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Chapter 188, Dog Day's Yamazaki Brigade
The Yamazaki Brigade of the Japanese Army carried out sweeping along the banks of the Zhangshui and Qinhe Rivers.

"Report to the team leader. The main force of the Eighth Route Army has not been found ahead. It seems that there are still people living in Mashi Mountain. There are several villages here. Maybe the villagers have not escaped."

Captain Yamazaki of the Japanese Army was like most Japanese men at that time, short in stature, bow-legged, strong in build, with a neck and head about the same thickness.

His face carried the usual demeanor of Japanese military officers: cold and determined.

He was not in a very good mood when he learned that the main force of the Eight Routes had not been found.

The new head of the Katayama Brigade wants to show his shame, which puts a lot of pressure on the troops.

Of course, this is also an opportunity for performance.

Captain Yamazaki is an arrogant guy. He doesn't take the Eighth Route Army seriously. The brigade suffered a loss in the hands of the Eighth Route Army before, and that was mainly because of lack of defense.

Now, the 2-strong army is his most solid backing. If he takes the initiative to attack and take precautions, the Eighth Route Army will suffer.

But those nasty Eighth Route Army, like slippery loach, don't know where to hide.

He didn't dare to fight with the Imperial Japanese Army at all.

Since Balu could not be found, Yamazaki, who became angry from embarrassment, decided to follow the commander's order to carry out the Sanguang policy for the villages where Balu was based.

"Go!"

Following his order, his brigade divided into three groups and skillfully surrounded Ma Shishan.

After encircling the entire mountain, some people were sent to clean it up like a carpet.

Do not leave a village or a household, do not miss a mountain or ditch, push forward step by step, do not search for no mountains, do not comb for no villages,
Burning haystacks, digging weirs, clearing caves, even barren nunneries and temples.

This is the experience summed up by the Japanese army before, and it is used again today.

Dang clang clang clangs the broken gong, and the little devil has entered the village!
The villagers were terrified. Why did the little devil come without any news?
At this time, there was no time to think about it, and he couldn't escape, so he could only hide on the spot.

On the South Mountain of Dayuan Village in the northeast of Mashi Mountain, eight members of Chen Jingpu's family and one neighbor hid in a cave.

The cave is relatively hidden. When the devils raided it before, their family came here to escape and successfully escaped the devils' search.

I thought it would be the same this time, but everyone's hearts jumped when they heard the cries of the devil getting closer and closer.

They didn't dare to take a breath, and the daughter-in-law covered the mouth of the five-year-old grandson, for fear that the child would be frightened, so she couldn't help making noises.

They were all afraid, and they had all heard of the cruelty of the little devil.If found out, they are finished.

"Buddha bless..."

The woman hugged the child tightly and prayed in her heart.Pray to the gods to bless them, and don't let the little devils find out.

What is terrible.

The devils searched extremely meticulously, not sparing an inch of land. One soldier found it and shouted to his companions: "There is a cave here!"

"Cave? There must be a Chinese person inside, there is no time to waste here, just eliminate them!"

Sergeant Cao gave the order coldly.

The people hiding in the cave heard the screams of the devils outside, and they didn't know what to say.

Suddenly, a black thing flew in with a whoosh, as if a bird had crashed into it.

"It's a bomb!" Chen Jingpu couldn't help shouting.

But it was worse than he thought, it was an incendiary bomb.It exploded and sputtered a large handful of flames, setting everyone in the cave on fire.

They rolled, struggled, howled, and ran out of the hole, but were devoured by the flames without exception.

The Japanese army, the instigator, laughed wildly when they saw this "masterpiece".

The use of incendiary bombs instead of grenades is just to watch the Chinese people die in pain.

The killing of the Japanese army continued... Broad bean

Villager Liu Jingfa was captured by the Japanese army and asked him for food and people. He firmly replied: "I don't know!"

The Japanese soldiers stabbed him several times in the chest and abdomen, and he collapsed in pain.

Afterwards, the Eighth Route Army came and found that he was still breathing, and he was revived after rescue.

Zheng Chongtai, a soldier from the village of Liujia in Gou, met the Japanese soldiers who searched the mountain. The enemy slashed his neck with a knife.

They were lucky to escape death.

And the unfortunate ones were tortured even more.

In the village, after the Japanese captured a wounded soldier from the Eighth Route Army, they set fire to it on the ground.

The sergeant who interrogated forced him to ask in bad language, "Tell me, where is your main force hiding?"

The captured Eighth Route Army soldier would rather die than surrender, and still angered the enemy: "Hey, little devil, come to your grandpa. I have already killed three little devils anyway, and it is enough."

Sergeant Cao wiped the saliva off his face, and angrily issued an order: "Don't let him die too easily."

Two little devils carried the head and feet of the wounded of the Eighth Route Army respectively
Some of the captured villagers were also tortured.

Xu Deyi, an old man in his 70s from Zhaominzhuang Village.
Outside the Jindouding quarry, the Japanese army tied nine people in a row and shot them in the chest from the front, killing seven people on the spot.

The remaining two bled profusely and died a few hours later.

In Dalongkou Village, the enemy captured Gongqing, an old man in his 70s.
After Jiang Qianxi’s wife was shot and killed by the Japanese army, her youngest daughter, Ruifeng, who was under three years old, was still breastfeeding in her mother’s arms, while her 12-year-old eldest daughter and 6-year-old second daughter cried, “Mom, go home.”

Hearing the cry of the child, the little devil showed no mercy, and happily stabbed him to death with a bayonet.

The little devil is inhumane, killing men, women, and children, even the sick.

Villager Wang Picheng suffered from epilepsy in front of Mashishan
The means of killing are varied.

After the villager Wang Yuanxiang was captured by the Japanese army, he tested the sharpness of the knife.

Wang Zhengui was captured by the Japanese army
Wang Zhenxian, after being beaten unconscious by the Japanese army with wooden sticks.
The villagers were killed in various ways by the devils, and soon all the villages were wiped out.

Loot it all, kill it all, burn it all!

After looting and killing, it's the turn to burn.

Houses were set on fire one by one, the village was ablaze, black smoke shot straight into the sky, and the sky turned black.

At this moment, this scene is like purgatory on earth.

Afterwards, someone came to find that the houses in the villages around Mashishan had been destroyed unprecedentedly.

More than half of the houses in each village were burned, and everything was devastated. It seemed that everything was scorched, which was horrible.

Of all the houses, almost no one is complete, and there are ruins everywhere;
The trees along the street and in the courtyard were burned bare, and even the stone mill in the courtyard was burned to the point of cracks.

The howling cold wind, wrapped in the remaining ashes, flew all over the sky, exuding a choking and burnt breath

In the evening, the Yamazaki Brigade camped in Shibo Village. The poultry and livestock looted during the day were eaten up, and the furniture was chopped into firewood and set on fire.

After a round of "mopping up" by the inhumane Yamazaki brigade.In four villages near Mashishan, more than 500 residents were brutally killed, and this place has almost become a place of death.

According to the survivors, during this "mopping up", villages were looted, households suffered disasters, and bones were strewn all over Mashi Mountain.

PS: The evil deeds of the Japanese army above are not made up, but there are real stories.

I can't even look up the information and hate it. They slaughtered unarmed ordinary people. The little devils are really inhumane, and they should be killed.

(End of this chapter)