Chapter 976 Winning Xuzhou (Fourth Watch)

Originally, this chapter had been written a long time ago, but there was a problem with the network at home, so it didn't come up, and now it's two chapters uploaded, and then there's another chapter right away! ――

Okamura Ningji is very anxious now, knowing that he still underestimated Hu Hao this time, especially the combat effectiveness of Hu Hao's independent army, it was only the second day, and he made himself have no power to fight back at all.

Okamura Ningji thought of this, so he sat down, wanting to calm himself down, if he still let Hu Hao lead the nose, then this battle would not have to be fought, and he would lose first.

And the vanguard of the independent army, which attacked the devil's defensive position, broke through the devil's position before the tank troops came, and several divisions of troops began to rush to the devil's position and began to strangle the devil's position.

When the first tank regiment arrived, the vanguard unit had already reached the final stage, and the commander of the vanguard unit, Li Monk, also arranged for 1 division to go to the airport with the tank unit first.

Soon, Okamura Ninji telegraphed that the reinforcements of the Independent Army had been connected with the tank troops, and now there was no way to attack them, so far, even the main force of the Independent Army had not been touched, and nearly 30,000 casualties had been lost, and Tianjin's current defense was also precarious.

"Baga, let all the troops in Tianjin retreat and retreat to Tangshan, quickly! Let's go now! Okamura Ninji immediately stood up and said.

"Nani, retreat, Your Excellency Commander. Now there are at least nearly 100,000 of our expatriates in Tianjin, all of whom are businessmen, and most of them are the families of our officers. The chief of staff immediately asked aloud.

"Our current troops are all difficult to protect themselves, where do we have the ability to protect those expatriates, now we must leave enough troops, and when the troops in Shenyang come south, we can give Hu Hao a fatal blow!

Otherwise. Even if the troops from Shenyang come, we are not sure of victory! Go and give me orders! Okamura shouted to his staff officer.

"Your Excellency, Commander. If you pass on this order, the officer below will definitely not carry it out immediately, they will definitely notify the base camp directly, and the base camp will not agree at that time! The chief of staff reminded Okamura Ninji again.

"Baga, I know, you go quickly, I will explain to the base camp!" Okamura shouted at his chief of staff.

"Hey!" The chief of staff heard Okamura Ninji say this, and there was no way. I had to go and issue this order, and in the headquarters in Tianjin, Muraoka Chotaro, who served as the commander this time, led the 4th Division of the Standing Division.

"Yaga. How did the troops of the Independence Army come so quickly? Muraoka Chotaro looked at the defense map in front of him and said very annoyed.

"Report, Nanjing Command Emergency Telegram!" A communications staff officer shouted to him. Muraoka Chotaro took the telegram and read it.

"Nani, retreat on all fronts, Baga. How is it possible, when did the army of the empire start to retreat before it was fought! Muraoka Chotaro immediately shouted after reading the telegram.

"Nani, retreat?" After those generals in the command heard the words of the division commander. They all looked at each other in surprise,

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, how can we retreat now, behind is Tianjin City, there are nearly 100,000 of our people inside, what should we do if we retreat them?" A staff officer stood up and immediately asked.

"Baga, how did the Gangcun Cining Army give such an order. Yaga! Muraoka Chotaro said with a telegram behind his back.

"General, we definitely can't withdraw, we can't withdraw now, we have to withdraw our expatriates to withdraw!" The other staff officer immediately spoke, but Muraoka Chotaro did not speak, considering the real purpose of Okamura Ninji's telegram.

"Don't talk about it, let me think! The telegram said let's retreat immediately, don't delay! This telegram is very strange! Muraoka Chotaro stretched out his hand to those people and motioned for them not to speak!

"Could it be that there are a large number of troops coming behind Hu Hao, and we can't stop it at all?" A staff officer whispered.

"If you want to say it, say it louder, or don't say it!" Muraoka Chotaro glared at the staff officer and said.

"Hey, I said that there are a large number of troops coming behind Hu Hao, and we can't stop it at all, otherwise, the headquarters will not give such an order, so insulting the prestige of our imperial army!" The staff officer immediately stood up and spoke loudly.

"Well, Hu Hao personally brought over 300,000 troops this time, do you say it's a big army?" Muraoka Chotaro spoke to the staff officer.

"Ahh So much? Those staff officers immediately looked at each other, and they really didn't know this information, so they were still surprised by the 300,000 troops.

