Along the way, I saw that the 34th Division threw down a large number of baggage that could not be carried, and was in a mess. All kinds of materials were thrown in scattered places, and even some important confidential materials were thrown on the battlefield indiscriminately.

The Chinese army that was pursuing in front had already cleaned up the battlefield. Han Xing's tank battalion is the second time to visit the battlefield.

As the tank battalion was advancing, it suddenly saw dozens of scattered Japanese soldiers in the rice fields, some of whom were wounded. They were trudging through the muddy water one foot deep and one foot shallow, and as soon as they pulled out this foot, the other foot was stuck again, and they couldn't run fast if they wanted to.

The muzzle of the first company's guns was pointed at them, and there was an officer in the company who knew Japanese, and he immediately shouted to them in Japanese: "Surrender the gun and don't kill it, our Chinese army will give preferential treatment to prisoners." ”

These Japanese soldiers saw that they couldn't beat these steel monsters, and they couldn't run away from the tracks of these tanks, so they had to obediently raise their guns and surrender. The tank battalion captured more than two dozen long and short guns on them, as well as several complete boxes of mortar shells and light and heavy machine gun bullets.

The follow-up troops came up again, and the tank battalion handed over these prisoners to them for disposal.

Along the way, some canned paper cigarettes and other military food were also seized, and as for abandoned bits and pieces and a large number of guns and bullets, they were everywhere, and no one cared about it.

There was a place in front of him with a slow green smoke, and the stench of dead corpses penetrated through the cracks of the tank and into Han Xing's nose. Kaoru swam forward and almost vomited, and scolded: "What does this smell like, why does it stink so much?" ”

Han Xing was also very curious, and said to Youqian: "Let's go, drive to the front and take a look." ”

Far away, Han Xing saw from the car, there seemed to be two hills in front of him. Then there are a few large pits, smoking from the smoke of the fire being extinguished.

The tank quickly drove to several large pits, and since they had never seen such a scene, Han Xing and You Qianqian hurriedly got off the tank and went to the ground to take a closer look.

It turned out that the pit was a crematorium, and because it had just rained, the fire in the crematorium had long been extinguished by the rain. But the dead bodies in the pit were burned to ashes, some were burned to half, and some had just begun to burn, apparently when they encountered the rain, and the bodies were still intact.

The fuel in the pit is the houses that have been picked up from the neighborhood, and the purlins, rafters, doors, and windows are all used as firewood for cremation. In the same way, they were poured by heavy rain, and some of them turned to ashes, and some of them did not burn.

Suddenly, You Qian pointed to a corpse and said, "Commander Han, look at that one?" ”

The burned corpses were all shrunk into a ball, and this one raised his hands high. Apparently this "corpse" was still alive before it was burned.

You Qianqian scolded: "What's going on with them, people are burned before they die, and there is no humanity?" ”

Han Xing was imagining that this was a seriously injured Japanese soldier who had not yet died, and after being carried to the crematorium, although the Japanese army found that he was not dead, no one cared about him anymore because he only cared about himself and escaped. Therefore, the person in charge of cremation directly threw this soldier who was still alive into the fire and burned him alive.

He didn't bother to observe what the corpses burned into, and quickly fled.

Han Xing scolded: "It's really a father and a mother who marry, and everyone is in charge of everyone." The comrades-in-arms were originally birds of the same forest, and they flew separately when disaster came. Japanese devils without humanity! ”

Looking at the side of the cremation pit again, those two mountains scared Han Xing. What kind of mountain is this, it's actually a mountain of corpses of Japanese soldiers. In order to make it easier for them to burn, the Japanese army pulled these corpses to the nearest place to facilitate burning.

These corpses of Japanese soldiers, one by one, bared their teeth and hideous faces, how can they have any good appearance. Some of them also showed a very terrifying appearance before they died, and they still had a bit of extravagant nostalgia for life. Some are very sad, they are still thinking about their distant relatives, and they are still a little reluctant to give up on their parents and brothers.

But war is like this, whether it is just or unjust, the final result is a large number of deaths. When a person falls, their family is shattered, and they leave the world young and strong, while the old and the weak and the disabled continue to suffer in the misery of life.

Looking at the wounds again, some are missing arms and legs, some have knife wounds, and some have several gunshot wounds. But the strange thing is that some corpses have a missing hand on them, and some have a missing finger on their hands, but this is the same.

You Qianqian covered his nose and asked Han Xing: "I don't understand this, why the Japanese army is so virtuous." What about hands? Where did it go, and where did their fingers go? ”

Han Xing understands history, and he will learn about it by checking information later.

The 34th Division of the Japanese Army suffered more than 8,000 casualties on the Shanggao front line, of which at least 4,000 died.

Japanese people believe in Shintoism, which believes that when a Japanese person dies, he must return his body to his hometown. Otherwise, the deceased will always be a lonely ghost, and will not be able to live beyond life. Therefore, no matter what the bad situation is, the Japanese will try their best to send the soldier's body back, otherwise even the greatest harm to the soldier and his family will even exceed the soldier's death itself.

