Rise From Eight Hundred

From a biological perspective, humans can go without food for three days, but they cannot go without water for three days.

The Chinese mountain people in the core area of ​​the 921st Division can take away all the food in their homes so that the Japanese troops who are alone in the depths cannot resupply, but they must not take away the water source. Even some villages are really ruthless and will pass on the inheritance with big stones. Ancient wells that were hundreds of years old have been filled in.

But they can’t survive on the living water in the mountains! This actually solved a small problem for the Japanese commanders. The well water was easily poisoned, and at most it was more difficult to get water.

The drinking water for both humans and animals was basically taken from mountain streams, and the Japanese army had strict requirements for drinking water. Raw water must be boiled for drinking to prevent bacterial infection and diseases such as dysentery that would affect combat effectiveness.

Lieutenant General Xia Xiong Yuan, who was still in command in Licheng, had great expectations for this battle. He specially held a meeting of officers above the captain of the division's infantry battalion in Licheng to encourage everyone and at the same time strictly enforce military discipline. The main idea was: Normally, when everyone wants to put some money into their own pockets, I can turn a blind eye, as long as everyone doesn’t embarrass me, the division commander, but if this battle doesn’t go well, I, the division commander, I'm afraid if I have to move my position, I will have to move my position. How can I care about your life and death? Not only can't I control it, I'm in a bad mood, so why don't I get a few heads to sacrifice the flags?

The commander of the dignified division said that he wanted to sacrifice human heads to the flag. The colonels did not panic, but a group of majors and captains panicked. The army lieutenant general's saber could not chop off the heads of the majors and major generals, nor could it kill a junior major. Well!

Moreover, Xiong Yuandu is over 50 years old. If he is removed from the position of division commander, his military career will be over. Then he must not go crazy!

Therefore, the 108th Division is extremely cautious from top to bottom this time. The commanders, large and small, all hold the mentality of 'even if they have no military exploits, they can't make mistakes'. Anyway, they must not be ranked at the bottom. one.

Even though there is not a single human hair to be seen for dozens of miles around, the cautious 108th Division has never let down its vigilance. Even if it burns an empty village, an entire infantry brigade will be dispatched in full force. .

Just thousands of people lighting fires and having fun!

This is why they were afraid of being beaten in the battle at Shentou Ridge.

However, if you stand from the perspective of the commanders of the 108th Division, then you are not afraid! When the Chinese attacked the county town, you thought they were encircling a few points for reinforcements, but you didn’t know that they were surrounding a few points and then breaking them. After reinforcements were sent, they sent for reinforcements again. Four infantry brigades were taken in at one go. That was still on the territory controlled by their 108th Division. .

Now, they are on the territory that the 80th Army has been occupying for half a year. Moreover, the 80th Army is an elite force that has been fighting the million-strong army led by the current Chinese commander for more than ten years. What's more terrible is that it is a group army. ah! Just hearing this organization makes people hairy. How many troops are needed?

This can only be said that there is a reason why the ad hoc division of the 108th Division is called a second-line division by the standing divisions. Whether it is equipment or personnel quality, it cannot be compared with the 17 standing divisions.

Implementing the "Three Lights" policy during the day is tiring, and they are not idle at night. The squad-level patrol team can almost surround the camping site, and the average soldier sleeps no more than 6 hours at night.

Although the weather in May has begun to get hotter, it is uncomfortable to sleep on the cold ground at night with at most a thin blanket. Coupled with the stress and lack of sleep, it is uncomfortable. Just don’t mention it.

Therefore, despite the fact that the 108th Division lost only more than a hundred people from the time it sent troops to the time it entered the enemy camp alone, its spirit was always tense and it did not even relax its mentality of "burning fire", so its level of fatigue was not at all It is no worse than the Japanese troops such as the 16th Division and the Second Mixed Brigade that are fighting fiercely.

As the saying goes, "You can only be a thief for a thousand days, but you can't guard against a thief for a thousand days." On the fifth day after entering the battlefield, wouldn't something happen?

First, the pack horses attached to the Japanese infantry brigade, artillery, and baggage troops began to have diarrhea like crazy. Not to mention the diarrhea, which was extremely smelly and damaged the environment. The key is that it can make the strong horses' legs and feet so weak that they can't even stand. Can't get up.

