Chapter 139: Good News of Bad Luck
In order to test Nakahata Gozo's command skills so that he can walk at ease, Yamamoto Mitsuo called Nakahata Nakasa over and asked him a question: If you were to take over command now, what would be the first thing you would do? And what was the first order you issued?
Take over command? After listening to the question of the division commander, Nakahata Gozo was immediately excited. He knew that he didn't recruit the division commander to see him, so before the battle began, the division commander personally came over to take over the command, and a fool could see what was going on! When Nakahata Gozo was fine, he also thought about it, and he wondered, everyone is a fellow mother, they were all born to the same mother, and the two of them look similar, why does the division commander like Nakahata Goichi and don't like him? Is it because he likes to drink, fight, and gamble? Which soldier doesn't like these things? The boss, Goichi Nakahata, has drunk with him more than once, so why doesn't anyone say that Goichi Nakahata is an alcoholic? This is the same life!
I thought that there would be no future in the future, but I didn't expect the division commander to suddenly ask him such a question. Nakahata Gozo is not a stupid person, as soon as Yamamoto Mitsuo's question came out, Nakahata Gozo immediately guessed the intention of the division commander, this is to reactivate himself!
Faced with the opportunity, Nakahata Gozo immediately showed the quality of a Japanese career officer, calm. He didn't panic at all, but answered the question of the division commander in an extremely solemn tone: "I will personally lead the troops, launch a charge against the opposite Shina army, and use the bushido essence as a pillar to kill the Shina soldiers and flee and collapse the army!" I will personally cut off Gao Quan's head with my sword and send it to your Excellency, please ask the division commander to see me! ”
Yamamoto Sano stared blankly at Nakahata Gozo for half a minute without saying a word, until an explosion came from outside that broke the dull atmosphere, "Okay, Nakahata-kun, please continue to go back to the transport team to monitor." After speaking, the head of the division held his head in his hand and fell into deep thought.
Well, that's it! Nakahata Gozo was stunned for a moment, patted his head with his hand and retreated lightly. After the commander of the Yamamoto division came, he directly assigned a new task to Nakahata Gozo and ordered Nakahata Nakasa to monitor the transport team. In the transport team, Nakahata is not the squadron leader of the third company, he is only responsible for monitoring the transport team, that is, sitting in a daze on the carriage. To put it bluntly, it just left him idle.
Two minutes after Nakahata went out, the door opened, and the chief of staff, Hiroshi Muraoka, walked in.
"Muraoka-kun, it looks like I'm going to trouble you to go back this time! I really can't hand over the 6th Wing to Gozo Nakahata, this guy will ruin our 3rd Division! Only you can go back to command the division headquarters, please! ”
Muraoka Hiroshi sits in the office, receives telegrams, issues documents, and looks at the map to discuss some tactics and strategies, but he can't come down to command the front-line troops, this has no experience as a grassroots commander! Yamamoto Sano started as a second lieutenant and worked his way up to the commander of the lieutenant general division, so it can be said that he is competent for commanders at all levels. Therefore, the Third Division will have a situation like the 500 Army, with the main general going down to command the front-line troops and the deputy sitting in command at the headquarters.
"Hey!" Hiroshi Muraoka agreed without hesitation. As the chief of staff of the division and regiment, there are not many times to command operations alone, and this is obviously a rare and good opportunity.
Muraoka Daisa ordered the troops to leave, and then Yamamoto Mitsuo continued to command his troops and the troops of the 500 Division. It didn't take long for the loss of the division headquarters to show the drawbacks caused by Gao Quan's phone call.
First, the artillery officer Kakutaro Osakai ran to the engineer wing to ask for supplies, but the engineer wing commander went to the cavalry wing. I heard that it was the cavalry wing captain Hashimoto Sadaji who invited him to eat, drink and play a dragon, and the engineer Osaku went to the banquet. Inoue Osa thought that the engineer Osa had deliberately escaped and didn't want to return empty-handed, so he took away several carts of the engineer wing's weapons and supplies. The commander of the engineer wing went to the cavalry wing and did not find Hashimoto Daisa, and after returning disappointed, he learned the bad news that the wing had been sacked, and immediately went to the division commander to report, demanding that the artillery wing immediately return the looted materials, and asked the division commander to severely punish Kakutaro Inoue who openly broke into the house and robbed!
Inoue Osa also complained to the division commander, saying that the engineer wing had withheld his provisions, and that what he had brought back was far from enough, and demanded that the engineer wing immediately make up the balance. As for the cavalry wing, there is no news yet, because the people of the cavalry wing do not know what happened to them after they went to the artillery wing.
What kind of mess is this? Yamamoto Sano listened to the co-captains complaining to each other, and his head was dizzy. After analyzing the words of the commander of the artillery and engineer wing, it was found that there was even a cavalry commander involved! Lieutenant General Yamamoto called the cavalry wing, and the result was that the cavalry Osa Hashimoto Sadaji had already brought a squadron of cavalry to Kakutaro Inoue to ask for a bonus! And not a single cavalry was found on the artillery positions at all! Judging by the timing, they should have arrived a long time ago! After waiting for another half an hour and still no one, Sadaji Hashimoto and the cavalry of a squadron just disappeared out of thin air!
Look for! For no reason, there is one less cavalry Dazuo? The commander of the Yamamoto Division immediately ordered the cavalry wing to send people to look in the direction that Sadaiji Hashimoto might go!
The whole cavalry wing went out to find their big sake. When it was almost dawn, I finally found the battlefield. There were traces of battle everywhere, bullet casings, bloodstains, hair, discarded broken guns, and finally found a large mound, and opened the grave, revealing more than 100 devil corpses inside, including Hashimoto Sadaji.
The devils preferred to put the ashes in bottles and take them with them, so they took the companions who had been buried in the ground again, poured gasoline on them one by one, and began to set fire to the corpses. The black smoke rushed to the highs, seriously polluting the clear and clean air of the local area, and the scorching smell did not dissipate for several days.
Blessings and misfortunes do not go alone, and bad things always come one after another. Not even an hour after receiving the news of Hashimoto Daisa's murder, the news of the annihilation of the chief of staff Hiroshi Muraoka and the brigade he brought over came over! Couldn't we defeat the 500 Army this time? Mitsuo Yamamoto had a premonition that the situation was not good.
Maybe it's all over the bad luck? After dawn, the good news came one after another. First of all, Makoto Tsunose led his 34th Wing to wander around outside, and finally remembered to come to report to the commander of the Yamamoto Division, the 34th Wing was rapidly approaching the Japanese position in Jianli, and it was expected to meet with His Excellency the Lieutenant General within three hours! The commander of the 68th Wing, Kumago Hashimoto, also called back to the division commander, and he was now leading the wing on the way to Jianli, and he could arrive as early as the afternoon!
That's great! Yamamoto Sano slapped his hands with excitement, and almost flashed his waist! Snorted twice and quickly sat up straight, I didn't dare to be casually excited in the future. However, in the face of the good news, Yamamoto was quite happy to win the lottery, as long as he held on until the afternoon, his third division would have three main field wings! Although I heard that the 34th Wing was not lightly damaged, the 68th Wing did not suffer any major damage, and after his three field wings were all gathered, they would be able to fight the 500 Army head-on!