It can be said that Lieutenant General Kunizaki Noboru's deployment made Ichiki Kiyonao very dissatisfied. He believed that this was the division commander preparing for the promotion of his two colleagues to major generals. He even thought that the division commander planned such a battle. The sequence was obviously an invisible rejection of him, a regimental commander who was not a graduate of an army university.
Because all fools know that at this time, the main force of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the entire Linxi battlefield is on the Linxi front line to deal with the attacks of the other two divisions. According to the intelligence analysis, there are only two enemy troops in the entire Aruhorqin Banner battlefield. A newly formed infantry regiment with weak combat effectiveness.
With such a small force, it is almost impossible to force the Seventh Division, which has a strength of three full regiments, to block Linxi battlefield. However, under the attack of two divisions of the Imperial Army, It is impossible for their main force in Linxi to have the ability to reinforce here.
By the time the 28th Regiment, which followed the marching route and missed most of the Alukorqin Banner, arrived on the battlefield, I'm afraid even Mao wouldn't be able to get his turn. He thought that by doing this, the division commander was really biased. Colonel Nao was not willing to give up the duck he had obtained, so he privately changed the overall advancement plan formulated by the division.
He knew that he could not refute the division commander's obviously partial arrangement at the moment. All important positions in the division were in the hands of Army University graduates. This was the case with the Seventh Division. The same is true for the Sixth Army, and even more so for the Kwantung Army.
Even taking the lawsuit to the base camp is of no use, because now the people who occupy the top positions of the Army are Army University graduates. These graduates of Army University use the trust of the Emperor to firmly control all the rights of the Army. They have no control over non-Army University graduates. Graduated military officers have always been discriminated against and excluded.
If you want to make progress in the army, there is no one else you can rely on except yourself. Since the division commander does not give you this opportunity, don't blame yourself for being rude and go look for opportunities yourself. Make up your mind. Determined to show his face in this battle, Ichiki Kiyonao ignored the unified arrangements of the division and not only accelerated the march, but also changed the combat deployment of the regiment without authorization.
As the captain of the three infantry regiments currently under the jurisdiction of the 7th Division, Ichiki Kiyonao is the only non-Army University graduate. Since he has not entered the Army University, this actually means that his rank of Colonel is over. , because in the Japanese Army, according to the current system, the only possibility for non-Army University graduates to be promoted to general is to be awarded posthumously after death in battle.
In fact, Ichiki Kiyonao is able to achieve the position of Captain of the Osaka Regiment as a non-Army University graduate. In the current Japanese Army, he is already a Mao Linfengjiao, because the senior officers of the Japanese Army are basically Army University graduates. Students dominate the world, and most non-Army University graduates will be finished by becoming lieutenants.
His status as a colonel was due to the fact that during the July 7 Marco Polo Bridge Incident, as the captain of the Third Battalion of the First Regiment of the Chinese Garrison of the Japanese Army, he single-handedly provoked the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, even though he was only a major at the time. The brigade captain has the commander of the garrison at the top, the chief of staff, and the commander of the regiment in the middle. It is a bit reluctant to insist on him being the person responsible for provoking the incident.
But the first shot at Lugou Bridge was fired by his third brigade. The first one to fire at Wanping City was also the brigade artillery squad of his brigade, so making him the first person responsible does not count. He was wronged, and it was precisely because of the sound of cannons outside Wanping City and the so-called illustrious military exploits that he was able to achieve the position of captain of the Colonel Corps as a non-Army University student.
However, although he is already a junior, for Ichiki Kiyonao, his ambitions are no less than those of the two regular Army University graduates of the Seventh Division. Although there is almost no hope of becoming a general, it hardly means that Absolutely, with only one step away from the general, this guy is going crazy to achieve his goal.
Although this guy finally reached the position of captain of the Colonel-General's Wing because of his performance at Marco Polo Bridge, his promotion speed was far slower than that of his colleagues who were graduates of mainland universities in the army because he was not a graduate of the Army University. At the age of nineteen, he has actually reached the lowest age limit for promotion to general.
The current Japanese Army is not a few years away. Due to the general trend of expanding its military strength, there is not enough active-duty officers. Those reserve officers who have retired from active service for many years have been recruited all at once, regardless of their ability and level, or even their age. Come back and form a new division.
In the final stage, there were even senior colonel captains in their fifties and lieutenant colonel captains in their forties. Regular field divisions were better, and they were still mainly officers of normal age. , those so-called D-type divisions with two brigades and eight brigade troops are not so lucky. In a division, there are a large number of brigade captains who are older than their immediate boss, Major General Brigade. The group leader is even bigger.
The current Japanese Army, because of the current number of non-commissioned officer graduates, is still relatively sufficient, coupled with the large number of specially appointed officers selected from veterans, as well as the officers promoted because of their military exploits, the quantity and quality of officers, especially mid-level and senior officers The quantity and quality are still sufficient, and can even be said to be quite satisfying.
So despite the fact that we have been fighting with China for four full years, we are still implementing the system that after reaching a certain age and being unable to be promoted, officers are transferred to the reserve force, and officers and soldiers are normally discharged after their service period expires, instead of a few years later. As long as you join the army, you're here and don't even think about leaving.
