The battle to attack Tokyo began on May 28 and by June 1, the winner had been initially decided on the outside.
Although Matsui Iwane tried his best, he still could not stop the advance of the Chinese team.
On June 1, the Japanese 7th Division was completely annihilated. The annihilation of the 7th Division dealt a huge blow to the entire Japanese army's peripheral defense line.
On the 2nd, China's Third, Fourth and Eleventh Armored Corps arrived on the battlefield one after another, which also heralded that the Chinese Army's general offensive was about to begin.
On the 3rd, after sufficient artillery preparations, a large number of squadrons, under the cover of aircraft and artillery, began to launch a general attack on the Japanese positions outside Tokyo.
The battle is fierce.
Although the Japanese army was at the end of its rope, it still clung to its position and did everything possible to block the Chinese Army's attack.
In the sky, at a glance, there are Chinese fighter planes everywhere. They are throwing bombs downwards desperately and bombing every Japanese position.
On the ground, infantry and tanks worked together, advancing layer by layer, with an unstoppable momentum.
The artillery made a roaring sound and rained down shells on the Japanese positions. There were explosions and flames everywhere, and the Japanese positions outside Tokyo instantly turned into a huge slaughterhouse.
Matsui Iwane used almost all his abilities.
He frequently mobilized his troops and constantly filled the weak spots in the position. At this point in the war, the Japanese were almost entirely relying on human lives to fill the battlefield.
In fact, at this time, Matsui Iwane knew that no matter how powerful he was, he would not be able to reverse the situation of the war. Failure would only be a matter of time.
The only thing he can do now is to do his best to delay the attack of the Chinese team.
The horrific smell of blood permeated this horrific battlefield. The smell was nauseating. Wherever you looked, you could see dead people everywhere...
The tanks were rampaging on the battlefield, and the infantry following behind them quickly broke through the Japanese defense lines. Those Japanese wounded soldiers who were screaming miserably were spurned most ruthlessly. Not even a single Chinese soldier was willing to slow down.
Take a look at their enemies.
Soldiers from both sides of the country were strangled together, trying their best to attack or defend. Everyone was working towards a common goal.
Either win or lose! There will be no third option on the battlefield.
The sky was also filled with a layer of blood, and the sun hid behind the clouds. It could no longer bear to see what was happening on the ground...
War is always the biggest disaster for mankind...but many things can only be solved through war...
Emergency reports from the front line were constantly delivered to Matsui Iwane's hands. The situation on the front line had reached the most critical moment. Artillery support was needed everywhere, and reinforcements were begging for reinforcements everywhere.
But at this stage, Matsui Iwane has nothing in his hands...
The war consumed almost everything in Japan...
"Try your best." Matsui Iwane sighed softly: "Try your best..."
In addition to trying my best, what else can I do now? Matsui Iwane smiled bitterly, there is no other way. I will leave my life here with my soldiers...
In the afternoon of that day, the Chinese ** team concentrated the power of three infantry divisions and one armored division and launched a fierce attack on Hisao Tani's 6th Division.
Facing the surging squadron, Hisao Tani was helpless. The only thing he could do at this moment was to urge the soldiers to throw their lives one after another into the huge bottomless pit of the battlefield.
Failure, it is moving towards the Japanese army faster and faster!
At 15:00 on the afternoon of the 3rd, the 45th Infantry Regiment of the Sixth Division suffered a devastating blow. The Chinese Army quickly turned its troops to the 47th Infantry Regiment again.
Facing the absolute air and ground superiority of the Chinese Army, the 47th Wing soon suffered the same fate as the 45th Wing.
A large number of Japanese soldiers died in the battle, and a large number of Japanese soldiers became prisoners. Facing the wails of his subordinates, Hisao Tani was as helpless as Matsui Iwane.
Is there any other way to save the Sixth Division? Is there any other way to save the empire? Hisao Tani smiled helplessly.
17:00. Hisao Tani issued the order that the Japanese commander liked to give the most:
Broken jade!
It seems that only "Jade Broken" can stop the enemy's attack... But the current Chinese team does not care too much about the Japanese's style of perish together.
Groups of Japanese, completely ignoring the artillery fire of the squadron, screamed "Ouch", staring with blood-red eyes, and rushed towards the squadron one after another in an almost suicidal manner.
What greeted them were machine guns, mortars, and tanks!
Suicide! Apart from suicide, the Chinese soldiers could think of no other words to describe the crazy Japanese on the opposite side.
