The battle for the Japanese attack on Qiqihar began in the early hours of the next day. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Naosaburo Okabe couldn't wait, and at the same time, he didn't dare to wait any longer...... It was pointless for the Japanese army to continue to wait, and there were very few ammunition and troops in the towns and villages that could be gathered and rebuilt, but the anti-Japanese tide was higher and higher, and Okabe Naosaburo was worried that if he waited any longer, the Japanese army would not have the morale and confidence to fight the expeditionary force.

Therefore, Okabe Naosaburo ordered the troops at the east and west ends to march day and night to flank the Chinese expeditionary force, take the two cities of Qiqihar and Harbin as quickly as possible, and then use the "Eastern Railway" as a defensive line to resist the attack of the expeditionary force from the direction of Xinjing.

It was only later that Naosaburo Okabe realized that this idea was a bit wishful thinking...... Because the Chinese troops stationed in the cities of Qiqihar and Harbin were not ordinary expeditionary forces, although these Chinese troops were not heavily equipped because of parachuting, their combat effectiveness was not inferior to other expeditionary forces with heavy equipment.

On the Qiqihar side, the sound of artillery rang out before dawn.

At that time, Zhang Chi was lying on the bed resting with his clothes, and when he heard the sound of cannons, he sat up from the bed with a grunt.

In the past, when Zhang Chi was still a grassroots officer, he always touched the gun at the first time after being awakened, but now that he has been a division commander for some days, he is used to asking at the first time: "What's the situation?" ”

"Master!" Staff Officer Liang, who was near the radio station, turned his head and replied: "It's the vanguard of the devils, and as soon as they arrive, they can't wait to shoot the artillery!" ”

"Where?" The distance from listening to the sound of the cannon was a bit far, so Zhang Chi asked more.

"It's downtown!" Staff Officer Liang replied.

The townsfolk couldn't help but scold: "This dog's anus rectum...... There is a kind of hero who comes at us and shoots at the people?! ”

"Anorectal?" Staff Officer Liang looked at his fellow villagers in bewilderment.

"Oh!" The fellow explains: "That's it...... What Okabe Naosaburo, let's call him anal rectum! ”

With a "coax", the officers and men in the command headquarters all burst into laughter.

After laughing for a while, Zhang Chi said: "This anal ......"

Speaking of this, Zhang Chi couldn't help glaring at his fellow villagers, they were all damaged by his fellow villagers, and "anal rectum" almost blurted out.

The people around him only endured it until one of them couldn't hold it back and burst into laughter.

It took a long time before he stopped laughing, and said with a straight face: "There is a reason why Okabe Naosaburo sent the cannonballs to the city, they hope to cause panic among the people, and then there will be chaos, and then they can easily take Qiqihar!" ”

Staff Officer Liang sighed: "This devil is really ruthless, there are many Japanese people here who are 'pioneer regiments', I originally thought they would throw rat traps, but now it seems that ......"

Even if you don't say what you say next, everyone understands that the Japanese army will not take these Japanese seriously at all.

In fact, if Staff Officer Liang had known that it was the 59th Division of the Japanese Army that he was fighting against, he would not have had this kind of thought.

The 59th Division had been stationed in Shandong not long ago, and its main opponent at that time was the Eighth Route Army in Shandong...... In order to clear out the Eighth Route Army, the 59th Division carried out the tactic of "killing all the people" in Shandong.

The Japanese army's so-called "killing all the people" is the three-light policy of "burning, killing, and robbing" as Chinese said...... This once made the Shandong area uninhabited for thousands of miles.

Now it is the 59th Division, which has implemented the three-light policy, that took the lead in rushing to Qiqihar today and launched an attack on the first regiment, this army is full of murder from top to bottom, where will it consider whether there are Japanese in the urban area of Qiqihar.

At the same time, this is also a feature of the operation of the Chinese and Japanese troops:

This is Chinese land, the city and countryside are full of Chinese, and although the Chinese troops fighting here will get a lot of support from the people, they will often worry about the casualties of the people when they start fighting.

However, the Japanese army did not need to think about this at all, and even if a considerable percentage of the Japanese people were in the population, they did not have any scruples.

However, the results of the shelling surprised Lieutenant General Hosokawa Tadayayasu, the commander of the 59th Division of the Japanese Army, who was also the commander of the 43rd Army...... If it had been before, the people would have fled in all directions screaming after a burst of shelling, but he stared at the artillery fire in the telescope for a long time, but he did not see a few people running out of the city.

"What's going on?!" Hosokawa Tadayasu put down his binoculars and looked at the artillery fire and smoke in the direction of the city from a distance: "When is the person of Shina not afraid of death?" ”

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!" Hongo's staff officer said triumphantly beside him: "That, the Chinese probably want to use the people as cover, so control the people!" ”

Of course, this is not the case, but Zhang Chi has already ordered the militia to move the people to the bomb shelter.

Hosokawa Tadayasu felt the same "um", he had always been very dissatisfied with the rapid defeat of Manchukuo under the attack of Chinese troops, he once said to his subordinates: "We are guarding the entire Soviet Union on the Manchurian-Mongolian border, and when we wake up, almost all of Manchukuo of one million square kilometers is occupied by the Chinese, what are those people doing?" Do you only eat food and don't fight?! ”

For Hosokawa Tadayasu, this phenomenon of the rapid collapse of the Japanese army only appeared when the Imperial Army attacked China, but in the here and now, it appeared on the Imperial Army, and the attacking troops were still Chinese troops, which cannot but be said to be a shame for the Great Japanese Empire.

Therefore, Hosokawa Tadayasu decided to teach this Chinese army a good lesson, so that the other Japanese troops and even Okabe Naosaburo could see what kind of troops should be the army of the Great Japanese Empire.

It would be fine if Hosokawa had an open-minded attitude, so that he would have thoroughly investigated the equipment and quality of the Chinese troops, and then he could draw up a conservative battle plan based on this.

However, Hosokawa Tadayasu took it for granted that the reason why the Chinese troops were able to fight all the way to Qiqihar in Manchukuo was entirely because the quality of those troops stationed in Manchukuo was too poor.

In fact, the Japanese army stationed in Manchukuo, except for the 39th Division of Sasa Shinnosuke, really did not have any combat experience and quality, so it cannot be said that Hosokawa Tadayasu's idea was wrong.

Merely...... Even if most of the Japanese troops stationed in Manchukuo were rabble, the fact that the Chinese army was able to achieve such a big victory in such a short period of time is enough to prove that this is not a humiliating force.

It's just that Hosokawa Tadayasu didn't see this, in his heart...... The 59th Division has been fighting all the way since the war of aggression against China, and killing people is like playing, and no unit will be able to block the way of the 59th Division's advance. (To be continued.) )