The few remaining Japanese soldiers in the trenches were so blackened by gunpowder smoke that their facial features could not be distinguished, and the collar badges representing their identities had long been blurred. However, the command knife in the hand of one of the sitting Japanese soldiers still made all the soldiers aware of it.
Everyone knows that this guy is a big guy.
Yes, as the frontline commander of the 28th Cavalry Regiment, Captain Endo Fukuna is indeed the largest Japanese soldier here. He is obviously very lucky to survive such a violent bombardment.
However, his condition was obviously not very good. It had been half a day since the bombardment ended, and he was still sitting there in despair.
Fukuna Endo's head felt as if it was about to explode. Hundreds of bees seemed to be buzzing and flying inside, and the whole world seemed to be spinning.
However, the world has never been quieter.
Like the few surviving Japanese soldiers, there were two shallow blood stains on the sides of his ears, although they were covered in black from gunpowder smoke.
All the Japanese troops at the center of the shelling had their unprotected ears deafened by the huge explosion.
Anyone who puts you on a battlefield that is bombarded by hundreds of artillery shells for more than ten minutes will probably end up like this if you are not killed.
Looking around in confusion, Endo Fina's eyes were filled with the dark blue figure holding a gun and silently looking at him.
After being in a daze for a while, the Japanese captain suddenly remembered that he was on the battlefield. Those people were all Chinese.
He was surrounded.
The leading Chinese man seemed to be shouting something, but he couldn't hear it.
"Surf the gun and don't kill!" Ye Zihua stared coldly at several Japanese soldiers who were obviously stunned by the bombing, and shouted loudly.
Although he hated the Japanese invaders who invaded his country, his hatred was weakened a bit after such a brutal bombardment. If these people could lay down their weapons, he would be willing to give them a way out.
Shooting those who showed no resistance, even if they were life-and-death enemies, was not in line with his ideals as a soldier. Even when faced with the White Army, which had been fighting to the death with the Red Army for more than six years, the Red Army only captured and did not kill.
Only the heinous criminals who have been stained with the blood of the red warriors will be killed.
War destroys human nature. But war also best embodies human nature.
However, this was the first time that Zi Zihua had dealt with the Japanese invaders. He still didn’t know what kind of army this army that invaded his country was. They had been completely brainwashed by the fanatical Japanese invaders, and most of them
Human humanity gradually disappeared in the so-called glorious illusion of the Japanese Empire and in the victory after victory on the battlefield.
Victory on the battlefield not only inflated their ambitions, but also amplified the weaknesses of human nature step by step, which made them feel that they could do whatever they wanted in this land.
Their human nature, which should have been dominant, has gradually turned into animal nature due to the expansion of demonic thinking.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Japanese have been ruled by class concepts for a long time. They have been oppressed by the higher class for a long time, and they also dream of being able to bully others at any time. It is such a simple truth. Therefore, the humble fishermen and farmers on the Japanese island
, on the land of China, they completely turned into beasts.
The orcs will naturally be wiped out. This is also the law of nature.
Although he couldn't hear what the Chinese were shouting, Endo Fukuna knew that they were asking him to surrender. No need to observe the battlefield environment, the Japanese captain knew that the two squadrons lured to the position by the Chinese were finished.
There were no more than five zombie-like colleagues in his field of vision who were looking around blankly like him.
In fact, they didn't even know where their guns were.
But, can he surrender? If he surrenders, will the glory of the noble family still be there? Will his wife and son be kicked out of that beautiful big courtyard? Of course, more importantly, the Japanese lieutenant can't help but think in his mind
A scene from ten days ago emerged.
More than one battalion of Chinese positions were breached by the fierce firepower of the Imperial Cavalry's heavy machine guns and grenade launchers. The Imperial Cavalry, who had already mounted their war horses and waved their sabers, could chop down wooden piles more easily than usual.
Harvesting the heads of the defeated Chinese soldiers who were desperately fleeing. The collapsed Chinese threw away their guns, their grenades, and their simple ration bags, and fled frantically.
However, can their legs escape from the imperial cavalry's horses that can sprint up to 50 yards for 100 meters? Of course it is impossible.
In that battle, no more than ten Chinese soldiers could escape the sharp sabers of the imperial cavalry. An entire infantry battalion of 500 people was almost massacred.
However, what left the deepest impression in the mind of the Japanese captain was not the one-sided battle, but the more than 30 Chinese wounded soldiers who were left on the battlefield due to injuries. Imperial soldiers on tall horses gradually surrounded them, and the Japanese captain
What is seen on their young and frightened faces is not only fear, but also the desire to survive.
They huddled together, looking around in horror and helplessness, just like they were today. Some even raised their hands high.
It was a young soldier who must not have been more than 18 years old. One of his legs was broken. It must have been blown off by a grenade. It was completely missing from the right knee down, but it was wrapped roughly with a bandage.
