Age of Rebirth

The muzzles and muzzles of the tanks are not fake, and the murderous eyes of the soldiers of the Independent Division are not illusory. Major General Akutagawa, the chief of staff of the Third Army of the Ximan Kwantung Army, had an instinctive reaction in his mind, "Surrounded! "

The captain of the guard next to Chief of Staff Akutagawa reacted quite quickly, and immediately shouted: "Ready to fight!" The dozens of guards were unambiguous, and they raised their guns and were about to shoot, but a rain of bullets came, and there were dozens more on the ground. Bloody corpse.

"Put down your weapons and don't kill!" came the Japanese voice, and more than a dozen staff officers all looked at Chief of Staff Akutagawa, the Bushido spirit of the Yamato nation, when did the score come, and in the current situation, there is absolutely no Bushido spirit Bullets are powerful.

Chief of Staff Akutagawa did not have the courage of Lieutenant General Tosa to cut himself open, and he did not intend to sacrifice his life for the Empire of Japan and His Majesty the Emperor. It is better to live than anything else. During the days of being surrounded, he has lost all his courage. Otherwise, Lieutenant General Tosa would not have been repeatedly suggested to evacuate.

"Masters, resistance is useless, let's surrender!" He calmly said to a dozen panicked staff officers, and took the lead in throwing away his pistol, raised his hands, and shouted in Japanese: "We surrender!" , please give us the treatment of prisoners of war!"

With the chief of staff as an example, the dozen or so staff officers did not want to die, and threw down their pistols one after another, raising their hands high. An independent division officer with the rank of major came over with cold eyes and looked Akutagawa up and down. The major general took a few glances, and asked with a murderous look in proficient Japanese: "Report the number of your unit, your own rank and position!"

Now that he has decided to surrender, the dignity of the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Empire is not important anymore. He said respectfully: "Major General Ichiro Akutagawa, Chief of Staff of the Third Army of the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Empire, surrenders to you. Treat me and my subordinates well!"

Listen to Akutagawa's four major generals.He was still the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, a major officer of the Independent Division, and immediately laughed, turning around and shouting at the soldiers. "A big fish! The chief of staff of the major general of the Kwantung Army, report to the regiment immediately!"

According to post-war verification, this lucky major was Major Liu Guozhi, commander of the First Battalion of the Third Regiment of the Eighth Brigade of the North China Field Corps. Among them, the first senior officer above the rank of major general of the Kwantung Army to be captured.

Hearing the battalion commander's shout, a large group of soldiers came immediately and quickly surrounded the dozen Kwantung Army officers. Liu Guozhi looked at Major General Jiechuan with cold eyes.He said disdainfully: "Akutagawa, don't talk about international agreements with me. If the division commander hadn't issued an order to spare the lives of you Japanese and see you aggressors, I would have greeted you with a shuttle of bullets. The soldiers of the independent division The rule is, no Japanese prisoners of war will be kept!"

Liu Guozhi circled around Major General Jie Chuan, and said with emotion: "Ja Chuan, you took your life. I don't understand what the teacher means. What's the use of leaving you bastards behind?" ?” As he said that, Liu Guozhi pulled the trigger of the submachine gun in his hand differently, and it clicked.

Major General Akutagawa was quite frightened. On the battlefield where thousands of troops were fighting, a single word from the Major of the Independent Division could decide his life or death.Hastily approached, "Your Excellency, your Japanese is so good, you should have a deep connection with the Great Japanese Empire, and you should know my sincerity. Otherwise, I will issue an order to resist to the end!"

"What! Yuanyuan? Resist?" Liu Guozhi laughed loudly, "I'm from the Northeast. I was forced to learn Japanese when I was a child. I didn't expect it to come in handy today. You still want to resist. Just right, there is no excuse to kill you And a dozen other little devils, you reminded me, stubbornly resisting and refusing to surrender! My brothers and I wiped out the enemy army in the battle!"

Liu Guozhi smiled ferociously, and with a "crash", he pulled the bolt of the submachine gun. Seeing the actions of the battalion commander, more than a dozen soldiers around him also raised their submachine guns at the same time. He didn't expect that a few words to support the scene would lead to his own death. If he knew this earlier, why talk too much?

"Report to the battalion commander, the regiment commander ordered these prisoners to be sent to the theater headquarters immediately!" The correspondent's report was regarded as saving Major General Jie Chuan's life. Liu Guozhi reluctantly put down his submachine gun and said, "Ja Chuan, It's cheap for you, send a platoon of troops to send these little devils to the theater headquarters, if the little devils try to escape and resist during the escort, they will be killed on the spot!"

After the sky brightened, the battle in the Nuluerhu Mountain area continued. In addition to the more than [-] Kwantung Army soldiers assembled on the front line of Qinglonggou, the Kwantung Army troops in other directions, in the east, west, and north, the independent divisions Under the fierce attack of the troops, all fell apart, and the shelling at night basically disrupted the organizational system of these Kwantung Army troops and caused huge casualties.

