No wonder the devils reacted like this - the guns and cannons in the east were incessant, and it seemed that the war was still raging from a distance. Moreover, the Eastern Route Army also has two divisions. If this had been placed at the beginning of the invasion of China, it would not have been a problem to defeat the Chinese army as a single army. The student army is powerful, but the gap shouldn't be so big, right? How can a battle of tens of thousands of people be decided so quickly? For example, in Lion Gate, although the Western Route Army also paid huge casualties, did it still beat the Jews who had all the weapons and geographical advantages and fled?

When Yokoyama Yong saw the officers and soldiers around him like this, he said that it was not good, and hurriedly remedied: "Withdraw first, I'm just guessing!" The real situation will not be known until the commander is met. ”

"But we've paid such a big price—"

"As long as we rush over, we can join the Eastern Route Army!"

"Your Excellency, you are so unwilling!"

……

Ordinary officers and soldiers can't bear this result, and Yokoyama is not the same. However, he did not dare to tell the truth. The two-way attack was Okamura's decision, and it was the result of his insistence on his own opinion. Seeing that he had captured the Lion Gate at a great cost, and that the two armies would be able to meet, but he gave the order to retreat, there was only one possibility - the Eastern Route Army had been defeated, and there was no need to meet.

Isamu Yokoyama had been directing the battle on the front line, and was almost killed by the blocking artillery fire when the 18th Division retreated, and when he commanded the battle, he was full of enthusiasm and had no other feelings, and now he retreated down the mountain, and the more he walked, the more frightened he became—he thought that he had killed enough enemies, and even if he failed to achieve the goal set in front of the station, he had not suffered a loss. However, when he kicked the corpses of the officers and soldiers who had fallen to the ground from time to time along the way, he woke up in horror and realized that the casualties of his troops were not much less than those of the enemy.

What's more?! The artillery of the 8th and 18th Divisions is not vegetarian. Ouyang Yun believed in artillery tactics more than the Japanese, and the artillery of the Cadet Corps was not only well-equipped, but also the quality of the soldiers was first-class. Division after regiment of artillery took part in this defensive battle, and although only half of the base number of artillery shells remained in the Eighth Division, the blow that could be inflicted on the Japanese was also devastating.

Isamu Yokoyama buried himself in commanding the troops, and he didn't have the time or mood to calculate the battle losses of his troops, but Okamura Ninji and Yoshimoto Sadaji under the mountain knew it. Of course, because from the very beginning there was hope of capturing the Lion Gate and breaking through the defense line of the Cadet Army, so although the casualties were huge, but Okamura Ninji, who had already decided to fight hard, did not feel distressed. It wasn't until he received a telegram from Yamamuro Munetake, and learned that they were besieged by the superior army of scholars, and that they could no longer hold out and could only break through, that he woke up from his frenzied mood, and then, as soon as he calculated the losses of his troops, he was dumbfounded.

Nearly 20,000 people before the attack, and now? In addition to those who are supporting the top of the mountain one after another, there are only more than 2,000 logistics and civilian personnel and a brigade of military police left by his side. Under Isamu Yokoyama, there are at most two brigades at this time, so plus the gendarmes of a brigade that he has just sent out - the old devil thought of this, his eyes were dark, his heart was cramping, his throat immediately overflowed with sweetness, and he spit out a mouthful of blood.

"Your Excellency, Commander!" "Your Excellency!" Yoshimoto Sadaji and a cadre of officers at the headquarters panicked, and some people called the military doctor, and someone hurried to serve hot tea.

"I'm fine. Yoshimoto, retreat to Fengxin immediately! Hold on to Fengxin and wait for His Excellency Nishio to come to help! ”

"Hello! Sir, take a break! ”

"I really don't have anything to do, you guys, hurry up and clean up, and when Yokoyama Yong comes back, retreat immediately!"

"Hello!"

Twenty minutes later, as Isamu Yokoyama organized his ranks along the way, and then gathered near the headquarters with nearly 4,000 devils, the Japanese army began to retreat under the command of Yoshimoto Sadaji.

The Japanese side had just begun to retreat, and Lu Zhibai, who had been monitoring them from afar, immediately reported to the general headquarters.

At that time, Ouyang Yun was commanding the Niangzi Yunwei Regiment to open a defensive formation towards the west, and Jiang Huangyong suddenly shouted urgently: "Little sir, Okamura Ning is going to run!" ”

"What?"

"Lu Zhibai called back, Okamura Ningji ran away!"

Ouyang Yun stomped his feet and shouted, "Huh?!" Ge Laozi, why didn't I think of it?! Ma Ma Pi, Lao Tzu is actually timid! ”

"What should we do, little sir?"

"Let's deal with the Eastern Route Army first. After the 18th and 8th Divisions converged, they immediately crossed the foothills of Meiling Mountain and blocked the passage between the foothills of Meiling Mountain and Anyi. Tell Menqueri to hand over the artillery regiment of the 18th Division to Zhang Tianquan for command. Tell Zhang Tianquan to pay attention to the use of cannonballs-"

"Yes!"

"Contact Arthur and Jiang Tiezhang again, and let them pay attention to defending the northern line and fleeing Yamamuro Zongwu, and I'll hand it over to them! Tell Bai Tassel and Qian Guangming to immediately transfer the pursuing troops back, and first concentrate on destroying all the East Route Army in the encirclement. ”

Ouyang Yun gave a series of orders, and then, he summoned the women's army lying on the snow, and said to them: "Sisters, give you a chance to practice your courage, there are still a large number of devils in the front lake, go and kill them!" You Xiaolian, I'll leave them to you. You have to make sure that you can open meat if you haven't killed a devil! ”

"Yes!"

The siege and annihilation battle around Qian Lake continued until dawn. And at about half past four in the morning, the battle for Fengxin began.

The vanguard of the 1st Guerrilla Division led the way into the city, but they could not stop the devils who had fallen into a dead end and were completely red-eyed.

Isamu Yokoyama led two brigades of devils to rush to Fengxin in a truck, and the vanguard of the 1st Guerrilla Division entered Fengxin from the south gate for a quarter of an hour, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides in the city. The vanguard of the 1st Division was outnumbered and had to withdraw with more than half of the casualties. After Chu Tiange received the report, he immediately and decisively ordered the withdrawal of Jing'an. Although Okamura Ninji's Western Route Army occupied Fengxin, because Ikeda Shinzo's 145th Wing was surrounded by Arthur and Zhang Luangong in the area east of Anyi in the area of Chengfeng Township, the road to the north was completely cut off, and in fact, they only moved a place in the large net spread by the Scholar Army.

The encirclement and suppression battle at Qianhu was fought until dawn, and the life-and-death battle between the main forces of the 2nd Division and the 106th Division in the area of Jinjiang in Gao'an ended before 4 o'clock in the morning. The battle between the 2nd Division and the 106th Division can be labeled as a "war between men". Although the Second Division completely occupied the convenience of weapons, nine out of ten of them insisted on using broadswords to solve the battle.

"A big knife cuts off the devil's head" - they did it. The broadsword tactics passed down by the 29th Army, which were compulsory during the morning exercise every day, did not live up to their sweat, and the humiliation of the Lion Gate became the source of their outbreak. Yes, including a major general, a total of more than 1,600 devils were beheaded by the cadets in the white-knuckle battle. And what made Nakajima Jingcun, who finally escaped from the city, collapsed and peed his pants was that among the subordinates who died in battle, many of them were bitten to death by the students or beaten to death with their fists - the name of the "beast master" of the second division came from this.