Takashi Sato put down his binoculars, his face as gloomy as the thick clouds of the sky. [No pop-up novel network]

As a navy commander, Sato Taka has always looked down on his colleagues in the army, and this is also a common problem of almost all naval generals, because the Japanese government has long adhered to the strategic thinking of emphasizing the navy and ignoring the army, resulting in the fact that the navy's status is far above the army, and it has also created the pride and strength of the navy.

Even though Chiaki Shigeto is a senior or a major general, Takashi Sato still looks down on Chiaki Shigedo from the bottom of his bones.

Today's battle confirms Taka Sato's opinion, in his opinion, Chiaki Shigeto is an idiot at all

Chiaki Shigeto is a fan of the authorities, but Takashi Sato is a bystander, and Takashi Sato has already seen that the Shigeto detachment has fallen into the calculations of the Chinese from the beginning, and the calculations of the Chinese are interlocking and step by step, which can be described as clever, while Chiaki Shigeto is like an idiot, falling into a desperate situation step by step without knowing it.

The battle of Nantong should not have turned out like this.

If it were discovered that the Chinese had been deceived by the plan to cross the sea at the first time, they would have attacked from the upstream and downstream, even if it would have taken some more time to do so, and even if it would have allowed the provisional 79th Division to escape, at least the Shigetsu detachment would have been saved, but now, the entire Shigetsu detachment of nearly 10,000 people had all taken in.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Shigeto detachment simply died from Chiaki Shigeto's selfishness and stupidity.

Looking at the corpses of Taiwanese soldiers all over the river beach, and seeing the river surface almost stained red with blood, as cold as Sato Eagle, I couldn't help but feel a little unbearable, even if it was the Taiwanese who died, not the Japanese, but now they are also soldiers of the imperial army after all, this is nearly 10,000 troops, nearly 10,000 living lives.

"Your Excellency, Headquarters Emergency Telegram" The adjutant strode up to Takashi Sato and bowed his head to report.

Sato Takashi took the telegram and glanced at it, but it was an order from the Fourth Fleet Command, asking him to immediately lead the Seventh Detachment back to Nanjing and assist the main fleet of the 2nd Detachment to block the Yangtze River from Xiaguan to Yanziji.

After reading the telegram, Takashi Sato said: "Order all ships to rush to the aid of Nanjing at once." ”

The adjutant whispered: "Your Excellency, how to explain the Shigedo detachment?"

"Explanation" Sato Takashi said coldly, "Explain what is there to explain The Shigedo detachment was beaten like this bear by the Shina army, is it possible, and you can blame our navy Besides, Prince Toshihiko Fushimi Palace, who was ambushed and killed, is the commander of their Central China Army, and not the commander of our Fourth Fleet, what does it have to do with us?"

The adjutant was silent, indeed, it was the army, not their navy, that was disgraced anyway.

Sato Taka snorted, and said: "But it seems that it is a little inappropriate for us to leave like this, so let's order all ships to carry out a half-hour fire attack on the targets of the Nantong wharf, the urban area and the suspected positions of the Chinese Army, this time, our navy is also worthy of our colleagues in the army." ”

"Hello." The adjutant paused heavily.

A moment later, all the rapid-fire guns and heavy machine guns of the six devil gunboats anchored in the center of the river and more than a dozen armed merchant ships turned around one after another, and began to fire on the targets such as Nantong urban area and the wharf and the mud hill along the river on the north bank.

Dividing line

On the mud mountain, Xu Rui and the others had withdrawn to the anticline of the mountain.

"No, something isn't quite right." Xu Rui lay behind a big rock on the top of the mountain, risked being hit by the gunfire of the devil's ship, put his head over the top of the stone, and said to the veteran who was also lying beside him to observe the enemy's situation, "The devil's gunboat is engaged in a rapid fire attack at this time, which is obviously not logical. ”

"What's not logical," the veteran said, "The devil hasn't always been like this artillery bombardment, the infantry rushed, the infantry rushed after the artillery bombardment, and then the infantry rushed after the artillery bombardment, just now the devil's infantry suffered a big loss, of course their artillery had to think about retaliating back, this is quite normal."

"But this is the navy," Xu Rui said, "not the artillery of the little devils." ”

The veteran was stunned for a moment, but he forgot about this stubble, this is indeed the navy.

Xu Rui pondered for a moment, and the corners of his mouth suddenly bloomed with a hideous murderous intent, and said, "I understand that the little devil's navy is preparing to leave."

Xu Rui suddenly remembered that at this point in time, the main force of the Japanese army's Central China Army had almost reached the city of Nanjing, and even had broken through the Guanghua Gate.

It must be that the Japanese navy, which was blockading the river, felt that its forces were tight, so it wanted to transfer the navy here to Nanjing, which logically explained why the gunboats of the devils unexpectedly carried out a sudden fire attack, because they were about to leave, so in order not to leave an excuse for the army, they carried out a fire attack.

