The 62nd Division of the 28th Army of the Chinese Army taught the Japanese invaders a good lesson at Jinshan Guard with their bravery no less heroic in time and space than they had done at Tianma Mountain and Fenghuang Mountain.
Although naval guns and aircraft are powerful, and flesh and blood cannot stop the crazy smoke of modern firearms, an extremely hard spiritual will can allow people to break through all kinds of incredible possibilities. Just like the soldiers of the Red Republic in the future using Wuzhishan.
Zhan told the proud and arrogant American cowboys that when the Chinese get tough, the artillery fire that can blow up the top of the mountain by fifteen centimeters will mean nothing.
The Japanese Tenth Army finally captured Jinshanwei and successfully landed as they had planned. Matsui Iwane, an old Japanese soldier, had successfully taken the first step in his grand strategy of sending troops south to outflank the retreat of hundreds of thousands of national troops in Songhu.
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Although Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeharu, the commander of the 114th Division, was already in tears after counting the casualties after the battle in the early morning. As the weakest combat unit of the Tenth Army, especially as the first wave of landing troops, cannon fodder was naturally
With the awareness of cannon fodder, he was mentally prepared at the beginning of the landing operation.
However, being mentally prepared does not mean that it is strange that the Japanese Army Lieutenant General did not want to cry when he saw casualties that far exceeded his psychological expectations.
Yes, long before the landing, the Japanese Army's Shanghai Expeditionary Force Headquarters had detected the deployment of Chinese military forces through spies active in the Jinshanwei area. An infantry division that had been transferred had been transferred back. There were at least 100 Chinese people before the tidal flats.
A position with a width of 15 miles and at least one infantry division was deployed. However, with more than a dozen ships and two fleets of carrier-based aircraft promised by the navy to participate in the battle, Suematsu Shigeharu felt that the loss of about 1,000 troops would be
He is acceptable.
But now, it is five times that, and that is with the help of those navy grandsons who have tried their best. Otherwise, he is sure that his 114th Division may not be able to conquer China even if it fights here for two days.
A crude position.
The resistance of the Chinese was far stronger than he imagined. The commander of the newly formed Japanese B Division, who was on the Chinese battlefield for the first time, undoubtedly received a slap in the face in the first battle against the Chinese army.
I'm almost blinded.
Not only their division commanders, but also the officers and soldiers of the 114th Division were not much better. When the 114th Division was established on the Japanese mainland, all these young Japanese people who were brainwashed by the Japanese army heard was the Empire.
The army has won one round after another in mainland China. For example, the empire has successfully occupied Northeast China and North China. The empire is fighting a decisive battle with the Chinese on the north and south fronts. As long as they win, the fertile land and resources on China will be lost.
It's theirs.
However, the first battle taught them a bloody lesson. It turned out that the so-called victories of the empire were only built on their bones.
Yes, they won this battle. They achieved the tactical goals of their commanders, and finally they could set foot on a foreign land without having to worry about the artillery shells flying over the Chinese positions and the bullets that were everywhere.
However, they did not feel the excitement after victory at all, only fear.
The corpses of their colleagues, covered in mud, water and blood, were put into body bags in front of them because there was no time to clean them, and then transported to the big ship on the landing craft they came from, truly realizing the journey back and forth from where they came.
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Later, they even knew that those colleagues who died in the battle were because the transport ship took too long to return to the homeland, or the empire had no intention of transporting the bodies of the dead back. After all, that would overload the ship and destroy it.
This leads to a waste of precious oil. The reason why we chose to transport it back to the big ship instead of burning it on the spot is because the beach here is too muddy and we are afraid that it will not be burned cleanly. The small urn can hold the ashes, but it will never be able to hold the unfinished ones.
Human bones.
Thinking that they might become rotten meat roasted among dead branches by their colleagues in a foreign land, the once extremely hot hearts of these Japanese soldiers who had been hit had long since
It fell into the eye.
Morale has dropped to the extreme.
As a last resort, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, commander of the Japanese Tenth Army, who had originally planned to order the 114th Division that was the first to land to pursue the victory, had to temporarily change the combat plan and hold an impromptu combat meeting.
The temporary headquarters of the Tenth Army is located ten miles away from the Jinshanwei tidal flat.
"Su Songjun, I can only give you two days at most. To repair the Jinshan Guard area in China for two days, your troops must coordinate with the Sixth Division Gu Jun to march eastward from Songjiang to intercept the defeated troops of China Songhu in the west of Shanghai.
To realize the strategy of our Central China Front Army General Commander to surround the main forces of China and annihilate them." Yanagawa Heisuke squinted his eyes and looked coldly at the somewhat absent-minded Suematsu Shigeharu.
Yes, after the success of the Jinshanwei landing operation, the Japanese army immediately merged the Shanghai Expeditionary Army and the Tenth Army to form the Central China Front Army, and Matsui Iwane continued to become the commander of the Central China Front Army.
"Hi!" Although the two are of the same rank, Yanagawa Heisuke is the commander, and Suematsu Shigeharu can only endure it with such an almost scolding order from the lieutenant general commander. Who would let his subordinates
What a disappointment! After a landing battle, everything was like a frost-beaten eggplant. Of course, that included himself.
"Tani-kun..." Yanagawa Heisuke turned his attention to Hisao Tani, the commander of the Sixth Division.
Although this famous butcher who will be famous in China in the future is not tall, he has a thick body, a protruding belly, and a pair of small but extremely cold eyes on his face.
