Chapter 30: The Fat Butterfly Effect
When Liu Lang and the two generals resisted the death of the improper communication company commander, and "by the way" leaked the movements of the Japanese army in time and space to the two generals, hoping that the top management of the 29th Army could make a decision earlier, so as to deal a heavier blow to the Japanese invaders.
After all, the fat wings of his fat butterfly from the future still fanned a trace of air on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, causing this time and space to undergo a change that was not exactly the same as the history in Liu Lang's impression.
The mutation was not from the 29th Army, but from the Japanese army.
The commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army, General Muto Nobuyoshi, a man who was about to be promoted to the rank of field marshal after the war, was at the moment furious at the headquarters 150 kilometers away from the front line of the Great Wall.
Muto Nobuyoshi, who is accustomed to his opponent being a few divisions of the army, actually didn't pay much attention to the tens of thousands of people of the 29th Army, how could an army that was absorbed by the Northeast Army, which was even worse because of the failure of the warlords in China, enter the eyes of General Muto?
But it was such an army that actually resisted the main force of more than 30,000 troops on the right flank of his Kwantung Army on their defensive line.
You must know that for the Rehe Campaign against China this time, the three divisions of the Kwantung Army stationed in the three eastern provinces dispatched not to mention two, but also dispatched two mixed brigades and more than 30,000 Manchurian Army, a total of more than 70,000 troops is almost the limit of the strength that the Kwantung Army can send.
On the vast land of one million kilometers in the three eastern provinces, only one regular Japanese division of more than 20,000 people is stationed there, and the strength of the army has been stretched to an extremely dangerous point.
Do you think the three eastern provinces are now peaceful? I don't know how many rebels are operating in the white mountains and black waters, and there are not enough troops to deter them, so they will attack the city.
The main force on the left flank was the Sixth Division leading part of the Manchurian Army, and the main force on the right flank was the Eighth Division leading a mixed brigade, forming a large pincer on the left and right, and coming towards the Great Wall of China.
The pincer on the left went fairly well, but the one on the right was hit hard by a motley Chinese army with a stick.
In two days, more than 2,000 casualties are counted, how can there be immortals in a war, this Muto Nobuyoshi can still think about it.
However, when someone dies, there is no progress, and that is what he can't bear. And what bothered him the most was that a small infantry lieutenant had died under the bastard Nishiichi.
Originally, for an army general, not to mention a lieutenant, he was a big advocate, and he couldn't even blink an eyelid. But this idiot named Kojima Taro turned out to be a nobleman, and what was worse was that his uncle was still in the army base camp, although his rank was not as high as his.
But Muto Nobuyoshi, who is good at drilling, understands a truth, this kind of person may not give you the icing on the cake for your future, but it is not difficult to make a little stumbling block for you to plant a heel on the way forward.
How do you say this doesn't make this Japanese army general angry?
As the saying goes, when a husband is angry, blood is splashed three feet; The Son of Heaven was furious, and millions of corpses were ambushed. Although Muto Nobuyoshi is as bad as the Son of Heaven, he is the supreme general who commands tens of thousands of troops, and he can't reach a million corpses, and it's no problem to die tens of millions of people.
So, Muto Nobuyoshi, who was on the top, scolded Nishiyichi on the front line on the phone like menopausal syndrome, and vetoed his tactics of wanting to divide the troops.
The reason he gave was also very legitimate: the Xifengkou offensive area was wider and suitable for the deployment of armored vehicles and tanks, and as long as sufficient firepower and troops were invested, the Chinese army would definitely not be able to withstand such huge casualties.
Luo Wenyu, proposed by Xiyiyi, was difficult to defend and attack, and the Chinese used one regiment to make it difficult for an infantry wing to advance. Is there a good position not to fight, but it is necessary to go to a place where it is difficult to march?
Attack, continue to attack, attack, the Chinese are very weak in their bones, give them enough killing, they will run away, whether it is the northeast two years ago or Rehe ten days ago, they are like this.
Muto Nobuyoshi actually consciously ignored the "128 Incident" that broke out in Songhu a year ago, and on that battlefield, China and Japan invested nearly 100,000 troops, but they fought hard in the drizzling rain of Jiangnan, China, and the Japanese army suffered nearly 10,000 casualties.
The Chinese soldiers of this era have a lot of soft bones, but there are also a lot of hard bones. Muto Nobuyoshi would not know that it was his deliberate neglect that would make his right-wing army bleed on this ancient Great Wall of China, and also make the marshal throne that he had originally won in exchange for victory in the former time and space also leave him.
Decades later, whenever the historians of the Chinese and Japanese armies mentioned this offensive and defensive battle between the Eighth Division and the 29th Army on the Great Wall defense line, they would invariably pull out Muto Nobuyoshi and criticize him, believing that if he had agreed to Nishiyichi's division tactics two or three days in the morning, I am afraid that the Eighth Division would never have suffered so many casualties.
However, there is no if. Perhaps because of the arrival of Liu Lang, the historical rut has undergone a slight deviation, and the Eighth Division, which was supposed to divide its troops and march in the direction of Luo Wenyu on the 14th, actually blindly attacked the Xifengkou position.
The determination is so great and the iron of the head that Liu Lang, who was ordered not to go to the front line, was muttering in his heart when he listened to the constantly rumbling cannon sound in the rear.
, can't! Japanese people shouldn't be so stupid!
But in the end, he couldn't help but take the initiative to ask Ying to take an infantry squad to reconnoiter the movements of the Japanese army outside the battlefield, and Liu Fatzi still had to admit that in this time and space, the Japanese were really stupid.
On the afternoon of the 13th alone, there were as many as five decisive attacks on a shirtless cold day with his head wrapped around his head wrapped around the "menstrual belt". That also meant that five squadrons of infantry had been severely disabled that afternoon.
On the afternoon of the 14th, although Liu Lang, who had returned from reconnaissance outside the battlefield, did not see Wang Changhai on the front line, he was behind the battle line and saw two regiment commanders squatting on the ground crying.
Two middle-aged men over forty years old, squatting on the ground, crying profusely, like children.
Liu Lang didn't dare to ask the two colonel officers with two bars and three stars, and when he inquired with the people next to him, he found out that the Japanese army's crazy attack had reached an incomprehensible point.
On the morning of the 14th, four infantry brigades were deployed to attack, not to mention the use of nearly 80 artillery pieces to bombard the position. The two infantry regiments that entered the front-line position only lasted one morning, and they were almost exhausted.
The soldiers under the command of the two regiment commanders who were forcibly pulled off the position by killing red eyes are still less than an infantry battalion, do you think they can not cry?
Of course, as the defenders are all miserable like this, how can the Japanese army fall well? Thinking from the back seat, Liu Lang knew that their commander must have been thunderous over there.
The fact is that the 29th Army crippled two infantry regiments this morning, but the Japanese disabled three infantry brigades this morning. In total, there is almost a full infantry wing, and a full battle is enough to form an infantry brigade.
When Lieutenant General Xi Yiyi of the Eighth Division received this battle report at noon, if it weren't for the fact that his chief of staff was alert enough to quickly clear out the idle people in the headquarters, I don't know how many people would have heard Xi Yiyi scolding a certain army general.
As a subordinate and scolding his superior, this kind of behavior is extremely rare in the extremely strict sequence of the Japanese army.
In short, no matter what, on the 13th and 14th alone, because of Muto Nobuyoshi's stubbornness, China and Japan shed blood up and down the ancient defense line in China.
The Japanese army, however, suffered more casualties than before, almost the strength of an infantry brigade, and disappeared like this.
And once a mistake happens, in general, it will always be wrong again and again.