The cold wind was blowing, Qiao Anbang sat in an armored vehicle with a stern expression and was smoking a cigarette. In front, the armored company was carrying out a massacre attack on more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers. More than 50 armored vehicles lined up, storming them into the Japanese crowd while shooting violently.

Behind the Japanese, thousands of infantrymen from the Tiger Ben Regiment, the first and second battalions, who followed the pursuit, also joined the ranks of massacres. Although the Japanese Marine Corps had good combat effectiveness, they were covered with firepower like hundreds of anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy machine guns.

The Japanese soldiers on the flat road were unobstructed, and there were no strong fortifications to hide. They could only use their flesh and blood to resist the dense firepower network of the Chinese army.

More than 3,000 Japanese Marines were surrounded in a narrow area of ​​less than two kilometers. Moreover, as the armored chariot groups of Tiger Ben's regiment continued to advance, the encirclement was gradually shrinking, and the casualties of the Japanese increased rapidly in geometric multiples.

Looking at the Imperial Army warriors who fell under the dense firepower of Chinese tanks one after another, several Japanese captains finally couldn't stand it anymore, and quickly ordered the brigades to quickly turn around and attempt to attack the Chinese infantry in the rear, and once they opened the breakthrough.

However, the Japanese soon discovered that the firepower of the Chinese infantry behind them was also extremely strong. Although the machine gun firepower was slightly weaker than the armored chariot group in front, almost all the Chinese soldiers had an automatic weapon, and the continuous firepower was particularly strong.

A Japanese infantry squadron responsible for turning around and counterattacked had suffered heavy casualties within a few minutes, leaving nearly a hundred bodies behind and retreated.

Helplessly, several Japanese captains were quick to learn and pointed their commanding swords into the fields on both sides of the road, and rushed into the fields with their subordinates.

However, the breakthrough route chosen by the Japanese in a hurry did prevent the pursuit of the Kuomintang armored combat vehicles. Since the soil in many fields was very soft, armored vehicles weighing several tons could not move in all fields at all.

Hearing the dense sound of gunfire and gradually walked away, Qiao Anbang suddenly stood up, kicked the car door open and asked loudly, "What's going on?"

"The ranks, the Japanese ran along the fields!" Zhang Xudong rushed to report.

"Hmm?!" Qiao Anbang got out of the car immediately after hearing this, raised his telescope and saw groups of Japanese soldiers running wildly in the fields. His armored vehicles were helplessly parked on the fields. Although anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft cannons were still firing, it would not take long before the Japanese could run out of range.

At this moment, bursts of engine roar suddenly came from the sky. Qiao Anbang changed color when he heard the sound, turned around suddenly, held up his telescope and searched quickly.

Soon he discovered a group of small black dots appearing in the sky in the southwest direction. Looking at the gradually growing black dots, it was enough to show that they were moving very fast.

"Damn it, this is the Japanese reinforcement plane!" Qiao Anbang immediately turned his head and shouted to Zhang Xudong: "Quick, order all anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft cannons to prepare for air defense immediately, and order the first and second battalions to immediately pursue the Japanese soldiers in the left and right directions. You must catch up with the Japanese infantry, the closer they are to them, the better! Tell Kong Xiangjie and Cao Er that the battalions companies do not need to be afraid of running away and messing up the system. The troops act alone in squads and platoons, just pursue the Japanese, and ignore everything else!"

Qiao Anbang knew very well that he could never hesitate anymore. He could only scatter the troops and chase the Japanese and the Japanese crisscrossed together. They could not throw bombs on the Marine Corps, right? In this way, the Japanese planes would not play any role.

"Yes!" Zhang Xudong quickly stepped forward and immediately turned around and left.

The order was soon conveyed, and the soldiers of the First and Second Battalions shouted in unison and chased each other in the left and right directions.

At the same time, the anti-aircraft machine gunners of the armored company pointed the machine guns into the sky, and the air defense forces were busy slowly squeezing the anti-aircraft gun muzzles.

"His Excellency Kobayashi, look, there is a Chinese chariot!" A Japanese pilot was the first to discover the situation on the ground.

"Destroy them!" Captain Kobayashi, who was in charge of leading the team to attack, gave a decisive order with a cold expression.

"Hay!" All the Japanese pilots on the intercom responded in unison, and soon more than a dozen Type 95 and Type 97 fighters and five Type 97 heavy bombers began to lower their heights and dive towards the armored company on the ground.

Originally, the target of these fighter jets was to bomb the Chinese heavy artillery group that posed a great threat to the Marine Corps at the request of Marine Corps Hidejiro Kondo, but they did not expect that the Marine Corps would be defeated so soon, and the artillery battalion of the Tiger Regiment had been transferred after the artillery was over.

