Chapter 1878: Okamura's Choice (Third Update)

The 101st Brigade Temporary Headquarters, Brigade Commander Major General Shiro Sakamoto, is watching the battle on the front line through a telescope at the forward position of the Japanese army in Guniuling. In fact, Shiro Sakamoto was very reluctant to reinforce this operation, originally his brigade was stationed in Xingang Town, and according to the order of the division headquarters, they would rest in Xingang for half a month, waiting for the front army to transfer troops.

After all, the first stage of the combat mission was only to seize the two forward bases of Jiujiang and Huangmei, and now that the mission has been completed, the next time is to rest.

Rest for them was eating, drinking, and extorting the hateful and wealthy Shina from place to place, and Sakamoto had sent goods to the country three times since the beginning of the war, each time a whole box of gold.

As a child who grew up in Tokyo's business district, Shiro Sakamoto's obsession with money was not as small as his businessman father. Since the 101st Division was incorporated into the Central China Front, Shiro Sakamoto has only one impression of the Chinese defenders and the Chinese, weak and rich! It is the army that is weak, the rich and the general public. And their task is to wipe out China's weak army, and then rob the rich Chinese people!

Before entering Xingang this time, Shiro Sakamoto had already asked someone, the richest person in Xingang Town was a businessman surnamed Hu, it is said that his ancestors served as prefects in the corrupt Qing Dynasty, and now the whole family is in business, and his family business is all over the south of the Yangtze River, and his family has a huge fortune.

This was a fat sheep in the eyes of Shiro Sakamoto, but just before he was ready to act, he received an order from the division headquarters, and the headquarters immediately set off to Jiujiang to reinforce the Botian detachment and cooperate with the division to capture Jiujiang.

Although Shiro Sakamoto didn't know how the Hatada detachment lost Jiujiang, he couldn't hide Shiro Sakamoto's dissatisfaction with the mixed detachment. If it weren't for the ineffectiveness of these guys, I am afraid that I would have received all the assets of the rich Shina family into his own small treasury by now. And it is said that there is a very smart lady in that house, but now these things are all in vain.

As soon as the angry Sakamoto Shiro came up, he ordered the troops to storm the positions of the defenders of Jiujiang, although the defenders resisted quite stubbornly, but in the face of the "powerful" offensive of the Imperial Japanese Army, the army of Guniuling was immediately unable to hold on.

Seeing that the defenders' positions on the opposite side were already crumbling. Shiro Sakamoto immediately said to the chief of staff on the side: "Call Ueno immediately and ask him to send another squadron to strengthen the offensive, and he will definitely be able to fight and take down the position of the defenders of Shina." ”

"Hay!"

At 10:11, the 101st Brigade captured the Guniuling position!

When the news reached the headquarters of the 11th Army, Okamura Ninji, who had been depressed for half a morning, finally showed a smile.

But the news that came back immediately afterwards made him almost vomit blood, and the reconnaissance plane found a small army cleaning the battlefield around Lion Rock, surrounded by corpses, looking at the appearance of the military uniform as the standard military uniform of the imperial army, plus the Botian detachment had lost contact for two hours. Therefore, they came to a preliminary conclusion - the Potian detachment was collectively shattered!

The 11th Combat Team of the Navy was completely annihilated, the 47th Wing of the 6th Division was collectively shattered, and now even the invincible Hatian Detachment is finished, and all the evidence points the finger at one person - Ma Zheng, the demon general of the Chinese Army!

Having lost a powerful fleet and nearly 10,000 warriors overnight, Okamura Ninji was really determined not to be angry to death. Fortunately, the capture of Guniuling by the 101st Brigade gave Okamura Ningji a little hope, because it was not clear that the 13th Army had entered Jiujiang, so Okamura Ningji still only had Ma Zheng's Duqi Division in the city.

Coupled with the battlefield situation fed back by the 101st Brigade, Okamura Ningji had reason to judge that the Duqi Division in Jiujiang City was already at the end of the strong crossbow. After all, no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of the Duqi Division is. But hours of intense fighting on end will inevitably turn this force into a tired soldier.

