1,200 meters outside Panzhai Village, Guangping County, Handan City!
Standing on the top of the mountain, Captain Matsukita Yuki looked through the telescope at the quiet and peaceful mountain village with smoke curling up from the kitchen stoves, with a sinister smile on his face!
That's not the wolf's joy at seeing the sheep, it's the pleasure that comes from destroying beautiful things.
Perhaps only Matsukita Yuki knows what kind of mission he is going to perform.
That was the "War of Destruction" that the division commander personally summoned and ordered. The goal of his trip was not to eliminate those "Tuba", but to completely remove this large mountain village with a population of 1,000 from this land.
erase.
Although this is a bit cruel, Matsukita Yuki believes that it is necessary!
The Chinese people are so stubborn that they are almost stupid. The empire has occupied this land in North China for more than a year, but its scope of activities is mostly limited to cities, and it has not achieved effective control over a vast enough countryside. This has also led to more and more secretive resistance from the Chinese people underground.
frequently.
Especially in recent months, with the continuous losses on the front line, the Chinese have become even more arrogant and have continued to massacre those "insightful people" who leaned towards the empire, causing the imperial generals stationed in the city to turn a blind eye to the situation in the countryside.
This is a provocation to the front army and even the empire!
Finally, the new commander made the most brutal and effective counterattack. It was time to let the Chinese know the consequences of disobedience.
Matsukita Yuki is not worried at all about what kind of "Tuba" he will encounter. As the deputy captain of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 63rd Infantry Regiment of the 10th Division and the captain of the 1st Squadron, Matsukita Yuki leads two men this time.
An infantry squadron plus an infantry artillery squad with nearly 500 troops came to sweep a village like Panzhai. Even with such strength, he did not bother to lead those dirty and stupid security forces.
Even though Panzhai is 12 kilometers away from Guangping County, Songbei Yuki led his men on a rapid march and arrived in less than 3 hours.
Looking at the smoke rising from the cooking fires in the village, the Chinese never dreamed that a large army had arrived at the entrance of the village.
Matsukita Yuki has even thought about it. He will lead his team into the village and order the Chinese villagers to stand in front of his machine guns as usual. The Chinese will definitely obey like sheep. What they may not expect is that this time there will be no
What to ask and contribute to the empire.
What greeted them was only merciless killing. No matter men, women, old or young, they would be mercilessly killed, and then thrown into the house that once gave them warmth, and burned to death, as if they had never appeared in this world.
Matsukita Yuki, who was born in a family of butchers, felt inexplicably excited when he thought that thousands of Chinese would be slaughtered with blood and flesh under his orders.
"Order the Mizutani Squadron to enter the mountain road at the entrance of the village first and be responsible for reconnaissance for Tuba. The Songbei Squadron will cover the rear of the infantry artillery team and follow up. Tell everyone that once they pass the mountain road, they must march quickly and must not let a Chinese escape into the mountains!
Order each squad to kill anyone who dares to resist, regardless of age or sex!" Matsukita Yuuki put down the telescope and coldly issued the military order.
As the military order was issued, a 15-member Japanese army team took the lead to walk out of the jungle and enter the loess road that could pass large vehicles, followed by groups of Japanese troops.
Except for the sound of some heavy leather boots stepping on some dry hard soil, there was no other sound.
Most of the faces of the Japanese soldiers were dull and stiff. Perhaps they were a little tired after marching 12 kilometers, or perhaps it was due to their national personality, but there was excitement in their eyes that could not be concealed.
This kind of "hunting" is not the first time for the soldiers of the 10th Division, and they will gain something every time.
Although Chinese women will smear their faces with ashes before they come, but compared with releasing their desires, what is that?
Especially seeing their father and husband desperately kneeling and wailing under the bayonet but unable to resist, it couldn't be more exciting.
In contrast, the mountain villages are still peaceful and the smoke still pours out stubbornly. It seems that the mountains and forests have blocked the uncontrollable murderous intention and ambition of the nearly 500 Japanese troops.
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Kawako hid in the grass less than 400 meters away from the Japanese army, not daring to come out, and watched the groups of Japanese soldiers march towards Panzhai less than a mile away with murderous intent.
Yes, Kawako finally joined the army. After passing the assessment six months ago, he finally officially became a formal soldier of the 683rd Brigade from the militia.
However, Kawako did not go to the 772nd Regiment, the main regiment with Brother Li, but was assigned to the independent regiment, and followed Deputy Brigadier Chen to Jinan a month later.
