The guard company that has not been willing to use is the last trump card in Yang Bangzi's hand, and the remaining more than 160 people still have enough bullets, four light machine guns, 12 Stern-style submachine guns, and the best firepower configuration of the whole regiment has officially fought a battle since the beginning of the war.

Yang Bangzi kept gambling, and then waited for this moment when the Japanese army gathered morale at its worst, he had to keep the guard company until the Japanese army had no ammunition, and then send the guard company to strike a fatal blow from the flank against the Japanese army's attack cluster!

Submachine guns and machine guns opened the way, grenades and rifles were on both wings, and the impact dozens of meters wide was facing the flank of the Japanese army attacking the platform.

The devils, who had already fought with the defenders on the terrace for more than three hours, had reached the limit of their physical strength and will, and now they could no longer withstand the rapid fire from the flank, so they ran down the hill and retreated to the edge of the base camp.

It was almost dawn again, Kuroda saw in the telescope that the seventh attack had been defeated and retreated, and he was surprised to hear that the Eighth Route Army, which had been fighting fiercely for several days, could still organize such a dense firepower, and this Eighth Route Army was not what it used to be, and it was not the time to fight with bayonets after two shots.

On the radio, the headquarters of the front army informed Kuroda that in view of the fierce fighting situation, the Eighth Route also mobilized the main forces of several divisions to attack together, and the front army ordered Kuroda to break through from the southeast trail after dawn with the cooperation of the planes, and turn to the Itakura side to join the troops who came to meet him.

Get! The center blooms, but the flowers haven't bloomed yet. That's it!

Observed for a while. The Eighth Route also had no intention of organizing personnel to launch a ground attack on the base camp in the valley again. Kuroda estimated that Hachiro also saw that the sky was about to dawn, and the planes would soon fly over the battlefield, so he no longer organized an attack, and the battles around him stopped one after another.

Several of the teams sent out to reconnoiter also returned at dawn, and one of them pointed to the map and told Kuroda that there was a hidden path marked on the map, and there were no eight roads in the valley, and only the dirt eight roads were active on the cliff on one side. The path obscured by bushes and vines was unguarded.

On the map, the trail passes through the mountains in a north-south direction, turns southeast along the gorge, and then intersects with the river that turns down from the Itakura, and the front army says that the receiving troops on the Itakura side will send people to control the river.

Kuroda finally made up his mind and deployed two things, one was to send troops to control the valley leading to the trail first, and the other was to inform the troops to immediately burn the corpses on the spot and dispose of those who could not be taken away.

Here's a paragraph, about the map of the Japanese army, I said it earlier. Yang Bangzi and they fought with the Japanese army, and the most important thing was to capture the map used by the Japanese army. Especially the kind of map of 1 in 50,000, which is drawn much more accurately and detailed than the map of our Chinese!

In recent years, some evidence of the Japanese invasion of China has been discovered, and quite a few of them are maps. The accuracy of these maps is amazing, which shows that Japan made a lot of meticulous preparations before launching its war of aggression against China. For example, according to the map of the Japanese in 1928, 22 years later, you can still find a path that the Japanese devils walked back then

The Japanese attach great importance to maps, which can be called fanatical, and with the help of maps, the means and ways to let Japan understand China are far more than those of other countries. Zhang Ming, a Chinese veteran, once wrote down his memories. In the autumn of 1950, Zhang Ming saw the military map of the Japanese invasion of China for the first time in Yizhang, Hunan. At that time, he followed the guard platoon to collect revolutionary historical relics in the local area, and the platoon commander Xiao Li often relied on a map of the Japanese army to determine the route of the march.

When he reached the front of a big mountain, Platoon Commander Li looked at the map and said that there was a small road that could go straight through the mountain without a detour. But I couldn't find the intersection where it was, and when I asked several young people passing by, they all said that there was no road. Finally, a local old man was recruited to cut a junction in the thorny bushes, revealing a rugged path with thick shade and vines.

Surprised, Zhang Ming carefully examined the map. The scale used on the map is 1/50,000, that is, 1 centimeter on the map is equal to 500 meters on the ground. "Among the operational maps, this is the most advanced, the most sophisticated, and the most practical in the 20th century."

Zhang Ming recalled, a hill, a stream, a village, a paddy field, a path, a temple, a forest...... It's all clearly drawn on the map. Place names are all remarked in Chinese characters, the commanding heights of the summit and the contour line of the mountainside are all marked with Arabic numerals, and all roads are marked with sectional mileage...... The map is also blatantly marked with the words "drawn by the headquarters of the Japanese Army" in Chinese characters, and the date is marked as "Showa 3", that is, 1928, 9 years before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War!

