Chapter 248: The Great Fire (13)

The Japanese dispatched four squadrons this time, but only the 5th Squadron, to which the 2nd Brigade belonged, was ordered to attack the 76th Headquarters, and the squadron leader's surname was Ohno, who was born in Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, and claimed that his mother was from Nara.

The 85th Wing was a newly reorganized unit of the Japanese army during the great expansion of the army in 38 years, and the establishment place was Wakamatsu City, Aizu Prefecture, Fukushima Prefecture, which was earlier the fiefdom of the famous Sengoku general Gamo Clan, and the seven-story castle tower of Tsurujo Castle is famous throughout Japan (during the Meiji period, the whole country of Japan was demolishing mountain castles in various places, and only a few ancient castles were preserved by the locals, and Tsurujo Castle was one of them). )。

During the Boshin War at the end of the Edo period, the Aizu Domain, which was a member of the Shogunate, fought a fierce siege battle with the new government forces of Emperor Meiji. After the victory of the Choshu Domain, because of the heavy losses of the troops, in order to retaliate against the defeated side, it ordered that the locals were forbidden to bury the family members who died in the battle, and left them in the wild to be devoured by birds and beasts, and the corpses were exposed for half a year. Since then, the Aizu people have forged an insoluble feud with the Choshu Domain, which lasted for more than 100 years, and by the end of the 20th century, the Aizu-Wakamatsu people still refused to stay with the people of Yamaguchi Prefecture, and local taxis refused to take guests from Kagoshima and Yamaguchi Prefectures.

This is also the reason why the Japanese Army has gone through the Meiji Taisho Dynasty and never formed the Aizu Wing. Most of the high-ranking officers of the Japanese Army were from the Choshu domain, so how could they sit idly by and watch this group of descendants of "traitors" who were hostile to Choshu turn over on their own turf.

In the past, most soldiers from Aizu in the Japanese army were transferred to serve in the most dangerous or unpromising positions, and it was extremely difficult to get the opportunity to be promoted. Although the Chōshū Domain in the army at this time was not as strong as it was in earlier years, it still had a huge network and influence, and as a result, the 85th Wing had always been regarded as a second-line garrison by its superiors, and it did not give them any chance to win battle merits at all.

Historically, after receiving the wing flag in July 38, this wing was transferred to Chinese mainland the next month to assume the task of guarding Hangzhou City, and as a result, this defense in Hangzhou lasted for six years. It was not until the decline of the Japanese army in the Pacific Theater in 44 years and the serious shortage of troops in Central and South China that the higher authorities had no choice but to transfer this unit to the front line of operations to participate in the "Operation No. 1" aimed at opening up the mainland's lines of communication.

This time, the task of clearing No. 76 was not regarded by the high-level as a bad thing, but was regarded by them as a trouble, because it involved secrets, and after this battle was fought, it could not be publicized to the outside world, on the contrary, if there was a little mistake, it would definitely become a scapegoat for the superiors. Therefore, when Maeda submitted the plan of action, the Army General Staff Headquarters agreed to his request for troop transfer without much thought.

The 85th Wing also knew the role they were playing this time, and these Aizu soldiers had long recognized their situation, and they could only vent all their grievances on the targets. 、

The 5th Squadron burst into the courtyard through the side gate of No. 76, on the west side of the garden, and on the right hand side of the gate was the auditorium full of Wang puppet agents.

At this time, the cannon on the side of the main gate had just fallen, and there was a loud gunfire in front of the door of the second gate, and the gendarmes stationed in No. 76 almost had a squad, a standard light infantry configuration, not equipped with heavy weapons, but because of their profession, each gendarme held a southern pistol, and had a certain amount of close-range combat firepower. When the Fifth Squadron rushed into the backyard, the Japanese military police had already driven the puppet agents and guards in the front yard to the office area on the east side, and firmly controlled the second gate.

The Fifth Squadron finally had a chance to fight, how dare it be wasted easily, and before the spies in the auditorium pondered the taste, the outside of the auditorium had been surrounded by Japanese soldiers from three sides.

"I'm dumb!" Lieutenant Ohno pointed his saber at the main entrance of the auditorium, and several grenades entered through the glass window next to the door.

"Silly Shaw, Hugh give! (Second Squad, Shoot!) The acting squad leader, Cao Chang Oki, brandished the Ninety-Five Saber in his hand, jumped to his feet and hissed excitedly.

The Eleven-Year Light Machine Gun was erected, and soon the characteristic burst fire of this machine gun echoed in the air. Armed with three Eleven-Year machine guns, twenty-four rifles, and two grenadiers, the second squad was not the best in the world, but it was quite ferocious in its time.

The infantry establishment and firepower of the Japanese Army were completely learned from the German army, but the standard used by the German army more than ten years ago. If we talk about the establishment of light weapons alone, there does not seem to be a significant weakness between the Japanese army and the German conventional forces, and of course, if we compare the performance of the weapons and the firepower delivery capabilities of the two sides, then the Japanese side has already lagged behind the German army at this time.

The exterior wall of the auditorium is only a conventional brick and wood structure, and it has no defense against the Japanese army's standard weapons. The 6.5 mm Arisaka bullet has a very strong penetrating ability, and the thickness of this brick wall is less than 40 centimeters.

By this time, bullets were flying in the auditorium, and the agents sitting on the edge seats were already dead and wounded, most of whom did not understand what had happened until they died. Many recalcitrant people whose hands were stained with the blood of innocent people fell into their own stinky pools of blood this time.

Some of the people wanted to escape through the exit, but the standing and moving bodies became the best targets in the eyes of the Japanese soldiers outside the window, and the dead bodies soon piled up along the middle aisle, and some nimble spies used the bodies of their colleagues as cover, and lay on the back of the corpses with their heads in their arms, and the rest of the people did the same, and the survivors used the bodies of the deceased as shields and formed a circle in the middle of the auditorium.

Some self-defeating guys, armed with weapons, tried to break out, but until this time no one noticed the identity of the attacker, and the spies thought it was Chongqing agents lurking in Shanghai. I don't know if I ate the heart of a bear and a leopard gall, and dared to go to the 76th headquarters to spread wild.

Little did they know that a premeditated massacre had just begun, and now they were suffering only an appetizer.

PS: There's something to do tonight.,I can only post this.,I'm really sorry.,I'll make it up in the later chapters.。

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