This was the third day of the departure of the Japanese search force, and Fujita Shigena led 900 soldiers of the Japanese 3rd Brigade from Beijing, searching for the mysterious unit that was harassing the transportation line along the way. The squadrons were divided into squadrons and spread out horizontally, each squadron about three kilometers apart, so that if there was any fighting, the other two groups could quickly arrive to support.

Civilians in nearby towns and villages are rare, and most of them have left the area to escape the fighting. After searching a village and seeing that the sun was setting west, Fujita ordered to camp on the spot and informed the two squadrons on either side. The soldiers found nothing to eat in the village, so they lit campfires and ate cold rice balls.

Fujita added rice balls to his mouth and looked at the ruined village with mixed thoughts. This was the first time that the Japanese Empire had appeared on the international stage, and decades of reform still made Fujita feel a strong sense of self-confidence in front of Westerners. This feeling is not reflected in the quality of the soldiers, whose own soldiers are no worse than the soldiers of those powers, even if they are much shorter, in terms of morale and combat effectiveness. The lack of confidence actually comes from the weapons in the hands of the soldiers, who are also armed with single-shot breech-loading rifles from the Sino-Japanese War, which are even worse than the weapons in the hands of the Manchu soldiers! And this is precisely the embodiment of insufficient national strength. Fujita was very aggrieved, and without advanced weapons, many tactics could not be used, and he could only rely on the courage of his soldiers to fight. He knew that some time ago, the coalition forces had captured the Manchu arsenal in Tianjin, which contained countless advanced weapons and ammunition, but after the coalition forces divided it, they did not equip the Japanese army much, and their own brigade was only allocated three rapid-fire guns, and there were not many shells! It's not as much as the Tsarist army! Thinking of Tsarist Fujita, I was annoyed in my heart, those hairy bears were too greedy! It is not satisfied to occupy so much land, and constantly stretches out its hand to the northeast, which is the territory predetermined by the empire, how can Tsarist Russia be allowed to interfere? If it weren't for the intervention of the great powers, the empire would have taken the Liaodong Peninsula in the northeast, and as a soldier who had personally experienced the war, he was really unwilling to do that!

But Fujita was confident in his country's future, having fought in the war five years earlier, when he used his single-shot rifle to defeat the advanced Manchu Empire and capture a lot of benefits for the empire. His younger brother is now doing business in Taiwan, and the fate of his family is closely linked to the fortunes of the country. And this time he sent troops to win wealth for the empire again, the Manchus were already decaying and vulnerable, and this vast and rich land would become the cornerstone of the empire's rise, and by that time, the empire would no longer be weaker than any of the great powers!

"Captain Saki, arrange your duty tonight, and pay attention to arranging a few more secret posts. Also, inform the soldiers that they must pay attention to maintaining the military discipline of the Imperial Army and not harass the villagers! ”

"Hey! Captain Fujita, our soldiers are all great samurai who obey orders, and there has never been a violation of military discipline, please rest assured! ”

"To the west, we must remember that we are a civilized army, and our country is a civilized country." Fujita nodded with satisfaction, in fact, he was also very envious of the armies of other countries of the coalition army for looting property, what a tempting treasure it was, if it belonged to him, then he would not have to worry about it for the rest of his life. But before starting from the mainland, the superiors repeatedly emphasized the observance of military discipline and the maintenance of the civilized image of the army, and he could only restrain his desires, and the katana given to him by the family has not yet drunk blood! Speaking of the fact that there have been few decent battles since they arrived in the Manchu Dynasty, I heard the captain of the 2nd Brigade say that they suffered a lot of losses in the battle with the Wuyi Army, the main force of the Qing army, mainly due to the difference in weapons, but the soldiers were brave and tenacious, and they lived up to the trust of His Majesty the Emperor. Tuan Zang was commended for his ability to command battles, and he also hopes to encounter that kind of battle!

The special combat team, led by Luzon, continued to carry out harassment missions, and soon discovered through reconnaissance that a large number of Japanese troops were searching along the transportation line. Luzon realized that the coalition forces finally couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to exterminate the special forces. The Japanese searched horizontally, each search team had more than 200 people, and they were very close, and attacking one of the teams could easily suffer from counter-encirclement in the rest of the directions. It was not easy to get through, and when we reached the rear of the search team was the middle ground between the Japanese army and the coalition forces in the direction of Beijing, and there was little room for maneuver, and it was easy to be surrounded by the coalition army. The special operations team was forced to retreat step by step, patiently searching for fighters, and finally found that a Japanese brigade was too far ahead, more than 5,000 meters away from the others. In an era when the means of communication are backward, it is not easy for the armed forces to coordinate their efforts, and it is easy to get out of touch with the front and the back and the left and right when they advance separately. Luzon decided to attack this brigade, they had jeeps, bicycles, they could fight for a while and run, and then leave the battlefield. After the firing was fired, the Japanese army found the traces of the special combat team, and they would soon be closed, and there was no need for the special combat team to continue to fight hard here.

