Rise From Eight Hundred

The setting sun!

Yanagawa Heisuke stood at the bridgehead that had been blown up by explosives, his eyes ‘blurred’.

It was an hour after he arrived at the Suzhou River.

The powerful lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army was not intoxicated by the red clouds in the evening in late autumn in Jiangnan, China, nor was he proud of watching rows of soldiers rumbling into the river and shattering the tranquility of the river.

Instead, after his intuition was proven to be wrong, he actually felt a sense of emptiness as if his body was hollowed out.

It was really a very strange feeling.

There was anger at being deceived, a faint frustration at being unable to control the enemy, and an unspeakable fear.

The Chinese on the other side of the river had already fled, and before his army gathered and three artillery regiments set up 130 artillery pieces to prepare for a full-scale attack, they had already fled without a single one left.

The four infantry squadrons, who once again pinned their heads to their belts, landed on the other side of the river without losing a single person.

A large number of simple trenches and machine gun fortifications that were not toppled in time proved that Ushijima Mitsuru's previous judgment was correct. The Chinese had at least thousands of troops along the destroyed bridge for more than ten miles.

But after they concentrated a large amount of heavy firepower to teach the 36th Infantry Brigade a lesson, they left without hesitation.

This made the generals of the 10th Army, who had been holding back their energy to "beat" the Chinese hard, feel ashamed.

Especially Yanagawa Heisuke, the supreme commander.

He was played hard by the Chinese, causing the 36th Infantry Brigade to waste more than two hours on the river bank. Although he also knew that if only the 36th Infantry Brigade crossed the river, the Chinese on the opposite side might not leave and would definitely give a strong enough counterattack.

Let the 36th Infantry Brigade pay more than 50% of the war losses or even more. That was the only way he could drag the Chinese on the battlefield.

But even if there was this choice at the time, Yanagawa Heisuke didn't know if he could make this decision.

The 13th Infantry Brigade of the 6th Division had already suffered a heavy blow under the city of Songjiang. If the 36th Infantry Brigade was used as cannon fodder, the strong army under his command, which was the "strongest division on the surface of the earth" in the empire, would be beaten half-crippled. The headquarters' evaluation of him would undoubtedly drop sharply.

Therefore, suppressing the "bitterness" that kept surging in his heart, Lieutenant General Yanagawa ordered: All infantry units of the army immediately found shallow fords to cross the river, and engineers made every effort to build pontoon bridges for the passage of baggage, artillery and other arms.

The seemingly calm military order restored the inevitable low morale of ordinary soldiers, but perhaps only the Japanese Army Lieutenant General, who was standing on the bridge and watching all this, knew that he was actually very depressed.

This land that he once thought he could conquer at will seemed to become mysterious and unpredictable, which made his extremely firm determination to annihilate the enemy army waver for a while.

What's more terrifying is that looking into the distance, the Japanese Army Lieutenant General once again had an intuition that the land across the river was dangerous.

Although reason told him that this was an absurd and ridiculous feeling.

Not to mention the nearly 100,000 troops under his command, there were already two infantry brigades of infantry that had landed on the river bank at this time, and more than 10,000 troops were already marching in the mountains as wide as ten miles.

Who else could threaten him, a general in the army?

Perhaps it was the psychological shadow caused by the continuous loss of control of the battlefield! The once indestructible confidence had cracks, and the Japanese Army Lieutenant General could only attribute the reason for this strange intuition to this.

However, Yanagawa Heisuke still chose to believe his intuition this time.

It seems that the dead ghost Tani Hisao was also shot dead by the Chinese under the sanitation of the army.

Moreover, it was on the battlefield that he thought was safe.

Two days before the capture of Songjiang, the personnel responsible for investigating the cause of Tani Hisao's death, after countless simulations, finally determined that the Chinese who sniped Tani Hisao was lurking on the battlefield about 300 meters away from Tani Hisao.

The bodies of his own dead soldiers were his only disguise, and then he shot Tani Hisao who walked out of the command center.

