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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 1069 The End of the Road

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    Tang Qiuli's aerial supply completely wiped out the hope of Juichi Templeuchi and put the main force of Japan's Southern China Dispatch Army into a desperate situation. More than 200,000 Japanese soldiers entered the wild and the mountains in less than three days.  The few supplies they had were consumed, and all the mules and horses of the logistics and artillery regiments were killed. This lasted for another two days. Starting from the sixth day, the entire Japanese army began to run out of food.  .

    First, they dug wild vegetables from the mountains, barely enough to eat half full. However, soldiers who died of poisoning from eating wild vegetables had hundreds of them every day. Even wild vegetables, because they ate so many, became a rare item. As a last resort, the Japanese soldiers began  Hunting wild animals in the mountains and catching fish in rivers, there are not so many prey. For a hare, soldiers fight with each other and kill each other, which happens many times every day.

    Some troops were so hungry that they had no choice but to take risks and enter deeper into the virgin forest, hoping to find food. Often, only about half of a squadron of soldiers could come back. Just yesterday, a whole squadron of soldiers came back.  In a large underground cave, more than 200 people died bizarrely. There were no wounds on their bodies, as if they were asleep.

    Juichi Terauchi personally went to the scene to check. The limp corpses of soldiers lay scattered on the ground. The sight made the commander-in-chief¡¯s hair stand on end and he was covered in goosebumps. The military doctor who was accompanying the army was unable to explain the reason.  Come on, I can only roughly speculate that it seems to have been poisoned by some unknown poison.

    Shouichi in the temple quickly issued an order that all troops were not allowed to enter the cave. This was a hardship for the exhausted Japanese soldiers. When they entered the subtropical climate of the primeval forest in the mountains, things were going to change soon. Under the heavy rain, the Japanese soldiers  I had no choice but to squat in the field shivering and let the rain beat on my almost moldy body.

    At night, it was even worse. Countless unknown insects in the forest, like small bombers, blew their trumpets and launched never-ending attacks on the Japanese soldiers sleeping in the wild. There were many insects with strong toxicity, and one bite  After being bitten, the walnut-sized bumps immediately swelled up. What was even more frightening was that the Japanese soldiers who were bitten became inexplicably hot all over in less than two days and died quickly. Those who were lucky enough to survive were also covered in ulcers and pain.  Unbearable.  .

    With no food and all the medicine, the Japanese soldiers were starved to death, and the injured and sick had no choice but to wait for death. Originally, there were a lot of Chinese herbal medicines in the mountains, which could save the lives of some soldiers, but the Japanese looked down on China.  In addition, even Chinese medical skills have become rubbish of inferior ethnic groups, making the Japanese sneer. More than 200,000 Japanese soldiers have no knowledge of herbal medicine. It is really a great irony and an excellent punishment.

    Hungry, cold, and sick, the Japanese soldiers lost more than a thousand people every day due to non-combat casualties. There were numerous corpses on the mountain road that had been forcibly stepped on. The number of deaths reported by Shoichi in the temple was numb. I don¡¯t know why.  The troops directly under the Expedition Army Headquarters he led got lost and turned around three days ago. The captain of the team sadly told the general that we were back to the place where we started three days ago.

    The lost Japanese troops were not just Juichi Terauchi. Many troops were wandering around in the dark primeval forest. After a few days, Juichi Terauchi finally discovered that the army was on the verge of losing control.  The order was no longer easy to use. The original plan to cross the country and enter the mountain was for the divisions to line up in a row according to the battle sequence and follow up in order to avoid multiple routes and lead to loss of direction.

    But after a few days, hunger and injuries, the vast and endless virgin forest, the uncertainty of the future, and the inability to grasp the future destiny, gave a large number of middle and lower-level commanders of the Japanese army the idea of ????finding their own way out.  My own troops were wandering around like headless flies in the primeval forests of the wild mountains. I don¡¯t know how many Japanese soldiers died on the unknown road.

    Chu Yao led the attack column and parachuted to the southern foot of Yeru Mountain. This position was already in front of the Japanese army. More than two thousand people entered, divided into twenty groups, and retreated into the hinterland of Yeru Mountain. After five days, there was still no trace of the Japanese army.  Chu Yao contacted other troops and all reported that no Japanese troops were found. The troops' search area was so calm that it made them feel uneasy.  .

    According to the normal speed, this position should have sporadic contact with the vanguard of the Japanese army. Chu Yao was alert and ordered all the troops to stay in place. He was worried that the troops were advancing too fast and would rub shoulders with the Japanese army.  And then, secondly, without realizing it, he broke into the middle of a large Japanese army and was trapped in a tight siege. More than two thousand people were fighting against more than two hundred thousand people. Even the God of War would be beaten into a sieve.

    On the night when the troops stopped, Chu Yao reported the situation to the division commander Tang Qiuli. Tang Qiuli was also surprised. It was almost twenty years ago. Why should Shouyi in the temple have walked most of the mountain road? Chu Yao's current location should be  Where they encountered the Japanese vanguard, there was no fighting on the entire front, which was abnormal.