The pack horse is the most important helper in the Japanese infantry. Whether it is heavy equipment such as artillery or military supplies such as food, ammunition, and medicine, the pack horse must be relied on, especially the 108th Division, which basically has nothing to do with mechanization. The number of packhorses provided by the second-line division is even more astonishing, as many as thousands.

At this time, the main force of the 108th Division was fully mobilized. Not only the four main infantry regiments, but also the cavalry, engineers, artillery, and baggage troops were all following the main force of the infantry. Suddenly, thousands of horses began to collectively lose weight. This camp The smell inside is really unbearable.

Smell is different from other things. It contains odor factors. This thing will stick to people. Just like if you stay in the toilet for a long time, your olfactory cells will almost adapt. But When others smell the smell of feces on your body, they can basically tell where you have been for a long time.

In countless mindless TV dramas, the evidence that a wife can discover her man's cheating is the smell of perfume left on his suit. This may be the most logical plot in the TV series.

However, in order to prevent the pack horses and grooms from being attacked by the Chinese, the Japanese commanders did not dare to drive these manure-making machines out of the field camp surrounded by barbed wire and trenches. They could only watch the pack horses desperately making fertilizer. .

Good guy!

Even in the open mountains and wilderness, the Japanese army had the illusion that they were living on a pile of horse manure.

They were already extremely tired physically and mentally, and they had to eat while smelling the pungent smell of horse manure. Do you think they still have an appetite?

Even the Japanese major general, who was the commander of the brigade, was still hiding in his own field tent. He couldn't even swallow the seaweed rice balls that were supposed to be delicious, let alone the canned beef.

The color and the soup made it look like something pulled by a packhorse.

‘Baga! Ugh!’ The Japanese army major general stuffed a few rice balls in anger, and before they could digest them, they were all vomited out by the ubiquitous stench.

Eating less food means you have no strength. It is visible to the naked eye that the Japanese officers and soldiers of the 108th Division looked very haggard when they went to play the regular ‘burning fire’ game.

But this was not the worst thing that happened to the 20,000-strong 108th Division. The packhorses were just a little smelly at best. Anyway, they did not need to march long distances, so they did not need to carry heavy equipment.

On the sixth day, Yamamoto sent a telegram to the 108th Division, hoping that after destroying the houses of the Chinese in the existing area, they would immediately move to the area where the Second Mixed Brigade was located, and attack from both sides perfectly, burying the 30,000 Chinese troops in the mountainous area.

Yamamoto said that although the two Chinese armies in front of him did not know their specific organization, they were equipped with dozens of small-caliber artillery, and were definitely the most elite troops in the north of China. They were most likely the Central Army. If they could be annihilated, it would be a great achievement.

This was also a certain cognitive misunderstanding of Yamamoto, a Japanese general who had been staying in Pingbei City and had not participated in the battle in Shanxi Province. Since the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese troops in the southeast had been fighting head-on with the elite of the Central Army, and suffered heavy losses.

These battle reports led Japanese generals like Yamamoto who had never fought on the front line of Shanxi Province to take it for granted that the Central Army was the elite.

In fact, the Japanese commanders of the 108th, 109th and even the 5th Divisions no longer thought so. The Chinese Central Army was well-equipped, but their combat effectiveness was not necessarily the strongest. On the contrary, the 80th Army, the Northwest Army, the Sichuan Army, and the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, which were originally regarded as miscellaneous armies, either had artillery or a fearless spirit, which left a deep impression on them.

Otherwise, the 108th Division would not have been so scared after going deep into the 80th Army’s garrison alone. At night, almost every soldier would take turns patrolling every four hours, and the patrol density created the first in the history of the Japanese Army.

The 108th Division also wanted to make military achievements, but its strength did not allow it! Not only did the nearly 6,000 pack horses in the entire division become weak, but on this morning, the people even began to have diarrhea.

And there are quite a few of them. The two main forces, which are less than 8,000 meters apart, have a total of more than 1,000 people. Although the number is only one twentieth of the total force, it is a dangerous signal.

