[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 618: The Kwantung Army Enters the War (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Tada Jun didn't know what was going on, but Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka of the First Army stationed in Shanxi knew very well, as the commander-in-chief of this campaign, he had personally experienced this battle and knew very well why this attack would go so smoothly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Looking at the two young officers in front of him, Yoshio Shinozuka felt full of emotion in his heart, the current combat is different from what it was more than ten years ago, not only strong soldiers are needed, but also intellectual talents like the two young people in front of him. If it weren't for the assistance of these two young men this time, how could the First Army take Taiyuan City so smoothly.

"Sit, Yamamoto, I heard you studied in Germany?" Yoshio Shinozuka asked with a smile.

"Your Excellency, I studied at the Military Academy in Munich, Germany for three years in the 9th year of Showa, and returned to China in the 12th year of Showa. Yamamoto Kazuki Osa replied respectfully.

"Yamamoto, don't say that in the future, you are only thirty-one years old this year, and you are already in the rank of Dazuo, I was still working as a martial arts gym abroad when I was in your grade, how can I say that the base camp does not reuse you!" Yoshio Shinozuka said.

"Hai, I have remembered my humble duties, and I am very grateful for the teachings of His Excellency the Commander!" Kazuki Yamamoto said immediately.

"I don't dare to teach you, you are a rare general of special operations in the Imperial Army, and you are regarded by the base camp as the successor of Your Excellency Hattori, and you are also one of the executors of the reform of the Imperial Army, this time I am very shocked by the achievements of your special forces, I didn't expect that a few hundred troops can play such an important role! I feel that it is necessary to apply to His Majesty the Emperor that a larger special force should be formed, which is still too small compared to the millions of troops in the Empire. Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka spoke.

"Your Excellency, the expansion of the special forces is imperative and imminent. Having studied in detail the various combat cases of the China Suicha Military Region, he is sure that the China Suicha Military Region has a special combat unit that is not inferior in strength to the special forces of the front army, and the number should be greater than ours. That unit repeatedly carried out head-of-head strikes against the commander of our army, causing huge losses to the front army, and it must be taken seriously by the front army. "Yamamoto Kazuki Road.

"Yo Xi, I will report this matter to the front army and the base camp, you have to be ready when you go back!" Yoshio Shinozuka said in a deep voice.

"Hay!"

"Hehehe, Miyamoto, you are also good, it is not in vain that Your Excellency Sato specially recommended you to me. Your intelligence squadron has been of great help to this operation, and it is precisely because of the accurate information you have provided that the special operations forces will be able to find the headquarters of the various units in China so accurately, and then break them down individually.

Then Lieutenant Yoshio Shinozuka continued: "It is even more because your intelligence squadron has intercepted and deciphered the telegrams sent by the China Second War Zone Command many times, so that our command can successfully find the weakness of the China people, and then defeat them!" I'll ask the front army for credit for you, and I think after this battle, you will probably become the youngest Osa of the Imperial Japanese Army. ”

"Thank you for the cultivation of Your Excellency the Commander, Miyamoto is grateful!" Miyamoto Nakasa said loudly.

"This is the reward you deserve, in addition, like Yamamoto, your intelligence squadron should also increase some strength, if we have a special operations squadron and an intelligence squadron in every division of the Great Japanese Empire, then the Shina people are just a group of local chickens and dogs in front of us, and their regime will also become a high-rise building piled up with sand, as long as our Imperial Japanese Army stabs it lightly, it will collapse with a bang!" Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka said feverishly.

"Hai, the humble post will definitely live up to the high expectations of His Excellency the Commander!"

"The next battle will have to be cooperated by the two of you, now that the Imperial Japanese Army is strong, and now there are the two of you as the eyes and daggers of the army, I believe that the second war zone of the Chinese people will be withdrawn soon." Yoshio Shinozuka said confidently.

"Hay!"

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The Japanese were well on their way in North China, and their ally, Germany, was equally powerful, forcing Poland, a military power with a million-strong army, to surrender in a very short time, and the Germans' success in Europe greatly stimulated the Japanese.

In view of the fact that the war with the Soviet Union had ended, that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was negotiating with the Soviet Union, and that substantial progress had been made, the newly appointed commander of the Kwantung Army, Lieutenant General Umezu Yoshijiro, decided to use troops in the Rehe area to contain the continuous encroachment of the Suicha Military Region and to cooperate with the current actions of the North China Front.

Therefore, just when Ma Zheng was preparing to go south to reinforce the second war zone, he suddenly received an urgent telegram from the reorganized third division and the cavalry unit, and the Japanese 12th Division, with the cooperation of hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles, wanted to suddenly advance from Tongliao to the west, and the troops were directed at Chifeng.

