At four o'clock in the afternoon on September 16, Saburo Okabe left Baoding, where he was in charge, and returned to Pingbeicheng!
It's not that the Battle of Jindong has been completely eroded, and he, the frontline commander, no longer needs to stay in Baoding City, but that nearly 30,000 Chinese troops have already arrived at Shimen City, which is only 150 kilometers away from Baoding City.
It can be reached in two days.
In the Battle of Jindong, the Japanese North China Front Army had already killed one division commander-level lieutenant general and one brigade commander-level major general. If another front army chief-of-staff-level lieutenant general were lost, it would be the only remaining members of the North China Front Army.
All the crotch cloth was torn off.
There are only 3,500 defenders in Shimen, including 2,200 baggage soldiers, engineers and medical soldiers. The regular infantry only has one fully organized infantry brigade.
To be precise, there is an infantry brigade of the North China Security Army with 4,500 people, but both China and Japan have a tacit understanding to ignore this infantry brigade, which is usually only responsible for maintaining public security.
The so-called North China Security Army is the predecessor of the future "Imperial Association Army". It is an army under the puppet government established in December last year. It was not until the Wang Puppet Government was established two years later that it was fully reorganized and called the Imperial Association Army.
At this time, the North China Security Army was not as large as it would be two years later, with only three infantry brigades and two independent regiments.
In order to prevent this group of captive soldiers and a large number of defected landowners and businessmen's guards from rebelling, an infantry company is often equipped with only three light machine guns, and a battalion is equipped with the combat power of three heavy machine guns.
Just mention it!
The Chinese army, which had no intention of covering up its whereabouts, relied solely on the visual inspection of Japanese pilots who dispatched five reconnaissance planes in one afternoon, and there were as many as 3 infantry divisions!
Not to mention that the two infantry regiments gathered at the North China Front Army Headquarters will still take several days to arrive at Shimen. Even if they are here, what will happen? The 18th Division and the 1st Division of the 20th Division, which are still in the direction of HD, are still there at this moment.
Even if they didn't get rid of the constant fighting between the two Chinese infantry divisions, they would return to Shimen. I'm afraid they would be the kind of people who couldn't even keep up with the heat.
The Chinese have already sent a small group of troops to completely destroy the railway from Shimen to HD. Even if there is a train, there is no saying that the division dares to take the train to the battlefield. Today is different from the past. Don't be bombarded by explosives while running.
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In addition to these, the Japanese army originally had one man and horse available, and that was the remnants of the 21st Division that retreated into the mountains and wanted to retreat to Shimen!
As a result, Nagano Kameichiro, who hid in the mountains, could not turn on his phone, and thousands of others were as if they were missing, never appearing on the North China Plain at all.
Good guy, this is obviously completely ruined. No matter how we fight outside, I will stay in the mountains. Whenever there is no food, we will come out again.
This is indeed the case, but the word "turtle" in the name of His Excellency Major General Nagano Kameichiro is indeed not for nothing. The 21st Division did not show up until the sixth day after the entire battle of Jindong and even the Battle of Shimen!
"In the mountains, the field radio cannot receive or send signals! Moreover, the Chinese guides are so bad that the army got lost in the mountains. It took a lot of hardships to find the correct way out of the mountains!" Kameichiro Nagano, who walked out of the mountains, faced the front army headquarters.
The questioning gave such a reason why it was difficult to convict him even though it was known that he was cheating on Xia Jiba.
In the end, Nagano Kameichiro was removed from all posts and sent back home just because of his poor command before the war.
As for the military court, the Japanese Army Major General stayed in Shanshan Yuan's quiet courtyard for a full hour, and then nothing happened.
If the responsibility for the defeat needs to be shouldered, then the dead Lieutenant General, the division commander, and the certain general who planned all this are older than him. The already completely ruined major general saw himself either going to court-martial or being asked to have his belly disemboweled.
If you don’t tear off that face now, why don’t you keep it for the New Year!
Don't think that the Japanese are all stupid. Just give an order from their superiors and they will cut open their stomachs with a knife!
Either you have no background, don’t take the blame for your boss, and don’t seek success, or you are really not very smart, but there are people behind Nagano Kameichiro. If you don’t let me live, I won’t let you have much.
It's comfortable, and even if it doesn't kill you, it can drag you down and make you sick for several years.
