[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 902: Profitable "Sweep" (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

It was precisely because of those windfall gains that the soldiers of the 33rd Division were not discouraged, even though they had obtained an empty city, because they had actually anticipated it a week ago, and at this time of year, if they wanted to make a fortune, they would have to go to the mountains or to the remote villages of China. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

If you want the young flower girl to get more access to the countryside, now neither the landlords nor the ordinary farmers are willing to stay in the city, and some large families have even avoided the most remote mountains.

The commander of the 33rd Division, Tagoro Gansu, did not know the thoughts of the soldiers below, but he knew that the current situation was very uncertain, and the information transmitted from the document issued by the Front Army Headquarters two days ago was very strange.

At present, the imperial army is progressing smoothly in all aspects, and although the resistance of the Chinese army is very tenacious, the territory they control is inevitably encroached upon by the imperial army step by step. If the fight continues at this rate, there will be no problem at all for the front army to expel the Chinese army from the Hebei region, and it is not even impossible to completely annihilate Ma Zheng's department.

However, the Front Army Headquarters ordered the 33rd Division to slow down the attack on Yangwon County and strictly ordered the 33rd Division not to attempt to attack Tianzhen County, which made Lieutenant General Gampa Shigetaro very puzzled.

However, Lieutenant General Gampa Shigetaro did not think that Commander Okamura Ninji was in a coma, and he judged that it must be that the domestic or Shina dispatch army had made a new adjustment to its strategy towards China, so in the past few days, he also issued an order to the entire 33rd Division not to advance steadily, let alone to go out without permission to sweep the villages in the non-security area.

August 18, 1940 was an unforgettable day for the Japanese officers and men of the 33rd Division.

The quality of the commanders of the 33rd Division is still very high, and both the division commander and the ordinary front-line officers are much higher than the ordinary Japanese C-class divisions, which is also an important reason why the 33rd Division can dominate Southeast Asia in the future.

Although the combat effectiveness of the 33rd Division is not outstanding among all the Japanese combat units, the fighting during this period of time is enough for the 33rd Division to temporarily emerge among the vast majority of the Japanese Army's C-class divisions.

However, it is precisely because of this that the 33rd Division, whether it is an ordinary soldier or an officer, has the smell of arrogance and arrogance.

In addition, during this period of time, the 33rd Division did show a little bit of elite flavor in the war against China, so the self-confidence of the Japanese soldiers skyrocketed and they were coaxing.

What they didn't know was that in Ma Zheng's evaluation, the 33rd Division only had a little bit of elite flavor. Compared with the 5th Division or the 10th Division, which are veteran field divisions, the 33rd Division is not a little bit worse.

However, the soldiers of the 33rd Division did not think so, and under the deliberate guidance of Lieutenant General Gampa Shigetaro, almost all the officers and men of the 33rd Division believed that the 33rd Division was one of the most elite field units of the Imperial Japanese Army, and it was only a little worse than a limited number of field divisions such as the Guards Division, the Fifth Division, and the Sixth Division, and was much stronger than the 109th and 21st divisions.

After all, ranking in the army is not based on the time of establishment as capital, it is based on real achievements.

Although the 33rd Division has not been formed for a long time, it is only a few months. The 109th Division is a veteran unit that has been established for more than three years, but the performance of these divisions in North China can only be said to be unsatisfactory. Although it was not directly erased from the battle sequence of the imperial army by Ma Zheng's division like the Second Division, it was also defeated in several battles, and the army was defeated.

The 33rd Division was different, in this short battle of more than 10 days, the 33rd Division defeated at least three brigades of Ma Zheng's headquarters head-on, causing at least more than 17,000 casualties under Ma Zheng's headquarters.

Although these are only the speculations of Lieutenant General Gampa Shigetaro himself, there is no evidence of the number of troops blocking them, let alone the corpses of the troops that have lost much of the Shina.

