On the afternoon of October 8, Li Zhaoshui and Du Shihui made a plan to occupy Hokkaido and the Kuril Islands, as Sakhalin Island has entered a frozen period and is not easy to occupy for the time being. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Zhaoshui and Du Shihui divided Hokkaido into three defense areas according to the topography, namely Sapporo, Asahikawa and Kushiro, and each defense area was stationed with one regular division, one militia division and one regiment of mercenaries, with a total of 36,500 people in each defense area, and in order to facilitate transportation, each defense area was equipped with a cavalry regiment of 1,000 people.

Xia Yu was appointed chief of staff of the Hokkaido Military Region and exercised military control in Hokkaido.

In addition, Zhang Wei synthesized a special staff officer Ge Zhennan as Du Shihui's deputy.

The distance from Fukuoka to Sapporo is 780 nautical miles, which takes more than 40 hours at a speed of 20 knots per hour.

Zhang Wei decided to go ahead of schedule and occupy Sapporo first, and Xia Yu led the 19th Division and 3 regiments of mercenaries 2 days later.

In order to occupy Hokkaido as soon as possible, at 5 p.m. on October 8, Zhang Wei and Li Zhaoshui set off from Fukuoka to Sapporo City, Hokkaido.

At 9 a.m. on October 10, he had planned to go to Ishikari to dock, but now that it was dawn, Zhang Wei had no choice but to land in Otaru Town in advance.

In order to prevent leakage of information, Li Zhaoshui suggested killing all the residents of the town and completely occupying the town.

Zhang Wei felt justified, killing the Japanese in this town was better than leaking the news. Thinking of the Lushun Massacre in the First Sino-Japanese War, it is obviously not enough to kill all the people in a small town.

So, Zhang Wei came to the outside of the town, released the 1st Regiment of the 25th Division out of the system, and gave the regiment commander the order to kill all the people in the town, and not let go of one.

The regiment commander received the order, regardless of whether it was reasonable or not, to carry out the task first, and ordered the 1st Battalion to go to the dock, occupy the pier first, kill all the people on the dock, and prevent anyone from escaping from the sea; The other 3 battalions attacked the town from the east, south, and west, and the regimental headquarters and direct units attacked the town from the north, and the battle began one hour later.

The battalions quickly set off and advanced to their predetermined positions.

In the cold season, there are basically no pedestrians outside, and even if you encounter a few pedestrians, they will be solved by the scouts with cold weapons.

One hour later, the regimental commander ordered the guard company to enter the town to clear the Japanese, and the rest of the personnel continued to surround the town to prevent escapees. At the same time, the other three places began to clear the Japanese in the town.

Suddenly, gunshots, shouts, screams, and moans rang out from within the town.

For those who tried to escape, the soldiers opened fire directly; For those who submit, the soldiers ended their lives directly with bayonets, of course, with bayonets for the elderly, women and children.

An old Japanese man knelt on the ground, kowtowed and begged for help, and the soldier stabbed him directly in the back of the neck with a bayonet, and the old man lay on the ground and did not move after convulsing a few times.

The soldier proudly shouted: "Haha, the Japanese will also kneel, and the Japanese will also beg for mercy. ”

One woman shrunk at the foot of the wall, and the soldier was too far away to go over and use a bayonet to solve it, so he fired a direct shot, hitting her in the head and killing her instantly.

There were also Japanese who climbed onto the roof and were also shot dead by the soldiers. Funnily enough, there was also a Japanese man who rolled off the roof in fright, and the soldier pointed two bayonets at his chest, which hurt his lungs, and he didn't live long.

There was a Japanese man holding an unclothed baby, because he was holding the child, he couldn't run fast at all, but he ran on an S-shaped route, probably a veteran, the soldier fired two shots in a row, and then stepped forward and killed the child with a bayonet.

After clearing the Japanese on the streets, the companies began to search every house, resolutely not sparing a single Japanese who had been hidden.

The Japanese at this time were no different from the Chinese who were massacred in Lushun, some knelt down and begged for mercy; Some people know that anyone who resists the futility of the European style can only stare at the Lanfang soldiers with hatred; Some stood still, apparently frightened and stupid; Some hold their heads and hide them in quilts or haystacks, making ostrich-shaped; There are bloody ones who want to rise up and resist, but even the regular army of the Japanese government lacks weapons, so what advanced weapons can ordinary Japanese have? You can only choose a wooden stick, a kitchen knife, an axe or a sickle as a weapon, hoping to kill a Lanfang army soldier, in this case, the soldier shoots directly, or even a light machine gun to greet him, since he dares to resist, then turn it into minced meat.

