Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve Dragons Fighting in the Wild (2)

sophomore The Battle of Jinguan Bridge is simply like a reprint of the story of the Japanese army in the early days of the Songhu Battlefield. Okamura's good mood of traveling in the mountains and waters is gone, and the Lushan Mountain in his eyes has also evolved from a future possession to an indescribable super enemy. I don't know when, the cheerful tone was replaced by a gloomy rhythm. Looking up, the sky has darkened. It's all caused by these southern mountains, why didn't you notice it more than ten years ago? This kind of melancholy mood was also brought into his diary by Okamura: the terrain of mountains and mountains in the Jiangnan area is troublesome.

The troubled Okamura realized that Li Jue had become a stumbling block in his big roundabout plan, and the 106th Division alone could not move this big stone. For the 106th Division, Okamura once placed his hopes on it. They are all from Kumamoto. Even if they are not as fierce as the Sixth Division, they will still have a shadow of the latter. Unexpectedly, this division shone for a while when it landed in Jiujiang, and then it became more and more ugly. Even It is not as good as the Kurume mixed brigade during the first Songhu battle. It is impossible for Okamura to think that his military command was wrong. The reason he concluded was that the 106th Division was too poor.

But he couldn't tell why it was so bad. Compared with China's new recruits, these reserve soldiers had all received military training. There is really no scapegoat, and it is usually the best way to take out the illusory term "society" to top the tank.Okamura concluded that the officers and soldiers of the 106th Division lost their murderous intent because they had worked in society for several years or even more than ten years, and some of them had brought their families with them. Okamura complained that the 11th Army was organized too hastily. If after the mobilization, the 106th Division had a one-month camping training to preview how to kill people and find out the feeling, wouldn't the effect be better?

It's too late to regret now, if you want to find the feeling, find it on the battlefield. The 106th Division was defeated, so Okamura had to recruit the 101st Division. Unlike the young student in the 106th Division, the 101st Division can already be regarded as a second-year student.This division became famous during the Battle of Songhu. The reason for its fame was that there were so many deaths. Of course, it could also be explained that it fought very hard. Although Japan is a small country, it has a complete combatant reserve system. Through "blood transfusion", the 101st Division gradually regained its vitality. Before arriving in Jiujiang, it served as the defense of Shanghai and northern Jiangsu.

The 101st Division has experienced the tempering of the Battle of Songhu, and already has a "glorious history of army building" that can be used to boast about itself. Of course, they don't need to do a month of camping training. Japanese troops invade China Okamura told Lieutenant General Ito Masaki, the head of the 101st Division: Don’t go anywhere after you come here. I will let the navy take you to Poyang Lake for a circle. Yidong heard that Monk Zhang Er was puzzled. The battle was so intense that instead of going to the mountain to help the 101st Division move stones, he went to swim in the lake.

Could it be that for the needs of art, you paint Mount Lu and I paint the lake? Okamura smiled. I didn't ask you to go swimming in the lake. After you landed on the shore of the lake, you can go straight to De'an along the road.De'an is the rear of Xue Yue's corps. If the retreat is cut off, the stone blocking the 106th Division will not move away! This is undoubtedly a flexible use of a roundabout tactic in a small area.Yidong couldn't help but be convinced, he really is a famous general, his moves are unexpected, and there is no move that can't be called sharp and exquisite.

Ito's "lake tour" this time was really smooth, and he spent almost no effort in the process of landing on the beach. The road is at the foot, and this road is only sixty miles away. It takes a forced march to reach De'an on foot.What kind of expression will Xue Yue have at that time, it must be that the eyeballs are so shocked that they are about to fall out. But when Ito looked at the road again, his own expression gradually changed. fierce to fierce Not because of this road, but because of the rolling mountains on both sides of the road. Mount Lu, which made the 106th Division daunting, has extended to here.However, the Jinguan Bridge position is at the northern foot of Lushan Mountain, and the 101st Division will pass through the southern foothill of Lushan Mountain.

Looking up, you can see shadowy defensive positions on the mountain. These positions are far away from the artillery range of the Japanese ships on Poyang Lake. If you send planes to bomb them, it will be difficult to find accurate targets. But they overlook the road, and if you want to drive here, you have to pay for the road. Ito sucked in a breath of cold air. He and his boss, Okamura, underestimated their opponents too much. Tiger Cub was able to let him go ashore easily. It was he who tasted the sweetness of being next to Mount Lu. He could no longer do battle without this famous mountain.