After half a year of development, the independent regiment has grown from less than a thousand people at the beginning to nearly ten thousand people now. Kawako, who was still a new recruit, unexpectedly became the squad leader with 12 soldiers under his command.
Even he, the oldest soldier in the army, was only six and a half months old, and he had a variety of weapons. Except for him, the squad leader, who held a Hanyang-made weapon, the rest were either blunderbuss or spears.
Kawako is very dissatisfied with the combat effectiveness of his squad, but he knows that the old squad leader and the current platoon leader can't do anything about it. After doing mass work, there are too many young people joining the army. His platoon has 8 squads with more than 100 people, but the rifle
There are only 26 guns in total.
In order to ensure combat effectiveness, rifles are basically allocated to the top three infantry squads. As a squad leader who is a recruit himself and leads a group of recruits, it would be good to have a standard rifle.
The combat effectiveness was so weak that the infantry company he belonged to fought several battles with the Japanese and puppet troops in the past two or three months. Kawako and his infantry squad appeared as a reserve team.
Due to the extremely strong fighting power of the Japanese army, several attacks organized by the infantry company were unable to defeat its defense line. In addition, the Japanese reinforcements arrived very quickly, and the 8th squadron led by Kawako had no chance to fight.
It wasn't until one month after the year that the four-pronged regiment led by that magical army colonel came here.
The company that came to Guangping County was the 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion of the Sixing Regiment. The company commander was Wei Donglai, a soldier with a somewhat bookish but handsome appearance.
The Four Lines Regiment is a friendly force, and they have a very good relationship with them. Kawako really wants to go up there and build relationships, maybe he can get some assistance from the friendly forces. After all, he is the one who carried their captain Tang, but it is a pity that his squad leader is so far away from them.
The company commander was too far away to find a chance to talk to him.
Unexpectedly, after the meeting between the commander of the Dalian Company of the Si Xing Regiment and the captain of the Guangping Division, who has the highest military rank in Guangping County, the support materials were distributed.
But what Kawako didn't expect was that what was handed out was not the legendary firearms and ammunition, but shovels, pickaxes and other digging tools. If anything had to do with the war, it could only be those so-called
The mines are lumpy.
According to the order conveyed by the superior commander, all other activities in the Guangping Division were suspended. The entire army mobilized the public to cooperate with the Fourth Army Group to dig tunnels in villages in the plains, and a large number of landmines were laid in the villages in the mountainous areas to form minefields.
The lack of success in the battle made Chuanzi unwilling to dig a hole in the soil, so he pestered the platoon leader and insisted on coming to the Panzhai Village base area.
This is not only the most populous mountain village in Guangping County, but also one of the important base areas in Guangping County.
In this village alone, more than 160 young men joined the army, and the aunts worked day and night to make cloth shoes for the officers and soldiers of the Independent Regiment. Within a few months, thousands of pairs were made and handed over to the army.
Even if the warm cloth shoes are not worn on the feet, just carrying them on the body makes running feel much more powerful.
However, Panzhai Village is a mountain village and does not require a lot of manpower to dig tunnels like plain villages, so the infantry squad of Chuanzi was sent to accompany the 3rd Squadron of the 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion of the Sixing Regiment to assist the villagers in laying mines.
Landmine laying is also a technical job, especially the little soldier named Tudou who taught everyone about pressing mines, tripping mines, pulling mines, and chain-letter mines. Just hearing the names can make people dizzy. People in Panzhai Village
Even more confused!
Fortunately, the old squad leader of the Four Lines Regiment, nicknamed Lao Abacus, was very patient. He not only held a training class for Kawako, the recruits in his squad, and the anti-Japanese activists in the village, but also taught them how to use landmines correctly.
Laying mines in the area.
After spending more than half a month, the villagers in Panzhai finally learned how to lay these landmines!
It's not just a technical job, it also involves psychology!
For example, if the Japanese stepped on a landmine, where would they hide and how would they get around the mountains?
After this and that, another month has passed!
On the mountain road entering Panzhai Village and the surrounding mountains and forests, nearly 400 landmines were planted by soldiers and villagers. Each minefield was marked with marks that only soldiers and villagers knew.
You don’t have to remember anything else, but if you don’t remember this mark, it will be fatal.
A large wild boar weighing over 200 kilograms ran down from the old forest at night. It probably wanted to come to the cornfield, but unfortunately it stepped on a landmine.
The pig skin, which even a cannon could not penetrate, was riddled with holes, and the two large pig trotters were blown ten meters away. In the end, Kawako led the two soldiers carefully through the minefield he had laid.
, took this unfortunate guy out and gave it to the whole village as a tooth sacrifice.
