When the cavalry attacked like an overwhelming force and the Eighth Division was destroyed at the last moment, the Signal Corps still dedicatedly sent the Eighth Division's last message to the Kwantung Army headquarters.
The message "The enemy cavalry is attacking, the entire division from the Chief of Staff of Tanibe down to the ground is in pieces." Muto Nobuyoshi, who was called up from the bed, was stunned.
The war is over. Although the Eighth Division was severely defeated, the empire's strategy was still successfully completed. The entire province of Jehol was captured, and the northern gate of China was also opened. Although the dream of being promoted to marshal was shattered, Kanto
The position of army commander is fairly secure.
But now, everything is finished.
The consequences of an entire division being wiped out were far beyond what he, a mere army general, could bear. The best outcome would be to resign sadly and withdraw from the military.
The cavalry is attacking? In the whole of northern China, apart from the remnants of Mazhanshan’s army that was pushed back to the north of Jehol, is there any cavalry left?
But, why is this so? Even if the Eighth Division is extremely weak, how can 7,000 capable soldiers be defeated by less than 2,000 cavalry? Muto Nobuyoshi can't figure out what Terube Tanibe is like even if he wants to break his head.
Bringing a division with a strong fighting capacity to the end where the entire army was annihilated.
"Call to the Sixth Division and order the entire army to march northward to find those Chinese ground rats and kill them." Muto Nobuyoshi sat slumped in his chair and issued a military order that even he himself had no confidence in.
Rehe is very mountainous. Thousands of Chinese people burrowed into the mountains. Finding their traces with tens of thousands of Japanese troops would be more difficult than climbing to the sky. Unless these tens of thousands of troops were permanently stationed in Rehe and traded time for space, it would be difficult to find them.
It is possible to find thousands of Chinese people.
After all, we are human beings and we all need to eat.
After receiving the telegram from the headquarters, Sakamoto Masaemon was shocked. Not long after he ordered the entire army to speed up and rush to the location of the Eighth Division, he received an explicit telegram sent in the name of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army.
Sakamoto Masaemon was so depressed that he almost vomited blood. At the same time, he could only order two regiments to escort the division field hospital and carry enough medicine to increase the marching speed again. Although the lives of nearly 5,000 wounded people were not in the eyes of the Lieutenant General,
It was so important, but if a large number of wounded died due to poor rescue efforts, he, an army lieutenant general, did not want to bear the blame.
He didn't believe that the damn Chinese would be so kind and have such bullshit humanitarianism. Lieutenant General Sakamoto instinctively felt that a conspiracy was coming against him.
However, even though he had cursed countless times in his mind the stupid Teruji Tanibe who had ruined the lives of nearly 20,000 imperial warriors, Sakamoto Masaemon still had to rush to the rescue.
However, knowing that the remnants of Deng Wen still had the power to destroy the 8th Division, Sakamoto Masaemon ordered the advance troops to increase their marching speed, while still maintaining sufficient vigilance. He could not do it for a bunch of dead Kazuo.
The dying guys once again ruined the lives of precious Imperial warriors.
In this Battle of the Great Wall, China's battle damage statistics have been released. Sixteen thousand people were killed and more than 20,000 injured. But what about the Kwantung Army?
Masaemon Sakamoto didn't dare to do arithmetic mentally at all. It wasn't that Comrade Sakamoto failed in arithmetic in elementary school, but that that number made his whole body shiver just thinking about it.
Two brigades of the Eighth Division, plus artillery, baggage, medical and other auxiliary personnel, totaling nearly 25,000 people. In addition, the Lushun Heavy Artillery Battalion and the Kwantung Army's First Tank Battalion, which had already been determined to be wiped out,
What makes Lieutenant General Masaemon Sakamoto want to cry even more is that the 14th Brigade under his command may have to be added.
