Although Wang Guangyu entangled the resigned Komatsuzaki Tsukio to the death, making it impossible to advance or retreat. But the previous bloody battle also exhausted the last of his strength. At this time, in addition to the three regiments, which were originally shelf regiments, the first brigade of the first brigade, which had been fighting hard for many days, had two main regiments full of 6,000 troops before the war, and the number of combatants had dropped sharply to less than 1,000 at this time, except for the non-direct combatants such as artillery in the regiment.

Except for the two dissatisfied companies that remained on the front line of the general stone, after a fierce battle in the middle of the night, the 1st Brigade, which had almost exhausted the last trace of blood, was no longer able to launch any attack after Komatsuzaki Toshio contracted his position. It can only bluff and rely on a few remaining infantry companies with a small amount of combat strength to confront the 40th Wing, which has also been exhausted.

has exhausted almost all his strength, and when he finally can't attack, when he sees Yang Zhen again, Wang Guangyu's first sentence is to replenish the troops. Looking at Wang Guangyu, who looked extremely haggard because of the huge casualties, Yang Zhen sighed slightly, not knowing whether he should be angry or happy.

Although he changed the combat deployment without authorization, Wang Guangyu, who had almost borne all the pressure of the 40th Wing alone, not only used up most of the combat strength of the 40th Wing in the battle with the only nine companies at hand, but also dragged it to the death, making it impossible for it to retreat smoothly. The main force of the 2nd Brigade, which was rapidly moving north, finally completed the encirclement of the 40th Wing and created a powerful fighter.

To be honest, Wang Guangyu and the first brigade's appearance in this battle can almost be described as the mainstay. If it had not been for the 1st Brigade, the main force of the 24th Division, which had three wings, had been dragged down by movement defense and its 89th Wing had been severely damaged. And at the cost of almost half of the casualties, the combat effectiveness of the Field Detachment and the 40th Wing, which was dragged and weakened to death, would not have come to this point.

If it weren't for the fact that at the cost of almost all of its troops, it successfully exhausted the vital strength of the 40th Wing, judging from the combat effectiveness of this 40th Wing, although it has an advantage in terms of strength, it is very likely to be dominated by its anti-guest. As long as the 40th Wing can free up its hands to support the field detachment on the flank, I am afraid that Liu Changshun is still fighting hard. The progress of the battle will be even slower, and the casualties of the 2nd Brigade will probably not be the same as the current thousand.

Regarding Wang Guangyu's appearance, although he had some complaints, Yang Zhen really couldn't say a word. If Wang Guangyu hadn't changed the subordinate relationship of the 1st Brigade in the battle without authorization and inadvertently made up for the loopholes in his battle plan, even if he won this battle, he would probably only be able to win a crushing victory.

Yang Zhen did not complain about Wang Guangyu's active fighting spirit, and the subsequent battle process proved that it was Wang Guangyu's competitiveness that changed the battle plan without authorization. However, he made up for the biggest loophole in the battle plan that he discovered after the all-out counterattack was launched, especially after Liu Changshun's early attack was frustrated.

But for the huge casualty figures of the First Brigade, Yang Zhen really felt distressed. In his words, these are old bones. It's an old bone that has been painstakingly accumulated after several major wars. Now that almost all the casualties in this battle have been killed, how can Yang Zhen not jump to his feet in distress?

Distressed is distressed, but Yang Zhen also knows that the root of such a hard fight in this battle is still on himself. If he wasn't too young, he was too greedy for more when the battle plan was formulated, and he would have to hold on to a pound of stomach that could only eat eight taels. In one go, if the 24th Division was to be wiped out, the 1st Brigade would not have paid such a heavy price for casualties.

After completing the battle plan against the 70th Wing, if he had adopted the tactic of encircling the main force of the 24th Division, and had chosen to defeat it instead of completely annihilating it, the casualties would have been much smaller.

