Chapter 114: Tracing the Cause of Failure

Nojima Osa slapped the table with both hands, emotional, and angry, and ordered the garrison Watanabe Nakasa to stand up, scolded him for being a dog, and was still angry, pointing his finger at Watanabe Nakasa and yelling; "You are such a wreck, you are a rice bucket and a straw bag! Smear the face of the Imperial Japanese Army, where is it worthy to be an officer of the Empire? I now order you to kill yourself immediately by seppuku, to thank the Heavenly Emperor for your nurturing grace! โ€

Okamura Nakasa hurriedly stepped forward, bent over and whispered next to Nojima's ear; "Da Zuo is angry! Remembering Watanabe-kun's previous exploits, he could not be executed easily, leaving him with an opportunity to see the after-effects, allowing him to reflect on himself, get up again from the place where he fell, and avenge this tragic defeat. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Nojima's anger gradually subsided, and he stared at Watanabe with wide eyes, Watanabe's face was gray with yellow clay, and the sweat from his sideburns flowed down his cheeks, and he didn't dare to take a breath.

Okamura looked at Watanabe and bent down again to Nojima Road; "Maybe the general on the east side of the mountain of Dawei Mengshan, the terrain of Dongqiao Village is dangerous and rugged, I heard that there is a road to the mountain on the Tiantai slope, and there are cliffs and abysses on both sides, forming a natural barrier, Watanabe-kun is not familiar with the mountain environment, and he is a little rash to move forward, so he caused the consequences of this fiasco, of course, no one expected that those local guns and earth artillery of the Turkish Fourth Army guerrillas would form such a great power and eat a squadron of many people and horses of our Great Japanese Imperial Army in one go?"

Translator Huang Yishui also echoed and said; "Not only is the terrain steep and dangerous, but the mountain people there are cunning and fierce, full of hunters and herb pickers who climb mountains and cliffs, they are familiar with the terrain of the mountains, and they walk as nimble as monkeys on those rugged mountains, and the place is poor, so the poor people in the mountains are evil, and even bandits are taboo to go there."

Nojima picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip of tea, venting his anger just now, at this time the anger disappeared, and he felt that his throat was dry and uncomfortable, he drank the tea, put down the teacup and said to Watanabe; "Tell me about the situation, what happened?"

Watanabe nodded, and Shishu reported in shock; "Returning to Your Excellency Dazuo, my subordinates led two squadrons of our Imperial Army and a battalion of the Imperial Allied Army to the foot of the General Ao Mountain, according to the established deployment, in order not to alarm the enemy on the mountain, we stopped at a certain distance from the way up the mountain, and the artillery also set up an artillery position in the woods, and then ordered the first squadron to quietly grope up the mountain, and the Imperial Allied Army was recommended by a company commander who was familiar with the terrain of Jiangjunao, and they groped their way up the mountain from another path, preparing to encircle Dongqiao Village with our Imperial Army, and the Imperial Army of our first squadron quietly groped up the mountainThe guerrillas of the Turkish Fourth Army were very cunning, they laid a lot of thorny branches on the road up the mountain, trying to hinder us, but slowing down our speed, our sentinels groped forward to assassinate the guerrilla sentinels, but it was very strange, the bayonets of our spearheads could not pierce the throat and chest of the guerrilla sentries, but instead alarmed the enemy sentries and killed our spearheads, and the gunfire also alarmed the enemy, and our men could only speed up the march, but at this moment, mines sounded in the branches of those thorny trees, And it is a very professionally planted mine group, and our soldiers have suffered heavy losses......"

"Slowโ€”" Nojima asked, suddenly interrupting Watanabe's words; "What did you just say? The bayonets of our imperial army could not pierce the throat and chest of the guerrilla sentries of the Turkish Fourth Army, what is going on? โ€

Watanabe was speechless for a while, unable to answer, and said hesitantly; "That's right, but I just don't know what's going on?"

"Your Excellency Dazuo, let me explain-" A young man stood on the seat on the side of the Imperial Army, with long hair covering his right eye, his face was gloomy, his expression was indifferent and stern, the platinum skull necklace around his neck was particularly eye-catching, and the eyes of the people in the room were all cast on him, this was Yin Ba, just listen to him explain; "It was a protective cover made of thin and hard cowhide by the guerrillas, which was worn on the chest and neck to protect it, so the bayonets of the imperial army could not pierce it, according to the habit of the soldiers touching the sentry, they all hugged the neck of the enemy sentry from behind, and then stabbed the enemy sentry into the chest or neck of the enemy sentry with a bayonet, and it was in the dark night, so the soldiers of the imperial army would not know that the enemy's sentry wore this kind of protective cover, and most of those mountain and wild people were from Orion, and they were proficient in this way."

Nojima looked at the young man with satisfaction and praised; "You explained very well, if this commander didn't guess wrong, you should be Yin Ba, the newly appointed captain of the special task force of the Special High School, and the younger brother of Yin Kun, the head of the security regiment of the Imperial Cooperative Army, Beicangjun has already mentioned you to me, and it will depend on you to deal with these Turkish Fourth Army and guerrillas in the future!"

