Ouyang Yun rushed to Qianhu, and as soon as he got out of the car, he heard the sound of cannons coming from the direction of Lion Gate suddenly became violent. He turned his head to look and saw hundreds of fireballs smashing in one direction after another, and then, the top of Lion Gate Mountain, which had only occasionally flashed a few flames, was completely enveloped in flames. He was stunned at first, and then heard Huang Hua shouting: "Commander-in-chief, Division Commander Menqueri reports that the Eighteenth Division has begun to evacuate. ”

"Oh!" Ouyang Yun replied and sighed thoughtfully.

The battle at Qianhu, in terms of situation, has changed from an offensive and defensive battle to an encirclement and suppression war. Once the chariot troops of the Ninth Division appeared behind the Eastern Route Army, Yamamuro Sotake realized that he had no chance left. Even if Commander Okamura immediately attacked from the Lion Gate, in the absence of weapons that could suppress the tanks of the Cadet Army, the pure infantry would only increase casualties.

The death squad, the jade crushing special attack - Yamamuro Sotake and Yamada Joji also tried, but it didn't work. The 9th Division originally had a brigade of infantry, and the 3rd Division reinforced a brigade of infantry. In front of the combination of three carts and two steps, there are no excellent weapons, and other fancy things made by manpower can only delay the time of the annihilation of the whole army at most. The special attack battle that was once the pride of the little devils, as one after another the devil soldiers of the death squad turned into a humanoid torch of martyrdom, their most powerful magic weapon failed.

More than 200 "mandrills," "Chinese alligators," "platypus" and a similar number of armored vehicles lined up, followed by rows of cadet soldiers, and then behind were the artillery regiments of the Third Division. Regardless of whether you little devil is in a frontal defensive formation, or organize a death squad to launch a special attack, or spread out the formation and strengthen the depth of defense, I just have one move - first bombardment with heavy artillery, then a salvo of tank guns, machine guns, and battle defense artillery, and then the chariots open the way, machine guns strafe, and the cadet army follows the charge.

The fighting style of the student army is very arrogant and rude, but because of its absolute superiority in weapons, even if the Japanese have the will to fight, no matter how sacrificed they are, no matter how unwilling they are, they have no choice. There is never truth in the battlefield of your life and death, and if you want to say anything, it is also the biggest fist.

After an hour and a half of fierce fighting, Yamamuro Munetake and Yamada Joji successively organized nine brigades to defend, and then concentrated a wing to launch a fierce attack on the western shore of the front lake. However, it was in vain.

The artillery regiment of the 3rd Division was only responsible for the attack at first, and then simply began to help the defenders on the west bank of the former lake to defend.

The gap between those with artillery and those without artillery is huge, and the gap between those with and without tanks is equally huge (the Japanese also had chariots at the beginning, but they didn't dare to fight against the chariots of the Cadet Army, so naturally there was no chance to play), and in addition, the Cadet Army's infantry and combat coordination operations were already quite skillful, and the Japanese army's special attack tactics that had made achievements in the past were useless, so it was inevitable that the war situation began to show a one-sided trend.

The sound of artillery rumbling and gunfire was bursting, and seeing that the troops around him were fighting less and less, but the student army was becoming more and more courageous, Yamamuro and Yamada Chiro Road were gone, and after having Hashimoto Nozomi send a telegram to Okamura Ninji to report the situation, the devils of about three brigades nearby were organized and began to break through. With nearly a squadron of gendarmes to open a passage from the north shore of Qianhu Lake, Yamamuro Munetake led more than 2,000 devils to scurry with their heads in their arms - and behind them, there were still thousands of devils fluttering, struggling, and shouting on the surface of Qianhu Lake, and in addition, there were three or four thousand devils forming a dozen small formations to resist stubbornly.

Break it with one blow, and then break it all by one.

Ouyang Yun dared to let the Eighteenth Division withdraw from the Lion Gate, just because he knew that the battle at Qianhu was nearing its end.

"Capture Yamamuro Sotake alive!"

"Capture Joji Yamada alive!"

"Brothers, kill the devil!"

"Rush!"

On the east and west shores of the front lake, the sound of shouting and killing shook the sky, and the flares flew into the sky one after another, illuminating the surroundings transparently.

Large-scale battles no longer exist, more often than not, encirclement and annihilation battles in regimental units. Tank guns, machine guns, and anti-aircraft guns were in the front, and the infantry followed behind the chariots to launch a charge, machine gun fire, grenade bombardment, and then submachine guns and assault rifles swept - no devils surrendered. Because they know that surrender is death. It is no secret that the "battlefield discipline" of the student army is no longer a secret, and after the deliberate exaggeration of the Japanese army base camp, the current devil is especially more afraid of being captured than dying in battle.

Because of this incident, Jiang Guangnai once debated with Ouyang Yun. As a Chinese soldier in the true traditional sense, he has a strong complex of the Celestial Empire, so it is overkill to think that imposing battlefield discipline on the prisoners will not only damage the dignity of the Celestial Empire, but also provoke the stubborn resistance of the remnants of the Japanese army and increase the casualties of the troops.

Ouyang Yun refuted him with a sentence - those who offend my Chinese Tianwei will be punished even if they are far away! Otherwise, it is not enough to deter the Quartet. The Celestial Empire has its own temperament, but it is definitely not now, nor is it a bandit state that is ungrateful and renegade.

The fewer the little devils remain, the more fierce the resistance. Although the gunfire of the 38 big cover was wrapped in the gunfire of the Weiqing-style and disease-free guns, it also brought considerable casualties to the Xuebing Army. Every time a comrade-in-arms dies, the surrounding student soldiers will attack more and more fiercely. White-knuckle battles began to occur in many places, and the cadet soldiers, who had absolutely the upper hand in numbers, often greeted one by three or four, so one devil after another was executed "battlefield discipline" and lost their heads.

Some scholars couldn't find the devil to fight, so they pointed their guns at the devil who was struggling on the lake, and began to clean up the battlefield.

Lion's Gate, an indiscriminate saturation of the 18th Division's retreat, left hardly a living hole above. The whole two brigades of devils were screaming with excitement because of the rout of the Jewish cadets, and the next moment they were completely engulfed by the fire curtain set off by the continuous explosion of hundreds of shells.

Reedian volunteered to stay behind to thwart the Japanese pursuit, which made Menquilli feel more and more guilty and sorry for him. So there was the next shelling at any cost: "Give me a hard bombardment, I want all the Japanese to give Reedan their burial!" ”

This round of shelling came suddenly and violently, startling Yokoyama who was about to go up to the top of the mountain in a cold sweat. He was crushed under him by several gendarmes, his heart was pounding, and he thought: It's over, if the student army repeatedly uses this trick, we won't have so many troops to consume. With this in mind, he ordered the resumption of the offensive only five minutes after the shelling had stopped.

"Your Excellency, the Jews have run away!" A captain shouted from above.

Yokoyama bravely climbed to the top of the mountain, and saw the convoy of the 18th Division that had gone away, so he came to his senses, and he was about to give the order to pursue, when a herald suddenly shouted from the bottom of the mountain: "Commander order, retreat!" ”

"Retreat?!" "Why do you want to retreat?!" When I climbed to the top of the mountain, there was a lot of doubt. Many officers surrounded Yokoyama, waiting for him to come up with an idea.

Yokoyama glanced in the direction of Qianhu and saw several fireballs exploding, he sighed and said, "The Eastern Route Army may have been defeated!" Withdraw! ”

All the devils who heard this sentence were stunned.