"Captain, the Fourth Brigade, but the main division of the Japanese army! Didn't we send it to the tiger's mouth ourselves? Scimitar asked, puzzled. Writing "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info he really couldn't understand what Jiang Shan was thinking. There are only a few people in themselves, and they are not enough for the main force of the Japanese army to fight tooth sacrifices, and now they actually take the initiative to drill into the pile of the main division of the Japanese army, does the captain really regard himself as a Monkey King and is ready to make trouble in the Heavenly Palace?

Jiang Shan was naturally not arrogant enough to think that these few people would be able to eliminate a reorganized main division of the Japanese army. Excessive arrogance, that is a fool.

However, if this standing division is the famous Fourth Osaka Division, then it is a different matter, although it is one of the 17 standing divisions of the Japanese army, but compared with the Japanese divisions that are brave in general and do not hesitate to die, the Fourth Division is definitely a wonder!

The 4th Osaka Division was established in 1888 and consisted mainly of Osaka vegetable vendors, making it one of the oldest divisions in the Japanese army. This unit has four wings under its jurisdiction, equipped with first-class weapons and equipment, and can be called the "elite" of the Japanese army. However, not long after it was founded, the reputation of "wreck" spread throughout the Japanese army. In particular, the 8th Wing, the core unit of the 4th Division, was nicknamed "the 8th Wing that was not afraid of defeat" because of its repeated defeats in the Russo-Japanese War.

However, this unit is well-known in Japan for its "courage and tenacity", and of course, it is aimed at its own people......

In 1933, Private Matsui of the Fourth Division ran a red light in the center of Osaka, and as a result, he clashed with the police.

In 1937, due to the shortage of Japanese troops stationed in China, the Japanese army base camp transferred the Fourth Division to Northeast China and assigned it to the Kwantung Army. How can this force be rejuvenated with fighting spirit? The Japanese base camp really took a lot of effort, and came to the conclusion that the commander played a decisive role in the combat effectiveness of a unit, so the Japanese base camp successively transferred several famous generals to train the division, for example, Yamashita Fengwen, nicknamed the "Malay Tiger", had served as the division commander, but he also had no way to take the free and loose Fourth Division.

After two years of intensive training, the Fourth Division finally had a chance to show its face. In 1939, when the Soviet Union and Japan fought in the Nomenkan area on the Sino-Mongolian border, the Kwantung Army ordered the Osaka and Sendai divisions stationed in the northern part of the puppet state of Manchukuo to urgently mobilize to reinforce the front line. After receiving the order, the Sendai Division (i.e., the 2nd Division) forcibly rushed from Hailar to Nomenkan, and entered the battle on the day of its arrival on the battlefield, but was soon defeated by the Soviet army.

On the contrary, the order for the dispatch of the 4th Division was issued, but it was delayed. The reason is that after the mobilization order was issued, there was a surge in the number of sick patients in the division and regiment, and as far as the eye could see, the battalion was full of officers and soldiers who asked to stay behind for various reasons. The excited Japanese wing commander was furious and personally sat in the infirmary to participate in the diagnosis, and only then did he reluctantly organize the troops to march to the front line, and the joke that "the wing commander changed his career to become a doctor" also spread among the Japanese army.

However, the matter was not over, and the soldiers of the Fourth Division played a new trick -- passive sabotage. From Hailar to Nomenkan, the 2nd Division walked for 4 days, but the 4th Division walked for 8 days, and a large number of personnel were left behind. Coincidentally, on the day that the advance team of the 4th Division arrived at the front, the Soviet Union and Japan declared an armistice.

When the news came, the officers and men of the Fourth Division who had fallen behind quickly followed as if they had taken a strong pill, and even many of the officers and men who stayed behind rushed to the front line "sick," while complaining with great regret that they had no chance to fight a battle.

Ironically, on the way back, the 4th Division, which was fully manned and full of spirit, became the most formidable unit in the Japanese army, while the 2nd Division, which was the first to arrive at the battlefield, lost its armor and was full of wounded soldiers. The officer in charge of news and propaganda of the Kwantung Army really couldn't look past it, so he picked up his pen and changed the headline of the news "My Invincible Imperial Army's Fourth Division Returns with Might" submitted for review by the Japanese army newspaper to "I Returned with Strength Without Injury to the Fourth Division of the Imperial Army," and ridiculed this "soft egg" unit in a roundabout way.

Although it was out of all its appearances, the Fourth Division was quite lucky, because at that time, the Japanese army invading Central China was in a tight situation and urgently needed reinforcements, so the Japanese military headquarters had no choice but to give up pursuing the Fourth Division and urgently transfer it to the south for reinforcements. The 4th Division was transformed into a member of the elite 11th Army of the Japanese army.

In fact, the reputation of the Fourth Division has long been heard of by the Chinese army, as early as during the Battle of Xuzhou, the Chinese army encountered a "strange Japanese army". At that time, in the face of the encirclement of the Japanese army, Li Zongren commanded an army of 400,000 to skillfully jump out of the encirclement of the Japanese army. However, after the Chinese army broke through the siege, it was already sleepy and lacking in people, and it had lost a lot of heavy equipment, and its combat effectiveness had been sharply reduced. While crossing a road on the border between Lusu-Anhui Province, the tired Chinese army suddenly found a well-equipped Japanese army on the road.

Exhausted, the Chinese army spotted the enemy in a panic and left the road in confusion and retreated to the nearby mountains. Strangely, after a long time, no Japanese troops were chasing, and the commander of the Chinese army was surprised and sent people to investigate, but saw that the Japanese army had no intention of pursuing at all, on the contrary, the Japanese army was still cooking in a grand place on both sides of the road. This strange Japanese unit was none other than the southward detachment of the 4th Division.

Since they had just jumped out of the encirclement of the Japanese army, the situation was still very dangerous, and the Chinese army had no choice but to cross the road with one heart, and the result was that the road was safe. Afterwards, the commander of the southward detachment explained to his superiors on the grounds of "strict observance of operational discipline": "I have not received an order to intercept the Chinese troops. ”

When the news reached the ears of the Chinese army, the saying that "the Japanese soldiers in Osaka would not fight" became popular. Every time they fought, when the Chinese army heard that the opponent was the "Osaka Division", their morale often increased greatly, and they rushed to engage the Fourth Division. The Fourth Division, which had just arrived at the front line, was caught off guard and suffered several defeats one after another, and even implicated friendly troops, so much so that friendly and neighboring troops complained to the headquarters of the 11th Army: "With the Fourth Division participating in the battle, the battle that could have been won would have been lost, but because the morale of the enemy army was greatly boosted, it would have lost ......."

From then on, the commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army had no choice but to let the 4th Division concentrate on "standby" in the rear. On one occasion, the commander of the 11th Army, Anan Wei, did not believe in evil and sent the Fourth Division to attack the main attack in the Battle of Changsha, but as a result, the Fourth Division was driven out as soon as it entered Changsha and was defeated on all fronts. The Kuomintang army defending Changsha was the elite of Xue Yue's department, and only an elm head like Anan would use the Fourth Division as the main attack.

In view of its performance in the Battle of Changsha, the Fourth Division became the "mourning star" of the Japanese army, and no army wanted it, so the base camp had to change it to a directly subordinate unit. At this time, some of the soldiers of the Fourth Division blew: "Lao Tzu was a soldier in the A Division, and when the war started, it belonged to the Kwantung Army - the elite, and the battle was fought in the Eleventh Army - it was still the elite, and in the end the Eleventh Army could not be equipped with us, so we had to change the base camp directly under the jurisdiction of the ......."

Although the Fourth Division is said to be a nest, it is a first-class division after all, and there are many veterans. Due to the heavy combat losses of the Japanese army and the urgent need to replenish the veterans, the officers and men of the Fourth Division were transferred from time to time to other divisions and regiments. At that time, the parting speeches of various departments of the Japanese army had their own characteristics, such as the Second Division, which said "the military fortune is long when the battle situation is good"; When the situation is not good, say "Kudanzaka" (Yasukuni Shrine is in Kudanzaka, Tokyo). However, when the officers and men of the Fourth Division said goodbye, they often said "the imperial body is a big cut", which translates to "take care of your body", "the body comes first", or simply "the most important thing is to save your life".

Later, the Japanese army encountered stubborn resistance from the Chinese army when attacking Hengyang and Zhijiang. At the beginning of the battle, veterans from the 4th Division repeated their old tricks, from officers, non-commissioned officers to veterans, who were hospitalized and passively but reasonably refused to fight. When the wounded Japanese soldiers arrived at the hospital, the "seniors" of the Fourth Division who were "recuperating" still asked: "Why are you playing with your life like this?" When asked why they were reluctant to participate in the war, these "sick numbers" said arrogantly: "I heard that we are acting as a feint attack in this sortie, which is very boring. ”

In April 1942, the 4th Division was transferred to the Philippines to participate in the final assault on the Corregidor Fortress. The 4th Division went uncharacteristically smoothly in this battle, successfully completed its mission, and finally surrendered all the American and Philippine forces on the Bataan Peninsula. It was later learned that this was not the credit of the Fourth Division, but that the American and Philippine troops in the Philippines had been cut off from supplies for many days, and had been living on sea salt and vegetables for several months, and it was not new at all that it would collapse at the first touch. After that, the 4th Division continued to turn around behind the Japanese front and never participated in major battles.

At the time of Japan's surrender in August 1945, the 4th Division was resting near Bangkok, Thailand. Unlike other Japanese units that refused to accept defeat, the surrender and return of the 4th Division went exceptionally smoothly. When all the officers and men of the Fourth Division, ruddy-faced and healthy, appeared in the Japanese ports, the Japanese who were malnourished and desolate were very surprised. According to statistics, the Fourth Division was the unit with the fewest casualties and the most complete equipment and materials in the Japanese Southern Army. The US military described the division as "peace-loving." The day after returning to China, officers and men ran to the US barracks, neatly set up stalls, and sold war souvenirs.

At this time, the general Chinese army had not yet fought with the Osaka Fourth Division, and when they heard that the other party was a standing division of the first class, and had stayed in the elite Kwantung Army sequence, it was natural to take it for granted that this was a Japanese army unit with a brave battle and a fierce style.

Jiang Shan knows the details of this army, such a force is definitely synonymous with alternative and wonderful, and it is also a great opportunity for his group to exploit loopholes!