Chapter 1083: The Malay Tiger
Yamashita was a complete militarist, murderous and scheming, graduated from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School and the Army University, and served as a military attache stationed abroad and the commander of an infantry regiment. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info After the 77 Incident, Yamashita was ordered to lead his troops to Beiping to participate in the war and was promoted to lieutenant general. He commanded the post to attack Nanyuan, the war commander Xindian, attacked Langfang, and wantonly slaughtered Chinese soldiers and civilians.
After the island army formed the Southern Army, Yamashita was incorporated into the Southern Army, and in the first battle, he led his troops across the 700-kilometer Malay Peninsula to conquer the Singapore Fortress, the center of British domination in the East, which was known as the "impregnable fortress".
After occupying Singapore, in order to effectively control the local situation and cut off the local ties with the anti-Japanese forces in Chinese mainland, Yamashita ordered special personnel to draw up a meticulous "Plan for Purging Overseas Chinese" to carry out a brutal massacre of local Chinese, in which more than 100,000 ethnic Chinese were killed by heavy machine-gun fire.
Later, in order to save bullets, people were simply tied up in strings and loaded onto ships, and pushed people into the sea about 10 kilometers from the coast, which became known as the Singapore Massacre. At the same time as the massacre, Yamashita did not forget to amass the wealth of these Chinese and committed heinous crimes against the people of Southeast Asia, especially the Chinese people. Yamashita Fengwen blackmailed overseas Chinese in Nanyang and demanded that the overseas Chinese hand over 50 million yuan in payment. The reason he gave at that time was: "Overseas Chinese support the Chongqing government to resist Japan, and this payment is the money you pay to atone for your life to the locust army." ”
All of the above shows that this person is cruel and greedy. The level of its brainwashing is not low, and at the end of the meeting, the command headquarters was already shouting loudly, and the slogan of the locust army's victory was shouted loudly, and one by one the blood was as if it had been beaten with chicken blood.
As a matter of fact, the island army and navy suffered an unprecedented defeat on Midway Island, and the officers and men at the front line are still in the dark to this day, and I am afraid that very few people in the entire southern army know about it, except for such high-ranking generals as Terauchi Shouichi and Tsukada Tsukasa, and in order to stabilize the morale of the army, the island army has been preaching the might of the locust army and defeating the Pacific Fleet of the United States; for the sake of this so-called "holy war" that has become out of control, the top level of the island army has to use deceptive means to stabilize the morale of the army, which shows that the top level of the island army has exhausted its skills and can even be said to be extremely crazy.
Just as the commanders of the divisions were about to leave the headquarters and return to their own defense area after shouting, a staff officer hurriedly walked in with a telegram, reporting that the 16th Division of Mingong had just sent an urgent telegram that the 200th Division of the Expeditionary Force had suddenly appeared in the forward position, and had just launched a round of tentative artillery attacks, and the offensive was expected to begin soon.
"Eight Ga Ya Road!"
Yamashita Fengwen scolded angrily, picked up the command knife on the table, and walked out.
He was the commander of the 17th Army and also the commander of the 16th Division.
As soon as the person walked to the door, it happened that a staff officer of Nakasa rushed in from the outside, and collided with Yamashita Fengwen, Yamashita Fengwen was fine, but Nakasa staff officer was directly knocked into the air, fell a meter away, and a pair of thick-soled glasses were shattered to the ground.
Yamashita is about 1.74 meters tall and weighs 90 kilograms, which is equivalent to the weight of a Makunachi-class wrestler, which is considered a "big man" in the island country, and the weight is the same as that of the 37 mm caliber 11-year flat-fire infantry gun made in the island country. When marching, a riding horse cannot bear his weight, so there must be a replacement horse. At that time, the 11-year infantry gun also happened to be transported on two horses. As a result, "Infantry Cannon" became Yamashita's original nickname, and later after the occupation of Malaysia, he was given the nickname "Malay Tiger".
In his weight class, he didn't directly knock the bean sprout-like staff officer Nakasa away.
As soon as he saw that he had bumped into the commander, Staff Officer Nakasa didn't bother to pick up his glasses, and quickly got up from the ground and said sorry vigorously.
It also deserves the bad luck of this Zhongzuo staff officer, Yamashita Fengwen is on fire in his heart, where can he still see this kind of scum who is panicked and corrupted the heroic and invincible locust army and does not frighten the image, immediately scolded angrily, slapped his arm and slapped him, and directly turned him to the ground again.
Staff Officer Zhongzuo got up again in a panic, didn't bother to wipe the blood oozing from the corner of his mouth, and stammered to report that the Second Division had sent an urgent telegram, and the expeditionary force had also been discovered on the outer defense line of Kyaukmei Town, and it was Jiang Haoran's fist unit, the Special Operations Division, who had come.
Yamashita Fengwen felt bitter in his heart, he was really afraid of something.
After making it clear that the special operations division had not yet begun to attack, Yamashita Fengwen turned back to the headquarters with a command knife, and the expeditionary force was also discovered on the northern front, so he, the commander, naturally could not leave the headquarters, so he had to order the commanders of the 16th Division to strictly guard against it, meet the battle carefully, and never let the 200th Division have any chance to take advantage of it.
At the same time, he ordered the commander of the second division, Imamura, to hurry back to Kyaukmi Town to personally command the operation, the combat effectiveness of the special operations division is not a joke, if you are not careful, the city will be destroyed, Kyaukmei Town is the gateway to Mandalay, as soon as this gate is opened, the defense line on both the east and west sides can only be urgently contracted, otherwise there is a danger of being divided and surrounded by the expeditionary force, so that Mandalay will immediately be besieged by the expeditionary force on three sides, and the danger is indescribable.
As soon as Imamura Jun left, the commanders of each division were also bombarded away by Yamashita Fengwen one by one, and naturally there was a lot of earnest teaching, especially Nishimura Takumo, who was stationed in Nanyan Town in the east, Yamashita Fengwen specially explained that he must be careful to take precautions, and must not underestimate the enemy's negligence, although at this time there is no expeditionary force in the east, but this time will not be too long, once they attack, it must be a large army to press the border, and it is impossible to keep one side.
At the same time, the Expeditionary Force Command.
Lin Long, the newly appointed adjutant, hurriedly walked into the headquarters with a happy face, and reported to Jiang Haoran with a smile on his eyebrows that the first batch of 100 transport planes flying from the United States had begun to land at the airports of Indochina and Myitkyina, and it is expected that the remaining 400 transport planes will all be in place tomorrow morning.
Jiang Haoran and Huang Jie looked at each other and smiled, knowing that this was not a generous countryman, it was all driven by interests.
With these 500 transport planes, not only has the airborne landing in Ren'anqiang become a reality, but the expeditionary force will not have to worry about the shortage of transportation capacity in a short period of time.
In an instant, a staff officer walked into the headquarters with a telegram and reported to Jiang Haoran and Huang Jie that the heavy artillery division had completed the first round of artillery attacks on the Mingong position on the western front, and Dai Anlan's 200th Division had begun to launch the first tentative attack on the enemy's front, and the division commander Dai Anlan had personally gone to the front line to command.