I really came here to fight against Japan

Chapter 196: Tanaka, who was left behind, felt the insidiousness of Inoue

But what Inoue Yu didn't know was the regiment that he was obsessed with.

Just when the gunfire behind them stopped, they had all died and their souls returned to... the underworld.

There was no movement behind, but the sound of artillery shells exploding was heard on both sides of the 39th Division.

Inoue's face was gloomy. He heard the sound of the shells exploding. It was fired by the Empire's Type 41 mountain cannon.

"Damn it, Commander Yoshio Shinozuka is such a loser.

He has been in Shanxi for more than a year. How many heavy weapons has he lost to the Chinese army?

The Eighth Route Army’s heavy artillery can already hit them, which means that their infantry will only get closer to them.

The artillery fire was carried out by the guerrilla detachments on both sides, and there was no other intention except to urge the Inoue Division to move faster.

They have completely surrounded the two wings of the 39th Division.

Just wait for the Japanese to reach the third bend, and then the new regiment, led by the brigade commander, will seal the bottom.

The Inoue Division of the Kwantung Army can just wait to be caught in the jar.

At this time, the Japanese soldiers from the search team in front came to his division headquarters to report.

"Report to the division commander, our two wings were bombarded by the Eighth Route Army.

Their infantry, the closest one, is less than three kilometers away from us."

The maximum range of the Type 92 infantry gun can reach 2,800 meters.

The guerrilla detachment reached a distance of three thousand meters and stopped moving forward for the time being.

This is also to avoid competing with the Japanese Type 92 infantry gun.

"We discovered that the Eighth Route Army was already behind us and had begun to surround us. They were still five kilometers away from us."

Inoue Yu was so angry that he cursed "Bakayarō" because he knew that this meant the end of his rear guard team.

Inoue asked, "How far is our vanguard from the Three Bends?"

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, our vanguard has reached the third bend.

According to their observation, the ice surface is frozen solid. It will not affect our tank troops crossing the river. "

"Yo." This was the best news he had heard in three days.

He also wanted to return to Taiyuan as soon as possible because his ear injury had begun to worsen.

If I don't find a hospital as soon as possible to have surgery on my ears.

In such a cold winter outdoor environment, his ears would most likely become necrotic and could not be saved.

If he relied on the image of having only one ear, he would never be valued by the emperor.

Division Commander Inoue Yu immediately gave orders to the division's operations staff.

“Order the division’s tank battalion, the Akita Regiment, to cross the river first.

When they reached the other side of the three bends, they immediately organized a defense line on the spot to cover the large force crossing the river.

All artillery units passed three bends for the second echelon.

The 39th Division's logistics and heavy troops stayed behind to resist the pursuit of the Eighth Route Army."

Then he gave Captain Tanaka, who had a grim expression, an apologetic look.

“Captain Tanaka, you and your Zibo Heavy Army have a heavy responsibility on your shoulders.

Please wait until the entire army has passed the three bends before you can retreat. "

After Inoue finished speaking, he bowed to Tanaka in a formal manner.

Without waiting for Tanaka to say anything, he turned around, mounted his horse and ran away.

Tanaka looked at Inoue's running back, and his teeth were itching with hatred.

There was no way out. This official was one level higher in rank and he could crush people with low status. He could only follow orders.

Fortunately, they usually take care of the heavy work, so they still have the pickaxe and shovel.

They were not afraid of the cold weather and the difficulty in digging the soil, so they used explosives to blast the soil.

The artillery shells that the artillery could not take away were also detonated on the spot.

The soil that was blown out was filled with sandbags, and the bomb craters were connected to form simple trenches.

If sandbags are not enough, use tents, cut the soil into pieces and roll them up.

Tie the two ends together with a rope, and you have a simple breastwork that is half a meter high.

This operation clearly shows that the commander of the 39th Division, Inoue, is suspected of not being able to judge people well.

It seemed as if all those capable middle-level officers had been abandoned by him.

If this mopping-up operation had been commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka, the 39th Division might not have been defeated so quickly.

When they were setting up their positions, Colonel Tanaka finally started cursing in the direction of Three Bends.

Although the division commander Inoue left him with more than 2,000 troops.

But the number of rifles was less than 500, including the officers' pistols.

This rifle is not the Type 38 rifle, but the Hanyang rifle left behind by the Imperial Army.

Even Inoue Yu did not dare to use those Imperial Army with confidence.

When they set out in the morning, the cruel Inoue gave the order to massacre everyone.

The Type 38 rifles left behind by the Imperial Army were all given to the technical arms for use.

The remaining Hanyang-style rifles were just handed over to Tanaka.

However, they did leave behind quite a few grenades and explosive packs.

This is what makes Tanaka most angry. This Inoue Yu is too insidious.

They did not belong to the field army, and they had only a few light or heavy machine guns left, and no mortars or grenade launchers at all.

Isn't this equivalent to asking all his soldiers to hold explosives and die together with the Eighth Route Army?

Li Yunlong's Eighth Route Army had already caught up and found a large number of Imperial Army corpses on the road.

After their hard searching, they finally made a discovery among the pile of almost frozen corpses.

They found a boy of about fifteen or sixteen years old wearing the uniform of the Imperial Army.

He was almost frozen to death, and Song Wenwan took out a bottle from her arms.

A mouthful of warm wine was poured into the boy's throat, and he finally woke up with a cough.

The boy suddenly found himself surrounded by many people, and immediately got scared and shouted loudly: "Don't kill me!"

He finally calmed down when Song Wenwan called Fang Ximen, who was also wearing the uniform of the Imperial Army.

The young man cried and said, "I was captured by them. I usually work in the 16th Mixed Brigade, following an old groom to feed horses.

I don’t know what happened last night, but a lot of people left the camp, saying they were going to fight.

Later, a group of Japanese cavalry came and killed many of us.

After they left, many more Japanese came and disarmed everyone in our brigade."

Having said this, Fang Ximen touched his nose.

The first wave of Japanese cavalry that the young man mentioned was the one he led to dress up as.

The young man went on to say: "The Japanese have locked up all of our Imperial Army.

We were detained until this morning when it was just dawn, when the Japanese called us all out for a gathering.

The old groom told me that the Japanese might attack us.

He said that if the Japanese fired a shot, I should lie down immediately.

If the Japanese don't leave, I must never run out.

I didn't expect that these damn Japanese devils would actually shoot at us.

There happened to be a shallow pit here, and the groom pressed me into the pit when the Japanese opened fire.

But the groom uncle was still killed by the devils, oooo..."

Zhang Dabiao came over and sighed, "This kid is lucky, the groom was stabbed at least three times.

These little devils, we are going to kill them all and leave no one alive."

Inoue Ueyoshi ordered the massacre of the remaining Imperial Army, partly out of distrust of them.

Another reason is definitely because of his bestial nature.

He couldn't do anything with the Eighth Route Army, so he wanted to vent his anger on these Imperial Army.