Rise From Eight Hundred

The loud sound of the 280MM howitzer firing was heard at least 1,500 meters in the silent night!

Even the huge explosion from several miles away could not cover it up.

The Japanese army closest to the Dashi Village Battery was the 6th Infantry Regiment, which had become a remnant and defeated general. The station of this unit was only 800 meters away from the Dashi Village Battery.

After hearing the strange sound, Katayama Satoshi instinctively chose to call the Dashi Village Battery, but the pure Japanese from the other end of the phone temporarily dispelled his doubts.

It was not until more than ten minutes later that Katayama Satoshi, who was thinking more and more that something was wrong, called the Dashi Village Battery again, but this time it was completely silent.

Lieutenant Colonel Katayama Satoshi finally realized that there might be a problem with the Dashi Village Battery. In anger, he personally led two infantry squadrons to rush to the battery.

The first feeling of the Japanese army after arriving at the battery was darkness, a dead silence!

When the flashlight was turned on, the moment the snow-white light illuminated the dark circular position outside the Dashi Village Fort, the Japanese were stunned.

In the field trenches of the outer position, corpses were everywhere. Most of the Japanese army was killed by an extremely strange weapon. The huge wounds shed a lot of blood, causing the area to be filled with disgusting blood.

Even without entering the core fort in the center of the circular position, which was surrounded by sandbags and airtight, Katayama Satoshi had already seen a scene in his mind: the Chinese took advantage of the night to cross the river, and then attacked this fort silently. After killing everyone, they were so bold as to use this huge cannon to bombard another heavy artillery position several miles away!

As for how they managed to slaughter dozens of people silently, how they used this huge cannon, and how they obtained the specific coordinates of the imperial heavy artillery position, all this can only be explained by catching the Chinese who were fleeing frantically.

The Chinese on the other side turned out to be such a tough nut to crack. Thinking of the disastrous defeat yesterday morning, the shadow of failure once again enveloped the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel standing there.

Even the artillery that originally belonged to the empire was like a hideous devil in the dark, looking down at the Japanese commander who was scolded by Fujita Jin for half an hour.

"Captain Shinoda, take someone to see if there are any remaining personnel of our unit in the artillery, or any traces left by the Chinese!" Katayama Satoshi stood on the edge of the trench and gave the order calmly.

"Also, be careful. This group of Chinese who are attacking is different from the ones we encountered before. They are more fierce and cunning!"

"Hi!" A Japanese captain nodded fiercely and accepted the order.

With a wave of his hand, a Japanese squad took the lead in entering the artillery with a flashlight before him. A few minutes later, until the artillery shouted that everything was safe, the Japanese Army Captain took another small team into the artillery.

Standing 150 meters away, Katayama Satoshi stroked his sword and looked at the artillery with cold eyes. No one knew what this lieutenant colonel in the army was thinking.

"No, quickly inform Captain Shinoda, there is a trick!" After Katayama Satoshi felt palpitations for no reason, he immediately turned around and ordered another Japanese captain standing next to him.

The original intention of the Chinese to attack the Dashi Village Artillery at night should never be to use the heavy artillery of the artillery to bombard another heavy artillery position. This heavy artillery that can destroy everything should be their goal, but why is this heavy artillery still intact now?

Temporary safety may be the greatest insecurity.

The brain of the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel is definitely not weak. He actually judged that something was wrong based on the nature of the attack.

However, he woke up too late.

Before he finished speaking, a creepy spark flashed in the night sky, followed by a loud noise that was enough to deafen everyone present!

The tall fortifications outside the fort collapsed like building blocks, and the scorching heat waves and huge shock waves swept around.

Katayama Satoshi, who was looking back, happened to see all this, and the fireworks formed by the fierce explosion gradually occupied his pupils.

If nothing unexpected happened, even if it was 150 meters away, the energy of such a huge shock wave would kill the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel on the spot.

Fortunately, he had a loyal and responsive subordinate, and his position was not bad!

