Age of Rebirth

Sun Zhenbang and Yuan Jinghao, the two commanders of the Ximan War Zone, did not expect that the final stage of the Ximan Campaign would come so soon, and the remaining Kwantung Army soldiers would be compressed in a small area on the front line of Qinglonggou. The meat that has been stewed in it can be eaten at any time.

It is no exaggeration to say that it would take less than an hour to concentrate all the artillery of the troops participating in the battle in the Ximan theater, and the place that was as big as a pigsty could be wiped off the map. Of course, with Sun Zhenbang's character, he absolutely hoped to do so. But it just couldn't, there was an order from the division commander lying there, so when the order to stop the attack was issued, I was quite reluctant in my heart!

Nuluerhushan District, where the temporary headquarters of the Ximan theater is located, Sun Zhenbang and Yuan Jinghao, after listening to the report of the chief of staff of the theater, Jing Zhanqi, Sun Zhenbang said: "Commander Yuan, the chief of staff has reported the situation. The time for the fight is over, and now comes the work of capturing the prisoners, which is not easy to do, and my grandson doesn't have the patience, so I think it's best for you, Commander Yuan, to take charge of it yourself!"

Yuan Jinghao laughed loudly, "Commander Sun, you also know to entrust me with the hard work, Cheng, who made you the commander, but the fire is not ready yet, my opinion is that let the artillery Bombing him for another half an hour will completely destroy the morale and will of the soldiers of the Kwantung Army, but we must pay attention to the density and intensity of the shelling, they are all killed, and we can't explain to the division commander!"

Sun Zhenbang stretched out his thumb, "Commander Yuan, Cheng, your trick is really dark!"

Yuan Jinghao ignored Sun Zhenbang's words, turned his head and said to Jing Zhanqi: "Chief of Staff, arrange to go immediately, and remind the commanders of the artillery group that our main purpose of this shelling is deterrence, not a real attack. We must grasp the scale well. , Also, let the communication departments of each unit set up high-power tweeters at the fastest speed on the periphery of the encirclement on the Qinglonggou line, and the density must cover the entire encirclement!"

Jing Zhanqi's eyes flickered.He roughly guessed Yuan Jinghao's intentions. When he walked out of the tent, he couldn't help thinking, "The commanders of several corps of the Independent Division all have their own characteristics and distinctive personalities, but they all seem to have the same qualities. For example, My old chief, Li Honggang, and my current two bosses, Sun Zhenbang and Yuan Jinghao!" Jing Zhanqi came from three bosses with different personalities.I have learned a lot, and I have benefited a lot from serving as the chief of staff of the Ximan Theater Command this time!

In the tent, Sun Zhenbang looked at the somewhat mysterious Yuan Jinghao, and couldn't help asking, "I'm talking about Commander Yuan. What kind of ecstasy are you setting up?"

Yuan Jinghao smiled mysteriously and said, "Commander Sun, do you still remember the battalion commander of my eighth brigade named Liu Guozhi who captured the Kwantung Army major general named Jiechuan? He is also the chief of staff of the third army. It came in handy!"

Sun Zhenbang suddenly realized, laughed and said: "You still have a lot of tricks in your stomach, Commander Yuan. It is right for you to do the work of persuading surrender and capturing prisoners. Well, once the gunfire stopped, the sleepiness returned. Go catch up on sleep. There is nothing important, you, Commander Yuan, will take care of it, don't bother me!"

Yuan Jinghao looked at Sun Zhenbang's swaying back, shook his head with a wry smile, and then.A staff officer was called over and ordered: "Find a quieter tent alone, and escort the captured Kwantung Army major general over. In addition, go to the combat department to find two officers who are proficient in Japanese!"

The encirclement of the Qinglonggou battlefield is simply a horrible hell on earth. In a small area with a radius of only a few tens of kilometers, the soldiers of the Kwantung Army who have been repeatedly attacked are disorganized and weak, curled up on the ground, like fish exposed to the sun on the beach , bomb craters everywhere, fragmented corpses, pools of blood, wounded soldiers with missing arms and legs, lying helplessly on the ground screaming, but no one paid attention to them, despite their painful wailing, now, the intact people, Don't you know what kind of fate you are about to face?

The weather in Ximan in August, although the night has a little bit of coolness, but the sun at noon is still very venomous, giving full play to the prestige of the autumn tiger, the hot sun, shining down unobstructed, exhausted The last bit of energy of the Kwantung Army soldiers, although the independent division stopped the attack, but the fear of fate being controlled by the enemy still shrouded in the hearts of every Kwantung Army soldier.

The five top commanders all cut themselves open and committed their allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor and the Empire of Japan. It can be said that the Kwantung Army troops in the encirclement of Qinglonggou are now leaderless. From time to time, four or five officers gather together and shout for The slogan of His Majesty's loyalty, using a command knife to cut open one's stomach, this kind of situation happened everywhere in the encirclement, and the ordinary soldiers just watched the officers cut themselves open with indifferent and numb eyes.

