[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 214: Hideo Fukuda (ask for subscription)

Furong Dun Town. Temporary command of the 103rd Wing of the Japanese Army.

The 103rd Wing is the weakest wing of the 101st Division, because almost all the soldiers of the 103rd Wing are from the most prosperous commercial areas in Kyoto, and the vast majority of the soldiers are small traders and hawkers before joining the army, and they are running around for a living every day.

It is precisely because of the weakest combat effectiveness that the 103rd Wing is the least popular with the division commander Yin Dong Jung-hee, so this wing is placed at the end as a reserve in every major battle, and rarely engages the enemy head-on.

Just like this Hukou Campaign, when he learned that the back road of the Botian Detachment was fired and could be annihilated at any time, Yin Dong Zhengxi's first thought was the 101st Wing, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, and this 103rd Wing was transferred by him to Cailing Town, southwest of Hukou.

It is precisely because of this that after the battle, the 103rd Wing turned out to be the most complete wing of the 101st Division, and the entire wing did not lose a single person except for two soldiers who had a bad stomach, which has to be said to be a great irony.

Since the 103rd Wing had sufficient soldiers and the ammunition consumption was not large, Yin Dong Zhengxi sent them to Furong Dun Town this time and let the 103rd Wing garrison the west gate of Pengze.

In order to prevent a surprise attack in the 9th Theater of Operations, Lieutenant General Yoon Dong Junhee and Lieutenant General Matsuura Junrokuro called a meeting of the few surviving wing commanders after withdrawing to Pengze, and ordered them to strengthen their precautions in case the Shina army counterattacked.

In particular, he told the commander of the 103rd Wing, Hideo Fukuda, because his troops were stationed at the forefront and could be attacked by the Shina army at any time. The most important thing is that Furongdun Town is too close to Hukou County, and it is only a few dozen kilometers away. Once that Shina demon general has a whim, the 103rd team may suffer a big loss.

The commander of the 103rd Wing, Hideo Fukuda, was a typical Japanese soldier, short stature, big head, strong and powerful, and exuded the smell of blood all over his body. Unlike the soldiers who were born in Tokyo's business district. Hideo Fukuda was born in the mountains of Hokkaido, northeastern Japan, and was raised by his older brother and sister-in-law after both his parents died when he was a child.

When he was twelve, his brother sent Hideo Fukuda to study at a local school. And Hideo Fukuda is also competitive, and at the age of sixteen, he was admitted to the Tokyo Army Infant School. After graduation, he served as a military cao in the first squad of the 7th Wing for two years, and then entered Lu University for further study through personal efforts.

Eio Fukuda graduated from the Army University with a third place in Showa 2, and in the same year he was appointed to the 1st Brigade of the 47th Wing, the 3rd Squadron Fu. Later, he was transferred to the Kwantung Army as a squadron leader, and he was brave in battle. At the age of 30, he was already a lieutenant in the army, and he was one of the fastest officers in the graduating class that year, and he was only a civilian.

From the beginning of 31 to the 77 incident, Hideo Fukuda fought against the Anti-Japanese Union in the northeast region, he liked the climate of the northeast region very much, and he was also very good at fighting in that kind of icy and snowy environment.

However, due to the needs of the war, the Japanese government began to expand the army in large quantities, and the basis of the expansion was those veteran divisions. It is usually a wing drawn from a veteran division. And use this wing as the skeleton to build a new second or third class division. At the same time, there is also a method of drawing an absolute main combat brigade from an established division and forming a new brigade with the reserve soldiers of that division.

The 101st Division is a mixture of these two. The backbone of the 101st Division was drawn from the 1st Division, but most of the soldiers who made up the 101st Division were veterans from the 1st Division and men from Tokyo City, and it was under this circumstances that Hideo Fukuda was transferred to the 101st Division.

Although Yoon Dong Masa-hee dislikes the 103rd Wing very much, he values Hideo Fukuda, who is a civilian, because Hideo Fukuda himself is a miracle in the Japanese army. Because it was extremely difficult to move up the ranks of the Japanese army, the Japanese navy was controlled by the Satsuma clan after the Meiji Restoration. The army was controlled by the Choshu Domain. Yama Prefecture Aritomo, Katsura Taro, Tanaka Yoshiichi and other army stalwarts are all from Choshu, and non-Choshu people do not want to be promoted to high positions in the army.

And Hideo Fukuda was promoted to the rank of army chief in just over a dozen years as a civilian, and not a member of the Choshu domain. This is an absolute miracle that can be used as a role model and example for young people. There is also such a role model in the Japanese army, that is, Lieutenant General Norihide Abe, who is fighting in North China, because Norihide Abe is the only general in the Japanese Army who has not studied at the Army University.

The reason why Yin Dong Masaki values Hideo Fukuda is mainly because of his commanding talent. The reason why the 101st Division was able to fight in just two months was that the Nationalist Government had no power to fight back, and the defense line along the river garrisoned by hundreds of thousands of troops was unexpectedly broken through one after another by the attack clusters composed of the Botian Detachment and the 101st Division. On the one hand, it is because of the absolute gap between China and Japan and the disparity in strength that is difficult to make up for in a short period of time, and on the other hand, it is due to the excellent command of Lieutenant General Yoon Dong-hee.

But most people don't know that these outstanding and classic examples are all battle plans jointly formulated by Lieutenant General Yoon Dong Masa-hee and Hideo Fukuda, and Hideo Fukuda is the main one.

After Hideo Fukuda was sent to Furong Dun Town by Yin Dong Masaki, he immediately organized troops to strengthen the fortifications, especially the defense to the west. For this reason, Hideo Fukuda even drove all the people in Furong Dun Town out of the town, and demolished almost half of the houses, and built fortifications with earth and stones.

Hideo Fukuda believes that although the Chinese/army on the opposite side of the 103rd Wing performed heroically in the previous battles, they killed 10,000 enemies and lost 8,000 themselves, and after the bloody battles with the Hatada detachment and the 101st and 106th divisions in succession, the losses were definitely not small, and the attack should not be launched in a short time.

Secondly, since the aviation patrols the river every day, just to find the main force of the China Navy, but no trace of the China Navy has been found, so it is almost certain that the China Navy has withdrawn from Hukou Jiujiang, so even if the enemy wants to attack Pengze, the soldiers can only come from land, and in this case, the town of Furong Dun is the first to bear the brunt, so he would rather demolish this town than repair the fortifications.

Although Yin Dong Masaki specially told Fukuda Hideo to pay attention to Ma Zheng's Duqi Division, Fukuda Hideo didn't care. He didn't think that the Ninth Theater would be the main force in this operation, after all, Ma Zheng's department was only an infantry division, and at worst there were only eight or nine thousand people, or even only five or six thousand. After continuous fighting, that force was basically crippled, and it was impossible for the Ninth Theater to attack Peng Ze with a single remnant.

Because of this, Hideo Fukuda did not send anyone to reconnoiter the movements of the defenders in Hukou City, and it was precisely because of such arrogance that Hideo Fukuda and the 103rd Wing paid an extremely heavy price.

At six o'clock in the afternoon of August 2, an army of about 10,000 people suddenly appeared in Shangbaiquan Bay, west of Furong Dun Town, which was only less than five kilometers away from Furong Dun Town. Looking at the attire, half of them were wearing the standard military uniform of the Empire, but the color was dark green, while the other half were wearing the military uniform of the government army in China.

Naturally, this situation was discovered by the Japanese troops patrolling outside, and the patrol immediately reported the information to the headquarters of the 103rd Wing. Hideo Fukuda, who was having dinner, was shocked, and immediately judged that it must be the troops of the Ninth War Zone, and immediately ordered someone to sound the alarm, and all the troops were immediately in position and ready to fight.

At the same time, Hideo Fukuda reported the matter to the regimental headquarters of the 101st Division, so that they could prepare in case the Shina troops attacked other places.

After receiving the news from the 103rd Wing, Lieutenant General Yin Dong Zhengxi was shocked and immediately called the 123rd Wing in Huanghua Town, the 113th Wing in Xiaogushan, and the 106th Division Headquarters in Madang Town, asking them to strengthen their precautions.

At 6:20, more than 10,000 people from the headquarters of the Seventh Division arrived at the outskirts of Furong Dun Town, and immediately launched a siege on this small town. As soon as the battle began, Ma Zheng's artillery regiment was powerful, and Ma Zheng's artillery regiment was originally an artillery regiment directly under Wang Jiling's 30th Group Army, equipped with 24 Krupp mountain guns, and 12 75mm field guns, which were quite powerful, and were used by Ma Zheng to attack the Japanese army in Furong Dun Town. (To be continued.) )