Wu Ming, who walked out of the air-raid shelter, was taken aback, the area around the division command post was in a mess, the bungalow where he had been hiding had become a ruined wall, the incomplete cement piles were exposed with black steel bars, the surrounding houses, including the Fuzhen Ancient Temple built by Song Shaoxing in six years, were all razed to the ground, and the surrounding woods became a raging torch.

Deep pits with a radius of more than 10 meters and a depth of three or four meters can be seen everywhere near and far, and the scene is filled with the smell of gunsmoke, mud and gunpowder, which provokes Wu Ming to sneeze several times.

"Niang Xipi, the 35U millimeter caliber naval gun and the 0-kilogram bomb are powerful, when will we be able to use such weapons in China?"

Zhang Ying, who drilled out of the air-raid shelter with Wu Ming, said with a sigh.

There was a dense sound of gunfire in the distance, Dai Ziran walked up to Wu Ming, pointed to the northwest and said: "That is the place where our militia and the Japanese raid brigade exchanged fire, and now the guard battalion has been pressed up, and it is under the unified command of Lu Kuiyuan, who rushed back from the field hospital." ”

Wu Ming nodded, didn't say anything, he wasn't very interested in the game of catching turtles in the urn, and now what he wanted to know most was the changes in the frontline battlefield.

Wu Ming anxiously rushed to the ruins three or four meters high made of collapsed houses and splattered bricks and stones, took the binoculars from the guards, and looked at the battlefield ahead.

The setting sun has completely set on the horizon, and the light is relatively dim, but you can still see that the overall situation of the battlefield on the northern front has been decided, and the officers and soldiers of the new Second Division are shouting and charging with guns in the field, and the red battle flag is fluttering in Guangchen Town in the distance, and the battle is expanding to the southeast.

The main force of the Japanese army was exhausted, and there were not many troops that could be used to delay the offensive of the Chinese army, and at the same time, the artillery, which was the god of war, was now at an absolute disadvantage, and the southern and northern fronts of the new second division were progressing smoothly, and often the Japanese blocking positions had just been established, and they were covered by mortars that accompanied the charging of the attacking troops, and those temporary machine-gun bunkers and fortifications were destroyed under the blow of the bazooka.

In this situation, no matter how hard the Japanese tried, they could not stop the attack of the new 2nd Division

Shigeharu Suematsu returned to the headquarters in the village of Qiuwei with a blank face, ignoring the officers and staff officers who were shouting loudly over the radio and microphones with anxious faces, and entered his room.

Mitsuzaburo Akiyama, who was supervising the battle at the front, did not find Shigeharu Suematsu anywhere, and fled into the headquarters in a rage, and when he heard that the division commander was in the room, he hurriedly pushed open the door and rushed in, shouting loudly in a panic: "Your Excellency Suematsu, we are finished, the 114th Division is finished"

"I have learned that I will take my share of responsibility"

Shigeharu Suematsu had already taken off his shirt, revealing his furry and ugly belly, and was wiping his sharp saber with a snow-white cloth at this time, hearing Akiyama Mitsuzaburo's words, Lieutenant General Suematsu raised his head, glanced at Akiyama Saburo coldly, and said, "Akiyama-kun, as long as we have worked hard, we have a clear conscience...... It's a pity, God doesn't fulfill people's wishes, I still have things to do, so you can do it yourself."

Mitsuzaburo Akiyama walked out of the room in despair and saw Shigeharu Suematsu's guards walk in. After a while, Mitsuzaburo Akiyama heard a scream coming from the room, followed by the sound of objects falling to the ground and other water chestnuts.

"Alas"

With a long sigh, hearing the gunshots outside getting closer and closer, Mitsuzaburo Akiyama summoned all the personnel of the division headquarters to arrange the retreat, and then retreated in the direction of Jinshanwei surrounded by guards.

The rapid change in the battle situation, like a heavy hammer, crushed Yanagawa Heisuke at once.

In the twilight, the last reconnaissance plane to return to the aircraft carrier formation brought the latest news from the front: The 114th Division had been routed on all fronts, and all Japanese troops were fleeing.

Yanagawa Heisuke shook his head and smiled bitterly, he never thought that with absolute sea and air superiority, the 114th Division of Shigeharu Suematsu was still defeated, and it was a complete defeat.

"Incompetent Shigeharu Suematsu, you are really a sinner of the Imperial Japanese Army" Yanagawa Heisuke angrily slammed his fist on the table, roaring angrily. These venting words, of course, are blaming Shigeharu Suematsu, but why not reproach themselves?

