Faced with only three to four hundred remaining defeated soldiers, as well as more than a hundred wounded who could only lie in the bomb shelter because they had nowhere to move. The personnel director of the Navy Maizuru Garrison was responsible for directing the Marine Corps to participate in the war.
Third Major General Iwabuchi. Based on his experience of sharing the joys and sorrows with the army on Guadalcanal, he believed that under the current situation, it was no longer necessary to hold on to the Sun Zhengzhuang front line.
These remaining troops, which no longer have any anti-tank weapons, or even machine guns, may be able to withstand one enemy charge, but they cannot withstand a second charge anyway. Maybe the enemy will launch another attack.
Once, such a small number of people will all be wiped out.
The enemy forces in front of them were well-trained, well-equipped, and had a large number of tanks to support them. If they had not been too careless, I am afraid that the few Marines in their hands would have been exhausted long ago.
If we continue to persist here, these valuable marines of the Navy, plus those even more valuable naval vessels, will be completely destroyed on the Sunzhengzhuang front line. Not counting the warships lost in the Bohai Bay this time, only the Marines will die in Sunzhengzhuang.
For a day, with seven to eight tenths of the casualties, the flank safety of the Ninth Division on the front line of Hulangzhuang was ensured.
When the battle has reached this point, it can be said that the navy has shown all its benevolence to the army. There is no need to bury all these precious soldiers with the army. The navy's marines are precious, and those naval soldiers are even more precious. Does the army think that those
Can the ship's artillery, engineering corps and other arms be formed in just a few months like their army's riflemen?
He believes that all soldiers in the navy are technical arms, and it does not cost a lot to train them. At present, the losses of the Japanese navy are increasing day by day, and the replacement of soldiers is not enough. The sinking of every battleship means that
There will be a permanent loss of a large number of precious sailors. Continuing to defend here means a permanent loss of these precious soldiers.
This rear admiral, who has always been known for his decisiveness and boldness, decided to take advantage of the darkening sky and concentrate the remaining troops to retreat to the Qikou beach. As for the army, let them consider their next move.
This time the navy has done its utmost to be benevolent and there is no need to bleed blood for the army.
During the Third Battle of the Solomons, the battleship Kirishima under his command was sunk by the U.S. Navy. After being salvaged by the Army, he and the Army ate snakes, lizards, and even wounded soldiers and U.S. soldiers on Guadalcanal.
Captive. This man who knows the cruelty of the South Pacific island.
When he returned to Japan and was transferred from the Yokosuka Governorate to the Human Resources Director of the Maizuru Governorate, he once got angry because of the current Navy Minister, Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, who was showing off during an inspection and was somewhat staged. He cursed in front of the Navy Minister.
That dignified Lord of the Admiralty and the current Admiral can't even get off the stage.
Although there are quite a few senior generals in the Navy, because the Navy Minister is too accommodating to the Army, especially the Prime Minister who holds three positions in one person. He obeys almost unconditionally, and somewhat loses the dignity of the Navy, and is privately called Tojo Belt
. But in front of the Lord of the Navy, he was probably the only one who publicly scolded him. When he became angry, even his own navy's top officer continued to scold him.
Even his classmate, Major General Takagi Sokichi, who served as the chief of staff of Maizuru Castle, had been whispering in private that he wanted to use the power of the navy in Maizuru Castle to kill the Prime Minister and the top army officials in order to end the war as soon as possible.
How would he care about what those country bumpkins in the Army think when he comes out?
If he makes up his mind to retreat, even a personal call from the ungrateful Admiralty Minister whom he scolded might not be able to stop his determination. This man has always been sure of one thing and leaves no way for him to retreat.
Otherwise, he would not have yelled at the de facto supreme commander of the Navy in front of a group of lieutenant generals and rear admirals.
Although the Marine Corps dispatched by the Japanese Navy this time has only one special Marine Corps at the strengthened group level, because it dispatched the only tank wing of the Navy, the Navy still attaches great importance to command. A special Marine Corps was dispatched.
An officer at the rank of major general commanded this landing operation.
It's just that there are not many candidates available. Although the Yokosuka Navy Joint Special Marine Corps has completed its expansion, the commander is at the level of lieutenant general. Let a lieutenant general commander command such a small landing force to cooperate.
The army is fighting, which is obviously too embarrassing in front of the army.
You must know that the commander of the 43rd Army who commanded this landing operation, Yoshio last month, was only a lieutenant general. One lieutenant general commanded two infantry divisions, with more than 40,000 reinforced and attached troops. The other two
Each division commander has nearly 20,000 troops under his command.
The navy sends out a lieutenant general to command only more than a thousand people, which is at most equivalent to a wing captain in the army, which is the position of a colonel. This is also a bit unseemly, and it makes the navy generals too worthless. The navy
The lieutenant general became a part-time worker for the army lieutenant general.
Therefore, everyone in the navy agreed that a senior commander should be sent. But this lieutenant general commander must not go. The navy really cannot afford to lose that person. Even the man who always follows the prime minister closely and always pays attention to maintaining the authority of the prime minister
The Lord Admiralty, who is just like a belt-tight man, absolutely does not agree with the Navy appointing a lieutenant general to take command.
But after all, this is the Navy's first large-scale infantry-tank collaboration to participate in large-scale ground operations and to coordinate with naval ships. It is difficult to coordinate and summarize some issues by sending an officer at the rank of colonel. It can be done from other sources.
Among the Marine Corps, it seems a bit inappropriate to transfer a commander at the level of major general.
After all, the troops dispatched were part of the Yokosuka Joint Special Marine Corps. The people assigned to the command by another garrison made it somewhat difficult for the Yokosuka garrison to step down. The Japanese were humble on the surface, but in fact they wanted more face than anyone else.
As a result, the selection went back and forth, and the third-time Major General Iwabuchi, who served as the personnel director of the Maizuru Town Prefecture, was selected.
Although this Major General Iwabuchi is not from the Yokosuka Governor's Palace, after all, before he was promoted to Major General and transferred to Maizuru, he once served as a subordinate of the Yokosuka Governor's Headquarters. He also served in the Yokosuka Governor's Palace for a long time, so he can be regarded as a member of the Yokosuka Governor's Palace.
Old man.
And looking at this guy's resume, it is quite rich. After graduating from the Naval War School, he entered the Naval Gunnery School, the Naval Mine School, and the Naval Air Force for further training. He served in the Naval Air Force and also in the Naval Air Force.
He served as a staff officer, guard captain, training cruiser captain, and Kirishima battleship captain at the fort affiliated with the Naval Garrison.
Although this man has not attended the Japanese Naval University, he has trained new recruits and served as the gunnery chief of naval ships. He has served as an attached to the naval air force and as a fortress staff officer in the garrison. He can be said to be on the ground, at sea, and on the ground.
Aerial amphibious talents. But because they have not attended the Naval University, they can only be transferred here and there. They have never held a position in the Navy Ministry or the Military Command.
Fortunately, the Navy is not as perverted as the Army, and there are no regulations that require mainland China to be promoted to general officers. As long as they have the ability, the Navy still selects talents eclectically. Of course, some key positions, such as the Commander of the Combined Fleet, and the final
Several important positions such as the aviation fleet and the commander-in-chief of the garrison cannot be held by people without a diploma from the Maritime University.
When this man graduated from the Naval War School, the Hammock was ranked thirteenth. After working at the grassroots level for decades, he was finally promoted to the rank of rear admiral. Although he only served as the main captain for seven months,
Because the battleship Kirishima where he was located was sunk, he was transferred back to the mainland and became a land officer.
But his rich resume is definitely a rare all-rounder for the Japanese Navy. The Japanese Navy chose him to be the commander of this special landing operation detachment, which can be regarded as a wise eye for talents. Of course, some people in the navy think that this man
Being personally named by the Prime Minister of the Navy to direct this ground battle was the Prime Minister's retaliation for his flaws. Because there are indeed many people in the Navy who are not optimistic about this landing.
It's just that this Major General Iwabuchi, who had high hopes for the Japanese Navy, did not live up to the Navy's high hopes for him. Facing the increasingly unfavorable battle situation, he clearly knew that if he continued to stick to the front line of Sunzhengzhuang, his army would
Not only could the Marine Corps fail to meet the Navy's expectations, it would even have a hard time surviving the night.
Therefore, based on his experience as a senior combat staff officer for many fortresses, he immediately decided to break out and retreat to the Qikou frontline beachhead, and then find a way to withdraw to the mainland. As for breaking out towards the Ninth Division in the direction of Hulangzhuang, and rendezvous with the Ninth Division or
Speaking of getting closer, the Third Major General Iwabuchi had never even thought about it.
He believed that the Ninth Division, which was also trapped on the front line of Hulangzhuang, was the main force of the army's landing operation. Judging from the previous series of enemy deployments, they were determined to completely encircle and annihilate all the Japanese troops who landed in Qi.
On the battlefield at the entrance. Under this situation, even if he breaks through to Hulangzhuang safely, it is only a matter of time that the entire army will be destroyed sooner or later.
After discovering that the Anti-Japanese Alliance had adjusted its deployment and moved away the tank troops that faced the greatest threat to itself, I could guess with my toes that the enemy troops would move towards Iwabuchi in that direction after moving away the tanks in front of me.
Major General Three times immediately made a decisive decision to break out of the encirclement toward the east coastline with the entire army.
The sky is getting darker now, and the visual detectable distance is getting shorter and shorter. Although the remaining troops are small, they are relatively flexible. The enemy has now transferred the tanks, losing maximum mobility.
It is the most powerful and most powerful weapon. You can completely use the cover of night to find a gap in the enemy's encirclement and rush out, or concentrate your forces to break out. As long as you can break out of the enemy's encirclement, you will have a lot of potential.
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Unknown to his opponent, the third major general Iwabuchi, who had prepared a sumptuous feast of firepower for him in the next battle, acted vigorously and resolutely after making up his mind. After giving all those who could not move but could still sit up
The wounded were given a rifle with thirty rounds of ammunition each, and a heavy machine gun as cover.
The seriously wounded who could only lie down were given a grenade each. However, he did not ask these wounded to use the grenade to explode when necessary. He gave the wounded two choices. One was to choose when the enemy rushed up.
Surrender. Of course, he would not object if he wanted to be loyal to the empire, so everyone was given a grenade.
All the remaining people who could still run were gathered together by him using the cover of the ruins of Sunzhengzhuang and preparing to break out in the direction of East Qikou. However, considering the possible risks of breaking out at night, he did not take immediate action. He had to wait for a
It's time for opportunity to come.
He has to wait for the tank group that the enemy has moved away from his front to be thrown into the front line of Hulangzhuang before taking action. Otherwise, when he breaks through forcefully, he will be eaten up by the enemy's tanks that catch up with him.
On this flat terrain, no human legs can outrun a tank. The navy has paid such a high price for the army in this battle, and it is time for the army to repay the favor of the navy.