Yanagawa Heisuke stood at the end of the bridge that had been blown up by explosives, his eyes 'blurred'.
This was already an hour after he arrived at the Suzhou River.
The powerful Lieutenant General of the Imperial Japanese Army was not intoxicated by the red clouds in the late autumn sky in Jiangnan, nor was he proud of the tranquility of watching the rows of soldiers entering the river with great force and crushing it.
Instead, after it turned out that his intuition was wrong, he actually felt like his body was being hollowed out.
That's a really strange feeling.
There is the anger of being deceived, there is also the faint frustration of being unable to control the enemy, and there is also an unspeakable fear.
The Chinese on the other side of the river had already fled, and before his army gathered and three artillery regiments set up 130 artillery pieces to prepare for a full blow, they were gone.
The four infantry squadrons, with their heads tucked into their waistbands again, landed on the other side of the river without losing a single person.
The large number of simple trenches and machine gun fortifications that were not demolished in time proved that Ushijima Mitsuru's previous judgment was correct. The Chinese had at least thousands of troops present for more than ten miles along the coast of the destroyed bridge.
But after they concentrated a large amount of heavy firepower and gave the 36th Infantry Brigade a severe lesson, they left without hesitation.
This made the generals of the Tenth Army, who had worked hard to 'beat' the Chinese, feel ashamed.
Especially Yanagawa Heisuke as the supreme commander.
He was severely fooled by the Chinese, causing the 36th Infantry Brigade to waste more than two hours on the river bank. Although he also knew that if only the 36th Infantry Brigade crossed the river, the Chinese on the opposite side might not
If we go, we will definitely give a strong enough counterattack.
Making the 36th Infantry Brigade pay a price of more than 50% battle damage or more is the only way he can drag the Chinese on the battlefield.
But even if he had this choice at the time, Yanagawa Heisuke didn't know if he could make this decision.
The 13th Infantry Brigade of the 6th Division has already suffered heavy losses under Songjiang City. If the 36th Infantry Brigade is used as cannon fodder again, under his command, the empire's "strongest division on the face of the earth" will be defeated.
Half-disabled, the base camp's evaluation of him will undoubtedly drop sharply.
Therefore, suppressing the "sorrow" that kept rising in his heart, His Excellency Lieutenant General Yanagawa ordered that all infantry units in the army immediately find fords to cross the river, and engineers went all out to build pontoon bridges for the passage of baggage, artillery and other arms.
The seemingly calm military order restored the inevitably low morale of the ordinary soldiers, but perhaps only the Japanese Army Lieutenant General, who was standing on the bank of the bridge and watching all this, knew that he was actually very depressed.
This land that he once thought he could conquer at will seemed to have become mysterious and unpredictable, causing his extremely firm determination to annihilate the enemy forces to waver for a while.
What's even more frightening is that, looking into the distance, the Japanese Army Lieutenant General once again had an intuition that the land across the river was dangerous.
Although his reason told him that this was a ridiculous and ridiculous feeling.
Not to mention the nearly 100,000 troops under his command, there were already two infantry brigades of infantry that had landed on the river bank at this time, and more than 10,000 troops were already marching through the mountains and fields that were ten miles wide.
Who else can pose a threat to him, a general in the army?
Perhaps it was the psychological shadow caused by the continuous loss of control on the battlefield! This caused cracks in the once indestructible confidence, and the Japanese Army Lieutenant General could only blame this for the strange intuition.
However, Yanagawa Heisuke still chose to trust his intuition this time.
It seems that the dead Hisao Guigiya was also killed by the Chinese with one shot while being guarded by a large army.
Moreover, it was on the battlefield that I thought was safe.
Two days before the capture of Matsue, the personnel responsible for investigating the cause of Hisao Tani's death conducted countless simulations and finally determined that the Chinese who sniped and killed Hisao Tani was lurking on the battlefield about 300 meters away from Hisao Tani.
The remains of his own soldiers killed in battle were his only disguise, and then he shot Hisao Tani as he walked out of the headquarters.
However, how the Chinese judged and recognized Hisao Tani from a long distance has always been a mystery. Perhaps the information about all the generals of the Tenth Army has been leaked?
How powerful is the Chinese intelligence agency? Thinking of this, Yanagawa Heisuke, who had already quietly taken off his lieutenant general star epaulets, felt cold all over.
He placed his military headquarters south of the Baihe Port Bridge before night fell.
But this time, Yanagawa Heisuke's intuition saved him, and also saved many of his subordinates.
.......
Lei Xiong, who has always been unruly, was currently rushing forward away from the river bank with the advanced army with a frown on his face.
It wasn't because of the tens of thousands of Japanese invaders chasing the advance group behind them.
Instead, Major Lei, who had only led more than 200 people at most, turned out to be the top commander of a force of more than 3,000 people half an hour ago.
This made Lei Xiong, who originally had an unruly personality, couldn't help feeling anxious.
"I've never led more than 200 soldiers, I'm afraid it won't work!" During the march, Lei Xiong was secretly recruited to the headquarters by Tang Dao. After hearing that he was about to lead the entire army in Tang Dao's place, Lei Xiong almost hit the ground with his head.
"Are you panicking? That general was born to be a general? Have you forgotten that when I first arrived at Sihang Warehouse, I was just a big-headed soldier, and an unidentified big-headed soldier whose head fell to the ground after a bad move. I am special
"Why can't you do it? Why can't you, a veteran who has been in the army for ten years, not do it?" Tang Dao comforted Lei Xiong before leaving. "Believe in yourself, you can do it."
Lei Xiong......
This seems to be the case. The rise of Tang Dao only lasted for half a month. I should be able to do it too.
"Oh no, I've been deceived!" Lei Xiong, who had been receiving requests and orders from various ministries during the march, suddenly realized it.
Being a company commander leading one or two hundred people and being a commander of an infantry regiment with more than several thousand people are completely different concepts.
Especially at this moment when every decision he makes is related to the lives of thousands of people, it is simply killing people!
Tang Dao can do it, but it really doesn't mean that everyone can do it.
But there is no such thing as regret medicine. No matter how his head is about to explode, Lei Xiong can only catch up and hold on.
Fortunately, Tang Dao had already planned the marching route on the map.
As long as he follows this route, he will basically not make any big mistakes.
More importantly, the great victory over the Japanese aircraft formation in the wilderness in the morning and the subsequent military law treatment that combined leniency and severity completely established Tang Dao's status in this temporarily formed force.
Even if he temporarily handed over the command to Lei Xiong, the entire army would not refuse.
Although most people don't know what Tang Dao wants to do! Only a few people in the entire advance team know that he is going to take another risk, and Tantai Mingyue has to worry again.
Yes, as the supreme commander of the advance group, Tang Dao quietly left with Niu Er and Xia Dayu after nightfall.
A cavalry squad accompanying the cavalry battalion two miles away from the main force of the advance regiment also broke away from the main cavalry force under the leadership of Lu Sanjiang, who had been beaten to a bloody pulp on his back by military law.
Lu Sanjiang's face was both excited and nervous.
What was exciting was that Commander Tang, who had just imposed strict military laws on him in the morning, had great trust in him and personally ordered him to carry out the mission.
The nervous thing is that this is an extremely dangerous mission, and its level of danger is even far greater than his previous reconnaissance expeditions in the Songjiang wilderness.
But last time, no matter how dangerous it was, the old squad leader was by his side.
This time, no more.
What made the young cavalry squad leader even more nervous that his face became a little stiff was that whether the mission was completed or not was not only related to the safety of him and his six cavalry comrades.
There is also the supreme commander of the entire army.
"Brother! I know you will still look at me, even in the sky!" Glancing at the gradually darkening sky, the young cavalry squad leader rubbed his stiff face and lightly kicked the horse's belly:
"drive!"
Six Chinese cavalrymen, carrying two horses with empty saddles, disappeared into the night forest.
