Chapter 77 What a Cunning Old Man

Yes, how could Jiro Wakiita be willing to be led by the nose by the Chinese defenders like this.

At the moment when he sent out the corpse collection team, he decided to find an officer with some ability to mix in with them, so that he could observe the Sihang Warehouse more closely and find the flaws of the Sihang Warehouse.

Without much thought, this job fell on Yin Teng Zhonger. The main reason was naturally not how resourceful this guy was, but that he didn't scare the snake in the last round of "stirring up the grass" but broke the grass-beating stick, which made the Japanese colonel dislike him very much. Moreover, this guy still has an advantage that other Japanese lieutenants don't have.

There is no need to dress up too much. Once he changed his military uniform, let alone a sergeant, his face full of unlucky looks, people would believe that he was a private, if he could hold his belly a little more.

Obviously, Major Fisherman had a good grasp of his temperament.

Although the Chinese soldiers were staring at the shooting hole, they did not shoot.

Observing this well-armed building from a close distance is completely different from watching it through a telescope. In order to obtain more information, the Japanese major almost looked at himself sideways in order to conceal his spying behavior.

Of course, the Japanese thought that they could turn grief into an opportunity by playing such a trick of "covering the sky and the sea", so they really underestimated the Chinese commanders.

Inside the building, several officers of the 524th Regiment stood behind the observation hole and carefully observed the Japanese corpse collection team.

"Ha, Brother Tang is still careful. I know that the little devils will definitely not give up. Look at that black-faced guy. If he doesn't work well, he will sneakily look at us. He definitely has bad intentions." Second Company Commander Deng Ying exclaimed while looking at a few dozen meters away with the rifle scope he got from Niu Er.

After experiencing these three consecutive battles during the day, except for Lei Xiong, who quickly accepted Tang Dao, the other captains and company commanders also changed their names for Tang Dao accordingly. This "Brother Tang" is much closer than the previous "Platoon Leader Tang".

This is not just because Tang Dao is strong and fierce, but now Tang Dao has been promoted to lieutenant, only one level lower than their captains and company commanders, and almost no one doubts that Tang Dao will be promoted again at the end of this battle.

This means that Tang Dao is not only recognized, but has completely entered their circle, a circle where they can call each other brothers.

A subtle psychological transformation was quickly completed in the name.

The black-faced sergeant Deng Ying mentioned is naturally Yin Teng Zhonger.

Although this guy has a face that is so black that it is unbearable to look at, and is very similar to those ordinary Japanese soldiers from the seaside and mountainous areas, his thick waist that he tried to tighten with his belt betrayed him after all.

In this era, there are few fat people in the Chinese army because of lack of nutrition. Three meals of steamed buns and cabbage soup, you fatten one up for me?

On the Japanese side, there is also a lack of fat people among ordinary soldiers. It is not because of nutrition problems, but mainly because they are basically veterans who entered China. After one or two years of rigorous training, there are few fat people in their bodies.

The black-faced sergeant had a big buttock exposed by his belt, which made people want to kick him.

With a different body shape, he would naturally be the focus of attention, and the small movements of his eyes that were almost squinting were naturally seen by Deng Ying holding a four-fold telescope.

However, Deng Ying was not surprised that the Japanese army sent people to observe. What surprised Deng Ying was that Tang Dao said it again.

Before he planned to call the Japanese corpse collection team to collect the Japanese corpses, Tang Dao first raised the question that the Japanese army might use this opportunity to observe the warehouse building.

That was fine, but what made Deng Ying determined not to fight against Tang Dao, the old cunning guy, was Tang Dao's suggestion: Why not "play tricks against tricks" again, reveal a little "flaw" for the Japanese army to see, and when they attack next time, this "flaw" will give the Japanese army another good drink.

Now it seems that Tang Dao, the old cunning guy, succeeded again.

The Japanese commander on the opposite side was really careless. He sent such a black-faced scum, but he was discovered at a glance. It was really not challenging. Moreover, he looked like a low-grade guy, and there was probably no great value in killing him.

Deng Ying made such a judgment, but he made a big mistake. He underestimated the level of the black-faced sergeant a little too low. Of course, it was also because he knew nothing about the information of the lieutenants of the 36th Infantry Regiment.

