"Bringing untrained soldiers into battle is tantamount to throwing them into death. Chapter 5 of Volume 7 of Su Tong's Memoirs.

On a beach in Changhua, Taiwan, a group of Japanese soldiers were sweating like rain waving hoes and shovels in their hands, and in front of them were wires and trenches, densely lined up in the distance. To tell the truth, the depth of the Japanese trenches has exceeded the standard of field fortifications stipulated by the army, but the soldiers and officers on the position are still urging the soldiers to dig desperately.

"Ueno-kun, the fortifications here are deep enough, why are we digging them?" Taro Nakamura, who was digging hard with a hoe, stopped with his hoe and asked a military commander next to him.

Ueno Koichi stopped what he was doing, tore off the towel around his neck and wiped his sweat, picked up the kettle from his feet and poured a large mouthful of water into his mouth, then said with a wry smile: "Nakamura-kun, you just graduated from college, and you don't know the power of naval guns yet." If this is an ordinary land battle, our trenches are indeed enough, but now we have to deal with the large-caliber naval guns of the Chinese people, and our fortifications are far from enough, but to be honest, what we are doing now is just some useless work. ”

"Oh? Is the naval artillery of the Hwachina really so powerful? Taro Nakamura asked suspiciously, for this newcomer from college had only known about naval guns from movies or books, but he had never seen their actual power.

"You guys who just got out of school," Ueno sighed. Mao, looking around, found a slightly clean place and sat down.

"Nakamura-kun, you also sit down and rest, and leave these things to the people below." Ueno Hiroichi patted a piece of flat ground next to him and said, "Let's sit down and drink saliva first, and I'll explain it to you." ”

"It's not big." Taro Nakamura hesitated when the soldiers around him who were desperately digging the soil said, "If the captain arrives, he may punish us." ”

Ueno Hirokazu pouted, "What are you afraid of?" You are an officer, an officer should have the privilege of an officer, we can dig with them is already leading by example, and the captain is a warrant officer, you are also a warrant officer, what are you afraid of. ”

"Well, we'll take a break." Taro Nakamura smiled and sat down, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and handed it to Ueno Koichi, "Ueno-kun, come and smoke a cigarette." ”

Ueno Koichi took the cigarette and looked at it: "Yo Nakamura-kun, you're living a good life, this cloud smoke is a thing, where did you get it?" We don't have any cigarettes to sell here. Hiroshi Ueno took out a cigarette and handed it back to Nakamura.

Taro Nakamura pushed the cigarette case over and said with a smile: "This is what my friend bought for me, I don't know if it suits your taste, I rarely smoke as a person, if you like it, you can take it and smoke." ”

"Hehe, then thank you Nakamura-kun." Ueno Hiroshi accepted the cigarette with a smile, lit it and took a beautiful puff of praise and said, "Yo Xi, what a cigarette!" The taste is rich and mellow, and it really deserves to be the smoke of the Chinese people. ”

After Nakamura came to the garrison, he was assigned to a team as a deputy captain, assisting the captain in managing a team composed of more than 30 returning regiments and retired soldiers, he knew that there was not much time left for him, although he didn't know much about commanding the war, but he knew that he wanted to save his life and win over several of his military cao, so he also let go of the university these days and got into a fight with several military cao, and this Ueno consort was the focus of his wooing.

Ueno Hongichi is a nearly forty-year-old veteran Cao, this is his second conscription, because of his experience, so he re-enlisted as a sergeant chief (equivalent to the Chinese National Defense Force). The captain of the team and Taro Nakamura have a lot of respect for him.

Taro Nakamura also ordered. I didn't smoke a few puffs very well, but I was choked by the smell of smoke and coughed a few times, which made Ueno laugh.

"Nakamura-kun, you still have to learn more, a man who can't smoke and drink is not good!"

"I never learned to smoke in school, and my family didn't allow it financially, and my parents were very strict about that." Taro Nakamura explained unwillingly.

"Oh, so Nakamura-kun, your family is not very good, I heard that your friend bought this cigarette for you just now, so your friend's family must be very rich?"

"Yes, my friend's father, Kazuken Sakai, was a senior in the Logistics Bureau of the Ministry of the Army, and he was a classmate of our Governor Hase at the Army University." Nakamura Taro knew that in order to convince his subordinates, he had to have a good backstage, so he pretended to be very casual and leaked "secrets".

"What, Nakamura-kun, no, Chief Nakamura, your father-in-law is a classmate of Governor Hase? That's disrespectful. Sure enough, Ueno Hongichi was really taken aback after Taro Nakamura came out of his backstage so casually, and unconsciously even changed his name for Nakamura.

"It's nothing, everyone is working for His Majesty the Emperor, and my relationship with Sister Sakai is not about his background, but about his virtue." Although Nakamura was a little proud in his heart, he was still very reserved on the surface.

"Yo Xi, it turns out that Nakamura-kun's friend is the sister of the Sakai family, and Chief Nakamura is really fortunate to be here." There was a hint of awe in Ueno's words.

