Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

The Japanese soldier roared and stabbed the dagger into the body of the Japanese soldier who couldn't swim again and again.

But then, another Japanese soldier who couldn't swim grabbed him. Dragged by two men, the Japanese soldier who could swim also began to sink to the bottom of the river. This scene continued throughout the entire river, and the water of the Songhua River gradually became turbid and then gradually turned red.

Chapter 605 The water is too cold

"We surrender, don't kill us!"

"We surrender!"

"I surrender!"

"..."

The human desire to survive is inexhaustible. The Japanese soldiers, who originally spoke no Chinese, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy as the tanks rolled over them. They spoke not Japanese, but the newly learned word for "surrender." Swarms of Japanese soldiers dropped their weapons and knelt in surrender.

The armored troops did not stop and directly crushed over some Japanese soldiers. Those Japanese soldiers who were crushed to death could only be considered unlucky. They did not choose a good place to surrender, but chose to block the path of the tanks.

Following the tanks were the infantry. After the soldiers from the 4th Division and the 3rd Corps rushed over, they just glanced at the surrendering Japanese soldiers and continued to charge forward.

There was no way they could catch them all. With the exception of the Japanese lieutenants and generals, these soldiers wouldn't stop. The surrendered Japanese were left to the people behind them to deal with, while they went to capture the Japanese lieutenants and generals. There was no other way, because they ran fast while the comrades behind them ran slowly.

A soldier watched the tanks passing by him, looked at the Japanese soldiers fleeing in the distance, gritted his teeth, and rushed directly towards a tank.

The soldier gritted his teeth and caught up with the tank. He grabbed a protrusion on the tank and jumped hard, lying on top of it. Then, he used both hands to crawl forward and finally grabbed the two hoods on the top of the tank. Then he sat up and picked up his gun and aimed at the Japanese soldiers fleeing not far away.

"You're trying to kill yourself!" The company commander couldn't help but curse at the soldier who had climbed onto the moving tank. The tank was moving at full speed, and this guy had the audacity to climb onto the vehicle. If he fell off, he would probably be covered in bruises.

The soldier seemed not to hear the company commander's words. He sat on the tank and kept shooting at the back of the Japanese.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

"..."

There was no need to aim at all, there were so many devils, all you had to do was keep pulling the trigger and you could shoot them one after another.

"Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen..." The soldier muttered numbers. These numbers were the number of Japanese soldiers he killed, and also the results of his revenge for his family and friends.

The tanks were moving very fast, and no matter how fast the Japanese ran, they could not outrun the tanks on two tracks.

Most of the Japanese soldiers at this moment wished their parents had given them two more legs so that they could run faster than others. These Japanese soldiers had only one thought, and that was to run. As long as they could outrun the people around them, they would not be shot by the Eighth Route Army. It would be others who died, and they could live a little longer.

With this thought in mind, the defeated Japanese soldiers began to push each other. Some of them were pushed to the ground and no one cared about them at all.

The lucky ones were able to get up from the ground; the unlucky ones were trampled directly into the soil and became nutrients for the land. At the same time, tanks ran over them, compacting them more tightly and making them easier for the earth to absorb.

"Commander, the Eighth Route Army is chasing us!" Toshimichi Kamimura was surrounded by a group of senior Japanese officers.

"Baga, fight, keep fighting! The Empire doesn't have surrendered generals, only generals who die in battle!" Kamimura Toshimichi shouted helplessly and furiously, but it was useless. The troops had been routed and the camp was destroyed. Now these ordinary Japanese soldiers were completely unable to calm down. They could only run back desperately, even if Kamimura Toshimichi personally intervened.

"Commander, please retreat. As long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood!" The chief of staff proposed again.

But when Toshimichi Kamimura looked around, he found that apart from the fleeing soldiers, there were shouts and screams everywhere, and there was nowhere to escape.

"Report, Li Yunlong's armored forces are only three kilometers away from us! They are shouting again, asking us to surrender, otherwise they will kill us without mercy!"

Hearing this, Kamimura Toshimichi looked at the turbulent Songhua River behind him and said through gritted teeth: "Even if I commit suicide, I will never be Li Yunlong's prisoner!"

"Commander, even if you committed suicide, Li Yunlong would sell your body for money. Have you forgotten General Shinozuka Kazuo?"

