Rise From Eight Hundred

The ‘wise’ Japanese did not fail to struggle.

During the day, Major General Ushijima Mitsuru’s clever little brain certainly worked hard to think about countermeasures against the attackers.

In order to prevent the senior officers in the army from being sniped by the Chinese lurking in the bushes in the distance, he sent out 20 squads of more than 400 scouts to search and advance two miles outside the army.

The distance between each scout infantry squad will never exceed 200 meters. If any squad is attacked, at least 3 squads can merge into one infantry squad within one minute. Not to mention that there are only a few Chinese, even if there are dozens of them, the infantry squads combined together can resist until the reinforcements arrive.

The 36th Infantry Brigade has no cavalry and lacks sufficient mobility, but the large number of people is Ushijima Mitsuru’s biggest advantage at present. He even used the army as bait and used the scouts to set up a dragnet around, waiting for those damn mosquitoes who kept trying to ‘suck blood’ to be caught.

It must be said that after experiencing three long-range cold gun attacks from the morning to the afternoon of November 12, Ushijima Mitsuru, who has the potential to become a general, was forced to be full of wisdom. The trick he used seemed to be quite effective. From the afternoon to the nightfall, there was no attack for three hours.

All the officers and soldiers of the 36th Infantry Brigade breathed a sigh of relief.

However, when it was night, the damn mosquitoes jumped out again to suck blood.

And this suck was a big one.

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The 36th Infantry Brigade had two infantry regiments and six infantry battalions, plus an artillery battalion of the division artillery regiment and two regiments of baggage trains, with a total of nearly 10,000 people, and the marching column on the rural dirt road was as long as 10 miles.

Even if Ushijima Mitsuru sent out 20 scout squads, for such a large column, the search teams of ten teams on each side could not guarantee all-round and no-dead-angle monitoring, especially under the cover of the dark night.

To put it bluntly, the net woven by Ushijima Mitsuru might be used to catch wild boars, but if it is used to catch mosquitoes, it is really too much to think about.

However, if it is still like in the daytime, firing a few cold shots and two cold cannons, even if the search team heard the sound and rushed over but could not catch up, and let the "mosquito" that sucked a mouthful of blood flap its wings and run away, Major General Ushijima Mitsuru might just bite his back teeth and accept it.

However, a whole infantry squadron was attacked at 10 o'clock in the evening, which is really too much.

Yes, you read it right, it was not an infantry squadron of Chinese who attacked, but an infantry squadron of Japanese infantry that was attacked, and it was in the army, with 20 scout squads deployed on the periphery.

This is as excessive as the mosquito Taoist who took a bite of the twelve-level golden lotus seated by the Tathagata Buddha.

It cannot be said that this infantry squadron was not vigilant enough. In order to avoid being attacked by the Chinese, the infantry squadron did not even dare to light a bonfire in the cold autumn night. The sentry in charge of the alert was more than 30 meters away from the infantry squadron's dinner point. In addition, for safety, they took the trouble to set up barbed wire around it.

It can be said that in view of the attack last night and the constant harassment by the hateful Chinese during the day, the Japanese infantrymen were extremely vigilant.

In order to have a good sleep tonight and repair their extremely tired bodies to continue chasing the Chinese tomorrow, nearly 200 Japanese infantrymen dragged their tired bodies from 7pm to 9pm and spent more than two hours digging simple trenches.

All soldiers will sleep in simple trenches at night. Although it is cold and damp there, it is enough to ensure that they are not afraid of the Chinese's cold guns and cold artillery or even the attacks that the Chinese may organize after nightfall.

Under the city of Songjiang, the Chinese have done this several times. The 114th Division and the Kunisaki Detachment will be fooled, but the "strongest division on the surface" will never make this mistake.

It can also be seen from this that the 36th Infantry Brigade was afraid of the Chinese army that was pursuing them. In the past, they would have been fearless and not so cautious.

It was already very hard, and no infantry captain would be so cruel to let the soldiers eat even colder rice balls with cold canned meat.

So, the Japanese infantrymen who had been tired for a day lit a fire in the simple trench. Later, it was proved that it was perhaps this fire that exposed their exact position to the enemy hiding in the dark.

The Japanese soldiers who finally had a bite of hot food finally felt a faint sense of happiness. The familiar soldiers sat together and whispered about the beautiful hometown and the gentle girl.

