Chapter Forty-Eight: The Resentment of King Hengxian of Heyang Palace

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The target plane, in early May 1943, Ningwu County, Xinzhou, Shanxi Province, Yanhuang Continent, is located in the northern and central part of Shanxi Province, with the Great Wall as the border in the north of the county, and adjacent to Shuozhou; It is bounded by Huanghualing in the northwest and borders Shenchi County; In the southwest, Lotus Leaf Ping Mountain and Luya Mountain are screens, and Wuzhai and Qilan face each other; The south is bordered by Jingle County; It is divided by Yunzhong Mountain and Xinzhou in the southeast; The total area is 1966 square kilometers. The terrain of the county is high and steep, the mountains are vertical and horizontal, the steep cliffs stand up, and the dense forests are thick. As the city of Ningwu, the history is long, there are many historical sites, known as the green pearl on the Loess Plateau, the mountain, water, pass, forest, cave, valley, stone, waterfall, temple, dian, grass, lake, spring, valley, temple and other natural and cultural landscapes are unique and profound.

"Seven? After the Seventh" Incident, the Japanese army gradually invaded south from the north of Jin. On September 23, 1937, the Japanese Army occupied Shuo County. The 358th Brigade of the 120th Division of the Yanhuang Red Party Army advanced to Shenchi, Ningwu, and Shuoxian to block the enemy, and fought until September 30, when the Duli Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army set out from Shuo County, and occupied Ningwu County at about 20 o'clock that night, and by May 1943, Ningwu was in the defense area of the 3rd Brigade of the Duli Mixed Brigade. Speaking of the 3rd Brigade of the Mixed Brigade, it was formed in February 1938 in the Beiping area, belonging to the 1st Army of the Japanese Army, participated in the Battle of Xuzhou in 1938, after the battle, stationed in Lao County, Shanxi Province (now Yuanping City, Shanxi Province), today Ningwu County is under martial law, in order to welcome the "honorable" guest, the cousin of the Emperor of the Japanese Empire - King Hengxian of Heyang Palace.

In April 1943, he received an order to form the 43rd Division of the Japanese Invaders based on the 63rd Duli Infantry Group in Sendai, with the 118th, 135th, and 136th Infantry Wings and the 43rd Field Artillery Wing. After hearing the order, after contacting and consulting with the base camp of the Japanese Invaders, he felt that he would first fully inspect the Yanhuang Dispatch Army on the front line, understand the actual situation on the front line, and be familiar with military affairs, and then return to the Japanese Sendai to form the 43rd Japanese Division. Since the Yanhuang Battlefield was in a strategic stalemate stage at that time, there were few battles in the entire Yanhuang Battlefield, and the threat was very small, the emperor agreed to the request of King Hengxian of Heyang Palace. Today, King Hengxian of Heyang Palace came to pass through the county seat of Ningwu and prepared to go to the headquarters of the 1st Army stationed in Yangqu, Shanxi (today's Taiyuan City, Shanxi).

In Ningwu County, in the hospitality hall of Yuepeng Inn, King Hengxian of Heyang Palace, who had rested for the night, was sitting on the Taishi chair, checking the defense map of the enemy and us in the northwest of Jin, and next to him was Major General Yuichiro Nagano, the commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Kouduli, who accompanied him.

"Nagano-kun, these sons have worked hard for you!" King Tsuneken of Heyanggong said to Major General Yuichiro Nagano, commander of the 3rd Brigade.

"Hey! It is the honor of my life to be by His Royal Highness's side! Yuichiro Nagano replied with a little restraint.

"Nagano-kun, how many times have I said that don't be so restrained in front of me."

"Hey!"

