Anti-Japanese War: Starting from Yaobai

Chapter 2184 Takeda’s Fury!

"Boom! Boom!"

The roar of the old devil Sato echoed outside Hupigou, and his eyes were full of flames of anger.

He hated this forest to death. If it weren't for this forest, he would have forced the Chunjianghao guerrillas into a desperate situation by now.

But it was this forest that not only blocked his way, but also caused his infantry battalion to suffer heavy losses again.

He made a rough calculation and found that after arriving at Hupigou, he had lost more than 280 soldiers.

Faced with such huge casualties, the old Japanese soldier Sato was completely furious. When he walked out of the forest, he ordered the artillery to prepare to fire incendiary bombs at Hupigou.

Under his command, the artillery quickly adjusted the angle of the muzzle, and incendiary bombs were loaded into the barrel one after another.

Following the order from the artillery commander, the shells cut through the sky with a sharp whistling sound and flew towards the forest in Hupigou in the distance.

The incendiary bombs drew fiery arcs in the air and then fell accurately into the dense jungle.

Almost at the moment the shell hit the ground, a deafening explosion sounded, and flames shot up into the sky, illuminating the entire evening sky.

The shock wave from the explosion uprooted the surrounding trees, and the flames spread rapidly, devouring large tracts of woodland like a ferocious fire beast.

The birds in the forest were frightened and flew everywhere, and all kinds of small animals fled from the flames in panic and fled to places where there was no flame.

Their eyes were filled with fear. They were naturally afraid of fire and regarded it as a scourge.

What's more, the burning trees made crackling sounds, which made them even more afraid.

But at this time, old devil Sato was very happy.

He stood on the high ground of the position, looking at the burning jungle from afar, with a hint of satisfaction in his eyes.

However, at this moment, Colonel Takahashi poured cold water on them and said, "Sato-kun, now that the forest is burning, you have vented your anger, but what should we do next? I just counted and found that our troops are less than 1,600. Although we still have an absolute advantage in terms of manpower, I really don't have the confidence that we can win."

Old devil Sato was also brought back to reality by Takahashi's words.

Because indeed, more than half of their troops had been lost and the morale of the troops was low.

However, their enemies were very cunning, which forced him to start considering the next battle.

Fortunately, they still had time, after all, the fire in Hupigou would take all night to extinguish.

Sato asked Takahashi, "So what do you think we should do?"

Takahashi thought for a moment and said, "We have to face a fact now. Yamada-kun is dead and most of the troops were killed or wounded. We can't hide this anyway. I think we should let Lord Takeda know about this."

Sato frowned and said, "If this is the case, we may be severely reprimanded by Lord Takeda. I originally thought that I would report this matter to Lord Takeda after I wiped out this group of guerrillas. In this way,

At this point, Sato paused, because whether he eliminated the guerrillas or not, he would be severely reprimanded by Lord Takeda.

A small guerrilla force actually brought such huge casualties to the Imperial Japanese Army, they cannot escape the blame.

Takahashi said at this time:

"But now, it seems difficult for us to completely wipe out the enemy with our forces. I finally realized that our enemies are using the terrain advantage to consume our manpower bit by bit.

The most correct decision we made was to stabilize our position in Dashan Bay. Otherwise, our enemies would have received a large amount of weapons and equipment, which would have made them even more difficult to deal with.”

Sato nodded and said, "That's right! Well, then we will make the most correct decision again and explain everything to Lord Takeda." Takahashi smiled and said, "That's right, if we stick our heads out, we will be cut in the same way. So why don't we just be straightforward?"

"kindness!"

Sato nodded again, and immediately sent a telegram to General Takeda, explaining the situation on the battlefield and reporting all the losses of the troops.

At this time, General Takeda was still handling the lawsuit between Kameda, the highest commander of the Japanese army in Dalian, and Miyazaki, the station chief of the Special High Police Dalian Station.

The two men were still trying to pass the buck to each other over the arsenal incident. Takeda had already ruled against the two men. But it seemed that the military and the Special Higher Police had also gotten involved, and they were determined not to give up until a conclusion was reached.

Takeda could only listen to them chattering in front of him, and he wished he could just kill the two of them so that he could have some peace and quiet.

However, at this moment, the Japanese communications officer came to report the battle situation at the front.

Takeda waved his hand to signal the communications officer to stop, and then said to Kameda and Miyazaki: "I have official business here now, you go back first!"

"Hi!"

Kameda and Miyazaki bowed and left, and only then did Takeda signal the Japanese communications officer to continue speaking.

The Japanese communications officer lowered his voice and said, "Sir, your blood pressure is high. Please don't get angry after hearing this report."

Takeda was annoyed by the communication officer's long-windedness and ordered, "Hurry up and tell me, are my brain blood vessels that fragile?"

The Japanese communications officer bowed slightly, and then reported: "The telegram was sent jointly by Colonel Sato and Colonel Takahashi. Colonel Yamada died in battle."

"Nani?"

Upon hearing the news of Yamada's death, Takeda stood up with a bang.

But before he could stand firmly, he suddenly felt dizzy and sat back down.

The communications officer quickly stepped forward to support Takeda and said, "Sir, sir, what's wrong with you? I'll go get a doctor right away."

Takeda held his head with one hand and said, "It's okay, why call a doctor? I'm just a little mad."

At this point, General Takeda asked again to confirm: "Is Yamada really dead?"

The communications officer stepped back and bowed, saying, "That's what the telegram said. It said that Colonel Takeda personally led his troops to the front line to break the enemy's trap, but was killed by an enemy sniper."

"idiot!"

General Takeda was very angry because Takeda was his teacher's grandson. He really didn't know how to explain to his teacher who was over 80 years old.

However, at this moment, the Japanese communications officer said, "Sir, I have even worse news. Do you want to continue listening?"

General Takeda asked in return: "Is there any news worse than Yamada's death?"

The Japanese communications officer bowed deeply but did not continue speaking. He was afraid that General Takeda would explode after hearing what he heard.

Looking at the communications officer's expression, Takeda knew that this bad news was probably worse than Yamada's death.

So he also made preparations, calmed himself down, and then said: "Go ahead, I'm ready!"

(End of this chapter)