Chapter 481: Seishiro Itagaki's death

"Be sure to get out there no matter what!" At this time, Seishiro Itagaki was also actively trying to break out of the encirclement set up by the vanguard army and go to another new world.

The more than 20,000 devils temporarily blocked the offensive of the vanguard army with the advantage of geographical advantages. The devils can take advantage of the geographical advantage, and the vanguard army is also taking advantage of the mountainous terrain to set up checkpoints and fortifications in key parts. Although the vanguard army is not easy to attack, the devils cannot attack either.

However, the vanguard army was not in a hurry, but just surrounded the surroundings of Tongbai Mountain, and constantly shrank the encirclement inward. Just compress the devil near Tianwangzhai.

The devils who have blocked all external passages are also in a hurry. Not to mention ammunition and other supplies, just food alone makes the devil a little unbreathable.

When they first withdrew into the mountains, the 106th Division and the 14th Division brought a lot of supplies. But these can't stop the long-term consumption. More than 20,000 people are huddled in two or three square kilometers. Only consumed, nowhere to pay, natural food is getting less and less. Although in this season, there are some mountain goods in the mountains to satisfy hunger, but after all, they cannot last, if in winter, the food in the mountains is exhausted, and they can only be trapped to death. In addition to food, salt and other materials are also in short supply, the sky is still the world of the vanguard army, and the Japanese army's rescue planes cannot be relied on.

The vanguard army did not attack directly, but arranged more and more fortifications around it, and it seemed that they wanted to block the devils inside.

"Gotta go!" Itagaki Seishiro sighed in his heart, at this time, taking advantage of the fact that the vanguard army was not very tightly surrounded, there were still some opportunities. If they wait until they are fully defended, they are afraid that they will really be trapped here.

But he didn't know that Meng Xiang had already given the death order, and it was impossible for him to create miracles anymore. The inner encirclement seems to have loopholes, but it just gives the devil hope and continues to delay time. Just as others guessed, as long as these devils are here, they can always maintain the pressure on the Central Army, and also make the vanguard army calmly arranged around.

Anyway, the devil is surrounded in the mountains, and he can't harm the people, at most he will lose some flowers and plants.

This situation will not last long, and with the implementation of the policy of the vanguard army in the surrounding areas, it is time to sharpen the butcher's knife when Xiangfan and other places are slowly in their hands.

But before the butcher's knife of the vanguard army was raised, the Japanese attacked first.

In the past, the devils would also have sporadic attacks, but they were all beaten back by the vanguard army, and one or two thousand devils were killed in a few months. But this time, the devil came out of the nest.

"Lose the car and protect the handsome. More than 20,000 people, even if we only rushed out 2,000 people. For us, it's also a victory! "Seishiro Itagaki will not wait until the last moment when the ammunition is exhausted, taking advantage of the fact that the devil still has weapons and ammunition, as well as some food, the devil has recovered for a while, and he has this move. Without salt, medicine, and the like, food and ammunition are not enough.

In order to stimulate the soldiers, he burned the surplus food, and directly cut off some people's plans to stay here for a long time. People from several divisions and regiments are gathered together, and each has its own forces behind it, so it is inevitable that there will be some contradictions. Not everyone is in favor of a breakout. But this time Seishiro Itagaki burned grain, but everyone had nothing to say.

"If you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent!" The devils also understood the meaning of this Chinese language, and the devils who had no way back were red, and attacked in the direction of the oblique pointing of the knife commanded by Seishiro Itagaki.

"Dabie Mountain! We want to advance to Dabie Mountain. Only by entering the Dabie Mountains can we find more of them, and the vanguard army will not be able to trap us. Seishiro Itagaki pointed to the distance.

Without the help of the mountains, he was not sure to get away from the pursuit of the vanguard army. Whether it is to break through in the direction of Wuhan or to the north, it will not be able to survive under the heavy army. Only in the mountains can the disparity between the two sides be compensated. And after entering Dabie Mountain, you can also connect with the Japanese army.

But desire and bravery could not replace reality, and the devil's charge immediately stopped after hitting the barrage. There were not many figures to be seen on the fortifications of the vanguard, where only the flames of machine guns sprayed death invitations.

All the artillery of the devils was concentrated and attacked these firing points. These would all be abandoned things, and in Itagaki Seishiro's plan, as long as their men rushed out, it would give a great encouragement to the entire Japanese army.

Seishiro Itagaki understands that morale is more valuable than equipment.

