Except for the ivory-handled saber that Liu Lang took away from Minamoto Yoshihiro Steel, there are still eight major-level sabers left.
"Then let's allocate them to the meritorious officers who fought against the 20th Division on the Niangziguan front line! No matter whether it is our independent regiment, the 129th Division, the 17th Division or the 3rd Army, whether it is an individual or a collective, as long as the battle merits are qualified,
One Japanese army major-level saber will be divided into one. As for the other captured lieutenant-level sabers, they will be allocated to each army according to proportions and will be distributed by the commanders of each army. What do you think, senior officers?" Liu Lang asked.
Naturally, no one objected. The medal was decided by the government, but it could be decided by the superiors. It was also an incentive for the officers and soldiers under their command. And Liu Lang made it very clear in his words, this time, it can be
There is no mercy anymore. This battle at Niangziguan is fought by all of you here. It is up to us to divide it among ourselves and no one else.
The generals on the Snowflake Mountain side were very polite in seizing the Japanese generals' sabers one by one, and no one argued or argued with them. However, things exploded at the Eastern Shanxi Frontline Headquarters.
The small courtyard of the headquarters is filled with "material evidence" sent by a cavalry company of the 129th Division. It is none other than the bodies of Japanese generals and soldiers killed in this battle. The commander of the 20th Division, Bunzaburo Kawagishi, had his intestines discharged.
Below the rank of lieutenant general, Army Major General Yoshito Takagi, whose chest and abdomen were beaten into a honeycomb shape, Army Major General Yoshio Kamizuki, who was roasted until the roasted sweet potato almost turned into a paste, and Colonel Ren, who was shot in the head and had a scary big black hole in his head.
Captain Yukiichi Kobayashi, Captain Tsuneichi Kobayashi, who was obviously blown into pieces and then put back together again...
Especially when they saw the soldiers of the 129th Division Cavalry Company taking out the human legs and arms from the sacks on horseback and piecing them together in the small courtyard, several stunned combat staff immediately vomited and turned pale.
This provoked a burst of disdainful sneers from the soldiers of the cavalry company. With such a psychological quality, you are so damn good at commanding men to fight with little devils. Go home and feed yourself!
The soldiers don't know what strategizing is. They only know that their commanders have always said: Comrades, follow me.
The staff officers all looked pale from vomiting, and Commander Huang, who also looked a little pale, wandered around the corpses of Japanese generals and generals with different forms of death for a moment, looked at the corpse of Bunzaburo Kawagishi with fixed eyes, and suddenly laughed loudly.
Don't ask why he knew these ashen-faced Japanese generals. It wasn't that Liu Tuanzuo was careful and put a note on each corpse clearly indicating his name and official position. It was because he knew Bunzaburo Kawagishi!
As the commander of an army of 100,000 troops on the eastern Shanxi front, how could he not know his opponent Bunzaburo Kawagishi who was sending troops? Kawagishi Bunzaburo's photo, resume, and military characteristics are still on the desk of his office!
Although the face of the corpse in front of him was extremely distorted due to pain, he still recognized it at a glance. This must be his old rival who had kept him awake for nearly half a month.
Thinking back to all the weird things in the morning, he was already 90% sure that the 129th Division had really established a miraculous skill. It spent a day and a night to defeat the 20th Division one by one, and finally annihilated the 20th Division.
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It's very simple. The body of Bunzaburo Kawagishi is here, which at least proves that they have recaptured Shimen. The two infantry regiments on the Niangziguan front line and Jiuguan front line have all disappeared, as well as the 26th Artillery Regiment, which has always been awesome.
Not a single shot was fired at the Chinese positions all day long, and the probability of their being annihilated was as high as ninety-nine percent.
As for whether the 40th Infantry Brigade still in the mountains is finished, or even whether the half-cooked corpse that should have been roasted in the fire is Yoshio Uezuki, what does it matter? There are only thousands of people,
Without the artillery regiment again, tens of thousands of Chinese troops here were drowned by them even with a mouthful of saliva!
"Dajie, in the name of my deputy commander of the 2nd Theater Command, I am calling the 2nd Theater Command, the Nanjing Military and Administrative Department, and at the same time, I am calling the 26th Route Army, the 27th Route Army, the 3rd Army, and the 22nd Group Army.
, the units of the 18th Group Army generated electricity and said that after several days of fierce fighting, our 3rd Army, the 129th Division of the 18th Group Army, the 17th Division, the Independent Regiment of the 22nd Army, and other 50,000 officers and soldiers were joined at the Niangziguan front line in eastern Shanxi.
At 8 o'clock on the night of the 15th, the battle to encircle and annihilate the remaining elements of the enemy's 20th Division was completed. In this battle, our army annihilated everyone from the commander of the enemy's 20th Division, Bunzaburo Kawagishi, down to..." He looked obviously excited.
Admiral Huang shouted an order right at the door of the office.
After he mentioned the specific number of enemies annihilated and looked at the number of people in the telegram sent to him by the 129th Division, the man gritted his teeth and continued: "The following 30,000 people are useless to capture..."
For a permanent division like the 20th Division, it would take 30,000 people to completely annihilate it! As for the seizures, let alone the baggage, the Japanese who were killed had a lot of equipment themselves! There was nothing captured.
It's natural, no problem.
Admiral Huang, who used idiomatic expressions, may not have thought that what he said was not only completely correct, but even a little too modest.
The number of Japanese invaders who were annihilated as reported by the future military god was based on the number of prisoners and the corpses that could be counted. Qigen Village was shocked, and there were no bones left of more than 2,000 Japanese invaders. Even the arms and legs could not be found. How could the number be reported?
In addition, the front lines of Jiuguan and Niangziguan were bombarded by Zhang Ruhao with Japanese heavy artillery. Hundreds of Japanese invaders were also blown to ashes. In the end, only more than 26,000 Japanese invaders were reported.
