Age of Conquest Reborn

Tang Qiuli's aerial resupply completely wiped out Juichi Terauchi's hopes and put the main force of Japan's Southern China Dispatch Army into a desperate situation. More than 200,000 Japanese soldiers entered the wilds and mountains in less than three days.

The few supplies were consumed, and all the mules and horses of the logistics and artillery regiments were killed. This lasted for another two days. Starting from the sixth day, the entire Japanese army began to run out of food.

First, they dug wild vegetables from the mountains, barely enough to eat half full. However, soldiers died of poisoning from eating wild vegetables. Hundreds of them were eaten every day. Even wild vegetables, because they were eaten too much, became a rare item. As a last resort, the Japanese soldiers began to eat wild vegetables.

Hunting wild animals in the mountains, catching fish in rivers, there are so many prey, but for a hare, soldiers fight with each other and kill each other, which happens many times every day.

Some troops are so hungry that they have no choice but to take desperate risks and enter deeper into the virgin forest, hoping to find food. Often a squadron of soldiers can come back, but only about half of them can come back. Just yesterday, a whole squadron of soldiers came back.

In a large underground cave, more than 200 people died bizarrely. There were no wounds on their bodies, as if they were asleep.

Terauchi Shouichi personally went to the scene to check. The limp corpses of soldiers were lying on the ground in a mess. The sight made the Commander-in-Chief's hair stand on end, and he was covered in goosebumps. The military doctor who was accompanying the army was unable to explain the reason.

Well, I can only roughly speculate that he was poisoned by some unknown poison.

Temple Shouichi quickly issued an order that all troops were not allowed to enter the cave. This was a hardship for the exhausted Japanese soldiers. When they entered the subtropical climate of the primeval forest in the mountains, the weather suddenly changed. Under the heavy rain, the Japanese soldiers

I had no choice but to squat in the field shivering and let the rain beat on my almost moldy body.

At night, it was even worse. Countless unknown insects in the forest, like small bombers, blew their trumpets and launched never-ending attacks on the Japanese soldiers sleeping in the wild. There were many insects with strong toxicity, and one bite

After being bitten, the walnut-sized bumps immediately swelled up. What was even more terrifying was that the Japanese soldiers who were bitten became inexplicably hot all over their bodies in less than two days and died soon after. Those who were lucky enough to survive were also covered in ulcers and pain.

Unbearable..

There was no food and all the medicines were used up. The Japanese soldiers were starved to death, and the injured and sick had to wait to die. Originally, there were a lot of Chinese herbal medicines in the mountains, which could save the lives of some soldiers, but the Japanese looked down on China.

In addition, even Chinese medical skills have become rubbish of inferior ethnic groups, making the Japanese sneer at them. More than 200,000 Japanese soldiers have no knowledge of herbal medicine. It is really a great irony and an excellent punishment.

Hungry, cold, and injured, the Japanese soldiers lost more than a thousand people every day due to non-combat casualties. There were numerous corpses on the mountain road that had been forcibly stepped on. The number of deaths reported by Touichi in the temple had become numb. I don’t know why.

The troops directly under the dispatched army headquarters he led got lost and turned around three days ago. The leader of the team sadly told the general that we were back to the place where we started three days ago.

The lost Japanese troops were not just Shouichi Terauchi. Many troops were wandering around in the dark primeval forest. After a few days, Shouichi Terauchi finally discovered that the troops were on the verge of losing control. He

The order was no longer easy to use. The original plan to cross the country and enter the mountains was for the divisions to line up in a row according to the order of battle and follow up in order to avoid multiple routes and lead to loss of direction.

But after a few days, hunger and injuries, the vast and endless virgin forest, the uncertainty of the future, and the inability to grasp the future destiny, gave a large number of middle and lower-level commanders of the Japanese army the idea of ​​​​finding their own way out.

My own troops were wandering around like headless flies in the primeval forests of the wild mountains. I don’t know how many Japanese soldiers died on the unknown road.

Chu Yao led the attack column and parachuted to the southern foot of Yeru Mountain. This position was already in front of the Japanese army. More than two thousand people entered, divided into twenty groups, and retreated into the hinterland of Yeru Mountain. After five days, there was still no trace of the Japanese army.

Chu Yao contacted other troops and all reported that no Japanese troops were found. The troops' search area was so calm that it became uneasy.

According to the normal speed, this position should have sporadic contact with the vanguard of the Japanese army. Chu Yao was alert and ordered all the troops to stay in place. He was worried that the troops were advancing too fast and would rub shoulders with the Japanese army.

And then, secondly, without realizing it, he broke into the middle of a large Japanese army and was trapped in a tight siege. More than 2,000 people were fighting against more than 200,000 people. Even the God of War would be beaten into a sieve.

The night the troops stopped, Chu Yao reported the situation to the division commander Tang Qiuli. Tang Qiuli was also surprised. It was almost twenty years ago. Why should Shouyi in the temple have walked most of the mountain road? Chu Yao's current location should be

Where we encountered the leading Japanese troops, there was no fighting along the entire line, which was abnormal.

