Regarding Nishiyama Fukutaro's idea of retreating, Colonel Koga Ryutaro hesitated and said: "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, the order given to us by the Kwantung Army Headquarters is to recapture Xingshan Fortress at all costs. We still have something on hand.
A complete wing was not put into use, and a large amount of decisive gas was not used. [.Com text]"
"Xingshan Fortress is an important defense fortification that the empire controls in the northeastern Manchuria region, defends against Soviet attacks, and protects the lifeline of the empire in Manchuria and Mongolia. Failure to take it back will cause great losses to the empire. The Fourth Division has been designated as reinforcement for the Nomenhan battlefield.
Once we withdraw, the Kwantung Army has no other troops in the Northeast Manchuria area that can carry out the mission of recovery."
"Even if this anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese force eats our 108th Regiment, judging from the strong combat effectiveness of the 108th Regiment and Matsuno-kun's command ability, the number of enemy casualties will not be a small number. Exactly.
Our division took advantage of the opportunity to surround and annihilate them."
"How can we explain to Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru and the Kwantung Army Headquarters when we withdraw like this? Even if the 104th Division has been scheduled to return to China for recovery, is it inappropriate for us to withdraw without even seeing Xingshan Fortress?
"Your Majesty, Major General, don't forget that even if the reservists recruited in the division are to be reinstated, you and I still need to continue serving in the army."
It was obvious that Ryutaro Koga did not intend to retreat like this. Ryutaro Koga, who had always dreamed of taking up the rank of major general, but thought his dream was in vain because the 104th Division had been scheduled for collective rehabilitation, cherished this rare opportunity.
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As long as the anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese forces retake Xingshan Fortress, an important defense fortification of the empire, the rank of major general will no longer be out of reach for him. Now they have reached a place very close to Guanmenzuizi Mountain, the southern gate of Xingshan Fortress. Although there are casualties
A little older, but these are not important things to him.
Ryutaro Koga believed that the opponent's military strength was extremely empty, which could be seen from the previous blocking force of only a few hundred people. So what if the opponent came with more than 2,000 reinforcements? He still had a reorganized regiment on hand. Not to mention himself.
It also carried a large number of poison gas shells.
In his opinion, with the imperial army's customary poison gas clearing tactics and a complete regiment in hand, it can be said that it is an easy task to capture Fuxingshan Fortress. At this time, Jean seemed to see the rank of major general waving to him.
He Ryutaro retreated, but he was really unwilling.
He heard that Colonel Koga Ryutaro did not want to retreat, but wanted to continue fighting. Nishiyama Fukutaro, who was very clear about his true intention, shook his head and said: "Koga-kun, we really need to make an explanation to the Kwantung Army Headquarters.
But this explanation, I think the ending of the 108th Regiment is enough."
"As for explaining to Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru, I don't think it is necessary. If this anti-Manchu armed force is so easy to fight, why can't his fourth division, as the first batch of senior divisions formed by the imperial army, fail to wipe out
, and the 44th Regiment of the 11th Division was eaten by the enemy?"
"The Fourth Division is also being transferred internally to reinforce the Nomenhan battlefield? I don't know what the staff officers of the Kwantung Army Headquarters have in their heads. Leaving the nearby Second Division alone, brave troops like the Seventh Division are not deployed.
We have to mobilize these Osaka soldiers to reinforce Nomenhan. Aren’t we afraid that these people will be embarrassed and thrown into the international arena?”
"How can a division that can't even deal with a guerrilla-like anti-Manchu armed force go up against the Soviet aircraft and heavy artillery? The Kwantung Army Headquarters and Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru are very clear about their Fourth Division's
Because of our moral integrity, we transferred our 104th Division to Jiamusi to replace these Osaka people."
"If this anti-Manchu armed force is so easy to fight, can it be our ad hoc division's turn to do something like this? I'm afraid Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru has already snatched it away. Koga-kun, your idea of making a contribution,
I support it, but you have to look at the person before pinching the persimmon."
"The 108th Regiment has completely lost contact now. Matsuno-kun is probably going to see Amaterasu now. And Mouri Qiao-kun stepped on a landmine before and lost one of his legs. He is still unconscious. The three people who attacked this time
As a captain, you are the only one left intact."
"I don't want you to follow in their footsteps and lose your life without wearing the rank of major general. If something happens to you again and all three regiment captains get into trouble, I really have no way to explain it to the division commander. And the three regiment commanders are in trouble."
All the commanders of the regiment were killed or wounded in World War I, which is a record-breaking situation in the Imperial Army’s war against China. The 104th Division will become the laughing stock of the Imperial Army.”
