When the first ray of morning light appeared on the horizon, the visibility allowed the surrounding scenery to clearly appear in the lens of Yang Zhen's telescope. [.Com text] Seeing the situation in front of him, Yang Zhen couldn't help but take a breath of air.
, I couldn’t help but secretly feel glad that I reacted quickly enough.
Just feeling lucky, Yang Zhen now wanted to catch Ding Xiaosan who had already been dealt with and cut him into pieces. At this moment, the Japanese soldiers who appeared in his camera on the road less than 300 meters away from the mine headquarters were just what Ding Xiaosan said.
of two squadrons.
According to Yang Zhen's knowledge of the Japanese army's strength, the Japanese army now appearing in his telescope was a large group. As for the puppet Manchu army, there was at least one regiment. This did not include the more than a hundred puppet policemen who cooperated in the battle.
What surprised Yang Zhen the most was that not only did the number of troops dispatched by the Japanese and puppet troops greatly exceed expectations, but the equipment was at least one level higher than that of the Japanese and puppet troops on the Ash River. In his telescope
, Yang Zhen observed at least six mortars with a diameter of more than 90 mm and a total of four Type 92 infantry cannons, a classic weapon of the Japanese army.
Looking at the enemy situation in front of him, no matter how calm he was, Yang Zhen's hand holding the telescope could not help but sweat a little. What he was worried about was not the number of people coming from the Japs, but what he was most concerned about now was not knowing when they would touch him.
Did the Japanese and puppet troops notice me right under their noses?
As long as the Japanese and puppet troops did not discover him and his arrangements, Yang Zhen could lead the twenty people on the mountain to break out. But if the Japanese and puppet troops had discovered him, it was just because it was dark and he was afraid that he would break through at night.
Waiting for daybreak, Yang Zhen really couldn't imagine that he and these twenty-one people could stand out in broad daylight.
Having lost his concealment, he was not enough to suffocate the Japs at the bottom of the mountain. You must know that although the light of the flashlight is not strong, it is still very conspicuous in this pitch-black mountainous area.
What makes Yang Zhen regretful the most is that he was actually touched by the Japanese without realizing it. If Li Mingrui had given an unintentional reminder, he might not have known that he had been disarmed. Thinking of this, Yang Zhen couldn't help but curse in his heart.
I was too careless and underestimated my opponent.
While secretly cursing himself for being careless, Yang Zhen decided to prepare for battle first. Yang Zhen put down the telescope in his hand and whispered to Li Mingrui who was crawling beside him: "Go and inform the brothers to prepare for battle. Tell the brothers, there is no order."
, no matter how close the enemy is, you are not allowed to shoot. But if there is a fight, shoot at the enemy officer."
After hearing Yang Zhen's order, Li Mingrui did not dare to delay at all, and immediately conveyed it to the next level. After conveying Yang Zhen's order, Li Mingrui whispered: "Sir Yang, although these Japs are ready for battle, but
But they haven’t launched an attack yet. Did they not find us?”
Regarding Li Mingrui's guess, Yang Zhen shook his head and said: "I don't know either. The Japs must have been here for a long time. As for why they haven't launched an attack or whether they are still waiting for something, I don't know. Now I just
You know, if we really fight, we have no chance of winning."
Yang Zhen didn't need to explain the current situation. Li Mingrui, who had been in the army for a while, also understood. Not counting the puppet troops at the foot of the mountain, there were nearly a thousand Japanese soldiers here. There were only twenty people on his side, even with the fierce Zhang Ting.
, there are only twenty-one people.
Compared with the Japanese and puppet troops at the foot of the mountain, the difference between him and the Japanese and puppet troops is not only the number of people. There are also weapons, daily training, and of course the absolute disadvantage in firepower. No matter how arrogant Li Mingrui is, he is not arrogant enough to think that alone
With more than a dozen rifles, plus a crooked handle and a few pistols, it can compete with Yamashita's light and heavy machine guns and cannons.
Looking at Li Mingrui who fell silent, Yang Zhen gently opened the safety of the Type 38 rifle that had been following him from the Japanese base, and then said: "These little devils are obviously looking for us, even if they can't be met here,
But as long as we move around in this area, we will encounter it sooner or later."
"Once the fight breaks out, if we hold on here a little longer, we can attract them for a while. The further away Lao Guo and the others will be, the safer our brothers will be. They bring so much supplies, and those
Once workers without a trace of fighting ability encounter these devils, the consequences will be disastrous."
Hearing Yang Zhen's words, Li Mingrui smiled bitterly and said: "Sir Yang, it's not that I'm scared. It's just that I'm a little confused, why did the Japanese come so fast this time? Didn't Ding Xiaosan's confession say that they only arrived this morning?
? Why did you arrive so early in the morning?"
Regarding Li Mingrui's question, Yang Zhen did not answer him, but just handed him the telescope in his hand and let him see the reason for himself.
When Li Mingrui saw through the telescope a Chinese man wearing civilian clothes standing among the Japanese troops, nodding and bowing, he immediately understood why the Japanese troops arrived so quickly.
When the person who betrayed his group was none other than the cook at the mine whom he had let go, Li Mingrui immediately knew in his heart that it must be the traitor who reported the letter to the Japanese through the mine's uncut phone.
Li Mingrui, who was filled with regret at this moment, scolded himself for being too careless and actually forgot to cut off the Japs' phone calls, allowing this guy to take advantage of him.
Li Mingrui, who understood the cause of the matter, said angrily: "Damn, it's another traitor who informed us. Why are there so many traitors here?"
Hearing this, Yang Zhen sighed and said: "That Ding Xiaosan told us that the Japs will come to two squadrons this morning, one battalion of infantry and cavalry of the Puppet Manchu Army. According to his confession, these Japs should have arrived in Acheng last night."
"The arrival in the morning he said should be the time when the Japanese set off from Acheng and arrived here. If the Japanese used automobile transportation, it would not take them all the morning to get here from Acheng. Harbin is a place where the Japanese are heavily fortified.
, it shouldn’t be difficult to mobilize vehicles that can transport two squadrons of troops.”
"And don't forget one thing. Although it is dozens of kilometers away from Acheng, it is only 18 kilometers away from the Binsui Railway. If the Japanese and puppet troops are transported by rail to Xiaoling Station first, they can then march on foot.
Entering the mountains, I think it is not difficult for them to arrive in the early morning. According to the training of the Japanese army, eighteen kilometers is not a long-distance march."
"If that Ding Xiaosan didn't lie, the extra troops of the Japanese and puppet troops should be transferred from the security forces on the Binsui Railway. Unfortunately, we can't contact Lao Guo now. Otherwise, they would be crossing the railway to attack
The best time to retreat north."
"Chief Yang, I heard you tell Chief Guo to march ten kilometers toward the Beibin-Sui railway defense line and then turn east. If according to your prediction, the brothers led by Chief Guo should encounter the Japanese. But
No gunfire or even movement was heard in the direction of Chief Guo's retreat. Do you think this is normal?"
After Li Mingrui's words fell, Yang Zhen also felt a little strange. If these Japs really came from the direction of Binsui Railway, according to the time, they should have encountered Guo Bingxun on the way, who had retreated north according to his own plan.
But that direction has always been calm. Could it be that my estimate was wrong? Or was there something abnormal about Guo Bingxun?
Guo Bingxun's place, including the new laborers who joined the army, totaled seven to eight hundred people. Even if the Japanese had an absolute advantage in terms of military strength and firepower, they could not easily kill these people without firing a single shot.
Unless Guo Bingxun changed the marching route he designated for him. He didn't know what happened for a while. Yang Zhen, who was unable to answer Li Mingrui's question, could only choose to remain silent for the first time.
The two fell silent, but they kept listening to their conversation. Zhang Ting, who was stunned when Yang Zhen told her the true intention of giving her the pistol, reacted at this time and interjected: "I told you not to make blind guesses.
Yes. I know that these Japanese troops in front of me definitely did not get off the train from Xiaoling Station. So your Commander Guo will definitely be fine."
Hearing what she said, Yang Zhen and Li Mingrui couldn't help but turn their heads and look at her, their eyes full of questions: "How could a girl like her know such a thing?"
Looking at Yang Zhen and Li Mingrui who were looking at her with doubts on their faces, Zhang Ting suffered a lot from Yang Zhen, but she looked a little proud and said: "This is not simple. The Puppet Manchu Army did not have unified uniforms.
Some of them are still wearing the original uniforms of the Northeastern Army. They started to change their uniforms one after another last year."
"I don't know why, but although they have some new uniforms, they change their uniforms very slowly. Among all the puppet troops in Manchukuo, only the puppet troops in Jilin changed their uniforms first because they are close to their so-called Xinjing."
"And this place is under the jurisdiction of Binjiang Province, so the puppet troops here have not completely changed their uniforms. Only the officers have changed into new military uniforms. As for the soldiers, they still use the original old military uniforms. Look, do the uniforms of the puppet troops here
Different from the puppet troops you have encountered before?"
"Although I have been studying in Harbin, I don't know much about the military. But the brother of one of our classmates there is a major general in the puppet Manchukuo army. These are all things he told us classmates a few days ago just to show off."
After listening to Zhang Ting's words, Yang Zhen raised the telescope and observed carefully and found that just as she said, the puppet soldiers here were dressed differently from the puppet soldiers on the Ashe River yesterday. In addition to the color being green, the styles were also different.
On the contrary, it is similar to the military uniforms of the Japanese. Even the shape of the military cap is similar to the Wowotou-style hat worn by the Japanese. However, the puppet Manchukuo army I encountered on the front line of the Ash River yesterday still wore a large cap from top to bottom.
Moreover, Yang Zhen also carefully discovered that these puppet troops were all equipped with Type 38 rifles and were fully equipped with light and heavy machine guns. And the puppet troops he encountered on the front line of the Ash River yesterday, in addition to some elites using Japanese weapons, also
Many of them use Liao-13 rifles of Fengtian caliber 79. The appearance of the two rifles is quite different, and they can be recognized at a glance.
Although there are many puppet Manchu troops on the front line of the Ash River, they only have two crooked machine guns as supporting firepower. These two crooked guns were not made by the original Japanese factory, but were copied by the Fengtian Arsenal based on the crooked guns.
Type 17 light machine gun.
Of course, Yang Zhen has never used these antiques, and he doesn't know the difference except for the appearance, but there are still people in the team who understand.
Although the true identities of these Japanese and puppet troops were found out, Yang Zhen's brows furrowed deeper and deeper. How could the Japanese and puppet troops in Jilin appear here? Could it be that they were specially mobilized to deal with him?
Yang Zhen's guess was correct. These Japanese and puppet troops were indeed specially mobilized by the Japanese from Jilin. They had been dealing with the Anti-Japanese Alliance for many years. They were relatively experienced troops in the so-called suppression of bandits. Especially the puppet Manchukuo troops, who had all participated in the campaign against the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
The so-called Great Crusade on the Eastern Road was regarded as the elite of the puppet Manchukuo army. It was the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Kenkichi Ueda, who ordered the mobilization of these Japanese and puppet troops for cross-region clearing.
Since the incident occurred in the Kwantung Army's Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department, the Harbin Military Police did not dare to delay for a moment and reported the incident to the Kwantung Army Headquarters as quickly as possible.
When General Kenkichi Ueda, the still sleeping commander of the Kwantung Army, received a report that a road massacre occurred in the Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department, all researchers including the commander of the force, Colonel Shiro Ishii, were killed, and most of the data was lost, he almost
He didn't take a breath, he just let it go.
As the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Ueda Kenkichi naturally knew exactly what the so-called epidemic prevention and water supply department was doing. He also knew the importance of this force in the hearts of the military and even the emperor.
It's very clear.
When he received the report that the entire army of the Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department had been wiped out, and no one except the geishas in the two living areas was spared, General Ueda Kenkichi, who knew what the consequences would be if the real details there were leaked, lost all his former memories.
General style.
Especially after receiving the report that the pursuit of the Fifth Independent Guards failed and that the Ashe River line interception was defeated, General Ueda Kenkichi became furious and smashed his extremely gorgeous office that he had decorated after taking office.
Major General Yoshie Shirokura, commander of the Kwantung Army military police who came to report, suffered a disaster and was almost shot dead by him.
Fortunately, Lieutenant General Isotani Rensuke, who had just been transferred from the position of commander of the 10th Division to the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, was calmer and stopped the furious general. Otherwise, Major General Yosuke Shirokura might have become a historical figure in the history of the Japanese army.
The first major general officer to be shot.
Lieutenant General Isotani Rensuke, who suffered the biggest Japanese defeat since the July 7th Incident in the recent Battle of Taierzhuang, and many of Yang Zhen's subordinates were also old acquaintances on the battlefield, may have suffered too much.
, but seemed much calmer at this time.
Lieutenant General Isotani Rensuke, who was only transferred from the position of commander of the 10th Division last month, has just taken over as the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army. He has not had much time. He is not very familiar with this place and has not yet started the work. Although he has always been familiar with China
He claimed that he had served as a military attaché in China for many years but had never served in the Kwantung Army, and he could not come up with any useful ideas.
Fortunately, Lieutenant General Isotani Rensuke could not help much, but the current deputy chief of staff, Major General Kanji Ishihara, who was originally from the Kwantung Army and planned the September 18th Incident with several lieutenants and majors, recommended General Ueda Kenkichi.
a person.
This person was none other than the then captain of the Kwantung Army's Independent Second Guards. In the next few years, the Anti-Japanese Alliance suffered heavy losses, and even almost the entire army was destroyed. Several famous anti-Union generals were lost in his hands.
Major General.
At this moment, General Ueda Kenkichi, who was eager to eliminate these daring majidai and prevent the secrets of the Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department from leaking, no longer cared about being picky. He nodded in agreement without saying a word about the candidate recommended by Major General Kanji Ishihara.
Major General Changde, the deputy commander of the Second Independent Garrison stationed in Changchun, who was picked up by a special plane from Jilin, also directly stated his position after hearing the order: "It is not impossible to send me, but I have to use my
The Second Independent Defense Team. As for the Fifth Independent Defense Team, they should continue to defend their Harbin."
The wild deputy Major General Shotoku not only requested the deployment of his own independent second garrison, but also requested to designate the Manchurian troops for coordinated operations. This made Lieutenant General Isotani Rensuke who was talking to him extremely dissatisfied.
However, General Ueda Kenkichi, who was eager to eliminate the rioters, had no worries about this. He did not agree to all the demands of Masatoku Noboshi at all. The anxious General Ueda Kenkichi asked Noboshi Masatori's troops to set off before dawn.
Request Isotani Rensuke to immediately dispatch an express train from Shinkyo Station for the Independent Second Guards Corps.
This time, General Ueda Kenkichi, who was eager to eliminate the rioters as quickly as possible in order to calm the anger of the military and even the emperor, changed from the usual petty attitude of Japanese generals and was surprisingly generous. Not only did he appoint Masatori Nozomi as the commander of the Binjiang Province crusade, he also
Mobilize the power of all Japanese and puppet troops in the area.
They even sent the unlucky Kwantung Army military police commander Major General Yosuke Shirokura to Harbin to manage military supplies and coordinate operations for Major General Masatoku Noto. As for that time
The Harbin gendarmerie captain who was directly responsible was ordered by him to disembowel himself and apologize.
The reason why General Ueda Kenkichi was so eager to wipe out these damn people and dared to launch a rebellion on the road was not only because of the losses of the Kwantung Army's Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department.
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