In the headquarters of the Japanese Sixth Division, after all the generals shouted in unison, the communications staff hurriedly came to Itamotoemon and respectfully presented the urgent message from the Kwantung Army headquarters with both hands.
Itamotoemon subconsciously looked at the telephone on the table. He was stunned for a while before he remembered that the section of the telephone line leading to Jinzhou that passed through the Chengdong military camp had been blown up by bombs dropped by planes. The engineers who went to repair it
It could not be restored so quickly. Itamotoemon took the message, read it carefully, slowly raised his head, and glanced at the Lieutenant General one by one:
"General Muto called me personally to ask me, a quarter of the thirty-six hours have passed, how is the progress of our department? Gentlemen, General Muto's inquiry really makes me ashamed!"
The generals were extremely ashamed, and Chief of Staff Sasaki Kira also lowered his proud head. The Kwantung Army headquarters, with unprecedented severity, issued a fatal order to annihilate the Anjia Army's 10,000 stubborn enemies in thirty-six hours. His sixth
The division was the first to encounter the enemy, the first to report to the superiors, and the first to receive orders and be sent to Kanto
The military headquarters and General Muto Nobuyoshi had high hopes for the division. For this reason, General Muto specially told Itamoto and Sasaki an exciting news: considering the southward operation after annihilating the stubborn enemies of the Anjia Army, the headquarters decided to send Captain Hyakutake Shukiyoshi's
The First World War convoy was attached to the Sixth Division to increase its offensive power.
But now, before the Sixth Division launched an operation to engage the enemy, it first reported to the headquarters that it was bombed indiscriminately by more than twenty Anjia Army aircraft.
) interception position was blown up, more than 200 officers and soldiers were killed or wounded, and the enemy began to launch a fierce attack; the 23rd Regiment (Captain Shido Yasuo), who quietly set out to cover from the east, did not complete one third of the distance, and
The bombing resulted in the loss of more than 300 people.
This figure reported to the Kwantung Army Headquarters half an hour ago does not include the casualties caused by the stubborn enemies in the encirclement after the bombing by enemy planes, and then launched a fierce attack on the reception wing on the front line of the White Tower, and the attacking units were blocked.
, where can we organize an effective attack?
At this time, the inquiry telegram from Kwantung Army Commander Muto Nobuyoshi arrived. Itamoto Eemon and his generals were so embarrassed that no one knew how to reply. No wonder the division commander Itamoto looked ugly.
My wrinkles seemed to have suddenly doubled in number.
Lieutenant General Sasaki was dripping with cold sweat and did not dare to breathe. Itamotoemon sighed slightly and loudly ordered: "Everyone, please proceed as planned, Sasaki-kun..."
"Hiyi!"
Division Chief of Staff Kira Sasaki stood vigorously at attention with his legs crossed.
"Order the 23rd Regiment east of the White Tower to leave a squadron to inspect the battlefield and rescue the wounded. Strictly order the commander of the regiment, Colonel Shido, to organize the team and launch an attack immediately. They must arrive at the firefighting location within an hour and fight with the four
The Fifteenth Regiment flanks the enemy. If the enemy retreats, the two regiments will immediately split into two groups and pursue them quickly. No matter how difficult it is, we must not let this stubborn enemy escape our sight. If there is any abnormality, report it immediately!"
"Hiyi!"
At eight o'clock in the evening, two kilometers north of Baita Town, the Japanese Army's 45th Regiment established a blocking position.
The sound of gunfire has stopped, and the vegetation ignited by the powerful incendiary bombs dropped by the aircraft are still crackling in the cold wind. After being bombarded by aerial bombs and hundreds of mortar shells, the two-kilometer long
The original shape of the position was no longer visible. More than 3,000 Japanese troops were still crawling on the position filled with gunpowder smoke and flowing snow and water, nervously staring ahead.
