Nanjing, the headquarters of the Central Chinese Front of the Japanese Army.

Okamura Yasuji was reading a telegram I just received. Half an hour later, Ningbo Port was completely occupied by the newly-organized 6th Army. More than 2,000 Japanese soldiers in Ningbo Port were all eliminated. The large number of ships that Okamura Yasuji had worked hard to raise also fell into the hands of the soldiers of the newly-organized 6th Army.

Losing so many ships and losing control of Ningbo Port, Okamura Yasuji knew that the final fate of the 18th Division and the 29th Division remnants in Ningbo Castle was to be completely wiped out.

"It seems that it is only possible to take a defensive attitude against the new 6th Army for the time being. It is not a wise move to take the initiative to attack the new 6th Army." Okamura Yasuji thought to himself.

"His Excellency Commander-in-Chief, we have suffered a crushing defeat this time." The Chief of Staff next to him lowered his head and said miserably.

Okamura Yasuji nodded slowly. In this battle, Okamura Yasuji was also hit hard and was severely scolded by the base camp.

After a long time, Okamura Yasuji said: "Inukai, you are responsible for writing a detailed report to the base camp, requesting to add our heavy equipment. The tanks, armored vehicles and heavy artillery of the newly formed 6th Army are too powerful. In addition, we will order the troops in Ningbo to break through."

"Hi!"

The Chief of the Japanese Staff bent down to salute, but his expression was somewhat despair and despair. The Chief of the Japanese Staff knew that it would be difficult for the Japanese troops in Ningbo to withdraw. Intelligence showed that the entire Ningbo area was almost full of soldiers from the newly formed 6th Army.

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Ningbo.

The fierce street fighting was going on for three or four days, and gradually became much weaker. The streets were full of soldiers, and some street intersections even had some tanks or armored vehicles parked. The entire Ningbo City was completely under the control of the soldiers.

At this time, the 18th Division and the 29th Division were only left with some remaining Japanese devils, with only three or five thousand people. These Japanese devils were divided and surrounded by soldiers in several small areas. The soldiers were destroying these remaining Japanese devils.

In Ningbo, there is a mechanized infantry division, an armored division tank regiment, the 3rd Infantry Division, and the 5th Infantry Division, with tens of thousands of people. The remaining thousands of Japanese devils have no power of resistance and are surrounded by soldiers in several areas. The remaining Japanese devils are still resisting stubbornly.

In addition to some of the soldiers in Ningbo City, most of the soldiers were already starting to clean the battlefield, searching the bodies of the Japanese on the streets and transporting them out of the city to bury them. The weapons and equipment scattered on the streets were also collected by the soldiers and transported them back to Hangzhou.

In the southwest of Ningbo City, there is an area with a radius of less than a few hundred meters. This area is full of buildings and narrow streets. The widest street can only accommodate only one tank. The 18th Division and the 29th Division all huddled in this area.

Ningbo Port was occupied by soldiers. Lieutenant General Oshima Naobashi, the commander of the 18th Division, Lieutenant General Kobayashi Saburo, the commander of the 29th Division, as well as the chief of staff of the two divisions, brigade commanders and several Japanese major generals were all hiding in a small courtyard. The gate of the courtyard faced a street that was only two or three meters wide, and the soldiers' tanks and armored vehicles could not come.

About two or three hundred Japanese, carrying machine guns and Type 38 rifles, protected this small courtyard. On the periphery, one or two hundred meters near and two or three hundred meters away, there were about hundreds of Japanese Japanese who were fighting fire with the soldiers.

Above a three-story roof, about thirty soldiers are setting up machine guns and mortars. This is a soldier of a machine gun platoon, one machine gun platoon is equipped with three 60mm mortars, a 12.7mm Browning heavy machine gun, and two 7.92mm light machine guns.

On this cement roof, soldiers were building sandbags and setting up machine guns, and a lieutenant platoon leader was commanding all of this.

A few dozen meters away from here, there is also a cement bungalow roof, and there are also a warrior of a machine gun platoon erecting mortars and light and heavy machine guns.

The tallest building in this area is a large cement structure building. The building is five-story high and has a roof area of ​​at least hundreds of square meters. On the flat cement roof, there are a large number of officers of the newly formed 6th Army, including Ye Feng, Zhao Long, and the commander of the 3rd Infantry Division.

Ye Feng and others already knew the situation of the Japanese in this area. In that small courtyard, Ye Feng probably might have a large number of senior Japanese officers.

The street fighting lasted for several days, and the soldiers killed the Japanese officer with the highest rank and were just a major general. There were two Japanese divisions in Ningbo. These Japanese devils had almost no breakthrough and were all divided and surrounded by the soldiers. The senior officers of these two divisions must have been surrounded.

