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Chapter 955 Fire

"An hour ago, we received a farewell telegram from the Qingchuan troops stationed in Gaoyou!"

Japanese commander Taro Sano stood on a tank, holding a loudspeaker with one hand and a transcribed message with the other. His cold voice echoed in the cold wind.

Surrounding the tank was a dense mass of Japanese soldiers with bayonets unsheathed. They stared at their commander. There were more than two thousand people in total silence.

"The Qingchuan troops continued to fight after the city was broken, until they were all broken! There were no deserters! No fear! They died in battle, but they defended the honor of our Imperial Japanese Army! They are the true samurai of our Yamato nation!"

The Japanese commander Sano Taro roared at the top of his lungs, his facial muscles became distorted due to excessive exertion, and his roar was filled with anger.

"Just now! I got news that those despicable Chinese people hung the fallen soldiers of our empire on the city gate! This is an insult to our warrior glory!"

Hearing Sano Taro's angry voice, the silent Japanese soldiers exploded like a powder keg, and anger filled the chests of each of them.

"We are here to help the Chinese people. We want to save them from their decadent rule and build a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere together to give them a happy life. We are here to help them, but! They regard us as their enemies.

!Killed our kind-hearted soldiers! They didn’t let go of the bodies, this is how they treat their benefactors!”

Under Taro Sano's distorted speech, every Japanese soldier looked particularly ferocious. They clenched their fists and exuded murderous intent.

"You are brave imperial people. Now I order you to rush into Gaoyou and kill all those ungrateful Chinese people! Blood for blood!"

Under the speech of the Japanese commander Taro Sano, their aggressive behavior was transformed into a forced revenge, making every Japanese feel that they were the righteous party, and the morale of the Japanese soldiers was greatly boosted.

These temporarily transferred officers and soldiers of the Sano detachment are composed of baggage troops, supplementary troops, engineers, etc. They are not conventional combat troops, so Sano Taro needs to improve morale.

But now that he saw the troops that had become murderous because of his instigation, he knew that his goal had been achieved, and it would be useless to say more.

"Capture Gaoyou before dark!" He waved his hand and issued the attack order.

The black mass of Japanese soldiers was like a flood that had opened, flooding the roads and fields, and rushing towards Gaoyou in a mighty manner.

Major General Taro Sano, leader of the detachment, looked at the crowded officers and soldiers with unconcealable arrogance on his thin and tough face.

Although these were temporarily mobilized troops and their combat effectiveness was not as good as that of the main divisions in the field, he believed that in his hands, they would become a howling tiger and wolf army.

And he will use this force to crush the Chinese army in the Sulu area, and use the corpses of Chinese soldiers to pave the way for promotion.

The Japanese soldiers swooped down the Shaobo Highway towards Gaoyou City with arrogance and arrogance. Among the swarming helmets, the five dispatched tanks looked like steel monsters, and the gravel on the road creaked under the weight of the chains.

Behind the Japanese infantry, trucks loaded with supplies and ammunition also stretched for several miles. Behind these trucks were also towing artillery pieces of various calibers.

The corrupt war in the Sulu area made the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters really angry, so this time they spent a lot of money to prepare to wipe out the Chinese troops in the Sulu area in one fell swoop to achieve the purpose of consolidating the occupied area.

In the cold wind south of Gaoyou City, the officers and soldiers of the Sulu Guerrilla Corps rolled up their sleeves and dug trenches, seizing the time to repair the fortifications.

After the news of the Japs' attack from the south was sent to Gaoyou, Li Changjiang, deputy commander-in-chief of the Sulu Guerrilla Corps, issued combat orders and ordered the troops to enter combat status while urgently seeking help from the theater headquarters.

Just a few hours later, Gaoyou, which had just rested in the morning of the war, was once again enveloped in a tense atmosphere. The streets were closed and there were patrols everywhere with guns and live ammunition searching for spies.

Deputy Commander-in-Chief Li Changjiang was initially shocked by how quickly the Japanese arrived, but after all, he was also a senior general, and he calmed down after making a series of arrangements.

There were two guerrilla regiments he brought to Gaoyou this time. Since they had never fought against the Japanese, they had been quietly expanding their numbers. Although they were only two regiments, their actual strength exceeded 3,000.

Now the commander-in-chief of the Sulu Guerrilla Corps, Li Mingyang, has just taken Nantong, and it will take at least two or three days to be free to support Gaoyou.

With more than 3,000 officers and soldiers on guard for three days, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Li Changjiang felt that he was still confident. After all, he had enough troops and food, and no matter how powerful the enemy was, they were just born from the flesh of a mother.

The main force of the Japanese was still some distance away from Gaoyou City, and the officers and soldiers of the Sulu Corps stationed in Gaoyou were also busy repairing fortifications and digging trenches.

Although the main forces of both sides have not yet met, the reconnaissance cavalry of both sides have already begun to fight each other in the farm fields in front of the Japanese marching route.

The cavalry reconnaissance company of the Sulu Corps wanted to get close to the Japanese marching team from all directions, and wanted to find out the firepower configuration, troop strength, etc. of the Japanese soldiers.

When they saw the Chinese cavalry appearing from a distance, the Japanese cavalry rushed up as if they had been given blood, wanting to kill the Chinese cavalry in front of everyone to show their bravery.

Although the reconnaissance cavalry company of the Sulu Guerrilla Corps is small in number, each of them is an elite, so naturally they are not afraid of the Japanese, so they go ahead with their swords in hand.

Therefore, in the wilderness, the two sides were constantly charging and killing each other, with blood raining everywhere, and cavalrymen from both sides kept wailing and being cut down from their horses.

Sometimes it was the Japanese cavalry chasing the Chinese cavalry, screaming wildly, and sometimes it was the Japanese cavalry being killed by the Chinese cavalry and running away in embarrassment, covered in blood.

Often when they see that their own cavalry cannot beat them, the Japanese marching team will separate a small group of troops for reinforcements. Faced with the precise marksmanship of the Japanese soldiers, it is always difficult for the reconnaissance cavalry company to get close to the road and find out the strength of the Japanese soldiers.

As the Japanese arrived at Gaoyou step by step, and when they could see Gaoyou's broken city wall from a distance, the cavalry company responsible for the investigation had to withdraw in frustration.

"The devil is coming!"

The cavalrymen who retreated to Gaoyou had all fought against the Japanese cavalry. They were covered in blood and many of them were injured. They brought back news about the Japanese cavalry.

"Knock your tail off for me!"

Seeing the Japanese cavalry rushing up from behind the brothers of the Chinese reconnaissance cavalry company, an infantry battalion commander flew into a rage and ordered a victory in the rear.

"Teng Teng Teng -"

The Civilian Type 24 heavy machine gun placed in the machine gun trench opened fire with a unique dull sound. The heavy machine gun with a range of more than one thousand meters made the Japanese cavalry understand what despair was.

The heavy machine gun bullets, which were powerful enough to penetrate the steel plate, swept towards the Japanese cavalry with a cracking sound. It was too late for the Japanese cavalry to turn around.

"Puff puff--"

Large-caliber heavy machine gun bullets tore apart the bodies of the Japanese cavalry, and the powerful impact knocked them off their horses, with blood splattering in mid-air.

In just one breath, the dozen or so Japanese cavalrymen who were chasing after them in a show of force except one escaped, the rest were torn to pieces by heavy machine guns, including their men and horses.


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