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Chapter 36 Yamada United

Do it when you think about it! Tosan has never been a drag. After reporting to the column headquarters with a car radio station, he lined up with five armored vehicles and rushed towards the Japanese division headquarters, and he wanted to kill the Japanese division commander.

As a result, he rushed there excitedly but was out of nowhere. The Japanese division commander had already withdrawn half an hour earlier! It turned out that there were only a few large trucks carrying the last equipment and supplies in the yard where the division headquarters was located. The Chinese tiger chariot team went there and made a lot of trouble. The Japanese made tenacious resistance and were killed and injured more than 20 people. The rest ran away in scattered!

Tosang caught an injured Japanese and asked about the situation. He knew that the commander of the Japanese division had just left, and he was one step late! Tosang, who was in a bad mood, was so angry that he issued a cruel order to kill prisoners to his soldiers, killing all the dozen injured Japanese prisoners of war left at the scene!

Tosan didn't know the consequences of him and his chariot team rushing into the yard, shooting with machine guns, and finally killing all the people. After he took the chariot team away from the yard, he joined the large army and continued to participate in the battle.

Japanese brigade commander Ryuichi Ishikawa commanded the troops to fight with the Chinese army entering the city at his brigade headquarters. The staff, adjutants, and communication soldiers in the brigade headquarters were like shuttles in and out, and the entire brigade headquarters was very busy.

"Report to the general, half an hour ago, the division headquarters was attacked by the Chinese tiger chariot troops!" The communications soldiers ran in and reported a shocking news. The brigade combat room was silent in an instant, and all the Japanese were stunned by the news.

Ishikawa Ryu turned pale at that time. After a few seconds of rest, he asked sternly: "How is Lieutenant General?"

"Your Lieutenant General has evacuated the scene in advance."

The words of the communication soldiers made all the Japanese present relieved. Ryuichi Ishikawa's face finally eased a little. However, his ease came a little early. After that, the successive information made the Ishikawa Brigade Commander no longer feel relaxed.

After a hard battle, the Japanese army at the railway station finally could not stop the desperate attack of the 81st Division and was forced to evacuate, giving up the vital Zhengzhou Railway Station to the Chinese army. On the way to the railway station, the Yamada United met the 22nd Division of the 12th Army entering the city. The two sides fell into a hard battle as soon as they first met, and the Yamada United team never had the chance to go to the railway station again.

Grandma Muto rushed to the battlefield and quickly integrated Kobayashi Detachment, blocking the vanguard of the 88th Column to the east of Wuli Fort, and both sides were in a stalemate. The 20th Division suddenly advanced eastward and joined the battlefield. The Muto Detachment could not resist being defeated again. The whereabouts of the detachment leader Muto Hongyun were unknown, and the remnants of the Muto Detachment had already fled eastward towards Kaifeng.

"Baga!" Faced with such a chaotic situation, Major General Ishikawa could only use this short curse from time to time to relieve the anger in his heart.

The division commander sent another telegram, and the Lieutenant General told the Ishikawa Brigade Commander: You must do your best to stay in Zhengzhou, especially to protect Zhengzhou Railway Station! Within two days, the division commander will transfer another wing to take the train to reinforce the Ishikawa Brigade.

Two days? Take the train? The train station has been lost. Why did reinforcements take the train? Ishikawa Ryuichi secretly complain. But now he has one more important thing to do, that is, rescue the Yamada United! The Kobayashi United has been finished. If the Yamada United team is defeated again, what is waiting for him may be severe punishment by military law!

He hurriedly called back and told the division commander that the train station had fallen. At the same time, he reported the news that the division commander was attacked for half an hour after leaving the division commander. Ryuichi Ishikawa asked the division commander to immediately dispatch reinforcements to support him, otherwise the loss of Zhengzhou would be inevitable!

After sending the telegram, Ishikawa Ryuichi and all the brigade personnel rushed to meet with the Yamada United. It was not that he didn't want to leave the city first like the division commander, but he did not have the deep background as the division commander. Even if he was gone, the brigade would still be a lieutenant general. If he lost the Yamada United, he would be ordered to commit suicide immediately! Yamada United, he must be saved!

Commanding the guards to rush and fight, finally breaking a bloody road and returning to the division with Yamada United, Ryuichi Ishikawa was also depressed. The captain Yamada Nosuke greeted him with an arm hanging on his head and gauze wrapped around his head. The captain of the convoy was like this, and the situation of the convoy soldiers could be imagined.

"Yamada, please order the troops to move eastward!" Kaifeng to the east, and moving eastward means retreat. Although General Ishikawa did not explain, the meaning of retreat was undoubtedly clear. Yamada Nosuke thought he understood the intention of the brigade commander, so he immediately called several brigade commanders below to carry out pre-war mobilization.

"You guys, the brigade commander has come to our corps to command. The general ordered our corps to move eastward. Do you understand? Please prepare for battle after you go back, and start attacking eastward in an hour! You guys must fight bravely. For the honor of the empire, we must win! Long live the emperor!"

"Long live the Emperor!" Several captains almost answered the command of the regiment captain's order with a roar.

It is difficult to deal with the desperate Japanese. When all the Japanese in the Yamada United were fighting for their lives, the troops of our army who participated in the siege immediately felt huge pressure. The casualties of the troops surged, but the morale of the soldiers did not decrease. If they continued to fight like this, the victory would be certain, but the Third Army, including the 88th Column and all Chinese troops participating in the Zhengzhou Battle, might be greatly injured.

In a foreign bank building, Sun Tongxuan and Hu Fei met. The foreign boss and employees in the bank had already run away. The bank building was built with steel and concrete. The battle was so fierce that the building was nothing. Commander-in-Chief Sun found that the environment here was pretty good, so he moved his temporary command post to the building. Hu Fei was invited to discuss military information.

In addition to Hu Fei and Liu Dong, all the senior leaders of the Third Army came. He Cuizhi, the commander of the 81st Division, Zhou Zunshi, the commander of the 20th Division, Zhang Cemin, the commander of the 22nd Division, as well as the chief of staff of the Third Army, the secretary of the Party, the chief of the Ordnance Department, the chief of logistics department and other senior officials attended the meeting. Lieutenant Generals gathered in the conference room.

After the meeting between the two sides, Sun Tongxuan pointed to the large combat map hanging on the wall and began to explain the current situation:

The defeat of the Japanese army has been decided, and the recovery of Zhengzhou has been determined! However, the current Japanese Yamada United team is a tough and hard bone. If this stubborn enemy is not eliminated, the restoration of Zhengzhou City will not be possible. Moreover, if the Yamada United team is left to Zhengzhou, the Japanese reinforcements will arrive continuously. It is up to two questions whether Zhengzhou can be recovered.
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