Chapter 60: It's New Year
Blood was pouring from the battlefield, and her internal organs and limbs were lying there bloody, and even though she had seen such scenes many times, Elena still felt like she was vomiting. Her boots were already red, and in a small village, tens of thousands of corpses had fallen by the Japanese and volunteers, and it was almost like stepping on corpses to move.
Elena struggled to find a place to stay, but it was really difficult. Yang Xiaolin, who was on the side, stood in the place with the most corpses, watching the soldiers drag out the mutilated corpses of Japanese soldiers.
Rong Ben Shengjia was finally found, his arms had been blown off, and his face was also a blur of flesh and blood, if it wasn't for Cai Ye seeing the family photo in Rong Ben's arms, he really wouldn't have recognized him.
When the soldiers were about to throw Rong Ben into the pit and burn it like those Japanese soldiers, Cai Ye stopped the soldiers: "Wait." β
Cai Yi walked to the side of Rong Ben's body, bowed very politely, and then squatted down to tidy up Rong Ben Shengjia's clothes, and found the saber and put it next to Rong Ben: "Commander, give him a decent face, he is a real soldier." β
Yang Xiaolin nodded: "Find a coffin for him, and then send it to the Japanese side." Also, Mark, where's Mark? β
Mark, who was filming materials on the battlefield, heard Yang Xiaolin's shout and immediately ran over: "Commander Yang, what's the matter?" β
Yang Xiaolin grinned: "Take a picture of me!" Right in this place. β
As he spoke, he stood next to Rongben Shengjia's corpse and straightened out his military uniform: "Remember, you must take both me and Rongben into it!" Let others know that Lao Tzu killed him at a glance! β
Mark shrugged his shoulders helplessly, such a thing is estimated to be something that only Yang Dagui would do. He set up the camera, and when the lens was pointed at Yang Xiaolin, Mark suddenly asked, "Do you want to laugh?" β
Yang Xiaolin really smiled, on this bloody battlefield, next to Rong Ben's mutilated corpse, Yang Dagui smiled in a military uniform. Mark quickly pressed his own shutter.
After 97 hours of fighting on January 30, the 29th day of the lunar month, the Volunteers completely annihilated the Japanese Second Army's Middle Route Group with the Third Division as the main force at the cost of 12,000 casualties.
More than 31,000 Japanese soldiers were wiped out, and the commander of the 3rd Division, Lieutenant General Eimoto Shengjia, was killed. The victory of this battle announced that the volunteers had not only completed the objectives of the first stage, but also successfully cut through the front that Matsumura had wanted to set, Matsumura's footsteps had been disrupted, and the rhythm of the war was at least in the hands of Yang Dagui at this stage.
At the end of the battle, Matsumura received the news of the destruction of the 3rd Division and immediately ordered the two Japanese divisions on the left to shrink immediately, thinking that the Volunteers had just fought a fierce battle. It was necessary to rest for at least one or two days before continuing the battle, but the volunteers did not stop their footsteps at all, and more than 50,000 troops of the second, eighth, ninth, tenth, and four divisions rushed towards the fourth division of the Japanese army.
The 4th Division, which felt that something was wrong, ran all the way to escape from the encirclement of the volunteers, but was finally blocked by the 8th Brigade of the 2nd Division at Yangjia Datun, 28 kilometers west of Suzigou. Seeing that it was only three kilometers away from the Japanese Sixth Division, it was close but could not converge.
After two charges failed to break through the line of the Eighth Brigade, the encirclement of the Volunteers rushed over. The strength of more than 50,000 troops was next to the Sixth Division, and the Fourth Division, which had more than 14,000 men, was tightly encircled.
this day. It's just about to be the Chinese New Year.
The procession in Beijing finally subsided on this day. The Chinese people are like this, the national crisis and the approach of war cannot stop Chinese joy of the New Year, even if last year was unsatisfactory, there are many grievances and anger. Be happy during the New Year.
I hope that in the new year, those unhappy things that make me aggrieved can be dissipated far away with the explosion.
From noon on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve. Until the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the sound of firecrackers in Beijing was non-stop. Rich people are naturally extravagant, even those who are poor, even if they can't eat, have to buy two hangings.
Mr. Sadaoyi has been in China for almost ten years, and he has become accustomed to the customs of the New Year, and even a few years ago, he liked to celebrate the New Year with Chinese and feel the festive atmosphere. But this year's artillery battle made him feel a little noisy, looking at the yellow-skinned smiling faces outside the window, Mr. Sadaoyi's mood was not too good.
That beast was much more fierce than he imagined, and in the face of the strong coalition army, he actually had the courage to pounce, and as soon as he came up, he put on a life-and-death jiashi.
Those guys used 80,000 or 90,000 men to attack the Japanese Second Army, which had more than 100,000 troops and a large number of reinforcements. This is an extremely rare example on the battlefield, and what is even more rare is that they are fighting one large-scale encirclement and annihilation battle after another with a numerical inferiority!
After the Third Division was eaten by him, the Fourth Division was now in danger, and the Sixth Division had been cut off from retreat, and it was impossible to run if it wanted to.
Such a war start is really something that no one expected.
Although Nogi Noshinori was desperately marching, the Third Army stretched the whole army in a straight line of 50 kilometers because of the rapid march from Dandong to Xiuyan, and yesterday afternoon a Japanese wing was killed by the 5th Division of the Volunteer Army that arrived later because of a serious disconnection.
All military experts are wondering if Japan is still capable of resisting the bite of that beast?
The Japanese minister, Abe Shotaro, had asked friendly forces to quickly intervene in the battlefield yesterday and cooperate with them in the decisive battle with Yang Dagu. The so-called friendly forces were the Russian troops, and Sa Daoyi knew very well what this request of the Japanese meant. The Japanese may not be sure, otherwise they would not have allowed the Russian troops to enter Liaoxi.
What kind of character Lao Maozi is, Sa Daoyi is very clear, and I believe that the Japanese know better! It is easy to let the Russians go to Liaoxi, but it is not so simple to let them go. The Japanese side must have made a good plan to cede some of its interests in western Liaoning.
Even so, the Russians were reluctant to intervene in the fighting, and they even proposed to Sadaoyi that the Russian army should go to Mongolia to destroy Zaitao first, citing the appearance of Mongol resistance.
Zaitao just used your 200,000 troops to exterminate those thousands of people? Sa Daoyi understands that these are excuses. If Yang Dagui kills the Japanese Second Army, Lao Maozi will be very happy. In the future, when they intervene in Europe, they don't have to worry about problems here.
He had wanted to put some pressure on the Russians, but London did not allow him to do so. London made it clear that now Britain and France need the Russians, so that the Russians have no worries, and in the event of a possible war in the future, this polar bear can pounce on Germany with all its might.
But judging from the current situation, if the Russians don't work hard, the Japanese will have no way to suppress Yang Dagui into Changbai Mountain! Yang Dagui is active in western Liaoning, which makes the coalition army still land like this?
According to their pre-war jihua, the coalition fleet should have arrived in Dalian by now. It was because the Japanese were not going well that the fleet stayed in Shanghai.
Yang is very fierce in fighting ghosts. It can be seen from the way he beat the Japanese. At this time, the Japanese in western Liaoning could no longer hold on, and the coalition forces drove over just in time to reinforce them.
It's a joke, you lend the British a few guts, and they don't dare to land in Dalian at this time. If that guy really kills the troops of several countries, even if Zuihou exterminates him, Sa Daoyi estimates that his political career will be over. Even if Sadoyi is willing to fight for his future, Major General Hamilton is still young.
The major general sent several telegrams from Shanghai, saying that the Japanese army would not control Liaoxi, and the coalition forces would never land. It's not that Hamilton is timid, it's that the coalition forces can't fight! The combined fleet came from various countries. If people give you face for the British, they will obey your command, and if they don't give you face, you will be nothing.
Take Austria-Hungary, for example, this time they sent out 3,000 soldiers, all purebred whites. But he actually sent a prince to command the 3,000 soldiers, the prince's rank is lieutenant general, Hamilton is a major general, and the relationship between the two countries is now very abnormal. The Prince-Lieutenant-General of Austria-Hungary did not take this British aristocratic major general seriously at all.
And the Germans, send a hundred troops, can't you just send a captain? The Germans are also masters. In order not to lose ground in front of the British Empire, they also sent a major general to lead the army. In view of the fact that the highest official rank in the German garrison in Qingdao was a major, it was somewhat unrealistic to send a major general from the country, and a telegram from Berlin showed that the major in Qingdao suddenly became a major general, and he was waiting for the ship in Qingdao with a team of 100 people, and the smallest rank of 100 people was also a second lieutenant, a typical officer corps.
The most infuriating thing is the Italians, they are not here to fight at all! When the Italian soldiers came from their own country, they didn't bring war supplies, not even guns, they brought high-quality Italian furs! The battalion commander who led the team said that this thing could be sold at a good price in China.
They got off the ship in Shanghai and began to look for buyers, and each soldier made a small fortune. The battalion commander ran out of furs and asked Hamilton if he would stop in Shanghai when the fleet returned, and if so, he could now collect some silk antiques and the like, and then take them back to sell.
Can such a force fight?
Sa Daoyi is very clear that the coalition army is a faΓ§ade. This time, he was able to form a coalition to fight against Yang and the ghosts, thanks to a large part of the economic crisis that is currently sweeping the whole of Europe. Just look at the eight countries that entered the war, and with the exception of Japan, the rest were countries that were seriously troubled by the economic crisis, including Germany.
To a certain extent, they want to use war to consume their surplus materials and create the illusion of a balance between supply and demand, so as to alleviate the domestic economic crisis. China is a very haode war market, the Northeast is one, and there is also one between Sun Wen and Yuan Shikai!
This is the reason why the foreign adults supported Yuan Shikai and Sun Wen on the other, and they were eager to use other people's wars to help them alleviate this economic crisis. It's the same in the Northeast, no matter how big the casualties of the Japanese are, paying money is to buy your Japanese lives, if the foreign adults are willing to fight themselves, why do you provide supplies to Japan?
Other countries can leave it alone, but Mr. Sadaoyi must take care of it. War is a very sharp double-edged sword, which can cut the opponent as well as oneself. Now that the war situation has been passive, if the war is allowed to get out of control, no one can estimate what will happen.
The secretary pushed open the door from the outside: "Your Excellency, Yuan Shikai wants to see you outside, saying that he is here to pay New Year's greetings to you." (To be continued......)