Rise From Eight Hundred

The commander of the 36th Infantry Brigade, Mitsuru Ushijima, was the man who made Sadao Ushijima feel a little bit happy.

Because, compared to the increasingly brief battle reports sent by his 18th Division to the 10th Army Headquarters, the battle reports of the 36th Infantry Brigade had almost never changed.

On November 12, the enemy was pursued!

In the early morning of November 13, the enemy was attacked!

On November 13, the enemy was pursued!

In the early morning of November 14, the enemy was attacked!

Although this battle report was not expressed in many words, it contained countless complex human emotions. Not to mention that Yanagawa Heisuke, the commander of the 10th Army and the acting commander of the 6th Division, was so angry that his head was smoking, even Sakai Tokutaro, Kunisaki Shigeharu, Suematsu Shigeharu and other Japanese generals who were dozens of kilometers away in Kunshan wanted to shed bitter tears for this colleague.

What kind of Chinese army did our 10th Empire Army encounter!

However, there is no empathy in this world. No one can understand the frustration and helplessness of this Japanese Army Major General except Ushijima Mitsuru himself.

Because the battle report he reported was just the tip of the iceberg of the difficulties he and his entire infantry brigade encountered.

During the day, the 36th Infantry Brigade followed the reconnaissance intelligence of the Navy reconnaissance aircraft forwarded by the Tenth Army Headquarters and chased the thousands of Chinese who were fleeing frantically. There is nothing wrong with this, it is an absolute pursuit.

However, the attack described in the battle report did not only occur at night when rest was needed.

During the day, it was also the time period when several Chinese were active.

Yes, that's right, the army that could be lined up for ten miles was attacked by just a few Chinese.

Moreover, it was in broad daylight.

If possible, Ushijima Mitsuru would also like to shout to the sky: Is there justice? Is there still justice?

But, the fact happened just like this.

Unfortunately, the 36th Infantry Brigade may be the first unit in this era to be targeted and harassed by special forces.

During the pursuit of the Chinese, those few hateful Chinese were like a thorn in the flesh, always following the army and attacking it at any time.

Sometimes, they would hide on a hill more than a mile away and shoot a few cold shots, and they would specifically shoot at people with high ranks.

The Japanese army was equipped with many grenade launchers that could have formed a sufficient attack on cold shooters, but the distance of 500 meters was already the limit of the accurate throwing of grenade launchers. Beyond that, they would just shoot blindly.

The infantry guns had enough attack power and attack distance, but by the time the infantry gunners pushed out the guns and aimed according to the direction described by the infantry, the murderers had already fled and no one knew where they were hiding.

As for the brave Japanese infantry of the "strongest division on the surface of the earth", it took three minutes to run 600 meters fully armed, and it was easy to get their balls hurt if they ran too fast.

The few hateful Chinese not only had the ability to shoot accurately at a long distance, but the machine guns they were equipped with were also terrifying and creepy.

A long burst of fire from hundreds of meters away, dozens of bullets sprayed in a few seconds made all the infantrymen involved in the pursuit crawl collectively, but at least four or five of them would never be able to stand up again in their lives.

And the only mountain artillery cluster that could deal with them seemed to be seven or eight miles away from the infantry army. By the time they set up the artillery, the opportunity would have been cold.

Even if the infantrymen rushed forward fearlessly under the urging of officers at all levels, it would be useless.

Those Chinese even had time to completely clear the traces of their escape, making it impossible for the experienced scouts to chase them.

In fact, they left traces. If the troops were less than an infantry squadron, not many scouts would dare to chase them. The tragic situation of a certain infantry squadron participating in the pursuit at night with a casualty rate of more than 50% was still dozens of hours ago! Who dares not take it as a warning?

In one day, such similar attacks actually occurred three times, making the 36th Infantry Brigade nervous from top to bottom.

Even when they were marching quickly, they looked around, fearing that they would lose their lives inexplicably.