Compromise and find a point that is acceptable to both parties is the only thing Shan Shanyuan can do who has already lost face.
As for the dead ghosts of the 39th Infantry Brigade, we can only say that they are dead!
Despicable? Haha! It can only be said that being despicable is the pass for despicable people!
Even the largest newspaper in Japan, the Asahi Shimbun, only said that the Chinese army sneaked into Shimen and caused certain losses. It did not mention the casualties in the Battle of Jindong.
Even though the Chinese side has been overwhelmingly promoting the great victory of the Battle of Jindong, and even displayed the body of Yoshito Takagi who was killed and the general's sword identified by Japanese prisoners of war, the Asahi Shimbun seems to have never heard of it.
There is no way, the involvement is too great. Shan Shanyuan is the commander of the North China Front appointed by His Majesty the Emperor. He is going to wipe the butt of this unfortunate boy named Mu Shing Yi. Who knows that the paper he uses to wipe his butt is actually sandpaper?
He wiped the emperor's ass until the hemorrhoids almost fell off. He is really a good brother of His Majesty the Emperor!
Without further ado, let’s talk about Shimen.
The Chinese army marched more than 40 kilometers in just 6 hours and arrived at Shimen City. From the moment they received the news at noon, everyone knew that Shimen could no longer be defended.
But Saburo Okabe, who was in despair, still wanted to try harder. There were 3,500 people there, and with the danger of the city and tens of thousands of Chinese as shields, he might be able to defend for three to five days, and then the reinforcements gathered by the front army would arrive.
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But at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, when the Japanese reconnaissance plane reported that the number of Chinese troops exceeded 2 infantry divisions, Okabe Saburo's illusions were completely shattered. However, at this time, it was impossible to order the Shimen defenders to evacuate.
The leading troops of the Chinese army have already arrived at the outskirts of Shimen. If the defenders want to escape, they will die faster if they are dragged down in the wilderness.
They can only withdraw part of it first, leaving less than 2 hours for the Shimen Japanese army!
The first people allowed to evacuate were the field hospital medical staff and wounded soldiers. A special train staying on the platform was their final vehicle to escape from the battlefield where they were destined to die.
The Japanese army showed enough courage at this time. They silently watched the doctors and nurses throw the wounded soldiers on the stretchers into the canisters. They still tried their best to maintain the order of the chaotic platform and did not make a fuss because they were unable to evacuate.
In fact, the scene was very tragic, despite the fact that this special train finally succeeded in carrying 500 medical soldiers and nearly 3,000 wounded soldiers to leave Shimen, which was about to be conquered.
But you must know that as the logistics and transportation base for the eastern Shanxi front line, Shimen received all wounded soldiers from the 21st Division and the 39th Infantry Brigade, a total of more than 5,000!
But a train cannot carry so many people. Even if the stretchers are thrown away, the wounded soldiers are packed together like cargo, and the medical soldiers are even hung outside the train like Ah San. There are still a lot of injured people.
Soldiers can't fit in.
The Japanese must make a choice. Just like the Chinese army's retreat on the Songhu battlefield, if they want more people to survive, they can only leave behind those who have a smaller chance of survival.
More than 1,800 seriously injured soldiers were abandoned on the platform or in the fields around the special trains. The abandoned wounded soldiers either begged their colleagues to take them away, or used their only strength to cry out about injustice, and the miserable howls resounded throughout the wilderness.
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And more of them are numb, watching themselves being abandoned, watching the train spit out black smoke and roll its heavy axle as it drives away!
This is the fate of little people. No matter in that era, no matter whether they are strong or weak, once the crisis comes, you will find that your destiny has never been in your own hands!
All your efforts are just what you think!
In fact, they have nothing to be unwilling to do, it's just that the tragedy that the Chinese army has performed has happened again to them.
And these are only a few thousand people. A few years later, hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army soldiers were captured and transported to the Siberian ice sheet, and 200,000 people were trapped in the Australian jungle.
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The way of heaven, there really is reincarnation, this is just a small preview!
But this is just the prelude to this tragedy!
"Baga! These cowards, the city has not yet been captured, and they are crying like this and disrupting the morale of our troops!" A Japanese soldier standing in the duty room on one side of the platform turned pale as he was stimulated by the loud cries. "Go.
Shut them up!"
"Lord Kawada, what if they don't listen?" a captain asked tremblingly.
