In fact, Yang Zhen was not the only one who insisted on continuing to fight at night, and the three regiment commanders also meant that the battle could not be stopped because of the change in the sky. Especially among the three people, Liu Changshun, who made the least progress at this time, was the most resolute in his opposition......

Although Yang Zhen did not express any dissatisfaction with his progress, the reversal of the attack direction of the other two regiments caused him great pressure. Among the three regiments, whether it is divided according to the combat area or the priority of the attack targets, it is the main attacking force. However, the other two regiments changed the direction of attack in this way, and instead squeezed their main attack to the secondary direction.

Especially for him, the most unacceptable thing was that Du Kaishan reached out to cross the line and knocked out the 44th Wing Headquarters of the Japanese Army, which was originally divided into his own combat area, which made him even more stimulated. In his opinion, Du Kaishan's move is tantamount to grabbing food in his own bowl.

Liu Changshun, who thought that he had been robbed of the biggest piece of fat in the bowl, was stimulated and wanted to be ashamed in the night battle. Liu Changshun insisted on fighting, so Wang Guangyu and Du Kaishan were naturally not far behind. The three of them had been secretly screaming all the time.

In order to ensure that the night battle could go smoothly, Yang Zhen took out more than 100 rounds of flares from the secret warehouse. He personally called the three regiment commanders and personally explained the matters that needed to be paid attention to in the night battle one by one. After all, there are heavy casualties, and it is also difficult to replenish troops now, and the capital is really not strong, and Yang Zhen does not want to see it.

Although the three regiment commanders insisted on continuing to fight at night. But in the previous battle, the three people who had an understanding of the real combat effectiveness of this 44th Wing knew that they must not fight to the death, and that would only allow them to bear the casualties that they could not bear. In a night battle, the three regiment commanders have their own ways of playing. Among the three people, Wang Guangyu is the most experienced, and Du Kaishan is the most ruthless.

In order to be able to eat the enemy in front of you as much as possible, the casualties are minimized. After seizing the surrounding commanding heights and pressing the two Japanese squadrons into a small valley, Du Kaishan followed the mountain and poured all the dozens of barrels of gasoline captured and directly set it on fire.

At the end of spring and the beginning of summer, the grass in the valley has grown very tall. In addition, there has been some drought since the beginning of spring, and the grass and trees are extremely flammable. He lit this fire, and in an instant the valley was engulfed in flames. The fire in the valley was so bright that it could be seen clearly for dozens of miles in the night.

The Japanese troops in the valley could not resist the fire, and desperately broke through to the outside of the valley, but they were killed and wounded by a dozen light and heavy machine guns and mortars that he arranged at the exits on both sides. A network of more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns and mortars devoured the lives of every Japanese soldier who tried to leave the valley that had become purgatory.

At the two exits of the valley, there are patches of Japanese corpses everywhere. This can hardly be called a battle, but a one-sided massacre.

Looking at the Japanese troops struggling in the fire below the mountain, Du Kaishan smiled gloomily. In this afternoon's battle, although the casualties of his second regiment have not yet been counted, they are only a rough casualty figure, which has already made him feel distressed enough. Three infantry battalions, two disabled. Nearly half of the regiment was killed or wounded.

Especially when breaking through the second Japanese blockade line, in the face of the resistance of two Japanese squadrons, the second battalion, which took over the attack of the first battalion, was bitten hard by the Japanese army, and more than half of the casualties were inflicted. The battalion commander and instructor all died, and the three company commanders sacrificed two. When a fully staffed infantry battalion was withdrawn, it could only be reduced to one infantry company.

In order to breathe this out, Du Kaishan took the three battalions that had just been established by Liu Changshun as the basis, and organized the remnants of the two battalions plus his own guard company into one battalion, and all of them were put into battle at the beginning. The tactics of squeezing from the north and pressing the south were adopted to force the Japanese army into this small valley. In his words, Lao Tzu can't smash the pot and sell iron.