"Bagaya Road! What's going on?" As the flight altitude decreased, Captain Kobayashi discovered that the fields on the ground were full of fleeing Imperial Marines, and countless Chinese soldiers behind them were chasing them.

"Has the Marines failed?" an adjutant guessed on the intercom.

"Captain, what should we do?" Another Japanese pilot asked hurriedly as he watched the altitude drop lower and lower.

At this moment, dense anti-aircraft machine gun shells and anti-aircraft shells that exploded like fireworks suddenly rose on the ground. The flames flashed. The wingman on Captain Kobayashi's right was hit by the shock wave of the anti-aircraft shell explosion. The entire plane suddenly lost its balance and headed towards the download.

The pilot's scream of horror came from the intercom: "No, I was hit, I was shot..."

However, a huge rumbling and explosion soon drowned his voice. It turned out that the wingman, which was descending rapidly, was hit by a head-on attack by dense air defense fire on the ground, and was volleyed on the spot.

"Bagaya Road!" Captain Kobayashi woke up from his surprise, quickly pulled up the fighter plane, and roared in anger: "|The bomber dropped bombs and killed those despicable Chinese people!"

The casings of five Type 97 heavy bombers were opened immediately, and the bombs were immediately thrown down by it as if they were pulled into the air.

"My roar..." A sharp and harsh whistling sound suddenly rang out.

"Boom boom boom..." After the bomb landed, it exploded violently. An unlucky armored vehicle was swallowed by a huge explosion on the spot. The entire tank was directly destroyed by a huge explosion. The body of the car broke into two halves of the city, and the components of the wheels and anti-aircraft machine guns were all blown into pieces. After the flames dissipated, the entire armored vehicle was only left with two iron shells.

All seven or eight armored soldiers and machine gunners were sacrificed to their country, and none of them were spared.

A bomb landed in the field about a hundred meters away from Qiao Anbang. With a loud bang, Qiao Anbang almost fell to the ground by the earthquake that was shaken under his feet. The huge explosion made Qiao Anbang's eardrums ached faintly, and his ears roared, and he could not hear the shouts of the guards beside him.

After a while, Qiao Anbang suddenly shook his head and patted the ear door. The roar in his ear disappeared.

"Room, we have four armored vehicles destroyed!" the guard reported sadly.

"Damn it, sooner or later, I will have my own air force!" Qiao Anbang knew that there was no disadvantage of air supremacy, so he immediately got into the armored vehicle, picked up the radio intercom and ordered in a deep voice: "All units should pay attention, all rows of firepower should be concentrated, and alternately cover to retreat to Suzhou!"

Soon the armored companies were ordered to defecate and retreated along the highway towards Suzhou.

The machine gunners turned their guns and continued to shoot fiercely in the air.

As the armored vehicles were moving, the Japanese bombers' hit rate was negligible, and the fighter could not dive and strafuse under the dense air defense firepower net of the armored company.

After losing three fighter jets in succession, Captain Kobayashi, who was furious, finally gave up the air strike on the armored company and flew towards Suzhou City with other fighter jets. Their goal was very clear, that is, to destroy the heavy artillery group of Chinese troops.

The coordinates are already provided by the Marine Corps, so whether the Marine Corps has been defeated or not, Captain Kobayashi must destroy it to vent his hatred.

However, when Captain Kobayashi led the fighter plane to his intended destination, he found that there was no shadow of the Chinese army's artillery position on the ground. When he was furious, he wanted to turn around and bomb the Chinese armored group, Qiao Anbang had already led the armored company into the woods outside Suzhou City and hid.

Captain Kobayashi, who was so angry that he could only throw a few bombs away, and finally returned helplessly.

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Two hours later, Suzhou City.

The officers and soldiers of the First and Second Battalions of the Japanese Marine Corps were returned one after another. This time, the officers and soldiers achieved great results. Except for some of the Japanese who ran fast and failed to catch up, most of them had been wiped out.

After rough statistics, the Tiger Regiment wiped out more than 4,300 Marines in this battle. From this, it can be seen that there are only a few Japanese who escaped.

Qiao Anbang was listening to the first and second battalions reporting the results of the battle, a scout rushed in quickly, stood up and saluted Qiao Anbang, "The regiment seat, a large number of Japanese soldiers, tanks, and a large number of artillery and infantry were found fifteen kilometers southwest!"

"Huh?" Qiao Anbang stood up and pondered for a moment: "This should be reinforcements from the Japanese Marine Corps. How many troops are they? Are they still advancing towards Suzhou?"

"The number of the Japanese should be around 5,000. They are still moving forward at the moment, and they are very fast. It seems that they are very anxious!" the scout nodded.

"Well, that's right. The Japanese reinforcements must have not yet known that their Marines have been wiped out by us!" Qiao Anbang nodded thoughtfully.

