Rise from the sword

Chapter 611
"Nani?!"

Today, after hearing the report from the staff officer, Isamu Yokoyama called out the word Nani again.

This time, the tone was higher than before, and the meaning of horror was more intense, and the meaning of horror in the voice could be clearly heard.

His back was dripping with cold sweat.

The Sixth Division, including the division commander Kanda, disappeared collectively. Judging from the traces at the scene, it was suspected that they were captured alive, and none of the troops survived. Even the flag guard team of the 23rd Regiment was stunned by the enemy's new weapons.

The Union flag was captured intact.

Chang Chang fell.

The Sixth Division was wiped out.

This news hit Hengshan Yong's brain like a heavy hammer, leaving him in a daze for a long time.

The United flag was seized. Although this made the Locust Army of the Great Japanese Empire lose face, it had little to do with him.

Does the Imperial Japanese Locust Army still have face?
ridiculous.

When the war started, it was said that the Republic of China would be destroyed in three months, but it turned out that the Battle of Songhu was not even finished in three months.After fighting for seven years, the more I fought, the more I went back, and now I am being chased away by the Eighth Route Army.

Still need face?
The most troublesome thing for him was the fall of Changchang.

This means that the Southern Independence Regiment is about to begin rapid expansion, and will inevitably expand its territory rapidly and engulf the area occupied by the locust army.

As the capital of a province, Changchang has developed transportation, and highways and railways connect cities such as Changsha and Hengyang. The independent regiment can take advantage of these rapid maneuvers. Even the sixth division can't stop the independent regiment's tank cluster, and neither can other divisions. think.

It is not far from Changchang to Hengyang.

Although he destroyed the roads, railways, and bridges along the way, the foundation is still there, and it is not difficult to repair it. In a month and a half at most, the army of the Independence Regiment can reach Hengyang.

Before that, his most important supply line, the Guangdong-Han Railway, may suffer a devastating blow.
He has less than a month left.

The Hengyang battle must be resolved as soon as possible, and then draw out your hand, relying on the superiority of your troops, to compete with the Eighth Route Army in Song County.

This idea came to Yokoyama Isamu's mind.

He still has a chance.

According to the farewell telegram sent by the Sixth Division, in just over two days of fighting, in the absence of a solid position, it destroyed more than 250 tanks of the Independent Regiment in street battles. Huge, but the actual combat effectiveness is not strong, presumably because of the limitation of the quality of soldiers.

As long as he can suppress the air superiority of the independent regiment, he has a good chance of winning, and it is very big.

"Send a report to inquire about the Eighth Air Force."

Yokoyama looked at the staff officer beside him:

"ask them···"

Before Heng Shanyong's voice fell, a staff officer ran over in a panic.

"Hata Toshiroku urgent call!"

"urgent telegram?!"

Yokoyama immediately felt bad.

There is never a good thing about urgent calls, and the more urgent, the worse things are.

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at the same time.

Yuchang.

Kanda woke up faintly, feeling severe head pain, he subconsciously wanted to reach out and rub his head, but only then found that his hands and feet were handcuffed and unable to move normally.

After struggling for a while, he found that the shackles were very firm, so he gave up struggling and looked around.

Kanda was discovering that he and the senior staff of the Sixth Division were in a room reinforced with steel pipes, and their hands and feet were bound by shackles. Here, his headache gradually eased and his consciousness gradually returned.

He also remembered what happened last night.

Last night, the headquarters of his Sixth Division was attacked, and a kind of high-level group of them was captured alive.

"Yo, are you awake?"

Beside him, a soldier on duty greeted him in a teasing tone, speaking in Japanese. Although his feet were a little sloppy and his tone was distorted, Kanda Masa still understood.

"Take me to your commander."

After a short period of confusion and panic, Kanda regained his arrogance as the head of the division. This old devil can't speak Chinese and can only speak in Japanese.

The rest of the devils also woke up one after another.

After a short period of panic, seeing the head of the division who was still arrogant even though he was tied up, they followed suit and put on a collective attitude of aloofness, with disdain in their expressions and eyes.

There is no awareness of being a prisoner at all.

"Then satisfy you and take it away."

The soldier put down the book in his hand, snorted coldly, glanced at the devil officers with disdain, then waved his hand, and led Kanda Masa and the others to the Kong Jie headquarters together with several other soldiers.

He also spoke in Japanese, although it was still bad, but Kanda Masa still understood it.

This behavior really surprised Kanda Zheng.

He really did not expect that the other party agreed so quickly, but when he thought about it carefully, it was normal. He was the first Lieutenant General of the Locust Army of the Japanese Empire to be captured alive, and his military chief Xiang Xiang was captured alive. You can understand it with a touch.

I want to take a picture, leave a picture, and then post it in the newspaper, paving the way for future breakthroughs.

Step on his dead body.

Pave the way with the corpses of the Sixth Division.

