Rise From Eight Hundred

"Is there anyone down there? If there is, don't do anything stupid. I am Longyan!" A roar came from the top of the tunnel.

Cao Yingchong was stunned!

Is the Japanese intelligence system so powerful? Even the famous Longyan Long Platoon Leader of the Mountain Infantry Company of the regiment has started to impersonate?

Lv Daqiu, who has already hidden at the entrance of the cave and is ready to exchange one for two to make a profit, will not believe it. My arm is broken, not my head.

It's okay to impersonate someone else, but why did he pretend to be Longyan Long Platoon Leader.

As an elite infantry company directly under the regiment, the Mountain Infantry Company should be fighting the Japanese army in Zishan now! How could it run to a battlefield hundreds of miles away?

"My elder sister's name is Long Ying, and my brother-in-law is Shen Laoliu. My niece, who is only two months old, has not been named yet. I really can't tell you. I came to Hanjiazhai this time under the command of the regiment commander and the commission of your company commander Qian Dazhu. If there are any alive, please let me know, so as not to let me lose more than a dozen brothers in vain." Long Yan at the entrance of the tunnel must be really anxious at this moment, and he reported all the names of his relatives that he could.

The Long siblings and Shen Laoliu are all very famous lieutenants in the Four-line Regiment. It is not surprising to say their names, but not everyone knows the daughter of the platoon leader Shen who is still waiting for him to go back and name her. However, the platoon leader of the 1st platoon of the 4th company of the 2nd battalion and Shen Laoliu are old comrades in the original 67th Army. After receiving the telegram from Shen Laoliu, he kept saying that he would go back to the base after the battle to give his niece a big red envelope, so the officers and soldiers of the 1st platoon really knew about this.

The reinforcements really arrived. Lü Daqiu and Cao Yingchong stayed where they were until a soldier came into the tunnel and helped them out.

The bright sunlight hurt their eyes.

It was not until then that the two realized that it was already 12 noon the next day, and it was the 8th day of their battle with the Japanese army.

Although Hanjiazhai only had one infantry platoon, its battle had always been on the mind of Tang Tuanzuo, who was commanding the battle in Zishan.

This time he had to face the siege of more than 40,000 enemy troops. He could not lead the army to help like Zhaojiazhuang last time, so he could only ask Chen, the leader of the Ji'nan Division, to send troops to rescue.

However, Tang Dao did not expect Shinozuka Yoshio to make such a big decision. He would rather take the huge risk of the 10th Division, which had just been replenished, being hit hard again and losing the county town, and sent the main force of the division to contain the 50,000 main forces of the Ji'nan Division, resulting in the Ji'nan Division only being able to send a regiment of troops to fight the Japanese in the Hanjiazhai area.

As early as five days ago, the Ji'nan Division had determined that the infantry platoon of the Four-line Regiment in Hanjiazhai could not be saved. The regiment commander and the head of the Ji'nan Division had both made self-criticisms to the two heads of the 921st Division. Even the second battalion commander Guo Shouzhi was desperate. Only Tang Dao and Qian Dazhu still believed that the 1st Platoon was still fighting.

When the main battlefield of Zishan was slightly relieved, the mountain infantry company and reconnaissance company outside the main defense line were ordered to dispatch elite soldiers to Hanjiazhai to cooperate with the infantry regiment of the Ji'nan Division to break through the Japanese defense line to support Hanjiazhai.

It was still the iron law of the army that the Four-line Regiment had inherited for a long time: never abandon, never give up! I want to see you alive, and I want to see your body dead! Even if it is just a soul, I will take you home.

This is also one of the reasons why the officers and soldiers of the Four-line Regiment will not retreat even if they know they are going to die. They all firmly believe that there will be brothers to take us home.

In fact, the battle of Hanjiazhai was basically over by the early morning of that day. Except for the two sergeants who were still waiting to die in the tunnel, there were only two soldiers on the ground who were moving through the complex tunnel system to shoot the Japanese.

The Japanese army originally wanted to take all the bodies of the dead hidden by the Chinese soldiers back to the county town to display them after cleaning up the last resistance, as a result of the 10th Division's successful revenge on the Four-Line Regiment.

As a result, Long Yan and Shen Laoliu each led a platoon to arrive, and decisively crossed a gap in the battlefield to attack the outer flank of the Japanese army.

The mountain infantry platoon and the reconnaissance platoon were the most elite troops of the Four-Line Regiment. The two platoons, with the cooperation of the 80th Army's spearhead company, played the momentum of a full-strength infantry battalion.