"The 104th Division itself is composed of the reserve officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division recruited. Although not all of its soldiers are from Osaka, a considerable part of them are from there. The continuous casualties, coupled with the strange shelling just now
, the previous bravery of these Osaka soldiers has faded into embers. If the fight continues, we will only be the unlucky ones."
"So what if there is decisive gas? The opponent can seize so much full set of Japanese-style equipment, how can it be missing its gas mask? Didn't Matsuno-kun mention in the previous report that a large number of complete gas masks were found on the bodies of the opponent's dead soldiers?
Imperial-style gas mask? We have lost our last resort to victory. Koga-kun, why do you need to humiliate yourself?"
Regarding Major General Nishiyama Fukutaro's insistence on withdrawing, Koga Ryutaro was reluctant, but he also knew that Nishiyama Fukutaro's words were true. After the strange bombardment just now, it was not that Koga Ryutaro didn't notice the frightened expressions of his subordinates. He
Knowing that the impact of this new weapon has reduced the morale of his subordinates to an extremely low level.
If he stubbornly insists on fighting, he might really be humiliating himself as the Major General said. After thinking briefly, Ryutaro Koga finally nodded slowly and agreed to retreat.
In fact, after suffering a rocket attack, the officers and soldiers of the 170th Regiment were already frightened by this powerful and somewhat strange new weapon, and they had already thought of retreating. But because there was no order
, still reluctantly persisting in confronting each other with the opponent's new reinforcements.
When they heard Nishiyama Fukutaro's order to retreat, these Japanese officers and soldiers who had been beaten were a little chilled. The speed of retreat can be said to have created a historical record for the regiment. When they arrived, it took them most of the night to crawl to the
It is less than five miles away from Zuizi Mountain in Guannei.
During the retreat, in less than two hours, the vanguard had already retreated to the mountain pass. The retreat of these people was so fast that it can be described as returning home like an arrow. They even stayed behind when they came because their pack horses were unloaded.
, and the anti-aircraft artillery squadron left on the road disappeared collectively without even noticing.
The officers and soldiers of the 170th Regiment did not notice the disappearance of the anti-aircraft gun squadron, but that does not mean that Major General Fukutaro Nishiyama and Colonel Ryutaro Koga did not notice. Those heavy anti-aircraft guns could not disappear out of thin air without pack horses.
Those artillerymen didn't have the ability to carry the 60 kilograms of anti-aircraft artillery back to Xingshan Street on their own.
Just when Major General Nishiyama Fukutaro was about to dispatch troops to find the missing anti-aircraft gun squadron, the second half of the marching column of the 107th Regiment suddenly heard the unique sound of the intensive firing of anti-aircraft guns and the screams of the officers and soldiers who were hit.
Screams. Listening to the familiar and intensive sound of artillery and the screams of the officers and soldiers, Major General Nishiyama Fukutaro couldn't help but froze.
If ordinary officers and soldiers do not know the consequences of the 20mm anti-aircraft shells fired by this anti-aircraft gun hitting people, Nishiyama Fukutaro, who has seen this type of anti-aircraft gun target shooting, is very clear. He clearly knows that this kind of anti-aircraft gun uses
A twenty-millimeter anti-aircraft shell hitting a person can easily tear a person in half.
The screams coming from the rear of the team shook the hearts of every officer and soldier of the 107th Regiment. It was not until the sound of gunfire stopped for a while that the surviving officers and soldiers lying on the ground were kicked and beaten by the officers.
He stood up in fear. Looking at the bodies that had been beaten into two pieces on the ground, Nishiyama Fukutaro, who was originally calm, became completely furious: "These damn thieves."
The loss of six of the Empire's latest anti-aircraft guns was not a big deal for Nishiyama Fukutaro. However, the fact that these anti-aircraft guns had turned around and caused a squadron of casualties was hard for him to accept.
.Although these six lost anti-aircraft guns each only had one magazine and six rounds.
But these thirty-six rounds of 20mm artillery shells caused more casualties to the Japanese army than a squadron of mountain artillery. The explosion power of this anti-aircraft artillery shell was indeed far different from that of the 75-mm mountain artillery, but its penetrating power was extremely high.
The unprepared Japanese soldiers were even penetrated by a shell and tore apart a rifle group.
Before the furious Nishiyama Fukutaro could mobilize his troops, he found those damn robbers who had gone too far in robbing his own anti-aircraft guns and actually turned the muzzles of the guns to attack him in return. There was a whoosh that was already familiar to the officers and soldiers of the 104th Division.
The whooshing sound came again in the sky.