However, compared with the casualties of the 33rd Division, Gampa Shigetaro believed that the combat effectiveness of Ma Zheng's division had declined very much after the large-scale expansion, and the retreat of Ma Zheng's division during this period was a very important evidence, so he firmly believed that the 33rd Division had annihilated more than 10,000 Eighth Route Army in the past half a month.

Not only did he believe in it, but he also instilled such brilliant achievements in his subordinates, so although the 33rd Division at this time only occupied a few towns that had been emptied by the Eighth Route Army, the arrogance of the entire division was second to none among all the Japanese troops.

Although Gampa Shigetaro strictly ordered his troops to raid the Chinese countryside without the orders of the division headquarters, and not to allow less than one brigade of infantry to search for farmers in the nearby mountains. However, there are still some junior officers who are not afraid of death or who are obsessed with money, and quietly go out of the city to search for the fugitive villagers hiding in the mountains under the guidance of the puppet army traitors.

Not to mention, there were a few Japanese detachments that had good luck, including a squadron leader of the 213th Infantry Wing who actually caught a landlord's old fortune hiding in the mountains in a mountainous area on the outskirts of Wei County.

Although the target of the infantry squadron was too big, so the vigilant landlord escaped, almost all of the landlord's belongings were not taken with him, and became the trophies of the infantry squadron.

Twenty thousand oceans and two boxes of jewels were enough to make everyone's salivation, and the adventure of that infantry squadron soon spread throughout the entire 33rd Division. For a time, the entire 33rd Division was in turmoil, regardless of whether the squadron leaders were willing to lead their troops out to "sweep" or go to non-security areas to "maintain law and order", but the ordinary soldiers below were all encouraging their commanders to make a fortune.

Captain Ichiro Suzuki, squadron leader of the 3rd Squadron of the 1st Brigade of the 213th Infantry Wing, was in a good mood at this time, just like today's weather, sunny and cloudless.

Although he was reluctant to come out in the morning, and although the place where he was stationed was still some distance from the place where the division headquarters was located, and the gendarmerie rarely came in normal times, Ichiro Suzuki was still reluctant to lead the troops to sweep.

This is not to say that Ichiro Suzuki is a dedicated commander, but because Ichiro Suzuki is really not willing to take risks for a little money. Although Ichiro Suzuki is only a lieutenant, he has more than ten years of military experience. Although the 33rd Division was a new unit that had just been formed, Ichiro Suzuki had been in China for more than two years, and he was one of the first Japanese officers to invade China.

Rich combat experience did not make Suzuki Ichiro courageous, but it forged him into a complete soldier. I saw too many comrades-in-arms being attacked and killed by the guerrillas in China because of a little money or women, and some were sniped by Japanese snipers while they were out on a mission or on the march. So Suzuki Ichiro, who cherishes his life very much, rarely wears his captain's uniform, and rarely carries a command knife, as long as there is no order from his superiors, Suzuki generally will not rob Chinese villages privately, of course, Suzuki was also ridiculed by several other squadron leaders and even his own commander for these reasons.

But Ichiro Suzuki did not change because of the ridicule of others, only he knows the benefits of being low-key, after so many years of fighting, Ichiro Suzuki knows very well who the people of China dealt with first, officers and those who hold command knives and look like officers on horseback are the first targets of the people of China.

Whether it is the bandit beards of "Manchuria" or the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army in North China, they all vividly display this tactic of capturing thieves and capturing kings. Most of the colleagues and superiors who once ridiculed Ichiro Suzuki have turned into a pile of white bones, and although he himself has been promoted to the position of captain squadron leader for more than ten years because of the titles of "cowardly and fearful", "not having the courage of the Yamato national samurai", "not a qualified commander", etc., and several of his contemporaries are already Nakasa or even Osa.

But Ichiro Suzuki has always been glad that he is low-key, no matter how high the official position is, he has to have a life to enjoy, although he is only a squadron leader, but he is alive and well, as long as there is no accident, he will live, and how many people who laugh at themselves and look down on themselves now remember their bravery? (To be continued.) )