Chapter 542: We have to keep fighting
Chapter 542 has to be fought
Tang Qiuli woke up from the darkness, opened his eyes, and saw a scene in the command headquarters, all the people, including Chen Feng, the head of the confidential department, were all pointed at guns by their own guards, honestly staying by the wall, not daring to move, knowing that the mountain tiger had misunderstood, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he waved his hand weakly.
The mountain tiger understood what he meant, and made a strange move, and the soldiers of the special guard team instantly collected their guns, as quickly and suddenly as they came, and disappeared in front of everyone at once, and the staff officers, confidential officers, and translators let out a long breath, and the incident happened suddenly, and before they could figure out what was going on, the muzzle of the black hole was forced into their bodies.
The murderous aura exuded by the soldiers of the Special Guards, without a trace of emotion, and their cold eyes, scared these civilian officers who had never been on the battlefield and experienced the baptism of war into a cold sweat, and felt that their nerves were being scraped by an invisible knife, and they were all cold, including Chen Feng.
Chen Feng arrived in front of Tang Qiuli, his eyes were full of anxious concern, turned to the mountain tiger, and glared at the mountain tiger fiercely, this guy, regardless of the indiscriminate, came up and greeted him with a gun, the mountain tiger smiled apologetically, turned to these civilian officers who were still a little frightened, and gave a military salute very strictly, but he didn't say a word, no need to explain, this is his duty, if there is a next time, he will do it.
This is enough, so that the division commander known as the "Crazy Tiger" can be close to the head of the guard, and salute them, not to mention, the military rank of others is a lot higher than their own, the slight unhappiness in the hearts of these people immediately disappeared, and they turned around the division commander with concern, at this time, the military doctor also rushed to hear the news, and after checking Tang Qiuli's body, he told everyone that the division commander's body is fine, just rush to attack the heart, and rest for a few days.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, sent Tang Qiuli back to rest, everyone left, only the mountain tiger accompanied Tang Qiuli, there was silence for a while, Tang Qiuli's eyes flashed with a faint cold light, he whispered to the mountain tiger: "Huzi, my heart is already numb with pain, why did the big man leave like this?" When he was in the Northeast, in such a difficult and dangerous environment, Su Da didn't even take a bullet, and there were tens of thousands of people under his hands, so if he didn't say it, it would be gone" After speaking, as if from the depths of his heart, he sighed long, indescribably lonely and lonely.
Shanhu sat next to Tang Qiuli, stretched out his hand, held his hand tightly, for a while, neither of them spoke, at this time, there was no distinction between the division commander and his subordinates, only two childhood partners, brothers in life and death, communicating with each other with their hearts, Shanhu felt Tang Qiuli's pain and helplessness, and the desolation in his heart.
Shanhu's heart is tightened, Xiaoqiu is just twenty years old, he has experienced too much life and death and separation, comrades-in-arms, brothers, lovers, one by one, each time, his heart is broken by pain, and sometimes, Shanhu is unable to share the pain in his heart for Tang Qiuli, and deeply blames himself.
Shanhu and Tang Qiuli are also familiar with Su Jingfeng, and he and Su Jingfeng have deeper contacts, there are many similarities in the personalities of the two people, his heart is also bleeding painfully, from time to time there is a big man Su's loud laughter and loud voice, and from time to time there is a sentence that Su Jingfeng often says to him in his ears: "Huzi, in our bloody hand group, in terms of strength, I will only serve you"
But Shanhu couldn't use words to comfort his childhood partner, he was originally a person who was not good at words, so he could only hold Tang Qiuli's hand tighter, Tang Qiuli really felt the emotions in Shanhu's heart, he tried to adjust his feelings, and couldn't bear to let Shanhu worry about himself.
After a while, he felt that the strength in his body had recovered a lot, so he said to Shanhu: "Huzi, go and call Yu Guanghan, chief of staff, Chen Feng, chief of communications, and Shen Jun, director of investigation, I have a task to assign," Shanhu agreed to go out, and the room became even more lonely, Tang Qiuli felt that his heart was pressed with a breath, and he was so panicked that he wanted to shout regardless of it, but he didn't, he had experienced too much, and he was no longer the impulsive teenager.
Soon, several people arrived, Tang Qiuli lay on the kang, dictated several orders, one was to order the chief of staff Yu Guanghan, as the representative of the division commander, to immediately rush to Xuchang, escort Su Jingfeng's body to Dingbian, escorted by a battalion of troops sent by the corps, Yu Guanghan brought an order with him, ordering the Yellow River Henan garrison corps, immediately drive back to the Huangyadong base area to rest, the former corps chief of staff Wang Dongshan, temporarily acting as the corps commander.
The second is to order Liu Hanzhang, vice chairman of the Military and Political Committee of the Dingbian Special Economic Zone and mayor of the Dingbian Special Economic Zone, to find a quiet place in the Baiyu Mountains and start to build a martyr's cemetery.
