Chapter 57: The Death of Kuniti Deng

The 11th Wing was the first Japanese unit to enter the city, and when searching the city on the orders of the brigade commander, it encountered a lot of trouble. While the soldiers were running, a trap suddenly appeared in the middle of the leveled street! It is the kind of trap used for animal hunting, with a diameter of more than two meters and a depth of nearly two meters, with a few scattered bamboo sticks and sharpened wooden sticks inserted in the ground, and the style is very similar to the trap dug by Gao Quan in the 135 highland tunnels in Xinkou.

At that time, the main attack on the main position in Xinkou was the Fifth Division, and some soldiers of the Fifth Division who were fortunate enough to go to the 153 Heights in the later part of the battle still remember the traps in the tunnels until now. Fortunately, the 11th Wing did not participate in the battle against the 135 Heights at that time, and they were transferred to Nanjing and Shanghai together with their brigade commanders. After the Japanese soldiers of this wing returned, they did not hear their companions talk about the tragedy that had occurred on the 135 Heights, and this was the first time they had seen this trap.

I haven't seen it, I haven't seen it, but this doesn't prevent the devil from falling in. Every intersection is the inevitable distribution of traps, whether the devils are from south to north, or from east to west, as long as they pass through an intersection, there will always be a trap waiting to swallow them.

This kind of trap, which is more than two meters in diameter, can not only be fallen into by infantry, but also by large tanks. However, Major General Kuniki tried to find none of the civilians, and the only local residents he found were a few wild cats. Major General Kuniki's troops entered the city, but for various reasons. More than a squadron of people has already been lost. When Major General Kuniki, who was unwilling to find nothing, wanted to continue to intensify the search in the city, Lieutenant General Sakagaki had already entered the city.

Lieutenant General Sakagaki didn't want to see this subordinate who looked like he had rabies, so he sent a herald to inform Kuniki Noboru to stop the useless search, the city had obviously been emptied, and the traps in the city were prepared for them. Lieutenant General Sakagaki asked Kuniki to command the troops to be stationed nearby, and to send a small force to survey the surrounding terrain before leading the large force forward.

Although the commander of the Guoqi Brigade was a little unclear-headed, he was still full of awe for this powerful division commander from the bottom of his heart. Since His Excellency the Lieutenant General has ordered him to be stationed on the spot, Major General Kuniki should obey the military order.

When the army stopped, the first thing was to make a fire and cook. After a day of fighting and so many casualties, resting and filling the stomach is, of course, the top priority. The Huotou Army, who was in charge of fetching water, found that the well water in the city smelled a little strange, so he asked the commander of the army whether to go to the Yi River outside the city to fetch water.

Today's Yihe River is not the clear river it used to be. Today, the Yihe River not only broke out once in the early morning, flooding the embankments on both sides, but also took the lives of thousands of soldiers of the division, many of whom belonged to the 11th Wing. As long as they remembered that so many soldiers who were comrades-in-arms yesterday had died in this river, all the Japanese commanders of the 11th Wing were full of resentment and fear of this river, not to mention that there were still thousands of corpses of imperial soldiers hidden at the bottom of the Yihe River.

After being scolded by the officers, the cooks of the 11th Wing had to try to scoop up some well water and taste it first. Although the well water smells a little peculiar, it tastes good. Smoke began to rise from the garrisons of the various units, and the devils were already hungry, and if the firehead army did not cook, they would probably be beaten.

An hour after the meal, some Japanese soldiers began to show signs of poisoning to varying degrees. Today, most of the people in the 11th Wing drink water from the city's wells, not only the 11th Wing, but also the 14th Wing, the 42nd Wing, and even two of the four field hospitals, as well as the Engineer Wing. In short, more than half of the soldiers of the Fifth Division, including those stationed in the city and the troops that passed through the city and pursued forward, as long as the soldiers who drank well water in the city, all showed signs of poisoning of varying severity!

Those with good physical fitness and less water will have mild signs of poisoning; Those who are in poor physical condition, such as mild and serious wounded, or sick people, the poison is a little heavier. Fortunately, Lieutenant General Sakagaki did not drink well water today, and after he fell into the water today, he caught a little cold, and in order to prevent the spread of infection to others, the water he drank from the kettle brought to him by his orderlies has been since he entered the city.

As of 6 p.m., more than half of the poisoned wounded had died in the field hospital, and there were also people who had died of poisoning in the combat units. Major General Kuniti Deng's physical condition has not been very good due to his poor mental condition for a long time, and in the afternoon, he also fell ill in bed.

Hearing that Kuniki Noboru had also been poisoned, Lieutenant General Sakagaki immediately let go of all the unhappiness in his heart and hurried over to visit.

It had only been half a day, and the commander of the brigade of the major general, who was full of red light and was in excitement all the time, already had deep eye sockets and sunken cheeks, and it seemed that he might hang up at any time.

"Kuniki-kun, how are you feeling?" When Lieutenant General Sakagaki saw that one of his main generals, the commander of the Kuniki Brigade, had now become like this, a strong sense of sadness immediately rose in his heart, and the lieutenant general, who was known for his toughness, also had a rare anxiety in his question.

"Your Excellency, I think it's probably time for me to return home. I seem to have seen the Yasukuni Shrine's call to me. After Guo Qiden said this, the look in his eyes dissipated a little, and he had already entered the verge of death.

"Kuni-kun, please be strong." After Seishiro Itagaki said this, he couldn't say it anymore, because he found that he made Kuniki Deng strong, but in fact, he wanted to make himself stronger.

Since the Fifth Division arrived in Linyi, the war has not been going well, and it was first blocked here by the little-known miscellaneous Third Army Corps. It cannot be said that the troops did not work hard, and after paying thousands of casualties, they still could not take down a Chinese miscellaneous army of only more than 10,000 people, which greatly annoyed the lieutenant general. Immediately followed by Zhang Zizhong, the famous general of the Xifengkou Anti-Japanese War, who ruthlessly humiliated the Fifth Division. Once and twice, both times under Linyi City, just these two people have become a hurdle that the Fifth Division will never be able to overcome!

Just today, the cunning enemy actually used a vicious water attack tactic, and in one fell swoop, thousands of Imperial soldiers were killed! Finally, after paying huge casualties, he finally took this Linyi City, but it was only an empty city. The endless traps in the city have caused many casualties to the troops entering the city, and now even the commander of the brigade of the major general of the army has been poisoned! Could it be that the Fifth Division is really going to be discredited in its own hands?

Just when the head of the Sakagaki Division was in a heavy mood and his thoughts were fluttering, Kuniki Teng's head tilted and his soul returned to the Yasukuni Shrine. This butcher, hooligan, executioner, and offender of crimes against humanity, who committed many evil deeds in the war of aggression against China, and whose hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese people in the city of Nanjing, finally ended his criminal life.