A Japanese second lieutenant squad leader stood in front of Katayama Satoshi. At the moment of the explosion, the panicked second lieutenant instinctively stepped back, just knocking the terrified Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel into the trench!

Katayama Satoshi escaped!

The second lieutenant was hit by the shock wave, and like many Japanese soldiers who had no time to react, he was like being hit by a sledgehammer, dancing and sinking into the darkness!

After an unknown amount of time, the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel shook his head, which was dizzy due to the huge roar, and stood up from the trench, looking around in a daze, almost crying.

It was too miserable. He had been in the army for 18 years and had never fought such a miserable battle!

Yesterday morning, he lost more than 1,000 people, but that was the result of a strong attack to cross the Yellow River. The Chinese on the other side mobilized thousands of people and countless artillery and heavy machine guns.

But this wave, not a single Chinese was seen! Only one out of ten of his two infantry squadrons survived, and more than 300 people were wiped out in an instant.

The scene where the groans of pain were sparsely audible almost did not need the experienced Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel to count carefully.

At that moment, Katayama Satoshi wished he was not so wise!

But unfortunately, his judgment was very accurate.

After counting, the two infantry squadrons that followed him, including the two captains, had 123 people killed on the spot and 146 seriously injured in the explosion. The minor injuries did not need to be counted because everyone was injured.

That was the explosion caused by the five 200-kilogram shells left in the artillery platform that were detonated with 50 kilograms of explosives as fuses. It was a miracle that Amaterasu wiped out Katayama Satoshi and his two infantry squadrons in one wave.

The reason why it was detonated after the Japanese army went in to check and sent a safety signal was not because Tang Tuanzuo made a remote-controlled bomb, but a small mechanism for delayed explosion.

In fact, from the moment the Japanese army entered the artillery platform, because the mechanism was triggered, the delayed explosion device hidden in the dark had entered the countdown.

In order to make the Japanese army lose their vigilance and kill more Japanese soldiers, Tang Dao took the risk to extend the detonation time to five minutes.

Of course, in addition to killing a large number of Japanese soldiers, this was also to create more space and time for his own evacuation.

At least the unlucky kid who was chasing him was completely crippled by the explosion. If he wants to take revenge, he has to change a new group of people.

"Baga! Mobilize the army to strictly guard the 10-kilometer, no, 15-kilometer river bank, suspend the attack on the other side, and mobilize enough troops to track them. I want to hang all these rats on the river bank." Fujita Jin received the news and blood rushed to his head instantly, and even stopped the attack on Tongguan for this.

It's no wonder that Fujita Jin smashed everything he could in his command post like a madman. It was really that the Chinese were too bullying. They dared to destroy his two artillery positions under the eyes of 20,000 troops, and killed more than 400 infantrymen.

The reason why it is said to be more than 400 is that the bodies of the last 50 people of the Dashi Village Fort were found on a mountain road five miles away from the Dashi Village Fort.

Although this battlefield, which was mainly made of firearms, is far less horrible than the bloody explosion scene formed by the fort, it is even more tragic.

The Japanese soldiers who returned from the "hunting" with pigs and sheep were too lax. They even had to sing songs with flashlights when walking at night. The Chinese did not need to conduct reconnaissance at all, and could wait for them on the battlefield they had already chosen.

The concentrated fire of a large number of submachine guns and Mauser pistols was not something that bolt-fire rifles could resist. The bullet marks left on the tree trunks and rock walls basically confirmed that at least thousands of bullets had been poured on this trail.

Suppressed by the bullet flow, grenades were constantly thrown from high above, but more than 20 pure infantrymen could not protect the remaining pitiful 20 or so technicians.

It should have taken less than five minutes for the defense formation of this army column with 50 soldiers to collapse.

This was the beginning of the real tragedy. All the soldiers who lost their fighting spirit and tried to escape were attacked by Chinese cold weapon masters in the mountains and forests in the dark night. The wounds caused by the terrible cold weapons were like being bitten by a saber-toothed tiger, and several rifles were cut off by a knife.