The Eighth Division suffered a huge defeat, and it actually caused the Sixth Division to lose more than 6,000 men. Who should I turn to to settle this score? Is it Nishi Giichi? Or Tanibe Teruubi? I'm afraid neither of them will do it.
found.
Judging from the current situation, everyone in the Eighth Division should be dead! Even if they are alive, their final outcome may only be to have a caesarean section to apologize to His Majesty the Emperor. There is no other way out.
As for Li Shoushan's Fengtian Independent Brigade, Sakamoto Masaemon had no intention of counting those guys among the casualties. No matter how bad-legged the Chinese were, they were still Chinese.
The puppet soldiers are probably the most miserable people in this war. Even if others die in battle, they can still make up the numbers, but they are not even qualified to count.
By the time Sakamoto Masaemon's vanguard troops arrived at the battlefield with doctors and wound medicine, it took fifteen hours, and it was already late at night. Then, they lit torches and collected the bodies of the dead, waiting for the arrival of the rear troops.
As for rescuing the wounded, it really didn't require too many people. The cold winter nights in the north helped them save almost all the medicine and doctors, and they brought more.
When Sakamoto Masaemon arrived, it was already dawn of the next day. In the slightly bright sky, what appeared in front of him were rows of Japanese corpses that were as frozen as if they had just been taken out of a freezer.
The body of Terube Tanibe has been found. If it weren't for the shining general star on his shoulder, no one would know which body that had been trampled by horses into a strange shape belonged to the majestic Major General Chief of Staff of the Eighth Division.
The body of Lieutenant General Nishi Yiichi is easy to find. He is in the field hospital. The Chinese probably have no idea that the man lying in the field tent wearing a hospital gown was the former supreme commander of the Eighth Division. He had no blade at all.
To add someone to the body is to place him in the wilderness like an ordinary wounded Japanese soldier.
In other words, even if the Chinese knew about it, there would be no change in this outcome. The Army Lieutenant General of the Empire of Japan did not wear any Lieutenant General collar badge, just like all ordinary Japanese soldiers, spending the summer bathing in China
In the cold April wind in the north, I breathed my last breath.
By the time the advance troops of the Sixth Division found him among thousands of Japanese wounded, he had already frozen solid.
Damn the Chinese, they say they are humanitarian. But do you know how cold it is in northern China in April? At night, the temperature can even drop below zero. Let alone stay in the wilderness, just hide in a tent.
You also have to wear a military coat, okay?
However, the Chinese not only looted the tents, but also put them in a position to enjoy the cool air in the summer. It was really sad, not only sad, but also cold.
Thousands of wounded Japanese soldiers were not killed by the Chinese, but the outcome...
Masaemon Sakamoto stared at the "Remains Exhibition" of the Imperial Warriors that was filled with items as large as a baseball field. Not only was anger welling up in his heart, but also sadness.
According to statistics, there are 10,600 warriors of the Japanese Empire who died here, starting from the commander of the 1st Division of Nishiyi Division and below. According to the previous communication with the 8th Division, when they were stationed here, they still had
There were more than 12,000 and close to 13,000 troops, but now, 80% of them were killed on the spot, and 20% were missing.
When did the Empire of Japan suffer such a disastrous defeat? This must be the first time in the history of the empire’s military establishment!
It was not until this moment that Sakamoto Masaemon remembered what the word the Chinese rebels said in the message meant.
It turns out that not only are they short of medicine, they are also short of clothing!
Indeed, Japanese military coats were not only light but also extremely warm. Even the cotton-padded coats worn by ordinary Japanese soldiers were much better than the rotten cotton-padded jackets worn by the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army.
Almost all the middle-level cadres of the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Army, including Li Jieba, who had been promoted to deputy battalion commander after the war, had a dark green military coat and carried one on their backs. They truly realized that every breakfast required a glass of soy milk and a glass of soy milk.
The wealthy life.
If you hadn't looked closer, people who didn't know better would have thought that the group of people traveling through the mountains were a regiment of Japanese troops!