I really came here to fight against Japan

Chapter 204: The Destruction of the Inoue Division

Because the situation in this anti-encirclement and suppression war changed so quickly, it went from assisting in the war to annihilating the Imperial Army.

The plan changed from taking advantage of the chaos to destroy part of the 39th Division to completely annihilating the 39th Division.

This meant that within two days, it went from being a strategic move to being the main attack force.

This change left Wu Changlong with only enough time to deploy a regiment of troops on the riverbank at Sandaowan.

By this time in the battle, all of Wu Changlong's weapons of mass destruction had been used up.

Including the Japanese army, their light and heavy machine guns were either lost or had no ammunition.

This time, Wu Changlong is preparing to fight with Inoue Yu's remaining soldiers using conventional weapons.

Seeing the Eighth Route Army soldiers behind the opposite bunker, they all stood up from their fortifications.

They drew their bayonets from their waists and thrust them into the muzzles of their rifles.

Looking at the gleaming bayonets of the Eighth Route Army, Inoue Yu was so excited that he almost cried.

God has opened his eyes. Is this going to be a bayonet fight? Finally, it has come to the stage that the imperial army is familiar with.

Inoue had already heard the fierce gunfire coming from behind them.

This means that the Eighth Route Army pursuers behind them are less than a kilometer away from them.

Inoue Yu knew that life or death, success or failure depended on this one move.

He also held up a Type 38 rifle and shouted, "Kill them."

He led the remaining Japanese soldiers and rushed towards Wu Changlong's bayonet formation.

It’s hard to predict what’s going on. It’s really hard to predict what’s going on!

Just when the Japanese had just rushed out of the extinguished wall of fire, about fifty meters away.

The bayonet array of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side suddenly split into two ten-meter-wide gaps.

The two teams of Eighth Route Army cavalry soldiers rushed towards the attacking Inoue Division like thousands of troops.

Inoue Yu: What do you call this? Is this still a modern war?

How come you guys have figured out this tactic of "flags flying at the gate and cavalry marching out"?

Wu Changlong: This is not a coincidence, this is not a coincidence, how could I have known that my cavalry unit would arrive at this time.

This cavalry unit that suddenly appeared was led by Captain Xu, a subordinate of Li Yunlong.

Coming with him were the Gansu Army Cavalry Search Company, which had almost caused a misunderstanding with them last night.

Originally, there was no combat mission arranged for them today.

But this Captain Xu can definitely be considered a warmonger.

How could he be missing from such a big expedition? So he also lured out the cavalry search company.

It was also a coincidence that when they arrived, they just caught up with this critical moment.

The Gansu Army's guerrilla detachment had been in Shanxi for a long time.

However, they still have not forgotten the basic coordination with the cavalry.

With just a simple change in formation, the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army and the Gansu Army began to attack.

The emergence of the Eighth Route Army Cavalry Unit became the last straw that broke the camel's back for the Inoue Division.

In the eyes of the Japanese, the cavalry unit of more than 200 people had become an army of thousands.

In just a moment of distraction, Captain Xu and his men's horses had already knocked down the Japanese soldiers in the first few rows.

Captain Xu's waving saber passed across Inoue Yu's neck.

A huge human head was pushed up into the sky by the blood in the neck cavity.

This distant relative of the devil emperor is the executioner whose hands are stained with the blood of the people outside the Great Wall.

Finally, he got the punishment he deserved under the sabers of the Eighth Route Army soldiers.

Under the charge of these two cavalry companies, the Inoue Division was completely stunned.

After Captain Xu and his men had killed their way through the Japanese army, they wanted to regroup and charge again.

They found that their cavalry company could hardly squeeze in.

The Eighth Route Army soldiers who rushed up from all directions had surrounded the Japanese.

There were already seven or eight Eighth Route Army soldiers surrounding a Japanese soldier, stabbing and stabbing him.

That was it. There were also officers using Mauser pistols to shoot at the Japanese soldiers in the crowd.

They were shouting: "Hurry up, end the battle quickly."

The final battle was soon over, and the head of our brigade is now in high spirits.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect that we could completely wipe out an entire division of the Japanese.

With this result, even the Central Army of the Temporary Capital has never achieved it once."

Song Wenwan said: "That's right, it's all because of your wise command.

Only then can we win such a beautiful victory!

Hey, where are you going? I want to talk to you about the post-war supplies. "

When the brigade chief saw Song Wenwan, he kept stopping him and wouldn't let him go to Sandaowan.

Li Yunlong, who loved to take advantage of others, suddenly became a good boy.

He was asking Zhang Dabiao and his men to organize the troops and settle the wounded soldiers, and had no intention of going over to grab the spoils.

The brigade commander was thinking about it when he heard sporadic gunfire coming from the other side of Sandaowan.

"The Japanese troops were poisoned by militarism and would rather die in battle than surrender to our troops."

This famous sentence, which often appeared in the Gansu Army's post-war reports, once again came to the mind of the brigade commander.

Oh, forget it. Anyway, it wasn’t done by our Eighth Route Army. If anyone has any questions, let them go to the Gansu Army.

The battlefield was cleaned up very quickly, and it was obvious that it was done by professionals.

All the guns and ammunition left on the battlefield were packed up and taken away by the Eighth Route Army.

Things like the Type 92 infantry gun, Type 41 mountain gun, and Type 75 field gun, all the usable ones were taken away.

All the tanks, armored vehicles and cars stuck in the ice were blown up.

It was so frozen that it was too late to get out.

By this time the snow had stopped and the sun was out in the sky.

The Japanese planes are ready to take off. They will fly over to check in less than an hour.

If we don't leave now, we can only wait and be bombed by the Japanese air force.

When we returned to the Qijiayu base, we quickly arranged for the soldiers to eat and rest.

This great victory in the anti-mopping-up campaign caused heavy losses to the Japanese and puppet forces.

I'm afraid the Japanese won't be able to retaliate against the base before the spring.

Song Wenwan knew that the Japanese military headquarters had already made a plan to advance northward.

They will attack the Soviet army at Nomonhan in May of this year.

This would determine later whether they would attack the Soviet Union to the north.

Or turn south and seize the resources of Southeast Asia.

This will affect the direction of the Japanese country in the coming years.

By the evening, the post-war statistics of each unit finally reached the brigade commander.

Because the battle was arranged very cleverly, the Eighth Route Army and the Gansu Army suffered few casualties.

And it was the Eighth Route Army and the Gansu Army who took advantage of the terrain to encircle and beat the Japanese.

First, the Japanese 39th Division lost 28,500 people and was completely wiped out.

The 3rd and 7th Divisions of the Imperial Army, and the 15th and 16th Mixed Brigades of the Imperial Army.

In addition to Fang Ximen’s two thousand men who revolted on the battlefield, more than three thousand Imperial Army soldiers were also captured.

In total, more than 37,000 Imperial Army troops were annihilated. This data was provided by Fang Ximen.

Of course, according to the roster of the Imperial Army, more than 46,000 of them were wiped out.

The 9,000 Imperial Army soldiers who were sent out were just empty salaries that were eaten up by them.

Originally, everyone came out happily this time to eliminate the empty salaries.

But they didn't expect that it would be eliminated so cleanly.