The broken rifles are frightening, but the people being cut in half are really scary. Some people even waited until the rescuers arrived before they died. Their internal organs had fallen out of their abdomens, and their gray pupils were lifeless, but the desire for life in their eyes was still burning, which made people who looked at them feel numb!

At least three people were ordered to be killed by the commander of the search team. The eyes that were full of desire for life and could not live were really terrifying.

Not that Japanese were worthy of Mingxin using his heavy sword that he rarely left, but this group of Japanese soldiers made Mingxin want to kill him very rarely!

The burning village in the mountains illuminated Mingxin's eyes, but what really made his eyes red was blood!

There were nearly a hundred people in the village, young and old, but only one child who was pressed under the corpses of his parents survived. The rest of them fell on the small rice field at the entrance of the village and the path in the village that they were very familiar with.

The reason for the Japanese army to kill was that they dragged a girl out of the crowd, but were stopped by the girl's parents and bit the arm of the violent Japanese soldier.

The devil's carnival lasted from 8 pm to 12 am. The Japanese army, which had lost its humanity, even roasted mutton next to the remains of more than a dozen villagers and left after eating with oil dripping from their mouths.

This was also the reason why they returned late.

Mingxin learned from the guide that the Japanese army must pass through the road, and ordered two guard squads to focus fire on them with submachine guns and Mauser pistols from a high position, while he drew out the heavy sword and guarded in the forest, waiting for the defeated Japanese army to arrive in this forest.

It was not a surprise attack, but a forced killing!

China's top martial arts masters were more ferocious than tigers in this dense forest shrouded in darkness.

The heavy sword did not break the armor, but only split the flesh. As many as 13 Japanese soldiers were cut in half and split in half.

Mingxin was like a wolf that broke into a sheepfold. He just cruelly bit open the throat of his prey and then abandoned it. This created the most terrifying battlefield in the history of the Third Division.

The death of 50 people was only recorded in the battle report without any details. It was not until decades later that a corporal who survived the war in the infantry squadron disclosed the tragic situation at that time.

The Japanese army mobilized a full 8,000 people to participate in the capture of the attackers that night, and 4,000 people searched the river bank. Finally, before dawn, three sheepskin rafts were found in a hidden place in the river, completely cutting off the retreat of the army crossing the river.

Another 4,000 people were organized into infantry squadrons, and 16 wolfhounds were called in to participate in the pursuit. They conducted a dragnet search and finally found the clues left by the attackers in the mountains when the sun rose.

Three infantry battalions plus 1,000 people drawn from the baggage, cavalry, and engineers formed a huge encirclement. As long as they were patient enough, it was almost impossible for the fish to escape.

Dong Zhaohe, the major general brigade commander, who had waited all night for Tang Dao to return, was also anxious. Even if they had blown up the Japanese heavy artillery turret, they ended up losing Tang Dao, the famous hero commander on the battlefield in North China. It was a loss-making business.

"Please rest assured, the two commanders, no matter how many sheep chase wolves, they are only worthy of eating the green grass nourished by wolf feces! They will return within half a month!" The telegram sent back by Tang Dao at dawn almost made the two generals laugh.

When did the fierce wolf of Japan become a sheep?

Even if they were sheep, there were only 20,000 sheep, and they could trample the real "wolf" Tang Dao into a meat paste just by stepping on them!

But what the Chinese commander did not expect was that Tang Dao, who had fled into the mountains, and his 60 Chinese soldiers actually fought an unprecedented "special operation"!

And the Japanese never thought that the big net they had laid with thousands of people might catch fish, but that fish might also be called crocodiles.

The first to suffer were the Japanese soldiers who participated in the pursuit.

They might not have thought that some traces were deliberately left by humans, including some blue cloth strips stained with blood.

Not to mention the wolf-blue dogs with a keen sense of smell, even if they were real wild wolves, Longyan had rich experience in dealing with them!

From the beginning, the infantry squadron that thought it had found the right direction ran straight into the battlefield arranged for them by Tang Dao.

The 10 engineers never thought that explosives could be used in this way!

