Chapter 84: The Biggest Oolong in the History of the Japanese Army
The 149th Division was ordered to lead the reinforcements by Major Ikeda Haomin, the captain of the cavalry brigade directly under the headquarters. The Ikeda brigade all had horses to travel, so they were the last to arrive first. The 123rd Division led by Tsuchida Rang When the main force was about to join Shan Benwu, they entered Xiangjia Village one step ahead.
"Members of the 149th Division, what are they doing here?" As soon as they recognized the identity of Ikeda's battalion, Yamamoto and Hashimoto were filled with doubts, and because they were worried that they were here to attack, when Ikeda's battalion was about to pass through Hashimoto's battalion While guarding the road, under Hashimoto's instruction, a second lieutenant under his command led several soldiers to stand in front of Ikeda's brigade.
"Which unit are you from? Didn't you see that there is a war going on here?" The second lieutenant glared at a Japanese cavalryman at the head of Ikeda's battalion who was carrying the military flag and yelled in command.
Just as the flag bearer of Ikeda's battalion was about to speak, he jumped out from behind him. The person above shouted condescendingly at the second lieutenant in a contemptuous tone: "The dog is blind, can't you see our military flag?"
The second lieutenant looked up and first saw a Major title insignia. His aura immediately weakened a lot. He first stood at attention and saluted the other party, and then said: "Your Majesty, Major, our army is being ordered to fight against the Fujita tribe's deserters. Please ask me." You should take a detour from other places so as not to affect the war."
The Major was Ikeda Haomin. Hearing this, he narrowed his eyes and said, "I heard Chief of Staff Daping is right across the street."
The second lieutenant became vigilant. He looked up at Ikeda, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Yes, Mr. Daping was kidnapped by them." After saying that, he looked behind Ikeda.
A little further behind Ikeda, Tsuchida Sho took the lead and was rushing over, escorted by dozens of cavalry. Just now, Yamamoto had contacted Tsuchida via walkie-talkie. Worried that Ikeda's team had bad intentions, Yamamoto ordered Tsuchida Jo immediately caught up to cooperate with Hashimoto in stopping the Ikeda Brigade and preventing them from joining the Otsubo Kazuma. At this time, Yamamoto had already guessed that the appearance of the Ikeda Brigade was related to the Otsubo Kazuma.
Ikeda saw the changes in the second lieutenant's expression and movements. He couldn't help but turn around and saw a group of cavalrymen from the 123rd Division rushing over menacingly. He immediately concluded that there was something wrong with the second lieutenant, so, He suddenly yelled: "We have everything, rush over." Then he clamped the horse's belly and controlled the horse to hit the second lieutenant, causing him to scream and fly several meters away.
Ikeda's charge order was given so suddenly that Yamamoto and Hashimoto had no time to react. So by the time they reacted and wanted to organize their forces to intercept, Ikeda's battalion had already rushed into the independent detachment's position and saw the person lying on a stretcher. Daping Yima on the mountain.
Ikeda already knew from the division commander that Kazuma Otsubo was injured, so after dismounting, he first expressed condolences to the latter's injury: "Your Majesty Otsubo, your injury is not a big deal."
"The wound has been treated. Thank you, Major Ikeda."
"You're welcome, Your Excellency." After Ikeda saluted Otsubo, he glanced at the others, then fixed his gaze on Fujita Tsuno's face, and asked, "You are Fujita Tsuno."
"Hai." Fujita took a step forward.
Ikeda looked him up and down and said, "You can't tell, maybe it's just the appearance that makes people look different." He laughed first as he said that.
Ikeda made no secret of his contempt for Fujita, which caused a flash of anger on Fujita's face. Seeing this, Zhang Xuyun was a little worried that Fujita would not be able to control his emotions. He stepped forward and patted him twice on the shoulder and said, "Sure." Those who are dealing with serious matters need to hold their breath, take a deep breath, take a deep breath."
"Ikeda-kun, how many of you are here?" Kazuma Otsubo asked Ikeda.
Ikeda did not dare to show the slightest slightness to Kazuma Otsubo, and immediately bowed and respectfully replied: "Sir, there is only one of our brigade in the vanguard, but the commander personally led the main force to follow." After that, he looked at it. He looked at his watch and said, "They should arrive here in an hour."
"Very good, Ikeda-kun."
"Hai."
"If I ask you to lead the troops to fight against the 123rd Division, will you obey the order?"
Ikeda was startled, and then asked in a low voice: "Your Excellency, this situation should not happen."
"You're scared."
"No, sir, how could I be afraid?"
"They are ready to attack."
"Ah." Ikeda exclaimed when he heard this and turned around to look, and then started to curse: "Ba Ge, what do the guys from the 1st, 23rd and 3rd Divisions want to do? They are crazy."
Are Yamamoto, Hashimoto, and Tsuchida Jo crazy? Of course not. Seriously speaking, Yamamoto and Hashimoto actually just made a small mistake. Then, in order to redeem this small mistake, they could only sink in deeply and brazenly An attack was launched against the independent detachment, including the Ikeda Battalion.
"You said between me and Kazuma Otsubo, who will Harem Jundai believe?" When Tsuchida Rang questioned Yamamoto's order to eliminate Ikeda's squadron together, Yamamoto asked him. Otsubo Kazuma has the trust of Harem Jun, which is true in Kanto. Everyone knows that military affairs are a matter of course, so after Tsuchida Jo let out a deep sigh, he immediately expressed his stance to Yamamoto with his head held high, saying that he would firmly support the decision of the Commander-in-Chief.
In the history of World War II, there were internal fights in the Japanese army, but the scale was at the brigade level at most, and the causes were much more varied, but most of them were trivial matters such as snatching women or unfairly dividing the spoils. Internal fighting at the division level like today is unprecedented.
"Now that I think about it, I must have been obsessed at the time, otherwise how could I have made such a decision... Did I make a mistake? No, as the village said, maybe what I did was the only correct way to save the Yamato nation... ..." This is what Daping Yima wrote at his residence in Harbin half a month later. It was due to the tacit cooperation between him and Zhang Xuyun that the 149th Division of the Kwantung Army made a firm choice on the issue of which side to take. On his side, it was fine, because the internal fighting in Kuancheng was getting bigger and bigger, disrupting the audio and video, so until the division commander of the 149th Division, Masashi Ino, felt something was wrong and called Harem Chun to verify the matter, the two The fight between two divisions in Xiangjia Village was only known to Harem Chun and other senior officials of the Kwantung Army. When Harem Chun and others began to mediate the matter, because enough people died on both sides of the war, between the two divisions, The hatred between them is as thick as ice that has accumulated for thousands of years and cannot be broken away no matter what.
When the main force of the 149th Division arrived at the Xiangjiacun battlefield, Zhang Xuyun knew that they would be exposed sooner or later, so he decided to withdraw from the battlefield.
"The members of the 149th Division are all good." The people of the independent detachment wore ambulance armbands and carried the Daping Yima and the injured Japanese deserters. They praised every 149th Division they saw along the way.
The soldiers withdrew all the way, and by the time Masano Ino sensed something was wrong and started looking for Kazuma Otsubo's people, they had already disappeared into the vast fields.
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