Anti-Japanese War: When I get promoted, the system will explode with soldiers

Chapter 1050 The Severely Damaged Isogai Division

When Ma Leizi first settled in eastern Shandong, although he stipulated that he could only stay on the Jiaodong Peninsula, he was not one to sit idle. Whenever he found a chance, he would start planting his own people everywhere.

If you have money, guns, and connections, then in this era, a public office is something you can do however you want, and no one dares to say anything. If you say one wrong word, you'll regret it for the rest of your life.

For example, in the provincial capital's police department, you definitely can't get involved at the level of the director and deputy director. But as the director of each branch bureau, with seniority and a little money, you're basically set. Ma Leizi never even considered positions above the branch bureau director level.

So Ma Leizi was looking for the branch bureau chief, and below him were the deputy bureau chief and the head of the public security brigade. As long as we have money, there's nothing we can't do. Add a group of ordinary police officers, and after a little money is spent, they become squad leaders and company commanders.

So, in the provincial capital with a total of over 2,800 people, nearly half of the police station was infiltrated by Ma Leizi's men. Before, they were all inconspicuous, lying in wait in various places. Now that the Japanese are coming, these guys are following Ma Leizi's orders to let the Japanese into the city first. We don't have the ability to fight the Japanese. After entering the city, we will start killing the Japanese on a large scale in small groups.

For example, the small detachment that ambushed wounded Japanese soldiers, consisting of dozens of people, fought three battles in one day and killed more than 190 Japanese soldiers in total.

When the Japanese troops arrived, these guys immediately broke up into smaller groups. They had been living in the provincial capital for a while, so finding a place to hide wasn't difficult.

Moreover, if there are a few Japanese soldiers nearby while we are hiding, then the next battle will begin immediately. For these people, the best opportunity is to fight the Japanese.

At first, the Isogai Division did not pay much attention to the rebels in the city, after all, this was a very normal thing, and they would encounter such rebels in almost every city.

But as the sun was about to set, the army in the south of the city had made no progress, and the city itself had lost nearly two thousand men.

"What's going on? Give me an answer. Didn't you say there were no more resistance fighters in the provincial capital? But how did my soldiers die? Did they all give up on life and run into the wall? There were two thousand soldiers in total."

The Japanese occupied the original headquarters of the Third Army Group and set it up as a temporary headquarters.

Commander Isogai felt an urge to stab all his men in the back.

According to the original battle plan, they should have reached Tai'an by now, and even continued to advance south. But now they haven't even passed the northern mountain range of Mount Tai, and there are still seventy or eighty kilometers to go.

If it were just a matter of slowing down, Division Commander Isogai wouldn't be so angry. The fact that three aerial battles had taken place in the sky was what truly frustrated him.

The enemy is not an ordinary enemy, but a local force of the 72nd Army.

Now, no Japanese general underestimates the 72nd Army. Whether in Tianjin or Pujiang, they have suffered heavy losses. When they marched south from the north, they did not encounter anyone from the 72nd Army along the way. They thought they could quickly join up with the Pujiang Expeditionary Army, but unexpectedly, they encountered them when they entered the provincial capital of Shandong.

At that time, all the soldiers and officers were having second thoughts, and some of them had witnessed the might of the 72nd Army in Tianjin.

But the orders from above are pressing down, and no matter what you think in your heart, you have to regroup and charge forward now.

"Reporting to the division commander, the troops that attacked us in the city were all from the Shandong Provincial Police Department. However, according to our investigation, we also captured a group of police officers who had no recollection of these people, and the police department has never purchased the weapons they used."

The head of the Special Higher Police Section, who was in charge of investigating the matter, quickly took out a folder containing various weapon records. The division commander wasn't worried until he saw the records, and he broke out in a sweat.

Isn't this the standard weapon of the 72nd Army?

"Baka yarou! Get Commander Itagaki here!"

Lieutenant General Isogai was well aware that the current situation was far beyond the capabilities of his single division, and he had to hurry and get the Itagaki Division moving forward.

"Hayi..."

The men under my command breathed a sigh of relief. They had been scolded here for half an hour, but no decisions had been made. So, in the darkness, our men would continue to die.

For the people of the provincial capital, tonight was supposed to be a terrifying night. The Japanese army had already organized itself to loot the city's inhabitants according to their unit numbers. However, even though it was past midnight, the Japanese soldiers on the streets seemed to have no intention of entering the homes. Instead, they began to build fortifications on various streets.

The Japanese officer's loud voice was clearly audible to many who understood Japanese: all troops were on rotation that night, and no one was allowed to leave the company headquarters.

Many of the refugees who fled to the provincial capital stayed with their relatives. They knew that the people in the north had suffered, which is why so many people wanted to leave the provincial capital. But they never expected that the Japanese would spend the first night in the provincial capital guarding against a group of police.

Gunfire and explosions continued throughout the night. From the east to the west of the city, from the Yellow River to the Taishan Mountains, resistance was being carried out almost everywhere. However, the main force of the Third Army Group had withdrawn, and Commander Han was more than 100 kilometers away. Who on earth had such great power?

"Don't pull me, I'm going out to take a look. It's already dawn, if the Japanese wanted to come in, they would have already come in."

A man in his forties, with a pipe in his mouth, lived in a slum in the south of the city.

The guy wanted to go out and take a look after dawn, but his wife held him back tightly. Now he found a ladder to climb onto the roof to take a look, but the woman was unwilling to let him.

"Take this up for me. I heard from his aunt that back in Texas, someone carried a ladder up to the roof, but was spotted by Japanese soldiers in the distance. Those bastards are really good with their guns; one shot killed him. If you die, don't count on me for the rest of your family of over ten people."

The woman clung desperately to her man. In times of war, women have very little sense of security, and this man was the pillar of the family; he absolutely could not be allowed to die...

Just as the two were talking, Uribara's Japanese could be heard coming from the street...