Removing the threat from the main force of the Japanese army brought not only psychological pressure.
More importantly, you can enjoy the feast without any scruples.
This is a benefit especially for the winner.
Winter is very cold, but there are many more dead trees than usual.
Except for a few alert infantry companies, the soldiers of other companies, under the urging of their company commanders, did not rush to harvest the fruits of victory, but first collected firewood.
Soon, piles of bonfires were lit in the valley. If someone stood on the peak several miles away and looked over, it would be like a sky full of stars.
It's so bright and refreshing, especially under such a pollution-free sky.
However, that was a grand scene that only the Chinese scouts could see, and the Japanese never wanted to see it.
For several kilometers around, the short-legged tribe is the only species that has lost the right to breathe...
The warm yellow light dissipates the coldness of winter nights and illuminates the entire dark valley. Bonfires almost every 20 meters ensure the brightness in the valley.
All the corpses of the Japanese soldiers who were killed were carried to one end of the river valley, and they were densely packed all over the river beach.
After counting, not counting those outside the river valley, there were 1,532 corpses in the entire river valley, including the bodies of the Japanese army's captain, Takeuchi Yunshan, as well as four majors and 16 captains. Nearly a hundred low-level officers including lieutenants, second lieutenants, and commander-in-chief were found.
Because most of the Japanese officers chose to replace their uniforms and ranks, and because of the cold weather, many Sichuan soldiers chose to take off their Japanese uniforms and wear them inside their own uniforms to keep out the cold when they found that the Japanese uniforms were still intact. Identity is extremely difficult to determine.
However, Shuang Shisan, who was responsible for counting the number of enemy killed and captured, was smart enough. He judged from the military rank badges and certificates Lined by Takeuchi Yunshan that he put in his pocket that the Japanese officers would do the same thing as his superiors, and had already carried the corpses. Previously, the entire army was ordered to check all supplies on the corpse. Clothes can be taken away, but the military rank badge must be pinned to the waistband of the corpse for statistics.
Therefore, many majors, captains, lieutenants, and second lieutenants were actually naked from the waist up and had a pair of big feet, but they were placed on the beach with their hidden military rank badges pinned to their belts. This was quite a funny scene. , nicknamed the "belt-level officer" by the soldiers of the Independence Battalion.
More importantly, except for Colonel Takeuchi Unzan, who was carried over by Qin Goro and Tudou, his clothes were still intact. This group of Japanese officers were identified as colonels based on the collar badges on their belts. The Japanese officers of the captain were neatly placed on the stone. On the beach, Tantai Mingyue set up a camera and captured a scene that would later shame the entire Japanese army.
The text accompanying the photo is a joke from the officers and soldiers of the Independent Battalion: "One of the belt-level Japanese officers killed in the Battle of Guangde!"
However, the photo was ordered by Tang Dao not to be published in any newspaper for two months.
Perhaps only Tantai Mingyue, who had communicated with Tang Dao, roughly understood his intentions. He was afraid that the Japanese army would carry out bloody revenge in shame and anger.
Yes, Tantai Mingyue guessed most of Tang Dao's thoughts, but she was not Tang Dao after all. Because only Tang Dao understood that the disaster was inevitable, and what he was afraid of was no longer the Jinling Heavy Machinery that the Japanese army was about to conquer. The soldiers and civilians in the city retaliated, and this is the area currently occupied by the Japanese army.
The Japanese army only occupied one province in the southeast, but all the areas in Hua, BJ and Jin fell into enemy hands. Now they have begun to attack Jin on a large scale, and the Kunozaki detachment is affiliated with the fifth division that is furiously attacking Jin.
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If Seishiro Itagaki, the war butcher, carried out a bloodbath in the occupied areas because of this, he would become a sinner of history. Only when the international public opinion on the brutality of the Japanese army reached its peak, the Japanese base camp, which was wary of international public opinion, issued an order
Try to avoid such incidents as much as possible. Only photos that are extremely harmful and insulting can be used to fight against the Japanese invaders.
After all, this photo that could make all Japanese generals vomit blood was not first published in China. Instead, more than half a year later, China and Japan had entered a stalemate stage.
The ugly death posture of a group of naked Japanese officers with their military ranks pinned to their belts, bared teeth and concave-shaped mouths, is said to have caused the then commander of the North China Expedition Army, General Juichi Terauchi, and the commander of the Central China Expedition Army, General Yan Junliu, to stand a few feet apart.
They turned over the dining table together for thousands of miles.