In addition, there is an old saying in China, which calls killing 10,000 enemies and losing 8,000 yourself. In the early hours of this morning, the Duqi Division killed 10,000 warriors of the Imperial Japanese Army, and according to such a battle loss rate, the division itself will not have many troops left, so whether it is tactically or strategically speaking, this is the best time to seize Jiujiang, if you wait for other troops to react and reinforce Jiujiang. That's not good.

It was precisely because of this consideration that the headquarters of the 11th Army immediately sent a telegram to the 101st Brigade and ordered the unit to break through the enemy in front of it at all costs and recapture Jiujiang.

After receiving the order from the headquarters of the 11th Army, Shiro Sakamoto did not dare to slack off. Immediately organize the army to continue the pursuit. The two sides exchanged fire again at Maple Ridge outside Jiujiang City, and an hour later the 101st Brigade captured Maple Ridge.

This time, the Japanese army advanced all the way to the Wuli Bridge outside Jiujiang City to see the position of the Chinese defenders, and this place already belongs to the Jiujiang City District, as long as the Wuli Bridge is captured, then they can directly enter the Jiujiang City District in the next step.

This seemed to Shiro Sakamoto and his officers and men that victory was in sight, and the Japanese army immediately entered the battle.

But shortly after the exchange of fire, the defenders who remained in Xingang sent an urgent telegram that the town of Xingang had been attacked and was in danger.

Shiro Sakamoto was shocked, how could the town of Newport be attacked? How did the Chinese army move there, and how many people were there?

Shiro Sakamoto didn't care about the life or death of the two hundred soldiers in Xingang Town, if the sneak attack on the Shina army was more than one regiment, then the squadron was finished. He was now worried that the army around him would fall into the encirclement of the Chinese army, and he didn't dare to think about it, so Shiro Sakamoto immediately reported the situation to the headquarters of the 101st Division and asked for operational guidance.

The commander of the 101st Division, Ito Masaki, was shocked after receiving the report, and inadvertently the 101st Brigade was caught in the encirclement of the Shina army. Since the battle was commanded by the 11th Army Headquarters, Ito Masaki immediately reported the situation to the 11th Army Headquarters and asked for instructions.

Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji is also the first two now, and they didn't expect that at this time, an army would suddenly appear in Xingang Town, cutting off the rear route of the 101st Brigade. If China's Ninth Theater mobilizes a large army to encircle and annihilate the 101st Brigade at this time, the consequences will be unimaginable.

More importantly, the 101st Brigade is not yet fully staffed, only one 149th Wing and Cavalry Wing are there, and the total strength is only 4,3400 people.

On the one hand, the 149th Wing began to set out from Xingang at about 6 o'clock in the morning, and then exchanged fire with the defenders on the periphery of Jiujiang, and it has been more than four hours now.

The second is that victory is close at hand, and the opportunity for shame is in front of you, and it is a pity to give up like this, and I don't know if I have such a good opportunity to be in the Year of the Monkey.

After a group of senior generals at the headquarters of the 11th Army, they deduced that if the 101st Brigade could capture Jiujiang within two hours, then the Imperial Army would have the initiative both strategically and tactically. At that time, the army of Xingang Town will not only lose its effect, but will become a turtle in an urn, and the imperial army can eat it at any time.

However, if the 101st Brigade could not defeat the Duqi Division within two hours, then the army of the Ruichang Front would rush to Jiujiang, and the 101st Brigade would be in a dangerous situation, and it was very likely to be completely annihilated. Analyze the pros and cons on the battlefield clearly, and what to do now depends on the thoughts of Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji.

Okamura Ninji is a standard Japanese soldier, iron-blooded and ruthless, and does not take human life seriously. When he was stationed in Mudanjiang, he repeatedly sent troops to drive out and massacre the Chinese people, plundering the land of the Chinese for the local "pioneer group".

Okamura Ninji did not regard the lives of the Chinese as human lives, nor did he take the lives of the soldiers under his command seriously, and in the end, in the face of the hope of victory and the crisis of destruction, he chose to go to the former, ordered the 101st Brigade to charge towards victory, and at the same time ordered the 101st Division to gather forces to reinforce the 101st Brigade and relieve the 101st Brigade's worries. (To be continued.) )

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