The 114th Division was over, and as the commander of the division, Shigeharu Suematsu was naturally able to apologize to His Majesty the Emperor, but Yanagawa Heisuke, as the commander of the 10th Army, also had to bear a lot of responsibility.

There was silence in the headquarters.

Most of the officers were careful not to make the slightest sound, so as not to provoke Yanagawa Heisuke's thunderous wrath.

With a "bang", the door of the headquarters was kicked open from the outside, and the commander of the task force, Rear Admiral Shimomura Masasuke, walked into the command cabin with a frosty face.

"Where are you from?"

As soon as he saw Shimomura, Yanagawa Heisuke's anger could no longer be suppressed, if it weren't for this damn guy's pity for his hateful barrel, maybe he could have stopped the attack of the Shina army, and at worst, he could have allowed the Japanese army to retreat calmly, assemble in the rear and rebuild the defensive line, where would it be as defeated as it is now?

"Hmph"

Rear Admiral Shimomura didn't bother to look at Yanagawa Heisuke again, his face was expressionless, he lifted the officer's hat on his head, and said coldly: "I have reported everything that happened on the battlefield to the Third Fleet Command and the Military Command Headquarters and the headquarters in Tokyo, and forwarded it to the Commander of the Front Army, Admiral Matsui——"

Speaking of this, Major General Shimomura shook the telegram in his hand and said, "After an hour of waiting, I have received a telegram from the Military Command Department and the base camp, and I am here to inform you. From immediate onwards, our task force was separated from the Tenth Army, and Yanagawa Jun was removed from his post as commander of the Tenth Army. The headquarters orders you to immediately depart for and return to Japan, and report to the headquarters about the defeat of the 114th Division."

"How can I be blamed for this?"

Yanagawa Heisuke's eyes widened, and he shouted with all his strength: "It was that stupid man who didn't obey the order and launched an attack that led to the defeat...... Besides, the battle report of the 114th Division has not yet been transmitted, so maybe they still have the strength to fight-"

"Yanagawa-kun, there's no need to be so excited, have they been defeated, you can explain it to His Majesty the Emperor and the princes of the base camp in person when you return to Japan."

Major General Shimomura threw a telegram on the table like garbage, and was just about to turn around and leave, when he suddenly remembered something, stopped, and said kindly:

"Yanagawa-kun, you are also considered a leader in the army, and Shigeharu Suematsu is a bastard who deserves to die, but as a boss, you can't restrain your subordinates, and even adopt an attitude of tacit connivance...... Now that there is such a result, you should be brave enough to shoulder the responsibility, don't blame others, think about it."

Then Major General Shimomura sighed heavily: "Yanagawa Jun, in fact, the focus of the problem is not the 114th Division, but the 6th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery, which is extremely important to the Imperial Army, which is one of the few strategic-level heavy artillery units in the Empire, and now it is destroyed by your hands."

"As a general with a high sense of honor, you should apologize to His Majesty the Emperor, and when you return to Tokyo, you will be greeted not by honor and flowers, but by the wrath of His Majesty and the spurning of all the people—you should know that this is the greatest insult to a soldier, right? Let's face it for you and your family."

It is important to know that Japan is a country with extremely scarce resources, almost all of the steel is used for the navy to build giant ships and cannons, and there is not much steel quota left for the army, and there are only five field heavy artillery brigades in Japan combined. For the Japanese Army, the field heavy artillery brigade can definitely be regarded as a strategic deterrent.

In the North China Battlefield, the Sixth Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery Corps has made great achievements, and now there is a great possibility that this meritorious unit will be buried in the Songhu Battlefield, and Tokyo's reaction is completely understandable

Yanagawa Heisuke's face was pale, he staggered back a few steps, and then sat on the floor with a blank gaze, and muttered: "No, I am not defeated, my army is not defeated, and it is even more impossible for the Imperial Japanese Army to fail......"

On the front-line battlefield, Mitsuzaburo Akiyama led the remaining Japanese troops and retreated desperately.

Because the 114th Division retreated in such a hurry, even the headquarters of the 6th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery did not bother to inform it, and fled in the direction of Xincang Town in disarray. When he arrived at Xincang, Akiyama Mitsuzaburo briefly explained a few words, ordered a squadron of the defenders to hold on to and wait for reinforcements, and then continued to retreat to Jinshanwei.

The war collapsed, and the Japanese army was powerless to return to heaven, but there were still people who did not believe in this evil.

