Chapter 233: The Battle of Nanjing: The Habitat of Xiashan to Defend the Enemy (I)
The troops of the Won Zhou looked at the troops that were being reorganized in front of them, and those subordinates who were demoralized and ready to reorganize the attack were almost angry to the extreme, saying that the shells of the empire were not blown by the wind, but by His Majesty the Emperor and all the people of the Ministry, after the fiasco of Rehe, His Majesty the Emperor reduced the cost three times in a row in order to calm the dispute between land and sea, so much so that he announced that he would only eat two meals a day!
And his unbearable subordinates launched an attack for a full minute after the shelling, and they were not able to reorganize immediately after the attack failed, because once the poison gas drifted to the mountainside of Qixia Mountain, it would be blown away by the mountain wind, which was equivalent to losing effectiveness, whether it was the previous shelling or the subsequent poison gas attack, all the preparations were wasted, and the most important thing for the Zhou Libing soldiers was waste.
If Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister in history, is the prime minister, Hideki Tojo actually gets up at four o'clock in the morning every morning to rummage through the garbage bins to see if there are any guys who are extravagant and wasteful and eat and drink? So much so that once when a Yomiuri Shimbun reporter Ishihara Wanji Empire's policy on Shina had changed, Ishihara Wanji bluntly asked the reporter to ask the guy who loved to rummage through the garbage cans, but as soon as the broad-minded Tojo Hideki turned around, he kicked Ishihara Wanji out of the army's active service, and asked this noisy guy to get out of the reserve ranks, and stomp his feet and wipe his tears with those old men to see that the empire was burned to ashes and completely finished.
The thrifty spirit of the Shushu soldiers is more prominent than that of Tojo Hideki, which is prominent to the point of perverted stinginess, a pair of socks for three years, sewing and mending five pounds of weight, only one meal a day, in order to show tribute to His Majesty the Emperor who eats two meals, when he is hungry, he will use dried squid and sake to satisfy his hunger, and for the precious metals and antiques obtained by his subordinates from the occupied areas, the Shushu soldiers will appear as soon as possible and keep them on their behalf.
However, the most stingy part of it is not the above-mentioned ones, the Zhou Libing even the artillery bombardment carried out by the troops attacking the enemy's position, must order the field artillery wing not to exceed the regulations, and must do their best to save Yunyun, but the Zhou Libing is not ashamed of this, but proud!
It is believed that if the Ministry of War wants to select a model of hardship and simplicity that represents the era of the Army, it is estimated that the soldiers of the continent will have a fight with Hideki Tojo.
Some of his subordinates of the 13th Division even often joked about how the Zhou soldiers would die, and almost eighty percent of them guessed that they would die because of meanness and stinginess.
However, at this moment, the soldiers of the continent are also furious, and the main reason is that the 16th Division, Nakajima Imasago actually received the praise of Prince Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace, and in the eyes of the Shoshu soldiers, His Royal Highness Prince Hatohiko of the Asaha Palace is undoubtedly a person who is equal to an idiot, and he easily awarded the honor of capturing Nanjing, the capital of China, and breaking the enemy's defense point for the first time to Nakajima Imago? Isn't this a bit too hasty?
For the 13th Division under his command and the Shigeto detachment to cooperate in the attack on the Qixia Mountain Fortress, the Zhou Libing is almost a belly to say, Prince Asaka Palace Hatohiko is a strategic and tactical idiot in the eyes of the Zhou Libing, if you add his idiotic political acumen, I am afraid that Prince Asaka Palace Hatohiko can deserve to win the Best Idiot Royal Family Member of the Year Award in the Great Empire.
The actual significance of this unit is to show that Taiwan has become the land of the empire, and the people of Taiwan live very happily and are very rich, and they are even willing to fight for the empire, so this is a force that exists more than the actual combat significance, and the detachment leader of the Shigeto detachment, Major General Shigeto Chiaki, is undoubtedly an idiot in the eyes of the soldiers.
You must know that the detachment is a very special existence in the battle sequence of the army, and the two infantry brigades can be mixed with some baggage soldiers, engineers, artillery, and even a few combat vehicles can become a certain detachment, and the multi-arms mixed specialty temporarily formed by almost one brigade can also be called a detachment.
Undoubtedly, the Shigeto Detachment is an absolutely large "detachment" with a total of more than 10,000 soldiers and more than 8,000 combat soldiers, including the 1st and 2nd Taiwan Infantry Wing, the Taiwan Mountain Artillery Wing, the automatic convoy, the 1st and 2nd Sanitary Rescue Brigades, and the Transport and Surveillance Brigade with the gendarme surname of the military police.
The soldiers of the island were angry that the troops of the Shigetsu detachment were only one infantry brigade at a time, and the wide front of the Qixia Mountain fortress could accommodate at least one brigade of troops to besiege on three sides, and the attack of the Shigetsu detachment was so ridiculous and abnormal, it seemed that only the 13th Division, which was the head of the injustice, was suffering heavy casualties, and the most incomprehensible thing for the soldiers was that Prince Hatohiko of Asaka Palace actually assigned all three heavy artillery brigades to other divisions, When his 13th Division attacked Qixia Mountain, which was held by the Chinese elite troops, the Teaching Corps, he could only rely on two mountain artillery wings.
However, in the face of the condescending Chinese defenders equipped with a large number of 75-mm field guns and 105-mm howitzers, not only did they launch frequent artillery bombardments, but even once almost wiped out the Taiwan Mountain Artillery Wing of the Shigeto Detachment, the outstanding performance of the Chinese artillery frightened Chiaki Shigeto, who was accustomed to being at ease in Taiwan, and he hurriedly ordered the artillery to shift their positions, and as a result, his obedient subordinates rushed out a few kilometers at once. It's ridiculous that it ran out of the range of your own artillery.
Commanding the defense of the Qixia Mountain fortress is Gui Yongqing, and with its flank is the 160th Division Ye Zhao, the two can be said to cooperate very tacitly, once the army retreats, Gui Yongqing will order a 105 mm howitzer to bombard the starting position of the army, Ye Zhao took the opportunity to attack with two battalions or a Ye Zhao regiment of troops.
The commander of the 13th Division of the Army, Lieutenant General Yu Zhou Libing, and Chief of Staff Yu Saburo Osa, watched their subordinates retreat in the artillery mirror more than once, while the Shigeto detachment that assisted was attacking very slowly and retreating very fast.
However, the performance of the 13th Division also really hurt the self-esteem of the Sendai samurai, you must know that in any case, the 13th Division was also organized in Sendai, which is a type A establishment, under the jurisdiction of the 26th Infantry Brigade, the brigade commander Major General Sawada Tokushige, the commander of the 58th Infantry Wing under the 26th Infantry Brigade Kuramori Gongren Osa, and the 116th Infantry Wing Wing Captain Timda Fudasa.
It is worth mentioning that the captain of the 58th Infantry Wing, Kuramori Gongren Dazuo, and the captain of the 116th Infantry Wing, Tian Tian Fu Dazuo, are classmates and classmates at the same table at Lu University, and they are also brothers who have exchanged names.
In addition, the 13th Division also has Major General Yamada, commander of the 103rd Infantry Brigade, the 65th Infantry Wing, the 104th Infantry Wing, the 19th Cavalry Wing, the 19th Mountain Artillery Wing, the 13th Engineer Wing, the 13th Heavy Infantry Wing, the Signal Team, the Health Team, and the Yoshino Tank Squadron.
Don't dare to pass by at this moment The 13th Division has lost more than 1,000 people under the fortress of Qixia Mountain, and the Zhou Libing has roughly mastered the defense points and firepower points of the Chinese defenders through several attacks, and these have all been marked on the coordinate map of the artillery, but the artillery caliber of the 13th Division and the mountain artillery detachment to which the Shigeto Detachment belongs cannot destroy the permanent fortifications of Qixia Mountain, and they must also venture into the range of the 1005 mm caliber howitzers on the Zhong[***] Qixia Mountain, If the other side locks the firing position and does not have time to transfer, whether it is the mountain artillery wing of the 13th Division or the mountain artillery wing of the Shigeto detachment, I am afraid that they will be removed from their battle sequence organization.
Moreover, according to the report of the artillery observers, the civil fortifications built by the Chinese [***] are very strong, not to mention the so-called permanent fortification support points, with the power of 75 mm guns, I am afraid that they will not be able to destroy the opponent's fortifications at all.
The most incredible thing for the troops of the continent is that Prince Hatohiko of Asaka Palace has continuously urged him to conquer Qixia Mountain as soon as possible, and resist the attack on Occupy Oolong Mountain and Yanziji, because the attack on the eastern line of Zijin Mountain and the 3rd Division Fujita Jinsuo and the 9th Division Ji Jia Ryosuke were shelled by [***] heavy artillery in the direction of Oolong Mountain and Yanziji, and their attack was temporarily blocked.
The soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty also replied angrily to Prince Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace, without enough heavy artillery, they could not conquer Qixia Mountain, and the soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty were not stupid enough to hit the wall with their heads, and they knew that it hurt after hitting the wall.
Qixia Mountain could not be conquered, and Wulong Mountain and Yanziji were even more distant, so Hatohiko Asakanomiya asked the army aviation and naval aviation stationed in Shanghai, as well as the reinforced Taiwan detachment, Kashima Flying Team, and Nagoya Flying Team to all enter the battle, and it was necessary to grasp the air supremacy in the area of the Nanjing battle and comprehensively suppress the unscrupulous Chinese artillery.
With the so-called guarantee of Hatohiko Asakanomiya, the soldiers decided to release all the remaining mustard gas while the wind direction, wind speed, temperature, and humidity were suitable, and carried out an unprecedented onslaught on the positions held by the teaching corps. Taking advantage of the reaction time of the poison gas and the shelling of the [***], he quickly captured all the positions of the [***] except for the main peak position.
(To be continued)