You know, after a few days, even the Japanese army's own internal battle report will state that 23,000 people were killed, more than 3,000 were captured, and more than 3,000 were missing. This is basically consistent with Admiral Huang's huge battle report.
The so-called capture was futile. When General Huang found out that Liu Lang had moved the baggage warehouses of the 20th Division and the 108th and 109th Divisions, a total of two and a half divisions, until even the mice starved to death, he realized that when he reported victory, he really
Yes, that's too modest. It should obviously be said, seized, big...
The modest General Huang's good news stunned the big guys at the Nanjing Military and Political Department and the 2nd Theater Headquarters. At the same time, it also shocked the generals on the front lines who were just bragging about the future military god and not making drafts.
I almost sat on the ground in fear.
Anyone can brag, but Commander Du Duhuang cannot! Those who are close, no matter how dark the night is and the mountains are high, they will set off straight to the headquarters with the guard troops, while those who are far away will receive one letter after another.
The main purpose of sending a telegram to the headquarters was to seek the truth.
On the contrary, there was a bald man in Nanjing who had already received the information and figured out the general situation. He said several times: "Okay!" and was calmer.
Since the victory has been reported, there is no need to keep it secret. After sending telegrams to his superiors and subordinates, General Huang, who was working hard, simply ordered his staff to notify reporters from newspapers in eastern Shanxi to come to the headquarters to visit the body of the Japanese invader Guan Zuozhi.
.And provide them with a radio station for them to use to communicate with newspapers.
This still has not been approved by Nanjing. Otherwise, this man might not be able to wait and send an order to the whole country in the evening: A great victory in Shanxi Province!
For a time, the Jindong War Zone became the area with the most intensive exchanges of messages.
The largest number are naturally Chinese, but there is no shortage of Japanese.
Not to mention the senior spies at the Nanjing Military and Political Department who couldn't wait to pass on the information about the annihilation of the 20th Division claimed in the Chinese victory report to the Japanese North China Front Army Headquarters, even the spies lurking in Jindong were also alerted to the news and transferred the information they obtained.
A piece of information about Scale Claw was sent to Beiping.
Although the words are unclear, the target is pointed at one: the 20th Division.
General Juichi Terauchi, the leader of the Japanese North China Front, has been sitting in his office for two hours. Letters of intelligence from Nanjing, Shanxi, and Shanxi have almost driven this army general crazy. Of course, there are also messages from the base camp.
The government has strict orders to verify the authenticity of the intelligence within the shortest possible time.
Maybe the first telegram made him feel a little funny and thought that the Chinese were tactically deceiving, but when seven or eight telegrams arrived together, and it was even said that the Chinese had almost begun to celebrate the victory of Jindong, the army general became a little bit uneasy.
Can't stand it any longer.
If the Chinese engage in tactical deception so that they almost believe it, it is a very clever deception.
However, the 20th Division had really lost contact with the entire staff for several hours, from the 20th Division headquarters to the two brigade headquarters. Lieutenant General Kozuki Kiyoshi, the commander of the First Army, even tried to contact his infantry unit.
There has been no news from the team so far. This made Juichi Terauchi feel a bad premonition in his heart.
If something really happened to the 20th Division, then his position as an army general would be over.
The fate of the commander of the Kwantung Army, Nobuyoshi Muto, is a lesson learned from the past. The commander of the Kwantung Army, who could have safely become a field marshal after the First World War in Rehe, was eventually implicated by the Eighth Division. Not to mention that the marshal did not take it seriously and was transferred from active duty.
He served as a reserve soldier and eventually died in depression.
Juichi Terauchi, who is less than 60 years old, also hopes that he can advance further in the military rank. After being promoted to marshal, he may move from the military to politics like his father Masaki Terauchi and stay on the stage of power for a longer time.
It can be said that the inner anxiety of Shouichi in the temple at this moment far exceeds that of anyone in North China.
Finally, the long wait has come to an end.
When he heard the heavy footsteps of Major General Naosaburo Okabe, the chief of staff of the Northern China Expeditionary Force, and saw his pale face as he opened the office door and walked in, Terauchi Shouichi's heart dropped into the abyss.
"Okabe-kun, what news has come from the vanguard troops who arrived at Shimen for investigation?" Terauchi Juichi, who struggled to maintain his composure, slowly stood up and asked.
"The vanguard sent a call back. Shimen was attacked by the Chinese and fell. They have now recovered Shimen." Naosaburo Okabe stood up straight and lowered his head to report.
"What's the situation in the city? Okabe-kun, please tell me! I need to know the situation of the 20th Division." Terauchi Juichi's body suddenly swayed. If he hadn't been holding on to the table, the bad news would have caused him to fall over.
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Then he may become the most restless army general in the history of the Japanese Empire.
"According to the accounts of the captured Chinese, Shimen had fallen as early as 8 o'clock in the morning this morning or earlier, and the 20th Division's headquarters fell at the same time. There was no longer a living Imperial Army member in the city. 20th Division
There is no news about the division commander, Lieutenant General Kawagishi Bunzaburo, and the chief of staff, Colonel Kuzo Kimura." Naosaburo Okabe said with some difficulty.
"What? There is no longer a living Imperial Army member?" Terauchi Juichi was suddenly startled and stood blankly on the spot.
This news turned out to be worse than he imagined. It couldn't be worse.
Thinking back to what was said in the intelligence that more than 26,000 Japanese troops had been wiped out since Bunzaburo Kawagishi and below, Hisashi Terauchi always felt like a chill was rising from the soles of his feet to the sky.
It's like falling into an ice hole in the Songhua River during the coldest winter. My whole body is not cold, but ice-cold.