After the news of the surrender of the Puppet First Army reached Kaifeng, it was undoubtedly worse for the Thirty-fifth Division, and the division commander Iida Taijiro was very angry.
"Baga, you can't handle this matter well. You are wasting food by living. You should die!"
"Hey, I'm not doing well in my humble position, I'm willing to be punished!" Wang Zhongda, commander of the Puppet Second Army, was asking for forgiveness this time, and his attitude was extremely humble.
With his whole body bowed and his head almost touching the ground, Iida Taijiro looked at Wang Zhongda's pretense and sneered in his heart, so he picked up the tea cup and slowly started to appreciate it.
Sun Liangcheng was able to prosper in Shangqiu because Araki Sadahiro and Kuroshima Morita's ranks were not high, and Wang Zhongda was just a dog of the Japanese Empire in the eyes of Iida Taijiro. Being a dog means being responsible.
The dog's awareness is that if he wants to be on an equal footing with his owner, he should take care of himself more.
After the puppet First Army in northern Anhui withdrew to eastern Henan, the Division Headquarters of the 35th Division ordered the Second Army to set aside a county for the First Army to garrison. However, the Second Army's territory in eastern Henan was successively occupied by the Eighth Route Army.
Only Chenliu and Qixian counties close to Kaifeng are still under control.
On the surface, Wang Zhongda was at the same time, but in fact he wanted to devour the defeated soldiers of the First Army. In the end, he failed to steal the chicken and lost the rice. Instead, he forced the First Army to surrender to the Eighth Route Army.
It was summer. Wang Zhongda kept moving for a short time. His face turned red and his military uniform became wet. Seeing that the heat was almost there, Iida Taijiro took action.
"Wang Sang, you need to exercise well, tsk tsk tsk!" Taijiro Iida walked up to Wang Zhongda and helped him up, and even wiped the sweat on Wang Zhongda's face with a towel very considerately.
Wang Zhongda breathed a sigh of relief, but looked at Taijiro Iida's seemingly amiable smile and felt a little chilled: "Hey, I will definitely exercise more when I go back!"
"Division Commander, please allow me to explain. There are many people from the Eighth Route Army in the First Army, but they are not me..."
"No, you don't need to explain. You are a loyal friend of the Imperial Japanese Army. I hope that we can continue to be friendly. Fighting against the Eighth Route Army in the future will require more efforts from you. It will not work without a good body!"
"The base camp has been deployed, and the empire's elite divisions have arrived in Haizhou. Wang Sang, when you go back, you must assemble your army and prepare for war, and be ready for a counterattack at all times!"
"The predicament we are facing is only temporary. I hope you can manage your people well. You understand!" Taijiro Iida said.
Zhou Weihan had already expected that the Japanese army would reinforce the 35th Division, and all previous military deployments were based on this, but he did not expect that the Japanese army would move so slowly.
If there is still no movement after another ten days and a half, Zhou Weihan can only order the elimination of the main force of the 35th Division. In response to the Japanese army's unusual movements, the Hebei, Shandong and Yu Military Region has already made arrangements.
In addition to Wu Qin who was rushing back from western Shandong, Zhao Bingzhang and Ding Wei from eastern Henan, Luo Benzhong and Jing Dagang from northern Anhui, Wang Yigong from northern Henan, Deng Keming from Huxi, and Li Yunlong, everyone met in Yucheng.
Naturally, greetings are indispensable when meeting old comrades. When Ding Wei saw Li Yunlong's rosy face, he couldn't help but become suspicious: "You, Old Li, went to Shandong to enjoy life, right? Why do I look fatter than before?"
"Hehe!" Li Yunlong grinned: "You still have poisonous eyes, old Ding. Our little life in the Shandong Military Region was really nourishing. The local comrades treated our 16th Brigade very well. We ate mustard meat rice every meal. Many soldiers later saw fat
I can’t even eat meat!”
Ding Wei pouted after hearing this. He still didn't know what kind of virtue Li Yunlong was. He had always been the one who dared to brag about others.
"Hey, it's really a good job. You enjoy spicy food every day, why don't you want to bring some back for us? You forgot about your brother when you were full!"
Others were also cheering, and Deng Keming, the commander of the fourth brigade, said: "It's just that you, Lao Li, have eaten so much that you have forgotten that a bunch of comrades are still suffering from hunger. I think you must have made a lot of money during this trip."
nice one!"
It doesn't matter to Li Yunlong to joke, but it's not okay to worry about his things. He can only say with a bitter face: "Go, go, I'm licking my face and bragging to you, do you really think it's serious?"
The 16th Brigade has more than 9,000 people at full strength. The main force that went to the Shandong base area with Li Yunlong was more than 7,000 people. However, when they returned to the base, they brought back nearly 10,000 people. Counting the casualties of the 16th Brigade, the Shandong Military Region almost gave 16
The brigade supplemented the strength of the two regiments, and they were solid veterans.
Zhou Weihan temporarily went out to answer a phone call, but when he came back, he found that the room was exploding: "I just got the latest information. The Japanese troops currently stranded in Haizhou are the Japanese Guards Division!"
"Guards Division? You kid, you still have this unit? I've never heard of it before!"
"Yes, is it the Japanese Army's Type A Division?"
Everyone was talking about it. After all, Wang Yigong was from the Whampoa Military Academy, and he obviously knew more about the Japanese army than Li Yunlong: "The Guards Division is one of the earliest divisions of the Japanese army. In Chinese terms, it belongs to the emperor.
Yulin Army, but this Japanese army has rarely been dispatched, so it is difficult to know its strength!"
"Hey, the Royal Forest Army? They must be the elite of the Japs!"
"That's not necessarily true. Regardless of the reputation, but enjoying the blessings of being with the Emperor of Japan every day, he might be a group of veteran soldiers!"
Zhou Weihan had just been on the phone with Terauchi Isamu, and learned from him that this Japanese army originally participated in the war in Southeast Asia and was ordered to return to China for garrison not long ago, but received an order to stop at Haizhou on the way.
The strangest thing is that the Japanese troops of the Guards Division have been staying on the warship. The specific reason is not clear to Isamu Terauchi. However, the local Japanese troops in Haizhou need to provide supplies to the Japanese troops on the ship, but they have figured out the specific personnel establishment, three infantry regiments.
, an engineering regiment plus an artillery regiment.
As the Imperial Guards of the Japanese Emperor, the Japanese Guards Division had an extraordinary initial organization. The 1st Guards Brigade (under the jurisdiction of the 1st and 2nd Guards Infantry Regiments), the 2nd Guards Brigade (under the jurisdiction of the 1st and 2nd Guards Infantry Regiments),
It has jurisdiction over the 3rd and 4th Guards Infantry Regiments), and the 1st Cavalry Brigade (under its jurisdiction has the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Regiments).
The 4th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade (under the jurisdiction of the 4th and 8th Field Heavy Artillery Regiments), the units directly under the division (the 2nd Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment, the Guards Engineer Regiment, the Guards Transport Regiment, the 1st and 2nd Railway Regiments)
Wing, Balloon Wing, Telecommunications Wing 1).
Both the weapons and equipment and the staffing are far superior to those of ordinary Class A divisions. After the Sino-Japanese War broke out, with the formation of various divisions of the Japanese army, the Emperor of Japan successively supplemented and strengthened the Guards Divisions in order to strengthen the direct forces.
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The Japanese army in Haizhou is the 2nd Guards Division. There is also a 1st Guards Division stationed in Japan in the Tokyo area.