Originally, the basic process of disposing of corpses was to set up several crematoriums on the second line, transport the corpses to the back, sort out the relics and letters, wash the corpses, cremate them, wrap the ashes and relics, and send them back to Japan.

Several crematoriums are generally in charge of more than 100 Japanese soldiers, and the leader of the team is a young captain. Normally, they can dispose of hundreds of corpses a day, which is enough.

However, the casualties of the Japanese army on the front line were too large this time, and the corpses were sent over in a steady stream. Not only did they not even have time to clean up the relics, but they also didn't have time to burn them, and the corpses waiting to be burned next to them were already piled up.

Originally, the burning of corpses was the burning of corpses, and the Japanese people took ashes very seriously, and they must not be mixed with other people's ashes.

But at this time, whoever has time to burn them one by one, just burn them in piles, and then grab a handful in the ashes pile and put it in a jar, which is counted as the ashes of this soldier. Anyway, there is no writing on the ashes, so no one can recognize them.

Unexpectedly, starting on the 23rd, the 34th Division had fallen into a heavy encirclement and was about to retreat. At this time, you can't even take care of the living, how can you take care of the dead.

It was definitely too late to burn, and Captain Shaozuo had to order his hands to be cut off.

The so-called hand chopping is to cut off one hand on the corpse, send it to the rear and burn it, which is a method of dealing with it in an emergency.

Because it only takes a few seconds to cut off a hand, and it takes a long time to burn a corpse.

As soon as he cut for half a day, the commander of the division above ordered that he should retreat by tomorrow evening at the latest. There is really no way to do it, so I can only simplify it again and turn the chopping hand into a finger scissor.

After all, the chopping hand has a wrist bone, which is not easy to cut off, while it is much easier to cut the finger.

However, Shao Zuo, who was in charge of handling the corpses, said that the existing manpower was insufficient and that it was necessary to increase it. The division commander gritted his teeth and forcibly arranged some non-combatants, grooms, clerks, and men to the crematorium.

As a result, the number of processing personnel at the crematorium increased to several hundred. However, the Japanese are all Shinto, and the people who dispose of corpses in Shinto are the lowest category in Japanese society. These newcomers were extremely dissatisfied, but they had no choice but to scold and scold.

In this way, the terrible click of the fingers was heard for 24 hours, and by the afternoon of the next day, the division commander ordered the whole army to retreat.

A large number of hands and fingers were haphazardly packed into sacks and retreated with the army.

At this time, everyone is running for their lives, and who can control anything.

It is also a pity that the Japanese army left a large number of corpses, neither cremated, nor cut off their hands and fingers, and these people can only be lonely ghosts.

The embarrassment of the Japanese army fleeing is simply impossible to express in words.

The 34th Division was originally doomed, but after being pulled out of the encirclement by the 33rd Division, it was considered to have picked up a life. But this is not the end, there are still 6 national army divisions in pursuit, and there is also the reserve division of the 70th Army in front of it, which is blocking the area of Shangdi Miaowang north of Sixi Town.

Oga Shigeru really wanted to cry without tears, the troops were disabled, they had lost their combat effectiveness, not to mention ammunition and supplies, they had to fight, they lacked ammunition, they wanted to eat, and they had no food. What else can he do now, there is only one way, and that is to run wild.

On the 27th and 28th, it rained again, and the Jiangxi region was even more in the country, and the troops fell into the mud even more, as if the snow was worse.

The artillery wing of the 34th Division was originally beaten badly by the Southern Expeditionary Army, but because of their professionalism, the officers and men of the wing still reluctantly brought out more than a dozen guns. Now it's raining heavily, and people can't walk, let alone the cannons, so they can only destroy all the cannons and throw them on the side of the road.

By this time, artillery was no longer important, it was important to save people.

The 6th Squadron of the 2nd Brigade of the Artillery Wing was attacked by Chinese troops again while fleeing, and the 6th Squadron Leader asked the 2nd Squadron Commander for help: "Report to the Captain, we have too few weapons and many wounded soldiers, we really can't hold on, and I ask for support." ”

The 2nd Brigade of the Artillery Wing, which originally had an establishment of about 600 people, now has less than 200 people left, and the wounded soldiers are full, and they are too busy to take care of themselves, where can they spare manpower to save the 6th Squadron again, and hurriedly asked the commander of the Ogamo Division for reinforcements.

Oga Shigeru looked at the nearby troops, one by one they were also exhausted, all kinds of troops were mixed together, carrying the seriously wounded, dragging the lightly wounded, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, everyone just wanted to get out of the pursuit of the founding army as soon as possible, who still had the heart to fight! I had to reluctantly say to the 2nd captain:

"In view of the urgency of the situation, the troops abandoned the 6th squadron and quickly moved closer to the division headquarters."

A few dozen men of the 6th squadron were besieged by the pursuing troops of the 70th Army. And the large Japanese army not far from them did not save them when they saw death. This is also a rare thing in the history of the Japanese army. It shows what a dangerous situation the 34th Division has reached!

The 6th squadron resisted desperately, all of them were surrounded and annihilated, and there was no one left.