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Chapter 432: Beast Army Attacks

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    After the First Corps suddenly strengthened its offensive again, the Doihara Division in the encirclement suddenly felt a sudden increase in pressure. After more than ten consecutive days of bloody battles, the originally invincible 14th Division lost more than one-twentieth of its soldiers.  , weapons and equipment were also severely damaged.

    The most important thing is that there is a serious shortage of ammunition and supplies. Originally, Doihara thought that this battle would not last too long, so the ammunition carried was only enough for 10 days of combat, but he did not expect that the battle would be extremely fierce and the ammunition consumption would be  More than double the usual amount.

    In fact, the Japanese army had already exhausted all their ammunition on May 27. In the past two days, they relied on aviation airdrops to barely guarantee that they would not run out of ammunition and food.

    However, airdropped ammunition is very limited after all, and the probability of success is not very high. Basically, airdrops can only succeed six times out of ten. The remaining four were either destroyed on the battlefield where the two sides were fighting, or simply fell into the hands of the Chinese army.  On the battlefield, it became the trophy of the Chinese army.

    Today I heard that the troops on the southern front have defeated the Chinese army facing them. Tens of thousands of imperial troops have occupied Mengcheng and are marching towards Guoyang. The 16th Division has also captured Yucheng and is about to arrive at Guide and Dofeiyuan.  Xian Er was overjoyed and felt that the opportunity to break out had come.

    However, what happened next made him almost vomit blood in anger. First, an emergency call came from the troops in the direction of Mengcheng. They were frantically blocked by the Chinese army north of Mengcheng. The other side relied on the built defense lines to block them.

    It has been eight hours since the battle started in the afternoon. Although the troops on the southern front have occupied three of the opponent's defense lines, they have only advanced 20 kilometers. The troops are currently more than 40 kilometers away from Guoyang.

    According to the estimate of Southern Front Commander Susumu Fujita, it will take at least one day for the troops to arrive at Woyang, and at least two days from Woyang to Bozhou. As for how many days it will take from Bozhou to Guide, it still depends on the situation.

    After receiving such a telegram, Lieutenant General Doihara was a little disappointed. If this continues, it will take five days for the troops on the southern front to arrive.

    In five days, if the attack is completed, Fujita Susumu and others may still have a chance to collect the corpses of their 14th Division. If the attack is not successful, they will not even see the corpses.

    The only solution now was to pin their hopes on the 16th Division. However, what Doihara did not expect was that just a few hours later, the 16th Division sent an urgent telegram saying that they were in Guide.  They were ambushed by Chinese troops outside the city and a cavalry brigade was annihilated.

    In addition, the Chinese army in Guide City is already ready for battle. They plan to attack after dawn tomorrow. They are not very clear on how many days they can break through the Chinese defense line in the direction of Guide. All in all, they can only do their best.

    Doihara was a little disappointed again. You must know that a few hours ago, his favorite disciple Eiichi Hirata sent him an emergency message, saying that the Huang Jie Department of the Eighth Army of the National Army stationed in Guide had quietly evacuated. At this time, there were only  The next crippled infantry division, with the combat power of the Imperial Japanese Army, would only need a few hours at most to capture Guide.

    But according to the situation reported by the 16th Division, it doesn¡¯t seem to be very optimistic!

    The most important thing is that every extra minute he stays now is likely to be surrounded and annihilated by Xue Yue's troops in Sanyi Village, so Doihara's mood is getting worse and worse.

    " Equally distressing was Li Guoyao on the Guide front line. After his troops stationed in Guide, Li Guoyao discovered that all the military rations in the city had been taken away by the 187th Division, and what could not be taken away had been burned.

    "When the 61st Army came, they only brought three days' worth of dry food in order to hurry up. In addition, they didn't even bring any extra food.

    ¡°In addition, they had already consumed a day¡¯s worth of dry food on the road, which meant that the food available to Li Guoyao¡¯s troops was only enough for the troops for two days, and they would be hungry on the third day.

    And can the battle end in two days?

    The answer is obviously no. Let¡¯s not talk about whether Xue Yue¡¯s command can eliminate the Dofeiyuan Division within two days. Even if it is really eliminated, it will be useless, because Guide cannot be evacuated under any circumstances without an order from the Military Commission.  , because once the 61st Army withdraws, the national troops on the front line in eastern Henan will be in danger.