Looking at the gloomy face of the regiment commander beside him, Tao Jingfei, who knew that he was uncomfortable because of the heavy casualties of the troops, didn't know how to comfort him. The casualties of the troops were heavy, and as a political commissar, he was even more distressed. But this is the gap, the gap with the real combat effectiveness of the Japanese army.

also didn't want the troops to suffer huge casualties in the next battle, so although he thought that Du Kaishan's tactic was a bit excessive, Tao Jingfei still chose to support it. Just smelling the smell of barbecued human flesh from the bottom of the mountain, it took Tao Jingfei a lot of effort to suppress the vomiting sensation in her chest.

In order to maintain her majesty as the chief, Tao Jingfei forcibly did not spit it out on the spot. And the other warriors watching the battle on the mountain didn't have to do this. Many people smelled the smell of barbecued human flesh and vomited on the spot. Du Kaishan shook his head at the appearance of the cadres and soldiers around him, but he didn't say anything.

When some people among the soldiers whispered about their own tactics that hurt Tianhe, Du Kaishan was even more disapproving: "Anything hurts Tianhe, it's all bullshit." The devil killed 300,000 people in Nanjing, and there was no retribution. Lao Tzu just burned a few two-legged beasts to death with a fire, and God will thunder and split the sky? Then God is really blind. ”

Du Kaishan, who made two squadrons of Japanese soldiers into a barbecue, was the first of the three to end the battle. It can be described as clean and neat, except for the dozens of barrels of gasoline that were originally to be handed over, Du Kaishan, who ate the two squadrons of the Japanese army without paying any price, immediately turned around and ran over to grab food with Liu Changshun.

The fire set by Du Kaishan can be seen clearly dozens of miles away. Surrounded by Wang Guangyu, the river mallet taro on a hill that was only a thousand meters away from here in a straight line was naturally seen clearly. Looking at the skyrocketing firelight, Kawama Mataro couldn't help but twitch in his heart.

Gritting his teeth with hatred, he knew that it would not be a fire set by his own troops, but only a fire attack taken by the opponent in order to reduce casualties. The terrain there was first visited by Kawama Majitaro when he received the position of the 4th Division. Know that it is a small mountain valley.

Whoever drove that force in, the adversary would be trapped and killed as long as they held the exits at both ends of the valley with firepower. As for the end of the troops trapped there, he can now think of it when he closes his eyes. Especially the light of the fire that came out there, which made him clearly know that the troops trapped there were probably all wiped out.

Seeing this fire, it was not only the officers and soldiers of the 44th Wing, who had been divided into pieces, who were still alive, but also the Lin Fang Detachment of the Fourth Division on the Southern Front. Unlike the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, which intensified its attack after seeing this fire, the Lin Fang detachment, which was already half-dead in the offensive, moved much more slowly. The Japanese troops who participated in the attack, no matter how Hayashi Fangtaro urged, just did not move.

Although he had lost direct contact with the 44th Wing, this light made it clear to Hayashi that the 44th Wing was probably at the end of its rope. If he can't rescue the 44th Wing when he is close at hand, he will not only go back, but even the division commander will probably be severely punished by the Kwantung Army Headquarters.

It's just that no matter how Hayashi Yoshitaro threatened, and even threatened to send all the officers to court-martial, it still didn't help. His subordinates just can't make a decent offensive. He had just forced the squadron to attack, but the squadron retreated. Yoshitaro Hayashi, who was tired for a long time but found nothing, had no choice but to send a telegram to Sawada Shigeru, making a report on the situation and requesting that an aircraft be sent to support the 44th Wing.

After receiving Yoshitaro Hayashi's report, Shigeru Sawada, who had withdrawn to Jiamusi, did not speak for a long time. Since he received a telegram from the 44th Wing before crossing the river, he has never been able to get in touch with the 44th Wing, and although he has been prepared for the outcome of the 44th Wing, he is still stunned by the situation of the 44th Wing.

As for Lin Fangtaro's report to the Lin Fang detachment, Sawada Shigeru already knew it in his heart, otherwise before he withdrew, he would not have told Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu to pay more attention to the southern front and not put his hope on the Lin Fang detachment. It's just that although he was mentally prepared, he didn't expect things to develop, and he still went in the direction he didn't want to see.

It's just that he can't figure it out a little, why the opponent didn't pick the soft persimmon of Lin Fang's detachment, but turned to the hard bone of the forty-fourth wing. The combat effectiveness of the 44th Wing, Sawada Shigeru is very clear, is definitely far above his own Fourth Division.

