66. Eagle of the Red Mountain
Although Motegi Mae no Tsuki didn't even have a little skin injury, he was really shocked. The blast of mortar shells toppled the tents of the headquarters and the general staff, and they were all wrapped in tents, just feeling the power of the hurricane.
Motegi, who was carried by the guards and ran a few steps, and was helped on horseback, ran away, gradually came to his senses, took the galloping mount, grabbed the saddle bridge with his right hand, raised his left hand, leaned forward and said, "Hey, there is a quack ...... who stopped."
His orders were actually given to himself, because the guards were all following him and running after him. When he stopped, he sat down on his horse and lifted up his head, looking for something in heaven.
All the men followed and looked up the hill in the distance, hoping to determine where the cannon had come from. Since they had already run some distance, they were too far away, and the place where the cannon was fired was left on the other side of the mountain. Everyone came back to their senses and looked at the sky with him, and Umei Daisa seemed to suddenly wake up, thinking that Motegi was looking for an airplane, so he also smiled and looked for the east in the distance flatteringly.
The communications officer handed the ringing phone to Umei, who determined the location of each department on the phone.
Motegi was not very satisfied, and said "whoosh" in his mouth, pointed to his head with his hand, and continued: "The hat does not exist, the hat does not exist......"
The guards also stuck out their tongues, put their hands above their heads, and shouted, "The hat is gone." ”
One of the guards was going back to look for him, but he was wrapped in a tent and his hat had been knocked off. At this time, a horse came running from behind, and immediately a herald called Guan Cun, who shouted in Japanese from afar: "Hat, hat...... There's ...... here," everyone laughed.
After dividing the hats, only one was missing, and there was no Motegi. Shintaro Umei held a hat in his hand, and he didn't wear it, and he didn't wear it, and he looked at Motegi Maenotsuki with sincere fear......
At this time, everyone put on their hats and realized that Motegi Mae Tsuki was still looking up at the sky, but not to the east, but to the west. Umei, along with his staff officers, adjutants, and guards, all looked up at the western sky, and it turned out that far away in the western sky, there was an eagle with flapping wings and a hat on its beak......
Shintaro Umei immediately understood the seriousness of the problem, and he said loudly to the staff officer Nishiyoshinakasa behind him: "Nishiyoshi-kun, you, bring someone back to find it, and you must get General Motegi's hat back......"
He meant that the eagle was not holding Motegi's hat, and he asked Saiyoshi to look for it in the same place.
Before Nishiyi Nakasa turned around, he saw Motegi wave his hand and say, "Ryshi, go back and find a place to ......" He sighed softly, and said, "That's my hat...... There are still our imperial troops in the area of Hongshan Tsui......"
Shintaro Umei's mouth opened wide in shock, and he scolded loudly at the eagle flying in the western sky: "Shina, these pigs, I, the Imperial Japanese Army, must tear you ......to pieces."
Motegi obviously understood what he meant as a subordinate, but he was obviously not as impulsive, but waved his hand and said: "Whoosh, Eagle of the Red Mountain, taking my hat in your mouth is like taking my military flag, my Imperial Japanese Army will definitely occupy Chifeng and plant the military flag on the top of the Red Mountain......"
At this time, another communication soldier ran up, handed the telephone to Motegi, and said, "General, the telephone of Tongliao ......" Motegi stopped the conversation, took the phone, and said: "I am Motegi Maenotsu, Commander Gangcun, what do you order......?"
Okamura Ninji said: "General Motegi, you have worked very hard, and Commander Wuteng Nobuyoshi praised you to me, saying that this battle was a rehearsal for the capture of Chifeng, and he also said that the soldiers are treacherous. You also said that you have the most general understanding of Sun Tzu's Art of War......
Okay, please arrange the deployment, and then go back to the Tongliao Headquarters, we will hold a high-level meeting of the northern front of the Kwantung Army, some battles to discuss in detail, the Chifeng City Imperial Army is determined to win...... Okamura Ningji asked him again about the position and attrition of each wing after the retreat......
When Motegi saw his own situation, he said sadly: "Commander Okamura, the Red Mountain Tsui Land has been captured by us, and we have made a mistake, a big mistake, if we hold on for another hour, not only will this battle be won, but Chifeng City may be ours......"
