Chapter 331: The Curtain Falls? (For Davarichski 10/10)
Time: August 6, around 12 noon.
With almost 32 hours left until the second stage of the Zhongzhou team was completed, Hu Biao and the others were still fighting.
Squeezing out the last bit of potential in his body, he relied on the few remaining fortifications to fight against the attacking Japanese in the increasingly shabby Xinshi Street.
During this period, the morphine carried by Black Chinese Medicine Doctor and An Tusheng was rapidly consumed.
It's not that they don't know the side effects of using this thing, but it's just that now, other eyes can't pay much attention to such a thing.
It's just that the last few people in the supplementary group are guarding such an important piece of land in Xinshi Street and will not be robbed by the Japanese.
They don't know that the only intact building in Hengyang City today is the building of the former Central Bank of Hengyang City.
A meeting regarding the future fate of Hengyang City is ongoing.
At that time, Hu Biao and the others were lucky to have fought for two consecutive days, two nights, and one morning.
The intensity of the enemy's attack in front of them turned out to be somewhat weak, and they gradually became more aggressive.
I don’t know if it’s because the Japanese finally turned their attention to other directions after they found that Xinshi Street was such a breakthrough point and couldn’t break in.
But forget it, at least Hu Biao and the others, who have reached the limit of their physical strength, can breathe a sigh of relief.
Taking advantage of this little time, they bandaged their wounds and had some food and water; if possible, they also hoped to sleep for a while.
Even if it's only half an hour, that's great...
Among the participants of that important meeting, in addition to the commander of the 10th Army, General Fang, there were also the Army Chief of Staff, the 3rd Division, the 10th Preliminary Division, and the 190th Division, three division commanders under him.
There were five people in total, and they discussed the fate of everyone in the city.
The topic of the meeting is very simple, and Hengyang City will definitely not be able to defend it.
At this point in the fight, the entire Hengyang City has only a few hundred soldiers at its disposal, and the rest are thousands of wounded.
So next, are they going to break through?
After all, it is now the 45th day of such a mission that only needs to be adhered to at the beginning. It can be said that the entire 10th Army has fulfilled its original promise long ago.
Even if he breaks through like this, he is worthy of everyone.
Regarding the simplicity of breaking out of the encirclement, Commander Fang raised this question:
"If we really want to break out of the encirclement, it's very simple. As long as we supplement the regiment with Hu Biao's people as the backbone, and add dozens of people as the forwards, I believe we can easily break out; but what about the more than 6,000 wounded in the city?
After fighting for so many years, everyone already knows who the Japanese are, and they are probably just killing people to vent their anger."
Faced with such a heart-wrenching question, everyone else at the meeting fell silent; because no one could say the words to give up so many brothers.
In the end, the result of such a meeting still ended with the 10th Army defending Hengyang City for as long as it could.
In the following time, General Fang tried to commit suicide with a gun, but his subordinates knocked the pistol out of his hand in time.
After the suicide attempt failed, General Fang sent Bald Hair a final farewell message.
In such a farewell message, General Fang expressed his determination to live or die with Hengyang City and all his soldiers.
By the way! After reading this telegram, Baldhead burst into tears.
Of course, I feel sorry that one of my capable and reliable generals is about to die in battle. This incident is only one of the reasons, not even the main reason.
The main reason is that during this period, Master Luo, the eldest son of Uncle Sam's family, was planning to let the bald man hand over the command of his men in view of the continuous defeats in the Chinese battlefield.
Let an old white man named Shi with little experience in commanding troops take over as the commander of an army worth millions.
Otherwise, the bald man will not continue to provide material assistance.
Without the continuous supply of supplies from Uncle Sam's house, to be honest, Baldhead would not have any confidence in such a war.
But if he really handed over his military power, wouldn't all his hard work over the years be in vain?
In addition, compared with the process of the Guo army's continuous defeats and ground losses, the armed forces composed of those mud-legged soldiers have developed vigorously behind enemy lines.
It is said that part of the reason is that they have an extra cannon made of large oil barrels.
The accuracy of this thing is a bit off, and it is definitely not as good as the 75 and 105 mm caliber cannons supported by Uncle Sam, which have good range and accuracy.
But it's just such a crude cannon. Although its range and accuracy are ridiculous, its power is amazing.
In this way, the shabby troops of those mud-legged soldiers have a weapon that can easily pull out the Japanese gun towers.
Combined with some buried bullets, it can be used as a simple mine as a means of traveling.
It is said that the Japs are even less likely to come out for raids, and there are still many puppet soldiers who cannot bear the huge psychological pressure and will surrender as soon as they hear the sound of that kind of cannon.
Combining all the above, the team of those mud-legged people expanded rapidly.
This is a consequence that is also difficult to accept for Baldhead, who has always regarded those mud-legged people as a serious problem...
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On August 7, General Fang changed his mind.
From the initial tenacity to defend to the end, it turned into a conditional surrender.
The reason for this is not that General Fang is greedy for life and afraid of death.
It was not just this day. Under the fierce bombing from planes and artillery, as well as the power of poison gas bombs, the Japanese had already killed the city from many directions.
The core positions that the Guo army can control are becoming increasingly scarce.
The real reason is that on the morning of the 7th, something happened on the battlefield that deeply touched him.
That is, during the battle in the morning, the defenders on a certain position raised a white flag against the Japanese.
Of course, these defenders were just pretending to surrender. The main purpose was to allow the wounded to be transported out of the position, and how to fight and continue to fight.
But the Japanese clearly saw the fishiness of this scene and acquiesced to this approach.
In this way, General Fang saw a possibility. It seemed that the Japanese had reached such a point and were almost reaching their limit.
If a negotiation were launched, would it be possible to save so many wounded and the few remaining soldiers in the city with conditional surrender?
As for his personal honor and disgrace, it is actually not important anymore.
Based on this idea, General Fang sent an envoy out of the city and successfully met Isamu Yokoyama of the Japanese 11th Army.
Facing Hengshan Yong, the envoy put forward some of General Fang's requirements, such as:
First, ensure the safety of surviving officers and soldiers, and do not slaughter any prisoners.
Second, all injured and injured soldiers were received, necessary treatment was given, and the fallen soldiers were buried one by one.
Third, the 10th Army can surrender, but it must remain in Hengyang City in its entirety and cannot be mobilized out of Hengyang City at will.
Isamu Yokoyama, who wanted to end such a war as soon as possible so as to shirk his responsibility, agreed without much thought.
Then, an unexpected question came from Yokoyama Isamu's mouth:
"Mr. Messenger, I would like to know that during the surrender ceremony, I could see Hu Biao, Commander Hu, who was guarding the Bajia Ridge and Xinshijie positions successively to supplement the regiment, as well as those under his command.
Warrior?
Please be assured that I am not trying to retaliate against him and they will be treated decently and with respect.
I just want to see this group of warriors who can make all my captains, even the captains of the regiment, feel fear and write a suicide note whenever they receive the task of attacking their positions.
What exactly are they like, what kind of people are they?"
"This cannot be guaranteed. I can only go back and ask." The messenger answered.
The fierce fighting in Hengyang City suddenly stopped, and the two sides began some more detailed discussions on the surrender.
Such a long-lasting defense battle is about to come to an end...