Chapter 385: "Lucky" Toshiro
July 24th, half past seven.
[The annoying rain finally stopped, and our troops were stationed in a small county town not far from Tengchong, where hundreds of families lived, but they were almost all fleeing at this time.
Because of the defeat in the last war, I was demoted to the rank of inferior again, and it was already very shameful that the commander did not order me to cut my stomach, but the scene of that war will still appear in my dreams in the middle of the night, I am too scared......
Fortunately, my army numbered nearly 20,000 men, and we had already started construction and gathered our men in advance, and there was still a steady stream of stragglers gathering on our side, and it was a lot more reassuring to have so many compatriots with me, so I had time to pick up the diary again.
I had just passed through one of the busiest streets in town, and I found that the shops had been looted by our soldiers, and that there were a few decent antique shops in the city, but now not even a copper plate could be turned over.
I actually met Kido-kun from the same street in this town, and he is now a private soldier, and he pulled me to the corner with a mysterious expression, and poured some white sugar into my pocket from his arms, and he said that it was secretly packed from a grain store, and it was delicious.
God blessed him, and while he was pouring me sugar, I saw a wound on his flank that was still oozing blood, and I hoped it would be all right.
Walking out of this relatively easy street, I stepped on the muddy swampy path again, just now, a group of soldiers or pushed, pushed several field heavy artillery from the road to the city head of the garrison area with great difficulty, next to the street, the corpses that lost their lives due to various infectious diseases were loaded into carts, their appearance is unbearable to look at, maybe only a fire can purify their souls.
Our communications corps set up telephone poles in the streets, and in a few moments a few bright light bulbs came on, and our trucks were struggling along the five-room-wide road, and the rumbling of engines could still be heard in the distance. 】
[July 25th, rare good weather.
Although the weather is beautiful today, my mood is full of gloom because Kido-kun is dead......
He was found dead on the corner of the street, and until the moment he died, he still had a smile on his face, and a few grains of white sugar on the corner of his mouth, I thought, the sweet taste of white sugar must have accompanied him to heaven, the cause of his death was tetanus, and it seems that the wound on his flank killed him directly.
I feel that among the people I know in my hometown, it seems that all the people who came to serve as soldiers have been sacrificed, our squad leader named Uchiyamada specially stuffed me with a pack of cigarettes in order to comfort me, he is a very chatty person, and a sentence that often hangs on his lips on weekdays is "I will not die when others die, and after returning to China, I will go door to door to comfort the families of the officers and soldiers who died in the army, so I can't die myself." ”
I don't know why the squad leader is so confident, but I think it may be due to blind belief in a certain religion, since ancient times, there has been a group of people who have not died superstitiously.
This afternoon, I saw soldiers walk into the homes of local farmers, seven or eight women huddled in the corners, men tied up by our men and waiting to be killed, and a girl of seventeen or eighteen had a black ash on her face, which looked very dirty, but even if she did, it would be of little use to the hungry soldiers.
I had expected that the women in this room would suffer similar misfortunes as their compatriots, but an accident happened, and one of the women actually hid a grenade, she rang the fuse, and angrily pounced on the soldiers, and the grenade exploded.
Fortunately, I was just standing outside the house and watching, and the explosion sounded, killing three of us and injuring three, and the woman was also blurred by the explosion, and the soldiers were so frightened and angry that they raised their guns and killed all the farmer's family. 】
[July 26, cloudy.
Oh my God, Captain Uchiyamada, what an optimistic man, he also died in battle...... It is said that while leading troops on patrol outside the city, he was shot in cold by an enemy sniper, and his head was blown in half.
His death is unforgettable for all of our team, and we are very saddened, after the death of Captain Uchiyamada, only Moriki Caocho and Ono Caochang remained, but the two of them didn't seem to have much confidence in leading us to life.
The enemies here are not the same as the ones we encountered when we first entered the continent, they are very powerful, their marksmanship is very accurate, and judging by the few guns we have picked up by chance, the enemy is much better equipped than ours, which makes our commander particularly frustrated.
He tried to radio reinforcements every day, but I heard from other soldiers that the scouts sent by the commander to the southeast of Burma had succeeded in bringing the news to them, and that friendly forces there had telegraphed back that they would cooperate with our operations and flank the enemy as they moved north, in an effort to annihilate him in a battle.
On July 27, the morning fog began to appear.
According to the news from the scouts and friendly forces entrenched in the northeast, the enemy's main forward force was only thirty kilometers away from us, and the commander decided to take the initiative to attack and set up an ambush along the Nu River to avenge the chief Iida and the 5,000 compatriots.
As soon as the sky was bright, we buried the pot to cook, and then carried our equipment and headed towards the Nu River.
It was about noon that we arrived at the ambush site, and my squad was advancing along a small river, while I was the machine gunner in the group, and the commander graciously equipped us with a heavy machine gun.
I could see that there were also several squads on the other side of the flank, and the battle formation was quickly deployed, just waiting for the enemy to fall into our trap.
My mood is a little excited, and now I am lying in the trench that I have just dug, and I want to avenge Major General Iida, and I want to avenge every fellow villager who died on the battlefield.
Coming, we waited for about an hour or so, and the enemy finally appeared, and they were quite numerous, it seemed that there were almost two thousand of them, which was the total number of all the enemy troops who had engaged us last time.
I don't know which stupid gun went off and startled the enemy before it was fully in our pockets, but it didn't matter, the commander gave the order to fire, and the heavy machine gun in my hand spat out tongues of fire, and the bullets shot out mercilessly, and to be honest, I was nervous, and I didn't know if the bullets hit the enemy.
Soon, the enemy began to return fire, retreating as they returned, they wanted to escape, hell, didn't we arrange for someone to blow up that bridge in advance?
Charge, the commander ordered us to charge, I can only write here first. 】
Li Dakui stabbed a Japanese soldier who pretended to be dead with a rifle with a bayonet, and continued to rummage through a pile of corpses, when he suddenly found a small bloodstained notebook.
He leaned down to open the notebook, and his head hurt when he saw the Japanese characters on it that were crooked and crawling like insects.
"Squad leader, squad leader, I picked up a notebook, all of which are written with devil's words, I don't know if it's useful."
Du Luoming took the blood-stained notebook and turned to the last page, and saw an unfinished diary, which read: "Charge and charge, the commander ordered us to charge, I can only write here first." ”
This is the end of the diary, and the back is covered in blood and stains, presumably the owner of the diary has become one of the many corpses around them.
Just now, Wu Xiaolong used a special operations team as bait himself, pretending to get into the enemy's encirclement, but he didn't know which fool's rifle misfired, so they could only retreat back in advance, and did not attract all the enemy's main forces.
However, the plan could not keep up with the changes, and today's results were still good, they completely annihilated the vanguard of the enemy's ambush, totaling more than 1,200 people.
The rest of the Japanese army, knowing their plan, fully recovered and retreated into the fortifications they had built before, so frightened that they did not dare to engage them head-on.
"Da Kui, you continue to clean up the battlefield, I will hand over this diary to the company commander, he knows more Japanese than me, maybe he can get some useful information from it."
The owner of the diary is named Toshiro, and he was lucky to survive this original ambush battle.
He fell into the creek in the middle of the battle, was swept away by the water, and when he had climbed ashore with all his might, he found that he had been swept to safety, but he did not want to go back, so that the commander thought that he had died in battle.