Rise From Eight Hundred

May 8, 1939!

1,200 meters outside Panzhai Village, Guangping County, Handan City!

Standing on the top of the mountain, Captain Matsukita Yuki looked through the telescope at the quiet and peaceful mountain village with smoke curling up from the cooking pots, with a sinister smile on his face!

That's not the wolf's joy at seeing the sheep, it's the pleasure that comes from destroying beautiful things.

Perhaps only Matsukita Yuki knew what kind of mission he was going to perform.

That was the "War of Ember" personally summoned and ordered by the division commander. The goal of his trip was not to eliminate those "Tuba", but to completely remove this large mountain village with a population of 1,000 from this land. erase.

Although this is a bit cruel, Matsukita Yuki believes that it is necessary!

The Chinese are so stubborn that they are almost stupid. The empire has occupied this land in North China for more than a year, but its scope of activities is mostly limited to cities, and it has not achieved effective control over a vast enough countryside. This has also led to more and more secretive resistance from the Chinese people underground. frequently.

Especially in recent months, with the continuous losses on the front line, the Chinese have become even more arrogant and have continued to massacre those 'insightful people' who leaned towards the empire, causing the imperial generals stationed in the city to turn a blind eye to the situation in the countryside.

This is a provocation to the front army and even the empire!

Finally, the new commander made the most brutal and effective counterattack. It was time to let the Chinese know the consequences of disobedience.

Matsukita Yuki is not worried at all about what kind of "Tuba" he will encounter. As the deputy captain of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 10th Division's 63rd Infantry Regiment and the captain of the 1st Squadron, Matsukita Yuki leads two men this time. An infantry squadron plus an infantry artillery squad with nearly 500 troops came to sweep a village like Panzhai. Even with such strength, he didn't bother to lead those dirty and stupid security forces.

Even though Panzhai is 12 kilometers away from Guangping County, Songbei Yuki led his men on a rapid march and arrived in less than 3 hours.

Looking at the smoke rising from the cooking fires in the village, the Chinese never dreamed that a large army had arrived at the entrance of the village.

Matsukita Yuki has even thought about it. He will lead his team into the village and order the Chinese villagers to stand in front of his machine guns as usual. The Chinese will definitely obey like sheep. What they may not expect is that this time there will be no What to ask and contribute to the empire.

What greeted them was only merciless killing. No matter men, women, old or young, they would be mercilessly killed, and then thrown into the house that once gave them warmth, and burned to death, as if they had never appeared in this world.

Matsukita Yuki, who was born in a family of butchers, felt inexplicably excited when he thought that thousands of Chinese would be slaughtered with blood and flesh under his orders.

"Order the Mizutani Squadron to enter the mountain road at the entrance of the village first and be responsible for reconnaissance for Tuba. The Songbei Squadron will cover the rear of the infantry artillery team and follow up. Tell everyone that once they pass the mountain road, they must march quickly and must not let a Chinese escape into the mountains!

Order all squads and detachments to kill anyone who dares to resist, regardless of age or sex! "Matsubei Yuki put down the telescope and coldly issued a military order.

As the military order was issued, a 15-member Japanese army team took the lead to walk out of the jungle and enter the loess road that could pass large vehicles, followed by groups of Japanese troops.

Except for the sound of some heavy leather boots stepping on some dry hard soil, there was no other sound.

Most of the faces of the Japanese soldiers were dull and stiff. Maybe they were a little tired after marching 12 kilometers, or maybe it was due to their national personality, but there was excitement in their eyes that could not be concealed.

This kind of "hunting" is not the first time for the soldiers of the 10th Division, and they will gain something every time.

Although Chinese women will smear their faces with ashes before they come, but compared with releasing their desires, what is that?

Especially seeing their fathers and husbands kneeling and wailing in despair under bayonets but unable to resist, it couldn't be more exciting.

In contrast, the mountain villages are still peaceful and the smoke still pours out stubbornly. It seems that the mountains and forests have blocked the uncontrollable murderous intention and ambition of the nearly 500 Japanese troops.

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Kawako hid in the grass less than 400 meters away from the Japanese army, and did not dare to let out his breath. He watched groups of Japanese soldiers march towards Panzhai less than a mile away with murderous intent.

Yes, Kawako finally joined the army. After passing the assessment half a year ago, he finally became a formal soldier of the 683rd Brigade from the militia.

However, Kawako did not go to the 772nd Regiment, the main regiment with Brother Li, but was assigned to the independent regiment, and followed Deputy Brigadier Chen to Jinan a month later.

After half a year of development, the independent regiment has grown from less than a thousand people at the beginning to nearly ten thousand people now. Kawako, who was still a recruit, actually became the squad leader with 12 soldiers under his command.

Even he, the oldest soldier in the army, was only six and a half months old, and he had a variety of weapons. Except for him, the squad leader, who held a Hanyang-made weapon, the others were either blunderbuss or simply spears.

Kawako was very dissatisfied with the combat effectiveness of his squad, but he knew that the old squad leader and the current platoon leader could not do anything about it. After doing mass work, there were too many young people joining the army. There were 8 squads in his platoon with more than 100 people, but the rifle There are only 26 guns in total.

In order to ensure combat effectiveness, rifles are basically assigned to the top three infantry squads. As a squad leader who is a recruit himself and leads a group of recruits, it would be good to have a standard rifle.

The weak combat power made his infantry company fight several battles with the Japanese and puppet troops in the past two or three months, and Chuanzi and his infantry squad appeared as a reserve.

Due to the strong combat power of the Japanese army, the several attacks organized by the infantry company could not break their defense line. In addition, the Japanese reinforcements arrived very quickly, and the 8th squad led by Chuanzi had no chance to fight at all.

It was not until a month after the New Year that the Four-Line Regiment led by the magical army colonel came here.

The 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion of the Four-Line Regiment came to Guangping County. The company commander was Wei Donglai, a handsome soldier with a bit of bookish air.

The Four-Line Regiment was a friendly army, and a friendly army with a good relationship. Chuanzi wanted to go up and build a relationship. Maybe he could get some help from the friendly army. After all, he was the one who lifted up their commander Tang. Unfortunately, he was too far away from the company commander and couldn't find a chance to talk to him.

Unexpectedly, after the company commander of the Four-Line Regiment met with the captain of the Guangping Division, who had the highest military rank in Guangping County, the support materials were issued.

But what Chuanzi didn't expect was that what was distributed was not the legendary firearms and ammunition, but some shovels, pickaxes and other digging tools. If you have to say something related to fighting, it can only be those iron lumps called landmines.

According to the order conveyed by the superiors, the Guangping Division suspended all other activities, and the whole army mobilized the people to cooperate with the Four-Line Regiment to dig tunnels in the villages and towns in the plains, and buried a large number of mines in the mountainous villages to form minefields.

Chuanzi didn't want to dig the earth pit because he had never fought, and pestered the platoon leader to come to the base of Panzhai Village.

This is not only a mountain village with a large population in Guangping County, but also one of the important bases of the division in Guangping County.

In this village alone, more than 160 young and strong people joined the army, and the aunts made cloth shoes for the officers and soldiers of the independent regiment day and night. In a few months, they made thousands of pairs and handed them over to the troops.

Even if the warm cloth shoes are not worn on the feet, just carrying them on the back makes running feel more powerful.

However, Panzhai Village is a mountain village, and it does not need a lot of manpower to dig tunnels like Pingyuan Village, so Chuanzi's infantry squad was sent to accompany the 3rd squad of the 2nd company of the 1st battalion of the Four-line Regiment to assist the villagers in laying mines.

Burying mines is also a technical job, especially the soldier named Potato popularized what pressure mines, trip mines, pull mines, and chain letter mines are. Just hearing the names can make people dizzy, and the people of Panzhai Village are even more confused!

Fortunately, the old squad leader of the Four-line Regiment nicknamed Lao Abacus was very patient. He not only held a training class for Chuanzi and the new recruits in his class and the anti-Japanese activists in the village to personally use mines correctly, but also took them to bury mines in the minefield.

It took more than half a month, and the villagers of Panzhai finally learned how to bury these mines!

It's not just a technical job, it actually involves psychology!

For example, if the Japanese stepped on a mine, where would they hide, and how would they get around from the mountain?

This back and forth, another month has passed!

Nearly 400 mines were buried by soldiers and villagers in the mountain road leading to Panzhai Village and the surrounding forests. Each minefield was marked only by soldiers and villagers.

You can forget about other things, but if you forget this mark, it will be fatal.

A wild boar weighing more than 200 kilograms ran down from the old forest at night, probably wanting to rob the cornfield, but unfortunately stepped on a mine.

The pig skin that could not be penetrated by bird guns was blown into pieces, and the two big pig trotters were blown more than ten meters away. In the end, Chuanzi led two soldiers to carefully cross the minefield they buried, carried out this unlucky guy, and gave the whole village a feast.

If the Japanese dare to come now, they will definitely be in trouble. Chuanzi was quite confident before yesterday.

But unexpectedly, the Japanese really came.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the message tree at the mountain pass fell down. It was done by the Panzhai Village militia responsible for looking out and guarding the mountain pass.

After the arrival of the Four-Line Regiment, militias were on duty 24 hours a day in each village and township. They were responsible for nothing more than looking out for Japanese troops passing by.

Once the message tree fell, the whole village had to be prepared for battle.

Chuanzi couldn't help but get a little excited, but when the sharpshooter from the 3rd squad ran back with the reconnaissance report, Chuanzi calmed down instantly.

The Japanese troops that came had hundreds of troops.

The most important thing to do at this time should be to call on the villagers to evacuate, and use the buried minefield to delay the Japanese troops. It is the right way to hide in the mountains.

Unexpectedly, Lao Suanpan, the first commander of Panzhai, actually made an order for the whole village to stay calm and continue cooking, while the two infantry squads and militia entered the combat area.

Chuanzi could only take his infantry squad to the battle position that Lao Suanpan squad leader had already designated for his infantry squad.

The reason why Chuanzi was so obedient was that Lao Suanpan was a veteran with seven or eight years of military service, and secondly, it was naturally Lao Suanpan's generosity.

Seeing that Chuanzi's infantry squad was in such a bad situation, with only one Hanyang-made rifle and five or six bird guns that were good at shooting birds, he made a special report to the company and asked the friendly forces for eight Liao-made 13 rifles and a Czech light machine gun.

This made Chuanzi so excited that he cried. If he hadn't considered that there were a bunch of subordinates present, he would have directly called him Uncle Suanpan.

"Hehe, don't thank me. If you want to thank someone, thank you for carrying our regiment commander for more than ten miles of mountain roads. If you hadn't mentioned this, we really didn't know that you were so awesome!

Haha, when I think of our commander, such a fierce guy, being tied up like a wild boar by you, what the Japanese didn't do, your kid did, just for this, this gun must be given to you no matter what. "Old Abacus and Potato laughed so hard that their teeth were showing.

"Hehe, Commander Tang said that we can't get to know each other without fighting, and we can only know each other after fighting. I wouldn't dare to do that now." Chuanzi only knew how to touch his head and laugh foolishly at that time.

However, when the Japanese really showed up, Chuanzi realized that his understanding of Commander Tang was still too superficial.

What kind of person can lead such a group of soldiers?

The Japanese came not with thirty or fifty people, but with three to five hundred people, but they, together with the militiamen carrying spears in the village, had less than 60 people at most.

The regular army had only 27 people!

What can they use to fight the Japanese?

Chuanzi is not the ignorant and fearless little militia acting squad leader that Tang Dao met a year ago. Although he has not officially stepped onto the front line of the battlefield in the past year, he has witnessed the battlefield several times.

He knows when to fight and when not to fight.

This is the first time he has seen such a large number of Japanese troops in his life. I am afraid that even the main force of the division cannot win.

It depends on whether the mines buried for more than a month can stop the Japanese army. Although Chuanzi is still a little scared, he still holds the Hanyang rifle tightly in his hand.

He has always remembered what the magical colonel told him: "At any time, you can't drop your weapon! "

Kawako's eyes were fixed on the burly Japanese sergeant at the front of the line. The Rising Sun flag hanging on his rifle clearly exposed his identity.

