Phi-Fic Chapter 706: Buying Horse Bones by the Jin
Chapter 706: Buying Horse Bones by the Jin
Xing Zhiguo immediately stood at attention and pledged his loyalty.
"Our regiment is a reinforced regiment with a total strength of 1,500 people. We had a gunfight with the regiment commander and his gang tonight. We are all sincere defectors. We know that you will not let those who have innocent lives go, so we followed the regiment commander all the way to the end. We killed them all. There are still more than 900 people left. I can guarantee that there is absolutely no blood of our compatriots on our hands."
Xing Zhiguo gritted his teeth and put out the cigarette butt.
"Captain Leng Qiang, I used to be a puppet soldier, and there is no way to whitewash myself. I decided to choose the second option. Captain, you don't have to give us special care. We are just as brave as ever in fighting and killing."
"Okay, I'll write you a note and ask you to take the team to Anlu City to find Minister Yan of our guerrilla logistics department and follow his arrangements."
"Yes, thank you Captain Cold Gun"!
Xing Zhiguo left with the note from Chen Feng, feeling extremely grateful. Not killing him was already a great favor, and he also believed in him and his brothers unconditionally and did not use him and his brothers as cannon fodder. It turned out that big shots were extraordinary.
On May 5, after three days of fierce fighting, the National Army, with the help of each other, finally captured the outermost circle of cities. There was no rush to continue the attack. Each sequence suffered heavy losses and needed to rest and replenish troops.
The Japanese 11th Army seemed determined to go all the way and strengthened the second line of defense in the towns outside Wuhan, intending to intercept the attack sequence 50 kilometers outside Wuhan city.
On the evening of May 5, taking advantage of the fact that the Jiujiang and Anqing airports had no time to withdraw, more than 5 Kuomintang aircraft and to Yimeng guerrilla aircraft launched another surprise attack, bombing the Wuhan airport and two ships in the Yangtze River. More than half of the aircraft at the airport were lost, and the runway under emergency construction was bombed to make matters worse. The two warships also sank to the bottom of the river.
At 5 o'clock in the evening on the th, the st Guard Regiment of the Yimeng Guerrillas and Wu Tianxiang's main force regiment descended from the south from Henggang Mountain and captured Wuxue City in a lightning speed. They were across the river from the th War Zone of Ruichang City and cut off the th Army's retreat route to the east.
Wu Tianxiang's main regiment was stationed in Wuxue, while the Guard Regiment and the 1st Regiment continued to advance westward. By 10 a.m., they successfully occupied Guanyao Town near Chixi Lake. The Ninth War Zone was also not idle. While the Guard Regiment and the 1st Regiment were advancing westward, it launched an attack at the same time, and successively occupied Yangxin City and Weiyuankou, an important town along the river, and built coastal defenses along the 50-kilometer-long south bank of the Yangtze River. At this point, the Japanese 11th Army's route of retreat to the east was completely cut off.
The attack sequence of the Yimeng guerrillas and the National Army rested for three days. The news of Xing Zhiguo spread. A deputy commander of the Imperial Army suddenly became the logistics manager of the Yimeng guerrillas. He exchanged equipment with the National Army and materials with the new government for gold bars, and his life became very prosperous.
The more than 60,000 Imperial Army in Wuhan City and its surrounding areas had an idea. Seeing that the 11th Army was on the decline, they had previously worried that Captain Leng Qiang would be ruthless, but now they saw that as long as they catered to Captain Leng Qiang, they had a chance of survival. Except for those who were extremely evil and had committed heinous crimes, most of the puppet troops had an idea in their minds.
An open conspiracy, a naked open conspiracy. The commander of the 11th Army understood the meaning of the cold gun, but he did not dare to gamble on the loyalty of the Imperial Army. These two words were a bit insulting to this group of people.
The puppet army headquarters in Wuhan city was transferred out and sent to cities on the second line of defense, such as Hannan, Hanchuan and Xiaogan. The chief defense officers of each city did not want to use these weaklings who might turn against them at any time, so they drove them out of the city and sent them to defense positions outside the city, obviously using them as cannon fodder.
Like Xing Zhiguo's reinforced regiment, all units of the puppet army launched a unified ideological struggle. Those who had committed the most heinous crimes naturally had to organize a desperate resistance, while those who had not committed any minor crimes naturally did not want to be cannon fodder.
On the night of the 7th, most of the puppet troops on the frontline launched a fight among themselves. After a night of fierce fighting, those who won for justice defected to the National Army and the Yimeng Guerrillas overnight, while those who won for evil continued to stay in the trenches ready to fight to the death for their masters. However, there were only a few teams that won for evil.
In the early morning of the 8th, the air forces of both sides arrived again, and this time their target was the artillery positions in all cities within to kilometers outside Wuhan.
The Japanese liked to hear the sound of planes diving, and often at this time they would jump out of the trenches and shout "Ban Cai", turning the active into the passive. The Japanese officers and soldiers felt psychologically unbalanced. They bombed the artillery positions and then the barracks, and then the barracks and positions. They really had no experience in air defense! Many serial anti-artillery holes were not dug, and they suffered a great loss.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the attacking force began shelling. After an hour of shelling, the infantry began the charge.
In Wuhan City, at the 11th Army Headquarters, the commander and the chief of staff looked gloomy. There was no chance. There was no hope of winning. The retreat route was also blocked. The only thing they could do now was to hold on alone. The only thing of strategic value was to consume the Chinese army. Thinking of this, the two were filled with despair. A population of 40 million! Even if only a few hundred thousand or eighty thousand were consumed, it would not be noticeable at all.
Surrender? The commander of the 11th Army suddenly had an idea, but he quickly rejected it. With what he had done, if he surrendered, he would probably live a life worse than death. As for the remaining 90,000 soldiers, the consequences of surrender would not be much better. The best result would be that they would die of exhaustion as laborers.
"Report"!
A messenger pushed the door open and entered.
"Your Excellency General, Xiaogan City has been breached. Division Commander Sasaki has sent a farewell message, saying that he will lead his soldiers in street fighting and will fight the Yimeng guerrillas to the death."
The commander waved his hand, and the messenger closed the door and left. The time was now half past nine. The defense of Xiaogan city was captured in just half an hour. Yimeng guerrillas, who else can stop you?
The two looked at each other and saw deep despair in each other's eyes.
In the urban area of Xiaogan, the Yimeng guerrillas were clearing out the remaining enemies. The Japanese army was very vicious, and many devils had sneaked into people's homes. The Yimeng guerrillas were afraid to act rashly, so they had to send out special forces to deal with the problem door to door. The Japanese army's madness implicated many people.
Snapped!
Chen Feng smashed the cup when he heard the news.
"Notify all regiments to drag the bodies of the Japanese to the South Gate. Also notify the special forces to try to capture them alive. There is still a city called Wuhan, and I don't want to see this happen again."
"Captain, where are you going?"
"Go to the South Gate. Aren't there a lot of Chinese and foreign reporters outside the city? Send someone to notify them. I'm going to chop off their heads."
The special forces team started the jeep, and Chen Feng sat in the passenger seat with a gloomy face. Li Yunyan and Song Zihan hurriedly got in the car. The captain was going crazy!
Although the Japanese troops stationed in Xiaogan were commanded by a division commander, the army only had three regiments, with a total of less than 10,000 people.
When Chinese and foreign reporters arrived, all the Japanese soldiers who had been killed were pulled out. Chen Feng stood on the high ground, and the Chinese and foreign reporters were taking pictures frantically. It was the first time that Captain Leng Qiang appeared in public, and he looked really handsome and cool.