Hearing this, Uemura Toshimichi put his drawn katana back. He knew what happened to Shinozuka Kazuo. The body was bought back by the empire at a huge price, but because he was captured, after the body was redeemed, Shinozuka Kazuo was not enshrined in the shrine.

"Baka!" Kamimura Toshimichi looked around and gritted his teeth, "Immediately lead the troops to break out of the enemy's encirclement in the weakest direction!"

"Hai!"

But this proposal was rejected in less than a minute. Too many defeated Japanese soldiers were pouring towards the Songhua River, leaving no room for them to break out. Trying to go upstream against the flow of people was impossible; they would simply be squeezed out.

"Your Excellency Commander..."

Unable to break out and not wanting to be captured, committing suicide would not leave his body intact, so Kamimura Toshimichi turned his attention to the Songhua River.

"I have decided to jump into the river. If you are willing to follow me, then come with me!" In the end, Kamimura Toshimichi decided to jump into the river. In this way, his body would flow down the Songhua River and would not be found by Li Yunlong's troops. He would also not have to endure the pain of seppuku.

Toshimichi Kamimura walked towards the Songhua River resolutely. Seeing this, the other Japanese officers looked at each other, and finally gritted their teeth and walked towards the Songhua River.

It wasn't that they didn't want to surrender, but they couldn't. The Japanese who became high-ranking officers all had families back home. If they surrendered, their families would suffer catastrophic disasters back home, becoming a disgrace to the empire, abandoned, and the target of civilian venting. The empire would also blame them for the defeat and use them as a scapegoat.

Toshimichi Kamimura walked to the bank of the Songhua River. A Japanese lieutenant general beside him gritted his teeth and said, "Long live the Emperor, long live the Empire!" After that, he took the lead and jumped directly into the Songhua River.

Seeing this, Uemura Toshimichi also jumped into the Songhua River. But after about ten seconds, Uemura Toshimichi struggled to climb out of the river.

"Your Excellency Commander..."

“The water is too cold!”

Several high-ranking Japanese officers looked at each other. Only the Japanese lieutenant general who had jumped in first was still struggling in the water. Looking at Uemura Toshimichi and others climbing ashore, he couldn't help but curse: "Coward, shame, imperial sinner!"

"Commander, we can disguise ourselves as ordinary soldiers and perhaps escape during this chaos. If we can't escape, Li Yunlong won't discover our identities!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Kamimura Toshimichi's eyes suddenly lit up. He thought this was a good idea, so he quickly started changing clothes and then blended into the crowd of Japanese devils.

At this time, the tanks had rushed to the bank of the Songhua River.

The soldier who climbed onto the tank noticed that a Japanese major general was unbuttoning his clothes. Before the tank stopped, he jumped off the tank, kicked the Japanese major general, and then hit the major general's head with the butt of his gun.

There were still a large number of devils around, but the soldier was not panicked at all. He raised his gun and aimed at the group of devils around him: "Don't move, whoever moves will die, and you won't be killed if you surrender!"

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Question: Why is the water too cold?

Chapter 606 Veteran's Memoirs

"Hello, old hero. We are from the crew of the documentary 'My War of Resistance'. My name is Liu Dongmei, and I would like to interview you."

In a small villa in a village somewhere in Sichuan and Chongqing, the crew of the documentary "My War of Resistance" is preparing to shoot.

The old hero being interviewed is almost a hundred years old. He is sitting on a chair, wearing an old military uniform. The military medal hanging on his chest is shining brightly under the sun.

"What's your name?"

"Liu Dongmei!"

"Liu Shazimei?"

"Liu Dongmei."

"What Dongmei?"

The old hero's grandson explained: "Grandpa is old and his hearing is a little hard of hearing."

"You're the one who's hard of hearing, you son of a bitch, you're talking bad about me behind my back again!"

"...Uncle, we're here to interview you. Do you remember the Battle of Hadashan?"

Hearing about the Battle of Hadashan, the old hero suddenly became excited and nodded vigorously, saying, "I remember, I remember, I won this medal in the Battle of Hadashan."

The old hero stretched out his hand and pointed tremblingly at the special medal of merit in the middle of his chest.

"Could you tell us about the Battle of Hal?"

"Back then, I was a machine gunner in the third squad, first platoon, second company, third battalion, seventeenth regiment, fourth division, Heilongjiang-Jilin-Liaoning-Chahar military region."

"I didn't join the army at first. I was tricked by the Japanese into going to Northeast China to build trenches, in that pond in Hailar. Later, the commander brought people to rescue us. There were more than 20 people from our village who were deceived with me at the time."

"Only fifteen of us made it to Hailar alive. When the commander rescued us, only six of us were still alive. All six of us became soldiers."

"Before the Battle of Hadashan, our Fourth Division was holding our breath. We were all resentful. The other brother units were attacked by the Japanese. We marched slowly, passing Baicheng and reaching Songyuan without firing a single shot!"

"Then we suddenly started to retreat. It seemed like a large Japanese army was coming out. Together with the puppet troops, there were more than 300,000 people."

"When we arrived at Hadashan, our company commander excitedly picked up a telegram and told us that he had received an order from his superiors to hold the Hadashan position."

"We dug trenches on Hada Mountain. Hada Mountain is a mountain, but it's not even as high as Xiaobei Mountain at the entrance of our village. It's only about a hundred meters high!"

"But that pond is the only high point around. To the left is the Songhua River, and to the right is a plain and a river."

"The Japanese arrived around 10 a.m., and we started blocking them. I had never fought against the Japanese before, but I had heard others say they were very fierce. But after the fight started, I found that they were not as fierce as people said."

"When our artillery bombarded them, many of them died. Then the tanks charged, and we had equipment to blow up the tanks. I heard that other troops used explosive packs, but we didn't. We used rocket launchers, anti-tank guns, and anti-tank grenades."

"The battle lasted about two hours, and then the Japanese started to retreat."

"When the devils ran away, we chased them. We also had artillery to blast them. When we caught up, the ground was littered with the bodies of the devils. I've heard that the bodies of the devils could be sold for money, but I don't think those bodies were worth much. They were all broken into pieces."

"We chased the Japs for several hours. They just kept running and running, dropping everything. They dropped their guns, their cannons, everything they could. There were a lot of good stuff. Look at this. I found it while we were chasing them."

"I have a certificate for this gun. Look, this one was approved by General Liang, and this one was approved by the commander. I'm an accurate shooter, so they gave me a certificate. I killed more than 20 Japanese soldiers while they were running away, shooting as I ran."

"Later, we surrounded the Japanese and brought them to a pond near the Songhua River. Our people were everywhere, east, south, west, and north, and even on the other side of the river."

"We wanted to yell at the Japanese to surrender and take prisoners, saying they were going to send them to the mines. They were all taking prisoners at the time, and I ran fast, so I captured a whole squad of Japanese soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel. The Japanese lieutenant colonel's sword in my room is my trophy."

"At first we shouted at the Japanese to surrender, but they refused and tried to resist. Then our heavy artillery arrived. The commander said they would use five-ton shells to dislodge our Fourth Division and blast a bloody path through it. Then the tanks would charge."

"The tanks were moving faster than us, and I couldn't outrun them. So, I had an idea and climbed onto a tank I could find. The tank was moving so fast, our company commander chased after me and scolded me, saying I was asking for my life!"

"I just followed the tank and kept charging forward until we reached the bank of the Songhua River."

"I saw a Japanese major general jump off the tank without saying a word. I did just that, and then I caught the Japanese major general. There were other Japanese soldiers around, and they wanted to come over to help. I just said, 'Don't move. Anyone who moves will die!'"

"The Japs didn't dare to move!"

"I'm handing over the officer's sword to Deputy Commander Xing."

"The Songhua River was full of Japanese invaders. I stood by the river, picked up my machine gun, and fired into the river."

"The barrel of the gun is all red from being shot. I can't even remember how much ammunition I fired!"

"The tanks were also firing, and the machine guns on the tanks were also firing."

"None of those devils on the river can escape."

"And we also had troops on the other side, not many, just one regiment. But the Japanese didn't carry weapons when they jumped into the river in order to survive. Those who managed to swim to the other side were captured, and many more were shot and thrown into the river by us."

"The river's surface is all red. Do you know the Songhua River? It's what the song says. My home is on the Songhua River in Northeast China. That very Songhua River!"