[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 194: Three Victories in One Day (Subscription Requested)

Shiro Sakamoto was born in Tokyo's busiest business district, and his ancestors were vendors in the city, and his grandfather's generation became wealthy. By the time his father took over the family business, the family already had two clubs and a few factories, making it a wealthy class in Tokyo.

Because he had money in his hands, he deeply felt the importance of power, so before graduating from elementary school, Shiro Sakamoto was sent to study at the Tokyo Army Infant School, which was the army non-commissioned officer school for the Japanese army to train grassroots officers. After graduating from Lushi, Shiro Sakamoto was admitted to the Army University, and then participated in a series of battles against Northeast China, and was eventually promoted to major general last year and served as the commander of the 101st Brigade.

Shiro Sakamoto was still a small businessman at heart, and although he shouted that he would be loyal to the Japanese Empire and expand the territory for his subjects, he actually came to China for money.

Sakamoto arrived in Tohoku in 29 and did not return to Tokyo until 35, and in these six years he has looted more money in Northeast China than the Sakamoto family has accumulated in five generations.

Originally, Sakamoto was not going to be promoted to the position of commander of the 101st Brigade, but the commander of a garrison brigade left in Tokyo, and after learning the news, Sakamoto used a lot of connections and paid a lot of economic costs to make the base camp change his mind and transfer him to the 101st Brigade on the Chinese battlefield as the commander.

Sakamoto's idea at that time was to come to China to rob wealth, in fact, he did it, and in the more than half a year that he was transferred to China, Sakamoto grabbed several truckloads of property through various dirty means, all of which were real money, silver, cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings.

But good and evil will be rewarded in the end, not that the time has not yet come! Today's time has come. Not only were he and his 101st Brigade heavily damaged, but even he himself was surrounded in Surabaya by the 13th Army, the most effective army in China, with no hope of escape and imminent destruction.

Half an hour was in the blink of an eye, and Shiro Sakamoto still hadn't made up his mind, he knew his current situation very well. Although there are more than 1,700 people around. But once the Chinese decide to attack, it is already good that his 1,700 men can hold out for two hours. The main thing is that these people under his command are the same as him, they are all from his own business district in Tokyo, and they were just some small stalls and vendors before, and after being transferred to the Central China Front, all they can do is to bully ordinary people, military discipline and military style are extremely poor, and their combat effectiveness is even more miserable.

In the Battle of Songhu last year, it was because of being held back by the 101st Brigade. The 101st Division was killed and wounded by more than 10,000 people, and almost the whole army was wiped out, and then his unlucky predecessor was requisitioned back to China, but he didn't expect that he would be pitted now.

Now there are two paths in front of Shiro Sakamoto, one is naturally a bloody battle to the end, and in the end he is all killed. The other is to lead his troops to surrender and save his life.

The first one is that I don't want to choose, and if I choose, it means that this life is over. The second path is not to be chosen. Since the start of the Sino-Japanese war, no Japanese general has surrendered, and he Shiro Sakamoto cannot be the first.

It's not that he has a lot of backbone. Rather, his family is still in Japan, and if he surrenders to the Chinese on the battlefield in China, it will be disastrous for his family.

Thinking of this, Shiro Sakamoto finally made up his mind and said to the few remaining adjutants around him: "Today is the time for us to dedicate ourselves to His Majesty the Emperor and the Japanese Empire, pass on my orders." Escort those Chinese farmers to the front of the position, and if the Chinese attack, let those Chinese farmers block the guns for the imperial army! ”

"Hay!"

The battle of Surabaya Town lasted until four o'clock in the afternoon, and the 13th Army completely annihilated the remnants of the 101st Brigade, and the brigade commander Shiro Sakamoto was chopped off by Ouyang Di, the commander of the 23rd Division. More than 1,700 men of the brigade were killed, and even the wounded were not spared.

The most seriously injured in this battle was not the Japanese army, but the common people of Surabaya Town, more than 600 people in the town, except for more than 100 people who were hidden, the remaining 500 people basically all died in the battle. Some were killed by the Japanese, but more were blocked by the Japanese in front of the position.

When the news came, the command at all levels was silent, and this was perhaps the only battle in which a battle was won without cheers.

But in any case, the Sakamoto department was completely annihilated, and there were no Japanese soldiers west of the lake, and the results of the Japanese army's two-month battle were in vain.

On this day, both the Ninth War Zone and the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government burst into laughter, and even Chairman Chiang, who had always been moody, rarely put a smile on his face.

Everyone really had a reason to be happy that after this battle, the clouds of war hanging over Wuhan had temporarily dispersed. The Japanese army fought for two months in order to take Hukou and Jiujiang, but the Nationalist Government recovered all of them in one day, and the Japanese army had to fight for at least two months if they wanted to return to the previous situation.

On the same day, 33 warships, large and small, returned to Hankow, causing a sensation. Because, according to reliable sources, this fleet turned out to be the spoils captured in yesterday's battle. As a result, hundreds of thousands of people from the three towns of Wuhan flocked to the Hankou River to watch the naval fleet.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the Nationalist Government held a news conference to announce the news of the great victories at Jiujiang and Hukou, and in one day, the 13th Army and the 7th Independent Division under the jurisdiction of the Ninth Theater fought continuously, annihilating a Japanese naval fleet, capturing 33 large and small ships, and completely annihilating the enemy's Botian Detachment, the 47th Wing of the 6th Division, and the 101st Brigade of the 101st Division, destroying more than 24,400 enemy personnel and capturing 432 prisoners.

In addition, the air force fighters met the Japanese combined air force in the sky over Hukou, shooting down 18 enemy planes and losing only 7 of their own, achieving a great victory in air combat.

Three victories in one day, the news came, and the whole country was excited! Although the Japanese army has not yet responded to this, seeing dozens of large and small ships docked on the river, the common people have already believed that this is true.

So, Wuhan has no sleep tonight! Beginning at 6 p.m., students and people began to take to the streets, and then a huge anti-Japanese parade was spontaneously formed.

The people of Wuhan have a reason to rejoice and cheer, and since January this year, the Japanese army has been constantly attacking and harassing the Wuhan area, first the air force and then the army. At this time, even the most sluggish people feel that war is imminent.

War is not a casual word, nor is it a piece of news in the newspaper, but it means artillery fire and gunsmoke, and even more so bloodshed and sacrifice. It is not the military and the country that hurt the most, but the common people. Over the past thousands of years, mankind has recorded more than 15,000 wars and killed 3.5 billion people, directly or indirectly, of which the largest number of deaths is not soldiers, but civilians.

The Japanese invaders are coming, and the homeland is about to be enveloped by the flames of war, and everyone is worried. After all, we don't want our homes to be destroyed by fire, and we don't want our lives to be displaced. Now that the threat has been lifted, the people are naturally rejoicing and celebrating.

Knowing that the naval fleet had arrived in Hankow, Commissar Chiang was overjoyed and immediately sent a telegram to the Yan'an side, asking the Yan'an side to send a powerful representative to Wuhan to discuss the country's affairs!

In fact, everyone understands that the so-called "national is" is actually how to deal with this naval fleet, after all, this fleet is now the trophy of the Duqi Division, and the Nationalist Government must obtain the consent of Ma Zheng and Yan'an if it wants to assign it to the navy.

After receiving the invitation of the Nationalist Government, the Yan'an side immediately responded, and Vice Chairman Zhou will go south to Wuhan in the near future to hold talks with the Nationalist Government on behalf of Yan'an.

Later, Yan'an sent a telegram to the Duqi Division, asking for Ma Zheng's opinion!

Ma Zheng didn't have any opinion on this, anyway, the warship couldn't get out of Wusongkou anyway, let alone reach Chanan. The most important thing is that there are endless prairies in the Suicha area, there are not even a few small rivers, and it is useless to ask for warships, so what to do with it is up to those people above to decide!

Ma Zheng believes that Yan'an will not give Lao Jiang this big gift in vain, and the blood that should be given will still be out! (To be continued.) )

PS: PS: The third update was delivered, and it was before twelve o'clock in the morning, and everyone saw the sincerity of the author! If you see it, then allow the author to weakly shout "Robbery: monthly passes, recommendation tickets, and rewards are all taken out!" ”