"Hehe, you~ Okay, let's talk about something else." Seeing that Yuichiro Nagano still couldn't let go, King Hengxian of Heyang Palace decided to change the topic and talk about some military topics that Nagano is good at: "I look at the map, this is almost the junction of our army and the Yanhuanghong army?" ”

"Hey, Your Highness is right!" Talking about the topic he is good at, Yuichiro Nagano really relaxed, and said: "This place is not far from the occupied area of our army and the Yanhuang Red Party army, but Your Highness can rest assured, there is no problem with the security here, Ningwu County is located on the Tongpu Line of the Shanxi Provincial Railway Trunk Line, with convenient transportation, and has been protected by heavy imperial troops for a long time, and the Red Party's army does not dare to attack here." ”

"Hehe, I'm not worried that the Red Party will dare to attack here, with you by your side to protect you, the safety will definitely be foolproof." King Hengxian of Heyang Palace continued with a smile on his face, "What is the Red Party's army like, I heard that what they call it the Hanako Army is true or false. ”

"Your Highness, there are indeed some big sakes who call them 'called Hanako', mainly because their clothes are messy, and many soldiers still have patches on their bodies, much like they are called Hanako!"

"Oh? And what about their weapons? ”

"The rifles are mainly made in Hanyang produced by Yan Huang in the past, but according to the weapons they used in our battles, we found that the rifling of many rifles was smoothed, and they were not far at all, and there was no crosshair beyond 100 meters! In terms of light machine guns, a small number of Czech-made ZB26 light machine guns are equipped, as for heavy machine guns and mortars, which are extremely rare, it is estimated that they can only be equipped at the so-called division and brigade level in Yanhuang, and most of them are not at the regiment and battalion level, and there are only one or two mountain guns at most! ”

"Sounds miserable, how are they fighting? Isn't it bad? ”

"Combat effectiveness? It's hard to tell. ”

"Why do you say that?"

"The main reason is that the troops of the Yanhuang Red Party and the army of the Yanhuang Bald Party have different tactics, the Bald Party's ** likes to fight defensive battles, gather the troops in one or several places, establish fortifications, set up artillery positions, foxholes, and support firepower points, while our army concentrates its forces to attack, and conquers the ** position after many fierce battles, so it can be more obvious to measure the strength of the combat force. And the tactics of the Red Army, to paraphrase their vocabulary, are called guerrilla warfare. ”

"Guerrilla warfare, I'd love to hear about it." King Hengxian of Heyang Palace frowned, and then he arrived.

"The so-called guerrilla warfare, according to my understanding, is to break up into parts, piecemeal attacks, do not take the capture of county towns and provincial capitals as the combat goal, and do not organize large-scale battles; once our army gathers forces to attack, the Red Party will strategically retreat to the countryside and mountains, and if it is found that our army's forces are scattered, it will concentrate its forces to attack one part, and then look for an opportunity to wait for battle." Brigade commander Yuichiro Nagano explained.

"What do you think of the tactics of guerrilla warfare?"

"There are advantages and disadvantages, if our army gathers forces to attack, they can only avoid its edge, and for defense, as long as our army builds a relatively solid defensive position, it is difficult for the Red Party army, which lacks heavy equipment, to overcome the defensive nodes at the county level. As for the larger rural strongholds, we can basically achieve the purpose of defense by digging deep trenches, building artillery towers, and at the same time paying attention to mutual support. ”

"That is, it is not very harmful to the occupied areas of the empire."

"It's not entirely that they used mobile forces to encircle our army's weak strongholds, or brought a lot of casualties to our army, and since last year, several sweeps organized by Commander Gangcun are also to minimize their harm!"

"Well, I see, Nagano-kun, how many troops will the Red Party garrison in this place?" King Hengxian of Heyang Palace said, pointing his finger to "Xing County" in the northwest of Shanxi Province.

In 1940, He Long established the earliest anti-Japanese base area, the Jinsui Revolutionary Base Area. Jinsui is the collective name of the two provinces of Shanxi and Suiyuan (present-day central Inner Mongolia). The Northwest Shanxi Administrative Office and the Military Region Headquarters are located in Caijiaya, Xingxian County. Xingxian County, which has only 90,000 people, has raised more than 40,000 Jinsui party, government, and military revolutionary teams. As the capital of the Jinsui Border Region, Xingxian is the former gate of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, where the Yanhuanghong Party is located, and is the first barrier to defend Yan'an, as well as the transportation artery connecting the anti-Japanese base areas in North China, East China, and Central China with the Party, and its strategic position is extremely important.

"Xingxian?" Hearing this, Yuichiro Nagano frowned

"What's wrong?" King Hengxian of Heyang Palace asked.

