Chapter 328: Mitsu Mijiro
Shouting in front of the battle, artillery shells and leaflets are all means of political offensive. Vertex. Fastest updates
It stands to reason that at this stage, the Japanese army is in a period of strategic offensive, the front is flourishing, the morale is booming, and the political offensive of the Eighth Route Army cannot achieve much effect, but there is no doubt that it is absolutely useful to break the military spirit of the Japanese puppet army!
Xu Yan and Zhao Fufu made two artillery shell leaflets that completely stunned Lieutenant General Mitsu Mijiro, commander of the First Army of the Japanese invasion of China, and Major General Shojiro Iida, chief of staff!
Lieutenant General Mitsu Mijiro and Major General Iida Shojiro are both brave and resourceful, wise and brave generals in the Japanese army, and they also have political vision and flexible wrists, which are different from those ordinary Japanese generals who are full of arrogance!
Mitsu Mijiro is a native of Oita Prefecture, Kitakyushu, Japan, which is a famous war criminal prefecture in Japan, and has produced five army generals in history, as well as the last admiral at the end of World War II, Vice Toyoda.
Compared with General Shouichi Terauchi from a famous family, Lieutenant General Mitsu Mijiro can get to the point where he is today, and it is definitely a grassroots rise!
Mijiro's parents were farmers. After his father died, his mother took the Mizu Mijiro brothers to remarry and marry a farmer, and the hardships of life can be imagined.
Growing up in such a family environment led Mitsu Mijiro to develop a personality that does not like to talk much since he was a child.
At the age of 15, Mitsu Mijiro was admitted to the Kumamoto Army Infant School with a first place score, and graduated with a first place three years later. Later, when Mitsu Mijiro graduated from the 24th class of the Army University, he was also the first and the chief graduate! At the same time, Nagata Tetsuyama, who was so arrogant, was pressed to second place by him!
At this time, the Chinese were no strangers to Mitsu Mijiro, because when he was the North China Garrison Brigade, he only had two infantry brigades at hand, but he pretended to threaten He Yingqin and forced He Yingqin to sign the infamous "He Mei Agreement" with him!
Before becoming the commander of the First Army, Mitsu Mijiro served as the vice minister of the Ministry of the Army, and followed behind the commanders of the North China Front, Terauchi Shouichi and Lu Xiangsugi Sugimoto, and shouted every day that China would be destroyed in three months.
At that time, in the eyes of Mitsu Mijiro, China, from the top leader to the most grassroots peddlers and pawns, was all in the bones, and they were scattered. Before the Japanese army captured Nanjing, those local powerful factions would announce their independence from the Nanjing Nationalist Government, declare their independence, and then cooperate with the Japanese army, just as the Mongols fought the Southern Song Dynasty and the Manchus invaded the Central Plains, acting as the vanguard of the Japanese army and helping the Japanese army to destroy China.
What Mitsu Mijiro didn't expect was that the situation he was hoping for did not appear!
It was because of Japan's invasion of China that China, which was originally scattered, suddenly united. The Central Army, the Eighth Route Army, the Jin Sui Army, the Northeast Army, the Northwest Army, the Sichuan Army, the Gui Army, the Hunan Army, the Yunnan Army, the Guangdong Army, the Guizhou Army, and all kinds of Chinese military forces that were originally fighting in the nest all opened the anti-Japanese front and fought with the Japanese army. No, the Japanese army captured Pingjin, captured Taiyuan, captured Jinan, captured Xuzhou, captured Kaifeng, captured Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, China was not destroyed, the Chinese government did not surrender, on the contrary, a unit of the Eighth Route Army dared to attack Shijiazhuang after capturing Dezhou, it was simply to see the Japanese army as a soft persimmon, and they could pinch it as much as they wanted!
Mizu Mijiro is really not wrong about this, in Xiao Siming's eyes, the little devils are all targets, which are used by him to practice marksmanship, sharpen the troops, and improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, and they also send weapons and ammunition to the Eighth Route Army!
