Chapter 1224 The fish in the net may also be a crocodile!
The loud sound of the 280MM howitzer firing spread out at least 1,500 meters in the silent night!
Even the huge explosion coming from several miles away could not cover it up.
The Japanese army closest to the Dashi Village Fort happened to be the 6th Infantry Regiment, which had become a defeated force. This unit was stationed only 800 meters away from the Dashi Village Fort.
After hearing the strange noise, Katayama Satoshi instinctively chose to call the Oishi Village Fort, but the pure Japanese voice on the other end of the phone temporarily dispelled his doubts.
It was not until more than ten minutes later that Katayama Satoru, who was thinking more and more wrong, called Oishi Village Fort again, but this time there was complete silence.
Lieutenant Colonel Katayama Satoshi finally realized that there might be something wrong with the Oishi Village Fort. In anger, he personally led two infantry squadrons to rescue the fort.
The first thing the Japanese troops felt after arriving at the fort was darkness, a deathly silent darkness!
When the flashlight was turned on and the snow-white light illuminated the dark circular position outside the Dashi Village fort, the Japanese were stunned.
In the field trenches of the outer positions, corpses can be seen everywhere. Most of the Japanese army were killed by an extremely weird weapon. The huge wounds shed a lot of blood, causing the area to be filled with a disgusting smell of blood.
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There was no need to even enter the airtight core fort surrounded by sandbag fortifications in the center of the circular position. A scene had already appeared in Katayama's mind: the Chinese used the darkness to cross the river and then quietly attacked the fort.
After killing everyone, he even had the audacity to use this huge cannon to bombard another heavy artillery position several miles away!
As for how they managed to massacre dozens of people silently, how they knew how to use this huge cannon, and how they obtained the specific coordinates of the imperial heavy artillery position, all of this can only be obtained by catching the Chinese who were fleeing frantically.
explain.
The Chinese on the opposite side turned out to be such a tough nut to crack. Thinking of yesterday morning's disastrous defeat, the shadow of failure once again enveloped the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel who stood stunned on the spot.
Even the fort that originally belonged to the empire looked like a ferocious devil in the darkness, looking down at the Japanese commander who had been scolded by Susumu Fujita for half an hour.
"Lieutenant Shinoda, please take someone to see if there are any remaining personnel of our unit in the fort, or if there are any traces left by the Chinese!" Katayama Satoshi stood on the edge of the trench and ordered calmly.
"Also, we must be careful. This Chinese attack is different from the ones we encountered before. They are more vicious and cunning!"
"Hi!" A Japanese captain nodded fiercely and accepted the order.
With a wave of his hand, a Japanese team entered the fort with a flashlight before him. A few minutes later, when the fort shouted that it was safe, the Japanese captain led another team into the fort.
Katayama Satoshi, who was standing 150 meters away, was stroking his sword and looking at the fort with cold eyes. No one knew what the army lieutenant colonel was thinking.
"No, please notify Captain Shinoda immediately. There is fraud!" After Katayama's heart palpitated for no reason, he immediately turned around and ordered to another Japanese captain standing next to him.
The original intention of the Chinese to attack the Dashi Village Fort at night was not to use the fort's heavy artillery to bombard another heavy artillery position. This heavy artillery that can destroy everything should be their target. But why is this heavy artillery still intact?
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Temporary safety may be the greatest insecurity.
The Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel's mind was definitely not weak, and he actually judged that something was wrong based on the nature of the attack.
However, he woke up too late.
Before he could finish his words, a creepy spark flashed in the night sky, followed by a loud bang that could make everyone present deaf!
The tall fortifications outside the fort collapsed like building blocks, and scorching heat waves and huge shock waves swept around.
Katayama Satoshi, who was looking back, happened to see all this, and the fireworks formed by a violent explosion gradually occupied his pupils.
If nothing unexpected happened, the energy of such a huge shock wave would kill the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel on the spot, even from a distance of 150 meters.
Fortunately, he has a relatively loyal and responsive subordinate, and he is in a good position!
A Japanese second lieutenant team leader was standing in front of Katayama Satoshi. At the moment of the explosion, the panicked second lieutenant instinctively stepped back, knocking down the horrified Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel and falling into the trench!