The entire battlefield was horribly bloody, and a large number of Japanese fell under the intensive firepower of the squadron. The thick layers in front of the position were full of corpses. The wounded soldiers who were not dead yet screamed among the dead.
They cried out in distress, but their companions didn't even notice.
The officers of the Chinese Army looked at the Japanese soldiers who were losing their minds and shook their heads involuntarily...
The war has developed to this point, but the Japanese most like to use these "meat bomb tactics"... In addition to increasing their own casualties, what other use can such tactics have?
From the 3rd to the 4th, the Japanese troops of the Sixth Division themselves had forgotten how many times they launched attacks. Each time, they gained nothing but increasing and horrific casualties.
When the last charge on the 4th ended, Hisao Tani knew that his mission was over...
He stared blankly at the Sixth Division, which had been completely crippled, and smiled helplessly. This was a smile of despair.
Now, the Chinese ** team on the opposite side is launching a counterattack, and there is no force that can stop their breakthrough. Not long ago, Commander Matsui Iwane sent a telegram asking about the battle situation here. At that time, Hisao Tani's answer was still very affirmative.
, I am holding on, and I will hold on until the last person...
However, the real situation is that he and the Sixth Division can no longer hold on for even one hour.
Hisao Tani drove all the officers out and asked them to carry their weapons and fulfill their final responsibilities as emperor's soldiers. Then, he closed the door of the Children's Palace to the headquarters, not allowing anyone to disturb him.
He took out a short knife and wiped it carefully with a handkerchief, very slowly and carefully. When he finally felt that he had polished the knife to a sharp shine, he let out a soft breath.
Then, he knelt on the ground and unbuttoned his military uniform one by one.
"Long live the Emperor! Long live Your Majesty!"
These were the last words spoken by Hisao Tani, commander of the Japanese Sixth Division, in this world.
At 21:00 on the night of June 4, 1937, Japanese Army Lieutenant General Hisao Tani ended his life in his division headquarters.
On the same day, Japan's elite Sixth Division was completely annihilated. The entire division was completely disintegrated.
Hisao Tani's body was discovered by Chinese soldiers. When the Chinese soldiers sent Hisao Tani's military uniform and command knife to the commander-in-chief, Liu Zhaocheng and Li Zongren watched carefully for a long time.
This was one of the people the president named to arrest, and one of the Japanese troops to be defeated. Although Liu Zhaocheng and Li Zongren were a little strange, they still did it.
The Sixth Division also became another Japanese division that was completely wiped out after the Chinese Army launched its battle against Tokyo!
Good news from the front continued to come. Under the attack of the Chinese Army's land and air forces, the Japanese army was retreating steadily. There was no way to delay the Chinese Army's attack for even one more minute.
What appeared on the battlefield in droves were no longer soldiers actually fighting, but batches of suicides from the Japanese army. They strapped grenades all over their bodies, and then roared and rushed towards the squadron.
Although this also caused some casualties to the Chinese team to a certain extent, it could not produce any change in the situation of the battle.
What we need to do now is how to completely clear the last obstacle to Tokyo's peripheral defense line.
On the 5th, the Chinese ** team continued to maintain strong offensive power. On this day, it may become the winner of the battle in Japan.
Liu Zhaocheng continued to devote a large number of his reserve troops to the war, pursuing the Japanese army that was about to collapse, and consolidating the victory bit by bit.
On that day, more than 20,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, and a large number of Japanese troops became prisoners. In a telegram sent by Matsui Iwane to Tokyo, he desperately admitted that the empire had lost the war.
At 20:00 on the 5th, the Tokyo government issued a general evacuation order.
The Japanese army, which had been trapped in endless nightmares on the battlefield for several days, finally left this terrible battlefield and entered the battle to defend Tokyo.
But everyone knows very well that a large number of elite Japanese troops have been lost outside Tokyo, and it is no longer possible to defend Tokyo, the capital of Japan.
In the sky, the Chinese aircraft fleet continued to bomb Tokyo. On the ground, a large number of tanks fiercely attacked without anyone around.
The Japanese troops who had no time to evacuate the battlefield were either dead or captured. As for the Japanese troops who finally retreated to Tokyo, their fate was only a matter of time compared to those of their comrades who were still outside the city.
On the 6th, President Wang Hengyue of the Republic of China sent a telegram, ordering the troops to enter Tokyo 10 days ago and basically end the fighting by the end of June.
This is not a particularly difficult thing for Liu Zhaocheng and Li Zongren.
Liu Zhaocheng put down the telegram in his hand and smiled on his face. Victory is a happy thing for any commander. Then, he said in a relaxed tone: