As the absolute main force of the 62nd Division, the 63rd Infantry Brigade is actually not as fragile as imagined, and the entire 63rd Brigade has more than 6,000 people when it was formed, which is neither large nor small, and it can be regarded as a normal establishment in the official combat establishment of all Japanese troops. Moreover, two of the five infantry brigades of the 63rd Infantry Brigade are veterans who have participated in battles and seen blood on the battlefield, so their combat effectiveness is far stronger than that of the 65th Brigade, which is full of recruits.

The reason why it was crushed by the Fourth Cavalry Division with a single charge this time was completely an accident, because special ammunition is a contraband and a weapon banned by the International Military Tribunal in The Hague, so although the Japanese army often uses this type of weapon, it has an extremely strict management system, such as this secrecy system. All the subordinates and documents of the Japanese army are not allowed to mention the words poison gas and biochemistry, and some only have a unified name for special artillery shells or poison gas bombs, such as "Red No. 1", "Yellow No. 1" and so on. The second is a strict examination and approval system, and all troops must be examined by a local military unit at least at the division or regiment level before using poison gas bombs.

Major General Tokutaro Nakajima knew about the test of new chemical weapons in the North China Battlefield this time, but he did not know that this batch of special ammunition had fallen into the hands of the Fourth Cavalry Division, so he did not make preparations for anti-poison at all, and although Yoshio Hongo had anticipated the possible serious consequences, he chose to remain silent because there was no anti-poison equipment, because in the absence of gas masks and biochemical suits, when the troops learned that the enemy might use poison gas, it was likely to cause a chain reaction of unstable morale and even the collapse of the whole army. So at this time, saying it is actually the same as not saying it, and it will be better not to say it.

In addition, the 63rd Brigade had just suffered a defeat in the forward position, and the two most elite infantry brigades were almost completely wiped out, leaving the entire brigade with just over 4,000 men. However, their efforts were not recognized by Yoshio Hongo, who scolded Nakajima Tokutaro for being stupid, and at the same time threw their absolute main force to the rear as a reserve, which deeply hit the soldiers of the 63rd Infantry Brigade, and the morale of the troops in the past two days was extremely low.

Since it was night, the Japanese trench positions were relatively concentrated. So when the 4th Cavalry Division suddenly appeared in front of the Japanese positions and fired poison gas bombs, almost all the Japanese soldiers did not realize that the green smoke fired next to them was deadly poison gas. But immediately after that, the painful reaction of the comrades-in-arms caused fear in their hearts, and I don't know who said "poison gas", and then the whole army immediately caused a chain reaction and began to retreat rapidly.

However, the shelling of the Inner Mongolia Military Region was widespread, and many Japanese soldiers fell to the ground and convulsed after only a few steps, and then slowly suffocated to death. The entire Japanese position was in disarray, and no matter how hysterical the bullet pressure of Major General Nakajima Tokutaro was, the gas feast lasted for more than half an hour, and then when the soldiers of the 4th Cavalry Division wearing masks charged with steel guns, the Japanese army was wiped out with almost no effective resistance.

According to post-war statistics, the Fourth Cavalry Division eliminated 3,421 Japanese devils, including a major general, 2 large generals, 6 middle commanders and 8 young commanders, and the results were quite brilliant.

Next, the troops did not care about resting, and rushed to Wangtong Town, where the headquarters of the 63rd Division of the Japanese Army was located, overnight, leaving only one infantry company to clean up the battlefield.

Yoshio Hongo did not expect that the 63rd Brigade would be defeated so quickly, in his expectation, an infantry brigade with simple fortifications could withstand the attack of a cavalry division for at least two days, even if the whole army was annihilated, it would cause huge casualties to the enemy, with these two days, it is not certain who will destroy whom.

