A red sun erupted from the morning glow in the sky, and the green and yellow mountains were also dyed red by the glow. The town of Kawaguchi seemed to be a sleeping machine, awakened by the rising sun, the people were noisy, the mules and horses in the circle snorted one after another, and the whole town came alive, but unfortunately there was no rooster crowing, and the industrious roosters and hens were swept away by the imperial army.

The Japanese stronghold at Kawaguchi was also full of people, morning exercises were being held in the courtyard, and the flag-raising ceremony had just been completed on the roof of the turret. After reporting the situation of the night to the supreme commander of the stronghold, the officer on duty led the laid-off soldiers back to the barracks to rest. The newly changed soldiers were busy checking weapons and equipment, and squadron leader Shigetaro Oshima looked melancholy at the eastern sky, looking preoccupied.

The squadron leader of Oshima woke up a little later than usual, and if Jing Guanjun, who had followed him for many years, knocked on the door in time, I am afraid that he would have missed the morning exercise that the commander had to attend, and he slept too dead because of a sad dream.

Yesterday, when the ration team was delivering supplies, Captain Shigeda, who is also from Kagoshima Township, specially sent a few bottles of pure black sorrel from his hometown.

Seeing things and thinking about people, when his beloved wife Masachiko was still alive, every year during the season of black sorrel, he would buy a few bottles of the most haode head sorrel, and then pull his parents and a pair of young children, take a group photo, and send it to the big island in the army, which is considered to be safe.

It has been almost two years since his beloved wife died of tuberculosis, and many applications for retirement have been rejected by the War Department on the grounds of war tension. In fact, Oshima understands that a middle- and lower-level officer like him who carries the hat of the imperial sect has no backing in the army, and it is almost an extravagant hope to get out of this quagmire-like war.

It seems that there is no more possibility to return to his hometown, to his parents and young son in this hopeless war, except to be disabled and killed in battle.

Seeing the specialties of his hometown and thinking of these upsetting things, Oshima missed his deceased wife, his elderly parents and children who lost their mothers, and he couldn't relieve the boredom that had been suppressed for many years, so he drank a few more glasses of locally produced shochu, and he was used to drinking sweet sake.

After getting drunk, Oshima returned to his hometown of Kagoshima, and in the white sails, on the small fish dock, his wife was holding a pair of lovely children, and was greeting his return with a smile. However, the small boat that Oshima was riding could not reach the shore, but was carried by the wind and waves, and drifted away to the open sea.

The figures of his wife and children became more and more faint, and the big island in his dream couldn't help but burst into tears.

I drank a little too much, and I got up, and my skull looked like it was going to be sawed open. The sun had risen a little higher, and the sun began to dazzle, and Oshima let out a long sigh and decided to take a look around the town to see how the fort to the west was progressing.

"Oshima-kun, look there." Jing Guanjun, who is the executive officer of the squadron, had just finished observing the situation around the stronghold with a telescope, and was about to use the gunscope to look at the situation in the town, when he unexpectedly found several people.

Looking along Jing Kanjun's hand, Oshima also saw that a group of people came from the town along the avenue towards the stronghold. I could vaguely see a few people riding horses in front of me, and people on foot behind were driving a few carts, and they were about to reach the fortifications and roadblocks guarded by the Imperial Army.

Oshima took the telescope handed over by the executive officer, held it up in front of his eyes, and observed it intently.

There were five men on horseback at the head, three of them wearing the uniforms of the Imperial Army, the small man in the middle was obviously an officer, and the other two were ordinary soldiers. The two people on horseback should be dressed as interpreters or detectives.

The people driving the six carriages behind were all uniforms of the Imperial Army. Looking at the carriage again, the boxes and cages, altars and jars can be filled with young and old, and the imperial army pulled the horse halter and pushed the body, which was very difficult.

Putting down the binoculars, Oshima frowned, and said in his heart that the ration team had just come to deliver supplies yesterday, so why did they come again today? The officer's mind was not able to make any impressions. These two questions were whispered to the executive officer of Jingguan, who also took the binoculars, leaned out of the battlement wall, and looked at them.

At this time, this group of people saw that they had passed through the barricade guarded by the Imperial Army, and the Imperial Army who came out of the fortifications to inspect was still nodding and bowing, and the officers on horseback could see through the telescope that they were quite arrogant, and with a vigorous wave of their white-gloved hands, the convoy continued to rush towards the stronghold.

