Chapter Eighty-Three: The Missing
The first round of the Japanese assault was a tentative attack, hoping to find out the approximate strength and firepower of the expeditionary force to stop the troops, but Dai Guoan saw through it, he calmly commanded the soldiers, put the first batch of Japanese troops into the encirclement he had laid out and annihilated, and then immediately ordered the soldiers of the first line of defense to retreat.
Because he knew that the Japanese artillery fire was coming.
While the soldiers of the first line of defense were evacuating, the Japanese artillery fire began to cover it.
Dai Guoan immediately prepared the soldiers of the second line of defense and aimed the mortars at the positions covered by the previous fire, as the Japanese were about to launch a second assault.
When the artillery fire was over and the Japanese army began to charge, the rear of the attacking Japanese army suddenly rang out gunshots, and the gunfire was sparse, so that the charging Japanese troops couldn't help but stop immediately, and looked to the rear, not knowing what was happening.
Dai Guoan also wondered, how could gunshots sound in the rear of the Japanese army? Could it be that their own troops went around their rear and launched an attack? But it's impossible, this kind of action should tell you that besides, the gunfire is not dense.
At this time, the charging Japanese army began to retreat, Dai Guoan was worried that it was a plan, anyway, their purpose was to delay time, and now it was only two hours away from the originally set time.
After another two hours, they will be able to set up mines and explosives and retreat.
But in the next two hours, they kept hearing gunshots and noisy sounds from the direction of the opposing Japanese army, and Dai Guoan wondered, what happened?
The time finally came, the battalion led by Dai Guoan successfully completed the task, and the main force also annihilated the surrounded Japanese army, but Dai Guoan still didn't understand why the Japanese army suddenly stopped attacking and what happened?
So, Dai Guoan sent a squad of soldiers to reconnoitre, and warned them that they would just reconnoitre, return immediately after checking, and at the same time leave a small part of the troops for the others to retreat immediately.
Who knows, the soldiers of this squad never returned.
It was not until the end of March 1945, after the expeditionary force and the main force of the British army joined forces, that Dai Guoan unexpectedly learned that the Japanese commander of the night's assault battle, Mu Tian Noguchi, had been captured by the British only a few days before.
Dai Guoan tried his best to let the British army lead him to Mutian Noguchi, and he wanted to know what happened that night.
Seeing this, Wei Chi Ran asked: "In other words, in fact, in that battle, not all of the expeditionary force were missing, but only one squad was missing?" Is that right? ”
Suo Ning said: "Yes, the expeditionary force is only missing one squad, but the Japanese army is different, you can see it when you look down." ”
Wei Chiran continued to look down, while Bao Junhao was eating slowly, although Fang Xunyi was anxious to know the result, but because Wei Chiran hadn't finished reading, he could only sit there and flip through his mobile phone, pretending to be calm.
Dai Guoan found Mu Tian Noguchi, who had become a prisoner, but Mu Tian Noguchi's eyes widened when he saw him, and he seemed to be very surprised, and he pointed at Dai Guoan and said something loudly.
Dai Guoan couldn't understand Japanese, so he had to ask the accompanying translator, who was also puzzled and told Dai Guoan: "Didn't he say you were dead?" ”
Dai Guoan was very puzzled, and asked the translator to ask Mu Tian why Noguchi said that he was dead?
Mutanoguchi told the interpreter with certainty that he had seen Dai Guoan die at the gunfire of his own soldiers that night, and he had also stepped forward to check on Dai Guoan's body.
Dai Guoan was even more puzzled, he didn't really see the attacking Japanese army clearly that night, because the Japanese army only attacked twice and stopped.
Mutanoguchi seemed to be crazy and began to babble nonsense, and even the translator couldn't understand what he was trying to say.
At this point, the investigation materials brought by the police department of country T from Taiwan, China, are over.
The following information is the information found by the Japanese side, and the information is mainly based on the diary left behind by Goro Iizuka and Mutanoguchi, who participated in the battle at that time.
Mutanoguchi's diary said that after receiving the reinforcement order that day, they immediately led their troops to rush there, and the reconnaissance unit discovered the position of the expeditionary force, Mutanoguchi did not rush to attack, but let the troops advance at a uniform speed, retain physical strength, arrive in the evening, and then attack after nightfall.
The original tactical arrangement was that the first wave of assault was used to test the enemy's firepower, and after obtaining the exact position of the expeditionary force's position, it was covered by artillery, and then a second assault was carried out.
According to Mutanoguchi's speculation, the expeditionary force's defense line is only three layers at most, and even if you don't know the opponent's strength, you can roughly calculate that it is at most equal to your own strength, so you only need to tear a gap, and the firepower of the expeditionary force will not dare to easily cover their own positions at that time, while the Japanese army does not need to fight, and can directly drive straight into reinforcements.
After all, the expeditionary force set up an ambush here, not to annihilate them, but to delay time.
On the other hand, if the Japanese army wants to completely annihilate this group of expeditionary forces, even if it does, the expeditionary force will have achieved its original strategic purpose.
