Captain Nagano Yuji was very depressed. As the highest commander stationed in Chengde, he had not had a good time in Chengde City for the past half month.
Not to mention that there is no major general, colonel, or lieutenant, there is not even a major. In the entire Chinese city, he, the captain, is the supreme commander. Those rich but lowly Chinese, aren't they groveling and begging for mercy from Nagano Yuji?
Not to mention being merciless in collecting gold bars weighing half a kilogram, even those beautiful girls from the wealthy Chinese families. Nagano Yuji has slept with several of them. That's all. It depends on his mood. Nagano Yuji is not in a good mood.
At that time, the few vulgar captains under his command were gone. Would they be as gentle as a talented captain?
However, the taste of what the Chinese call a lady is really good! I think it is not much worse than the ladies from famous families in Kyoto. Nagano Yuji, who has never been seen by those wealthy ladies in Japan, is enjoying himself on the tall horse.
thinking.
However, this beautiful day was completely ruined by a military order. The front line was in urgent need of supplies. Military supplies needed to be urgently mobilized from Chengde to support the division, and they were ordered to arrive within a week.
That’s nearly 200 kilometers of road. There isn’t even a truck in the entire Chengde city, so you can only use horse-drawn carriages. Damn, there aren’t even roads in China. On those bumpy loess roads, traveling 60 miles a day is considered the fastest speed.
Already.
Nagano Yuji understood the consequences if he did not arrive at the time specified in the military order. At that time, let alone a captain, even a major and lieutenant, he might be executed by the division commander in front of the battle. I heard that the division commander
My mood has been very bad recently.
Fortunately, there is a platoon leader from the Fengtian Independent Brigade who is responsible for escorting here. He knows the shortcut to Luo Wenyu. Although it is a mountain road, it is 60 miles short. Now it is only 30 miles away from Luo Wenyu. We will go there before dinner today.
We should be there soon! There is still one night left before the time stipulated in the military order.
Thinking of the telegram he sent to the division headquarters last night when he was stationed in the field that he would arrive at noon today, Nagano Yuji felt a little headache. What kind of reason should he use to explain to the division headquarters?
Thinking of the three piles of fireworks he had just discovered, Yuji Nagano became even more irritated. The Chinese troops along the entire Great Wall defense line should be gathered at various passes. It is impossible for them to appear in this barren mountain with no sense of garrison.
of.
In a place like this, even if it can be crossed lightly and with only light weapons, even if the troops are as strong as the imperial army, they are likely to encounter disaster. No commander would make that stupid decision. World War I has proved that without artillery
If the supporting army encounters an enemy with artillery, the consequences will be really disastrous.
Although the transport team of thousands of people had stayed in place for more than 30 minutes, Nagano Yuji had to send out advanced soldiers to conduct reconnaissance. He transported nearly 5,000 artillery shells of various types, 100,000 rounds of ammunition and various necessary military supplies. If
If something went wrong, even if he had a caesarean section and apologized, he might not be able to extinguish the anger of the division commander.
The vanguard soldiers dispatched belong to a sub-unit of the Third Squadron under his command. Although these trivial tasks should be left to the Chinese in the Fengtian Independent Brigade, Nagano Yuji does not trust those Chinese. It is not that he is afraid that they will betray the empire.
, but he instinctively trusted the soldiers under his command more. The poor performance of those stupid Chinese on the front line had already reached the ears of Captain Nagano. Their combat effectiveness was really too low.
Finally, Nagano Yuji received a report from the squad leader, Sergeant, who had completed the reconnaissance on the mountain 500 meters away.
By the time it took them ten minutes to arrive, the Chinese who lit the fire had already escaped. However, based on the analysis of the huts they had not demolished, the traces of life scattered around, and the feces scattered everywhere, they were not soldiers.
It should be the indigenous mountain people living here or the group that the Chinese call bandits.
It must be said that the individual qualities of the Japanese veterans at this period were very strong. They did not even see the four Qinglong Mountain bandits who had fled long ago. Their identities were analyzed only from the traces of their lives. They did nothing when they fled.
Cleaning traces, bad food residues, and irregular urination and defecation traces have all become the basis for their judgment.
"Yoshi, don't worry about those ignorant Chinese people. We will deal with them after the imperial army captures their entire defense line. Now, let's go quickly!" Nagano Yuji nodded with satisfaction and urged.
