Chapter 545 The little person who died unexpectedly
The battlefield is as calm as the autumn water on a flat lake!
Tanigawa Masanori's heart was in chaos! It was like being bombarded by a naval fleet's cannons in the autumn water of a flat lake.
The continuous changes in the 36th Infantry Brigade have made him, the commander of the new brigade, very busy. If he has time, will he remember an aristocratic man who came to gild the division?
It wasn't until the fighting ended in the early morning that he suddenly remembered that there was an 'uncle' who was training in the army. He took time out of his busy schedule to ask about this man, but he didn't expect that the infantry squadron where he belonged was actually transferred to the vanguard.
, the moment he almost frightened the little Jiji to the point of shrinking into his abdomen, he immediately ordered the rescue 2nd Infantry Brigade to find him.
The 2nd Infantry Battalion, who went to serve as the corpse removal team, lived up to his expectations and successfully found the body of Second Lieutenant Hosokawa Hararu and presented it to the commander of the Shinko Brigade.
Tanigawa Masanori had never hated Ushijima Sadao so much at that moment. Even though he knew that this man had a careful idea of using his 36th Infantry Brigade to carry out night attacks without compromising the strength of his division, someone had to fight the battle.
The honor of the Imperial Army must be safeguarded, and the 'strongest division on the surface' is not afraid of sacrifice.
But what should we do if Lieutenant Fujiwara Kawanishi, who came to gild the country, died in battle? He died for the Empire and deserved his death?
Don't be ridiculous, okay? That's just a slogan to kill those civilian soldiers like him. The reason why middle- and high-level officers like him who come from civilian families work so hard on the battlefield is just to get the title of nobility.
Let your descendants no longer charge foolishly with bullets.
However, the good expectations were shattered.
Tanigawa Masanori, who has nearly twenty years of military experience, knew very well that from the moment Fujiwara Kawanishi died in battle, his military career was over, no matter how outstanding he performed in this war.
That huge family has two generals and one lieutenant general in the army base camp alone, not to mention the huge power in the political arena. He, an army commander who is unattainable in the eyes of ordinary infantrymen, can only be described in one sentence:
, can fall from heaven to hell.
You can't hide it if you want to. With the power of the Fujiwara family in the military, the cause of his death and the time of his death in battle can be clearly investigated at any time.
Tanigawa Masanori, who had been stunned for a long time, could only report the unexpected incident to His Excellency Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, who was the temporary commander of the 6th Division two hundred kilometers away. Naturally, the acting commander who had lost his enterprising spirit was no longer available.
Without any scruples, he tried his best to list the black features of Ushijima Sadao.
The famous crab theory psychology, if you let me die, I will have to drag you into the water with you. The night attack came from your order, Ushijima Sadao.
The high-spirited Yanagawa Heisuke, who was marshaling his troops to defeat the Chinese positions, received Masanori Tanigawa's telegram at noon, and he almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
He is the commander of the Tenth Army and not the nanny of the Sixth Division. How would he know that there is such a great god hiding in the Sixth Division? The worst thing is that the great god is a complete idiot.
These are really a bunch of idiots, Hisao Tani is the dead ghost, Mitsuru Ushijima is, Masanori Tanikawa is, and Sadao Ushijima is too
It is said that throughout noon, no one dared to approach the military tent of the lieutenant general who was still high-spirited in the morning.
Because he didn't know the situation, a poor communications lieutenant rushed into the Lieutenant General's military tent with a frontline battle report. He was stabbed to death by the furious Lieutenant General on the spot.
He stepped hard into the dirt.
It must be said that Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke was still brave. After his anger subsided, he made a decision that in view of the urgent situation on the front line, the news of the death of Second Lieutenant Fujiwara Kawanishi should not be leaked for the time being, and ordered the 36th Infantry Brigade to collect his remains.
After cremation, it will be carefully preserved, and nothing will be said until this battle is over.
At the same time, the Kunisaki detachment was ready to go, intending to bypass Taihu Lake and go straight to the rear of Jiaxing. Yanagawa Heisuke must leave the 20,000 Chinese murderers who killed the Japanese nobles on the battlefield. This is also his explanation to the Fujiwara family, otherwise, he will not
Know how to answer the other person's questions.
