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Chapter 446 The curtain falls on Shizhu Ridge (1)

On the Shizhuling right-wing battlefield, the sun hangs high above the head, and the heat is so hot that people are spitting oil.

As strong as Li Chong, he has maintained the habit of practicing boxing and kicking for many years, his mouth is dry and his arms are weak, and the range of swinging the big knife has decreased a lot.

On the opposite side of this hand-to-hand battlefield, Amakasu Shigetaro folded his hands on the command knife in front of him. He did not expect that a bayonet hand-to-hand battle would be fought from morning to noon without a winner.

Soldiers from both sides were still mixed together, their figures moving, holding bayonets at each other, trying to kill each other.

"Division Commander, a telegram from the military department."

The radio communication soldier ran to Amakasu Shigetaro with a telegram, first saluted, and then presented the telegram to Amakasu Shigetaro with both hands.

Amakasu Shigetaro took a look at the telegram and his face became ugly. He knew that General Okamura was very dissatisfied with his lack of progress.

Looking at the entangled battlefield in front of him, Amakasu Shigetaro glanced at the order in the telegram to make a breakthrough as soon as possible, paused for a moment, and suddenly opened his mouth to swallow the order.

The staff officer of the division standing aside lowered his head and said nothing. He knew that the division commander must be in an extremely bad mood right now.

Indeed, when Amakasu Shigetaro swallowed the telegram at this moment, although his face was calm, his heart was already overwhelmed.

Thinking back to the order of the military department, Amakasu Shigetaro thought that this was exactly the order given by the military staff squatting in front of the sand table, watching others carry the burden without getting too tired, what can he do in the anxious situation in front of him?
Amakasu Shigetaro already had some regrets in his heart and proposed to bypass Jilongshan. At that time, Jilongshan had only one noble division.

In the past, his concept of a unit of the Chongqing army was: a unit of the imperial army can go up and push horizontally.But today in Shizhuling, he personally experienced that the Chongqing army, which he had always looked down upon in the military academy, also had a brave army.

Amakasu Shigetaro didn't know, while his mind was turbulent, Yang Sen, the commander of the No.20 Seventh Army, sat in front of the map, looked at Shizhu Ridge, and amidst the smog, he pinched the cigarette butt in his hand, stood up and walked towards the Outside the board room of the group army's temporary command post, he let go of his throat and shouted to the outside, "Order the 33th Army to arrive at Shizhu Ridge within an hour and smash the [-]rd Division!"

At this moment, Yang Sen decided not to sit on the sidelines anymore. Originally, he was planning to wait for the 40rd Division to break through the defense line of the 33th Army at a place more than [-] kilometers away from Shizhu Ridge. The devil was fighting with the bayonet, so he decided to take the initiative.

Li Jue, the commander of the [-]th Army, quickly assembled his troops after receiving the order from the group army headquarters. The two reorganized divisions of the [-]th Division and the [-]th Division rushed to Shizhuling while gathering. The volunteers in the [-]th Army, The independent brigade and the temporary No. XX independent brigade followed closely behind.

For the [-]th Army led by Li Jue, it was a lot of pressure to rush forty kilometers in an hour. However, as the commander of the army, Li Jue knew Commander Yang's temper, so he kept urging the troops to rush forward. Before that, the officers and soldiers of the subordinate regiments were asked to give up their heavy supplies and head straight for Shizhuling with only rifles, bayonets and grenades.

At this time, the No.20 Army was struggling to support, because Amakasu Shigetaro overwhelmed his last reserve team: the last new force of the 33rd Division composed of the Mountain Artillery Wing and the Supplies Wing.

From this day, more than 33 people from the 1000rd Division came out of Tongcheng and all went into battle. Amakasu Shigetaro was left with only one squadron guarding him.However, this army of 20 or [-] devils joined the right-wing battlefield in Shizhuling, making the officers and soldiers of the No. [-] army who had already devoted themselves to the battle a little weak in the fight.

Especially the [-]st, [-]th and [-]th divisions who have been working since the beginning of the morning, they have already been exhausted, even if they try to squeeze the strength deep in their bodies, their movements become staggering, and the devils on this battlefield are also exhausted , and can fight with each other evenly, but once you meet a devil who has newly joined the battlefield and has all his strength, it is basically a disadvantage.

Although the devil's soldiers from the Mountain Artillery Regiment and the Supplies Regiment were not as good at fighting bayonets as the infantry and reconnaissance regiments, they still had the strength to win at this time.

The situation on the battlefield has become more and more unfavorable to the No.20 Army, and the broadsword in the hands of the commander Yang Hanyu has also turned red. He can feel that the balance of victory in this battlefield is tilting more and more towards the devils, but he has no soldiers left. Sent.

Li Chong, who pierced a devil lieutenant with a single blow, also felt that the situation on the battlefield was not good. Although he knew that it was difficult for an army to fight against a devil and a division, he was on the battlefield himself and gave everything, but felt that the chance of victory was being lost little by little. , this feeling is really uncomfortable.

Li Chong knows that all the officers and soldiers on this battlefield have done their best. This kind of large-scale battle is not like he used to squat in Meiling, where he can avoid direct confrontation and continue to accumulate advantages in guerrilla attacks to eat away at the devils. I can only bite the bullet, but if I can't beat it, I can only say that the bayonet quality of the grassroots officers and soldiers is still not as good as that of the little devils.

Even though he thought so in his heart, Li Chong didn't have the urge to spill blood on this battlefield. Even if the battlefield in front of him failed, the Devil's 33rd Division would not benefit much. Taking the area of ​​30 square meters in front of him as a sample area, The devils have left more than [-] corpses. If it is extended to the main film battlefield, the devils will have to leave at least [-] corpses in hand-to-hand combat.

If you count all the devils defeated by the 33st, 5000rd and [-]rd divisions on the main road yesterday afternoon, Li Chong basically estimated that at least [-] people from the [-]rd Division were killed by the officers and soldiers of the [-]th Army.

What's more, the hand-to-hand combat is still going on at this moment, and if you continue to kill to the last soldier, these bayonet-fighting devils will continue to die.

Such a number is for his own side, even if it is a failure, there is an explanation for the top and bottom, so Li Chong has already made a decision in his heart. Time, if you really want to retreat, you can still retreat.

Just when Amakasu Shigetaro felt that the balance of victory was constantly tilting towards him, a soldier standing guard in the distance dismounted in front of him and hurriedly said, "Your Excellency, a large group of Chongqing troops are rushing here!"

"Nani?"

Amakasu Shigetaro's eyes stared like copper bells, seeing that he was about to reap the results of the battle, why did the Chongqing support troops come again?
Amakasu Shigetaro didn't know how to express his emotions at this moment.

The staff officer of the division on the side stood at attention and bent down to Amakasu Shigetaro and said, "Division commander, we must order the soldiers to withdraw from the battlefield! If we continue to fight, we will be in a very dangerous situation!"

(End of this chapter)