Chapter 397: The Tanaka Brigade of the Grinding Workers
The 800 members of the Tanaka Brigade who walked all night can be described as sleepy and tired, but surprisingly no one complained.
The reason is very simple, although the work of picking up the lost fool is very hard, and it takes a hundred miles to walk a day and a night, but it is much better than sitting in the trench with wide eyes and waiting for the Chinese shells to fall.
No matter how tired you are, it's better than losing your life, isn't it? Those crazy Chinese, they don't want to fight with them anymore.
It's not just the soldiers who think so, just by looking at their senior staff officer, Captain Tanaka Kiyokawa, who reports his whereabouts to the headquarters every hour, you can know Tanaka Shaoza's thoughts.
I'm afraid that he is not only for the sake of the heart of His Excellency the Chief of Staff of the Yasuya Department, but more importantly, he still wants to see if the Chinese's offensive has begun, whether the division and regiment can resist it, and if so, if not。。。。。。
You have to run away! Kiyokawa Tanaka, who had just received a telegram from the headquarters, looked at the mountain in front of him, which looked dark in the darkness before dawn, and thought viciously to himself.
If the remaining 13,000 people in the division can't hold their positions, then he still carries out a fart military order! Regardless of whether his stupid pig-like baggage team is dead or alive, anyway, he and his 800 men will live, that is the last hope of the brigade.
From a senior staff officer of a brigade to a captain of an infantry brigade with military power, although the rank has not been raised, the power is completely different. But to be honest, Tanaka Kiyokawa didn't want to be the captain of this bullshit brigade at all, he would rather stay in the brigade headquarters in peace, provide advice and suggestions to His Excellency the brigade commander, and spend the rest of the time holding a telescope and looking at the colorful artillery fire in front of him in a daze, and wait for the big victory over the enemy, which should have a lot of credit.
Especially now, the Chinese are as fierce as taking medicine. The Yamamoto Brigade of the 11th Brigade, known as the strongest infantry brigade of the 6th Division, what was the result? Beaten like a dog by more than a hundred people and less than the strength of an infantry squadron, only 200 people could escape back to the second line of defense.
Fortunately, as the chief of staff of Tanibe, who is a fellow villager in Kyoto, he found a job where he did not have to face the terrible Chinese, although his legs were a little affected, but Tanaka Kiyokawa made up his mind from the time he came out, looking for the work of the heavy team, he must find it slowly, it is best to find a two or three days, and wait until the main force of the division and regiment is mighty to kill the Chinese.
Of course, being killed by Chinese is actually 。。。。。。 It's not unacceptable, anyway, the dead Daoist friend is not dead and poor, Tanaka Qinghe does not believe that he is already 60 miles away from the battlefield and can still be caught up by the Chinese. Everyone is two-legged, and they have the ability to see who can run.
Tanaka Qinghe, who had already made all kinds of plans, looked at the mountains that were becoming clearer and clearer, his expression relaxed a little, and ordered to bury the pot to make rice ----- have breakfast.
The Japanese army, who has always been a simple solution to breakfast, leisurely boiled millet porridge before entering the mountains, and had a beautiful and full meal with the little beef jerky left.
Even, there were many Japanese soldiers, taking advantage of the interval between cooking, crooked in the soil ditch of the temporary station, and took a beautiful nap for a while, eliminating a lot of fatigue from the overnight march.
As for the military order to return to the division before noon, it's a joke! It would be nice to find those fools who got lost in the mountains before noon.
Through the location of the radio, everyone was sure that Yuji Nagano, who had not received the news that the division had retreated from Luo Wenyu, chose to take a shortcut from the mountains to Luo Wenyu in order to hurry. This is a good explanation for why they arrive late and why the radio signal is intermittent.
This beauty is that it took more than two hours for the well-fed and well-fed Tanaka Brigade to pack up and rush to the mountains.
