Although it is almost mid-April, the weather in Rehe Province is still cold and gloomy, especially at night, when the ground is still covered with a layer of hoarfrost.
When Chinese people describe hardship, they like to say they are cold and hungry. They don’t know whether they are hungry because they are cold or cold because they are hungry. Anyway, the Japanese soldiers of the Eighth Division are indeed feeling such a miserable feeling at the moment.
In addition to the Japanese troops on the outer security positions who were still holding firm, most of the Japanese troops in the garrison lit bonfires and, in small groups, cuddled up to the bonfires to keep warm.
Even though lighting a bonfire in a wild camp and placing oneself in the light of the fire was a taboo for every army, Tanibe Terube did not stop it.
Because the porridge and wild vegetables in his own lunch box could reflect the figure, let alone other Japanese soldiers. All the mules and horses accompanying the army were killed and used as meat to satisfy their hunger. The pheasants, rabbits, and sparrows in the surrounding mountains were all wiped out.
, but these are far from enough to meet the needs of nearly 6,000 wounded soldiers and 7,000 soldiers, a total of 13,000 mouths.
It can be said that the Eighth Division has now eaten almost everything it can eat. If it were not for the existence of the Sixth Division as a savior, Tanibe Terube would have taken the Eighth Division to Chaha next to it.
Er Province has entered the army. No matter how stupid he is, Terube Tanibe cannot starve tens of thousands of people to death!
If you tighten your belt like this, you can make do for two or three days, but you are so hungry, you can't even fail to meet the soldiers' requirements for keeping warm! In the past few days, you have suffered injuries caused by freezing and starvation.
There are hundreds of soldiers, and Terube Tanibe can no longer send soldiers who are still in normal health to see Amaterasu.
Besides, it is already an area controlled by the Kwantung Army. Who dares to attack the Tiger Beard of the Eighth Division with 7,000 troops? Except for the brave Chinese army of the Great Wall Regiment.
Fortunately, the message from the Kwantung Army headquarters made it very clear that nearly 2,000 of the main force of the Great Wall Regiment had returned to Peiping. This news may be very annoying to Sakamoto Masaemon, who has a strong army. This is a serious problem for the empire.
Although he was gone, it was an inexplicable relief for all the officers and men of the 8th Division headed by Terube Tanibe.
The scourge of the Great Wall Regiment is finally gone. No matter how the gods descend to earth, it will be a matter of the future, but now there is no trouble to find the Eighth Division.
After tightening his somewhat loose trousers, Tanibe Terube lay down on the camp bed undressed.
The best way to deal with hunger is to go on a date with Zhou Jie, which is a new skill that the Major General has learned these days.
Tanibe Terube, who was gradually falling asleep, and the Japanese soldiers who were nestling beside the warm campfire missing their hometown, did not know that in a valley only twenty miles away from the Eighth Division's headquarters, there were many Chinese who were not afraid of the north.
On a cold April night, I lay down on the frost-covered grass and looked at the 8th Division's garrison in the distance like dots of stars.
...
"Company Commander Liu, we meet again." The tall Sun Yongqin smiled and shook hands with Liu Dazhu who had finished the military salute.
Since he learned the handshake ceremony from Liu Lang, Sun Yongqin, a man with a rough background, also feels that the handshake ceremony is more formal than the fist-holding ceremony of people in the world. After all, his identity is now the commander of the Rehe Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, not
What kind of bandit leader?
"Captain Sun, oh, no, I should call you Master Sun now. Before coming, our regiment asked me to thank you on behalf of him for coming to support this adventure." Seeing Sun Yongqin, Liu Dazhu's somewhat rigid face showed a trace.
smile.
The leader of a peasant-born anti-Japanese group brought his people to challenge the nearly 10,000 little devils as soon as the team was organized. Such a person deserves Liu Dazhu's thanks no matter what.
"Captain Liu is out of touch with this. If Commander Liu hadn't given us the assistance of the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army, I, Sun Yongqin, would not have been able to recruit so many brothers into the army in a short period of time, let alone the division commander."
