Hikten's squad leader took the lead in rounding his arm, threw a grenade in his hand forward, and then rushed over with a forty-millimeter grenade launcher. Hikten and the others behind him also followed the squad leader and threw the grenade in his hand and rushed into the dense forest with a double-barreled shotgun.

"Boom...... Boom ......"

After a few loud bangs, two screams were heard in the dense forest ahead. More than 100 enemies stationed here desperately resisted the attack of the Far Eastern Army on the opposite side. They were stunned by the sudden explosion of several grenades, and before they could react, Hikten's squad leader had already rushed over, picked up the 40mm grenade launcher in his hand, and fired a dart bullet.

There was a muffled "bang".

Dozens of steel darts were sprinkled all over the place, and several enemies in front of them were instantly beaten into hedgehogs. Hikten and others, who followed closely, also picked up their double-barreled shotguns one after another, and quickly shot out the two shotguns in the barrels, and the pieces of lead bullets covered the past again, and more than a dozen Japanese were beaten into sieves.

In the face of the sudden attack from his flank and rear, more than 100 Japanese routers immediately panicked. Being surrounded by the enemy in a roundabout way was very fatal for the defending troops, and unexpectedly they did not know how many people of the Far Eastern Army suddenly appeared, and they would mistakenly think that they were surrounded.

A few timid Japanese routs turned around and ran, quickly leading the others, and the whole team collapsed in an instant. The Japanese defeated soldiers, who had already lost their fighting spirit, began to flee for their lives.

Hikten quickly loaded two shotguns, and took advantage of the collapse of the enemy ranks, chased them and fired two shots in the buttocks, killing several more Japanese. The Far Eastern Army, which was originally attacking head-on, also rushed forward when they saw that the enemy had collapsed. Join the pursuit.

As more and more Far Eastern troops arrived here, more than 100 remnants of the resistance in Kyushu were completely annihilated, most of them were killed, and more than a dozen were captured.

After the battle, Hikten and the soldiers in the squad leaned against a few large trees, smoking leisurely. In the woods in the distance. There were bursts of heart-rending screams.

The samurai of the Death Army were interrogating a dozen of their captives there, and the beasts were so brutal that several of the captives' birds and eggs were cut off alive. Even so, they didn't let them go, abusing those poor Japanese over and over again, like fiddling with a few beloved toys.

Hikten's squad leader frowned, spat at the foam, and scolded angrily: "These beasts are really not human. How can they do it. ”

Everyone has long understood the methods of these beasts, but at this moment, they still can't help but feel a little uncomfortable. Hikten is still young, so listening to distant sounds is very uncomfortable. It's okay for you to let him go into battle and kill the enemy, but you can't kill him with such cruelty and abuse.

But they did interrogate some valuable information, and there was a stronghold of the remnants of the Arima family dozens of miles from here. Nearly a thousand people gathered there, all of them low-level samurai of the Arima family and the ragged Ashigaru. and their families.

It wasn't until the samurai of the daredevils were almost exhausted that they left two Arima family ashigaru who led the way, ending the lives of the other captives, but a dozen or so captives were completely out of human form, and their mutilated bodies were like blood gourds. It's impossible to look at it at all.

Soon after, a cavalry battalion of indigenous people in the outer northeast and several daring brigades also arrived here one after another. The leading cadre of the cavalry battalion, a deputy brigade commander, is the highest-ranking officer here. Became the commander of all the troops.

He reported the situation here to the division headquarters by telegram, and then integrated all the troops, formed a temporary headquarters, and organized the troops to advance directly to the enemy's stronghold dozens of miles away.

The division headquarters applied to the Korean Campaign Command for three airships to assist in their sweeping operations. The three airships have already gone to the airspace of the enemy's stronghold to conduct reconnaissance in advance and find out the specific location of the stronghold.

This road was basically hilly and dense forests, and the cavalry of Hikten and his others had also become mountain infantry, bringing only a group of war horses to carry the ammunition and supplies of the troops.

Although the environment along the way is very harsh, and there are hardly any decent roads, it is basically nothing to Hikten and his aborigines, who have lived in the deep mountains and old forests of the Northeast since childhood. The samurai of the Death Army themselves were Japanese, and they were more accustomed to the local environment, so the troops advanced faster.

When it was dark, the advance reconnaissance detachment in front, led by two prisoners, finally touched the stronghold of the remnants of the Arima's rout. The terrain is very secluded, it is a valley surrounded by dense jungle, and it is impossible to find this valley without approaching it, not even by airships in the air.

And through the careful observation of the thermal imaging binoculars, these remnants of the Arima family were very careful, and they arranged a lot of open and dark sentinels in the dense forests around the valley. A complete fortification was also built at the entrance to the valley stronghold, and with the harsh environment at the entrance to the valley that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, it was really difficult to gnaw without the support of heavy weapons.

This valley stronghold also has a disadvantage, although the terrain is hidden, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but there is only one way out of the valley entrance, which is very easy to be surrounded by people, forming a situation of closing the door and beating the dog.

Based on the surrounding environment, the headquarters of the sweeping force decided to immediately launch a night attack on the valley stronghold with the support of airships. The headquarters then made specific deployments, and the troops spread out outside the valley, forming an encirclement.

Hikten lay on the thick fallen leaves in the mountains and forests, silently waiting for the order to fight. In the past half a month, the sweeping operations in various parts of Kyushu have also made Hikten very tired, he would rather kill with real swords and guns on the battlefield than play hide and seek with the enemy in the forest every day, and the people he killed during this time, there are very few real samurai and ashigaru, most of them are old and weak, women and children.

There was a whisper from the side, and one of the veterans next to him turned his head, put his ear to his ear and said, "Put on your gas mask, and after firing flares in front, we will start attacking." One by one, pass it down......"

Hikten turned around and whispered the order to his comrades on the other side, then took out a gas mask from his waist, put it on his head, and carefully checked it several times before continuing to lie there with peace of mind.

There are many mountainous environments in Japan, and the Military Commission has also formulated some tactics suitable for this environment. Therefore, part of the main forces participating in the war are equipped with a batch of gas masks, and when performing special operations, the troops equipped with gas masks will serve as the main assault force. (To be continued......)