Chapter 538: The Battle of North Manchurian (1)
Gu Shoufu sat in his chair decadently and thought that since he came to Manchukuo, he felt very embarrassed, and the most elite army unit of the Imperial Japanese Army was led by the nose like a fool. No matter how many troops are dispatched, they all end in failure, this group of cunning bandits often raid the imperial towns, in order to eliminate them, Gu Shoufu dispatched troops, ready to fight, and wiped out this group of enemies of the Great Japanese Empire, I didn't expect this group of bandits outside the pass to be the same as the regular army in the pass, they can't run, the area inside the pass is a plain area, and the people of China flee is the beginning of the killing game of the imperial army, and this group of people outside the gate drilled into the mountains and forests, This made him unable to find any trace of this group of people in the vast forest. Gu Shoufu only felt a punch hit the cotton bale. Unable to exert his strength softly, he was so uncomfortable that he wanted to cut down all the trees in Manchukuo, so that this group of bandits had no place to hide.
What makes Gu Shoufu especially intolerable. After arriving in Manchukuo, so many people in China could not rob it. So many women can't be raped at will, and they have to kill behind their backs, and they can't finish playing with women, which makes Gu Shoufu feel that the soldiers from General Umezu Mijiro to the Kwantung Army are all rotten, and they feel that they are corrupt and hypocritical, and they no longer deserve to enjoy the reputation of "the flower of the imperial army". What do you do without robbing, raping, murder, or arson? In the past, the establishment of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is just an excuse. Since you came to fight with the Chinese people, occupied other people's land, robbed other people's property, killed other people's people, and still thought about what kind of East Asian co-prosperity you are engaged in with the Hehe people, the ghost believes your deceptive theory!
Tani felt that the fundamental interest of the Great Japanese Empire was to occupy all of China, and if we wanted to achieve this goal, we had to kill people, kill more people, and completely kill all Chinese, or at least those Chinese who had the intention of resisting. Then China can be truly incorporated into the territory of the Japanese Empire. The beautiful mountains and rivers, the land, and the wealth here can truly become the property of the Great Japanese Empire, and as long as all the opponents are killed, the bandits will be like fish starved of water, and one day they will die of thirst.
However, he did not dare to repeat the carnival in Nanjing again, if he really wanted to do it, then he could imagine that his future military career must be gloomy, at this time Manchukuo already belonged to the rear of the empire, and there were important factors for whether the imperial army on the front line could win a big victory, because there were ammunition and guns needed by the front line, military rations for the army, and materials needed on the island, this black land was too fertile, and the empire had doubled its strength several times when it occupied it for less than a few years. Being able to break away from the idle post of the commander of the Central Army of the Home Defense Army and continue to lead the soldiers to fight on the battlefield, which made Gu Shoufu very excited, at first he thought that the Imperial Military Department was preparing to start a war with the Soviets, so he deliberately analyzed the military situation of the Soviet Union on the way here, and made a lot of plans, but when he arrived here, he found that the combat object he faced was not the Soviet army, but a group of stragglers composed of Maruda, which made him feel insulted, and he was a dignified lieutenant general of the Imperial Army who actually came to exterminate this group of bandit-like weapons, With a playful mentality, he cooperated with several other lieutenant generals to attack this group of bandits, this time he completely saw his previous contempt for the bandits' combat effectiveness, which made him dumbfounded, more than 50,000 imperial soldiers, stunned by this group of bandits killed and injured more than 10,000 people, and also captured the imperial town of Qiqihar, followed by the next few battles, so that Gu Shoufu has been worried, he has never failed so much, and even started trading with this group of people, he feels that this group of bandits is simply the nemesis of the empire, Even the previous commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army was forced to death by this group of bandits, which made Gu Shoufu feel that the enemy in front of him was not bandits at all, but a regular army more than the regular army.
He never thought that he would be attacked by air raids one day, since he came here, he has not been happy, he originally wanted to continue to make contributions, but now it is gone, now his only goal is to wipe out this group of damn Maluda, he has a few thoughts in his mind, that is, kill, burn, rob, he wants to lead the army to kill all the people who rebel against the empire, these failures made him completely crazy, he wants to cast the glory of Gu Shoufu with the blood of the people of China, he wants to make the feast of Nanjing, The more I think about it, the more excited I become.
After Gu Shoufu woke up, he rushed into the command headquarters, and the military affairs of the division and regiment were handled by the chief of staff, in a word, that is, the three major generals of Guan Yamada B wanted to replenish troops, weapons and ammunition, oil and medicine, and food and fodder, and while he was mobilizing troops to prevent the opposite side of the Chinese army from attacking, he actively trained new soldiers, and in order to defend against the possible attack of the Chinese troops on the other side, Gu Shoufu had to re-recruit more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers who had been discharged from the army in the Binjiang Province area
When Gu Shoufu was actively deploying troops, reinforcements from the 11th Division fought until dawn in the Mingshui area. Finding that after a day of fierce fighting, Major General Yoshikatsu Kuroiwa, the commander of the 22nd Infantry Brigade that had already filled in four squadrons, did not dare to continue to fill it in. Four squadrons, plus more than two squadrons that had been silently silenced after penetrating into the opponent's depth, had lost as much as one squadron in less than 200 kilometers at night.
