Chapter 421: Capture Jinzhou

The pride of the Kwantung Army's Itagaki Division, the famous Japanese Army's famous general Seishiro Itagaki and his more than 56,000 soldiers, were wiped out and ceased to exist.

In the past history, in the land of North China, Itagaki was invincible, with the glorious record of defeating 37 Chinese divisions, he achieved his great reputation, today's history, Tang Qiuli ended the life of him and his division before he stepped into the land of North China.

If Tang Qiuli hadn't appeared, would Itagaki still be the same as in history? Perhaps, it can only be said that meeting Tang Qiuli is the sorrow of Itagaki Division, and it is also the inevitable ending, when Itagaki led his division to fight on the Korean Peninsula, swept across the land of Kanto, and single-handedly launched the 918 Incident, did he think about the end of the game today?

Itagaki died, from the moment he stepped on the land of China with a blood-stained sword, he was doomed to the current ending, but he himself did not expect that this ending would come so early, so fast, so unimaginable.

The Itagaki Division folded its wings at Shanhaiguan, the North China Battlefield, without the Itagaki Division, there would be no capital that the Japanese Army could be proud of later, and Itagaki was not the first Japanese general to die at the hands of the Independent Division and Tang Qiuli, and it was certainly not the last.

The two divisions of the second echelon of the Kwantung Army Southward Corps, on the way to the march, listened to the sound of artillery that did not stop all night, and they were anxious, and the order given to them by the Supreme Commander of the Kwantung Army was to rescue the Itagaki Division at any cost, otherwise, the commanders of the two divisions would apologize for their crimes.

Why don't they want to speed up, the commander's order is on the one hand, the army of the same Japanese Empire, there is no reason not to save when you see death, not to mention, one division commander and Itagaki still have incense love, and the other division commander also admires Itagaki very much, so the two divisions have more than 70,000 Japanese troops, and they almost fly.

However, the weather did not fulfill people's wishes, and the muddy and waterlogged roads after the rain greatly limited the marching speed of the troops, and in addition to the constant care of the special operations detachments of the independent division along the way, the marching speed of the Japanese troops was even much slower than usual.

The commanders of the two Japanese divisions were also full of lawsuits, the hateful Shina people, xiǎo stealing xiǎomō's work, on the road, from time to time a few loaded mines exploded violently, and the Shina people were tied to at least a dozen grenades on the mines.

Finally put the formation in order, a dense burst of bullets flew, and they were specially designed to hit cars or tow artillery horses, including mortar shells, several bullet yào cars were detonated, and many soldiers were killed and wounded.

The troops set up a formation, but the people of China slipped away like loaches, the whole team advanced, did not take a few steps, the scene in front of it, and re-staged, the people of China stuck like a gadfly, so they had to send a squadron of troops to pursue, fight and walk, along the way, the commanders of the two Japanese divisions did not know how many squadrons of soldiers were sent.

After a distance of more than 50 kilometers, he walked more than six times, leaving behind the lives and hands and feet of more than 1,000 soldiers, more than 30 burning trucks, and dozens of dead war horses, and when he arrived at the east bank of the Liugu River, it was already more than seven o'clock in the morning when he reached the sunny morning.

The commanders of the two Japanese divisions carefully observed the movement on the other side of the river with binoculars, all of them were quiet, the wind in the field swept through the treetops, and there was no appearance of a jī battle, if it was not for the turned soil, it meant that this place had been devastated by Yan zhòng, and it was almost as complete as ever.

The commanders of the two divisions discussed, and it seemed that the battle was over, and that Itagaki-kun and his division had either been annihilated or had broken through, and there was no need to cross the river, so they reported the situation to the Kwantung Army Headquarters with their own opinions.

The commander of the Kwantung Army, General Minamijiro, was furious, and there was no news from the Itagaki Division so far, and Itagaki did not see anyone alive or dead, and these two guys were not even in the mood to go to the battlefield to check it out, and their conscience was greatly broken.

In the telegram, in addition to bitterly reprimanding the commanders of the two divisions, he strictly ordered them to cross the Liugu River, close to the Shanhaiguan, the original plan to reinforce the North China battlefield remained unchanged, and quickly arrived at the city of Beiping, the commander of the Xiangyue Qingji, was in a hurry to hit the wall, and also to find the whereabouts of the Itagaki Division and understand the whole process of the battle.

After receiving the order, the commanders of the two divisions did not dare to slack off, they all knew that the Itagaki Division was the lifeblood of the base camp and the Kwantung Army Headquarters, and Itagaki was a friend and classmate of the Chief of Staff Tojo-kun, and now, his whereabouts are unknown, so it is strange that the commander is not angry?

The Japanese sappers were busy erecting bridges over the Liugu River, and when they were busy for more than two days, they finally erected five pontoon bridges, and the Japanese troops began to cross the bridges, and the bridges were small and many, and most of the Japanese troops used rubber rafts as tools to cross the river, and all the heavy weapons and baggage were temporarily left on the east bank of the river.

It was nearly noon, more than 70,000 Japanese troops, more than 40,000 people had crossed, and the rest were also crossing the river, two division commanders, following the vanguard, set foot on the west bank of the Liugu River, under careful observation, they were startled, the ground was no longer clear to distinguish the craters, the dark red blood had stained the mud red, the broken military uniform was in the soil, lù out of a corner, it was the military uniform of the imperial army.

To achieve this effect, it can only be shelled by no less than five heavy artillery wings at the same time, Itagaki Jun is more auspicious and less auspicious, it is very likely that the whole army is broken, under the sun, the torn military flag, the red sun is divided in half, the breeze blows, the military flag trembles a few times, and it lies weakly on the blood-stained soil, as if telling the final fate of the Itagaki Division.