Okamura felt that he was also responsible, and said heavily: "General Motegi, victory and defeat are common, the imperial army has the 6th Division of the Northern Front in charge, and the 8th Division of the Southern Front echoes, and Chifeng Castle will become ours in the near future." However, have the imperial troops you left on the front line of Shuidi and Yanjiadi, as well as the Yamada squadron that occupied Hongshanzui, withdrawn? ”
Motegi said: "Commander Gangcun, please rest assured, just with the Zhina people, they will only be beaten, move a place, and dare to take the initiative to attack our imperial army?" General Okamura said suspiciously: "That's fine, but don't you feel it, this 41st Army is not the Northeast Army, in the Bahrain grassland, they are sneak attacks; In this battle, they attacked greatly ......"
The 118th Brigade went to the northeast in a whirlwind, and the side of Hongshanzui was fighting happily, and Commander Sun knew that the defenders' weapons were not superior, and the broadsword was our strong point, but it would also cost more lives. Since it was the 233rd Regiment that was fighting the devils, he turned around and ordered Ding Bertin to settle the battle. After Ding Boting received the order, he ordered the remnants of the 234th Regiment to surround Hongshanzui from the south, and asked Zhang Qiaoya's regimental deputy to keep a distance from the front and not fight, and the east and west sides needed to be taken by surprise and hit him by surprise......
Although tired but high-spirited, Zhang Qiaoya, the deputy of the regiment, received the order of Brigade Commander Ding with an indescribable joy, and his brothers marched and plundered the land and took the initiative to meet the enemy, this kind of spirit has never been seen before.
Ding Boting beckoned Zhao Wenlin to him again, ordered his 235th Regiment to attack the Japanese army in Shuidi and Yanjiadi, and told him that he was also covert to meet the enemy, and to fight quickly, and echoed with the defenders of the 119th Brigade who stayed in Yanjiadi to contain the Japanese army.
Commander Sun led other troops, including the remnants of the 119th Brigade, back to Chifeng City at 4 p.m. on March 2, 1933.
After entering the city, the defenders immediately strengthened their defenses on the periphery of Chifeng in the northeast, east and west. Commander Sun and Advisor Li immediately began to allocate the soldiers of the defeated army who had not yet been incorporated into the troops to the brigades. Deputy Army Commander Cha also summed up the Battle of Beiqiu Ridge and the small battle of the 117th Brigade in the Bahrain Steppe with the personnel of the Political Training Office......
In addition to helping the officers, Director Han accompanied Advisor Li to meet with all walks of life in Chifeng, discuss the battle defense of Chifeng, and solicit opinions from all walks of life. It is required that no matter who it is, as long as it is a Chifeng person, the three religions and nine streams can also come to offer advice.
Under the arrangement of Advisor Li, he met with Wang Yilun and exchanged views on the anti-Japanese resistance in Chifeng City. Wang Yilun also talked about the instructions of Chen Jinghu, the person in charge of Rehe Province. He also introduced Haritu to them as the party's head in the Bahrain steppe.
A person offered a plan, saying that if the bottom of the branch building was buried with explosives, once the Japanese army invaded Chifeng, they would definitely live in the branch building, because it was the most high-end building in Chifeng City, and the explosives would be detonated at that time......
Commander Okamura Ninji has been intensively mobilizing troops from all over the northeast, and the 4th Motegi Cavalry Brigade has been replenished. Due to the shortage of troops, General Muto Nobuyoshi also asked for the military headquarters, and then recruited troops from Kumamoto.
Motegi went forward another twenty miles, and set up camp in the big depression. He also informed the commanders of the 19th Wing to rush to the meeting, and he ordered the commander of the 19th Wing, Yong Oshima, and other commanders to immediately rush to Tongliao with him for medical treatment. The commanders of each wing hurriedly reorganized the troops, coordinated well with Shintaro Umei, and immediately replenished the troops and baggage of the Eight Immortals as soon as they arrived.
He also ordered all ministers to always pay attention to the movements in the vicinity, so as not to let the volunteers and the Anti-Japanese Federation take advantage of the loopholes, and with the occupation of Manchuria by the Imperial Army, the anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese sentiment of the Chinese people increased day by day......
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