"I am Mr. Shen's friend and the current battalion commander of the 4th Battalion of the Sixings Regiment, Shangguan Yun!"
The visitor was surprisingly candid and revealed his identity without waiting for Daxiong Yunosuke to ask questions.
Even though Big Bear Konosuke had roughly guessed the identity of the visitor, otherwise there would be no secret code for contacting him specifically, he was still startled when he heard the other party's military title, and then anger welled up in his eyes.
During the day, weren't more than 2,600 of his men ambushed and dispersed by the Four Lines Group? And this murderer actually dared to stand in front of him openly, not to mention that he was Shen Laoliu's friend. Shen Laoliu himself will definitely die here.
"Yo Xi! Mr. Shangguan Yun, I admire your bravery very much, but unfortunately, the more than 2,600 young lives of the boys under my command cannot be lost in vain. Someone needs to bury them with them. As the battalion commander, you can be regarded as the interest paid in advance. ." Daxiong Yunzosuke, who had been stunned for several seconds, smiled instead of angry, and gave a thumbs up to Shangguan Yun, who was standing in front of him calmly.
But this smile is full of murderous intent!
"Your Excellency Da Xiong, I think you may have made a mistake in saying a number." Shangguan Yun seemed not to see the murderous intention of the Japanese Army Major General. Instead, he corrected the other party's mistake very seriously.
"In the ambush conducted by our regiment at noon on the 14th, a total of 1,934 people of your army were killed, and 1,148 guns of various types and 9 artillery pieces were seized."
This was a number calculated after careful counting two hours after the ambush battle. As the second commander of the Si Xing Regiment, Shangguan Yun naturally had a lot of treasures in his possession.
"Baga! You're dead, you're dead!" Daxiong Yunsuke's eyes turned black, and he suddenly pulled out his command knife and pointed it at Shangguan Yun, who was standing in front of him and talking.
The two Japanese officers who were following Shangguan Yun also aimed their Southern Type 14 pistols at the extremely courageous Chinese soldier.
The Japanese admire warriors, but the enemy's bravery is poison to them, especially when they are showing off with the lives of their own colleagues, even a fool cannot tolerate it.
"Your Excellency Daxiong, don't you want to think about the reason why there is such a difference in numbers between you and me? Our regimental commander knows that Your Excellency Daxiong is a man who loves his soldiers as much as his son, and will never lose his mind before knowing the answer." Shangguan Yun smiled slightly when facing the sword and gun.
"Also to be honest, please don't be too angry, Mr. Daxiong. The swords and guns of the 36th Infantry Regiment of the 9th Division that I saw with my own eyes on the bank of the Suzhou River back then were much brighter than this knife of yours."
"You" Daxiong Konosuke's eyes kept flashing fiercely, but after a few suffocating seconds, he inserted the knife into the scabbard at his waist, waved his hand to signal his two henchmen to put away their guns and go out.
He pointed to the chair next to him: "Mr. Shangguan, no, it should be Major Shangguan. Please take a seat. Even if you and our armies are fighting, our empire does not have the habit of killing envoys. But daybreak is approaching. I hope you and I can speak openly and honestly." Let’s talk.”
"Okay! The first thing I was ordered to do here is to tell you that because of Mr. Shen's suggestion, our department has not killed all members of the 4th Division. However, anyone who throws away their weapons and gives up resistance will be punished in accordance with international law. Its official prisoner-of-war treatment, including wounded and non-wounded, totaled 623 people."
"Oh?" Daxiong Yukinosuke narrowed his eyes slightly.
Perhaps he had already guessed some clues from Shangguan Yun's previous words, so he didn't seem too surprised.
In the understanding of the Japanese Army Major General, this should also be the reason why the Chinese Major Battalion Commander dared to come alone.
He was sure that as long as he dared to take action against this Chinese major, tomorrow morning, at least half, no, maybe all, of the more than 600 prisoners of war of the 4th Division would be hung in front of the Yuncheng city wall defense line.
The 4th Division had just entered North China and had no previous fighting experience with the Si Xing Regiment, but this did not prevent him from knowing a little about the style of the colonel commander who was called the "devil" by the troops on the North China Front.
Under the colonel commander, there would be no Imperial officers and soldiers alive unless they were functioning.