Jingguan also agreed with Oshima's two questions, thought about it, and said that he would go down to the edge of the trench to meet him and see what it was. What's the matter? After figuring it out, I asked Oshima for instructions, and after saying that, I went down the stairs.

Captain Oshima instructed the soldiers on the roof of the turret to be on alert, to maintain a level of alert, and not to hesitate to open fire as soon as they found something abnormal. After arranging, Oshima sorted out his military uniform and prepared to go to the fortifications of the wall to observe it up close.

As soon as Jingguan reached the gate, the small team on the other side of the trench stopped, and the guy who looked like an interpreter on horseback shouted at the stronghold at the top of his voice.

Standing on the wall, Jing Guan heard very clearly, and the other party's shouting meant that this was the liaison officer of the 74th Brigade of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade, and there were important materials to be temporarily stored in the Kawaguchi base, and the commander of the base was asked to come out to receive the written official document.

The suspicion in Jing Guan's heart is getting bigger and bigger, when their independent fourth mixed brigade marched from Lingqiu and held a joint combat meeting, Jing Guan remembered that in the combat sequence, the first mixed brigade was attached to the southern front to fight, and it did not belong to the same theater sequence as the fourth brigade, how could they come here hundreds of miles away to store supplies?

While he was hesitating, the officer on the white horse in the middle looked a little impatient, pointed his whip against the wall, and shouted loudly in Japanese.

That means to tell you Captain Oshima that Major General Suzuki of the 1st Mixed Brigade is not far to the south, and we are chasing the 8th Route all the way, and these are the important materials captured by the 8th Route, because it is inconvenient to carry them in the mountain warfare, so we sent people to this place for temporary storage, and after the road is completed, we will send people to transport them away by car.

Jingguan also stood up and exchanged a few words with the officer, and the other party directly asked him if he was a second lieutenant Jingguan? In addition, Jingguan asked some things about the first mixed brigade, and the other party answered very neatly, so Jingguan decided to open the gate, put down the drawbridge, and go to meet people.

After the drawbridge of the first trench was lowered, Jingguan led seven or eight soldiers out of the compound, through the blockade area, and came to the second trench.

Across the trench, a large soldier on a horse threw a leather document bag with a hard flick. When the well was opened, there were two official letters for the Japanese army, and on the letter paper with cherry blossom patterns printed on them, they were written in beautiful font.

Roughly speaking, the 1st Mixed Brigade formed a Suzuki detachment for mountain operations, and after a long expedition to the rear organs and arsenals of the Eighth Road, after fierce battles, surrounded and annihilated a large number of enemy troops, and captured many important documents and materials.

Because the remnants of the Eighth Route first fled northward, they found that Kawaguchi Town had been occupied by the Imperial Army, and retreated eastward, and the Suzuki detachment had to immediately pursue and suppress them, so it was inconvenient to carry these heavy materials, so they sent Inukai staff officers to escort them to the Kawaguchi stronghold for temporary storage.

Two official documents, one was an explanatory letter signed by Major General Suzuki, and the other was an appointment order signed by the commander of the Harada wing of the Suzuki detachment, appointing the inuage trainee staff officer to carry out the material transfer task.

After reading the official document, most of the doubts in Jingguan's heart dissipated, the surname "dog raising" made Jingguan awe-inspiring! You must know that in the country of the little devil, the name is an absolute status symbol, and as soon as some names are reported, the surrounding people will immediately know that this is the name of the royal family, or that this is the name of the nobles.

The surname Inukai is also an old aristocratic name in Japan, not to mention those who followed the emperor and shogun in the past, the most famous in modern times is the Prime Minister Inukai Yi who was assassinated by the Japanese army in the official residence in the "May 15" incident.

Across the trench, Second Lieutenant Jingguan looked at this noble officer who was arrogant on the horse with a complicated feeling of awe, and said in his heart that this midshipman staff officer, a small lieutenant, had such a prominent surname, and it was such a simple task of escorting supplies, and the major general and Dazuo had to make an official document.

The eyes are angry, and it is not okay if you don't accept it, your own bland surname is to stay in the army for another 10 years, and I am afraid that no one will rise faster in three years. He lowered his head to hide the grievances in his heart, saluted Lieutenant Inubi, and told him to show the official document to the squadron leader before letting them enter the stronghold.

The lieutenant on the horse impatiently waved his horsewhip twice, took out a silk handkerchief, and gently wiped the dust from his face.