And what about Tang Dao? He took a look at Yin Teng Zhonger, thinking that he still needed this guy to bring "information" back to the Japanese headquarters to ask for credit, so he temporarily suppressed his killing intention. If he knew that this guy was the captain of the 3rd Infantry Battalion, he would definitely shoot him without hesitation.

Killing a major will definitely cause a greater blow to the Japanese army than killing hundreds of ordinary Japanese soldiers. Tang Dao is not a person who sticks to the rules. It is more ridiculous to talk about credibility with the enemy on the battlefield than to talk about love with a scumbag.

Tang Dao and Deng Ying both made mistakes, which made the hard-working little bee, Yin Teng Zhonger, escape quietly.

However, fortune and misfortune go hand in hand. Yin Teng Zhonger was happy that he was alive, but perhaps it was not a good thing for the Japanese army.

After all, he was a senior officer leading thousands of people. The Japanese major was definitely not a useless person. His eyes were really sharp. Even if he almost blinded his eyes with his peripheral vision, all the external arrangements of the entire building fell into his eyes.

He had to return with a full harvest. Five or six corpse transporters were full of body parts, and another seventy or eighty people carried the whole body back and forth twice in groups of two before the work was done.

Jiro Wakiita, who had already calculated the losses, had no time to worry about it. He patted the shoulders of his subordinates who reported the reconnaissance intelligence to him in detail and was very relieved.

Although Yin Tengchuji had a bad idea in his head, his contribution this time was real, at least much better than Toyota Hide, the idiot who only knew how to bow his head and get slapped in the face.

In this afternoon attack, the destruction of Major Tokugawa of the division's tank squadron along with three Type 89 tanks was not the most painful thing for Jiro Wakiita, but Toyota Hide's First Infantry Battalion, which was almost dead in name only.

The last 100 veterans of Toyota Hide's 1st Infantry Squadron, along with Lieutenant Squadron Leader Kurokawa Weiza, were killed in the Sihang Warehouse Building. This organization has disappeared from the 1st Infantry Battalion.

The 3rd and 4th Infantry Squadrons that followed were the second wave of main forces. If it weren't for Captain Koizumi Reiji's quick reaction, they would have been lured into a trap by the Chinese and wiped out.

But even so, there were nearly a hundred bodies left in front of the Sihang Warehouse building. Together with the losses during the attack, the two infantry squadrons could almost be merged into one infantry squadron.

The 2nd Infantry Squadron had previously been buried by an infantry squad in the explosion, and its combat effectiveness was already damaged due to the lack of morale.

Now, a fully staffed infantry battalion has only one and a half infantry squadrons of 300 people available. The least loss is the 12 heavy machine guns of the heavy machine gun squadron, because the semi-permanent fortifications were built in advance, and the personnel and equipment are complete.

But what's the use of this? Could it be that the heavy machine gun squadron was asked to carry the heavy machine guns to charge and occupy the enemy's position?

After a series of blows, the morale of the 1st Infantry Battalion has fallen to the bottom. Jiro Wakiita had to admit that the 1st Infantry Battalion, which was once the most powerful under his command, has been completely crippled. Their current combat effectiveness is not much stronger than that of an infantry squadron before.

Although he didn't really kill Toyota Hide, he refused to see that idiot again, and the First Infantry Battalion was also removed from the battle sequence by him, which means that from the afternoon, the 36th Infantry Regiment still has two infantry battalions available for combat.

In this case, the intelligence that Yin Teng Zhonger observed without hesitation was naturally precious to him, even though he had never liked this guy.

In addition to the Second Infantry Battalion Captain Miyamoto Mayama who had just arrived on orders, a lieutenant colonel regiment deputy with a very poor sense of existence, the four grasshoppers, big and small, who were destined to be tied to the same rope, concentrated all their energy to study the next tactics.

Only Toyota Hide, who had already retreated to the rear with a group of remnants, was left in the distance, feeling sad.

After a tragic defeat, what awaited him was not just loneliness, but getting on a boat and returning home with countless small wooden boxes.

Being able to take off his military uniform safely and farm in his hometown was already the best ending.

Perhaps, he should be grateful for all this, at least he was still alive.

And his colleagues who squeezed him out of the core circle of the regiment might not be so!

Since then, the arrogant Japanese army seemed to have lost all its energy and spirit, and did not launch another attack until the sun sank into the horizon.

However, both sides knew that the war was not over.

The Japanese army was just a beast licking its wounds silently, and it was unknown when it would launch a fatal attack on the prey in front of it.