However, how the Chinese could judge and recognize Tani Hisao from such a long distance is always a mystery. Perhaps, the information of all the generals of the 10th Army has been leaked?

Are the Chinese intelligence agencies so powerful? Thinking of this, Yanagawa Heisuke, who had already quietly taken off his lieutenant general star shoulder strap, felt cold all over.

He placed his army headquarters south of the Baihe Port Bridge before the night fell.

But this time, Yanagawa Heisuke's intuition saved him and saved many of his subordinates.

.......

Lei Xiong, who has always been unruly, is now frowning and rushing forward with the advance group army away from the river bank.

It's not because of the tens of thousands of Japanese invaders who are chasing the advance group behind him.

Rather, Major Lei, who originally led more than 200 people at most, became the supreme commander of a force of more than 3,000 people half an hour ago.

This made Lei Xiong, who was originally unruly, feel uneasy.

"I've never led more than 200 soldiers, I'm afraid I can't do this!" During the march, Lei Xiong was secretly recruited to the headquarters by Tang Dao. When he heard that he was about to replace Tang Dao in command of the entire army, he almost fell to the ground.

"What are you panicking about? That general was born to be a general? Have you forgotten that when I first arrived at the Sihang Warehouse, I was just a soldier, and an unidentified soldier who could lose his head if he didn't do it well. I can do it, so why can't you, a veteran who has been in the army for ten years, do it?" This is how Tang Dao "comforted" Lei Xiong before leaving. "Believe in yourself, you can do it."

Lei Xiong...

It seems to be the case. Tang Dao has been rising for only half a month, and I should be able to do it.

"Damn, I was fooled!" Lei Xiong, who kept receiving requests and orders from various departments during the march, suddenly realized it at this moment.

Being a company commander with one or two hundred people and being the commander of more than a thousand people in an infantry regiment are completely two different concepts.

Especially at this moment when every decision he makes is related to the lives of thousands of people, it is simply a matter of life and death!

Tang Dao can do it, but it really doesn't mean that everyone can do it.

But there is no regret medicine in the world. No matter how desperate Lei Xiong is, he can only force the duck to go up the shelf and grit his teeth to hold on.

Fortunately, Tang Dao had already planned the marching route on the map.

As long as he follows this route, he will not make any big mistakes.

More importantly, the great victory over the Japanese aircraft formation in the wilderness in the morning and the subsequent lenient and strict military law treatment completely established Tang Dao's position in this temporary unit.

Even if he temporarily handed over the command to Lei Xiong, the whole army would obey.

Although most people don't know what Tang Dao wants to do again! Only a few people in the entire advance group know that he is going to take risks again, and Tan Tai Mingyue is worried again.

Yes, as the highest commander of the advance group, Tang Dao quietly left with Niu Er and Xia Dayu after nightfall.

A cavalry squad of the cavalry battalion two miles away from the main force of the advance group also left the main force of the cavalry under the leadership of Lv Sanjiang, who was beaten to a bloody pulp by military law.

Lv Sanjiang's face was both excited and nervous.

What was exciting was that Commander Tang, who had just implemented strict military law on him in the morning, trusted him very much and personally appointed him to carry out the mission.

What made him nervous was that this was an extremely dangerous mission, and its degree of danger was even far greater than his previous patrol and reconnaissance in the Songjiang wilderness.

But last time, no matter how dangerous it was, the old squad leader was by his side.

This time, there was no such thing.

What made the young cavalry squad leader even more nervous and stiff-faced was that whether the mission was completed or not was not only related to the safety of him and his six cavalry comrades.

There was also the highest commander of the entire army.

"Brother! I know you will still watch over me, even in the sky!" Looking at the sky that was gradually getting dark, the young cavalry squad leader rubbed his stiff face hard and kicked the horse's belly lightly: "Go!"

Six Chinese cavalrymen, carrying two war horses with empty saddles, disappeared into the mountains and forests at night.