As for the consequences of such a whooshing sound in the sky, Nishiyama Fukutaro, who had already seen it, couldn't help but be extremely excited after he was the first to make tactical moves with agility, the first to lie down, and rolled into a drainage ditch beside the road.
He yelled out of demeanor of a major general: "Baga, are these damn Chinese people still finished?"
Following his words, another dense rain of bullets hit the heads of the officers and soldiers of the 107th Regiment. Although due to the opponent's previous anti-aircraft artillery fire, the 107th Regiment's marching column was very wide, and the opponent
The number of strange shells fired this time was far less than before. However, the number of casualties caused by the shelling during this period was still unforgettable for Nishiyama Fukutaro.
After suffering another hail of bullets, the Japanese soldiers who were severely wounded both mentally and physically did not even bother to clean up the corpses. They threw away all the equipment they could throw away, even the large number of poison gas bombs they carried.
Abandoned, they rolled and crawled out of this mountainous area that left them with unforgettable memories.
When he ran back to Xingshan Street in one breath, Nishiyama Fukutaro saw that he was running in a panic. He had lost almost everything he could lose. Many of his subordinates even had nothing but loincloths on them. Thinking of the time when he set off,
Not counting artillery, the infantry alone has two neat regiments and two infantry brigades, with a strength of nearly 10,000.
But now a regiment and an infantry brigade were lost in the first battle, and the remaining regiment was semi-disabled. There was also a brigade that was ordered to wipe out the troublemakers, but they still cannot be contacted and are collectively missing.
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In other words, in just half a day and one night, the 104th Division was inexplicably disabled, not to mention suffering heavy losses in troops. He was so confused that he lost, and he didn't even know where he lost.
Especially when the three regiment commanders learned of the attack, the last surviving one, Colonel Ryutaro Koga, was directly hit by the first 20mm artillery shell fired by the attacker because he took the initiative to cut off his rear. His body was cut into two pieces.
At that time, Major General Nishiyama Fukutaro, who was incomprehensible with grief and anger, did not lift his breath. He spurted out a mouthful of blood on the spot, and then lost consciousness.
For Nishiyama Fukutaro, who suffered heavy losses from his troops and lost all his three regiment commanders, who was vomiting blood and comatose. If he knew that the last sixty rounds of rockets his opponent hit on his head were the last sixty rounds, he would have to destroy all sixty rounds.
There will be no replenishment for at least a short period of time after delivery.
The reason why those who robbed his anti-aircraft guns retreated after emptying a magazine was not because they were afraid that he would send troops to clear them out, but because they did not know how to use these anti-aircraft guns. After emptying a magazine, they did not know how to replace it.
, how would he feel? However, it must only make him feel that he is even more useless as a loser.
What Fukutaro Nishiyama didn't even know was that the series of attacks he encountered during his retreat were just a farewell move because his opponent, who was no longer able to fight, was worried about his comeback.
After Liu Changshun led two battalions to arrive, Yang Zhen used them to replace Wang Guangyu, who suffered heavy losses in the night battle, and serve as the frontline defense of Guanmenzuizi Mountain. The troops led by Wang Guangyu retreated directly to Xingshan Fortress to rest.
After Wang Guangyu withdrew from Xingshan Fortress, there were only more than two thousand recruits on hand who had not completed basic basic training. Yang Zhen, who had almost lost the ability to fight again, was optimistic about the success of Nishiyama Fukutaro's retreat, but he was also worried that he would kill someone.
Back carbine.
After receiving the report that Li Mingrui had eliminated the Japanese troops in an anti-aircraft artillery squadron and captured all the anti-aircraft artillery in the squadron, Yang Zhen, who was well aware of the power of this small-caliber anti-aircraft weapon against the ground, immediately formulated a plan to see off the guests.
Of course, for Yang Zhen, who lacked anti-aircraft weapons, he would never abandon these rare anti-aircraft guns after using them.
In order to cover up, Li Mingrui, who originally wanted to escape after the attack, but was now required to bring back the anti-aircraft guns intact, was able to withdraw smoothly. Yang Zhen took out the only remaining sixty guns on hand that were originally used to demonstrate firepower in the north.
They fired rockets and concentrated them into one volley to completely defeat the Japanese army's determination to fight again.
At least now it seems that Yang Zhen's plan to see off the guests was implemented perfectly. He threw away all the weapons and equipment he could throw away. All three captains of the regiment were casualties. After Futaro Nishiyama fell into coma, he also lost all the commander's 104
The division did not even dare to stop at Xingshan Street. It hastily constructed a stretcher and carried the unconscious Nishiyama Futaro back to Jiamusi.
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