Use 600 to exchange for one. Don't make it too easy.
"Then I have to ask Major Shangguan Yun to take good care of the officers and soldiers of our division. If your regiment still exists after this battle, I will definitely try my best to pay you a price that is satisfactory to you." Da Xiong Yunsuke said calmly.
"Don't worry, Mr. Daxiong. The regimental commander asked us that even if our army has no food, we will definitely ensure that each person in the 4th Division has 1 or 2 meters per day. There will never be an incident of starvation due to food shortage." Shangguan said.
But he smiled slightly.
"Soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Empire will never be blackmailed for this." Big Bear Konosuke's face suddenly darkened, his eyes once again gleamed fiercely, and he stared at Shangguan Yun fiercely.
Shangguan Yun was calm and composed.
Before coming, Tang Tuanzuo specially sent a long message to inform him one by one about the personality characteristics of the Japanese Army Major General who usually likes to be fierce and cute.
This man would definitely be a successful businessman in the business world, but as a military officer, he lacks a very important quality.
Soldiers will not compromise with their opponents for anything. In the interests of the country and the nation, anyone can be sacrificed, including themselves.
But businessmen will not overturn the negotiation table easily unless it is absolutely necessary.
Shangguan Yun knew from the first sight of Daxiong Konosuke that the Japanese Army Major General didn't kill him immediately that Tang Dao was determined to kill him, and he could achieve almost 90% of his goal here.
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"This is the first thing. If there is anything else, Major Shangguan Yun might as well finish it, and then you can leave. I hope we will have a chance to meet again after the war." Daxiong Yuxinsuke saw that his opponent had no fear, helplessness flashed in his eyes, and he tried his best
Stay calm and say coldly.
The Japanese Army Major General knew that the Chinese would not be kind enough to come and tell him specifically, "We have more than 600 of your prisoners here." Even if Shen Laoliu was the one pulling the strings, they would not send such a high-level officer here.
Thinking of the smiling Shen Laoliu, the Japanese Army Major General couldn't help but have a headache. The cunning Chinese seemed to be able to read his mind and was able to use language to break through his defenses little by little, and finally made him have to do what he did.
Make a compromise.
The Chinese Army Major in front of him actually gave him such a feeling, but now that Yuncheng had nothing to lose, he didn't want to accept any more temptations from the devil at all.
"The second thing is that my original intention was to let Mr. Daxiong appreciate the firepower of our artillery group, but my regimental commander said that Mr. Daxiong is a veteran who has been in the army for many years, so we should not use our heavy firepower.
It’s embarrassing, why not ask Mr. Big Bear to enjoy the large fireworks set off by our army this evening to add some fun to this winter night.”
"What do you mean?" Big Bear Konosuke's face tensed up.
His subconscious told him that the Chinese were going to cause trouble again, and it would be a big one.
"Your Excellency Da Xiong can order your officers and soldiers in the area about 300 meters away from the northwest city wall to find shelter first to avoid accidental injuries from fireworks." Shangguan Yun said while looking at the old-fashioned clock placed in the headquarters. "About ten
In five minutes, we should be able to light the fireworks fuses. Why don't you, Mr. Big Bear, come with me to enjoy them?"
Ten minutes later, the two of them were standing on the third floor platform of a long-vacant restaurant about 200 meters away from the corner of the northwest city wall of Yuncheng.
Looking from here, the relatively thick city wall of Yuncheng can be seen in full view, but nothing can be seen in the dark wilderness outside the city wall.
The Japanese Army Major General and the Chinese Army Lieutenant Colonel stood side by side in the darkness. Under the restaurant and in the room, there was at least one fully armed Japanese infantry squadron soldier.
"Are you planning to dig tunnels and blast out the city wall fortifications?" Daxiong Yuxinosuke looked at the dark wilderness, his face as iron as stone.
"Your Excellency Daxiong is indeed a famous general in the Japanese Army. My regimental commander has long said that as long as you listen to my proposal, you will definitely guess our intentions." Shangguan Yun smiled slightly.
"However, what our regimental commander wants to ask Mr. Daxiong to see is not the way we set off fireworks, but to show the quality of our fireworks. I think Mr. Daxiong will definitely be interested in our excellent craftsmanship in making fireworks.