"The whole army is not allowed to drink mountain stream water easily! If you have to drink it, you must filter, precipitate, and boil the water for half an hour!" Nakano Kozo, the major general of the 25th Infantry Brigade and the front-line commander of the 108th Division, issued a wise military order.

The packhorse diarrhea can be said to be caused by eating unclean grass in the mountains, but so many people have diarrhea together, so what else can it be except that there is a problem with the water source?

Although the Japanese commander couldn't figure out how the Chinese could poison the running water, this was the only possibility.

Not to mention, the Japanese Army major general's thinking is very active, and he is almost close to the truth.

The 104th and 17th Divisions are fighting hard in the mountains, how can the fresh force of the Four-Line Regiment be idle?

The Four-Line Regiment left behind a large cart company and a platoon of the guard company at the station. The special service battalion, artillery battalion, cavalry battalion, and three major infantry battalions were almost all dispatched.

The main force was led by a team of three people, Lei Xiong, Ye Chenghuan, and Gong Shaoxun, while Tang Dao himself led the reconnaissance company and the main force of the regiment to go the other way, lurking in the direction of Yushe, Wuxiang, etc.

A small reconnaissance company certainly could not pose any threat to the behemoth 108th Division, even if they all had three heads and six arms.

But they would destroy it!

And what they carried in the big backpacks on their backs this time was a strange medicine that Tang Tuanzuo accidentally discovered.

That was because the bay horse that Lv Sanjiang sat on was sick. Everyone knew that Lv Sanjiang treasured the warhorse under his seat. It was simply comparable to the existence of a comrade-in-arms, no, it even surpassed his comrades-in-arms.

After all, comrades-in-arms would still quarrel, make faces, and joke with each other, but he would never do that to the red Mongolian horse. He would always smile and offer the horse grass, beans, corn and other high-quality horse feed. He himself did not like to take a bath, but he was very diligent in bathing the horse, making the red horse shiny, fat and strong. The horse was also very competitive, and its 200-meter sprint speed was almost as fast as the Japanese horses captured from the Japanese army.

But 20 days ago, the horse suddenly fell ill. The veterinarian judged that it was because the horse feed was too good, causing indigestion. To put it bluntly, it was just that it could not defecate, which was similar to human constipation.

This made Lu Sanjiang very anxious. He had no appetite and was always around the sick horse, but this could not be used as medicine! The horse's spirit was getting worse day by day. When Tang Dao, who had returned, heard about this, he immediately ordered the baggage camp to send personnel to the surrounding mountain villages to inquire if there were any reliable old veterinarians.

Lu Sanjiang is not only his beloved general of Tang Dao, but the war horse that carries his beloved general through life and death is also a hero and a silent comrade of the cavalry. Tang Dao will not give up any of his comrades, including war horses and hammers.

The hard work paid off, and the transport camp actually asked an old veterinarian. As soon as he heard about the symptoms, no one came, so he got up and went to the low bushes in the ravine to pull a few dry fruits. The soldiers crushed it and mixed it with water for the horses to drink.

In less than an hour, it was solved.

Lu Sanjiang was also an honest man. When he saw that the war horse had recovered from his illness, he personally brought a few cans and cigarettes that he had saved in daily life to thank the old veterinarian. He also learned about the functions of this wild fruit from the old veterinarian.

When the fruit of this shrub matures in autumn, it emits a strange smell. Cattle and sheep will not eat it. After a winter and spring, it will become shriveled at the turn of spring and summer. At this time, it will no longer have any smell, but it will become a fruit. It is a good medicine, used for cold accumulation and laxative, and is suitable for both humans and animals.

It sounds similar to the croton in the Chinese medicine shop, but this thing is slightly different from the croton, that is, the effect is much more overbearing than that, just like a war horse with such a huge size, and the serious condition, the croton cannot be cured, but only a trivial use A few fruits of this kind can solve the problem. If you add a little more, it is likely to cause diarrhea. No matter how large the amount is, diarrhea alone can dehydrate humans and animals and even kill them.

Therefore, even if the people in the mountains know that it has medicinal effects, they dare not eat it at will. That is why old veterinarians who rely on it for a long time can judge the dosage based on the height and weight of humans and animals. Otherwise, it will not be a rescue but a harm. .

