9.141 Poor 101st Division

If it weren't for the appearance of the 25th Army, Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba really didn't want to ask about such a "small incident" as the "collective disappearance" of more than 300 Japanese troops! After all, something similar has happened many times before, and the soldiers of the Empire, although heroic, are prone to make some low-level mistakes. www.biquge.info For example, in the later stage of the Battle of Songhu, this kind of "loss of contact" between formed units and divisions often occurred, usually after dozens of hours, those "disappeared troops" would appear in completely unexpected positions of the Japanese commanders, and they would also report a series of amazing military exploits!

Disobedience and the courage to take risks have almost become two unique characteristics of the Japanese Army!

But once the news of Oshima's disappearance and the news of the 25th Army's appearance on the Huangmei battlefield were linked, everything changed! Huang Haoran is very good at fighting the war of annihilation in this kind of movement, not to mention more than 300 cavalry companies, even the entire army division Huang Haoran has also moved!

Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro stood by the military map for a long time, and finally he shook his head and said helplessly: "Gentlemen, I'm afraid that Oshima owes loyalty to Nakasa and his subordinates and is now loyal to the emperor!" It has become a fact that Huang Haoran's troops entered the Huangmei battlefield! Our vanguard has already had several encounters with the 25th Army, the elite unit of the Wuhan government, in the area east of Huangmei! Since this is a very significant change in the situation of the war, we must report to His Excellency Commander Okamura Ninji and Commander Shunroku Hata! ”

"Hay! As it should be! "Chief of Staff Shigeta Shigetoku Daisa, Commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade, Major General Katsuharu Imamura, and Brigade Commander of the 36th Infantry Brigade, Major General Mitsuru Ushijima, all expressed their approval of Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba! In their opinion, the addition of the 25th Army meant at least more than doubling the total strength of the Chinese army in front of the 6th Division! In such a disparity of forces, it is really unrealistic to capture Huangmei, Guangji and Tianjia Town!

The 11th Army Command and the Central China Dispatch Army Command must understand the current battlefield situation, and the 6th Division must receive reinforcements!

In the end, the main officers of the 6th Division collectively drafted a telegram and sent it, and Okamura Ninji and Hata Shunroku received the telegram almost at the same time, but the two of them had very different reactions!

As Huang Haoran's old opponent, Hata Shunroku knows the weight of this famous general, except for Tu Feiyuan's escape from death in the Battle of Lanfeng, so far the Japanese army has not had a record of defeating Huang Haoran! Shunroku Hata can understand the caution of the 6th Division!

In the opinion of Okamura Ninji, this cowardice of the 6th Division is intolerable, and Okamura Ninji, who was transferred from the Northeast to Central China not long ago, is eager to prove his ability in front of his colleagues, and defeating the famous general Huang Haoran is a great opportunity for him to make a name for himself!! He didn't want to miss it!

What's more, didn't the Potian detachment already face off with the 25th Army at the Madao Fortress? How many 25th armies did the Wuhan government have? Could it be that the Imperial Japanese Army stopped as soon as it heard the name of the 25th Army? So what is the honor of a samurai?

Okamura Ninji sent a short and stern telegram back to the 6th Division, in which he told Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba that the 6th Division must capture Huangmei within 72 hours, otherwise military law would be involved!

Faced with the accusations and urging of his immediate superiors, Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba had no choice but to order the 6th Division, which had stayed in place for less than a day, to march to Huangmei again! As a result, they were not met with a massive resistance from the Chinese army. On the evening of September 8, the 6th Division finally met Huangmei County.....

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Almost at the same time, Okamura Ninji ordered Lieutenant General Masaki Ito's 101st Division to bypass Jiujiang and launch a fierce assault on the position guarded by the 9th Theater 1st Corps Wang Keihisa.

After the Battle of Nanjing, Wang Jingjiu was promoted to commander of the 37th Army and commander of the 25th Army, and was assigned to the 1st Corps of the 9th Theater to participate in the Battle of Wuhan. When he sensed that the Japanese army was attempting to attack De'an along the road from Xingzi, Wang Jingjiu immediately commanded the 25th Army and the 66th Army to deploy at the eastern foot of Lushan Mountain, a mountainous position with mountains and obstacles on both sides of the Dexing Highway.

