Rise From Eight Hundred

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"Yours is dead!"

Saburo Kuroda looked at the body of Yamamoto Kiyoshi being carried on a stretcher in front of him in disbelief, and he didn't come back to his senses for several seconds.

Then, with an angry kick, Zheng Yunqiu, who had a bitter look on his face, was kicked to the ground, and then he took out the command knife hanging from his waist.

When he went to attack a Chinese flank position where there were not many troops deployed, the two infantry squads he sent to supervise the battle were wiped out along with their lieutenant and deputy captain, while the commander of the infantry battalion of the security army who was the main attacker was still unscathed. No matter what, it was the reason why he wanted to kill people.

Of course, it is a stretch to say that he was unscathed. Not only was Zheng Yunqiu's head wrapped in a bandage, he was also shot in the arm and hung up with a bandage. I heard that there were less than 200 people left in the security army infantry battalion, and the battle damage rate was as high as 100%. Seventy.

But Yamamoto Kiyoshi was Saburo Kuroda’s favorite general, so how could he die in vain?

"Sir Kuroda, listen to me, listen to me, Lieutenant Yamamoto's sacrifice was not in vain! He led nearly a hundred imperial warriors along the attack channel opened with flesh and blood by my infantry battalion brothers and rushed to the enemy's position. , fought hand-to-hand with the enemy and killed nearly 200 enemy troops!

I just didn't expect that the enemy was so cunning and tenacious that they deployed nearly 400 reserve troops behind the mountain. Although the Tubas did not have many guns, they were all equipped with long-pole spears. Lieutenant Yamamoto and the Imperial warriors were now outnumbered. , all loyal to His Majesty the Emperor. "Zheng Yunqiu cried out as he was kicked to the ground.

"To express my respect for Lieutenant Yamamoto and the Imperial Warriors, I am willing to spend all my wealth to donate a thousand taels of gold to support the families of the warriors!"

I don’t know whether it was hearing the heroic achievements of his subordinates or the number of gold thousand taels that played an role. After all, the sharp command sword mentioned by Saburo Kuroda did not strike with one blow, but stared at Zheng Yunqiu who was kneeling and crying with cold eyes: "Yours, report the battlefield to me carefully. If there is any omission, you and your security camp will all die."

"Lieutenant Yamamoto is the most heroic warrior of the Japanese Empire I have ever seen. Seeing that our troops suffered heavy casualties and were still unable to conquer the enemy's positions, he immediately ordered all troops to mount bayonets." Zheng Yunqiu started his performance with runny nose and tears.

Amid this guy's unfailing cries, Lieutenant Kiyoshi Yamamoto's heroic image was so tall that Saburo Kuroda's headquarters could hardly accommodate it.

Of course, in front of veteran soldiers like Kuroda Saburo, Zheng Yunqiu would be killed in an instant if he showed even the slightest flaw or the battle situation was not true.

The body of Lieutenant Kiyomichi Yamamoto has been examined by the regiment medical officer. The fatal injury was a German-made Luger pistol bullet shot into the left chest at close range. There were also twelve bayonet wounds on his body!

Just looking at these wounds, you can imagine how tragic the battlefield was at that time. Yamamoto Kiyoshi must have killed several enemy soldiers and then been targeted by the enemy. He first shot them with a pistol and then swarmed them, otherwise there would have been so many A stab wound deep into the gut?

If Saburo Kuroda knew, the bullet that shot into Lieutenant Yamamoto's left chest at close range was precisely because the major of the security forces in front of him approached with the infantry company and suddenly drew his gun and fired when Yamamoto Kiyoshi was unprepared, and the other eight All the bayonet wounds were the work of 12 officers above the rank of lieutenant in the infantry battalion of the Security Army who killed all the Japanese troops. It is estimated that even ten thousand taels of gold could not save Zheng Yunqiu's life!

It is a pity that Saburo Kuroda will not know this secret at least during the war.

All the Japanese who knew the situation at the scene were killed, while all the Chinese who knew the inside story were keeping their mouths shut because they wanted to save their own lives and needed a spy on the other.

