However, despite the fact that the commander of the 260th Wing, Koichi Hashimoto, ignored the dense firepower that came from the oncoming direction, organized the remaining hundreds of remaining subordinates, plus the division guard unit given by Lieutenant General Yanagawa Shinichi and all the officers of the division headquarters, and adopted the pig assault tactic to attack in turn many times.

But the embankment in front of him, which had been incomplete because no one had maintained it for many years, had become an impenetrable wall in front of the 260th Wing and the 120th Division. And at this time, the long-range artillery deployed in depth by the Anti-United Nations also joined in the fire attack on his dying struggle, which made his counterattack even worse.

The artillery fire on both sides made the remnants of the 260th Wing that launched the assault like a small boat that had been beaten by the wind and waves in the stormy seas, but did not want to sink and was still trying to struggle for its life, and there was almost no way to resist.

In the current situation, not to mention the hands of Koichi Hashimoto at the moment, there are only the remnants of the 260th Wing defeated, plus the guard troops of the division headquarters. Even if his 260 Wing is fully loaded here, I'm afraid he won't be able to withstand this blow of bleeding on both sides at the same time.

The 260 Wing, which lost all its heavy weapons and faced the superior firepower of the Anti-Alliance, had almost no power to fight back, and all its last dying struggles were defeated. Nearly an hour of repeated shocks, but not only failed to open a channel. The 260th Wing, together with the reinforced divisional guards, exhausted the last bit of blood under repeated assaults.

But in the face of the intensive fire of the anti-coalition, as well as the artillery fire in front of and behind him. This decisive offensive tactic of the Japanese army has become an out-and-out death tactic. The Japanese who launched a counterattack were knocked down by shells from both sides and infantry fire from the enemy in front of them.

The three light machine guns, which served as cover for fire, were suppressed and could not even raise their heads. In half an hour, it was completely destroyed. Nearly an hour of fierce fighting, from the embankment on the north bank of the Horse Cheek River to his position. At a distance of more than 700 meters, it was covered with the mutilated corpses of Japanese soldiers. The sound of the wounded can be heard clearly by the headquarters of Yanagawa Shinichi a few hundred meters away.

In the case of heavy casualties but unable to open the situation for a long time, Hashimoto Koichi Sasa, who was red-eyed, personally led the team in the concentration of the last remaining troops and launched the last charge. But it was blown up by a 120-mm mortar shell into a pile of parts that could never be restored.

The last hope of breaking out was in vain, and the shouts of killing that were getting closer and closer behind him, and the large-caliber shells that kept falling on the last remnants of the 260 Wing. It was impossible for Shinichi Yanagawa to break through, and the last moment had come for him and the 120th Division.

By this time, Yanagawa had calmed down. He calmly ordered the officers around him to immediately burn all the military flags. Each flag was given by the emperor and must not fall into the hands of the enemy. As for the ceremony of burning the military flag, there was no time to hold it again, so it was more time-saving to simply burn it down.

As for the radio and signal corps, it was long ago unknown where they had been rushed by this time. On the contrary, it saves the trouble of sending farewell telegrams and destroying radio stations. As for whether the radio station and the communication corps with the code can fall into the hands of the enemy, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Shinichi no longer thinks about it.

The passwords of the 115th Division were all seized, resulting in the complete failure of their own breakthrough operation. Presumably, for the 12th Army and the base camp, which have more lice and no itching, they don't care about losing another 120th division's codebook. Losing one and losing two is no big difference now.

After giving the order to burn the military flag, Yanagawa Shinichi gave the last order to the remaining 100 Japanese officers and soldiers around him to disperse and break through. He thinks that at this point, there is no point in holding on. With such a small remaining force in hand, there is no hope of continuing the attack, and staying here can only wait for death.

While the enemy army has not yet encircled their position, being able to rush out can be regarded as reserving a point of vitality for the empire. The 120th Division is not like the 115th Division, which is intended to be used for garrisoning and maintaining law and order in the occupied areas. The 120th Division was formed to be used as a mobile force.

All the officers, even if they were not trained by Lu Shi, were carefully selected from among the recruits and painstakingly cultivated. There was not a single officer in the division who was mobilized for the second time. Two of the three wing commanders graduated from the Land University, which is quite rare for the Japanese Army, which now has a large number of reserve officers. All the soldiers in the division were young and middle-aged, and not a single one was old, weak, sick or disabled.

At present, the military force has been used to the extreme, and the domestic mobilization force has also been used to the extreme. At present, the newly formed divisions and the supplementary personnel of the active divisions and regiments are filled with a large number of veterans who have been mobilized many times, and it can be said that the Japanese Army, which is old, weak, sick and disabled from the age of 30 or 40 to 17 or 8, is quite rare. These people are all valuable forces at the moment, and one more person is equivalent to weakening the vitality of the empire.

Therefore, at the last moment, Yanagawa Shin immediately issued an order to disperse and break through, but did not give the order for the whole army to fight to the death. Try to use the last opportunity to make these young officers and soldiers, especially officers, stand out as much as possible. In order to maintain the vitality of the Imperial Army in his mind.

These officers beside him were the officers of the division headquarters who were transferred back by him at the critical moment when Koichi Hashimoto was preparing to launch the last charge. And these officers in his division and regimental headquarters are all graduates of the army non-commissioned officer school. Just throwing it all on an already futile charge, Yanagawa Shinichi thought it was too much waste.

These elites of the Imperial Army non-commissioned officer schools, painstakingly cultivated, should give full play to their talents in more important positions. Even if the empire is completely defeated in this war, as long as these young people survive, they will one day grow stronger. Isn't that what Germany did after World War I?

So at the last minute, Shinichi Yanagawa would rather risk the possibility of a complete collapse of morale. These officers were transferred back from Hashimoto Koichi Sasa, and even some of the non-commissioned officers in the 260th Wing. Then the order was given to burn the military flag and disperse and retreat.

After giving these two orders, even the adjutant and orderlies around him drove away, and at this moment Yanagawa Shinichi, who became a real loner. Walked alone to a big tree on the north bank of the Maji River, pulled out the 94-style general saber he was wearing, wiped it slightly, and smashed it into two pieces on the stones beside him.

He also took out the rank and medal watch on his body when he was ambushed by the enemy, in order to avoid revealing his identity as the commander of the division and becoming the first target of attack, and put it back on all the military titles and medals that he took off. He pulled out his gun, stuck into his mouth and pulled the trigger.

He didn't choose the more dignified seppuku of a samurai, because even after the lieutenant was dismissed by him, there was no one to give him advice. That is, in the most painful moment, make up for that knife to let him end the pain early. He didn't want the enemy to rush up and his own people weren't dead. His painful struggle after seppuku was seen by the enemy, which lost his dignity as a lieutenant general of the Imperial Army.

The suicide of Lieutenant General Shinichi Yanagawa actually indicates that the 120th Division, as an established unit of the Japanese army, has completely disintegrated. Although the 261st Wing on the north bank of the Old Road of the Four Girls Temple River, there are few remnants, and they are still struggling desperately. But this ambush battle on the front line of Yan's housework can be said to have roughly ended.

After the battle on the front line of Yan's housework was roughly over, Tao Jingfei left a regiment to clean up the last remaining more than 300 remnants of the enemy on the north bank of the Sinusi River. The main force of the division was ordered to immediately take the spot and plunge behind the remnants of the enemy of the 115th Division to the west. Cooperate with the frontal attacking troops to complete the final settlement of the 115th Division.

The regiment that remained, after completing the liquidation of the remnants of the 261st Wing, crossed the Mache River on the front line of Yan's housework and entered the territory of Wudi to turn to defense, so as to ensure the safety of the entire battlefield east of Texas. And the only target it can defend at the moment is the 48th Division on the Jiaodong Peninsula.

Not only will the regiment be transferred to the defense in Wudi County, but on the Qikou battlefield behind the entire battlefield east of Dezhou, a regiment of the Anti-Japanese Union that has basically ended the final clearing of the remnants of the Ninth Division, and the main force of the Bohai Naval Region will also move south one after another, crossing the Maji River, and making every effort to ensure the smooth progress of the final battle in the entire Jilu border battlefield.

The attack on the battlefield east of Texas was carried out quite smoothly, basically according to Chen Hanzhang's plan. The Du Kaishan armored cluster, which is advancing at a high speed along the south bank of the Maji River from Wudi to Linyi, has also arrived in Su'an, which is close to the Jinpu Railway.

But on the battlefield of the frontal Jinpu Road in Texas, there was a problem at this critical juncture. After the 100th Division was completely annihilated and received the order from Uchiyama Eitaro to cover the retreat alternately, the 65th Division, which had been a lone army in the battlefield west of Texas, immediately quickly shrank back to the Jinpu Road.

It's just that this division made an extremely astonishing move after shrinking along the Jinpu Railway and merging with the 22nd Division of the frontal battlefield in Texas. The two divisions were left west of the Jinpu Road, leaving only one wing of the 22nd Division, plus the 71st Infantry Brigade of the 65th Division, to prepare for defense. In order to guard against Chen Hanzhang's headquarters, cut off the connection between the two divisions on the Jinpu line.

The 72nd Infantry Brigade and 1st Regiment of the 22nd Division were dispatched from the 65th Division to suddenly carry out a large-scale sweep along the entire Dezhou and Jinpu Road south of Dezhou. The goal of this sweep is very clear, not to take the squadron as an opponent, or to capture all the Chinese in the entire control area.

The entire surrounding area of Texas itself is the most densely populated area in northern Lubei. Along the Jinpu Railway, it is itself a large population settlement. The Japanese army's sweeping operation did not need to run far into the depth of the two flanks. Within a radius of more than ten kilometers along the Jinpu Railway, they basically caught the number of people they wanted.

In addition, the goal of the Japanese army's operation this time was not to arrest laborers and local anti-Japanese elements. As long as the Chinese can walk, they are within their range. It doesn't take much effort and effort to identify or differentiate. In addition to the tens of thousands of Chinese people living in the city of Dezhou, in just over a day, these two Japanese divisions controlled more than 100,000 Chinese people.

After capturing more than 100,000 Chinese civilians, the Japanese army drove all these Chinese civilians who were captured by them to the front-line positions of the Japanese army. Around the position of each infantry brigade, thousands of Chinese civilians were arranged. All of a sudden, at the front of the positions of the two armies, there was a cry and harmony everywhere.