Yin Ba nodded and promised; "It is our duty to do things for the Imperial Japanese Army, but it is better to be cautious in dealing with these guerrillas of the Turkish Fourth Army, who use the dangerous mountains as a barrier to let the Imperial Army be unable to use heavy weapons and elbow restraint in the endless steep mountains and jungles, which is very detrimental to the Imperial Army's excellent weapons and vigorous fighting style."

Nojima looked at him appreciatively, waved his hand to sit down, took a cigarette from the cigarette on the table, lit it, and took two puffs slowly, at this time, his mood calmed down, and his mood eased back to normal.

Watanabe continued; "We didn't expect that those Turkish Fourth Army guerrillas not only had powerful mines, but also that their light and heavy weapons were no worse than ours, and the mountains were full of their light and heavy machine guns, and they occupied favorable terrain and bombarded us with mortars and infantry field artillery from all corners, so we suffered such heavy losses, which we never thought of when we formulated the offensive plan before, and I didn't know that these Turkish Fourth Army guerrillas got so many regular weapons from there, and I once fought with the Suxi detachment of the New Fourth Army in Fengdang. Their combat effectiveness is many times stronger than that of the Susi detachment. โ€

When Nojima heard this, he couldn't help frowning, the cigarette in his hand kept shaking the ashes, and he seemed to be a little unconvinced by Watanabe's words, thinking that he was looking for an excuse to cover up his own negligence.

When the people at the table heard that Jiangjun'ao's guerrillas had such a powerful firepower configuration, they couldn't help but be a little shocked, and they all exchanged heads and began to talk about it.

Kitakuraoka spoke; "According to the information we have, Watanabe-kun is not lying, and according to some information from some days ago, the artillery tower garrisoned by the Imperial Army and the Imperial Allied Army was attacked by the Mo Ming people, and the weapons and equipment transport vehicles sent by the Yokohama Brigade to Anhui were attacked, and these weapons and equipment are likely to flow into the hands of the Turkish Fourth Army guerrillas in General Ao, and now it seems that it is indeed correct."

Watanabe was also afraid that Nojima Osa would not believe it, so he hurriedly added; "Your Excellency Dazuo, we can't underestimate the guerrillas of the Fourth Army of the General Ao, they are not only well-armed and equipped, but also the clothes are brand new military uniforms, and the soldiers who came back afterwards said that their broadswords are also very powerful, when our soldiers engage in hand-to-hand combat with them, many soldiers will die under their broadswords, when our soldiers' guns block their broadswords, they can only block two hits at most, and when the third blow, the guns will be cut off by the opponent's broadswords, and even people with guns will die under the opponent's broadswords."

"Impossibleโ€”" Nojima said angrily as he tapped his hand on the table; "The rifle and assassination techniques of my Imperial Japanese Army are the best in the world, ranking among the first-class, I admit that there are such powerful swordsmanship in Shina, but at best they are only a few, very few, will there be such powerful swordsmanship and knives as a whole?"

Okamura is also on the side; "According to our intelligence, part of the main force of the New Fourth Army has been ordered to go to the Jiangbei area, and the rest of the main force is also assembled in the Yunling area of southern Anhui.

Kitakuraoka sighed; "To be exact, it is not the main force of the New Fourth Army, nor the Suxi detachment, but the independent column formed by the villages and people in the area of Jiang'ao under the bewitchment of the Communist Party, among which there are many gangs in the rivers and lakes to participate, and the smelting skills of knives and knives may be taught by these gangs, as for the clothing, there was not a warehouse left by the former national army outside the south of the city that was captured last time and was attacked, and a lot of the clothes of the old national army and local army were lost, which were dark blue-gray, may have been changed into the clothing of the New Fourth Army by these people, it seems that this group of people is cunning enough to be underestimated! โ€

Nojima's small eyes in the deep sockets of his eyes quickly flashed a cold light, and he gritted his teeth; "This kind of analysis and explanation is reasonable, we can't sit back and watch them grow and develop, we will send troops to clean up and sweep them up again and nip them in the bud!"

Kitakuraoka thought for a while and said calmly; "The Communist Party is accustomed to the trick of attacking the east and the west, I think they are just letting this group of Turkish Fourth Army guerrillas make a fuss and bluff in Jiangjunao, and their purpose is to attract our attention, so as to ignore the wandering Suxi detachment, and send troops to Jiangguoao, which is full of rugged and steep mountains and vast primeval forests, I have seen the data records of your previous sending troops up the mountains to conquer and suppress bandits, and each time they have made no gains, and they return empty-handed, which consumes resources and loses troops, and the soldiers are also exhausted, so it is futile and useless, and the gains outweigh the losses. The Communist Party just wants to link the generals and the flood into a horn, and I think that for the time being, we can ignore it for the time being, and first concentrate on eliminating the Suxi detachment, eliminate one of the forces, and cut off one of its corners. โ€