"Your Excellency the division commander, I think we have to carefully consider this telegram from the headquarters, now Hu Hao just sent the vanguard troops over, our casualties tonight are so large, if his troops come here,

And they are all as powerful as tonight, we should retreat to Tangshan and build a new line of defense, because there are not only our steel factories there, but also power plants, which are very important for our empire, and we must not afford to lose.

Although Tianjin is also very important, but it is only a port, there are some enterprises here, but Tangshan is an important place for us to control, there are a lot of iron mines in that place, once Hu Hao has occupied it, it will have a very big impact on the acquisition of our empire's resources, I think the headquarters also has this consideration! A staff officer immediately analyzed.

"This still doesn't work, if those expatriates are arrested by Hu Hao, then the military spirit of our troops will be dispersed!" The other staff officer immediately spoke.

And Muraoka Chotaro waved his hand very impatiently, and those staff officers immediately stopped talking, not daring to disturb him. Muraoka Chotaro took the telegram and went directly to the front of the map to look at it.

"We Tianjin is in no danger to defend, and Tangshan is the same, they are all plains, and those mountains are not on the main road, there is no way to block Hu Hao's attack, and pushing it over is also a dead end, there are no fortifications, and a fart!" Muraoka Chotaro looked at the map and said.

"I think the division commander should want the headquarters to send a telegram asking Weishenme to issue such an order!" The staff officer of the 4th Division suggested to Muraoka Chotaro.

"Well, I want to ask, there will be a big problem with retreating like this!" Muraoka Chotaro nodded, and began to ask the telegraph operator to send a telegram like the headquarters, asking about the situation and seeing what was going on,

At this time, it was almost 4 o'clock, Hu Hao and his troops, some of them had already arrived in front of the defense points of various places of the devils, and some were still on the road.

Because it is cold in the north every day, there is a layer of frozen soil underneath, it is not easy to dig at all, but it is not easy to dig and dig, in case the devil wants to counterattack this side, if there are no fortifications, there is only the life of running away, and the artillery is also to seize the time to repair the artillery position, to order the general attack to repair the fortifications, adjust the parameters!

On Deputy Commander Xu's side at this time, the battle had just ended, and Baoding was basically wiped out by him for more than 100,000 devils, mainly because there were too many recruits, and they didn't fight at all, and at night, the devil's ability to fight at night was still not as good as the independent army, and sometimes the devil's weapons were not as good as the independent army, and the artillery was also let the independent army get rid of it first.

So after a night of fighting, basically the devils in Baoding were wiped out, of course, there must have been some runs, but there must have been no runs.

The soldiers were also very tired after a night of fighting, and after receiving the telegram of rest, many soldiers immediately went to the dry ground, and then several people leaned together to keep warm, and the wounded were carried to the back for treatment by many people who had come to help.

"Damn, you can take it down!" Deputy Commander Xu walked to the top of the position and saw that the entire surroundings were his own soldiers, all of whom were sleeping on the ground, with a thin quilt covering their faces.

"Come on, go find something, order a few more fires here, and let the cooking class prepare hot food, kill one night, your body is covered with sweat, and you will be finished when you catch a cold!" Deputy Commander Xu originally wanted to take a look at it at first, but when he saw that his soldiers were tired like this, he immediately shouted. As soon as the signal soldiers heard this, they immediately began to give orders to the two columns.

"Lao Xu, it's time to send the telegram to the second stunned, and I also have to give a copy to the command!" Deputy Chief of Staff Liu next to him suggested to Deputy Commander Xu.

"Well, go and send it, by the way, inform our reserve soldiers, they didn't participate in the operation tonight, let them set off now, rush to Beiping, and kill those devils over there for me, if the two divisions can't do a brigade, let them chop off their own heads!" Deputy Commander Xu nodded and immediately spoke.

"Yes!" Deputy Chief of Staff Liu immediately went to the temporary headquarters to send out the two telegrams. Deputy Commander Xu stood above the position and watched, and at this time there was already a morning glow in the east.

"Damn, it's dawn!" Deputy Commander Xu looked at the distance and whispered with a smile.

On Hu Hao's side, Hu Hao had already determined the location of the temporary headquarters at this time, and those people from the guard division were helping to set up tents.

"Brother Hao. Brother Hao. Deputy Commander Xu took Baoding down and annihilated all the devils in Baoding! Lao Niu took the telegram to Hu Hao's side and said happily. Hu Hao hurriedly took it and looked at the telegram.

"Okay, it's all annihilated, damn, there are more devils left here in Hebei. Look at how Lao Tzu left you devils here today! Hu Hao was very happy after reading the telegram, and immediately said with a smile. (To be continued......)