readx; There is very little vegetation in Donggu Mountain, full of coarse sand boulders, dangerous rock cliffs. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Liang Huasheng knew that the artillery fire of the Yue army was fierce, so he came to a "movement war in a positional war", set up a shelter position behind the mountain, and only monitored the Yue army with very few observation posts in front of the mountain; The soldiers' hats were also placed on the skirmish line, which was a "suspicious soldier". The army bombarded again and again, and the hats and saucers spun all over the sky, and the army under the mountain shouted "Long live", but they don't know how much steel and TNT were wasted.

Bidding farewell to Iizuka, Sudo and Tsuguchi descended the mountain before dark to return to the division headquarters, and a herald ran down the mountain panting and reported to Ito Masakaki that the captain of Iizuka had died.

When Sudo and Tōguchi squandered the film for Iizuka, the Chinese soldiers on Donggu Mountain saw it very clearly, and unanimously thought that the bare-backed devil was too showy, and hurriedly called a few veterans with good marksmanship to give him a good look. It's also Iizuka's life, and it should be extinguished, a gunshot rang out, piercing through the heart, and immediately whined.

Iizuka was posthumously promoted by the emperor to major general and praised as the "god of war", Sudo and Mitsuguchi also won special awards, and the dead and alive were famous in the capital for a while, and only a few people such as Komata Yukio knew that it was a fake scam due to the surplus of film

Hearing that Iizuka was killed, Ito stood dumb for a long time. Since last year, he has led the newly formed 101st Division to land in Hangzhou Bay under the British flag, and has encountered a strong enemy in every battle. The first wing commander of the 101st Wing, Osamu Garna, died in Wusongkou half a year ago, and now he has lost the second wing commander, which cannot but make him sad. Okamura expressed his condolences to Iizuka on the phone, saying that it was decided to assign the 13th Field Heavy Artillery Wing to the 101st Division, and it was necessary to advance to Tokuan as soon as possible. Finally, he was asked about the exact location of his command. He knew that Okamura was by no means concerned about his own safety, but an unspoken reproach. He immediately ordered to capture Donggu Mountain at all costs to avenge Iizuka; The divisional headquarters was moved to the front line of the sentry.

"This, it's too dangerous," the chief of staff, Tatake Sanchio, disagreed, and the headquarters was too far forward.

Ito didn't seem to hear it. is a veteran of the sixtieth year, and he is still so ambitious. Tian Wu looked at his division commander and suddenly felt a bad omen.

Airplanes and field artillery blew up Donggu Mountain, and poison gas bombs were also used. Although Liang Huasheng's 190th Division of the Central Army was superior, every officer and soldier was issued with a gas mask. But most of them are of substandard quality and have no anti-virus function. Some say that drinking urine can reduce the symptoms of poisoning. As a result, the officers and soldiers urinated and drank on their own, and sure enough, they lost their poisonous surnames.

Thinking that there would be no more life in Donggu Mountain, Ito ordered a general attack with the strength of 5 brigades after the poisonous smoke on the mountain dissipated.

Liang Huasheng put all the reserves into it, and 3,00 Huguang men condescendingly rushed down, the stabbing knives and guns clanged, and the entire Donggu Mountain was like a quarry where tens of thousands of people gathered, and the sound of the hammer hitting the gold and stone shook the mountains and valleys.

The onslaught of the Japanese army was crushed by the bayonets of the soldiers of the [***] squadron.

Ito, who was poor in donkey skills, threw out his last trump card, the chariot troops. More than a dozen chariots covered the infantry as they rumbled along the winding mountain avenue. In the face of these steel monsters, Liang Huasheng did not have anti-chariot cannons, and the bullets hit the enemy chariots like a torrential rain, only splashing dazzling sparks. Seeing that the army broke through the position step by step, it went straight to the top unscrupulously

"Brothers! It's time to fight with the devil! Platoon commander Wu Zhihong pounced on the first tank with blue smoke on his body.

"Boom!" With a loud crash and an explosion of blood-colored flames, the chariot was blown up. It turned out that Wu Zhihong gathered the whole platoon of grenades, and he himself carried a bunch, took the lead in rushing to the enemy chariot, and died with the army.

"Platoon commander--" A dozen warriors roared and rushed towards the enemy chariot with cluster grenades.

"Boom! Rumble! "In the flames of young lives, several chariots in front of them were paralyzed

This action caused the commander of the 149th Wing, Tsuda Daisa, who was commanding the front, to be taken by surprise and ordered a retreat.