The soldiers in the detention center led a group of senior officials from the Sixth Division out of the prison, which was reinforced by civilian houses, and then boarded a convoy of big jeeps and walked all the way to Kong Jie's headquarters.

At this time, his hands and feet were shackled, and suicide was impossible. Kanda Masa also calmed down and began to carefully look at the surrounding scenery. The escort convoy also slowed down very cooperatively.

The rest of the top leaders of the Sixth Division also gave up the idea of ​​struggling and fleeing, and looked at the situation of the Eighth Route Army troops around them.

At this time, the battle was over, and there were only dots of devils remaining to resist. Kong Jie also took back the main force, leaving only a part of the troops to encircle and suppress the remnants, and the rest were stationed outside the city to prepare for post-war reconstruction.

There is also preparation for a major expansion.

After discussing with Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, and Zhao Gang, he decided to stay here for the time being, use Changchang as the base, directly expand the army, and then launch an attack on the southern devils.

By the way, build a small iron and steel factory, a textile factory and other factories in Changchang.

So by plane, five new tank battalions and five new artillery battalions were transported from Zhaojiayu, and the equipment was taken directly from the warehouse.Because of the street fighting, many tanks and armored vehicles that participated in the battle were damaged, and the amount of maintenance work was too large. The tanks and armored vehicles were simply scrapped and used as scrap steel for the new steelmaking plant.

The new troops need tanks and armored vehicles, while the original troops needed to be refitted collectively.

But the battle had just ended, the original troops hadn't had time to accept the new equipment, and the new troops hadn't arrived yet, so a large number of tanks were piled up on a flat ground outside the city.

A total of 590 four tanks, more than 700 armored vehicles, and more than 200 artillery pieces.

In order to publicize, Kong Jie asked a group of people who heard the news to memorize the shooting equipment, which really opened the eyes of all the reporters, including many foreign reporters. These reporters shot up and down the equipment with long guns and short cannons.

At this time, the convoy escorting Kanda Masa arrived outside the plain.

"Division commander, chief of staff."

"Look over there."

The first person who saw the tanks and armored vehicles piled up in the open space from afar was a division staff officer. He reminded the division commander, the staff station and other high-level division staff to look over.

Relying on the binding seat belts, as well as the restrictions of handcuffs and anklets, the soldiers are not afraid of these devils escaping or making small moves, and they don't care about the devils looking around.

"This is... a tank..."

Kanda was waiting for a group of senior executives to follow the staff's gaze, and suddenly found a group of tanks in the distance.

One by one immediately widened their eyes.

And as the convoy got closer and closer to the clearing, the devils could clearly see the size of the tanks on the clearing.

"About 200 tanks, [-] armored vehicles, and more than [-] heavy artillery pieces."

As worthy of being the staff officer of the division headquarters, he quickly observed the specific scale.

"so much?"

At this moment, the expressions of the high-level devils with arrogance on their faces finally changed.

As senior members of the Sixth Division, although these devils were defeated by the Independence Regiment, they were still very proud in their hearts, full of disdain for the Independence Regiment's combat effectiveness.

In their view, the battle of the Independence Regiment's attack on Changchang was simply ridiculous.

As the headquarters of the division and the elite Sixth Division, Kanda naturally has a way to calculate the results of the battle more accurately.

With twice as many troops, more than ten times the superior firepower, more than 300 tanks, and more than 500 armored vehicles, the independent regiment attacked a unit that lacked positions and anti-armor forces, and almost wiped out the tanks.

More than three hundred tanks were lost.

Ridiculous.

The details of the battle also made the devils laugh out loud.

This group of stupid farmers actually drove the tanks into the alleys, and even used them directly as fortresses and bait. Many tanks on the battlefield that could obviously rescue them also gave up and were easily destroyed by the locust army.

As a result, the original loss of at most a hundred tanks tripled.

If he came to command, the loss of at most thirty or forty tanks.

most!
If he was given some time to allow the Sixth Division to obtain more anti-tank weapons and dig more positions, then, I am afraid that the opponent's tanks would only be able to capture half of the positions.

But the group of tanks they saw at this time, the tanks with sealed muzzles and brand new paint, the devils knew very well that these were all new equipment, equipment that had just come out of the factory.

Such a huge number, let them realize.

I am afraid that the strange and naive behavior of the independent regiment in this Battle of Changchang was not because of the lack of experience and knowledge of the tank crews as they thought, but because of...
There are too many tanks.

as well as.

In order to reduce troop casualties.

His order was to give priority to destroying enemy tanks.

Therefore, the independent regiment directly used tanks as a lure. Seeing a chance to destroy the tanks, the locust warriors would inevitably rush out of the complicated bunkers. The follow-up troops of the independent regiment were eliminated.

When the convoy left the open space and the group of tanks disappeared from sight, the devils still looked dull, unable to recover for a long time, and some of them were even more mournful.

this discovery,

It is true that the high-level attack on this group of locusts is a bit big.

I laugh at others for being stupid, and others laugh at me for being poor.

(End of this chapter)