Chapter 43: Itagaki has changed his course
Itagaki Seishiro has been bitter in his heart, as a bridgehead unit entering China, the losses of the Fifth Division are too great.
From the beginning of the Northeast Campaign, his troops continued to suffer attrition, and in the Battle of the Great Wall, his losses were even heavier.
When he arrived at the Battle of Taiyuan, Liu Yuan finally couldn't catch up in the south, and he actually met a guy named Wei Lihuang.
Under his command, he actually suffered a setback again, if it was just his student Yan Xishan's waste, what qualifications did he have to fight against him.
I traveled all the way to the mountains and rivers and saw the whole of Shanxi, just to one day, to play Yan Xishan, a waste.
But where did he think that although he dangled a shot and played Yan Xishan, he had a fierce battle with Wei Lihuang in Xinkou.
The losses were so heavy that one of their subordinates, a general named Fu Zuoyi, rushed to their front-line headquarters with his troops and almost surrounded and annihilated him.
Itagaki Seishiro said that Itagaki Seishiro was the closest to death, but Itagaki Seishiro survived in the end, and from that day on, Itagaki Seishiro felt that it was Amaterasu who was protecting him.
But when it came to the Battle of Nankou, a man named Tang Enbo humiliated him again, and one of his brigades was almost surrounded and annihilated.
It's all to blame on Liu Yuan, if he hadn't set a precedent for encircling and annihilating the Imperial Division, how could the damned Zhina people be tempted by a brigade of the Empire.
The Fifth Division has been fighting with humiliation, and they hope that this Jinpu Road operation can strike a good blow at the prestige of the Chinese. But in the small place of Linyi, a little-known army commander once again blocked his way.
"General, I'm sorry." The commander of the 36th Brigade, Toshinori Matsushita, who commanded the attack, walked up to Seishiro Itagaki in annoyance.
In the past, Itagaki would have killed Matsushita, but this time he didn't, but listened to Matsushita quietly.
"General, our attack has failed under the cover of tanks, please give me another chance, I won't make a mistake."
Itagaki handed the binoculars to Matsushita and said to Matsushita, "Didn't you notice the change in the soldiers of Shina when you attacked just now?" ”
"Your Excellency is talking about the Central Army? You're saying their reinforcements have arrived. "As the brigade commander, Matsushita is a very sensitive person, and as soon as Seishiro Itagaki reminded him, he knew the truth.
He knew very well that the anti-tank weapons of the Southwest Army had been exhausted, and the opportunity tank at this time must be the Central Army. Because there were simply no troops of the Southwestern Army nearby.
No, I saw with my own eyes just now that a bullet from a rifle penetrated the mailbox of our tank, and there should have been a special force trained by General Liu Yuan himself who entered the battlefield.
"Then should we ask the base camp to bring in our chrysanthemum commando." Panasonic solicited Seishiro Itagaki for ita.
Itagaki Seishiro was very annoyed, when the special forces of Shina appeared on the battlefield, it meant that Liu Yuan was likely to have arrived nearby, so did it mean that there was no hope for him to take Linyi's operational plan.
This Linyi is the gateway to Xuzhou, can't take Linyi, if you go to Xuzhou, how to explain to the general in the temple!
"General!" Confidential Staff Officer (responsible for managing the reception and sending of important telegrams. Shintaka Cailie ran up to Seishiro Itagaki and said with the telegram in his hand, "General, happy event, happy event, General Liu Yuan of China personally came to Linyi to command the battle. ”
Hearing that Liu Yuan came to Linyi, everyone showed a sense of fear, and many Japanese generals had a sense of fear for Liu Yuan, who played with their comrades-in-arms in the south, and the fear came from the bones, and the Japanese were often the most afraid of the strong.
"Baga, are you men, are you warriors of the Great Japanese Empire, General Liu Yuan is a warrior and a strong man, but we are not weak either, we must defeat him, wash away the shame of the past, and let His Majesty the Emperor personally hang the general's medal on our chests, that will be a great honor for us." Seishiro Itagaki was very prestigious in the army, and his words lifted the morale of the generals of the army.
At the mention of the emperor, many hot-blooded generals became fanatical. "Hey!" Since the Northeast Campaign, Liu Yuan has become the imaginary enemy of all Japanese officers, and the Japanese base camp even fired 50 million oceans to buy Liu Yuan's head.
You must know that Chiang Kai-shek's head is not worth so much money, so Chiang Kai-shek has to complain.
Seeing the fanatical appearance of the soldiers, Itagaki stood up straight, took out the command knife, waved it and said, "Next, I order, the commander of the Matsushita Brigade will command a wing to be responsible for feints in Linyi, and the other troops will follow me to the north, unite with Isoya Ryosuke, and defeat the little fox of Hu Lian." ”
After Itagaki finished speaking, the officers under his command didn't come over for a while, and Matsushita hurriedly asked, "General, aren't we going to capture General Liu Yuan alive?" We need to change the course for what we want. ”
It's that simple, we usually don't get the information of General Liu Yuan, but this time we got the information that he went to Linyi, what does this mean, this shows that this information is the bait he threw to us, and the whole Linyi City is also his bait, I think he is using the strong walls of Linyi City and his life to tempt me to attack him, and then his large army detours from the flank, surrounds us and fights a siege and annihilation battle, this is his style of approach.
We don't have many troops left, and we can't unite with General Isoya Ryosuke, so I think he will make a fuss in the blank space between me and General Isoya Ryosuke, so we can't be surrounded by them, and we have to encircle them, we have to concentrate on eliminating the young man named Hu Lian first, and then capture General Shina alive, and then he will be too late to run.
Seishiro Itagaki said to the people around him with great confidence.
"General, you are so wise." Everyone looked at Itagaki with great admiration.
Itagaki was also a little proud in his heart, and at this time he forgot how Hu Lian was competing with him back then. He felt that in the past, the Japanese won tactically, but in the strategy of the whole war, they were always led by the nose.
This time he summed up a large amount of Liu Yuan's combat information, and found out this habit of his, so he thought that this time Liu Yuan would definitely continue to fight him like this, so he had to do the opposite, this time, he had a hunch that the highest glory of the empire would be obtained by himself.
Damn Liu Yuan, wait, I will definitely personally capture you at that time, and your failure will definitely cause a chain reaction, and then the entire branch will collapse because of your failure.
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