"At this time last year (May 1942), the 85th Brigade of the 69th Division, the Yokoo Squadron, the Inada Squadron, and the Yoshioka Squadron, the Koseki Squadron, and the Sasaki Squadron, together with the Imperial Cooperative Army, a total of more than 700 people, rushed to Xingxian, but suffered a big loss, only dozens of people fled back by night, and the others were all annihilated by the Red Party army." Yuichiro Nagano said.

"Oh?" King Hengxian of Heyang Palace, who was aroused, looked at the map carefully, "Do you estimate that there is the main concentration of the Red Party army?" ”

"I guess it may be more than eighty percent, even if it is not the main force concentration area, it is also part of the main force gathering place!"

"Nagano-kun, let me ask you, how many troops are given to you to conquer Xingxian?" King Hengxian of Heyang Palace asked with a serious face.

"Conquer Xing County? Your Royal Highness, what are you trying to do? Yuichiro Nagano, who noticed the abnormality, hurriedly asked.

"Nagano-kun, please answer my question first!"

"Well~~ If it's just a frontal attack and doesn't occupy it for a long time after conquering, about 1 wing is needed, of course, for the sake of insurance, it's best to strengthen the wing firepower."

"Great, Nagano-kun, the unit you're escorting me is exactly a wing! Let's go to conquer Xingxian together, how about it? Hearing Yuichiro Nagano's answer, King Hengxian of Heyang Palace said happily.

"Never, Your Highness, it's too dangerous there!" After hearing this, Yuichiro Nagano, who was a little panicked, immediately stopped him.

"Why? Isn't it enough to conquer Xingxian with our troops? ”

"No, it's just that there are no eyes on the battlefield, it's too dangerous, Your Royal Highness!"

"You know His Royal Highness King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace!"

"Hey! The deeds of King Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace shine brightly on the entire empire, and of course the lower officials have heard of it! ”

"Yes, King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace replaced Matsui Ishine as the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army and conquered Nanjing, the capital of Yanhuang, who in the empire does not know such a famous historical deed." King Hengxian of Heyang Palace turned his face as he spoke, bowed deeply to Yuichiro Nagano and said, "Nagano-kun, I always dreamed of commanding the army of the empire and conquering the enemy's cities like King Hatohiko of Asakanomiya, but I have always been in the empire itself, and I have no chance at all. After this inspection, we will return to China to form the 43rd Division, and it is estimated that it will be spent there for a long time. A soldier who has not been on the battlefield is sad, and a general who has been promoted without military merits is even more shameful, please, even if it is just a county town of the enemy army, let me have a chance to go to the battlefield again! ”

"His Royal Highness King Hengken of Heyang Palace..."Yuichiro Nagano didn't know what to say for a while.

"We don't need to alarm the military headquarters of the First Army, we just need to change the railway to a highway, and after conquering Xingxian, we don't stop, and go directly to Yangqu (today's Taiyuan), how about it?"

"It's still too dangerous, Your Highness!"

"The troops here are also under your jurisdiction, it's really not good, if we add some more troops, we can be foolproof, so it's okay, Commander of the Yuichiro Nagano Brigade!" King Hengxian of Heyang Palace couldn't help but sink his face when he saw Yuichiro Nagano not agreeing.

Yuichiro Nagano saw that King Hengxian's face changed in Heyang Palace, and he couldn't help but cry out in his heart, he was just a small brigade commander, if he really made King Hengxian of Heyang Palace hold a grudge and return to the local base camp to say that he was not good, then it was very likely that he would be extremely sad to be transferred to the South Pacific battlefield and end up in jade. After hesitating for a moment, he finally said: "Okay, but for the whole battle, Your Highness must obey my command, otherwise I would rather accept military law than take Your Highness to Xingxian!" ”

"Okay, it's a deal! Nagano-kun!! ”

At the beginning of May 1943, Yuichiro Nagano, the commander of the 3rd Brigade, and King Hengxian of Heyanggong, a member of the Japanese Imperial Family, led a reinforced wing (Nagano supplemented the troops and firepower of nearly 2 brigades in Ningwu County just in case), a total of more than 6,500 people, and killed Xingxian, the front gate of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area and the first barrier of Yan'an.

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