Hiroshi Nemoto, who originally didn't believe Wada Takashi and his report, found out that at least according to the layout of the fortifications, when he set foot on this road where his Eighty-ninth Regiment lost almost one-third of its strength,
The defenders who had just confronted the Eighty-ninth Regiment did indeed number at least 10,000 people.
Although this place has been completely destroyed by Japanese artillery fire and intensive air raids, as a recognized tactical expert in the Japanese army, Nemoto Hiroshi still estimated at a glance from the remaining fortifications that there are at least 10,000 people here. [.Com text
] Moreover, the large number of 65mm and 77mm machine gun bullet casings on the ground also told him that the firepower configuration of the defenders here was quite powerful.
Although the Eighty-ninth Regiment, which Lieutenant General Genbo sent back from Jiangnan, suffered heavy losses, it was indeed blocked by the opponent's main force. From the fortifications left behind by the opponent and the huge number of shell casings, it can be seen that there are at least ten thousand people here.
After receiving the telegram from the remaining anti-Manchurian forces, General Umezu Yoshijiro couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
What he was most worried about was not that this cunning anti-Manchu armed force would fight him head-on, but that he was worried that it would flee back into the mountains and forests when his own troops were pressing down.
In the view of General Umezu Yoshijiro, if they are once again dispersed into the Xing'an Mountains, which is thousands of kilometers in length and breadth, has dense vegetation, and is connected to other mountainous areas, it may not be possible to find them by simply gathering two divisions.
Yes.
In the autumn and winter of last year, the Kwantung Army did not only encircle and suppress the thousands of anti-Japanese elements in the Xiajiang area, but also deployed more than 40,000 Japanese troops to fight with the Manchurian troops. With the cooperation of aircraft, tanks and heavy artillery, they also used
The tactics of combining iron wall encirclement and returning to villages and merging households were adopted.
But even so, a large part of them slipped away. Now these anti-Japanese armed forces have overestimated their capabilities and have changed to fight regular positional battles face to face with them, which is exactly what Umezu Yoshijiro wants.
After receiving the telegram that Nemotohiro was facing the main force of his opponent, Umezu Yoshijiro ordered all the troops still stranded in Jiangnan to cross the river immediately. He also ordered Lieutenant General Nemotohiro to immediately lead the remaining troops of the 89th Regiment to stick up.
, we must not let these anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese armed forces slip away from our eyes.
In fact, the troops of the 24th Division remaining in Jiangnan at this time, excluding the 32nd Regiment, which suffered heavy losses in the shelling and almost lost an entire large group of troops, actually only remained in Jiamusi.
The 22nd regiment that crossed the river from the east was still intact.
When the 32nd Regiment suffered heavy losses and the remaining strength was somewhat insufficient, General Umezu Yoshijiro immediately transported the one and a half infantry brigade of the 22nd Regiment that had not yet crossed the river to his current location by vehicle as quickly as possible.
Ferry formed a detachment with the 32nd Regiment, commanded by Colonel Kaheira Nochi, the captain of the 32nd Regiment.
As the temporary field detachment all crossed the river, because General Umezu Yoshijiro was always on the front line to command, and often did not notify him, the division commander, to mobilize troops, he became a puppet in the hands of General Umezu who could only issue orders.
Only then did the lieutenant general gain the final command of his own troops.
After the field detachment crossed the river, Umezu Yoshijiro asked Lieutenant General Iimura Rō that the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army could not be absent from his position for a long time. These things that should have been done by the division commander, as the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, he personally went to see, and it was easy for others to
After persuading him to take it as a joke, he finally handed over the command to the Lieutenant General Commander of the Fifth Army, Kenji Doihara, who had been left behind in Jiamusi and became the transport minister.
After returning to Jiamusi by car, he took his luxurious Kwantung Army Commander-in-Chief's special plane converted from a Type 97 transport aircraft that afternoon and returned to the Kwantung Army Headquarters. The reason why General Meijin agreed to return
In Xinjing, it was not Iimura Rang's persuasion that worked, but the fact that he believed that he had captured the opponent's main force and there was no need to stay here anymore.
If several division commanders plus a lieutenant general commander, commanding two divisions with the cooperation of a large number of Manchurians, cannot complete the scheduled combat plan and wipe out this bandit, then the Empire of Japan has always led
The proud Army should really resign and apologize to the Emperor.
The return of General Umezu Yoshijiro made all of them aware of the situation, whether it was Kenji Doihara who took over his overall command, Lieutenant General Shiro Kuwahara on the western front, Lieutenant General Nemoto Hiroshi on the central line, or Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru, commander of the Fourth Division on the eastern front.
He breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the commander-in-chief often directly commanded the subordinate wings without going through his own division commanders. Several division commanders became air force commanders.
And being evacuated, they became a high-level messenger. Not only were they often forced to run to the front line, they even had to work part-time as senior combat supervisors. This person pointed fingers everywhere, evacuating several division commanders and leaving the commander-in-chief.
Finally, the division commanders who regained their command breathed a sigh of relief.
After the attack on the Western Front was launched, Lieutenant General Shiro Kuwahara was reluctant because his wife and children were in the hands of others, and the offensive was somewhat delayed. Lieutenant General Hiroshi Nemoto who regained the command was
As soon as they came up, they concentrated the troops of the two brigades and marched together. They also ordered the 22nd Regiment on their right wing to speed up the attack.
Will Wang Guangyu, who has just led the team to retreat to the second line of defense, let Genbo, who has just taken office and wants to show off his talents, get his wish? This result will be clearly expressed in the next battle. Do you want to complete the reservation?
This may be possible if you want to achieve the goal of the battle plan. But if you want to easily complete the battle plan, then don’t even think about it.
When Wang Guangyu, who didn't want to let Nebo get what he wanted at all, retreated, he left behind a mobile line of mines, machine guns, and mortars between the first and second lines of defense that were several miles apart.
The firepower, and of course the lineup of snipers trained by Yang Zhen himself, can be described as a luxurious welcome feast.
Obviously, he didn't know that his opponent had prepared a luxurious feast to entertain him. At this time, because he took over the actual command for the first time after serving as the division commander, Lieutenant General Genbo seemed to be full of pride.
After the Ninth Regiment brought painful memories to Tu Leng, he discovered that his troops had stepped into an almost endless mine array.
These mines are buried almost everywhere. There are mines on the highway, there are mines in the green gauze tents on both sides of the highway, and even mines are buried in the drainage ditches on both sides of the highway. There are also many ways to lay them out, making it difficult for people to guard against them.
There are trip mines, pressure mines, pull mines, and even a mine designed to only use one bullet.
Although this kind of simple landmine has less lethality, it is not fatal if you step on it, or your legs and feet will be blown off like other landmines, but it is the most painful. Compared with having one foot blown off,
Having a 6.5mm bullet pierce the top of the foot and the entire foot bone being completely torn apart by the bullet doesn't feel that good.
The marching speed of the 89th Regiment that stepped into the mine array and the field detachment that followed suddenly dropped from the previous high speed of the Kanto men to that of an old lady with little feet. Not only did they face the seemingly endless and unpreventable mine array,
He was helpless and had to be prepared for cold shots and cannon fire from around him from time to time. He was tortured to the point of being in agony.
Every explosion, even one that only sounds like the sound of a gunshot when the 38-type rifle is fired, means that at least one comrade has lost his combat effectiveness. And when a slightly more violent explosion sounds, it also means that at least one comrade has lost his combat effectiveness.
It means that at least one of their comrades became disabled for life or fell directly into the arms of Amaterasu.
The troops at the front were tortured to the point of collapse. But standing under the edge of the earth, they were personally supervising the battle in a temporary simple fortification that took three or four lives of the 89th Regiment to build. They had never thought about carrying it before.
Lieutenant General Nemoto Hiroshi, Takashi Watana, and Colonel of the Engineer Corps were dumbfounded when faced with the situation in front of them.
Watching the officers and soldiers who were blown away one by one, or whose limbs were blown off, because no one dared to risk the same fate to carry them back, but could only be left there to die of pain, I couldn't help but stare.
His eyes almost popped out, and his face turned even red.
The third brigade of the 89th Regiment, which was the only one still with combat effectiveness, was already dead and wounded before they had walked a kilometer. One fallen soldier required four people to carry it, and ten soldiers needed forty people to carry it. This was still possible.
Rescued. If things continue like this, when they set foot on their final destination, Heli, how many combat soldiers will they have left? Or will they all be converted into a stretcher team?
But before Nembo could express his anger, something even more shocking appeared before his eyes. The remaining soldiers of the 89th Regiment, who were frightened by the bombing, could not restrain the chill in their hearts, regardless of the division.
The regimental commander and the regiment commander were supervising the formation behind them. After marching to the one kilometer mark, they refused to take a step forward despite the urging of the officers.
