Chapter Twenty-Eight: Matsuura Asks for Help
Junrokuro Matsuura set up his headquarters at the home of Liu Maoliang, a large family in Liu Qigu Village. The old devil occupied other people's houses, killed Liu Maoliang, the owner of the house, and ruined Liu Maoliang's wife Osmanthus, which can really be described as a bad thing and inhumane.
When the old devil of Songpu was bullying the common people in Liuqigu Village, the first attack detachment he sent out ran into trouble. The commander of the 136th Brigade of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army, Aoki Chengichi, led the first detachment After walking north for half a day, the commander of the Aoki Brigade suddenly found that his troops were lost!
Looking at the distance on the map, and calculating the speed of the march, he should have walked out of the mountains and forests and into the plains after walking for so long. But the reality is that the Aoki detachment is still circling in the mountains! It is surrounded by lush virgin forests and bushes, and the terrain is completely different from what is marked on the map!
According to the map, there should be a road 200 meters away from here, but now let alone 200 meters, there are mountains and forests beyond 500 meters!
Faced with such a predicament, Major General Aoki, a high-achieving student who graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, had an idea in a blink of an eye, compass! The compass invented by the great man Zu Chongzhi in ancient China made Aoki Seiichi think of a way to escape, as long as he followed the direction of the compass and kept going north, he would always be able to get out of this mountain!
Some of the Japanese soldiers had compasses with them, and for the sake of safety, the commander of the Aoki Brigade looked for a company. He was afraid that the direction of a compass would not be accurate, so he put three together to have a comparison.
The compass was quickly taken, and Major General Aoki was dumbfounded when he saw it, the pointers of the three sets of compasses pointed in three different directions, and none of the two were the same!
Can a compass also deceive? Aoki Chengyi, who was anxious, found more than 20 sets of compasses in one go, but the result was that they were each pointing their own fingers, and they were completely messed up! Of course, it is inaccurate to say that none of the twenty or so pairs of two are the same, and there are two of the two compasses in which the direction is exactly the same. But just like these two, Aoki Can't Believe It!
What to do? The head of the telegraph reporting division! Junrokuro Matsuura received the telegram and came back and told the commander of the Aoki Brigade: Rest in place and wait for rescue!
It turns out that there is a magnetite mine in the Wanjialing area, which is rich in magnets. The compass fails in the magnetite! Things in the world are such a coincidence, when the map of the Japanese army was inaccurate, it also encountered magnetite! The current Aoki detachment has fallen into an extremely dangerous situation.
Aoki Chengichi has no choice, there is an error in the printing of the map, and the compass is out of order, can he lead a detachment of more than 7,000 people to run around with his eyes closed? There are endless mountains in the Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi regions with a radius of 100,000 kilometers, and if he brings his troops into the inaccessible deep mountains and old forests, these more than 7,000 Japanese troops will not want to come out for several years!
Major General Aoki, who knew that this was powerful, asked the troops to camp on the spot, and he didn't go anywhere, so he waited here for the plane to give directions according to the instructions of the division commander.
Aoki wanted to wait for the Japanese plane to guide him from the sky, but the plane didn't wait, but waited for his enemy!
Kong Kequan, deputy commander of the 187th Division, took the 321st Regiment and the 3rd Temporary Regiment on a forced march all the way, and finally arrived at Zhanggushan, 15 kilometers away from Wanjialing, on 4 October. When I got here, I met Aoki Seiichi's northward detachment!
There's nothing to say, the road is narrow, so if you meet it, fight it! Kong Kequan let the 321st Regiment fight the main attack, and the 3rd Regiment responded from the side. He doesn't care if there are few devils, anyway, he will fight when he comes! The 100,000 troops of the national army are all surrounded here, Kong Kequan took two regiments and a brigade of devils to fight, can others watch from the side?
General Wu Qiwei, commander-in-chief of the Ninth Group Army and commander-in-chief of the Ninth Army, immediately reported the report to Xue Yue, commander of the corps. Xue Yue ordered: All participating troops will start a general attack from Xiaojinshan, Wanjialing, Zhanggu Mountain, Qilin Mountain, to Beixi Street, Biandan Mountain, and Chengmen Mountain!
The order of the general attack is given, and the Wanjialing area can be lively! The devils, who were caught off guard, suddenly found that thousands of Chinese troops had appeared around them! As soon as these Chinese troops appeared, they launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army.
While commanding his two main wings to fight back desperately, Aoki Seiichi urgently sent a telegram to the division headquarters to report to the division commander, Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura, about the attack on the troops! It is impossible to send reinforcements to the division and regiment, so hurry up and report the military situation to Lieutenant General Matsuura to the military headquarters as much as possible, that is the only way for them to survive!
Junrokuro Matsuura is not having a good time at this time, the Liuqigu Village where the old devil is located has already surrounded my army! When the order for the general attack was issued, the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, which was responsible for the main attack in this area, under the command of the army commander General Ou Zhen, launched a continuous strong attack on the Japanese invaders entrenched here!
The Fourth Army is the famous Iron Army in the Northern Expedition, after the start of the Anti-Japanese War, the whole army went to the front line to participate in the Anti-Japanese War, for the life and death of the country and the nation, countless bloody battles with the Japanese invaders. How could such a force be easy to deal with? Junrokuro Matsuura hurriedly sent all the troops he could mobilize to the battlefield, and he could barely carry the front of the Fourth Army.
However, to carry is to bear, after all, this is only temporary. With the current combat effectiveness of both sides, it is impossible for the Japanese army to hold out for too long! Junrokuro Matsuura had to prepare to escape. At this moment, Aoki Seiichi's telegram for help came! When the commander of the Songpu Division saw it, his heart was suddenly cold, and the northward detachment had also encountered a strong enemy!
He was the commander of the division, and the northern detachment was also his subordinate, and no matter how idiotic Matsuura Junrokuro was, it was impossible for him to ignore these more than 7,000 subordinates. The old devil had no reinforcements to send, so he sent a telegram to his superior, the commander of the Eleventh Army, Okamura Ninji, asking General Okamura to save his life!
The battle situation on the front line is uncertain, Okamura Ninji can't eat and sleep, can't sit and lie restlessly, and the old devil is dying. At this time, he received a telegram from Junrokuro Matsuura asking for help, and Okamura Ninji saw that it was broken, and Komatura was going to be finished! Can't let him die, if this idiot dies, where can he find such a stupid and obedient little brother?
In order to rescue Junrokuro Matsuura, who was in a desperate situation, Okamura Ninji enlisted a large number of air forces to carry out reconnaissance and air support in the Wanjialing and Zhanggushan areas! In order for him to pull this uncompetitive subordinate out of the fire pit, Okamura Ninji can be said to have used all his strength to eat.
The aviation regiment belongs to the Central Branch Dispatch Army, and Okamura Ninji, as the commander of the army, does not have the right to dispatch the aviation troops. In other words, General Okamura had to say good things to General Shunroku Hata, and asked Commander Shunroku Hata to send the plane over Wanjialing.
Okamura Ninji is good at this, this devil can bend and stretch his face thickly. At this critical juncture, he put down his shelf and said countless good things to Shunroku Hatata, who usually doesn't look good, and he almost didn't recognize Shunroku Hata as his godfather.
The self-esteem of the six generals of Toshihiko Hata was unprecedentedly satisfied, so the devil's plane flew over Wanjialing and Zhanggushan as scheduled.