The Japanese also have the custom of Chinese New Year. Of course, the Japanese, who regard themselves as Westerners and have always been proud of being in the discourse circle of Western powers, pay more attention to the Western New Year. Therefore, the Japanese are not too big about going to war on the Chinese New Year. In order to boost morale, Nishio Hisao promised that after capturing the Santai area, he would indulge his subordinates in looting for a day as a New Year's gift to the officers and soldiers. When talking about this matter with Matsui Tataro and Suzuki Shigeyasu, He said: "The general direction of Okamura Neji's strategy of using China to control China is of course right, but the details still need to be worked out. You have all seen the circus performance, have you particularly admired those animal trainers? Let me tell you, The method of taming animals is actually very simple. Regardless of whether it is a ferocious tiger or a well-behaved goat, as long as you add candy to a stick, you can make them docile. Neji Okamura only gives candy but seldom mentions the stick. I want to give it to him this time. Let’s learn a lesson and kill a monkey to show those Chinese people who are ready to take action.”
Nishio Hisotou confuses governing people with taming animals, which is a ridiculous view. However, Matsui and Suzuki deeply agree. In their hearts, they may not regard the Chinese as human beings at all.
At about ten o'clock in the morning, at the border between Jiangdu and Taixing, Matsui and Zhang Lanfeng were riding side by side. Suddenly, a burst of fireworks flashed in front of the team, and a rumble of explosions sounded. The two men pulled the reins together and stopped their horses. Matsui He shouted sternly to the left and right: "Go and ask Fujimura Nobuyoshi what happened."
It was the 5th Search Regiment under the 5th Division that was leading the way for the Japanese and puppet coalition forces. The commander of the regiment, Colonel Fujimura Nobuyoshi, said, "Hai." A major staff officer responded loudly, picked up the microphone and called Fujimura Nobuyoshi, asking him to After reporting the situation, Fujimura Nobuyoshi failed to reply in person. It was not that he didn’t want to, but he was killed by a landmine. Ouyang Yun paid special attention to mine warfare when he was in Renqiu. For this reason, the Guangzhou Army School also has a special landmine class. Fox Ten Some of the former students of the Spark Brigade under the Third Command are specialized in tinkering with landmines, so even though they are just guerrillas, the manufacturing process and blasting technology of landmines are not inferior to those of regular troops. There are eight landmines in total, using electronic trigger fuzes. , one of the signal mines, seven anti-personnel mines, and the two farthest two of the seven anti-personnel mines were more than 300 meters apart, so when they were detonated together, half of the marching column searching for the 5th Regiment was blown up. , and Fujimura Nobuyoshi in the middle was not spared, and was directly blown away by a landmine, including people and horses.
Before the enemy could be seen, more than ten of his men, including a colonel, were dead. Matsui immediately felt extremely humiliated. The old Japanese picked up his telescope and looked around. He pointed to a village in front of him with his right hand and said: "Three There are guerrillas all over the Tai area, and every good Chinese citizen here, send my order to surround them, leaving no chickens or dogs behind."
"Hai." The major staff officer quickly conveyed the order.
Matsui seemed to have noticed Zhang Lanfeng's presence only at this moment. He squinted at him and said, "Zhang Sang, I want to level the port. Do you have any objection?"
The Japanese army came ashore with only three days of rations. Zhang Lanfeng realized what was happening. Hearing this, he quickly replied: "I have no objection. The imperial army wants to build a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere because it wants to help China develop. These idiots can't help it." You know well, but you block a car with your mantis arm, you deserve to be killed, you deserve to be killed."
Just as he finished speaking, fireworks flashed in front of him, and explosions sounded again. However, the cavalry searching for the 5th Regiment stepped on a mine again. This time, Matsui did not ask questions, and the battle damage was quickly reported. The two cavalrymen He was killed by a landmine and one person was injured. Matsui raised his telescope again and judged that the village was less than two kilometers away from the search for the 5th Regiment. He gritted his teeth and ordered the search for the 5th Regiment to speed up its march. He gave this order only five years ago. Minutes later, there were two more explosions, and three more people were killed. The old Japanese could not remain calm, and ordered the search team 5 to suspend the attack, and then said to Zhang Lanfeng: "Zhang Sang, our army is not familiar with the terrain of the Santai area. , I will give this first credit to you."
Zhang Lanfeng felt a chill in his heart, and secretly cursed Gouri for being unkind and wanting to use my soldiers as cannon fodder. With a calm face, he nodded and handed down the order, asking Zhang Yucun, commander of the First Division, to send two regiments across the fields from the north and south to attack the target. In the village, "arrange your formation sparsely and be careful of mines." With this final warning, he suggested to Matsui: "Sir, why don't you just level the village with artillery fire, so that the guerrillas can see the powerful firepower of the imperial army?" .”
Matsui shook his head and asked: "Are you so sure that there are guerrillas inside? Fox Thirteen is cunning and cunning, Zhang Sang, don't underestimate the enemy."
"Why attack if there are no guerrillas inside?" Zhang Lanfeng murmured in his heart, suddenly envious of Fox Thirteen. He waggled his tail like a dog when meeting the Japanese, but in the end he was reduced to the life of cannon fodder. This boy and the Japanese The use of open swords and real guns made the Japanese dare not underestimate the enemy. This is the tragedy of being a traitor. He was thinking wildly when suddenly a gunshot pulled him back from his thoughts. The gunfire rang out fiercely. Looking around where the gunfire sounded, he saw troops from the north chasing a figure wearing a short coat and dressed like a local farmer running across the fields. What made him look unhappy was that hundreds of people were already chasing him, but the result was that The opponent jumped away and distanced themselves, and then there was another gunshot. An officer holding a pistol fell to the sky, and the others immediately fell to the ground, watching helplessly as the two people walked away from each other. escaped before them,
"Zhang Sang, this is the quality of your subordinates." Matsui suddenly asked coldly, and continued to sneer after asking.
Being ridiculed by Matsui in front of him, Zhang Lanfeng felt extremely humiliated. With a livid face, he asked the messenger to pass on the order. He couldn't take the village within half an hour. The two captains of the team came to see him with their heads raised.
Matsui listened to the translator's report on the side, sneered again, and said to Zhang Lanfeng: "Half an hour, Zhang Sang, you are too tolerant to your subordinates, twenty minutes, no more." He pointed forward with his hand. Half Circle said coldly: "Commander Xiwei ordered us not to spare a single village. With your fighting style, we are afraid that we will have to fight until the end of the year. Zhang Sang and Xiaoshan are still waiting for us to come to support. We don't have so many time."
Matsui, Suzuki and Nishio are different. Although the latter despises Zhang Lanfeng in his heart, he can at least do superficial things. However, Matsui and Suzuki don't even pay attention to superficial skills and are aggressive in everything. This makes Zhang Lanfeng sit on pins and needles and deeply regrets that he could not insist on peace. West End Road,
He had no choice but to transfer his anger to his subordinates, so the puppet army officers of the First Division of the Peace Army suffered. They were scolded by him so badly that they had no personality at all. He passed on his anger again, well, the battle hasn't started yet, the puppet soldiers of the First Division of the Peace Army are already very angry and have no intention of fighting.