Chapter 25 3. Hosaburo Takidera, the extinction of humanity

The main force of the 116th Division of the Japanese Army was blocked by the Chinese army outside Tieshan and Qingyan. After several days of bloody battles, they tried their best to make it through, but they couldn't make it through. It's a very unfortunate thing. Hearing the news that the main force of the division was blocked, Saburo Takidera, the captain of the 109th Regiment, was disappointed.His army was the first to come in, and it had been divided and besieged for the longest time. It had already run out of ammunition and food, so it was hoped that the main force of the division would come to support them, but now this hope has been dashed.

Takidera Yasaburo got the news through the radio that he was not the only one who was divided and besieged by the Imperial Japanese Army, but also the 123rd Regiment, the 117th Independent Brigade, the 58th Brigade and so on.Now the 116th Division troops are also under the attack of the Chinese army.The Division Headquarters ordered Takidera Yasaburo's unit to retreat. There were four orders: 1. In view of the most difficult retreat of the 109th Regiment, the team was ordered to evacuate one day before the division; 2. To open up a road to ensure the retreat; 3. To strive to maintain the status quo on the front line until the end, the purpose is to hide the withdrawal attempt 4. The various ministries immediately sent the wounded to the mountain gate and the entrance of the cave by horse or stretcher.

The isolated and helpless captain of the Longsi Alliance knew that no one could help him now, and he had to rely on himself to get out of this mountain. The 109th regiment was afraid of leaking information when they retreated, so they burned down the village where they lived, and killed all the more than 200 people in the village.Before the soldiers under his command burned and killed them, they became brutal and raped and gang-raped many village women. A 20-year-old civilian girl was gang-raped by a group of Japanese soldiers, and she died after grilling her genitals with a bamboo fire.There was also a middle-aged woman who was gang-raped to death by a group of soldiers from the 12th Squadron. She was thrown on a field bank and raped by several Japanese soldiers.The alliance captain laughed, he hadn't been this happy for a long time.

After finishing these tasks, they took advantage of the night and fled quietly to the southeast. Due to lack of food, they walked for a day and a night on the 30-mile mountain road.Yasuzaburo Takidera believes that the progress of this march is not good, the main reason is that there are too many wounded and sick, who are either lifted or supported.In order to reduce the burden of evacuation, the captain of the Takiji Temple asked the wounded and sick to pledge allegiance to the emperor, and they carried more than 500 wounded and sick into three courtyard houses and piled dry firewood in the courtyard.

The wounded and sick got up and begged bitterly, some knelt down and begged for mercy, take me back.Captain Takidera was indifferent.Order to light the fire.The yard was full of ghosts crying and wolves howling. They were desperately struggling, howling, and moaning in the raging fire.The cruel nature of Japanese militarism is outrageous.It is said that two years later, when people cleaned up the ruins, dozens of bones were picked away. After dealing with the wounded and sick in the wing, the troop marched much faster.They ran for their lives in a hurry along the mountain path, and encountered Japanese soldiers who had been dispersed from other units along the way. The 109th Regiment rolled out like a snowball, with a team of more than 1,300 people.

The 109th regiment was blocked by the Chinese army at a place called Pubanxi.The Chinese troops participating in the encirclement and suppression of the 109th Regiment of the Japanese Army included: the 63rd and 19th Divisions of the 100th Army, the 51st Division of the 74th Army, and the 11th Division of the 18th Army.Of course, they all have one part each, but they cooperate with each other tacitly. First of all, they occupy favorable terrain, constantly tighten the encirclement circle, and attack the enemy from all sides.The Chinese Air Force also came to help in the battle, bombarding the besieged Japanese army indiscriminately, making the enemy unable to fight back.

The 109th Wing deserves to be the special main force of the division, even in such a helpless predicament, it still insisted on resisting.Knowing that his doomsday is approaching, Captain Takidera Baolian sadly sent a farewell telegram to the head of the division, and then burned the code, making preparations for all to serve the Emperor. The seriously wounded took the lead, and they committed suicide one after another.Yasuzaburo Takidera was killed, and the 109th Regiment was wiped out.The inhuman Takidera Yasuzaburo and his unit were finally punished by the just war, and this is the fate of the invaders.The ravine where they died in the battle still stinks many years later, the ground is covered by flies, and there are no pedestrians.After these vicious war madmen, no one is willing to bury them after they die, and let them rot for many years until they rot.I don’t know what their relatives in the island country of Japan are thinking. So far, they are unwilling to repent for these lonely ghosts, and they do not want to face the people of the world, especially the Chinese people who have made great sacrifices to confess the crime of aggression.Those who died for His Majesty the Emperor and for Japanese militarism will forever be lonely ghosts, their souls will not be quiet, wandering in the wild mountains and groaning everywhere.

The Zhijiang operation of the Chinese dispatched army was at an extremely difficult stage. The five divisions participating in the operation suffered heavy losses to varying degrees. More than 10,000 Japanese wounded were transported from the front to the rear.Chief Yasuzaburo Takidera is Okamura Ningji's favorite general. He was originally promoted to the rank of major general, but this battle has not ended for a long time.Okamura Ningji felt deeply sorry, he always felt sorry for Takiji Dazuo. Grand Master Takiji died, and Okamura Ningji fell into deep pain. Wang Yaowu was overjoyed when he heard the news from the front line.The 109th Regiment was wiped out and Colonel Yasuzaburo Takidera was killed. This was the happiest victory since the Battle of Xiangxi.Wang Yaowu wants to ask for credit for the troops participating in the war.

