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Chapter 278, a nest full of evil

The road leading to Huangyadong is difficult, and trucks cannot drive in. The transportation of materials can only rely on mules and horses.

The infantry of the brigade formed a long queue and moved towards the base of the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, only the senior officers of the Japanese army could ride tall horses.

The head of the brigade, Ushishima, was different from most Japanese men at that time. He was more than 1.7 meters tall and had a strong build, a head taller than ordinary Japanese soldiers.

His face carried the usual expression of Japanese military officers, cold and resolute.

"How many miles did we walk today?"

"Because of the wind and snow, the marching speed of the troops has slowed down, and they have traveled about 23 miles so far." The chief of staff of the brigade, Colonel Tanaka, replied.

He is the average height of a Japanese soldier, a little more than 1.5 meters. When talking to him, he lowers his head slightly, like a middle school student answering an adult's inquiry.

Niu Dao's face was very ugly. It was really unlucky that he caught up with the heavy snow just after dispatching troops.

The mountain road became more and more difficult to walk, and it was especially unfavorable for them to fight a battle in such weather.

General Shinozuka pressed again, it was obviously impossible to push the war to next year.

The weather will get colder in the future, and it can't be consumed anymore.

"Pass down the order and speed up the pace. The soldiers of the empire are not even afraid of death, so why are they afraid of hardships!"

Major General Ushishima said coldly.

"Yes." The orderly ordered to leave.

The long march was like a long snake, and now the snake was advancing at a faster speed, as if its butt was on fire.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and Major Gao Cheng of the Supply Squadron came over and said worriedly: "General, in the cold and heavy snow, it will be more difficult to transport by horse-drawn carriage, but our consumption will increase exponentially.

I am worried that supplies will become scarce, so let the rear prepare earlier. "

Niu Dao asked blankly: "Based on the current situation, how long can our supplies last?"

Major Gao Cheng had already calculated, and replied without hesitation: "The most important food can last for about seven days."

"Seven days is enough time. If those cowards on Tuba Road dare to show their faces, we won't need seven days at all."

Major General Niu Dao is very confident in the army he has trained. The firepower of the Tuba Road is too poor, so he only dares to shoot surreptitiously. If he dares to fight head-on, he will be crushed by his Ninth Brigade.

It takes four days to travel back and forth, and three days is enough to wipe out Tuba Road.

Ushishima patted his old subordinate on the shoulder, and gave him a rare smile: "Mr. Gaocheng, you and I are both from the Kumamoto Division. Don't forget our past glory."

"Ah, it's the general."

Major Gaocheng replied flattered.

He also recalled the old days, when he was a small captain of the supply unit.

The large troops were invincible all the way. They followed up with the delivery of ammunition and supplies, and heard one victory after another from the front from time to time.

Until all the way to Nanjing, the capital of China.

It was really a crazy day, all the hostility accumulated on the battlefield for ten months, all vented on those Chinese people.

They buried the captured Chinese soldiers and Nanjing residents alive in a big pit. When all the soil was covered, they could still see the palms exposed in the soil layer moving, and then gradually lost their strength.

Captain Hashimoto asked his subordinates to tie the Chinese soldiers to rows of trees, one person per tree, and then the rows of soldiers ran forward with their bayonets according to the command, stabbing the abdomen and chest of the people tied to the trees.

In order to exercise the courage of recruits.

After a group of people were stabbed to death, another group of people were replaced, and the massacre was carried out in such a cycle.

The soldiers who had just been recruited two months ago had undergone assassination training, and each had more than a dozen lives in their hands, covered in blood, so they would not be afraid when fighting.

To talk about the fun, it's the Katagiri Brigade.

With Nanjing as their goal, they organized a [-]-man beheading competition, and Toshiaki Mukai and Takeshi Noda took this as a gamble.

It attracted the "Tokyo Daily News" to continue to pay attention to the two of them.

"Second Lieutenant Noda rushed into the enemy's blockhouse at Wuming Village, eight kilometers away from Wuxi, and beheaded 4 enemies to make a name for himself."

"Second Lieutenant Mukai jumped up and rushed into the enemy line in Henglin Town that night, beheading 55 of them together with his subordinates."

Between Wuxi and Changzhou, Mukai Toshiaki killed 56 people, while Noda Takeshi killed 25 people.

Toshiaki Mukai and Takeshi Noda accompanied the team to attack Danyang.They killed everyone they met along the way, killing another 70 Chinese in total.

Among them, Noda Takeshi killed 40 people, while Mukai Toshiaki killed 30 people.

Japanese military reporters caught up with Toshiaki Mukai's unit for an interview. Toshiaki Mukai said: "Takeshi Noda has caught up a lot, and I can't take it lightly."

When they arrived in Jurong, Mukai Toshiaki's homicide record reached 89, and Noda Takeshi's reached 78.

After the First World War at Zijin Mountain in Nanjing, Toshiaki Mukai and Takeshi Noda had murder records of more than a hundred people, one hundred and six versus one hundred and five respectively.

At noon on the tenth, the two second lieutenants met with a Japanese sword with a broken blade.

Noda: "Hey, I cut one hundred and five, how about you?"

Mukai: "I'm one hundred and six!"

"a ha ha ha……"

As a result, whoever killed 100 people first didn’t ask, “Let’s count it as a tie game, how about killing 150 people again?”

The two agreed, and starting from the 150th, the competition of [-] people will begin.

The inspiring heroic deeds of the two guys were widely reported by the domestic media.

The [-]-man competition made Mukai Toshiaki and Noda Takeshi become well-known "heroes" in Japan.

The military rank also rises like sitting on a plane.Now they are the two major squadron leaders of the Ninth Brigade.

As for Nanjing, Gao Cheng recalled: by the Xiaguan River, corpses were washed over by waves like drifting wood;
On the shore, dead bodies piled up on top of each other stretch as far as the eye can see.

There may be thousands or tens of thousands of these corpses, and the number is very large.

For the first time in his life, he saw so many corpses, more than the people in his hometown.

Hey, the glory of the past only exists in memory, he is just a senior baggage officer.

Or consider how to make the carriage run faster!

The damn weather, the bad roads, it's just trying to make things difficult for him.

In the evening, excluding more than 30 non-combat attrition caused by the rapid rush in heavy snow, the Ninth Brigade successfully arrived at the outskirts of Huangya Cave.

Niu Dao was still not satisfied. Without the heavy snowfall, the troops could have arrived at the location two hours earlier, and now they could launch a wave of attacks in the dark.

It was this heavy snow that saved Tubalu, so let them live an extra night.

"Send a report to Lieutenant General Shinozuka that our Ninth Brigade has arrived at the outskirts of Huangya Cave, and we can launch an attack tomorrow.
It will be like a broken bamboo to crush the earth, to avenge the shame of the imperial army, and to avenge Major General Ota.

The head of the brigade, Ushido Man. "

(End of this chapter)