In order to fit in with Zheng Yunqiu's story, the Chinese side deliberately obscured the battle damage report of the Battle of Bauhinia Mountain after the war. They only said that they annihilated more than 500 Japanese invaders and puppet troops in the Battle of Bauhinia Mountain. The number of casualties among our regular army and militia was around 400.

In such an offensive and defensive battle, the battle damage was almost one to one, which is definitely worthy of praise. It is no wonder that the 80th Army specially awarded the "Panzhai Guard Company" a certificate of collective first-class merit.

But this was clearly a cover-up in the eyes of the Japanese military intelligence department. According to Zheng Yunqiu's report and visual inspection of the battlefield, the number of Chinese casualties was definitely more than 800.

Of course, Saburo Kuroda would not listen to one-sided words and sent an army captain with extensive battlefield experience to observe the battlefield on the spot.

As Zheng Yunqiu said, in order to retrieve the remains of Yamamoto Qinglu, the Japanese even formed a death squad with machine gunners and grenade launchers wearing white cloths on their heads and holding rifles.

This is very characteristic of the heroic style of the Imperial Japanese infantry. Of course, this kind of behavior is not uncommon in the 10th Division's battles in several places. If the chief officer dies in battle, his subordinates will risk their lives to get it back. its remains.

Therefore, they all died on that position, together with the two security army infantry platoons that broke into the Chinese position.

The hillside after the war was dotted with the remains of the security army infantry battalions and imperial officers and soldiers. Especially thirty meters away from the front of the Chinese position, the remains of imperial officers and soldiers with white cloths on their heads were everywhere.

It should have been thrown from the position by the Chinese who won the final victory. On such a cruel battlefield, the number reported by the Chinese was most likely false.

At least one judgment of the Japanese intelligence agency must be correct, and the number of 400 casualties cannot be false anymore.

That is, the truth is no longer far from their imagination, but completely opposite.

In this miraculous blocking battle, the ‘Panzhai Guard Company’ actually lost one person and injured four people, and those who were hit by stones and scratched were not counted.

The commendation issued by the headquarters of the 80th Army Group was not specifically to fool the Japanese intelligence department. It was indeed the most dazzling battle loss ratio on this battlefield for more than 150 officers and soldiers, mainly 60 officers and soldiers of the 2nd Company of the 4th Regiment.

Perhaps only all the Chinese present knew how frustrated the two Japanese infantry squads were.

There was indeed a hand-to-hand fight, but it was a hand-to-hand fight between nearly 300 puppet troops and more than 40 Japanese infantry.

The combat effectiveness of the puppet army was not worth mentioning in front of the Japanese regular army, but for the puppet army, if they did not completely kill this group of Japanese soldiers, they would die, so they could only fight desperately. In addition, they had almost seven times the strength of the Japanese army, and their psychological advantage was much stronger.

As for the dozens of Japanese soldiers caught off guard at the bottom of the hill, they were naturally frightened and panicked when they saw hundreds of puppet soldiers rushing over. Their resistance in a hurry was also reduced compared to before.

With the increase of one and the decrease of the other, it would be a miracle if the dozens of Japanese soldiers were not eaten up.

However, even so, more than 40 Japanese soldiers fought desperately and took away puppet soldiers who were twice as many as them, once again proving with facts that the strength of the Japanese infantry hand-to-hand combat was really not covered.

The Japanese soldiers on the hillside had already reacted that this was a mutiny of the security army, but they could not go down to join the battle. The Chinese on the hill actually surrounded them from both wings, and the remaining dozen puppet soldiers below also tried their best to block them.

When the puppet soldiers at the bottom of the hill finished dealing with their opponents, more than 10 light machine guns were set up, nearly 200 puppet soldiers fired randomly, and the Chinese on the hill threw grenades. The dozens of Japanese soldiers who were surrounded tightly were iron-clad and could not survive.

Seeing that the Chinese troops on the mountain were so cooperative, Zheng Yunqiu, who originally planned to send people to communicate with the Chinese army, also risked his life. Even though he knew that his head was on the list of "Tu Ba", he actually went to the Chinese position in person.

As he expected, the 80th Army felt that he was more useful alive than dead. After nearly half an hour of communication between Zheng Yunqiu and Lao Suanpan, the specific agreement was unknown, but at least one item was confirmed. Zheng Yunqiu would donate 200,000 yuan in cash to the Guangping Division of the 80th Army as military expenses.

Of course, if Lao Suanpan knew that this guy was worth a thousand taels of gold when exported to Kuroda Saburo, he would definitely regret that 200,000 yuan was less.

In this era, what business can be faster than robbery? Zheng Dayingchang, the chief culprit in Guangping County, is famous for robbing the east and the west. Relying on the support of the Japanese, the wealth of several wealthy families in Guangping County was almost emptied by this guy in order to seek peace.

However, Lao Suanpan was not afraid that this guy would default or not cooperate in the future. As for the battle of Zijing Mountain, as long as the news spread, the Japanese would definitely doubt that Zheng Yunqiu dared to guarantee that the remaining 200 people could withstand the torture? Even if they had Japanese blood on their hands.

Zheng Yunqiu was indeed a ruthless person. When leaving the Chinese position, he specifically asked the Chinese side to shoot him in the arm with Liao-made 13 rifles.

Because the equipment of his security camp was all captured by the Japanese army, it was quite complicated. The rifles equipped included Hanyang-made, Zhongzheng, and 38-type rifles. There were also pistols like Mauser, Nambu 14, and Luger pistols, but only Liao-made 13 rifles were not available.

Shooting with Liao-made 13 rifles was obviously more convincing.

Lao Suanpan met his request. After he walked a hundred meters away, he asked Yang Bicheng to aim at Zheng Yunqiu's arm and shoot him. The wound caused in this way was more in line with his temperament as a brave commander of the attacking side.

Sure enough, when the Japanese military medical officer pretended to dig out the bullet for him, he made a ballistic analysis and determined that it was a bullet from a long distance, not a self-injury, which completely cleared his suspicion.

Of course, Kuroda Saburo suspected that this guy used self-injury to gain sympathy, but he never thought that this guy killed nearly a hundred infantrymen of the Empire of Japan with a gritted teeth and a stomping of his feet. He was given a thousand taels of gold on this side, and the 80th Army was given 200,000 oceans as military expenses on the other side.

It can only be said that Zheng Yunqiu is simply a rotten head and a scald on the soles of his feet - he is very bad.

But for the 80th Army and the Four-Line Regiment, it is a good way to fight poison with poison against the Japanese.

Soon, after confirming that the battle of Zijing Mountain was caused by Lieutenant Yamamoto Kiyoshi's excessive bravery, which caused all his own members to die in battle, and because Zheng Yunqiu promised to contribute a thousand taels of gold to the families of the dead in the battle after the war, Kuroda Saburo did not vent his anger on Zheng Yunqiu after all.

However, perhaps because he was upset by seeing Zheng Yunqiu and the dejected security forces No. 200, Kuroda Saburo gave Zheng Yunqiu a task to transport the remains of the dead on the front line back to Guangping County, including those left on the slope of Zijing Mountain. He would send a body collection team to move them up the slope.

It was already May and the weather was a bit hot. He believed that the Chinese would not want to keep these bodies on the battlefield, otherwise the smell of the decaying bodies alone would make people faint.

The first half of Kuroda Saburo's idea went well. Wei Donglai agreed to the Japanese request and allowed the Japanese body collection team, without any weapons, to approach 80 meters in front of the position to collect the bodies. Within 80 meters, the Chinese officers and soldiers would be responsible for moving the bodies over.

This is not due to any international rules or morality, but the temperature in May has exceeded 20 degrees. The corpse will rot in just one night. The stench is so strong that people can't eat a bite of food for a day. More importantly, the mosquitoes and flies attracted by the rotten meat will also bring various diseases.

Even if the Japanese don't come to collect the bodies, the Chinese will send people to throw the bodies farther away at night.

But the corpse transport team arranged by Kuroda Saburo chose the wrong people. More than 100 bodies were caused by their own hands.

What's more terrible is that as early as an hour ago, Wei Donglai keenly perceived a key point that could quickly end this battle.

The security army driving the carriage encountered a strong man wearing a simple waistcoat three kilometers away from the county town.

The security army, which has always been ferocious to the common people, not only did not dare to shout loudly after the other party revealed his identity, but was received by Zheng Dayingzhang himself.

Although Captain Zheng's face turned pale after the strong man left, he could only order the whole battalion to rest for half an hour as the strong man requested.

It was not until the sky gradually darkened that he led the security battalion to continue to set off, but the security battalion, which originally had less than 200 people, had become 230 people.

When entering the city gate, the Japanese infantry squad leader responsible for defending the city gate only symbolically checked it and stood far away with his nose covered.

The sweat and blood smell of more than 200 security troops could be smelled more than ten meters away, but compared with the strong smell of death emitted by the corpses piled in more than 20 carriages, it was simply too good to be true.

What's more, the telegram for the security troops to transport the corpses was sent from the front-line command of Major Saburo Kuroda to the regiment headquarters. What could be the problem?

Colonel Jiro Kikukawa looked at the bodies of nearly 300 Japanese infantrymen with an extremely ugly face. This was only the first day, and the more than 2,000 imperial troops had lost more than one-tenth of their strength. Those who didn't know would have thought that he had led the regiment to participate in a large-scale battle again!

But the other side was just a group of "Tuba"! If there were not thousands or even tens of thousands of Chinese corpses as the results of the war after the war, the "Cinder War" initiated by his command would have been a great defeat.

So, the face of the unlucky child Zheng Yunqiu, who was already pitiful with bandages on his head, quickly became red and swollen. If he didn't slap the only punching bag five or six times, it would be unworthy of Colonel Jiro Kikukawa's shining colonel rank.

Little did he know that it would be better if he didn't slap him. Zheng Yunqiu originally planned to take 30 people into the city to report to the 80th Army. There were still 200 Japanese troops in the city. If 30 people wanted to do something in the county, that was really too much.

But after this, Zheng Yunqiu simply gave up and went back to tell Mr. Long about the secret tunnel he had dug in the city leading to the outside of the city.

That was the way out that Zheng Yunqiu had left for himself long ago. No matter whether the Japanese or the 80th Army wanted to kill him, this 600-meter-long tunnel had one end in the hidden woods outside the city and the other end in a shabby building 200 meters away from the city wall. The old couple living in it had received great favors from his father in his early years and were the only people Zheng Yunqiu could trust now.

Of course, these were just one-sided statements from Zheng Yunqiu. Even Long Yan, who didn't know him well, didn't completely believe his lies.

A cunning rabbit has three burrows. How could a person as selfish as Zheng Yunqiu only leave one way out for himself?

But this tunnel solved a big problem for Long Yan.

The three elite infantry platoons, the mountain infantry platoon, the reconnaissance platoon, and the guard platoon, ran 140 miles in 10 hours and all arrived at the Panzhai battlefield at 11 o'clock yesterday.

But Wei Donglai did not immediately put them into the battlefield, but held these 230 elite soldiers in his hands as a reserve force, and did not use them until this morning.

After doing all this, Zheng Yunqiu was busy like a donkey. He and the remaining soldiers of the security army only had a meal and rested for two hours in the county town. At 11 o'clock in the evening, he led the entire battalion to escort a Japanese army baggage team and supplies to the Panzhai front line.

That was the order of Jiro Kikukawa. Kuroda Saburo was annoyed by this group of security soldiers, but Jiro Kikukawa had no soldiers to send. This baggage team with 60 people was the last force he could use as the commander of the infantry regiment.

But if only 60 people went to walk at night, it was obvious that the risk factor was extremely high. Then they could only use the security army that had just returned from the front line as the donkeys of the production team.

The slaps Zheng Yunqiu received were actually paving the way for this. Once the dogs were beaten, they were basically honest!

Who knows how happy the donkeys in the production team are at this moment. As soon as those dozens of strong men mixed into the team, anyone with a little bit of brains knew that there would be no peace in the city tonight, and anyone who stayed in this troubled place would be looking for death.

What's the harm in being tired or suffering? Survival is the most important thing!

The donkeys in the production team set out again with full energy, and moved the second-line soldiers of the Japanese army's baggage team. It would be great if all Chinese people could cooperate like this.

Little did they know that the little donkeys who had just killed a hundred Japanese regular soldiers looked at them as if they were a group of idiots ()