Rise From Eight Hundred

The morning of June 5, 1938, is definitely a morning that can be recorded in Chinese history.

The streets of Jiangxia, a major city!

Countless newsboys are shouting in the streets: "Great victory in the battlefields of North China, Shanxi and Southeast China!"

There are already few newspapers left in the newspaper bags they carry across their shoulders, but the newsboys are still excited and shouting loudly on the streets.

The sparse office workers did not hesitate to take out their cash to buy the few newspapers, but the people huddled under the buildings and in front of the shops showed more numbness.

This is not the first time that the government's propaganda has won. In Jinling and many cities, they have cheered for this, but what is the result? From Songhu to Jinling and then to northern Jiangsu, the iron hoofs of the Japanese army are approaching, their homes are gone, and those who want to keep their homes are massacred by the Japanese. Even if they fled to Jiangxia, there is no roof and no land, and the Japanese troops are still approaching step by step. Where can they escape to? Is it the southwest full of mountains? Or the south facing the sea?

Yes, the war that lasted for nearly a year almost destroyed the hopes of the refugees who had no place to live and no food to eat. For them, the so-called great victory was not as practical as giving them a bowl of porridge.

War is like endless darkness, which makes people in it dare not imagine when dawn will come.

But, after all, there are still some people who live in darkness but still look forward to light.

Otherwise, this nation will fall into darkness forever!

"Zebra, kidnappers, come and see, the kidnappers in the second war zone are really strong! Not only did they smash the heavy siege of the Japanese, but they also killed a mixed brigade of the Japanese. The most amazing thing is that they also captured a brigade commander of a major general alive." The exclamation of a Jiangxia local was like a thunder, which finally added a trace of emotion to the eyes of the numb refugees.

That emotion is called surprise.

In all previous victory propaganda, it was always said that our army fought bravely and killed many enemies in this battle, but the final outcome was that our army retreated victoriously and a large area of ​​the country became enemy-occupied areas. But this time, a sudden army emerged and not only killed a brigade of the enemy, but also captured an enemy major general alive?

Does this mean that the situation on the battlefield has changed?

If people want to live, they must have a hope. The refugees who fled thousands of miles to Jiangxia wanted to return to their hometown all the time. The reversal of the war situation was their biggest hope.

Yes, in the hearts of this group of Chinese people, winning a battle was not as shocking as capturing an enemy general alive.

Because, since the war started in July last year, China has lost countless generals in the war, but the Japanese army has very few, let alone capturing them alive. That was the first time in history.

The whole lifeless street came alive because of the voice of this Jiangxia local.

People surrounded those who had newspapers in their hands, begging them to read the news about the battlefield at least a thousand kilometers away from them.

The senior officers of the Second War Zone Command and the Ministry of Military Affairs, who had already retreated to the other side of the Yellow River, also had smiles on their faces.

The annihilation of the Second Mixed Brigade was determined to be a matter of time two days ago, but what these senior generals did not expect was that in addition to killing thousands of Japanese invaders, they could also capture the Second Mixed Brigade Major General Yamamoto.

That was not all. When the 17th Division and the 104th Division, which were resting in the mountains, began to march to the combat area of ​​the 80th Army and the 16th Division, the Japanese army finally couldn't hold it anymore. On the morning of June 3, they began to gradually withdraw to the rear. By the next day, according to reconnaissance, the main force of the Japanese army had retreated by more than half, and it was basically possible to declare the victory of the defense of southeastern Shanxi.

However, the old man from Shanxi, who had always wanted to prove himself, became cautious this time. He waited for another day to confirm that the three Japanese armies were all retreating, and then he sent a telegram to the Ministry of Military Affairs at dusk on June 4 to report.

Therefore, the Ministry of Military Affairs prepared an article overnight, requiring all domestic newspapers and radio stations to announce the victory of the Southeast Shanxi Campaign to the whole country in the morning of the next day.

Although the two sides invested only 200,000 troops in this battle, which lasted only half a month, it was a small battle compared to the previous large-scale battles such as the Battle of Shanghai, the Battle of Nanjing, and the Battle of Xuzhou, which often invested hundreds of thousands or even millions of troops and fought for months.