But as the saying goes, "I am not afraid of thieves stealing, but I am afraid of thieves thinking about them." The "thieves" who are thinking about them are not only brave, but their subordinates are also very hardworking. Whenever there is an attack, someone will die.

However, as the list of casualties came out, the nervous hearts of ordinary Japanese infantrymen were somewhat relieved.

The Chinese who participated in the attack had sharp eyes, and the targets they were looking for were all officers.

In the three attacks that took place during the day on the first day, ordinary infantrymen had nothing to do with it. Three Japanese captains and a Japanese major lost their lives. There was also an army lieutenant colonel who was shot in the chest, perhaps because Amaterasu finally appeared, but he survived miraculously because his heart was naturally tilted to the right.

Although he was also seriously injured, at least he didn't add another person to the list of casualties.

For this reason, Ushijima Mitsuru, who wanted to duel with the attackers with his saber in his hand, had to order the entire army, including himself, that all generals and lieutenants were not allowed to wear dark green woolen general and lieutenant uniforms, nor were they allowed to wear rank shoulder straps, white gloves, long leather boots, and command swords, which were all three sets of pretentiousness, and they were not allowed to ride horses during the march.

Those who rode horses were likely to become Tang Monk, a big piece of fat meat in the eyes of attackers hiding in the wilderness.

As a result, the 36th Infantry Brigade became the most integrated team of officers and soldiers in the history of the Japanese Army. Including Ushijima Mitsuru, all generals and lieutenants were like ordinary big-headed soldiers, wearing steel helmets, big-headed leather shoes, carrying bedding backpacks, and measuring the land of China with their big feet.

In the autumn wind in southeast China, the Japanese Army Major General, who had not done any physical training since he was promoted to colonel several years ago, was exhausted.

Like a dog!

China, why is it so big?

I am afraid this is the most real thought of the Japanese officers who dream of vast land. On the main island, they would have run from one county to another in one day.

But here, it is just a wasteland of a Chinese county.

Thousands of Chinese are playing hide-and-seek with them in this wasteland with a radius of more than 100 kilometers. If there are no naval reconnaissance planes, they may come back and attack at any time!

On several hills along the way, the Chinese left simple trenches.

Dig this while escaping, and his mind is known without asking.

This is not an ordinary Chinese army. How can Ushijima Mitsuru not be on high alert for the Chinese army more than ten kilometers away with a cold sweat on his forehead?

However, thousands of Chinese did not play any counterattacks, but he was depressed by a few Chinese.

If he was just forced to walk, it would be fine, but those hateful Chinese probably tried to find out that he didn't have many cavalry on hand.

On the second day, they were no longer satisfied with just shooting cold guns. They even carried that damn mortar with a range of up to 2,800 meters.

When they knew that a gun might fire at a carriage loaded with shells, how big would the shadow in the hearts of the soldiers of the infantry battalions and artillery squadrons be? No one knew except themselves.

Just as his colleagues could only sympathize with him, Major General Ushijima Mitsuru could not empathize with them.

Anyway, since a mortar shell from the wilderness exploded five meters away from a carriage loaded with shells, the Japanese soldiers who had flammable and explosive materials around them, whether they were baggage soldiers or artillery soldiers, had pale faces.

If you don't know, you might think they are Western mercenaries!

Whenever they rested, there was absolutely no one around the carriages and cars loaded with ammunition within a hundred meters. The baggage soldiers responsible for transportation always praised Amaterasu for blessing before eating with pale faces before carrying their lunch boxes.

God knows, when will those damned "blood-sucking mosquitoes" fire another round? Will they hit the ammunition transporter?

Yes, if the Japanese army is a strong buffalo, then the Tang Dao, Niu Er, Hei Zi, and Xia Dayu who keep attacking are at best a few blood-sucking mosquitoes.

They are not fatal, but this kind of unpredictable occasionally jumping out to suck a few mouthfuls of blood from a certain "cow" not only makes the "cow" very annoyed

but also very painful.

Both the mind and the body are doubly tortured.

But this is only during the day, compared to the night attack reported by Ushijima Man.

This is nothing.

Really, it's nothing.