Under the deliberate wooing of Nakamura Taro and the deliberate flattery of Ueno Hiroichi, the two talked very happily, and after chatting for a while, Nakamura Taro pretended to ask strangely: "Ueno-kun, I heard that this time the people of China are determined to win Taiwan, can you and us defend it?" ”

Ueno Hiroichi smiled bitterly when he heard this, "Who knows, I'm afraid that only Amaterasu knows about this question." But according to my estimate, it will be difficult for us to resist the attack of the Chinese this time. ”

"What? Mu Yike is still waiting for me to go back to Tokyo and marry her! Nakamura had a look of horror on his face, it wasn't that he was pretending, but he was really a little scared in his heart.

"Alas!" Ueno Hongichi also sighed, looking at the big boy in front of him, who was about the same age as his son, a high-achieving young man who had just graduated from Jikyo University, and a young man with a great future, was so ruthlessly pushed into the battlefield.

"Nakamura-kun, you don't have to be nervous, we are here for the garrison, and we will retreat to the back after digging the trenches tonight, and the Governor will not easily send us to the front line, the beachhead is not something that we third-rate troops can defend, and the Governor will not understand this......

After listening to Ueno's words, Nakamura's eyes rolled and he asked tentatively, "Ueno-kun, do you want to return to Japan alive?" ”

Ueno Hiroichi was stunned one by one, "Who doesn't want to, but the problem is that once you go to the battlefield, your life is not your own, it's useless to think about it, this is the will of Amaterasu, Chief Nakamura, do you have any way?" ”

Nakamura Taro shook his head, "What can I do, I can only take one step at a time, but there is no endless road, as long as we work hard, there should always be a way."

Because he was a newcomer, Taro Nakamura didn't dare to communicate with people casually, so he could only take his time, and he would retreat to the back tonight, and there should be time for it.

“…… There is a coastline of six kilometers on the west coast of Taiwan, and the coast is gentle and easy to land, and about three kilometers is suitable for large-scale landing, but our strength is very limited, and only the 20 th and 21 divisions transferred from Turkey are the main forces, and in particular, Tanaka-kun's 20 th Division is our standing division. This is the main force of our defense of Taiwan, followed by Sato-kun's 21st Division, which also has considerable combat effectiveness. However, the 136th Division, which had just been transferred from China, was much worse, and the officers and men of the 136th Division, a newly established division, were mixed, and although their combat effectiveness would not be crushed with a single blow when they encountered the china, I estimated that they were not able to attack the china men with naval artillery on the beachhead. Now our defense is focused on the area around the Tamsui River in Taipei. However, the Chinese army used naval artillery to attack the imperial fortifications during the invasion of Korea, and that war had proved that every area suitable for landing on the west coast of Taiwan could become a landing point for the Chinese army, and every coast of Taipei, Hsinchu Prefecture, Taichung Prefecture, Shengnan Prefecture and Kaohsiung Prefecture from north to south could become a landing ground for the Chinese army. The destruction inflicted by the tactical bombing of Taiwan's communications systems, bridges, and railway centers has weakened our ability to respond to an offensive. ”

In the Taiwan Governor's Palace, Hasegawa Kiyoshi pointed to the sand table and talked, and in front of him were several senior generals of the Japanese army, all of whom listened attentively to Hasegawa's explanation.

Lieutenant General Nobuyoshi Tanaka, commander of the 20th Division, said worriedly: "Your Excellency Governor, according to the latest information, the people of China have now gathered more than three warships, including the three aircraft carriers of the entire South China Sea Fleet, and are entrenched in Fujian, Zhejiang, and other places, and are about to attack us in the near future.

The Imperial Navy's warships in Taiwan alone cannot be stopped, but the blocking positions we have established on the beachhead are of little use, so why did Your Excellency order the formation of a garrison to build fortifications? ”

Facing the questions of his subordinates, Hasegawa Kiyoshi smiled bitterly: "Tanaka-kun, the situation in the empire is like this, although we have made the judgment that we can't defend against the enemy on the beach, but it doesn't mean that the big camp also agrees with our law, although I don't like some things, I have to do it." ”

Tanaka Nobuyoshi couldn't help but salivate when he heard it, as a senior general, he naturally knew what those people in the country were thinking now, if they knew that Hasegawa Kiyoshi gave up the beachhead and turned the main force into a fortified city to meet the enemy, then a crime of fear of the enemy and cowardice would never be able to run, if this battle was won, if he lost, then the blame for the defeat would all fall on his head, and now Hasegawa Kiyoshi asked people to resist a little when the Chinese attacked after building fortifications on the beachhead, and even if they were defeated, there would be an excuse to shirk. Thinking of this, Tanaka Nobuyoshi couldn't help but sigh secretly, when did the generals of the empire actually fear the people of China to this journey, this has not started the war yet, and the senior generals have arranged a retreat for themselves, is this still the invincible imperial army seven years ago?

But Tanaka Nobuyoshi also understands that this is also the current general mentality of the senior generals of the empire, since the emperor's ** team was driven back to the land from the mainland by the Chinese people, most of the senior generals have a fear of the once disdainful Chinese army, how many outstanding generals of the empire have been defeated under the hands of the Chinese people, even Okamura Ningji, Itako Seishiro, **Marshal, Matsui Ishine and other empire once proud have been defeated one by one, especially Sakhalin 40,000 imperial elites lost in the first battle, this fear of the enemy is even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Governor of Long Valley is not exempt from vulgarity?