The world is unpredictable, this night, Mitsu Mijiro was still in the office at the beginning pondering such a division and disintegration of Shanxi's squadron, breaking the Central Army, the Eighth Route Army, and the Jinsui Army as each other's Olympic aid, in a blink of an eye, the Eighth Route Army killed Shijiazhuang, and shot so ruthlessly, as soon as it came up, it blew up the Hutuo River railway bridge, highway bridge, and destroyed Daguocun Airport!
If he is replaced by Lieutenant General Seiji Kazuki, Mitsu Mijiro secretly thought in his heart, it is estimated that Terauchi Shouichi will settle the new accounts and old accounts together, and maybe directly order the gendarmes to supervise him to apologize!
Mitsu Mijiro even secretly rejoiced in his heart, glad that he was the hardcore of General Terauchi Shouichi. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain such a big loss!
This is what Lieutenant General Mitsu Mijiro said in his heart, and it is impossible for others to know!
Originally, it was planned to use Shijiazhuang as bait to catch Xiao Siming and take the bait, but the Eighth Route Army attacked so hard and advanced so fast that Lieutenant General Mitsu Mijiro panicked!
Shijiazhuang was originally just a village, but it gradually prospered because of the construction of Zhengtai Road, and it is a standard emerging city. Such a city does not have a strong city defense, and there are roads out of the city and into the city in all directions, and in a hurry, the Japanese army has no time to build a strong city defense fortifications!
This is just the point that makes Mitsu Mijiro panic. Another point is that the garrison of the city is insufficient!
The replenishment team of the First Army of the Japanese army did have the strength of four brigades, and the replenishment team of the 16th Division was indeed secretly stationed in Zhengding County. However, all four brigades of the First Army Replenishment Corps were recruits who had just been brought in from Japan. The four brigades of the original replenishment team, the first batch had already replenished all divisions and regiments during the Battle of Taiyuan, the second batch was supplemented to the 109th Division that suffered heavy losses in Yuxian and Shouyang, and the third batch was all supplemented to the 14th Division, which suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Lanfeng. This is the fourth batch of supplementary soldiers, and they have just been transported to Shijiazhuang!
Let a group of recruits face the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army that killed all the way from Shanxi to Jinpu Road, Mitsu Mijiro is not panicked!
Shijiazhuang was stationed in the second wing of the Japanese army. However, the second railway wing is responsible for guarding Pinghan Road, Zhengtai Road, Tongpu Railway, and Pingsui Railway, and its troops are scattered on several major railway lines like pepper noodles.
As for the 16th Division's supplementary team, the Hutuo River Railway Bridge and Highway Bridge were bombed, and it was also very difficult to transfer to Shijiazhuang, so they had to think of crossing the river. It was night, the Eighth Route Army was attacking, and once the Eighth Route Army discovered that the 16th Division was replenished to cross the Hutuo River, Mitsu Mijiro couldn't even think of the consequences!
As for the Japanese garrisons in the counties around Shijiazhuang and the strongholds around Shijiazhuang, they could not be counted on, and it was fortunate that they could guarantee that they would not be broken by the Eighth Route Army.
In the final analysis, what Mitsu Mijiro can really use at hand is the strength of the supplementary brigade composed of the four recruits of the First Army Replenishment Team, as well as the remnants of the Okakumura Airport Garrison.
As for the puppet army in Shijiazhuang, there are quite a few of them, but Mitsu Mijiro knows that none of these puppet troops are regular troops, they are all original bandits and militia groups that have invested in a team that has surrendered to the Japanese army and become traitors. These guys, when the imperial army wins the battle, they follow behind the ass waving flags and shouting, foxes and fake tigers are okay, if the imperial army loses the battle, I'm afraid these puppet armies will run faster than rabbits!
Lieutenant General Mitsu Mijiro knows very well in his heart, seeing that he has a lot of troops at hand, but his combat effectiveness is not good, he can only rely on the position to defend it, and he can't go out of the city to counterattack at all!
