The color gradually darkened for a long time. I saw that the sun was about to set. The sunset is reflected in the mountain, and it is as red as blood.

This is Dagu Mountain, and the mouth of the Dayang River is just a few kilometers to the north.

Due to its convenient location near the mouth of the river, and the flat terrain of the bay, Dagushan is a good small harbor. It is possible to moor light warships, strategically speaking. In the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, Dagushan was the battlefield, and in the Russo-Japanese War. The Japanese Army also conducted landing operations here. Cutting off the retreat of the Russian army in Lushun created conditions for the smooth implementation of the Lushun campaign.

Now, the Sino-Japanese war has broken out again, and it is inevitable that an army will appear in this big lonely mountain.

In fact, this mixed force is the Japanese army unit that participated in the Xiuyan Campaign, and it is under the command of the Kwantung Army in terms of establishment, and this unit is defeated all the way from Xiuyan to Dagushan.

The Fourth Division of the Japanese Army was originally organized in the Great Division, so it was also called the Great Resistance Division, which was formed in the Xuan year, and its soldiers mainly came from the vendors and vegetable sellers in the area of the brigade. Therefore, it is also known as the merchant division, after the formation of the division, it has participated in the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, after the outbreak of the Korean anti-Japanese uprising, the division was also engaged in the sweeping war against the guerrillas, after the situation on the Korean Peninsula stabilized, it was transferred to Lushun garrison, and later the Kwantung Army was formed, the division was incorporated into the Kwantung Army together with the Kwantung garrison, the railway road protection team, the fifth division and other troops, in fact, it plays the role of the pillar of the Kwantung Army now, but the combat effectiveness is not as good as the Kwantung garrison.

According to the establishment of the Japanese Army, the Fourth Division belongs to the First Division, consisting of four wings, with a total strength of more than 20,000 people. The commander of the division has been Major General Naomchi Osako. And now, the commander who led this exhausted defeated army to Dagu Mountain was none other than Da Qiang Shangdao.

Yesterday morning, the Chinese army launched a general attack on Xiuyan, and in the afternoon took Xiuyan, Da Forced Shang Dao was forced to command the Japanese troops in the city to retreat to the south, but did not go far, it ran into a Chinese armored force head-on, the retreat was cut off, and was attacked by the Chinese army from the north to the south, although the Great Forced Shang Dao commanded the Japanese army to resist, but the Chinese army tactics were strange, the weapons were also weird, the Japanese army finally lost its fighting spirit, and the Great Forced Shang Dao also lost the effective command of the troops, and could only lead part of the troops to break through at night, Retreat to the east, planning to go to Dagu Mountain, but when passing through the Yellow Flag Fort, it was stubbornly blocked by the Chinese army, and could only continue to retreat eastward in a big circle, but on the way to retreat, it was continuously pursued by the armored forces of the Chinese army, the people were sleepy and the horses were lacking, and the losses were heavy, and the strength was sharply reduced from more than 3,000 people at the time of the breakthrough to less than 500 people, basically it can be said that the whole army was annihilated, but it was finally got rid of the pursuers, and it took almost a day to reach this big lonely mountain.

Throughout the Xiuyan Campaign, the performance of the 4th Division was lackluster, and it did not have the courage to attack. There was no confidence in defense, and almost all the attacks and night attacks on the positions of the Chinese army by the Japanese troops were launched by the Kwantung garrison, and most of the soldiers of the Fourth Division were thinking about how to save their lives from the moment the battle began, rather than how to win the victory. After repeated defeats in the Russo-Japanese War, it was called "the Eighth Wing that was not afraid of defeat." "Among the troops defending Xiuyan is this Eighth Wing.

The reason why the Fourth Division is not strong in combat effectiveness. I am afraid that it is directly related to the composition of the division; Most of the soldiers of this division came from the cities, and most of them were in the surrounding areas, before they put on their uniforms. Most of the soldiers were either merchants or peddlers, and their hearts were not focused on serving the Empire. As early as the shogunate period, Daizu was the most prosperous commercial area in Japan, and the residents were proud of making money, ashamed of being cannon fodder, and did not belong to the loyal princes. The merchants are not even afraid of the princes, are they still afraid of a small division commander? If this historical inheritance is taken into account, it is not difficult to understand why the Fourth Division is weak in combat.

Of course, the so-called "weak combat effectiveness." "This is also relative to other elite divisions of the Japanese first class. In the face of a weaker enemy than itself, the Fourth Division was invincible, and when the anti-Japanese guerrillas were suppressed on the Korean Peninsula in those years, the performance of the division was remarkable, but this time the enemy was no longer a weak guerrilla, but the main force of the Chinese National Defense Forces with aircraft, artillery, armored vehicles, flamethrowers, and submachine guns. This not only gave the military medical officer a great headache, but also made the division commander Xiang Shangdao very faceless. So, he simply moved his headquarters to the field hospital and personally assisted the military medical officer in examining the wounded soldiers, which did have some effect, but at the same time made the soldiers of the Kwantung garrison extremely contemptuous of the Fourth Division.

