Anan's stone grinding tactics worked, and the Japanese advance was much faster than the last attack on Changsha.

In the eyes of the Japanese army, if the troops were used separately, then each unit would be just a small beetle that hit the cobwebs composed of many squadrons.

And now that these beetles are combined, it is a monster, and with its own weight, it directly smashes open the cobwebs and penetrates through the target.

Because of this, the current Laodao River has never been so busy, and the pontoon bridge is full of Japanese troops crossing the river.

As soon as Kanda and his companions came down from the pontoon, they shouted at their horses and ran southwest, and they could only drive their horses to the side of the road except for the pit and the ditch, so although they rode on the horses, they were also faster than the infantry.

Originally, the middle of the road was not easy to walk, but after all, it was built by the Japanese army who crossed the river to barely pass the carriage, and although Kanda Toshio and his men were in a hurry, they could not compete with the large army walking in the middle of the road.

The two of them were signal corps of the Japanese 11th Army headquarters, and were ordered to contact the 4th Division, which had already crossed the river.

Originally, there was no need for them to ride horses for such a thing, and there were radio stations above the Japanese army brigade.

It's just that their military headquarters sent several telegrams to the Fourth Division, but there was no reply, and the matter was relatively urgent, so they ordered the two of them to go directly to inquire about the situation.

Kanda Toshio really didn't like this mission, just because he didn't look down on those "vendors" of the Fourth Division in his heart.

Since he could always see General Anan Weiji, the supreme commander of the 11th Army, in the military headquarters, he couldn't understand why General Anan Weiji would let the Fourth Division take on the main attack mission of Changsha City.

There was a saying among their soldiers that the Imperial Japanese Army was invincible, and the Fourth Division was unharmed.

There's an allusion here.

That is, the year before last, the Kwantung Army stationed in northeast China and the Soviet Red Army had the Nomenkan War.

At that time, the 2nd and 4th Divisions belonging to the Kwantung Army received the task of going to reinforce them, but when the war ended, the 2nd and 4th Divisions came back, which surprised everyone in the Eastern Army.

The 2nd Division was wounded by the Soviet Red Army and came back, while the 4th Division came back unscathed.

As for the reason, it's well known.

First of all, when the Fourth Division saw that it was about to fight, the "sick number" increased geometrically, and the joint commander was so angry that he sat in the infirmary and personally participated in the diagnosis.

The whole team finally set out, but there were all kinds of reasons from junior officers to soldiers to keep the march from speed.

The 2nd Division went for four days, while they walked for eight days.

On the day they arrived at the battlefield, the Soviet Red Army and the Imperial Japanese Army declared the war over, and the Fourth Division returned unscathed.

This matter was put there, and anyone with a discerning eye could see what was going on, but on the way back, the people of the Fourth Division said with regret that it was really unfortunate that they did not have the opportunity to be loyal to the emperor!

Are they also considered the army of the Great Japanese Empire? Their performance made all the emperor ** teams ashamed, and even said that they had to lose the battle they could win!

Their performance made the press officers of the Kwantung Army look down on them, and they changed the title of the news on the day they came up for review, "My Invincible Fourth Division of the Imperial Army Returns with Might," and the result of the change was "I Return with Dignity from the Fourth Division of the Imperial Army Without Injury"!

For this person, who is known as the first wrecked division, there is naturally no one to see in the Imperial Japanese Army.

And Kanda Toshio, who thought it was the emperor's duty to expand the territory, was even more disdainful of these, so it was an order to send them a letter, otherwise he was really too lazy to see those white fat people who ate and talked better than anyone else, and slipped away when they heard the battle.

As the horse's hooves trampled, Kanda Toshio and his companions were getting farther and farther away from the Laodao River, but the road was becoming more and more difficult to navigate.

He cursed in his heart the people of China who were destroying the road, while his eyes were looking ahead.

Standing tall and seeing far away, Kanda Toshio suddenly saw that the road ahead was a big curve.

The reason why the road bends is because there is a large puddle there, and there is a forest behind the puddle, and at the end of the woods you can see the emperor's ** team still marching on that road.

Seeing the grass poking its head out of the puddle, Kanda Toshio couldn't help but feel a move in his heart.

He took hold of the reins and drove his horse to the puddle, and his companions followed.

Kanda Toshio looked and saw that the water was still clear, and the grass was not high.

He turned his head to look at his companion, no doubt asking for his companion's meaning.

His companion had also seen the puddle hundreds of meters long, but nodded at him.

So the two of them shook the reins and drove their horses into the puddle.

The two of them had the same idea, which was to let the horses wade through this puddle and over the woods before hitting the road, so as to save a little time to complete the mission.

Kanda Toshio let the horse take a few steps slowly, and when he was sure that the puddle was solid and free of mud, he shook his reins vigorously and let the horse trot.

So the horses' hooves flew, the water splashed, and the two horses galloped heartily.

In the eyes of Kanda Toshio and his companions at this time, this puddle was the best "road" they took after crossing the Laodao River!

However, it was a pity that this "road" was too short, and the war horse quickly rushed through the puddle with four hooves, and when they began to retract the reins, the two of them were only ten meters away from the woods.

Naturally, the idea was to stick to the edge of the woods and get to the road.

It's just that at this time, the woods have already blocked the two of them and the people on the road, and how long this distance can be, it is only a few jumps of the war horse, but at this moment an accident happened.

Toshio Kanda was close to the side of the woods, and his war horse suddenly screamed and fell!

Caught off guard, Toshio Tanida fell from his horse, and at the moment when he fell off his horse, he saw a black light shoot out of the woods, and then his companion's war horse also fell!

It was so sudden that Toshio Kanda's head plunged into the grassy puddle.

Before he could pull his head out and shout instinctively, he felt a blow to the back of his head, and he fainted.

……

When Kanda woke up, he first felt a terrible pain in the back of his head, he groaned and stroked the sore spot with his hand, and a bag the size of a duck egg was raised in the back of his head!

He opened his eyes and got up, but he heard a familiar Japanese voice in his ears: "It's great that you're awake!" ”

He saw several soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire dressed in the same attire as himself looking at him with concern.

"What's wrong with me?" Toshio Kanda asked.

"You were attacked, and it just so happened that we passed by and rescued you." A young officer with a katana at his waist said to him.

Only then did he remember that he had been attacked by someone, and he didn't need to ask if anyone attacked him, it must be a damn person!

Kanda noticed that the scabbard of the officer's katana was very elegantly made, and the gold and jade inlays were extraordinary.

"Tell me, what is your situation, which division are you from, where are you from and where are you going?" The young officer asked him with the pride of a samurai.