The sky was a little gloomy. Although there was no moon in the night sky and the stars were a little dim, the familiar hometown accent and faces did give some psychological comfort to the Japanese officers and soldiers who had been nervous for a day.

Just like the Japanese army captain who could not refuse to give the soldiers a bite of hot food, the second lieutenant squad leaders and sergeants could not refuse the soldiers to gather quietly.

There were more than 100 people sitting in the field as big as two basketball courts.

Dipping the canned broth and feeling the aroma of the hot rice balls on the tip of their tongues, many Japanese soldiers showed satisfied smiles on their faces.

The attack happened at this moment.

"Bang!" A muffled sound.

What is this sound? Artillery fire? But how is this possible?

The faces of the Japanese soldiers, like their superiors, became stiff in an instant.

However, the harsh training and battlefields they had experienced made the Japanese infantrymen's brains blank at that moment, but their bodies reacted extremely correctly.

At least more than a hundred people immediately prostrated themselves on the ground when they heard the huge muffled sound.

The common posture of a man lying flat on his buttocks facing another man with a hideous face.

The attack came a little later than they thought.

So much so that they could still look up and see the horrifying scene after they lay down.

A big black bag fell from the sky, just like the gloomy sky took a poop.

What a big lump!

But it was definitely not a shell.

This was the instinctive judgment of the Japanese infantry who saw this scene.

However, it was also the last scene that many of the more than 160 Japanese infantrymen present saw in their lives.

It was indeed not a shell.

It was a pack of explosives! A large pack of explosives weighing more than 15 kilograms!

"Boom!" After a loud noise, the whole earth seemed to tremble violently.

Even Mother Earth shuddered, and it was obvious how miserable the Japanese infantrymen at the center of the explosion would be.

In fact, there were only more than 30 Japanese soldiers killed on the spot, but because of the huge power of the explosive pack, more than 100 Japanese soldiers died miserably within three days, and the dozen Japanese soldiers who survived by chance and the sentries who were responsible for the alert 30 meters away all became disabled.

Without exception, they all became deaf, and their eardrums were broken by the explosion of the huge explosive pack.

There were no artificial eardrums to replace them in this era.

Ushijima Mitsuru, who was eating rice balls, was almost choked to death by the huge noise. The furious Japanese Army Major General did not even wait for the casualties report and immediately fired flares from all infantry battalions of the army, illuminating the entire wilderness in white.

However, the search team of more than a thousand people tossed for an hour or two, but did not find a single Chinese hair.

However, they found some traces left by the Chinese in the grass on a slope 200 meters away from the attacked infantry squadron.

The Japanese infantrymen who were extremely vigilant and used flashlights to carefully observe the surrounding environment and even used mine detectors to check still encountered misfortune.

A bundle of cluster grenades directly sent six Japanese infantrymen and a sergeant to the road to meet Amaterasu.

In addition, a broken gasoline barrel that was blown away fell and killed a hapless child who was lying on the ground and thought he had avoided the Chinese booby trap.

That may be the first scene of how the Chinese incredibly delivered a large explosive pack to the infantry squadron camp, but how did they do it with just a gasoline barrel? How did the Chinese quietly transport a gasoline barrel and so many explosives under the noses of the army?

No one can tell the brigade commander Ushijima Mitsuru a perfect answer.

The fact that a sudden explosive pack completely deprived an infantry squadron of its combat effectiveness made Ushijima Mitsuru really...

bit his big buck teeth!

So aggrieved!

Baka! If you have the guts, don't sleep, come on! I'm going to fight you.

The angry Japanese Army Major General was furious and issued a very unwise military order.

The whole army was divided into two waves to sleep in turns.

In other words, everyone was waiting for the Chinese to come with big eyes, and then they would go up and kill him together.

However, the Chinese did not come.

Six kilometers away from the camp of the 36th Infantry Brigade, Lu Sanjiang had already fallen asleep against a tree trunk.

"Everyone go to sleep, get enough rest, and do a few more Japanese tomorrow."

This was the order given to everyone by Tang Dao who returned quietly from the night.

In the dark night, the little head of "Iron Hammer" appeared from Niu Er who was hiding in the bushes, with a pair of bright eyes and ears standing high.