The sky gradually brightened, and many of the soldiers on duty in the Japanese barracks had frostbite on their faces, hands, and feet due to the cold. The shift change every hour didn't make them escape the cold.

As soon as the day dawned, the barracks of the barracks were opened one after another, and one by one, the frozen Japanese soldiers coughed, sprayed white mist, and walked out with shrunken heads.

Behind them, the barracks doors were wide open, steaming grey heat wafting out of the door frames, and smoke wafted from the camp.

Where is this hot gas? It's clearly smoke.

It turned out that the low temperature in the second half of the night made the hot gas from the chimney gradually frost and hung in the chimney, and when the stove was not strong and the heat could not fight against the severe cold, the chimney was slowly frozen, so that the smoke could not come out, and the fire in the stove was slowly extinguished because there was no suction force. After the early Japanese soldiers lit a fire, the smoke did not come out down the chimney, so there was the current situation.

Ensign, lieutenant, lieutenant...... Coughing out of the barracks, all the Japanese soldiers in the house appeared in the open space cleared yesterday, looking at the smoking barracks, in the middle of the road, I don't know what happened.

"Go up to the roof and see what's going on!"

A large Zuo ordered.

"Hayi!"

One by one, the Japanese soldiers went up the snow slope to the roof, and then they understood the reason. The chimney was full of frost, and it was so tightly blocked that it could not be picked by hand, and it was obviously frozen.

"Whoosh ......"

Hearing the report from the soldiers on the roof, everyone understood.

"Pick open the chimney!"

Iwakoshi Tsuneichi shouted as he stood there in his coat and pants and coat.

"Hayi!"

The Japanese commander on the roof of the house drew a half-meter-long bayonet and began to cut the chimney.

As he was picking, a Japanese soldier shook and rolled down the snow slope with a grunt, and Po Tong fell into the courtyard.

"Nani?"

The Japanese soldiers in the courtyard looked at the Japanese soldiers rolling down in surprise, and before they could catch them, the Japanese soldiers on the barracks grunted down one after another.

"Enemy attack!!"

In the shouting, everyone understood that they did not fall by themselves, but were attacked!

With shouting, the Japanese soldiers rushed into the still smoking room, grabbed their weapons and rushed to their respective posts.

The Japanese soldiers on duty poked out their guns in the shouting, looking for the direction of the attack.

But in the muzzles of countless black holes, they couldn't see the figure at all, the surroundings were quiet, and the snow in the distance was even more visible, and they couldn't even see a black spot in their sight.

"Search within three hundred meters of the camp!!"

'Iwakoshi Tsuneichi' ordered, carrying a southern pistol.

The corpse on the ground made him realize that trouble was coming, and that after arson, the other party was like a maggot on the tarsal bones, and if he didn't fight back, his soldiers would be slowly consumed in the long winter.

Following his order, groups of Japanese soldiers with guns in their hands came to the edge of the camp along the traffic trenches cut out, and they suddenly drilled out of the snow one after another, quickly guarding the camp.

But after a toss, the communication trenches that had been prepared for a surprise attack on the enemy were exposed, and no one was seen around the camp.

How is it possible to hit a person on the roof from a kilometer away?

This question popped up everyone.

"Grenade throwing! Forty meters away from the target!! ”

One of the lieutenants in charge of the main entrance to the camp shouted.

With his order, grenades flew towards the snow shell dozens of meters away, and the ensuing explosion made the silent world noisy. In the snow and mist, all the Japanese soldiers were looking for targets with guns. Unfortunately, until the drifting snow and mist fell, no one was found around.

After passing back the information that no enemy was found, these Japanese troops did not withdraw, and continued to wait for their respective positions with their guns in hand, and firmly guarded the camp.

"One blow away?"

Yan Yue Heng narrowed his triangular eyes, secretly pondering and analyzing.

"Pick open the chimney!"

Seeing that there was no hostile situation, a large Zuo ordered again.

Following his order, the soldiers climbed to the roofs of their houses, hid beside the chimneys, and picked at the chimneys with bayonets in their hands.

But even if they hid professionally, they still didn't escape the fate of rolling down. As the figures rolled down one by one, the cracked snow shells were no longer white, and a little bit of dazzling bright red was sprinkled on the white snow, adding bright colors that frightened the Japanese army to the silver-white world.

"Broaden your search !!"

Iwakoshi Tsuneichi roared.

The order was transmitted to the vicinity of the camp gate, and after receiving the order, the Japanese soldiers climbed out of the snow shell along the pre-cut battle position, trembling with their guns, like fiddler crabs on the beach, spread out, and searched outside the camp.

Just when the figures of thousands of Japanese soldiers were revealed, in the whistling sound of bullets tearing through the cold air, one by one the Japanese soldiers turned over and fell to the ground, or lay there, or smashed the snow shells and fell into the snow.

The Japanese soldiers who reacted lay on the snow shells one after another, and the banging gunfire followed.

Iwakoshi Tsuneichi followed the steps to the command post that had been buckled yesterday amid the gunshots, and looked out of the camp gate with a telescope.

However, apart from seeing the Japanese soldiers near the camp gate falling down one after another in the shooting, he couldn't see the other party's figure anywhere at all.

"Machine guns! Echelon shooting snow surface!! ”

He roared, giving the most correct order at this time.

