On the rocky mountain road, an open space of several hundred square meters was cleared. Rows of Japanese corpses were parked on it, including those from the infantry brigade guarding the mountain artillery regiment, armored troops and motorized troops, and in addition, those of the Japanese.
Artillery.
On the open space of hundreds of square meters, corpses were arranged densely, which looked quite shocking. In just over an hour, more than 300 corpses of Japanese soldiers were discovered.
"Check carefully to see if there are any living people around?" Kusaburo Osaka stood in front of the newly erected tent and said to the chief of staff beside him.
"We have cleared part of the rockfall and found hundreds of corpses of our soldiers. However, the area of the rockfall is too large, and less than one-tenth of it has been cleared. It is estimated that it will take about three or four days to completely clear it.
Time." The chief of staff said in a low voice with a grimace.
After hearing this, Osaka Kusaburo's face suddenly darkened. He pinched the beard on his chin, thought for a moment, and said, "Commander Domon Jiro gave me only two days. In two days, I will go to the Huxiaoling Pass.
Gather everywhere and prepare to storm Huxiaoling. Time is running out."
Chief of Staff Yamamoto Ryuichi also looked thoughtful, "Yes, we are too pressed for time. It seems we can only speed up the search."
Osaka Kusaburo waved his arm and said decisively, "I order that the First Brigade and the Second Brigade will be in a group, and the Third Brigade and the Fourth Brigade will be in a group. The two groups will be replaced every three hours, and they will be cleaned day and night.
Falling rocks, looking for surviving personnel, and at the same time looking for materials that can still be used. We must complete the search before midnight tomorrow and set off back to the assembly area."
After hearing this, Chief of Staff Ryuichi Yamamoto thought for a moment and said, "If we do this, the combat effectiveness of our four brigades will be greatly affected, and it may affect the next battle."
"I also know that it will affect the next combat effectiveness, but the bodies of so many compatriots in the Mountain Artillery Regiment and Armored Forces are buried below, and I can't let them bury their bones in a foreign land." Most of Kusaburo waved his hand.
, with a firm tone, then turned and walked towards the tent, "Yamamoto-kun, let's study the battle plan for the attack on Huxiaoling in three days and see if there is anything else that needs to be added or modified."
Seeing that Captain Osaka Kusaburo had made up his mind, Chief of Staff Yamamoto could only sigh helplessly, and then followed him into the tent.
Following Osaka Kusaburo's order, the Japanese soldiers of the four brigades immediately became busy. They borrowed some shovels and other things from the engineering brigade, and then began to dig out the gravel.
Although the stone does not look big, it is surprisingly heavy. Even a stone as big as a person's head feels heavy when moved up. As for those one-meter-square stones, it cannot be moved by one person.
As for those stones that were as big as half a house, the Japanese were stunned when they saw them and didn't know what to do with them.
Finally, the Japanese soldiers sent engineers to load explosives on the rocks and blow them up into small pieces so that they could be cleared.
Standing in a forest about a mile away from here, Chu Yifei and Yue Feng held telescopes in their hands to observe the movements of the Japanese.
"I'm talking about crazy people. Do you think these devils are planning to become masons? There are so many people digging at the rocks we blasted down. It would be strange if they didn't die from exhaustion."
Yue Feng carefully observed some tents set up by the Japs, looking for the location of the Japs unit commander's headquarters. In the Japs' troops, the Kwantung Army troops, the tents of commanders and ordinary soldiers looked the same in appearance, and nothing could be seen.
The difference is the internal layout.
Yue Feng chose to ignore Chu Yifei's noise. He carefully inspected the tents, pillar by pillar, to see if he could find any clues.
Seeing that his words had no effect, Chu Yifei also felt bored. He closed his mouth and started looking through the binoculars. After a moment, he suddenly shouted, "Look, madman, there's an antenna set up next to the tent over there."
."
Yue Peng was shocked when he heard this, and then he turned the telescope in the direction and looked towards the location Chu Yifei said. Sure enough, he found that next to a tent there, the antenna was being slowly erected, and several telephone soldiers were on the antenna.
Busy downstairs.
"That's it."
Yue Feng's eyes lit up, he put down the telescope, then stretched out his hand to his side, "Map."
The two special forces members hurriedly took out the map from their bag, unfolded it, and handed him the pencil at the same time.
"Chu Yifei, the Japs' headquarters is here. Based on the layout characteristics, it can be seen that there will definitely be more than five guard posts around, and the number of people should be around twelve or thirteen."
"There are so many people, it seems that this little devil is very careful." Chu Yifei spat out the straw stick in his mouth on the ground, and then stretched his neck over, "Madman, should we cast a big net, or should we catch the little one?"
fish?"
"How do you say it?" Yue Feng didn't understand what he meant, so he asked back.
Chu Yifei chuckled, reached out and drew on the map, and circled all the dozen tents, "Casting a big net means catching all these tents, but it is much more difficult; as for catching small fish, that is
Locate the tent you saw, and I estimate that the two of us can sneak in and kill him silently."
"Cast a wide net." After listening to Chu Yifei's introduction, Yue Feng made his decision without even the slightest hesitation.
Chu Yifei chuckled, "I didn't see it, madman, you are still very crazy, but this is in line with my appetite, so let's give them a pot of stew."
The two people looked at each other and smiled, feeling a tacit understanding for the first time.
In the next period of time, all they had to do was wait. At the same time, some team members were constantly observing the movements of the Japanese to understand their activity patterns and prepare for action.
While they were waiting for dark in the woods, the second group of Japanese scouts also came back. They found traces of the battle in the mountains and forests a few kilometers away, but they did not find the first group of people who pursued the enemy.
So I feel very strange.
Of course, they didn't know that the bodies of those people had been hidden in a nearby cave. The cave entrance was well disguised. Unless they searched the mountain on a large scale, they would never find the cave entrance.
A search was launched around the site of the firefight. The Japanese searched for a long time but found no clues, so they had to return to the camp.
As for those missing people, the devil is probably in danger.
When these situations were reported to Captain Osaka Kusaburo, His Excellency Colonel was silent for a moment, and then he shouted in a deep voice, "Pass my order, the number of sentries outside the camp will be doubled, and all patrol teams will expand the patrol area by one."
100 meters, we must ensure the safety of the camp."
The disappearance of those scouts gave Osaka Kusaburo a keen sense of danger, prompting him to strengthen the vigilance of the camp.
After the order was issued, the atmosphere in the Japanese camp suddenly became tense, and the number of patrols and sentries increased significantly.