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Big Bear Konosuke didn't say anything anymore, and looked over the nearly 5-meter-high city wall into the darkness outside the wall.
The Si Xing Regiment's tactic of relying on civil engineering work to dig in and blast with explosives is not unfamiliar, and it is indeed useful. However, just thinking of relying on this tactic to scare him, an army major general who commands thousands of people, is really overthinking.
But the Chinese people's unequivocal self-confidence made this man feel inexplicably guilty, just like Shen Laoliu a few days ago.
"It's about to start!" Shangguan Yun took out his pocket watch and took a look, then took out two balls of cotton and stuffed them into his ears, and handed the cotton to the Japanese Army Major General beside him.
Big Bear Konosuke resisted the Chinese Devil's kindness and even picked up a telescope.
He wants to take a good look at how much the Chinese's "fireworks" can shock him, considering the Chinese's level of technology that makes it difficult to even make matches?
A ball of bright light burst out about 200 meters away from the city wall. Its radiance was so powerful that Konosuke the Big Bear couldn't help but close his eyes as he stared at the dark area.
Then, a loud "boom" sound reached the ears of Daxiong Yunsuke, who was more than 500 meters away from the explosion site.
Except for this loud noise, the whole world seemed to have ceased to exist at that moment.
Major General Okuma Konosuke was not stupid at this moment, but confused.
I was stunned by this loud noise.
The confused Japanese Army Major General's mind went blank for at least ten seconds.
Only ten seconds later, he stared blankly at the big fireball rising into the sky and asked instinctively: "How many kilograms of explosives did you use?"
He clearly saw the Chinese Army Major talking with his mouth open, but in his ears he could hear nothing except a roar.
The huge explosion made the Japanese Army Major General temporarily deaf.
There is a saying in China: listen to others and eat enough! If you insist on maintaining the demeanor of an army major general at this time, you will almost become deaf.
This means that there is still some distance. The 4th Division was only more than 200 meters away from the explosion site. At least more than 300 soldiers who had no chance to be reminded have become completely deaf. This fragile eardrum will be difficult to repair in the future.
, let alone this time.
In fact, not to mention the poorly prepared Japanese, even Brigadier Kong Da of the 46th Independent Brigade, who was hiding in a trench no more than 400 meters away from the explosion site, opened his mouth wide and ate a mouthful of ashes.
Even a major general and brigade commander who has been in the army for 20 years has never experienced the suffocating feeling of a wave of air sweeping over everything.
However, opening his mouth wide to eat ashes did not scare the brigade commander, but rather not opening his mouth wide to relieve the pressure on his chest. He was afraid that his heart would be crushed by the pressure brought by such a big explosion.
In the trenches located 400 meters away from the explosion point, the Chinese personnel were full of dust, and the trenches in some places were even collapsed by the earthquake. Fortunately, there were people nearby, and even if someone was buried by the collapsed earth wall, they were quickly dug out.
In fact, although they knew how powerful the 'Cyclone Explosive' was, the Chinese still underestimated the power of this new type of explosive, resulting in 8 injuries on the Chinese side. Moreover, even Brigadier Kong and Leng Feng of the 46th Independent Brigade were close to the explosion point.
area.
After the war, Leng Feng, who had won first-class military merit, reviewed this at the regimental summary meeting.
The dissipation of explosive energy decreases geometrically as the distance increases. At a distance of more than 400 meters, the explosive power is still so huge, let alone the city wall area only 200 meters away from the explosion point.
The city wall was shattered by the earthquake, leaving a large gap of nearly ten meters. If Major General Konosuke Okuma, who "would rather believe something exists than something that doesn't exist", had not wisely ordered all Japanese infantry in the area to evacuate, the casualties would have been more than 30.
It's so simple for people to be injured by 'thrown objects from high altitude'.
That was the effect that a full 200 kilograms of cyclone explosives could produce. In the morning, when the Japanese infantry outside the city looked at the deep pit about six to seven meters deep and about the size of a small pond, their scalps went numb.
With such powerful explosives, the Chinese did not need to dig under the city wall. Even if they were more than ten meters away, they could blow dozens of meters of city wall into the sky.