From 1928 to 1950, 22 years later, the trail is still there, but the junction is blocked by crazy bushes...... The topography and resources of remote mountain villages are better known to the Japanese than the Chinese

When some Chinese people were intoxicated with the "Hengdian style of anti-Japanese resistance", how deep did the Japanese know about China? Scholar Zi Zhongyun once wrote an article in "Essays" a few years ago, and it still feels creepy when I read it today: "There is a treasure in the deep mountains and old forests of Leiyang County, Hunan, that is, the anthracite coal underground, which is of excellent quality, tasteless and smokeless when burned, leaving only a little white ash. It is very convenient for the villagers to use it for heating and cooking, and some of them dig coal and pick it up to a wharf more than 30 miles away to sell it at a high price and make a small fortune. Due to the inaccessibility of transportation, it is impossible to transport it out of the river on a large scale, and there are no outsiders to mine it on a large scale, so the rest of China has not been able to use this coal, and few people know about it. No matter how large or detailed the map, it is impossible to find the location of this remote mountain village. But later, when my father studied in Japan, he found that the Japanese had recorded this mineral deposit! I saw in the Japanese library that in the report of the investigation records of the Chinese provinces of the Japanese Tongwen Academy, it was recorded that there was an anthracite mine on a certain mountain in Tianxinpu, Leiyang, Hunan (they even knew the small place name of Lu Dao)! This made him both admire and be shocked by the Japanese......"

Zi Zhongyun's father, Zi Yaohua, went to Japan to study in 1917. How did the Japanese accurately map the anthracite coal resources in China's remote villages that could not be found on a map? How much manpower did the Japanese spend and how many unknown methods did they use to do this?

1917 year. There are still more than 10 years to go before "918". There are still more than 20 years before the "77 Incident". It can only be said that no matter what the purpose, the Japanese have been plotting against China for a long time. Japan's knowledge of China far exceeds China's understanding of Japan. "Just as Dai Jitao said in the early years of the Republic of China, the Japanese did not know that the topic of 'China' had been dissected thousands of times on a dissecting table, and thousands of times had been tested in a test tube......," scholar Hu Ping wrote worriedly in his book "Intelligence Japan."

There are two ways to map China in Japan. One is to steal the map, and the other is to secretly map and map.

Okamura Ninji said in his memoirs that when he was a young man, he was often stationed in China to collect information and other intelligence on military important places, but it was not easy to obtain military maps. Most of the 1/50,000 scale maps of central and central China used by the invading Japanese army in Wuhan were secretly obtained by him.

It was when Okamura Ninji was an adviser to the warlord Sun Chuanfang, and once Okamura Ninji went to the Nanchang front, the commander of Sun Chuanfang's department lent him all the 50,000th scale maps of central China and entrusted him with formulating operational guidelines and plans for blocking the Northern Expeditionary Army. Okamura Ninji proposed a plan according to his request, but the set of maps was not returned and was secretly taken back to the headquarters in Jiujiang.

Soon. Sun Chuanfang's army was defeated and retreated, and Okamura Ninji hurriedly hired a small boat to hide on the flagship of the Japanese fleet, the "Ataka". In a hurry. Okamura Ninji threw away all his luggage, but he didn't forget to bring this set of 50,000th scale maps. After returning home, he handed over the map to the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, and received a huge secret bounty. Lieutenant General Miyazaki, then chief of staff of the Japanese army and later chief of operations at the base camp, said that the Wuhan operation and the Chinese mainland operations were all thanks to this one-50,000th scale map.

More maps were secretly mapped by agents before the war. As early as 1873, Naval Commander Shikiri Kayama and Captain Kodama infiltrated southern China, Taiwan and other places to collect military intelligence. At the same time, the "sinologist" Fukushima Kusei Army Major was sent to Taiwan to secretly survey and map Taiwan. It is impossible to count how many such spies there are.

In November 1936, the Chinese army won the victory of Bailing Temple, when Bailing Temple was stationed in the Japanese secret service "Good Neighbor Association", "Dameng Company", "Inspection Department", etc., the famous Japanese spies Yamamoto, Morishima and Xiaobin, are lurking here, such as Xiaobin, after the "918 Incident" came to Bailing Temple, disguised as a lama, wore Mengyi, spoke Mongolian, ate Mongolian, and mixed into the temple for many years. In normal times, he took advantage of being a lama to travel around and survey and map the topographic map of Inner Mongolia. He returned to Japan once a year in the name of going abroad to "refine" himself to transmit the information he had collected and receive funds for espionage.

