Chapter 545: The Japanese Army Flees

The position of the field artillery wing of the 16th Division, not far from the Japanese heavy artillery wing, was a different scene, and the 152 heavy howitzers of the heavy artillery brigade and the 50 heavy howitzers and artillery of the artillery regiment concentrated their fire on this position. At this time, most of the Japanese troops had already entered the camp to rest, and the shells rained down, blowing up the place into a sea of fire. One of the Japanese artillery pieces became a pile of scrap metal in the explosion, and many soldiers lost their lives in their sleep.

After the heavy artillery brigade stopped shelling, the armored brigade, which had already been ready to go, began a surprise attack on the Japanese army with 35 heavy Cheetah tanks of the Cheetah Tank Regiment as the vanguard. Behind the Cheetah Tank Regiment was the Type 62 Light Tank Regiment, and the 272nd Brigade of the 90th Division was the 545th Regiment of the 272nd Brigade of the 90th Division.

Before the Japanese could calm down from the shelling, the lights had already pierced the position, and the lights were followed by the roar of the engines. The commander of the 33rd Wing, Suzuki Tatsunosuke Osa, who was at the forefront of the 16th Division, also wanted to organize the remaining forces to block the surprise attack of the Chinese army, but in front of the Cheetah tank, the Japanese army's blocking was like a praying mantis blocking the car, and it was broken up by the Cheetah tank with a single burst of artillery fire and machine guns.

The Cheetah heavy tank pushed along the road as if it were no one, and the officers and men of the Japanese position were already retreating. Seeing such a powerful artillery fire of the 90th Army, Lieutenant General Shiro Makino fell into an ice cellar. The current Lieutenant General Shiro Makino no longer has the idea of a decisive battle with the 90th Army, he understands that the 90th Army has set a trap for himself, and he is deeply trapped in this trap.

Lieutenant General Shiro Makino ordered the entire army to retreat, but in the chaos, it is unknown how many people can hear his orders. Lieutenant General Shiro Makino, under the protection of the guards of one of his squadrons, hurriedly retreated, sheltering the scattered officers and soldiers as he retreated, and when he retreated to the original position of the heavy artillery wing, Lieutenant General Shiro Makino had already gathered several thousand soldiers around him.

There was silence on the position of the Heavy Artillery Wing, and as soon as Lieutenant General Makino Shiro arrived, the strange scene in front of him frightened him and the people around him. On the ground of thousands of square meters, all the weapons and ammunition were intact, but all the officers and soldiers died on the ground, and the dead officers and soldiers even had their clothes intact, but their faces were painful, as if they had died of suffocation.

This strange scene frightened the already nervous Japanese officers and soldiers who could not even escape, and many of them fell to their knees with weak legs. But soon the sound of guns, shouts of killing, and the roar of the engine behind him woke up Lieutenant General Makino Shiro and his officers and men, and Lieutenant General Makino Shiro took the lead in bypassing the place and continued to flee backwards.

At this time, the armored brigade and the four regiments of the 90th Division had converged and pursued the Japanese along the road, and the Japanese army also turned from retreat to rout. However, the width of the road was limited, and so many teams were chasing and killing the Japanese army, and only the heavy tank regiment in front and the 545th Regiment of the 90th Division really exchanged fire. And the 544th Regiment at the end of the team directly became the unit responsible for cleaning up the battlefield.

After Lieutenant General Makino Shiro led nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers to escape from the hellish battlefield, he finally calmed down, and then Lieutenant General Makino Shiro captured a lieutenant officer, and did not ask him which wing he was, and directly ordered him to lead his men to repair the fortifications here, while containing the rout behind them, and at the same time blocking the chasing Shina troops.

Seeing that this Nakasa led hundreds of soldiers to repair the fortifications on the spot, Lieutenant General Makino Shiro calmed down and continued to retreat with the rest of the people. Lieutenant General Shiro Makino had not yet walked a kilometer or two when the sound of artillery suddenly sounded on the hillside of the road, and then one by one* exploded in the ranks. Then a dense burst of gunfire rang out on the hillside.

The sudden attack plunged the Japanese army into confusion again, and Lieutenant General Shiro Makino could not tell how many troops there were on the hillside at night, but he knew that there would be no fewer people when he heard the sound of gunfire. The Japanese troops in front of them were already falling in the confusion, and Makino Shiro ordered to charge forward along the road regardless of everything. After Shiro Makino's order was conveyed by the officers around him, the chaos in the ranks gradually calmed down.

At this time, some officers organized soldiers to return fire on the hillside and charge forward along the road, and in the process of charging, a large number of soldiers fell to death on the road. When Lieutenant General Shiro Makino, under the protection of the convoy, rushed over the hillside, the troops lost a large number of soldiers. At this time, Makino Shiro couldn't care so much, and just ordered a retreat in the direction of Jiangzhou Town.

The team had gone a short distance when the attack came again on the hillside by the roadside, and Makino Shiro lamented, at this point he knew that he had fallen into the trap set by the Shina army, no matter how stupid he was. Finally rushing over the hillside again, Makino Shiro's team was only a few thousand people. In this way, the attacks continued along the way, and Lieutenant General Makinoshiro's team continued to decrease, and finally Lieutenant General Makino Shiro fled to Natongshan with more than 3,000 people, and after that, he walked out of the mountainous area, and it was not far from Jiangzhou Town.