When the Japanese were repeatedly defeated by the vanguard army, their lone army's thousand-mile advance undoubtedly injected a trace of fanaticism into the low morale of the Japanese army. As long as they rush out, even with heavy casualties, they are heroes. The number of heroes is no longer numerous, but the presence and non-existence. In the mutual correspondence with the military headquarters, Itagaki Seishiro already knew the next step of the base camp.

The Japanese, caught off guard by the French, stormed Vietnam. The rapid surrender of the French upset the British. The French colonies in Southeast Asia were also reluctant to accept them at this time, and because they still had allies, they could not pull their faces to accept them, which made the behavior of the Japanese, who had not yet joined any alliance, indulged.

The Americans were even more prepared to let the Japanese play with a big sword.

So in the midst of the ramp-and-goss, the Japanese advanced all the way to the area of the shipport. But by this time, the Germans and the French had come forward, and the British did not want the Japanese to continue southward and threaten the neighboring British colonies. At the unanimous request of everyone, the Japanese, who were also tempting, immediately stopped their southern attack and confronted the French near the port.

Although the attack stopped, the ambitions of the Japanese were ignited, and this time the plundering of Vietnam, although it was less of the wealth accumulated by the Chinese, was also a big profit, which relieved the strained finances. Vietnam's food in particular eased tensions at home.

What's more, this attack allowed the Japanese to find out the truth of Britain, France and other countries, which made them even more determined to go south to rob the future.

At this time, the Japanese army in China was already in a difficult situation.

North China and other places naturally don't need to say it, they are very happy that the vanguard army will not attack during this period of time. The vanguard army has been recruiting and training troops. The more silent the accumulated power, the more frightening it becomes. The war in Europe has broken out, and the military observation mission sent by Japan to the European theater has sent back a consistent view that the military strength of the Europeans is not as strong as imagined, and the level and equipment of the armies of countries such as Britain and the United States are not even as good as the vanguard army. The implication is that the Japanese are not bad compared to them. This gave them a slight boost in self-confidence.

This is also a reason for their ambition to go south.

But because of this, the Japanese paid more attention to the Vanguard. After seeing the German tank assault, they lost confidence in the fortified lines they had built. Maginot was easily broken, not to mention their easy versions. For this reason, they can only heavily defend and increase their defense. Not only the defense of northern Jiangsu and Anhui has been strengthened, but even in the northeast, the Kwantung Army has one more defensive direction.

Coupled with the Japanese army's actions in Vietnam and its expansion in the lower reaches of the Pearl River, the shortage of Japanese troops became more and more prominent, and they had to recruit troops on a large scale.

The successive defeats of the Japanese army in China caused the enthusiasm of those young people to join the army dropped sharply. Even if many people are half-washed, the choice of life and death and the lack of war dividends still make many people lose their sense of honor when they perform military service.

At this time, Seishiro Itagaki and the others fled thousands of miles, and the tragic story was deeply spread by the people. The Japanese military department immediately seized this opportunity and made a big hype. This group of defeated soldiers has become the heroes of their various propaganda thousands of miles forward.

Heroes are people who turn their fates in the face of adversity. And the experience of these devils has also aroused the resonance and pursuit of many Japanese people after being processed by the Japanese military department.

But when they were surrounded in Tongbai Mountain again, the pace of the "heroes" seemed to be unable to move.

It seems that the vanguard army can't do anything about these devils for the time being, but Seishiro Itagaki knows the murderous motive hidden behind it.

The vanguard army surrounded the devils here and consumed them to death little by little, and in the end, it would definitely make the morale low to the lowest point. "Heroes" are most afraid of wearing. Not only will their will be consumed, but even the heroic myths created by the devils will be worn out of their golden light and their prototypes will be revealed.

And these more than 20,000 devils are surrounded here, so the Japanese base camp can't say nothing. But how? In addition to the dense fortifications of the vanguard army around Tongbai Mountain, even on the way to Tongbai Mountain, the 56th Army of the vanguard army was holding it to the north. Although the strength of the Central Army was slightly weaker in the south, the positions of the Central Army there were connected.

Even if the Central Army wants to sit back and watch the vanguard army fight with the devils, it will not be possible. They had to act as shields behind the vanguard, and the devil's reinforcements had to step through their lines before they could go over to rescue the besieged devils.

Even if they didn't dare to release the water if they wanted to, once the devils rushed through their defenses, the first thing they would enter would definitely be Wuhan.

