Chapter Ninety-Eight: Snake
How bad will the lack of intelligence become?
More than 2,000 devils went to Dazhou Island, and only more than 300 people escaped back in the end. Snakes and other inferior animals do not have much intelligence, but they are superior in numbers. Moreover, in terms of the ability to survive at night, man cannot be compared with a snake. A serpent can grasp the terrain with his tongue, but a man has to rely on his eyes. In the southeast of Ozu Island, there are searchlights shining on the three large ships "Mogami", "Chokai", and "Oshima Maru", so the snakes instinctively give up this area. And after leaving the searchlight illumination range of these three ships, the snakes were haunted, always appearing in the most unexpected places of the little devils, and soon, the two groups of devil soldiers tasted the taste of ambush on all sides.
"Snake, it's a snake!" A devil exclaimed—he felt something entangled in his feet, and he bent down and reached out to touch it, and immediately knew what he had caught. The snake hates human touch, this devil is obviously rude, and the force is very strong, okay, the scarlet mouth is a bite, and the devil immediately howls in pain and fear. His howl didn't last long, for soon more snakes came to him, including a pit viper.
The snakes swarmed out, and soon, more than a thousand devils at the front were surrounded by the snakes. "Snake!" Some devils are obviously extremely afraid of snakes, and once they feel a snake swimming towards them, they can't help but pull the trigger.
Because of the previous lesson, more than 2,000 devils are working collectively, so although they have found support for each other, at the same time, they are also very prone to accidental injuries. The devils of these two brigades carry limited flashlights, so although they want to shoot the snake, once they shoot, the front sight is often trapped by the surrounding comrades. As soon as the gunshots rang out, someone was injured by mistake. The howls rang out, and the ranks became even more chaotic.
Aikawa walked in the middle, surrounded by more than a dozen gendarmes, and he reacted quickly, and as soon as the front was in chaos, he immediately let people fire flares. However, it was fine not to fire flares, and once the flares were fired to take in the surrounding environment, Aikawa couldn't help but gasp. Snakes, lots of snakes! At a glance, it is densely packed with snake heads and tongues moving up and down. "Bage, what's going on!"
"Snake!" found himself in a snake den, and the psychology of a devil immediately collapsed. They didn't care about any military discipline, they turned around and ran, however, they turned to find that behind them, as in front of them, there was also a sea of snakes—I don't know when they had been surrounded by snakes.
"Don't panic! The machine gunners assemble in the middle! The others form an array, and the officers get into action and organize a platoon of guns to shoot! Fall back! Aikawa forcibly restrained himself and calmly ordered.
The machine gunners quickly gathered, and some of the soldiers lined up at the orders of the officers of all ranks, and they resisted their fear and fired with their platoon guns to clear the retreating snakes. Machine guns rang out, and hundreds of snakes were shattered and knocked away in a rain of bullets, however, more snakes rushed up.
The gunfire rang out again, and as the gunfire became more and more intense, and some of the routs fled to the first landing point, Onizuka Shaomuro took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled it, and his face could no longer maintain a constant expression: "Did the people of China actually build a strong fortification on Dazu Island?" If this is the case, this at least shows that Ouyang Yun had long expected that the imperial army would attack Hainan, so I am afraid that this time the Hainan strategy will not be too smooth! ”
Yuanshan couldn't stand anymore at this time, and he suggested to Onizuka: "Your Excellency, do you want to send reinforcements?" Like, it seems that Aikawa Osa can't resist it! ”
Another group of routs fled, and they threw themselves into the sea without hesitation, many of them screaming loudly as they ran towards the landing craft. Although I don't know what they called, it can be told from their movements that they have clearly been hit hard, and even their morale has completely collapsed.
"Let the 'Least' and 'Torikai' prepare for shelling!" Onizuka Shaomuro said, a painful expression flashed on his face, and then he looked like a thousand-year-old ice.
"But Your Excellency, Aikawa Osa hasn't withdrawn yet."
"Will he be able to escape?" Onizuka asked rhetorically.
The sound of gunfire in the northeast of Ozu Island had gradually thinned out, and as more than a hundred officers and soldiers fled from the col in disarray, Onizuka Shomuro shouted directly to the heralds below: "Order Watanabe Osa and Miyazaki Shosa, let them carry out artillery bombardment!" Cover the evacuation of officers and soldiers! ”
"Hay!" The herald responded loudly, and then raised the signal light and waved the flag.
In the captain's office of the "Mogami", after receiving a report from the herald, Watanabe Hanchuan questioned, "Aren't you mistaken?" Is it really an artillery bombardment ?! ”
"Yes."
"This round of offense failed again? Two brigades of imperial troops! Watanabe said, gritting his teeth in pain, and then gave the order for the shelling.
The cannon sounded, and Aikawa, who was protected by more than a dozen gendarmes in the middle, gritted his teeth in pain, and then shouted: "Gentlemen, run for your life!" Whether you can escape or not depends on your luck! ”
"Your Excellency, let's go together!"
"Can you go? Do you want to see me in the dock of a court-martial, covered and bruised? Hahaha, the dignified Imperial Army of Japan was defeated in the hands of a group of brutes, I am unwilling! Aikawa said and pulled out his command knife, and then in the exclamation of several subordinates, "Your Excellency", he grabbed the blade with both hands and plunged it into his abdomen.
"If anyone escapes, please, please bring a word, to Commander Yamamoto, intelligence, intelligence!" After saying this sentence in severe pain, Aikawa pulled out the knife with all his might, and then fell down in the rain of blood gushing from his abdomen.
Yamamoto Isoroku and Koizumi Toshiichiro and others have been closely following the war on Ozu Island. However, because of the night and distance, they didn't know that this attack had failed until they received a telegram from the Onitsuka Shomur.
"What? Failed? Also, the loss of two brigades of the Imperial Army? Listening to the communication staff officer read the telegram sent by Onizuka, Yamamoto had not yet spoken, and Koizumi said with a look of disbelief.
Yamamoto didn't believe it either. In fact, all the Japanese officers in the captain's office did not believe it - common sense does not make sense, even if it was a premeditated ambush, but in such a short period of time, if you want to deal with the imperial army of two brigades, you need at least twice the strength. How big is the total size of Dazhou Island, and if the Cadet Army really ambushed 4,000 people on it, then where are they hiding? You must know that the previous shelling almost completely plowed Dazhou Island. The smallest caliber of the shells is 150 mm, and the bombardment of this kind of shells, even if Ouyang Yun hides people in the cave, it may cause symptoms such as deafness due to the violent explosion.
The more I thought about it, the more incomprehensible it became, the more I thought about it, the more incomprehensible I felt, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt that Ouyang Yun was unfathomable. At this time, even Koizumi Tonichiro changed his previous infallibility and treated Ouyang Yun, a destined opponent, seriously.
(Old poison: Today's three watches-)