As soon as he walked to the foot of Nakiriyama, the team in front of him stopped, and Lieutenant General Shiro Makino, who was already a frightened bird, was shocked again. Soon an officer ran over and reported to Lieutenant General Shiro Makino that the road ahead had been cut off by the Shina army, and that there was a position for the Shina army on the road. Lieutenant General Shiro Makino looked at the defeated remnants of the soldiers around him, and he couldn't help but feel a pang of despair in his heart.

Just when Lieutenant General Shiro Makino was in despair, the captain of the Ninth Wing beside him, Hotaka Kamiya, stood up. Kamiya Preservation Osa bowed to Lieutenant General Shiro Makino and said, "Your Excellency the Division Commander, your subordinates are willing to lead the Ninth Wing to break away the detachment's position for Your Excellency the Division Commander. Kamiya Hotaka Daisa's words were like a shot in the arm, and Lieutenant General Makino Shiro saw hope again.

Lieutenant General Makino Shiro had a smile on his face, and said to Kamiya Hotaka Daisa: "Yo Xi! Kamiya-kun is worthy of being a warrior of the empire, everything is up to Kamiya-kun!" Lieutenant General Kamiya Shiro didn't say anything more, commanded the remaining more than 1,000 soldiers of the Ninth Wing, and came to the front of the team. On the road is the position of the 877th Regiment of the 462nd Brigade of the 211th Division.

A day earlier, brigade commander Li Changwu ordered the road under the mountain to be cut off, and the 877th Regiment cut off the road on the road in the direction of Zhengzuo City, and set up a blocking position to block the fleeing Japanese troops. In the direction of Jiangzhou Town, after the 879th Regiment cut off the road, a blocking position was set up to block the rescue of the Japanese army in the direction of Jiangzhou Town. The mortars carried by the regiment up the hill were concentrated at the top of the hill to support the two positions.

As soon as Kamiya Yasataka arrived at the front of the ranks, he ordered his troops to launch a decisive charge against the opposing position. In this desperate situation, the Japanese soldiers also understood that it was possible to withdraw only by breaking through the defensive line of the opposing Chinese army. Therefore, the ferocity in the bones also came into play. The soldiers were gun in hand, shouting, "Your Majesty the Emperor, Itaya!" and rushed forward desperately.

On the position of the 877th Regiment, a battalion at the front, more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns were lined up, and these dozen light and heavy machine guns were enough to seal the road that was not wide. Seeing that the Japanese were charging, the battalion commander Wu Zhijun ordered to open fire. More than a dozen machine guns spat out tongues of fire, and bullets flew like a rain of bullets towards the charging Japanese troops. At night, the vision was not good, and the Japanese troops who were charging on the position were just a shadow, but the fire network composed of more than a dozen machine guns had completely blocked the way for the Japanese army to charge.

The night also affected the sight of the Japanese army, and the Japanese soldiers, who were not bad at marksmanship, could only shoot blindly at the position at this time, and such blind shooting was extremely lethal to the fortified defenders. On the contrary, the Japanese troops who charged fell one by one in front of the dense fire net. While commanding his subordinates to charge, Kamiya saved Osa and ordered the two officers around him to organize the charge again.

Half an hour passed, and more than 1,000 Japanese troops of the Ninth Wing, who launched a decisive charge, and the captain of the wing, Kamiya Yasutaka Osa, fell on the way to the charge. When the situation was reported to Lieutenant General Shiro Makino, Lieutenant General Shiro Makino sat down on the ground with a dull expression. It took a while for Lieutenant General Shiro Makino to remember to send a telegram to Commander Masaharu Honma asking for help.

As early as the gunfire rang out at Nakiriyama, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma had a bad feeling, and he ordered the town's cavalry squadron to go out of the city to find out what was going on. Before the cavalry squadron could report back, a telegram from Lieutenant General Shiro Makino for help arrived. The telegram made Lieutenant General Honma Masaharu almost disbelieve his eyes, and the 30,000 elite troops were in a situation where the entire army was about to be wiped out in just a few days, which made Lieutenant General Honma Masaharu unacceptable at all.

After calling and asking again, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma believed this fact. Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma scolded in the headquarters repeatedly: "The face of the fool, the pig, and the Imperial Japanese Army has made Shiro Makino, you fool, lose everything!" After scolding for a long time, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma still drew a brigade from the baggage wing, plus a squadron of military police, and rushed to Nakiriyama to rescue Shiro Makino and them.

Lieutenant General Shiro Makino could no longer afford to attack the front position, as the Chinese army pursuing behind him had already arrived. After blocking the Japanese army, these two regiments immediately formed a team and launched a pursuit along the highway against the fleeing Japanese army, and the commander of the 461st Brigade was Liu Mingde, who was responsible for commanding it.

The remaining 2,000 Japanese troops were huddled together on the road, with Lieutenant General Shiro Makino and his escort in the center. After the pursuing Chinese troops came up, the Japanese fired desperately behind simple fortifications, preventing the Chinese army from pursuing. On the front of the road, which was not wide, the Japanese army's firepower network made it difficult for the pursuing 874th Regiment and 875th Regiment to annihilate the Japanese army.

The two sides were held at once, the 874th Regiment could not attack, and the Japanese army could not escape. The 874th Regiment also launched an attack under the cover of mortars, but the Japanese desperately blocked it, and finally the 874th Regiment had to withdraw back, and the attacking troops still had losses. The situation did not last long, and the heavy tank regiment of the armored brigade and the 545th regiment of the coordinated operation caught up.