Chapter Seventy-One
November 27, 1931, at 9:07 a.m., in the Provisional Headquarters.
"What are you talking about? Say it again. Nani! Miyamoto's Roshan actually brought the plaque given to him by His Majesty the former Taisho Emperor to the front line, and he even asked someone to carry the plaque out? Red deer wolf! What the hell is he trying to do!! Did he think that with the so-called identity of the first warrior of the fat front, he could be dragged up! It is simply lawless to dare to swagger like no one on the front line!! Bagaya Road, this is the front line of the war, it is the battlefield, not the sumo stadium for his personal performance!! "Itagaki Seishiro, who was far away in the rear temporary headquarters, looking at the operational map and racking his brains to formulate a series of battle plans, heard the front-line combat commander Miyamoto Oiichiro, the commander of the second division, who was very coquettish, and let people carry the plaque given by Emperor Taisho and shouted that he was going to fight to the death with the enemy in the city, this kind of almost strange thing, his big head was stunned by thunder in an instant, and the strange expression of Itagaki also stared at his small eyes, which were not very big, and his eyes were stunned there, It took a while to come to his senses. The enraged Itagaki himself roared like thunder at the second lieutenant named Hashitaro Nishimoto who had returned to report the situation.
"Hai, Your Excellency Commander Itagaki, Your Excellency the Commander of the Miyamoto Division of the Second Division actually did this to boost morale. Moreover...... "Faced with the almost hysterical state of his immediate boss, Second Lieutenant Hashitaro Nishimoto, who reported the situation, had no choice but to defend his titular head of the Miyamoto Oichiro Division.
"And what?! I can't tell. Hum! Don't talk about this useless nonsense! I don't want to hear that right now! Miyamoto, this bastard is just messing around!! Does he think this is a kindergarten child playing at home? I didn't ask this bastard to do such a naïve thing that would damage the dignity of the Japanese Emperor! Nothing like this has happened to the Imperial Japanese Army since its inception, and I swear that I will never allow such a stupid thing to happen one day, even in the future! Now you go back and tell Miyamoto that Yokooka bastard: 'If you continue to do this without a head and a brain, I will immediately report to His Excellency Commander Shigeru Honjo and the military department, and let these adults clean him up!!' 'Got it. Also, tell him that if he continues to do this in the future, he will go back to Imperial Tokyo and be his Henggang sumo wrestler honestly!! Seishiro Itagaki interrupted Nishimoto Hashitaro directly, and he was now angry and refuted at the poor officer.
"But ......" is really honest, it's not good to be caught between these two bigwigs alone, the Miyamoto on the front line is the division commander in charge of a 45,000-strong division, and the commander next to him is a real commander who commands hundreds of thousands of troops, although there are only less than 100,000 troops at present, but no matter which military commander at which end he can't offend. This is the sorrow of a low-ranking officer like himself who is a second lieutenant, this second lieutenant opened his mouth for a long time before he spit out these two words.
"Alright, Nishimoto-kun, you can go back now. Datian-kun, you should go to the experimental heavy artillery division right now, and let the experimental heavy artillery division quickly take action to set up the new heavy artillery, and give me at least 20 minutes to bombard the periphery of Shenyang City! lest you have long nights and dreams. Itagaki Seishiro didn't bother to pay attention to the officer in front of him who looked like a fool and waved his hand to let him go, and after the unlucky second lieutenant in front of him left, he directly turned his head and said to Captain Shigeru Ota who had been waiting for a long time at the command.
"Hai, Your Excellency, Commander. The subordinates will definitely complete the task. Shigeru Ota gave a military salute to Commander Itagaki very respectfully, and he turned around and left the tent of the temporary headquarters and stepped directly on a snow-white special communications war horse and walked away.