     Tang Qiuli called back to Chu Yao, "Captain Chu Yao, the troops should retreat cautiously. After more than 20 years of consumption, the Japanese troops entering the mountains are exhausted and the troops should be in a state of confusion. Under such circumstances, it is not advisable to advance rashly."  "The distance between the various units should not be too far. If the situation is unclear, you can stay in place for a short time and look for other fighters. Don't act too hastily."

    After replying the telegram to Chu Yao, Tang Qiuli couldn't figure out what was going on. Could it be that Shouyi in the temple turned back after seeing the difficulties in moving forward?  Or to put it optimistically, more than 200,000 Japanese troops entered the mountains in the wild and were wiped out?  If so, this would be an anecdote that shocked the world and created a myth about the Chinese battlefield. Of course, he hoped so.

    Immediately, he shook his head in a self-deprecating manner. It was unrealistic that more than 200,000 people had entered and were gone just like that. At the beginning, the Chinese Expeditionary Force had more than 50,000 people entering, and more than 10,000 people came out. He called Chen Feng, the director of the Communications Division, and ordered.  : "Send a telegram to Le Yiqin. At dawn, the aviation force will dispatch reconnaissance planes to conduct an all-round and large-scale search of the wild mountains. We must find the whereabouts of the Japanese troops."

    In fact, both Tang Qiuli and Chu Yao were too cautious and over-concerned. The Japanese troops rushed out like crazy, but they were wandering around in the central area of ??Yeru Mountain as if they were encountering a ghost beating a wall.  All the Japanese troops were lost, and none of the small troops sent out to find the road came back.

    "Terauchi Juichi summoned senior military officers and held several meetings to study the situation. Who could come up with a good solution?  There is a compass, but if you follow the direction, you will find it is either a bottomless swamp or a cliff that is difficult to pass. You need to take a detour, walk around, and get lost again. In other words, more than two hundred thousand people have entered.  , trapped in the wild and in the mountains.

    After wandering around for a few days, in addition to throwing away thousands of corpses of soldiers every day, they were still wandering in circles. As for the small groups of troops that got lost, there were no detailed statistics. It didn't matter if Shouyi got lost in the temple, so long as Tang Qiuli  He and Chu Yao became suspicious. In fact, if Chu Yao's attack column had moved forward for two more days, they would have encountered scattered Japanese troops in the primeval forest, bumping into each other without direction.

    The next day, Le Yiqin's aviation unit dispatched nearly a hundred aircraft to sort out the Yeru Mountain area from north to south. Le Yiqin personally led the team to search for traces of the Japanese army in the vast virgin forest of Yeru Mountain.  It was an easy task, but the fighter jets did not dare to fly too low for fear of being attacked by Japanese ground firepower.

    After flying for a while, Le Yiqin and his wingman still found nothing. When they asked other crew members, they found no trace of the Japanese army. He and the division commander Tang Qiuli had the same view. It was impossible for all the more than 200,000 Japanese soldiers to fly.  After disappearing into the wild and into the mountains, Chu Yao was still waiting for news. Thinking of this, Le Yiqin made an overly bold decision.

    He ordered his wingman: "Zhiqiang, cover me, I'll go down and take a look." After saying that, he pressed the nose of the plane and the fighter plane swooped down from high altitude, almost touching the tops of the tall trees in the tropical primeval forest.  After changing to a level flight, when we lowered the altitude, we really discovered that Japanese soldiers lying on the ground could be seen everywhere in the dense forest, beside the shrubs, and in the haystacks.

    Le Yiqin was very happy, okay? The little devil was hiding here. What he saw was no less than a few thousand dollars, and there were other places. He immediately issued an order, "Attention, all crews, take me as the center point, lead  The leader's aircraft lowered its altitude and searched carefully, while the wingmen were responsible for covering." One pilot discovered traces of Japanese troops, and more pilots also discovered piles of Japanese troops.

    It turned out that the Japanese soldiers were wary to the core of the aircraft of the Japanese Air Force with five-clawed golden dragons and Great Wall patterns on their wings. They would never forget that it was these Chinese fighter jets that destroyed them time and time again.  I hope that this time, the Chinese who have not seen each other for a long time will come in groups again on the plane.

    Terauchi Shouichi thought that Tang Qiuli was going to send out planes to conduct a devastating bombing of the troops, so he ordered the troops to take cover immediately. This order was very popular with the Japanese soldiers. Although the current situation was almost like death, but that  None of the samurai of the Japanese Empire expected themselves to be so loyal to His Majesty the Emperor and sacrifice their lives for the cause of Greater East Asia so quickly. Therefore, the orders of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief were completely implemented.

    With the news and approximate location of the Japanese army, Tang Qiuli breathed a sigh of relief. The possibility of the Japanese army's return that he was worried about was completely eliminated. Chu Yao was also relieved. According to the general direction provided by the aviation force, the attack column faced the enemy.  Continue to search in the direction of the Japanese army.

    Two days later in the afternoon, Chu Yao's troops were marching hard in the middle of the dense forest. Suddenly, the squad leader who was the vanguard made a gesture to stop advancing and hide on the spot. After a while, the squad leader returned to Chu Yao and said  : "Detachment leader, Japanese troops were found in the canyon ahead. They numbered about one brigade."

    Chu Yao was excited for a while and searched for the little devil for several days before finally finding outHaving found the target, he ordered the troops to prepare for battle, and he and the squad leader moved forward.

    (To be continued)
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