The Chinese general who served as the commander of the 1st Army Corps was Xue Yue, who was a little unable to step down by Gui Yongqing in the Battle of Lanfeng, and now he finally ushered in a new battlefield that belonged to him

Lieutenant General Masaki Ito's 101st Division was one of the special divisions formed in Tokyo after the outbreak of the war of aggression against China, with 2 infantry brigades and 4 infantry wings, as well as 1 company each of cavalry, artillery, baggage, and engineers. From the moment they set foot on Chinese soil, the 101st Division participated in almost all the battles of the Japanese army, and it can be said that they fought all the way from Shanghai to the Wuhan battlefield.

However, behind the brilliant achievements is a cruel fact, as the saying goes, "one general succeeds ten thousand bones", when the 101st Division stepped into the Wuhan battlefield, more than half of the Japanese Gyeonggi athletes who followed Lieutenant General Ito Masaki to China had disappeared from the marching ranks. However, in the eyes of Lieutenant General Ito, this was nothing more than an ordinary thing in the battlefield, and he believed that his officers and soldiers had returned to Fuso and had become the military gods worshiped by everyone at the Yasukuni Shrine. At present, Lieutenant General Masaki Ito is most worried about whether his 101st Division can be replenished in a timely manner.

The replenishment of troops in wartime is a vital matter for any army. In this respect, China is far inferior to Japan. Since the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese army has often been disabled and replaced with another, resulting in frequent transfers and handovers on the battlefield and confusion in the command system. The Japanese army is completely different, its battlefield replenishment system is very complete, relying on Japan's domestic reserve system, the Japanese army can always keep the front-line troops full! This is the case with the 101st Division now. Although more than half of the troops have been replenished, their combat effectiveness has hardly been affected!

The reinforcements provided by the Japanese Army for their divisions were not those recruits in the Chinese army who had not received minimum military training and could not even put their guns well, and the reinforcements received by the 101st Division were basically young veterans who had served for many years. Military techniques and tactics are even more proficient than many young active-duty soldiers!

Therefore, the appearance of the 101st Division in the Battle of Wuhan was very successful, and it took less than two days for the 101st Division to complete the task of landing and capturing Xingzi City, and then converged with the 106th Division to go straight to Jiujiang!

Now, the 101st Division has turned around again, ready to go straight to De'an! Defeat the main force of the 9th Corps of the 1st Theater of Operations in China!

For Xue Yue, the loss of Xingzi is not in the way of the overall situation, and he has no intention of competing with the Japanese army on the lakeside. For Huang Haoran and Zhang Fakui's proposal to abandon the beachhead, Xue Yue, who retreated to the second line, agreed very much! However, he did not express these thoughts to his immediate boss, Chen Cixiu, but managed his defense line silently, so there was no pressure.

This is where Xue Yue is smarter than Zhang Fakui.....

Before the Battle of Wuhan began, Xue Yue had met with Huang Haoran, and in the conversation, Huang Haoran told Xue Yue: "Lushan is a strategic and tactical place, and without Lushan, there will be no lasting defense on the Nanxun line!" Barriers are troops! The danger is the weapon.! Xue Yue also remembered these words.

In the face of the menacing 101st Division, Xue Yue's 1st Corps was waiting solemnly!

The road leading from Xingzi to De'an is a red soil-based road with a total length of only more than 30 kilometers, which can be reached on foot for a day if you follow the normal marching pace. The 101st Division originally wanted to capture the remnants of Xingzi, but they took De'an with one pursuit. But Lieutenant General Masaki Ito never expected that the trip of the 101st Division would be extremely tortuous!

Near Xingzi, there was originally a station of the Lushan Officer Training Corps. In those years, the training regiment often carried out field exercises in the mountainous areas of this area. The Chinese army is familiar with fighting here.

Therefore, the 101st Division, which attempted to attack De'an along the road, had just left Xingzi City, that is, in the area of East Guling and West Guling on the road, and was attacked head-on by Xue Yue's army, which was familiar with the terrain.

In fact, as early as September 1, the 101st Division began to attack the enemy of the Chinese defenders in Dongguling. However, due to the steep rocky mountain in the East Guling Heights, it supports the peaks of Lushan Mountain in the west and overlooks Poyang Lake in the east. The 101st Division often had to fight all day to take a corner of the Chinese army's position, and Lieutenant General Ito Masaki's troops fought fiercely in the mountains until September 7, when they gradually approached the main position of the Chinese army on the top of Dongguling Mountain.

This situation not only occurred in a few positions in Dongguling, but almost the entire area where the 101st Division fought was making difficult progress. All the positions of the Chinese defenders, the 101st Division, had to be captured step by step, one by one, and they had to be on guard against the counterattack of the Chinese army at all times.

Finally, on September 8, that is, after a week of continuous onslaught, the 101st Division basically occupied Dongguling! Since then, however, they have not been able to make the slightest progress.

If it was only so, then the 101st Division was not too tragic, but on September 9, a new tragedy happened!

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Kunigoro Iizuka, Osa of the Japanese Army, Wing Commander of the 101st Wing of the 101st Division. The key propaganda target of the Japanese military department. At the beginning of 1938, major cinemas in Tokyo, Japan, continuously screened the battlefield video of "Captain Iizuka of the God of War". In the film, the old devil Iizuka Kunigoro looks hideous, with a stubble on his beard and a broken steel helmet, and he rushes and kills with a war knife, which is very photogenic.

In view of the fanaticism of the people in China about the military god Captain Iizuka, the Japanese military department sent several reporters from Tokyo to China to cover Iizuka.

On September 9, the reporters arrived at the Lushan front.

Due to the brave resistance of the Chinese army on the front line of Lushan, they skillfully used the terrain to fight tenaciously with the Japanese army. Although the Japanese army was well-equipped, Lushan was the kind of glacial orogeny that Li Siguang particularly preferred, with a majestic shape and a steep road, and the Chinese army carried mortars to the top of the mountain, and the Japanese army described the Chinese army's mortars as "raindrops falling from the sky." The outcome of this battle can be imagined.

At this time, Iizuka Kunigoro faced the 160th Division of the Chinese Army, and the division commander Hua Zhenzhong, the only unit of the Guangdong Army in Guangdong that also wore steel helmets. The two sides fought a bloody battle in Dongguling, and Iizuka Kunigoro once led his wing to launch 15 consecutive attacks, but he was still unable to take the defense line of the Chinese army, and his troops were defeated.

Therefore, during the interview, Iizuka Kunigoro complained a lot, which is not quite like the style of the god of war. Fortunately, the image of Kunigoro Iizuka at this time was very attractive to the reporters sent from Tokyo. Because of the hard fighting, Iizuka Kunigoro was extremely tanned, his eyes were bloodshot, and his beard had not been shaved for many days, making him look hideous. Especially in the hot weather, the captain of the wing is shirtless and looks quite fierce.

The reporter's vision is different from ordinary people, and they all agree that the bearded soldiers on the battlefield have a unique charm. These Japanese reporters obviously also wanted to make Iizuka's image famous all over the world, so they suggested that Iizuka Kunigoro pose them a few times, take some photos and take them back to show their fellow villagers in Tokyo.

was praised by several reporters, Iizuka Kunigoro couldn't stand it, so with the help of reporters, he chose a nearby high ground that was more in line with the atmosphere of the battlefield, Iizuka Kunigoro stood on it and pulled out his command knife, roaring and shouting, jumping and jumping, the reporters were crazy about consuming the film, and everyone seemed to be satisfied.

Basically, as long as these photos can be published smoothly, "Captain Iizuka of the God of War" will definitely become popular in Japan!

It's just that the places chosen by these reporters are really a little unreliable! This high ground, although suitable for filming, is located opposite the position of the Chinese army. And on the opposite high ground there is a post of the 160th Division. That is, Iizuka Kunigoro is now in the sight of the sentinel.

If it's just in sight, after all, it's on the front line at the moment, and everyone has too many targets in their sight, and the Chinese sentinels may not be able to pay attention to it.

But the problem is that in order to show the effect, Japanese reporters actually put a steel helmet on Kunigoro Iizuka! Due to the low quality of the paint of the Japanese steel helmet, coupled with the hot season in central China, long-term exposure, and occasionally a heavy rain, after a long time, the green paint of the steel helmet peels off, revealing the steel bottom, and it will shine when it encounters sunlight.

So, the Chinese sentry spotted a light bulb-like thing in the distance yelling and screaming, jumping and jumping, and looked closely—oh, it was a devil!

Several sentries watched Iizuka Kunigoro's performance, and the more they watched, the more awkward they became, and the brothers agreed that this devil was too showy and needed to teach him a lesson. It's just a pity that the distance is too far, they don't have a cannon in their hands, and Hanyang can't reach it.

An annoyed sentry squad leader looks at Iizuka's hateful teeth! Coincidentally, it happened that at this time, a few veterans walked along the trench in a hurry, and the ones behind them were not made in Hanyang, but a brand-new 38 big cover!

The standard equipment of the Japanese infantry invading China has a long range and high shooting accuracy.

The scale of the Type 38 rifle shoots 2400 meters, while the Hanyang-made rifle is only 2000 meters, and the muzzle velocity of the Type 38 rifle bullet is 760 m/s, while the Hanyang-made is 600 m/s. More importantly, Japan's industrial technology is developed, so the manufacturing process is excellent, although the design made in Hanyang is good, the material and production level can not be compared, the theoretical effective range is 600 meters, in fact it is the data on the test site, the real guy sent to the soldiers, can play four or five hundred meters is very good. And the trajectory of the 38 guns is still quite accurate at 800 meters in windless weather. In the Battle of Songhu, the Chinese army equipped with Hanyang-made trenches to block the Japanese army equipped with 38 guns, and suffered the loss of short range.

To say that Iizuka Kunigoro ran into the 160th Division, it was really unlucky! In 1936, Chen Jitang tried to oppose the supreme authorities in Guangdong, and the Japanese supported a large number of arms to Chen Jitang, including many Type 38 rifles. The 160th Division came from Guangdong, and it was equipped with the guns that the devil gave to Chen Jitang.

The sentry squad leader hurriedly stopped a few veterans and pointed out the performance of Kunigoro Iizuka to the veterans. At this time, the shiny thing is still jumping up and down!

Because Iizuka Kunigoro only had a steel helmet on his head, shirtless and not wearing a military uniform, several veterans couldn't identify him, but looking at Iizuka Kunigoro's martial arts, the veterans unanimously felt that this shirtless devil was too rampant. In addition, there happened to be a veteran with good marksmanship, so it became real as he spoke, and the veteran with good marksmanship took the gun off and aimed at Iizuka Kunigoro.

At this time, Iizuka's interview had come to an end, and he was saying goodbye to the reporters. I don't know what to think, Kunigoro Iizuka suddenly chatted with reporters about his ex, his friend Jio Garna, the former captain of the 101st Wing. At this moment, the veteran completed the aiming action, he pulled the trigger, "bang", the bullet flew out, and after a while, Kunigoro Iizuka fell directly.

In fact, the probability of Iizuka Kunigoro being killed by one shot is not high. Although the 38 guns have a long range, the bullet penetration is too good, and it is not easy to cause fatal injuries in one dozen eyes. In the Battle of Xinkou, Li Xianzhou was shot by the Japanese army, piercing his chest, translucent before and after, and continued to chat with people, not realizing that he was injured at all.

But the shot of Kunigoro Iizuka was too accurate. When nearby Japanese soldiers arrived for the rescue, they found that the shot was passing through the heart of Kunigoro Iizuka and piercing the heart......

Iizuka Kunigoro Osa is known as the "brave general" in the 101st Division, and his accidental death is a heavy blow to the morale of the 101st Division! In the eyes of the Japanese generals of the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters, the 101st Division was really unlucky to the extreme!

However, the bad luck of the 101st Division is far from over!

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At noon on September 9, the vanguard of the 6th Division attacked Huangmei County, and Okamura Ningji's judgment seemed to have come true! All that Huang Haoran did in the Huangmei area was nothing more than a bluff, and the 25th Army was not in this area.

After taking Huangmei, the heart of the commander of the Inaba Shiro Division hanging in mid-air finally fell to the ground, and these days his mind is full of the names of the 25th Group Army and Huang Haoran, and he almost sat down and fell ill!

Huang Haoran's hand in Huangmei should be the "real but virtual" in the Chinese art of war, right? This is really an extremely cunning opponent! Fortunately, the 6th Division didn't have to really fight him!

After Huangmei rested overnight, on September 10, the 6th Division once again waved the butcher's knife at Guangji! Because the commander of the Inaba Shiro Division felt that he had seen through Huang Haoran's "deception", only one night later, the mental state of the 6th Division underwent earth-shaking changes! Caution and petty psychology they went away, and arrogance returned to the faces of these Japanese soldiers again...... (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )