Chapter 242: Surprise Attack on Qingdao (I)
However, when the Japanese army base camp was staring at the large troops of the 15 th Army in fear, even Ishihara Wan'er, who was known for his resourcefulness and resourcefulness in China, did not expect at all that what Hu Weidong had done was to a large extent just a cover for a strange army
Because of Hu Weidong's butterfly turmoil, the contradictions between the Japanese Navy and the Army in this time and space are much greater than in history, when the Japanese army launched the Qingdao landing battle, the base camp headquarters of the original Jihua Army and Navy coordinated and jointly landed, but the navy that was eager to compete for merit did not wait for the army to arrive, so it landed alone in the shallow sea around the old man Shi, and the army that occupied Qingdao first and then rushed to the city was embarrassed and angry, and marched to the city without greeting him. The number of dead and wounded was more than three thousand (two or three hundred dead, a much smaller proportion than in a real battle.) If someone hadn't found out that something was wrong and reported it to the headquarters in time, I was afraid that the navy, which had lost on land, would really let the naval guns open fire in a hurry
Emperor Hirohito, who was enraged afterwards, ordered the headquarters headquarters to severely punish those responsible, and the Japanese navy and army stationed in Qingdao restored a superficial peace, but since then the two sides have been wary of each other, for fear that the other side will suddenly make another move, even if the relationship between the army and the navy "aircraft carrier faction" has eased after the successful cooperation, the situation here in Qingdao has not improved much. However, due to the fear of the emperor's wrath and the equal strength of the Japanese navy and army stationed in Qingdao, although the small fighting did not stop, there was no large-scale fire like the last one. However. The arrival of more than 1,000 remnants of the 9th Infantry Brigade of the "5th Division" suddenly broke the balance of strength between the two major factions of the Japanese army in Qingdao, and these newcomers did not know if they had suffered a new defeat and were on fire, so they fought with the navy as soon as they arrived in Qingdao
Since the Japanese Army in Qingdao was not subordinate to the First Army of the North China Front, the passwords of the two sides could not match at all, but the more than 1,000 people who saw each other were all full of Japanese and had an out-and-out Kyushu accent. The behavior was no different from that of the infantry of the Japanese Army, and the Qingdao Army naturally believed in their identity. They were about to report the matter and confirm it by the way, but some drunken officers and sailors came over to laugh at the defeated soldiers. The result immediately angered them
"Kill these navy sissies!" , a brawl broke out suddenly, and in the scuffle, it was not known whose gun went off. Immediately the brawl escalated into a shootout, and the poor navy added up to a dozen people, and in a moment all the work was beaten into a sieve, and not a single living mouth was left
"Well played! these sissies! Seeing this, many lower-ranking officers and men of the Qingdao Army were elated, as if they had just won a big victory, but a few middle-level officers who knew a little bit of proportion were all as pale as dirt, especially when some of the defeated soldiers shouted, "Go, kill all the navy!" Qingdao is our Army's! After that, these people intuitively felt that something was wrong. But I heard those guys shouting, "Go, go, and those who don't go are traitors!" Traitors to the Imperial Army! After that, with the "fine tradition" of the Japanese Army's "lower and higher", everyone wanted not to be shot black by those soldiers who fell into fanaticism. I had to follow. Due to the old feud between the Japanese army and navy, all the scattered army officers and men encountered along the way joined the ranks, and the navy was wiped out or defeated, and by the time they reached the headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps in Qingdao, the strength was already more than 3,000 men
Because the city of Qingdao has become a pot of porridge, a "Japanese Army Infantry Brigade" that came from nowhere is a genuine Japanese Army field unit because the whole army looks at it from top to bottom. Almost no one inquired along the way, and without firing a shot, it was fired at the gate of the Qingdao reservoir area, which hoarded more than half of the military supplies of the Japanese army invading China...,
"This is a military forbidden place, without the permission of the base camp headquarters (at this time, Qingdao is the main logistics base of all the Japanese troops invading China, not exclusively for the use of the North China Front, so even the North China Front Command has no right to directly transfer the stored materials without going through the Japanese base camp. No one is allowed to trespass! The captain of the devil brigade who was in charge of guarding the warehouse stopped the menacing team without fear, but saw the leading "Major General Brigade Commander" on the opposite side, "Baga", and pulled out his sharp saber. Although the captain's scalp was numb, he still held his neck and didn't retreat when he thought of his duty, thinking that although it hurt to be cut on the back of a knife, it was better than going to a military court afterwards, but as soon as this thought came out of his mind, he saw a cold light flash, he only felt that his waist and abdomen were cold, and he was directly cut in two, and he finally reacted before losing consciousness, "He used a blade?" ”
"Rush in! If you resist, shoot and kill! The "Major General Brigade Commander" ordered in absolutely authentic Kyushu Japanese, and the machine gunners under his command who had been prepared immediately opened fire when they heard this, knocking down a large number of warehouse defenders who were completely unresponsive on the spot
"Mutiny! It's a mutiny! The officers and men of the garrison area preached in panic, they could not understand why these Japanese soldiers, who were obviously genuine, would attack the largest munitions depot of the Japanese army in North China and even in the whole of China. It is said that no one in the Japanese army knew that some devils surrendered to the squadron, but they did not expect that there were so many of them, and they were rearmed by the Chinese and entrusted with a heavy task, so they were directly excluded subconsciously. It's no wonder that when they think about it, they only have the "only possibility" of "mutiny" in their minds
Although the Japanese army was very determined to destroy weapons and ammunition once there was no hope of victory in the war, they never did this because the mutiny was a civil war, so as not to waste the country's resources, anyway, no matter what the outcome of the mutiny, Japan was still the Japan of the Japanese, and there was never a shili who dared to openly oppose the emperor. On the contrary, they are afraid that they will accidentally detonate the ammunition warehouse and commit a felony, which will cause their families to be affected, so they are even more jealous in the fighting. The number of defenders was not as good as that of the foreign "infantry brigade", and they still tied their hands and feet and did not dare to use heavy weapons, how could this battle be fought? Later, probably because they were worried that the other side would come and detonate the ammunition depot, the defenders of the more than 1,000 remaining warehouses, who had suffered less than a third of the casualties, actually surrendered to the "infantry brigade" (welcome to your support, is my biggest motivation.) )