The battle between the Japanese army invaded Qiqihar started in the early morning of the next day.

Naosaburo Okabe could not wait, but he did not dare to wait any longer... It was meaningless for the Japanese army to continue to wait. There were very few ammunition and troops in each township to gather and return to build, but the anti-Japanese wave was higher than that. Naosaburo Okabe was worried that if he waited like this, the Japanese army would not have the morale and confidence to fight a battle with the expeditionary army.

Therefore, Naosaburo Okabe ordered troops from both sides of the east and west to march day and night to attack the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and to capture the two cities of Qiqihar and Harbin as fast as possible, and then use the "Central and East Railway" as the defense line to resist the attack of the Expeditionary Force from the Xinjing direction.

Afterwards, Naosaburo Okabe realized this idea a bit wishful thinking... Because the Chinese team stationed in Qiqihar and Harbin are not ordinary expeditionary forces. Although these Chinese teams do not have heavy equipment because of parachutes, their combat effectiveness is not inferior to other expeditionary forces with heavy equipment.

In Qiqihar, the cannon sounded before dawn.

At that time, Zhang Chi was lying on the bed and resting with her clothes. When he heard the sound of cannons, he sat up from the bed.

When Zhang Chi was a grassroots officer, he always touched the gun as soon as possible after being awakened. Now he has been a division commander for some time, and he has changed his habit to ask as soon as possible: "What's the situation?"

"Teacher!" Staff Liang, who was near the radio station, turned around and replied: "It is the vanguard of the Japanese. As soon as he arrived, he couldn't wait to shoot firecrackers!"

"Where was the one you were fighting?" Hearing the sound of the cannons, Zhang Chi asked more.

"It's the city!" Chief Secretary Liang replied.

The fellow villagers couldn't help but curse: "This dog-dog anal rectum... I have a kind of rushing us to attack the people, what kind of heroes are you thinking of?!"

"Anal rectum?" Liang Gongshu looked at his fellow villagers in confusion.

"Oh!" the fellow villager explained: "It's that... what Okabe Naosaburo, we all call him anal rectum!"

With a "coaxing" sound, the officers and soldiers in the command center laughed.

After laughing for a while, Zhang Chi said, "This anus is straight..."

Speaking of this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but glared at his fellow villagers. They were all damaged by fellow villagers, and almost blurted out the "anal rectum".

The people around him only endured it, until one person couldn't hold it in, and then he caused another burst of laughter.

After a long time of laughter, Zhang Chi said seriously: "There is a reason for Okabe Naosaburo to shoot the shells into the city. They hope to cause panic among the people. Then there will be chaos, and then they can easily take Qiqihar!"

Staff Liang sighed: "The Japanese are really cruel and ruthless. There are many Japanese people here who are 'Travel Group'. I originally thought they would be afraid of the enemy, but now it seems..."

Even if we don’t say the next thing, everyone will understand that the Japanese army will not take these Japanese seriously.

In fact, if Staff Liang knew that it was the 59th Division of the Japanese Army, he would not have had such an idea.

The 59th Division was stationed in Shandong not long ago. At that time, its main opponent was the Eighth Route Army located in Shandong... In order to clear out the Eighth Route Army, the 59th Division adopted the tactic of "killing all the people" on Shandong.

The so-called "all people will kill" by the Japanese army is what the Chinese call "burn all, kill them all, and grab them all" three-light policy... This time, it has left Shandong uninhabited for thousands of miles.

It is now the 59th Division, which has implemented the Sanguang Policy, who led the lead in rushing to Qiqihar today and attacked the first regiment. This army was killed from top to bottom, so where would they consider whether there were Japanese in the city of Qiqihar.

This is also a feature of the combat operations of Chinese and Japanese troops:

This is China's land, and Chinese people are everywhere in the city and countryside. Although Chinese troops will receive a lot of support from the people when fighting here, they are often afraid of the casualties of the people when fighting.

However, the Japanese army did not need to consider this at all, and even a considerable proportion of the Japanese among the people did not care.

However, the result of the bombardment surprised Hosokawa Tadayashi Hosokawa, the commander of the 59th Division of the Japanese Army, who was also the commander of the 43rd Army... If it were in the past, after a bombardment, the people would have been screaming and running around, but he was staring at the artillery fire in the telescope for a long time, but he did not see a few people running out of the city.

"What's going on?!" Tadaoyasu Hosokawa put down his telescope and looked at the artillery fire and smoke from the city direction from afar: "When will the Chinese people be afraid of death?"

"Lieutenant General!" The local staff officer said proudly, "That, the Chinese people probably want to use the people as cover, so they have controlled the people!"

Of course, this is not the case, but Zhang Chi had already ordered the militia to transfer the people to the air-raid shelter.

Tadakayashi Hosokawa deeply said "yes" with a deep feeling. He was always very dissatisfied with the rapid defeat of Manchukuo under the attack of Chinese troops. He once said to his subordinates: "We are on the Manchuria-Mongolia border guarding the entire Soviet Union. When we woke up, almost all the Manchukuo, which was million square kilometers behind us, was occupied by the Chinese. What do those people do? Do they only eat food and don't fight?!"

For Tadaoyashi Hosokawa, the rapid collapse of the Japanese army only occurred when the Imperial Army attacked China, but at this time, it appeared on the Imperial Army, and the attacking troops were still the Chinese team, which was a shame to the Great Japanese Empire.

Therefore, Tadashi Hosokawa decided to teach this Chinese team a lesson so that other Japanese troops and even Naosaburo Okabe could see what kind of troops were the army that the Great Japanese Empire should have.

It would be fine if Tadahiko Hosokawa had a humble attitude, so he would investigate the equipment, quality and other aspects of the Chinese troops, and then he could formulate a conservative combat plan based on this.

But Tadashi Hosokawa took it for granted that the reason why Chinese troops were able to fight all the way to Qiqihar was entirely because the quality of the troops stationed in Manchuria was too poor.

In fact, the Japanese army stationed in Manchukuo, except for the 39th Division of Sasa Manosuke, did not have any division with combat experience and qualities, so it cannot be said that Tadashi Hosokawa's idea is wrong.

However...even if most of the Japanese troops stationed in Manchuria were mobs, the ability of the Chinese team to achieve such a great victory in such a short period of time is enough to prove that this is not a humiliating force.
Chapter completed!