In the face of the huge casualty figures of the first brigade, although Yang Zhen's tone did not contain half a point of complaint and criticism, Wang Guangyu's face did not have half a point of joy, but said bitterly: "Commander, my first brigade has been exhausted." More than 2,100 people were killed or wounded in the first regiment, and almost all the combatants of the regiment were killed or wounded. The second regiment suffered two-thirds of its casualties, and now has less than a thousand troops. Even the three regiments, which suffered the smallest losses, reached more than 300 people. The backbone of the previous training period was almost killed and wounded. ”

"More than half of the light and heavy machine guns of the brigade were lost, and almost four mountain guns remained in the mountain artillery battalion directly under the brigade. Mortars, infantry guns lost a third, and almost all ammunition was depleted. The losses are so great, commander, the 1st Brigade does not know when it will be able to recover this time. ”

Looking at Wang Guangyu, who had a haggard face and was a little choked, Yang Zhen sighed and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Old Wang, don't be too sad. The general will inevitably die in battle. Regardless of whether they join the army voluntarily or not, it is also their fate to die on the battlefield as a soldier. I have already sent a telegram to the commissar that the ten independent regiments formed some time ago, as well as the supplementary one or two regiments, will arrive in the afternoon. ”

"These troops will be replenished first. Not only did you make up for your previous casualties, but even the third regiment of your original shelf regiment also made up for it this time. In addition, all the 200 grassroots cadres who were transferred from the 1st Brigade to the military region's teaching unit some time ago will also be transferred back to you this time. ”

Yang Zhen and Wang Guangyu were distressed for almost all of the first brigade here. Kenji Dohihara, the commander of the Fifth Army of the Kwantung Army, who had lost contact with the 24th Division in the middle of the night, couldn't sit still. The result of the loss of contact with the Seventy Wing before made Kenji Dohihara tremble.

It took two full days before the Seventy Wing lost contact before they were sent out to look for their plane to find it. But the planes that were sent out only found a large number of corpses left on the battlefield by the Seventy Wing, and as for the Seventy Wing itself, it was nowhere to be found. Although it has not yet been found out what happened to the Seventy Wing, the large number of corpses of the war dead, and the fact that they have been out of touch for two days, the end of this Seventy Wing is to think with his toes, and Kenji Dohihara can think of it.

Now the 24th Division has also encountered the same thing, which makes Kenji Dohihara completely unable to sit still. Losing a wing, he can still explain to the Tokyo base camp and the Kwantung Army headquarters. If he set a record of the total annihilation of the first division of the empire since the so-called Meiji Emperor created a new army, Kenji Dohihara didn't even need to think about it, he knew what kind of outcome he would face. The fate of General Kenkichi Ueda, whose position is still above him, is alive in front of him.

After the 24th Division lost contact, Ueda Kenkichi, who was almost on fire, and as soon as the sky was ready for the planes to take off and land, he immediately sent all the planes on the Jiamusi airfield. The first is to look for the 24th Division, hoping to find out what happened to the 24th Division. Second, in the event that the 24th Division really encounters a predicament, the planes dispatched can quickly provide fire cover.

When the news finally came from the reconnaissance plane, Kenji Dohihara received a report from the air force and barely collapsed in the wide chair behind his desk.

The 24th Division originally held various positions, except for General Shi and the first generation, the two sides were still confronting each other. In the rest of the directions, there was no trace of the movement of the troops of the 24th Division. Most of its original positions had been occupied by anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements. The troops of the 24th Division on the front line of General Stone had actually fallen into the encirclement of the opponent. As for the location of the former 24th Division headquarters, there is no sign of human activity except for a broken wall.

Looking at the information sent back by the reconnaissance plane in his hand, Kenji Dohihara was puzzled: "How can this be?" Even if the 89th Wing had suffered too many casualties, it had withdrawn to Jiangnan to recuperate. But the 24th Division still had two full wings of troops, and the situation could have become so corrupt overnight. ”

Although I don't know how the situation could turn upside down overnight, General Shi Yi, who was almost at his fingertips before, turned around overnight. The 24th Division was defeated in all of a sudden from its absolute superiority. The division headquarters lost contact, and the remaining troops cowered in one place, unable to move.

But Kenji Dohihara knew one thing that if he didn't think about rescuing the remnants of the 24th Division, he was afraid that his position as the commander of the army would have to be changed tomorrow. Regarding the personality of General Umezu Mijiro, Kenji Dohihara is still relatively clear. Thinking of this general who is silent on the surface, but his wrists are ruthless, and the depth of the city is unsurpassed in the army, Kenji Dohihara knows that this black cauldron has been decided by himself.