Seeing Yanagawa Heisuke's eyes directed towards him, this famous butcher to the Chinese people had a hint of pride on his face. Without waiting for his commander to finish asking, he replied sarcastically: "Commander, please rest assured, there is no need to
One day, Songjiang will be conquered by our Sixth Division, and the situation before today will never happen."
These words were not only proud, but even a bit harsh, especially for Shigeharu Suematsu.
But Suematsu Shigeharu, apart from a look of anger on his face and a few twitches of his lips, was helpless towards his colleague at the same level.
Like the Chinese military, although they are both lieutenant generals, lieutenant generals and lieutenant generals are also different. Just like Comrade Lao Li in Shanxi who has the rank of lieutenant general but can only be an ammunition transport officer, he has the most people
When he commands more than a hundred people, he still has a mission. When he doesn't have a mission, he can only wander around with two orderlies. But some army lieutenant generals command thousands of troops.
The Sixth Division is a permanent division, and it is also an elite division among the permanent divisions. In addition, this time, it is the fifth time it has landed in China to fight. The status of its division commander is not that of a newly formed B type like him.
A division commander can't compare.
"Yo Xi! The China Army in Songjiang will be left to you, Mr. Tani." A smile appeared on Yanagawa Heisuke's face.
Although Hisao Tani is arrogant, his combat effectiveness is still very strong. As long as he can conquer Matsue in a short time, the battle plan he initially drafted before yesterday can continue to be implemented, and will not be forced to change because of the coward Suematsu Shigeharu.
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"In this way, Ushijima-kun's 18th Division will continue to march towards Jiaxing, Suzhou, China according to the original plan." Yanagawa Heisuke continued to order.
"Hi!" The three army lieutenant generals responded in unison.
Seeing that no one objected to his battle plan, Yanagawa Heisuke's face was full of smiles, and he wiped away the sad look on his face when he encountered a decline in the previous landing battle.
Yes, it is difficult for this fanatical communist to be unhappy. Because his combat plan is contrary to the combat plan given to him by the Japanese base camp staff headquarters, but the three army lieutenant generals under his command
But choosing to ignore it is equivalent to silently supporting him.
Previously, the operational guidelines formulated by the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters for the 10th Army were, "We must cooperate with the navy to land on the north bank of Hangzhou, advance to the southwest of Shanghai as quickly as possible, and work with the Shanghai dispatched troops to eliminate the enemies around Shanghai." To achieve this,
For this purpose, the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters requires the main forces of the three divisions to line up and advance from the west of the Huangpu River to the west of Shanghai City to connect with the Shanghai Expeditionary Army's Western Shanghai Force. It is not difficult to find that the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters is not prepared to expand the Shanghai war. Therefore, this plan is
Step by step, the destination is urban Shanghai, and the combat goal is "assisting Shanghai's dispatched troops to complete their missions".
However, the combat plan formulated by Yanagawa Heisuke not only violated the "Operation Guidance Principles" of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, but also violated the scope of application. The 10th Army changed the combat policy to "land in the east and west areas of Jinshan Acropolis and quickly enter the vicinity of Songjiang."
Then, try to stay as far away as possible from the area east of Dianshan Lake and advance to the area north of Suzhou River to coordinate the main force of Shanghai’s dispatched troops and eliminate the main force of the enemy.”
The biggest difference between Yanagawa Heisuke's plan and the "Operation Essentials of the Tenth Army" drafted by the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters is that after landing and capturing the main targets in Jinshan, the offensive direction is completely different. The Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters' intention is to move the main force of the Tenth Army upward
Advance to the south and west of Hainan, while Yanagawa Heisuke's plan is to enter the Suzhou River west of Shanghai and encircle the enemy's main force on a large scale to the north. It can be clearly seen that the goal of Yanagawa Heisuke's combat plan is not to complete the task of dispatching troops to Shanghai, but to
It was to achieve encirclement on all sides, to encircle and annihilate the elite main force of the Chinese army on the Songhu battlefield in the area east of Suzhou and north of the Suzhou River, thereby fundamentally "killing China's will and ability to resist Japan."
In other words, Yanagawa Heisuke was not satisfied with the campaign goal of cooperating with Shanghai's dispatched troops to end the Shanghai War, but planned to complete the strategic encirclement of China's elite troops.
Yanagawa Heisuke's appetite is very big. He needs to use this war with China to establish enough meritorious service and reach a higher position.
Don’t think that the Japanese army lieutenant general who dared to disobey the orders of the base camp staff was punished for this. The Japanese army is really a very strange army. It is an incomprehensible combination of contradictions: on the one hand, there is a strict sense of hierarchy, and on the one hand, subordinates are very strict with others.
Superiors are extremely respectful; but on the other hand, the behavior of "lowers overpowering superiors" is not uncommon.
"September 18th" was about "lower overcoming superiority", and "Lugouqiao" was about "lower overcoming superiority". This unauthorized modification of the battle plan is still about "lower overcoming superiority".
In fact, this kind of "subjugation from below" that is in line with Japan's established national policy of aggression is tacitly approved or even condoned by the top management. If the attack is successful, it will naturally lead to promotion; if it fails, the person involved will commit suicide and apologize at most, which has nothing to do with the Japanese government and military. Such a situation
On the one hand, it greatly stimulated the expansion of the Japanese army's aggressive ambitions, and on the other hand, it also made the behavior of "bottom overcoming superior" become common practice.
In the past, Yanagawa Heisuke's "downcoming and superiority" made him successful, and he even became the Minister of State because of it. But what about this time? The Chinese defenders in Matsue City, who had already fought their last battle, might make him even more sad than Suematsu Shigeharu.