But the farewell letter sent by Major General Nakajima Tokutaro made him completely petrified in an instant, the squadron would use the latest special ammunition, and the number was quite large, the 63rd Brigade was poisoned almost without any effective resistance, and it was expected that the Chinese cavalry would be able to rush to Wang Tong Town in 20 minutes at most, Major General Nakajima Tokutaro suggested that Yoshio Hongo immediately transfer the clothes of the civilians in the Emperor's China, there was no suspense in this battle, and the destruction of the 62nd Division was only a matter of time, He didn't want a lieutenant general to become a trophy at the beginning of the war, which was a shame for the Great Japanese Empire. …,

Yoshio Hongo knew that what Nakajima Tokutaro said was reasonable, but he did not follow Major General Nakajima's advice to abandon his troops and escape alone, but chose to break through and transfer with his troops.

At this moment, there are not many troops in Wang Tong Town, an infantry brigade and a puppet army infantry division, Hongo Yoshio ordered the chief of staff, Ueno Shintomi Osa, to take two infantry squadrons and the 14th Infantry Division of the Imperial Alliance Army to continue to stay in Wang Tong Town, while he himself took the remaining infantry squadron and the division headquarters guard squadron to immediately move westward, to converge with the 65th Brigade of the Synchronous Army.

Before the transfer, Hongo Yoshio did one more thing, that is, he ordered the troops to kill all 349 men, women, and children in Wangtong Town, and to burn down all the houses that had no military value. It was precisely because of this move of Yoshio Hongo that Han Yunhua was completely angered, and finally triggered the decisive battle of the main force of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the North China Front.

Lu Jiang did not know that it was not the division headquarters of the 62nd Division that fell into the encirclement, or that it was not a complete division headquarters, and he did not make any stops after arriving at Wangtong Town, and ordered the 1st Cavalry Brigade to immediately prepare for battle, and it was still the artillery to open the way. Of course, because of the consideration of the people in the town, Lu Jiang did not use poison gas shells with great lethality this time, but used ordinary mortar shells.

Immediately afterwards, the troops followed up, because there was no infantry, and the goal of the cavalry was too big, so Lu Jiang ordered more than 4,000 troops of the first brigade to immediately dismount and use as infantry.

However, Lu Jiang found the problem in less than half an hour, although it was at night, but he could vaguely see that the enemies on the opposite side were covered in yellow dog skin, and they were all wearing broken yellow hats, not the steel helmets of the Japanese army.

"Flares!"

After hearing Lu Jiang's order, a guard on the side immediately pulled out a signal gun from his body and quickly installed a signal bomb into it. As the flares slowly rose into the air, the whole earth was suddenly illuminated, and then the light Lu Jiang saw that the puppet army that was placed at the forefront of the trench was densely packed, and not far away there was a group of Japanese troops supervising the battle.

This model Lu Jiang is most familiar with, is the Japanese army letting the puppet army be cannon fodder, so many puppet troops gathered together This is clearly to use these guys to directly drag down the pace of their cavalry division and cover the main force to escape, can this *** work, of course not.

Lu Jiang ordered the Second Cavalry Brigade to immediately chase forward, the terrain of Wang Tong Town had been understood by Lu Jiang before coming, and to the east was a wide and gentle area, leading directly to Dezhou City, the road was wide, and there were almost no commanding heights and dangerous places. To the west of Wangtong Town is a potholed mountain road, which leads to Hengshui, and the Japanese 62nd Division is deployed along all the dangerous places of this mountain road. To the north, there is a mountain range that leads directly to Qingfeng Ridge, and the road is difficult and rugged, which is not conducive to traffic. To the south is also a vast hilly area, there are almost no roads, and if you go south, you will directly cross the mountains to southern Hebei, which is the territory of the Chinese, so Lu Jiang judged that the Japanese army may have fled westward, and the purpose may be to collect the Japanese puppet troops along the line, and finally to hold on to a dangerous place to wait for help.

The 2nd Cavalry Brigade immediately dispatched after receiving Lu Jiang's order, and more than 4,000 cavalry rushed forward like the wind

This page is destined to be sleepless, Yoshio Shinozuka and Okamura Ninji did not sleep, whether it was the North China Front Command in Jinan or the Northwest Lu Garrison Command in Dezhou City, they were all brightly lit. After receiving the latest telegram from Yoshio Hongo, Okamura Ninji and Yoshio Shinozuka were shocked and also quite troubled, now the squadron has formed a situation of encirclement and annihilation of the 62nd Division, and the reinforcements of the 37th Division are still being assembled, and at this speed, it is simply impossible to arrive at the scheduled place within the scheduled time.