It is precisely for this reason that Tanigawa Masanori, who looked like a dead mother, and Ushijima Sadao, who was still snickering to himself over there, both quietly escaped this disaster.
Otherwise, with the strength of the Fujiwara family, the Jiashan defense line might not have been broken yet, and their replacements would have already been on their way.
Due to an unexpected accident on the Japanese side, the Japanese troops in front of the Jiashan defense line temporarily stopped and waited for reinforcements 200 kilometers away to move towards Jiaxing.
As long as they hold back the group of Chinese in front of them for five days, and the Kunisaki detachment with 6,000 troops arrives behind the Chinese, the Chinese will be like turtles in a urn, unable to escape even if they have no wings.
In order to prevent the Chinese from escaping, Ushijima Sadao did not hesitate to use his personal connections to contact Japanese Navy Fleet Commander Kiyoshi Hasegawa, requesting him to send a reconnaissance plane every hour to conduct high-altitude reconnaissance twenty kilometers behind the Jiashan defense line.
The Chinese are still as tough as they were on the battlefield. Except for some supply troops transporting supplies back and forth, no large-scale troop mobilization has been seen, which makes Ushijima Sadao quite relieved.
Annihilating 20,000 people was his last straw and he must not let them escape.
However, the Japanese navy's reconnaissance planes did not dare to get too close to the Chinese positions. The two consecutive bomber formations reminded them that the Chinese had anti-aircraft guns that could effectively shoot up to 1,500 meters, and they did not want to become the trophies of the Chinese.
Therefore, Ushijima Sadao did not know what the Chinese troops on the opposite position were doing.
"Everyone packs up and prepares to evacuate in batches!" This was a secret military order issued by the Jiashan frontline headquarters to all divisions and brigades early in the morning.
The large trucks that were spotted by Japanese reconnaissance planes while running struttingly on the simple roads during the day were not a heavy train transporting supplies, but artillerymen transporting the last batch of wounded and dismantling mountain artillery for shipment.
The bold decision made by Lieutenant General Wu at this moment even amazed Tang Dao.
He used the most core heavy firearms in the army to play a psychological game with the Japanese. He bet that the Japanese would not use bombers to attack scattered horse-drawn carriage convoys that seemed to have little tactical value.
Of course, all this is based on the fact that the Japanese Navy's bomber fleet was beaten twice in a row. Without those two tragic war histories, the Japanese Navy might be much greedier than it is now.
But it still requires enough courage.
If these artillery pieces are lost, the 20,000-strong army will completely lose its reliance on the 18th Division. Once they leave the fortifications, the Japanese artillery can bury the 20,000-strong army in the wilderness.
Lieutenant General Wu's gamble was successful. Throughout the day, as many as 1,000 wounded and medical staff were transported away hidden in carriages. Two of the three mountain artillery battalions were transported away. The three infantry divisions on the position had also packed their equipment.
, just waiting for night to come.
Just before the sun set, the two infantry regiments filed out of the fortifications and evacuated along the road in the thin darkness to the Jiaxing defense line more than 20 kilometers away.
An hour later, two more.
Then came all the baggage troops. All the horses had towels tied to their mouths and thick cotton cloth tied to their hooves. The troops even wrapped their faces in towels. Even coughing was not allowed, except for the vanguard troops walking at the front.
You can put on a few torches, and all the other soldiers can only grab the backpack straps of their comrades in front and move forward in the dark.
Within three kilometers from the front line, no sound is allowed except the sound of footsteps and ruts.
In this way, according to the principle of evacuation in batches every hour, the evacuation started from five or six o'clock until twelve o'clock in the night, when the independent battalion, as the last batch of evacuation, began to set off.
Without alerting the Japanese reconnaissance soldiers deployed in the wilderness to leave their positions, this was only the beginning. Next, they had to walk a long 25-kilometer road to the defense line in 7 hours while carrying a weight of up to 12 kilograms per soldier.
That is the final victory.
Otherwise, if the Japanese army finds that the defense line is empty in the early morning and uses fighter planes to bomb, the open wilderness is the most deadly. The current independent battalion does not have as strong an air combat capability as before.
Having more weapons, ammunition and various supplies is sometimes not necessarily a good thing, at least when running away.
The most correct way to open up when running is to pack lightly.
Undoubtedly, this is a new test for the newly established independent battalion.
