Chapter 90 Bloody Earth (12)

The translator came and brought Hasegawa up again. Bao Chao sat in the middle, and went to the hall to interrogate like a prefecture magistrate. Everyone found it funny and curious. No one sat around and participated in the trial. "What's your name? Do you hold any position in the Japanese army?"

"My name is...Kaohsiung Gen.//《》.com》 Novel Network//" Hasegawa lied, "I am... a messenger. I am a private."

"Private?" Bao Chao felt discouraged. Is a private worthy of his own interrogation? It's really disappointing, "Then, let me ask you, how many Japanese soldiers are there in the Sanyuan City? Where is the command center?"

"I..." Hasegawa hesitated for a while, looking around. The Qing army generals were surrounded by laughter, as if they had never guessed that they were lying, and they didn't even take this interrogation to heart. This made him happy, "I don't know either. I'm just a messenger, I don't know so much about it."

After the translation was said, Bao Chao was full of doubts. It would be fine if he didn't know how many people there were. As a messenger, how could he say that he didn't know where the command center was? "Then, who is your commander?"

"It's Katsushi Nakata." Katsushi Nakata was some, but Hasegawa's personal soldiers, who were shot dead by the Qing army when he was captured. Hasegawa replied casually.

Bao Chao thought for a while, glanced at him and suddenly fell on the gun bag around his waist. This was obviously a short-handled pistol bag. How could a small messenger be able to wear it? He pointed with his hand and "Search his body!"

Two soldiers came up and began to search their bodies. He had already taken out the weapon, but on him, a document used to prove his identity was written with Japanese words and translated by Tsumashima Prefecture Temperor, Hasegawazawa, Commander of the Hiroshima Prefecture Temperor Army. The rank of Colonel."

The Qing army was all shocked: they never expected that this time, this accidental arrest would catch such a big fish!

Bao Chao winked at the translator, who shouted: "Hassegawa!"

"Ah, hi!" Hasegawa knew something bad, and his face immediately turned pale.

Bao Chao laughed, "Ge, I still want to play tricks in front of me? Let me see if I don't expose your Western scenery! General translation, ask him, is it this colonel?"

But Tongzhi was not busy talking, walked to Hasegawa, looked carefully on his shoulder, tore off his shoulder, and turned around and said, "Sir, don't ask, it must be him! Look, this is his shoulder!"

Bao Chao took the epaulette and was made of green bean green velvet, with two horizontal bars on it and three bronze stars, "Is this?"

"This is the colonel's epaulette," the general translation explained a few words, "It can be seen that this person must be Hasegawa. //《》.com》 Novel Network//"

Bao Chao knew it well and stopped entangling here. He sat down again and asked again, "Children Colonel," he changed into a gentler tone, not as harsh as before, "I think you should admit it honestly, so as not to suffer from the flesh."

Seeing that things had come to this point, Hasegawa had already seen through his identity. Hasegawa lied without any attention and nodded, "Yes, I am Hasegawazawa. I hope your army can give me the treatment corresponding to my identity."

"If you are not treated, there is no need to hurry. As long as you can be honest, although Japan is not a party to the "Prisons of the Administration Measures for the Prisons of War Treaty", we will also agree to your request. Now I ask you, our army has Guo Xiongfei shot and killed by you in the battle of the city gate, but there is no body. What's going on?"

"The body of the noble man has been buried on the spot by us. But..." Hasegawa looked around and said, "His head is our..."

Before he could finish speaking, Bao Chao was furious! There was no need to listen to the following words, and he knew that Guo Xiongfei would definitely end up with two points in the head. "What a bastard!"

"Master, Da Zheng, please wait until you have asked him before deciding on him. I finally caught such a high Japanese official and killed him with one knife. Isn't that a pity?" The generals quickly persuaded him.

Bao Chao was so angry that his face turned purple and red, and he angrily kicked and kicked the ground with his feet, "Beasts, you beasts!"

Hasegawa couldn't understand what he was saying, but just looking at his face, he knew that there was nothing good. He kept saying "Hi, Hi, Hi, Hi," and didn't know what he was saying.

"Hasegawa, I ask you, where are the Japanese hiding? Where is the command center?"

"The command center was originally in the building where the current army is located, and there was another part of the command system in Tianming Village in the west of the city."

"Tianmingzhuang? Where is that place?"

Tongzhi suddenly slapped his forehead and laughed, "Sir, I remembered it. I have heard from people that there is a Tianmingzhuang in Sanhara Castle in Japan. It is a hot spring village. It is very famous in Japan. It is said that many Japanese dignitaries often come here to soak in hot springs." He said, "When the war is over, you might as well go and soak in a bath?"

Seeing his cheerful look, it seemed like he was planning more for himself. Bao Chao had no time to pay attention to him and said, "Ask him, how many Japanese troops were in the city? Where were they distributed? Let him point it out on the map?"

Hasegawa was obedient and answered one by one: Mihara Castle had more than 23,000 Japanese soldiers, of which 15,000 were military soldiers in Hiroshima Prefecture, and 3,000 were regular brigades of the third Japanese army; there were 5,000, which were police forces and second reserve troops in Mihara Castle. As for where these people were distributed, Hasegawa could not point out, not that he didn't want to, but that he couldn't understand the map of the Chinese.