Seishiro Itagaki sighed as he looked at the departing headquarters messenger in front of him. Having said that, scolding and scolding, Itagaki knew that the one on the front line was the big fool in his own eyes, and the former yokook-level sumo wrestler Miyamoto Oichiro was sitting in the formation, commanding two divisions with a total of 90,000 troops to launch a siege against Shenyang City, this guy is the key to determining whether the entire Kwantung Army in front of him can completely occupy the three eastern provinces and realize the annexation of the entire Great Japanese Empire to the entire huge China, if there is any mishap, he and the empire behind him will not even have time to cry. Seishiro Itagaki walked out of the temporary headquarters with less than 10 accompanying guardsmen and walked slowly along the road that was pressed out by heavy vehicles to the battlefield observation post where the artillery mirrors were erected. Hiding in the trenches, Itagaki stared at the army near Shenyang City in the distance through the high-rate artillery mirror, and could only pray silently in his heart: 'Miyamoto, Miyamoto, you bastard must be more leisurely for Lao Tzu. Our hopes are all on you, don't let us down......
At 9:22 a.m. on November 27, 1931, in the temporary division headquarters of the hidden combat positions of the Experimental Heavy Artillery Division No. 0.
"You mean that Your Excellency Commander Itagaki has given the order for our heavy artillery division to shell the outer walls of Shenyang City now. And it was shelling for at least 20 minutes or more. Ah, I see. Facing the command artillery combat order conveyed to him by Captain Shigeru Ota in front of him, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, who had just been promoted to major general as the division commander of this experimental heavy artillery division, already understood what Seishiro Itagaki was planning to do. As the commander of the division, Yamaguchi is not a guy who doesn't know anything about gilding from Tokyo, he is a professional artilleryman.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the combat command has given the order to shell the outer walls of Shenyang City. I now order: Wing Commander of the 1st Heavy Artillery Wing, Tensuke Ohyo. "After sending off Captain Shigeru Ota who had come to convey the order of Commander Seishiro Itagaki, Major General Hiroshi Yamaguchi immediately summoned his subordinates and others to hold an operational meeting at the headquarters of the provisional division, and he gave the battle order, first of all, he named the wing commander of the 1st Heavy Artillery Wing, which had 8 new 280-mm heavy guns, Oyo Amasuke Osa.
"Hai, Your Excellency the Commander of the Yamaguchi Division, please give the order." He is about six or seven meters tall, and the captain of the First Heavy Artillery Wing, Oyo Tiansuke Osa, who is about six or seven meters tall, stood up and said respectfully to Yamaguchi.
"En, Dayangjun, from now on, all the 280 mm new heavy guns of your subordinate wing will be aimed near the gap in the city wall of Shenyang City, and you must expand the area of the gap in the current city wall of Shenyang City, as long as you can pass through the passage of no less than one full formation, do you understand?" He knows very well that the range of the 280 mm cannon is just between the outside of the city wall of Shenyang City and the inside of the city wall, but for the sake of insurance, Yamaguchi still has to ask Dayang Dazuo, so that he can have a rough idea in his heart.
"Hai, Your Excellency the Division Commander, the 1st Heavy Artillery Wing under his command guarantees the completion of the mission." Thinking that the 8 280mm heavy guns possessed by his first heavy artillery wing were enough to capture the city wall of Shenyang City, Dayang Tiansuke Daisa raised his chest and said loudly.
"Yo Si. Next was the commander of the 2nd Heavy Artillery Wing, Yorikun Nakatashita. Major General Yamaguchi was satisfied with Tensuke Ohyo's answer, nodded, and said directly to the commander of the 2nd Heavy Artillery Wing, which had 16 203-mm heavy guns, Nakata Shita Yoriosa.
"Hai, Your Excellency the Division Commander." A thin and slightly thin man with a pair of glasses, Nakata Daisa, who was one meter and seven sons, stood up and said.
"All 203mm guns of the 2nd Heavy Artillery Wing are aimed at another section of the city wall to blow up a gap for me, and I just need to open a passage through a squadron of two hundred to three hundred men, you know." Yamaguchi calculated how powerful the 203-mm gun could be and said to Nakata.