"In the pursuit just now, we didn't give the Japanese a chance to breathe. In the end, even their radio station was seized or destroyed by us. Therefore, the Japanese should have been wiped out by us before they even had time to send a farewell message." The first battalion commander Kong Xiangjie continued Qiao Anbang's words.

Suddenly, Yali, the company commander of the communication company, hurried over with a telegram, and reported to Qiao Anbang: "The regiment seat, I just learned that the main Japanese divisions in the direction of Nanjing are moving towards Suzhou quickly. At present, the 6th Division, the 16th and 13th Divisions have all entered the Danyang area. The closest to us are the 18th Division and the Guoqi Detachment of the Japanese Army. They have recaptured Wuxi and will be able to arrive in Suzhou City soon!"

"The devils are coming so fast!" Qiao Anbang was slightly shocked when he heard this. He was not worried about the 18th Division and the Guoqi Detachment. The logistics supply of these two Japanese troops had long been short of resources and they were not even sufficient ammunition. What should we use to attack the Huben Regiment? Moreover, the Guoqi Detachment and the 18th Division had fought with the Huben Regiment. In the case of insufficient ammunition, they should not dare to march towards Suzhou alone. They should wait for the 6th, 16th, and 13th divisions to arrive and besiege Suzhou City with absolute superior forces.

In fact, Qiao Anbang's guess was correct at all. After the 18th Division and the Guoqi Detachment captured Wuxi, they did not rush to march towards Suzhou because the task given to them by Matsui Ishigen was to station in Wuxi and prevent the Hu Ben Regiment from evacuating according to the original route.

Thinking of the air defense battle two hours ago, Qiao Anbang couldn't help but frown. Through this air defense battle, Qiao Anbang instantly realized that the Tiger Regiment had no air supremacy. Even if the air defense firepower was strong, he would still care about his head and butt.

Without air supremacy, the field defense positions outside the Hu Ben Regiment City and its own artillery positions will be hit by the Japanese in the air, and the firepower reinforcements of the artillery battalion will be lost. No matter how good the individual equipment of the infantry battalion is, it will be useless.

The direct artillery corps of several major Japanese regiments only needed a few rounds of artillery to destroy the non-reinforced and cement fortifications built by the Huben regiment.

Losing the defensive position outside the city, the loss of Suzhou City is inevitable.

Therefore, with the existing personnel and equipment of the Tiger Ben Regiment, it is absolutely impossible to truly defend Suzhou and fight with more than 100,000 Japanese troops head-on. That is definitely a search for death.

The Hu Ben Regiment should give full play to its advantages of strong mobility and fight mobile wars and attrition with the Japanese army.

Thinking of this, a crazy idea suddenly flashed through Qiao Anbang's mind, that is, attacking Shanghai.

If you analyze it carefully, you will be sure to have a certain degree of success in attacking Shanghai now. First of all, the Japanese Marine Corps has wiped out all of them, so the remaining ones are the more than 5,000 Japanese reinforcements from the direction of Shanghai.

In addition to the more than 4,000 Marines that were completely wiped out by the Tiger Regiment, Shanghai dispatched at least nearly 10,000 people. It is conceivable how many troops can be left in Shanghai at this time? Two or three thousand will be killed?

Moreover, the reason why the Huben Group held Suzhou was to attract the main force of the Japanese army to return to the army. Now the strategic purpose has been achieved. Since the Huben Group killed the old Japanese devil, Kuiyan, whether the Huben Group defended Suzhou or not, the various master groups of the Japanese would follow and chase after him.

Not to mention that the Hu Ben regiment attacked Shanghai, there is no need for Matsui Ishigen to order, and the major divisions of the Japanese will also desperately rush to support Shanghai.

How important is Shanghai's location? It was conquered by the Japanese army at a heavy price of tens of thousands of casualties, and its geographical location and international political status have further aggravated its importance.

Therefore, the Japanese would rather give up the entire Jiangnan than wait for Shanghai to fall.

However, if you want to attack Shanghai, the first priority is to defeat the Japanese reinforcements that are less than fifteen kilometers away from Suzhou City.

After making up his mind, Qiao Anbang immediately looked up and ordered to everyone in a deep voice: "Send the order, the whole group will gather immediately and prepare to attack!"

"Group, do we want to give up Suzhou City?" Everyone was shocked when they heard the whole group gather.

"Well, we won't defend Suzhou anymore. This time we'll play big, we'll attack Shanghai!" Qiao Anbang nodded calmly.

"What?! Attack Shanghai?" Kong Xiangjie and others were shocked.

"What? Don't you dare?" Qiao Anbang asked deliberately.

"Dare! Why don't you dare! As long as the group leader says, we dare to go to Tokyo!" Kong Xiangjie, Zhao Gengyuan and others expressed their opinions.

"Then execute the order!" Qiao Anbang waved his hand suddenly.

"Yes!" Everyone immediately responded to the promise and then turned around and took the order and left.

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