Independence Corps

Chapter 39
The devil arrives as soon as he speaks.

The first to catch fire with the devils were the two brigades Huang Can and Gong Hanxiang sent by Tan Weiming to the Confucius Temple area.

Starting from Gucheng, Commander Miyata drove straight in, very smoothly.On the way forward, he kept receiving good news from various fronts. First, he said that Fu Zuoyi had been expelled from Wuyuan, and Wuyuan had succeeded.Then, Zhuye on the second line of the Baishui River reported to him that the 18th Brigade of the 312th Army was annihilated by the Bantian Brigade of the 56th Division, and the brigade commander Tang Peisen was captured. "Haha, didn't you say that the Communist Party is very powerful? I just started to take action here, and I killed one of his brigades and captured his brigade commander." Commander Miyata smiled happily, squinting at the horse like a zombie. The listless Masao Kurano.Behind Cangye, his sweetheart, Miss Si, was tied to the horse. As the horse swayed, Miss Si's shaggy head knocked against the horse's belly.

Knocking on the horse's belly is good, I want this effect!A sneer appeared on the corner of Commander Miyata's mouth again.Strange to say, Miyata originally thought that Masao Kurano would go crazy when he saw the scene where the four girls were raped in turn, and would grab the saber from him and swing it at him, or stab him in the stomach.In that case, there will be another good show to watch.If a man can't even protect the woman he loves, what kind of life does this man have, he should commit suicide by caesarean section!Unexpectedly, that day, Kurano was uncharacteristically, seeing his sweetheart being raped by Oda Atom and the others, he actually looked up to the sky and laughed, sending out a long series of miserable laughs that sent chills down the spine.Afterwards, he hugged Yoko Suzuki, squeezed Miss Yoko's plump breasts with his big hands, and walked towards a room in the east wing, humming a strange voice.

Could it be that I made a mistake, and the fourth girl, Xiaomo, has no relationship with Cang Ye?Miyata was suspicious, but Oda Atom's words made him realize suddenly.

"Commander, Kurano is a scheming guy. He learned a sorcery from his master in China, which is similar to the ninjutsu of the Empire. We have to pay attention to him." Oda Atom said.

No wonder.Tolerate?Let's see how long you can bear it!Miyata is determined to torture Kurano, this ignorant guy, who makes him defiant and not take Miyata seriously.

In Miyata's schadenfreude eyes, Kurano on horseback was drowsy. These days, apart from rolling around on the kang with Suzuki Yoko, Kurano used alcohol to anesthetize himself, and often drank unconsciously. Before the first departure, he was carried on the horse by Oda Atom and the others.

When they arrived at Liujiazhai, the Xiaojing Squadron, which had entered the village a month earlier, delayed them for a while.The Xiaojing Squadron was sent by Miyata to the Liujiazhai area to find Chinese women for the division. Miyata's ambition was: this holy war must have a large number of women as a foil for the enjoyment of the imperial army.The geisha brought from the empire is far from enough to meet the demand, and women must be found from this land to serve the imperial army.Miyata has already dispatched more than a dozen such squadrons. Apart from finding out the situation of the Chinese army along the way, their mission is to continuously transport women to the base camp.Xiaojing Squadron did a good job. In one month, as many as 120 women were sent to the division.

As soon as the war horse stepped into Liu's village, the captain of Xiaojing Squadron ran over in a panic and reported to Miyata that they were attacked by the Chinese army last night and several flower girls were rescued.

"Chinese army, how many people?" Miyata frowned. This area has never heard of Chinese army activities.

"Report to the commander, there are more than [-] Chinese troops who came to sneak attack, and they were driven away by my squadron."

"Yoxi, China pig, vulnerable!"

Miyata thought to himself, it must be the guerrillas of the Communist Party. These people come out of nowhere and sneak out from time to time to shoot at the imperial army, but they are still far from posing a threat to the imperial army.Miyata originally planned to leave, but suddenly reined in his horse and asked, "What is the origin of the rescued Hua girl?"

"This... this..." Captain Xiaojing's face turned pale, and he was too frightened to speak.

"Huh?" Miyata let out a heavy "hum", and touched the steel knife with his hand.

"Yes, it was captured by Major Yamazaki."

"Baga!" Miyata drew out the knife abruptly, but did not cut at the squadron leader Xiaojing, endured for a while, and put it back.

Yamazaki didn't tell Miyata at the beginning, but after taking turns spoiling the Fourth Girl Moth that day, Yamazaki told the truth to Miyata, besides the Fourth Girl Moth, he also captured five flower girls.These five people all have backgrounds, and the purpose of arresting them is to let the big households and prominent figures in Miliang City continue to provide information to the imperial army.

"Their parents are the people we will rely on in the future. With them in hand, we don't have to worry about these people being disobedient." Yamazaki proudly expressed his thoughts to Miyata that day.Miyata also praised Yamazaki, saying that Yamazaki's move is good.

"We need information. We don't know where Tu Zhucheng's guns are hidden. We must find them in the [-]th Cave of Goddess Peak! Also, we must rely on these big households, disintegrate their relationship with Tu Lanlong, and isolate them. Do you understand isolation? If Tu Lanlong can't stand up, he will be in a mess!"

Miyata told the truth that day, the reason why he lingered in Gucheng and didn't push the army to Miliangcheng was because he hadn't healed his heart disease.In the [-]th Cave of Goddess Peak, apart from guns, there are also a lot of treasures and gold, which are what he needs.He has plundered a lot since he came to China, but he is still not satisfied.But Masao Kurano didn't tell the exact location of the [-]th hole.Also, Miyata does not want to fight a protracted war with Tu Lanlong, let alone fall into what the Chinese call a people's war.The biggest lesson he learned from his trip to China was, "Don't be an enemy of the Chinese people, win them over, influence them, let them know that the imperial army is close to the people, and that the imperial army is here to help them build the Greater East Asia." Co-prosperity sphere. Let them take the initiative to serve the imperial army and help the imperial army realize their dreams."But it is very difficult to achieve this goal, especially in Miliang City, Miyata lacks confidence.Yamazaki's move undoubtedly helped him find a shortcut.But who knows, the five cooked ducks flew away.Miyata scolded Xiaojing, turned around, and gave Yamazaki a few vicious glances, blaming him for not doing his job well, how could such an important woman be locked up in Liujiazhai?
"Go find them right away, they must be alive, I want them to appear in my team!" After Miyata gave the order, the large army continued to move forward.

During this time, Miyata felt ominous about the upcoming battle.It was not that he was afraid of the Chinese army, nor was he afraid of Tu Lanlong. In the final analysis, Miyata was still afraid of the millions of people in the Miliang Mountains.If these people were against him, occupying Miliang City and making Miliang Mountain another base camp of the Imperial Japanese Army, it would be very difficult.

Miyata did not dare to slow down his pace. Supreme Commander Neiji Okamura was already dissatisfied with him, saying that he was always using this plan and that plan to prevaricate him, delaying the opportunity of the war, and affecting the entire battle plan of the Imperial Japanese Army.

He turned his attention to Masao Kurano on horseback again. If Kurano could change his mind, maybe...

"Stop!" Miyata called out, ordering Atom Oda to untie the fourth girl Moth tied to the horse's back, feed her some water, and tighten the loosened clothes.

"No one is allowed to touch her without my order!"

Miyata began to regret that it was a mistake to provoke Kurano in an extreme way.If he had known this earlier, he should have treated this woman well.

When approaching Feng's house, the outpost suddenly reported that they had encountered a situation.Feng Jiaxie, who had no soldiers before, suddenly discovered that there was an ambush by the Chinese army, and there were a lot of them!Miyata hastily reined in the horse's head, and peeped through the binoculars at Feng's family who was not far away from him.Sure enough, Miyata saw national army soldiers in earth-gray military uniforms busy in the valley through the ridge with sparse trees.Miyata was extremely ashamed, how could the Chinese army know of his actions, and why would they preemptively set up defenses on the way?
"Baga!" He raised his saber, pointed at the front, and ordered the Fifth Regiment in front to move forward quickly, and break up the bad team before the Chinese army set up a line of defense. At the same time, he ordered the two brigades behind him Divide into two routes from the two wings of Feng's family, and outflank them. We must kill this Chinese army blocking the way before dark.

It was Gong Hanxiang who rushed to Feng's house first.When Commander Miyata was searching Feng's house with a telescope on horseback, Gong Hanxiang also saw Miyata in the binoculars.

There are so many people here, Gong Hanxiang sighed in his heart.Gong Hanxiang is only 26 years old. It is a miracle to be a brigade commander at this age, but he is a brigade commander with real swords and guns.Tan Weiming sent him to Feng's house to stop Miyata after a lot of thought. This army has strong combat effectiveness, well-organized personnel, and is good at fighting blocking battles in the wild.

Gong Hanxiang and the others hadn't set up their formation yet, when the devil's artillery bombarded Feng's family. Miyata personally supervised the battle, and he was very confident in fighting this kind of battle.Miyata guessed that the nationalist army in front had arrived overnight and hadn't even breathed on the mountain, so he ordered the artillery brigade to deploy artillery along the roadside and storm the mountain.This is a terrible situation. Gong Hanxiang and his team arrived at Feng's house within an hour, and they didn't even have time to dig simple fortifications. They had to fight against the devil's infantry.

All of a sudden, a rain of bullets rained down on the sparsely vegetated hill of Feng's family. The soldiers of the national army on the hill had just pulled the trigger, and before they could pull the trigger, they were thrown into the sky by the artillery fire.Gong Hanxiang repeatedly shouted to hide, but where to hide.Although the hilltop they seized was the highest point in this area, there were neither caves nor ditches on the mountain, and they couldn't even find stones or earth cliffs to hide in. They could only be bombed by the devils like a meat target.Within 10 minutes of the bombing, Gong Hanxiang saw no less than twenty corpses.

"Retreat, retreat quickly!" Gong Hanxiang blamed himself for being too impatient. When he seized Feng's house, someone reminded him that he should deploy the defense line at Cao'ertai, one kilometer west of Feng's house. The alluvial rainwater has formed many gullies, and there are several kilns on the mountainside, which are ready-made fortifications.Gong Hanxiang thought it was too open. Once the devils surrounded them in a large area, the defense line would be loose and useless.This is good, the Feng family is compact, but it is equivalent to gathering the brothers to let the devils bomb, saving shells for the devils.

Miyata didn't give Gong Hanxiang any chance to catch his breath. The cannons on the roadside were divided into four groups, and one after another, they threw the shells on the hill.The brothers in the national army can only rely on their feelings, jumping like rabbits, trying to avoid the shells as much as possible.But the cannonballs were too dense. Where the shells fell in front of them, there was a flash of fire, and the brothers on the hill could hardly find a place to hide.A large number of people fell down again, and many people were bombed into the sky by shells. When they fell, their bodies still hit the living people heavily.Gong Hanxiang himself was blown into disarray. After narrowly escaping two shells, he turned over and wanted to order his brothers to retreat to the north side of the hill, when a sharp roar sounded from behind or in front of him. With a cry of "Brigade Commander, lie down", he subconsciously crawled under the two corpses in front of him. He saw a huge flame rising three meters away from him, followed by shrapnel and mud flying towards him. He hit it.Thankfully, after the noise, he was still alive. The two brothers ran over, grabbed him, and ran towards the dirt bag as if they were flying, as if they no longer cared about the brothers behind them.

Seeing this scene through the binoculars, Miyata laughed loudly. After laughing, he waved his saber: "Stop bombing, move forward!"

To the southwest of Feng's house, at the Confucius Temple about [-] miles away, Huang Can and the others also caught fire with the devils driving from the direction of Baishui River.The situation here is a little better. Huang Can and the others arrived early and prepared more leisurely. In addition to the unique mountain and the remaining broken walls of the Confucius Temple, there are many places to hide.When the devil's cannon fire exploded, Huang Can and his brothers hid under the stone wall behind the temple. When the devil stopped the fire and tried to forcefully pass through the mountain road under the Confucius Temple, the brothers jumped out from behind the temple and rushed forward in unison. Guns were fired on the mountainside.

As soon as there was an exchange of fire on Feng's side, the gangben who had been planning for a long time under Ma'anpo immediately rushed over to the 12rd regiment of the 73th division.Commander Miyata ordered Gangben to take down Ma'anpo within one day, and never give Tan Weiming's 12th Division any chance!Gangben became smarter this time. He learned the lesson of the last time when he divided his troops into several groups, but they failed to achieve anything. He gathered several groups of troops together and attacked the 73rd regiment on the slope.

On the front is the [-]th Regiment of General Iki, and the Artillery Regiment of General Itada.On the back is Sasaki's contingent. Sasaki left only one battalion and a few cannons to deal with the national army on the Luanshigangzi side, but the main force concentrated its firepower and attacked from the southwest of Ma'anpo.On the north side, Okamoto ordered the Sixth Regiment of the Japanese Army, which was already entrenched in Huanghuagang, to turn their guns around and form a front and rear flanking attack with the Fifth Regiment of Iki.

Although the 73rd Regiment stationed at Ma'anpo had enough energy and made a lot of adjustments in the deployment, Zhu Daquan was still sweating in shock when he was attacked on three sides at the same time.As soon as the battle started, Zhu Daquan's first line of defense on Podong Xiaogangzi collapsed.The devil's shells flew from several directions and hit the brothers of the national army in unison. The brothers in the trench were shocked by the shells before they could discern the direction of the devil's attack.For a moment, flames burst into the sky on the battlefield, and dust and smoke rose everywhere.The dense artillery shells crushed the brothers of the national army who couldn't lift their heads, let alone fight back.The first battalion commander Wang Xiaonan, who was at the forefront, saw the situation and knew that the defense line could not be defended. In order to reduce casualties, he ordered his brothers to retreat.The brothers had just withdrawn from the first line of defense, and before they had time to redeploy their defenses again, the shells of the devils followed.Wang Xiaonan was dumbfounded, he was considered a veteran of many battles, and he had never seen the devil's battle today.