Kunizaki, who was originally transferred back to Pingjin and put in cold storage just because of his defeat on the battlefield, was taken directly from his residence to the headquarters of the dispatched army and was given a big slap in the face. He should be the first company commander to be beaten on the Chinese battlefield.
There are ten loudmouthed Japanese generals.
It is said that the hands of His Excellency Shoudai General in the temple were swollen for three days.
As for Kunisaki, the unlucky kid who got slapped in the mouth, no one knows what happened to his face, but he disappeared from the Japanese military circles and was assigned to clean toilets in some corner.
In addition to keeping the appearance of a bunch of Japanese officers who had to donate their clothes even if they lost their lives, Tang Dao also told a white lie to the army headquarters hundreds of meters away after the battle.
The 21st Group Army Headquarters is still very concerned about Tang Dao and the 145th Division of the Sichuan Army. It sends telegrams almost three times a day to inquire about the battle status of these two units and the Kunisaki Detachment.
This is not to say that we care more about the 145th Division and the Tangdao Independent Battalion, but because of the current battlefield situation, the two units that successively blocked the Japanese invaders in Jiepai Village and Shuishu Mountain and achieved results have already become the face of all Sichuan troops who have vowed to leave Sichuan.
Faced with the ardent concern of the big guys, Tang Dao responded with half-truths and half-falsities, and specifically sent a message to the 145th Division after the ambush in the valley: "Our unit fought fiercely with the Japanese army in the Guangde Mountains, and one unit was besieged by the main force of the Japanese army.
In order to relieve our army's difficulties, we fought fiercely with the Japanese reinforcements in the afternoon, but the Japanese army was outnumbered and the battle situation became a stalemate."
Of course, the headquarters of the 145th Division immediately forwarded Tang Dao's message to the Army Headquarters. The Army Headquarters immediately ordered the 145th Division to tell the independent battalion: "Overcome the difficulties and do your best to deal with the enemy. If the enemy is strong, find the right opportunity."
To evacuate the camera, the headquarters should contact the commander's department and come to support with the power of the air force."
The words were very nice. They not only affirmed and encouraged the Independence Battalion, but also gave comfort, and even allowed the camera to retreat, but I just had to listen to it.
The so-called fighter support is just a mirror image. The Air Force has few fighter planes left. Even if it does exist, they have all been evacuated hundreds of kilometers away. The main battlefield in Jinling has no way to support it, and there is no way to take care of southern Anhui.
A small battlefield in the mountains?
But the reason why Tang Dao sent the message was not for support. What he needed was to let the big guys know that he was still fighting.
Because, if the big guys know it, some people will know it too.
Sure enough, when the independent battalion began to happily take photos of the dead Japanese officers, the information that the Tang Dao independent battalion was still fighting fiercely was placed on Ushijima Sadao's desk.
The huge spy network that the Japanese spent ten years setting up once again achieved "great success", helping Tang Dao complete the most inconspicuous but also the most important step on the entire battlefield.
Tactical deception!
Kunizaki, who had been feeling anxious all the time, finally received some peace-of-mind news an hour after dark.
Takeuchi Yunshan's infantry regiment held back the main force of the Chinese, preventing it from coming to rescue its trapped elites. He could continue to wait for daylight to come and swallow the Chinese in one gulp.
This was also the telegram he quickly sent back to Ushijima Sadao and Yanagawa Heisuke. Anyway, the Chinese said so. How could he be worthy of the hard work of the intelligence personnel without bragging?
Therefore, under the joint deception of the two mid-level Chinese and Japanese military officers, no one knew that more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers were beaten to death in the mountainous area of southern Anhui, and the last remaining warmth of the corpses was also caught in the cold winter wind.
Cool completely.
The Independence Camp began to enjoy the fruits of victory in the warm yellow light of piles of bonfires.
After the corpses of the Japanese soldiers were counted one by one and searched from top to bottom, they, like their dead officers, had no choice but to stay there.
What's important is the weapons and equipment scattered all over the place, which is dazzling.
Especially for a bunch of hardcore people who don’t even let go of Japanese military uniforms!
What? The Type 38 rifle shoots far and accurately. Brothers, come and get it. No, no, that’s nothing.
It's not because its performance is worse than the Hanyang-made or old sleeves, but it's just too much.
There were so many that it was not enough for a soldier to carry one pole, so one person had to carry two poles.
No matter how expensive things are, they lose their value once there are too many of them. This is human nature.
The victorious soldiers bundled their Type 38 rifles like a pile of firewood sticks and randomly discarded them beside the campfire, vividly demonstrating the 'ugliness' of human nature.
But the smiling officers did not scold these soldiers who suddenly had a brighter outlook.