The officers and men of the squadron once again blocked the steel footsteps of the Yue army with their flesh and blood. Both sides were red-eyed. The 190th Division hung the corpse of a soldier on the ancient tower of Jinlun Peak, which made the army under the mountain feel terrified; In retaliation, the 101st Division slaughtered all the creatures within the reach of the soldiers. The only remaining elderly couple under the West Guling Mountains were also executed by order of the commander of the 101st Brigade, Shozaburo Sato.

After repelling more than 20 attacks by the Yue army, most of the officers below the Liang division were killed or wounded, especially the Zhu Yue regiment guarding Dongguling could only be formed into three companies. When the Yue army was surrounded on three sides under the bombardment of more than 10 planes, Liang Huasheng was ordered by Yu Ji, commander of the 36th Army Corps, to abandon the east and west Guling and withdraw to De'an to rest and recuperate. And Chen Hongjing, who was covering the retreat, was killed.

Yu Ji ordered Chen Anbao's 29th Army to defend the pass position.

Ito Masaki knew that after the pass was the Nanxun Highway. He also knew that the pass was not very good. But as long as the commanding heights of this area are occupied, Jinlun Peak, the pass will be self-defeating. He moved his headquarters to Wujia Village at the foot of Xigu Mountain, which was already within the range of the artillery fire of the Chinese [***] team.

Xiaowu is thick and juice is general, and the unique style of Lushan Mountain. On the Golden Wheel Peak, a rising sun broke through the clouds. In the morning glow, there was a middle-aged soldier with a majestic physique standing outside the Guizong Temple. Chen Anbao, Nanxun has never stripped off and slept soundly since the war. Is he greeting the grandeur of the spewed landscape? Of course not. He had a gut feeling that there seemed to be a murderous intent hidden in this milky fog. He strictly ordered all units to strengthen their vigilance and informed the artillery to be ready to fire 10,000 artillery pieces at any time according to the demarcated firing areas that had already been detected. Yu Jishi, the supreme commander of the battlefield east of the Nanxun Line, has different strengths, let's talk about artillery, many armies and even a regiment do not have a single artillery, but he controls two field artillery regiments.

Chen Anbao died in Nanchang City the next spring, but this day was like a god

Led by the captain Kawakami Shosa, more than 1,000 wolf-like warriors and warriors rushed away, attempting to take advantage of the dense fog to attack Jinlun Peak.

Chen Anbao gave an order, and a layer of fire erupted from the artillery position, and the clouds came out. The descendants of Tokugawa, who thought they were extraordinary, were lying in a dilemma on the bare halfway up the mountainside, like villains who knew they had broken the law, and they were lying on the ground and endlessly beating the master's board.

The sky was bright, and the clouds cleared. In the headquarters of the Ito Division in Wujia Village, the thin Ito was as anxious as a monkey, his face was as red as a monkey's belly, and his ears were red because of his urgency.

"Hurry up and invite the navy" He looked up at the taller chief of staff Tian Wu Daisa, pointed his index finger to the sky, and shouted loudly. Because the artillery positions were nearby, the artillery battle drowned out his voice. He was in a hurry, the white light of the roof flashed, and the debris flew away, and he fell to the ground

The cannon of the [***] team may also be too accurate. If this bomb was coming at Ito, it was so fucking accurate that it exploded above Ito's head; If it was at the enemy's artillery position, it would have been a few thousand meters away from his mother - anyway, Ito was shot in the head, seriously injured and in shock, unconscious.

The more than 1,000 death squads were withdrawn, but they lost more than 170 good rifles, 13 light and heavy machine guns, more than 100 corpses, and more than 10 officers alone, including group leader Kawakami Shaosa, squadron leader Akitaka Ichikita, and Yoshitake Taifu.

Pity the dignified Tokyo Division, except for the 149th Wing, which is still in good condition and ready for battle, the other wings are in dilapidation. At this time, when the corporal casualties were exhausted, there was no longer the ability to attack. Okamura faced the endgame of the 106th Division a month ago, and agreed in a tragic tone to the "rest on the spot" requested by the acting division commander Shozaburo Sato.

Facing the window of the mullions, Okamura looked out, his gloomy gaze and the corners of his mouth pursed like a rebellious prisoner.

Beyond the wattle fence, 300 meters away is a hilly meadow. A troop bound for the battlefield is gearing up. They used the tent as a backpack, which was in tatters, and they would definitely encroach on the houses after camping. The officers and men shouted and drank in a sparse manner, which was very unorthodox. Some of them were also wrapped in brightly colored flower cloths, which were undoubtedly looted from the people. -- It is another army with extremely poor morale

This is the camp where the attacking troops replaced in the Gangnam Battlefield, and Okamura often stands at the window like this, observing the spirit of each unit. What he admired most was Yoshihito Ryosuke's 9th Division, which came from the Hokuriku region, and that unit was always in good order, and the officers and men set out in a four-way column with loud slogans. His most disgusting was the Hata detachment.