So the Central Army did not dare to be careless.

In this way, the Japanese army was hung near Wuhan, and they could not advance, advance, retreat, or retreat.

The long stretch from Wuhan to Shanghai seems to be convenient by the Yangtze River, but this supply line is not safe. In addition to the planes of the vanguard army often harassing the devil boats on the river, there were also bursts of artillery bombardment from time to time in the barren mountains and mountains on both sides of the Yangtze River, and sometimes one or two mines would float in the water. It is not easy for the Japanese to maintain the operation of this golden waterline at this time, where will they have the energy to attack again?

The base camp also knew about this for a long time, and after a few attempts, even the trick of buying the vanguard army was used, but in the end it was unsuccessful. As a result, in the game of the Japanese leadership, some people began to suggest that when the "hero" is at the end, the best way is to choose death.

Not to mention, the Japanese believe in this very much, otherwise there would be no trick of cutting the belly and cutting the intestines.

"Heroes" are transformed into "martyrs", and they can also exert their residual heat and continue to encourage morale.

Itagaki Seishiro also understood the above intentions, so he had this order. He was also very helpless, the surrounding environment had already predicted what would happen to them in the future, and they could only break through the boat once. Even if it's sad, you can go to the shrine for a while. If some people can escape, it can also boost morale and create a myth of the return of a 10,000-mile march.

In order to cooperate with their breakthrough this time, the base camp has launched a large-scale attack from Lu'an, Huoshan, Wuhan and other places to involve the energy of the vanguard army and the central army. They even bought a way out of life with a lot of money in the Central Army, as long as they broke through to Wusheng Pass and left some prisoners, they could escape in exchange for most of them.

However, the vanguard army in front of the devil is like a mountain, if you talk about how turbulent the human wave offensive aroused by the devil with blood, the steel team forged by the golden thighs is still in front of the devil. The devil couldn't even break through near Tianwangzhai, let alone escape to Wusheng Pass.

For the attack here, Meng Xiang was not too worried. Under the arrangement of the staff to jam all possible intersections, with many clones sticking to their front-line posts, and under the constant vigilance of the dogs, if the devils are still allowed to escape, then Meng Xiang can only admire their luck is too rebellious.

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!" Huang Baitao also expressed his determination early with this sentence that Meng Xiang was familiar with. If the devil is really allowed to escape, then the 57th Army will be ashamed to boast of its bravery in attacking the Central Plains.

During this period of time, Lao Jiang sent many of his classmates, relatives and friends to woo him, but he was not moved. The prospects in the vanguard army were not comparable with those of the Central Army. But some rumors are spreading, although Meng Xiang specially greetings and expressed trust, but if the mission of encircling and destroying the devil fails this time, it is easy to give others the truth.

He was on the front line of the battlefield, standing on a high place, looking out at the place where the battle was fierce.

There was a constant sound of gunfire, but more often than not, the sound of tearing cloth characteristic of rainstorm machine guns. From a distance, in addition to the billowing smoke of gunpowder, the most eye-catching thing is the judgment airship in the sky.

The airship hung firmly overhead, and the devil's every move could not escape the observation on the airship. This airship not only acts as a clairvoyant, but also a terrifying murder weapon. Although it stopped at an altitude of nearly a thousand meters, the flames of the guns were faintly visible above. The bombs dropped from time to time also immediately vacated a scorched dead silence in the pile of people charged by the devils.

And when the roar of the plane came from the distant sky, the only worry in Huang Baitao's heart was put back in his stomach.

Although miracles bloom on the earth every day, they do not appear when the devil prays to Aunt Amaterasu. As for how the devils charged, the chains surrounded by multiple fortifications were still tightly wrapped around their necks, making them slowly suffocate in the horror of death.

"Keep rushing!" Seishiro Itagaki was expressionless, and blood was still dripping from the command knife that had just chopped down a deserter. From the moment the grain is burned, all retreats have been blocked. Tianwangzhai has a treacherous terrain, and if he holds on to the ground, he can survive for a while, but this is not what he wants. The loss of life, at most, is his own, and the loss of honor will affect the entire family.

"I'd rather die in the charge than survive on the way out." This phrase came to his mind. At that time, in the Russo-Japanese War, the Russians were as fierce as their firepower, but they were placed under the charge of the Japanese army who were not afraid of death.

