keep it, anyway, all the mines and forest farms need manpower, and there are really not many people who explicitly ask the troops not to keep prisoners of war like this time.

Soon after the Japanese army withdrew from Tongliao, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Brigades of the Eighth Theater Special Task Force rushed to Tongliao and learned that the Japanese army had withdrawn westward, leaving only one regiment to help the people in the city extinguish the fire, while the others immediately pursued.

On June 9, the 222nd Division finally annihilated the 24th Brigade of the 12th Division of the Japanese Army at the 13th Aobao after paying a certain number of casualties, and then the army moved south to meet the 8th Division of the Japanese Army. The other army also routed the remnants of the Aru Banner and occupied the Aru Banner, and then the army continued eastward towards Kailu County, where the Japanese army was heavily garrisoned.

On the morning of the 10th, 3 special brigades, 3 infantry regiments, 1 tank brigade of the 8th Theater of Operations, plus 1 engineer regiment and 1 baggage regiment surrounded the regiments of Kailu County, and the headquarters of the 12th Division of the Japanese Army, as well as 2 infantry wings, 1 heavy artillery wing, and 1 gendarmerie brigade were besieged in the city.

The Chinese army would not give the Japanese a chance to break through, and after completing the encirclement, the army immediately attacked the city, trying to completely annihilate this elite division of the Japanese army in the shortest possible time. In the direction of the Left Banner of Bahrain, the main force of the Eighth Division of the Japanese Army of nearly 30,000 people was like a rainbow, and it went straight to the small city of the Left Banner of Bahrain.

Although Chen Feng didn't look down on the 12th Division, he was really jealous of the Eighth Division. This division is different from the 12th Division, almost all of the whole army are veterans of a hundred battles, and their combat effectiveness is very strong, and among the 20 permanent divisions of the Japanese army, only the arrogant Fifth Division can compete with it, and even the 1st Guards Division may not be able to defeat them.

After learning that the 12th Division was in danger, the entire 8th Division marched in a hurry to catch up with the Left Banner of Bahrain. Even so, it was too late, and when they arrived at the Left Banner of Bahrain, the Kwantung Army Headquarters called to say that they had received a farewell message from Major General Suzuki, and that they had lost contact with Suzuki's headquarters at this time. The headquarters judged that Suzuki's department was probably more than lucky.

But the route of the march of the 8th Division remained unchanged. still went straight to the left banner of Bahrain, because tens of thousands of troops were stationed here, and only by containing this large army could the 12th Division have the possibility of breaking through.

On the afternoon of the 10th. Admiral Ueda sent 150 fighters from the Kwantung Army Aviation to reinforce Kailu. And ordered the Japanese troops in Kailu County to break through under the opening of the air force.

However. This plan was soon bankrupt, as the two aviation regiments of the 8th Theater also quickly arrived on the battlefield and engaged in a fierce air game with the Japanese air forces. Chen Feng's unit was shot down 47 fighters and 64 pilots were lost. The Japanese also suffered heavy losses, 44 fighters were shot down, 81 pilots were killed, and the two sides could barely be considered a draw.

By June 13, the fortifications of Kailu County had all collapsed, and if it weren't for the Japanese army's flight units reinforcing Kailu at all costs in the past few days, I am afraid that Chen Feng's troops would have captured this small city by now. Despite this, the Japanese puppet army defending the city also suffered heavy losses, with more than half of the two infantry wings already suffering casualties, and the artillery wing also suffered a lot of losses. In order to prevent the 12th Division from being encircled and annihilated, the Kwantung Army Headquarters immediately dispatched two divisions and one brigade, plus more than 30,000 national defense troops from the puppet Manchukuo to Kailu for reinforcements.

However, such a large support army was blocked by the special task force 4th Brigade outside Shuangliao City, and it was not allowed to advance an inch, and the anxious General Ueda had most of his hair gray overnight. Despite this, the position of the Chinese army remained rock solid, and even the tens of thousands of Japanese troops could not make it take half a step back despite repeated sieges.

They did not expect that the Chinese army in Bahrain Left Banner would be more than 60,000 people, and more than 30,000 Japanese troops took the initiative to attack at first, but at this time they could only be beaten passively, and it was very difficult to withdraw, because they were dealing with a highly mechanized army, and if they left their current positions, they were afraid that the army would be killed by all the people on the road. Therefore, the 8th Division can only hold on to the death until the arrival of Japanese reinforcements.

On June 15th, the puppet Mongolian army in the encirclement was the first to hold on, more than 2,000 puppet troops who were unwilling to be cannon fodder suddenly mutinied, they opened the west gate of Kailu County, ready to welcome the troops of the eighth theater into the city, although they were discovered and stopped by the Japanese army, but more than 2,000 puppet troops successfully withdrew from Kailu County, which caused a great shock to the Japanese puppet army.

In order to prevent similar things from happening, the Japanese army seized the remaining weapons of more than 2,000 puppet troops and controlled the top cadres of the puppet Mongolian army. At this time, the Japanese army in the city was less than 4,000, excluding thousands of wounded soldiers and hundreds of soldiers guarding the puppet army, the real fighting force was less than 2,500 people, and the Chinese army outside the city was more than 60,000 people.

