Chapter 8 Makes You Want to Overeat

  The last batch of brothers who went out on a mission have also returned.

  The flat sparrow flew excitedly to Zhong Juexing and reported: "I've evacuated all the villagers to the mountains, and the few remaining livestock have been fed laxatives in advance. Don't worry, Sixth Master, I'll make sure the Japanese are fooled. It's just a pity about those roasted chickens - you don't know how delicious they were!"

  Ye Tu Fei didn't care about these, instead he asked the National Army company commander: "Brother, how long have you been fighting against the Japanese? Have your brothers suffered any casualties?"

  The National Army company commander replied, "Sixth Master, our brothers have been fighting the little devils for over half an hour and repelled their two charges. Many of my comrades are wounded, and two have died." The company commander spoke of life and death in a very calm tone.

  Ye Tufei turned around and asked the flat sparrow: "When you retreated, how did you deal with the roasted chicken and steamed buns?"

  Xiang Zhongju replied: "It was all according to Liu Ye's orders, and they were knocked over onto the ground."

  Ye Tu Fei let out a long sigh and said: "The little Japanese hasn't made a move until now, it seems he really has taken the bait!"

  Ye Tu Fei's estimate was correct, Koizumi Junichiro indeed fell for it.

  He personally led the troops to defeat the Japanese army's ambush, occupied Dashuicun Village, and found those overturned roast chickens and steamed buns on the ground.

  Koizumi Masao considered the possibility that the Chinese army might have poisoned these foods, so he ordered his soldiers to find some animals locally to test for poisoning.

  The soldiers soon found an old dog that had not been taken away in the courtyard of the common people. Koizumi Masao fed it roasted chicken and buns, and watched as the old dog enjoyed these delicacies happily. Ten minutes later, the old dog was still licking its lips and wagging its tail, showing no signs of poisoning at all.

  Koizumi smiled.

  He monopolized two roast chickens and two steamed buns by himself, eating while grumbling to his subordinates: "The Chinese are truly foolish, thinking that knocking these delicious foods to the ground can force us to give up. They don't know that we, the Great Japanese Imperial Army, also value hardship and simplicity."

  The Japanese military commanders who were also particular about being austere and simple swept away the delicious food like a whirlwind, and within five minutes they all started having diarrhea.

  Moreover, almost all participants in collective diarrhea actions were officers, because there was limited food after all, and the needs of commanders had to be met first.

  While pulling diarrhea, Koizumi Masao was thinking. Where did the problem occur? That old dog also ate mantou with roast chicken, why didn't the dog pull diarrhea?

  For many years after that, this problem had been bothering Koizumi Masao, the more he couldn't figure it out, the more he couldn't help but think about it, and as a result, no matter how hard he thought, he still couldn't come up with a reasonable answer.

  Until the summer of 1933, he returned to Xuzhou again. Once, he luckily captured a Japanese soldier named Heita Kondo. When he found out that this captive was the perpetrator of the Daxuan Village diarrhea incident years ago, he asked Heita about it. In exchange for an answer, he not only agreed to release Heita but also promised to treat his gunshot wound.

  The answer is simple: the old dog had been fed an antidote beforehand. Not just that old dog, but several livestock in the village were also left behind, all of which had been fed the antidote beforehand.

  The diarrhea activity had been going on for nearly two hours, and it wasn't until the military doctor's help arrived that all the commanding officers managed to barely hold in their butts.

  Can't this make Koizumi Junichiro angry?

  Finally, Koizumi can't help but ask the commander of the Japanese army three questions in his heart: First, which military school did you graduate from? Second, is this going to end or not? Third, can you use up all these dirty tricks at once?

  However, as the highest commander of the troops, Koizumi Masao had to maintain a dignified demeanor, he couldn't curse or swear, and could only suppress all his grievances and anger in his belly.

  Koizumi Masao, who had shouldered all the problems by himself, felt he was going crazy. He thought that if he didn't annihilate these odious Chinese troops, he would be unable to face His Majesty the Emperor and those brave warriors of the Great Japanese Empire who revered him.

  "The whole army will quickly advance to Erlang Mountain, and with all its might, annihilate the Chinese blocking troops!" Koizumi Masao waved his sword, grinning savagely as he issued the order.

  This order was different from the one he gave when he set out from Gengzhuang Town in the morning.

  To achieve the strategic goal of occupying Jiajiazhuang, it is necessary to defeat the blocking force at Erlangshan, but annihilating this blocking force would deviate from the original combat goal.

  Koizumi Masao was unaware that his thoughts had already been led onto the route designed by Yè Túfēi.

  If Koizumi was only slightly unhinged by the series of insults at that time, then the scene at the foot of Mount Niitaka completely drove him out of his mind.

  At Erlang Mountain Pass, Ye Luofei had prepared a challenge letter for him. The full text is as follows:

  Koizumi Junichiro

  First of all, I would like to thank you for entrusting Mr. Takeeda with a box of gold bars as the war expenses for our army. I am deeply respectful of your noble integrity, Mr. Ye.

  The reason why I'm playing some tricks on you during your military campaign is only one, hoping that you can clearly recognize how foolish you are and be fooled by our army one after another. It's all done with good intentions, also hoping that Prime Minister Koizumi will understand and tolerate.

  Ye's promise is still valid, between 10 am and 4 pm, my brothers from the Zhongyitang will not appear on Erlang Mountain. This I have accomplished. As for what happens after 4 pm, it is beyond Ye's promised scope, I hope Master Xiaquan can understand.

