A squad sent out to reconnoiter did find some traces not far from here, if it was in normal times, it would be difficult to find these traces, dry roads, vehicles will not leave any traces, but in rainy days, slippery and muddy roads, just people walking will leave some traces, not to mention heavy vehicles. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, the mark was not particularly obvious, and they couldn't tell if there was really a baggage team that had just passed, so the squad just sent one soldier back to report, and the rest continued to speed forward.

After receiving this news, Feng Sixi also hurriedly ordered the troops to speed up, although I don't know if there is really a situation ahead, but once there is a real situation, then as long as they can defeat the Japanese army's baggage team, then the predicament faced by the Japanese army will become more and more serious.

In fact, so far, almost everyone did not expect that they would fight this battle so smoothly, except for some problems encountered in the first battle of the landing, and the subsequent battle was almost as smooth as no one's land. Whether it was the Japanese army with combat capability or the new recruits, almost no one could stop the pace of the Chinese.

And Japan's lack of various resources also surprised almost all the Chinese soldiers who landed in Japan, which is almost unimaginable in China.

In Japan, you can't see any hardened roads at all, you can't see any mechanized vehicles at all, here is more like China a few years ago, travel is basically by walking, transportation is basically by horses (mules, oxen), if only that's it, the life of the ordinary people at the grassroots level in Japan is also extremely miserable.

Along the way, the Chinese army broke into the homes of many Japanese civilians, some of whom were empty and their families had fled, and some of them were families hiding inside, hoping to escape the catastrophe.

But whether it is unmanned or human, the most food found in each home is only enough for their family to eat for a week, but China has experienced such hard times, so they also know very well that if these grains are tight, they can barely eat for a month.

And this can't help but make it hard to imagine that Japan is poor like this bird, so how did Japan defeat China more than ten years ago?

It was only now, when a large number of Chinese troops landed on the Japanese mainland and saw everything here with their own eyes, that they realized that Japan was actually not strong, at least not as strong as they imagined.

If the Qing government had been able to make a snack and not be so harsh on the navy and the army, not so nepotism, and not so deliberately paying attention to imperial power, the First Sino-Japanese War would have inevitably been a different result.

Now, more and more people realize that Japan is actually a gambler, every time they gamble, they like to put all their bets on it, and if they win, their capital will be doubled, and if they lose, they will go bankrupt.

The Japanese did not possess this kind of courage in the Qing government, so they lost to the Japanese again and again, allowing the Japanese to loot a lot of wealth from China, so that they had more funds and resources to build more weapons and equipment that could attack China.

This is the sorrow of the Chinese people, but also the sorrow of the Qing government, they only saw the strength of the Japanese on the surface, but did not see the emptiness inside the Japanese.

Although a large number of international students have been dispatched, the Japanese government has strict care for those international students, and it is rare for them to spy on Japan's real core secrets, even the military schools where they are studying.

Historically, the Japanese had succeeded in several shocking gambles, and in the later period, especially after the invasion of China, they obtained a large amount of resources from China, which was enough to support them to support the war that lasted for more than ten years, and gave them the courage to argue with the Americans.

But in fact, if the Northeast Army could have resisted and directly defeated the invading Japanese army, or completely annihilated it, or let the Japanese army see the strength of the Northeast Army, instead of throwing away the entire Northeast without firing a shot, and leaving a large amount of equipment in the warehouse to the Japanese and a large number of machinery and equipment to the Japanese, then at least it can be guaranteed that the war of aggression against China will be delayed for a few years.

At that time, the number of artillery planes captured by the Japanese army in the warehouses of the Northeast Army alone was more than that of the Japanese army's active artillery planes, and it was even more advanced. Later, the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army that invaded China and the supply of combat readiness were also manufactured through the equipment left to them by the Northeast Army that year.

Wang Sirui is well aware of what Japan was like in history, coupled with the characteristics of Japanese gamblers, and again, the Japanese always like to distinguish between tactics and strategy, for example, they always like to plan a large-scale battle, thinking that as long as they win this battle, Japan will win the final victory.