At this time, the two squadrons of the 45th Regiment had already rushed out of their own positions, rushed towards the enemy in front, and launched a second probing attack.
"Boom-boom-boom-boom-"
More than 200 meters in front of the position, a series of explosions suddenly sounded. The shining light of the explosion broke through the thick smoke and clearly illuminated the charging officers and soldiers flying into the sky.
A series of shrill screams, accompanied by the reverberation of the explosion, fluttered in the night sky. The Japanese troops in the rear positions were extremely nervous, but they were helpless. The newly recruited recruits even closed their frightened eyes, unable to bear to watch anymore.
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In a residential building more than 800 meters behind the position, the commander of the regiment listened intently to the explosion coming from the front. He hesitated for a moment and asked the lieutenant commander and staff beside him:
"Yamada-kun, when you hear this explosion, it doesn't sound like the anti-infantry mine used by the An family army twenty days ago... But after careful identification, it is indeed the explosion of a mine. But why do the sounds vary in intensity?
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The short lieutenant colonel wearing thick glasses thought for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and quickly analyzed: "Ying Zhuanjun, the violent explosions were mixed with the messy explosions of grenades, and judging from the sound, they must be grenades equipped by our army. This familiar explosion
The sound is unmistakable. It is very likely that the enemy on the opposite side took advantage of the capture from the Yamazaki Brigade’s ambush this morning, tied them together and buried them in the snow, and used ropes to form trip mines.”
"Yamada-kun, are you sure?" Ying Zhuanba's triangular eyes sparkled.
"I'm sure! When I served in North Korea, I played such a game with the cavalry task force. At that time, I killed fifty or sixty North Koreans who were fleeing. Although eight years have passed, this impression is very deep.
Real scenes often appear in my dreams." Yamada answered very firmly.
Ying Zhuanba suddenly turned around, kicked away the square table on the side, and howled at the lieutenants who took a few steps back in fright: "We have been fooled! Cunning Chinese people... pass my order, and we all charge."
,Chase--"
Gu Changfeng and a company commander under Yang Jiuxiao used trip mines supported by more than 1,100 Japanese grenades newly seized in the morning to successfully block the Japanese counterattack, delaying the enemy forty times.
Five minutes, exactly this
The valuable experience summed up in the war allowed the large group of people who set off in advance to have no worries. They left the battlefield before the arrival of more than 4,000 officers and soldiers of the 23rd Regiment of the Japanese Army, and quietly walked northward along the mountain road on the left side of the kilometer.
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By 9:20 p.m., Japanese Colonel Shido Holiang led more than 7,000 troops and rushed to the northeast of the battlefield without stopping. When they blocked the Niejiagou first-line traffic artery as quickly as possible, the panting 45th Regiment
A team of more than 5,000 people rushed to the front panting.
In the dark night, the two sides did not distinguish between ourselves and the enemy. First, the pursuing officers and soldiers of the Yingzhong Regiment saw the dark crowd blocking them, and they were the first to open fire in panic. The Zhidao Regiment, which was ordered to block, was attacked and fought back. There was a "crackling" sound.
After fighting randomly, after losing three to five hundred Japanese troops, the two sides communicated through each other's howls and phone calls. Knowing that it was their own people who fired at them, they hurriedly ceased fire. At this time, the brothers at the rear of the Anjia Army were already far away.
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9:50 pm, 14 kilometers south of Kalaqin, Shijiagou.
Major General Matsuda Kunizan, the commander of the brigade, was shocked when he received the urgent order from the division commander Itamoto. He urgently notified Colonel Washizu Matsudaira of the 13th Regiment, who was going south to attack the stubborn enemy, to slow down and conduct a rigorous search to start a battle with the enemy that he might encounter at any time.
When encountering enemies fleeing north, they must cling to them until the 45th and 23rd regiments from the south, which have just experienced fratricide, arrive and lay siege to the enemy.
