May 2, 1939, 5 pm.

The sun sets west, and a ray of setting sun casts its last heat and light on the earth.

The focus of the battle in Tai'an City is still on the broken South City Gate.

On the defense line of the south city gate, which was like a purgatory on earth, both the enemy and us had put into heavy troops. At this moment, the Japanese army completely gained the advantage with its strong military strength and excellent weapons. The balance of war had completely turned to the Japanese army.

The Japanese officers and soldiers who were swarming like a tide were completely trapped in a carnival.

Victory is right in front of you!

Tai'an City is about to be completely destroyed!

As the battle continued, our army had completely lost its dominance over the defense line of the South City Gate and could only grit its teeth and hold on.

The sound of machine guns in my ears and the rumbling cannons all demonstrate the ferocity of the Japanese offensive.

Chu Yunfei shouted: "Brother Ouyang, you can't hesitate anymore. If you delay any further, Tai'an City will really not have the power to turn the world back!"

Chief of Staff Jiang Dengxuan also shouted: "Commander, brothers, you won't blame you in the dark. As long as you can eliminate the Japanese and defend Tai'an City, all the sacrifices are worth it!"

Chu Yunfei and Jiang Dengxuan's words immediately received the answer from many people present.

"Commander-in-chief, there is nothing more important than defending Tai'an City now!"

"Our brothers are not afraid of death, they are meaningless and worthless!"

"Today is our most glorious moment!"

"That's right, I've been in the army for more than ten years. I've never been as happy as I am today. Now I'm dead, and that's a smile!"

After hearing what everyone said, Ouyang's muscles and blue veins all burst out, making it difficult to make this final decision, especially when he saw many soldiers lying on the long flesh-and-blooded way and not completely dead. However, once he made this decision, these soldiers would be burned to death with the Japanese army.

"Brother Ouyang, let's make a decision!"

Chu Yunfei said hideously: "That hundreds of tons of gasoline must be used today no matter what, otherwise the death and injury of thousands of our brothers these days will completely lose their value!"

Hundreds of tons of gasoline?

In fact, long before the battle today, Ouyang, Chu Yunfei and others had anticipated the cruelty of today's battle, and immediately made a decision to put it to death.

That is to use hundreds of tons of gasoline in Tai'an City to completely block the defense line of the south city gate and completely burn the Japanese troops who were secretly pouring in to death.

Once this strategy is implemented, it can indeed effectively kill the Japanese army and ensure the safety of Tai'an City's defense line, but at the same time, it will also burn many of our soldiers alive.

This is a decision to burn both jade and stone.

"Damn~~~!"

Ouyang clenched his fists tightly and said hoarsely: "Tell me the order and immediately put all 100 tons of gasoline!"

"Yes!" Everyone answered in unison.

After giving this order, Ouyang became weak.

He knew very well what kind of human tragedy would be caused by his decision. While killing the Japanese army, many soldiers of our army would die under the fires all over the sky.

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Eighth Route Army Headquarters.

Mr. Peng said in a deep voice: "In the next one or two, the winners and losers of Tai'an City will be completely decided, that is to say, the Shandong pattern will be decided in the next few months within one or two hours!"

Hearing this, everyone around him nodded, and everyone's faces were extremely solemn.

Zuo Quan: "I just received a telegram from the First Column of our army. The Japanese troops in the areas of Linyi, Laiwu and Jining have now stopped their attacks and are waiting for the final result of Tai'an City."

As long as Tai'an City can still be held today, the Japanese army's major raid in Shandong will be completely declared bankrupt!

On the contrary, if Tai'an City cannot be defended, the enemy's morale will increase greatly, and the anti-Japanese forces in Shandong will be attacked by the Japanese army in the next few days.

For a moment, everyone's eyes gathered in Tai'an City!

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Japanese 1st Division.

At this moment, the Japanese officers were completely excited.

"His division commander, my great Japanese Imperial Army is about to win!"

"Tai'an City is finally going to be completely taken down by our army!"

"The sacrifice of the Imperial Warriors is worth it. Each of them is the pride of our 10th Division!"

"The Eighth Route Army's leading guerrillas, the ** Independent Brigade of the 2nd Army, will completely become history from today!"

"The death of the enemy will establish my glorious position of invincible battles in the 1st Division!"

The Japanese officers and soldiers all went together to Kaiyan, and the division commander Yoshio Shinozuka was the same.

Especially just now, he received a commendation message from General Sugiyama Moto, commander-in-chief of the Japanese North China Front Army.

He expressed great praise for their actions to destroy the city in one battle today, and ordered Yoshio Shinozuka to completely eliminate the Longtou Guerrillas and Chu Yunfei's troops today.

Lay the dominant position in Shandong’s war situation!

"Yaxi!"

The division commander Yoshio Shinozuka put down the telescope in his hand and said excitedly: "Now we have thousands of people rushing into Tai'an City. At most 20 minutes, our army will completely defeat the Zhongzhao team and win!"

But!

But at this moment, fires soaring into the sky rose into the sky like dragons, and bloomed all at the defense line of the south city gate!

"Baga!"

"Look out quickly, what is going on?"

"Why did this huge sky-sky fire come out!"

In an instant, Yoshio Shinozuka was shocked!

The Japanese officers around him were all stunned!

"What exactly did you give birth?"

"Why is there such a big fire!"

"Is this the enemy's conspiracy?"

"If this is true, then my great Japanese Imperial Army, who had already rushed into the city, will undoubtedly fall into a place of irreparable consequences!"

"Baga, cunning Chinese!"

Yoshio Shinozuka cried out: "Immediately send me the order and order all departments to retreat, all the troops to retreat!"

At this moment, Yoshio Shinozuka could no longer care about too much.

Crack down Tai'an City?

Eliminate the Chinese team?

Yoshio Shinozuka abandoned all of them. He only knew that if his army could not withdraw, the consequences would be extremely painful!

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The south gate of Tai'an City.

fire!

A huge fire that soars into the sky!

The giant dragons of flames were ruthlessly plundering here, and the Japanese and Chinese people were burning with fire!

Screams resounded like storms, as scattered as a demon.

The flames ruthlessly devour everything, and everywhere they go, they turn into a sea of ​​fire.

All our soldiers were red in their eyes and stared at their comrades in the fire.

They will be completely burned to ashes in the fire!

pain!

The pain of heart-piercing!

"Continue to put gasoline barrels, put them!" Ouyang roared with a ferocious face.

The same is true for Chu Yunfei, Jiang Dengxuan and others. Although it is hard to bear the heartache, these are all helpless actions.

The fire burned and continued!

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May 2, 1939, at 8 pm.

The 1st Division of the Japanese Army retreated in full swing.

The 32nd Division of the 12th Army of the Japanese Army, which came from Liaocheng, was replaced with more than 23,000 troops. The division commander, Hitaro Kimura, Lieutenant General of the 6th Japanese Army, and the future Japanese general.

Tai'an City is guarded!

This also marks that the Japanese North China Front Army declared bankruptcy during this major mobilization in Shandong!

This battle shocked the world!
Chapter completed!