Katayama Satoshi was able to escape!
The second lieutenant of the army was hit by the shock wave. Like many Japanese soldiers who had no time to react, he was like being hit by a sledgehammer and danced into the darkness!
After an unknown amount of time, the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel vigorously shook his head, which was dizzy due to the huge roar, stood up from the trench and looked around blankly, almost crying.
It's so miserable. He has been in the army for 18 years and has never fought such a miserable battle!
Yesterday morning, he lost more than 1,000 people, but that was after all the result of a forceful attack across the Yellow River. The Chinese on the other side used thousands of people and an unknown number of artillery and heavy machine guns.
But not a single Chinese person was seen in this wave! His two infantry squadrons were barely alive, and more than 300 troops were wiped out in almost an instant.
In a scene where only a few groans of pain could be heard, it was almost no longer necessary for the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel, who was experienced in combat, to take a careful inventory.
At that moment, Katayama Satoru wished that he was not so wise!
But unfortunately, his judgment was very accurate.
After counting, it was found that in the two infantry squadrons that followed him, 123 people, including the two captains, were killed on the spot and 146 were seriously injured in the big explosion. Minor injuries do not need to be counted.
, because no one is immune to injuries.
That was the explosion caused by the remaining five 200-kilogram shells in the fort that were detonated by 50 kilograms of explosives. Katayama Satoshi and his two infantry squadrons were wiped out in one wave. It was already regarded as the appearance of Amaterasu.
The reason why it was detonated only after the Japanese troops came in to inspect and sent out a safety signal was not that Tang Tuanzuo made a remote-controlled bomb, but a small mechanism that delayed the explosion.
In fact, from the moment the Japanese army entered the fort, the delayed explosive device hidden in the dark had already entered a countdown because the mechanism was triggered.
In order to make the Japanese army lose their vigilance and kill more Japanese soldiers, Tang Dao took the risk and extended the detonation time to five minutes.
Of course, in addition to killing a large number of Japanese troops, this was also to create more space and time for themselves to evacuate.
At least the unlucky kid who was chasing him was completely disabled by the bomb. If he wanted to take revenge, he would have to change the group of people again.
"Baga! Mobilize the army to strictly guard ten kilometers, no, fifteen kilometers of river bank, suspend the attack on the other bank, and mobilize enough troops to track them. I will hang all these rats on the river bank." Fujita received the news.
Immediately, blood rushed to his head, and he even hesitated to suspend the attack on Tongguan.
I can't blame Susumu Fujita for smashing everything he could in his headquarters like a lunatic. It's really the Chinese who are so bullying. They actually dared to destroy two of his artillery positions under the nose of an army of 20,000 people, and even killed them with their own hands.
more than 400 infantrymen.
The reason why it is said to be more than 400 is because the bodies of the last 50 people from the Dashi Village Fort were found on a mountain road five miles away from the Dashi Village Fort.
Even though this battlefield, which was mainly made of firearms, was far less horrific than the bloody and bloody explosion scene formed by the fort, it was even more tragic.
The Japanese troops who came back from the "hunt" happily carrying their pigs and sheep were so lax that they even used flashlights to sing songs while walking at night. The Chinese didn't even need to conduct reconnaissance, and could wait for them on the battlefield they had already chosen.
The concentrated fire from a large number of submachine guns and shell guns was simply not something that a bolt-action rifle could withstand. The bullet marks left on tree trunks and rock walls were basically certain that at least thousands of bullets had been poured down this trail.
Suppressed by the stream of bullets and grenades constantly being thrown from above, the more than 20 pure infantrymen were unable to protect the remaining 20 or so pitiful technical soldiers.
It seems that within five minutes of resistance, the defensive formation of this 50-man army column collapsed.
This is the beginning of the real tragedy. All the soldiers who lost their fighting spirit and tried to escape were attacked by Chinese cold weapon masters in the dark night in the mountains and forests. The wounds caused by the terrible cold weapons were like being bitten by a saber-toothed tiger. Several rifles were
Cut it with one knife.