After the order was issued, Matsuda Kunisan, who was frightened by the Anjia Army, thought for a moment and once again ordered the 47th Regiment Captain Tsuneoka Kanji who was on standby: to immediately lead a brigade to Nanshao Town, seven kilometers south of the city, and be ready to attack at any time.
Never let a stubborn enemy slip through the net!
9:50 pm, 14 kilometers south of Kalaqin, Shijiagou.
Shijiagou is the name of a village. The name first appeared in the late Qing Dynasty. More than 40 people who fled from Shandong stayed here and engaged in logging and picking to make a living. They formed ten families and it was called Shijiagou ever since.
.After decades of reproduction, ten households became sixteen households, and people
The population has grown from the initial forty to more than eighty people. Forced by livelihood, more than twenty young people left Shijiagou, the place where they were raised, and moved to cities inside and outside the Great Wall to seek development. Due to the relative isolation of Shijiagou,
To this day, more than 60 hard-working and honest villagers still speak the dialect of Lubei.
Gu Changfeng and more than 9,000 men and horses were hidden in the low hills and dense snow-covered forests between the north of the village and Dongwopu Village. The soldiers held the horse reins tightly and stroked the horses' necks to comfort them.
In the three-kilometer narrow valley, the wind is biting and biting. The soldiers who have been silent for more than half an hour can only feel that their hearts are beating nervously, their mouths are dry but they dare not move - 1.2 kilometers east of the road
The chaotic footsteps and horse hooves coming from the upload have not stopped yet.
Suddenly, a thunderous sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded from the northwest, coming from far and near, "rumbling", shaking the woods where the soldiers were hiding. Snow powder flew into the sky, and white mist fell one after another, and the soldiers who were standing silently were blown away one by one.
The war horses were stained like snow sculptures.
At the mouth of the valley in the south, Gu Changfeng and Yang Jiuxiao, protected by more than a dozen guards, clung to the gentle spot between two low slopes, nervously observing the steady stream of Japanese troops heading south at the three-way intersection in the east of the village. They only hoped that this
The seven or eight thousand Japanese troops coming from the direction of the southern post town of Karaqin should be finished as soon as possible so that they can lead the brothers to successfully move northward quietly.
After crawling in the snow for a long time, although there was no snow in the sky and there were even a few stars twinkling in the sky, the howling cold wind blew away the thick snow on the top of both slopes, and the flying snowflakes had already blown Gu Changfeng and
brothers
Even with Gu Changfeng's strong physique, his legs were numb and he almost lost consciousness below his knees, let alone the nearly a thousand brothers who were holding light machine guns and crawling at the entrance of the valley and on every high ground.
Because of this, when the 44th Division and the 16th Division entered western Liaoning, the experienced Yang Jiuxiao and Ni Zhiqiang repeatedly warned that the soldiers were not allowed to prostrate for a long time during an ambush unless absolutely necessary.
At this critical moment, all the Japanese troops heading south from Nanshao Town stopped advancing. The commander of the regiment, Colonel Washitsu, had just received an urgent order from the brigade commander Matsuda, asking him to slow down the search, advance slowly, and be sure to contain the enemy when encountering them.
, waiting for the arrival of friendly forces to encircle and annihilate them together.
Jiujin, who strictly abided by military orders, immediately ordered all his troops to stop advancing and summoned several captains to convey the order. Before finishing the small meeting, he encountered a battalion of puppet cavalry coming from the northwest to Kundu Yingzi Town. This battalion of puppet cavalry came from the northwest.
The army also received Matsuda's order and searched all the way down. When the puppet battalion commander and battalion deputy encountered the Japanese officer's question, they quickly dismounted and ran quickly to the entrance of the village to report to Jiujin who was standing there.
In the silent night, the voices carried far away. Coupled with the Japanese's unique harsh tone and arrogance when facing the puppet troops, the words reached Gu Changfeng's ears, who were only more than 70 meters away in a straight line.
