Chapter 185: Angry Okamura (Ask for subscription)

AN Qing. Command of the 11th Army.

In the office, Okamura Ninji was pacing around with a frown, what happened today is really weird, what happened to the navy, how could the fleet of Nuoda be annihilated silently, and even the most basic telegram for help was not sent, how is this possible?

"Wow"

Just as Okamura was pondering, there was a knock on the door outside the office.

Knowing that it was the person he was waiting for was coming, Okamura Ninji immediately said, "Come in!" ”

Then a forty-year-old Osa walked in from outside, and when he saw Okamura Ninji, he immediately bowed down and said, "Your Excellency Commander, Shinichi Tanaka, a special high school, has been ordered to report for duty!" ”

"Tanaka-kun, you are a person from the special high class, don't be restrained, please take a seat!" Okamura Ninji Road.

"Hay!"

After the two of them sat down, Okamura Ninji said in a deep voice: "Tanaka-kun, do you know about the 11th Sentai of the Third Fleet of the Navy, what news do you have over there?" In addition, what happened to the side of the Hatian detachment, that the always unenterprising Shina army dared to take the initiative to launch an attack on the great imperial army, and suddenly forced the imperial army to a dead end? ”

Tanaka Shinichi immediately said: "Your Excellency, Commander, this matter is about to be reported to you, according to the intelligence personnel lurking in Wuhan, an hour ago, He Yingqin, Minister of Military Affairs of the China Government, and Dai Li, Director of the Military Administration, were summoned to the official residence by Jiang, and the two of them stayed in Jiang's mansion for less than half an hour before leaving in a hurry, but looking at the expressions of those high-ranking officials in China, it seemed that something happy had happened, and everyone was extremely excited. ”

Hearing this, Okamura Ningji secretly said "Yaga" in his heart, and completely annihilated a detachment of the empire. The senior officials of China will surely be happy.

"Then your special high class didn't investigate why the senior officials were excited?" Okamura Ninji asked.

"It has been investigated, according to the information we have obtained, the specific reason is the good news from the front, it is said that a unit of the front line of China succeeded in a surprise attack on the imperial naval fleet last night, and drove the warship down the river to capture Jiujiang, annihilating an infantry wing of the imperial army in the process. He even annihilated the Hatian detachment! Shinichi Tanaka replied in a deep voice.

"Yaga, do you mean to say that the entire Botian detachment has been shattered? That's impossible? Okamura Ninji roared.

"Your Excellency, the lowly also knows that this matter is indeed unbelievable, but judging from the experience of the lowly position, the credibility of this matter is about eighty percent!" Tanaka said with his head down.

Then Tanaka said again: "After receiving the news from the intelligence officer, he made secret contact with the naval fleet and the other two forces in the intelligence, and the result showed that all three forces had lost contact, although it is possible that he is in the middle of the battle and cannot reply to us, but this possibility is very small!" ”

Okamura sat down in his chair suddenly. The strength in his body seemed to be drained all at once. You must know that less than 20 days after he was transferred to the commander of the 11th Army, there was an incident in which the units at the wing and brigade level were collectively annihilated, which can be said to be a big blow to him, and this will inevitably make the base camp doubt his command ability.

"Do you know that it was the group army of China that caused such casualties to the imperial army, was it Wu's Ninth Army or Tang's 31st Army?" Okamura Ninji asked again, in his eyes, the only Chinese defenders who had the strength to completely annihilate the Hatada detachment were these two group armies that the Nationalist Government had focused on cultivating.

However, Tanaka's answer greatly surprised Okamura Ninji: "Report to Your Excellency the Commander, neither. It was the 7th Independent Division of China that inflicted heavy losses on the Imperial Army! ”

"The Seventh Independent Division? Divisional combat units in China, how is this possible? "Before serving in the Central China Front Army in the south, Okamura had been serving as a division commander in the Second Division stationed in Mudanjiang. Therefore, he rarely pays attention to the battlefield in Guannai, and even if he does, he focuses on several large-scale battles such as Songhu, Xuzhou and Taiyuan, so he doesn't know the troops of the Duqi Division at all, let alone the achievements they have created.

"Your Excellency Commander, I need to highlight the humble position of this Duqi Division, which is the fourth infantry division formed by the Eighth Route Army after the 115th, 120th, and 129th Divisions. Unlike the other three divisions. According to the statistics of the base camp, from the end of Showa 12 to the present, in just eight months, at least more than 13,000 imperial warriors have been lost in the hands of this army. In addition, more than one lieutenant general and one major general were killed in the battle with this army, including His Excellency Hasunuma, the chief of the Emperor's body! Shinichi Tanaka said solemnly.

"Nani, you're talking about the branch army that broke through Zhangjiakou and killed His Excellency Liannuma Pan, I remember that the commander of that army seems to be called Ma Zheng, right?" After Shinichi Tanaka said this, Okamura Ninji finally remembered who the Duqi Division was, and immediately asked in surprise.

"That's right, the commander of that unit is indeed called Ma Zheng, and he is called the Demon General of China by the base camp!"

"The Demon General? Isn't their defense area in North China, how could they suddenly appear on the battlefield in Wuhan? Okamura asked again.

"Your Excellency, Commander, this matter is negligent on the part of our Special High Division! Intelligence agents embedded in Wuhan a few days ago reported that a strangely dressed contingent of Shina troops had arrived in Wuhan, their uniforms were basically the same as those of the Imperial Army, except that the color had changed from yellow to dark green. However, because the intelligence officers reported that the army was only a few thousand men, the intelligence services did not pay attention to it. ”

"But it has just been confirmed that that the branch is Ma Zheng's Duqi Division! Now it seems that the government of China has transferred this division to the Ruichang front, and this battle is the masterpiece of this Duqi Division! "Shinichi Tanaka.

"Baga, how did you do the special high class, it is unforgivable that such important information can be neglected!" Okamura reprimanded loudly.

"Hay!" In the face of the furious Okamura Ninji, Shinichi Tanaka could only bow his head and accept the reprimand, he didn't dare to talk back to His Excellency the lieutenant general who was the focus of the base camp.

It took a while for Okamura Ninji's angry mood to calm down, and he immediately asked, "Tanaka-kun, it is extremely important for the Imperial Army to investigate the truth about the destruction of the 11th Navy Force at all costs. At the same time, it is also necessary to investigate the true strength of this Duqi Division, since it has arrived at the Wuhan battlefield, then don't go back! ”

"Hay!"

After figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, Okamura Ninji urgently convened a meeting of senior officers of the 11th Army to discuss countermeasures. After all, the annihilation of the Botian detachment was a foregone conclusion, and Jiujiang, which was used as a springboard for the attack on Wuhan, also fell into the hands of the Chinese again, and the strategic goals set by the previous front army were only half completed and must be compensated.

According to the battle plan formulated by the Central China Front, before the Wuhan Offensive was fully implemented, the 11th Army, as the vanguard of the Front Army, had to take the two bridgeheads of Huangmei and Jiujiang before all the troops were assembled.

Originally, these two strategic targets had been taken down, but they never thought that they would be taken back by the Chinese overnight, and by the way, they also lost more than 10,000 imperial warriors and a huge naval fleet, and the situation suddenly reversed.

Subsequently, Okamura Ninji issued a kill order in the name of the commander of the 11th Army, and no matter which division could completely annihilate the Seventh Division, all officers and soldiers would be promoted to one level. Whoever kills Ma Zheng, the commander of the Seventh Division, will be promoted to three levels in a row, whether it is an officer or a soldier.

In addition, in order to turn the tide of the war, the headquarters of the 11th Army ordered the 9th Division stationed in Anqing to urgently assemble and immediately march west to Pengze to cooperate with the 101st Division to recapture Jiujiang.

In addition, in order to prevent the Shina army from taking advantage of the victory to counterattack Madang Fortress, Okamura Ninji personally sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Ito Masakaki, the commander of the 101st Division, asking him to strictly defend Madang Fortress while gathering forces to counterattack Jiujiang.

Then Okamura Ninji sent a report to the commander of the front army, General Tian Shunroku, requesting the front army to send an aviation regiment directly under the front line to the front-line battlefield to find the traces of the 11th Sentai that was attacked by the Shina army. (To be continued.) )