.His face is very pale, which is the result of excessive blood loss.
Perhaps, no matter what they did, the young wounded Chinese soldier might not survive until the sun rose the next day.
However, Fukuna Endo knew that he still wanted to live. His raised hands and the desire in his eyes proved incomparably that he wanted to live.
Maybe, he wants to see his mother again!
"Trample them to death." Following the cold command from the captain of the regiment who came over on a tall horse, several groups of cavalry urged their horses to gradually speed up.
Amid the rumble of hoofbeats, the wails of the wounded Chinese soldiers finally gradually turned quiet.
But the Japanese captain will never forget the young Chinese soldier's face that suddenly turned gray and the anger bursting out of his desperate eyes when he saw the imperial cavalry began to urge the horses to approach them. Those were eyes from hell, that
It's also a curse.
Now, his curse has come true. Nearly half of the main force of the 28th Cavalry Regiment is here, dead or alive, surrounded by the Chinese.
If he chooses to surrender, will they treat him the same way they treat the Chinese? Fukuna Endo suddenly wanted to cry and laugh at the same time.
This may be what Buddhism calls karma and reincarnation!
Staring at the Chinese soldiers who were also staring at him, the Japanese captain with a sad smile on his face clenched his saber, stood up slowly, raised his arm and pointed at the Chinese soldiers.
"The Imperial Cavalry lines up and charges." Whether it was for family glory or to avoid being tortured by the Chinese, the Japanese captain chose to end his nightmare with a glorious death in battle.
However, he could read the disdain in the contemptuous eyes of all the Chinese soldiers across from him.
There was deep disdain. They didn't even raise their guns.
"Baga!" The hoarse roar of the Japanese captain was actually as small as a mosquito.
A Chinese soldier raised his eyebrows and motioned for him to look behind him.
Turning around suddenly, the Japanese captain found in despair that his colleagues, who were smoked black without their guns and couldn't even see their appearance, did not die gloriously to uphold the glory of the Imperial Cavalry as he imagined.
Like a few frightened quails, they fell to their knees and raised their hands with tears streaming down their faces.
The artillery fire that filled the sky shattered not only the lives of the 28th Cavalry Regiment, but also their so-called pride of the Imperial Cavalry.
The officers and soldiers of the First Company of the Independent Regiment all laughed, especially the veterans who had experienced the Great Wall Battle.
The Japanese are still like that, as long as they are beaten hard, beaten to tears, and their ferocious masks are torn off, they will still become weak.
"Repeat it again, surrender the gun and not kill." Zihua glanced coldly at the Japanese captain who still wanted to resist stubbornly while holding the command knife, and yelled again.
The surrounding soldiers also raised their guns again. They had no intention of taking prisoners of the Japanese. In the regimental record book, there was always only a record of how many Japanese were killed, but there was never a record of how many Japanese were captured and how many military exploits were recorded.
Record.
"Baga!!" Fina Endo roared in despair.
What's more, it's helpless.
With a "clang" sound, the Japanese captain's command knife slipped from his hand and fell to the ground.
The Japanese captain's last vestige of courage, which had been shattered by artillery fire, also disappeared after several Japanese cavalrymen completely lost the pride of the imperial cavalry.
Fukuna Endo, who threw away his command sword, knelt on his knees and covered his face with tears streaming down his face. He knew that from now on, not only was the glory of his family lost, but the pride of the 28th Cavalry Regiment also disappeared. He and his
His subordinates will become a disgrace to the 28th Cavalry Regiment, a disgrace to the 20th Division, and a disgrace to the Empire.
However, they just want to live and return to their motherland alive to see their mother, so what's wrong with that? Perhaps the empire itself was wrong to initiate this war.
The Japanese captain, who had completely abandoned his pride, could not help but think of the young Chinese soldier again at the moment when he covered his face and cried. For the first time, the determination in his heart to fight for the glory of the empire and His Majesty the Emperor was shaken.
Of the 204 Japanese troops who attacked the Jiuguan position and were shelled, except for 6 who knelt down and begged for surrender, all the rest were annihilated and no bones were left.
In addition to the 90 people in the two flank positions who were completely wiped out and the 70 people in the heavy machine gun squadron who were completely blown into ashes in the mortar bombardment, the three cavalry squadrons and one machine gun squadron led by Okazaki Masaichi except for one cavalry
Everyone outside the squad was annihilated.
Only about 130 men of the 28th Cavalry Regiment are still resisting.
Asada Yunshan, who had received the message from the cavalry team, looked defeated.
Kawagishi Bunzaburo, who received a desperate message that the 28th Cavalry Regiment wanted to fight Liu Lang's independent regiment, split open his desk with a knife.
The roar of "Baga!" almost echoed throughout the entire city of Shijiazhuang.