Bright Sword: Rebirth of Kong Jie

In fact, there are many flags in the Japanese army that represent the identity of the Japanese army.

Including the most common plaster flag - this type of flag has the largest number and was also the Japanese military flag that was easiest for the Chinese army to capture during the Sino-Japanese War.

This plaster flag was often carried by Japanese officers and hung below their rifles as a symbol of their commander.

In addition, there are flags such as the Wuyun Flag with the words "Long Live the Wuyun" written on the front.

However, these flags were not that important to the Japanese army. If they were lost on the battlefield, they were lost, and the Japanese would not even take the trouble to get them back.

But the squadron flag is different.

The Japanese had a limited number of regimental flags, and each regiment was issued a unique flag, symbolizing the glory and dignity of the entire regiment, and was awarded personally by the Japanese emperor.

In the Japanese army, it was even a tacit agreement that for a Japanese field regiment, if the regiment flag was there, the regiment existed; if the regiment flag was not there, the regiment did not exist.

The Japanese attached great importance to the regiment flag, and even had a special force to protect the regiment flag during combat.

When the battle broke out, the regiment flag was hoisted high and fluttered in the wind. As long as the flag was there and the bright color was there, the Japanese soldiers in the entire regiment would fight like crazy as if they were injected with chicken blood.

Moreover, these flags represent the glory, dignity and military exploits of the Japanese army regiment. As long as the flagpole is not broken, the Japanese will not replace the flag no matter how tattered the flag itself is.

In the eyes of the Japanese, the more tattered the regiment's flag was, the more it represented the regiment's glorious military achievements.

This is the symbol of an iron-blooded army.

The Japanese would never easily lose such an important regimental flag on the battlefield, and would never allow it to be captured by the enemy, because that would mean the glory and dignity of the Japanese army being trampled upon.

Therefore, the Japanese army not only arranged special soldiers to protect the regiment flag.

In addition, it was specifically stipulated that when the troops were about to be wiped out and it was beyond help, a special burning ceremony should be held to completely burn the regiment flag and never leave it to the enemy.

So, after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, it lasted for more than ten years.

The Chinese army did not capture even a single Japanese regimental flag.

This shows how important the Japanese regiment flag is and how strictly the Japanese guard it.

Moreover, once the regimental flag, which carries the glory and dignity of the Japanese army, is captured by the Chinese army.

This Chinese army was bound to face the Japanese army's endless revenge.

There was once such a situation on the front battlefield.

A unit of the Central Army captured a flag of the Japanese Army, but because they did not know what kind of flag it was, they mistook it for a regimental flag of the Japanese Army.

After the news was accidentally leaked, the Japanese attacked the Central Army's troops like crazy. First, several Japanese battalions were deployed, followed by several large regiments, and finally even the main force of the Japanese division directly participated in the battle.

The Japanese invaders launched fierce attacks for several days in a row, regardless of the consequences and without regard for sacrifice.

The targeted Central Army also collapsed and fled all the way, not daring to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army. Later, it sent people to find out why the Japanese were retaliating so crazy.

Only then did I find out that it was because of a small regimental flag.

Finally, the Central Army quickly clarified to the Japanese army that what was seized was not the regiment flag, and the matter was dropped.

However, through this incident, the Central Army also fully realized the importance the Japanese army attached to the regimental flag.

As for the independent group.

Although before the battle to destroy the 113th Regiment, in order to boost morale, Kong Jie threatened to completely destroy the 113th Regiment and seize the flag of the Japanese 113th Regiment.

But after the actual fighting broke out.

Although the Japanese 113th Regiment was destroyed by the joint efforts of Kong Jie and Ding Wei.

But this group of Japanese devils were determined to fight and persisted until the last one died.

As for the Japanese regiment flag, it was burned to ashes by the Japanese before the entire army was destroyed.

When cleaning up the battlefield after the war, the soldiers searched several times but did not find the Japanese regimental flag.

This is exactly what Ding Wei is confused about.

He knew very well that destroying the 113th Regiment did not mean capturing the enemy's regimental flag.

Facing the puzzled looks of Li Yunlong and Ding Wei, Kong Jie laughed:

"I say to Lao Li and Lao Ding, what's so strange about this? All's fair in war.

Even if we haven't eaten pork, have we never seen a pig run?

If we ask more from the Japanese and puppet army prisoners what the Japanese regiment flag looks like, we will have a clear picture of the situation.

I specially arranged for craftsmen to make a similar flag, which was claimed to be the flag of the 113th Regiment of the Japanese Army.

As long as the message gets out.

Are you afraid that the devil won't believe you?"

Kong Jie spoke confidently, "Even if the Japanese guessed that the regiment flag we captured was fake, it is still fake, does it matter?

We just need to spread the news that the flag of the Japanese 113th Regiment was captured by our independent regiment.

This in itself is a provocation to the Japanese military's prestige.

The Japanese will definitely not sit idly by and will most likely acquiesce in this matter.

The Japanese who don't understand the situation will definitely launch a retaliatory attack on our independent regiment's base in order to regain the regiment flag.

I'm actually quite curious too.

I want to know how much hatred this tattered flag can attract and how many devils it can attract. "

Ding Wei thought about it and couldn't help but remind him: "Old Kong, I heard that the Central Army once misrepresented the news and seized the devil's regiment flag. As a result, they were retaliated by the Japanese army and the unit was almost destroyed.

If you really spread the news of the Japanese regiment flag.

Be prepared for an all-out war!"

Kong Jie disagreed, "Isn't this exactly what we want?"

As for why Kong Jie did this and deliberately attracted the hatred of the Japanese, there was naturally a reason.

"Anyway, this time we have defeated the Yamazaki Battalion and wiped out the Japanese 113th Regiment. Our independent regiment is already in a life-and-death situation with the Japanese.

The Hundred Regiments Campaign has only completed the first phase of the offensive. If the next phase of the offensive is to be launched smoothly, there must be a force to attract the attention of the Japanese army and tie down the main force of the devils.

If at this time, our independent regiment released the news that we had seized the flag of the Japanese Army's 113th Regiment.

Once the Japanese launch a crazy revenge against our independent regiment’s base.

Isn't it just the right way to cover the raids of other troops?"

As for the risk of angering the Japanese army.

"Besides our independent regiment, aren't there also your new second regiment, Lao Li, and your new first regiment, Lao Ding?

Our three regiments used a triangle defense system to deal with the Japanese army.

I am still very confident that we can repel the Japanese's retaliatory attack.

It's a good opportunity to verify the stability of our triangle defense system."