In desperation, Yoshio Shinozuka issued a conscription order in the name of the commander of the Northwest Lu Garrison Command and the chief of staff of the front army, and requisitioned all the cars in the city overnight, whether they were cars or large trucks, whether they were private companies or troops, as long as all the motor vehicles in the city of Texas were requisitioned, no one would resist.

After more than two hours of busyness, more than 200 vehicles of various types were finally gathered, and more than 200 vehicles could at least load one infantry wing at a time, so Yoshio Shinozuka ordered Lieutenant General Nomatarichiro, commander of the 37th Division, to lead the most elite 225th Wing under his command to immediately rush to the front line to rescue the 62nd Division, and the rest of the troops rushed to the battlefield on foot. …,

However, what made Yoshio Shinozuka speechless was that not only at any time, the road leading to Liuzhimiao Township outside the city of Dezhou was full of mines and traps, and the automobile team of the 37th Division had just left the city less than 20 miles before pressing mines one after another, and two large trucks and a small car were hit, resulting in 24 dead and 26 seriously injured casualties, including two adjutants.

Lieutenant General Matsuichiro Nagano immediately ordered the engineering units to begin demining, but to the shocking thing, the minefield that suddenly appeared outside Texas City was surprisingly large, and the number of mines was also surprisingly large, and in an hour, the engineering troops produced more than 900 mines, real and fake. The convoy moved less than two kilometers forward.

Lieutenant General Mataichiro Nagano saw this situation, and His Excellency Yoshio Shinozuka had talked to him when the troops were deployed, and made it clear to him about the current crisis facing the Imperial Army, and the Great Japanese Empire could not afford to lose a division, but the Great Japanese Empire lost a complete infantry division less than a week after the war began, which would once again damage the prestige of the Great Japanese Empire in the international arena. Therefore, His Excellency the Commander ordered them to do everything in their power to rescue the 62nd Division at all costs, even if it was to rescue even one infantry squadron at that time.

But now it seems that all this will become a luxury, and it is surprising that in the area that the Imperial Army can control, the people of China are so rampant, and such a huge minefield seems to have suddenly appeared overnight. If it was to the place where the control of the imperial army was weak, it would not become a paradise for mines, and the Chinese army did not know that the means of mines were very clever, and there were endless mines, serial mines, and treacherous mines, and in just one hour, the 37th Division lost more than 20 engineers, which made Nagano Matsuichiro both heartbroken and frightened.

In desperation, Lieutenant General Mataichiro Nagano had no choice but to order his troops to bypass the avenue and press through the nearby crop fields, thinking that it was impossible for the Ryshina army to cover such a large field of crops with mines, because the amount of work was too large.

Nagano Manichiro's judgment was very accurate, although there were indeed mines in the crop fields, but the number was very small, and the explosion only rang out occasionally, but it was much better than the continuous explosion sound before. So Lieutenant General Mataichiro Nagano had to order the convoy to move along the crop field all the way, so that although the speed of the car dropped a lot, it was much safer, and there was no way out.

The two sides are in a race against time, one side wants to annihilate the enemy in the encirclement in the shortest possible time, and the other side is trying to reinforce by all means. However, Yoshio Hongo, who was in the encirclement, had already realized the fate of himself and the entire 62nd Division, so he rushed to the station of the 65th Brigade at Xiaopingba and fled while actively collecting the scattered troops along the way. He didn't dare to pin his hopes on Ueno Matomi and the Imperial Allied Army Infantry Division, even Major General Nakajima Tokutaro and his 63rd Brigade couldn't stop the attack of the squadron, and it was already very good that the Imperial Allied Army Infantry Division and those two infantry squadrons could block it for two hours.

