Chapter 1069 The End of the Road

More than 200,000 Japanese soldiers entered the Savage Mountain in less than three days, and the little supplies they carried with them were exhausted, killing all the mules and horses of the logistics wing and the artillery wing, and supporting them for another two days, starting from the sixth day, all the Japanese troops had begun to run out of food.

First of all, digging wild vegetables all over the mountain, barely dealing with half full, but because of the soldiers who died of poisoning by eating wild vegetables, there are hundreds of people every day, that is, wild vegetables, because there are too many people, and they have become a rare object, and they have no choice but to hunt wild animals in the mountains, go down to the river to catch fish, how can there be so many prey, for a hare, guide the soldiers to move their fists and kill people, and many cases will happen every day.

Some troops, really hungry and helpless, took risks, went deeper into the primeval forest, hoping to find food, often a squadron of soldiers went out, can come back, but about half, just yesterday, a whole squadron of soldiers, in a large underground cave, bizarre death, more than 200 people, no wounds on the body, as if asleep.

Terauchi Shouichi personally went to the scene to check, the soft corpse of the soldier, lying on the ground, that kind of scene, see the commander-in-chief His Excellency is terrified, covered with goosebumps, called the military doctor with the army, can not say why, can only roughly speculate, as if it was some unknown poison.

Terauchi Shouichi hurriedly issued an order, all troops, not allowed to enter the cave, this can be bitter for the exhausted Japanese soldiers, the subtropical climate of the primeval forest of Savage Mountain, said that the sky will change, under the pouring rain, the Japanese soldiers had to squat trembling in the field, let the rain whipped the almost moldy body.

At night, it is even more alive to suffer, countless unknown insects in the forest, like small bombers, blowing horns, to the Japanese soldiers sleeping in the wilderness, launching an attack that never knows tiredness, there are many insects, with strong toxicity, a bite down, walnut big bag, immediately bulge, more terrible, is the bite of the Japanese soldiers, less than two days of effort, inexplicably full of fever, soon died, lucky not to die, but also festering, painful.

There is no food, the medicine is exhausted, in addition to the Japanese soldiers are half starved to death, the wounded and sick, can only wait for death, originally in the savage mountains, there are a large number of Chinese herbal medicines, can save the lives of some soldiers, but the Japanese look down on the Chinese, carrying even Chinese medical skills, has become the garbage of the inferior nation, let the Japanese scoff, more than 200,000 Japanese soldiers, even did not know herbal medicine, it is really a great irony and an excellent punishment.

Hunger and cold, wounded and sick, the Japanese soldiers every day because of non-combat attrition, have reached more than 1,000 people, hard stepping out of the mountain road, corpses, Terauchi Shou to the number of deaths reported up, has been numb, I don't know why, he led the dispatch army headquarters directly under the troops, actually lost, turned around for three days, the captain of the team, sad to tell His Excellency General Sù, we returned to three days ago, the place of departure.

A few days later, Terauchi Shouichi finally found that the troops were on the verge of getting out of control, and his order was no longer very good.

But a few days later, hunger and injury, the endless primeval forest, the bleakness of the future, and the inability to grasp the future fate made a large number of middle and lower-level commanders of the Japanese army have the idea of finding a way out by themselves, and led their troops to wander like flies in the primeval forest of the Savage Mountain, and I don't know how many Japanese soldiers died on the unknown road.

Chutian led the attack column and parachuted to the southern foot of Savage Mountain, this position, already in front of the Japanese army, more than 2,000 people, divided into 20 roads, retreated to the hinterland of Savage Mountain, five days later, still no trace of the Japanese army was found, Chutian contacted other troops, all reported, no Japanese army was found, and the search area of the troops was so calm that it was uneasy.

According to the normal speed, this position, should have sporadic contact with the vanguard of the Japanese army, Chu Tian was alert, ordered all troops, stand by in place, he was worried that the speed of the troops advancing was too fast, one was to pass by the Japanese army, and the other was to suddenly break into the middle of the Japanese army's large army, and fall into a heavy encirclement, more than 2,000 people against more than 200,000, even the god of war will be beaten into a sieve.

On the night when the troops stopped, Chutian reported the situation to the division commander Tang Qiuli, Tang Qiuli was also strange, it was almost 20 days, why should Shouichi Terauchi also walk most of the mountain road, Chutian's current position should be the place where he encountered the vanguard of the Japanese army, there was no battle on the whole line, it was abnormal.

Tang Qiuli called back to Chutian, "Captain Chutian, the troops should retreat cautiously, after more than 20 days of attrition of the Japanese army in Savage Mountain, they are tired and the troops should be in a state of chaos, in this case, it is not advisable to rush forward, the distance between the departments should not be too far, if the situation is not clear, you can stay in place for a short time, find another fighter, and do not rush it." ”

After sending the telegram back to Chu Tian, Tang Qiuli couldn't understand what was going on, could it be that Terauchi Shouyi saw that there were many difficulties in moving forward, so he turned around and went back? Or optimistically, more than 200,000 Japanese troops were wiped out in Savage Mountain? If so, this is a strange story that shocked the world, creating a myth of the Chinese battlefield, of course, he hoped so.

At the beginning, more than 50,000 Chinese expeditionary forces, and more than 10,000 people came out, and called in Chen Feng, the director of communications, and ordered: "Send a telegram to Le Yiqin, tomorrow at dawn, the air force will dispatch reconnaissance planes to conduct an all-round and large-scale search of Savage Mountain, and the whereabouts of the Japanese army must be found." ”

In fact, both Tang Qiuli and Chu Tian were too cautious and worried, the Japanese army did not go crazy and broke out, but it was like encountering a ghost hitting the wall, turning around, wandering around the central area of Savage Mountain, all the Japanese troops were lost, and none of the small troops sent out to find the way could come back.

Shouichi Terauchi convened senior officers and held several meetings to study the situation they were facing, and who could come up with a good solution? There is a compass, but you can walk in the direction, either a bottomless swamp, or a cliff that is difficult to pass, detour, walk, and get lost again, that is, more than 200,000 people, trapped in this savage mountain.

After a few days of wandering, in addition to dropping thousands of soldiers' corpses every day, they were still circling in place, as for the small units that were lost, there were no detailed statistics, it didn't matter if Terauchi Shouichi got lost, it made Tang Qiuli and Chutian suspicious, in fact, Chutian's attack column, if it went forward for two more days, it could encounter the scattered Japanese troops in the primeval forest, and there was no direction to collide.

The next day, Le Yiqin's aviation unit dispatched nearly 100 planes to sort out the Savage Mountain area from north to south, and Le Yiqin personally led the team to look for traces of the Japanese army in the vast primeval forest of the Savage Mountain, which was not an easy task, and the fighters did not dare to fly too low, for fear of being attacked by the Japanese ground fire.

After flying for a while, Le Yiqin and his wingman still didn't find anything, and asked the other crews, but they didn't find any trace of the Japanese army, he had the same opinion as the division commander Tang Qiuli, it is impossible for more than 200,000 Japanese soldiers to disappear in Savage Mountain, Chutian is still waiting for news in place, thinking of this, Le Yiqin has an overly bold decision.

He ordered the wingman: "Zhiqiang, you cover me, I'll get down," After speaking, as soon as he pressed the nose of the plane, the fighter plane swooped down from a high altitude, almost grazing the treetops of the towering trees in the tropical primeval forest, and then changed to level flight.

Le Yiqin was very happy in his heart, okay, the little devil was hiding here, and what he saw by himself was no less than a few thousand people, and there were other places, he immediately gave an order, "Attention to all crews, take me as the midpoint, lead the captain to reduce the altitude, search carefully, and the wingman is responsible for covering," One found the traces of the Japanese army, and more pilots also found piles of Japanese soldiers one after another.

It turned out that the Japanese soldiers were already afraid of the planes of the independent division aviation unit painted with the five-clawed golden dragon and the Great Wall pattern on the wings of the aircraft, and they would not forget it.

Terauchi Shouichi thought that Tang Qiuli was going to dispatch planes to bomb the troops destructively, so he ordered the troops to hide immediately, and this order was very popular with the Japanese soldiers, although the current situation was almost like death, but the samurai of the Great Japanese Empire did not want him to be loyal to the Emperor so quickly and sacrifice his life for the cause of Greater East Asia, so the order of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief was thoroughly implemented.

With the news and approximate location of the Japanese army, Tang Qiuli breathed a sigh of relief, the possibility of the Japanese army returning that he was worried about was completely ruled out, and Chutian was also greatly relieved, according to the general location provided by the aviation force, the attack column faced the direction of the Japanese army and continued to search the past.

Two days later, in the afternoon, Chutian's troops were marching in the middle of the dense forest with difficulty, and suddenly, the team leader who served as the vanguard made a gesture to stop advancing and hide on the spot, and after a while, the team leader retreated to Chutian's side and said: "Detachment leader, in the canyon ahead, I found Japanese troops, the number of which is about one brigade. ”

Chu Tian was excited, looked for the little devil for several days, and finally found the target, he ordered the troops to prepare for battle, and together with the squad leader, he touched forward.

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