Ye Feng learned that senior Japanese officers might be surrounded in this area, and Ye Feng brought Zhao Long and more than a dozen special forces members over here with great enthusiasm.

According to Ye Feng's command, all the commanding heights in this area, a large number of warriors of machine gun platoons were deployed on all the commanding heights, and a large number of light and heavy machine guns and mortars were set up.

In this area, intermittent gunfire sounds were heard constantly, and some soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division were having sporadic exchanges of fire with the Japanese huddled in this area.

"Military thrones, according to your requirements, we have deployed a total of 6 cannon platoons on the surrounding roofs, a total of 18 60mm mortars. In addition, this area has been surrounded by us, and this time the Japanese are unable to fly." The commander of the Third Infantry Division next to him reported to Ye Feng.

Ye Feng nodded, stood tall and stood on the top of the five-story building, looked around with a telescope, and focused on the small courtyard four or five hundred meters away.

After looking carefully, Ye Feng said loudly: "Fire the cannon and blow the courtyard into ruins!"

There are large buildings here, many private houses, and a large number of ordinary people hiding in their homes and not being able to bombard them on a large scale. However, 60mm mortars are still in use and are suitable for use in such situations.

The small courtyard covers an area of ​​only two or three acres, with several houses in front and back, with walls. It was probably a rich man's house. There were a large number of senior Japanese officers inside. Ye Feng was preparing to intensively bombard it, and his weapons were these deployed 60mm mortars.

With Ye Feng's order issued, the 18 60mm mortars immediately began to aim and shells. Suddenly, one by one, one by one, and the shells roared out and flew towards the small courtyard.

Ye Feng stood on the roof, holding a telescope and closely monitoring the shelling situation. Ye Feng saw shells explode in this small courtyard. The seemingly quiet courtyard suddenly looked like a rolling oil pan. This place was not what it looked like on the surface.

In this ordinary courtyard, there are many Japanese officers in the houses, including two Japanese lieutenant generals, several major generals, and a large number of auxiliary personnel from the 18th Division and the 29th Division.

In addition to these personnel, there are two or three hundred Japanese soldiers responsible for protection in the courtyard. These Japanese soldiers either hid in houses, built barricades and set up machine guns on narrow streets.

As the shells fell into the courtyard, fire suddenly surged into the sky, smoke filled the sky, and violent explosions were everywhere.

The sudden shelling scared some Japanese officers. Lieutenant General Oshima Naoki, the commander of the 18th Division, and Lieutenant General Kobayashi, the commander of the 29th Division, both of them changed their faces and looked at each other.

Both of them knew that their location should have been exposed, so they hurriedly took a group of Japanese officers out of the house and hurriedly ran out of the courtyard.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

As soon as these Japanese devils came out of this house, the brick-shaped house was immediately blown up and collapsed, turning into a pile of ruins.

Seeing this scene, many Japanese officers were scared and sweating. Just now, as long as they were slower, they would be buried alive in the ruins.

Several bombs exploded one after another next to these Japanese officers. The flying shrapnel hit several Japanese officers, a colonel and two majors fell to the ground. When the commander of the 18th Division, Naoba Oshiki, saw that several people were killed by his side, he immediately shouted in a hurry.

"Retreat, retreat quickly!!!"

Naobashi led a group of Japanese officers to run out of the courtyard in a hurry, and braved the dense explosions. When all of these people ran out of the courtyard, Naobashi found that the 20 or 30 people he led seemed to be missing by one-third.

One-third of these people must have been killed. Naoba Osaki's arm was also injured, and he was covered in blood. Looking at the dirt-faced Japanese officers beside him, and then looking at the courtyard that was almost ruined, Saburo Kobayashi's face looked very ugly.

"Oshiki Jun, we must break through immediately and concentrate all our troops to break through as soon as possible." Saburo Kobayashi, the commander of the 29th Division, said anxiously.

Upon hearing this, Naoba Oshigata nodded, looked around, pointed at a Japanese master and ordered loudly: "You lead the troops to break out there, hurry up!"

The Japanese Grandmaster led a large group of Japanese soldiers, at least one or two hundred, to break eastward. Daxi Naoba led a group of Japanese officers, about 20 to 30 Japanese soldiers, and some auxiliary personnel, about nearly 100 people ran in the opposite direction.

Naoba Oshima treated the Japanese Grandpa as cannon fodder and brought one or two hundred Japanese to attract the firepower of the soldiers, while Naoba Oshima himself led the rest of the personnel to break through in the opposite direction.

Standing at the top of the building, holding a telescope, Ye Feng saw the whole situation clearly. Seeing a group of Japanese soldiers rushing to break into the distance, while another group of Japanese officers ran towards him, Ye Feng couldn't help laughing.

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Chapter completed!