However, this battle was extremely important in terms of strategy, as it was related to whether the Shanxi Province would not be completely occupied by the Japanese army, whether the last barrier in northern China could be successfully defended, and even whether the Guanzhong Plain and the important areas in the southwest would not be threatened.

In addition, capturing the Second Mixed Brigade Major General Yamamoto alive was a heavy blow to the Japanese North China Front Army.

Even if you think with your butt, you can know how uneasy Shanshan Yuan, the new commander of the North China Front Army and the leader of this battle, was.

A certain elder was so excited that he even sent a congratulatory message to the old man from Shanxi, the commander of the Second War Zone, and the general manager of the 80th Army Group, praising them for their excellent coordination and command in the Southeast Shanxi Campaign, and promised to personally award them the Blue Sky Medal.

You know, those two were once the thorns in the eyes of this elder, and he wanted to kill them as soon as possible. Now he has to personally go to award them precious medals, which shows how important the victory of this battle is to the principal.

It was like a shot of cardiotonic for a dying person! It was even more exciting than the victory of the Battle of Taierzhuang.

The biggest factor was the capture of the unlucky child Yamamoto.

This actually originated from the bloody battle of 5VS48!

Hammer and Guaiguai killed the last two Japanese infantrymen, but there were actually four Japanese grenade throwers in the distance. As a rule of thumb, as long as the four Japanese grenade throwers who still had a few grenades mustered up the courage to fire those grenades, they could have become the final winners of this battlefield.

Unfortunately, after they watched a pig and a dog attack the last two infantrymen on their side crazily and succeeded, their last bit of courage disappeared.

They ran away, not even caring about the brigade commander who was on a stretcher behind the stone.

Of course, several soldiers who were only at the rank of sergeant would never dare to use a grenade thrower to smash the unconscious brigade commander's head to show their loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor.

Then, the Chinese infantrymen who came running over completely took control of the battlefield and sent two three-person teams to chase the last remnants of the Japanese army who had jumped into the mountains and forests in their sight.

For Wei Donglai at that time, all his thoughts were on how to rescue his three soldiers. He would not pay attention to the few escaped devils and send soldiers to chase them, just to prevent the Japanese army from making a comeback and attacking them, which would be embarrassing.

The soldiers who searched the Japanese positions soon found Yamawen Wen lying on a stretcher. Although Yamawen Wen was the commander of the brigade, he was not wearing his woolen major general uniform after being seriously injured, and it was even more impossible for him to have "I am a major general of the army" written on his face. The Chinese soldiers naturally didn't know who he was, but at this time the Japanese still carried him on a stretcher. It was obvious that his status would never be low.

Wei Donglai and the second lieutenant of the army were in a good mood because the medical soldiers rescued Tu Dou and Yang Bicheng to have heartbeats and breathing. They didn't use this seriously injured and unconscious Japanese "big man" as a sacrifice. Otherwise, there was a 90% chance that Yamawen Wen would be killed by a group of angry Chinese soldiers.

At that time, let alone there was nothing to prove that he was a major general of the army, even if he held up his officer certificate and said that he was willing to curse his emperor in public, the Chinese soldiers would probably chop off his head and put it in front of the brothers who died in the battle as a sacrifice.

In a sense, Yamamoto probably had to thank the two Chinese medical soldiers. They saved the lives of two Chinese soldiers and indirectly helped him prolong his life.

In order to find out the identity of this "big shot", Wei Donglai rarely asked the two infantry squad leaders who led the team into the mountains to pursue to stay alive.

Several Japanese grenade throwers who fled into the mountains did not even have guns. What's more, there was a dog and a pig in the Chinese search team.

Guaiguai, this wild boar once again showed the officers and soldiers of the Four Lines Regiment that adopting it was not just because of its ability to bite people. Its sense of smell was even stronger than the hammer that unlocked the ancestral genes.

Almost without taking a detour, he led several soldiers to the Japanese hiding place. The Japanese grenade thrower who was forced into a desperate situation took the risk of hanging himself under a cliff. The support point of his whole body was the rock less than the size of a basin under his feet. It was unknown whether he could come up. Even the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment who were hunters were dumbfounded by the top-level method of "hide and seek".

Even with such a whimsical idea and risking everything, the poor Japanese child still didn't expect that the other side would have a wild boar with a nose more sensitive than a dog to help him catch him alive.