It is necessary to devote one's life to the Emperor, and these fanatical young Japanese soldiers who have been instilled with the so-called Bushido spirit all day long are not afraid of death. Being able to die fighting for His Majesty the Emperor and establishing meritorious service for His Majesty the Emperor's expansion of territory, in the eyes of these Japanese soldiers
It is appropriate, and it is even more honorable. But it does not mean that they can bear the pain of dying after their limbs are blown off by landmines.
Those who were stepped on by the landmines were killed, but the wounded who could not be saved were injured to death or bled to death, but the painful groans made the Japanese soldiers, who were always known for their tenacity,
I can't accept it either.
The painful lessons learned in the past taught these Japanese soldiers that the best thing to do after a companion steps on a landmine is to leave him alone. Otherwise, in order to rescue this person, it is not necessarily necessary to help several people.
After the first Japanese soldier who won the lottery appeared, several of his comrades tried to rescue the comrade who had one of his legs broken off. Unexpectedly, they failed to save their comrades when they went to rescue them.
Not saying anything when he came out, he was also taken in. One of the three people was killed and two others seriously injured by the serial mines buried next to the winning comrade.
And a squadron leader who claimed to have studied engineering, looked at his subordinates who were miserable in the explosion, and worried that their moans would affect their morale, so he volunteered to clear mines. As a result, within a distance of only ten meters around those brothers, there were actually
Seven landmines linked together were eliminated.
Just when the squadron leader thought he was done, he did not expect that a strange-looking grenade attached to the seventh mine that almost all Japanese soldiers had never seen would kill him.
This strange and powerful grenade that suddenly exploded not only took him to the west, but also implicated the three Japanese soldiers behind him who volunteered to serve as assistants and the three unlucky guys.
After another similar incident with greater casualties occurred, the captain of the Third Battalion and Major Moto Jinzo, who led the team, had to order that no one was allowed to rescue those injured by landmines unless they were absolutely certain that there were no booby traps.
The wounded. The Third Brigade cannot afford to sell one, or even buy two or three.
Even so, the numerous landmines placed by the opponent on this road that was less than one kilometer cost the Third Battalion the price of an entire squadron being blown into pieces. Facing their comrades who were killed and injured, the remaining Japanese troops
He completely lost the courage to continue the attack, and no matter how intimidated he was, he refused to take a step forward.
If they didn't want to replay what happened before, and they didn't know if there were any mines behind that had been stepped on by their comrades and hadn't exploded yet, these guys would have turned back long ago. With those endless mines that brought them
Compared with the psychological panic that is greater than the mines on the ground, the threat of the sabers in the hands of the division commander and the regiment commander is simply not worth mentioning.
Moreover, for ordinary soldiers, the targets of the saber in the hands of the division commander are not themselves. They can only be the officers leading the team. If they are not killed by landmines, the division commander will take it out on them.
.The unlucky ones will not be soldiers like me.
In fact, Lieutenant General Nemoto should have been mentally prepared for this situation. Because when he built that simple command post, the sacrifice of several lives should have reminded him. It was just Lieutenant General Nemoto who was so complacent at the time.
Maybe you noticed it but didn't think about it, maybe you didn't care at all.
When this fortification was originally built, a Japanese soldier who was working on the construction just squatted down for a moment after filling the sacks used as a bunker with soil, trying to compact the soil in the sacks, but he was hit by a missile that had been mixed in at some point.
A landmine blew off half of his upper body.
Another soldier digging in the earth hit a series of mines with the shovel in his hand. He and his comrades beside him were sent directly into the sky by four or five landmines that exploded at the same time. This scene happened
Under Genbo's nose, he just didn't take it to heart.
And now Nemoto Hiro is more angry when facing the 89th Regiment that has automatically stopped the offensive. And Takashi Watana and Colonel, who are the captains of the 89th Regiment, have directly become his best punching bags. Although they are also being
The tragic situation of their subordinates made their hearts tremble with fear, but Takashi Watanabe and the colonel had no choice but to bite the bullet and under the threat of the bright saber waved by Lieutenant General Nemoto Hiroshi, they took out the bunker, and under the protection of dozens of guards, they attacked the enemy.
Rush over to the subordinates who stopped.
What Wada Takashi didn't expect was that he thought he had brought a small group of guards with him, and he was walking on a road that his own men had already taken. Apart from the occasional mortar shells, there was no other threat.
It's just that he didn't expect that the moment he stepped out of the bunker, there was a small river ditch only four hundred meters away from him in a straight line. In the eyes of his men, it was more dangerous because it was covered with more landmines than the road.
Next to him, in the thick grass, a Mosin-Nagant rifle equipped with a quadruple scope had already firmly placed his head in the scope.
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