"If you retreat further, you can't die in vain!" Wang Xiaonan shouted at the top of his voice.The battalion deputy next to him saw that there was also artillery fire behind him, and reminded him: "Battalion Commander, you can't withdraw anymore, if you withdraw again, there will be no need to fight this battle."

Looking back, Wang Xiaonan saw that the Second Battalion Commander Lei Heizi and the others were also forced to retreat towards Shanliangzi by Sasaki's artillery fire. In the blink of an eye, their defense area was reduced several times.

"Ambush on the spot, stand up for me!" As a last resort, Wang Xiaonan could only issue an order to fight back.The brothers had no choice but to find a place to hide on the hillside and open fire at the devils.But compared with the huge firepower of the devils, the bullets fired by the first battalion are hardly even a foil.

"Cannons, cannons, why don't you use cannons!" Wang Xiaonan was in a hurry, and turned to look for cannons while shooting. The first battalion and the second battalion didn't have cannons, nor did they have grenades. Looking forward to artillery reinforcements.How could Wang Xiaonan have imagined that the artillery company with more than a dozen cannons was competing with the Japanese sixth regiment encircled from the right wing.

By the time Zhu Daquan commanded the other two battalions, repelled two attacks by the Sixth Regiment, and arrived for reinforcements with a dozen grenade launchers, Wang Xiaonan's first battalion and Lei Heizi's second battalion had been cornered by Japanese artillery fire. In a corner under the mountain on the left, the two battalions suffered heavy casualties, and one-third of the soldiers left their bodies on Ma'anpo.The cannon fodder Wang Xiaonan cried and said: "Tu Lanlong, the dog day, put so many cannons so that our 12th division can't use them. This is good, he is satisfied."

"Stop talking about this nonsense, the devil's second attack is about to start, so hurry up and deploy your defenses," Zhu Daquan shouted.

"What are you still defending, regiment commander, look at this mountain, the little devil has blown it up to the point where he doesn't recognize it, in my opinion, just give up on Ma'anpo." Second Battalion Commander Lei Heizi was also full of resentment.

Although what the two battalion commanders said were angry words, they also revealed the truth. The commanders of the 12th Division battalion and above all know that before the war started, the division commander Tan Weiming approached Tu Lanlong and asked to deploy some artillery and mortars to increase the counterattack capability of the 12th Division. Tu Lanlong did not even see Tan Weiming.Tu Lanlong secretly formed an artillery brigade, which really made the 12th Division's eyes warm for a while. The artillery used by the 12th Division now is the old artillery that Tan Weiming used when he was the brigade commander. It is old-fashioned.Although the old commander Tu Zhucheng gave so many doors, but for a division, the number of doors is really rare.In today's battle, if Wang Xiaonan and Lei Heizi had cannons, how could the little devils be so rampant?

"Regimental Commander, let's accommodate the division commander and bring the cannons over here. If there are no cannons, even if all the brothers are turned into human bombs, it won't be able to stop them." Wang Xiaonan said, looking at the tragic scene in front of him.

"You don't have to dream, adjust the cannon, just those ten or so doors are all blocked by the little devil in Huanghuagang." Zhu Daquan wiped the plaster on his face, just for a while, everyone's face seemed to be scorched by fire Jiao Ban, half of Zhu Daquan's hair was gone, and several holes were opened in his clothes.Wang Xiaonan and Lei Heizi looked more like they were fished out of a fire, except for the teeth and two bulging white eyes, their whole bodies were as ugly as scorched sticks.

While talking, I heard the roar of cannons from Huanghuagang. It seems that the Seventh Regiment of the Devils is not idle, and they have engaged with Zhong Beishan and the others.

Sure enough, 5 minutes later, the messenger came to report that the division had originally sent a regiment to come for reinforcements, but just after passing Huanghuagang, it caught fire with the Japanese Seventh Regiment. Tight, Tan Weiming asked the 73rd regiment to stick to their positions and have people in their positions.

"Hold on, how can you stick to it?" Wang Xiaonan obviously lacked confidence, he wanted to retreat now, as for what to do if he retreated to the back, he didn't think about it, and he didn't have time to think about it.

Zhu Daquan was irritated by Wang Xiaonan's dejected words. In the face of a fierce battle, what he fears most is losing confidence. Wang Xiaonan is like throwing cold water on everyone.The battle has only been fought for less than an hour, and the gun in his hand has not been fired, so he muttered to retreat, which is not bad!He suddenly stood up and said: "Are you afraid of death? If you are afraid of death, take off this skin and go home to hug your wife!"

(End of this chapter)