Chapter 50: The Storm Outside the Fortress (2)
Han Yunhua looked at Qian Zhuangfei with a smile and said, "Old Qian, you are also an old revolutionary, is it necessary to be excited?" ”
Qian Zhuangfei smiled embarrassedly and said: "I haven't seen the commander for more than half a year, to be honest, I really miss it a little, I can't say how excited I am, after all, you are not a beauty." After saying that, the two of them burst into laughter.
After laughing, Qian Zhuangfei said solemnly: "Commander, I have already checked what you asked me to investigate, and the situation is very bad." ”
Han Yunhua took a sip of water and asked, "What are the troops attacking the base area this time, and what is the number?" ”
Qian Zhuangfei said: "The army in the direction of Tianzhen County is the 39th Infantry Brigade belonging to the 20th Division of the 1st Army of the North China Front, and the commander is Major General Yoshito Takagi, the commander of the 39th Infantry Brigade. The army had a total of the 77th Infantry Wing, the 78th Wing, and a chariot brigade that cooperated with the operation, and its combat effectiveness was extremely strong. ”
Han Yunhua thought for a while and said: "Although a brigade and a tank brigade seem to be very powerful, the direction of their attack is as speechless as their country's tactics, 90% of the roads along the line from Tianzhen County to Xinghe are winding mountain roads, so that the chariots can fight in the mountains, and this Major General Yoshito Takagi can think of it." And now on the southern front, we have the new 2nd Regiment, the 1st Cavalry Regiment, the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, the 2nd Battalion of the Fire Support Regiment, and a reinforced artillery battalion, plus the political commissar is also commanding operations on the Southern Front, I think it is impossible for this 39th Infantry Brigade to break through the defense line in the south of our army. ”
After listening to Han Yunhua's analysis, Qian Zhuangfei nodded and said: "That's good, as for the Datong side, the army is our old opponent, the 26th Infantry Regiment of the 26th Division, and the commander is the commander of the brigade, Major General Kuroda Shigetoku." It has the 12th Infantry Wing, the 4th Brigade of the Imperial Cooperative Army, and the Datong Guard Cavalry Regiment. The 12th Infantry Wing was heavily damaged by the 120th Division in the previous operation, and it was replenished with a large number of new soldiers, although the number of 4,000 men was less than two-thirds of the original. And the 4th Brigade and the Datong Guard Cavalry Regiment are both newly formed Han annihilation troops, and their combat effectiveness is not even third-rate. It can be said that the combat effectiveness of this army is the weakest of the four major armies attacking our Inner Mongolia Military Region. ”
Han Yunhua said: "Although the combat effectiveness of this road army is the weakest, but it still has a certain threat to our base area, and the battle with this road army is the military region guard regiment, the guard regiment is also a newly organized unit of our army, and it was also heavily damaged by the army when fighting in the northwest of Shanxi, although it has been supplemented, but the combat effectiveness is far less than that of the army of this road. ”
Qian Zhuangfei said: "The devil who dispatched from Zhangjiakou is a unit directly under the North China Front Army, which is called the China Garrison Mixed Brigade Brigade, and the commander is Major General Yamashita Fengwen, the commander of the brigade. On August 25, 1937, the unit was reorganized from the Chinese Garrison Infantry Brigade, and on August 31, it was incorporated into the battle sequence of the North China Front. Only the 1st Infantry Wing, the Chinese garrison armored convoy, and the cavalry of the brigade were dispatched this time, with a total strength of about 5,000 troops, which was the smallest number of troops among the four major armies attacking our Inner Mongolia Military Region. ”
Han Yunhua said: "This Yamashita Fengwen is a tiger general, and he is one of the most tactically flexible generals in the army, but my Zhangbei garrison is not a vegetarian, Yang Chengwu is a veteran in our army, and the new regiment is not weaker than Yamashita Fengwen in terms of strength and firepower, when the time comes, I will transfer an artillery battalion and a cavalry regiment to the new regiment, I think with Yang Chengwu's experience, he should be able to make a tie with Yamashita Fengwen, and even take advantage of a little advantage." ”