If you only talk about individual soldiers and tactical literacy, the Lin Fang detachment, which is also a veteran division, is naturally not bad. However, when it comes to the tenacious spirit of battle and the decisive spirit of dedicating oneself to the emperor, the Hayashi Fang detachment is not inferior to the 44th Wing.

Thinking of this, Sawada Shigeru, who had always been puzzled by the soft persimmon of the Lin Fang detachment of the opponent's Lin Fang detachment, but went to gnaw on the hard bone of the 44th Wing. If the Lin Fang detachment is attacked first, according to the consistent habit in the Japanese army, no matter what gap the 44th Wing has with the 4th Division before, it will definitely desperately rescue.

If the 44th Wing was to be fought first, judging from the consistent behavior of those Osaka soldiers of the Lin Fang Detachment, they would definitely not have made any effort to rescue. At most, it's just a matter of doing superficial actions and coping with errands. Let them go to the rescue of friendly troops, that is to force them to kill them directly, it is even more uncomfortable.

Looking at Yoshitaro Hayashi's telegram not so much as a report, but actually a telegram asking for help, Sawada Shigeru smiled bitterly. Ordered to retreat all to rescue Jiamusi, from Jiamusi to the front line of Qunce Mountain, except for the Lin Fang detachment that served as the flank of the 44th Wing, the Fourth Division did not even leave a single soldier. Except for the whole army to attack Qunce Mountain again, the Fourth Division is now without troops to send.

And Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, who no longer dared to report any illusions about the Fourth Division, knew that when the Fourth Division encountered a battle, they collectively pretended to be sick, and even if they had been concentrated, they could not set off at all without three or five days of preparation, so they could only forward this telegram to the Kwantung Army Headquarters. It is hoped that the Kwantung Army Command will urge the 1st Division to speed up the march from the territory of Heihe. As much as possible, he rushed to the front line of Qunce Mountain to participate in the battle.

This has been fought for several days, and the troops of the 1st Division that cooperated with the operation according to the plan of the Kwantung Army Headquarters have not shown up for a long time, which makes Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru very dissatisfied. Previously, the main force of his Fourth Division was all there, and when the strength was sufficient, Sawada Shigeru naturally would not worry about the First Division, the largest division in the Japanese army. But now that he has no troops to send, he naturally thinks of this 1st Division unit that has not appeared for a long time.

As for sending the plane, Sawada Shigeru smiled even more bitterly. The planes at Jiamusi Airport have turned into a pile of scrap metal. Fighters from other directions, which were originally intended to be used in the Qunce Mountains, were temporarily transferred to Hailar by the Kwantung Army to support the increasingly tense situation, and now it is now the Manchurian-Mongolian border with war clouds. Do you have a plane to send on hand?

The Kwantung Army Command attaches much more importance to the polar bear in the north than to the Qunce Mountain, not to mention that all the aviation units have been transferred, and even its own Fourth Division is also being mobilized. Because it was ordered to clear Qunce Mountain, the Fourth Division, which had completed mobilization, was actually included in the list of the first batch of reinforcements. The Kwantung Army Command has already called several times to inquire about the progress of the clearance of the Qunce Mountains.

Sawada Shigeru didn't know how those brain-filled staff officers of the Kwantung Army Headquarters could think of the Fourth Division, weren't they afraid that other divisions would be implicated by these Osaka soldiers? Aren't they afraid that these Osaka soldiers will mess up the whole situation?

The fight against a guerrilla anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese armed forces was barely coping. As soon as he withdrew to Jiamusi, he asked for leave and was hospitalized, and put on the appearance that he was seriously ill and was about to smoke at any time. They were frightened by the tragic situation of piles of corpses of the puppet Manchurian military and police in Jiamusi.

If they were to deal with a group of anti-Manchurian forces that could be described as a rabble, if they were to deal with the Soviet army, which had planes on it, groups of heavy artillery and tanks, and weapons and equipment far better than the Japanese army, they would not have to turn around and run?

In fact, not to mention that those Osaka soldiers who regarded money as their life were frightened by the tragic situation in Jiamusi City, even Sawada Shigeru was also taken aback. The original neat Japanese military camp in the entire Jiamusi City, the division headquarters of the Fourth Division, which can be called the most majestic building in Jiamusi City, and the important buildings such as the puppet Manchurian Sanjiang Provincial Government, the Jiamusi Municipal Government, and the railway station have all become in ruins. It was either beaten into ruins by the war, or it was consciously blown up by the other side.

