Chapter 620: Luck and Misfortune
From Dongjiang County to Badaogou, the straight-line distance is only more than 30 kilometers.
But because of the twists and turns of the mountain road and the ravines everywhere, the actual distance between the two places is far more than 100 miles!
It took more than two days for Sakai and Eguchi to pass through layers of resistance and lead nearly 3,000 Japanese troops to the area of Badaogou......
It's just that they didn't see Kudo Tojo's team at all, they only saw the mountain beams that were almost as vertical and horizontal as knives and axes!
"Most of them are immediately stationed in case of a sneak attack by the Jindong detachment, and the rest of the people should immediately find the granary for me - even if these eight ditches are turned over, the granary must be found!"
Sakai Eguchi roared as he urgently contacted the headquarters, desperate to know where Kudo and Tojo were!
"Kudo Tojo, I've lost contact!"
Yoshikawa Sadazo said with a tired face: "But don't be afraid, I have mobilized dozens of fighters to the military department to cooperate closely with you, as long as you find the granary, even if you come to the dirt eight roads, it will be impossible to help you......"
Seeing this telegram, Sakai Eguchi's face was extremely ugly, but he could only hold on to the last trace of hope, hoping to find the location of the granary......
Then they saw a large group of Japanese soldiers sent out to scout trotting back!
"Your Excellency Nakasa, Your Excellency Shaozuo, on our left side, there are a large number of dirt roads!"
"We've got it on our right too!"
"The mountain beam is also full of people from the Jindong detachment!"
A group of reconnaissance Japanese soldiers stared at the mouth of the Sakai River with frightened faces, and said in a trembling voice: "We, we are surrounded again......"
"In Dongjiang County, we have been surrounded for more than half a month, and if we are surrounded again, what's the big deal?"
Sakai Eguchi screamed: "As long as we find the granary, we are full of food and drink, and with the cover of the fighters, we can break the encirclement of these dirt roads at any time, and kill ......them."
Just a few hours later, Sakai and Eguchi, but the remaining nearly 3,000 Japanese troops fell into despair!
Because in every gully of the eight ditches, they dug three feet into the ground, but they didn't find the shadow of the granary!
Moreover, the Jindong detachment has gathered more and more troops......
Looking at the three thousand imperial soldiers who were cold and hungry, looking at the Tubachi who were sneering at themselves and others on the mountain beams in the distance, but they were not in a hurry to launch an attack, those militiamen, Sakai Jiangkou sat on the ground as if the backbone had been removed......
Now they have determined that they really fell into the evil deeds of the Jindong detachment again when they were waiting for others!
And this time being fooled is not the same as being fooled in Dongjiang County!
In Dongjiang County, although the situation is critical, it is not lifeless, and here, it is really desperate......
The troops were severely underwhelmed, and the soldiers had no chance of escaping with just the little food they had airdropped......
In the next two days, Yoshikawa Sadasa and others in the Lingjiang Headquarters never received any telegrams from Sakai and Eguchi reporting on the battle situation, and all the secret reports sent in the past were sunk into the sea......
All the battle situations in the direction of Badaogou were brought back by those fighters who cooperated with the defense!
In two days, the Sakai Eguchi Headquarters led more than 3,000 imperial soldiers to launch numerous suicide attacks......
From beginning to end, the Jindong detachment did not launch even a single attack on the team surrounded in Badaogou!
Seeing the news brought back by the fighters, Yoshikawa Sadazo and all the staff officers in the headquarters couldn't help but feel a chill bubbling through their bones......
It seems to be seen that in the ice and snow, those dirt and eight roads occupy the favorable terrain, and cruelly watch as thousands of imperial soldiers rush forward to die, or die of cold and starvation......
That kind of cruelty is definitely more terrifying to them than to let thousands of imperial soldiers put down their guns and be directly slaughtered!
By the third day, the Commander's Department was no longer willing to send fighters to cooperate with the Sakai Eguchi Headquarters for defense or attack......
Because it's no longer necessary!
Of those more than 3,000 people, there are not many people alive, and there is no hope of escaping alive!
Sending fighter planes over again, apart from witnessing the brutal killing of the few remaining Imperial soldiers, is a waste of precious fuel - there is no point in doing so!
Yoshikawa Sadasa collapsed in the chair of the headquarters, as if his spine had been removed, and he couldn't even stand up.
He didn't understand why this was happening!
The major general of his own empire, commanding so many imperial soldiers, attacked a small base area with so many troops, but he would be defeated so miserably......
It was simply the worst battle that the Imperial Army had lost since it set foot on the Far Eastern battlefield, and there was not even one of them!
The sound of a secret report sounded again, and the staff officers in the headquarters jumped up in horror, looking at the radio station as if looking at a guillotine for their lives......
Sadasa Yoshikawa knew what they were afraid of.
Nearly 7,000 imperial elites and more than 5,000 imperial allies went out together, but they were all wiped out in the hands of a group of Tubalu - such a fiasco must be held responsible!
Someone must have come forward to commit suicide and ask the emperor for his guilt!
