Chapter 1449: War Version of the Safari

No one expected that the difficulty in Beidou Mountain would last for nearly two and a half months!

The siege that started two days before the Chinese Lunar New Year in 1941 and lasted until early April became not only the longest siege in the history of China's Patriotic War, but also the longest siege since the Japanese Empire launched its war against China hundreds of years ago. The most humiliating battle since the fertile soil continued to harass.

The 231 Infantry Regiment in the encirclement had actually completely lost its combat effectiveness by the end of February. It was not without guns and ammunition. According to statistics from the Chinese who entered the Japanese highlands after the war, the 231 Infantry Regiment still had more than 200,000 rounds of various machine guns in the end. Rifle bullets, and even 150 mountain artillery shells and more than 300 70mm infantry artillery shells, as well as 1,300 intact Type 38 rifles, 35 Type 96 light machine guns and 17 Type 92 heavy machine guns and other standard weapons.

Just looking at the stocks of these weapons, equipment and ammunition, even a fool knows that this can take away the lives of at least thousands of Chinese officers and soldiers.

However, these exquisite firearms developed so far in the development of human civilization have not been able to shoot a single shot until most of the officers and soldiers of the 231st Infantry Regiment have become lonely ghosts in this mountainous area.

Firstly, it is because the Chinese have no intention of attacking at all. They are just constantly reinforcing the defense line. As long as the Japanese army has no intention of attacking and breaking through, they are not even willing to waste a single shot on the Japanese.

By mid-to-late February, the Japanese army had already given up their intention to break out, especially after a trench 4 meters deep and 4 meters wide appeared in front of the Chinese defense line.

Yes, under Tang Dao's personal order, all ministries used the evenings in early February to dig trenches in front of their respective defense lines, which would kill a wild boar if they fell. Until around February 20, they were completely connected into one, with a full circumference. More than 13 kilometers of deep trenches surrounded the remaining soldiers of the 231st Infantry Regiment on the hills that had been completely isolated from the outside world.

If I have to describe it more appropriately, the trenches further away and the heavily armed soldiers are like a high-erected electric grid. Whoever touches it will die. The deep trench is the trench in the zoo that separates the animals from the electric grid to avoid accidents. The beast that knows the current affairs of the world is seeking death.

And the hilltop surrounded by trenches is just Monkey Mountain!

People outside the barbed wire can see the conditions of the monkeys on the "Monkey Mountain", and the monkeys can also see the Chinese people who are watching them silently.

It's just that it's slightly different from the animals and tourists in the future zoo. These observations must be completed quietly and in a safe enough area. Anyone who dares to look at each other blatantly may very well be the last time humans and monkeys meet in this world. Stared.

Of course, this may be regarded as a "wildlife park", because the "monkeys" inside will not receive any food from the viewers. If they want to survive, they have to rely on themselves.

Fortunately, 'Monkey' is an omnivorous animal, and its original genetic imprint is engraved with the concept that everything can be eaten.

The mountains located in the hinterland of China ushered in the long-lost spring breeze after the first lunar month. The leaves turned green, the flowers bloomed, and the insects emerged from the soil.

As for the various small animals that hibernated, they had been dug out of their burrows by bayonets before and turned into good protein.

This scene appeared on the front pages of several major newspapers in China and the United States.

There are always some people in this world who are willing to dance on the edge of a knife for their beliefs, such as war reporters.

China has it, Japan has it, and Westerners have it too.

Soldiers use guns to defend their ideals and lives, while reporters use lenses to record the cruelty and sadness of war.

"The encirclement is like an unbreakable cage. The Japanese side is like a flock of sheep being driven into the sheepfold. We have completely won the victory. From a humanitarian perspective, we urge the Japanese side to surrender collectively. They have no possibility of reversing the situation of the war. sex."

Shen Bingyun, the Chinese war correspondent who distributed the picture of "Monkey Mountain" and wrote such comments, is another female reporter in China who has risen to fame after Tantai Mingyue.

As a war correspondent who personally experienced the Battle of Jiangxia and the First Battle of Changsha, and personally recorded soldiers jumping out of the trenches with rifles to charge, this third-year Chinese Department student at Jiangxia University, whose idol is Tantai Mingyue, has seen too much. The tragedy.

She has seen the blood of soldiers whose bodies were torn apart by mountain artillery shells. She has also seen the bravery of throwing herself under a tank while carrying an explosive pack to blow up a Japanese tank, only to find a few finger bones. She has also seen the Japanese army break through the position. Finally, all the wounded who were too late to evacuate were placed under the tracks of the tanks and crushed back and forth cruelly.

She always has a grenade and a small bottle of poison obtained from the chemistry teacher on her body to prevent her from falling into the hands of the Japanese army that day and destroying her body and soul together.

After seeing too much death, you no longer fear death. This is the most personal experience that the war brought to this 21-year-old Chinese woman.

But after one and a half months in Beidou Mountain, when this brave female Chinese war reporter used her lens to clearly record everything that happened on 'Monkey Mountain' in the observation hole, the female reporter who was most eager to watch the death of Japanese soldiers actually invited them surrender.

