In fact, the captain of the regiment still had some doubts in his mind. His engineering regiment could handle the volunteers with poor equipment and lack of training, but it would not necessarily be possible against troops with a certain combat effectiveness and artillery.
However, now that the entire regiment has arrived at Lingyuan, we can't report to the division commander that our engineering regiment can't do this job because the opponent is too powerful, right?
Even if you lend Yuki Mizoguchi 10 courages, he won't dare.
At this point, the commander of the regiment, Mizoguchi Yushu, could only greet the whole family of the garrison commander with a smile on his face and a dirty heart, and then led the entire regiment from Lingyuan County along the railway line.
Search forward.
During the search, the commander of the regiment was very cautious. For fear of being ambushed again, he ordered each squadron to march 500 meters apart, and also sent two squadrons of leading soldiers at the front.
As for those who said they would die, the one who served as the vanguard was Taro Tanimura's detachment, which made him very angry.
In my heart, I kept complaining about the stupid and reckless Captain Cao who volunteered. At the same time, I was so nervous that my calves were trembling.
You know, this is the first time Taro Tanimura has participated in a real battle in the nearly 4 years since he joined the army, and he was assigned to the position of a leading soldier. For him, who just wants to hang around and go home as soon as possible, it is like playing games.
A tightrope game of death.
Along the way, Taro Tanimura observed carefully and walked carefully, with his heart in his throat, and the rifle in his hand almost became wet from his nervous hands.
Fortunately, they walked cautiously along the railway line for several hours and were not attacked by him as expected. However, he was carefully observed and found traces of fighting on the railway.
The bodies of the dead on both sides have been removed or buried, but the shell casings on the ground and the gun holes on the track sleepers indicate that a fierce battle once took place here.
The traces of these battles deviate from the railway line from here and extend towards the east.
The commander of the regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Mizoguchi Yuki, is a commander with certain military qualities. Judging from these battle traces and the many 7.7mm 92 heavy machine gun bullet casings scattered on the ground, he quickly deduced that this was an encounter.
, and it is our own side that has the advantage.
Then, the missing squadron chased the unknown volunteers toward the east. Perhaps they were ambushed by a large force of volunteers somewhere in the east.
With this judgment in mind, he became more cautious. After adding a vanguard unit, he also ordered the artillery team to assemble the 92 infantry cannon and drag it forward with mules and horses, so that it could fire on the spot if necessary.
Your Excellency, the commander of the regiment, made arrangements as if facing a formidable enemy, which made Taro Tanimura, who was still serving as a leading soldier, feel even more melancholy.
Even if the wing commander added another detachment to them and asked a warrant officer to take personal command, it did not increase his sense of security at all. Instead, it made him more nervous, and even his walking steps became heavy and slow.
Got up.
As the saying goes, if a soldier is raging, a general will be raging in a nest.
The nervousness and caution shown by him as a corps leader naturally infected several of his soldiers. One of the privates was so frightened that his face turned pale. He would look back at the large army after taking a few steps, for fear that he was going too fast.
Out of sight of the large army.
"Baga! A bunch of cowards, the Imperial Japanese Army has been completely disgraced by you cowards."
How could the team leader not see the cowardice of the group led by Taro Tanimura? He shouted and cursed loudly and walked over. He gave Taro Tanimura and several others a big ear-scratcher each, and then said to Taro Tanimura fiercely.
: "Captain Tanimura, you will lead the team at the front, and I will keep an eye on you from behind. If there is any cowardly behavior, military action will be taken immediately."
"Hey!" Taro Tanimura, who was beaten with blood from his mouth and nose, could only bow his head and obey orders, and he led a few of his men to speed up and walk at the front of the vanguard team.
In fact, it made sense for the team leader to let Taro Tanimura go in front, because he found that Tanimura might be too afraid of death and overly cautious, but he observed the surrounding environment very carefully.
Although there is no snow falling in the sky now, the snow that fell yesterday covered all traces under the snow covering the ground. If you don't look carefully, you can't find any trace of the troops passing through.
But now Taro Tanimura took the lead and really found some clues. Either a bullet casing or a gun hole on a dead tree trunk. Anyway, he always led his troops all the way to the vicinity of Shoal Village.
At this time, the commander of the regiment who caught up observed the situation in the village with telescopes, and ordered artillery and machine guns to be aimed at the Chinese village, which was still filled with smoke.
"The 2nd Squadron and the 3rd Squadron continue to search, and the 1st Squadron is monitoring the village. I estimate that the real battlefield is nearby."
Under the leadership of Taro Tanimura, they continued to search less than 1 kilometer eastward, and sure enough, they found several large and obviously raised mounds of soil.
Although these mounds are also covered with a thin layer of white snow, anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that the snow is covered with new soil.
After the team leader arranged the surrounding security, he ordered several soldiers: "dig up these mounds of soil."
Speaking of fighting, these engineers may be a bit weak, but digging soil is their specialty. A few people took out the engineer shovels they carried with them and dug up a mound of soil in three strokes.
Then...then several soldiers were stunned and petrified by the scene before their eyes.
Under the excavated mound, there was a large pit. The pit was filled with corpses piled one after another, and a smell of blood and corpse stench went straight to the nose.
The soldiers who were digging all turned around and vomited.
It was found, and the entire garrison squadron that had lost contact was indeed shattered.
This Japanese team leader doesn't even need to dig out the other big dirt bags, they must be full of corpses.
The captain who came after hearing the news looked around with a livid face, but felt a little strange in his heart.
The area within a few miles is basically farmland and flat land, and there are almost no hiding places. These soldiers of the Japanese Empire are not pigs. Don’t they have eyes and brains, so they enter blindly in this wilderness?
The enemy's ambush circle was set up? The question is, how to set up an ambush circle on the Great Plains? Are all the enemies invisible?
This Japanese lieutenant named Mizoguchi Yuki, even if he broke his head, would never have thought that there was actually only one person ambushing these nearly 100 Japanese, and it was also the same person who shot all these 100 Japanese.