Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Proverbs of the Prophets
Lieutenant General Inaba had a good idea, and he really took care of the cavalry wing. It's just that the pursuing troops of the first 500 divisions behind, he doesn't play cards according to normal procedures, and always plays strange cards, which is always unexpected. Lieutenant General Inaba has no better way to deal with this.
It was the 201 Brigade that captured the 6th Cavalry Wing. The ace unit of this 500 division gave full play to its fine fighting style of being able to endure hardships and not being afraid of tiredness in this pursuit battle. From the beginning of the pursuit to the present, among the three brigades, only the two regiments of the 201 Brigade have never stopped to cook a meal or boil a pot of water from the beginning.
When you are thirsty, there is water in the bay, climb up and drink two sips; If you are hungry, if you have dry food on your body, you will eat two bites, and if you don't bring it, everyone will eat two bites evenly, in short, as long as you are hungry and do not die, you must desperately chase forward. If you feel that you have eaten too much dry food and want to change your taste, then rush closer, catch up with a few devils who are lagging behind and fall behind, slaughter the devils, and rob the devils of food to eat.
Those who work hard will surely reap rich rewards. This is the philosophy of life handed down by our ancestors in ancient times. The words of the sages are always true. Wang Dazhu's two regiments, since they have paid so much, of course they have to reap the benefits first. The Japanese cavalry wing, which only had the strength of a brigade, was caught up by Wang Jiantang's 504th Regiment.
The Sichuan army can endure hardships and run away without being good at running away, which is known to the people of the whole country. Wang Jiantang is a standard Sichuanese, although there are not many Sichuanese in the 504th Regiment, but the style of the commander is the style of the entire army, and this sentence is a bumpy truth wherever it is placed. The 504th Regiment has a regiment commander from the Sichuan Army, and this regiment that is not the Sichuan Army already has the fine traditions of the Sichuan Army.
Since the 201 Brigade was running too fast, they had already overtaken the devil's broken rear troops and caught up from the side! According to Wang Dazhu's meaning, it was to see if he could go to the front to block the retreat of the Sixth Division.
This Brigade Commander Wang's appetite is a bit big, and he still wants to surround the Sixth Division and kill it! However, this kind of thinking is very much in line with the temper of Chief Xue in the war zone. If the commander knew about Brigade Commander Wang's strategic concept, maybe he would have ordered Wang Dazhu to be transferred to the commander's department to be a major general or something.
The seven pursuit detachments of the 500 Division were basically brigade units in the actual pursuit battle. The two pursuit detachments in the same brigade are always relatively close to each other. As soon as Wang Jiantang caught up with the Devil Cavalry Wing, another pursuit detachment led by Wang Dazhu immediately rushed over. The two troops were not far away, and as soon as they heard that the devil cavalry was blocked here, why don't you hurry up and come over to help?
The devil cavalry, there are more than 400 horses in total, and the 201 brigade has more than 5,000 soldiers, more than ten to one, how can the devil fight?
The devil cavalry is fast, but in such a terrain, in addition to lakes, ponds and puddles, even continuous mountains, and several good roads have also become rice fields. Even if the horse has four legs, it can't run fast.
Under the siege of an entire brigade of the 201 Brigade, the 6th Cavalry Wing quickly collapsed. Fortunately, the four-legged war horse ran a little faster than the two-legged man, and even in such a bad terrain, the last cavalry of the Japanese Sixth Division finally escaped fifty or sixty people.
However, when the troops were about to escape from Ascension, the unfortunate captain of their Daisa, Inogi, lost his front hooves and tripped over a small rock!
Originally, with Inoki Daisa's riding skills, such an accident should not have happened, maybe the Chinese behind were chasing too quickly, or maybe his war horse was running in such terrain for a long time, and his mood was more impatient, right? In short, His Excellency Osa just fell!
The fallen Inoki Osa was fine, at most he just got a face full of mud. But his well-bred war horse unexpectedly fell and rolled over, pressing the unlucky Dazuo below! That's not all, the stirrup made of stainless steel and inlaid with gold ornaments happened to hit the lower body of His Excellency Dazuo! Even angry, painful, and angry, poor Lord Zuo actually passed away in such an undignified way!
By the time his subordinates, with great effort and several sacrificed soldiers, finally pulled Inoki Osa out of the horse's belly, His Excellency Osa had his last breath left. The loyal cavalrymen of the wing risked their lives and humped His Excellency Osa back to the divisional headquarters, and what Lieutenant General Inaba saw was a dead body covered in mud.
Accident, this time it was a pure accident! Inoki Daisa definitely did not die at the hands of the Chinese army! The heroic Dazuo must have been assassinated by his bad horse who suddenly went crazy!
After listening to the surviving cavalry recount the death of Osa, Lieutenant General Inaba immediately blamed Osa's death on the unforgivable war horse. If it weren't for the fact that the bad horse was also killed by the brave and loyal soul of His Excellency Dazuo at the same time, the lieutenant general would have been ready to slaughter the bad horse who had committed a great crime to avenge Dazuo!
Blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular. This sentence is also a saying handed down by the Chinese sages, and it is also an extremely correct proverb.
Just when Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba had not recovered from the loss caused by the death of Inoki in battle, another bad news came, and the artillery wing of the Sixth Division actually had an accident!
The Independent Brigade of the 500th Division, which was only one step behind the 201 Brigade Coincidentally, could not be more coincidentally met the artillery of the 6th Division, the 6th Field Artillery Wing.
The 6th Field Artillery Wing, which was also affected by the commander of the Ushijima Brigade at the same time, lost an elite artillery brigade! And it is also the only artillery brigade in the whole division that is armed with 105-mm howitzers! Originally, it was a field artillery wing with three brigades, but now, only two artillery brigades remain.
The Independent Brigade did not have as many men as the 201 Brigade and the total number of troops in the brigade was less than 4,000, and although the artillery wing of 1,500 men was outnumbered by more than 2 to 1, it still did not gain the upper hand as soon as it came up. The devils, even if they are artillerymen, are really on guard, and it is not easy to do it.
The retreating Sixth Division, from the division commander Shiro Inaba to every devil soldier, everyone cheered up. Devils who are preoccupied and heavily armed are undoubtedly difficult to deal with, even if they are only artillerymen.
It is said that the field artillery wing should be at the back of the whole division, and when it retreats, it should be the first unit to retreat, and it is only right that the independent brigade cannot catch up with them at all. It is said that the actual situation is that the Sixth Division is now in chaos, or rather, Shiro Inaba's heart is in chaos! In a battle of Changsha, one of the two brigades of the Sixth Division was lost, and even the brigade commander, Major General Ushijima Man, was also unknown in his life and death. In such a situation, how could Lieutenant General Inaba calm down?