Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 403
The setting sun is setting!

Yanagawa Heisuke stood at the head of the bridge that had been blown up by explosives, his eyes 'blurred'.

It was already an hour after he arrived at the bank of the Suzhou River.

The powerful lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army was not fascinated by the red clouds in the late autumn in the south of the Yangtze River in China, nor was he proud of the tranquility of the rows of soldiers entering the river with great momentum.

Rather, after his intuition was proved to be wrong, he actually had a sense of emptiness that his body was being hollowed out.

It was a really weird feeling.

There is the anger of being deceived, the faint frustration of being unable to control the enemy, and an unspeakable fear.

The Chinese on the other side of the river had already run away, and before his army gathered, and the three artillery regiments set up 130 artillery pieces to prepare for a full blow, all of them had run away.

The four infantry squadrons with their heads pinned to their waistbands again landed on the other side of the river without losing a single man.

A large number of simple trenches and machine gun fortifications that were too late to be knocked down proved that Ushidoman's previous judgment was correct. At least thousands of Chinese troops had existed along the destroyed bridge for more than ten miles.

But after concentrating a large amount of heavy firepower and severely teaching the 36th Infantry Brigade, they left without hesitation.

This made all the generals of the Tenth Army, who were trying to 'beat' the Chinese hard, feel ashamed.

Especially Yanagawa Hirasuke, who is the supreme commander.

He was played hard by the Chinese, causing the 36th Infantry Brigade to waste more than two hours on the river bank, although he also knew that if only the 36th Infantry Brigade crossed the river, the Chinese on the opposite side might not If you go, you will definitely give a strong enough counterattack.

Let the 36th Infantry Brigade pay more than 50.00% of the battle damage or even more, that is the only way he can drag the Chinese on the battlefield.

But even if he had this choice at the time, Yanagawa Heisuke didn't know if he could make up his mind.

The 13th Infantry Brigade, which belongs to the Sixth Division, has suffered heavy losses under Songjiang City. If the 36th Infantry Brigade is used as cannon fodder, under his command, the powerful army with the "strongest division on the surface of the earth" in the empire will be defeated. Half disabled, the base camp's evaluation of him will undoubtedly drop sharply.

Therefore, suppressing the "sorrow" that kept surging up in his heart, His Excellency Lieutenant General Yanagawa ordered: all infantry troops of the army should immediately find shallows to cross the river, and engineers should try their best to build pontoon bridges for the passage of baggage, artillery and other arms.

The seemingly calm military order restored the inevitably low morale of ordinary soldiers, but perhaps only the lieutenant general of the Japanese army who stood on the bank of the bridge and watched all this knew that he was actually very melancholy.

This piece of land that he once thought could be conquered at will seemed to have become mysterious, which made his extremely firm determination to annihilate the enemy army shaken for a while.

What was even more frightening was that, looking into the distance, the Japanese lieutenant general once again had an intuition that the land across the river was in danger.

Although his reason told him that this was absurd to ridiculous feeling.

Not to mention the nearly 10,000 troops under his command, the infantry that had landed on the river bank at this time already had as many as two infantry brigades, and more than [-] troops had already marched in the mountains with a width of ten miles.

Who else can pose a threat to him, a general in the army?
Perhaps it is the psychological shadow caused by the continuous loss of control over the battlefield!The Japanese lieutenant general can only attribute this strange intuition to the cracks in once impregnable confidence.

However, Yanagawa Hirasuke still chose to trust his intuition this time.

It seems that Hisao Gu, the dead ghost, was also shot and killed by the Chinese under the protection of the army.

Moreover, it is the battlefield that I think is already safe.

Two days before the fall of Songjiang, the personnel responsible for investigating the cause of Hisao Tani's death went through countless simulations and finally determined that the Chinese who killed Hisao Tani was lurking on the battlefield about 300 meters away from Hisao Tani.

The remains of his own soldiers who died in battle were his only disguise, and then he shot and killed Tani Hisao who walked out of the headquarters.

