Rise from eight hundred.

1pm!

"Yours is dead!"

Saburo Kuroda looked at the body of Yamamoto Kiyoshi being carried on a stretcher in front of him in disbelief, and he didn't come back to his senses for several seconds.

Then, with an angry kick, Zheng Yunqiu, who had a bitter look on his face, was kicked to the ground, and then he took out the command knife hanging from his waist.

When he went to attack a Chinese flank position where there were not many troops deployed, the two infantry squads he sent to supervise the battle were wiped out along with their lieutenant and deputy captain, while the commander of the infantry battalion of the security army who was the main attacker was still unscathed. No matter what, it was the reason why he wanted to kill people.

Of course, it's a bit far-fetched to say that he was unscathed. Not only was Zheng Yunqiu's head wrapped in a bandage, he was also shot in the arm and hung up with a bandage. I heard that there were less than 200 people left in the security army infantry battalion, and the battle damage rate was as high as %. Seventy.

But Yamamoto Kiyoshi was Saburo Kuroda's favorite general, so how could he die in vain?

"Sir Kuroda, listen to me, listen to me, Lieutenant Yamamoto's sacrifice was not in vain! He led nearly a hundred imperial warriors along the attack channel opened with flesh and blood by my infantry battalion brothers and rushed to the enemy's position. , fought hand-to-hand with the enemy and killed nearly 200 enemy troops!

I just didn't expect that the enemy was so cunning and tenacious that they deployed nearly 400 reserve troops behind the mountain. Although the Tubas did not have many guns, they were all equipped with long-pole spears. Lieutenant Yamamoto and the Imperial warriors were now outnumbered. , all loyal to His Majesty the Emperor. "Zheng Yunqiu cried out as he was kicked to the ground.

"To express my respect for Lieutenant Yamamoto and the Imperial Warriors, I am willing to spend all my wealth to donate a thousand taels of gold to support the families of the warriors!"

I don’t know whether it was hearing the heroic achievements of his subordinates or the number of gold thousand taels that played an role. After all, the sharp command sword mentioned by Saburo Kuroda did not strike with one blow, but stared at Zheng Yunqiu who was kneeling and crying with cold eyes: "Yours, report the battlefield to me carefully. If there is any omission, you and your security camp will all die."

"Lieutenant Yamamoto is the most heroic warrior of the Japanese Empire I have ever seen. Seeing that our troops suffered heavy casualties and were still unable to conquer the enemy's positions, he immediately ordered all troops to mount bayonets." Zheng Yunqiu started his performance with runny nose and tears.

Amid this guy's unfailing cries, Lieutenant Kiyoshi Yamamoto's heroic image was so tall that Saburo Kuroda's headquarters could hardly accommodate it.

Of course, in front of veteran soldiers like Kuroda Saburo, Zheng Yunqiu would be killed in an instant if he showed even the slightest flaw or the battle situation was not true.

The body of Lieutenant Kiyomichi Yamamoto has been examined by the regiment medical officer. The fatal injury was a German-made Luger pistol bullet shot into the left chest at close range. There were also twelve bayonet wounds on his body!

Just looking at these wounds, you can imagine how tragic the battlefield was at that time. Yamamoto Kiyoshi must have killed several enemy soldiers and then been targeted by the enemy. He first shot them with a pistol and then swarmed them, otherwise there would have been so many A stab wound deep into the gut?

If Saburo Kuroda knew, the bullet that shot into Lieutenant Yamamoto's left chest at close range was precisely because the major of the security forces in front of him approached with the infantry company and suddenly drew his gun and fired when Yamamoto Kiyoshi was unprepared, and the other eight All the bayonet wounds were the work of 12 officers above the rank of lieutenant in the infantry battalion of the Security Army who killed all the Japanese troops. It is estimated that even ten thousand taels of gold could not save Zheng Yunqiu's life!

It is a pity that Saburo Kuroda will not know this secret at least during the war.

All the Japanese who knew the situation at the scene were killed, while all the Chinese who knew the inside story were keeping their mouths shut because they wanted to save their own lives and needed a spy on the other.

In order to fit in with Zheng Yunqiu's story, the Chinese side even deliberately obscured the battle damage report of the Battle of Bauhinia Mountain after the war. They only said that they annihilated more than 500 Japanese invaders and puppet troops in the Battle of Bauhinia Mountain. The number of casualties among our regular army and militia was around 400.