Now the top commander of the entire Shimen is Captain Zuo of the infantry brigade belonging to the 40th Infantry Brigade. He can control the life and death of the people in the city, at least until the Chinese capture the city.
"Don't listen? Bastard, is the gun in your hand a rolling pin? How did you shut up the Chinese then, how are you going to shut them up now!" Katori Kawada looked at the Japanese captain with extremely ferocious eyes.
"Do you think we have the manpower or time to take care of them now? Or, do you think the Chinese who invaded the city will waste food because of them?
Give them the gun. Even if the warriors of the empire die, they should not die cowardly! If they lose the strength to pull the trigger, then help them."
Only 10 minutes after the train evacuating the wounded soldiers had gone, gunfire rang out on the platform!
Soon, everything fell silent, deathly silent!
The corpses of wounded soldiers were everywhere, which shocked the Chinese troops who invaded Shimen. Tantai Mingyue disclosed this incident in the Second War Zone newspaper and condemned the brutal nature of the Japanese invaders.
However, the Japanese North China Front Army refused to admit their guilt. Even though most of the injured were killed by Japanese bullets, they all said back that the Chinese army had killed them.
On the Chinese side, Koichi Kobayashi, who had become a second lieutenant of the Allied Forces, stood up to testify that before the Chinese army invaded the city, the wounded soldiers who had no time to evacuate were already dead, stiff and covered in body spots.
The two sides went back and forth and argued for several months. It was not until the Japanese infantrymen in the Battle of Shimen who survived the war that the Japanese infantry revealed the truth.
The whole of Japan was silent!
As the soldier said, from that moment on, he knew that this so-called war of empires was going to be lost.
Because, he knows that in the eyes of his superiors, all his value is only when fighting opponents. Once he loses the strength to hold a gun, he will be regarded as useless and discarded like worn out shoes!
But in that poor home on the island, if he went out to sea and didn't catch even a single fish, his wife would feel distressed to wipe the sweat from his forehead and get him dry clothes. His value is not just because he is useful.
, and love!
But what is the underlying logic of the war launched by the empire? This fisherman, who also had no education, began to think about all this at that moment, which also gave him the idea of escape from this battlefield and return to the island alive.
Therefore, when the battle began, this Japanese infantryman who had already begun to think quietly left the battlefield and became one of the few survivors in this battle.
But this truck, the only one that could escape, stimulated not only the Japanese soldiers at the bottom, but also another group of people.
In a small courtyard in Shimen City!
A man with a sinister face was standing at the window looking at the sky in front of him in a daze.
"Brigadier, the brothers over at the station just ran over to report that the Japanese have escaped. What should we do?" behind him asked a man with a sharp face and monkey cheeks wearing a lieutenant colonel's uniform.
"What should I do? Cold salad!" The man turned back, his eyes full of ferocity.
"Damn, little Japan is not a good thing. At three o'clock, they sent a message telling me to defend Shimen. Reinforcements would arrive in two days, and at four o'clock, they started to evacuate the field hospitals and wounded soldiers. This is so fucking stupid.
Why don't you treat us as scapegoats?"
"Then let's take it seriously." The man with the sharp face and monkey cheeks swallowed hard.
"I treat them as your mother! Why, little Japan has given you a lieutenant colonel's military salary for half a year, but you really treat them as your father!" The man looked at the idiot under him with a sullen expression.
"No way! Brigadier, you mean we should run away too!" The man with the pointed face and monkey cheeks immediately reacted and said quickly.
"Run away, sister! You should think carefully before you speak!"
The ranks of the security army were copied directly from Manchuria. Lieutenant colonel was already considered a very high rank in an infantry brigade. As a result, Liu Zhuang, the bandit leader who was a butcher and later defected to the Japanese with his brother No. 500, became Feidu.
I want to take out my gun and kill this guy.
I don’t know how I fell in love with this stupid guy and let him be my personal aide.
"I can't win even if I fight, and I can't run. What should I do?" The man with the sharp face and monkey cheeks began to draw circles in his eyes, as if he was about to be defeated by his own brigade commander.
"You are good, but when the people from the opposite side come over, do you think this territory will become theirs? Instead of just grabbing a vote and leaving, sooner or later this territory will belong to the Japanese.
If the Japanese find out that we are escaping from battle, they will kill our whole family! Your little wife who is hiding in a small alley in Pingbeicheng will have to take advantage of others." Liu Zhuangfei saw that his adjutant was a little confused, so he could only explain patiently.
