Chapter 237 - Heavenly Beacon Section 1 Merchant Dazuo
After circling for a while, the six enemy planes in the sky did not swoop down to bomb and strafe with their wings diagonally as usual, but rearranged themselves in the formation of long wingmen and flew northwest. Yang Bangzi was judging that this must be going to Tieyingpan, and it was estimated that the remnants of the Shimizu United rushed here, and the most hopeful thing was that the Kato United could enter the Red Stone Lengzi.
Yang Bangzi did not guess wrong, after the air support called by Shimizu Dazuo arrived over Matouguan, he reconnoitred for a while and found no obvious traces of the Eighth Road, and at this time, the Kato United was severely reprimanded by Lieutenant General Anda, because his adjutant was captured and the situation of the temporary truce of the Eighth Route could not be maintained any longer, and he had to make a show!
In fact, Kato didn't know that his adjutant general Yoshigi, who came from the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade, had already died at 6 o'clock last night! This guy's injuries were too serious, with seven or eight fatal wounds on his body, some of them were hit by bullets, and some were blown up by prefabricated fragments of grenades, and the direct cause of his death was that his organs were seriously damaged, the medical conditions in the field were limited, and finally he died of internal organ failure.
Fan Daring, this guy also tightly sealed the news, and detained the two military doctors sent by the devils to take care of Yoshiki Nakasa, these two people are treasures! Fan Daring was not polite at all, and after confirming that Yoshiki Zhongsa had hung up, he asked the two devil military doctors to be tied up, put them in sacks, and arranged more than ten fellow stretcher team members to send them to Hongshi Lengzi.
You say how thick-skinned Fan Daring is, everyone else's devils are dead, and they still ask for things from people and the devil Kato Captain Kato! After sending two warriors down the mountain, they said that there was no medicine, and in addition, they had to increase the nutrition of Yoshiki Nakasa. And it's delicious.
The traitor who bought it on both sides before. Energetic help. Force contributed to this, although the military doctor sent by the devil did not come down, Kato was a little suspicious of this, but suspicion is suspicion, things still have to be given, otherwise his future in the army is not optimistic!
Kato, this devil is really born to sell flower cloth, his ancestors were a merchant who opened a cloth shop in Kyoto, and he has been a small merchant in a cloth shop for generations. It was only in his generation that such a soldier came out, and Kato completely inherited the characteristics of a businessman accumulated by his ancestors, and he would be able to operate! He regarded his joining the army as a deal, and he was actually plotted by him to the rank of Dazuo.
Kato barely graduated from the non-commissioned officer school, and most people want to go to a place where there is a war, so they can be promoted quickly, but Kato spent money to go to North Korea first, and then to Taiwan, all of which are colonial garrisons, and Kato doesn't want to fight. He set his sights on these overseas reclamation areas, and of course he did not go to Manchukuo, Northeast China, the largest reclamation area. There is no restlessness in the anti-union.
To put it bluntly, Kato is not aiming at the glory of a soldier, he is a businessman who wants to make money! He used his connections to transport goods from within Japan, sold them to soldiers at high prices, and then bought local products from the locality and shipped them back to Japan to earn a high price difference.
Relying on this kind of drill camp, Kato was not the fastest to be promoted among the graduates of their non-commissioned officer school, but the fastest to make a fortune! By the time of the Lugou Bridge Incident in 37, many of his classmates had been promoted to adjutant, and Kato was still a lieutenant!
After the outbreak of the full-scale war of aggression against China, Kato saw an opportunity, because of the needs of the war, the plundering of personnel and materials in Taiwan, Japan accelerated the seizure, this businessman Kato saw the opportunity, spent money to dredge the relationship and transferred to the military station supervision department that coordinated the supply of military supplies throughout Taiwan.
This guy is like a fish in water, and he definitely has a set of ways to loot and squeeze Taiwan's businessmen and peasants, and he himself is a businessman, and his profits from exploitation are more powerful than ordinary businessmen, so the grain, lacquer, wood, and other parts he is responsible for are exceeding the amount stipulated by the military every month.