    Therefore, the food problem is the first difficulty before Li Guoyao, and it cannot be solved unless it is solved!

    Secondly, according to the report of the Fourth Regiment, although most of the people in the city are relatively sympathetic to Dali, there are also some people who are determined not to leave the city to escape. Most of these people are small and wealthy people in the city, and they are unwilling to give up their property in the city.  , even if it means risking your life.

    Of course, there are still some people who naively believe that the Japanese are not as ferocious as the national army claims. In their view, it is nothing if the Japanese come. No matter whether they are Japanese or Chinese, I just need to be an obedient citizen.

      In the eyes of these people, the concept of nationality is not important, they just want to live.

    But they don¡¯t know that the little devils invaded China not just for economic benefits, but to completely occupy the entire China and turn China into their colony. Therefore, in order to achieve this goal, they did not hesitate to create a series of tragic events.  The massacre did not care about the lives of Chinese people at all.

    Even in order to complete this mission, their officers will not take the soldiers or even their own lives seriously.  Therefore, it was so stupid to hand over one's life to the Japanese army for trial. It was tantamount to putting oneself on the chopping block to be slaughtered by others.

    What worries Li Guoyao even more is that this attack on Guide is not an ordinary Japanese army, but the 16th Division, which has always been known as the elite.

    People may not know much about the 16th Division, but if you talk about the Nanjing "Hundred Killing" killing competition, many people may know it. Yes, it was this division that held such a brutal and inhumane killing competition outside Nanjing.  Two lieutenants of the regiment.

    The Sixteenth Division of the Japanese Army was established in Kyoto in 1905. Its headquarters was located in Kyoto. The officers and soldiers mainly came from Kyoto, Mie Prefecture and Nara Prefecture, so it was also called the "Kyoto Division".

    This division is a first-class permanent division of the Japanese Army. It is well-equipped, fully manned, and has strong combat effectiveness. It participated in the Russo-Japanese War in the year it was established.

    After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out, Japan carried out war mobilization and began recruiting a large number of troops. As a first-class division, the 16th Division also expanded from 18,000 in peacetime to about 25,000 in wartime.

    ?Then the 16th Division landed at Tanggu Port in Tianjin and was incorporated into the battle order of the Second Army of the Japanese North China Front. It participated in battles in Ziya River and other areas, and was later incorporated into the battle order of the Shanghai Expeditionary Army and was transferred from North China to Shanghai.

    The 16th Division is famous in China not because of their combat effectiveness, but because of their horrifying brutality.  On the way to Nanjing, the division committed countless atrocities, one of which was the "Hundred Killing" killing contest.

    When the 16th Division landed near Shanghai, the Japanese army had already occupied Shanghai. Therefore, Matsui Iwane, then commander of the Japanese Central China Front, ordered the division to pursue the Chinese army retreating from Shanghai to Nanjing.

    "Then the division, under the leadership of Nakajima Konsogo, successively captured Changshu, Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Danyang, Jurong, Tangshui Town, Qilinmen, and reached the Purple Mountain line in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing.  Along the way, they burned, killed, raped and looted, and the atrocities were too numerous to mention.

    On the way to Nanjing, the division was marching too fast and could not keep up with supplies, so it ordered to "collect" grain on the spot. The so-called "collection" actually meant plundering.

    In particular, the so-called "Hundred Killings" widely publicized by Japan's "Tokyo Nichichino Shimbun" and other newspapers took place in this division. The situation at that time was that the 16th Division was pursuing from Wuxi to Changzhou. In the process, the division  Second Lieutenant Takeshi Noda, the adjutant of the Third Battalion of the Ninth Infantry Regiment of the 19th Brigade, and Second Lieutenant Toshiaki Mukai, the artillery squad leader of the regiment, made an appointment to see who could kill 100 people with a Japanese sword first when they arrived in Nanjing.

    After that, the two officers began to massacre. When they arrived at the Purple Mountain outside Nanjing, Noda Takeshi killed 105 people, while Mukai Toshiaki killed 106 people.  But since we didn¡¯t know who would kill the 100th person first, we decided to rematch.

    Now that the beast army is attacking, how dare Li Guoyao neglect it? Once the city is broken, the massacre of the city is inevitable due to the nature of this division, so the people in the city must be evacuated no matter what.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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