Annihilating the Takiji Regiment has another favorable factor, that is, at least two divisions can be mobilized to support other places.This made Wang Yaowu feel relaxed all of a sudden.When he was planning how to deploy these troops, another piece of good news came from the front line. The good news comes from the Qingyan position. In the Battle of Qingyan described above, Zhong Xiongfei of the 57th Regiment fought very bravely and tenaciously, but their own casualties were also very heavy, so the 171st Regiment of the 57th Division of the 74th Army took over the defense.After Du Ding, the head of the regiment, took over the Qingyan Highlands, he immediately held a military meeting of the whole regiment, introduced the experience of the brother troops to the commanders at all levels of the regiment, and also notified the characteristics of the main attack of the Japanese 116th Division.

Commander Du Ding called on the officers and soldiers of the whole regiment to learn from the heroic 57th regiment, not to be afraid of sacrifice, to overcome difficulties, to use our will and flesh and blood to block the Japanese attack and defend Zhijiang.He assigned tasks to the battalions.He said that the battalion commanders are responsible for each position, and each battalion must not only be independent, but also have a cooperative spirit.Our regiment is a whole, and the loss of any position will affect the consolidation of the entire highland.In particular, it is necessary to do a good job in the interface between the battalions.

Traffic defense today is safe and sound.When the 116th Division of the Japanese Army learned that the Chinese Army on the Qingyan Heights was changing defenses, they thought the opportunity had come.It may be the last chance to launch a round-robin attack while the newly-shifted troops have a weak foothold. We must seize the favorable opportunities on the battlefield. A regiment of the Japanese army came up, and the Du Ding regiment was violently shelled by the Japanese army before it finished repairing the fortifications of the position.The Japanese artillery adjusted the shooting elements of the mountain cannons to shoot the shells more accurately, and all of them exploded on the fortification positions on Qingyan Highland.One squadron's underground cave for hiding soldiers was bombed and collapsed. The soldiers carried the soil on their backs, and it took a lot of effort to get up from the bottom of the cave one by one. There is no place to hide underground, and it is very dangerous to be under the bombardment of artillery.They jumped from one crater to another on the ground, running and jumping.If you want to survive, you can't stop, you have to keep changing your position.Some of the craters had just exploded, and the shrapnel was still scorching hot. They ignored them completely, and the burns were better than death. The artillery stopped, and the Japanese charge began.Du Ding climbed out from the cave and looked at the Japanese army with binoculars. Sure enough, as Zhong Xiongfei said, more than 1,000 Japanese troops rushed towards Qingyan Highland in a group style.Commander Du picked up the phone and reported to the 57th Division Headquarters, and the call was directly transferred to the artillery regiment.He kept reporting the current azimuth coordinates of the Japanese army to the artillery. The cannons attached to the 74th Army of the Kuomintang are stronger than those of the 100th Army. In order to support the battle on the Qingyan Highlands, the army used all the artillery fire.All of a sudden, shells poured down, and the charging Japanese army fled with their heads in their arms.Du Ding yelled hello to the artillery on the phone, but the voice fell, and the Japanese artillery bombarded the position again. On this day, the 171st regiment was bombarded 4 times and charged 4 times by the Japanese army, but they were all repulsed by regiment commander Du Ding.The fortifications on the Qingyan Highland were destroyed again, and more than 100 soldiers were killed or injured.Commander Du ordered a hundred wounded to be carried down, and at the same time the whole regiment stepped up to build fortifications.The soldiers of the 171st regiment were cursing while repairing fortifications.Where have they suffered such a loss?No one can swallow this breath. The machine gun company commander of the 2nd Battalion, Xiao Zheng, wiped his machine gun. He asked the battalion commander if he could take the initiative to attack once.Battalion Commander Li asked him how to take the initiative.Xiao Lianchang said that he did not intend to launch a sneak attack on the Japanese army.Battalion Commander Li agreed, rest now, and work in the second half of the night when the enemy is sleepy. In the middle of the night, the sky was as black as the bottom of a pot, without the moon or stars. The 2nd battalion commando set off. They had 1 heavy machine gun, 3 light machine guns, and 2 mortars.In the dark night, they walked very carefully, and when they approached the Japanese position, they crawled forward for a hundred meters.They stopped 50 meters away from the Japanese army, set up light and heavy machine guns and mortars, and the stormtroopers pulled the submachine guns and unscrewed the grenades. Battalion Commander Li gave an order, and two mortar shells exploded on the Japanese position. Light and heavy machine guns screamed, and the commandos jumped up. The distance of 50 meters was only a blink of an eye. As soon as the Japanese soldiers who were awakened grabbed their guns, they were blown into the sky by the grenades of the commandos. The sudden blow stunned the Japanese soldiers, and they jumped up and ran outside.Company Commander Xiao swiped with his machine gun, and the soldiers around him threw more than a dozen grenades.They rushed into the Japanese positions, and seeing a large number of casualties, they grabbed three crooked machine guns and a few small steel cannons and rushed out. The left and right positions of the Japanese army fired towards this side, and the powerful firepower fought blindly in the dark night.Company Commander Xiao and the others didn't want to fight, so they followed a ridge as cover, carrying the seized weapons and ammunition, and retreated to the original place.The sneak attack was very successful, and the two Japanese squads were wiped out in an instant. As soon as the division commander Li Yan heard about it, he called to praise Commander Du, "Good job. The guerrilla tactics adopted by the commando team were very successful. I would like to ask Commander Wang for your credit." Wang Yaowu received a call from Division Commander Li Yan in the early morning , I was very happy, this is a pioneering work, I will immediately summarize and promote it, and order all the troops to carry out the guerrilla tactics of "grab and go", beat the Japanese army bit by bit, mess them up, and let them have nothing to do. Peaceful, terrified, all plants and trees are soldiers.This is very beneficial for future counterattacks.