Qian Zhuangfei continued: "This is the largest number of people who came out of Guisui, and it is also equipped with cars and field heavy artillery. The number of this unit is the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army, and the internal number is "Kumamoto Division", and the commander is Lieutenant General Tani Toshio. The unit dispatched this time was the 11th Infantry Brigade of the 6th Division (under the command of the 13th Infantry Wing, Wing Commander Hoyuki Okamoto. 47th Infantry Wing, Wing Commander Masaken Tanigawa. ), the 6th Cavalry Wing (Wing Commander Inoki Kindaisa), the 6th Field Artillery Wing (Wing Commander Fujimura Kennakasa), and the 6th Division were also dispatched with the 9th Cavalry Division of the puppet Mongolian Army Li Shouxin and the 11th Brigade of the Imperial Cooperative Army, with a total strength of about 16,000 people. It was the road with the largest number of troops, the most complete arms, and the strongest combat effectiveness among the four routes army that attacked our Inner Mongolia Military Region. ”
Han Yunhua squinted his eyes and asked, "Old Qian, are you sure that the number of this army is the Sixth Division, and the commander is Gu Shoufu and no one else?" ”
Qian Zhuangfei thought for a while and said: "I'm sure, this news came from within the devils in Guisui City, I have a comrade-in-arms who is now the commander of the puppet cavalry under Li Shouxin, he was captured in Beiping, and he couldn't survive the torture and became a puppet army." Later, I was recognized by him when I went to Guisui to do business, and finally I was told to join us, but in order to get more internal information, I still let him stay in the puppet army and continue to be his commander. This news was sent back by him urgently, and in order to ensure the correct surname of the news, he also stole a set of military uniforms from the devil, which was verified to be the common military uniform of the Sixth Division. ”
Han Yunhua patted Qian Zhuangfei's shoulder and said, "Old Qian, you did the right thing, tell your brother, just say that I, Han Yunhua, promise him that as long as the time comes, I will personally pick him up, and say that he has made a great contribution this time." You go back now, mobilize all forces for me, and pay close attention to all the movements of this Sixth Division, even if it costs a great price, I will cripple this Sixth Division. ”
After Qian Zhuang flew away, Han Yunhua sat alone in the conference room and was silent for a long time. In fact, Han Yunhua was no stranger to this Sixth Division and its commander, Lieutenant General Gu Shoufu, and before he went to the military academy, Han Yunhua was full of unforgettable hatred for this Sixth Division. After going to the military academy, Han Yunhua watched a large number of original materials and film and television materials about the Sixth Division, the Sixth Division and the Sixteenth Division were the culprits of the Nanjing Massacre that shocked China and the rest of the world, and these two divisions and Unit 731 in Fengtian (Shenyang) were the most hated military units in Han Yunhua's past and present life.
Historically, on December 12, 1937, the 6th Division of the Chinese Army bombarded the Zhonghua Gate of Nanjing with heavy artillery, knocking down several city walls, and the Chinese army swarmed in, and Nanjing fell. After the army occupied Nanjing, it caused a terrible massacre. For about six weeks after that, the officers and men wantonly burned and killed silver looting in the city of Nanjing, committing extremely brutal crimes against humanity. More than 300,000 Nanjing citizens and Chinese people who laid down their arms were collectively slaughtered or sporadically killed by the army by shooting, assassination, burial alive, drowning and other cruel means, and more than 20,000 women were killed by the army. The army also carried out large-scale looting and arson on the city of Nanjing, destroying one-third of the historic city and causing countless property losses. Before the occupation of Nanjing, the commander of the Central China Front, Matsui Ishone, ordered that after the occupation of Nanjing, "the division would sweep the city." After the army entered the city, Gu Shoufu deliberately connived at the nearly 30,000 officers and men of the Sixth Division under his command to carry out all kinds of extreme atrocities, and did not take any measures to stop them at all. Therefore, Gu Shoufu bears unshirkable responsibility for the Nanjing Massacre, and the Sixth Division led by him is also called the "Beast Division", and the guilty Gu Shoufu is the leader of the "Beast Group".
The atrocities committed by the Yue army in Nanking shocked the international community, and the representative of Germany, as an ally of the Yue Dynasty, was stationed in Nanjing at that time, reporting to his own political axe that "this is not an individual but the brutality and criminal behavior of the entire army, that is, the army itself," and that the army is a "group of beasts" and "has erected a monument of shame for itself." Historically, after the exposure of the Nanjing Massacre, under the tremendous pressure of international public opinion, on March 5, 1938, Masamu Motomoto transferred back to China many high-ranking officers, including General Matsui Ishine, commander of the Central China Front, including Tani Shofu, who committed heinous crimes.
Han Yunhua originally thought that he had no chance to settle accounts with the leader of this beast group, but he didn't expect that history had taken a surprising turn here, and Gu Shoufu actually ran away with his beast group outside the plug, which was really surprising.
Although Han Yunhua hated Gu Shoufu and the entire Sixth Division in a thousand ways, Han Yunhua did not dare to underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Sixth Division. In 1888, the army changed the original six towns in the country according to the geographical division into divisions, and the numbers from the first to the sixth, namely Tokyo (1st Division), Sendai (2nd Division), Nagoya (3rd Division), Osaka (4th Division), Hiroshima (5th Division), and Kumamoto (6th Division) (in parentheses refer to the external number), among which the 6th Division had the most tenacious fighting will.
A large part of the strength of the combat effectiveness of the Yue Army was due to the influence of local folk customs, and the First Division formed in Tokyo was the first division established by the Yue Army, and it was this First Division that fired the first shot in the First Sino-Japanese War with the Qing Army in Chenghuan, Korea. However, Tokyo has been a commercial city since the Edo period, and the people are not strong, and most of the conscription has to go to Nagano Prefecture (formerly Ueno Province), which is poorer to the west. Although the division had a great reputation, it was the backbone of the Kwantung Army for seven years after 1936, but it never fought a major battle, and only sent one detachment to Chahar for short-term combat training.
Osaka is the place where the Fourth Division of the Chinese Army was formed, and Osaka is said to be the city with the strongest commercial atmosphere in this city, and the soldiers who were born as merchants are good at calculation, and many are unwilling to sell their lives, and the Fourth Division formed here has been ridiculed as "the merchant division of annihilation" because of its poor performance since the Russo-Russian War. In 1937, the unit was transferred to the Kwantung Army, and two years later it went to the battlefield in Central China, where its performance was average and could only fight a tailwind battle.
The most reckless first-class divisions in the invasion of China and other parts of Asia were the second, third, fifth, and sixth divisions. The natural conditions in the northeastern part of the country were poor, the people in the northern region were strong, brave and aggressive, and the Second Division formed in Sendai was more adapted to the cold climate, and the Second Division played an indispensable role in planning the puppet Manchukuo operation.
Hiroshima, where the Fifth Division was formed, was a place where the army fought since ancient times, and it had many samurai traditions and was valued by the emperor. The Fifth Division of the Chinese People's Army can be said to be the unit with the widest combat range in the war of aggression against China, and it is also the only motorized infantry division and regiment fighting in the Guannai. The Fifth Division attacked Nankou, invaded northern Shanxi, and made a detour to Nanjing, attacked Taierzhuang, captured Guangzhou, landed in Qinzhou Bay, and captured Guangxi ......, and successively engaged 70 different divisions of the Kuomintang. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the division captured Singapore, then invaded Indonesia, where it has been stationed ever since.
The 6th Division, which had the most blood debts in the Nanjing Massacre, was formed in Kumamoto, Kitakyushu. The area is impoverished and the people are intimidating, and men often seek to join the army. Before the war, there was a boastful remark in this book: "The first soldier in the world, the first soldier in Kyushu, and the first soldier in Kyushu Kumamoto." The Sixth Division had caused the Jinan Massacre as early as 1928, and from its landing in China in 1937 to its transfer to Nanyang at the end of 1942. However, the military headquarters of the Sixth Division favored divisions and regiments in rich areas, discriminated against troops in poor areas, and always allowed the Sixth Division to fight vicious battles, but its rationing and equipment were stingy, so the combat effectiveness of the Sixth Division was among the best among all the regiments in the army, but its weapons and equipment could only rank in the middle.
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