It belongs to the teacher." Sun Yongqin shook his head repeatedly. "Besides, I also know how much I weigh. Even though Sun brought three thousand brothers with him this time, many of them had just put down their hoes and hatchets and had not even touched their guns.
, I’m afraid we still have some firepower to defeat the little Japs, so the best we can do is to give Commander Liu and Company Commander Liu a flag and cheers to boost our momentum. The main thing is to rely on the brothers of the Great Wall Regiment.”
"Mr. Sun was saying just now that our group had an affair, but now we have an affair! Without you, more than a hundred people like me wouldn't be able to fight with the little devils!" Liu Dazhu also laughed.
"You two, don't be humble. Company Commander Liu, we have brought your company's equipment. You can accept it." Cai Dadao on the side intervened.
Now Cai Dadao is not just a small special soldier in the Special Forces Brigade of the Independent Regiment, he is now the chief instructor of Sun Yongqin's new recruits in the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army.
Among the three special forces, Shi Datou is a good fighter in martial arts, but is not good at communicating with others. Niu Er is an excellent shooter, but because he is also an introverted character, he is not as good at communicating with Sun Yongqin's senior leaders of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army.
The young bandit Cai Dadao came more freely. Therefore, Cai Dadao became the leader of the three people and was able to participate in the highest-level military meeting of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army.
This time, I accompanied Sun Yongqin to greet the former chief Liu Dazhu, and I had more or less the right to speak.
As for the equipment he was talking about, it was of course part of the batch of equipment that Liu Lang provided to Sun Yongqin in Chengde City.
Maybe Liu Lang didn't want to let go of the Eighth Division completely at that time, or Liu Lang didn't want to make the Japanese army in Rehe Province have a hard time in the past few years. Anyway, Liu Lang didn't want to leave Chengde before he evacuated.
Just kept one hand.
Not only did the several mortars that assisted Sun Yongqin belong to Liu Dazhu's company, but even the MG42 machine guns and bullets Liu Lang asked Liu Dazhu's company to hand over to Cai Dadao and the others for safekeeping, including the grenades they carried with them. It can be said that except for
Each soldier carried Hanyang-made spears and bullets, and the rest were left to Sun Yongqin to take away.
However, no one was allowed to touch these weapons without the permission of the three special forces soldiers. Now, they have finally returned to their original owners.
Yes, ever since Liu Lang fully planned to cause trouble for the Eighth Division, he had no intention of starting the whole thing alone. Even without the Great Wall Regiment, he still had a lot of helpers.
One person's war can certainly give the Japanese invaders a headache, but it cannot break their muscles and bones.
Now, the helper who completely broke the backbone of the 8th Division arrived.
Liu Dazhu, a company of 170 men stationed at Qinglong Mountain, went north to Chengde from the last remaining regiment of the Sixth Division. The entire army left the Great Wall with light equipment and marched to the north of Rehe.
In addition to rifles and carrying five 82 mortars, enough artillery shells and five-day rations, the entire company went north lightly. Taking advantage of the slow pace of the Sixth Division harassed by Liu Lang and the others, it overtook the Sixth Division and pursued the Sixth Division.
Eighth Division.
Sun Yongqin, who received Liu Lang's telegram, also headed north with the three thousand peasant soldiers he had recruited with tens of thousands of kilograms of grain and equipment.
They had been hiding in this valley twenty miles away from the Eighth Division's headquarters for two days, and finally waited for Liu Dazhu's arrival on this cold night.
Three thousand peasant soldiers fully equipped with Japanese-style equipment and an infantry company of the Great Wall Regiment were the reason Liu Lang finally persuaded Deng Wen. Otherwise, no matter how big the pie Liu Lang offered, Deng Wen, who was proficient in tactics, would not swallow it.
Already.
To deal with the Eighth Division, which still has 7,000 troops, with more than 1,000 cavalry is undoubtedly a dream. No matter how stupid a commander is, he would not make such a stupid choice in an era when hot weapons have dominated war. But there are
Without the assistance of infantry, it would be different.
The sleeping Eighth Division did not know that a group of Chinese rabble and a group of China's most elite soldiers were watching them twenty miles away on a northern spring night with no starlight but hoarfrost.