In such an offensive and defensive battle, the battle damage was almost one to one, which is definitely worthy of praise. It is no wonder that the 80th Army specially awarded the "Panzhai Guard Company" a certificate of collective first-class merit.

But this was clearly a cover-up in the eyes of the Japanese military intelligence department. According to Zheng Yunqiu's report and visual inspection of the battlefield, the number of Chinese casualties was definitely more than 800.

Of course, Saburo Kuroda would not listen to one-sided words and sent an army captain with extensive battlefield experience to observe the battlefield on the spot.

As Zheng Yunqiu said, in order to retrieve the remains of Yamamoto Qinglu, the Japanese even formed a death squad with machine gunners and grenade launchers wearing white cloths on their heads and holding rifles.

This is very characteristic of the heroic style of the Imperial Japanese infantry. Of course, this kind of behavior is not uncommon in the 10th Division's battles in several places. If the chief officer dies in battle, his subordinates will risk their lives to get it back. its remains.

Therefore, they all died on that position, together with the two security army infantry platoons that broke into the Chinese position.

The hillside after the war was dotted with the remains of the security army infantry battalions and imperial officers and soldiers. Especially thirty meters away from the front of the Chinese position, the remains of imperial officers and soldiers with white cloths on their heads were everywhere.

It should have been thrown from the position by the Chinese who won the final victory. On such a cruel battlefield, the number reported by the Chinese was most likely false.

At least one judgment of the Japanese intelligence agency must be correct, and the number of 400 casualties cannot be false anymore.

That is, the truth is no longer far from their imagination, but completely opposite.

In this magical blocking battle, the Panzhai Guard Company actually lost one person and injured four others. Those who were hit by stones and bruised were not included in the count.

The general commendation issued by the headquarters of the Eighty Group Army was not specifically designed to fool the Japanese intelligence department. It was indeed more than 60 officers and soldiers, mainly 2 officers and soldiers of the 150nd Company of the Fourth Army Regiment, who achieved the most dazzling battle-loss ratio on this battlefield.

Perhaps only all the Chinese people present knew how aggrieved the two Japanese infantry teams were.

Hand-to-hand combat did occur, but it was a hand-to-hand combat between nearly 300 puppet troops and more than 40 Japanese infantry.

The combat effectiveness of the puppet army is not worth mentioning in front of the Japanese regular army, but for the puppet army, if they do not completely kill this group of Japanese soldiers, they will die, and they can only fight with all their strength. In addition, they are almost seven times the size of the Japanese army. The military strength and psychological advantage are also much stronger.

As for the dozens of Japanese troops who were caught off guard at the foot of the hillside, seeing the hundreds of puppet troops Wuyang Wuyang rushing over, they were naturally frightened first and then panicked. Their resistance and combat effectiveness in the rush was somewhat reduced compared to before.

Under this ebb and flow, dozens of Japanese soldiers would be damned if they were all eaten up.

However, even so, the more than 40 Japanese troops resisted desperately and took away twice as many puppet troops. Facts once again proved that the strength of the Japanese infantry in hand-to-hand combat is really not overshadowed.

The Japanese troops on the hillside had already realized that this was a mutiny by the security forces, but they could not go down to join the battle. The Chinese on the hill unexpectedly surrounded them from both sides, and the remaining dozen or so puppet troops below also struggled to block them. .

When the puppet troops at the foot of the mountain finished dealing with their opponents, more than 10 light machine guns were fired. Nearly 200 puppet troops fired randomly, and the Chinese on the mountain threw grenades at them. The dozens of tightly surrounded Japanese troops were like steel bars. Tiegu will not survive either.

Seeing that the Chinese army on the mountain was so cooperative, Zheng Yunqiu, who originally planned to send someone to communicate with the Chinese army, risked his life. Even though he knew that his head was on the list of 'Tuba', he actually went to the Chinese position in person.

As he expected, the Eightyth Group Army felt that he was more useful alive than dead. After nearly half an hour of communication between Zheng Yunqiu and Lao Abacus, the specific agreement was unknown, but at least one item had been determined. Zheng Yunqiu would Donate 20 yuan in cash to the Guangping Division of the Eightyth Army to serve as military expenses.