Nojima listened to Kitakuraoka being reasonable, and it was hard to say anything more, so he turned his head and asked Watanabe again; "And what's going on with your artillery team? How could four infantry field guns, together with more than a dozen mortars and four trucks, be captured by the Turkish Fourth Army guerrillas? โ€

Watanabe replied with a decadent look on his face; "Your Excellency, you don't know, those guerrillas of the Turkish Fourth Army actually set up a special combat team, all wearing military uniforms, wearing steel helmets, fully armed, equipped with first-class submachine guns, sniper rifles and grenades, wearing face scarves, only revealing their eyes and nose, and colorful tiger stripes on their face towels, they are agile and flexible, coming and going like the wind, and they were able to succeed through the cover of the woods. In the blink of an eye, they wiped out the people of our artillery team and the guards, stole all my guns and dozens of boxes of shells, they would also drive cars, and they actually drove away in cars, and we also killed several of them, and I carefully examined the bodies afterwards, the bullet belts on their bodies were all regular goods of the *** national army, the daggers were Swiss military knives, the guns and magazines were all Thomson submachine guns with an American caliber of 11,43MM, and the grenades were actually the grenades of our empire, which is really a little puzzling? โ€

"Oh, there is such a thing?" Kitakuraoka couldn't help but gasp and asked nervously; "From this point of view, we really can't underestimate the generals, there must be people with high military quality in them who are in command, and such a guerrilla force of the Turkish Fourth Army will never be allowed to develop! After I have carefully investigated the organizational structure of its mountains, I will definitely inform the Yokohama general and ask the Yokohama Brigade to dispatch a jungle combat team to cooperate with the Watanabe garrison to eliminate them! He was a little emotional, and the tone of his speech inevitably increased, and he quickly realized that he was out of control, and quickly adjusted to stabilize himself.

When the room was full of people who heard that he was going to ask the Yokohama Brigade to send a jungle combat team to cooperate with the Watanabe garrison to eliminate the guerrillas of Shogunao, everyone was immediately excited, who did not know that the Yokohama Brigade was the ace elite division in the field units of the Imperial Army, attacking cities and plundering land, marching forward bravely, and being invincible, and the jungle combat team in its brigade was a special unit specially trained for the mountains and jungles, and it was also a unit prepared by the Japanese army to carry out jungle island operations in the south, vigorous and resolute, flashing edge, playing the role of a sharp knife straight into the heart of the enemy, and is also the leader in the Yokohama brigade, if with their help and cooperation, take down the little general, naturally it is not a problem, the relationship between Kitakuraoka and Yokohama General is different, she will definitely agree to Kitakuraoka's request and fully support Kitakuraoka.

Nojima was so happy that he took out a cigarette from the cigarette and lit it, swallowing thick smoke, he admired from the heart, and also believed in this Kitakuraoka, knowing that his ability was very great, and General Yokohama appreciated him very much, but they had some differences in the treatment of the Chinese, and Nojima did not approve of his strategy of governing China with China, believing that China was an ignorant and barbaric nation, and what was needed was the strengthening of the governance of bayonets and leather whips, of course, the difference of ideas did not affect the cooperation between them.

After Watanabe heard Kitakuraoka's words, his spirit also lifted up, of course he wanted to avenge the hatred of this fiasco and broken arm, with the support of the Yokohama Brigade, there was hope for revenge, and his eyes were suddenly aimed at the battalion commander Zhen Lingshan in the Imperial Alliance Army on the long table, with a strange expression.

The people at the table naturally looked at Zhen Lingshan according to his eyes, and Zhen Lingshan was a little embarrassed by everyone.

Watanabe asked coldly; "Battalion Commander Zhen, we said at that time that the garrison of our imperial army would attack from the Tianti slope, the main road of the mountain, and your imperial army would take a detour from the small road to cooperate with the imperial army to encircle Dongqiao Village, but how are your troops cooperating? The strength of one of your battalions could not capture the top of the path for a long time, and they were unable to move forward, because you could not capture the top of the path, could not reach the strength of the scattered guerrillas, and could not relieve the pressure on the side of the imperial army at all, which caused the imperial army to suffer a crushing defeat. โ€

"Your Excellency Watanabe, you can't say that, you also know that the guerrillas of Shogunao are not guns and artillery, they are completely the weapons of the regular army, they are equipped with light and heavy machine guns, they occupy favorable terrain, form a network of crossfire, and have the support of artillery fire, we are under the hillside, the road is narrow, we cannot be used, we have indeed done our best, and we have suffered heavy losses. โ€

Watanabe snorted in his nostrils and asked again, "Battalion Commander Zhen, what you mean by loss is that there is a company of officers and soldiers in your battalion who mutinied in front of the formation and temporarily defected to the enemy. Don't you bear the crime of dereliction of duty in the military law for not strictly administering the army, and don't you bear the serious consequences brought about by your dereliction of duty in this clean-up and sweeping operation? Watanabe is unforgiving, sharp-tongued, and aggressive.