Rise From Eight Hundred

Chapter 14 The Major is angry

As the major captain of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 36th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, Toyoda Hide, who has a name similar to that of the Japanese historical celebrity Toyoda Hideyoshi, had always thought that he was quite good until just now.

 It is unlikely that after the war with China is over, when the word "Toyota" is mentioned, the Japanese people will also think of the Toyota Show, instead of having to add the word "吉" after it.

The Japanese Army Major may not know that in the future, "Toyota" will indeed be famous, but it will just be mentioned as a "car".

So, when the brigade commander asked the infantry brigades to advance slowly, Major Toyoda Hide, who had great hopes, rushed forward with his troops.

They marched ten kilometers in just one day, and even at night they required each infantry squadron under their command to send out squads of vanguards to conduct an inventory of the occupied areas and find and kill the broken Chinese troops who were still hiding in the nooks and crannies.

Only in this way can he raise the military flag on the Chinese land safely when the sun rises tomorrow, and show his military bravery to His Excellency the Wing Commander, the Brigade Commander and even the Division Commander. .

But before I could even fall asleep, the nightmare came.

Toyoda looked blankly at the corpses scattered all over the floor in front of him. No, some of them were terrible parts, just like a pile of minced meat and meat products put together. After a long while, a flush came over his face and he roared. stand up.

“Didn’t the main force of the Chinese retreat? Why were a small group of imperial soldiers killed? Also, there is only one small group here and there. Do I, Toyoda Hide, look like a pig that cannot read?”

There are 15 people in a team, and they are all equipped with light machine guns and grenade teams. As long as they are not besieged by four or five times more Chinese, it should not be difficult to hold on until reinforcements arrive.

But now these **** corpses have shown that there are many more Chinese in the ruins than he thought. Otherwise, he would not have quickly mobilized an infantry squad to rush over after seeing the flares at the infantry squadron, but he could only The interval between collecting the bodies was definitely no more than 15 minutes.

Of course, more importantly, there were at least 20 people placed in front of him. There were only 15 people there?

Like an enraged bull, Toyoda was snorting heavily from his nostrils and staring at a Japanese captain and several Japanese lieutenants who stood in front of him with his head lowered and did not dare to breathe. He stared at them and gave himself a reasonable explanation.

 If it is unreasonable, naturally, someone will be unlucky. The enraged Major will not give any face to the lieutenant. He must be loudmouthed.

If this kind of inexplicable battle damage was reported to the captain, he would probably be scolded bloody.

In the Battle of Songhu, his 36th Infantry Regiment had a total of more than 3,000 people, with more than 50% casualties. That is because they may have faced the strength of a Chinese infantry brigade or even a division. That is understandable. of.

 But in this final stage, which was almost just cleaning the battlefield, because Toyoda Hide was eager to show off to his superiors, more than 20 people were killed in the battle, which was simply a shame for the Imperial Army.

  To paraphrase a sentence from the future, it is: the damage of the battle is not great, but the insult is extremely high.

“Captain Toyota, you deserve to die.” At the Japanese captain’s signal, the Japanese second lieutenant responsible for collecting the corpses of the reconnaissance team stuttered a report.

Nearly made a lot of Japanese military officers and assistants look green.

Of course, the greenest thing is probably the person involved.

Toyoda Hide probably heard his subordinates scolding him so bluntly for the first time. If he hadn't known that the second lieutenant in front of him had a natural problem of stuttering when he was nervous, he would have killed the bad guy with a knife.

“No, no, it’s not Captain Toyota who deserves death, he deserves death.”

The Japanese second lieutenant was glared at by a group of superiors. He was almost frightened and tried to explain.

 That is, I am still tongue-tied.

“Captain Toyoda.” The Japanese captain was almost annoyed to death by his subordinate’s stuttering, so he could only take the initiative to take over the conversation.     That is, it is natural and customary to address one's own parents with respect first.

At that moment, Toyota's showy face was nothing more than eating a few big chunks of Baba. Either Captain Toyota deserves to die, or Captain Toyota deserves to be damned. You scoundrels won’t stop until I’m killed, right?

“It’s the **** Chinese. They even used pull grenades under the bodies of the imperial warriors. Unfortunately, the warriors responsible for collecting the bodies of the warriors were affected.” The Japanese captain quickly reported with a sad face and spoke as fast as he could.

“Baga! Stupid, maybe it was possible last time, but why were the casualties so high?”

The Toyota Show instantly made me feel like I was seeing stars. Is the legendary invincible Imperial Japanese Army just a bunch of pigs?

“Captain Toyota, the Chinese are extremely cunning.

They only stuffed one grenade under the body of the Imperial warrior, but placed five grenades similar to trip mines in the surrounding areas where they could take shelter. One of them was not detonated. The Imperial soldiers found out after a careful search afterwards. Just deduced. "

Even though his face looked like his dead parents, he couldn't stop the Japanese captain's pride that surged out at that moment.

 Indeed, they have good reasons. You see, no matter how cunning the Chinese are, they have not done all their work! At least, there were six trip mines in total, and they only killed five of us, right?

 You are such a scumbag, how can you be so confident? At that moment, Toyoda Xiu really wanted to stab the most senior squadron leader in his brigade. Five people died just by collecting the corpses. How proud of you!

Of course, the death of five more people is only a trivial matter. The important point is how many Chinese troops are still hidden in the ruins. Being able to destroy a small team means that there are at least dozens or even hundreds of Chinese people gathered in this ruined battlefield.

The Japanese captain faced the stinky look on his immediate boss's face and continued to report: "Captain Toyota, after investigation by the 3rd team of our 1st squadron, we found a tall building on the north bank of the Suzhou River 1,000 meters away. There are at least a hundred Chinese people guarding the building, and they even built fortifications outside the building.”

 “Nani?”

Toyoda Hide turned his attention to the map spread on the simple desk. Following the direction of the Japanese captain, he saw the area next to the Western Concession, and his eyes became fierce.

 “A bunch of stragglers, just want to fight stubbornly?”

Seeing that area, Toyoda Hide basically understood why the so-called tall building was not destroyed by artillery fire, but was only stained by the light on the edge of the concession. The empire has no plans to break with the Western world yet, so it will naturally try its best not to blow up the concession by mistake, so that's probably why that tall building has been preserved to this day!

“Captain Kurokawa! Take your infantry squadron and a day’s worth of combat supplies and approach the building to conduct a thorough inventory of the surrounding area.

 If you encounter a Chinese, shoot to death without mercy!

 Keep in mind that Chinese soldiers may well be dressed in civilian clothes to attack Imperial warriors. "Toyoda's eyes were as cold as knives, revealing the cruelty of a beast.

“You can approach 100 meters in front of the building for fire reconnaissance, but do not launch a general attack on the remaining enemies in the building before dawn.

What you have to do is to block all their escape routes. I want them to spend the night in fear of waiting for death.

 Then, tomorrow morning, in front of those lowly Chinese people on the other side of the river, hang them all on the roof of that building.

Yours, understand? "

 “Hi!” The Japanese captain and the stuttering second lieutenant beside him bowed their heads heavily.

 Toyoda Hide didn’t know it, because his anger caused him to ignore the four mosquito-sized characters written on the military map—Si Xing Warehouse.

 And because this time is not really a big oversight, his infantry brigade will suffer even more severe losses than after they landed in Songhu.

Of course, the first to be unlucky were the infantry squadrons eager for revenge.

 (End of this chapter)