The third order, Tang Qiuli, who was originally in a sad tone, suddenly became fierce, and ordered the director of the intelligence department, Yu Deshui, to find out the specific location of Tang Enbo within a time limit, and Shen Jun, the director of the investigation department, immediately went south to the southern Henan region, and together with Yu Deshui, at any cost, to find Tang Enbo's whereabouts, and not to return to the division headquarters until there is no result.
Several generals of the division headquarters immediately took the order very strictly, and saw them out of the house, Tang Qiuli felt a flustered shortness of breath, so tired that he couldn't open his eyes, and fell asleep groggily, but the dream was full of Su Jingfeng's voice and smile, as well as what he said to himself when he resigned before he went to the Yellow River Henan Garrison Corps to take up the post of commander: "Division commander, give me one year, I promise to bring the Yellow River Henan Garrison Corps into a well-known main force, when the time comes, the division commander must not forget, Weave my troops into the battle sequence of the main force," waking up with cold tears in the corners of his eyes.
In the next few days, Tang Qiuli forced himself to let go of all his sadness, supported his still weak body, and focused his attention on the direction of Xuzhou.
At about 3 o'clock in the morning of 19 December, the First Army of Isoya Ryosuke was suddenly attacked by the troops of the Independent Division guarding Kaifeng, and a fierce counterattack was fierce, and after a scuffle, the First Army suffered heavy casualties, and the frightened Isoya Ryosuke hurriedly organized troops to counterattack, and after a fierce artillery bombardment, the Japanese army rushed into the southeast of Kaifeng City with a shout.
There was nothing, and the Chinese army, which had made them suffer so much, had disappeared without a trace, except for the craters everywhere, the collapsed buildings with smoke billowing from the aftermath, not even a single figure was seen, thousands of shells, all of which were blown up in the open space.
The cold wind howled, the night was dark, and the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke spread all over the city of Kaifeng, lighting a little firelight, reflecting the silent Japanese soldiers in the dark, looming, like a group of lonely ghosts, Isoya Ryosuke walked to the position, he had already read the report of the chief of staff, and the counterattack he had just encountered made his troops lose nearly 7,000 soldiers.
Although at the scene, more than 3,000 corpses of Chinese soldiers were also counted, but such a result made him obviously unacceptable, the casualty ratio was two to one, the warriors of the Great Japanese Empire, when had they fought such a battle, and they didn't even capture a single prisoner, what he wanted to know most was that the independent division troops who fought with him for three days were the main force in Tang Qiuli's hands or not.
However, even such a little wish was disappointed, a soldier of the independent division whose legs were blown off and almost half of his breath was found from the pile of dead, and several soldiers went over, wanting to catch a live mouth and make meritorious service, who knows, this Chinese soldier actually pulled the grenade on his body, a ball of fire flashed, the Chinese soldier's bones were gone, and several soldiers of the imperial army also became one of the nearly 10,000 corpses.
Not far away, Ryosuke Isoya, who witnessed this scene in person, shivered from his heart, these Chinese soldiers are too terrible, I don't know what kind of magic the devil Tang Qiuli has instilled in them, and they have no fear in the face of death, it should be the realm of the imperial soldier's bushido spirit? He didn't understand, and for the first time he was full of worries about his mission to occupy Xuzhou.
If there is no order that Commander Kazuki Kiyoji must take Xuzhou, Isoya Ryosuke will definitely not let go of the independent division troops who let him suffer so much, even if he chases to the ends of the earth, he must know the true face of this crazy army, he knows that after three days of bloody fighting, the casualties of this army are not small, but he can only suppress the hatred in his heart, and the main goal is still ahead, at this point, Wang Dongshan judged completely correctly, and he dared to let go of the last counterattack.
Isoya Ryosuke did not dare to order the troops to attack Shangqiu overnight, if it was not for the three-day bloody battle in Kaifeng, in the face of the fierce combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the independent division, so that he had a new evaluation of the fighting will of the Chinese soldiers, he would not care whether he marched at night or not, and in three days, his troops lost more than 30,000 people, almost the strength of a main division.
He ordered the troops, prepare overnight, set off early tomorrow morning, and go straight to Shangqiu, and then, Isoya Ryosuke, who was not sleepy, looked forward to the dawn with his eyes, and it was not easy for the east to appear fish belly white, more than 100,000 Japanese troops, rumbling through Kaifeng City, which was almost in ruins and full of craters, and went straight to Shangqiu, many Japanese soldiers did not have the courage to look back at Kaifeng, and the Chinese soldiers had already chilled their courage.
Thanks to Su Jingfeng's troops for their desperate resistance, and thanks to Wang Dongshan for leading the Jedi counterattack of 9,000 athletes, and delaying the Japanese army in Kaifeng all night, Zhang Zizhong's Sulu garrison corps had more time to improve its defensive position.
Zhang Zizhong's troops, more than 40,000 people, arrived in Shangqiu on the afternoon of 18 December, and according to the order of the division commander, his troops were to block the Japanese army in Shangqiu for two days, that is, they must hold out until midnight on 20 December.
(To be continued)