Rise From Eight Hundred

"The Chinese started preparing for camping before 4 o'clock?" Kunisaki was slightly startled after receiving the intelligence from the scout.

"Order the entire army not to move, and continue to monitor them from a distance to see what they want to do!" The Japanese Army Major General, with a shadow in his eyes, could only respond to changes with the same attitude.

However, the rich battlefield experience reminded the Japanese Army Major General that this was probably not a good phenomenon.

But the probability of the Chinese discovering them was extremely small. In order to prevent the news from leaking out, his Kunisaki Detachment marched from the garrison overnight. All the Chinese villages encountered along the way were killed. And here were all primitive forests. Not to mention his nearly 10,000 people, even if there were several times more, they would not be easily detected.

He could only choose to take a gamble, betting that the Four-Line Regiment was exhausted after marching for several days in a row. Seeing that they were about to enter the war zone, they decided to use this rare gap to stop and rest.

But the fact may be just as Kunisaki's intuition, it is deviating in a direction he didn't want at all.

First, in the late afternoon, more than 200 Chinese soldiers who arrived at the small mountain village called Hexi Village began to dig field trenches along the river in front of the village for defense.

This is not bad, after all, digging field trenches in the camp is not the patent of the Imperial Japanese Army. The Four-Line Regiment is the confidant of the Imperial North China Front Army. If they don’t even have this little vigilance, then the Japanese Army Major General will not be able to accept the fact that he has been defeated by them!

The defense line composed of a group of light infantry may not be able to stop the attack of the army, but at least it can warn its subsequent main force. This is enough to show that his opponent is definitely a careful and cautious person. Kunisaki even judged the opponent’s personality through this detail.

Kunisaki certainly knew that Tang Dao would never be in the army in front of him. Intelligence showed that the young commander who made the entire North China Front Army hate and fear was in Tongguan at this time. It was because of his existence that the Third Division was beaten black and blue.

It is said that the various surprise attacks in the mountains near Fenglingdu were carried out by him personally, which is in line with the description of his combat characteristics by the Intelligence Department of the North China Front Army.

Fierce as a tiger, cunning as a fox! Just eight words vividly describe the characteristics of this Chinese Army colonel who has been fighting against the imperial army for more than a year.

As Tang Dao's opponent, although he always wanted to kill him, Kunisaki knew that if he met Tang Dao again, based on Tang Dao's past record, he would be very likely to lose.

Fortunately, at least this time he didn't have to face that terrible opponent directly. After all, the battlefield still had to rely on strength. Without Tang Dao's personal command, the combat effectiveness of this elite army was at least halved, even if the opponent's commander had pretty good characteristics.

But at ten o'clock in the evening, the scout found that the Chinese troops near Heilongtan had not rested as he imagined, but had been working all night to dig trenches. What was even more terrible was that the Chinese had even stopped hiding and sent a large number of soldiers holding torches to search the mountains and forests around their camp.

"Damn it, the Chinese must have discovered something!" On this windy and snowy night, Kuniaki was finally sure that his imagined tactic of "returning the favor" had completely failed.

The reason why the Chinese stayed where they were was not to rest, but because they smelled the breath of danger. In order to confuse the opponent, they did not make any unusual movements in the afternoon until they began to build fortifications overnight.

As for why they did not flee overnight, Kuniaki might also understand the idea of ​​his commander. Fleeing without fighting has never been the style of the Four Lines. No matter what, they must at least touch the opponent who dared to wait for them in this Chinese mountain.

This is also the confidence of the strong!

Although he knew that he was about to turn the ambush into a strong attack, and the intensity of the battlefield would increase a lot, at least this powerful opponent did not leave, and gave him a chance to redeem himself.

Kuniaki, who had 2 complete infantry regiments, 24 mountain guns and 8 105mm howitzers under his command, was confident enough that he could break the defense line of a Chinese infantry army, let alone an infantry regiment.