So awesome? Tang Dao became interested as soon as he heard this, and immediately went to personally invite the old veterinarian to come to the regiment headquarters, and began to conduct live experiments based on the dosage he provided.

It can only be said that Tang Tuanzuo is a ruthless person. For so-called living experiments, he used the big green horse he usually rides, even the big black sheep like Xiao Shitou, and even the hammer and himself were not spared. .

Hammer couldn't speak. If he knew that the large piece of bacon he accidentally ate that day was mixed with twice the dose of 'poisonous powder', it was Tang Tuanzuo's idea. He would have blocked the door of a certain Tuanzuo and cursed him all day and night.

Good guy, in those days, horses had diarrhea, ewes had diarrhea, and dogs had diarrhea. A certain regiment guarded the door of the toilet almost all day long, using Li Jijin's original words: "Look at the regiment leader's kabai kabai." With his small face, sunken eye sockets, and almost dull eyes, I was confused. Could it be that the regimental commander did something that he should not do last night? Fortunately, my wife is an ugly woman! , you can go to sleep after completing the task.”

It is said that because of veteran Youzi’s stupid words, the handsome old man from Tantai, who had already achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel, went to Li Jiujin’s company more than 20 times in one afternoon. The officers and soldiers of the 7th company and veteran Youzi all saluted. Arms sore.

"This medicine is amazing!" Tang Tuanzuo, who had been struggling for a week, came to this conclusion based on his own personal experience.

Most medicines have a smell, but this nameless fruit is really tasteless. Otherwise, do you think Hammer's dog nose, which has a far better sense of smell than ordinary dogs, is just a decoration? Moreover, the effect is extremely good. As long as the amount is enough, it will make you pull at the third watch, but will never let you hold it until the fifth watch. No matter how strong the sphincter is, it cannot restrain the crazy peristalsis from the intestines.

In addition to guns, bullets and other necessary supplies, each of the 200 soldiers in the reconnaissance company carried at least 40 kilograms of this fruit powder on their backs.

Most of them were scattered on the rich green grass on the road that the Japanese army must pass through, and the smaller half was scattered on the upper reaches of the mountain streams when the special forces lurking in the mountains and forests communicated in a unique way while waiting for the Japanese army to fetch water.

The Japanese army did not start having diarrhea on a large scale like the pack horses on the first day. Apparently, it was because the stream was flowing and the amount of medicine was not enough. However, as they continued to collect water, the quantitative change finally caused a qualitative change, and thousands of people began their own journey of diarrhea.

If you think about it, even a strong man like Tang Dao would be pulled out of his appearance, let alone the "short and powerful" Japanese.

Moreover, Nakano Xiaosan's military order was still a little late, and by noon, one thousand more people started to arrive one after another.

No matter how particular the Japanese army is, they will not build a toilet in the field camp. They will basically solve the problem outside the camp.

After all, human beings are not like beasts like pack horses, and they still have a bit of shame. Even if they poop too much, it is not something that ordinary people can do if you let them expose two big pieces of fat and loosen it in front of everyone.

Basically, everyone will leave the camp to catch daddy.

As a result, the sporadic gunshots rang out in the surrounding mountains and forests made these Japanese soldiers directly understand what it meant to make a fuss.

Not many Japanese soldiers were actually killed by cold guns, but the Japanese soldiers who crawled back basically came back wrapped in their own excrement, almost without exception.

The Japanese army used grenades, mountain artillery, and infantry artillery to bombard them wildly. They also sent out infantry to search, but the Chinese who were 500 meters away had no idea where they had gone.

It wasn't because of the distance. Perhaps the number of people killed by cold shooting was not seven or eight, but seventy or eighty.

The casualties were not heavy, but the psychological deterrent was too great. More than 2,000 people with diarrhea began to defecate in the camp, plus those who were carrying horses.

This is amazing. It used to look like a dunghill, but now it's a real dunghill.

Just that smell, a gust of mountain wind blew, and the Tang Dao hidden in the bushes 700 meters away felt fuzzy.

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PS: Some book friends said that they hope to use the real names of Japanese military officers. Book friends who have read Fengyue know that the real names used in Fengyue were used earlier, but they were later warned by the review, so they had to be changed.