Of course, if the old abacus could know that this product was worth a thousand taels of gold when exported from Kuroda Saburo, he would definitely regret that the 20 yuan was less.

In this day and age, what kind of business can be robbed so quickly? Battalion Commander Zheng, the culprit in Guangping County, is not only famous for robbing his family from his own business, but also from his family in the west. With the support of the Japanese, several wealthy families in Guangping County were almost emptied of their wealth by this guy in order to seek safety.

However, Lao Baanpan is not afraid that this guy will default on his debt or not cooperate in the future. As for the battle at Bauhinia Mountain, as long as the wind is released, the Japanese will definitely doubt. Can Zheng Yunqiu guarantee that the remaining 200 people can withstand the torture? Even if they have Japanese blood on their hands.

Zheng Yunqiu was indeed a ruthless man. When leaving the Chinese position, he specifically asked the Chinese to shoot him in the arm with Liao Zao Thirteen. Because the equipment of his security camp was all captured by the Japanese army, it was quite complicated. The rifles and equipment included Hanyang-made, medium-formal, and 38-type large caps. There were also pistols such as shell guns, Southern Fourteeners, and Luger pistols, but only the Liao-made pistols were available. Thirteen no.

A shot with a Liao-made Thirteen Rifle is obviously more convincing.

Lao Abacus complied with his request. After he walked a hundred meters away, he asked Yang Bicheng to aim at Zheng Yunqiu's arm and shoot him. The wound caused in this way was more in line with his temperament as a brave commander of the attacking side.

Sure enough, when the Japanese military medical officer pretended to dig out the warhead for him, he made a ballistic analysis and determined that it was a gun shot from a long distance and was definitely not a self-inflicted wound. This completely cleared him of suspicion.

Of course, Kuroda Saburo was more suspicious that this guy was injuring himself to win sympathy, but he never thought that this guy just gritted his teeth and stamped his feet and killed nearly a hundred infantrymen of the Imperial Japanese Empire. Here he was given a thousand taels of gold. , but there was another 20 yuan given to the th Army as military expenses.

It can only be said that Zheng Yunqiu is so bad that he has sores on his head and runny feet.

But for the 80th Army and the Four Lines Regiment, using fire to fight fire with fire was a good way to deal with the Japanese.

Soon, it was determined that the Battle of Bauhinia Mountain was due to Lieutenant Kiyomichi Yamamoto's excessive bravery, which resulted in the death of all his own troops, and because Zheng Yunqiu promised to donate a thousand taels of gold after the war to the families of those who died in the battle, Saburo Kuroda finally Still didn't take his anger out on Zheng Yunqiu.

However, perhaps because he was upset when he saw Zheng Yunqiu and the dejected security forces of No. 200, Saburo Kuroda gave Zheng Yunqiu a task to transport the remains of those who died on the front line back to Guangping County, including those left on the slopes of Zijing Mountain. He would send people to collect the remains. The team went to carry it on the hillside.

It was already May, and the weather was already a bit hot. He believed that the Chinese were not willing to let these corpses stay on the battlefield, otherwise the smell of decaying corpses could make people faint.

The first half of Saburo Kuroda's vision was correct. Wei Donglai agreed to the Japanese request and allowed the Japanese corpse collection team without any weapons to approach 80 meters in front of the position to collect corpses. The Chinese officers and soldiers were responsible for those within 80 meters. Move the body over.

This is not because of any international rules or morality, but because the temperature in May has exceeded 5 degrees, and the body will decompose in just one night. Needless to say, the stench is so high that even those who can smoke it will not be able to take a bite in a day. Rice, and more importantly, the overwhelming mosquitoes and flies caused by carrion will also bring various diseases.

Even if the Japanese don't come to collect the corpses, the Chinese will send people to throw them further away at night.

But the corpse transport team arranged by Saburo Kuroda chose the wrong person. There were more than a hundred corpses in it, but they had caused it themselves.

What's even more terrible is that as early as an hour ago, Wei Donglai was keenly aware of a key point that could quickly end this battle.

The security forces driving the carriage encountered a strong man wearing a simple waistcoat three kilometers away from the county seat.

The security forces, who have always been vicious towards the common people, not only did not dare to yell at the other party after his identity was revealed, but were instead personally received by Battalion Commander Zheng.