Don't even think about retiring from the army and transferring to the reserve force. Just kidding, the empire has ignited the war on half of the world. Now it is in urgent need of a large number of outstanding officers. At this time, you still think about returning home to your wife, children, and the hot bed, and the already hungry army. Not to mention the officers from the reserve forces who were transferred to active duty, those veterans who had been retired for many years, or even those who had already experienced mobilization, were all brought back and sent to the battlefield.
Even the skilled workers in the arsenals that were ordered to expand production capacity to meet the growing needs of the Japanese army, who were indispensable for military production, could not avoid the fate of being drafted, not to mention those former imperial soldiers, especially those who were deeply loved by the Emperor. An imperial officer of grace.
At this time, the Japanese army was far from reaching that point. Although the Japanese army had begun to expand at this time, it had been fighting on the Chinese battlefield for four full years and had trained a large number of officers. Therefore, it is quite common for army commanders at this time to be in their early forties, or even in their thirties.
Ichiki Kiyonao is still serving as the captain of the Osaka Regiment at the age of 49. So far, he is almost the only one in the Japanese Army. However, two years later, let alone the captain of the Osaka Regiment who is in his forties, he will be the captain of the Osaka Regiment. There are many examples of major captains in their forties and lieutenant captains in their fifties, which is not surprising at all.
However, even though he knew that his career in the military had come to an end due to his age and academic qualifications, he should be more worried about planning his life after retirement. But this guy was obviously too far away from the general about his military career. The position was already one step away and it stopped very unwillingly.
In fact, for the Japanese officers who participated in the War of Aggression against China, the higher their position and the more they held actual positions in combat units, the less they had to worry about life problems after retirement. These people, especially during the War of Aggression against China, When the Japanese army attacked the city in the early days, they basically grabbed a lot of money. In addition, although the retirement pension was not too high, it was enough to sustain life, so there was no need to consider the problems of life after retirement from active service.
Although when the July 7th Incident broke out, this Colonel was just a Major Captain, but the area where his troops fought was almost the richest place in northern China. The Japanese Army had always used burning, killing, looting and boosting morale along the way. With his grab-and-go style, this guy made a lot of money on the Chinese battlefield.
Especially in Baoding, which has always been known as the richest place in North China, this guy personally led a team to loot a large amount of wealth. As long as he took a fancy to anything, he would rob it. He knew all valuable items and everything. There is no currency that he doesn’t know about that he doesn’t like.
He wants gold bars, oceans, pounds, U.S. dollars, francs, Japanese yen and French currency. He even wants Hebei banknotes, Jin banknotes, banknotes from places he knows and doesn't know. Although he doesn't want antiques, he doesn't want them. It doesn't mean that he can't resell the stolen Chinese antiques to merchants accompanying the army.
Even in order to satisfy the businessmen's demand for antiques, and even more to satisfy his love for money, this guy did not hesitate to force the Chinese people to dig ancient tombs for him in order to obtain the cultural relics buried underground in exchange for the money he needed. , during the war in North China, as long as a businessman who was with the army and had been following him liked something in a Chinese house, he would usually kill all the owners of that house and rob them directly in exchange for money.
As for using the military coupons issued by the Japanese army, which are equivalent to waste paper, he has always believed that it is like taking off his pants and farting. It is just a waste of time. If he kills all the owners of the property, the things will naturally belong to him, so why waste paper , to print those military stamps that are too hard to wipe your butt.
Anyway, in his eyes, the Chinese are just a group of sheep who dare not resist even with knives on their necks. If they don’t snatch the wealth themselves, other officers will do the same. Long before the July 7th Incident, he had already been transferred to the Chinese Army at that time. Ichiki Kiyoshi of the Chinese Expeditionary Force has long been aware of how the senior members of the Chinese Expeditionary Force took advantage of the opportunity to be far away from home and used various means to make a fortune with the help of Japanese military forces.
At that time, the ambition was not so big. I didn’t know that I could be promoted to the position of Major Captain. I knew that I had not been admitted to the Army University. It was already very difficult to sit in the position of Major Captain. Maybe I would receive an order at some time. He had to transfer to the reserve force. He thought more about taking advantage of this rare opportunity to make more money to settle the rest of his life. Fighting in war is considered brave, but when it comes to making money, he makes use of the skills on the battlefield. Chaotic and unbridled.
Although he only stayed on the battlefield for a year, he was transferred back to China to serve as a military instructor. After hard work, the wealth he plundered was not as good as those of division commanders and regimental commanders, but compared to those at the lower level. As far as officers are concerned, they are still better than the superiors and more than the inferiors.
Like most other officers who have fought on the Chinese battlefield, he relies on the wealth he robbed by any means to live a good life in Japan where prices have not yet inflated. There are almost no problems. It can even be said that he can live a good life in this life. It's definitely a worry-free thing.
However, the ambition of this colonel does not mean that it has diminished with the increase of age and wealth. On the contrary, it has become more and more inflated with the promotion of his position. The dream of being a general, which was once given up, has gradually increased with the increase of age and wealth. The promotion to captain of the 28th Regiment, Captain, has reignited the flames.