Rise From Eight Hundred

Chapter 122 Tool Man

  The Chinese commander in the warehouse was not in a good mood, and actually the Japanese commander was not in a good mood either.

  36th Infantry Regiment Wing Headquarters.

The flooding on the position has been eradicated, and the stench last night has been basically contained. All the things that need to be pooped have been pooped, and the pooping that has been too much has been pooped out. It will be fine without medicine.

 The latest information transferred from the division is on the desktop.

The information from the empire's spies within China's top leadership has shown that the Chinese government has given in to the Western Concession. It has ordered the garrison in the Sihang Warehouse to withdraw its troops tonight and has negotiated terms with the Concession.

As for the concession’s request that the Imperial Army not attack the retreating Chinese, almost no one in the Empire would take this “unreasonable” request to heart.

Although the division headquarters also issued a reprimand for yesterday's heavy battle losses, in view of the excellent tactics of 'conquering the enemy without fighting' proposed by the 36th Infantry Regiment, 600 troops from the baggage regiment directly under the division were dispatched. Returned to the 36th Infantry Regiment.

The so-called baggage regiment, on the surface, is the baggage troops, responsible for transportation in peacetime. In fact, it is the same as the supplementary regiment in the Chinese infantry division. When there is a lack of combat infantry, it is mainly supplemented by these baggage troops.

Although the combat effectiveness of these second-line soldiers is slightly weaker, that is relatively speaking, and they are actually considered well-trained.

The Battle of Pingxingguan that took place in September was a concrete demonstration of the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army's heavy baggage troops. A group of more than a thousand soldiers, mainly composed of heavy baggage troops, was ambushed by a Chinese infantry brigade. Although they were completely wiped out, they were not defeated. Instead, they fought fiercely for an afternoon, which amazed the outstanding general and gave him a new understanding of the combat power of the Japanese army's heavy troops.

 So, even though it was a heavy supply of troops, it was equivalent to restoring a large mouthful of blood to the 36th Infantry Regiment, which had lost half of its health tank.

Except for the 1st Infantry Brigade, which was disliked by the Japanese commander, the other two infantry brigades each added 300 people. They were not resurrected with full health, but they also recovered at least 80% of their combat power.

Of course, we have to get rid of the more than 300 men who are suffering from diarrhea and are about to collapse.

 Without a day's rest, they can't even think of going to the battlefield.

  No matter what, it is certain that there is far more good news than bad news.

His Excellency, Colonel Jiro Wakibata, Captain of the 36th Infantry Regiment, should have a drink or compose another poem in a very happy mood in such good weather, and vent out the resentment of the past two days and continue to show that there is no place to put it. Talent is.

but.

 His Excellency Wakiitajiro is still very unhappy.

 The main reason for unhappiness comes from the battlefield.

The Japanese colonel originally wanted to wait and use the traps he created with various general trends to massacre the poor Chinese at night, and he would lose at most a few bullets.

But the division headquarters disagreed. Do you still want the honor of the Imperial Japanese Army?

By then the whole world will know that the Imperial Army was unable to conquer the enemy’s positions and resorted to some unspeakable methods. No matter how many Chinese people died, they might have achieved what is called a ‘crime other than war’!

 You must not be idle during this day.

Even if it is not a desperate attack like yesterday, you still have to show off a forceful attack. Otherwise, what will happen if the division adds 600 men to you? Give me a fight! Must fight!

 “I want to be a bitch, but also want to build a memorial arch.” This was Wakita Jiro’s inner thoughts when he received the telegram from the division headquarters.

 For the Japanese colonel, he really didn’t want to fight anymore, especially when he saw the long list of killed in Makino Jun’s hand.

He never dreamed that one day he would read so many death lists.

 But on this battlefield, it only took two days for the dream to come true.

As a result, for the sake of face, the list that has become extremely long due to his cold orders will continue to grow. It would be strange if the Japanese commander, whose face was so fat, didn't complain about his lieutenant general division commander.

 Actually, Wakiitajiro's position is still lower than that of his lieutenant general division commander.

This is not just about saving face, but the belief in maintaining a perverted army like the Japanese army, a crazy belief.

It is precisely this kind of madman-like belief that forces such as the ‘Kamikaze’ will be created in the future.

 A person who is not afraid of death is not terrible. When the top brass of the Japanese army trained more than 50% of their officers and soldiers to become lunatics who were not afraid of death, that would be truly terrible.

Otherwise, there is no way they could have persisted for so long with outnumbered enemies in the face of numerous powerful ships and cannons on various small islands in the Pacific, beating the eyes of American cowboys until their eyes turned blood red.

 The Battle of Sihang Warehouse can be defeated, but the fighting spirit cannot be defeated, even if death is exchanged for the spirit of daring to continue fighting.

 It’s just that the senior generals of the Japanese army are only at this level.