According to this casualty figure, if you fill it in again, if you don't get to the place where the 10th Infantry Brigade is besieged, the troops will lose more than half of their combat effectiveness, and there will be no second way to choose except for the one that is encircled like the 10th Brigade.
Combined with the number of casualties received on the way, in fact, by the evening, the 22nd Infantry Brigade of the 43rd Infantry Wing had already suffered more than half of the casualties, but they also eliminated and repelled many of the armed forces. As the supreme commander of this time, Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu felt as if he had fallen into a trap specially arranged by the Shina people, and on the way they marched, they encountered large and small stragglers on the way from the beginning of the march, or they encountered mines and traps that made the troops' march very slow, and he knew that there would definitely be many traps waiting for them on the way of the team's advance, but it was getting late at this time, and in order to avoid unnecessary losses, he had to order the troops to stop their progress and set off after dawn.
A day's marching and a day's fierce fighting made the entire brigade really sleepy. However, after the attack stopped at dawn, all the officers and men of the 22nd Brigade found that they were carrying only a small amount of ammunition when they were lightly armed, in order to carry as much ammunition as possible.
For the 11th Division, which was accustomed to fighting on the battlefield in the vast and densely populated area, the lack of supplies was requisitioned on the spot, and to put it bluntly, the 11th Division, which was robbed, did not carry supplies in the first place. When I was in the gate, there was no supply to rob it. When the 11th Division fought in the Guannei of China, although it was not as beastly as the 6th Division. But it also claims that as long as there are Chinese, there will be supplies.
At the beginning of the Battle of Xuzhou, there was a rumor within the 11th Division that it would bring supplies and take Xuzhou City to sit and eat Li Zongren. For the Japanese army, which was predatory, and the battlefield supply capacity was extremely poor, and the limited supply vehicles had to transport ammunition and the wounded. Fighting in the Guannai, the villages and towns of the Chinese people are the supply depots of the empire, and after entering, they kick the door and go directly to rob them. If the people here hadn't fled, they would usually not mind taking care of the men's physiological needs and making a little fortune after solving the problem of eating. In the Japanese army, from the division commander to the ordinary soldier, there is no taboo to do this kind of thing.
A few years ago, the commander of the 114th Division of the Japanese Army, who was killed by the 18th Group Army during the sweep in Shandong, Numata Tokushige was known as the best in the Japanese army. As the dignified commander of the lieutenant general's division, the first thing this old man did whenever he went was to find him a flower girl everywhere.
At the age of fifteen, the dignified lieutenant general and division commander raped his own sister. When he raped the fiancée of a junior officer in China, he was bitten off half of his ear. When he was attached to the Second Division and stationed in the northeast, he was bitten off half of his chin when he raped a Chinese woman. In Xuzhou, half of his genitals were bitten off.
Not to mention the Japanese Lieutenant General Numata Tokushige, who was famous for his lustful nature, let's just say that after Nanjing was breached, Lieutenant General Tani Toshio, commander of the Sixth Division, instructed and connived at his subordinate officers and men to throw grenades at innocent people and fire them with machine guns, and he himself killed people with a saber, among which he himself raped more than 10 Chinese women, all the commanders of the lieutenant general division, not to mention the officers and soldiers below.
As a high-ranking officer, he openly raped women of the occupied country in public, and even openly raped the fiancées and biological sisters of his subordinates, which would have been punished severely in any army, and instead of being punished in the Japanese army, he rose all the way to the position of lieutenant general and division commander. The customs of the Japanese come from their mythical beast, the Yaki Orochi, which is deeply influenced by it, and its character has become that of an animal.
Since being transferred back to Guanwai, he has been far away from the Huahua World in Guannai. These were discovered by all the officers and men of the 22nd Infantry Brigade who had become accustomed to collecting food on the spot and solving other problems in their combat careers in the past few years. Here mountains are connected to mountains, forests are connected to forests, and all kinds of things that have never been seen are lacking, except for one. That's the kind of people you can see everywhere in China.
Before, there were group tribes here so that they could not be in a hurry, but under the repeated attacks of the Anti-Japanese Federation, the group tribes arranged by the Japanese army in the North Manchurian region were broken, and the people inside were also moved to a safe place, leaving only a bare pigsty for this group of Japanese troops, in order to rush over to rescue the 10th Infantry Brigade, the entire brigade only carried a small amount of food, but I thought that the supply had already been lost in order to increase the speed of the march in the pass, and there was no place to rob in this sparsely populated deep mountain and old forest. The officers and men of the 22nd Infantry Brigade, who were already exhausted and hungry, could only honestly stay where they were and wait for the supply vehicles to arrive in the rear. (To be continued.) )