Age of Rebirth

The roar of the artillery, the rain of shells, especially the shelling of the rockets, created a sea of ​​death flames. Under the artillery fire of the vanguard of the North China Field Corps, Asahikawa City was burning, trembling, and destroyed. Yuan Jinghao's face was reddened by the flames. , but with a thick and cold expression, the coldness in his eyes has not diminished in the slightest.

Chief of Staff Han Guangqi came to report, "Commander, the troops attacking Zhixing, Yinweizifu, and Tianyan encountered the same situation. The troops suffered casualties, especially the troops attacking Zhixing. They did not prepare for the large casualties. They called the Corps for instructions. department......"

Before Han Guangqi finished speaking, he was interrupted by Yuan Jinghao, "What are you asking for instructions? Isn't the order from the commander and the Corps not clear enough? The cannons in their hands are for dry food? Since the Japanese want to die, they will be fulfilled!" Use artillery fire to clear the way and blow up all targets that hinder the advance of the troops!"

As night fell, on a mountain dozens of kilometers away from Asahikawa, Lieutenant General Kase Masaga, the commander of the Hokkaido Defense Area Headquarters, was accompanied by a large group of staff, overlooking Asahikawa City in the north. In the night, even It was dozens of kilometers away, and the soaring flames that reflected half of the sky red were still clearly visible. The sound of thunder-like guns echoed in the air, and the strong smell of gunpowder smoke and burnt smell wafted with the wind!

"Alas!" Lieutenant General Kase sighed. He knew in his heart that under such fierce artillery fire from the China Independent Division, Asahikawa Castle must have been completely wiped out. He did not expect that the commander of the China Independent Division attacking Hokkaido would do so. Cruel and ruthless, after Asahikawa suffered a slight loss, he resorted to the means of razing Asahikawa.There are nearly a thousand artillery pieces, and several Asahikawa castles are not enough to blow them up!

Lieutenant General Kase sighed.It was not because of his own order that 10,000+ civilians in Asahikawa City were killed.The city has been turned into ruins. What he regrets is that the 10,000+ imperial citizens in Asahikawa City have not yet fully played their role and failed to achieve their own tactical goals. They have given enough damage to the Chinese soldiers. What a good cannon fodder and human bombs. Pity!

Major General Yamano, the chief of staff at the side, misunderstood the commander's sigh.He also comforted and reminded: "Your Excellency, Commander, this is the end of the matter, you don't have to worry about the jaded Asahikawa civilians, they are loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, but the brutality of the Chinese people reminded the Ministry, the next battle , are we minimizing the use of civilian armed forces? Little effect and heavy casualties!"

"No. Yamano-kun, you don't understand!" Lieutenant General Kase shook his head and said, "They were born in Hokkaido, and it was their destiny to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor and the Japanese Empire. This is their only value. It is the life of a hundred armed civilians in exchange for the death of a Chinese soldier. All worth it! They are now conscious weapons!"

Chief of Staff Yamano was silent, he admitted that what Commander Kase said was correct.But psychologically, it is still difficult to accept. "Okay Yamano-kun, don't be bothered by these things!" Lieutenant General Kase continued to say in a tone without the slightest emotion: "When the armed civilians in Hokkaido have fulfilled their obligations, it will be time for the imperial soldiers to go into battle. In Sapporo On the front line, we will fight to the death with the Chinese Independent Division until all the jade is broken! Including you and me!"

Chief of Staff Yamano's heart trembled. He could tell that Lieutenant General Kase already had the will to die in his heart, but he didn't have the determination to die in Hokkaido. It was better to survive than to die. He had to Thinking for himself, he asked: "Commander, according to your judgment, when will the decisive battle with the Chinese Independent Division in Sapporo be held?"

Lieutenant General Kase said with certainty: "The empire has millions of armed civilians in Hokkaido. They can use their flesh and blood to block the Chinese troops for more than two months, which is enough for us to deploy on the front line of Sapporo." !"

"Two months?" Chief of Staff Yamano thought to himself, seeing the soaring flames in the direction of Asahikawa, the smell of gunpowder smoke blowing in the wind and the rumbling sound of artillery, he couldn't help doubting Lieutenant General Kase's confidence.

The shelling of Asahikawa is still going on, and gradually extends to the south of the city. Yuan Jinghao's plan is to use shells to blast a passage in Asahikawa, and even blow up the entire city, pulling out the nail on the main road leading to Sapporo , The actions of the Japanese in Asahikawa City completely angered him.

After dawn, the sound of the guns subsided, and most of Asahikawa City was in ruins, enough to open a passage. Yuan Jinghao, who was sleeping in the armored command vehicle with his head covered, was awakened by Chief of Staff Han Guangqi, "Commander, it's dawn , According to the report of the dispatched reconnaissance troops, the Japanese who survived the bombardment in Asahikawa began to flee the city and fled towards Sapporo. The brigade commanders asked for instructions, should they send troops to pursue them?"