"Captain, the Japanese army is heavily defended, and we dare not approach to reconnoitre, so we can only watch from a distance. They are about 300 people in a squadron, and there are squadrons of the same number stationed in two villages about 3,000 meters to the left and right, and they should belong to the same brigade. No heavy artillery was found, only three rapid-fire guns of 37 mm caliber, and they were the biggest threat. The scouts reported to Luzon that the special operations team was temporarily hiding behind a dirt slope two thousand kilometers away from the village, and that the days in the north in winter were short, and the sky was already dark before five o'clock, so they were not worried that the Japanese army would find out.

"But we found a strange situation, by looking at the flags, the soldiers' conversations, and the dark blue uniforms, we could all be sure that they were the allied Japanese Army. However, they did not harass the villagers after entering the village, and even camped at night looking for houses with no people, or directly set up tents in the open field. Such a force can't match the beast-like Japanese army no matter what! The scout couldn't help but voice the doubts in his heart.

"Hey, is that true? It's impossible, the coalition forces burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil, and it stands to reason that these Japanese troops should have gone even further. Regardless of him, they are Japanese soldiers who can't be wrong, and they can't be wrong to fight the Japanese, let's go up! Luzon said. It's true that these people are allied Japanese soldiers, and they see it right. It's just that they don't know that in the real history, the more disciplined troops in the Eight-Nation Coalition are the US and Japanese armies, and the contemporaries recorded, "In the Russian army, the only survivors are dogs; In the Franco-Italian military circles, there is a shocking depression, and there are few traces; Within the boundaries of the German army, the situation was multiplied; Although there are few people in the British army; Within the boundaries of the Japanese army, it was bustling and bustling, and the city was like a city, while within the boundaries of the US military, it was as safe as before, and the market was fully open. ”

This means that among the coalition forces, the German army is the worst, followed by Russia, France, Italy and Britain, and the United States and Japan are the best. The allied forces burned and looted in Tianjin, Beijing and other cities, and the Japanese described Beijing as follows: two-thirds of the streets were destroyed, women were humiliated, and the corpses of men in court clothes and crowns and female corpses in phoenix crowns were everywhere in the city. To cite two examples, the coalition forces intercepted a group of hundreds of Boxers, then surrounded them in a small alley and opened fire with machine guns; The British minister had eighty-seven large wooden boxes full of treasures, and each of them wore at least six to ten gold watches, which was one on his arm. However, the Japanese and Americans had the best social order and the strictest military discipline in the occupied areas, and it can be said that they did not commit any crimes in the autumn. There is a passage in the door of the mansion in the film and television drama that depicts Bai Jingqi living peacefully with the Japanese soldiers, which is true. The Japanese were anxious to present their image as a so-called "civilized country," and apart from stealing nearly 3 million taels of silver from the household department, they did not commit any crimes against the people of the occupied areas. During the Anti-Japanese War in the future, the Japanese general Okamura Ninji lamented that his soldiers' military discipline was not as good as in the past, believing that this was a sign of Japan's degeneration. Of course, the strict military discipline at this time did not affect the fact that they were a beast country.

"Their artillery was short and inmobile, their rifles were single-shot, and the rate of fire was slow, and the first squadron lured them out, flew kites with them in the field, and fought and retreated by jeeps and bicycles. The second squadron set up an ambush here, trying to eliminate them in the shortest possible time, and then immediately retreated to the seaside landing point, where it boarded the mining vehicles and returned to Huizhou. ”

"Captain, aren't we going to fight harassment? It's only been a few fights, and it's not fun. ”

"The chief has an order, the most urgent task at the moment is the treasure, and our task will not continue!"

Oda the Japanese sentry guarding outside the village squatted in the dry grass, holding the Type 30 rifle in his hand and shivering, it was too cold, and the military uniform on his body was thin, and he could not withstand the cold wind and low temperature of the winter night, but fortunately, someone would be on duty in three hours. He stared at the night in the distance with wide eyes, thinking of the girl in his hometown of Osaka to divert his attention from the cold. Suddenly, he heard a strange sound, this sound was very familiar, what was it? I couldn't see anything clearly in the night, but something must have happened. He raised his gun and stood guard, and soon he could faintly see some figures, and behind him appeared his comrades--the sound was heard far away in the open field, and the soldiers of the village were on guard before they could sleep. Finally, he saw that it was the bicycle, and the person on the bicycle.