The surviving Japanese infantry could only bet on the Chinese's promise not to kill him. Naturally, Yamamoto's identity was exposed. Tang Dao, who was personally leading the medical company and military doctors to the mountainous area, received this surprising news.

Yes, Tang Dao was only surprised, not happy. His two soldiers were still fighting against the god of death. A mere Japanese Army Major General, was it worth him to smile?

At Tang Dao's instruction, the seriously injured Shan Wenwen was rebandaged and given medicine, but surgery was out of the question. Tang Dao said, "What's so great about a little Japanese major general? No matter how important he is, the lives of my brothers in the Four Lines Regiment are more important."

The three military doctors who entered the mountain with Tang Dao performed surgery on Tu Dou and Yang Bicheng on the spot. For this purpose, the entire battalion selected 30 strong men to donate blood for the two men, successfully pulling them back from the hands of death.

But Shan Wenwen was not so lucky. Not only did he not have surgery, his hands and feet were tied to a stretcher, and gauze was stuffed in his mouth to prevent him from self-harming when he woke up and found that he was captured.

The Japanese could even play the extremely cruel abdominal dissection. It was not new to tear open the abdominal wound with their own hands and pull out the intestines. Biting the tongue to commit suicide was even more child's play.

It was the Political Department Director Ye Chenghuan who heard about this and rushed over with a cavalry squad. He took the gauze out of the mouth of the Taihang Pighead Wen and arranged four people to watch him 24 hours a day in shifts, which saved Shan Wenwen's life and prevented him from being suffocated to death.

Compared with Tang Tuanzuo, who didn't think much of it, Ye Chenghuan knew how important it was for the Chinese army or the Chinese people to capture a Japanese general at this time, which was even more powerful than annihilating an infantry brigade.

Didn't you see that after hearing about this, Brigade Commander Cheng immediately dropped everything on hand and rushed over with a guard platoon? In addition, in order to prevent Tang Dao from making a mistake, he also brought two captured Japanese lieutenants to confirm.

The Sihang Regiment is currently short of food, but the 683 Brigade is not short of food now. There are more than 120 captured Japanese officers and soldiers. The only regret is that there are no left-level officers.

Those Japanese mid-level officers were not only stubborn, but also knew that the Chinese would settle accounts with them. They had issued cruel orders in the occupied areas, and their hands were stained with Chinese blood. After being identified by weak-willed subordinates, the possibility of being shot was greater than 99%. It was better to die on the battlefield to gain a reputation and avoid implicate their families at home.

Although the two lieutenants were not high enough and could not often see the high-ranking brigade commander Yamamoto, they could still recognize his appearance, even though his face was a little swollen due to injuries. Especially one of the lieutenants was from the First Infantry Battalion, a hardcore unit of Yamamoto in the Second Mixed Brigade, and they would never forget Yamamoto's unfortunate appearance.

Originally, thinking that they had given up the honor of the Imperial Army and became prisoners of the Chinese in order to survive, the two Japanese lieutenants were a little discouraged, but now that they saw that even the brigade commander was captured by the Chinese, they had some small thoughts.

If they could survive, they could tell their compatriots that they chose to live in shame in order to protect the brigade commander, otherwise, they would have died in battle.

To put it bluntly, Yamamoto has now become the reason for the two Japanese officers to convince themselves to continue to live well, so why not honestly identify him? Even if he is not, they can't wait to say that he is.

The news was uploaded layer by layer, capturing the top-secret information of Yamamoto, the major general of the Second Mixed Brigade, and the general manager of the 80th Army and the old man from Shanxi who was a hundred miles away were so happy that they ate two more bowls of rice at night.

"Immediately order the Southeast Shanxi Command to treat that person, yes, Yamamoto carefully, and must be alive and sent to Linfen for me." The old man from Shanxi immediately ordered. "By the way, this information is strictly confidential. If anyone leaks it, he will be killed!"

This guy is a shrewd guy to the core. Although he is stingy, his brain works very quickly. He did not specify that the Four-line Regiment should send it, but asked the Jindongnan Command Headquarters to send it. That means that he led the 80th Army to command the victory in this battle. This credit is not only attributed to the Four-line Regiment, but also to the 80th Army.