Therefore, Muta Noguchi could only use the tactics of surprise attacks to disrupt the delayed strategy of the expeditionary force.
The plan went smoothly, and after the first wave of assaults, Mutanoguchi ordered an artillery bombardment and began to send soldiers for the second assault, including Gunko Iizuka Goro.
According to Goro Iizuka's recollection, not long after he and his soldiers rushed forward, he heard gunfire coming from the rear, because there was no enemy at that time, so the jungle was surprisingly quiet, and it was easy to hear the gunshots.
The gunshots rang out, and the assault soldiers subconsciously stopped, most of them looked to the rear without knowing why, and everyone was worried that the expeditionary force had attacked their troops in the rear.
However, Iizuka Goro also knew that the purpose of the expeditionary force was to deter, not annihilate, and that such tactics were not required to block the enemy, so he was very puzzled.
And in Goro Iizuka's diary, it is written that this kind of thing should not have happened, we are actually in the position of the Chinese army.
In other words, Iizuka Goro suddenly found that the location where they were was actually the position built by the expeditionary force, and there were more than a dozen expeditionary force soldiers waiting in the position.
Just when all the Japanese troops were stunned, the soldiers of the expeditionary force turned a blind eye to them.
The Japanese were on the attacking side and were in a hurry to reinforce them, so there was no need to build a position at all, but soon after the second wave of soldiers rushed up, they found themselves in the middle of a position, surrounded by foxholes in addition to trenches.
Muda Noguchi was also stunned, and he was stunned for about ten seconds before he suddenly ordered the soldiers to attack.
Because the opponent was not large in number, the Japanese soldiers killed all the soldiers of the expeditionary force on the spot with a simple attack.
However, everyone was puzzled, why did the Chinese army appear next to them?
And why do they seem to not see themselves?
Just as Muta Noguchi was taking people to check on the corpse, the surroundings changed again, and the original corpse disappeared, replaced by another group of expeditionary soldiers.
Mutanoguchi ordered to continue firing, killing the expeditionary force, and then another group appeared not far from their location.
Mutanoguchi felt that something was wrong this time, and he did not order the soldiers to continue the attack, but asked the soldiers to come forward to check and even ask.
But no matter how the soldiers asked, the soldiers of the expeditionary force just couldn't hear, just stared at their front, and put their fingers on the trigger.
Mu Tian Noguchi was helpless, and ordered to continue firing, this time firing was like shooting at a target, more than a dozen soldiers each aimed at the target, and after a round of shooting, all the soldiers of the expeditionary force fell to the ground, including Dai Guoan that Mu Tian Noguchi saw later.
Mutanoguchi found the body of an officer, went up to check, and found his name as Dai Guoan from the officer's hat, he didn't understand why this happened?
At this moment, Muta Noguchi found that the herald accompanying him was missing, and the person who was standing next to him a few seconds ago suddenly disappeared?
Later, Muta Noguchi found that many soldiers were missing around, and he realized that something was wrong, and began to order all the assault troops to withdraw, and at the same time began to count the number of people from the small team.
At this count, Mu Tiannoguchi learned that during the previous appearance of the expeditionary force, about 300 of his soldiers were missing.
More than 300 people did not leave, and all of them disappeared in just one hour, who would believe this kind of thing?
Goro Iizuka returned immediately after receiving the order to retreat, but it took a while to discover that some soldiers in the army were missing.
Among the missing are also elementary school classmates from Chiba's hometown who are with Goro Iizuka.
Iizuka Goro was very surprised, how could a person disappear for no reason? So he secretly went to ask his classmates about the squadron they were in, but when he went to discredit him, he walked for a while, only to find that all the people around him were gone.
You must know that the number of a Class A wing brigade of the Japanese army is more than 1,000 people, in other words, where they are located, they should be surrounded by their own people, and the distance from their own squadron to the squadron next to them is no more than a few tens of meters.
Just a few dozen meters away, Goro Iizuka actually got lost.
Iizuka Goro was stupid, he stood where he was, and suddenly he felt scared because the surroundings were surprisingly quiet, and he couldn't see anything, and he couldn't hear anything.
Even if the Japanese army implemented light control, they could at least feel that there were people around them, and they could encounter them by walking a few steps, but where did they go at this time?
Iizuka Goro continued to walk forward, and after walking for a while, he found that there was still no one, so he had to go back the way he came.
But when he went back and returned to the place where he was, the soldiers he had been under him were gone.
Goro Iizuka was really frightened this time, he thought how could these people disappear inexplicably?
Are they the same as their fellow villagers?
After the Japanese army attacked Southeast Asia, there have been all kinds of strange stories circulating in the army, this squadron has encountered strange things, that squadron has encountered some kind of strange animal on the position, and so on. For a long time, Iizuka Goro regarded those as pastimes for idle talk, but he didn't expect it to happen to him.
Suddenly, Goro Iizuka suddenly realizes an important reality - maybe it's not that someone else is missing, but that he is missing!