As for how to fight for the best ending for himself now, it depends on whether he can rescue the remnants of the 24th Division. As for the ending of Lieutenant General Nemotohiro, Kenji Dohihara can figure it out with his eyes closed. I'm afraid that His Excellency, the commander of the lieutenant general's division, who had lost contact with him for most of the night, had already thrown himself into the arms of Amaterasu at this time.

Kenji Dohihara, who was anxious to rescue the remnants of the 24th Division, not only sent three urgent telegrams to General Umezu Mijiro in succession to report on the current battle situation. It was even more of a lion's mouth, demanding that at least one division of the Fifth Army must be mobilized within two days. Moreover, the designation requires veteran divisions such as the Second Division or the Eighth Division. As for the Fourth Division, Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara, who had already suffered once, resolutely did not want to.

Before receiving a reply from General Umezu Mijiro, Kenji Dohihara, who was about to go crazy, not only airdropped the password for direct contact with the army headquarters to the trapped troops of the 24th Division, that is, the 40th Wing, as soon as possible. He almost didn't take out his pistol and forced Lieutenant General Teramoto Kumaichi, regardless of the pilot's flight fatigue, to go all out before dark. The intensive bombing of the Jiangjunshi line was not hesitant to exhaust all the oil bombs in the Jiamusi Airport reserves.

In the opinion of Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara, as long as the remnants of the 24th Division can be rescued, not to mention gasoline and bombs, it doesn't matter if all the planes on Jiamusi Airport are lost.

His idea was good, but the Japanese army's weak foundation and low production capacity were reflected at this time. The First World War of Normenhan almost consumed more than half of the original reserves, and the aviation units of the Kwantung Army, which could only rely on the Shenyang Arsenal to manufacture and transport, were simply unable to guarantee the bombs needed for this large-scale and high-intensity bombing.

When the Japanese army dispatched almost more than the number of air forces it used in Normenhan, it can be said that for the Kannai battlefield, it can be said that it is an unprecedented large fleet of more than 100 aircraft. There was hardly a moment of respite, and by the afternoon of the same day, Kenji Dohihara received a report that embarrassed everyone.

Excluding the planes lost due to the excessive fatigue caused by the frequent take-off and landing, the bombs originally stored at the Jiamusi airfield have all been used up due to the high-intensity use. If it cannot be replenished within a short period of time, the bombing campaign can only be stopped. Now the aviation can only use the machine guns on the aircraft to carry out very dangerous ground dive strafing. The original medium-range bombers with a large bomb load and a high range have all stopped sorties.

After receiving the report from the air force, Kenji Dohihara was almost going crazy. He didn't even care about basic etiquette, and shouted angrily at Lieutenant General Teramoto Kumaichi, who was also a lieutenant general with him: "Lieutenant General Teramoto, even if your plane doesn't have bombs, doesn't it still have machine guns?" Why did the bombing stop? Could it be that the lives of an entire division of imperial soldiers are not as good as your broken planes? Your air corps is a bunch of straw bales and pestilence, cowards who have lost the face of the Imperial soldiers. ”

Lieutenant General Teramoto Kumaichi, who is the same lieutenant general as Kenji Dohihara, and does not belong to the same system, and is distressed by the considerable losses of the air force, will suffer from this anger. In response to Kenji Dohihara's accusations and abuse, Teramoto Kumaichi did not show weakness, and opened his mouth to fight back: "You infantry fight like this, and you don't care about our." Our aviation forces have done everything they should do, and it's your business to fight like this, and it's your business to do our business. ”

"If you want to talk about straw bales, you Lieutenant General Kenji Tohihara are the real extra-large straw bales. Commander Umezu handed over this clean-up operation to you, and in the case of the superiority of troops, you are fighting like this, what are you not a straw bag? You're not just a bale of straw, you're a waste of wood. What are you going to do if you don't do your old job, engage in your intrigues and tricks, and come back to harm the Kwantung Army? Return to the commander of the army? You can't be a wing captain. ”

"In the 14th Division, I was almost not wiped out by those cowardly Chinese Army, and now I have come back to trap the Fifth Army. You are a scourge. ”

The two lieutenant generals actually ignored the general's demeanor and scolded each other in front of their subordinates, leaving the two attachés dumbfounded. Does this sound like a word? The two lieutenant generals are actually like two shrews, what do others think of the Kwantung Army?