Having a rifle chopped off makes one's heart palpitate, but being cut off at the waist is really terrifying. Some people even waited until the search and rescue personnel arrived before they completely died. It was obvious that their internal organs had fallen from the abdominal cavity, and their gray pupils had no trace of life left.
, but the desire for life in his eyes is still burning, making those who look at him feel numb!
At least three people were ordered to be killed by the commander of the search team. The look in their eyes that could never live but was full of longing for life was really frightening.
Not all Japanese are worthy of Mingxin using his heavy sword, which he rarely leaves his body, but this group of Japanese soldiers made Mingxin extremely rare and murderous!
The burning village in the mountains illuminated Mingxin's eyes, but what really made his eyes red was blood!
There were nearly a hundred people in the village, old and young, but only one child survived, crushed by the corpses of his parents. The rest fell on the small rice field at the entrance of the village and on the paths in the village that they were very familiar with.
The reason why the Japanese army went on a killing spree was that the Japanese soldiers dragged the girl out of the crowd, but the girl's parents stopped her and bit the arm of the Japanese soldier who raped her.
The devil's carnival lasted from 8 pm to 12 pm. The Japanese soldiers, who had lost their humanity, even grilled mutton next to the remains of more than a dozen villagers. They left after eating until their mouths were full of oil.
This is also the reason why they come home late.
Mingxin learned from the guide that the Japanese army must pass through, and ordered two guard squads to use submachine guns and shell guns to focus fire on them from above, while he drew his heavy sword and stood guard in the forest, waiting for the defeated Japanese army to arrive in the forest.
It's not an attack, it's a rape!
China's top martial arts master is an existence even more ferocious than a tiger in this dense forest shrouded in darkness.
The heavy sword did not break armor, but only split the flesh. As many as 13 Japanese soldiers were chopped in half and split into half their bodies.
Mingxin was like a wolf that broke into the sheepfold, cruelly tearing open the throat of its prey and then abandoning it. This created the most terrifying battlefield in the history of the formation of the Third Division.
Only the number of 50 people killed was even recorded in the battle report without any details. It was not until decades later that a senior soldier in the infantry squadron who survived until the war disclosed the tragic situation.
The Japanese army mobilized a total of 8,000 people that night to participate in the roundup of the attackers, and 4,000 people searched the river shoreline. Finally, before dawn, they found three sheepskin rafts in a hidden part of the river, completely cutting off the way for the army to cross the river.
The other 4,000 people formed an infantry squadron and mobilized 16 wolves and green dogs to participate in the hunt. They conducted a dragnet search and finally found the clues left by the assailant in the mountains when the sun rose.
Three infantry brigades plus 1,000 people drawn from baggage trains, cavalry, and engineers formed a huge encirclement net. As long as you were patient enough, it was almost impossible for the fish to escape.
Dong Zhao and the major general brigade commander who had been waiting all night for Tang Dao's return were also very anxious. Even though they blew up the Japanese heavy artillery fort, they ended up breaking Tang Dao, the famous heroic commander on the North China battlefield.
, that is also a loss-making business.
"Please rest assured, two officers. No matter how many sheep chase wolves, they can only eat the green grass nourished by wolf excrement! We will return within half a month!" The telegram sent back by Tang Dao at dawn almost killed the two generals.
Laughed angrily.
When did Japan’s ferocious wolf turn into a sheep?
Even if it is really a sheep, it is only 20,000 small sheep. Just stepping on it can trample Tang Dao, a real 'wolf', into a pulp!
But what the Chinese commanders didn’t expect was that Tang Dao, who fled into the mountains, and his 60 Chinese soldiers actually fought an unprecedented ‘special operation’!
The Japanese never thought that the big net they spent thousands of people setting up might be a fish, but the fish might also be called a crocodile.
The first to suffer were the Japanese troops who participated in the hunt.
They may not have thought that some traces were left intentionally, including some blue cloth strips stained with blood.
Not to mention the wolf green dog with a keen sense of smell, even if it is a real wild wolf, Long Yan has rich experience in dealing with them!
From the very beginning, the infantry squadron that thought they had found the right direction ran straight into the battlefield arranged for them by Tang Dao.
The 10 engineers never thought that explosives could be used in this way!
