The enemy's 13th Division and 103rd Brigade are also notorious.
The commander of his brigade, Yamada Kakiji, was one of the executioners of the Nanjing Massacre. The number of prisoners of war and ordinary people who died in his hands numbered at least tens of thousands.
And this is also an important reason why Dragon Boat Festival was killed or the 103rd Brigade was crippled.
This old devil doesn't have much ability, but he is narrow-minded and will retaliate for his anger.
During the Battle of Songhu, he encountered the 13th Division in Sanjia Village and was severely damaged by the 13th Division.
Although the Thirteenth Division is just a branch of the Central Army and has just been established, its division commander Wan Yaohuang is a fierce general.
Therefore, Yamada Kakiji was unlucky enough to meet Wan Yaohuang, a tough guy in Sanjia Village.
Yamada Kaori's cowhide blows were loud enough, but within just a few days of the war, his 65th Regiment lost nearly 700 people.
All these 700 men were killed in the battle, not counting those who were injured. The entire 65th Regiment was directly disabled by the 13th Division.
The 104th Regiment was ordered to replace the severely damaged 65th Regiment, but the result was the same. In just one day, it suffered heavy losses. This caused Yamada Kakiji's mental breakdown for a time, and even during a front-line inspection,
Suddenly he burst into tears.
At that time, when the Japanese army captains and squadron leaders saw the brigade commander crying, they all made up their minds to capture Sanjia Village within 16 days, even if the entire army was annihilated.
On October 16, the Japanese army, with the cover of aviation and artillery, launched another attack on Sanjia Village.
The 2nd Battalion of the 74th Regiment of the 13th Division, led by the battalion commander Xiong Fei, went into battle to engage in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army.
The brutal hand-to-hand fighting lasted from three o'clock in the afternoon until night.
Battalion Commander Xiong Fei died heroically for his country, and all the officers and soldiers in the battalion were killed or injured, but the Japanese army still could not take a step beyond their control.
The next day, after increasing the number of artillery shells used daily, the Japanese artillery launched a violent bombardment of the Sanjiacun area. The Japanese mountain artillery completely suppressed the firepower of the Chinese army's heavy machine guns.
The Japanese 104th Regiment attacked again, but due to Wan Yaohuang's proper command, it still ended in failure.
On the 17th, Major General Yamada of the 103rd Brigade of the Japanese Army asked the 104th Regiment to conquer the Sanjiacun position even if the entire regiment was destroyed for the sake of the honor of the military flag.
But what's the result?
Faced with the strong fortifications and fierce machine gun and mortar firepower of the Chinese army, more than 200 officers and soldiers were killed in a few hours, and Sanjia Village was still not occupied.
At this time, the 104th Wing suffered huge losses and was unable to launch a new round of attack.
The commander of the Japanese 13th Division, Lieutenant General Ogisu Tatehei, had to put the 65th Reserve Regiment into front-line combat again, and at the same time requested that additional troops be given priority to the 104th Regiment.
But what Lieutenant General Ogisu Tatehei did not expect was that not only did the 65th Regiment and the 104th Regiment fail to capture Sanjia Village, but the casualty rate of the front-line troops continued to rise.
The Japanese 65th Regiment only fought for three or four days and was almost wiped out.
In addition to the previous losses, the 65th Regiment suffered 932 wounded in just over ten days of fighting.
The field hospital was crowded with wounded and groaning officers and soldiers of the 65th Regiment. Almost every one of them hated the Chinese army and wanted to kill more Chinese soldiers in revenge.
Wan Yaohuang's 13th Division, which resisted two Japanese regiments with one division, also suffered heavy losses in this week's bloody battle. By October 22, each company had only a dozen men left.
In just ten days, the fully manned 13th Division had been exhausted, and the Japanese 103rd Brigade, known as Sendai's strong force, was no longer able to continue the attack and was waiting for additional troops to be sent from home.
This also laid the groundwork for Yamada Kakiji's subsequent crazy revenge.
In the later stages of the Songhu Battle,
The Japanese 103rd Brigade, which suffered heavy losses, went into battle again after being replenished. Many officers and soldiers who were injured during the period also returned to the team. Major General Yamada Kaoriji, who was beaten and cried by the Chinese army, wiped away his tears and determined to take revenge on the Chinese army.
Subsequently, this Japanese army continued to participate in the defense line operations in the later stages of the Songhu Battle, fighting all the way from Zhenjiang to Nanjing.
The 13th Division ordered Major General Yamada Kaiji to lead the 65th Infantry Regiment to form the Yamada Detachment and attack Nanjing from the direction of Wulongshan Fortress.
However, when the Yamada detachment arrived near Wulong Mountain on December 13, they found that the Chinese army had abandoned the Wulong Mountain position.
After occupying the Wulong Mountain Fortress, the Yamada detachment marched towards Shogunate Mountain through Yanziji. Along the way, they found a large number of Chinese army corpses in the north of Shogunate Mountain. During the pursuit, traces of the Chinese army were found, so many prisoners were discarded and discarded weapons and equipment.
soldiers.
In the early morning of the 14th, the Yamada detachment reported to the Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Force that about 15,000 Chinese defenders had been captured.
These 15,000 Chinese soldiers probably never dreamed that their surrender would be nothing more than meat that they sent to Yamada Suiji's chopping board.
You can imagine how happy Yamada was at that time. Just when he was about to kill Chinese soldiers for revenge, 15,000 Chinese soldiers actually laid down their weapons and came to his door.
So on the night of the 19th, all 15,000 people were killed in Caoxie Gorge.
However, Yamada Kakuji, who had a red eye for killing, did not stop there. Instead, he continued to participate in the Nanjing Massacre when the city of Nanjing was destroyed.
So the kid's spirit of bushido and respect for his opponents actually don't exist at all.
They are just a bunch of beasts in human skin.
They are bloodthirsty, they are cruel. They are more hateful than wild dogs on the roadside.
So when facing such a group of devils, Dragon Boat Festival will never show mercy.
But at this time, Dragon Boat Festival encountered a little trouble.
At night, Wuqima was dark and nothing happened. When the 40th Division entered Changshan Town early the next morning, the news of Liu Xianchan's death could not be concealed.
At dawn, Sun Bo'an from the 79th Brigade and Zhang Qiang from the 53rd Brigade could not find their division commander Liu Peixu.
As mentioned before, Sun Bo'an is Liu Peixu's brother-in-law. And Zhang Qiang? He is one of Liu Peixu's brothers.
These brothers are brothers with different surnames. The relationship between the two is relatively good. We kowtow to the brother, not to be born in the same year and the same month, but to die in the same year and the same month. Just like the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang, kowtow to the ground, they are not brothers, but better
brother.
And this Zhang Qiang is different from Sun Boan.
Sun Boan is just a gangster on the street. He was born tall and strong, but his IQ is average, even lower than ordinary people.
But Zhang Qiang is different. As the saying goes, people who share similar odors are called confidants. Zhang Qiang, like Liu Peixu, is as cunning as a fox, sizing up the situation and being greedy for profit.
He is the same as Liu Peixu. He only pretends to be himself.
Sun Bo'an told him: Brother-in-law can't be found, and now the third brother has the final say in the army.
Zhang Qiang didn't believe this.
He spent money to bribe a guard platoon leader of Liu Peixu, the one who was beaten by Zhu Shengzhong. Only then did he learn that Liu Peixu had died a long time ago. And it was the man who called himself third brother who killed him!