When Kanji Ishihara, surrounded by Yano Otozaburo, Maruyama Masao and Koizumi Junzaburo, climbed onto the south gate tower, the charge of the 1st Battalion of the Chahar Independent Regiment had come to an end.
Faced with a firepower network composed of eight light and heavy machine guns and more than 500 38 guns, a pure infantry charge could only be suicidal. You must know that the 5,000 Zulus were unable to break through the British army's four heavy machine guns.
firepower network, not to mention that there are only more than 400 remnants of the first battalion of the Chahar Independent Regiment left.
When Ishihara Wanji and others came up, this desperate charge was basically over. Most of the officers and soldiers of the first battalion died on the spot. Only a few who were seriously injured were still struggling to get up from the pool of blood and continued.
They charged forward tenaciously, and one wounded man with both hands injured even crawled forward with his head on the ground.
Intermittent gunfire rang out from the south gate city wall again, and these tenacious charging Chinese soldiers fell down one after another, lying in a pool of blood without any movement. Only the Chinese soldier with wounded hands still pressed his head against the ground, continuing to fight tenaciously and stubbornly.
Climbing towards the city wall, when he occasionally raised his head, he could clearly see the deep-seated hatred in his eyes!
Even though they were fifty or sixty meters away, the Japanese on the tower could feel the hatred of the Chinese soldier! There was also the unyielding fighting will revealed from him!
"Bah! Bah!" Several more gunshots rang out from the south gate wall.
The Chinese soldier's head finally drooped softly, and he could no longer crawl forward with his head nodding.
However, just when Ishihara Wanji and the others thought that the Chinese soldier had died, he miraculously raised his head and used all the strength in his life to roar at the top of his lungs: "What a little devil like a dog, what I say about you is
Eighteen generations of ancestors, I call you eighteen generations of ancestors, I call you eighteen generations of ancestors..."
"Bah!" Two more gunshots rang out from the city wall.
Under the city wall, the Chinese soldier's head drooped again, and his roar also dropped. After a while, there was no more sound. Then, a small group of Japs came from the street in front and began to clean the battlefield. One of the Japs soldiers also
He deliberately walked up to the Chinese soldier at the end and stabbed him twice in the vital part of his vest.
However, the Chinese soldier had already unresponsive and had been dying for a long time.
It was only then that Ishihara smiled and breathed a sigh of relief. These Chinese soldiers are really tenacious!
But no matter how tenacious he was, wouldn't he be annihilated by them in the end? Ishihara smiled and breathed a sigh of relief, turned to Junzaburo Koizumi who was accompanying him behind him and said, "Koizumi-kun, it's really thanks to you this time."
"Hai!" Junzaburo Koizumi paused and said, "This is what you should do in a humble position."
"Yo Xi!" Ishihara Wanji nodded happily, then turned to Yano Otonzaburo and said, "Yano-kun, you must summarize the Battle of Tieling later, make a written report, and then circulate it to each infantry division and armor division. Since
This special strategy is effective, and we will continue to learn from it in the upcoming battle of Fengtian."
"Hai!" Yano Otonzaburo suddenly put his feet back and stood at attention, pausing.
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In Fengtian, the headquarters of the Chahar Independent Regiment.
Xu Rui was on site observing the war chess game organized by Du Junjie.
Following Xu Rui's instructions, Du Junjie doubled the parameters of Ishihara Kanji's Seventh Army, and then conducted a new deduction based on the newly set parameters. As a result, after the two deductions, the results were the same. Chahar became independent.
Tuandu held Fengtian for less than a month before it fell.
This is far from the goal Xu Rui set.
According to the goal set by Xu Rui, the Chahar Independent Regiment must defend Fengtian for at least five months, and preferably one year.
Xu Rui has calculated that it will take at least five months for the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the North China battlefield to complete the digestion and absorption of the vast newly occupied areas, especially the two big cities of Peking and Tianjin. It will not be completed in less than five months.
We cannot rectify and clean up other aspects because the issues involved are too complex.
In about five months, our party will be able to complete the digestion and absorption of the vast newly occupied areas, and the main force of the Eighth Route Army will usher in an unprecedented development. It is a high probability that the total force will expand from 400,000 to over one million! In this way,
The situation of the Anti-Japanese War in North China and even China as a whole will become completely different.
And if the Chahar Independent Regiment can defend Fengtian for a year, and at the same time the main force of the Japanese Far Eastern Army is firmly contained in the Siberian battlefield by the Soviet Far Eastern Front, then the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the North China battlefield will most likely complete the digestion and integration and attack Shanxi.
The First Army, the Twelfth Army of Shandong and the Mongolian troops stationed in northern Hebei launched a large-scale strategic counterattack, and the main force of the Eighth Route Army in North China had great hope of eating up the First Army, the Twelfth Army and the Mongolian troops.
In this case, the vast territory north of the Huaihe River and west of Shanhaiguan will be completely recovered, and more importantly, these recovered territories will be under the control of our party instead of returning to the rule of the decadent National Government. If this is the case
, not only will the entire history of the Anti-Japanese War be rewritten, but the War of Liberation will most likely never happen again. Even if it does happen, the scale will not be as grand as the original history, and the damage to the Chinese nation will not be as serious.
