The Republic of Heroes

Honma Yuichi prayed for a quarter of an hour, an hour, two hours, until the sound of the gunfire gradually subsided, and the friendly army he was looking forward to still couldn't step over the scarred city wall of the county town.In any case, he couldn't figure out how the Chinese people blocked the brave and fearless Imperial Army under the city wall, or he was wondering why the Imperial Army couldn't even defeat these hopeless Chinese troops.

Have you been repulsed?Although Yuichi Honma did not believe this was true, the facts told him that the Ninth Division had indeed suspended its attack.The Chinese officer, no, the Chinese general, according to China's military rank, this person is a lieutenant general, came to him and started a conversation with him.

Soon, Yuichi Honma realized that this was not a conversation, but an interrogation of him.

After having a few more footprints on his body, enduring the pain in his body and suppressing the humiliation of being visited as a monkey, he began to try to answer Lieutenant General China's question.In other words, he began to try to surrender, to his inner fear, to his desire to live.

Because just before the battle started, he witnessed how the Chinese officers executed his subordinates.The surviving soldiers who had no class were driven to the edge of the city wall, and then the Chinese soldiers pulled the triggers of their submachine guns without hesitation, beating the imperial soldiers who had put down their weapons into plugs, and then the soldiers who had turned into corpses fell to the ground one after another. under the city.In this way, they even saved the effort to clean up the corpse.

Honma Yuichi understood at that time that the reason why he was not executed and survived was not because of his fate, but because of his rank of commander.It seems that in the eyes of the Chinese people, they are not as good as monkeys.

Although he has studied Chinese, he really can't understand that kind of Chinese with obscure dialects.Even though he had made up his mind to give in at this time, he tried hard to answer the question, but he really didn't understand what the lieutenant general was asking.Therefore, he did not understand what he meant by gestures, and asked the other party to speak slowly.But just like that, he was misunderstood by the Chinese soldiers, thinking that he was just a cunning confrontation.There are a few more shoe prints on the chest and back.

In Honma Yuichi's impression, most of the squadrons are equipped with a few Japanese-speaking translators, but for some reason this unit doesn't have any, obviously communication is a problem, and they are still talking endlessly there.Wouldn't it be enough to find a Japanese translator?But he is a prisoner, and a prisoner has no right to speak, even if he asks, no one will pay attention.Even if it was ignored, the staff officers under Zhang Zhonglin who were proficient in Japanese also died in the battle.

Zhang Zhonglin was amazed at the weakness and cooperation of this Japanese chief. In his impression, the Japanese army, from soldiers to officers, were all stubborn and hardcore elements. Da Zuo cooperates like this.

In fact, he didn't have any necessary information to get out of the chief officer's mouth. The so-called interrogation was just a flexible means to maintain the morale of his subordinates.The Japanese army's attack was very violent, and the reason why they retreated temporarily was that they did not want to cause unnecessary losses by storming a county.He believes that the Japanese army will attack again soon, and it will be more violent.And his officers and soldiers should also realize that everyone has fallen into a desperate situation at this moment. Although it is a bit shameful to ridicule a senior officer of the Japanese army, it can dispel the tension and depression brought about by the soldiers.

"Your rank, unit number, name..."

"..."

"How many of you are here, and who is the commander?"

"..."

"Are you deaf?"

"..."

Zhang Zhonglin can clearly see that the Japanese commander is obviously trying his best to cater to the questions of his subordinates, but his Chinese level is really too poor. This subordinate is a native of Shandong. In basic Mandarin, it's not to the point where it's unrecognizable.

"I, call, Honma, Yuichi..."

The blunt Chinese word by word finally popped out a few complete phonetic sounds.In fact, Honma Yuichi didn't understand the questioning officer, but felt that those people might not understand if he just said that he didn't understand. If he took the initiative to explain his situation, he would always get their understanding. .

Sure enough, when Honma Yuichi stuttered to explain his name and position in Chinese, several Chinese police officers finally stopped kicking him, but took out the small notebook that he carried with him, and began to record the basic situation he explained. .

In fact, there is nothing to remember, it is nothing more than his name and the division he belongs to, his regiment number, and the position of a regiment captain.

Zhang Zhonglin thought to himself: This guy really is a regimental captain. I didn't expect to be so lucky that he captured a regiment captain of the Japanese army.He had guessed a lot when he found out that the other party was wearing the rank of Chief Commander, but in fact he still had doubts, maybe it was the other party's senior staff officer!

If what this guy said is true, then he really needs to be well protected, this is a rare commodity!

Da da da……

"Traveler, the little devil is charging up again..."

Neiji Okamura really didn't give him much time, and quickly assembled his troops and rushed forward.

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Kuribayashi Tadamichi rushed to Jinan overnight in the dark, and his journey was extremely smooth. Although he resisted occasionally, he was not an opponent at all.But in a county called Linzi, he unexpectedly encountered stubborn resistance, or it was not called resistance, but a frantic interception.

What made him even more dumbfounded was that this interception force was obviously not a regular Chinese army, because a large part of the soldiers participating in the interception battle did not even have military uniforms.This should be the so-called militia in China!

Tadamichi Kuribayashi originally wanted to order all the cavalry to ignore these overreaching Chinese, but considering that Miyake Miyake who followed up was an infantry soldier and had already consumed a lot of physical strength during the hasty march, if they were to deal with it, they would probably have to pay. unnecessary casualties.

How about taking these people to try the fighting power of the imperial cavalry, the cavalry has a natural advantage over the infantry, not to mention the mob who are not even regular troops.

This unit is indeed not a regular army that belongs to the battle order of the Shandong Army of the Republic of China, but its weaponry and training are not inferior to the regular army in the slightest.This is the local security brigade in Linzi County. Because it is the place where Wu Xiaoliang made his fortune in Shandong, it has received strong support from Vice Chairman Zhu Wusheng who is in charge of the actual work of the province in terms of manpower and material resources.

Moreover, the brigadier of the security brigade also has a lot of background. The grandson's grandson, Sun Baiguang, who was devoted to opposing Wu Xiaoliang at the beginning, thought he had lost power, and if he could save his life, it would be a good thing to burn, but he was ordered by the provincial chairman to use it. Appointed as the head of the security team of Linzi County.

Sun Baiguang's confrontation with Wu Xiaoliang earlier was nothing more than to keep the family business. Now his status is even three points lower than that of Chairman Jiang.So get to work harder than ever.