Officers can be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, but ordinary soldiers do not have such awareness. They don’t want to die yet. If you look carefully, most of the officers who committed suicide in despair were young lieutenants and a few junior officers. The encirclement is filled with a strong smell of blood and the horror of the end of the world!

Something even more terrifying than this happened again. The screaming sound of shells piercing through the air broke the tranquility of the already silent battlefield. With no barriers and a small area, the soldiers of the Kwantung Army could only lie helplessly on the ground, resigned to their fate. The shells blasted the bodies of their companions into a cloud of blood, and it would not cause them too much emotional fluctuations. What's so strange, maybe, such a fate will be his turn in the next moment!

Wang Qingshan and the brigade commanders of the two reinforcements observed the situation on the battlefield through the observation hole. He frowned and said puzzledly: "You two, I really don't know what the headquarters is thinking? Kill the little devils in the encirclement , Do you still need to spend so much effort? With one order, the troops will charge and the tanks will clear the way. Even if everyone urinates, they can drown the little devil! How many shells are wasted?"

Major General Hasgetu, the commander of the [-]th Brigade of the Outer Mongolia Field Corps, didn't think so, and said, "Brigade Commander Wang, you forgot that the theater headquarters has issued repeated orders to all units to capture more prisoners. , This is not right, such intensive bombardment can leave a few prisoners, is it not to stew the little devils in the encirclement?"

Wang Qingshan said coldly: "This is the best. I have lost more than 8000 people. I have no interest in capturing prisoners. Killing little devils is about the same. If the headquarters never gave the final attack order, I would have taken them with me." The troops are going up, not a single devil will be left behind!"

Several people were talking, when the shelling stopped suddenly, just as suddenly as it had started. A few minutes later, when the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield was still pervasive, a Japanese voice came from the loudspeaker erected on the periphery of the encirclement. Human voice, "Gentlemen of the Kwantung Army, I am the Chief of Staff of the Third Army, Major General Akutagawa Ichiro, and now, under the order of the Commander of the Independent Division Ximan Theater, I am sending you the following ultimatum..."

Strong military pressure, ruthless reality, desperate situation, doomed fate, of course, what is more convincing is the black muzzle of the soldiers of the Independent Division on the periphery of the encirclement, coupled with the testimony of Chief of Staff Akutagawa, overwhelming The soldiers of the Kwantung Army, with the last will to resist in their bones, made the only choice. Perhaps, when they set foot on the Northeast land, the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Kwantung Army who were lucky enough to survive would never have thought that it would be Today's ending.

Of course, their ending was much luckier than those companions with no bones left. After all, they saved their lives!

At around [-] o'clock in the afternoon, the Kwantung Army troops in the encirclement, in desperation, chose to surrender and sent representatives to negotiate the surrender. Then, groups of Kwantung Army soldiers who put down their weapons, their faces scorched, The military uniforms were tattered like a beggar, with empty eyes and dull faces. Fearing the unknown fate, they lined up dejectedly in a long line and gathered at the designated place under the escort of the soldiers.

According to the results of the inventory of prisoners, the Kwantung Army soldiers who surrendered totaled more than 400 people. Among them, there were more than 50 officers from Shao Zuo to Da Zuo, and more than 30 major generals. In other words, there were more than [-] Kwantung Army soldiers. The soldier fell on the land of Simon and became a lonely ghost in a foreign country.

In this campaign, the division commander Tang Qiuli mobilized two main field corps with nearly 100 million troops. It took several months to encircle the Kwantung Army troops in the Ximan area with the cooperation of the air force. Another battlefield was set up in the mountainous area, and more than 40 Kwantung Army in the Ximan area were finally wiped out. The independent division participated in the battle, paying the price of nearly 3 casualties, and achieved an unprecedented victory.

As all the remaining Kwantung Army soldiers in the encirclement of the Qinglonggou battlefield surrendered, and the Battle of Ximan was officially over, Yuan Jinghao woke up Sun Zhenbang, "Commander Sun, all the Kwantung Army soldiers in the encirclement surrendered, waiting for you, the supreme commander of the battlefield, Go to preside over the surrender ceremony!"

Sun Zhenbang turned over unwillingly and didn't get up, so he lay on the camp bed and said, "Commander Yuan, don't you know my temper? Once you see a little devil, you can't suppress the fire. What kind of surrender ceremony? Time to take care of this group of defeated generals. You can do everything you can to deal with this matter. I said, don’t give the little devil any surrender ceremony, these bastards are not worthy! In addition, you can do the telegram to the teacher. I'll sleep for a while, and at night, let's have a good drink!"

After finishing speaking, Sun Zhenbang turned over, and then there was snoring. Yuan Jinghao gritted his teeth angrily, but he couldn't do anything about Sun Zhenbang. He called a staff officer and ordered: "Tell that Kwantung Army representative that there is no surrender ceremony! They are aggressors." Those who are not worthy!"

Look at Sun Zhenbang who was snoring loudly, he shook his head with a wry smile, went to another tent, lay down on a table made of cannonball boxes, and buried himself in writing a telegram to his teacher.

(To be continued)