Chapter 142: The Merchant Division
Wanning, Dazhou Fort, Zhang Dali finally felt that something was wrong - fuck, the devil on the other side didn't seem to be normal? He thought so, and his stomach was puzzled.
After more than two hours of busy work, the forward fortifications were finally built, and the devils of Hashimoto's brigade began to shoot on the ground one after another. The gunfire was incessant, and when heard from afar, I wondered what fierce the battle was taking place here.
The other devils finally landed, and they cowered in the trench built by that brigade of devils, and they never showed their heads again.
Seeing this scene, Arima Masafumi, who had been expecting them to launch even a tentative attack, finally couldn't bear it anymore and became angry. "Hachiga, bastard, shame......" he scolded Hashimoto and other officers loudly, his eyes flashed fiercely, and he drew his pistol out of his right hand countless times, and he was very inclined to personally enforce military law.
All the naval officers who stayed behind in the fleet were very angry, because for historical reasons, they naturally thought that the officers and men of the Osaka Division were deliberately making things difficult for them, and many of them were ready to move, and even had the idea of taking this opportunity to repair them. The Navy and Army have always been at odds, but they have never had a problem with coordinated operations. In the war against China, the navy has always been the support force of the army, and it is a thousand years to wait, and this time it is not easy to play the leading role, but I did not expect the army to be so faceless.
Arima overestimated the soldiers of the Osaka Division, perhaps the senior officers among them did have such an idea, and felt that the navy should not be given the great credit of capturing Hainan, but for the soldiers below, they did not have such lofty ideals. Some of the soldiers in Hashimoto's brigade had no chance to hear the conversation between Arima, and if he did, it is estimated that he would be so angry that he would vomit blood by now.
"I said, have any of you ever seen a tape recorder from the China?"
"Tape recorder, what's it?"
"It can be used as a radio, and it can be used as a cassette, yes, it is a cassette - one of my classmates mentioned to me in a letter that he was fortunate enough to find one from the people who died in the war when he was fighting in Ganzhou, and this thing can play beautiful music, just like a record player, but the volume is only so large that it can be carried around."
"Wow, is this true? If we can get this kind of thing to buy in China, then we will send it. ”
"Hey, that disposable lighter is not bad, I heard that it is only a silver dollar in China. But if we can get it in China, we can definitely double the profits......"
"Kuroda, stop shooting, we have to talk so loudly - that's enough!"
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The little devil on the other side was coping with errands and dreaming of making a fortune during the day, Zhang Dali and the others were confused, but they couldn't help but be suspicious: The little devil is muttering here, can't he want to attract our attention so as to cover the landing of other troops from other places? As long as he thought about it, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was such a possibility, Zhang Dali didn't dare to be careless, and immediately called Shan Renxiong to report the situation and express his guess.
Shan Renxiong didn't see it with his own eyes, and he couldn't make a correct judgment, he felt reasonable, so he called Yundian General and Qiu Hongsheng and others, asking them to strengthen their lookout, and they must not let the little devil have a chance.
In the eastern mountain ridge, three armored regiments are moving closer to this place one after another. Before Bian Jingdao and them returned, they all rushed to Dongshan Ridge and immediately began to set up air defense positions centered on Dongshan Ridge.
At more than three o'clock, the exhausted Bian Jingdao and others returned. The deserter failed to catch it, and he couldn't even find the slightest trace he left behind, which made Bian Jingdao feel a little embarrassed. When reporting to Ouyang Yun, he said ashamedly: "Commander-in-chief, I'm really sorry, we couldn't bring people back. ”
Ouyang Yun was not surprised by this. Hainan's mountainous and forested terrain is too favorable for the Tibetans, and the student army lacks weapons that can be tracked. comforted Bian Jingdao a few words and asked him to take his brothers down to rest. When Bian Jingdao left, he said to Chen Shichang: "This time when I go back to Guangzhou, it seems that we have to build a military dog unit." ”
Chen Shichang was in no mood to pay attention to this issue, all he was thinking about now was how to ensure Ouyang Yun's safety. In his view, the Japanese army's previous bombing with a very strong purpose had already made it clear that the Japanese had not only known the fact that the commander-in-chief was in Hainan, but had also taken targeted actions. As a high-level member of the Soldiers' Committee, he was more aware of Ouyang Yun's status in the minds of the Cadets, and he knew that if Ouyang Yun had a good character, then the Cadet Army would fall into a state of leaderlessness and fragmentation. Such a scene was really not what he wanted to see, so he couldn't help but feel apprehensive about the bombing, and he became more and more determined to persuade Ouyang Yun to leave. "Commander-in-Chief, I think this issue can be put aside. Let's go to the southwest, the diversion fleet of the combined fleet has landed in the southwest of Qiongnan, there is no big battle to fight on the eastern front, and our five thousand people staying here is Lang Fei resources! ”
In this way, it was not the first time Ouyang Yun had heard of it, and he was noncommittal again. Chen Shichang was brought out by him, and the former's cautious eyes could not hide from him. Because of the bad road conditions, it took at least a day to travel from Dongshanling to Changjiang, and with this day as a buffer, the Japanese could not determine his location. He said to Chen Shichang: "We came to Hainan to watch the war and not to participate in the war, Shichang, you must have the consciousness of being an audience as an audience, and you have to learn from me about this." ”
Chen Shichang smiled bitterly: "But Commander-in-Chief, because of your existence, Army Commander Shan has already transferred all the air defense units on the Eastern Front, which has affected Army Commander Shan's layout." ”
Ouyang Yun pretended to be stupid, as if he had just learned about this matter, and he said: "Yes, well, I'll call Shan Renxiong and ask him to transfer these three armored regiments away." ”
At this moment, the single male is in a daze with a battle report. The three air defense regiments said that they were gone, which made it difficult for him to accept for a while. And one of the circumstances mentioned in the telegram made him begin to suspect the real intentions of the Japanese. Where exactly are they going to attack?
The Hachishoko landing battle finally began, and as Yamamoto had predicted, the landing force did not meet any resistance at all.
Ishii's brigade was the first to go ashore, and they wanted to show the courage of their troops to the cowards of the Osaka Division, and under Ishii's command, the soldiers behaved with special heroism, and took the suspicious defender stronghold - a row of terraced houses that had been reduced to ruins with a single charge. After capturing the townhouse, Ishii ordered his subordinates to defend on the spot, and at the same time asked people to run to a reef near the sea to taunt the Komuro team: "Warriors of the army, come up, the people of China have been beaten away by us." He also said, "Don't bring anything with you, the people of China have run out, and there should be no sales targets for your small goods!" ”
There is a source for this. A soldier of the Ishii Brigade accidentally discovered that some of the soldiers of the Komuro Brigade were carrying the burden of "vendors" written on them, and then he remembered that the Osaka Division also had the title of "Merchant Division", so he had the next sentence under Ishii's teaching.