The commander of the 128th Brigade, Major General Obaof, led his own guards and tried to set up a blocking position in the area of Quanjiaji east of Qiuwei Village to delay the attack of the new 2nd Division. However, before Opauf could make arrangements, mortar shells and rockets with flaming tails falling from the sky, shining brilliantly in the twilight, sent him and his guards directly into the sky.

Obaov didn't figure out what kind of monsters he had encountered until he died.

Throughout the Pinghu battlefield, the Japanese troops who had lost their unified command were scurrying around like headless flies, almost panicking in the twilight. The officers and men of the new 2nd Division ran out of bullets, and the puppet soldiers handed over their guns with interest, the bayonets were dyed red countless times, and the blades began to curl......

"Forward, rush forward regardless of everything, beat the devil's farts and urine, beat the devil and have nowhere to hide" Wu Ming's latest order was issued to all battalions and companies through radio and ammunition delivery vehicles.

"Hooray"

The morale of the officers and men of the new Second Division, who received the new order, was even higher and they could not help but let out a huge cheer.

Wu Ming, who was the soul of the new Second Division and their spiritual pillar, was not killed by the Japanese fleet artillery group, and was now paying close attention to the progress of the battle on the front line.

Wu Ming came back to life, and the new second division was completely activated

Luo Yuming smiled, Yang Si laughed first, all the officers and soldiers on the battlefield laughed, and when they laughed, the tears were still flowing, flowing so heartily, so happy that people couldn't help but want to call out loudly to vent their excitement.

Chen Dasheng in the offensive formation was also smiling heartily, and his mouth let out a roar of "long live" like everyone else.

Chen Dasheng is a soldier of the second battalion of the third regiment of the supplementary brigade, enlisted in the army after the outbreak of the 77 incident, first joined the Maoliangwu militia regiment, and in October as the second batch of reinforcements to the Zhajia line, with the Japanese army landing after the war was repeated, the supplementary brigade began to draw officers and soldiers to supplement other main regiments, and he was also formally incorporated into the new second division by the militia regiment.

Chen Dasheng has been weak since he was a child, he often can't keep up with the training rhythm of other recruits when he is in the militia group, and he is left by the squad leader to open a small stove alone every night, and his heart is full of resentment towards Wu Ming, who formulated the training standards, and after a few months of training, the division commander Wu Ming is no different from the big demon king in his mind.

However, when he heard that the division commander was very likely to die under the fire of the Japanese fleet, he also burst into tears like other soldiers, not for anything else, because Wu Ming had already engraved his image into all aspects of the new Second Division, and penetrated into the bones of every officer and soldier.

On the battlefield, Chen Dasheng realized that Lu Dao's usual hard training allowed him to save his life many times, and as Wu Ming said, he sweated more in peacetime and shed less blood in wartime.

Chen Dasheng wiped away the tears on his face, and said secretly in his heart: I'll just say, good people don't live long, bad people last forever, and the master is so bad, how can he die easily? Besides, the strict training + planning formulated by the master seat is really for my good, and I don't hate him anymore.

"Dasheng, hurry up"

The squad leader turned his head, looked at Chen Dasheng, who was behind the most, and greeted him loudly.

"Oh, here we are"

Chen Dasheng replied and strode forward.

This pursuit battle completely destroyed the Japanese army's will to resist, not only completely eliminated the Japanese army's organized resistance, but also unexpectedly annihilated the headquarters of the 6th Brigade of the Japanese field heavy artillery between Guangchen and Qiuwei, killed the commander of the Japanese brigade, Major General Sumida Mashiro, and captured 16 100-mm cannons.

Subsequently, Wu Ming issued a new order, concentrating all his forces to attack the town of Xincang that the Japanese army had retreated, and then threatened Jinshanwei.

At this time, the morale of the new 2nd Division, which had won the battle, was high, and when they heard that the division commander was unharmed, they were like a sharp dagger rushing towards Xincang Town, where the Japanese army was entrenched. And in their rear, the officers and men of the militia regiment of the four regiments that had just solved the Japanese raid brigade, together with the defective puppet army, began to clean up the battlefield.

The earth was already gray, but fortunately, the fires burning everywhere illuminated the four fields, and the vision was not blocked. Wu Ming rode from the dilapidated flat corridor road to the mound north of Qiu Wei Village, and stood at the place where Shigeji Suematsu once stood, checking the situation on the battlefield.

Long Shaogang, who had just come down from the front line, strode up the small hill, and before Wu Ming could speak, he said affectionately: "Master, you have made all the officers and men of our division pinch a cold sweat, you don't know what to do, seeing that the command post of the Fuzhen Temple Division was bombarded by the artillery group of the Japanese fleet, the tears of the soldiers couldn't help but fall, and there was a cry on the battlefield at that time."

