Chapter 35 The Situation is Passive
On the battlefield of Badao, the devil mobilized three divisions and 50,000 horses to besiege Hu Fei's anti-Japanese volunteer first army.
At first, the fight was quite smooth, whether it was a beard or a volunteer first army, it was not an opponent of the elite Japanese army at all. Not to mention that it collapsed at the first touch, it was also a few rounds to let the fighter lose his armor and run for his life. His Excellency Lieutenant General Mitsuo Nakazawa, the commander-in-chief of the crusade army, thought that this battle would end soon.
Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to the central area of the Eight Trenches, Mitsuo Nakazawa was secretly happy in his heart. I didn't expect to go further and later, but the speed was getting slower and slower! I don't know where so many bandit armies came out, wave after wave, wave after wave on the battlefield.
The elite Japanese army often defeated one, and immediately two or even three more bandit armies could come up! Could it be that in the eyes of these bandits, the Great Japanese Kwantung Army is a lamb to the slaughter? Or fish on a chopping board? The more General Nakazawa thought about it, the more angry he became, and the more angry he became, the more he thought about it.
At the time of the Nanjing Campaign in 1937, Mitsuo Nakazawa, who was still Osa, served as the chief of staff of the 16th Division. After a fierce battle, Nakazawa Osa followed the commander of Nakajima's Imasa division into the city of Nanjing.
Chief of Staff Nakazawa did the same as the degenerated devil soldiers, breaking into people's houses, robbing property, massacring unarmed civilians, and raping women. The number of civilians who died at his hands alone reached double digits! Sanfu Nakazawa can be said to be full of blood debts and crimes!
Probably because of his relatively large contribution to the Battle of Nanjing, within a few years, Mitsuo Nakazawa was promoted to the commander of the Japanese First Division.
Especially in this crusade campaign, Mitsuo Nakazawa was personally ordered by Umezu Mijiro and appointed as the commander-in-chief of the entire crusade army. Everyone is the commander of the division, and Mitsuo Nakazawa can give orders to the other two colleagues. That's the prelude to promotion. As expected, as long as this crusade can be fought beautifully, as soon as the battle is over, or even before the battle is over, the commander of the Nakazawa Division may be appointed as the commander of the army!
Just when Mitsuo Nakazawa was at his most energetic, he didn't expect a group of mustaches to spoil his good mood. was harassed in a hurry, and the old devil simply ordered: If you don't go to the eight trenches, the imperial army will suppress the bandits in the same place!
The Devil's Fifth Route Army stopped less than ten miles away from the Eight Trenches, camped on the spot, and began to turn their heads and fight outward. The First Volunteer Army, which did not attack the Badao trenches, began to take seriously the bandits who came to make trouble.
The idea of the old devil Nakazawa Sanfu can't be said to be unreasonable, but he used the wrong object. Is the beard so easy to cut? If it was easy to suppress, the Northeast at that time would not be full of bandits. As soon as the bearded men saw that the devil had stopped, they stopped attacking and stood there and looked at the scenery.
The devils sent a large army to kill them, and the bearded men whistled and launched a counter-charge directly against the imperial army! Can the Imperial Army be afraid of this? Isn't it cavalry, we have it too! The devil sent an elite cavalry wing to hedge against the oncoming beard. The two sides collided solidly, the shouts of killing were earth-shattering, and the sound of swords piercing the eardrums.
After slashing and killing for a long time, the 1st Cavalry Wing, which had a long history, actually lost its troops and suffered a defeat! The co-captains are missing an arm and are crippled!
Mitsuo Nakazawa was furious! The annoyed and angry old devil didn't care about any face, and immediately ordered the artillery wing to open fire, ordered the aviation to bomb at low altitude, and ordered the infantry wing to charge in groups!
After these three orders were issued, the situation on the battlefield immediately changed! First, the overwhelming shells plowed the ground, then the dark and oppressive aircraft plowed the ground again, and then the Japanese ground troops launched a group charge.
The beards broke up when the devils opened fire. Hundreds of bandit armies and tens of thousands of beards scattered in a hurry under the shelling of the devils! By the time the devils finished shelling and bombing according to the program, there were few people on the battlefield. After the aviation easily threw a bomb and flew away, the infantry wing cautiously came up, but in fact, there was no longer a living person in the center of the battlefield.
There is no need to fight, no dead people, the captain of the infantry wing is naturally ecstatic, but the old devil Nakazawa Sanfu is not happy. Hu bandit let the defeat be defeated? That means there's still a chance they'll make a comeback? Will he send his troops in pursuit, or will he stand still and wait? Or continue the attack on the 1st Volunteer Army?
Soldiers, it's always a bit decisive. Mitsuo Nakazawa soon issued a series of military orders. First of all, order the 1st Division to attack the Eight Trenches with all its might! What the Volunteer First Army, of course they will not be the opponent of the First Division. The remaining 11th and 12th Divisions are enough to deal with the bandits who are fighting in a disorderly manner!
The order was given, and the devil began to divide his troops. Nearly 20,000 men of the 1st Division turned around and attacked the eight trenches again, while the 11th and 12th Divisions scattered their ranks in wings in order to deal with the impermanence of beards.
With the division of the devil's troops, our army will be passive. The 1st Division is a permanent elite division of the Japanese army, which is not only well-trained in soldiers, but also has very strong firepower. Compared with the first division, Hu Fei's cannons and small cannons over the years are too far behind!
Liu crooked his neck and retreated a step slowly, letting his shells catch up and kill most of his artillery regiment. Liu, who escaped for his life, crooked his neck and cried, looking for death and life, and wanted to commit suicide. After Hu Fei found out, he sent someone to bring him a rusty wood-splitting knife, and asked him to wipe his neck with this tattered iron knife.
Liu crooked his neck didn't expect Hu Fei to give him this hand, stared at the rusty iron knife for five minutes, and finally threw the knife away, and honestly went back to fight with the rest of his troops.
The artillery regiment suffered heavy losses, and the other units had to grit their teeth and resist the position! The Volunteer First Army was certainly no match for the 1st Division, but they had reinforcements, countless reinforcements!
Every day, several to a dozen bandit armies rushed to the eight trenches. The military situation is urgent, and often only have time to register the name of the cottage and the name of the owner of the village, and these teams are pulled to the front. There are more that they don't even say hello, they just go up and hit when they come! It doesn't matter what strategy and tactics there are, the beards only pay attention to one and don't hit the wrong target. As long as there is a devil in front of him, it doesn't matter if he is the head or the cheeks, he will fight first!
The Hu bandit team went to the battlefield one after another, and although it could not cause any fundamental damage to the Japanese divisions, it still caused a lot of trouble for the devil's crusade army. The battle mode of the beards is often to be imposing when they rush, and to disband on the spot when they retreat; Came violently and failed miserably; It's like a bunch of specialized troublemakers.