Chapter 170

In the Japanese army, the specification of the command knife represents the rank of the commander.

This difference is mainly reflected in the handles of command knives: gold, silver, copper, cymbals, rhodium, different ranks of different knives. The Japanese army's command sword is not only used for command, it also embodies a kind of Japanese samurai culture, and is a symbol of history and national spirit.

The command knife in Nakamura Masao's hand is extraordinary.

Nakamura Masao has this knife in his hand, the handle is inlaid with silver, in terms of level, he should wear a saber inlaid with copper, except for Okamura Ninji, very few people in the Japanese invasion of China wear a command knife inlaid with gold.

It is a silver-inlaid command knife, which is not common among divisional or brigade-level officers, and most of them are inlaid with copper or rhodium.

In order to commend the outstanding commanders of the Imperial Army's combat units, the Emperor of Japan specially made 20 sabers with silver handles and presented them with them.

Nakamura won one of the 20 handfuls, which is well-deserved and logical.

Imamura praises Nakamura's troops for "being able to split steel and boulders"

Toshiyoshi Ando said that he was a "saber that could not be broken"

This steel knife was forged by the 22nd Division, and then reached the cooling tank of the supplementary regiment, which was still extremely cool.

On the morning of December 24, on the Jiutang side, Nakamura Masao reinforced the main force of the detachment, and after a night of killing, finally rushed into the mountains west of the road near Qitang.

The gunfire continued in the mountains, and people fell to the ground in response.

Nakamura has already sent people into the mountains, but each time they have returned in vain.

Nakamura knew that he was once again surrounded by the Kuomintang army and was under the siege of ** day after day.

After several hours of forced breakthrough, it finally approached Jiutang, far away from the troops of Miki Yoshinorib on the periphery of Kunlun Pass.

Masao Nakamura, with his face wrapped in bandages and wearing a bloodstained major general's uniform, worked on the northwestern highland of Shuicheng, 3 kilometers west of Jiutang, and observed the enemy situation with binoculars.

After looking at it for a while, he sat down wearily, straightened his legs in leather boots, smashed them with his fists, and then let out a long breath and looked up at the sky for a long time.

Masao Nakamura said to the staff officer beside him:

"We came out of Nanning on the morning of the 20th, on the road of less than 50 kilometers, we walked for 5 days under the layers of resistance of the Chinese army, sacrificing so many brave soldiers, and now we are finally 3 kilometers away from Jiutang, and the next step is that we only need to force our way across the road, we can meet with the defenders of Lanmu, and then reinforce Kunlun Pass."

After Nakamura finished speaking, he got up from the ground again, walked to a high place, and continued to observe with a telescope.

The staff officer behind Nakamura said to him:

"Your Excellency Nakamura, your current position is very dangerous, please go down, or let me observe."

Nakamura ignored the counsellor's advice, and when the counsellor reminded him again, he said:

"A good commander should personally grasp the enemy's situation at all times, rather than listening to reports at the command post."

The staff officer still said to him:

"Your Excellency Nakamura, the enemy's bullets do not recognize people, it does not only hit soldiers, not generals, please come down."

Masao Nakamura twisted his face and smiled at the staff officer:

"The difference between our Imperial Army and the Chinese Army is that their machine gunners use the trigger of the index finger to shoot, which not only shoots a lot of bullets, but also is inflexible, and can only strafe but not shoot.

A good soldier has no need to be afraid at all when the opponent's machine gun goes into fire. And the machine gunners of our imperial army pull the trigger with the first joint of the index finger, shoot sensitively, and do not waste bullets, the advantages and disadvantages are too obvious, this is the power of point shooting, I specialized in point fire when I was in the non-commissioned officer school. ”

Zhang Ziwen thought deeply about this, and if he knew that Nakamura said this, he would inevitably ask.

"Liulilu, you dare to use the strength of three brigades to try it, will my ** people use machine guns?"

At this time, the 1st Regiment and the 1st Regiment of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Rongyi Division, which were acting as blockers, opened heavy fire on Nakamura's troops in the vicinity of Rokuchi and Rokuhiro, respectively, and on the blocking positions at Kucholing.

The replenishment regiment sniped from the left flank, condescendingly.

Nakamura drew his command knife, moved forward, and ordered the troops:

"Forward, show the confidence of the Imperial Japanese Army, don't be afraid of sacrifice, you must rush across the highway and move forward!"

When Nakamura used the binoculars to look at the charge of the troops again, he suddenly noticed that the fire of the other party in the telescope seemed to flash at him. A thought immediately flashed through his mind:

"Machine gun firing"

He only felt a heat in his abdomen, and when he looked down, blood gushed out along with his stomach, and he covered his stomach with his hands and panted heavily.

"The Chinese army has learned to shoot."

Before he could finish speaking, he jumped to the position and plunged the command knife in his hand into the mud, but his hand did not let go.

He tried to stand up with the support of the command knife, but when he didn't, his eyes went black and he fell to the ground.

The brigade commander, Masao Nakamura, died in battle.

The initiator was completely unaware, and Ryuuji could only stare at the troops of the first regiment of the first division opposite.

"Uncle, it should have been our replenishment group."

Nakamura Masao's troops poured onto the road like a tide, but under the sound of the squadron's machine guns, groups of soldiers, like their commanders, fell one after another.

The Nakamura troops, which were close at hand, undoubtedly gave the Miki Wing the last confidence, and they were struggling to defend it, just looking forward to Nakamura's arrival.

Although Miki's soldiers were left with few soldiers left, and people were constantly being shot or falling from hunger, they were surrounded on all sides, but they still took advantage of the favorable terrain to fight the beasts.

In just six miles, to the Japanese reinforcements and defensive troops, it was like thousands of rivers and mountains.

The road was littered with corpses, and it looked like so many corpses could block the navel of a Japanese soldier. Miki Yoshinorib was desperate.

Nakamura Masao's charging troops were desperate.

The head of the Imamura Jun Division in Nanning was also desperate.

In desperation, he still sent a telegram of encouragement to the Miki Wing, which could not be approached by reinforcements:

"I am deeply grateful to your troops for fighting valiantly day after day. The reinforcements will definitely join your troops, and as long as there is a single soldier left, they will absolutely give full play to the glory of the military flag and fight to the end. ”

In the afternoon, the artillery units of the Fifth Army began to focus their shooting, with 150 mm caliber howitzers, mountain guns, and battle defense guns forming a dense covering net, and on the main Japanese positions at Kunlun Pass, as well as on several key heights, the screaming shells accompanied by huge explosions threw dirt, tree stumps, barbed wire, guns, and corpses into the sky, making it impossible to believe that there would be any living life there.

The highland at the southern end of Luotang is the barrier in front of Kunlun Pass.

The Japanese stronghold here was built in a group of dozens of pillboxes.

In addition to this, there are bunkers.

There were 8 heavy machine guns and 20 light machine guns in the stronghold. There are also bunkers on the left and right of the bunker, which are equipped with light and heavy machine guns, and the distance between them is no more than 200 meters.

It was this tight bunker group that blocked Dai Anlan for five whole days.