"A group of bastards who don't cry when they don't see the coffin, what are you doing chasing him?" Yuan Jinghao said coldly: "Order the troops to clear the passage immediately and pass through Xuchuan quickly. About eight hours have been wasted. There is no time to delay here!"

It was indeed delayed. According to the original battle plan, yesterday evening, it took about five hours to capture Asahikawa, and the troops marched south overnight. They should reach the front line of Iwamizawa by now, but they were delayed for more than ten hours in Asahikawa. Yuan Jinghao was full anger.

Asahikawa has become an empty city full of ruins, with the falling shells flying all over the sky, the sound of explosions trembling on the ground, the collapse of houses, and the flames rising into the sky, all of which instantly transformed into a pile of flesh and blood human bodies, forever compared to being loyal to His Majesty the Emperor The idea came from reality and cruelty. The Japanese in Asahikawa city threw away the bombs on their bodies, and at the same time lost the idea of ​​being loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, and scrambled to escape the hellish city and headed for Sapporo.

Therefore, when the troops cleared the road in Asahikawa City, they did not encounter the slightest obstacle. At noon, Yuan Jinghao commanded the headquarters to pass through the rubble-filled Asahikawa City and rushed towards Sapporo.

A few hours later, the vanguard of the right-wing attack group of the Independent Division and the troops that captured other targets also gathered in the direction of Asahikawa. When they saw the city in ruins, no one was surprised by the officers and soldiers, because last night, they The captured target used the same method, leaving behind the same ruined town and an unknown number of Japanese who survived.

One day later, Lieutenant General Sun Zhenbang, the commander of the right-wing offensive group and commander of the North China Field Corps, commanded the second echelon troops to the north of Asahikawa City. But none of them are as big as Asahikawa's scene.

Sun Zhenbang jumped off the armored command vehicle, sniffed the pungent burnt smell, looked at a spacious road passing through the ruins of the city, grinned, and muttered: "Good guy, Yuan Jinghao is enough!" Seriously, he just flattened a city, how many shells did he consume?"

A military map was spread out on the front of the car. Sun Zhenbang looked around the map, and suddenly turned to Major General Wang Jun, chief of staff of the Outer Mongolia Field Corps. And oil, the more the better, on the way from Asahikawa to Sapporo, it really needs to be exploded with shells!"

Sun Zhenbang is not exaggerating. After Yuan Jinghao's vanguard left Asahikawa, it went all the way to Iwamizawa, which is less than [-] kilometers away from Sapporo. The distance of several hundred kilometers was really bombed by shells and bullets along the way. A section of the road took seven days.

The civilians in Hokkaido, Japan, are indeed tough and aggressive. Probably the facts and lessons from Asahikawa Castle and other areas did not arouse the fear of the Japanese who are full of thoughts and loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, or the Japanese who want to die. many.

What cold guns, body bombs and landmines, as well as the destruction of bridges and roads, will appear at any time. Yuan Jinghao's vanguard is like a magnet, which strongly attracts the Japanese. To this, Yuan Jinghao's countermeasures are absolutely simple, which is ruthless firepower The blow killed the Japanese so that they did not dare to move forward, and the Japanese fled when they saw the flag of the Independent Division.

When a bullet is shot from a cold gun on the side of the road, I will reward you with ten bullets. Until the shooter is blown to pieces, a human bomb is thrown out, and immediately the bullets from the light and heavy machine guns rain down. When encountering villages and towns, the first shell Slam it over, and then give the Japanese inside time to get out, and then the target disappears in the stormy artillery fire.

At some time, the staff officers of the North China Field Corps Headquarters were all whispering in private, "Have you noticed that our commander's eyes are red now! There is a murderous look all over his body!" "What's so good about it?" It's strange, there are a lot of people killing people, so they are naturally murderous!" "You didn't see those brigade commanders who came to the Corps Headquarters, and their eyes were so red and purple!"

Lieutenant General Kase Masaga, Commander of Japan's Hokkaido Defense Zone Headquarters, expected to use the flesh and blood of more than a million armed civilians in Hokkaido to block the independent division for more than two months. However, it took Yuan Jinghao to command 15 vanguard troops for a week. , They hit the Iwasawami area near Sapporo, and the front of the soldiers approached Lieutenant General Kase's final decisive battle - Sapporo.

Where the vanguard of the right-wing offensive group of the Independent Division passed, villages and towns turned into ruins were left behind, and countless Japanese armed civilians who were full of loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor and took killing the soldiers of the Independent Division of China as the highest honor were buried. This is a road of killing. In the end, the Japanese in Hokkaido lost their souls and broke their courage.

When the troops arrived at Iwamizawa, Iwamizawa City, with a population of nearly 10, heard the roar of tank engines from the north and smelled the thick murderous aura in the air. The family fled with their mouths on the wind, and fled directly to Sapporo, without a little courage.

For Yan Jianze, what was left to Yuan Jinghao was an empty city, but what was left to Lieutenant General Kase was a huge problem.

(to be continued) (to be continued...)