There was a very conspicuous rotten wooden stake on the roadside less than five meters in front of the Japanese sergeant. This was very common in the mountains, but here, it was a mark, marking this section of the mountain road as a minefield.

The mines buried on the mountain road made of loess were basically pressure mines!

The small infantry mines that would explode when someone stepped on them were not very powerful, but they were enough to blow off a person's legs.

"Boom! "There was a loud bang.

A burst of gunpowder smoke rose up, followed by a heart-wrenching howl!

As Chuanzi thought, the Japanese sergeant stepped on a landmine. The landmine that was not intended to kill people was very insidious. The Japanese sergeant, who looked very strong from a distance, had his body shortened by a large part.

One of his legs flew into the grass, and the other was on the mountain road five or six meters away. The bright red blood flowed out, and from a distance, it looked like an exclamation mark!

"Baga! There is a landmine! "After the loud bang, the Japanese army judged what was attacking them very experiencedly.

But what disappointed Chuanzi a little was that the Japanese army was much smarter than he thought. After encountering the mine attack, although they all crawled on the ground, few of them immediately rolled into the grass!

In this minefield, the mines on the mountain road are only used for deterrence, and the real killer moves are in the grass and hillsides on both sides of the mountain road.

Chuanzi couldn't help but cast his eyes more than 300 meters away. Where is the old abacus? If he opened fire at this time, would there be a chance to force the Japanese soldiers on the mountain road to step into the minefield?

But obviously, the old soldier was much more patient than him, and there was no movement behind the bushes at all.

The silence was unsettling. If it weren't for the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment, Chuanzi would have thought that the friendly forces had already fled.

"The Chinese actually used standard infantry mines? "After receiving the news from the front, Yuuki Matsukita frowned.

After their 10th Division arrived in southern Hebei, the local garrison reminded them that the Chinese in the countryside seemed to be alert. Not only were their activities becoming more frequent, but they also launched brutal assassinations of the Empire's defectors, resulting in less and less intelligence they could obtain from the countryside.

It was as if a thick fog had covered the eyes of the Empire's army!

Now, even standard mines have appeared.

Soon, the sergeant, whose two stumps were bandaged but had lost a lot of blood and fell into a coma, was carried to Yuuki Matsukita.

Yuuki Matsukita, who had enough battlefield experience, knew that it was difficult for this sergeant to survive. Not to mention the large amount of blood loss, even the infection of the wound in two or three days would kill him. Unless there were the legendary antibiotics that were as expensive as gold, the sergeant's survival would only waste manpower and drugs.

But even if he knew, Yuuki Matsukita could only order a few soldiers to carry this 'sooner or later death'!

"The Chinese will not have so many mines in the countryside, which has no strategic significance at all. Order the front to continue moving forward. The Chinese have been alarmed. We must speed up! "Matsukita Yuki made a decision that made him regret and the lower-level Japanese infantrymen hate it very much.

When they knew there were mines and there were no metal detectors, whoever walked in front would be a human detector. Even if the Japanese soldiers were completely brainwashed, they didn't want to be blown to death in vain, right?

Especially when there was a sergeant who became 1 meter tall!

Unfortunately, military orders were hard to disobey, and the Japanese army pulled away. Two Japanese soldiers walked in front of them in fear and continued to move forward along the mountain road.

Within ten meters, there was another loud bang, and another Japanese soldier lay on the ground struggling for life like a fish on the shore!

But his luck should be better than that of the sergeant. A marble should have penetrated his lower abdomen from his perineum. Although the severe pain caused the Japanese private to lose control of his bowels and bladder instantly, and the stinking smell could not even be covered by the smoke, the cruel external injuries and internal organ damage combined, causing the Japanese soldier to gradually stop breathing after one minute.

Death is sometimes a blessing!

"Baga! Send people to clear the mines! Order Mizutani Squadron to bypass the mountain road and climb over the hillside to enter! Songbei Squadron, please wait!" Songbei Yuki ordered with some anger.

Within two minutes, the continuous "boom! boom! boom!" explosions echoed through the mountains, making Songbei Yuki's eyelids jump hundreds of meters away.

What he was most worried about happened.

The Chinese actually laid a minefield here, and the key is that Mizutani Squadron entered under his military order. ()