The Japanese army bombarded Dongguling with mortars, but they still couldn't attack the top of the mountain In the Battle of Jinguanqiao, the 106th Division was miserable, but Li Jue's 19th Division suffered heavy losses, not only from casualties on the battlefield, but also from the disease in the mountains. Among the famous mountains and great rivers, Mount Lushan is known as a beautiful woman.Generally speaking, anyone who looks a little bit colorful is a little bit "Take Jo". Umbrellas are hard to cover. The officers and soldiers of the Hunan Army could only rely on burrows and tree branches to shelter them from the wind and rain. When they were hungry, they used the rice they carried with them to satisfy their hunger. Also greatly reduced physical strength.

In the battle history of the Nineteenth Division, this was the longest and the most casualty battle they had experienced.After the Hunan army was replaced, it was found that among the thousands of Xiangxiang children who were alive and well, there were only less than 800 healthy ones left. The number of deaths during and after the war was astonishing, almost exceeding the actual number of casualties . It is precisely because of the extremely difficult combat conditions in Lushan that some people had objections to this at the time, thinking that "defending Lushan to death" was equivalent to "defending Lushan to death".

These words also reached Xue Yue's ears, but Hu Zi was not moved at all. I must stick to Lushan Mountain to the end. Only by leaning on the mountain can I be a tiger. There is no danger to defend by Poyang Lake, my brain is burnt out, what is the waste with you, see you in the mountains. Xue Yue didn't even have to go down the mountain, he just had to firmly control the East and West Gulings on both sides of the road. If the 101st Division wanted to pass through, they had to obediently go to the mountains to burn incense and worship Bodhisattvas. The main force of the 101st Division is the 101st Regiment. The commander of the 101st Regiment, Iizuka Kunigoro, is said to have been bestowed the title of "Fighting General" by Hata Shunroku himself. thing. Under Ito's instruction, Iizuka came to Dongguling to "deliver posts". However, the "violent general" is not lucky, because there is also a fierce general named Leng Xin in the mountain, who is waiting for him deep in the dense forest. Leng Xin is a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the first phase of Huangpu.Later, when he went to the enemy's rear in the south of the Yangtze River, he had many frictions with the New Fourth Army in southern Jiangsu, so his personal image plummeted, and he was even described as an ignorant and foolish person.In fact, this gentleman has the talent of photographic memory. He has no other hobbies in his life, but loves to buy books and read books. He can be called an intellectual among the soldiers.Until he retired as a lieutenant general in Taiwan, Leng Xin still devoted himself to historical research and became a famous scholar. He was hired as a tenured professor by many universities. If a bookish person picks up a gun, he is often fiercer than a non-educated person. He became a strong enemy that Iizuka met in Lushan.It was difficult for Iizuka to defeat Leng Xin from the front, and Ye Zhao's Cantonese army came from behind. As a result, as soon as the 101st Regiment entered Dongguling, it was surrounded by two Chinese troops in the mountain. This time, it's not the fierce general playing the striker for the coach, but the coach is going to reach out to grab the striker. The commander of the division, Ito, was quite surprised. Fishing must be fished, but because he didn't know the reality of the mountain, he worried that the follow-up reinforcements would be besieged immediately. After careful observation, Ito decided to send a brigade to reinforce Dongguling from behind the mountain.There is a small hill called Niu Dung Dun, which extends into Poyang Lake on three sides. If you land from here, you can not only rescue Fanzhong, but also form an anti-encirclement to the Chinese army. After the Japanese army boarded the cow dung pier, the situation of the battle really changed. Leng Xin had to mobilize troops to counterattack in order to prevent his back. It can be said that Yito's use of troops this time has both gains and losses. Although the 101st Regiment was saved, the rescue brigade itself fell into it: the cow dung mound faces water on three sides and the enemy on the other. A steady stream of help is deadly! The cow dung pier may have been an unknown place where a shepherd boy grazes cattle, but now it is very popular, and everyone is fighting for their lives.After two rounds of fighting, only 300 people remained in the 500-man infantry brigade, and they were out of ammunition and food. Reinforcement, come to reinforcements. Here they come, but not reinforcements, but death squads with bayonets and yelling. Leng Xin is worthy of being a fierce general of Huangpu. He personally led the Death