Chapter 241: Peak Duel Section 1 The Disappearing Number
I apologize to everyone again, I feel uneasy about everyone's cheapness, and I sincerely apologize!
Let's go back to the end of the novel.
The corpses that were transported to the foot of the Tieying Panshan and handed over to the Japanese army reached 2,000 in one day, many of which could not be obtained, and nearly 1,000 of them were blown up, fell into deep ravines, and were hastily buried, and they could not all be returned to the Japanese army.
The Japanese planes came once, and after dropping some ammunition, they never came, and the destroyers escorting the transport planes even dived down to drop bombs or something, Shimizu Daisa was not impressed by this abnormal phenomenon, and since he had a conversation with Lieutenant General Anda, he called the headquarters in Beiping again, and there was no response at all.
Qing Shui felt that he and the hundreds of remaining people were about to be abandoned by the front headquarters! When I contacted the 110th Division, I only contacted him once, and the response I got was five words: "I hope to break through on my own." "There is not a word more, and the commander of Lin Fang's division did not even add his signature, which probably means that he does not recognize that the special operations wing is still his own division.
It was the middle of winter, the wind blew and cold overnight, and the wounded soldiers were frozen to death twenty people, and those soldiers who were not injured were also frostbitten dozens of people, and if they continued to delay like this, even if they were not killed by the Eighth Road, they would have to freeze and starve to death, Qing Shui became more and more desperate, he wanted to commit suicide twice, but his subordinates found out and saved him.
His guess was not wrong, for the Japanese army, it was a great shame for a wing to be completely annihilated by the Eighth Route, if this matter was revealed, not only the commander Shimizu would be dealt with by military law, but even Lieutenant General Anda and General Okamura Ninji would be held accountable by the base camp, and even held accountable.
Okamura Ninji was about to take over as supreme commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army, and such a scandal was not allowed in his jurisdiction in North China at this time. So he and Lieutenant General Anda confessed. I hope that Lieutenant General Anda, who is already old, will stop bothering with the affairs of the Special Operations Wing. Return to China as soon as possible to serve in the base camp, and be an idle consultant and staff officer to retire.
As soon as this layer of window paper was pierced, Lieutenant General Anda could only accept the commander's suggestion in order to keep his position, but he still wanted to help his students one last time, so he passed the deadline for canceling the rescue operation to Shimizu through a secret radio station in his possession, and the troops, including Kato's unit, would retreat back to Lingqiu at 6 a.m. on January 15. There were less than ten hours left for Shimizu to break through and move closer to Kato's team.
And Lieutenant General Anda hinted in his words that there was a possibility that his unit might be canceled, and he himself might have to withdraw from the military circles, to put it bluntly, the Japanese army would deliberately hide this defeat, and the four thousand soldiers of the Special Operations Wing and Shimizu Daisa himself would be artificially erased from the army and their names!
Ten hours? This is almost impossible, don't look at the map to see the distance of Tieyingpan, that is, twenty miles, so many eight roads under the mountain, along the way I don't know how many eight roads are in ambush waiting to eat them, the defeat of Kato United and Datong reinforcements shows that the eight roads are not only under the mountain!
What to do? Either he dies here, and even his family doesn't know where his body is buried, or he fights out and waits to become an incognito civilian. It's a shame to choose which one, Shimizu is a samurai. He wanted to die a glorious death, but in this situation, his glory was a shame in the military world, a stain on the face of his teacher and the commander of Gangcun, and he wanted to die like this!
It was getting late, and the team of the Eighth Route that transported the corpses during the day was gone, and a large number of bonfires began to be lit at the foot of the mountain, and the beating flames were like a seductive hand, making the hungry and cold devils on the mountain feel like numbness! A decision must be made! Qing Shui Qiang cheered up, he didn't want to hide it anymore!
