After receiving the urgent telegram sent by Hua Dajia on the secret radio, Chen Feng sighed in his heart, and secretly said that he was really careless this time, but he didn't expect that the real purpose of the little devil was to return to Sui and Baotou, maybe the little devil was ready to take this opportunity to annihilate himself.

Although he said that he was not worried that the 61st Army would be wiped out by the Japanese in this way, if he really fought hard with the four powerful field divisions of the Japanese army, plus three independent mixed brigades and a large number of puppet troops, even if he really won the victory after the most reluctance, his situation would not necessarily be much better, and the sentence of killing 10,000 enemies and losing 8,000 himself was not a fool's nonsense.

Without having time to think about it, Chen Feng hurriedly sent a telegram back to Hua Dajia, asking him to immediately find out at all costs what the Japanese army was capturing Guisui, and how many people there were.

At the same time, Chen Feng sent another telegram to Li Yifeng, ordering the 222nd Division stationed in Jining to immediately seize the commanding heights along the line from Zhuozi County to Jining, and then block the Japanese army step by step.

In the evening, Hua Dajia sent reliable information that it was the 26th Division of the Mongolian Army that captured Guisui, and the 26th Division also assisted the 26th Division in the battle, including the 4th Division of the Japanese Army, the 15th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, the 2nd Division of the Puppet Mongolian Army Guard, the 7th and 8th Cavalry Divisions, and the 6th Infantry Division and the 5th Cavalry Division of the puppet Manchukuo, with a total of more than 65,000 troops.

After reading this telegram, Chen Feng was really relieved in his heart, to be honest, Chen Feng really didn't pay attention to the troops stationed in Mongolia, whether it was the 26th Division or the 15th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Army, they were beaten all over the ground by the 61st Army many times. The vast majority of the troops have undergone at least three major replenishments, and in terms of combat effectiveness, they are far inferior to those of half a year ago. So at the beginning, Chen Feng didn't pay too much attention to the garrison army, I heard that the garrison army came to reinforcements, and even took down many cities of the Chinese army in one day, which made Chen Feng startled, and thought it was some strong troops, but he didn't expect it to be the fourth division in Osaka, it seems that God still favors him.

Chen Feng of the Fourth Division had long heard of its 'prestige', and the reason why Chen Feng knew about this unit was entirely because Chen Feng had read an article when he was in college. This article was written by Seki Kosuke, a modern Japanese historian. The name is "The First Abandoned Division of the Japanese Army". This article has described in detail various anecdotes of the Fourth Division, and also gave Chen Feng a certain understanding of the Fourth Division that still existed in the battle sequence of the Japanese army's "masturbation team" after World War II.

The actions of the Japanese soldiers in World War II make us think of nothing more than "brutality", "extreme ferocity", and "killing people without blinking". Then I think of the "allegiance to the emperor" and "bushido" that they often shout. They all seem to be outlaws. However, few people know about it. At that time, in the "Imperial Army," which was at the leading level in the world in terms of equipment and military quality, there was an alternative unit that was "famous" for its extremely poor combat effectiveness. It is the Osaka Fourth Division, known as the "first abandoned division in the Imperial Army".

The 4th Osaka Division was established in 1888 and consisted mainly of Osaka vegetable vendors, making it one of the oldest divisions in the Japanese army. The Fourth Division was one of the first few field divisions established by the Japanese army, and its natural qualifications were far from being comparable to those units that were established later. The Japanese military headquarters did not neglect this unit in terms of personnel or weapons and equipment, and it had everything in terms of long guns and short artillery fighting vehicles, but in terms of hardware, the Fourth Division was no worse than any division of the Japanese army in active service.

But this unit did not bring honor to the Japanese army like other Japanese regiments, but continued to be humiliated. Especially during the Russo-Japanese War, the 4th Division was repeatedly defeated, which greatly disappointed the Japanese military leadership. After that, until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Fourth Division never went to the front line.

In order to improve the combat effectiveness of this unit and rejuvenate the fighting spirit of the soldiers, the base camp of the Japanese army successively transferred several famous generals to retrain the division, such as Terauchi Shouichi, who is currently the commander of the North China Front, and Yamashita Fumi, who was famous in the Pacific War as the commander of the Fourth Division, but they also had no way to take the Fourth Division, which was accustomed to being free and loose.

The Japanese army recruited troops in a geographical concentration, so many of the soldiers of the units came from one place. And there is a general rule in the armies of the whole world, that is, the more the people who come out of the places where the living environment is poor, the more fierce the people are, and the more fierce the people are, the stronger the combat effectiveness of the troops formed. For example, in modern China, there are many warlords, large and small, such as the Northeast Army, the Northwest Army, the Sichuan Army, the Gui Army, the Yunnan Army, the Guizhou Army, the Jin Sui Army, the Hunan Army, the Guangdong Army, and so on. Among all the warlords, the Northwest Army and the Gui Army, which had the harshest natural environment, had the strongest combat effectiveness, followed by the Northeast Army, and the Jin Sui Army and the Sichuan Army, which had the Shanxi Plateau and the Chengdu Plain as their support, were obviously inferior in combat effectiveness to the above troops.