The puppet troops who had just arranged their defenses quickly set off.
The battalion responsible for reinforcing the Nagano Yuji Infantry Squadron and transporting military supplies was a battalion of the Fengtian Independent Brigade that suffered a huge defeat at Luo Wenyu's defense line and was kicked out of the perimeter. Although the battalion commander was a major, he could only obey his master's orders lower than his rank.
The command of an infantry squadron leader.
However, the major battalion commander who commanded 600 soldiers, which was much more than the 200 soldiers of an infantry squadron of the Japanese army, did not have the consciousness of a major. Instead, after receiving the order from Captain Yuji Nagano, he nodded and bowed, received the military order with a flattering face, and shouted
The puppet soldiers, who had been tired for a long time and had not had time to repair, hurriedly set off on the road.
Although the puppet soldiers showed dissatisfaction, no one resisted. According to the tactical instructions given to them by the Japanese masters, one company was in the front, one company was in the middle, and one company was in the back. Each team maintained a distance of 200 meters to protect the center of the team.
An infantry squadron and more than thirty horse-drawn carriages began to slowly move forward on the narrow mountain road.
I have to say that this is an insensitive army, and this is also a group of insensitive soldiers.
At least, that's what Mo Xiaomao, who was observing the 3-mile-long march through the scope from 600 meters away, thought so.
It wasn't until Chen Yunfa and Mo Xiaomao led nearly 600 "rabble" and hurriedly arrived at the four bandit outposts they met on the road to discover the location of the Japanese army. They were surprised to find that the Japanese army only stayed briefly on the edge of Qinglong Mountain. They moved forward
The direction is not to Qinglong Mountain, but to Luo Wenyu.
However, Chen Yunfa and Mo Xiaomao had no intention of letting go of the Japanese troops marching slowly on the mountain road. It was not that they were belligerent, but that the more than 30 large vehicles in that team were tightly protected.
So tempting.
Although the useless man who was extremely eager for food did not have the same desire as before, from his point of view, it was best not to fight. But the two special forces knew that this batch of military supplies must be transported to the 8th Division of Luo Wenyu's front line
If you don't fight, you will be punished by God.
It's just that Chen Yunfa and Mo Xiaomao are a little confused about this group of Japanese invaders and puppet troops transporting heavy supplies. Don't they know that the Eighth Division has retreated from Luo Wenyu Pass? According to common sense, the convoy transporting such important supplies
There should be a radio station accompanying us!
The two special forces thought correctly. Although Yuji Nagano's infantry squadron did not have the authority to be equipped with radios, as the garrison infantry squadron guarding Chengde, he had a field radio and could maintain necessary communication with the division headquarters.
But Captain Nagano Yuji was so smart. Because he was worried that he would not be able to reach the front line on time, Nagano Yuji played a little trick. When he reported to the division headquarters last night, he moved his current position forward by a full forty miles.
, and told that he would arrive at noon. Then, he took the initiative to turn off the radio station.
Yes, in the wild, it is common for radio stations to fail to receive signals. If you can arrive before the limited time, it is natural. If there is a slight delay, on the battlefield along the Great Wall, it is normal for time to be delayed due to enemy conditions.
Well, Nagano Yuji has more than a dozen reasons to justify his explanation.
Therefore, Nagano Yuji did not receive the telegram from the headquarters that the main force of the division had withdrawn.
The clever Captain Yuji Nagano didn't know that at this time, the division's chief of staff, Terube Tanibe, was talking about him. The baggage that had been promised to arrive at noon was still missing? The division's nearly ten infantry cannons were about to run out of ammunition.
Absolutely, that is the last heavy weapon for tens of thousands of soldiers in the division.
It can be said that Nagano Yuji's baggage team was one of the reasons why Tanibe Terube dared to stop and fight in the field with an independent regiment with cannons.
Unfortunately, the anxious Major General Terube Tanibe never dreamed that the baggage train he was expecting not only did not come towards the main force of the 8th Division, but instead turned a corner and entered the mountains, a full seventy miles away from the 8th Division.
remote.
Moreover, he could no longer wait for the baggage train to appear.
The baggage convoy had a clever captain commander who took the initiative to turn off the radio.