Chapter 254: Give up

(... During the War of Resistance Against Japan, our army hated the Japanese Sixth Division to the core and put it on the list of must-killing, and each unit fought against it to death. In fact, I was quite puzzled. Could it be that other Japanese troops were so good? At that time, I really wanted to put every Japanese unit on the list of must-killing... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance Against Japan-Cao Xiaomin")

It is already spring, but the night still comes early. Unlike the rainy days at the beginning, the rain stops now, instead of the north wind blowing, it continues to be wet and gloomy weather.

Many people were rushing on the road from Gaoyou to Baoying in the dark, just like the situation after the battlefield. Those people who once participated in the frontline war of resistance with enthusiasm had to transfer to the elderly and the young. Because of the well-prepared work, there were many military and civilian reception stations on the road, providing a kind of mixed grain porridge made of sweet potato horns, broad beans and broken rice to satisfy everyone's hunger. There were also thatched cottages, bamboo and wooden sheds on both sides of the road to provide people with a place to rest.

"We have so many people dead, why can't we stop the Japanese..." A short and thin refugee squatted by the road and drank the mixed grain porridge he had just received, full of bitterness.

"I went up to transport the corpses and saw wars; the Japanese guns were fired in a 'da da da da da', and our guns were 'bang' and waited for a long time before they fired..." Another taller man said: "Our old steel cannons are like thieves, and they suddenly fired a few shots and left. When the Japanese cannons came, they could see shells everywhere, so they couldn't hit them..."

"Brother, do you think we can drive the Japanese away?" The short man looked puzzled: "Every village is full of bloody battles with the Japanese to the end, and we will resolutely drive the Japanese out of China. Can we do it?"

The tall men stopped talking, and the other refugees who listened to their chats stopped talking. In the rear, whenever they talked about driving the devils away, there were many debates, such as time or method, but most people would believe that as long as the army was willing to fight to the death, they would definitely drive the devils away. Behind the front line, there was a different scene. The people were not so passionate or so bold. Everyone was often silent after asking a question.

Suddenly, a group of people came to the far end of the road in the dark, and only a few torches were fired. The team could not be seen clearly. Just looking at the torches, I thought it was one or two refugees. But this army was not heading north but south, and it was obvious that they were not refugees.

As we approached, one-third of the people were wearing Tony helmets, most of them wore cloth hats, bullet belts cross-body, and rifles... It was a ***! The refugees were a little excited. They could still see the *** going south, which meant that the army would have to fight bloody battles with the Japanese.

"Hey! Boss, go to Gaoyou?!" The enthusiastic fellow villagers greeted him, which gave him a smile, but did not answer. This army was very silent, not as popular as the common troops these days, and of course their faces still looked the same kind.

"Those are foreign soldiers..." a refugee muttered to himself.

"So what about foreign soldiers? Isn't it the same thing to fight the Japanese? Chief Cao said, we've seen it with our own eyes on the front line..." The tall man replied, and he saw some fellow villagers running up to chat with the foreign soldiers...

"Where are soldiers from?" Although this is not important, the villagers still want to know, and everyone asks those who come back.

"I don't know, they can't understand what we say, and we can't understand what they say..." The people who came back were very disappointed.

"Oh, that's a soldier from a very far place... China is so big that I can't even tell the difference between our own people. You said the Japanese can take it away!?" The tall man suddenly became happy: "I said that if I continue to fight, we will win!" The fellow villagers who fled began to become optimistic...

The officers and soldiers walking in the team whispered from time to time: "I heard that we have started a big counterattack in Xuzhou, why are we not allowed to Guijian?... We fight for the deadly battle, but it's not our turn to show our face..."

"Worry, don't want to live anymore?... You didn't see the superiors' look solemn when they come back. I think the battle we are going to fight this time is quite big, and it may be a battle to show their faces..."

"What are you showing your face? The obvious counterattack has not been on the wheel and it has been showing your face..."

"You are stupid. You have not seen your face for so long. If you weren't showing your face, the commander would have already broken the bowl and cursed..."

The soldiers were very quiet, and even the grassroots officers accompanying him couldn't hear clearly. As for the people who couldn't even hear their accent, they didn't know what they were eating.

This is a Yunnan Army, originally organized into the 20th Army. Shortly after the Battle of Xuzhou, he met the Japanese war, but he didn't fight well and replaced it. Later, the troops were continued to use the injured soldiers and were kept for rest. When these wounded and sick people recovered, they were told that they were not organized into the original troops but were on standby for the 99th Division. When they set off, they were told that they were not allowed to talk too much with the people along the way and revealed where the troops were going...

There were many other troops in the temporary 99th Division with this Yunnan Army, including the Sichuan Army that had been replaced with the Japanese in the Niangziguan area, the Central Army that was defeated by the Japanese in eastern Henan, etc. These troops were found in Sichuan, Henan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Shandong, Hunan, Guizhou, etc., and the accents were unique in the country. They were all defeated troops to be rectified and those who had just recovered from injuries. These scattered troops were temporarily reorganized into a super-large temporary division without returning to the original troops, and the task they received was to go south rather than north, which caught all the troops off guard and were in a relatively impetuous mood.

After half a month, they almost all marched to Huaiyin at night, and then rectified the army in Huaiyin. After arriving in Huaiyin, these troops were not so impetuous because they got a new commander named Li Tianhao. Yes, it was Li Tianhao who came out from Sixingcang and then fought with the bloody army in Nanjing to guard Quanjiao alone.

The soldiers were proud of being suddenly incorporated into a heroic unit, especially when Chief Li personally spoke to everyone and told everyone how powerful they were. It was a rare army of war veterans in China who had been on the battlefield. Everyone was very excited and proud. Although everyone was still closer to the original commanders, when they found that many of the commanders of the new troops were heroic officers who had come out of blood, they soon got used to accepting the orders of the new commanders.

The soldiers still don’t know what the mission is, but many officers leading the team are actually clear, but this time they are all tight-lipped, because when they understand the mission, everyone feels a sense of passion: their mission is to annihilate the Sixth Division of the *** Beast Army!

"Everyone let go of your hands and feet. Even if the troops are exhausted, they will fight. If you don't cancel the number or reduce the number, you will definitely make up for it all..." This is the message that Chief of Staff Xu Zuyi, who was assigned to Baoying in Xuzhou, conveyed to the small local factions at the military meeting that Cao Xiaomin did not attend: "This time we are determined to wipe out the 6th Division. Yes, it's this beast army! This is a secret order. Everyone remembers that no prisoner is allowed to stay, and even all the corpses are beheaded..." (The Battle of Xuzhou

The command's order to not keep prisoners of war from the Sixth Division is a hypothesis, because from many memoirs, there were similar military orders before the battle with the Sixth Division. Here is a guess that it is probably the meaning of the top leaders at that time. Later, many literary and artistic works describe the situation of the top officers "Yu Ren", but in fact, the famous Confucian generals Wang Yaowu, Fu Zuoyi and others issued orders to not keep prisoners of war before certain battles, which are not only in unofficial history...)

Xu Zuyi actually passed on the instructions directly from Chiang Kai-shek. Because the Guangxi divisions made too many contributions, Chiang Kai-shek hoped that his direct troops could also make a name for themselves, and because the destruction of the Sixth Division could bring enough political shock. Moreover, this idea was originally proposed by himself. Therefore, this time, Chiang Kai-shek not only reorganized all the wounded soldiers who had been cultivated in the rear and put them into the southern line, but also prepared some new troops who were trained in Henan to be put into battle, including the 72nd Army of the main force of the direct line Sun Yuanliang! (In real history, the 72nd Army was revoked because of the defeat of the entire army in Nanjing, but in the novel, Sun Yuanliang became a powerful army of all Suzhou. The unit that had just been rebuilt at this time in real history was Liu Xiang's direct troops of Sichuan Army.)

Since it is fighting the Sixth Division, since it is the highest-level iron order, the fighting spirit of various local small factions has been mobilized this time. They are already mobilizing their troops to fight in a new round of battles that are about to begin. If they are all killed, they will fight! (The hatred for the Sixth Division is shared by the top and bottom. Any unit will fight even if it preserves its strength and faces this beast army. This is also the reason why even the Tokyo Base Camp had to transfer the Sixth Division from the Chinese War Zone to the Pacific Ocean...)

"... The battle of Taierzhuang is expected to complete the entire line of the enemy within three days. Your troops can make way for the main road from tomorrow, so as to make the Sixth Division alone and enter the second step of the plan..." Li Zongren's secret order had been directly in Cao Xiaomin's hands.

So soon? The battle of Taierzhuang is about to end!? Cao Xiaomin, who was dragged back by the guards on the life-and-death line just now, took the secret order from Shen Zui with mud, and stared at the secret order: In his impression, the battle of Taierzhuang is a landmark battle, and I really didn't expect it to come to an end. In fact, he was still confused. His time travel has led to many major battles achieving far more results than the original Taierzhuang battle!
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