Captain Oshima listened to the executive officer's report, read the two official documents several times, and still felt apprehensive, still a little uneasy, grabbed the phone, shook the handle a few times, and wanted to connect to the wing headquarters of the horse station, and let them use the radio to confirm with the Suzuki detachment.

I have shaken the crank on the telephone case several times, but there is no sound of weak current interference in the receiver. Annoyed, Oshima dropped the receiver and walked to the telephone room on the next floor to ask the communications squad leader what was going on?

The communication room was very busy, and they were also strange, since the morning, the line leading to the Fallen Horse Pass and the Walking Horse Post could not be connected, but the telephone of the Imperial Association Barracks Headquarters in the town was still connected.

Oshima lost his temper and ordered the communications squad to quickly eliminate the problem, and if he couldn't do so, he sent a signal corps to check the line. In a hurry, he wanted to call the town phone and asked Battalion Commander Gao to answer the phone, but the person who answered the phone said that Battalion Commander Gao had taken people to the south to send food and drink to the imperial army, and he was not at home.

Oshima cursed in his mouth: "Yaga! The heart said that patting the sycophants is really positive enough! Then I asked the person who answered the phone if I knew which imperial army unit was in the south, and the other party said in the microphone what kind of Suzuki detachment it was, and I heard that there was a major general over there, and the battalion commander Gao was from the imperial army who came to the south to escort the supplies.

This phone call can also be regarded as a little psychological comfort to Oshima, and the phone call to the wing headquarters will not be able to get through for a while, so after thinking about it, he said to Jingguan, go and lower the drawbridge and let them in.

After a very reluctant movement from the "squeaky quack" drawbridge, it finally lay down on the trench, and the officers on horseback waved their hands, and several carriages behind them, pushing horses and neighing, entered the stronghold in a noisy manner

The canine liaison officer sat on the horse's back, looked around, frowned, folded the silk handkerchief carefully, put it back in his jacket pocket, raised the horsewhip, kicked his feet, and the white horse "squirted" foam, his front hooves scraped the ground a few times, stretched his neck, and kicked across the suspension bridge.

The remaining 4 people didn't rub off, and even took people to ride, and Yuguan rushed into the compound.

The devil is having breakfast, and today's breakfast is very good because of the supplies just replenished yesterday, with red bean multigrain rice, miso soup, pickled radish and natto pickled in Sawaan, and each person can also receive a piece of fried salted meat.

The soldiers who got off the morning exercise took their lunch boxes and happily lined up to get food, and the most happy thing was that it was said that yesterday the ration team also sent milk candy and yokan, I don't know if they can get it this morning, they all stretched their necks and touched it.

Seeing a few carts coming in at the gate of the courtyard, a group of people wearing crumpled and dirty uniforms of the Imperial Association followed the cart into the courtyard, and the soldiers who were waiting to eat looked at this scene curiously.

A few carts came to a stop, and the gate of the courtyard was like a whirlwind blowing in, and a few war horses broke in, and the riders on the horses saw the soldiers who were lined up in a long line to receive breakfast, and hurriedly pulled the reins and put the stirrups, and finally did not let the horses hit the people, and the yard was dusty and complaining.

Second Lieutenant Ikan stepped forward and wanted to lead Lieutenant Inuyo, who had just jumped off his horse, to meet Squadron Leader Oshima in the war room of the turret. Unexpectedly, the lieutenant snorted in his nose, took off his gloves by himself, walked to the table full of breakfast buckets, picked up the spoon for scooping rice, scooped up half a spoon of red bean rice, sent it to his nose and smelled it, and immediately threw the spoon back into the bucket with a look of disgust.

These pampered aristocratic young masters are accustomed to eating polished rice and Western food, and it is delicious red bean rice for ordinary soldiers, and it is similar to pig food in their eyes. Thinking like this, Jing Guan's heart was full of anger rushing back and forth, and the idea of taking someone to the war room was suppressed.

Lieutenant Inukai was at ease, and did not feel any uneasy about his actions, which caused resentment among the soldiers. He walked around the compound with his hands behind his back, and then sat on the horse in front of the storeroom, smiling and whispering to a few people who came with him.

Far away, Second Lieutenant Jingguan couldn't hear what they were saying, but someone could hear it, and Lieutenant Inukai heard the big black man beside him say something to him.

"Feng Dayan, your grandma has a leg! Just pretend! Let me serve you! You wait! ”