The whole liquidation work lasted for three hours, and by 1 o'clock in the afternoon, there could be no more red dots on Zhang Wei's system panel, and Zhang Wei ordered to stop the liquidation of the Japanese, began to collect the corpses of the Japanese, and looted the finances. Zhang Wei loaded the Japanese corpses directly into the system warehouse, and when he took the boat again, he threw them directly into the sea to feed the fish.

Otaru Town is not too small, Zhang Wei checked the system, and killed 5,300 Japanese people in 3 hours.

With Otaru Town as a temporary base, there are ready-made houses to live in, there is a wharf to use, it is very convenient, and it is not far from Sapporo, which is more than 20 kilometers away, Zhang Wei and Li Zhaoshui decided to rest in Otaru for a day today, and start a war to occupy Hokkaido tomorrow.

On October 11, Zhang Wei released the 25th Division from the system and asked it to occupy Sapporo City, and then the troops went north to occupy Asahikawa, and the defense area of the 25th Division was the Asahikawa Defense Area, and then the militia division would escort the baggage to Asahikawa.

The 26th Division was released from the system, leaving one regiment temporarily stationed in Sapporo to wait for the arrival of the 19th Division, and the rest of the troops advanced eastward, and finally the division headquarters was stationed in the Kushiro defense area; Four days later, the 19th Division was stationed in the Sapporo defense area after the arrival of the 19th Division.

In the few days waiting for the arrival of the summer rains, Li Zhaoshui arranged for soldiers, captured some Japanese people who were building warehouses, built permanent fortifications along the coast, and sent some people to repair the road from Sapporo to Asahikawa and Kushiro.

In the following days, telegrams were received from the 25th and 26th Divisions to the intended defense area, and the road was unimpeded, and the target city was occupied without any resistance.

Zhang Hailong, chief of staff of the Navy of the Northern Theater, sent a telegram requesting instructions to build a large military port in Binzhong Bay as a port for the third battleship to be stationed, and Zhang Wei directly assigned this task to the 26th Division and sent one battalion of engineers to assist.

On the 14th, Xia Yu rushed to Ishikari Port, and Li Zhaoshui handed over to him on the same day.

Now Hokkaido has reached autumn, and winter is coming at any time, so Zhang Wei specially left 200,000 sets of cotton clothes for the troops.

The winter suit chosen for soldiers and junior and junior officers this time was the M1943-style winter suit; The top is an M1943-style reversible thickened winter jacket with a button-down double placket with a non-thickened pullover cap that can be fastened with a drawstring, a buttoned diagonal pocket appears at the hem of the jacket, and a tightened cloth strap at the waist; The trousers are white/field grey and can be worn both front and back, and the trousers are paired with canvas leggings and short cotton boots, and the officers are equipped with long cotton boots. The officers wore universal winter hats, with a field gray fabric with a cotton design, and pull-down caps on both sides with rabbit fur attached to the ears; In addition, each person was given a military coat, made of tweed for the officers and cotton for the soldiers.

As for the mercenaries, Zhang Wei directly chose the cheapest cotton jackets, cotton pants, cotton shoes, cotton hats, cotton gloves worn by the Beiyang Army in 1916, and the officers and cotton coats, all of which were gray, although they were not good-looking, but they were very warm, especially the mercenaries from the south, if they did not wear warmth, it was easy to have a large number of non-combat attrition. This also made Zhang Wei feel that the source of mercenaries was too single, so he sent a telegram to Chief of Staff Du and issued an order that the organization and construction of Japanese mercenaries must be accelerated, and qualified mercenaries of 15,000 people in 5 regiments must be organized before the Spring Festival.

In Sapporo, they left enough food, salt and other materials to feed 200,000 people for a year, as well as weapons and ammunition needed by the troops to fight three intermediate battles in a row.

On the 15th, after Zhang Wei arranged everything, he quietly set up Hokkaido by boat.

Now that there is a lot of noise in the country, he must arrange all his troops as soon as possible and rush back to the country. (To be continued.) )

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