Chapter 19: Maeda Family
Huting stronghold.
Maeda Tsuyoshi stood on the playground with a saber in his hand and a grim look on his face.
The enrollment for this period of the Imperial Army University has been completed. Just yesterday, Maeda received the admission notice from the Army University forwarded by the brigade headquarters, and he was admitted.
After the New Year, he set off back to Tokyo.
There were only two quotas for Japanese troops stationed in Shanxi.
He, Maeda Tsuyoshi, is one of them. How lucky is he?
For an imperial soldier, having attended the Army University or not makes a world of difference.
If you have not attended Army University, it is difficult to get promoted in the military, but if you have attended Army University, promotion is relatively easy, and if you are lucky enough to become a member of the Sabre Group, your future will be even brighter.
However, Maeda Tsuyoshi did not slack off just because he was about to leave office.
On the contrary, Maeda became more diligent and responsible than before.
Especially for the more than 50 new recruits who had just been assigned to their squadron, Maeda Tsuyoshi immediately captured hundreds of innocent local civilians for them to practice assassination.
"Bring it up!" Maeda Tsuyoshi waved his hand.
Immediately, a group of Japanese soldiers came forward, escorting a dozen civilians.
These ordinary people were obviously captured temporarily and had no idea what tragic fate awaited them. One young man even begged the Japanese to let him go into the city to get medicine.
"Taijun, please let me go. I still have to go to the county town to get medicine."
"My mother is very ill and is waiting for me to get medicine to save her life."
Hearing the young man begging, other people also followed suit.
Listening to the Chinese people's pleas and looking at their helpless and panicked expressions, Maeda Tsuyoshi showed a cruel and cold smile on his face.
Maeda Tsuyoshi was a fanatical militarist. In the eyes of these militarists, the Chinese were not worthy of owning this rich continent, so from the moment they set foot on the Chinese mainland, they started the Great Purge mode, trying to eliminate the entire Chinese nation.
"First team out!"
Maeda just gave an order,
A dozen or so Japanese soldiers responded and lined up in a row.
At this time, the people finally realized that something was wrong and instinctively wanted to turn around and run away.
But how could they escape? The Japanese quickly knocked the civilians to the ground, dragged them to the edge of the playground, and tied them to a row of neatly arranged wooden stakes.
"Bayonet!"
Maeda just raised his right hand.
A dozen Japanese recruits pulled their bayonets out of their scabbards and inserted them into the slots.
After fixing their bayonets, a dozen new recruits slowly walked up to the people and stood still with their guns held.
One of the new recruits did not dare to look directly into the pleading eyes of the common man and instinctively looked away, which immediately resulted in him being severely beaten by Maeda Tsuyoshi.
"Baka! Trash!"
Maeda Tsuyoshi slapped the Japanese recruit in the face and shouted, "Don't forget that you are a soldier, a glorious imperial warrior!"
"Hayi."
The new recruit raised his head again and stared fiercely at the old Chinese man opposite him.
The Chinese old man opposite begged: "Don't kill me, let me go."
However, the eyes of the Japanese recruits gradually became cold and crazy.
Maeda Tsuyoshi raised his right hand again and said slowly: "Ready... Kill!"
As Maeda Tsuyoshi swung his right hand, more than a dozen Japanese recruits roared at the same time.
Accompanied by hysterical roars, a dozen Japanese recruits followed their usual training and made a standard thrust with their shining bayonets.
Screams were heard.
The bodies of more than a dozen Chinese civilians were pierced in an instant.
After seeing the blood, the Japanese recruits became even more crazy, shouting drill commands while stabbing, stabbing, and stabbing again and again.
These damn Japanese devils!
Watching this extremely cruel scene,
A cruel smile appeared on Maeda Tsuyoshi's lips again. This is how new recruits should be trained. Only new recruits trained with living people will have the most stable psychological quality.
The battlefield will not waver.
At this moment, hurried footsteps suddenly sounded behind me.
Then a voice rang out: "Taijun, this is not good."
Looking back, it was the puppet army battalion commander Ge Fugui who hurried over.
"Ge-san." Maeda frowned and asked stiffly, "What happened?"
Ge Fugui stepped aside and said to Zhao Youcai who was following behind him: "Zhao Youcai, you should talk to the lady first."
"Hai." Zhao Youcai nodded and said with a bitter face, "Taijun, we were ambushed by the Eighth Route Army when we were repairing the telephone lines."
"What?"
Maeda frowned and said, "Eighth Route Army?"
"Yes, the Eighth Route Army." Zhao Youcai said, "Although there are only a few people in this group of Eighth Route Army, their shooting skills are very accurate. Kojima Taijun and Sakurai Taijun were killed on the spot."
"The Eighth Route Army gave priority to shooting at the Imperial Army."
"We fought back desperately, and six of us were killed."
"In the end, we couldn't stop it anymore and had to retreat."