Summoned all the active soldiers to the top of the mountain, Shimizu Daisa told the big guy about the situation, the final rescue deadline was also said, and told everyone that if they died here, I am afraid that the military would deal with it as if it was missing, and the special operations wing was like a number that had never appeared, and it would not appear in any records of the military in the future.
Since they are all dead, Qing Shui said to everyone that they have already come to this point, and they must leave even one person to preserve the history of the special operations team in the future, and they may not be able to show their lives now, and there may be opportunities to disclose the deeds of these thousands of people in the future.
As a samurai, Shimizu said that he would not surrender, but he didn't want to stop his subordinates from surrendering, he just hoped that these surrendered soldiers would not forget that they were still Japanese, and they would not do the kind of work that Qiusheng and others did! In the future, it is necessary to inform the people of the country about the conquest of the special operations wing.
After saying that, he turned his back, which means that those who are willing to go can leave now! The soldiers behind him were silent, no one spoke, the mountain wind swept by, and the song of the Eighth Route Army under the mountain was heard in the wind, and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were eating hot meals and drinking hot water were happily singing their military songs around the bonfires on all sides.
A few minutes later, Shimizu Dazuo turned around and looked at the soldiers gathered on the top of the mountain, none of them stood aside, ready to go down the mountain and surrender, a smile flashed across Shimizu's cold face.
After the soldiers stood still for a while, a few old non-commissioned officers who were usually more prestigious among the soldiers came out and discussed with Qing Shui whether they could send the wounded soldiers who could no longer fight down the mountain.
This suggestion was adopted by Qing Shui, the corpses of the wounded soldiers who froze to death last night were still on the top of the mountain, and he waved his hand to let the captain of the first brigade deal with this matter.
The soldiers elected the two oldest veterans, to be the representatives of the wounded soldiers, and went down the mountain to talk to the Eighth Road about sending the wounded soldiers, and if the two men finished talking, they did not need to return to the team, they carried the list of these people on the mountain as representatives to report to everyone's home.
Each of them wrote two short sentences to the family, both on a shirt, on which were the names of more than three hundred people, including those who had frozen to death the previous night, and their home addresses.
Two old devil soldiers carried this shirt, and went down the mountain without anything, half an hour later, from the bottom of the mountain led by one of the veterans to a few eight roads, and at first glance the posture is the official, there is even a person who can speak Japanese, as soon as he comes up, he introduces himself, okay, this Akiyama himself is here! I'm here to persuade you to surrender!
The veteran said that the Eight Roads agreed to accept the wounded and sick, promised to treat them, and at the same time asked Akiyama to talk about the prisoner policy of the Eight Roads, hoping that everyone would lay down their arms, and your reinforcements would not come!
No one paid attention to Akiyama, and after listening to the words of the veteran, the captain arranged for a dozen or so people to help carry those wounded soldiers to the side of the position on the hillside close to the Eighth Road, and put them on the hillside and came back.
Carried back to the mountain and lifted the lid to see that there was a bucket of hot cornmeal batter, and in another bucket were boiled potatoes and yam eggs.
Qing Shui refused to eat, and returned to the mountain to sit on the stone and wrap his eyes in a military blanket to recuperate, and the two buckets of food were divided by the Japanese soldiers almost instantly, and at this moment Akiyama under the mountain began to shout again, telling the devils that there was a hot meal under the mountain, so hurry down!
The captain picked up the machine gun and fired a point shot in the direction of Akiyama's shouting, which was regarded as an answer to the persuasion of the eighth road, but the eighth road was not polite, and three mortar shells were fired with a tom! Akiyama paused for a while, but continued to shout tirelessly, the military song of the Eighth Route was also higher and higher, obviously a song competition between different troops.
At nine o'clock in the night, the eight roads under the mountain no longer sang, and Siye gradually had no other movement except for the wind, Shimizu Dazuo threw off the blanket on his body, and asked the guards to call the veterans of the special combat team in the first squadron, and at the same time asked the captain to quietly bring people to the mountain, he was going to arrange a breakthrough! (To be continued......)