Tang Qiuli called back to Chu Yao, "Captain Chu Yao, the troops should retreat cautiously. After more than 20 days of consumption, the Japanese troops entering the mountains are exhausted and the troops should be in a state of confusion. In this case, it is not advisable to advance rashly. All units

The distance between them should not be too far. If the situation is unclear, you can stay at the same place for a short time and look for another fighter. Don't act too hastily."

After replying the telegram to Chu Yao, Tang Qiuli couldn't figure out what was going on. Could it be that Temple Shouichi turned around and went back when he saw the difficulties in advancing? Or, optimistically speaking, more than 200,000 Japanese troops entered the mountains and were wiped out.

?If so, this would be an anecdote that shocked the world and created a myth about the Chinese battlefield. Of course, he hoped so.

Immediately, he shook his head in self-deprecation. He said, "The more than 200,000 people who entered have just disappeared. It is unrealistic. At the beginning, the Chinese Expeditionary Force had more than 50,000 people, and more than 10,000 people came out. They called Chen Feng, the director of the Communications Division, and ordered.

: "Send a telegram to Le Yiqin. When tomorrow comes, the aviation force will dispatch reconnaissance planes to conduct an all-round and large-scale search into the wild mountains. We must find the whereabouts of the Japanese troops."

In fact, both Tang Qiuli and Chu Yao were too cautious and worried. It was not that the Japanese troops rushed out without going crazy, but they were wandering around in the central area of ​​Yeru Mountain as if they were encountering a ghost beating a wall.

All the Japanese troops were lost, and none of the small groups sent out to find the road came back.

Terauchi Shouichi summoned senior military officers and held several meetings to study the situation. Who could come up with a good solution? There is a compass, but if you follow the direction, you will find that it is either a bottomless swamp, or it is difficult to

After passing through the cliffs, we took a detour, and while walking, we got lost again. In other words, more than 200,000 people were trapped in the wilderness in the mountains.

After wandering around for a few days, in addition to throwing away thousands of corpses of soldiers every day, they were still wandering in circles. As for the small groups of troops that got lost, there were no detailed statistics.

He and Chu Yao became suspicious. In fact, if Chu Yao's attack column had moved forward for two more days, they would have encountered scattered Japanese troops in the primeval forest, ramming in no direction.

The next day, Le Yiqin's aviation unit dispatched nearly a hundred aircraft to sort out the Yeru Mountain area from north to south. Le Yiqin personally led the team to search for traces of the Japanese army in the vast virgin forest of Yeru Mountain.

It was an easy task, but the fighter jets did not dare to fly too low for fear of being attacked by Japanese ground firepower.

After flying for a while, Le Yiqin and his wingman still found nothing. They asked other crews and found no trace of the Japanese army. He and the division commander Tang Qiuli had the same view. It was impossible for more than 200,000 Japanese soldiers to all fly.

After disappearing into the wild and into the mountains, Chu Yao was still waiting for news. Thinking of this, Le Yiqin made an overly bold decision.

He ordered his wingman: "Zhiqiang, you cover me, I'll go down and have a look." After saying that, he pressed the nose of the plane and the fighter plane swooped down from high altitude, almost touching the tops of the tall trees in the tropical virgin forest.

We changed to a level flight. As we lowered our altitude, we actually discovered that Japanese soldiers lying on the ground could be seen everywhere in the dense forest, beside shrubs, and in haystacks.

Le Yiqin was very happy, okay? The little devil was hiding here. What he saw was no less than a few thousand, and there were other places. He immediately issued an order, "Attention, all crews, take me as the center point, lead

The leader's aircraft lowered its altitude and searched carefully, while the wingmen were responsible for covering." One pilot discovered traces of Japanese troops, and more pilots also discovered piles of Japanese troops.

It turned out that the Japanese soldiers were wary to the core of the aircraft of the Japanese Air Force with five-clawed golden dragons and the Great Wall pattern on their wings. They would not forget that it was these Chinese fighter jets that destroyed them time and time again.

I hope that this time, the Chinese who have not seen each other for a long time will get on the plane and come in groups again.

Terauchi Shouichi thought that Tang Qiuli was going to send out planes to conduct a devastating bombing of the troops, so he ordered the troops to take cover immediately. This order was very popular with the Japanese soldiers. Although the current situation was almost dead, but that

None of the samurai of the Japanese Empire expected themselves to be so loyal to His Majesty the Emperor and sacrifice their lives for the cause of Greater East Asia so quickly. Therefore, the orders of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief were thoroughly implemented.

With the news and approximate location of the Japanese army, Tang Qiuli breathed a sigh of relief. The possibility of the Japanese army's return that he was worried about was completely eliminated. Chu Yao was also relieved. According to the general direction provided by the aviation force, the attack column faced the enemy.

Continue to search in the direction of the Japanese army.

Two days later in the afternoon, Chu Yao's troops were marching hard in the middle of the dense forest. Suddenly, the squad leader who was the vanguard made a gesture to stop advancing and hide on the spot. After a while, the squad leader returned to Chu Yao and said

: "Captain of the detachment, Japanese troops were found in the canyon ahead. They were about one brigade in number."

Chu Yao was excited for a while and searched for the little devil for several days. Finally he found the target. He ordered his troops to prepare for battle, and he and the squad leader went forward to touch it.

(To be continued)