The Qingshui Wing was marching rapidly to the south, the infantry brigade was marching fast, and soon opened a distance of more than three kilometers with the rear guard cluster composed of baggage and engineers, etc., and the troops were about to arrive at Longmen Village in the southwest of Nandaozuizi, the captain of the first brigade asked Shimizu Dazuo, if you want to stop and wait for the first guard troops, Qingshui took two breaths on the horse, looked at the surrounding mountains, and ordered not to stay here, and crossed Longmen Village and went straight to Nandaozui!

When Qingshui's special operations wing was established, as mentioned earlier, it was mainly formed by drawing soldiers from the 110th Division, which can be said to be the main opponent of the Eighth Route Army in the middle and late stages of the Anti-Japanese War, and its participation can be seen in almost every large-scale sweep of the Japanese army in northwest and southeast Hebei. Watermark Ad Test: Watermark Ad Test

In the entire northwest of Hebei, the Anti-Japanese War period did not count the Japanese army numbers that changed like a marquee at the beginning, and the main ones that fought here and the Eighth Route for a long time were the 110th Division, the **2nd Mixed Brigade, and the 63rd Division of the 110th Division that took over the defense area after being transferred away at the beginning of the 44th year.

During the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, the Jin-Cha-Ji 1st Division, the 3rd Division, and the 6th Division, not counting those of the Imperial Cooperative Army of the Public Security Army, there were Japanese troops that were equal to several divisions in the northwest of Hebei, and there were three in total, that is, the 110th Division of the Japanese Army with its base camp in Shijiazhuang, the 2nd Brigade of the Japanese Army with its base camp in Zhangjiakou, and the 63rd Division of the Japanese Army that took over the defense area of the 110th Division after the 110th Division was transferred away in early 1944.

Many soldiers in the Shimizu Wing were transferred to the reserve and assigned to the 110th Division after serving in the 10th Division. Shimizu Dazuo was able to get these soldiers together, and he really put a lot of effort into it. Now that this is about retreating, the devil veterans are like arrows, and they run fast!

Leave a little space to talk about the 110th Division, Yang Bangzi has been dealing with it for several years.

110th Division of the Japanese Army. It was June 1938 (Showa 13) after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China. The 10th Division, which remained behind in Himeji, was responsible for the formation of a special division. The newly formed 110th Division is a type B division with 4 wings: also known as the pack horse division, due to the shortage of horses in the later period. In terms of the standard of the first division regiment, the cavalry wing was compressed and changed to a brigade (some did not have cavalry). It has jurisdiction over 2 brigades (2 infantry wings per brigade), one wing each of engineers, artillery and baggage, a total of 7 wings. A total of 24,400 non-combatants from the regimental headquarters of the first division and the regimental headquarters of the two brigades were added.

Lieutenant General Mamoru Iinuma, commander of the 110th Division. The department is stationed in the Shijiazhuang area, under the jurisdiction of: Major General Ishii Kaho, commander of the 108th Infantry Brigade: the 139th and 140th Infantry Wings. Major General Mizuki Tsuda, commander of the 133rd Infantry Brigade: 110th and 163rd Infantry Wings. The 110th Cavalry Brigade, the 110th Field Artillery Wing, the 110th Engineer Wing, the Signal Brigade, the Sanitary Corps, the 1st to 4th Field Hospitals. After its formation, it was immediately dispatched to North China and incorporated into the North China Front Army's operational sequence, and while being responsible for the security near Beijing, it carried out public security operations along the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway.

After the start of the Pacific War, he participated in various operations in North China under the North China Front. In May 1942 (Showa 17), due to the lack of Japanese soldiers, the 140th Wing of the 110th Division was requisitioned by the 71st Division, and the 110th Division was reorganized into three infantry divisions - Type C Division: expanded from mixed brigades. It has jurisdiction over 3 infantry companies, 1 company each of engineering and artillery, generally 5 wings, plus about 15,500 non-combatants at the division and regiment headquarters.

March 1944 (Showa 19). The 110th Division was transferred out of Shijiazhuang and incorporated into the battle sequence of the 12th Army, participated in the Battle of Yuxianggui in the first section of the Battle of Yuxianggui, captured Luoyang City and was responsible for the garrison after the occupation. In April 1945 (Showa 20), he was responsible for the destruction of the airfield in the Battle of Northern Hubei in Western Henan, and returned to Luoyang after the battle, and ushered in the final battle there.

Himeji City, which gave rise to the 110th and 10th Divisions of the Japanese Army, is located in Hyogo Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. A small county-affiliated area has produced the main strength of two army divisions, not including the production of other soldiers such as the navy and the air force.

In modern times, Himeji City is a tourist city and a modern industrial city famous for its white castle, because the white castle in Himeji City resembles an egret with wings spread, so the Japanese 110th Division has the code name of "Heron" troops; Hyogo Prefecture is full of iron and steel enterprises, so the 10th Division of the Japanese Army has the code name of the "iron" unit.

In 1945, U.S. bombers razed the city of Himeji to the ground, and today's city of Himeji was rebuilt from a devastated foundation. In the war more than half a century ago, there are still traces of the 110th Division and the 10th Division of the Japanese Army that emerged from this city, and you can't see it even if you look all over the city. The local "Peace Memorial Hall" in Himeji City records how he suffered from the bombing of American planes, and there is no word about the suffering caused by the Japanese army to the Chinese.

