After Muto Akira and Ogawara Junsi led their troops back to Shanxian County, they immediately took a truck to Feicheng and took Nan Batian back to Feicheng.
At this moment, Muto and Okahara were already sitting in Kawaguchi Heiji's office.
Kawaguchi Heiji smiled and said to the two of them: "Muto-san, Okahara-san, you must be very confused and even very angry. Why don't I just change the battle plan without discussing it with you?"
"Hai." Muto Akira paused and said honestly, "I am really confused."
Ogawara Junsi also said: "Although the Hamura detachment suffered a major defeat at Dawan and Teapot Au and lost part of its technical equipment, this does not mean that the previously formulated combat plan has failed. I also thought that the previous
The plan made to advance separately and attack together and then encircle and annihilate the Dameishan Independent Regiment in Meizhen is still feasible."
Kawaguchi Heiji shook his head, but did not argue with Muto Akira and Ogawara Junsi, because he knew very well that this plan was not so much Hamura Shuichi's decision as it was drawn up by Muto Akira, the former deputy chief of staff of the front army.
Therefore, Muto Akira was particularly unable to accept Kawaguchi Heiji's change of heart.
However, Kawaguchi Heiji is still confident to convince the two.
With a light clap, the office door was pushed open, and then a sergeant major walked in.
The sergeant who came in was none other than the cavalry sergeant Takeo Yamagama who had saved his life from the Dawan battlefield. If someone else had replaced him as the commander of the Hamura detachment, Takeo Yamagama would have been whipped even if he was not sent to a military court.
Yes, but Kawaguchi Heiji did not punish him.
Because in Kawaguchi Heiji's opinion, the defeats at Owan and Teapot Pass were due to poor command and had nothing to do with the ordinary soldiers underneath.
"Your Excellency, Commander." After Yamatakeo walked in, he suddenly put his feet back and stood at attention, and then nodded heavily to Kawaguchi Heiji.
"Muto-san, Ogahara-san, this is Sergeant Yamayama of the 101st Independent Cavalry Regiment." Kawaguchi Heiji first introduced Yamayama Takeo to Muto and Ogahara, and then said to Yamayama Takeo, "Yamayama-san, please pay back to Commander Muto."
Chief Oluhara will tell you what happened in Dawan that night."
"Hai." Takeo on the mountain paused heavily and said with a serious expression, "That night, when I led the cavalry team to the Dawan battlefield, I found that there was only one Imperial Army soldier left on the entire battlefield, and there were other soldiers around the battlefield.
More than a dozen Chinese troops retreated from Cang. At that time, I instinctively thought that the Chinese troops had discovered that the imperial army's reinforcements had arrived, so they evacuated early, without even having time to clean the battlefield."
"Muto-san, Ogahara-san, pay attention to the details!" Kawaguchi Heiji specially reminded the two of them, "When Yamayama-san arrived, the China Army did not clean up the battlefield. You know, the China Army, especially the guerrillas, and even the Imperial Army soldiers
They would not let go of the cotton-padded clothes easily, but in the Dawan battlefield, they did not clean the battlefield. This gave the arriving imperial army soldiers an illusion that the Chinese army retreated in a hurry, and the battle in Dawan had just ended.
how long."
Yamatakeo paused for a moment and then said: "After the China Army retreated, I immediately asked the medical soldier Iwata to treat the Imperial Army warrior who seemed to be injured. Unfortunately, he had already become delirious due to the impact on his brain.
No matter what I asked, he never responded and just kept saying one sentence over and over again."
Hearing this, Muto Akira couldn't help but ask: "What did he say?"
Takeo on the mountain paused and replied: "He is talking about Xina, a Chinese."
Kawaguchi Heiji wasted no time in interjecting again: "It's still details, a simple sentence of "Xina, China", but it showed the glorious image of an imperial warrior who fought bloody battles until the last moment of his life, so vividly that even Mr. Hamura was deceived.
, and ultimately led to an irreparable tragedy."
Takeo on the mountain continued: "After Mr. Hamura arrived, he personally came forward to offer condolences. At this time, this guy suddenly shouted slogans and launched a charge towards the woods where the Chinese army disappeared."
"It's still a detail." Kawaguchi Heiji said, "Until this moment, no one has realized that something is wrong. Everyone, including Mr. Hamura, took it for granted that this was just a mentally stimulated Imperial Army warrior, so there was no
People thought of shooting him, but they just wanted to stop him."
"But no one could stop him. He ran rampant and quickly reached the side of the road." Yamatakeo continued, "It was only then that I felt something was wrong. I quickly rode after him and tried to stop him, but it was already too late.
Well, the guy jumped into the ditch next to the road, and then he had two more wires in his hand."
"Electric explosive bomb?" Akira Muto said solemnly, "This guy is a spy of the China Army?!"