Just like the First Sino-Japanese War, the Eight-Nation Coalition in history, the Russo-Japanese War in history, and so on, it was through all the previous events that the Japanese had a wrong intuition.

And now, this wrong feeling is also affecting Nogi Noshinori, the supreme commander of the Japanese army on Kyushu Island.

Why did Nogi Noshinori go to all the lengths to plan the Battle of Kurume? Even at the expense of a real Kurume civilian? The fundamental reason for this is that Nogi Noshinori still continued the thinking of the early years, still believing that as long as the Japanese army can achieve a big victory in Kurume, it will inevitably rub away the offensive spirit of the Chinese.

At the same time, it will also make their high-level reflect on this war, and even fear, as long as their high-level hesitates, then the follow-up is all good, and it is a big deal to plan a battle to pour fire on the Chinese, so that they can choose to end this war faster.

Although it is unlikely to hit the Chinese mainland in the short term, it doesn't matter if you can't hit the Chinese mainland, Nogi Noshinori is still more sensible, and he values the weapons and equipment of the more than 100,000 Chinese troops who landed more than 100,000 more than in the Chinese mainland than hitting the Chinese mainland.

In addition, with the importance that China's top leaders attach to soldiers, as long as the Japanese side uses these soldiers as a threat, they can easily get everything that Japan wants, weapons and equipment, production lines, money, and even a lot of resources.

Although Nogi Noshinori also knows very well that this battle is not easy to fight, and the possibility of the Japanese army winning is not great, but this does not prevent him from planning this war, or rather, Nogi Noshinori wants to fight with the Chinese in the same way, anyway, this is Japan itself, no matter how many Chinese you come, can you come 20 million?

Japan is to fight with you one by one, and all of them will be fought in the same way, and the first one that will not be able to bear it will definitely be China.

Nogi Noshinori can be said to have gone crazy, in order to be able to repel the attack of the Chinese, he has done anything, he can even sacrifice the Japanese people, sacrifice his son, and even sacrifice himself.

Of course, Nogi Noshinori's plan was quite good, but he overlooked several important aspects.

For example, Wang Sirui is not the Qing government, and Wang Sirui is not an assertive monarch like the Qing government, Wang Sirui knows the details of the Japanese better than the Qing government, and from this point alone, Nogi Noshinori's strategic purpose is already impossible to achieve.

On the other hand, Nogi Noshinori wants to die with others, but the premise of dying together is that your own strength must be almost the same as that of the other party, and if a child wants to die with an adult, unless he has a grenade in his hand and can hide it from an adult in advance, it is absolutely impossible to do it.

The Japanese like to look at tactics as strategy and fight a battle as their strategy, and from this point of view, the Japanese actually lack strategic vision, just as they do now.

Of course, no matter how far-sighted Japan is, it will not be able to escape Wang Sirui, who is determined to fight Japan, and no matter what they do, it is impossible to escape this catastrophe.

If a battle is compared to the key to determining the outcome of a war, then the reverse is the same for Japan, if they lose this battle, then the Japanese will collapse in an instant, there is no doubt about it.

On the other side, after continuing to move forward for about an hour, Feng Sixi once again received a report from the front, they had determined that there was indeed a Japanese baggage team in front, and the scale was not small, there were about hundreds of vehicles, and the number of guards was not much, except for about two squadrons of baggage soldiers, there was only one squadron or so of soldiers providing protection.

However, from the point of view of the marching army, the Japanese troops of this squadron were not as vulnerable as the Japanese troops they had encountered before, although they were marching, but the Japanese troops of that squadron always maintained a combat formation, as long as there was an abnormality, they could enter the battle at any time, and the Japanese troops of that squadron were on high alert, and the scouts did not dare to get too close.

Of course, if it weren't for the telescope, the Japanese would have discovered them a long time ago.

After learning the news, Feng Sixi was also instantly pleasantly surprised, and immediately ordered the fourth platoon to go around the front of the Japanese army with three machine guns and two mortars to block them, and the remaining one, two, and third platoons were divided into three directions to surround the Japanese army.

A company dared to argue with the three squadrons of the Japanese army, which did not seem to be an impossible thing for Feng Sixi, and he was even a little accustomed to it.