However, the efforts of the Great Force Shodo were ineffective, and even the morale of the Kwantung garrison quickly collapsed under the joint Spider Factory of the Atomic Bombs, heavy grenades, flamethrowers, and armored vehicles of the Xinguo army. As for the 4th Division, it was not easy to hold out until it withdrew from the city and then completely lost its command.

Of course, the scheming of the traders in the brigade was not without a little effect, at least, most of the soldiers who fled to this lonely mountain with the Great Forced Shodo were the people of the Fourth Division, and as for the Kwantung garrison, the vast majority of them were already "loyal" to the Japanese Empire, and in a fashionable phrase, most of the soldiers of the Kwantung garrison had already "met at Kudanpo". Unlike the soldiers of the Fourth Division, they followed the division commander all the way back to this big lonely mountain, waiting for the ships of the Imperial Navy to come and load them on board the ship to Lushun to rest and recuperate.

Just yesterday, when he realized that Xiuyan could no longer be held, Da Forced Shangdao had to send a telegram to the Kwantung Army Headquarters in Lushun, requesting a retreat, and only after getting permission did he lead his troops to withdraw from Xiuyan, originally planning to turn south, go to Jinzhou by land, and hold the Jinzhou Isthmus, the gateway to Lushun, but he never thought that he was intercepted by Chinese armored forces on the way south, and he could no longer move by land, so he could only send a telegram to the Kwantung Army Headquarters. Asking the navy to assist in the retreat, he certainly did not know that the Japanese naval detachment in Arthur had been hit hard by the Chinese air force, but it was a coincidence. At this time, the main fleet of the Japanese Combined Fleet had already swam to the vicinity of Dalian Bay, so the Kwantung Army Headquarters asked the military headquarters for help, and the headquarters of the military headquarters directly issued an order to the commander of the Combined Fleet, Togo Heihachiro. If all goes well, the Combined Fleet will arrive at Dagushan by this evening at the latest, and use ships to evacuate the remnants of the defeated troops brought by Da Sho Dao.

But now, it's getting dark. There was still no movement on the sea, and the shadow of the combined fleet could not be seen, so he was so anxious and angry that he couldn't think about it, so he sat cross-legged on a reef by the sea and took off his military jacket; Drawing his katana, he prepared to serve the expansion of the Japanese Empire in a samurai manner.

"Your Excellency, do you need help?"

A staff officer of the Kanto garrison leaned over and handed him a shorter knife, not hiding his approval of the fact that he committed suicide by seppuku in apology.

Japanese samurai commit suicide by seppuku, usually requiring an assistant to carry a katana for decapitation. In order to help the samurai get rid of the pain at a critical time, it was obvious that the staff officer was a little eager to try.

"Please."

Da Qiang Shangdao glanced at the staff officer gratefully. As the front-line commander of the Japanese army, the only way to apologize is probably suicide, at least to avoid being court-martialed, and to avoid being humiliated by the people and colleagues after returning home, after all, since the Meiji Restoration. Never before had the Japanese Army suffered such a heavy defeat.

Just as the staff officer climbed onto the reef and lifted his katana, a low roar suddenly sounded in the sky.

Da Forced Shang Dao and Thorn Hui raised their eyes and saw a small black dot in the sky, it should be a reconnaissance plane of the Chinese Air Force, from yesterday to today, Da Forced Shang Dao and his soldiers have been harassing under the harassment of Chinese reconnaissance planes, although reconnaissance planes generally do not drop bombs on the heads of Japanese soldiers. However, these reconnaissance planes tended to fly at low altitudes and strafe the Japanese with machine guns on their planes. The casualties caused are not large, but the psychological shadow caused is heavy.

"Yaga!"

Da Qiang Shangdao stood up, took out his pistol, and fired a few shots into the sky, of course, the reconnaissance plane flew hundreds of meters in the air, and the pistol was not a threat at all, but the staff officer was very clever to take a rifle from a soldier. The reconnaissance plane was fired, and most of the soldiers, led by the staff officers, also fired at the reconnaissance plane with rifles, but it was obviously of little use. The reconnaissance plane swayed over Dagu Mountain, and after making a circle, it turned back to the north.

Indeed, it is almost dark now, and if you don't withdraw, the plane will fly in the dark, which is obviously a very dangerous move for the pilot.

"Let's move on."

Da Qiang Shangdao sat back cross-legged, picked up the rib hand, and made a few strokes on his abdomen, and just as he could not make up his mind, a whistle suddenly came from the sea, and the soldiers of the Fourth Division also cheered.

"Look! It's a cruiser of the Combined Fleet! ”

"They picked us up! We're going to Lushun soon! Maybe I'll have to go back to China! ”

"My leg hurt so badly that I might have to retire when I go back."

"My head was also badly wounded, I can't even remember yesterday's fight, and I think I should retire too."

"Stop arguing! Line up and wait for the boat to come. We had to get on board according to the ranks. ”

Listen to the shouts of those uncompetitive subordinates. Da Qiang Ran Dao closed his eyes in pain, tears flowed down his nose, as a soldier, of course, he can return to China, but as a commander, Da Qiang Shang Dao may not be able to return to China.

"The people of Lebei, how can they be equipped with so many armored vehicles? If the Fourth Division had not divided its troops, would Xiuyan have been lost? ”

The Great Forced Shangdao was full of remorse, at this time. He was indeed at his wit's end.