When the pleasure of victory brought by this madness is intoxicated and spreads from the bottom soldiers to the top, then the army will basically be finished.

 A madman may be able to win one, two or even many battlefield victories, but he will never win a war. The more cruel the war, the more calm and wisdom is needed.

 Crazy will only speed up destruction.

 WWII was a stage where a group of lunatics went from splendor to death.

Following the order, the Japanese colonel had no choice but to invest no less than 500 men to begin the siege of the warehouse.

Compared with the previous two days, the conditions for this wave of attacks were actually much better. The Japanese engineers, who knew their shame but were brave, built the first-line trenches to a position 300 meters away from the Sixing Warehouse. With the protection of the trenches, the casualty rate of the Japanese infantry was greatly reduced. decline.

However, the Chinese are as vicious as tarsal maggots. They killed dozens of infantrymen with various trip mines the night before and did not stop. When the imperial infantry entered the battlefield from the second-line position, there were still more.

And this time, the Chinese also changed a new trick. The black-coated fishing line used at night became transparent, which was simply impossible to prevent.

On the battlefield, who can still keep their eyes on their feet and move forward little by little?

 Okay! Originally, they went to the battlefield with their noses pinched, but before they even started to attack, more than a dozen places exploded into pieces.

Especially the newly joined second-line infantry, do you know that there is a death squatting in the pit waiting for them on their own position?

 The number of casualties has been increasing, and not a single shot has been fired at Sihang Warehouse.

　　It was not until the corners of His Excellency Colonel Wakiitajiro's eyes began to twitch, and finally the battle losses of thirty men were reported from the front, it was considered over.

I really want to spit out a mouthful of old blood. His Excellency Colonel Wakiitajiro was really feeling all kinds of MMP at that time!

 But the nightmare is not over yet.

This time it is not a question of how many people died in the battle.

However, as the battle progressed, the number of officers killed under his command surged, and it was likely to catch up with the trend of the previous two days.

The enemy's bullets seem to have eyes, specializing in killing second lieutenants, lieutenants and even captains.

 This is incredible.

Because, with the experience and lessons learned in the previous two days, without his order, the officers of the 36th Infantry Regiment, including him, silently changed into ordinary infantry uniforms, special white gloves, command knives and leather boot suits for showing off. , all gave up.

Of course, the Japanese colonel didn't know that Tang Dao, who was hailed as the "Chinese Devil" by the Matsumoto Team of the 2nd Infantry Battalion, was wearing a military uniform stripped from the corpses of Japanese soldiers, wearing Japanese army's large leather shoes, a Japanese 90 steel helmet, and a gun It's a 38-meter-high canopy, hiding in the ruins caused by the collapse of the house.

Every time the Japanese army attacks, every time the artillery rumbles, it is his performance time.

The location selected by Tang Dao is between the positions of the two armies. It is about 250 meters away from the Sihang Warehouse in a straight line. It is only 80 meters away from the Japanese front line position at most and more than 200 meters away from the second line position.

But it is not directly opposite, but equivalent to a triangle, and it is also at the angle of the four rows of warehouses. There is no need to worry about being accidentally injured by our own terrible machine guns, and at the same time, we can also take care of the Japanese troops on the flanks.

His whole body was huddled under the rubble of masonry, with only a gun barrel wrapped in a torn strip of dark green blanket issued by the dirty Japanese army sticking out.

The blanket strips are not only used to camouflage the gun barrel to reduce the chance of being discovered due to reflections, but also to reduce the sound caused by the collision between the gun barrel and the masonry. It is also used to reduce the huge heat generated by the gun barrel due to the increase in shooting temperature. Impedes the shooter's aim.

Of course, the flames from the muzzle are inevitable, including the smoke produced after shooting, which can easily reveal the shooter's position.

 Therefore, there were a lot of wood around the location chosen by Tang Dao. After yesterday's battle, they were not completely burned, but because the heat was high enough, they were not completely extinguished and were still emitting a lot of green smoke.

 Such places abound throughout the battlefield, enough to cover up the smoke escaping from the cracks in the bricks when Tang Dao fired.

With such a disguise, not to mention that the troops on both sides who were far apart could not see him. Even if he was only four or five meters away, as long as Tang Dao didn't shoot, no one would know that there would be an amazing person in this ruins. The existence of nightmare-level snipers.

Perhaps, except for Niu Er and Yang Xiaoshan, they are the only two people among the thousands of people in the Chinese and Japanese armies who know the approximate location of Tang Dao's hiding place.

This is the time for Tang Dao to hunt, and it is also the time for him to teach with the most realistic and cruel battlefield.

Only in this way can his students and comrades-in-arms grow up at the fastest speed. He needs enough helpers, and China needs more strong soldiers.

 The Japanese here are more appropriately said to be teaching tools than prey.

 (End of this chapter)