However, the Japanese troops of the Tanaka Brigade did not know that their delay outside the mountain could make Chen Yunfa and Mo Kitten anxious.
The fish was about to take the bait, but it didn't bite. This is, the bait is not sweet enough? Or, what did they find?
Liu Lang is not an immortal, and the two elites under his command don't know how to understand him, they will think that the Tanaka brigade with no fighting spirit is not because they have discovered something, but because they are pure foreign workers, and they can't do anything if they want to work.
After several days of brutal fighting, this once energetic Japanese elite has been beaten into a pile of tofu dregs. If something unusual is found for them, the five hundred rookies under Chen Yunfa's command will be surprised to find that the once invincible little devil is no slower than them at all.
But fortunately, to the relief of Chen Yunfa, who was lurking out of the mountain to stare at the Japanese army, the big fish still headed towards the mountain after enjoying breakfast beautifully, and everything was still in the plan.
Tanaka's brigade assembled its ranks at the mountain pass, but did not immediately enter the mountain. They weren't going to be as stupid as a baggage team, the Great Wall Mountain Range was so large and complex that it drilled into it like a fly without a head. Before entering the mountain, they must first catch a few Chinese natives, otherwise, what if they lose themselves?
In fact, it is not terrible to lose it for a few days, but what Tanaka Qinghe is afraid of is that if he does not receive the signal of the division, he will not have time to run away.
All right! Anyway, Tanaka Shaoza's decision was not to play with the Chinese, he wanted to go home.
Soon, they had a harvest, and a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy in rags who was chopping wood was brought to Tanaka Shaosa.
The delicate but dirty little face, the eyes with a hint of hatred that could not be concealed in fear, the homespun shoes with exposed toes on the feet, and the calluses on the hands due to years of hard work, all the details show that this is a local peasant boy.
Although the gates of the Great Wall defense line were under fire, it did not mean that the entire Great Wall mountain range was a battlefield, and it was normal for the local mountain people not to run.
"Child, yours, how many people are in the family?" Kiyokawa Tanaka asked in Chinese, not very proficient.
He was answered by silence, and the boy pursed his lips without speaking, a flash of fear flashing in his eyes.
Tanaka Qinghe nodded secretly in his heart, this is the performance of a peasant boy.
"Yours, if you don't say it, the Chinese here are all dead." A trace of hideousness flashed on Tanaka Qinghe's face, and at the same time he clenched the command knife in his hand.
"Don't, I'm an orphan, I'm the only one at home, what's coming at me." The fear and hatred on the boy's face grew stronger and stronger, and he finally spoke.
At the same time, he also clenched the firewood knife that he had been holding in his hand.
A Japanese lieutenant whispered a few words in Tanaka's ear, there were more than a dozen families in a small village two miles away, and all of them had run away, but the stove was still hot, and the boy was obviously caught cutting wood in the mountains early in the morning and not knowing the news that they were coming.
Everything, very logical.
"Very well, as long as yours, to be honest, we will not kill innocents indiscriminately. Tell me, have you seen people like us here? Tanaka Kiyokawa nodded with satisfaction, and his expression softened.
"Nope." The boy lowered his eyelids and shook his head.
"Yours, dead dead, you're lying." Tanaka Kiyokawa jerked out his command knife and slashed at the boy.
The immaturity of the Chinese teenager betrayed him, although he tried to lower his eyelids so that no one could see his panicked eyes, but how could this immature disguise be hidden from the treacherous and cunning Tanaka Qinghe?
"Don't, I say, I say." The snow-white blade shattered the boy's stubbornness, and he screamed in horror.
"Yoxi, it's good, tell me everything you know." Tanaka Kiyokawa pulled the command knife that stayed twenty centimeters above the young man's head into a beautiful knife flower, and a trace of pride flashed in his eyes.
But he didn't see the uncontrollable excitement in the eyes of the Chinese teenager who had everything under control in his eyes.
It was as if he had seen several hares in his lower sleeve.