As for what negative impact the departure of the navy will have on the Shigetsu detachment, the commander of the devil navy is afraid that he will not take it to heart, because the six infantry brigades of the Shigeto detachment have been disabled, and it is no longer possible to pose a threat to the squadron defending Nantong

Yes, it must be so, it must be this logic.

"What" the veteran was stunned, "Lao Xu, what did you say?"

Xu Rui smiled and said in a deep voice: "I said, the little devil's navy is leaving."

"The navy of the little devil is leaving" the veteran said blankly, "how do you know"

"I just know," Xu Rui said hesitantly, "Veteran, you know what it means"

"What does this mean" The veteran subconsciously asked, and then suddenly reacted again, and lost his voice, "Lao Xu, do you want to counterattack the south bank?"

"Why not" Xu Rui said with a cruel smile, "As soon as the devil navy leaves, the Yangtze River suddenly becomes a smooth road, this is the opportunity God gives us, if you miss it, God will also cry and take advantage of people's illness to kill people, this time Lao Tzu wants to kill all the remaining devils on the south bank, Lao Tzu wants to annihilate the heavy wisteria detachment, all the heavy rattan detachment, all the heavy rattan detachment"

In the end, Xu Rui waved his fists, almost yelling hysterically.

Looking at Xu Rui's hysterical arrogance there, the veteran was a little distracted.

God, the total annihilation of the heavy wisteria detachment really dares to think

"He Shuya" Xu Rui turned around and yelled.

"Yes" He Shuya immediately bent down and ran to Xu Rui.

Xu Rui roared: "Pass my order, just wait for the devil navy to leave, the 2nd team will immediately start to clean up the remnants of the enemy, the devils trapped on the river beach, not a single one will be spared, all of them will be killed, all of them will be killed In addition, the 1st team will immediately assemble, just wait for the little devil to stop the shelling, and immediately follow me back to the south bank and destroy all the remnants of the enemy."

"Yes" He Shuya agreed, and ran to the cliff to play the flag.

Half an hour later, the Devil's Navy shelling ended, and then turned around and traced the Yangtze River westward, heading for Nanjing.

As soon as the devil navy left, more than 200 remnants of the 1st Squadron of the ** Battalion, which were originally cowering in the ruins of the city, immediately came out of the tunnels and air-raid shelters and launched an attack on the remnants of the devils on the river beach.

At the same time, Xu Rui personally led more than 200 veterans of the 2nd team to rush to the boat hiding point ten miles downstream at the speed of a forced march.

And at this time, the old devil Shigedo Chiaki didn't know.

Chiaki Shigedo had already taken off her tweed coat, leaving only a thin shirt on her upper body, and the buttons of the shirt had been unbuttoned, revealing her abdomen.

Funakoshi and Oda Nobuyoshi glanced at each other, and their expressions were also miserable.

Shigeto's detachment fell to this point, and Shigeto Chiaki couldn't escape the blame, but how could the two of them escape the responsibility If Shigeto Chiaki had to cut his stomach to thank the emperor, then what about them

"Funagoshi-san, Oda-san, today's fiasco is the responsibility of my Shigedo Chiaki, but you two are acting on orders, and I will make this clear to the front army headquarters." With two laughs, Shigeto Chiaki slowly pulled out his saber again, the sound of metal grinding softly, and the sharp and shiny Imperial Saber was already unsheathed.

Looking at the chrysanthemum and star patterns on the hilt, Shigedo Chiaki's expression was gloomy.

Back then, when he had just graduated from the Army University, Chiaki Shigeto was really high-spirited, and with his foresight and wisdom far beyond his colleagues and classmates, he soon became the backbone of the "Sakura Society", and single-handedly planned the February Incident and the October Incident, but unfortunately the coup failed in the end, and he was also relegated to Taiwan to sit on the cold bench.

The Sino-Japanese War broke out in full swing, and Chiaki Shigeto thought that the opportunity to make a comeback had arrived.

However, he never expected that he had just led the Shigetto detachment to Chinese mainland, and before he had time to show his strength, he suffered a crushing defeat in Nantong, and the defeat in this battle was unimaginable, the detachment of tens of thousands of people, the four infantry wings were almost completely annihilated, and almost all technical equipment and technical arms were lost.

This was simply an unprecedented defeat for the Imperial Army, the biggest defeat since the Meiji Restoration

Chiaki Shigeto knew very well that as a commander, he couldn't get out of it no matter what.

"That's it." Chiaki Shigeto sighed, clenched the front of the blade with both hands, raised the saber diagonally, aimed the sharp tip at his abdomen, and then closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and was about to send it in, but at this moment, a fierce gunshot suddenly came from in the distance