"Your Majesty General, the Chinese have occupied the east, west and south sides of Xiyang County. If the 116th Division does not retreat, it is very likely that it will..."

Kasahara Yukio said to Sugiyama Gen with some worry.

Sugiyama Gen's complexion looked better than the previous few days. He closed his eyes and leaned on the back of the chair and asked without raising his head:

"How many troops are left in the 116th Division now?"

"The number of soldiers should be around 15,000, but the officers of each wing suffered heavy casualties, and there were some problems in the command system."

He waved his hand and was about to give an order such as sending more reinforcements and holding on to the end.

But before he could say anything, the head of the intelligence agency, Tsunekita Makoto, rushed in with a beaming face.

Nagakita Seiichi's movements were a little awkward, and many people in the headquarters cast curious glances.

When Sugiyama Moto opened his eyes, he vaguely felt that spring was coming.

"Your Excellency General..."

Nagaki Tasei suppressed the excitement in his heart, took a few deep breaths and stabilized his mind.

He walked to Sugiyama Yuan's side in two steps, then leaned down on the ground, bit the latter's ear and began to whisper.

Kasahara Yukio was full of doubts. He frowned and watched the two of them biting their ears.

About 10 seconds later, Sugiyama Yuan's eyes suddenly widened, and the blood on his face became thicker and thicker.

The General suddenly stood up from his chair. He grabbed Nagakita Seiichi with one hand and tried to cover his chest with the other hand.

Everyone on the side noticed that the General's expression was not right, and some anxiously called the military doctor.

"puff!!"

Before the military doctor arrived, Sugiyama Moto spurted out a large mouthful of blood like water.

Blood flowers scattered in the air, staining the documents and battle maps on the table red.

"Your Excellency General..."

"Your Excellency General..."

Yukio Kasahara rushed over in a hurry, with panic in his eyes.

Sugiyama Gen raised his sleeves and wiped the blood from his mouth, then stared and asked Kita Seiichi:

"Has the intelligence been confirmed? Where is the Chinese who sent the intelligence?"

Half of Tsunekita Seiichi's cheek was still stained with Sugiyama Gen's blood. Why did the general vomit blood when he heard the good news? He had doubts in his heart and subconsciously answered:

“The intelligence has not been confirmed yet, but what the Chinese said is conclusive, and nine out of ten times it is true.

Our agents discovered that Jiangdong was building an oil refinery some time ago, and I think Jiangdong was already making preparations at that time."

"Hahaha..." Sugiyama Yuan raised his hand to stop the military doctor who was rushing over. He laughed and faced the east.

“With the blessing of Amaterasu, the North China Front is saved!

Quick, take me to see the Chinese who sent the information, I want to hear what he said with my own ears!"

"Hiyi!"

After spitting out a mouthful of blood, Sugiyama Yuan's condition seemed to improve a lot. Although his face was still sickly flushed, his eyes were clearer than before.

"Your Majesty, General, what happened?"

Kasahara Yukio also guessed that something good had happened, a great good thing, otherwise the general's condition would not have improved instantly.

Sugiyama Gen glanced at Kasahara Yukio, without saying anything, and quickly followed Kitaka Makoto out. When he reached the door, he turned to his chief of staff and said:

"Send an order to the 116th Division to revoke the previous order to resist to the end and break out immediately!"

“Hiyi!!!”

After Sugiyama Gen left, Kasahara Yukio and several combat staff members looked at each other with big eyes.

Everyone was stunned for a few seconds, and then curiously cleaned up the mess in the combat command room.

…

…

"Your Excellency, the Division Commander, Your Excellency the General ordered us to break out of the encirclement quickly and preserve our strength!"

Colonel Yamada Mir, the chief of staff of the 116th Division, held the telegram in front of Shinohara Seiichiro like a gold ingot.

Shinohara Seiichiro finished reading the telegram in a few glances, his brows furrowed into a frown.

"Why did the General suddenly issue such an order to abandon Xiyang County? What should I do if the railway line is threatened?"

Yamada Mir didn't think too much. The most important thing at the moment was to break through and ensure that the number and organization of the 116th Division would always exist.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the battlefield situation must have undergone new changes, but we don't know it. Since it is an order from Your Majesty the General, we should quickly organize the warriors to break out. We must not be like the 41st Division."

Thinking of the outcome of the entire army being wiped out, Shinohara Seiichiro shuddered in his heart.

"Yoshi, Yoshi, Yamada-kun is right, break out!

Only in the north there is no sign of the Chinese. I suspect that this is a trick they are playing to surround three people but one is missing. What do you think?"

Yamada Mir's expression became serious, he pointed to the highway line on the map and said:

"The Chinese probably wanted to trick us out of the county and then attack us on the highway. Surrounding three buildings is a very old tactic."

The two of them fell into silence at the same time. Holding on to the end would be a dead end, but breaking out was not that easy.

After a while, Yamada Mir broke the silence,

"The north is the only direction to retreat. Regardless of whether there is an ambush or not, we must go and break through.

Leaving all the puppet troops to continue resisting in the county town, we first contacted the friendly troops in the north and asked them to attack south to support our division's breakout.

No matter what tricks the Chinese are playing, as long as we break out to the north with all our strength, we will definitely have the possibility of successfully escaping!"

"Yoshi...Yoshi..."

Vitality reappeared, and Shinohara Seiichiro also regained his fighting spirit.

On the afternoon of November 13, troops of the Japanese 116th Division began to withdraw from the streets where the two sides were confronting each other.

The puppet troops were haphazardly cobbled together from various places and pushed to the front line.

90% of the more than 10,000 puppet troops were on the battlefield for the first time. They usually oppressed the people, vented their evil deeds on compatriots who were weaker than them, and did all kinds of bad things.

After entering the battlefield, these puppet soldiers discovered that what they had done before was nothing compared to the real strong men. Rotting and smelly corpses, whistling shells and bullets, death was everywhere and happened all the time.

Many puppet soldiers were so frightened by the bloody battlefield that they could not even hold their guns steady.

…

The 4th and 5th Divisions opposite them quickly discovered something strange on the Japanese position, and various situations were summarized in front of Jia Dalin and Wang Laohu.

"It seems that the little devil is preparing to run away!" After listening to the report from the frontline troops, Jia Dalin squinted his eyes and said:

"Yesterday, they were still determined to fight to the death, but today they are eager to escape. It seems that there is also a new situation in the North China Front."

The Fourth and Fifth Divisions received a telegram from Jincheng from Jiangdong this morning, requiring them to end the battle in Xiyang County within two days and then break away from contact with the Japanese army. The troops quickly replenished supplies and were ready to engage in new battles at any time.

"The order to let the 116th Division leave remains unchanged. We just need to chase them to Yangquan like rabbits." Wang Laohu did not think about the deeper reasons behind these changes. He shrugged and continued:

"The engineering and construction team of the Administrative Office has arrived outside the city, and they will start reconstruction work immediately after we capture the county seat.

The 116th Division will definitely break through this evening, let’s give them a good ride!”

"Um!"
Chapter completed!