On the 17th, the headquarters of the 12th Division was bombed by the Northern Air Force, Lieutenant General Uemura was seriously wounded, and a large number of senior Japanese commanders were killed. At this point, the Japanese defense line, which had been held out for nine days, finally collapsed. In the evening, the troops of the 8th Theater entered the city of Kailu under the opening of the armored forces, and the remaining less than 1,500 Japanese troops engaged in fierce street battles with the army, and it was not until the early morning of the next day that the remnants of the city were cleared.

According to post-war statistics, the army carried out a total of 10,478 Japanese corpses and 2,123 puppet army corpses from Kailu City, and 1,897 puppet soldiers revolted on the battlefield. The Eighth Theater of the Kailu Offensive also lost nearly 4,000 people, of which more than 2,000 were killed, and these 2,000 were mainly killed in last night's street fighting.

The 12th Division was surrounded and annihilated, and Lieutenant General Uemura was killed, which completely shocked the top of the Kwantung Army and the Red Army in the Far East. The terrifying combat effectiveness displayed by Chen Feng's department shocked everyone, how long has it been, a complete Japanese reinforced division and more than 40,000 puppet troops have been easily wiped out, how can this make them calm.

After the 12th Division was encircled and annihilated, the Japanese army soon realized that the situation of the 8th Division was already very bad at this time, so General Ueda sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Yamada Otozo on the Shuangliao Front, asking him to break through the Chinese position on the Shuangliao Front at all costs, otherwise all officers above the rank of major general should be seppuku to thank His Majesty the Emperor.

When the news of the 12th Division being encircled and annihilated, there was another person who was not calm, and this person was the commander of the Japanese North China Front, Binshan Yuan. As a qualified commander, Binshan Yuan is keenly aware of a fatal problem. With the fall of the 12th Division, the 8th Division would be unable to support itself and would soon be withdrawn, and then the Chinese army would soon occupy the eastern steppe. After the last, the Chinese people will definitely take advantage of the situation to move south, and together with the Zhina army on the front line of Xiaofenghuang Mountain, they will attack the 14th Division in Rehe and the eastern Hebei region.

Although the combat effectiveness of the 14th Division is not weak, and it is assisted by the mixed 5th Brigade and a large number of Imperial Cooperative Army, it is not necessarily much stronger than the 12th Division, and it is likely to follow in the footsteps of the 12th Division under the siege of two or even more Chinese armies. General Binshan Yuan, who had a heavy sense of crisis, did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the 14th Division, which was preparing to go north, to stop its operations, and then urgently shrink its forces.

Just in case, Binshan Yuan ordered the First Army to immediately stop the offensive, and the troops held on to the territory they had gained and digested the occupied areas. The 32nd Division, the 6th Brigade, and the 10th Brigade immediately went north to Beiping, and reconnaissance planes were frequently dispatched to prevent the Chinese troops on the front line of Little Phoenix Mountain from making any moves.

With the strong order of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, Yamada Otozo and the others were not calm, and if they did not defeat the Shina army in front, they would all have to die. Enraged, Yamada Otozo immediately convened a military meeting of the commander and above, ordered the army to attack the Shina army in the castle overnight, and also formed a death squad.

In the eyes of the officers and men of the 4th Brigade of the Special Task Force, the Japanese army was simply crazy, rushing to their position like an unbeatable little strong, and immediately after one repulsion, the Japanese army would organize a new attack, and as soon as they killed a stubble, more Japanese troops would rush up, like locusts.

Such a frantic attack continued until dawn, and the positions of the 4th Brigade of the Special Task Force were full of corpses of Japanese puppet soldiers, piled up like mountains, and the land outside the city was stained red with blood, and the small streams formed by the blood and water slowly flowed into the distance.

The Japanese army suffered heavy losses, and the 4th Brigade of the Special Task Force was not having a good time, less than 4,000 of the more than 8,000 officers and men could move now, and there were still more than 1,000 wounded among the remaining 4,000 people, and even the brigade commander Xu Dazhuang was seriously wounded. More importantly, the fortifications of Shuangliao City had all been destroyed by the heavy artillery fire of the Japanese army, and the outlying positions had almost been lost.

Li Yifeng didn't expect the Japanese army to be so crazy, and hurriedly ordered the 4th Brigade of the Special Task Force to withdraw quickly, and at the same time sent an aviation regiment to the Shuangliao front line to cover the retreat of Xu Dazhuang's headquarters.

The 4th Brigade of the Special Task Force withdrew very suddenly and quickly, and even the bodies of most of the martyrs who died were not taken away, but only hastily buried in place. Originally, Yamada Otozo wanted to order the troops to pursue, but looking at the exhausted Japanese troops and the Chinese fighters that were constantly circling and bombing in the sky, Yamada Otozo had no choice but to give up and let the 4th Special Task Force leave.

The 8th Division of the Japanese Army also knew how dangerous its situation was, and when he saw the unhurried attack of the opposing Chinese army, Lieutenant General Tsukada was anxious. He was much stronger than Lieutenant General Uemura, who had never fought much, and the army of Zhilu Daochina was pestering them at this time in order to better eliminate them in the future.

For this reason, after urgent consultations, the headquarters of the Eighth Division decided to send an infantry brigade and a puppet infantry division to stay behind, and the main force of the division headquarters immediately went south and returned to Chifeng.

Tsukada's decision to attack the strong man's broken wrist finally saved the entire Eighth Division, although the troops who arrived later wiped out all the Japanese puppet troops left behind, but the main force of the Eighth Division had withdrawn far away and could not catch up, which made Li Yifeng extremely angry. (To be continued......)