Chapter 710: The best defense

The 8th Division, also known as the Hirosaki Division because the supply military region is Japan's Hirosaki, is also a division of the 44 system, which has participated in the Russo-Japanese War, the 918 Incident, and even the Battle of Rehe.

In the battle to invade Rehe, it was this 8th Division that captured Chengde, the capital of Rehe Province at that time, with 128 cavalry.

Later, the 8th Division defeated three divisions of the Central Army in the area of Nantianmen, which was enough to prove its combat effectiveness.

However, today, when the Battle of Wuhan was still going on not long ago, the Japanese top brass transferred a 32nd Infantry Wing from the 8th Division due to insufficient troops, and based on this, a new 24th Division was formed.

Therefore, the 8th Division became a three-unit division, and its overall strength also dropped to the point of a Type B division.

However, this is only relative to the main divisions such as the 1st Division, compared to the puppet army and the vulnerable warlord troops, the 8th Division is still a well-equipped, well-trained, and powerful Japanese army.

After all, this division, like the 1st Division, had never really participated in any defeated battles, and the losses of veterans were almost none, and the complete composition of elite veterans and the vast number of middle-level officers with combat experience naturally ensured its combat effectiveness.

The last 14th Division, one of the 17 permanent divisions of the Imperial Japanese Army, was formed on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War and participated in the Russo-Japanese War and the 77 Incident.

During the Battle of Xuzhou, it was the peripheral counterforce of the Japanese army, mainly facing the Central Plains Central Army stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River.

Today, it has been transferred to Guanwai and incorporated into the establishment of the Kwantung Army, because there was not much damage in the previous battles, but it has been tempered and baptized in actual combat, and the total strength is more than the 8th Division, so the current combat effectiveness is slightly stronger than the 8th Division.

The main establishment of the three divisions is that the 1st Division has two brigades under its jurisdiction the 1st and 2nd Brigades, and the two brigades are under the 1st Infantry Wing, the 49th Infantry Wing, the 3rd Infantry Wing and the 57th Infantry Wing.

Originally, this cavalry brigade had three cavalry wings, namely the 1st, 15th, and 16th wings, as well as an infantry artillery wing, but now this cavalry brigade has been renamed the 2nd armored fighting vehicle brigade, and two of the four wings under its jurisdiction have been reorganized into tank armored wings.

So now the 2nd Armored Brigade has two tank and combat vehicle wings, a cavalry wing and a cavalry artillery wing.

In addition, the division headquarters also directly administered a heavy artillery brigade, which originally had the 1st and 7th field heavy artillery wings and the 1st field artillery wing.

Later, the 1st Field Artillery Wing, together with other left-behind units, formed a new 101st Division to participate in the Battle of Wuhan.

It is worth mentioning that the artillery equipped with these two heavy artillery wings are all Japanese-style 150mm caliber heavy guns, and the firepower is quite powerful.

Together with the 2nd Armored Brigade, it is the most powerful backbone of the 1st Division.

In addition, there are several divisions and regiments directly under the troops, namely the 1st Baggage Wing, the 1st Field Hospital, the 1st Engineer Wing and other units.

Because the 8th Brigade had substantially become a three-unit division, the establishment at the brigade and regiment level was abolished, and only a wing was set up under the direct jurisdiction of the division and regiment headquarters.

It has the 5th, 17th, and 31st main infantry wings of the field, and several divisions and regiments directly under the troops, such as the 8th Cavalry Wing, the 8th Baggage Wing, the 8th Field Artillery Wing, the 2nd to 4th Field Hospitals, and the 8th Signal Brigade.

The 14th Division has the 27th Infantry Brigade and the 28th Brigade, and the two brigades are under the jurisdiction of the 2nd Infantry Wing, the 59th Infantry Wing, and the 15th and 50th Infantry Wings.

In addition, the division and regiment directly under the jurisdiction of the 18th Cavalry Wing, the 20th Field Artillery Wing Commander Miyagawa Kiyosa Sansa, the 14th Engineer Wing Wing Commander Iwakura Rumen Osa, the 14th Infantry Wing Commander Ishihara Shozo Nakasa, the Signal Team, the Health Team, the 1st to 4th Field Hospitals, and the Ordnance Maintenance Service Team.

On the whole, the strongest is still the 1st Division, which has a long history.

However, in terms of personal connections, he is still the head of the big secret service, and the commander of the 14th Division, Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara, is second to none, after this old devil entered Beiping City.

Went straight to the headquarters of the North China Front, and the commander Sugiyama Moto, who had already received the news, and the chief of staff, Kawabe Shozo, had already come to the gate of the headquarters to greet and wait.

The military car stopped, and the devil adjutant was the first to get out of the car, pull the car door for Kenji Dohihara, an old thing, and ask him to come down.

Sugiyama Mototo and Kawabe Shozo glanced at each other, one after the other, and immediately took the initiative to greet them, and before the greeting came: "Tufei Yuanjun has worked hard all the way......"

Kenji Dohihara immediately showed a flattered smile and walked quickly to greet him, and the three old devils gathered together, first saluting and then shaking hands.

Then, politely, they walked towards the inside of the headquarters together.

Sugiyama Motoko and Kawabe Shozo knew that a large number of powerful reinforcements were coming, and Kenji Dohihara was their old acquaintance and one of the three commanders of this reinforcement, so in a good mood, they specially prepared a sumptuous reception banquet for this old devil.

After entering the table, Kenji Dohihara was entertained with good wine, good meat, and good life, and finally drank a little hangover, and found a Japanese comfort woman to help Kenji Dohihara, the old guy, put out the fire.

This kind of comfort women are not ordinary comfort women who were forcibly recruited, but high-ranking comfort women recruited by Japan itself.

Full of wine and food, and a beautiful woman giving a, this can make the old thing Kenji Dohihara happy, and the sense of vanity and accomplishment has been greatly satisfied, and it is a thousand miles in the mouth of the beautiful woman in the country, and after the fun.

Kenji Dohihara fell asleep and did not wake up until the next day, when someone came to inform him to go to the conference room for a meeting, saying that the other two division commanders had arrived today, and that General Sugiyama Moto, the commander of the North China Front, had been invited.

At this point, all the commanders of the three masters of the devil have arrived, and they began to discuss how to use troops against Qiao Youhua's dragon tooth column.

At the same time, Qiao Youhua's Long Yingwei finally found out the exact information about the Japanese puppet army that entered the customs this time, and quickly reported to Qiao Youhua.

PS: I sent a relative to the county seat to check the illness today, and I came back after a busy day, and I was doing my best to code words, first a chapter, and there will be another chapter at about half past nine!