The troops were scattered and scattered, like a rabble of stragglers. Okamura originally thought that troops with good discipline would inevitably have strong combat effectiveness, while troops with poor discipline would definitely have weak combat effectiveness. The truth is not quite true. The Hatada detachment was the worst unit in Okamura's eyes, but it swept across both sides of the Yangtze River and was invincible. He wanted to straighten out the military and discipline of the army very early, but the combat rules of the past month or two told him that often the most barbaric soldiers were the most "heroic" imperial warriors on this battlefield. This is determined by the nature of the foreign war, and it is impossible for any conqueror who is reckless to be a civilized army.

Sooner or later, the troops will enter Wuhan, and Okamura Ninji's mood has been very depressed in the past few days, and although he has not seen any changes on the surface, Miyazaki Daisa, the chief of operations staff officer who is familiar with him, clearly feels that His Excellency the commander is harboring a thunder fire in his heart, and sooner or later it will break out.

The 6th Division advanced lightly against the enemy and was blocked in Jieling and Longding Village, which was still forgiving; The 101st Division actually made such an endgame in the east and west Gushan! Although the 106th Division was replenished with new recruits, changed to a horse riding division, and was attached to an artillery wing, the military discipline was too poor, and it is said that even an old lady in her 70s was destroyed in the case of the collective annihilation of Manjusri Temple, which is really a strange thing. The 27th Division arrived late from Pingjin, and it took nearly two months on the road; The 9th Division and the Potian Detachment were said to be two strong forces, but they had been fighting fiercely at the dock for seven or eight days, and their progress was slow. Of course, I heard that the enemy in front of me was Guan Lin's expeditionary department. After the Battle of Xuzhou, Itagaki Seishiro once said: "Guan Lin's army should be regarded as an ordinary branch of 10 armies." "The whole battlefield is not angry, and the Koike logistics base has made another mistake

Okamura felt that the [***] squadron at the southern foot of Qingshuang Mountain was entangled, and in mid-August, he ordered the abandonment of the Qiantai Road supply line, and instructed the head of the rear section, Inoue Kanichi Nakasa, to open a logistics base for the Yangtze River supply line at the second set of Koike on the other side of the Jiujiang River. Inoue Kanichi was one of Zhu Dian's henchmen when Okamura formed the 11th Army Headquarters, he was black, fat, short, obscene, and won Okamura's favor with his outspoken ability. He and the chief staff officer Miyazaki Daisa came to Koike, and after Miyazaki coordinated the construction team, he returned to Jiujiang, and he stayed in Koike to direct the entire construction of the project. The airport was at a critical juncture when more than 1,000 migrant workers suddenly dispersed.

As soon as Officer Inoue crossed the river and came to the military headquarters, as soon as he made a report, he shouted: "Your Excellency, Commander, please be sure to severely punish those black sheep!" ”

The migrant worker in charge of the construction of the airport was contracted by a pseudo village chief. A senior soldier of the Potian detachment guarding the construction site and two accomplices annihilated the 17-year-old daughter of the village chief of Nahan in turn.

"Soka!" When Okamura heard this, he gritted his teeth in anger and said, "Yoshimoto-kun," Okamura said to Major General Yoshimoto Sadachi, the chief of staff, "Please work hard yourself to investigate the situation clearly, and if it is true, you should be severely punished!" ”

"Hello!" Gibbon bowed down like a servant.

From the time he took office in mid-July and came to the battlefield in Central China, Okamura was deeply disappointed by the poor military discipline of the troops. When he went to Qianshan to inspect the 6th Division, he did not talk about the issue of military and discipline, because he did not want to touch the sore spot of that unit. The moral degradation of the Kyushu soldiers, some people say that it is "hopeless". As for the Hatata detachment, which also came from Kyushu, he had heard and witnessed it. When they first entered Jiujiang, they actually broke into the houses of the British and the Americans to stay in the house, causing the captains of the British and American [***] ships to protest and almost cause an international dispute. Most of the soldiers robbed the clothes of the common people for the sake of their crimes, mainly forcible annihilation, in order to avoid the pickets of the gendarmerie.

These days, there happened to be a few rare visitors from Tokyo. One is the head of the Nakamura Military Affairs Bureau. He bluntly said to Okamura that many people in the war zone often carried photos of some brutal acts in their letters to their hometowns, murderous and defiled, "Messy, although hundreds of pieces have been confiscated for violating the postal law, but is this kind of criticism of the army as curiosity about crime and the loss of conscience for obvious atrocities a normal mentality of the warriors of our imperial country?" ”

Okamura was speechless.