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To achieve this goal, the Chahar Independent Regiment must stay in Fengtian for at least five months, preferably one year!
Therefore, Xu Rui was very dissatisfied with the results of the two deductions conducted by the general staff and signaled Du Junjie to continue.
"Yes!" Du Junjie agreed, and took several combat staff to discuss defensive tactics again. The previous defensive tactics had been proven to be able to last for less than a month. Therefore, fundamental innovations had to be made to the defensive tactics.
It may significantly increase the holding time of the Chahar Independent Regiment.
But Du Junjie and the others discussed it for a long time, but still couldn't get to the point.
Finally, Xu Rui also joined the discussion, holding a pencil to analyze the situation for Du Junjie and several staff officers.
When five or six people were having a lively discussion, Zhuo Ligetu suddenly rushed in and said sadly: "Captain, Tieling has just been lost, and all the members of the first battalion have been martyred!"
Bang! The pencil in Xu Rui's hand broke into two pieces.
Xu Rui had expected that Tieling would fall today, but he still believed that the 1st Battalion could hold on until at least the evening. However, he never expected that Tieling would fall before noon, and all members of the 1st Battalion would die for the country.
!Could it be said that the combat effectiveness of Ishihara Kanji’s Seventh Army has been underestimated?
Next to him, Du Junjie and several combat advisers also suddenly changed their expressions.
Obviously, Du Junjie and several operational staff members came together with Xu Rui. If the combat effectiveness of Ishihara Wan'er's Seventh Army is really as strong as shown in the Battle of Tieling, then their Chahar Independent Regiment could defend Fengtian for a month.
Difficulty! Even if the fortifications designed by Dr. Wang were fully formed, they would be useless.
Du Junjie swallowed and said to Xu Rui with a bitter expression: "Captain..."
However, before Du Junjie finished speaking, chaotic footsteps suddenly sounded outside the war room.
Looking back hurriedly, I saw two guards from the regiment walking in quickly carrying a stretcher. On the stretcher lay a seriously wounded man covered in blood. There was blood everywhere on the face and body of the seriously wounded man, and he was unrecognizable.
What did Qing look like, but the regimental guards were so solemn, so it was obvious that the person he was carrying in couldn't be an unknown person.
Before Xu Rui could ask questions, one of the guards said sadly: "Captain, this is Company Commander Yao!"
"Yao Lei?!" Xu Rui's face changed slightly when he heard this, and then he asked, "How is he?"
The guard said: "Captain Yao was seriously injured. We wanted to send him to the hospital, but he insisted on seeing you and said he had something very important to give you. After saying that, he passed out."
"Doctor!" Du Junjie shouted over there, "Go and call the doctor!"
The hospital is right next to the regiment headquarters. The doctor arrived quickly. After checking the injuries, he found that Yao Lei had more than 20 wounds and a lot of blood, but they were not fatal. He immediately took cotton wool dipped in iodine.
The wine started to clean the wound. While cleaning it, Yao Lei faintly woke up from his coma, and then he saw Xu Rui at a glance.
"Captain!" Yao Lei burst into tears when he saw Xu Rui.
"Little demon, don't cry!" Xu Rui's nose was also sore, and he held back tears and said, "A man, I would rather bleed than shed tears!"
"Yeah, don't cry!" Yao Lei nodded vigorously, but tears still poured down his cheeks, and then he couldn't help crying, "Captain, the whole battalion is gone, gone, all gone."
Seeing Yao Lei crying sadly, Du Junjie and others beside him also cried silently.
Xu Rui patted Yao Lei on the shoulder and choked with sobs and said, "I know, I know everything."
Yao Lei cried for a long time, and then continued: "The battalion commander asked me to give you the suicide notes and relics of all the brothers in the battalion. When the Anti-Japanese War is won, I can take the suicide notes and relics back to my hometown, so that my relatives can remember them.
I think..." At this point, Yao Lei's voice suddenly stopped, as if someone had cut it off with a knife.
Then, Yao Lei began to search frantically for the stretcher around him.
After searching for a long time and finding nothing, Yao Lei howled heartbreakingly again: "The satchel, where is my satchel? The satchel, where is the satchel that contains the suicide notes and relics? My satchel, the satchel!"
Xu Rui turned his attention to the regiment guard. The guard shook his head and said, "When the brothers from the cavalry battalion sent him over, Captain Yao didn't have his satchel. He must have lost it. According to the brothers from the cavalry battalion, when they found Captain Yao,
Captain Yao is lying on the road covered in blood, and there is a huge crater not far away."
Xu Rui sighed. Apparently the satchel containing the suicide note and relics was blown up by an aerial bomb. Yao Lei was in danger.
But Yao Lei was rummaging around for a stretcher like crazy. While searching, he wailed loudly and heartbreakingly: "Bag, where is my satchel? Who has seen my satchel? Who has seen my satchel?"