Because that kind of cruelty is far beyond the bloody battlefield! It had gone beyond the limits of what a mentally tough person would define as cruel.

Since the end of February, the Japanese army has stopped burying corpses. Whenever someone dies, the Japanese army does not show sadness or numbness, but excitement.

Extremely excited!

They drew out their bayonets hanging from their waists, like a pack of hyenas discovering a bison lying on the grassland.

"Captain Tang, the Japanese have been out of food for half a month, why don't they surrender?" Shen Bingyun, who had just vomited in the trench, finally couldn't help asking Tang Dao, who had just "beaten" ten scouts and returned to the headquarters at the training ground behind the mountain.

"Everyone has his own persistence and principles, just like you, me and them, the Japanese far away in Japan may also ask the same question: Chinese can't even make guns and cannons, why don't they surrender?" Tang Dao raised his head, pointed at Xia Dayu and Shi Dakuan who were following him, and answered lightly.

"We still have enough population and vast territory, what do they have?" Shen Bingyun frowned.

"They have enough tenacious will and extremely perverted Yamato national ideas. You know, since bringing back porcelain, silk, tea, etc. from my Tang Dynasty a thousand years ago, the Japanese who were still wearing linen suddenly discovered that there was such a beautiful and rich place in the world? Perhaps from that moment, occupying this land has been quietly engraved in their genes." Tang Dao said.

"A bandit, how can he surrender to his prey? If it were me, I would never do that."

"What if they surrender to our army? I mean if!" Shen Bingyun continued to ask with a frown.

"Then I can assure reporter Shen that they won't." Tang Dao suddenly laughed.

"Reporter Shen, you still don't know much about the Japanese nation. Of course, maybe you don't know much about me either, because I know a little more than you think."

In the spring sunshine, Tang Dao, who is over 25 years old, still smiles so brightly. He is handsome in his military uniform. Smiling in such a spring, he is even more handsome. I don't know how many women think he is the most perfect lover.

But, in this warm smile, the Chinese female reporter only felt a chill from the soles of her feet to the top of her head.

She finally understood the real point of Tang Dao's words. Whether the Japanese surrendered or not, since the day they were surrounded, it was no longer up to them, but all depended on this young army colonel.

He said that the Japanese refused to surrender because of their strong will, so the Japanese had no choice but not to surrender.

He did not want to starve these Japanese soldiers to death in this mountain, but to turn this place into a base to humiliate the Japanese army. These Chinese and foreign journalists were just a group of tools, just like the Japanese soldiers who were surrounded and watched.

The only difference was that these tools consumed words, while the surrounded Japanese consumed their lives and humanity that had sunk into darkness.

She even had reason to believe that this scene would be truly recorded in words and photos, and would be released at any time in the future, becoming a wound that the entire Japanese nation would never heal.

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"Reporter Shen, you are very smart!" Tang Dao glanced at Shen Bingyun who was standing there in a daze, with a smile on his face. "But don't forget, you are a Chinese, and a Chinese who has seen the great pain of our Chinese nation."

Looking up at the Japanese high ground opposite, his eyes were indifferent as if he was really looking at a group of monkeys: "If you can live to 100 years old, you will know that they are a group of clowns. The meaning of their existence is to disgust you constantly. Tell me, will you fight back?"

Shen Bingyun certainly didn't know that the Japanese troops in the encirclement had already intended to surrender. As early as a few days ago, some Japanese soldiers held white flags and walked towards the Chinese position. The Chinese did not shoot them directly, but put them into the trenches for negotiations.

However, the surrender conditions proposed by China were simply unacceptable to the Japanese army.

As the highest commander of Beidoushan, Tang Dao formulated three conditions: surrender all weapons; the flag of the 231st Infantry Regiment must not be damaged and must be handed over; the then highest Japanese commander must kneel on the ground and hand over the command knife in front of the Chinese commander who accepted the surrender.

The first condition is easy to say, surrendering means handing over weapons and equipment, but any of the last two conditions will nail this Japanese army to the pillar of shame in history.

Surrender is out of the question, the Japanese can only bear it even if they have to eat dirt.

The Japanese high-level officials have also thought of ways, and even contacted the high-level military and political departments of China through the German Empire Minister, hoping that China would quietly accept the surrender, and they are willing to pay enough to redeem these surrendered soldiers.

Ten thousand prisoners of war for two thousand, this deal is actually very tempting.

But at this time, the point of view of that person miraculously remained consistent with Tang Dao!

"The Japanese want to end this battlefield in a less embarrassing way, but have they ever thought about who will help me get back the face I lost in Songhu, Nanjing, and Central China? Although Tang Dao is unruly, he is much clearer than you idiots. His move is to force the Japanese into a desperate situation. Whether they fight or surrender, the Japanese will lose face in the Pacific Ocean. On this point, I support him!" The man scolded a senior official from the Military and Political Department who came to report.

Men are like this. It's not that they can't change their minds, but the temptation is not enough. However, the stingy Japanese obviously don't think that the chips they offer are not enough.

An infantry division's equipment plus 10,000 prisoners of war, even a great noble like Fujiwara Sen's could be exchanged back then, so why are the Chinese holding on to it this time?

