Less than 20 minutes after the Qing army gave the order to retreat, terrifying gunfire was heard outside the northern city. When the Qing soldiers heard the gunshots, they were immediately in a panic, and the order to retreat had been issued, and they couldn't take it at all. As the gunfire became more and more intense, the Qing soldiers fled in a crowd towards the west gate. At this time, the Japanese army had just left the city, and its forward troops encountered the 10th and 12th divisions of the Northern Expeditionary Army 2 kilometers north of the city, and an encounter was staged in an instant.

Frankly speaking, the quality of soldiers and combat skills of the Japanese troops were stronger than those of the Qing army, and the response was also very fast. When the two armies encountered, the Japanese soldiers formed a skirmish line and launched an attack, trying to make a bloody way. However, under the dense rain of bullets and grenades of the Northern Expeditionary Army, they quickly left a piece of corpse and retreated. "Report to the division commander, the Japanese army is about to escape, and it has encountered our forward troops, and the Japanese army has left Suizhou City."

“haha！ God help me, order the troops to attack slowly, be sure to tighten your pockets and never let the Japanese escape! The commander of the 10th Division was in good spirits, and then sent a flying horse to report to Li Tianxiang. The explosion of gunfire and grenades became even more deafening, and the fierce fighting intensified. At this time, the Qing army that fled from the West City Gate was also intercepted by the 12th Division. Due to the chaos, the Qing army was leaderless, some continued to flee outward, and some retreated into the city, which caused even greater chaos.

When gunfire rang out in the north of the city, the 4th Division was deploying its forces. And the 8th Division, including the headquarters led by Li Tianxiang, is still behind. "What's going on, Chengbei weishenme shooting?" The commander of the 4th Division was taken aback when he heard the gunshots, and his subordinates did not know the truth. At this time, a liaison officer hurriedly ran into the temporary division headquarters. "Report to the division commander, the forward troops observe the post, and suddenly there are no Qing soldiers on the city wall, and the situation is unknown."

There was a dense burst of gunfire from the west of the city, "It's not good, the enemy is going to flee." The deputy commander is still behind, what should the division commander do? "An operational staff officer is anxious." There was no time to report, so the 10th Brigade was ordered to attack, the 11th Brigade was ordered to outflank the east gate, and the 12th Brigade was ordered to outflank the west gate. Then he sent someone to report to Li Tianxiang quickly. Such a chaotic situation was not expected by the Northern Expeditionary Army, and likewise by the enemy.

The forward troops suddenly encountered the Northern Expeditionary Army, and then they were beaten in a hurry. Commander Watanabe Kawao was taken aback, this guy was quite calm. Immediately ordered the forward troops to attack again. Half an hour later, however, the charge was repulsed. At this time, the Japanese troops set up their artillery and carried out artillery support to launch another fierce attack. Under artillery bombardment, the Japanese formed death squads. The Japanese death squad rushed up shirtless, with a white cloth wrapped around their heads, and howled.

Due to the artillery support of the Japanese army, the Japanese death squad bravely rushed forward regardless of life and death, and hand-to-hand combat immediately broke out. The assassination of Jishu in small Japan during this period was not good at all, and the Northern Expeditionary Army was significantly stronger than the Japanese soldiers after rigorous training. Accompanied by the bloody killing, the Japanese soldiers began to chill. But at this moment, the heartbroken Japanese army suddenly shelled, not caring about the life and death of their own soldiers, and the soldiers on both sides who were fighting hand-to-hand fell one after another in the artillery fire.

"Fuck, little Japan is simply not human, it's a bastard." The commander of the 10th division scolded his mother angrily when he saw this scene. Even so, the Japanese charge was repulsed. After the commander Watanabe Kawao launched several fierce attacks, he believed that the frontal Northern Expeditionary Army had heavy troops, and immediately sent two brigades to the east to attack, but they were also blocked. It is not possible to go east, and even less to the west, because the dense gunfire from the west should prove that the fleeing Qing army is being killed. Watanabe Kawao finally understood that he was being surrounded.

Watanabe Kawao fought and retreated, retreating into the city again. At this time, the battle in the city was in full swing, and the 10th Brigade of the 4th Division had already entered the south gate and was fighting a fierce battle with the Qing army that had retreated into the city. Seeing this situation, Watanabe Kawa had no choice but to consolidate his existing position. And in an area of the north gate of the city, an area outside the north gate of the city to build a temporary position to resist stubbornly. Especially when he saw that the Northern Expeditionary Army was fighting more and more, he knew that he would not be able to escape at all.

Around noon, the eastern city was occupied, and the whole situation gradually became clear. When the Qing army was in chaos, half of the Qing army left the city, and half of the Qing army retreated into the city. The 5,000 Qing troops who left the city were wiped out by noon, and most of them became prisoners to be exact. At present, the Qing army in the city has 3,000 people under the leadership of the general army to defend the west city gate, and in addition to the Japanese army occupying an area outside the north city gate, the inside of the north city gate has also become a temporary shelter for the Japanese army.

The 8th Division, which arrived later, quickly launched its troops into battle, and Deputy Commander Li Tianxiang led the headquarters and the 2nd Artillery Brigade to Suizhou City. After a general understanding of the situation, Li Tianxiang ordered the immediate deployment of artillery positions and the preparation of a general offensive order. Suddenly, he remembered a detail reported by the commander of the 4th Division, which attracted his attention. The commander of the 4th Division had just reported that the 10th Brigade had launched a tentative attack on the Japanese positions in the city an hour earlier.

The Japanese soldiers were not only stubborn in defense, but also at all costs, they had their soldiers strapped explosives to their bodies, launched a suicidal counterattack, causing heavy casualties to the troops, so they had ordered to stop the attack. Li Tianxiang hesitated for a while and said, "It seems that the headquarters has already had Yujian, and it is really difficult to deal with small Japan." Ordered a temporary halt to the attack on all fronts. Immediately sent a letter to the Qing army commander who was guarding the west gate, ordering him to surrender. ”

The gunfire began to thin out, and soon the battlefield fell silent for a while. In a courtyard a stone's throw away from the West City Gate, the chief soldier was in a cape and frightened. In just one morning, two-thirds of his men went, and the Northern Expeditionary Army was terrible. The gunfire outside suddenly stopped, and everyone couldn't help but look out. "Report to your lord, the Northern Expeditionary Army suddenly stopped attacking! The reason is unknown! A subordinate came in in dusty to report.

"My lord, when the Northern Expeditionary Army stops attacking, it must wait for artillery, and then launch a general attack on the whole front!" "My lord! We have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth! Thinking about it for a while, we all have to die without a place to be buried! "My lord, where to go, let's get an idea!" The subordinates have spoken one after another, and the meaning is very clear. "Report to your lord, a letter from the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expeditionary Army." The letter roughly means that the Northern Expeditionary Army attacked Suizhou this time, and the target was Little Japan, and your department was hit by the muzzle. At present, your unit is surrounded by regiments in a small area, and in line with the principle of reducing killings and Chinese not fighting Chinese, I advise him to rein in the precipice and abandon the darkness and turn to the light.

There is no way out, and it is impossible to see the willows and flowers. There is no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the ground, and all the subordinates have lost their will to fight, and the chief soldier reluctantly orders to surrender. The troops quickly occupied the western gate, and the Japanese defensive area was compressed. In the headquarters outside the city, Li Tianxiang said to the generals: "The Qing army surrendered, we can let go of our hands and feet to deal with the Japanese army, and now the Japanese army has become a trapped beast, and the artillery bombardment will first knock out his artillery position after an hour, and then slowly clean him up." In order to avoid large casualties, let's take a closer look to see if there is a better way to avoid excessive casualties and eat this group of Japanese monkeys cleanly.

The cannon roared, and in the Japanese headquarters, Watanabe Kawao was like a trapped beast. "Your Excellency General, the artillery position has been destroyed by the heavy artillery fire of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and it is obvious that the other side is going to launch a general attack." A stocky subordinate came in with a disheveled coat to report. At this time, Watanabe Kawao held the command knife in both hands, and said with a hideous face: "For the dignity of Emperor Bixia, for the dignity of Great Japan, take out your bushido spirit and fight to the death, and tell all the officers and soldiers that the time has come!" ”

Without Watanabe Kawao giving orders, the officers of the headquarters burned documents, flags, and other things related to military secrets. In the eyes of these Japanese soldiers, the Japanese bushido is extremely sacred and must not be spiritually defeated. However, after the heavy shelling stopped, the Northern Expeditionary Army did not attack. The Japanese officers and soldiers nervously waited, and the torture was unbearable. The suffocating wait, until dusk, dark, and another dawn.

“haha！ I'm afraid that this night in Little Japan will be like a year," Li Tianxiang was full of energy. "Deputy Commander, this torture is too clever. It's unimaginable to wait for the arrow to be ready and wait, while the prey is trapped and waits with its neck stretched. One of his subordinates applauded. At this time, a subordinate hurriedly came in and said, "Deputy commander, it can be determined that the Japanese commander is in the area west of the North City Gate!" "Okay, order the artillery brigade to concentrate all the artillery fire, cover this area, and knock out the Japanese headquarters."

After a night of torment, Watanabe Kawao seemed to have turned white in his sideburns, and suddenly he aged more than ten years. He didn't close his eyes much overnight, and his white eyes turned red. When the eastern sky was white, he finally understood that the Northern Expeditionary Army would not attack, which was consuming the sharpness of the Japanese soldiers. In fact, he guessed half right, and then he figured out what was going on, he had already reported to Amaterasu and complained to Amaterasu.

The sound of artillery rang out suddenly, and the point of impact exploded about 20 meters from the command headquarters. Watanabe Kawao realized that it was not good, and just as he wanted to give the order, a dense number of shells came overwhelmingly, and suddenly the yard where he was was shrouded in the smoke of the explosion, and in less than 10 seconds, more than 20 shells fell in the yard. Seeing this scene, Watanabe Kawao did not dodge, he knew that the artillery fire of the Northern Expeditionary Army was aimed at him.

The house where Watanabe Kawao was located was probably not a short period of time, and the old house could no longer hold on under such a bombardment, and collapsed with a tremor, becoming Watanabe Kawao's grave. Although the Japanese headquarters was defeated, many Japanese officers and soldiers still resisted stubbornly, and even a small number of Japanese officers and soldiers launched suicide attacks. There were corpses of Japanese soldiers everywhere, and all the officers and soldiers who participated in the battle truly experienced the strength of the Japanese soldiers.

At dusk, the gunfire became sparse, and the battle was nearing its end. Deputy Commander Li Tianxiang came to the location of the Japanese headquarters, and a tragic scene came into view. There were corpses of Japanese soldiers everywhere, and few were alive. Soon, Watanabe Kawao's body was cleaned up, and the guy was sitting on a chair, holding a war knife in both hands, leaning forward and drooping, and his face was covered with a thick layer of dust, and he couldn't see the guy's expression before he died.

Li Tianxiang looked at the other party's appearance and said in awe: "As a soldier, I admire his bravery, as a neighbor, I despise the ignorance of the Japanese, bury him!" "Report to the commander, more than 3,000 Japanese officers and soldiers were captured, more than 2,600 soldiers were wounded, and 2,700 Japanese officers and soldiers were killed. We suffered 2,600 wounded and more than 800 killed. Li Tianxiang sighed when he heard it.