"Man's nerves will eventually be crushed by a frenzy that is not afraid of death." This is the words of a veteran general who participated in the Russo-Japanese War, and Seishiro Itagaki agrees with it. But at this moment, after experiencing the ferocity of the devil and the fanatical charge again and again, the gunfire of the vanguard army's return fire was not a little messy. Even though the devils used the corpses all over the ground as a bridge to cross the innermost two lines of defense, the third line of defense was still a steady and rhythmic sound of machine gun fire.

The monotonous sound of tearing cloths, which at this time sounded like an accompaniment to tearing apart the charging figures of the devils, echoed in the valley from time to time.

Even Meng Xiang had to sigh at the ruthlessness of the devil's charge, but they were facing clones with nerves like steel bars. These cannon fodder for the war, even if their status is humble, their matriarchal template is also a great hero on the battlefield. They exist for war, they exist on the battlefield only to fulfill the orders of the commander.

Their nerves are fearless of death, fearless of terror, and imprinted with their indifferent expressions only for the sake of loyalty.

Under the influence of the clones, the minds of those ordinary soldiers also quickly matured under the smoke of gunpowder and the flames of war. The silent shouts mixed into an iron-like momentum in the roar of guns, crushing the devils' manic jumping actions again and again.

"General, there aren't many of us left!" The adjutant whispered in grief.

"Keep rushing! You, too! Itagaki Seishiro waved his hand, still expressionless and indifferent.

"Hey!" The adjutant didn't say anything, and after a bow, he trotted towards the forefront. But halfway through, the scream of a bomb in the air pierced the smoke billowing from the burning mountain forest and exploded around him. A yellow figure was like a rag doll thrown into the sky by a mischievous child, and after being swept five or six meters away by the explosion of dust and dust, it was motionless.

Seishiro Itagaki looked at it in a daze for a moment, then slowly raised his head and looked at the golden shadow that was slowly pressing overhead, so that the sunlight just after noon reflected the smell of dusk through the smoke of gunpowder.

"General, I'm going!" A staff officer next to him gave a military salute in front of him, and then rushed out of the narrow cave that was used as a temporary command post. A moment later, a puff of smoke from the wind obscured his figure. By the time the smoke was blown away by the sound of the explosion, his body was already a hundred meters away, and it was visible.

"In the twilight of the gods, only the figures of the gods fell and fell into the abyss of the earth!" Seishiro Itagaki couldn't remember what he would tell him, but the sadness of the hero's twilight still haunted his heart.

The blood mark on his command knife had solidified, leaving only a dark red residue, and as soon as he wiped it with a snow-white silk scarf, it disappeared, revealing the snow-bright sword light again.

The shouts of the other staff officers next to him drifted far away in his ears, but he could hear them clearly. Nearly 20,000 soldiers, in a single thought, have filled in this small land.

As the numbers of less than three thousand jumped in his ears, looking at the third line of defense of the still rock-solid vanguard army, he knew it was all over. There must have been a fourth and fifth line of defense behind the vanguard, and there were only a few soldiers left around him.

"Prepare for me!" He said abruptly as he turned his head.

The person next to him didn't say anything, and was stunned for a moment, and immediately thought of what was going on.

Seishiro Itagaki gently brushed the blade of the command knife with his fingers, and a tingling pain penetrated from his fingers into his somewhat numb mind.

"It's a good knife!" He exclaimed.

He was tempted to charge with the knife once, even if he fell halfway through, and his chest was covered with a golden bullet medal, but the traditional ritual required him to sit cross-legged and feed the knife into his body first.

He declined help, dressed in his cleanest military uniform, and sat down on a teal rock, holding the sharp command knife to his abdomen. The cold in the cave made the skin of his abdomen shiver. But his hand did not tremble, and he stabbed it steadily.

A sharp pain made his nerves twitch all over his body, twisting all the way to his face, and his movements were a little deformed, but he still endured and continued to cut.

"Cross!" His mind had already filtered the pain at this time, and he just wanted to draw a perfect cross.

But in the end, the stiff muscles made his movements out of shape, and his trembling body was no longer able to sit steadily, and he fell from the bluestone that was more than half a meter above the ground, and his cheekbones and cheekbones were broken.

He tried to get back on his feet, but the massive blood loss and pain had left him powerless.

"It's a good knife!" He laughed far-fetchedly, exhaled his last breath, and died.

"People who cut their own belly are a little brainless, and the last knife should be reserved for their enemies!" Meng Xiang, who heard the news not long after, said disdainfully, "Find his body, let's go to the Japanese to exchange good things." ”