Gu Changfeng quickly turned his head, grabbed a handful of snow, shaped it into a ball, shook it lightly, and hit Gu Lixin's head seven meters behind him. Gu Lixin immediately crawled and crawled to Gu Changfeng's side quickly. Gu Changfeng
Feng held his shoulders and asked him to turn his ears: "Listen carefully, what is Little Japan talking about?"
Gu Lixin's ears were not as sensitive as Gu Changfeng, a bandit leader who had been a bandit leader for many years. After listening for a long time, he roughly understood something from the intermittent and weak sounds. He saw the Japanese army and the puppet army leader saluting each other, leaving each other, and hurriedly crawled under Gu Changfeng's ear.
Bian said anxiously:
"The puppet cavalry officer called the Japanese commander Jiujin Colonel. He said that a brigade from the 8th Division of Lingyuan in the northwest entered Wafangdian Town to the west of us to help block our way. That one was called Jiujin.
The commander of Tianjin said that the southern post had increased its troops and the defense line was stable, so there was no need to worry. Finally, he ordered the puppet army to leave a small team behind and enter the village with a small team of the Japanese army to gather all the people for interrogation and ask them if they had seen our team.
"Master, just now Mr. Zhou from the village gave you and Brother Jiu a jug of wine. More than a dozen villagers are looking forward to us driving away the Japs as soon as possible. If the villagers grit their teeth and don't reveal our whereabouts, I'm afraid they will suffer.
It’s over!”
Just as he was talking, the Japanese army set off south again. The puppet army's battalion deputy stayed behind with a dozen cavalry. He quickly found hay and pine wood and bundled torches. A small group of Japanese soldiers, led by a sergeant, walked together.
In front of the puppet troops, they shouted for a while, and soon lit blazing torches, divided into groups, and rushed towards the closed doors of residential buildings on both sides of the narrow road.
Gu Changfeng and his brothers felt their hearts in their throats. Yang Jiuxiao saw the brothers crawling down the mountain on both sides starting to get restless. He pulled Gu Changfeng, whose eyes were burning, down the slope:
"Hutou quickly sends an order, you can go north. Order the brothers of the special brigade down the slope not to mess around. As soon as the gunshots are fired, the enemy will immediately surround us. More than 9,000 of us will die here! Escape quickly, I will intercept the rear.
, Hurry! If you don’t leave, it will be too late!”
Gu Changfeng closed his eyes and nodded sadly: "Commander Zhang, order the entire army to retreat north quietly! Lixin, inform the brothers below to retreat..."
"yes……"
The two men replied in a low voice and quickly slid down the hillside.
Gu Changfeng climbed up the hillside again, anxiously looking down at the thirteen households illuminated by torches. The shouts of the puppet soldiers, the banging of gun butts, and the collapse of the door were heard one after another, followed by the adults' exclamations and
Children's crying.
Due to the restricted position of Gu Changfeng and others, they could not see the chaotic scene on the small street in front of the house, but he heard from the cries and screams, the ferocious roars of the Japanese invaders and the shameless persecution of the puppet troops.
In the sound, I seemed to see old people being knocked down on the snow, and women being pulled by their hair and screaming. From the screams, I felt the coldness of the bayonets piercing the bodies of the villagers, just like piercing their bodies.
Changfeng felt the same way.
More than ten minutes later, torches lit up the houses, and the villagers who had been delivering water to their brothers an hour ago became silent.
Yang Jiuxiao and his guards held down the trembling Gu Changfeng tightly. When they saw the Japanese and puppet troops rushing out of the village in the fire and quickly heading south, they released their numb hands, lay down on their backs, and made two lines of tiger tears.
From the eyes surged:
"Mr. Zhou didn't say a word. There were more than 60 villagers, old and young, but they didn't say a word... wu wu..."
Gu Changfeng's face was buried in the snow, his hands were deeply inserted into the snow, and his thick spine couldn't help trembling. For a long time, for a long time...