"If you don't go to the Great Wall, you are not a hero, this is a poem by the leader of the Workers' and Peasants' Party in China, which is used to describe such a great architectural miracle, and it is indeed appropriate. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

At this time, Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki was standing on the wall of the Great Wall, watching his army cross the majestic and magnificent Great Wall and advance towards Taiyuan, and his heart was full of pride.

Seishiro Itagaki, an active lieutenant general in the Japanese Army, is known as the courage of Itagaki along with Ishihara in the Japanese army. He was an important general in the Showa era of Japan and one of the pioneers who led Japan's invasion of China.

In December 1903, Itagaki entered the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School and became the 16th cadet of the school. Among the students in this period, there have been many famous figures who invaded China, such as Kenji Dohihara, Ninji Okamura, and Toshiyoshi Ando. In Japanese military circles, it is known as the "Sixteenth Period of Glory".

In 1931, Seishiro Itagaki and Ishihara Waner jointly planned the "918" incident that shocked China and foreign countries, and blatantly challenged the 200,000 Northeast Army with 10,000 Japanese troops, and achieved very great results. Under the policy of non-resistance of Chang Kaishen and Zhang Hanqing, they forcibly drove 200,000 Northeast Army into the Guannai and seized a huge territory of nearly 1.5 million square kilometers in Northeast China.

In the process of the Japanese invaders plotting to establish a puppet regime in the northeast, Seishiro Itagaki was ordered to act as the vanguard again. On September 22, 1931, Itagaki attended a secret meeting of the Kwantung Army in Shenyang. The conference concocted a "solution to the Manchurian-Mongolian question" and proposed the establishment of a new regime with Pu Yi as the head of state, the territory of the four northeastern provinces and Mongolia, and the control of defense and foreign affairs by the Japanese Empire.

On July 7, 1937, the July 7 Incident occurred, and China began a full-scale war of resistance. Itagaki was ordered to lead his troops to participate in the war of aggression against China within the formation of the North China Front. Itagaki strongly attacked Jin Province, believing that by controlling Jin Province, he could control North China.

The 21st Brigade was ambushed by the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army at Pingxingguan on September 25 and was annihilated by more than 2,000 people.

On October 2, Itagaki Seishiro was ordered by the North China Front to lead the attack on Taiyuan, and two days later the Chahar Corps of the Kwantung Army was also under his command.

At this time, the Yanmen was closed, a large number of Japanese troops stepped on the powerful footsteps, and were advancing towards Daixian and Yuanping, all the soldiers were in high spirits, the morale was high, and the fierce team exuded the momentum of a beast, so that people knew at a glance that this was a disciplined and very strong combat force.

There is no doubt that this fierce and bloodthirsty force is none other than the Fifth Division under Seishiro Itagaki and the famous "Steel Army"!

The Fifth Division, also known as the Hiroshima Division, was one of the first seven divisions in Japan, and was reorganized from the original six Jintai (strategic units of the Meiji period) into the Fifth Division.

Originally, it was composed of the 11th, 12th, 21st, and 22nd Infantry Wings, and finally the 9th and 21st Infantry Brigades were finally determined to be composed of the 11th Infantry Wing (Hiroshima Prefecture), the 21st Wing (Hamada Prefecture), the 41st Wing (Fukuyama City), and the 42nd Infantry Wing (Yamaguchi Prefecture). The soldiers were all from the Hiroshima, Shimane, and Yamaguchi units in western Honshu.

"Nishimura, have you seen it, such magnificent mountains and rivers, such a vast land, will become the territory of our Great Japanese Empire in the future, do you feel a thrill of conquering the world?"

Standing on the Great Wall, Itagaki Seishiro, holding high the saber in his hand, pointing at Taiyuan from afar, said proudly to Nishimura Riwen Daisa, chief of staff of the Fifth Division beside him.

Nishimura Lewin hurriedly bowed deeply and said respectfully: "Hai! Your Excellency, the commander of the Itagaki Division, the people of China are ugly and obscene, and they are completely inferior to the work of an inferior people, and they do not deserve to own this land at all. We, the noble and brave people of Yamato, are the best candidates appointed by Amaterasu to govern the Eastern World.

The Jin Sui army troops in China were poorly armed, demoralized, and backward in command, and they were not at all the opponents of our Imperial Japanese Army, and now they were even more frightened of the Imperial Army, and they were far away, believing that our Imperial Army would soon be able to take Taiyuan and force Yan Laoxi of the Jin Sui Army to surrender. ”

"Yan Laoxi, is my classmate in the non-commissioned officer school, in 31 years, he was down, I sheltered him in Dalian, but unfortunately this person is ungrateful and betrays my friendship, but it doesn't matter, because soon I will break through his base camp Taiyuan, and use this knife to personally ask him for guilt." Seishiro Itagaki brandished his saber and said menacingly.

"It's a pinch, when His Excellency the division commander personally cuts off his head, he will definitely repent of the sin of betraying and fooling Your Excellency." Nishimura Daisa flattered.

"Yo Xi, by the way, Nishimura Dazuo, now Yuanping, Xinkou and other places are stationed in which side of the troops of China, although the troops of China are vulnerable, but the lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, and it is still necessary to know oneself and the other." Although Itagaki Seishiro was arrogant, his military literacy was still very strong, and he did not ignore the importance of intelligence because he looked down on the Chinese army.

When it came to military battles, Nishimura Daisa's expression also became serious, and he said with a straight face: "Your Excellency, the enemy in front of us is not only Yan Laoxi's Jin Sui Army, but also the Central Army of the Kuomintang, and according to the front-line reconnaissance report, a miscellaneous unit of the Eighth Route Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Party will also go to Yuanping to participate in the battle. ”

Itagaki Seishiro said proudly: "Yo Xi, there are still the Central Army and the Eighth Route Army, I heard that they have always had hatred, this is where we can take advantage of it, but it doesn't matter, no army in China can stop the footsteps of our steel army." Hum! It's a pity that it wasn't the 115th Division, the first-class unit of the Eighth Route Army, that came, otherwise we would have washed away the shame of Pingxingguan! ”

Nishimura Osa is also proud of his background in the Fifth Army: "Hai, Your Excellency the Commander of the Itagaki Division, the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army is just using an ambush to sneak attack our transport unit with the worst combat effectiveness, and if it is a head-on battle, they are definitely not the opponent of our Steel Army." Our Fifth Division is the trump card of the Japanese Empire, and the vain attempt of the only Chinese troops to stop us is undoubtedly a mantis arm, and our army will tear them to pieces. ”

Compared with the Central Army of the People's Party and the Jin Sui Army, Itagaki Seishiro, the "China expert", already knows very well, but unfortunately for the Eighth Route Army troops, Itagaki Seishiro does not know much, except for the 115th Division because of the sneak attack on the transport troops of the 21st Brigade Regiment successfully left a little impression on him, the Eighth Route Army in his eyes are all mud-legged troops who lack clothing, food, guns and bullets, and Itagaki Seishiro does not take them into account at all.

However, although Itagaki Seishiro is arrogant and arrogant, his Fifth Division does have the qualifications to be arrogant. Just as Seishiro Itagaki and his chief of staff were bragging on the Great Wall, his vanguard had already taken Daixian, and the Daixian defenders were defeated without a fight, and the Japanese army lightly replaced the prefecture and came straight to Haradaira.