The soldiers of the Kwantung Army, who were surrounded for many days in a row, lacked food and drink, exhausted their mental and physical strength, and their will to fight were extremely low. , Therefore, the offensive troops did not take much effort to solve it.

After receiving the telegram from Lieutenant General Tosa, Lieutenant General Takakura Yuo, the commander of the Fifth Army of the Ximan Kwantung Army, was really surprised. It is very possible that Tosa's ending is his own ending.

The current situation on the battlefield is basically clear. The Kwantung Army in the Ximan area will not be able to break out of the encirclement in the Nuluerhu mountain area no matter what. The fate of the rest of the army can be imagined.

Because of the attack and oppression from three sides, the Kwantung Army troops gathered on the front line of Qinglonggou were densely compressed in a small area like dumpling stuffing. The other three army commanders also quickly joined forces with Lieutenant General Gao Cang. We meet.

The frog meets the frog, the troubled brother meets the troubled brother, everyone is facing the same situation, the atmosphere of despair and panic hangs on the faces of these senior generals of the Kwantung Army unabashedly, and after taking over the temporary command, Takakura The lieutenant general has the responsibility to make a decision. On the battlefield full of bullets, he called the three army commanders together for a meeting to study countermeasures. He also knew very well that no matter who the battle was fought for, he would be helpless!

Lieutenant General Takakura said, "Gentlemen, I don't need to talk nonsense about the situation we are facing now! But what I want to say is that the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Empire have no possibility of surrender. As long as there is one person left, they must fight to the end. , Surrendering to these inferior Chinese people is an insult to the honor of our imperial soldiers, Tosa-kun has set an example for us, you command your own troops, continue to attack, and fight to the end!"

In less than ten minutes, the meeting was over, and Lieutenant General Gao Cang made a decisive decision. Afterwards, the Fifth Army took out all its troops and sent two soldiers from the Third Army who were nearly wiped out. The division was replaced and launched a desperate group charge towards the position defended by Qinglonggou blocking force Wang Qingshan brigade. Tens of thousands of Kwantung Army soldiers, as numb as moths throwing fire, rushed up against the overwhelming shells!

The soldiers of the Kwantung Army who were dying were greeted not only by the artillery group of the first brigade, but also by an extremely large number of artillery groups of the reinforcements. There are six heavy artillery regiments, five self-propelled artillery regiments, and a huge artillery group of more than 1000 artillery pieces!

More than 1000 large-caliber howitzers fired in salvo, and the overwhelming shells, coupled with the raindrops of bombs from the aviation bombers, beat the Qinglonggou frontline battlefield like a furnace of boiling molten iron. The bloody corpses of Kwantung Army soldiers covered the ground. on the battlefield.

Wang Qingshan lay down in front of the lookout hole of the brigade's shelter with a relaxed expression, watching the battlefield where the artillery was flying, he knew that his brigade would not suffer any serious casualties, and under such fierce artillery fire, the little devil would not be able to survive at all. It may be within 2000 meters of the forward position!

At the Qinglonggou battlefield, when it was overwhelmed by the overwhelming artillery fire from the independent division artillery, Lieutenant General Yufu Takakura, commander of the Fifth Army of the Ximan Kwantung Army, and three other lieutenant general commanders cut open their stomachs with a command knife and committed suicide. Well, they know that sooner or later, the matter of the Jade Breaker cannot determine the situation of the battlefield, but can also determine their own death method, which can be regarded as saving the last dignity for His Majesty the Emperor, the Great Japanese Empire, and the Kwantung Army!

After ten o'clock in the morning, the Kwantung Army troops on the front line of Qinglonggou no longer had any fighting spirit. Sun Zhenbang and Yuan Jinghao, the two commanders of the Ximan Theater Command, felt that the fire was coming, so they ordered the troops to stop attacking and attack the remaining Kwantung Army. Army troops, adopt a posture of encirclement!

In fact, neither Sun Zhenbang nor Yuan Jinghao expected that the war of annihilation would go so smoothly. The three-day encirclement and annihilation war that was originally planned took half a day in the middle of the night before it came to an end. There are many factors involved. The strength and equipment of the troops had an overwhelming advantage, and the tactics of encirclement consumed the fighting will of the Kwantung Army soldiers. They drove more than 40 Kwantung Army soldiers into the Nuluerhu Mountains, and took advantage of the favorable terrain conditions to carry out the final battle. The encirclement and annihilation is a stroke of genius!

But another major factor is the breakout plan formulated by Lieutenant General Tosa, the supreme commander of the Ximan Kwantung Army and commander of the Third Army. If more than 40 Kwantung Army troops stay put, it will take at least three days to end the battle. time.

In addition, Sun Zhenbang and Yuan Jinghao, with extremely keen judgment, adopted the method of sudden large-scale shelling at night, which suddenly disrupted the Kwantung Army's breakout deployment. About two days in advance, the Battle of Ximan arrived. Finishing stage.

(To be continued)