Rise From Eight Hundred

Removing the threat from the main force of the Japanese army brought more than just psychological pressure.

More importantly, you can enjoy the feast without restraint.

This is a special benefit for the victor.

Winter is very cold, but there are more dead trees than in normal seasons.

Except for a few guard infantry companies, the soldiers of the other companies, under the urging of the company commanders, did not rush to harvest the fruits of victory, but went to collect firewood first.

Soon, piles of bonfires were lit in the valley. If someone stood on a high peak several miles away and looked over, it was like a sky full of stars.

It was so bright that it was refreshing, especially under such a sky without much pollution.

However, that was a grand scene that only the Chinese scouts could see, and the Japanese would never see it.

Within a radius of several kilometers, the short-legged tribe was the only species that lost the right to breathe...

The warm yellow light dispelled the cold of the winter night and illuminated the entire dark valley. Almost a bonfire every 20 meters ensured the brightness in the valley.

All the bodies of the Japanese soldiers who were killed were carried to one end of the river valley, and they were densely packed on the entire river beach.

After counting, there were 1,532 intact bodies in the entire river valley, not counting those outside the river valley, including the Japanese colonel commander, Takeuchi Yunshan, and the bodies of 4 majors and 16 captains were all found. There were nearly 100 low-ranking officers at the level of lieutenant, second lieutenant, and sergeant.

Because most Japanese officers chose to change their uniforms and ranks, and because of the cold weather, many Sichuan soldiers chose to take off the Japanese uniforms and wear them inside their own uniforms to keep warm when they found that the Japanese uniforms were still intact, so their identities were extremely difficult to determine.

However, Zhuang Shisan, who was in charge of counting the number of enemy killed and captured, was smart enough. He judged that the Japanese officers would do the same as his superiors by looking at the rank collar badges and certificates that Takeuchi Yunshan put in his pocket lining. He ordered the entire army to check all the supplies on the bodies long before moving the bodies. The clothes could be taken away, but the rank collar badges had to be pinned on the waistbands of the bodies for statistics.

Therefore, many majors, captains, lieutenants, and second lieutenants were actually placed on the beach with their bare upper bodies and big feet but with their hidden rank collar badges pinned on their waistbands. This rather funny scene was jokingly called "belt-level officers" by the soldiers of the independent battalion.

More importantly, except for Colonel Takeuchi Yunshan, who was carried by Qin Wulang and Tu Dou, whose clothes were relatively intact, this group of Japanese officers who were identified as colonels and captains by the collar badges on their belts were neatly placed on the stone beach, and then Tan Tai Mingyue set up the camera and took a picture of this scene that would bring shame to the entire Japanese army in the future.

The caption of the photo used the joke of the officers and soldiers of the independent battalion, "A group of belt-level Japanese invaders killed in the Battle of Guangde!"

However, Tang Dao ordered that the photo should not be published in any newspaper within two months.

Perhaps only Tan Tai Mingyue, who had communicated with Tang Dao, roughly understood his intentions. He was afraid that the Japanese army would carry out bloody revenge out of shame and anger.

Yes, Tan Tai Mingyue guessed most of Tang Dao's thoughts, but she was not Tang Dao after all. Because only Tang Dao understood that the disaster was inevitable, and he was no longer afraid of revenge against the soldiers and civilians in the important city of Jinling that the Japanese army was about to capture, but the current occupied area of ​​the Japanese army.

The Japanese army only occupied one province in the southeast, but the areas of Hua, BJ and Tianjin have all fallen into the hands of the enemy. Now they have begun to attack Shanxi in a big way, and the Kunisaki Detachment belongs to the Fifth Division that is attacking Shanxi.

If the war butcher Itagaki Seishirō carried out a bloodbath in the occupied areas because of this, he would become a historical sinner. Only when the international community's public opinion on the brutality of the Japanese army reached its peak, and the Japanese army headquarters, which was still cautious about international public opinion at that time, ordered to avoid such incidents as much as possible, could such highly damaging and insulting photos be used to attack the Japanese invaders.

After all, this photo that made all Japanese generals vomit blood was not first published in China, but on the front page of the "New York Times" in the United States more than half a year later when China and Japan had entered a stalemate.

The ugly death posture of a group of naked Japanese officers with their military ranks pinned on their belts, baring their teeth and posing, is said to have caused General Terauchi Juichi, the commander of the North China Expeditionary Army at the time, and General Yan Junroku, the commander of the Central China Expeditionary Army, to flip the table together thousands of miles away.

