Chapter 1003: The End of the Road

Cao Guozhu was angry with his book and the bodhisattva's heart, and paid the price, he watched with his own eyes, a wounded Japanese soldier, who was blown off an arm, lying in the cave and groaning in pain, a soldier under his order, went up to bandage, and unexpectedly, this Japanese wounded man with only one arm actually stabbed him in the chest with a bayonet, and the young soldier died in Cao Guozhu's arms.

The snow-white gauze in his hand was dyed red by blood, this was a soldier who was less than twenty years old, looking at his company commander with unwilling eyes, but he couldn't say a word, at that moment, the softness in Cao Guozhu's heart was fiercely cut by a sharp blade, and the hard heat flow inside became the substance in reality, and he knew the difference between animals and humans.

After that, the combat group led by Cao Guozhu shot and killed all the remnants of the Japanese army when they encountered them, and even he himself, when he started to move, there was no psychological barrier at all, and there were four or five other groups that went hand in hand with his group, separated by a distance of more than 300 meters, echoing and covering each other.

When searching a small valley, a veteran who served as a pioneer suddenly made a gesture to stop advancing, the squad leader listened carefully, leaned into Cao Guozhu's ear, and whispered: "Company commander, the vanguard found a cave, there seem to be a lot of people, I listened carefully just now, it seems that there is a radio voice, we may have found a command center of the little devil?" ”

Cao Guozhu's heart, inexplicably tight, began to search for the remaining Japanese soldiers in the morning, except for one or two sporadic resistance, the 15th Army has been completely beaten to pieces, and at dusk, a cave suspected of being the Japanese command was suddenly found here, probably a big fish. At the very least, it was also a division headquarters, and the nervousness was mixed with excitement, which made his body tremble.

He ordered the operator in a low voice, "Immediately notify the nearby team and move closer to us, with our little strength, I'm afraid it won't be solved." After a while, there were two or three groups nearby. came closer, Cao Guozhu had more than 60 troops in his hands, but he still felt that the troops were not enough.

Hesitating to attack right away, right now. A group of Japanese soldiers suddenly came out of the cave, there were sixty or seventy people, and the equipment was not bad, just the crooked light machine guns, there were more than a dozen, and then. A few more officers came out with command knives and Wang Ba boxes on their backs.

Cao Guozhu was in a hurry, the Japanese army was going to escape, if they were not annihilated here. Seeing that the sky was about to get dark, these Japanese soldiers who had slipped through the net went deep into the mountains, and it would be difficult to find out again, gritting his teeth, Cao Guozhu shouted "hit" in a low voice, and the submachine gun in his hand was the first to spew out tongues of fire.

The distance between the two sides was only fifty or sixty meters. Almost the standard for encounters, for which one side was unprepared. It's a frightened bird again, thinking about how to escape for its life. On one side was the victorious division, and in the dark, it suddenly struck, and more than 60 submachine guns spewed flames together, wantonly harvesting the lives of Japanese soldiers.

The battle was short and intense, but in just ten minutes, with the roar of dozens of submachine guns, a dense rain of bullets poured over, and dozens of Japanese soldiers who were caught off guard and had no terrain to use became corpses covered with bullet holes, and only five soldiers of the company were wounded.

Cao Guozhu took the soldiers, rushed to the cave like a whirlwind, and when there were still more than 30 meters away from the cave, a group of Japanese soldiers rushed out of the cave, and set up a crooked light machine gun at the entrance of the cave, and a dense rain of bullets overwhelmed the soldiers of a company under the hillside.

Cao Guozhu really guessed correctly, in this cave, there is indeed a Japanese command organ hidden, but Cao Guozhu guessed a little less, not a Japanese commander such as a division commander, but the commander of the 15th Army of the Japanese Army who was responsible for the main attack on the east road, Lieutenant General Yamashita Fengwen, just when Cao Guozhu's group confronted the Japanese army, bursts of gunfire also sounded in different directions, and it seemed that each search group had entered the core area of the battlefield.

As night fell, Yamashita Fengwen in the cave no longer had the usual arrogance and arrogance of Japanese soldiers, his face was gray, his eyes were blank, and he flashed with despair and horror.

Yamashita Fengwen's spirit was already on the verge of collapse, and the sudden ground artillery fire and the combined strike of air planes during the day made him think it was a nightmare, more than 50,000 brave and warlike imperial soldiers were beaten to pieces in an instant, and all the command systems were paralyzed, and after hiding in the cave, Yamashita Fengwen found that he had become a loner.

He sat in a damp cave like this, listening to the tsunami explosions outside, and the staff officers around him shouting hoarsely over the radio, like noise coming from a distant place, he only had one sentence in his heart, the pride of the Imperial Japanese Army, the fifteenth army was finished.

He didn't even feel when the fierce blows of the troops of the Independent Division stopped, and one after another, small groups of Japanese troops that were scattered touched into the caves, and at dusk, the stragglers gathered around Fengwen at the foot of the mountain, there were already more than 200 people, including a division commander and three or four wing commanders, these Japanese officers who were still fierce and invincible a few days ago, gathered together, relatively without tears, what fighting spirit and fierceness, what bushido spirit, were all overwhelmed by the artillery and aviation of the Independent Division. Bombarded out of the clouds, some were just desolation and fear.

Yamashita Fengwen was almost demented, and he couldn't count on it, the commander of the division, temporarily played the role of the commander, and even if he had a conscience, His Excellency the commander, he couldn't leave it to the people of China under any circumstances, not even the corpse, that would destroy the military might of the Imperial Japanese Army.

All the breakthrough plans revolved around how to protect His Excellency the Commander, evade the search of the mountains by the soldiers of China, and get out of danger as the only purpose, and finally waited until it was dark, and gunshots rang out all around, which was a great encouragement to these Japanese officers and soldiers trapped in the cave.

This shows that the soldiers of the empire, although in such a difficult situation, have not stopped resisting, and more importantly, they can better and more conveniently cover the breakthrough of His Excellency the commander, the first wave of more than 60 Japanese soldiers, is out to explore the way, very unfortunately, encountered Cao Guozhu's group, a bullet, sent them all to see the emperor.

The commander of the Japanese division was in a hurry, the cave was discovered by the soldiers of China, and the time dragged on for a long time, so he recruited a large number of soldiers from China and surrounded the cave, which really became a turtle in the urn, and there was no need to fight in, as long as he was hungry for three days, he lay in the cave, waiting for the soldiers of China to catch the prisoners, and there was a lieutenant general commander.

Under the strict order of the commander of this division, the Japanese troops in the cave were divided into several waves, regardless of the dense rain of bullets shot from outside the cave, desperately rushed out, and those few wing commanders were also incorporated into the assault team, and Cao Guozhu, who was guarding the entrance of the cave, felt that these Japanese soldiers were incredible, knowing that they were sent to death, and they kept rushing out.

Fortunately, the Japanese soldiers themselves sent to the door, and the provincial rushed into the cave, but also increased the casualties, wave after wave of Japanese soldiers, moths fell under the guns of a company of soldiers, and finally, no more Japanese soldiers rushed out, and the gunfire stopped.

The corpses of the Japanese soldiers were piled up in a thick layer outside the cave, and under the feet of Cao Guozhu and more than 60 soldiers, there were piles of crystal bullet shells, gunpowder smoke and the smell of blood, which spread in the valley, and the soldiers silently exchanged excited eyes.

In the cave, beside Yamashita Fengwen, there were only the division commander and the three newspaper operators, hearing the gunfire outside to calm down, Yamashita Fengwen knew that all the efforts were useless, and he said to the division commander miserably: "Gong Qijun, our last moment has come, I don't want to be captured by the inferior Shina people, they are like animals, locked in a cage, let these Shina people visit and make fun of them, let's be here and be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor!" ”

Gong Qi was very calm, it seemed that when he set foot on Chinese soil with a knife and gun, he had already expected today's outcome, and said: "It is Gong Qi's honor to be able to accompany His Excellency the Commander and be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor together," After speaking, he touched his feet and took out a posture of looking at death as home, but no one noticed it, and a trace of timidity flashed in his eyes.

Yamashita Fengwen looked at the three newspaper operators who were trembling with fright, and said: "Please, all of you, send a final telegram to General Terauchi Shouichi, after I and General Gong Qi are loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, a few of you will pour gasoline on our bodies, and then, you will also be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor." ”

Cao Guozhu and them, staring at the entrance of the cave for more than 20 minutes, never found the Japanese army rushing out, suddenly, there were a few shouts from the cave, as if there were screams, but they couldn't really hear it, Cao Guozhu couldn't help but feel anxious, what tricks did the Japanese commander play again?

Rushed into the cave with the soldiers, under the dim candlelight, the cave looked ghostly, two radio stations, still flashing traffic lights, three Japanese soldiers like wooden stakes, standing next to the radio station, on the ground, lying two corpses, the command knife into the stomach, a pile of dirty blood, next to it, there was a small barrel of gasoline.

Cao Guozhu was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that this would be the case, several soldiers stepped forward and pushed the three Japanese newspaper operators to the ground, searched for them, these three guys were interesting, they didn't even have a knife on their bodies, and the actions of the soldiers seemed to wake up the three Japanese prisoners from some nightmarish situation.

The squad leader waved his hand, and several guns were aimed at their heads, Cao Guozhu, who knew a little Japanese, hurriedly stopped the soldiers' actions, and he heard a little bit of fame from the non-stop shouts of the three Japanese prisoners.