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"But if we stay here, we can only die! Brigadier, do you know that if the guys across the street catch the Japanese, it's okay. They even conducted a prisoner exchange last time, but if they catch us, they will basically die.
It’s decided!” The man with the pointed face and monkey cheeks obviously doesn’t have much feelings for his family, but he still takes himself very seriously.
In the more than six months since the fall of North China, the world was not dominated by the Japanese and the security forces. There were countless anti-Japanese forces active in the countryside.
Not to mention that the Japanese infantry could not be left alone outside the city, even inside the city, assassinations occurred from time to time.
And the ones with the highest risk factor are really not the Japanese, but those guys who have taken refuge with the Japanese and are called the Japanese devils. Those people who appear under the name of the "anti-corruption team" will keep a close eye on them at the cost of time and life.
If they can't do it once, they will come two or three times or even more. Major General Liu Zhuangfei, a brigade commander, has been assassinated twice in restaurants and theaters even if he has never less than 15 security guards around him!
It was so dangerous on a territory heavily guarded by the Japanese, let alone falling into the hands of Chinese soldiers. Maybe even the hand that was raised collapsed without even saying a sentence.
The bigger the official, the sooner he will die! If the photo is not corrected, it will still make the news, but it will only be the photo after death!
"As for Fei Teliang, you don't have to say it, I don't know! If I were caught by the other side, I don't know if I was lit up with a sky lantern, but your son must have had his head chopped off." Liu Zhuangfei, a former bandit leader, also had a twinkle in his eye.
frightened.
The man with the sharp face and monkey cheeks couldn't help but squeeze his legs, otherwise, he was afraid that the shit would be scared out.
"Go and call the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Regiment over here. He usually has some contact with the people over there. Ask him what he can do!" Liu Zhuangfei is a man who has seen the world after all. After a while, he finally calmed down.
Husband and wife are like birds in the same forest, and they fly apart when disaster strikes! Let alone the security forces and the Japanese, even they are the kind of people who live in different beds and have different dreams!
At this time, life is more important than anything else.
Five o'clock in the afternoon! The shadow of the Shimen City Wall has appeared in Tang Dao's telescope.
The Si Xing Regiment Headquarters had arrived at an area less than 1,500 meters away from the east gate of Shimen as early as 4 p.m.!
Seventy percent of the two infantry battalions of the Sixing Regiment, the main artillery battalion plus the other seven infantry regiments have arrived at the scheduled battlefield. Tang Dao, who serves as the deputy director of the Shanxi East Front Staff Department, only needs to ask Zhao, who serves as the commander-in-chief of the Shimen Front,
The division commander suggested that we can officially launch an attack on Shimen!
The nearly 40,000 infantrymen who approached the city did not dig trenches, but repaired them on the spot. They only waited for an order to begin the full-scale assault.
The general situation of the garrison strength inside Shimen was reported by intelligence personnel in the city two days ago.
Not to mention charging with guns and guns under the cover of artillery fire, more than 20,000 people drowned less than 3,000 Japanese defenders even with a mouthful of saliva.
Shimen has been surrounded on three sides, leaving only one side for sheep to attack!
Encircle three and defeat one, the classic way of siege!
Even if the opponent knows the danger involved, he will flee to this side driven by luck.
No one can overcome human nature!
However, Tang Dao was uncharacteristically uncharacteristic, instead of decisively cutting through the mess with a quick sword, he signaled to wait.
He was waiting for the intelligence officers in the city to send information out of the city. At this time, the Japanese army was mobilizing intelligence. He wanted to know whether the Japanese army's morale was in chaos and the situation in the Chinese residential area in Shimen.
Nearly 30,000 troops marched in broad daylight under the noses of Japanese reconnaissance planes. Do you think this was just for running fast?
This is equivalent to signaling to the sheep that this tiger is coming, you either run away or wait to be eaten!
In this battle of Jindong, the Chinese army had already suffered a lot of losses, and Tang Dao did not want to increase the losses again because of this city.
What the elders above want is just a symbol of regaining lost ground!
What Tang Dao wants is just the massive supplies in the city!
Weihe!
The war hasn't started yet, I'll scare you to death!
As Ye Chenghuan hurried over and whispered in his ear, a smile appeared on Tang Dao's face!