Hearing Long Shaogang's complaint, Wu Ming's face burned badly, but he still smiled and scolded in his mouth: "Crying and crying, all of them are immature guys...... We are at war, and where are the immortals at war? ”

Long Shaogang tightened his face, turned to face Dai Ziran, Zhang Ying and other generals on the side, and reprimanded in a heavy tone: "Ziran, Zhang Ying, how did you do it, the division seat is the backbone of our division, what kind of accident does he have to have, I see how you explain to the soldiers of the whole division, how to explain to the hometown elders in western Zhejiang, after you go back, you must give me a good reflection."

Dai Ziran and Zhang Ying lowered their heads sneeringly, and secretly turned their eyes to Wu Ming, and their eyes were as innocent as they were.

Wu Ming is the head of the new second division, and Long Shaogang is not good at directly saying that Wu Ming is not, so he has to express his dissatisfaction to Wu Ming by sending difficulties to Dai Ziran and Zhang Ying.

Wu Ming is such a smart person, how could he not hear the meaning of Long Shaogang's words? strode forward at the moment, took Long Shaogang's hand and shook it, seeing that his deputy division commander was still making trouble, he forcibly put his arm around Long Shaogang's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Old Long, don't blame Ziran and Zhang Ying, everything is my fault as the division commander, okay, don't be angry, I'm sorry for the whole division, this time I'm wrong."

Seeing Wu Ming admit his mistake so happily, Long Shaogang felt that he had achieved the purpose of admonishment, so he stopped entanglement, removed Wu Ming's hand on his shoulder, and immediately reported: "Division, this time our division will land the 114th Division of the Japanese Army and the 4th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery together in a net profit, which can be described as a brilliant result."

Speaking of this, Long Shaogang pointed to the blazing battlefield in the distance: "In this battle, we defeated a total of six wings of the 114th Division of the Japanese Army, including three infantry wings, one field artillery wing, one engineer wing, one baggage wing and one cavalry brigade, and the results were brilliant."

"The unexpected joy is that we took the sheep to the 6th Brigade of the Japanese Field Heavy Artillery, which is a Japanese strategic level unit, one of the two heavy artillery wings was covered by our artillery group, and most of the gunners were killed and wounded, and the artillery of the other wing was only equipped with a small number of individual weapons, and we seized the opportunity to get close to the fierce beating, and took it down without much effort."

"The specific battle report has not yet been gathered, and it is roughly estimated that with the 150th Wing of the Japanese Army that was gathered and annihilated before, we have annihilated a total of more than 34,000 Japanese troops, and so completely annihilated a first-class division and a field heavy artillery brigade of the Japanese army, which can be regarded as the greatest victory since the War of Resistance Against Japan."

Hearing Long Shaogang say this, the accompanying staff officers all opened their mouths in surprise. Wu Ming, Dai Ziran, Zhang Ying and other generals understood the scale and progress of the war, but they were not too moved by it.

Seeing Wu Ming's expression as usual, Long Shaogang could understand, but the next news was enough to surprise Wu Ming and the others ⊥, Long Shaogang continued:

"Division, this time, we have captured a lot of 16 100mm cannons from the 1st Brigade, the 2nd Brigade and the Supplementary Brigade, 8 150mm howitzers in good condition, 6 150mm howitzers that can be reused after repair, in addition to 21 75mm guns, 48 trucks and 39 infantry guns-"

At this time, even if he was as calm as Wu Ming, his eyes widened, and Zhang Ying next to him opened his mouth wide and asked in surprise: "Is this true?" ”

"Is that fake?"

Long Shaogang smiled, and then said: "That old devil Suematsu Shigeji committed suicide by disembowelment, and the nominal chief of staff of the division, Mitsuzaburo Akiyama, fled with the division headquarters, because of the hurry, most of the materials of the 114th Division fell into our hands, plus the materials from the 6th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, tsk-"

Speaking of this, Long Shaogang felt a little regretful: "If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese tanks were all lost by us on the battlefield, maybe we could still form a tank and armored car brigade."

"You, it's really not enough to swallow elephants," Wu Ming pointed at Long Shaogang and joked with a smile.

Not to mention, this time it can be said that the battle has been fruitful, and with so many materials captured, it is completely possible to re-equip a division, and there may not be any leftovers. Moreover, even these big guys have been brought in, and the Japanese army's light and heavy machine guns, rifles, and pistols must have been captured.