In the early 20s, the veteran lieutenant general Wada Kameji, who served as the president of the Army University and the commander of the 1st Division, went to the southwest front of Xingzi to comfort the children of Tokyo on behalf of the Tokyo military corps. It's not Ben's army at all! ”

It was difficult to explain Wada and Nakamura clearly, and Okamura didn't bother to speak. The whole army knew that he Okamura was appreciated by the upper peak for his strict leadership of troops.

At that time, he served in the Hokkaido Tun Barracks and was still an ordinary junior officer. One day he was training two platoons of recruits, and he shouted the command: "The target is directly in front of the sea, guns, and go - go!" ”

Two platoon commanders commanded two platoons of recruits, shouting "one, two, one" and walking towards the sea, and when they reached the edge of the cliff, a platoon commander shouted the order: "Stand still - go!" "Not moving forward.

Another platoon leader walked to the edge of the cliff in the sea, but suddenly shouted the order: "Rush!" One by one, the recruits followed the platoon commander and jumped into the sea like dumplings.

Okamura ordered the lifebuoys that had been prepared earlier to be thrown into the sea, and the platoon commander and recruits who were struggling in the waves were salvaged one by one. And the platoon commander who gave the order to "walk on the spot", he couldn't help but say something, and ordered to be shot on the spot, and all the recruits were confined to confinement.

Okamura's superiors were shocked when they heard the report, and they asked the Ministry of War to ask Okamura to be dealt with strictly, who had no official and killed his subordinates. However, the Ministry of the Army issued an approval document: "Okamura Ningji transferred to the Army Province."

Sadaichi Yoshimoto returned from Koike and reported to Okamura that the situation reported by Inoue Nakasa was basically true. Okamura immediately ordered the commander of the military police, Shigeto Kenfumi Nakasa, to sit in Koike, strengthen the pacification work, and immediately arrest all the criminals and send them to the Judge Advocate General's Council for processing.

Igarashi Shosa, the commander of the gendarmerie who ordered the arrest of the criminals, had long been aware of the case, and he glanced at the Minister of Justice present and immediately reported: "Your Excellency, Commander, we do not think that this case constitutes the crime of forcible annihilation. ”

"Huh?"

"We have already stated to His Excellency the Chief of Staff that this case does not constitute the crime of forcible annihilation." Igarashi speaks clearly and understands every word.

"Huh?" Okamura stared at Yoshimoto.

"They thought," said Gibbon slowly, "that, first, the girl did not resist vigorously, and second, that the girl did not personally accuse her, so it could not be a crime of forcible annihilation." ”

"What do you think?" Okamura asked Yoshimoto.

"I think it should be punished as a crime of forcible annihilation." Gibbon said cautiously with his head down.

"What do you say?" Okamura asked the Minister of Justice.

The Minister of Justice was a middle-aged white fat man with glasses, and he stood up with his fat chest and said, "I agree with the captain. ”

"What do you say about this?"

"According to the normal way, it is to mediate and compensate her 15 yuan, since His Excellency the commander personally inquired about this matter, you can give a little more."

"Nonsense!" Okamura got up and slammed his fist on the table, his expression was angry for the first time in months, and he shouted, "I know that the crime of forcible annihilation can only be established if it is prosecuted in person, but in front of knives and guns, who dares to accuse in person?" Didn't resist? Three rounds of annihilation, how to resist? Can those laws be adapted to the status quo in a war zone? Isn't it called 'jihad' when we send troops? Is this what a 'jihad' looks like? He felt that he was too impulsive, suppressed his emotions, and said in a tight throat: "I and the chief of staff have the same opinion, you can watch and do it." He brushed his sleeves and went out.

Okamura and Yoshimoto, as well as Miyazaki and Inoue, all felt that the three strong criminals should be severely punished, but in the end they still gave the village chief's daughter 20 yuan

Okamura was in a bad mood, and Chiang Kai-shek was in an even worse mood.

Last night, he stayed up almost all night, didn't close his eyes until 4 o'clock in the morning, got up early to eat a little porridge steamed buns, and picked up the microphone again. He asked the switchboard to connect Chen Cheng's phone.

More than a month has passed since returning from the inspection of Songbu, and the outer battlefields of the Wuhan Defense War are still unsatisfactory on the whole, especially the battlefields of the Nanxun Line, the Dexing Line, the Dongjieling, and the Fujin Mountain, and Wang Jingjiu, Yu Jishi, Song Xilian, and other Whampoa students are still fighting for their strength and vigorously frustrating the arrogance of the Yue Army, and Chiang Kai-shek is very pleased with this.

In particular, Gao Fei's performance in the Battle of Wuhan was even more outstanding!

However, after making several phone calls in a row last night, Chiang Kai-shek's mind was filled with the military situation on the front line, tossing and turning, and it was always difficult to sleep!

(To be continued)