However, how the Chinese judged and recognized Hisao Tani from a long distance has always been a difficult mystery. Perhaps, the information of all the generals of the Tenth Army has been leaked?

Chinese intelligence agencies are so powerful?Thinking of this, Yanagawa Heisuke, who had already quietly removed his lieutenant general star epaulets, felt chills all over his body.

He placed his army headquarters south of the Baihegang Bridge, before night fell.

But this time, Yanagawa Hirasuke's intuition saved him, along with many of his subordinates.

Lei Xiong, who has always been unruly, is currently rushing to the front away from the river bank with the advance army with a sad face.

It was not because of the tens of thousands of Japanese invaders who were madly chasing the advance regiment behind them.

Instead, Major Lei, who had only brought more than 200 people at most, became the supreme commander of a troop with more than 3000 people half an hour ago.

This made Lei Xiong, who had an unruly personality, couldn't help but feel uneasy.

"I've never led more than 200 soldiers, I'm afraid I can't!" During the march, Lei Xiong was secretly recruited by Tang Dao to the headquarters, and after hearing that he was about to replace Tang Dao in command of the entire army, he almost hit the ground.

"Are you panicking? That general was born to be a general? You forgot that when I first arrived at Sixing Warehouse, I was just a big soldier, and I was also an unidentified big soldier whose head fell to the ground. I especially Why can't you, a veteran who has been in the army for ten years, not be able to do it?" Tang Dao 'comforted' Lei Xiong like this before leaving. "Believe in yourself, you can do it."

雷雄
It seems to be such a reason. The rise of Tang Dao is only half a month away, so I should be able to do it.

"Damn it, I've been fooled!" Lei Xiong, who kept receiving requests and orders from various ministries during the march, suddenly realized at this moment.

This is completely two concepts when the company commander leads a 200 people and when the commander of more than thousands of infantry regiments.

Especially at this moment when every decision of his is related to the lives of thousands of people, it is simply deadly!
Tang Dao can do it, but it really doesn't mean that everyone can do it.

But there is no regret medicine in the world, no matter how his head is about to explode, Lei Xiong at this time can only drive the duck to the shelf and grit his teeth.

Fortunately, Tang Dao had already planned the marching route on the map.

As long as he follows this route, he will basically not make any big mistakes.

More importantly, the victory over the Japanese aircraft formation in the wilderness in the morning and the subsequent military law of leniency and strictness have completely established Tang Dao's position in this temporary formation.

Even if he temporarily handed over the command to Lei Xiong, the whole army would not obey.

Although most people don't know what Tang Dao wants to do!Only a few people in the entire advance team knew that he was going to take risks again, and Tantai Mingyue was going to worry again.

Yes, as the supreme commander of the advance regiment, Tang Dao quietly left with Niu Er and Xia Dayu after night fell.

A cavalry squad from the cavalry battalion two miles away from the main force of the advance regiment was also led by Lu Sanjiang, who was beaten to a bloody mess on his back by the military law, and separated from the main force of the cavalry.

Lu Sanjiang's face was both excited and nervous.

Excitedly, Chief Tang, who imposed strict military laws on him just this morning, had great trust in him and personally ordered him to perform the task.

What is tense is that this is an extremely dangerous mission, even far more dangerous than his previous cruising and investigation in the Songjiang wilderness.

But last time, no matter how dangerous it was, the old squad leader was by his side.

This time, no more.

What made the young cavalry squad leader so nervous that his face was a little stiff was that the completion of the mission was not only related to the safety of him and the six cavalry comrades under his command.

And the Supreme Commander of the whole army.

"Brother! I know, you will still look at me, even in the sky!" Glancing at the gradually darkening sky, the young cavalry squad leader rubbed his stiff face, and lightly kicked the horse's belly: "drive!"

Six Chinese cavalrymen, carrying two horses with empty saddles, disappeared into the night forest.

(End of this chapter)