Squad to fight hand-to-hand with the Japanese army. One hundred of the three hundred devils were stabbed. Poyang Lake is not a swimming pool at home. After entering, it is basically close to death. Ito exchanged a brigade for a main unit, which seemed like a good deal, but after that, bad luck seemed to keep up with the 101st unit, and Iizuka also began to slip from a "violent general" to a "big bucket" suspicion. After running out of the encirclement, he attacked Dongguling again, but within a few days, he was ambushed by Ye Zhao again. It wasn't that the Chinese army suddenly became extremely brave, it was because Mount Lu was too unpredictable. Taking advantage of the danger of the mountain, Leng Xin hit hard from the front, and Ye Zhao set up an ambush from behind. This was really enough for the 101st Division.Let alone Iizuka, most of the other alliances are not much better. The 101st Division was trapped in Dongguling, but the headquarters of the 11th Army still kept calling and asking: What's going on?When will you be able to arrive in De'an?Is it very far there? Ito was very aggrieved, you will know when you come to the scene, the situation is unimaginably bad. However, Ito's difficulties and hardships were beyond the comprehension of those staff officers who sat in the headquarters and looked at the maps and written reports, and then listened to the phone calls. Yito is like being put into a pressure cooker, he can only move the pressure down, so that Iizuka will conquer Dongguling no matter what within the time limit. The division head's order became Iizuka's reminder. On September 2, the 101st Wing attacked the top of Dongguling Mountain, but encountered a bottleneck when they entered the mountainside, and could no longer go up. You suffer here, but he doesn't let it go. Yidong kept calling, asking if he had already reached the top of the mountain. Climb, climb, climb, climb you. Iizuka was very annoyed, so he simply grabbed the command knife and went to charge. The bullets don't have eyes, and they don't know whether you are the captain or a soldier. As a result, the "coach leader" was killed on the way to charge.Iizuka's former captain died in the Battle of Songhu. Unexpectedly, just one year later, his successor also failed to escape the fate of death. It seems that the position of the captain is really unlucky. People don't have superstitions. The only thing that made Yito smile a little was that the 101st Division finally approached the top line of Dongguling Mountain that day. Yidong forced his subordinates to death, but his life did not become easier because of it. The 101st Division not only had to occupy the mountains on both sides of the road, but also had to beware of the artillery positions on the top of the hills.The mortars of the Chinese army fired every day. The reporters covering the frontlines were far behind, but they were not spared. After being injured by shrapnel, even their clothes were soaked in red and black blood. The head of the Yidong division didn't bother to comfort the reporter. A few days later, he himself suffered shrapnel on his chin and was injured and carried to the military depot hospital in Jiujiang. The history of suffering of the 101st Division did not end with this. Okamura ordered the brigade commander Sato Shozaburo to take over the post of division commander and command the troops to continue the offensive. It took more than ten days to occupy Dongguling, and after another ten days, they captured Xiguling.Since landing, the 101st Division didn't even bother to take a sip of water. Even with this continuous fighting, the front line has only advanced two and a half miles. That road is sixty miles long. Don’t think that you will have nothing to do after occupying Dongxiguling. At a glance, there are still continuous mountains in front of you. I don’t know how many Chinese defenders are hiding in it, ready to attack you. , ambush you, surround you. The 101st Division suffered heavy casualties, and it seemed that they had entered the later stage of the Songhu Battle, but they could still see some results at that time, but now they can't even find the value of hard work. After the 106th Division, Okamura discovered that the 101st Division was also unusable. If you don't play well, of course you have to find the reason. This time Okamura came to dig out the old ones and check the three generations.The 101st Division is from Tokyo. Where is Tokyo?In the prosperous industrial and commercial area, most of the supplementary soldiers of the 101st Division used to be small merchants and employees of commercial companies. Death, or fear of death. What annoyed Okamura was that this "Trader's Division" did not fight well, but the "Military Discipline" was as bad as the Kumamoto Division, and even his own people couldn't stand it anymore. A retired head of the Tokyo 1st Division enthusiastically ran to Jiujiang to condolences to the troops from his hometown. After reading it, he left a sentence: That is not the Japanese army!