Disguising themselves as monks and lamas was a major means for Japanese spies to secretly collect intelligence and map geography in China. On August 19, 1894, on a passenger ship Wuning from Zhenhai to Putuo Mountain, the Japanese spy Fujishima disguised as a Chinese monk exposed his horse's feet, and was later arrested with another fake monk Gao Jian hidden on Putuo Mountain.

A few years before the Japanese invasion of Burma during World War II, a large number of spies disguised themselves as monks lurked in Burmese temples to prepare for the Japanese occupation of Burma in 1942. These Japanese spies were persistent and forbearing, and in order to learn the local language, they even lurked with their six- or seven-year-old children, just to deliver a fatal blow at a critical moment.

After supplementing the anecdote of the military map, there is also a joke about the Japanese army disposing of the bones of the war dead. According to the memories of many veterans of the Anti-Japanese War, when they fought against the Japanese army, even if they won the battle, it was difficult to see the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, and they attached great importance to the collection and disposal of the corpses of the dead. In the tradition of the Japanese army, the discarding of corpses on the battlefield is a damage to the sense of belonging of soldiers and will seriously affect the morale of the troops; In addition, the Japanese army has a very good face, even from the perspective of "protecting the short and not showing weakness", they will deal with the bones of the dead in a timely manner.

If there are casualties among the Japanese troops, they must be strictly guarded so that no one can see them, and the vigilance will be lifted only after they are burned and swept away. During the Battle of Matsuyama, Japanese commanders had ordered the "handling" of the seriously wounded, either by committing suicide with a grenade or by swallowing mercury tablets in place of poison. In fact, this method was already a "human-oriented" move, and in the past, the Japanese army even "killed alive" the seriously wounded in battles that were more mobile or failed in a hurry. Every time there is a casualty, the dead body will be transported and incinerated, and no corpse will be left to be seen. The lightly wounded were brought back for treatment, and the seriously wounded, although they were still able to speak and move, asked to be brought back for treatment, but they did not listen, and each of them was cut into two sections with a large knife, and they were carried back by horses. Judging from these facts, at least at the operational level, the Japanese army's disposal of the remains was not purely based on "humanity" or the care of the spirit of sacrifice, but strongly reflected the color of using people as tools and materials of war. That's what we should be aware of.

The worship of the "ghosts of the dead in Yasukuni" was once listed as the core of the Japanese Empire and was exercised directly by the emperor. Specifically, it is stated as follows: "In view of the shortcomings of constitutional politics, in order to limit its harm, the Imperial Government of Japan stipulated that the power of ruler, sacrifice, reward, and so on was not exercised by the Minister of State. This is the spirit of the Imperial Constitution. The commander-in-chief mentioned in the article is the right to command, which is why the Japanese army is called the "Imperial Army"; The right to sacrifice is secondary, and you can imagine the status of this issue in the political structure of the Japanese Empire.

The military flag and the Yasukuni Shrine are the highest materialized forms of the Japanese militarist spirit, and they are the secret of interpreting the fierce monster of the Japanese army. In fact, the military flag corresponds to the right of commander-in-chief, and the Yasukuni Shrine corresponds to the right of worship, and if we add the honor and reward system corresponding to the right of reward, the understanding of the "spirit" of the Japanese empire is roughly comprehensive.

Under the guidance of this system and cultural philosophy, the Japanese army's approach to related issues is extremely eye-catching.

Normally, the Japanese army followed a complete system for dealing with the dead. Generally, the corpses of the dead are burned into bones in time on the battlefield and carried in urns; After the war ended, commanders at all levels personally presided over a large-scale mourning ceremony, and then took the opportunity to transport it back to Japan for burial, and the memorial seat was enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine. In the event of a crushing defeat that makes it difficult to dispose of a complete body in a timely manner, an officer cuts off an arm or a hand, and a soldier cuts off a hand or a finger, and burns the bones with a special "chemical incendiary blanket" or simply firewood. When the Chinese army counterattacked, the retreating Japanese troops still carried an urn wrapped in white cloth around their necks - a widely sung military song of the Japanese army during the war, that is, "The Bones of Comrades-in-Arms"; Unless there is a situation where it has suffered a fiasco and cannot be dealt with in time, the corpse will not be abandoned.

When a Tengchong resident returned home after his recovery, he found that the second floor of his house was full of Japanese urns, each of which contained watches, pens, letters, medals and other items. This was apparently collected and ready to be sent. The family was so frightened and angry that they burned it. It is conceivable that if it were not for the "full jade shattering", the Japanese army would not have been so embarrassed. (To be continued......)