You can also be promoted by engaging in logistics, and it is faster than being promoted in a war! Soon Kato was promoted to Shaozuo because of his meritorious work in collecting materials, and he was willing to spend money, up to the army headquarters in Tokyo, down to the headquarters of the Taiwan garrison army, and operated up and down, of course, he didn't have any money himself, and he used a small treasury that was deducted in the process of collecting materials!
In less than three years, this original ordinary quartermaster has become a senior officer of the headquarters of the Taiwan military station! It's not right to say that he drank the blood of soldiers, but it's right to say that he drank the blood of the people! This guy doesn't know anything about war, and he has a lot of tricks to deal with ordinary people! And he was ruthless, no less than a few hundred ordinary businessmen and ordinary people in Taiwan died under his instruction!
In 1943, Kato Masaji's shrewd mind once again realized that it was not safe to stay overseas, and the Japanese army began to decline in the Pacific and Southeast Asia.
It happened that a group of local defense divisions were going to be formed in 43, and Kato thought that the opportunity had come, so he cleared the way and returned to the Japanese mainland, and he felt that joining this kind of defense division in the homeland, that is, a field unit far away from the front line and a correct eight classics, would also be regarded as a qualification to lead troops in the future.
In May 1943 (Showa 18), the 42nd, 43rd, 46th, and 47th Divisions were newly established to strengthen the defense of the homeland. The 47th Division was formed on May 14 on the basis of the remaining 57th Division and the independent 67th Infantry Regiment in Hirosaki, and was subordinate to the Northern Army, and Kato Massaji Daisa was appointed as the commander of the 91st Wing of the 47th Division.
Kato's wishful thinking is that after serving in the field army for a period of time, under the activity, he can be promoted to general again! If he can become a general, the family background of the Kato family's generations of small businessmen can be completely reversed, and then he will seek a knighthood and become a nobleman, and Kato, a despised businessman and officer, will completely become a phoenix!
When he recruited soldiers in Hirosaki, in order to deduct the recruitment fee, he selected the old, weak, sick and disabled to be soldiers for a little money, and the officers in charge of training soldiers at that time raised objections, these people did not meet the minimum requirements of soldiers at all, for example, the Japanese army stipulated that those with lung diseases would not be levied, but Kato got a lot of people with tuberculosis.
In the end, several officers of the new recruit training resigned en masse and went to the army headquarters to file a complaint, forcing Kato to dismiss a group of unqualified soldiers and select some peasants and citizens to calm down the turmoil, and the combat effectiveness of the 91st Wing can be imagined!
People are not as good as heaven! No matter how shrewd a businessman is, he is still a businessman after all! The Japanese army urgently needed to recruit divisions and regiments in the Chinese battlefield to fight in the south, so they sent these defense divisions and regiments formed in the mainland to China one by one to take over the defense areas of the field troops that were withdrawn, this time Kato was not so lucky, and the 91st Wing was transferred to North China as the vanguard of the 47th Division to observe and train!
This task was given only three days before the departure of the troops, because the movement of these troops is a top secret, and only officers at and above the division and regimental level know about it, and when Kato knows that he is going to the Chinese battlefield, it will be too late to find a relationship with him!
Kato had no choice but to take such a 91st Wing, which was absolutely a wonder in the Japanese army, to North China, and he also hoped to be able to observe and return to the Japanese mainland, this time he guessed wrong, the North China Front has been fighting with the Eighth Route Army for a long time, and it belongs to the kind of war zone that does not raise comfortable soldiers.
This was regarded as the base of the firefighting team sent to the Eighth Road, and Lieutenant General Anda also heard of the consistent notoriety of this businessman Osa, and was worried about his command ability, especially transferred more than 20 officers from the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Shimokato Wing, but I didn't expect that this was mud that couldn't support the wall! The battle was fought not the worst, only the worst, and the adjutant was also taken away by the Eighth Road!
Kato's nature as a businessman came out again, he wanted to bargain with the Eighth Road, first get the captured adjutant back, and then he wanted the Eighth Road to give up a piece of land on the terms, so that he could also explain to Lieutenant General Anda in Beiping, otherwise thousands of people would not even be able to beat the iron camp, and the lost soldiers would be blocked for four days, which is unreasonable. (To be continued......)