By the same token, the main recruiting ground of the 4th Division was Osaka, Japan, which was a famous commercial city in Japan, and most of its residents were business-related, and their respect for the princes was very limited. On the contrary, around the issue of excesses and miscellaneous taxes, the people of Osaka have been constantly fighting wits and courage and bargaining with the princes for hundreds of years, resulting in the fact that the people of Osaka do not have the spirit of obedience of the Japanese in other places to the emperor and other rulers, so the Fourth Division composed of the people of Osaka does not have the psychological basis of the fanatical "loyalty to the emperor" of the Japanese army.

Without a psychological foundation, the so-called loyalty, let alone talking. Although soldiers born in Osaka were also seduced by militarism during World War II, the people of Osaka were not in a hurry to "die for the sake of the emperor and for the Japanese Empire". Officers and men from Osaka are also accustomed to "bargaining" and "calculating" orders from their superiors, and will not carry them out to the end with their eyes closed as other units do. Even within the Fourth Division, the so-called "three don'ts" principle of "don't pay for unnecessary sacrifices," "don't take part in unreasonable battles," and "don't pursue enemy troops who are desperate."

When he learned that it was this Fourth Division that was attacking in the direction of Jining, Chen Feng's brain was running at a high speed. It was not an easy thing to meet the Fourth Division, but he knew that in the future, almost all the Chinese troops were looking forward to meeting the Japanese Fourth Division, and now he was lucky, he actually met this army shortly after the start of the war, Chen Feng had an urge to bow down to God.

This is not that Chen Feng is deliberately belittling the Fourth Division, there is such a saying in the Japanese army, "With the Fourth Division participating in the war, the battle that could have been won will also be lost......

This is not nonsense, it is all proven. In fact, the reputation of the Fourth Division has long been heard of by the Chinese army, as early as during the Battle of Xuzhou, the Chinese army encountered a "strange Japanese army". At that time, in the face of the encirclement of the Japanese army, Li Zongren commanded an army of 400,000 to skillfully jump out of the encirclement of the Japanese army. However, after the Chinese army broke through the siege, it was already sleepy and lacking in people, and it had lost a lot of heavy equipment, and its combat effectiveness had been sharply reduced. While crossing a road on the border between Lusu-Anhui Province, the tired Chinese army suddenly found a well-equipped Japanese army on the road.

Exhausted, the Chinese army spotted the enemy in a panic and left the road in confusion and retreated to the nearby mountains. Strangely, after a long time, no Japanese troops were chasing, and the commander of the Chinese army was surprised and sent people to investigate, but saw that the Japanese army had no intention of pursuing at all, on the contrary, the Japanese army was still cooking in a grand place on both sides of the road. This strange Japanese unit was none other than the southward detachment of the 4th Division.

Since they had just jumped out of the encirclement of the Japanese army, the situation was still very dangerous, and the Chinese army had no choice but to cross the road with one heart, and the result was that the road was safe. Afterwards, the commander of the southward detachment explained to his superiors on the grounds of "strict observance of combat discipline": "I have not received an order to intercept the Chinese army. ”

When the news reached the ears of the Chinese army, the saying that "the Japanese soldiers in Osaka would not fight" became popular. Every time they fought, when the Chinese army heard that the opponent was the "Osaka Division", their morale often increased greatly, and they rushed to engage the Fourth Division. The Fourth Division, which had just arrived at the front line, was caught off guard and suffered several defeats one after another, and even implicated friendly troops, so much so that friendly and neighboring troops complained to the headquarters of the 11th Army: "With the Fourth Division participating in the battle, the battle that could have been won would have been lost, but because the morale of the enemy army was greatly boosted, it would have lost ......."

It was his luck to run into this army, and Chen Feng said that he couldn't let such a good opportunity slip away from him. After thinking for a while, Chen Feng analyzed the map for nearly half an hour, and finally came to a conclusion that if it was successfully fought, the 222nd Division would most likely completely annihilate the fourth division, and even if it could not be completely annihilated, it would be able to inflict heavy damage on its main force.

Chen Feng first compared the strength and weapons and equipment of the two sides, and found that in terms of strength, the total strength of the Fourth Division plus the puppet army that fought together was more than that of the 222nd Division, but the gap between the two sides was not very large. Speaking of weapons and equipment, although the Fourth Division is a permanent field division of the Japanese army, the Fourth Division has always been subordinate to the Japanese Kwantung Army, and it can rush from the northeast to Saibei in a short period of time, and then rush to Suiyuan to participate in the battle.

The 222nd Division is different, after reorganization, the 222nd Division not only has a complete artillery regiment, equipped with a full 36 75mm caliber mountain guns, but also has an air defense regiment, and the firepower network composed of 48 twin anti-aircraft machine guns is a nightmare for any army. Moreover, some time ago, Chen Feng strengthened the artillery of each unit, and each regiment added 4 large-caliber heavy mortars. In addition, the rifles of the 61st Army were originally better than the Japanese army's 38 big cover, and the crooked handle and Type 92 of the Japanese army's equipment in terms of machine guns were far inferior to the 222nd Division, so in terms of weapons and equipment, the Fourth Division was not on the same level as the 222nd Division at all.

In addition, the 222nd Division is a defense of the territory, familiar with the terrain, and has strong morale, and has the belief that if you don't win, you will die. On the other hand, the Fourth Division was not familiar with the terrain and had a very weak will to fight, so such a unit could only fight a tailwind, and once it encountered a setback, the final result would be a major rout, and the arrival of the Fourth Division was a complete surprise for Chen Feng. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )