Volume 3 Step by Step Chapter 336 Burning the Flag

On the flat field, the officers and men of the 1st Brigade of the New 2nd Division closely pursued the Japanese army, but all the devils who stayed behind to organize the resistance were beaten into a sieve.

It didn't take long for the Japanese heavy machine gun positions and infantry artillery positions to reach the front line to be easily taken, and the officers and men continued to chase the Japanese ass through the overturned artillery.

Seeing his own troops retreating like ducks through the binoculars, the new commander of the 66th Wing, Saburo Izawa, who was on the Japanese position west of Guangchen Town, couldn't believe his eyes - since the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese army has always defeated the strong with the weak, how could it be possible that the formed troops were chased by the Chinese army and fled for their lives with open feet?

"Yaga"

Although it was unbelievable to the scene in front of him, Saburo Izawa was a commander who had been promoted from the first rank of Juncao, and he had extremely rich combat experience, so he quickly responded and called in the first captain of the 120th Wing of the Field Artillery, Ada, Yifeng Shaozuo, who was assigned to the battle, and gave him a face-to-face lecture:

"Immediately bomb the junction of the two armies, and we must intercept the charging Chinese army"

Looking at the crowd in the distance, Anda Shaozuo had his own concerns: "Jing Zejun, if you open fire rashly, you will hit our own soldiers."

Izawa Saburo glared, his forehead was bruised, and he jumped up and shouted angrily at Anda Shaozuo: "I'll let you fire, you obey the order, I'm the commander, and I'll be responsible if something goes wrong...... Shoot now"

"Hay—"

There was really no way, Captain Anda had to bow, then rushed back to the artillery position, and immediately ordered the surveyors to climb the privet tree on the side of the artillery position to observe and provide the shelling parameters.

Shielding himself from the sunlight with one hand, the surveyor blinked his eyes and silently calculated in his heart, but the Japanese soldiers who retreated in front and the officers and men of the New Second Division who were pursuing behind ran very fast, blowing across the battlefield like a strong wind, and it was difficult to come up with accurate data.

After obtaining the parameters of the shelling, Anda Shaozo gave the order to open fire on the artillery under his command. Although the artillerymen strictly carried out, their faces were still full of gloom, and they were clearly dissatisfied with the shelling of their own people.

"Knock-"

A dense burst of shells exploded at the junction of the New Second Division and the Japanese army, and the two armies fled and chased after each other, and there was no way to dodge at all, and the splattered shrapnel flew freely, flesh and blood flew sideways, and stumps and broken arms were scattered everywhere.

Han Tiecheng and Fan Daoquan didn't care about the casualties of the troops at this time, as the so-called narrow road meets the brave wins, and they can only fight with the little devil

"Rush up and stick to the devil," Han Tiecheng yelled at the throat.

"Kill little Japan, kill" Fan Daoquan raised his gun and shouted.

The two of them, with their respective guards and messengers, rushed into the area where the fireballs were constantly exploding, and soon crossed the line of fire and continued to chase the devil's ass and beat him.

Encouraged by the two regiment commanders, the officers and men jumped into the fire without hesitation. Although the shells fired by the Japanese artillery continued to explode around them, there was not a single wail, and not a single soldier stopped advancing. They have only one goal, to beat the little devil in front of them fiercely.

No matter which nationality it is, it is soft and afraid of hard, hard and horizontal, and horizontal and desperate. At this time, the officers and men of the new Second Division had long put life and death aside, what else could make them stop moving forward?

The Chinese army's fierce performance of not fearing death made the Japanese rout, who thought they could take a breath, even more frightened, and they all wanted to grow two more legs.

Saburo Izawa was dumbfounded, and the officers and men of the New Second Division crossed the fire blockade line regardless of casualties and drove their own troops to the starting position, directly threatening the safety of the wing headquarters and artillery positions.

Saburo Izawa, with several staff officers, rushed to the artillery position and shouted: "Open fire, suppress the Chinese army, stop them from charging"

The rout was already less than a kilometer away from the artillery position, and the range was so close that the field artillery gradually lost its effectiveness, but the commander's order could not be disobeyed, and Anda Shaozo had to constantly adjust the shelling parameters, but the shelling effect was not good, and most of the shells fired were useless.

The officers and men of the pursuing New Second Division had already begun to pay attention to reducing the strafing of those Japanese soldiers who had retreated, on the one hand, to save bullets, and on the other hand, to give full play to their role by being such a cheap human flesh shield. Of course, for those devils who turned around and resisted, they were still killed mercilessly

In a short period of time, the chaotic formation was already four or five hundred meters away from the Japanese defense line, the field artillery was completely useless, and the captain of the Anda Brigade anxiously asked to transfer the position, but at this time Saburo Izawa could no longer take care of him, and rushed to the heavy machine gun position that had just been organized with people, shouting: "Prepare to shoot"

There were only two heavy machine guns on this temporary position, and the machine gunners said that because the surrounding terrain was too flat, it was easy to mistakenly injure the soldiers if they fired flat, and they did not dare to shoot casually. At the urging of Saburo Izawa, the machine gunners had no choice but to use a few ammunition boxes to raise the ground, and then hurriedly put the heavy machine guns on the rack, and also put a few boxes under their feet, and fired fiercely at the rear of the chaotic team that was rushing towards the black press.

The sound of "da-da" sounded happily, and the officers and men of the New Second Division, who had fallen behind, were hit a lot, and their eyes widened unwillingly, and they fell on the way to the charge.

The situation became more and more chaotic, and the fleeing Japanese troops and the officers and men of the pursuing New Second Division were mixed together, presenting a dog-tooth intertwined posture, rushing towards the starting position of the Japanese army like a marathon.

