Chapter 27: The Sudden Arrival of a Powerful Enemy

  On the mountain road, Wang Changhai led a squad of guardsmen to gather in front of a giant rock, studying countermeasures. They had been thinking for a while, but still couldn't come up with a solution.

  Even in the process of rolling, there were violent collisions and peeling off, but the remaining giant stone still had a height of nearly ten meters, and its thickness reached seven or eight meters. The gap between the giant stone and the rock wall was filled with large and small debris, without any gaps at all.

  Looking at the smooth vertical surface of the giant stone over ten meters high, Wang Changhai knew that it would not be easy for people to climb over.

  "If the special forces were here, it would be much easier!" Wang Changhai thought to himself, and then he thought of Dai'er and the others who had already been driven away by him, and didn't know where they had run to. The only hope that could have been relied on was also temporarily put aside.

  "Squad leader, why don't we use explosives to blow it up!" a soldier from the guard squad suggested.

  Wang Changhai was initially delighted, but then thought about it and denied this idea again.

  The two sides of the giant stone are steep cliffs, and in such a narrow space, if the explosives explode, I'm afraid that as soon as the giant stone is blasted open, the cliffs on both sides will collapse under the resonance generated by the explosion. By then, it won't be just 7 or 8 meters that can't be passed through, but hundreds of meters or more. If a chain reaction is triggered, who knows when we'll be able to reopen this mountain road again?

  Time is passing minute by minute and second by second.

  King Chang Hai thought hard, but he couldn't think of a solution either. He paced back and forth in front of the giant stone, getting more and more anxious. The guards around him looked at him, also unable to come up with a good idea.

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  The warriors of the 217th Regiment, who were pursuing the Japanese cavalry, followed closely behind the fleeing Japanese soldiers, fighting and chasing them, gradually approaching the mountain pass that entered the Mengzi Ridge area. After leaving the mountain pass, they would enter the outer Great Wall area.

  "Hurry up! This time we can't let those little devils get away, everyone put in more effort!" The commander of the 6th company shouted as he followed behind the Japanese soldiers and rushed out of the mountain pass.

  The Japanese soldiers, who were originally fleeing in disarray, suddenly stopped in their tracks and stared blankly ahead of them, seemingly oblivious to the 29th Army soldiers closing in on them from behind.

  "What's going on, why did the little devil stop?" The 6th company commander knocked down a devil and touched his military cap that was upside down on his head. He then lifted his head to look forward at the devils, and after taking a glance, his mouth slightly opened, silently inhaling air, for a moment he even forgot about killing the devils in front of him who were also stunned.

  "What's wrong, have you seen a ghost?"

  The 4th and 5th company commanders rushed up from behind, stood beside the 6th company commander, saw him looking forward with a look like seeing a ghost, and also hurriedly looked forward.

  The scene before them was really beyond their expectation.

  About 500 meters in front of the fleeing Japanese army, the ground was covered with a vast expanse of Japanese troops, stretching as far as the eye could see. The earthy yellow color of their uniforms seemed to blanket the entire landscape, making it impossible to discern any end to the sea of soldiers.

  At the forefront of the troops, the Type 99 light machine gun and the DShK heavy machine gun were placed every three to five meters, with the shooters aiming at the fleeing Japanese cavalry.

  Behind them, row upon row of mortars were set up on the ground, with gunners holding shells and waiting for the order to fire.

  Machine gunners stood behind rows of infantrymen holding bayonets, waiting for orders. Behind them were Japanese cavalrymen riding tall horses, the warhorses impatiently pawing at the ground while their tails swished back and forth.

  "Old Han, I'm not mistaken, am I?"

  "It seems we're in luck, this will be a big win!" Captain Liu's mouth curled up into a wry smile.

  "What's to be done?" asked Captain Liang.

  The three of them looked at each other and almost in unison said: "What else can we do? Fight!"

  After finishing, the three of them turned around and gathered their respective troops, quickly retreating to the inner side of the mountain pass. They sent someone to report to Regimental Commander Wang Changhai while hastily building simple fortifications at the mountain pass, preparing to block the enemy's advance.