Hongo Yoshio had just escaped less than ten kilometers from Wangtong Town when he heard the sound of rapid horses' hooves behind him, and the gunfire in the direction of Wangtong Town was getting weaker and weaker, Lieutenant General Hongo Yoshio knew that this time it was really over, and there was no need to think that it must be the Chinese cavalry that caught up, because now the Imperial Japanese Army has been left behind by the Shina people in terms of the number of cavalry, and the Great Japanese Empire was defeated in two consecutive cavalry duels, and has lost nearly 100,000 cavalry, and now each division is equipped with a cavalry wing at most, And his 62nd Division was only equipped with a cavalry squadron, and this cavalry squadron had just been sent out by him to collect troops, and now he had no more horses on hand except for a few war horses under the crotches of him and a few officers.

While he ordered the only two infantry squadrons around him to immediately move to the side of the mountain, first dodging the cavalry of the Shina people. But his guard captain didn't agree with anything, the captain of the guard squadron of the 62nd Division was his fellow countryman and junior, and he had always listened to his words and never discounted him by half. This time, however, he insisted that he immediately run in the direction of Xiaopingba with a few officers, and here he held off the enemy with his only two infantry squadrons. Because once the squadron is ahead of them, then Yoshio Hongo will have no hope of going to Xiaopingba again. …,

As far as the current situation is concerned, only the 65th Infantry Brigade of Xiaopingba is the safest, and there is still a chance of survival, after all, Xiaopingba still has two complete infantry brigades of the 65th Infantry Brigade, plus the troops collected along the way, there should be at least more than 4,000 people, so the captain of the guard squadron forced him to die and asked Yoshio Hongo to rush to Xiaopingba immediately.

Hongo Yoshio is gone, taking two Shaosa and one Nakasa away, the four horses seem so lonely and desolate, think about what a majesty it was when he first arrived here, and then look at the present, he is completely a lost dog, and the difference is so obvious in comparison.

Now the most excited is Song Shilun himself, he didn't expect the battle situation to become so smooth, this is less than 4 days to basically complete the annihilation of the Japanese 62nd Division, just received the news that the 14th Division of the Imperial Alliance Army stationed in Wangtong Town revolted on the battlefield, killed the chief of staff of the 62nd Division of the Japanese Army, Ueno Masatomi Osa, surrendered the Fourth Cavalry Division. The commander of the 62nd Division and several officers around him had fled into the Japanese stronghold in Xiaopingba, and all the Japanese positions along the road and the Japanese puppet troops in the stronghold also retreated into the Japanese position in Xiaopingba within a few hours, and all those who did not have time to withdraw were all wiped out by the Fourth Cavalry Division.

However, at the same time, there was also an angry situation in Lujiang, that is, the Japanese army destroyed all the villages and towns including Wangtong Town before withdrawing, and it is estimated that more than 1,200 people were killed and wounded that night, and more than 300 people were brutally slaughtered in Wangtong Town alone, and those puppet soldiers who surrendered can testify.

Song Shilun secretly scolded the brute, he knew that such a tragedy must be reported to his superiors immediately, waiting for the opinions to be handled, he can't be the master himself, because it may involve some political factors. But no matter what, Song Shilun clearly knew that the most important thing now was to annihilate the remaining remnants of the Japanese army.

Therefore, while reporting to the Dezhou Campaign Headquarters, he also ordered the reorganization of the 300th Division and the three brigades to march to Dezhou City immediately, especially the 1st Brigade to flank Xiaopingba with the 4th Cavalry Division, and it was necessary not to let a little devil slip through the net.

After receiving Song Shilun's telegram, Yang Chengwu was furious, the little devil didn't remember to eat or fight, the last time he slaughtered the people, he angered Commander Han and launched a crazy revenge war, this time again, it was really crazy. The cruelty of the little devil is notoriously known, but since the last time it was rectified by Han Yunhua's political and military means, the Japanese army has relented, but I didn't expect it to sprout in a solid state at this critical juncture, it seems that this will be a big earthquake, plus the Japanese army originally planned to test chemical weapons in North China, Yang Chengwu has already imagined what the commander will look like after receiving the report.