After successfully landing on the Youhu Bay beach, the 33rd Heavy Armored Division immediately advanced north along the Miura Peninsula.
The follow-up troops of the 3rd Group Army also landed near Guanyinqi. By November 11, six days after the successful beaching, the 3rd Group Army's remaining 7 heavy armored divisions, 2 armored divisions and 2 heavy artillery divisions
They also landed one after another, and Admiral Liu Yi moved his headquarters from the heavy cruiser "Zhongshan" to Guanyinqi.
In a temporary field tent, General Liu Yi was convening a military meeting with the commanders of each division.
All senior generals present at the meeting, including General Liu Yi, commander of the group army, stood.
A huge military topographic map of the Miura Peninsula was placed on the rectangular conference table. Lieutenant General Lu Xiufeng, chief of staff of the 3rd Group Army, pointed at the map and said: "The next phase of the combat mission is mainly three. One is to penetrate Tokyo along the railway line;
Completely occupy Japan's political, economic, and cultural center. The second is to seize Yokosuka's fortress, port, naval school, and shipyard, especially the shipyard. The headquarters has issued an order that it must be taken over as completely as possible! Then go straight to the north.
In the hinterland of Kanagawa Prefecture, fortify the line from Hachioji to Kamakura, and the Japanese garrison west of Kanagawa must not be allowed to rush eastward to aid Tokyo!"
After Lu Xiufeng finished speaking, Liu Yicai glanced across the faces of the generals with stern eyes and said, "Let's talk about it."
"Grandma!" After Liu Yi finished speaking, Chi Chengfeng said with red eyes, "The task of running along the railway line directly into Tokyo will be left to our 33rd heavy equipment division. No one is allowed to snatch it, otherwise I will be in a hurry with him!"
Li Yulong, Cao Xinglong and other division commanders could only look at each other and smile bitterly. They had nothing to do in Tokyo.
At that moment, Li Yulong said: "The task of blocking the Japanese troops west of Kanagawa Prefecture is left to our 31st Division."
Cao Xinglong also said without hesitation: "Leave Yokosuka to my 32nd Division. I promise to take down Yokosuka's fortress, port, naval school and shipyard completely!"
The three major tasks were quickly divided up, but the remaining five division commanders had nothing to say.
Regardless of their qualifications or military exploits, the other five division commanders are far from comparable to Li, Cao, and Chi. These three are Mr. Yue’s real old subordinates. The remaining five division commanders are either from the motley army or from the Eighth Route Army.
How could those who had been transferred dare to compete with these three veteran division commanders for the main attack?
"Then it's settled." Liu Yi nodded and said to Chi Chengfeng, "However, the reconnaissance plane reported that four Japanese divisions have been assembled near Kamakura, a military town in the northern part of the Miura Peninsula. Your 33rd Division
We still need to recharge our batteries and take Tokyo directly. Should we hand over the task of attacking Kamakura to the 34th Division?"
Lieutenant General Chen Xilian, the commander of the 34th Division, suddenly became energetic. There was no hope for this piece of fat in Tokyo, but it would be good if he could get the bowl of broth from Kamakura.
"No need." Chi Chengfeng waved his hand in an aggressive manner and said disapprovingly, "Isn't it just a small Kamakura and four miscellaneous divisions?"
Chen Xilian suddenly cried out in pain: "Brother Cheng Feng, you are too overbearing. You fight in Tokyo to eat fat, but you still have to leave some soup for your brothers. This good thing cannot be all about your 33rd Division.
No? We are also part of the 3rd Army, why should we leave some thoughts for our brothers?"
"Okay, okay, where are you going with this?" Liu Yi couldn't help but interrupt Division Commander Chen Xilian and reprimanded, "We are the National Revolutionary Army, not the bandit armed mountain cousin association. We eat meat and drink soup. As for fighting,
Are you still afraid that we won't be able to fight? When the hundreds of Japanese divisions west of Kanagawa come over, the 31st Division alone will never be able to withstand them, even if you come on stage."
Chen Xilian and other five division commanders stopped talking. For these senior generals with military background, fighting is just like eating and sleeping. It has become an indispensable part of their lives. If there is no battle, it will be
They felt uncomfortable all over, but they didn't care whether or how many people would die in the war.
At that moment, Liu Yi said to Chi Chengfeng: "Chi Chengfeng, I have no objection in principle to your insistence on attacking Kamakura, but I hope you will do what you can. Your heavy armor division can defeat the four Japanese garrison divisions.
This is not a problem, the problem is that you can't waste too much time in Kamakura. The mission of your 33rd Division is Tokyo, it's Tokyo, you know?"
"Commander, don't worry." Chi Chengfeng said confidently, "It's just four patchwork divisions. They are all old people, women and children. We have defeated the heavily-armed Kwantung Army.
Do you care about this rabble? The effort to urinate will be wasted, and the important event of attacking Tokyo will not be delayed."
Liu Yi said: "If I miss something important, I will ask you for it."
"Yes." Chi Chengfeng snapped to attention and said, "If you can't complete the task, you can shoot me!"
After saying that, Chi Chengfeng saluted Liu Yi with a standard military salute, then turned around and walked away.
Watching Chi Chengfeng's figure quickly disappear, Song Renping, political commissar of the 3rd Army Group, smiled bitterly and said: "This Chi Chengfeng is really a hot-tempered person."
Liu Yi shook his head and said with a sigh: "No, he has been holding it in for too long."
In the southern suburbs of Kamakura, the forward position of the 98th Regiment of the 33rd Heavy Armored Division.