Looking at the black pressure on a large group of people, all as far as the eye could see were dense heads, and he couldn't tell which was the Japanese soldiers and which were the men and horses of the new Second Division, Izawa Saburo had a headache for a while.

The two heavy machine guns quickly fell silent, and although they could see far away from standing tall, they were also easy to become live targets, and there were quite a few sharpshooters in the 1st Brigade of the New 2nd Division, and at such a close distance, the Japanese machine gunners kept falling, and because the heavy machine guns were not placed steadily, they were quickly silenced after being crushed by the dead.

As the crowd of the brigade got closer and closer to the starting position, the artillerymen were colorless, unconsciously moved their steps, turned around and ran - by this time, they could no longer care about their beloved artillery

Saburo Izawa finally understood an old saying of the Chinese: defeat is like a mountain

The three brigades under the jurisdiction of the wing had all been dispatched, and although there were still two squadrons in reserve, he really couldn't think of any way to deal with such a chaotic situation......

Saburo Izawa turned his head and glanced at the wing flag flying high, only the flagpole and the gilded crown were intact on the entire flag, the flag was in tatters, and there were traces of fireworks burning in many places. However, the more tattered the flag of the Japanese army, the more it proves the courage and tenacity of the wing, and in the past, every officer and soldier of the 66th Wing was proud to have such a tattered military flag.

Since the flag of the 150th Wing was captured by Wu Ming's new Second Division, Yanagawa Heisuke has repeatedly demanded that each wing must properly keep its own flag and burn it immediately if the situation is not good.

The military cao holding the flag of the wing looked at his commander, the question in his eyes was particularly obvious, and he couldn't help but grasp the military flag in his hand.

"Burn the flag quickly-"

Saburo Izawa yelled at Juncao.

The situation where the flag of the wing was captured by the Chinese army must not appear in the 66th wing, and now that the defeat is decided, Saburo Izawa has no choice but to burn the flag.

"Captain—"

Jun Cao's hand holding the military flag trembled, and he was reluctant to burn it. This tattered military flag bears the honor of generations of officers and men of the 66th Wing. This is a military flag issued by Emperor Meiji himself, who participated in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, and witnessed all the honors of the 66th Wing since its establishment, but now it is going to be burned, so how can the military Cao give up?

Looking back at the chaotic crowd that was only more than two hundred meters away from the starting position, Saburo Izawa couldn't wait any longer, and sternly ordered: "Burn the flag Yongfang Jiro, do you want the flag of our 66th Wing to fall into the hands of the Chinese army?" ”

It has always been the best soldiers who guard the military flag, and Nagayoshijiro is the most powerful soldier in the 66th Wing, and once won the third place in the national karate competition in Japan, so he was selected by the previous commander Tsuneta Yamada to serve as the flag guard.

Guarding the military flag is the responsibility of Eiyoshijiro, and it is also the spiritual pillar of Eiyoshijiro. But now listening to what Saburo Izawa said, and remembering the encounter of the 150th Wing canceling the number forever, Nagayoshijiro couldn't stop trembling, and hatefully thrust the military flag on the ground, don't look around, the devil soldiers behind immediately stepped forward with flamethrowers, and soon the wing flag was blazing, and the Japanese officers and soldiers around were all crying bitterly.

Without waiting for these devils to grieve for long, the chaotic crowd rushed to the starting position of the Japanese army, and several staff officers and devil soldiers guarding the flag of the wing ran to the rear with Saburo Izawa in their arms.

Seeing that the Japanese defense line was completely broken, Han Tiecheng and Fan Daoquan quickly ordered the officers and soldiers to stop saving bullets and splash bullets on the devils around them, and the melee advantages of submachine guns and light machine guns were suddenly brought into full play

The new 2nd Division was full of firepower, and the bullets poured down on the Japanese army as if they didn't want money, and a large number of devils fell to the ground in pieces before they could react.

The more the Japanese army collapsed, the more fierce the offensive of the new 2nd Division became, and the Japanese army tried to stop and organize a counterattack several times, but it was unsuccessful.

Under the flanking attack of the two regiments of Han Tiecheng and Fan Daoquan, in what was originally a simple pursuit battle, the officers and men of the New Second Division splashed ink as if they had completed the most beautiful picture, and wherever the pen went, the Japanese soldiers either fled for their lives or were swept away by the bullets of submachine guns and became cold corpses.

Standing on a small mound northwest of Xincang Town, four kilometers away from the battlefield, Shigeji Suematsu, who was supervising the battle, witnessed the rout of the 66th Wing on the front line, and was so angry that his teeth were about to be crushed, he put down the binoculars, and punched the big tree next to him with hatred, after putting it down, there was a little blood on the surface of the bark, his eyes turned his head with fire, and he hummed a sentence between his teeth: "Yaga"

There was no longer contempt in Shigeharu Suematsu's eyes.

The speed of the Chinese army's advance, the swift response of the commanders, and the high tactical literacy of the officers and men made him feel like the main division of the Japanese army fighting.

Without the help of aircraft and fleet artillery, he was really worried that his division was no match for the Chinese army on the opposite side. It was only at this time that Shigeharu Suematsu understood Yanagawa Heisuke's caution, and Wu Ming and the new second division were indeed extremely difficult opponents.

Akiyama Mitsuzaburo's face was pale, the 66th Wing was under his command, and in the face of such a rout, he was powerless, and he was full of anger and had no way to vent his anger.

In the past, under the suppression of the powerful artillery fire of the Japanese army, even the German armor division built by the Nanjing Nationalist Government, which was known for its bravery, could not hold out for long, and never let the Japanese army suffer much losses, but now it was beaten like shit by the new second division, which really could not help but make Akiyama Mitsuzaburo feel ashamed.