"Who are you going to let guard the beachhead?" Tanaka Nobuyoshi believes that Hasegawa Kiyoshi has put so much effort into building fortifications, so he will definitely arrange some cannon fodder to plug the gun holes on the beach.

"Of course, I sent those Taiwanese soldiers to guard, and I have led the country to train them for so many years, and now it is their turn to contribute." Chihiro Sato, the commander of the 21st Division on the side, pouted his lips on the side, without thinking.

As early as the 15th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese authorities ordered the formation of a brigade of about 6,000 people specially composed of Taiwanese, and the military commanders and instructors of this brigade were all noncommissioned officers and officers on active duty.

Their combat qualities were no worse than those of ordinary Japanese divisions, and their performance in the Wicker Lake Incident and the suppression of the Northeast Resistance Army was very eye-catching. But no matter how eye-catching the performance of these Taiwanese soldiers is, in the eyes of these "day" masters, they are always the corners of third-class citizens, and now Hasegawa Qing needs cannon fodder to block the eye-catching, and everyone thought of them at the first time.

"Well, Sato-kun is right, those Taiwanese soldiers are deeply favored by the emperor, it's time for them to pay some price, and it's also a good thing to let the people of China fight the people." Although the schools of the "Japanese" people in Taiwan have always preached the theory that Taiwan is already the territory of the "Japanese", and the Taiwanese are naturally the "Japanese" people, even the "Japanese" people themselves do not regard the Taiwanese as compatriots, so Hasegawa Seiichi Sato Chihiro is so empathetic, where is not the water to push the boat.

"But after all, they are three brigades with strong combat effectiveness, so wouldn't it be a pity for us to push them to the beach? There are more than 20,000 of them in three brigades! Tanaka Nobuyoshi did not feel sorry for those Taiwanese soldiers, but was worried that the casualties of Taiwanese soldiers would be too large and the troops guarding various cities on the island would be insufficient.

"Tanaka Junde also has a point." Hasegawa Kiyoshi sorted out his thoughts for a while and said, "Since this is the case, then we will arrange the two brigades on the beach, if there are too few troops, there will be not enough troops." ”

"That's fine." Nobuyoshi Tanaka and Chihiro Sato also agreed to this arrangement, but Chihiro Sato rolled his eyes and suggested: "Your Excellency, since the people of Shina are about to call, in order to prevent the Taiwanese from reporting to the soldiers of Shina, should we clean up all the fishermen along the coast?" ”

With the hideousness on Chihiro Sato's face, the staff officers behind couldn't help but feel a pang in their hearts, they knew that this Sato Shihiro was going to open the killing ring, but as soon as Chihiro Sato spoke, there was a chorus from Hasegawa Kiyoshi and Tanaka Nobuyoshi in unison.

"Don't!"

"Sato-kun, don't do anything stupid." Tanaka Nobuyoshi hurriedly stepped forward to stop him: "It's not seven years ago, you can't do this kind of massacre of civilians Sato-kun again." ”

Chihiro Sato was stunned for a moment, and then sneered: "Why, the cannonballs of the Shina people are about to fall on our heads." Do you still want to shelter those lowly Shina people? Are you still not a warrior of the Empire? ”

"Yaga!" Tanaka Nobuyoshi on the side couldn't help but be furious when he heard that Chihiro Sato had such a dizzy remark: "Bastard Sato-kun, what are you talking about, I, you're dizzy, what time is it, you still think about slaughtering civilians to vent your anger, haven't you thought about how much harm this move will bring to the empire?" ”

Hasegawa Kiyoshi also frowned on the side, this Chihiro Sato is really a reckless man, and now he still wants to do this kind of bastard thing, he frowned: "Commander of the Sato Division, Tanaka-kun is very right, after you return to the army, you must restrain the troops, and you can't do such things that damage the face of the empire." Do you know why the people of China have not sent planes to bomb Taiwan until now? That's because we both have a tacit agreement not to attack civilians. If the Chinese people learned about our massacre of civilians, they would have reported it in large numbers, have you forgotten the bombing of Tokyo a few years ago? ”

Hasegawa Kiyoshi didn't make a loud voice, but it was like a blow to Chihiro Sato, and the bombing of Tokyo by the Chahar army a few years ago has not relieved the once prosperous city to this day. The fire that burned half of Tokyo made the entire Japanese military community still feel palpitations when I think about it now. It was also that fire that made the Japanese no longer dare to massacre civilians in China, and once this tacit understanding was broken, even Hasegawa Kiyoshi did not dare to imagine what the consequences would be.

Chihiro Sato, who was reprimanded by Hasegawa Kiyoshi, snorted coldly and didn't say a word.

"Now, the attack of the people of China is imminent, everyone go back to reorganize the troops!" Hasegawa Kiyoshi sighed and ended today's meeting "Hai ............!".