Kunisaki Shige, who was originally sent back to Pingjin and was put into cold storage because of the battlefield defeat, was directly dragged from his residence to the Expeditionary Army Headquarters and slapped hard. He should be the first Japanese general officer in the Chinese battlefield to be slapped ten times by the commander.

It is said that General Terauchi Juichi's hand was swollen for three days.

As for Kunisaki Shige, the unlucky child who was slapped, no one knows what his face looked like, but he disappeared from the Japanese military from then on, and no one knows where he was sent to clean the toilet.

In addition to keeping the appearance of a group of Japanese officers who had to contribute their clothes even if they lost their lives a secret, Tang Dao also spread a white lie to the army headquarters hundreds of meters away after the battle.

The 21st Army Headquarters was still very concerned about the Tang Dao and the 145th Division of the Sichuan Army, and sent telegrams almost three times a day to inquire about the battle situation of the two divisions and the Kunisaki Detachment.

It was not that they cared much about the 145th Division and the Tang Dao Independent Battalion, but the current battlefield situation forced them to stop the Japanese invaders in Jiepai Village and Laoshu Mountain and achieve results. The two divisions have already brought honor to all the Sichuan Army who swore to leave Sichuan.

Faced with the earnest care of the big guys, Tang Dao replied half-truthfully, and sent a telegram to the 145th Division after the valley ambush, saying: "Our troops fought fiercely with the Japanese army in the Guangde Mountain area, and part of them were besieged by the main force of the Japanese army. In order to relieve our difficulties, we fought fiercely with the Japanese reinforcements in the afternoon, but the Japanese army was strong and the battle situation was stalemate."

Of course, the 145th Division headquarters immediately forwarded Tang Dao's telegram to the army headquarters. The army headquarters immediately ordered the 145th Division to tell the independent battalion: "Overcome difficulties and do your best to deal with the enemy. If the enemy is strong, find a suitable opportunity to evacuate. The headquarters should contact the superiors and come to support with the air force."

The words sounded very nice, affirming and encouraging the independent battalion, and also comforting it, and even allowing it to retreat at any time, but these words are just for listening.

The so-called fighter support was nothing but a mirage. Not to mention that there were only a few fighters left in the Air Force, even if there were, they were all evacuated hundreds of kilometers away. They couldn't even support the main battlefield in Nanjing, so how could they care about the small battlefield in the southern Anhui mountainous area?

But the reason why Tang Dao sent a telegram to report was not to ask for any support. What he needed was to let those big guys know that he was still fighting.

Because, if the big guys knew, some people would know too.

As expected, when the independent battalion began to happily take photos of a bunch of dead Japanese officers, the information that the Tang Dao independent battalion was still fighting had been placed on Ushijima Sadao's desk.

The huge spy network that the Japanese spent ten years to lay out once again made a "great contribution" and helped Tang Dao complete the most inconspicuous but also the most important step on the entire battlefield.

Tactical deception!

Kunisaki, who had been anxious all the time, finally received the news that made him feel at ease an hour after nightfall.

Takeuchi Yunshan's infantry regiment held back the main force of the Chinese, preventing them from coming to rescue the trapped elite. He could continue to wait for the arrival of daylight and swallow up the Chinese.

This was also the telegram he quickly sent back to Ushijima Sadao and Yanagawa Heisuke. Anyway, the Chinese said so. How could he not brag about the hard work of the intelligence personnel?

Therefore, the top leaders of both China and Japan were deceived by the two middle-level officers of China and Japan. No one knew that in the mountainous areas of southern Anhui, more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers were beaten upside down, and the last remaining warmth of the corpses was completely cooled in the cold winter wind.

The independent battalion, in the warm yellow light of a pile of bonfires, began to enjoy the fruits of victory.

After the Japanese corpses were counted and looted one by one, they stayed wherever they wanted, just like their dead officers.

The important thing was that the weapons and supplies scattered all over the ground were dazzling.

Especially for a group of poor people who didn't even let go of the Japanese military uniforms!

What? The Type 38 rifle shoots far and accurately, come and get it, brothers, no, no, that's nothing.

It's not because its performance is worse than the Hanyang rifle or the old sleeve, but because there are too many of them.

So many that a soldier can't even carry one, and each soldier has to carry two.

No matter how precious a thing is, it will become worthless once there are too many of them. This is human nature.

The victorious soldiers tied the Type 38 rifles like a pile of firewood sticks and threw them casually beside the bonfire, which vividly demonstrated the "ugliness" of human nature.

But the officers with smiling faces did not scold these soldiers whose vision suddenly became higher.

They were all busy at this moment.