The composition of the 110th Division of the Japanese Army was formed by re-recruiting the reservist officers and soldiers of the 10th Division who had retired and returned home after many years. This kind of Japanese reserve division was set up "ad hoc," and its combat effectiveness and military discipline were poor, and the important reason was that its members had dragged their families and families with their families and were unwilling to fight hard in the war, but they often found vent among the common people.

Let's take a look at the Japanese own historical record about the bad deeds of the 110th Division:

北tan (ほくたん)村の虐殺事件は、日本が華北で行なった三光作戦の1つです。 In May 1942, the 110th Division of the Japanese Army in North China was in the middle of Hebei Province (in the central part of Hebei Province). 村は原にあって、220世帯、1227人が住んでいました。 村人たちは日本軍から逃れるため、全村をつないで掘っていた坑道に隠れました。

その坑道に日本軍は毒ガスを投入したのです。 poison death と射殺によって1100人余りが殺害されました。 女は、毒ガスで殺害されたほか、多数が強かんされました。 村の家屋36軒が焼かれ、食糧や財産も略奪されました。

This historical fact is not translated due to many errors, so let's explain it directly. The "Beitan Village, Dingxian County" in the text is a misremembering of the "Beituan Village" in Dingxian County. Beituan Village now belongs to Xicheng Township, Dingzhou City, Hebei Province, and during the Anti-Japanese War, it was one of the anti-Japanese bases on the Jizhong Plain. During the "May Day Sweep" in 1942, on May 27, the Japanese army used poison gas on the people hiding in the tunnels during the "sweep" of Beituan Village.

At that time, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Headquarters issued a telegram accusing the violent enemy of poisoning and killing the Beituan compatriots, "Under the poisonous hands of the Japanese invaders, most of my more than 800 unarmed people hidden in the tunnels were old men, old women, women, children, and nursing babies, and all of them were suffocated to death!" Their corpses were crammed into the tunnels, and the horror was unbearable to see. At the end of 1942, the anti-Japanese government established a martyr's cemetery for the victims of Beituan, and Huang Jing, then secretary of the Party Committee of Jizhong District, also wrote an inscription.

After talking about the 110th Division, let's talk about the same 63rd Division as the 91st Wing of the 47th Division and the 91st Wing of the 47th Division that was fighting hard in Tieyingpan at this time.

The 63rd Division, formed by the Japanese Army in May 1943, includes part of the ** Mixed 15th Brigade and ** Mixed 6th Brigade, with reference to the Public Security Division formed in North China by the troops formed in Japan (recorded in Japan as being formed in Utsunomiya on May 1, Showa 18, codenamed "Jin" Force). The 63rd Division is the lowest-ranking D division in the division: it has jurisdiction over only 3 infantry wings, and the other branches of the army only have a brigade or squadron establishment, with a total number of about 11,000 people.

After the 63rd Division was formed, it was assigned to the North China Front Army and was responsible for the garrison in the area from Beijing to Baoding. In May 1944 (Showa 19), he participated in the Jinghan operation in the mainland opening operation. In June 1945 (Showa 20), the 63rd Division was transferred to Manchuria and attached to the 44th Army, stationed in Tongliao. In August of the same year, he retreated to Mukden with the offensive of the Soviet army, and ushered in the final battle in charge of the defense of the eastern part of Mukden. The fate of this division was very bitter, and in Siberia it was taken by the Soviet army as the lowest laborer, building railways, roads, and logging, and only a few of them returned to Japan alive.

The Japanese manga artist Sato Kunio Sasu first introduced was a machine gun shooter of the 63rd Division, who was stationed in Yi County, Hebei Province. Born in Fujioka City, Gunma Prefecture, he was drafted into the 1st Machine Gun Squadron of Unit 38 in Takasaki in March 1941 (Showa 16) while working in Toho. In July, after the completion of the first phase of education, he was transferred to the North China Formation (the 63rd Division of the Japanese Army). In June 1945, it was transferred to the Northeast Kwantung Army. In October of the same year, he was sent to four locations in Siberia and transferred to four locations in the Irkutsk region to serve hard labor. He returned to Japan in July 1948 and was demobilized from the army.

The 110th and 63rd Divisions of the Japanese Army are subordinate to the North China Dispatch Army of Japan, and Japan is customary to call it the "North China Dispatch Army", but compared with the 110th Division, which are all regular soldiers with combat experience, the combat effectiveness of the 47th Division and the 63rd Division is far from the combat effectiveness of the temporarily patched together troops!

In the Kato Wing in Tieyingpan, this was the first batch of troops sent to China by the 47th Division, and there were fifteen- and sixty-year-old soldiers in the auxiliary units of baggage and artillery! Due to the problem of age, he could not be arranged into the front-line combat unit, so he served in the transportation and logistics units.

In Shimizu's wing, there are basically veterans with rich combat experience, and when they hear the gunshot, their legs immediately bend automatically to make maneuvers, and Kato's subordinates, when they hear the gunshot, either hold their heads and lie down directly, or look around stupidly, and want to see where the gun is fired from!