Although he is only at the level of a battalion commander in terms of combat deployment, when it comes to playing tricks, there are only two or three people in China who can match him.

He had long seen through Tang Dao's purpose. Tang Dao wanted to put this shame on the foreheads of the Japanese and let them bear it all the time. Even if they won the final victory, the Japanese troops in the encirclement would be regarded by the world's audiences as The shadow of the monkey watch also lingers.

With this attitude, Tang Dao is even more determined to implement the cage tactics, and welcomes Chinese and foreign reporters to visit and take photos.

The headlines one after another were like rubbing salt into the wound, irritating Isamu Yokoyama and several senior generals at the China Expeditionary Force Headquarters until their eyes turned blue.

The China Expeditionary Forces Headquarters even plans to urgently mobilize the 13th Army to approach Jianghan. Together with the 11th Army, the two armies govern 7 divisions and 6 independent brigades, with a total strength of 210,000.

But China could have been on guard against the Japanese for a long time, and the more than 400,000 troops in the third, fifth, and ninth theaters had also made corresponding adjustments.

At worst, there will be another large-scale battle. Although China, which has experienced no less than ten battles, has lost almost all of them and suffered huge losses. It has not yet been able to defend its territory and has been scolded bloody by the people. But one thing has to be admitted. The entire war As Mr. Baili said, China is entering a state of protracted war.

Not to mention occupying all of China, even if it connects north and south of China, it will take the Japanese at least two or three years. But now with the military aid from the United States, China has more confidence to fight the Japanese army.

Even Chinese senior officials who are keenly aware of the shift in Japan's strategic focus have realized a very important issue. Japan is risking a break with the old Western empires, perhaps not because of its association with Mustache, but because of the steel industry. , oil embargo, Japan's domestic strategic materials for war are already insufficient.

Large-scale battles will undoubtedly continue to increase this consumption!

As for China, the 500,000-strong army has been exhausted, and another 500,000 will be recruited! If the weapons are gone, just buy them, if you don’t have the money, just take a loan.

As the old saying goes: Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes! China is like this anyway, fight if you like!

It can only be said that people who can sit in those positions don't always have daddy in their heads. After all, they still have something.

Once the attitude is firm, the Japanese become timid!

It was against this background that Yamada Masakichi and his 231st Infantry Regiment became a rare unit in the history of World War II that was besieged for a full 73 days on a battlefield of less than 5 square kilometers.

In fact, there are many besieged cities in the history of World War II. For example, the Battle of Stalingrad broke out in July 1942. The Germans besieged this city for eight months. It was also the bloodiest battle in modern history. The casualties on both sides were estimated to be about 200. More than 10,000 people died, and more than 600,000 residents in the city died. Only a few thousand residents survived after the victory.

Another example is the even more brutal defense of Leningrad, known as the most brutal siege in the history of human wars. It lasted for more than 900 days and 640,000 civilians starved to death.

However, during these two sieges, supplies were actually sent to the besieged soldiers and civilians. During the eight months of the siege of Stalingrad, the Mao Bear Man transported 300,000 wagonloads of military equipment to the Stalingrad area.

However, the factories in Stalingrad continued to produce. For example, the factories in Kirov District only retained 10 to 15% of their workers at most, but they produced 5,000 tons of food and 100 tons of food for the front line. Mustard oil, 67 tons of soap, 12,000 bottles of mixed fuel, 5,000 military stoves, 1,300 landmines, etc.

Since February 10, the 231st Infantry Regiment has never received even a piece of biscuit.

Their food sources can only be new wild vegetables and tree bark, as well as those fresh remains!

By the time the Chinese troops landed on the Japanese positions on April 5th, the Tomb Sweeping Day, there were almost no survivors, and the Japanese soldiers still lying in the trenches with their breaths in their throats did nothing except widen their eyes.

They no longer have the strength to pick up their guns!

When the remaining six prisoners of war were weighed after the war, their average weight was only a terrifying 5 kilograms. To say they were skin and bones would be an exaggeration. It should be said that they were almost skeletons.

The artificially created breathing skeleton!

Its commander, Yamada Masakichi, committed suicide in despair as early as mid-March, and there is no body for identification.

In the eyes of a group of 'monkeys' who are about to starve to death and have long since turned into beasts, everything they can eat is food!

The big stick bones with teeth marks all over the trenches made Cai Yongguan, who had been on the battlefield for many years and even chopped down seven Japanese soldiers, unable to hold back and vomited on the spot.

"It's my fault. As soon as I set foot on that land, I felt that there was a sinister wind. Now that I think about it, it must be because there are too many unjust ghosts." When Cai Yongguan thought of that hellish scene, his face couldn't help but growl. white.

"Reporter Shen, take pictures of everything. I don't care how much you wash, just remember to give me the negatives." Tang Dao always had a gentle smile on his face.

Shen Bingyun wanted to stay away from this gentle and handsome guy. It was him who created this miserable hell.

Fortunately, he is Chinese!

This may be the greatest joy for the female reporter who has once again experienced what it means to be cruel and records all this on the battlefield.

At night, the siege of Beidou Mountain came to an end!