Although Battalion Commander Zheng's face turned pale after the strong man left, he could only order the whole battalion to rest for half an hour in accordance with the strong man's request.

It wasn't until the sky was getting dark that they continued to set off with the security camp. However, the number of people in the security camp had grown from less than 200 to 230.

When entering the city gate, the Japanese infantry team leader responsible for defending the city gate did a symbolic inspection and stood far away with his nose covered.

The stench of sweat and blood on the bodies of more than 200 security troops can be smelled from a distance of more than ten meters, but compared with the strong smell of death emanating from the corpses piled in more than carriages, it is simply better. It smells terrible.

What's more, the message that the security forces were responsible for transporting the corpses was sent to the regiment headquarters by Major Saburo Kuroda's frontline headquarters. What could be wrong?

Colonel Jiro Kikukawa looked at the corpses of nearly 300 Japanese infantry, his face extremely ugly. This was the first day, and more than one-tenth of the more than 2000 imperial troops had been lost. Those who didn't know thought he was leading the regiment to participate in another battle. It's a big battle!

But the other side is just a group of 'Tuba'! After the war, if there were not thousands or even tens of thousands of Chinese corpses as the result of the war, the "War of Ember" launched by his leadership would have been a huge defeat.

As a result, the face of the unfortunate child Zheng Yunqiu, whose head was covered with bandages and was already pitiful, quickly became red and swollen. If he didn't slap his only punching bag five or six times, he would not be able to live up to the shining rank of Colonel Jiro Kikukawa.

As everyone knows, it would be better not to draw. Zheng Yunqiu originally planned to bring 30 people into the city to pay for the 200th Army. There are still 30 Japanese troops in the city. people want to make a difference in the county. That is really too much. .

But after this attack, Zheng Yunqiu simply broke the jar and told Mr. Long about a secret tunnel he had dug in the city that led to the outside of the city.

That was the escape route that Zheng Yunqiu had left for himself long ago. Whether it was the Japanese or the Eightyth Army who wanted his life, this route was 600 meters long, with one end exiting in the hidden woods outside the city, and the other end at the other end 200 meters away from the city wall. In a dilapidated small building, the old couple living in it were greatly favored by his father in the early years and are the only people Zheng Yunqiu can trust now.

Of course, these were just Zheng Yunqiu's words. Even Long Yan, who didn't know him well, didn't completely believe his lies.

The cunning rabbit still has three holes. How could a person as selfish as Zheng Yunqiu leave only one escape route for himself?

But this tunnel has solved a big problem in Longyan.

The three elite infantry platoons, the mountain infantry platoon, the reconnaissance platoon, and the guard platoon, ran 10 miles in 140 hours, and all arrived at the Panzhai battlefield at 11 o'clock yesterday.

But Wei Donglai did not put them into the battlefield immediately. Instead, he held these 230 elites in his hands as a reserve force and did not use them until this morning.

After finishing all this, Zheng Yunqiu was as busy as a donkey. He and the remnants of the security army only had a meal and rested for two hours in the county town. At 11 o'clock in the evening, he led the entire battalion to escort a Japanese army baggage team. and supplies set out for the Panzhai front line.

That was the order of Kikukawa Jiro. Kuroda Saburo looked at the security forces, but Kikukawa Jiro had no troops left under his command. This 60-man baggage team was the last force that he, a dignified infantry commander, could use. .

But a mere 60 people went walking at night, and the risk factor was extremely high, so they could only use the security troops who had just returned from the front line as the donkeys of the production team.

The big mouths that Zheng Yunqiu suffered were actually foreshadowing this. No matter how aggressive the dogs were, they would basically be honest!

Who knows how happy the donkeys of the production team are at this moment? As soon as dozens of capable men sneak into the queue, anyone with any sense knows that there will definitely be no peace in the city tonight. Who will stay in this land of right and wrong? It's courting death.

What are you afraid of if you are a little tired or miserable? Living is the last word!

The donkeys of the production team set off again with full energy, which impressed the second-line soldiers of the Japanese army's baggage team. It would be great if the Chinese people were so cooperative.

Little did they know, the little donkeys who had just killed a hundred Japanese regular troops looked at them like they were looking at a bunch of evil pens. (End of this chapter)