The air wave from the explosion of a bomb placed on the side of the road can not only tear the human body, but also knock people off a cliff several meters high. Infantrymen who instinctively lie down and quickly roll to avoid can hit the seemingly random grass on the roadside.
of booby traps.
Just one series of explosions killed nearly 30 Japanese soldiers in the infantry squadron, but this was just the beginning of the tragedy.
The super powerful sniper located on another mountainside makes people feel what it means to be truly desperate!
He relied on an inconspicuous bolt-action rifle to kill one by one from a distance of 500 meters. Any Japanese soldiers exposed to his sight would die.
It wasn't until 16 people were shot and killed in a row that the Japanese army finally determined the approximate location of the sniper. However, the only grenade shooter who could pose a threat to them had already been killed by snipers. They could only watch the killers in the distance shoot one after another.
Harvesting any comrades who dare to expose their bodies.
One man and one gun, relying on distance and incredible shooting accuracy, not only suppressed an infantry squadron for 25 minutes, but even killed 28 of them. If you add in the previous use of crude weapons
The explosive device killed more than 20 people and an infantry squad was completely wiped out.
And when another infantry squadron came panting from another mountain ridge for reinforcements and tried to outflank the cold gunmen hiding in the mountain, Tang Dao had already slipped away like a fox that smelled danger.
In the next few days, it seemed that I could catch up with my opponent every time. I could even see the backs of the Chinese on the mountains several times, but I couldn't catch up. I was even attacked by the vicious Chinese with endless bombs.
One bite.
You can slow down your pursuit and pay attention to the roadside and your feet, but can you always stare at the shade of the trees above your head and the cliffs you pass by?
No one can do it, so they quit!
The Chinese even frantically placed artificial explosives in an area on the hillside, creating an artificial mountain avalanche that almost buried an entire infantry squadron.
What they were chasing was not a wolf, but a venomous snake that was even more sinister and vicious than the wolf.
It can only be said that the Japanese are indeed a nation with strong execution ability. Before receiving the military order to stop the search, no matter how much losses Tang Dao and the engineers and guards platoon officers and soldiers caused to them, thousands of Japanese troops still slept in the open and persevered.
They seem to have forgotten that in five days, they actually lost more than 300 soldiers, and their battle losses were nearly one-tenth.
If he continues like this, Tang Dao and his roughly one infantry platoon of Chinese soldiers, even if they are three-headed and six-armed, will sooner or later be surrounded and annihilated.
Unfortunately, this is the remnant of Zhongtiao Mountain. In addition to the Japanese troops, there are also more Chinese troops.
The Japanese army themselves knew that they were only pursuing them, but Commander Zeng of the Chinese Third Army, who was dozens of miles away, did not know that.
On the second day after the Japanese army entered the mountain, he received news of the Japanese army's sudden movement. Thousands of Japanese troops entered the mountain in large numbers, which shocked the lieutenant general who commanded more than 30,000 Central Army troops.
Although the main force of the Japanese army was still there to suppress it, if the third division's flank was stolen, it would be extremely fatal, so he gritted his teeth and deployed a regiment plus an infantry brigade of his own as a reserve.
A total of more than 6,000 people entered the mountain to stop the Japanese army.
Then, on the fifth day, the two groups of people met like this in the mountains.
One is prepared, the other is caught off guard.
What's even more terrible is that because the Japanese army was not going to fight in the field, they did not bring heavy weapons such as heavy machine guns and infantry artillery.
If they were to use light firepower, the Chinese soldiers would really not be inferior to the Japanese troops, let alone the fact that they also brought mortars and heavy machine guns.
More than 3,000 Japanese troops were beaten to a pulp in just half a day. If Japanese planes had not heard the news and came to help, not to mention that they could have successfully escaped from the battlefield, they might have been beaten by the crazy Chinese soldiers.
A meat bun.
The Japanese troops had no choice but to retreat.
In the five-day manhunt, not even a single human hair was caught, and more than 700 people were lost. Nearly 20% of the battle losses were lost. It was like fighting a big battle.
However, Tang Tuanzuo, who had been chased for five days, was not someone to be bullied.
After sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight for most of the day, he suddenly turned around, led some 60 people, chased the Japanese, and returned to Fenglingdu.