"Yes, electric explosive bombs!" Heiji Kawaguchi nodded and said solemnly, "The China Army filled the two captured Vickers tanks with grenades, artillery shells, grenades, and explosives, and then removed the shells
The fuze is made into an electric detonation device. According to the calculations of engineers, the explosion yield of these two super bombs is approximately equivalent to the explosion of 20 500-pound aerial bombs at the same time. You can imagine the power of the explosion. To be honest, the cavalry present was the first
I was a little surprised that the 101st Regiment and the Motorized Infantry Group were not collectively shattered."
"Twenty 500-pound bombs?!"
When Muto Akira heard this, his expression suddenly became stern.
Oluhara Junsi's facial muscles also twitched violently.
The equivalent of 20 500-pound aerial bombs exploded at the same time. It is no wonder that the motorized infantry brigade of Hamura detachment was severely damaged. It is no wonder that Hamura Shuichi was shattered on the spot.
"Details determine success or failure." Kawaguchi Heiji added, "Through the above analysis, we can easily find that under the seemingly unrestrained appearance of the China Army, in fact, there is an extreme demand for details hidden, at least from the perspective of Dawan.
We have no way to find out the flaws in the details."
"It's him, it must be him!" Oluhara Junsi said solemnly, "Your Excellency, Commander, if I guess correctly, he should be the leader of the Dameishan Independent Regiment, Xu Rui!"
Kawaguchi Heiji said: "I didn't want to believe it before, or I couldn't believe it, because I couldn't understand at all. How could a senior commander, like a soldier, charge on the most dangerous front line? But now I
But I believed it, yes, this person is Xu Rui! This person’s behavior cannot be speculated using common sense."
"Xu Rui?" Wu Tengzhang gritted his teeth and said, "This damn, cunning Chinese!"
"Cunning?" Kawaguchi Heiji shook his head and said disapprovingly, "No, Muto-san, you are wrong. This is not cunning, this is real great wisdom and courage! Although I don't want to admit it, I must admit it.
, Xu Rui's tactical command ability is extremely superb. This person's ability to win consecutive battles in Wuxi, Baoxing, Nantong, and Haian is definitely not a fluke. This time the imperial army was defeated miserably in the Battle of Dawan. In fact, it was not unfair at all.
"
Muto Akira said: "According to the commander's opinion, isn't Xu Rui invincible?"
"Invincible? Not really." Kawaguchi Heiji shook his head and said, "Xu Rui also has weaknesses."
"Oh, really?" Oluhara Junsi became interested and asked, "Excuse me, Commander, what is Xu Rui's weakness?"
Kawaguchi Heiji stood up from the big chair, walked to the window, looked at the dark sky outside the window, and said thoughtfully: "Xu Rui's weakness, his only possible weakness is that his calculations are too accurate!"
"The calculation is accurate?" Muto Zhang said in surprise, "This is an advantage, how can it be regarded as a weakness?"
Kawaguchi Heiji said: "Under normal circumstances, accurate calculations are indeed an advantage, but when a person, especially when this person is a commander, when his calculations are so accurate that there are almost no mistakes, it will in turn become a weakness, because
Countless accurate calculations before will give him strong confidence."
Oluhara Junsi's eyes flashed, thoughtfully.
But Akira Muto didn't quite understand. He frowned and asked, "What do you mean by your words, Commander?"
Kawaguchi Heiji said: "What I mean is that Xu Rui's calculation ability is very powerful, and he almost never makes mistakes. At least so far, he has not made mistakes. This makes him very confident in his own judgment, which will inevitably lead to big problems."
All the tactical arrangements of the Meishan Independent Regiment are based on Xu Rui’s personal calculations and judgments.”
Muto Akira understood now and said horrifiedly: "Commander, you mean that we don't act according to common sense?"
"Yes, we don't play according to common sense." Kawaguchi Heiji nodded happily, "Because Xu Rui's calculations are too accurate. If we act according to routine, we will definitely fall into Xu Rui's calculations. No matter how cautious we are,
No matter how careful we are, we will inevitably make the same mistake as Mr. Hamura, so we must do the opposite."
"Do the opposite?" Akira Muto asked, "How to implement it specifically?"
"For example, our detachment," Kawaguchi Heiji said, "after experiencing the fiasco at Owan and Teapot Pass, almost all tanks and a large number of personnel and equipment were lost. Even Lord Hamura died in pieces. Under normal circumstances,
, it will take at least three days to reorganize and wait until the personnel and equipment are replenished before we can re-enter."
Muto Akira and Ogawara Junsi nodded subconsciously, isn’t this the way it has to be?
Kawaguchi Heiji changed the topic and said in a deep voice: "However, I don't want to do that. I want to move in immediately before the new personnel and equipment are replenished! Then, wait for the main force of our detachment to arrive.
Meizhen has established a firm foothold, and it is not too late to replenish personnel and equipment. This is called doing the opposite."
Muto Akira and Ogawara Shunsi looked at each other, their expressions perked up.
Both of them were secretly thinking that the reason why Kawaguchi Heiji was able to excel in the Huaihe Battle, the reason why he was promoted to major general, and succeeded Hamura Shuichi as the commander of the independent detachment was not a fluke. At least the contrary idea he proposed was not a fluke.
This is surprising, and I believe Xu Rui will be surprised as well.
