Chapter 68: Bloody Slaughter (Part 1)
Word Number:172
Author:丹枫书生
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Release Time:2025-10-20
Dong Sanshao, Dong Yaoting, and Zhang Facai charged onto the position only to stare in horror at the carnage unfolding fifty meters down the slope. The entire division was locked in brutal hand-to-hand combat with Japanese troops who had breached their lines. The Potan Detachment consisted mainly of Taiwanese conscripts—many from indigenous mountain hunting tribes—who, after years under Japanese colonial rule, now saw themselves as fully Japanese. Having forgotten their ancestral roots, they fought with shocking cruelty against their mainland compatriots. General Li Jue's 19th Division contained two brigades with six regiments, plus the 128th Division under Commander Gu Jiaqi holding the Puquan Mountain line. Major General Potan Shigekazu had thrown his 2nd Regiment against the 128th Division while his 1st Regiment led the main assault on Tading Mountain, backed by heavy artillery and his command unit. Convinced Chinese forces would collapse at first contact, he regarded Li Jue's 19th Division with outright contempt. What Potan Shigekazu never anticipated was this: his 1st Regiment had suffered under 800 casualties but st