"Order all units, no longer need to hide, you can light bonfires to keep warm, but each squad is only allowed to light one bonfire for the whole squad to keep warm, and no more bonfires are allowed, and those who violate the military law will be punished!

At 7 o'clock tomorrow morning, the entire army will rush to Hexi Village and inform the two commanders of the 11th Infantry Regiment and the 21st Infantry Regiment that whoever's infantry crosses the river first and enters the Chinese position will be the first to make the first contribution to this battle." Kuniaki looked up at the snowflakes falling in the night sky and issued a military order.

The cold snowflakes fell on his face, calming the slightly irritable heart of the Japanese Army Major General. The Chinese had vicious thoughts. If he hadn't had a scout who could see their digging trenches overnight, then tonight tens of thousands of imperial officers and soldiers, including himself, would have to endure the cold wind and snow all night.

"Tsk tsk! Battalion commander, there are quite a few Japanese devils here! Just looking at the fire, it is estimated that there are four or five thousand people. Fortunately, the commander reminded us to slow down the march, otherwise this guy would run into the Japanese encirclement, and not many brothers would survive." Li Jiujin, who was lying on a small hill beside Hexi Village in camouflage clothes, put down the telescope, his face full of relief.

The Shunwangping River Valley a few miles away and the twinkling stars on the mountainside were almost nakedly announcing their number to the old soldier.

"That's right. The Japanese have learned to be smart now. They dared to send scouts to spy on us. They knew we had discovered them. Otherwise, even if the snow tonight didn't freeze them to death, they would have seen what cold is like." Thinking that the Japanese army reacted so quickly, Li Jiujin felt a little regretful.

"Well! The tongue caught by Shen Laoliu has already confessed. The one opposite us is the Kunizaki Detachment. The leader of the detachment, Kunizaki Zheng, is our old rival. The regiment commander said that this person is vicious and intelligent, but his personality is stubborn and arrogant. After suffering a big loss from us in Guangde last time, he must be eager for revenge. Perhaps this is something we can use." Leng Feng, who was also lying on the mountain peak, did not take away the telescope and responded coldly.

"Moreover, the number of fires we saw does not match the number of troops at the detachment level, which means that Kuni Qi Zheng is still trying to conceal his total number of troops. What we see is just what he wants us to see."

"Oh! This old devil is quite cunning. I almost fell for his dog-day trick. Fortunately, Shen Laoliu also caught a few tongues." Li Jiujin scratched his head, feeling a little embarrassed.

"He just doesn't want to scare us away now. Don't worry, before dawn, Kuni Qi Zheng will no longer conceal all his strength and will kill your 7th Company position with all his strength." Leng Feng exhaled a breath of white air.

"You will notify Shen Laoliu later and ask him not to scare away the Japanese vanguards. Leave some spies to inform Kuni Qi Zheng of any changes on the battlefield at any time."

"That's no problem. Shen Laoliu is very cunning. He knows what to do." Li Jiujin grinned.

"Captain, let me digress. Three months ago, Shen Laoliu was seriously injured and was about to die. But he survived and was alive and kicking again in just two months. How did he do that? Could it be that the village chief Long Yinglong has some secret recipe passed down from his ancestors?" Li Jiujin suddenly gossiped regardless of the occasion.

"Just say what you want to say, Li, don't beat around the bush. Also, Lieutenant Long is not the village chief now. She is a member of my Fourth Battalion. Don't call her the wrong name and make people laugh at us." Leng Feng said coldly without even turning his head.

As old comrades-in-arms for many years, they have been together day and night for more than a year. The old soldier used Shen Laoliu as a cover but meant something. Leng Feng knew it as soon as he heard it.

"Ahem! Well, Madam Yue has been visiting the brothers less and less recently. The brothers are all a little worried! So I'm here to ask. You know, those guys can't keep things to themselves." Li Jiujin glanced around and saw that the guards were more than ten meters away, so he continued to speak in a low voice.