Yoshikawa Sadasa obviously doesn't have to worry about being that person - because he's the emperor's nephew!
But it is precisely because of this that Yoshikawa Sadasa is extremely guilty, feeling that he has lost the face of the imperial family - and he has lost the face of the imperial family to this branch and that......
But the liaison officer screamed at this time: "Major General Yoshikawa, your Excellency the staff officers, Kudo and Tojo, have escaped from the Jindong base area, and now they have entered the territory of Lu County!" ”
Hearing that Kudo Tojo successfully escaped from Cangshui with more than 1,400 imperial soldiers, Yoshikawa Sadazo not only did not feel excited, but jumped up at the first time, and said angrily: "Eight Geyalu, let them come to me immediately-I must kill them with my own hands......"
In his opinion, even if the granary of Badaogou is a conspiracy of the Jindong detachment, as long as Kudo Tojo's department can meet with Sakai Eguchi, then it will not be difficult for the two teams to escape with five or six thousand troops!
But because these two guys only cared about themselves and led the team to flee for their lives, they directly let the Sakai Jiangkou and them, in the case of a serious shortage of supplies, even the strength could not be compared with the Jindong detachment, and finally caused the situation that the two of them led an imperial army of nearly 3,000 and were completely annihilated in humiliation......
It's just that when he saw Tojo Kudo, Yoshikawa Sadazo found that not only were the two not afraid, but they had an expression on their faces that they had finally fulfilled their mission......
Yoshikawa Sadasa's lungs exploded even more, and he roared sharply: "Are you two still ignorant of your crimes? ”
"Your Excellency, Major General!"
Tojo Kudo and the others generously said: "We are also saddened by the heroic martyrdom of the Sakai Eguchi duo and the thousands of imperial soldiers under their command, but the consequences caused by this have nothing to do with the two of us......
As he spoke, the two of them spread their hands, and on the battlefield, the shells did not have eyes, and it was so coincidental that at the critical moment, not only did it shatter the liaison radio station, but even the liaison officer was killed, and we didn't receive your order to let us march to Badaogou......
This is providence, an expression that has nothing to do with us!
"As soldiers of the Empire, the two of us do not hesitate to die for the Empire all the time!"
Kudo Tojo said: "This time, it is the biggest regret of the two of us that we were not able to die on the battlefield with Sakai Nakasa and Eguchi Shaosa - however, although the two of us suffered a crushing defeat in Cangshui, we finally lived up to the mission of the commander and successfully brought back the remaining more than 1,000 imperial soldiers of our department alive......
If His Excellency Shaozo had to blame the two of us and make the two of us responsible for the disastrous defeat of the army at the hands of the Jindong detachment, the two of us would not complain at all, and would be willing to accept any punishment......" Kudo Tojo said.
Listening to the words of the two, Yoshikawa Sadasa's face was blue and white.
How could he not have heard that these two guys were mocking themselves?
Mocking himself for more than a year, but in the end he still fell for Zhang Ran, and let Sakai Jiangkou lead more than 3,000 imperial soldiers to jump into the big pit of Badaogou by himself, and he didn't even have a chance to climb up?
is even more mocking himself, secretly mocking himself for being Zhang Ran's evil deeds, and he wants to dump the blame on them!
Originally, they led more than 1,400 imperial soldiers to escape from Cangshui and preserve their strength for the empire.
Thinking that in the past year or so in Lingjiang, he has worked hard to exterminate the Jindong detachment, but he has been defeated more and more miserably, and even defeated to the point that even the two Shaozuo can sneer at him, and he doesn't know how to refute the grievances, Yoshikawa Zhenzuo's eyes are red, he roared, and he fell to the sky......
When he went out, thinking of Sadazo Yoshikawa who was stunned, Tojo Kudo secretly breathed a sigh of relief!
Of course, they knew that the matter would not end there—the shell that hit the radio so coincidentally would definitely be investigated by the military department......
But if it weren't for Matsui Tunmoto to support himself before the two of them came over, let the two of them sue first, take the lead in attacking, and put all the culprits on Yoshikawa Sadazo himself, I am afraid that the two of them would not even be able to pass the pass of Yoshikawa Sadasa, let alone wait for the military department to come over to investigate......
The military department came to investigate, and it was much easier for them than how to deal with Yoshikawa Sadasa!
After all, there is no proof of the radio station, after all, they have stayed in a desperate situation with more than a thousand imperial soldiers!
They believed that because the two of them had saved the lives of more than 1,000 soldiers for the Imperial side, the military department should never have any prejudice against the two of them......
"Although the two of Matsui Tunben are hateful, they are really geniuses when it comes to saving their lives!"
In the end, Kudo opened his mouth with emotion and had to accept ......
Tojo smiled bitterly, saying that there is such a genius in the empire, and I don't know if it is the luck of the empire or the great misfortune of the empire......
But thinking that he is still alive and well, Tojo has to admit that at least the two of them are absolutely lucky for themselves......
Otherwise, I am afraid that I will die in the Jindong base area like Sakai Jiangkou now!