"Ten tunnels. After the engineers of our Fourth Army Regiment arrived in the afternoon, they quickly started digging from more than 400 meters away. If your army uses the city wall as a fortification to defend the city, by tomorrow afternoon, there will be ten such tunnels, reaching a distance of 400 meters from the Yuncheng city wall.
About ten meters away." In the light of the sky, Shangguan Yun used two fingers to smile and sign a 'ten' that everyone in the world could understand.
Although he still couldn't hear clearly what Shangguan Yun said, Daxiong Yunsuke could understand what that number represented, and his face turned pale instantly.
If so many explosives were placed in ten tunnels, it would be enough to blow away hundreds of meters of city walls. Not only would the carefully laid out defenses suffer heavy damage, but what was even more terrifying was what would happen to the defenders on and behind the city walls?
The violent air waves were mixed with tons of earth and bricks falling down. Not many people, even with steel and iron frames, could escape the disaster.
The Japanese Army Major General wanted to open his mouth to refute. Such a violent explosion would require at least 800 kilograms of explosives. If there were ten tunnels, that would be 8,000 kilograms. He did not believe that the Chinese could carry so much explosives during the march. This was almost impossible.
of.
But when the words came to his lips, Big Bear Konosuke swallowed them alive. The Chinese could use 800 kilograms or more of explosives to set off large fireworks for him, which meant that they had more explosives as a basis.
And looking at the past performance of the Four Lines Regiment, his opponents didn't think they were defeated that time, but didn't the Four Lines Regiment have the last laugh that time? It was definitely the most amazing army in the North China Theater and the most feared army by the entire North China Front.
After a long silence, until the roaring in his ears gradually subsided, Daxiong Yunzosuke waved his hand to ask the several guards staying behind him to step back, and said with an ugly face: "Major Shangguan Yun is here just to demonstrate for me.
?Now your goal has been achieved, but the Imperial Warriors of my 4th Division will never back down because of this."
"Mr. Shen asked me to tell Mr. Daxiong something. We have an old saying in China: If you keep the green hills, you won't have to worry about having no firewood! If you lose your life, you will lose everything. Of course, even if Mr. Daxiong is restricted by military orders, you must persevere to the end.
, the promise he made to you before is still valid, but I don’t know if there will be anyone who will accept it." Shangguan Yun looked into the distance and whispered in a voice that only Daxiong Yunzosuke could hear.
"Our army is here not to fight to the death with the 4th Division, nor are we asking for Yuncheng. What we want is just a little bit of food and ammunition in Yuncheng. As you know, Mr. Daxiong, our supplies are very difficult.
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"There are more than one million kilograms of food in Yuncheng. You just want to take away the few people? If you have five trains, I can give them to you with both hands." Daxiong Yunzosuke's face was full of disdain.
Like Mr. Shen, this is another example of a lion opening its mouth.
"Since Mr. Da Xiong said so, let's change the method. We can not take away a grain of rice, but the noble army in Zhongtiao Mountain cannot take away a grain of rice from here. What do you think?" Shangguan Yun asked very much.
Said sincerely.
Baga, here and there are different ways of saying it, but the essence is the same! Big bear Konosuke wants to draw his sword.
This shameless behavior is really very familiar!
"This is Mr. Shen's idea again!"
"No wonder Mr. Shen said that although I have only known you for half a day, I fell in love with you at first sight, because you are a rare smart person in the Japanese army." Shangguan Yun smiled when he heard this. "You guessed it right."
"Damn it, I knew it must be him, this cunning and disgusting Chinese!" Big Bear Konosuke's face was full of resentment.
"Mr. Shen said that he will have a drink with Mr. Daxiong one day!"
"I'm sorry, I didn't have this idea at all. Please tell him for me that I don't want to see him again in this life." Daxiong Yuxinsuke turned around angrily.
"In half an hour, Major Shangguan Yun, please leave our 4th Division position. We have not seen each other today."
In the darkness, Shangguan Yun smiled brightly.
Tang Tuanzuo was simply amazing, and he had recorded almost all the reactions of the Japanese Army Major General, including his arrogant acceptance at the end.
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PS: I have a party tonight, so I came back late. I finished writing the last thousand words before updating. I’m sorry for the late update!
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