  Knowing that the enemy's reinforcements had arrived, the warriors were a bit nervous and excited, but more excited than nervous. Except for those on sentry duty, even the three company commanders put down their weapons and were busy building simple fortifications, preparing to fight the Japanese devils soon.

  The situation outside of Yamaguchi was developing in a direction they had not anticipated.

  The commander of the Japanese Army's Ito and Suzuki Mixed Brigade, Yamaguchi Kazuo, sat on his tall horse, coldly watching the Chinese troops retreat back into the mountains without paying attention. In his mind, these few companies of Chinese soldiers were no match for the mighty military power of the Imperial Japanese Army, so he thought that even if they let them run away, there would be no harm.

  But he didn't think that this seemingly small mistake would cost him dearly later on.

  For Yamaguchi Kazuo, the most important thing now is how to deal with these defeated Japanese cavalrymen in front of him.

  For Japanese soldiers, the stubborn samurai spirit made them think that defeat was a shame for a samurai and also a shame for a soldier.

  "What about your commanders Ito and Kawauchi?" asked Yamaguchi Ichiro, riding on horseback.

  His voice was calm, looking as if he didn't care at all. But the other officers following him all trembled slightly, and even those close to him quietly moved a little further away.

  Those who know him are aware that the calmer his expression is, the more terrifying the impending outburst will be.

  "I'm afraid these cavalrymen are in for a tough time!" thought Yamada, who had just taken over the position of General Kobayashi after his seppuku, as he cast a sympathetic glance at the Japanese cavalry facing him.

  "They have all died for their country!" a surviving Japanese officer muttered.

  Yamaguchi's voice turned cold; "And what about you, your superiors have sworn allegiance to the Emperor, and yet you fled under the disorganized attack of the Chinese army, are you still Imperial soldiers?"

  The Japanese cavalrymen said nothing, hanging their heads in shame.

  Yamaguchi Kazuo finally burst out, he tore off the white gloves on his hands and slammed them fiercely on the face of the Japanese military officer who had just answered the question. He drew a command knife from his waist and raised it high with both hands, chopping down on the officer's terrified gaze.

  "Hagah, you bunch of imperial scum! Let your blood wash away the shame you've brought to the empire!" Yamaguchi Ichibei brandished his bloody battle knife and bellowed loudly, swinging his hand towards the rear.

  Machine guns that had been waiting on the ground almost simultaneously opened fire, and bullets whizzed towards the Japanese cavalry who had just escaped with their lives from the 29th Army's saber.

  In the hail of bullets, Japanese cavalry fell one after another. Some Japanese soldiers who refused to die like this went mad and rushed towards Shan Kou's position, but they didn't take a few steps before being hit by dense gunfire and falling softly to the ground.

  Soon, the gunfire stopped. In front of Mountain Mouth One Soldier lay hundreds of corpses that were once comrades-in-arms. Fresh blood flowed slowly from the mountainous piles of bodies and streamed across the ground. The air was filled with a suffocating smell of blood.

  For the hundreds of people who died, Yamaguchi Ichiro seemed to have no feeling at all. He just waved his hand lightly and the troops went towards the mountain pass guarded by the 29th Army.

  ……

  "What?"

  King Chang Hai, who was crouching in front of the giant stone studying it with a worried expression, immediately jumped up from the ground as soon as he heard the warrior's report. This news was too shocking and made him a bit dizzy all at once.

  According to the observations of three battalion commanders, this time the number of Japanese troops is large, and it should be at least a division, which is 7-8 thousand people!

  With the three or two regiments in his hands, Wang Changhai is not arrogant enough to think that he is Zhao Zilong of Changbanpo or Zhang Fei Zhang Yide who drank and broke Yangjia Bridge.

  As for the accuracy of the intelligence, Wang Changhai did not have any doubts. The three battalion commanders of the 2nd Battalion were all veteran commanders who had experienced many battles. From the Japanese army's heavy firepower configuration, they could see the scale of the Japanese army at a glance.

  So now he is considering how to use the limited troops in his hands to hold back the enemy, so that the reinforcements behind can catch up.

  "Since you're here, let's see if you're really as tough as you claim!"

  While thinking about it, Wang Changhai rushed towards the 2nd camp at the mountain pass.

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