You must know that the current Suicha Military Region can be said to be in the midst of a semi-encirclement of the Japanese army, and there are three divisions of the First Army of the Japanese Army on the Xinkou line, and several divisions of the Japanese army on the Zhangjiakou line, and now even the Rehe line is about to become a battlefield, which is definitely a challenge for the Suicha Military Region, which only ended the war last month.

However, what is surprising is that Ma Zheng on the Luxi front line was not in a hurry at all, and when he learned that the Kwantung Army only sent the 12th Division to the west, instead of letting the reorganized 3rd Division shrink its strength, he ordered Liu Fengchi and Tie Xinlan to immediately assemble their troops and prepare to attack the 12th Division of the Japanese Army at any time.

This order made Liu Fengchi and others feel very surprised, you must know that the current Suicha Military Region is also a multi-front operation, coupled with the extremely empty rear garrison, once the outer line is broken through by the Japanese army, the Japanese are likely to drive straight in, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

Therefore, out of prudence, Liu Fengchi personally sent a telegram to Ma Zheng to explain the situation, hoping that the reorganized third division could be turned into defense on the spot.

However, this proposal was rejected by Ma Zheng very simply, and at the same time, he strictly ordered the reorganization of the Third Division to make its own decisions and immediately prepare for an attack on the 12th Division in accordance with the operational orders of the Military Region Headquarters.

Ma Zheng actually knew that Liu Fengchi's suggestion was still very feasible, after all, in the face of the attack of a strong enemy, if his side could not be able to defeat the enemy, the best way was to turn to defense, or even to guerrilla warfare and movement warfare, and destroy the enemy in the movement.

But now it is the 12th Division that is attacking the Genan Army Division, so this matter is another matter. Don't look at this as a permanent division, but with Ma Zheng's understanding of this division, the combat effectiveness of this division can only be expressed in hehe.

I am afraid that in the entire battle sequence of the Japanese army, in addition to the more familiar Fifth Division of the Steel Army and the Sixth and Sixteenth Divisions that participated in the Nanjing Massacre, the Chinese know the most about the Fourth Division and the Twelfth Division of the Imperial Army, because the Fourth Division and the 12th Division are the only Japanese divisions that have been retained after the war.

In addition, compared to the 4th Division, which is laughable, the luck of the 12th Division is very enviable.

The 12th Division was formed on October 1, 1898, in Kurume, under the jurisdiction of the 14th, 24th, 46th, and 48th Wings. Chinese mainland The 12th Division not only has four strong infantry wings, but also has a field heavy artillery brigade, one field artillery wing, one independent mountain artillery wing, one field heavy artillery wing, one anti-aircraft artillery wing, and one tank wing.

However, such a formidable military force hardly fought a war, and after the Russo-Japanese War until the 128 Shanghai Incident in 1932, the 12th Division participated in only one small war, and its performance was mediocre.

In the Shanghai Incident in 32 years, the 12th Division sent three infantry brigades and one mountain artillery brigade as the backbone to form a mixed 24th brigade to Shanghai to participate in the war. However, after the successful landing at Wusongkou in Shanghai, the brigade became a melee with the 5th Army that met Zhang Zhizhong on the line of Wusong Town, Miaohang Town, and Dachang Town. It took nearly three months for the 24th Brigade to occupy Miaohang Town, and its performance was very disappointing to the Japanese high-brass.

In April 1936, the 12th Division was ordered to garrison Manchuria, during which time there was no fighting. And Ma Zheng also knew that even after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the 12th Division had no chance to go to the battlefield.

Until November 1944, the 12th Division was sent to Taiwan to serve as the defense of Taiwan. Until the surrender of the Japanese army in August 45, this new force did not fight with China's regular troops, let alone with the US army, and the only battle was probably a small fight with the US submarine in the process of transporting to Taiwan, and the result was that three warships were sunk and thousands of Japanese soldiers were killed.

It can be said that although this unit looks terrifying on the surface, it not only has a complete four infantry wings, but also has a large number of technical arms, and even has an unprecedented number of more than 23,000 soldiers, but in fact it is a group of new recruits.

A recruit is a recruit, even if you have been in the barracks for ten or twenty years, but as long as you have not been on the battlefield, have not really fought face-to-face with the enemy, and have not seen blood, it is still a soft-footed shrimp. In the face of the elite of Ma Zheng's department, Umezu Mijiro sent such a group of recruits over, wasn't that here to deliver food, how could Ma Zheng miss it.

If it were changed to other Japanese divisions, Ma Zheng would have beaten a side drum at most, but since he encountered this 12th Division with a lot of stupid soldiers, then Ma Zheng would have to eat it in one bite, and then let the Kwantung Army have a good experience of how powerful he is. (To be continued.) )