In a square in the city, there was still a sign on their bodies, and the bodies of high-ranking military and political personnel of the puppet Manchurians and Japanese personnel in the military and police of the puppet Manchus were piled up into a small mountain. The signs on the bodies indicated that the men had been executed for treason after they had been captured.

No wonder Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara couldn't sit still after the loss of Jiamusi. As soon as the opponent did this, the high-ranking Manchukuo personnel in the entire Sanjiang Province were almost swept away. The elites of the various military and police gendarmes, that is, the Japanese personnel, were also wiped out. A large number of archives, documents, and various materials were either burned or looted. In other words, the entire Sanjiang Province has fallen into complete paralysis at this time.

For Sawada Shigeru, the Manchukuo didn't care no matter how many people died. He was not the commander of the Kwantung Army and was not responsible to the government of Manchukuo. However, the loss of a large number of materials stored in Jiamusi made him feel distressed. Not to mention the weapons and ammunition in reserve, the money and goods in various Japanese-funded banks, and even the grain is not a single grain left. Everything that could not be taken away was blown up and burned. It was not only the Fourth Division that could not eat, but even the tens of thousands of Japanese in the city who ran out of food.

However, in just one day, the opponent moved almost the entire Jiamusi. After the Fourth Division, which had finally managed to get more than a dozen ferries to cross the Songhua River in the upstream Tangyuan County, withdrew to Jiamusi, it could not even eat. And the loss of all kinds of private property stored in Jiamusi by the officers and men of the Fourth Division also made the Fourth Division almost vomit blood in distress. almost didn't eat Kitano Takatsu, who stayed in Jiamusi, alive.

If it is said that the whole of the Fourth Division has not had time to beat up this Kitano Takatsu, who has brought huge losses to everyone, Sawada Shigeru, who is on fire because of the huge loss of Jiamusi, is not polite at all, and he comes up and slaps Kitano Takatsu who came to report. The guy who beat himself thought he was sticking to his merits was so swollen that he couldn't speak.

After receiving a telegram from Yoshitaro Hayashi for help, Shigeru Sawada, who was even more angry, stared at Kitano Takatsu almost with murderous eyes. If this guy hadn't lost Jiamusi so quickly, why would he be so passive? If the 4th Division was all there, even if it was a little bearish, why should the 44th Wing be encircled. If the 44th Wing was really lost, how should he explain it to the Kwantung Army Headquarters and the commander of the 11th Division, Lieutenant General Watahisao?

Seeing the division commander staring at himself with red eyes, Kitano Takatsu almost didn't pee his pants in fright. He didn't know that he hadn't lost all his troops, and he barely held his position, why was the division commander so angry?

After being silent for a long time, Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru said to Kitano Takatsu: "Kitano Shaosa, you did finally hold the barracks. But your responsibility is not to defend the barracks, but to defend the entire Jiamusi. What's the use of losing the whole city and holding only one battered barracks? ”

"And because of your mistakes, the 44th Wing is now encircled by anti-Manchu forces, and the Imperial expatriates and pioneer regiments in Jiamusi have also suffered heavy losses. Someone has to take this responsibility, so you should apologize. Don't wait for me to take you to court-martial. ”

Hearing that the division commander actually let himself apologize for his seppumi, Kitano Takatsu, whose face was so hot and painful that he could barely speak, couldn't help but be stunned for a long time before struggling and said: "Your Excellency the division commander, you asked me to apologize for seppuku, I don't accept it." Although I was not able to hold the entire Jiamusi, and Jiamusi suffered huge losses in this battle, I successfully held the barracks after all. ”

"I have only one brigade in my hands, and my opponent's strength is as large as locusts, at least several times more than mine. There is a huge disparity in troops, and Jiamusi is so big, how can I keep it tight? Those Manchukuo military police collapsed without firing a few shots, and I was left alone, and it was already rare that I could defeat this point. ”

"What does it have to do with me that the 44th Wing is surrounded by the enemy? I'm just a captain, and my rank is no more than a junior one. If the battle is lost, what does it have to do with me? You are the commander of the lieutenant general division in charge of the overall situation, and this responsibility should not be borne by me as a small junior general. If you are determined to hold me responsible, I will appeal to Tokyo and even to His Majesty the Emperor through my family. ”

"I won't do it, you can send me back to my country to be court-martialed. When the time comes, the shape shì is not something you can control. ”

Kitano Takatsu is not stupid, and he is also very shrewd. As soon as Sawada Shigeru spoke, he understood what he meant. With a strong family background, he naturally would not be willing to be manipulated by Sawada Shigeru, so he directly collided.

The meaning of his words is obvious, it's okay for you to be angry with me, but it's okay to use me as a scapegoat, and it's not okay to carry the black pot for you. Don't take Lao Tzu as those ordinary people who are easy to fool, Lao Tzu is also a person with a family background and a strong family background. You are looking for Lao Tzu to be blackened, and you are looking for the wrong person.

Hearing that Kitano Takatsu actually dared to talk back, and even dared to threaten himself, the angry Sawada Shigeru could no longer suppress the anger in his heart, and sneered: "Yaga, you have a brigade of troops at hand? The two squadrons left behind by the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, the engineer and baggage squadrons left behind by the division are all scarecrows? You are the commander of the Jiamusi city defense appointed by the division and regiment, not the commander of the barracks. Your duty is the whole of Jiamusi. ”

"You lost the entire Jiamusi, making the empire suffer heavy losses in Jiamusi, who will cut the abdomen if you don't cut the stomach? If you want to go back to your country to a military court, you think lightly, there is such a good thing. ”

"Kitano Shaozuo, I know that you have a strong family background and are a well-known chaebol in the empire, even if you go to a military court, you have a way to come out intact. But I'll tell you that I, Shigeru Sawada, am not one of those bastards in the War Department who sees money. If you want to return to your home country to escape the sanction of military law, it is not so easy. I can't control it when I return to China, but you are still on the territory of the Fourth Division, and I, Shigeru Sawada, am still the division commander of the Fourth Division. ”

Seeing that Sawada Shigeru was out of shape and actually quarreled with a small Shaozo, the brows of Kobayashi Asaburo and the chief of staff of the Fourth Division, Shusan Sansa, couldn't help frowning deeply. The key question now is how to find a way to rescue the 44th Wing and not find a scapegoat before the Kwantung Army command calls back.

What's more, Kitano Takatsu's family background is known to both people, and he is a famous chaebol in the empire. As long as the empire is still at war, not to mention that he Sawada Shigeru is just a lieutenant general division commander, even if the commander of the Kwantung Army, Kenkichi Ueda, comes, he can't kill this guy.

It's not a problem for Sawada Shigeru to find someone to carry the black pot, and with the superior force to fight like this, someone really has to come out as a scapegoat. Otherwise, not to mention the Kwantung Army Headquarters, even the 11th Division would have no way to deal with it. But he found the wrong person for this Kitano Takatsu, who has a strong family background.

Feeling that it was really unseemly to continue to quarrel like this, Shuzo waved his hand, stopped Kitano Takatsu's move to continue to resist, and signaled him to leave before saying: "Your Excellency the division commander, you should not surrender your identity and quarrel with a little Shaozuo, this is really degrading your dignity as the division commander." ”

"Kitano Takatsu has a strong family background and is a well-known chaebol in the empire. He is a good contender for the next patriarch of this family, and if you kill him, you will get you in trouble. This is the one who is looking for the black pot, but not now. Let's wait and see if the 44th Wing can be rescued. ”

"And the most important thing for us now is how to find a way to rescue the 44th Wing. As you have seen just now, as soon as the wings withdrew to Jiamusi, a large number of patients suddenly appeared. Although we all know what is going on with these patients, it also shows that our division has no morale to fight further. If we force another attack, not to mention that the 44th Wing can't be saved, even we ourselves may be able to get in. ”

Listening to the advice of Shuzo in the world, Sawada Shigeru waved his hand tiredly and said, "I have asked the Kwantung Army Headquarters to urge the troops of the First Division to participate in the attack to speed up their actions. Now we can only pin our hopes on the 1st Division. Let's hope these Tokyoites can help the 44th Wing out of the sea of suffering. ”