The blast from the explosion of the bomb placed on the side of the road can not only tear the human body, but also knock people off a cliff several meters high. The infantrymen who instinctively lie down and roll quickly to avoid it can hit the booby traps that seem to be set randomly in the grass on the side of the road.

Only one round of serial explosions killed nearly 30 Japanese soldiers in the infantry squadron, but this was just the beginning of the tragedy.

The super sniper on another mountainside made people realize what true despair is!

Relying on an inconspicuous bolt-action rifle, he killed one by one at a distance of 500 meters. Any Japanese soldiers exposed to his field of vision would die.

It was not until 16 people were shot and killed in succession that the Japanese army determined the approximate position of the sniper, but the only grenade launcher who could pose a threat to it had already been sniped and killed, and could only watch the killer in the distance harvest any comrades who dared to expose their bodies one by one.

With one man and one gun, relying on the distance and incredible shooting accuracy, for 25 minutes, not only did they suppress an infantry squadron, but they even killed 28 of them. If you add the more than 20 people who were killed by the crude explosive device before, an infantry squad was completely written off.

When another infantry squadron came over from another mountain to reinforce and tried to outflank the cold gunman hiding in the mountain, Tang Dao had already slipped away like a fox that smelled the danger.

In the next few days, it seemed that they could catch up with the opponent every time, and even saw the backs of the Chinese on the mountains several times, but they just couldn't catch up, and were even bitten back by the fierce Chinese with endless bombs.

You can slow down the pace of pursuit and pay attention to the roadside and your feet, but can you always keep an eye on the shade of the trees above your head and the cliffs passing by?

No one can do it, so they just died!

The Chinese even placed artificial explosives in an area on the hillside and artificially created a landslide, almost burying an infantry squadron.

They were not chasing wolves, but snakes that were more sinister and vicious than wolves.

It can only be said that the Japanese are indeed a nation with strong execution. Before the military order to stop the search was issued, no matter how much damage Tang Dao and his engineers and guards caused them, thousands of Japanese soldiers still persevered in the wind and rain.

They seemed to have forgotten that in five days, they had lost more than 300 people, and the war losses were nearly one-tenth.

If they continued like this, Tang Dao and his Chinese soldiers, who were about an infantry platoon, would sooner or later be surrounded and annihilated even if they had three heads and six arms.

Unfortunately, this is the remnant of Zhongtiao Mountain. In addition to the Japanese army, there are more Chinese troops.

The Japanese army knew that they were just chasing, but the commander of the Chinese Third Army, Zeng, who was dozens of miles away, did not know.

On the second day after the Japanese army entered the mountains, he received news of unusual Japanese movements. Thousands of Japanese soldiers entered the mountains in large numbers, which frightened the lieutenant general who commanded more than 30,000 central troops.

Although there were still main Japanese forces suppressing the enemy, if the flank was attacked by the Third Division, it would be extremely fatal, so he gritted his teeth and pulled out a regiment plus an infantry brigade as a reserve, a total of more than 6,000 people into the mountains to stop the Japanese army.

Then, on the fifth day, the two groups of people encountered each other in the mountains.

One came prepared, and the other was caught off guard.

What's more terrible is that the Japanese army did not bring heavy weapons such as heavy machine guns and infantry artillery because they were not going to fight in the field.

If it was purely a light firepower competition, the Chinese soldiers were really not that weak to the Japanese army, not to mention that they also brought mortars and heavy machine guns.

More than 3,000 Japanese soldiers were beaten up in just half a day. If Japanese planes hadn't heard the news and came to help, they would not have been able to leave the battlefield smoothly, and they might even have been beaten into meat buns by the crazy Chinese soldiers.

The Japanese army had no choice but to retreat.

In the five-day search and arrest operation, not only did they not catch any hair, but they also lost more than 700 people, nearly 20% of the casualties, just like fighting a big battle.

However, Tang Tuanzuo, who had been chased for five days, was not a man who would be bullied.

After sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight for most of the day, he turned around and took more than 60 people to chase the Japanese and returned to Fenglingdu.