"Baka!" Maeda Tsuyoshi scolded, "What do you mean by retreat? You surrendered, and then the Eighth Route Army stripped you of your cotton clothes and let you go! What a bunch of rubbish, idiots!"
Zhao Youcai was scolded so hard that his face turned black, but he didn't dare to talk back.
"Taijun, this is not the point." Ge Fugui defended his subordinates, "The point is the intention of the Eighth Route Army. Is it to steal some telephone lines, or is it a deliberate communication blockade?"
"Communications blocked?" Maeda Tsuyoshi said with a sneer, "Do you think the Tubalu have such foresight?"
"Yes, I also think that the Tubalu have no vision." Ge Fugui cursed in his heart and said, "Mrs. Maeda, do you still need to send telephone soldiers to inspect the lines?"
"Of course we have to send them. The telephone lines must remain open."
Maeda Tsuyoshi said: "Send two more telephone soldiers to inspect it, and the Imperial Army will send another squad to provide protection."
"Ah?" Ge Fugui was stunned for a moment, then said, "Madam, should we send more people?"
"No need." Maeda Tsuyoshi waved his hand and said, "This ambush was a typical sparrow war by the Eighth Route Army. They are just like a group of sparrows, weak and easily frightened."
"After stealing rice in one place, they will immediately fly to the next place."
"So, Gesang, don't worry, there won't be a second ambush."
"The Tubalu have definitely run away, so there won't be any danger this time."
"Hello, Maeda-sama is wise." What else could Ge Fugui say but to give her a thumbs up.
After a while, two more Japanese telephone soldiers rode out of the stronghold on horseback, accompanied by a squad of puppet troops for protection. The unlucky Zhao Youcai was also transferred to this squad.
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Tiger Bay.
Li Sigen and the other two were still cutting the telephone wires.
Wang Ye, Wei Dayong and the other eight people were ready for battle again.
Wang Gensheng came up to Wang Ye and said, "My lord, how about we just forget about it?"
"Forget it?" Wang Ye continued to doze off with his eyes closed, and asked, "Ace of Hearts, what do you mean by that?"
Wang Gensheng said, "Your Majesty, think about it, the Japanese have learned and they will send a large force next time. If we ambush them again, we may end up losing more than we gain."
Wang Ye laughed and said, "Ace of Hearts, do you believe that the Japanese will send another small force to inspect it?"
As they were talking, Wang Xikui, who was in charge of the alert, suddenly shouted, "My lord, the devils are coming again."
Wang Gensheng immediately asked, "Ace of Spades, how many devils are here? Are there any puppet troops?"
Wang Xikui said: "Two devils and thirteen puppet soldiers."
"Ah?" Wang Gensheng stood there in a daze.
Wang Ye smiled and said, "Well, am I right?"
Wang Gensheng asked: "That's strange, why is this happening?"
"Why?" Wang Ye asked, "Because the Japs are too arrogant!"
After a pause, Wang Ye said, "Prepare for battle. This time we will only fight the devils, not the puppet troops!"
Wei Dayong and the other seven War Wolves quickly entered their respective shooting positions and pushed the bullets into the gun chambers.
A moment later, two Japanese soldiers and thirteen puppet soldiers entered the ambush circle. Gunshots rang out immediately, and the two Japanese telephone soldiers were hit by several bullets and died on the spot.
Zhao Youcai quickly threw away his rifle and knelt on the ground.
Seeing that the other puppet soldiers were still in a daze, he cursed: "Are you waiting to be shot? Get down on your knees!"
The other puppet soldiers then woke up from their dream and quickly followed Zhao Youcai's example, throwing away their guns and kneeling on the ground.
At the end of the battle, the Wolf Warriors seized two Type 14 Nambu pistols, thirteen Type 13 Liao rifles, a military horse, fifteen sets of cotton-padded clothes, and more than two hundred rounds of Mauser rifle bullets.
…
Huting stronghold.
The assassination training of the Japanese recruits is still going on.
A new group of innocent Chinese civilians have also been replaced.
Maeda Tsuyoshi left the training ground and is now admiring the admission notice from the Army University in his dormitory, while beginning to look forward to a bright future after graduating from the Army University.
If nothing unexpected happens, I will be able to become a deputy commander of a wing after graduation.
Military rank can also be promoted directly from captain to major.
Although there is only one level difference between captain and major, the status is vastly different.
A captain is just a junior officer, while a major has already entered the ranks of senior officers. If he goes up one level, he can seek to be transferred to an infantry regiment as the commander of the regiment.
After a moment, Maeda Tsuyoshi solemnly put away the admission letter.
He took out a pen and writing paper and prepared to write a letter home.
Having been away from home for three years, his mother and fiancée must have missed him a lot. His father and two brothers would also be happy to learn that he was admitted to the Army University, and that he did not bring shame to the Maeda family.
However, just as I started writing, I heard hurried footsteps outside.