This time, Leng Feng didn't answer for a long time.

Li Jiujin couldn't ask any more questions, so he could only wait patiently for his cold-faced and warm-hearted battalion commander to speak.

"Last time, Qingru sent me laundry. I told her that the army now has laundry women. She has to be busy with elementary school management and take care of three children. She shouldn't be too tired. I will send someone to deliver the expenses of the three children to her home on time.

Since then, Qingru has never come here. Even this time, she was not seen. Only the three children came to see me off!" Leng Feng's desolate and lonely voice came out.

'Fuck! Is there any man in the world who is less romantic than me, the battalion commander? 'Li Jiujin felt a blackness in front of his eyes, and he was madly complaining in his heart.

If it wasn't because it was wartime, the old soldier would have spit in his face. You are obviously driving people away! Just like this, it's still desolate and lonely!

"Brother Jiujin, I promised when I held Xiao Shitou that night that if I didn't avenge my Leng family and cut off the heads of a thousand Japanese invaders in this life, if I was happy for a day, I would go to the eighteenth level of hell after I died." Leng Feng muttered to himself.

"But, when I saw Qingru coming, I didn't need to say anything. She was right next to me, and I couldn't help but be happy. But in that case, I would be sorry for my brother who died in my arms. He was only seventeen years old. He had never worn any good clothes, let alone eaten any good things. Even if he wanted to eat a candy, he had to hide it from me to avoid being scolded by me."

The telescope covered the eyes of the famous cold-faced battalion commander of the Four Lines Regiment, and Li Jiujin couldn't see the wet eye sockets behind the telescope.

His younger brother died in battle right in front of him, which not only became Leng Feng's lifelong pain, but also became his inner demon, causing him to feel that happiness was a sin.

But he was a human being, and when love swept in like a flood, who could resist it?

"Brother, since you call me Brother Jiujin, I won't call you Battalion Commander anymore. Let's just treat us as brothers chatting before the war.

First of all, your idea is wrong. If Little Stone knew that you, as a brother, don't even dare to like a girl, he would definitely blame you.

Let's take a step back and not talk about love. Just say that you are the only one left in the Leng family. According to Chinese tradition, the three unfilial acts are not having a son, and the worst is not having a son. You have to marry a wife and have a baby!

Why can't you smile at your wife and children?

Besides, you, Battalion Commander Leng, led our Third Battalion to kill at least 5,000 or 6,000 Japanese soldiers! Why, you have to line up the bodies of the Japanese soldiers and chop them off one by one as a battalion commander!

I, Old Li, am 32 years old this year, and I have lived for most of my life. I am not as educated as you, brother. If the regiment commander hadn't forced me to learn to read, I wouldn't even be able to write my wife's name until now, but I have also summed up several life experiences.

This is one of them! Before doing anything, you have to think carefully whether you will regret it, just like I am determined to risk my life to follow the regiment commander. My purpose is just to hope that my wife and children can have a stable life. If they can live well, I will not regret it at all!

You know about Gu Xishui. When he arrived at the battlefield, Yaomei was gone. What a good girl. The saddest thing for Gu Xishui was that he didn't even say that he liked her!

Now, whenever he returns from the battle, he sits in front of Yaomei's tombstone for a day, and then hangs the medal on the tombstone. Who wouldn't feel sad when seeing it!

Brother, what you do is your business. I just advise you to think clearly and don't regret it later. That's the stupidest thing! "

Li Jiujin muttered softly, wanting to smoke a cigarette, but remembered that he couldn't light a fire to expose the target, so he pulled a piece of dry grass and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Huh! "After a long time, Leng Feng exhaled a breath of white air.

Putting down the telescope in his hand, he rubbed his face that was a little stiff from the wind and snow, and his eyes that were still looking into the distance seemed to be much brighter.

"After this battle, I will report to the regiment!"

"What for?" Li Jiujin was slightly startled.