Therefore, after Lieutenant General Mitsu Mijiro received the order of the North China Front Army Headquarters to hold on and wait for reinforcements, he urgently mobilized in Shijiazhuang City, and he was still hoping that the Eighth Route Army would not attack too quickly and too aggressively, and that it would give him a chance to arrange a defensive line.
Mitsu Mijiro thought to himself that as long as he could survive until dawn, it would be easy to do, and with the support of the air force, it would be relatively easy to defend the city. As long as it can be delayed until tomorrow night, it is possible that the Fifth Division will arrive.
Because Mitsu Mijiro had this idea, the Japanese puppet army in Shijiazhuang City did not go out of the city to reinforce and counterattack at all, and it was regarded as selling the Japanese puppet army stronghold in the southeast of Shijiazhuang, so that the Eighth Route Army could eat it clean like soup!
The old devil Mitsu Mijiro is ruthless enough, he wants to exchange the sacrifice of the outlying strongholds for the time to deploy and defend the defense line in Shijiazhuang City!
Just when Mitsu Mijiro and Iida Shojiro were working hard and commanding the troops to urgently arrange the defense line, the heavenly maidens scattered flowers in the night sky, fluttering and flying all over the sky, and the propaganda leaflets of the Eighth Route Army fell.
At this time, Mitsu Mijiro was not in the headquarters, but personally drove to the street to check the layout of the defensive line of various troops, and happened to find leaflets fired by anti-aircraft guns from the Eighth Route Army.
Mitsu Mijiro immediately ordered to stop, got out of the car himself, picked up a leaflet, and asked the guards to read it with a flashlight, and saw that there was a series of numbers written on it in Japanese, all of which were how many Japanese casualties were in the Battle of Songhu, how many Japanese casualties were in the Battle of Taiyuan, and how many Japanese casualties were in the Battle of Xuzhou. What is written most clearly is the record of the eastward advance detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army: how many Japanese soldiers were killed in the battle of attacking Yuxian County; The Nianzigou Resistance Battle killed the commander of the 119th Wing, Ishida Kinzo Daisa, and killed many Japanese soldiers; The battle of Zhengtai Road Measuring Stone Station, how many Japanese soldiers were killed; destroyed Taiyuan Airport, destroyed how many Japanese planes were destroyed, and how many people were killed; In the Battle of Mafang, the 20th Cavalry Wing of the 16th Division was completely annihilated and how many people were killed; In the battle of Lianzhen, how many Japanese soldiers were killed; The Battle of Texas, how many Japanese soldiers were killed and how many were captured; In the battle of Luokou Bridge, how many Japanese soldiers were killed. And so on, it is written in great detail and very clearly, even the name, rank, and position of the commander of the annihilated Japanese army are clearly written!
If this kind of leaflet had been shown to the Japanese soldiers, would they have detailed the nonsense of the Imperial Army's great victory every day propagated by the Japanese army?
Mitsu Mijiro's brow furrowed as he picked up another flyer. The content of this leaflet is different, it actually writes about the Japanese emperor's family, and it is specifically to expose the deception of the Japanese emperor. The emperor who has **** epilepsy and a madman is all written clearly on it, so that people will never believe that the emperor is a god anymore!
I picked up a leaflet again, which was written about the gossip stories of factional struggles within the Japanese army, including the fact that Mitsu Mijiro was introduced to the Japanese Army Central by Terauchi Shouichi and why he was kicked out of the Army Central by Prime Minister Konoe Fumima.
Mitsu Mijiro couldn't maintain that kind of warm face and calm demeanor anymore, and opened his mouth to scold "Yaga!" ”
After scolding, thinking that the leaflets distributed by the Eighth Route Army must not be allowed to fall into the hands of soldiers and citizens, Mitsu Mijiro didn't care about inspecting the defense line anymore, so he turned back to the headquarters and ordered the military police and the guard troops of the army headquarters to dispatch to collect the leaflets distributed by the Eighth Route Army. Anyone who dares to hide the leaflet and not hand it over will die!
This is the real face of the old devil Mizumi Mijiro, ferocious, vicious, and cunning! (To be continued.) )