The two division commanders suddenly shivered, and the wreckage everywhere already showed how strong the opponent of the Itagaki Division was, so what about themselves? I asked myself, whether it was the strength and equipment of the troops, or the combat effectiveness and fighting will of the soldiers, they were far inferior to Itagaki Jun's division.

Where is this devilish army now? Is it not far ahead, staring at themselves like poisonous snakes, they have an extreme uneasiness in their hearts, this time the road to the south, absolutely not safe, finally, it was decided to send a large group of troops, as the avant-garde search force of the second echelon of the southbound corps, after finding out the situation, the troops decided on the next move.

Commander Minamijiro's order must be carried out, but it must be carried out on the premise of keeping the old book, and the caution of the commanders of the two Japanese divisions is the second echelon of the Kwantung Army's southward corps, so as to avoid falling into the end of the annihilation of the whole army.

After Tang Qiuli received the information of the special operations detachment, he calculated the time, and the troops had no time to rearrange, so he used the battlefield here to give the follow-up troops of the Kwantung Army's southward corps, and dealt a head-on blow, and he wanted to use the same pot to cook dumplings twice.

Not far from the front, more than 100,000 troops were in full formation, and the artillery of the artillery brigade had already entered a state of waiting for attack, and the Japanese troops of this brigade had sabotaged Tang Qiu's plan to completely annihilate the Japanese army.

He ordered to launch an attack in advance, or the artillery brigade was the first to launch, the old flock of shells, tearing the air, flying over with a strange scream, the first round of shells, accurately smashed into the formation of the Japanese army, the coordinates determined in advance, how can there be a reason for mistakes.

The smoke of gunpowder was billowing, the cannon was rumbling, the Japanese troops in the assembled state were caught off guard and were blown down, what is called a half-crossing and attack, that is, the shells fell in the Liugu River, the water column that soared into the sky, the rubber raft was hit by the whistling shrapnel and deflated, the Japanese soldiers on the raft fell into the water like dumplings, and were carried into the distance by the jī stream, in front of which is the vast sea, China's Liaodong Bay, can it accommodate these invaders?

Some rubber rafts were directly hit by shells, and the sky-high water column hún combined with the limbs of the Japanese soldiers, flying into the sky, and the five pontoon bridges were simply lucky, such a fierce shelling, unharmed.

The shells exploded into a sea of fire at the Japanese shore assembly area, and the panicked Japanese soldiers, crowded the Tongguò pontoon bridge, fled in the direction of Jinzhou, not that they did not have the determination to fight, but such a fierce artillery fire, which the Japanese soldiers had never seen before, and fear had overwhelmed their courage and bushido jīng god.

As soon as the shelling began, one of the two division commanders was lucky enough to win the lottery, his car was directly hit by a large-caliber shell, and exploded into a ball of fireball, a pile of scrap iron and broken ròu, which was another Japanese lieutenant general-level senior officer who was beheaded by Tang Qiuli within three days.

The shelling suddenly became known, just as it was when it came, and the Japanese soldiers who were rushing to retreat were greatly relieved, and suddenly, the ground trembled, and billowing smoke and dust rose from the west, and the sharp-eyed Japanese soldiers could already see a saber as dense as a forest, and under the sun, the cold light was dazzling.

Then, the cavalry of the brigade appeared on the horizon, the sound of horses' hooves was like countless huge drums beating, and the dust raised by jī shrouded the cavalry and the war horses under them, like a cloud and a mist, and the Japanese soldiers were so surprised that they almost fainted.

Tang Qiuli saw that the form of the battle had changed, and the originally scheduled battle of annihilation could only be fought into a rout, so he urgently transferred the cavalry troops up, and took advantage of the fact that the Japanese army was panicked by artillery to suddenly kill and give it a fatal blow.

The retreat of the Japanese army evolved into a total rout, tens of thousands of Japanese troops, swarming towards the direction of Jinzhou, the Japanese artillery units on the east bank of the Liugu River, mortars were still on horseback, and large-caliber artillery was still being pulled by several mules and horses, and was preparing to cross the river.

The panicked soldiers flew away from the horses, dragged the artillery carts like crazy and rampaged through the crowd, overturning many Japanese soldiers, five deliberately reserved pontoon bridges were used, and the cavalry of four brigades, more than 26,000 horses, rushed across the pontoon bridges like a gust of wind, and rushed over with the backs of the defeated Japanese soldiers.

On the land of western Liaoning, horses' hooves were flying, gunshots were everywhere, and the cavalry troops did not stop when they passed Xingcheng and Huludao, and they still did not stop, I don't know how many Japanese soldiers fell under the sabers, and the follow-up troops only saw the corpses of Japanese soldiers everywhere and the guns thrown by Luàn, and even Tang Qiuli did not know where the cavalry who had killed Xìng had rushed to.

Rushed to the city of Jinzhou, several cavalry brigade commanders discussed, simply took Jinzhou City, more than 20,000 cavalry, rushed into Jinzhou City like a dark cloud, the Kwantung Army went south to the second echelon of the corps, in order to strengthen the troops, reinforced the Itagaki Division, and transferred the defenders of Jinzhou, Chōu.

The cavalry almost did not encounter decent resistance, and occupied the city of Jinzhou, and the Japanese soldiers who fled back did not know that Jinzhou had changed hands, and entered the city stupidly, and naturally became ghosts under the sword.

When Tang Qiuli arrived in Jinzhou, thousands of cavalry formed a huge guard of honor to welcome their commanders into the city, under the afterglow of the setting sun, the sword light was like autumn water, under the eager gaze of the soldiers, Tang Qiuli returned to Jinzhou.

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