"Get married!" Leng Feng stood up.

"Uh" Li Jiujin wanted to cover his forehead.

For this matter, shouldn't you propose to Madam Yue first? And then report to the regiment?

It's so good, this kind of straightforward man who doesn't know the slightest bit of romance, actually has girls who like him, it's simply amazing.

But it's also true, doesn't my wife, who is wider than a door panel, love me to death? Especially after seeing the money I sent back, there was a sentence in the letter: "When will the baby's father come back, the girl wants a younger brother! "

When Li Jiujin thought of the letter from his wife, he instantly felt warm and not cold at all.

Perhaps, the reason why he didn't feel cold was the contribution of the clothing factory opened by Mr. Qian in Dakouzidong. Now all the officers and soldiers of the Four-line Regiment are wearing cotton-padded clothes filled with new cotton. Although the color is gray and black, the fabric is not the old cotton cloth, but a kind of cloth that is wear-resistant, windproof and rainproof. It is very warm in this winter.

And the feet are also changed into a kind of cotton-rubber shoes. The rubber-soled shoes are not only non-slip, wear-resistant and waterproof. The only disadvantage is that they are not very breathable. When they are taken off at night, the smell can kill pigs and dogs. The fact that Guaiguai and Hammer stay away from each other is proof of this.

"What's wrong? Didn't you say that you can't regret it later!" Leng Feng, who seemed to have figured it out, looked indifferent. "I think I can live with Qingru and the three children. Even if I really go to the eighteenth level of hell in the future, I am willing! "

This love talk is so natural! The veteran soldier gave his battalion commander a thumbs up.

"Now, let's kill a few more devils as a betrothal gift for Qingru." Leng Feng rarely raised his mouth and smiled.

"The devils have made such an obvious target now, and Captain Dahai has to waste some shells! "

Half an hour later!

The area in the valley where there was a faint flicker of fire suddenly exploded with a burst of fire.

That was the result of the six Bofors mountain guns.

This time, the four-line regiment marched through the mountainous area, with only pack horses but no carts. Although the Bofors mountain gun weighed 700 kilograms, it could be disassembled into 8 large pieces, so the artillery battalion carried 6 Bofors mountain guns and a total of 1,200 shells in addition to 150 large-caliber mortars.

The average base of 200 shells per gun was enough for the artillery battalion to squander for a while.

So, in less than 5 minutes, 120 shells were poured on the Kunisaki Detachment.

With such obvious guidance from the fire, the Bofors mountain gun, which was famous for its accuracy, would be a shame to the deliberate arrangement of the Japanese Army Major General if it did not fire more accurately.

What's more fatal is the Japanese Army Major General's "more wisdom" strategy of "increasing troops and reducing fire", which led to the equally "juicy" The Japanese infantrymen made the bonfire very big, only in this way can a squad of more than 50 people gather around the fire to keep warm.

When a cannon landed, the Japanese soldiers who had been together for most of the night suddenly performed a "scattering flowers from the sky"!

It was simply too spectacular.

'The sudden shelling by the Chinese caused 127 deaths and more than 300 injuries' Kunisaki, who received the loss report, almost spit out a mouthful of blood.

Is there any justice in this? Is there any law? It is estimated that the Japanese Army Major General was roaring like this in his heart.

He considered that it was cold and snowy at this time, and the mountains were high and the roads were slippery. Out of humanitarianism, he would fight again tomorrow, but the Chinese were immoral and fired first.

This is bullying the Imperial Japanese Army because they have no artillery!

"Revenge, how they shelled us, we will shell back, if we can't locate Heilongtan, then raze that small village to the ground! "Kunozaki no longer had any of his former coolness, and roared angrily on the phone.

Dozens of kilometers away, another Japanese Army major general also did not fall asleep in the middle of the night, but his state of mind was very different from Kunozaki's.

He was extremely surprised!

At this time, someone actually wanted to do business with him!