Rise From Eight Hundred

As several Japanese flashlights shone over, the young sergeant's face became a little stiff in the dazzling light.

It was not because of the thick wooden barricades in the middle of the road. For the truck he was driving, which weighed 2 tons and could tow 3 tons of heavy artillery, such obstacles could be smashed to pieces with one foot on the accelerator.

But there were field fortifications built with sandbags on both sides of the road. Two heavy machine guns and two light machine guns clamped the already dilapidated road on the left and right respectively. With the Japanese shouting, at least 30 rifles stuck their heads out of the field fortifications and aimed at the convoy.

Gu Xishui did not expect that the Japanese army deployed a small team of troops for a checkpoint, and also used heavy machine guns.

Is the Japanese army so rich in troops? Tang Dao's deep eyes flickered slightly.

However, when Tang Dao gently waved his hand to signal to stop the car, Gu Xishui took a deep breath and tried to calm his anxiety. His somewhat stiff face gradually became normal.

The one who came up to him was a second lieutenant of the army. He glanced at the large convoy that was slowly stopping, put his hand on the pistol box on his waist, and shouted the night command. "Shenzhou!"

"Co-prosperity!" Tang Dao, who also responded to the command in fluent Japanese, completely let down his guard. He waved to the back and ran out with a few Japanese soldiers in small steps, intending to check the car behind.

Wearing the collar badge of the Japanese second lieutenant, Tang Dao got off the car with a smile on his face and gave him a pack of Japanese cigarettes and two cans of canned meat.

Although they are all second lieutenants, there is a natural level difference between the baggage team and the combat unit, but the baggage unit is close to the water and has more supplies. It is also its advantage. Faced with the initiative of his colleagues, the Japanese second lieutenant in charge of checking the convoy also smiled a little more after taking the supplies.

Reporting numbers to each other and checking the military orders issued by the division or regiment headquarters are the daily regulations of the guard post.

Tang Dao found all these from several survivors and the Japanese squad leader who was stabbed to death by Leng Feng.

Perhaps the only flaw is that Tang Dao is different from most Japanese soldiers in height, which makes Tang Dao quite distressed, but there is no way. It is really too difficult to be in good shape and be short like the Japanese.

However, the Japanese lieutenant who is half a head shorter than Tang Dao quickly gave up this doubt and smiled.

He found the answer to why the tall lieutenant of the baggage team in front of him did not go to the combat unit but was willing to stay in the baggage team that could not make much merit.

The reason is very simple. The lieutenant of the baggage team with a pure Kyoto accent has basically explained his origin. He should be from a small noble family in Kyoto. He wants to be gilded in the army, but he is afraid of dying in battle. The baggage team with less danger is naturally the best choice.

Of course, this is not the point of his smile. The point is that they are from the same hometown, both from Kyoto, and they feel more intimate psychologically when they meet in a foreign country.

Especially after the great defeat, when the emotions are at their lowest point.

When a man is sad, he also needs comfort from his hometown!

Tang Dao also smiled brightly. It is true that enemies will always meet! Unexpectedly, he can still meet his old rival here.

A main infantry regiment actually came to serve as a sentry.

Yes, except for the unlucky 36th Infantry Regiment, who else can be called an old rival by Tang Dao?

As an infantry regiment without a military commander and only a major left to support the facade, they were not collectively sent to mine. In fact, it is not that Matsui Iwane, the army general, is kind-hearted, but that the transport ship from the country is still on the sea.

Otherwise, how could these unlucky guys who are almost destined to be eliminated from the army sequence have any chance to continue to stay in the Songhu war zone?

The main force of the 3rd Division was already at the front line in western Shanghai, ten kilometers away, but the original four infantry regiments had become three. The remnants of the 36th Infantry Regiment were not even welcomed by their own lieutenant general division commander, and were directly thrown to the Songhu Expeditionary Force Headquarters. If they wanted to recycle the waste, it would be an excellent choice to send them to guard the checkpoints at various traffic arteries in the rear.

From Zhabei to the front line of the confrontation with the Chinese army in western Shanghai, there were a total of eight such checkpoints, which was just enough for the remaining more than a thousand people of the 36th Infantry Regiment to take turns to guard 24 hours a day.

This was also the main reason why Gu Xishui was surprised that the Japanese army could have an infantry squad and two heavy machine guns stationed at a checkpoint.

Although many of the backbones of the 36th Infantry Regiment were buried in the ruins by Tang Dao's sophisticated building blasting in the warehouse battle, and the infantry combat effectiveness was several levels lower than before, their heavy equipment was not lost much. The three heavy machine gun squadrons left by the three infantry battalions had more than twenty heavy machine guns.

As the major of the army commanding this remnant army, although Toyoda Hide knew that he and his men had been abandoned by the division and the expeditionary army headquarters, who wouldn't want to make a final desperate effort before the final result came out?

Toyoda Hide was really working hard. Anyway, he was the boss now, so he simply disbanded all the heavy machine gun squadrons and incorporated them into the 8 checkpoints under his jurisdiction. Each checkpoint was stationed with an infantry squad, and each squad was stationed for 12 hours, with two shifts a day.

As for the artillery squadron directly under the regiment, those idiots didn't play any big role in the battle of Sihang Warehouse, which led to the Chinese hiding in it beating the infantry so miserably. Toyoda Hide, who was full of evil, simply didn't let these artillerymen accompany those steel lumps to eat for free in the garrison, and all of them were added to the understaffed infantry squads, carrying rifles as sentinels, which was also his punishment for these bastards.

This move weakened the combat effectiveness of the 36th Infantry Regiment to the extreme, but they were in the rear of the front line in western Shanghai. Even though the front positions of the two sides were tens of kilometers long, no one would believe that a large Chinese force would sneak into such a deep area for a sneak attack.

In that case, the 200,000 troops on the front line in western Shanghai only needed to slightly mobilize their forces to block the attacking Chinese in their pockets.

Moreover, would the Chinese army, which had already been completely defeated in the Songhu urban area, still have the courage to do so? There was absolutely no such possibility.

No matter how much he lost confidence in the battle of Sihang Warehouse, Major Toyota Hide still had this basic judgment.

Moreover, he worked very hard. After receiving the military order to establish a checkpoint in the past two days, he slept for less than 8 hours in total. The rest of the time was either on duty at the checkpoint or on the way to the checkpoints.

Those who work hard will eventually be seen by the bosses, and Toyota Hide reported this idea.

Just like now, when Tang Dao and his fellow second lieutenant exchanged a few words, said goodbye to each other, threw away the half-smoked cigarette butt and got on the car, the convoy started slowly and moved along the road to the west of Shanghai. Not long after, three three-wheeled motorcycles passed by them.

Toyota Hide, sitting in the car, frowned and looked at the young second lieutenant in the car window and smiled and greeted him, and then he was choked by the dust rolled up by the wheels and covered his mouth and nose.

"Damn it, is this the attitude to treat an army major?" After the convoy passed, Toyota Hide gritted his teeth and cursed.

The Japanese infantrymen in charge of the escort did not respond.

It was dark, who could see that you were an army major? More importantly, our 36th Infantry Regiment has become a big joke in the entire expeditionary force. Major, please don't humiliate yourself, okay?

This is not the self-pity of a few Japanese infantrymen.

During the two days of setting up the checkpoint, they were looked down upon. It was common for the infantry, artillery, and even engineers and logistics soldiers who passed by the checkpoint to directly start to ridicule them after hearing that they were from the 36th Infantry Regiment.

Perhaps it was only when Major Toyota Hide was there that people showed some mercy and tried to only show contemptuous eyes instead of directly using words to criticize the Army Major.

This led to the Army Major taking himself seriously at this moment.

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