1st Battalion Commander Zhu Wenbin walked into the headquarters angrily, threw his armed belt on the table, and angrily complained to regiment leader Zhang Hao and political commissar Li Yuting: "Regiment leader, political commissar, this battle can't be fought! Xiao
The Communist Party of China is defending the city and will not engage in field battles with our army at all. We cannot adjust the heavy artillery bombardment or use napalm bombs, and tanks are not suitable for street fighting. How can we fight this battle? Is it possible for the brothers to use their lives to fight inside?
fill?"
Zhang Hao had a dark face and said nothing, and seemed to be in a bad mood.
Political Commissar Li Yuting sighed and said helplessly: "Wen Bin, this Kamakura is not an ordinary city."
"What's the difference?" Zhu Wenbin spread his hands and said angrily, "Isn't it just a bird-broken city? Isn't it just that there are more temples and palaces? If it explodes, it will explode. If it burns, it will burn. What's the matter?
Come on, how many big cities have we bombed and burned in the past few months? It’s not as bad as this small broken city."
Li Yuting shook his head and said disapprovingly: "Kamakura is one of the three ancient capitals of Japan. There are many temples, palaces and other places of interest in it. For example, if the Emperor of Japan is the collective of all Japanese people,
The ancestors worshiped, then Kyoto, Nara and Kamakura are the ancestral graves of the Japanese. We bomb Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama, that’s no problem, but bombing Kamakura is digging up the ancestral graves of the Japanese.”
"Nanjing is still the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties!" Zhang Hao couldn't help but retorted, "The Japanese dug up the ancestral graves of our Chinese people, and now they are counterattacking the Japanese. Why don't we dig up the ancestral graves of their Chinese people?"
"Regiment leader, let's not cause any more trouble to the division leader, the commander and the chief executive officer." Li Yuting said with a bitter smile, "Now, there is a voice in the country asking the police to exercise restraint and try their best after landing. To reduce the casualties of innocent civilians, we must also try our best to protect Japan’s cultural monuments, and Kamakura is on the protection list.”
Li Yuting did not make this up, it was indeed true.
At this time, in China, there is already a huge discussion about how to deal with wartime and post-war ***. A considerable number of democratic elites believe that China should carry forward the spirit of tolerance and let the past go by. The two peoples should focus on the future and advocate peaceful coexistence instead of dwelling on history and seeking cruel revenge.
What’s even more funny is that a certain Kuomintang veteran openly demanded that the Communist Party not send troops into Yokohama, but only allowed the allies to send a small number of military police into Yokohama to maintain order. The reason was that Sun Yat-sen’s Japanese husband, *** Yue Xun, was from Yokohama, and, Sun Yat-sen and his concubine Afen also lived in Yokohama for eight full years when they were in Japan.
This may seem ridiculous, but in fact it must not be underestimated, because the founding father Sun Yat-sen is indeed inextricably linked to the Communist Party. On the eve of the second revolution, in order to fight against Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army, Sun Yat-sen even did not hesitate to move the East Fourth Army. The whole province was leased to the Communist Party of China in exchange for the support of the Communist Party of China government to the Nanjing National Government, but it was ultimately rejected.
Therefore, at the juncture of the Communist Party's large-scale invasion of Japan, it is reasonable for so many people to jump out to campaign for the Communists under the banner of Sun Yat-sen! And one of the three ancient cities of Japan The unique Kamakura is indeed one of the "*** no-go areas" proposed by many democratic elites!
As the military and political leaders of the four fields, Yue Weihan and Deng Gong are under considerable pressure now.
Therefore, although the wild division and the group army did not issue a clear prohibition order, Li Yuting was not willing to touch these so-called "forbidden areas" easily. As a veteran, Li Yuting had absolutely no sympathy for the Communist Party, and he was not afraid of disturbing the domestic situation. Those "democrats" were against him, but he did not want to cause trouble to the two leaders, Yue and Deng.
Just when Zhang Hao, Li Yuting and Zhu Wenbin were at a stalemate, chaotic footsteps suddenly sounded outside the command headquarters.
Immediately, Chi Chengfeng's dark and sturdy figure appeared outside the tent. When he saw Zhang Hao, he scolded him: "Grandma, Zhang Hao, what are you doing? A heavy equipment regiment, an army aviation regiment, and an army aviation regiment." The armored battalion plus a self-propelled artillery regiment, and the air force's cooperation, couldn't take down a small Kamakura for four hours, what are you doing?"
"Master, I..." Zhang Hao wanted to argue, but for a moment he didn't know where to start.
It was Zhu Wenbin, commander of the 1st Battalion, who said: "Master, we can't fight this battle. The stubborn little devils are all huddled in the city. We can neither bomb nor bombard them, nor can we throw napalm bombs to drive them out. If it really happens, If we use the lives of our brothers to fill it in, won’t this battle be fought back again and again?”
"Who told you to fill it with the lives of brothers?" Chi Chengfeng said fiercely, "Bomb it with cannons and blow it up!"
"But the political commissar said we couldn't blow it up." Zhu Wenbin complained bitterly, "If it blows up, it will cause big trouble for the main office and the entire four fields."
"Trouble!" Chi Chengfeng said viciously, "Grandma, please give me an order. The division's self-propelled artillery battalion, vehicle-mounted rocket launcher battalion and the 1st Army Aviation Regiment will immediately carry out carpet bombing of Kamakura. What kind of grenades?
Gas bombs, heavy aerial bombs, and napalm bombs were all thrown at the little ***’s head, blown up, and turned into rubble by me!”