After all, in the battle of Changle Village, the 80th Army sent out the most elite infantry brigade under its command.

And what's more! This guy really doesn't want to see Tang Dao. Last time he came to Linfen, although Tang Tuanzuo spent a lot of money for the old man, the old man in Shanxi still remembers that Tang Dao used the information gap to legally and reasonably get back tens of thousands of dollars!

This is the temper of the old man in Shanxi. It's okay to sleep with his women, but if you take money out of his pocket, that really will be remembered by you forever!

The old man from Shanxi felt a headache when he thought that Tang Dao might ask for money and supplies in a legal and reasonable way by sending Shan Wenwen to the headquarters.

It is better not to see this guy!

It is for this reason that the old man from Shanxi turned to give this great credit to the 80th Army. Otherwise, with the 80th Army's "black history" of almost beating the old man from Shanxi in the Eastern Expedition two years ago, how could the old man from Shanxi take care of him like this?

Anyway, if he had to choose between loving someone who beat him and someone who blackmailed him, the old man from Shanxi would instinctively choose the former.

The king of Jin Province, that's it. When Tang Dao knew the little tricks of this guy, he couldn't help but laugh and cry.

Of course, the old man from Shanxi underestimated the mind of the general of the 80th Army. Since the commander of the theater gave him the important task of sending the Japanese major general prisoner, he could naturally designate who would send it.

What's more terrible is that the old man from Shanxi underestimated the generals of the friendly army, but overestimated the confidentiality level of his own headquarters.

In the afternoon, the Second War Zone Command received the news from the Jindongnan War Zone Command. In the quiet courtyard of Pingbei City, where the lights were just turned on, there were bursts of roars.

"Damn Yamamoto, not only did his stupidity lead to the loss of the empire's elite, but he also lost the courage to be loyal to the empire and His Majesty the Emperor, bringing shame to the Imperial Army!"

After receiving this information, the Army General, who had been the Minister of the Army and had always been very cunning, completely lost his composure. In the quiet courtyard, he was like a trapped beast, constantly cursing.

The reason why he was so out of control was that this was the third heavy hammer he had suffered in a few days. The Chinese hammered harder and harder, just like meeting Li Yuanba.

From the moment the Second Mixed Brigade was surrounded and more than a dozen fighter planes were shot down by the Army Aviation for supporting, the Japanese Army General knew that the failure of the Jindongnan Campaign led and initiated by him was a foregone conclusion.

The worst case scenario is that most of the main forces of the Second Mixed Brigade were destroyed. He had even decided on the most suitable person to take the blame and drafted a telegram for this purpose last night. He only waited for the Second Mixed Brigade's defense line to completely collapse, and the various fronts attacking the mountainous areas of southeastern Shanxi to evacuate in an orderly manner to avoid greater losses.

But the unexpected capture of Yamawen was still far beyond his bottom line. If he had not been immersed in officialdom for many years and was a bit cunning, this would have been enough to make him spit out a basin of blood. Even so, the world was spinning and his eyes were full of stars, which was a true portrayal of him after receiving the intelligence.

Let alone scolding Yamawen, if Yamawen was here, he would have been chopped up by him with a knife and fed to dogs.

The intelligence department has confirmed that the incident was confirmed to be correct. It was sent by the highest-level spy who was not even used when launching the Haracheng Campaign.

Moreover, it is believed that it will not be long before the Chinese side will announce this important information.

After all, for the Chinese side, which has been in a strategic defensive position and retreating step by step, it is a rare achievement.

The Chinese side is very happy, which means that the Japanese side is particularly uncomfortable. This is not a top-down situation, both sides are very happy.

For Shanshan Yuan at this time, the bad consequences have already occurred. What he, the first elder of the North China Front Army, has to do is to minimize the adverse effects of this incident.

Otherwise, the old lieutenant general who he pushed out to take the blame may not be able to withstand the surging public opinion from the country, even if the emperor supports him.

After a long time, the furious Shanshan Yuan finally regained his composure.

"Let Chief of Staff Okabe Saburo come to see me!" The cold eyes of the commander of the Japanese North China Front Army, who was sitting under the tree, were like two ghost lights under the dim light.