Soon after Kosuke Otsuka led the wing headquarters, artillery, and engineers into Toyoden Castle with a high spirit, the sound of gunfire basically subsided. At this time, it was not yet noon.

According to the guidance of the Aikawa Brigade, which entered the city in advance, Otsuka set up the wing headquarters in the courtyard of the county government. The Wing Commander did not look for or set up a local maintenance officer as he did in Junling—in Junling, he was stationed in the camp for a long time, and here, he was only temporarily suspended. What's more, Kosuke Otsuka is going to sack the city next, and with the presence of local officials, it will be a lot of inconvenience.

He first established the sequence of garrisons.

In view of the fact that the two squadrons of the Nara Infantry Brigade had just arrived from the Imperial Tomb and had not experienced the fierce fighting of the two days, the task of garrisoning the fortifications on all sides was entrusted to them: two squadrons with a total of six squadrons, guarding the four gates and gate towers, and patrolling the four walls.

The engineer squadron had other important tasks and was stationed near the county government with the wing headquarters.

The Field Artillery Brigade, the Xiangchuan Infantry Brigade, and the Fukuda Infantry Brigade were scattered throughout the city.

A cavalry squadron that patrols and communicates in the city.

The cavalry squadron led by Iwata Shaosa, who returned only after the fighting in the castle had subsided, went to the valley battlefield where they were ambushed by the Eighth Route Army yesterday and brought back the tragic corpses of the cavalrymen killed in battle.

And the casualties of the entire wing in the city-breaking battle and the street fighting in the city are not unmistakable.

The Chinese army was routed, but most of the people in the city finally prevented them from escaping. Otsuka Yasuke ordered the capture of the young and strong people of China, ordered them to collect the bodies of the imperial officers and soldiers, gather them in several empty places in the city, and burn them for cremation. The Japanese army has a long tradition of collecting the ashes of fallen soldiers, and if they do not have time to cremate during an emergency march or retreat, they will also chop off one of their hands or one finger from the corpse and take them away. Therefore, Iwata Shaosa's act of discarding the corpses of his subordinates yesterday was severely criticized by the wing commander.

The mental state of the entire wing became very low at the beginning of the cremation ceremony, and the officers and men, who had been enjoying themselves in a peaceful atmosphere for more than two months, could not accept the heavy damage they had suffered in just two days. Looking at the corpses of their companions in the flames, many people wailed.

Kosuke Otsuka knew it was time for these wounded beasts to vent their pain and lick their wounds. He ordered that from now until noon the day after tomorrow, the wing would be on holiday, and the officers and men would be allowed to carry out all free activities in the city.

Thousands of orc soldiers suddenly scattered in the city and began a wanton and crazy ransacking.

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Xia Lily's master and servant carried their young son, and although the flow of people on the avenue had severed their connection with the soldier who was escorting them, they still slowly approached the south gate with difficulty.

At this time, the fleeing team of tens of thousands of people had already crowded the south gate. The sound of gunfire in the center of the city intensified behind the people, and all the people had only one thought: to flee from the city as soon as possible.

Suddenly, a dense burst of gunfire rang out outside the city gate, and the riot near the city gate cave became even more violent, and Xia Lily and the others were horrified to find that the flow of people began to pour from outside the city to the city!

Soon, a terrible news spread: a large number of devils appeared outside the south gate, and they set up machine guns in front of them and fired at the people leaving the city. At the south gate, the few soldiers of the Central Army began to fire outside the city, but this attracted the shelling of the devils outside the city, and the city gate tower was blown up to black smoke; The defenders resisted for a few more moments and then retreated along the walls.

The Japanese army outside the south gate was a squadron of the Nara Brigade of the Otsuka Wing that had just been reinforced, led by the captain Nara Shaosa, who was under the latest order of the Captain of the Wing to monitor the movements of the defenders and not let the people, especially women, go out of the city. Under the fire of several light machine guns spread out in a fan, the unarmed people who had already left the city left behind a large number of corpses and retreated back into the city crying and screaming.

Nara Shaosa also used a grenadier detachment to drive away the Shina soldiers who resisted on the castle gate.

Then, cautiously, they entered the inner city through the gate hole, occupied the empty gate tower, and closed the gate.

All of this was seen by the master and servant of Xia Lily, who was stranded near the south gate, and they saw the face of the Japanese soldiers with loaded guns for the first time, although they were not the legendary blue-faced fangs, but they still felt a cold fear to the bone.

The more than 200 Japanese soldiers in and out of the city did not continue to shoot at the people in the city, they just held the city gate, and climbed the city gate tower and the city walls on the left and right, lined up, each of them was far apart, holding a big gun with bayonets, monitoring the fleeing crowd below.

The people who were crowded under the city, seeing that there was no hope of leaving the city, began to turn back to their homes. At this moment, home is undoubtedly the best refuge. Xia Lily, who usually lives in a simple house, can't run anymore, but she discussed it with Sun Nier and decided to go home the same way; Although the gunfire is shaking the sky in the direction of home, after all, there are your own soldiers, and it is better than facing these creepy little devils here.

Suddenly, there was a fluctuation in the crowd closest to the city gate, accompanied by hoarse cries; It was a few Japanese soldiers who rushed into the crowd of refugees, pulled out two young girls, and dragged them to the city gate; Some of the refugees fought desperately with the Japanese soldiers for the girl, who was supposed to be their relative, but gunshots rang out, a dozen shots rang out in a row, and the fluctuating crowd screamed and retreated, then turned and fled.

Five or six corpses were left on the ground exposed in the open field, and the two young girls were eventually dragged into the deep hole in the city gate.

Xia Lily was stunned by the tragic scene only a few dozen meters away, she sat on the side of the road, her face was pale, trembling all over, the young woman who had not eaten much in the morning, after a morning of fear and turmoil, and then stimulated by this scene, her mind was dizzy for a while, and her limbs were as soft as mud. Sun Nier, who was on the side, came back to her senses and hurriedly went to hold the child in the housewife's arms, and tried to help her up with her other hand.

They were looked at by Nara Shaosa, who was scanning down with a telescope on the head of the castle.

Shao Zuo occupied and closed the south gate without success, and his heart was relaxed and ecstatic. After receiving the order to rush to the front line of Fengdian, Shaozo already had a premonition that there would be several bloody battles, otherwise, Captain Otsuka would not have called for reinforcements in Bingfa Fengdian for only one day; He originally thought that the Chinese army in the city would break through from the south gate, and he only relied on the strength of a squadron to rush over to surround it, and it would be difficult to support it alone. What he never expected was that the inner city was still roaring with guns, but he stood on the top of the city without blood.

Therefore, when he found that several soldiers were shooting and robbing women by the door hole under the city, Nara Shaoza not only did not say anything to restrain him, but laughed out loud: Since these warriors have nothing to fight, then simply beat the idea of beating women.

Nara Shaosa himself also quickly saw and locked on the fair and beautiful face of the young woman Xia Yuri from the horizon of the high-powered military telescope.

"Oh, do you see?" Shao Zuo pointed to the position of Xia Lily's master and servant not far from the city, and said to a warrant officer beside him: "Bring those two women back to me!" ”