"Hai, Your Excellency the Division Commander, the Second Heavy Artillery Wing will definitely complete the task." Nakata felt that the task of his own wing was much easier than that of the first wing. (You must know that the first wing has 8 280 mm heavy guns, the entire wing belongs to 6,000 people, each heavy gun needs about 500 artillery brigade soldiers to serve, these 8 guns add up to 4,000 people, there are 1,000 people to protect the artillery from being destroyed by the enemy, and the other 1,000 people as a logistics brigade to provide 280 mm shells and spare barrels for 280 mm heavy guns, etc., as well as the delivery of various materials, the above data is similar to other heavy artillery wings, subject to the caliber of artillery.) There are also 280 mm caliber heavy guns with a very slow firing speed and loading speed, because for the time being there is no mechanical reloading ability, only the so-called manual reloading ability, with the current technology to carry out mechanical reloading, that is impossible, the Japanese, the rest of the world, want to engage in self-propelled artillery? In another ten years! The second, third, and fourth heavy artillery wings were the same, except for the number of artillery calibers. )
"Wing Commander Hashimoto of the 3rd Heavy Artillery Wing." Yamaguchi also named Hashimoto Ichiza, the co-commander of the 3rd Heavy Artillery Wing, which had 24 150-mm guns.
"All the 150 mm caliber heavy artillery of your department is aimed at the target in Shenyang City, and I must prevent the crazy counterattack of the enemy army that suddenly appears in the city, can Hashimoto-kun do this?" Yamaguchi's eyes stared at the scene of Hashimoto and said.
"Hai, please rest assured, Your Excellency the Division Commander, that our 3rd Heavy Artillery Wing will not let any enemy rush out." Hashimoto, who stood out a little among the co-captains, stood up and replied at the scene of Hashimoto, who is 1.76 meters tall.
"Yo Si. Wing Commander of the 4th Heavy Artillery Wing, Taiichiro-kun Seiko. In the end, I still named the name of Taiichiro Daisei, the commander of the 4th Heavy Artillery Wing, which has 32 105 mm guns.
"Hai, please give instructions to Your Excellency, the commander of the division." A little absent-mindedly a tall thin man with a height of 1.7 meters, Taiichiro Dasei, stood up.
"Well, let the Fourth Heavy Artillery Wing act as a reserve force, ready to provide support firepower for the combat troops that break into Shenyang City, is there anything wrong with Dachengjun?" Yamaguchi glanced at Taiichiro Daisei, who had been absent-minded just now, before he said.
"Nope! Your Excellency, Division Commander, I understand! Taiichiro Dasei didn't frown or think about it, and he didn't even want to hear a superfluous word from his mouth, he replied very straightforwardly, not caring at all that the person in front of him was his top boss.
"Well, I even forgot that the Wing Commander of the No. 1 Logistics Support Wing belonging to the division, Takeshita Aimoto-kun, and the Wing Commander of the Heavy Artillery Escort Wing belonging to the division, Ichiro-kun Akausaki, were not called. I'm really sorry, but my memory isn't very good when I'm older, so you won't blame me for forgetting. Major General Yamaguchi, who was the commander of the division, did not pay attention to Taiichiro Daisei's disrespectful behavior just now, but said to the remaining two who had not been named.
"Hey, how dare we blame His Excellency, the Commander of the Division. Give me instructions. The commander of the logistics support wing, Takeshita Daisa, and the commander of the heavy artillery escort wing, Amaizaki Daisa, who belonged to the division, hurriedly stood up and explained.
"Oh, that's right. Then the other wings that have already arranged tasks will go and do whatever they need to do now. Takeshita and Ah Huansaki stayed. As if he hadn't heard it, Major General Yamaguchi, who was the commander of the division, gave an expulsion order to the captains of the various wings who were sitting beside him who had arranged the task, and turned around and motioned for the two who had just stood up to sit down.
"Hay, Your Excellency the Division Commander, then we'll go now." The co-captains who got up said in unison, and after that, the four of them turned around and left the division headquarters, which had already begun to have a very dull atmosphere.
"Takeshita-kun and Awasaki-kun, do you two think the orders I just laid out are correct? Is it good or bad for me to do this? Standing by the window and staring at the backs of the departing Wing Captains through the window glass, Yamaguchi said something a little inexplicable as if talking to himself.
"This ...... I don't know what His Excellency the division commander is referring to. Takeshita tried to use his not very smart brain to analyze the intention of his boss's words just now, but he couldn't come up with a reason for thinking about it for a long time.
"Let's go, let's go out and take a look at the front observation post." Yamaguchi didn't reply and waved his hand to ask Takeshita not to ask again, but motioned to the two people behind him, who were a little dazed, to follow him out of the division headquarters......