  It's okay, you can take a look at the time now, it should be just a few minutes before 4 pm.

  Come on! I'll be waiting for you up ahead. When the time comes, it will be a fight to the death between us!

  The signature is: Ye Tufei.

  Koizumi read the battle report with a stern face, called out to Takeshita Motohiro with a stern face, and gave Takeshita more than ten slaps in the face with a stern face.

  After a whole day of investigation, it turned out that all these despicable tricks were actually orchestrated by this bandit leader named Ye Tufei. Didn't you say he was absolutely a friend of the Great Japanese Imperial Army?

  Koizumi Masao was smoking a pipe while scolding and slapping Takeeda's ears.

  "Alright! Since that's the case, I, Koizumi Masao, won't rest until I get your head, Yè Tú Fēi!" With his mind made up, Koizumi Masao finally met Yè Tú Fēi's demand: to forget about a place called Jiā Jiā Wāng.

  Koizumi steeled himself to take out Ye Tufei, ordering the Onigashima unit to advance and conduct a deep search of Mount Niangzi in order to find the main force of Ye's troops and engage them in a decisive battle.

  Actually, Ye Tufei's deployment didn't need Guizang Zhongdui to exert himself at all. He had set up a circular defensive position on the first high ground at the entrance of Erlang Mountain Valley Pass, which looked similar to that bald mountain bag.

  Guī zhǒng yuán mù chī yī kèng zhǎng yī zhì, rènwéi zhè yīzhuì shì yè tú fēi wán de guǐ bǎ xì, zhǐ huī bùbīng yào lìjí chōng fēng.

  At the critical moment, Koizumi arrived and carefully observed the high ground with a high-powered telescope. Indeed, the circular fortifications on the high ground and the one in front were similar, which could be confirmed as a flower stand. However, Koizumi saw the secret hidden under the flower stand.

  About a hundred meters behind the circular fortifications, there seemed to be a large number of troops ambushing in the thicket.

  In just a few seconds, Koizumi understood the subtlety of this construction: it was fake, and its purpose was not to defend, but to lure the enemy into launching a direct infantry charge. Once the goal was achieved, the heavy troops hiding in the bushes would launch a counter-charge against the advancing infantry from a higher position.

  Koizumi couldn't help but take a cold breath, and it seemed that Ye Tufei was indeed not an ordinary person. His attitude towards Ye Tufei underwent a subtle change, producing a hint of respect, but at the same time also increasing his desire to personally finish him off.

  Koizumi instructed Koyasan in such and such a way, then ordered the artillery company to deploy combat formation in a relatively hidden place.

  Koizumi Masao was after all a high-achieving student at Rikkyo University, and in an extremely short period of time not only did he see through Yexu Fei's intentions but also came up with a tactical strategy to turn the tables.

  Unfortunately, his opponent was Ye Tufei.

  Koizumi's plan was to have the Onitsuka platoon make a single-man charge, luring out the enemy ambushers for a counter-charge. When the enemy emerged, he would immediately stop the charge and stay in place, giving the artillery time to win.

  Koizumi made an estimate that the terrain space on the high ground where the counter-charge could be deployed was not large, and his artillery company might not need to fire all its guns to achieve comprehensive coverage of the enemy's charge path. Even if it couldn't directly annihilate the enemy's ambush with artillery, the remaining forces would not pose a significant threat to Onizuka either.

  Victory is within our grasp.

  However, the occurrence and development of things have their inevitability and accidentalness. For Koizumi, the process of this battle was extremely accidental. For Yè Tú Fēi, everything was inevitable, everything was within his design.

  The battle progressed in this way. Oniizuka personally led the charge, leading 50 infantrymen in a three-three formation to launch a wave of charges against the high ground. Although Oniizuka knew that he would not be counterattacked by the enemy before reaching the circular fortifications, he still made a big show of it and strictly enforced each tactical point of the wave charge.

  Fifty meters from the circular fortifications, the enemy was silent. Twenty meters from the circular fortifications, the enemy remained silent. Onigawara's mind was somewhat apprehensive, but he maintained a god-like respect for Koizumi and continued to command his troops to charge forward.

  Finally arrived at the circular fort. As previously judged, this fort was indeed a flower frame. Kitaro didn't have time to study these, he had only one purpose, to lure out the enemy's ambush troops.

  How to seduce?

  This is the time to test the on-site commander's adaptability. Kizuka, also a graduate of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, has tactical literacy and battlefield experience that are not ordinary, he immediately ordered the entire team to suspend the charge, stay in the circular fortifications, and conduct a thorough destruction action with extremely strong humiliation components against this so-called fortification. He believes that the enemy is like himself, can be killed but cannot be humiliated.

  A warrior may be killed but not humiliated! This sentence was left by the ancestors of China, and all true Chinese people will remember it firmly and take it as the bottom line on the battlefield, which cannot be broken through.

  Ye Tutu also couldn't bear the humiliation from those little Japanese.

  He will definitely counterattack and give the Little Japan a profound lesson. However, he still did not order the ambush in the bush to launch an immediate attack. There is only one reason, that bush does not have any ambush at all, there are only dozens of 'people' who look very much like people from a distance.

  His counterattack was something that neither Kitaro nor Koizumi had anticipated but had experienced before: pre-buried remote-controlled explosive points.

  At the same time as the deafening explosion on the circular fortifications on the high ground, Koizumi Masao also 'surprisingly' found that the brave warriors under the high ground were falling to the ground one after another.

  Only after taking a closer look did I realize I had been shot.

  It's those damn snipers at it again!