Da Da Da ......

The crisp sound of machine guns rang out happily, and strings of bullet chains began to follow the position of about 100 meters around the camp, and gradually extended forward in the snow and fog, until they were four or five hundred meters away.

During the shooting, the gunfire was intermittent and less and less. The sound of the original twenty or thirty light machine guns had already been connected into a film, and before it had even reached two minutes, there was not much left. At this time, most of the machine gunners in the machine gun position had come to an end in this short minute or two, and they threw down their machine guns and went to see their Amaterasu.

And those Japanese soldiers who got up on the snow under the cover of machine guns and continued to move forward did not all fall unexpectedly, and the snow outside the camp was full of bright red flowers and black corpses everywhere.

"Yaga!!"

Iwakoshi Hengichi angrily slammed the telescope in his hand on the ice wall, and in the crackling lens splash, he understood that the other party was by no means a small force, but a large army!

"Artillery! Shelling outside the camp!! ”

After a brief moment of anger, Iwakoshi Tsuneichi roared and ordered.

As the order was delivered, a mountain cannon was pushed out of the snow pit and pushed to the largest open space, and ten minutes later, twelve mountain cannons divided into four directions fired angry shells amid a roar.

Boom Boom!

Outside the camp gate, a snow mist rose from the sky, and huge snow packs bulged up into the sky, spraying snow mist in all directions. The snow shells were as soft as sand and lowered by at least half a meter in the vibration, revealing the armored vehicles that had been buried by the snow.

The artillery fire did not stop, and in the loud roar, it continued to extend until it was two kilometers away, and the bombardment lasted for more than 10 minutes before it stopped. Immediately after the mortar tom sounded, within 500 meters outside the camp gate, shells fell one after another at close range where the mountain artillery could not shoot, and the area near the camp gate was completely covered in the loud roaring sound.

With such a dense artillery bombardment, not to mention Iwakoshi Hengichi, even ordinary soldiers would believe that if there was an enemy nearby, if they were not killed, they would be buried in the snow, and then the snow would be exposed in the escape.

However, when the shelling was over, except for the snow that had not been reinforced by water in the camp and collapsed, there was no movement around, and the Japanese soldiers hiding in the ice bunker did not see a single figure coming out of the snow. The fragments of the Japanese soldiers who had died outside the camp were scattered and miserable.

"Ruthless!"

Dong Ku took off the respirator similar to the pilot's oxygen supply, exposed his mouth and nose, muttered a word, and then took the three of them out of that position, went down to the bottom of the turret, quickly sapped the sapper shovel to dig out the collapsed snow, slightly reinforced, and several people took turns to replace and disappeared under the snow.

When Dong Ku disappeared, the same scene was staged in the surrounding turrets, and three people in one turret left the turret one after another after the shelling was over, and left the hole in the distance.

As they left, on the top of the hill seven or eight kilometers away, all the warriors were lying on it, looking at the barracks in the distance. Behind them, their skis were plugged in.

Looking at them again, they were dressed in white clothes, white trousers, and a white hooded cloak on their bodies, and even the cotton hats were tightly wrapped, allowing them to blend into the silver-white world.

And beneath them were small mattresses made of roe deer, deer, wolf, and even black blind skins. These small mattresses wrapped in white cloth can ensure that they are as isolated from the cold as possible when they are lying down, and also allow them to lie still for a long time in the snow in the bitter cold.

At this time, they all admired themselves in their hearts as the new chief, this leader who had no last resort.

After they sniped the Japanese soldiers who rushed out of the camp, the soldiers who were staring at the turret where Dong Ku was located saw the flashlight, and then interpreted the information conveyed by the signal, quickly evacuated the lying place, went up to the top of the mountain, and then the shells fell.

After more than an hour, Dong Ku and the others successfully arrived at the meeting place, leaving a company of personnel to watch, and the others went down to the bottom of the mountain to make a fire and cook.

When the shelling ended, Iwakoshi Tsuneichi breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the soldiers to open the chimney.

But when the soldier went up to the roof of the house and began to pick it, he realized that the chimney had been frozen, and the frost had turned into ice, and even if he poured boiling water, he had no chance to melt.

At this time, the temperature in the barracks was close to the outside, not to mention the same as the ice cellar, but it was about the same.

"Look for combustibles in the camp, move the stove out of the barracks, and dig the chimney from the inside!"

With one order after another, the Japanese troops moved one after another, rummaging through the snow for everything that could be burned, and even the wooden planks in the turret were all dismantled and piled up in the open space of the camp. In the house, even the edge of the kang has been removed, not to mention the tables, chairs and benches.

Iwakoshi Hengichi, who had been in the Northeast for two years, had already known the other party's intention at this time, that is, to trap them. Therefore, it was ordered to search for all suspicious burning items to protect against the bitter cold.

But to break through, he knew that if he couldn't find the other party, there was only a dead end to leave the camp. The only way to find enough firewood is to compete with each other for endurance, or to ask for help.

It's just that he doesn't plan to ask for help for the time being, after all, he still has enough combat power on his side, and once he asks for help, his career will end here. The iron-fisted Minister Terauchi Shouichi will never allow this kind of general to appear, and it is easy to say that he will be relieved and returned to the field, but he is afraid that there will be no chance.