Although Suematsu Shigeharu looks like a cook, he is definitely thoughtful.
You don't need Saburo Isoda to explain it too clearly to understand his intention.
The command of your Kunisaki detachment is originally under the command of our 114th Division, so the Chinese positions faced by the 114th Division are naturally yours.
Our unit, as the vanguard, has been fighting for a day and needs repairs. Now I want you to take our place. Is there something wrong?
There must be nothing wrong with it.
It's not that Suematsu Shigeharu is really afraid of the hard nut that he hasn't chewed for a long time, but that he wants the guys from the Fifth Division who don't take him seriously to work hard, and he, as the nominal supreme commander
Commander, if he can get the credit without any effort on his part, it's not like he can kill two birds with one stone!
That is to say, when he thought of this idiom again, Suematsu Shigeharu couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead. This time, it was those idiots of the Fifth Division who were working hard, so he wouldn't be in trouble again!
No matter how difficult the Chinese are to deal with, that bastard Kunizaki Zheng has to worry about it. He only needs to provide some artillery support, which is the greatest help as a commander.
Without restraining himself to say whether this was a bit embarrassing, the Japanese Army Lieutenant General, who had already lost two and a half infantry brigades, directly sent electricity to the headquarters of the Tenth Army that had arrived on the south bank of the Huangpu River, hoping to send the Kunizaki detachment as the main attack on Songjiang East City.
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Yanagawa Heisuke thought for a while and approved Suematsu Shigeharu's request.
The Kunisaki Detachment has been following the operations of his Tenth Army Headquarters. Originally, Suematsu Shigeharu didn't mention it, so he seemed to have forgotten that the Kunisaki Detachment would be under the command of the 114th Division, but they clearly mentioned it in vain. He, the Tenth Army
If the commander is still pretending to be stupid, he will offend someone.
Don't look at it, Yanagawa Heisuke is now the commander of three divisions with nearly 100,000 troops, but he is actually only a lieutenant general in the army, and he is not really any more awesome than the commanders of three divisions.
The Tenth Army is only a temporary establishment. It is very likely that the Tenth Army will be disbanded as soon as the Battle of Songhu is over, and the three divisions can go back wherever they need to be.
In a sense, he, the lieutenant general commander, is actually worse than the three division commanders, Lieutenant Generals Shigeharu Suematsu, Hisao Tani, and Mitsuru Ushijima, who at least have a solid number of 30,000 troops.
As for the fact that Matsushigeharu's telegram did not mention anything about the battle situation in front of Matsue Castle this evening and evening, Yanagawa Heisuke did not ask further questions. As the commander of the Tenth Army, he did not need to know how much the three divisions had suffered in the battle, he only needed to know
Know whether the set tactical goals can be achieved.
For example, Songjiang, in his previous tactical plan, must be conquered before dusk tomorrow.
The Sixth Division has already been repairing on the south bank of the Huangpu River, and will only wait until tomorrow morning for the entire division to cross the Huangpu River. By then, Chen Bing's army in front of the small town of Songjiang will be as high as two divisions and more than 50,000 people.
In one day, with such a strength of troops, even if Songjiang City was made of steel and iron, it would be melted.
After the Kunisaki detachment received the telegram from Commander Yanagawa Heisuke, I don’t know why the detachment leader Kunisaki was complaining about Suematsu Shigeharu, a shameless Minato, but the reply telegram was a concise and concise "I respect the commander's order!"
Its connotation has two meanings. One is to obey the military orders of the headquarters; secondly, of course, I am obeying the orders of the commander. You, Shigeharu Matsushita, are just a fool! What qualifications do you have to command me?
There are many factions in the Chinese Army. On the surface, the big bosses are smiling and secretly MMP. In fact, the Japanese Army is not much better. The lieutenant generals and division commanders all hold their own. To put it bluntly, they all stand in their own teams.
Guard divisions such as the Second Division and the Third Division, which defended Kyoto, naturally embraced the Emperor's lap. The rest of the divisions that could not reach him naturally embraced the bosses who could speak in the army base camp. Otherwise, a
Little lieutenant general, I will transfer you to be the logistics officer every minute. If you are not convinced, there will be reserve troops waiting for you.
There is a Chinese saying that goes: Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.
If the Japanese are demons, then the Japanese Army and the Japanese Navy are the two major sects of demons, and these army divisions are just the envoys of the Holy Fire, the four great Dharma Kings, and the five scattered people.
For example, the Itagaki Division, known as the "Steel Army", led the army to attack Shanxi with a strength of 300,000, and yet they dared to send a detachment to support the southeastern battlefield, and actually won the battle. Naturally, they were the top Japanese Army Divisions.
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Its major general brigade commander Kunizaki was stunned to see a lieutenant general commander of an ad hoc division like Suematsu Shigeharu and still obey orders under his command. That would be a fool.
Therefore, he was tricked.
At the suggestion of his chief of staff, Suematsu Shigeharu, who looked like a cook, sent tens of thousands of people from the Kunisaki detachment to the thorny Matsue Castle with a telegram that he could not refuse.
In the historical time and space of the past, this unlucky child of the 114th Division gritted his teeth and fought with the 67th Army in front of Songjiang City for three days and nights with the idea of losing his life but not being embarrassed. He almost beat the unlucky child into a third-level disability.
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However, the Kunisaki detachment detoured from Songjiang, went straight to the Jiashan defense line, and finally detoured to the rear of Jinling, completing the encirclement of the Chinese capital and winning a commendation from the Japanese Army Base Camp.
But now, the 114th Division, which had been beaten several times along the Huangpu River by Tang Dao, actually learned the lesson. They didn't want to be beaten, so they pulled the Guozaki detachment out to jack up the tank.
The long river of history took a small turn here, and the tens of thousands of people from the Kunozaki detachment who could have rushed to Jinling City in full force were involved in the flesh-and-blood mill of Songjiang.
However, the 114th Division, which had been beaten, wanted to escape perfectly like this?
Does not.
Because, his opponent is Tang Dao.
The strongest special warrior who has been specially trained for the next ninety years.
His greatest ability, so far, is really not the so-called command. His accurate predictions and so on, so far, are based on his familiarity with the historical trend.
He is the warrior with the strongest individual skills in this era, but he has not yet truly grown into a top commander.
Dark night is his best stage.
At one o'clock in the morning, I watched the soldiers carrying the remains of the war dead and the seriously injured, carefully and silently carrying them back to Songjiang City under the faint light of the moonlight, like little speechless ants.
The Tang Dao standing in the Cangcheng is like a sculpture.
After the first battle, nearly half of his soldiers were killed.
This is a first experience for Tang Dao.
Although the Battle of the Four Elements was fierce, due to the strong shield of the warehouse and the existence of the scapegoat in the concession, not many soldiers died in the battle.
The soldiers who stood solemnly in front of him yesterday were turned into cold corpses today. Even though Tang Dao had experienced countless separations of life and death, he couldn't help but feel sad.
Qian Dazhu's heart was broken.
The battle in the evening was even more cruel than in the evening.
Although only one person from his infantry squad was killed this time, other infantry squads suffered heavy losses.
The veterans who were still setting up the Longmen Formation in the afternoon were all dead.
Veteran Conch is dead.
As the deputy squad leader, he still assumed the responsibility of the observation post.
But maybe the luck of encountering a dumb bomb in the evening exhausted his luck, and a 105-mm howitzer hit the observation post where he was.
This time, I really can't find anyone.
He was 'worried' that Xigua, the veteran who took his money home to marry his wife and have a baby, would also die. After learning that Conch died in the battle, his bald head did not cry, but he never spoke again.
One of his arms and legs was blown off by a grenade, but he did not wait to be carried off the position. Instead, at the most critical moment of the war, he used his only intact arm to hold seven or eight grenades and rolled them down the city wall, passing along the gap.
The Japanese troops who stormed the slope were bloody.
The final outcome of these two old brothers was the same. They were both dead, let alone sharing the happiness of marrying a wife.
That is, Dazhu cried loudly looking for their missing Qian, and couldn't even find it with a finger. Where can I burn paper money for them in the future?
Brother, you are walking too fast, I can't find you!
One of the young signal soldiers died, but it was not that tragic. However, he had not even killed a Japanese soldier. The eager recruit raised his body a little, and the heavy machine gun bullet fired by the Japanese army hit his chest.
The 7.7mm bullet left a wound on his chest as big as a baby's fist.
The medical soldiers could not save him, and his blood gradually drained away. He died in the arms of Qian Dazhu who rushed to visit Qian Dazhu in the bomb hole after the war.
Before he died, the young signal soldier no longer cried out in pain, but just called for his mother in a low voice.
Just like when he was still a full-year-old baby.
Perhaps, at the last moment when his life was stagnant, he really saw his mother!
No matter how strong a soldier is, he can't help crying when he sees this scene.
I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of seeing you die in my arms.
This is the separation of life and death.
Not a comrade, not a comrade, you don’t understand!
