Chapter 4: The Night of Changping (14)
The two battles that took place in Yanqing and Wangjiawei were mainly fought by special forces, and the top brass of the North Japanese Front did not know about it until the next day, and at that time, a big mistake had already been made. This directly led to the dismissal of the commander of the First Army, Kiyoji Kazuki.
Although later history books, including historians, attributed the Japanese army's oolong incident to the clever calculation of the little commander Ouyang Yun, Ouyang Yun himself never admitted it.
In fact, Ouyang Yun really didn't think about it so much when he asked Dadao to abolish the command system of the independent mixed first brigade and let the Wangjiawei defenders move to the Bagua Pass.
Also, how could he know that the remnants of the Ninth Division and the 108th Division of Ludao would carry out a night attack on Wangjiawei? Aren't the Japanese bad at night fighting?
Soon after the solo man left Wangjiawei with Sakai Hoji and the young man named Sanada Yuji, the 9th Division led by Yoshizu Ryosuke attacked Wangjiawei from the northwest. At the same time, the 108th Division led by Xiong Mi also attacked from the southwest.
At this time, the mixed troops led by Gu Mingchang and Zhang Yantian had already run away, and the Japanese army naturally pounced. However, because Gu and Zhang had planted a lot of mines on the frontal position of Wangjiawei against the mixed first brigade, this directly became the fuse that caused the two parts of the Japanese army to fight oolong.
As soon as the guns rang out from the Japanese position in Wangjiawei, the squadron that was on front-line combat duty in the 1st Brigade immediately exploded. Because when the squadron leader of the squadron was looking for the commander of the headquarters to ask for instructions on the combat mission, he found that the captain was missing. Then, as some soldiers discovered the body of Wing Commander Hyojiro Nagano, and then thought of the group of people who appeared in the barracks before, whether it was soldiers or officers, they all thought that they had been attacked by the Shina people for a long time, so the low-ranking officers began to take matters into their own hands and organized a team to launch a counterattack.
Originally, because of the distance between the two parts of the Japanese army, it was very likely that they would turn hostility into friendship. However, the mines left behind by Gu and Zhang ignited the "fighting spirit" of both sides, and as the "rumbling" explosions were heard incessantly, the officers and men of the two sides, who thought they had discovered the traces of the enemy troops, rushed to chase after them, and as a result, the two sides became closer and closer, and soon began to shoot at each other. In this way, the ping-pong game has been played for nearly an hour, and no one has noticed that the gunfire of the two warring sides is so familiar and the same.
Originally, if the three sides were to fight at this time, it would not have caused too serious consequences. However, due to the closer distance, when the flames of the explosion flashed, it was discovered that the enemy was wearing the same military uniform and using the same weapons as himself. The officers and men of the 1st Brigade and Regiment, who had already suffered losses in this respect, could not help but feel itching with hatred, and not only did they not restrain themselves because of the "cowardly" performance of their opponents, but on the contrary, they were unforgiving, and their attacks became more and more ferocious.
When the devils of the 9th Division and the 108th Division discovered that the enemy on the opposite side was actually wearing the same military uniform and using the same weapons as themselves, many officers realized that they might have misunderstood. As a result, some of the junior officers ordered their subordinates to suspend the attack, wanting to report the situation to the upper echelons and wait for the decision from above. However, their behavior of showing favor was attacked more violently, which made many devils realize that their own people on the opposite side were probably disguised by the Zhina people, so they also began to fight back unscrupulously.
This unscrupulousness did not matter, as the officers and men of the mixed 1st Brigade bravely broke into the depths of the defense line of the "Zhina people", the officers and men of the three sides began to entangle with each other, and after getting to the bottom of the problem, the devils of the 9th Division and the 108th Division could not distinguish each other clearly.
So, with Wangjiawei as the center, a big melee began.
This melee lasted for two and a half hours, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and under the inspiration, he ordered a large number of flares to be fired, so that the military flags of the three warring parties were exposed to everyone's field of vision, which ended the chaos. However, at this time, the big mistake had been made, and the first brigade with the most serious casualties was formed, and the battle losses exceeded sixty percent. The 9th Division and the 108th Division were in a much better situation at the beginning, but they still lost nearly 1,000 men and horses.
The results of the Japanese Oolong Battle in Wangjiawei were quite brilliant (of course, relative to China). A total of three high-ranking officials of the First Army were dismissed (Commander Kiyoshi Kazuki, Commander Yoshizuki Ryosuke, Commander of the 9th Division, and Shimoto Kumaya, Commander of the 108th Division), and one high-ranking officer was forced to die of illness (Mixed into the 1st Brigade Commander Sakai Hoji - as in the Dohihara incident, the Japanese army headquarters refused to admit that Sakai was captured, and used illness and death to deceive the people in the country). Moreover, it left a rather serious sequelae -- after the war, the officers and men of the 1st Brigade, the 9th Division, and the 108th Division became enemies, and after that, brawls between these three units were not uncommon, and became a big joke on the Chinese battlefield.
Turning his gaze from Wangjiawei to Changping and Lijiatunzi, the large-scale duel between the main force of the Xuebing Army and the main force of the First Army of the Japanese North China Front finally began.
The Japanese army, which was equivalent to three completed divisions, densely filled the fields and woods centered on Lijiatunzi, and launched an attack in the direction of Changping, completely ignoring the besieged 40th Brigade.
On the side of the Cadet Army, after the chariot regiment was dispatched, the "mud puddle" was finally captured. Then, it was to encircle and annihilate the remnants of the 40th Brigade at the risk of being surrounded by the main Japanese army.
"Military seat, the main advance of the Japanese army has approached Huangzhuang."
"Military seat, our army has already exchanged fire with the Japanese advance in Huangzhuang."
"Military seat, the main force of the Japanese army has all passed Jiutanzi, and it will arrive at Lijiatunzi in twenty minutes."
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One after another of the latest reconnaissance information was sent to Ouyang Yun, and the little commander stood still - "The 40th Brigade must die, and every devil can't let go!" ”
Tong Linge nodded: "Ouyang, I support you!" ”
Behind a simple fortification in the southeast of the "mud puddle", Yamashita Fengwen sat on the ground, carefully wiping the command knife in his hand, and turned a deaf ear to the sound of gunfire.
Several devil officers rushed over, several of them were covered in blood, and one of them persuaded: "General, you really can't hold it, let us cover your retreat!" ”
Yamashita Fengwen smiled, raised his head and looked at the bonfire in front of him, and Shaoqing said, "Haven't you realized yet?" In the eyes of the commander, we are already dead. I've been thinking about a question right now. ”
"What?"
"We used mustard gas before, was it right or wrong? What I mean by this is that Ouyang Yun, the temperament of the Zhina, do you know the Tao? Surely there will be retribution. In the future, if our country is defeated, what do you think he will do to our people? ”
"General, we won't lose."
"Really?" Yamashita Fengwen raised his head, then turned around and bowed a few times to the east, and said reverently: "Your Majesty the Emperor, please forgive me for not being able to serve you anymore!" Forgive me for your cowardice! With that, with a strong hand, the command knife wrapped in white cloth cut through the stomach and into the stomach, and then pulled it to the left......
"General!" "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander!"
Several of the officers screamed in a terrible voice.