There was no choice but to search again in this messy building, find a very damaged map and hand it over to Hasegawa, who marked the key areas according to its own military deployment. "That's it. More people are still in Tianmingzhuang."

Bao Chao nodded, about to wave his hand to let him retreat, but he remembered something, "I ask you, since you are the commander-in-chief of the military farm, will they listen to you if they ask them to put down their weapons?"

"This..." Hasegawa was stunned.

After a night of march, Guangxi Green Camp troops composed of Vietnamese soldiers gathered 20 kilometers below Fushan City. Zhang Asheng, Yan Guangru, Xu Mingchang, Gai Yongde, Li Yao'an, Yang Shaoting, Xiong Xie, He Jinyang, Bi Guangrong, Shi Huali, Liu Tingqi, Zheng Yunxiu, Zhang Xianghou, Liang Gong, Wang Shiquan and other 15 battalions and management teams gathered together to wait for combat orders. These people, together with Ruan Rujing, who was injured in the battle, were the main force of the Qing army attacking Fushan City this time. The total number was about 8,000.

Hu Xiaomao put away his telescope and handed it to his personal soldiers around him. He turned around and walked back, "See the military gate."

"Don't." Hu Xiaomao said, "I just looked at it. The positions outside the Japanese army's city are divided into five levels, with the commanding heights at 1 o'clock in the east of the city as the command center. The first step is to take down here first. Wait for a while, the 12th Battalion of Shi Huali and the 15th Battalion of Zhang Xianghou will be the main attack; Yang Shaoting's 10th Battalion and Gai Yongde's 8th Battalion will be the auxiliary attack; now is six o'clock in the morning, and before eight o'clock, we must seize the commanding heights of the enemy."

"Yes!" The four of them stepped forward and answered attentively.

"There are also the battalions of Zhang Asheng, Yan Guangru, Xu Mingchang and Li Yaoan who broke through the frontal attack from the frontal attack. He Jinyang and Zheng Yunxiu also joined the frontal attack as the second wave. The remaining people serve as supporters and wait for the next order."

"yes!"

"That's it, go down and prepare."

The order was issued, and the entire army began to make the final preparations before the war. The soldiers tidied up their military uniforms and temporarily put some of their belongings aside. This was a special person to take care of. After the battle, they would be returned to the soldiers. If they were unfortunately killed in battle, they would be distributed to their families according to registered terms. The court managed this kind of matter very rigorously. Anyone who dared to steal it, did not ask the master or the servant, or the value, would be executed!

In addition to the necessary weapons and ammunition, the only non-combat item that everyone carries is a pot of water, which is necessary. Press the magazine filled with bullets into the ammunition compartment, close the insurance, carry the gun in hand, and wait in line.

Shi Huali looked at the battalion soldiers arranged in five columns and nodded with satisfaction, "Brothers, the same thing, remember that those who have learned in the military camp will survive!"

"yes!"

“Let’s go.”

The soldiers of the 12th Battalion were in front, and Zhang Xianghou's 15th Battalion was behind. A thousand people walked into the combat area and looked east. Zhang Asheng, Yan Guangru, Xu Mingchang and Li Yaoan were looking here. Everyone looked at each other and smiled. At this point, the whistling sound of 24-pound cannons fired in their ears, "Boom!"

The first shell exploded in front of the enemy's position, followed by countless fire points. The earth began to tremble, and the smoke and firelight were filled with the air. Zhang Asheng covered his ears with both hands, fell cross-legged to the ground, waited for a while, took out his pocket watch to take a look, and had been bombarded for nearly 30 minutes. He knew that the time was almost over, so he poked Yan Guangru beside him, pointed to the pocket watch in his hand, the latter nodded, got up from the ground, picked up his rifle, and shouted in the violent explosion, "Run!" and led the troops to launch a fierce attack on the defense line of the first enemy.

Before the land offensive troops set off, Shi Huali and Zhang Xianghou's troops had already set off first. The enemy's commanding heights were three kilometers west of the battlefield, at an altitude of about 400 meters. They could overlook the defense force positions outside Fukuyama Castle and the scenery inside Fukuyama Castle. This is also the most usable strategic key area outside Fukuyama Castle in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Although the mountains that the Qing army crossed yesterday were higher at an altitude, they were far away and had poor command, so they gave up for the Japanese command.

But the top of the mountain here cannot be missed. At the moment the war started, the Japanese troops from the hidden artillery positions placed on the top of the mountain began to use more fierce artillery fire to support friendly forces and bomb the enemy. In the craters of flying shells, the two Qing army battalions were in front and the two battalions were behind, and they began to climb up the mountain.

The tall trees on the mountain were intentionally cut down by the Japanese before the war. On the bare hillside, there were only a few shrubs and grass everywhere. The Qing army was not covered at all and was completely exposed to the Japanese defense line. At the beginning of the war, two teams of the 12th Battalion were killed on the road ahead.

Shi Huali kicked the grass with his legs, his body shrank, and hid in a crater. He wanted to look up, but before his head was fully exposed, a bullet flew in the air and knocked his big hat away. He was so scared that he was sweating all over and hurriedly shrank back.


Chapter completed!