"In this battle, Qian Dazhu has no other request. As long as there is a seed, my 1st platoon can be rebuilt, just like the 2nd Company of our 43rd Army in Songjiang. If Taozi and I are alive, more than 100 brothers in the 2nd Company will have people burn paper money for them!"

This is the telegram Qian Dazhu sent to Longyan before he left.

Qian Dazhu is one of the younger company commanders. Although he is introverted, he is quite compatible with the flamboyant Longyan. When forming a mountain infantry company, Captain Qian immediately transferred 5 sergeants and 3 sergeants from the company for support. Now they are basically assigned to Longyan's platoon, either squad leaders or deputy squad leaders, and one is a deputy platoon leader.

Captain Qian said so much, and the grassroots backbones in Longyan's platoon are all from the 4th company, so how can they not fight hard?

Under the crazy bombardment of several 60mm guns, two infantry squads chased the barrage and launched an attack on the Japanese position. At the cost of nearly 10 casualties, they took down a Japanese infantry squad in a way that pulled out teeth from the tiger's mouth.

The Japanese saw that the Chinese were going to fight to the death, and saw that their tactical goals had basically been achieved. There was no need to fight with the Chinese, so they gradually withdrew from the battlefield.

The main purpose of Longyan and Shen Laoliu coming was to save people, not to kill people. Finally, after the Japanese evacuated Hanjiazhai, they entered the village to find people.

The two surviving soldiers were found first, but when they saw the reinforcements arrive, they relaxed their spirits, which probably means that the comrades in the army regretted hiding the location of the tunnel and fell into a coma.

The designated area was covered with rubble by Japanese artillery fire. Long Yan personally led people to dig for a long time before digging out the tunnel entrance. That was the moment when the two heard cheers from the outside world.

The rescued Cao Yingchong looked at the faces that were blackened by gunpowder smoke but could not hide his excitement. He opened his mouth but swallowed the question "Why did you come just now!" again.

How could he not know the difficulties of the main force of the regiment? Their 86 people had a hard time fighting against 1,000 Japanese troops. The commander of the regiment and the battalion commander and company commander were also 6,000 against 40,000.

"Go in and get all the brothers who are still alive." Long Yan looked at the two army sergeants who were carried out, and could not hide his excitement.

Found 4 alive, which was far beyond Qian Dazhu's expectations. If he could find more, it would not be in vain for the 6 brothers who died in his platoon, two of whom were childhood friends who grew up with him.

"No one is alive, no one is alive! They are all dead. All the people in our 1st platoon are here." Lu Daqiu, who was sitting on the ground, suddenly burst into tears.

He cried like a child who had lost his parents. His tears and snot covered his face, which was already covered with dust and smoke. His two broken arms, which were tightly tied with hemostatic packs and military uniforms, trembled in the spring breeze, just like the hearts of the officers and soldiers of the Four-Line Regiment standing around.

"Brother, don't cry! I'll take them home with you!" Long Yan strode over, squatted down, and gently hugged the shoulders of the sergeant squad leader who was crying like a child. His tone was unprecedentedly gentle.

Long Yan's shoulders were full of warmth and moisture.

It was not tears, but blood!

Lu Daqiu was spitting blood in big mouthfuls, all sprayed on Long Yan's shoulders, and the eyes of the soldiers around him were wet.

"Take me home, I want to eat the steamed buns made by my mother. The steamed buns made by my mother are really soft, not like those guys in the kitchen, which are hard and I can't bite them at all.

Mom! My heart hurts so much, my arm hurts so much, I want you to blow on it." Lu Daqiu's voice became lower and lower.

"Okay! I'll take you home to find your mother, and let her make steamed buns for our brothers. It must be delicious!" Long Yan responded gently.

Long Yan's face was already wet.

He could feel that the strength of the brother in his arms was getting weaker and weaker.

After all, he was still a little late!

He finally knew how regretful it was that the company commander Gu Xishui was late at that time and failed to save his lover!

His comrades were in his arms, with their heads gently resting on his shoulders, humming in pain until they were silent!

Cao Yingchong lay on the stretcher, his eyes tightly closed, but tears had already flowed from the corners of his eyes.

From then on, he only had enemies left, but no opponents!

"Three people survived, the rest died in battle!" Qian Dazhu, who was at the front line of Zishan, stood in the underground bunker for 10 minutes, holding the telegram sent to him by Longyan and Shen Laoliu.

No one dared to comfort him!

Because everyone knew the unexpressible sorrow of the young company commander.

Up to this point, 146 people of the 4th Company had died in battle, almost half of the entire company.

But that was not the infantry company with the heaviest losses in the Sihang Regiment.

The brutality of the battle of Zishan was far beyond everyone's imagination.

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Duo Tianjun has not really lied down in the past six months.

He did not learn the ancient Chinese Yue's sleeping on straw and tasting gall, but he also learned 50% or 60%. He allowed the Chinese to desperately build various tunnels and fortifications on the land of southern Hebei, and even replanted crops with great fanfare.

Because, in the eyes of the commander of the Japanese North China Front Army, all the efforts of the Chinese were in vain in the face of absolute strength.

Yes, the Chinese found a good opportunity. The empire's focus is not only on the Chinese battlefield now. It has even withdrawn several veteran divisions from the Chinese Expeditionary Force to return to the mainland, coveting the land of Southeast Asia occupied by Western powers.

Even in the Chinese battlefield, the main goal of the headquarters is to continue to move south, occupy Hunan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi, and completely block the Chinese land support from the south.

By then, the Chinese only have two areas in the southwest and northwest that are full of mountains and deserts, and the empire can lock them up with the word "trapped".

The biggest strategic goal of the North China Front Army now, in addition to continuing to conquer Guanzhong to the west, is to maintain the stability of the occupied areas and ensure the important transportation from north to south of the empire, so that a large amount of materials can be transported from the north to the southern front.

Therefore, the Japanese North China Front Army cannot obtain new troops, and it is difficult to withdraw the main division from the Zhongtiao Mountain front to sweep the Chinese on the southern Hebei Plain.

But the Chinese still underestimated Duo Tianjun's circle of friends. In October, he flew back to his homeland to meet with several bigwigs of the Army General Staff Headquarters. With the influence of His Royal Highness and the promise that he would recommend generals of his faction to important positions in the front after he stepped down as commander in the future, he finally won their support, and Okabe Saburo finally took over the position of the commander of the 1st Division.

The only condition for Okabe Saburo to take over smoothly was to second the 1st Division from the Kwantung Army to fight in the North China battlefield for 3 months.

The reason why the commander of the Kwantung Army, who was at the same level as him, agreed was naturally that the headquarters agreed to carry out a large-scale refitting of the 1st Division that was exiled to the border because of the "February 26" incident, and to rebuild the marginalized 1st Division into a heavy-armored division to continue the glory of the 1st Division.

The Kwantung Army deeply felt the power of the steel torrent of the Bear Country in the Battle of Nomonhan, and had been trying to lobby the headquarters to re-equip the divisions under the front army and add tank regiments. Finally, the headquarters opened the door. The price was just to borrow a division to fight the Chinese peasant army in North China. Why not?

At the level of the two major services of the Japanese Army and Navy, due to the change of Japan's strategic goals, the Army is currently unable to compete with the Navy in terms of resources. In the Japanese Army, which already has more monks and less meat, several major fronts also have to compete for resources.

The Kwantung Army was originally only to maintain the security of the three provinces occupied in Northeast China. Later, due to the threat of the Bear Country, it gradually developed into a large front army. With the increase in troops and the defeat of the Bear Country in Nomonhan, the Kwantung Army naturally wanted more resources.

To put it bluntly, Duo Tianjun took the initiative to give up the resources given to the North China Front Army and exchanged with the Kwantung Army Group.

Having dealt with the army's top brass and seconded a division with strong combat effectiveness, that was relying on external forces. Duo Tianjun attached more importance to tapping internal potential.

The so-called tapping potential is actually intelligence work!

Duo Tianjun judged that whether it was the 80th Army or the 4th Army, they would never engage in remote control command. The command of Tang Dao and the 921st Division might have come to southern Hebei long ago.

What he wanted was the location of their important command. Only in this way would the 4th Army or the 80th Army fight him.

Of course, Duo Tianjun was also mentally prepared. If the 4th Army and the 80th Army did not accept his tricks, he would use tens of thousands of troops to push forward and turn the area around the important cities in southern Hebei into a no-man's land.

He wanted to use the countless villages and millions of Chinese people scattered across the plains as bargaining chips to force the Chinese side to fight him.

The Japanese efforts were not in vain. As early as December, Duo Tianjun had determined that the headquarters of the Four-Line Regiment was stationed in Zishan, about 20 kilometers away from Handan City. Even the photo of Wang Gongyu, the director of the Ji'nan Office appointed by the Shancheng government, appeared on Duo Tianjun's desk.

The Chinese continued to infiltrate the cities occupied by Japan, and the Japanese could also bribe the Chinese for counter-infiltration.

The tide of history tells everyone that the twins of light and darkness are inseparable!

Duo Tianjun finally knew himself and the enemy before the war, and even had a few blurry photos of the defensive terrain of the Chinese side in Zishan.

For Duo Tianjun's most powerful assistant, Okabe Saburo, who had taken over as the commander of the First Division, this battle was also what he wanted.

It was so easy for his classmates at the Army University to take over as division commanders. As long as they had military merits, the brigade commanders did not have to make the transition to the chief of staff of the front army level, and directly changed from major generals to lieutenant generals.

It was a good thing for him. He had sent off two chiefs of staff of the front army, and he saw that this one would not stay long either. He even issued a letter of appointment, but he was not allowed to leave because of a defeat.

There was even a joke in the army that "Chief of Staff Okabe, no matter who he served as a staff officer, he would not stay in the position for long!"

Whenever he thought of this, Okabe Saburo couldn't help but think of the young face he saw in a small town in the deep mountains of China, and then he couldn't help but get excited.

Since entering 1938, the North China Front Army seemed to be cursed, with fewer victories and more defeats! And that man also appeared in Taihang Mountains at that time.

Only by defeating that young Chinese man, Okabe Saburo felt that he could drive away the demons in his heart and wipe out the rumors that teased him.

So, on the first day he took over the First Division, at the meeting with senior officers above the colonel level, the goal he set for the division was to completely defeat the Four-Line Regiment.

A division with the longest history in the empire, equipped with tanks and 150 heavy artillery, its target was just a Chinese infantry regiment. At that moment, the colonels and major generals of the First Division looked at Okabe Saburo as if he was a lunatic.

They were just a bunch of unsophisticated people who had never seen the world! Okabe Saburo was too lazy to explain to these radical officers of the "Imperial Way" faction, and just threw them the record of the Four-Line Regiment's battle against the Imperial Division in North China in the past two years.

The senior officers of the First Division still didn't take it too seriously. These jaw-dropping records may not be because the Chinese are so strong, but more likely because the North China Front Army is too weak.

Otherwise, why do they change commanders every year? After more than two years of fighting, they are still playing a tug-of-war with the Chinese in the mountains. What a bunch of scum!

It can be said that except for Okabe Saburo who wanted to prove himself and was very cautious about the upcoming battle with the Four-Line Regiment, the senior officers of the First Division didn't take the Four-Line Regiment too seriously.

The Mao bears are powerful, because they have overwhelming aircraft and cannons. The Imperial Army cannot win because of their equipment, but what can a group of Chinese peasant soldiers do?

The ambitious First Division entered Shanhaiguan with great vigor and vigor, and arrived in Handan after secretly replenishing supplies in Pingbei City!

The 30,000-strong army has more than 60 tanks of various types and more than 100 artillery pieces of various types below 150mm heavy artillery!

It can really be said that there are swords and guns like a forest!

Then, the Four-Line Regiment took the lead in giving it a blow, pouring a bucket of cold water on the First Division in this early spring, and it was poured with a chill!

16 of the 28 150 howitzers that have been installed on the gun positions, under the guidance of the scouts, covered the First Division's baggage troops that were stationed 13 kilometers away from Zishan with artillery fire!

Okabe Saburo and the First Division were collectively stunned!

Okabe Saburo was confused because he felt that he had enough knowledge of the Four-Line Regiment. The Four-Line Regiment had German-made precision artillery with a range of about 9,000 meters. His division headquarters and baggage troops stayed 13 kilometers away from the battlefield, far out of the range of the Four-Line Regiment's artillery.

How the hell can they still hit it?

What confused the Japanese soldiers of the First Division was that the Chinese peasant army also had 150mm heavy artillery? Are you kidding me?

But more than 80 shells were like plowing the land, wiping out more than 600 people from two baggage squadrons, along with 40 trucks, 300 pack horses and a large amount of supplies from the surface of this planet. That is an indisputable fact.

Before the two sides even met, the First Division was taught a good lesson by the opponent they looked down upon!

The Chinese army hiding in the mountains may not only have a hard shell, but also a poisonous stinger that can be ejected at any time to kill people!