Chapter 229: You get used to being beaten too many times (please subscribe! Get a monthly pass at the end of the month!)
Regardless of whether the Japanese navy and army were slapped in the face because of their first encounter with the Chinese in the early morning of November 6, no matter how they quarreled and blamed each other and abused each other, Matsue Castle, a place that must pass through, will still have to be fought.
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As the biggest victim and the one who vented his anger on Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, the entire 114th Division, one of the motley crews of the Japanese Army, was on the road in a hurry before finishing breakfast.
Yes, just as there are Type A and Type B divisions in China, the same is true for the Japanese Army. The seventeen standing divisions are Type A divisions, that is, those with numbers within 20 are Type A, and those with numbers other than 100 are Type B.
At the end of the war, there were even better C-type divisions.
However, this does not mean that the B-type divisions are not good. The 114th Division is one of the stronger B-type divisions, and it has become one of the seven divisions that once broke into Jinling in time and space and committed heinous crimes.
It's just that this guy has too many unlucky attributes. In the past time and space, he only stayed in China for two years, and his designation was revoked because his division commander was killed.
But this time, the original unlucky attribute was obviously enhanced by the arrival of a certain little butterfly.
When he came up, he was slapped in the face and given a sap by the Chinese.
The face of his division commander, Suematsu Shigeharu, had turned livid ever since he received the broken telegram from the reconnaissance squadron.
After landing on the Jinshanwei tidal flat, the 114th Division, which was used as the vanguard of the Tenth Army, began to run into obstacles.
In the landing battle on the morning of November 5th, they killed nearly a thousand Chinese people and suffered nearly a thousand casualties. The one-to-one battle loss seemed to be quite acceptable for the landing battle.
But in the afternoon, a small offensive and defensive battle, with the help of naval guns and the artillery carried by the division itself, actually resulted in hundreds more losses, and was delayed for precious time.
The face is already swollen.
However, when he was bored at sea, Suematsu Shigeharu even thought about his wife wearing a pile of hats while staying alone in the boudoir, but he never thought that his 400-person reconnaissance squadron would all be shattered.
The most outrageous thing is that those idiots will die as soon as they die, and not even a cent of the reconnaissance report has been sent back.
Are they just going to kill Chinese people thousands of miles away?
"Please Shigeharu-kun, please immediately deploy your troops to Matsue. The honor of the Imperial Army cannot be smeared like this." The words in Yanagawa Heisuke's call were not intense, but his anger level, which had already been raised, was clearly visible on the page.
How could Shigeharu Suematsu not be angry when he was reprimanded so mercilessly by his fellow commander?
Do the Chinese think that our 114th Division is easy to bully? Otherwise, it will always be me who gets hurt because of Mao?
After three consecutive setbacks, the once smug Lieutenant General of the Class B Division sat on his big green horse and suddenly felt a sense of self-pity.
To put it bluntly, the base camp formed the Tenth Army in North China, and deployed the Eighteenth Division known as the "Double B of the Empire" and the Sixth Division known as "Black Skin, Red Blood", but then felt that the strength was still not enough.
, he additionally took part in the 114th Division, which had just entered North China. He may have thought that the combat effectiveness of the 114th Division was a bit sluggish, so he even assigned a detachment to them. It was nominally under his control of the 114th Division, but actually came from the Fifth Division.
The Kunisaki detachment, which had nearly 10,000 troops in the division, basically ignored him.
They are all awesome A-divisions, but he is the only B-division, and they still let him play the vanguard. This is because he is using the 114th Division as cannon fodder.
How can Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeharu and his nearly 10,000 men not hold their breath when they are despised by their colleagues and their own men are not up to par?
The only people to vent your anger on are the Chinese.
Marching all the way.
By noon, the Chinese cavalry who were 15 kilometers away from Songjiang City saw through their telescopes the billowing smoke and dust stirred up by the Japanese vanguard.
Murderous!
Suematsu Shigeharu, who had cost the lives of nearly 400 men under his command, proved that the Chinese defenders in the Matsue area were much bolder than he thought. This time, the Chinese dared to release their artillery out of the city to sneak attack on the gunboats in the river. That sneak attack
Infantry is no problem.
The vanguard force alone consists of more than half of the cavalry regiment, an infantry brigade carried by motorcycles and trucks, and an engineering regiment. The strength is as high as more than 2,000 people, and its combat effectiveness is at least as strong as that of a Chinese infantry brigade.
If the Chinese dare to repeat their old tricks and sneak attack on this vanguard force, then the Chinese have made the wrong idea. The total number of cavalry and infantry soldiers exceeds 1,300. Even if a Chinese infantry division comes, they can hold it off for a while.
The main infantry force following behind quickly followed up and could swallow it in one gulp.
Suematsu Shigeharu was right, China did not have the courage.
It's not that they are afraid of the 114th Division. Even in a field battle, the well-equipped 67th Army is not afraid to open up and fight with this B Division.
It's a pity that the 114th Division that came was just the forward, and there were two main Japanese divisions in the rear, so they really couldn't defeat them.
Therefore, the 114th Division traveled unimpeded. Even when the engineering regiment, under the cover of cavalry and infantry, began to erect pontoons on the selected river bank, there was no attack on both sides of the Huangpu River.
This made the Japanese lieutenant general, who had a mentality of being beaten, a little hairy.
What conspiracy are the Chinese brewing?
The terrible inertial thinking made the Japanese lieutenant general like a child who was used to being beaten. Suddenly one day he was treated with tenderness, and the mentality that arose was definitely not emotion, but suspicion.
Suematsu Shigeharu, who was still more than ten kilometers away, ordered the cavalry regiment under his command to use the cavalry squadron as a unit, one to search along the south bank of the Huangpu River, and the other to cross the preliminarily erected pontoon bridge to the north bank to search, so as to prevent the main force from being caught when crossing the river.
Daring Chinese artillery attack.
The Japanese Army Lieutenant General somewhat understood the principle of half-crossing and attacking.
What does it mean to find your own style?
Shigeharu Suematsu is.
The Chinese cavalry who originally stayed far away only closely monitored the movements of the Japanese troops and reported the time and location of the Japanese troops' arrival to the headquarters through the field radio they carried. They had no intention of fighting with the Japanese troops.
The Japanese army that was charging towards Songjiang was divided into three sections: front, middle and rear. At the head were cavalry and trucks and motorcycles. Their strength was close to that of an infantry regiment. No matter how tough the cavalry were, they would not face such a tough fight.
The middle road is even more fierce. Even though there is a river across the river, the Chinese cavalry hiding in the woods dare not show their courage. That is an infantry queue of more than 5,000 people. Even if there are no people, they just move out a few infantry cannons.
It can make them doubt their life.
The rear route was protected by artillery, baggage troops and the accompanying infantry brigade, so the cavalry could only watch.
But what are the Japanese doing right now?
They even arrogantly dispatched a cavalry squadron to cross the Huangpu River and head towards Songjiang.
"Brother, what do the Japanese want to do?" The obviously younger of the two cavalrymen who were responsible for reconnaissance in this area asked the veteran with stubble on his face biting grass roots in confusion.
"What do you want to do? We were stunned by our artillery this morning. Come and find our artillery! We won't do it again when the main force is crossing the river." The veteran answered casually, but with a look of admiration. "That Deputy Tang
The director was so surprised that the Japanese actually chose the place where we two brothers were staying as their landing point."
For fear of encountering Japanese fighter planes searching for and exposing targets, the main cavalry force hid far away from the Huangpu River bank. They only left cavalrymen similar to observation posts about one kilometer near the river bank, in a group of two. If there was any situation, one cavalryman could report back first.
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Before Tang Dao took the artillery battalion back to Songjiang City, he specially drew a place on the map, saying that the possibility of Japanese troops crossing the river was extremely high.
Gong Shaoxun, the commander of the cavalry battalion directly under the military headquarters, was somewhat unconvinced and still followed his own ideas and left nearly ten groups of observation posts along the Huangpu River. Naturally, the cavalrymen supported their boss even more.
But now it seems that Deputy Director Tang was right again, and the Japanese army really chose to land here.
Fortunately, Tang Dao's command in the morning battle wiped out the Japanese landing force and disabled three gunboats. Gong Shaoxun, who was not convinced, finally left two cavalry companies in this area as a key area and personally took charge.
"Well, brother, what should we do now?" The young soldier obviously had no time to admire Deputy Director Tang. He cared more about the present.
The Japanese cavalry of more than 100 people had crossed the river and began to form.
If they were found close by, they would definitely die.
The war horses used by the Japanese are all tall horses that have been improved by crossbreeding. They can sprint much faster than the short-legged Mongolian horses they are equipped with.
"Nonsense, get on your horse and run!" The veteran spat out the grass roots in his mouth, turned around and ran wildly with his little brother, and got on the horse tied more than 20 meters away.
He urged the war horse to run backwards without hesitation, which seemed to be a helter-skelter escape.
However, even his little brother didn't see it, but the veteran's eyes were shining with his back to the Huangpu River.
The Japanese cavalry was nothing more than a cavalry squadron, not that terrible.
