Even though Kwantung Army Commander Muto Nobuyoshi almost chopped his desk into firewood and stuffed it into the fireplace in his office, even if the Japanese army launched a reconnaissance expedition north of the Great Wall.
The Great Wall Group was nowhere to be seen.
It was as if that magical force that drove the Eighth Division like dogs had never appeared.
The Eighth Division was like having a nightmare.
Moreover, it seems that the nightmare has not yet awakened.
The Eighth Division, which was extremely short of food and grass and was chased by the Great Wall Regiment, was exhausted and had requested help from the Kwantung Army headquarters several times. Even though they inhumanely looted the villages and towns they passed without growing any grass, they could not satisfy their needs, including the wounded.
Massive demand for more than 10,000 people.
Even if each person has an average of three taels of grain per day, they still need five thousand kilograms of grain supplies every day. However, in a poor and mountainous place like Rehe, the people of Rehe have already been plundered by them and almost robbed all the grain.
How can we still provide so much food?
What's more, the news of the Japanese army's crazy looting has spread like the wind. As long as they can run, the people have taken their families and hid in the mountains with not much food, unless the Eighth Division must search the mountains every time they pass.
Only then can we collect some food.
But then, it would be more refreshing to have the Eighth Division commit suicide by caesarean section, instead of dying of exhaustion on the mountain road after climbing the mountain!
But what made Terube Tanibe's situation worse was that he could not wait for assistance from the 14th Brigade.
Not long after the 14th Brigade left Shenyang, a serious rebellion broke out among the Chinese in their defense area of ​​Heilongjiang Province. Thousands of Chinese workers organized and killed the guards, grabbed weapons, hid in the mountains, and attacked nearby cities.
An organized attack was carried out, but the garrison soldiers stationed in the city were no more than an infantry squadron.
After hearing that the Great Wall Regiment chasing the 8th Division had completely retreated and that the negotiations with the Chinese side had come to an end, the 14th Brigade turned and headed straight for its own defense zone after asking for instructions from the Kwantung Army Headquarters.
He left the more than 10,000 men of the Eighth Division, who were miserable and about to starve to death, in Rehe and ignored them.
Yes, never mind.
Including Nobuyoshi Muto, no one knew that the 8th Division had fallen to this point. Even the Great Ocean Horse owned by Major General Terube Tanibe, Chief of Staff, had become pulpy horse meat in the pot.
It had to be boiled to pieces. The first reason was that there were so many people to eat it. All the officials at the Eighth Division Headquarters pointed at the horse and beat its teeth as a sacrifice. The second thing was that Lieutenant General Nishi Yiichi, who was in a coma, was always there.
They are not awake, but the Bage Yalu ones are still eating well, so they can eat as much as they want.
Come to think of it, Your Excellency Rushi Yiichi must have been very hungry during this time!
Not to mention the unlucky Eighth Division, which was still struggling in Rehe and continuing its slow retreat to the northeast.
Where did the Great Wall Group go?
Of course, he went to the old man's lair.
The main force of the Great Wall Regiment spent a whole day and night marching quickly to catch up with the huge transport army.
With the help of the 2,000 troops who were tired but in good spirits, the march of the 20,000 people accelerated significantly and entered Qinglong Mountain half a day earlier than expected.
Although more than 20,000 people frightened countless wild beasts and birds, the vast mountains became the best cover. The Great Wall Group and 20,000 civilians, whose radio station was no longer switched on, entered the bandit's village hidden deep in the mountains.
Although the environment is very simple, as long as there is food, there is no need to panic.
Including the stocks of the Japanese army's baggage brigade that were robbed last time, the food in the mountains is as high as 200,000 kilograms. As long as you eat sparingly, it is enough to feed more than 22,000 people on the mountains for a month.
At the same time, Liu Lang was not idle either.
Since the Japanese have no good intentions and want to annihilate their entire group outside the Great Wall, then we must give them some good looks no matter what.
Except for Shi Datou, Niu Er and Cai Dadao who stayed with Sun Yongqin as instructors to train the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army, the remaining special forces had all been ordered to return to the team two days ago by Liu Lang.
Liu Lang, who had always been able to take advantage of himself, took the remaining ten special forces and divided them into four groups. They carried out unrestricted sniping against the Japanese reconnaissance team along the Great Wall Mountains, truly demonstrating what special operations are.
In just three days, the Japanese reconnaissance team, which was organized into small teams, actually lost more than fourteen teams, and all team members were killed.
This was almost the complete annihilation of a squadron. Except for the unlucky Eighth Division, the other two Japanese invaders had never had such a precedent of an entire squadron being killed in battle.
When he received this message three days later, the top commander of the Japanese army stationed at Xifengkou Pass looked at the 160 corpses in disbelief and almost jumped up.
The Great Wall Group must be the Great Wall Group.
Except for the legendary Great Wall Group, no one has such strength.
They have actually returned to the Great Wall Mountains.
Moreover, it is not far from Xifengkou.
However, Japanese Colonel Ningqing Nakagawa, who jumped three feet high, was not extremely excited because he discovered traces of the Great Wall.
Rather, the timing of the appearance of the Great Wall Group was really too bad for Bagaya Road.
Because, even if he found out, it would be useless. The front line located two hundred miles away had already signed an armistice agreement.
China and Japan have declared an armistice. China recognized the Kwantung Army's occupation of Rehe and promised not to station troops along the Great Wall Mountains. China's northern gate has been opened to Japan. The infamous "Tanggu Agreement" was still signed under the force majeure of history.
Already.
But at the same time, slightly different from the previous historical time and space, the Japanese troops were required to withdraw from the Great Wall within five days and were not allowed to stay south of the Great Wall. The 100 miles north of the Great Wall and the 100 miles south of the Great Wall were demilitarized zones.
Neither Japan nor Japan is allowed to cross this military line.
This can be regarded as the only benefit that Liu Lang fought for China in this battle of the Great Wall! At least, when the Japanese army launched a large-scale attack on Beiping and Tianjin again, northern China would no longer have the time and space to give an early warning as it had in the past.
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In just five days, no matter how confident the Japanese commander named Ningqing Nakagawa was in the Imperial Army of Japan, he knew that the Kwantung Army could no longer completely annihilate the tenacious Chinese army.
The Eighth Division had already set an example for them. After being besieged for eight days, they were beaten like a bird.
Not to mention that they did not have enough time to search for the Chinese army that had already hid in the mountains. Even if they had time, they did not dare to think that they would win as before. The 4th Brigade was beaten as soon as it arrived on the battlefield.
The entire army was wiped out, and more than 20,000 men from the Eighth Division besieged it for eight days, resulting in over 10,000 casualties.
Could it be said that they have to sacrifice the precious lives of tens of thousands of warriors of the Japanese Empire? Today's Kwantung Army does not have such a surplus of troops for them to squander.
Even Lieutenant General Masaki Sakamoto, the commander of the 6th Division, who was on the front line and was preparing to withdraw troops, could only sigh up to the sky but said nothing except issuing an order.
The Xifengkou garrison ordered to shrink its troops and not continue to send small teams to die in the wild. The rest were silent.
The Japanese didn't want to fight.
However, a war never ends just because one party does not want to fight.
The so-called treaty has always been something that can be torn apart at will in front of the strong, and only the weak regard it as a life-saving straw.