my bright sword career

Chapter 192 Ishihara Waner's Warning

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the 108nd Regiment of the 222th Division was blocked by the Chinese when they tried to cross the bridge at Qingyuan River, and suffered heavy losses. The regiment commander has already sent a telegram to their division commander requesting tactical guidance."

Ishihara Wan'er, who was sitting in a car, looked at the message in his hand and was silent for a while and asked, "Has our special high-tech department still not found out the identity of that unit?"

"Your Excellency, I have already checked."

Ishihara Waner cheered up, "Oh... which army are they?"

"According to the bombing and reconnaissance of the No.30 Flying Team, as well as the investigation entrusted by our special high-tech department, the one who attacked us at Qianqiu Bridge was the Shanxi Liantai County Militia. The commander of this force is named Gao Hongming."

"The Liantai militia? Gao Hongming? It's him?"

Shi Yuan Wan'er was startled, he was no stranger to Gao Hongming, on the contrary he was quite familiar with it.

He clearly remembered that just a few months ago, the 41st Division of the First Army stationed in Shanxi was severely taught by a Shanxi militia at Qixia Pass, and the team of 8000 people who were strangely full was sent to the army There were only more than 7000 people left, and they were almost disabled.

For this army, his boss's boss, the commander of the North China Front Army Toshi Tada, not only flew directly to Taiyuan to directly command the battle some time ago, but was also insinuatingly accused by the commander-in-chief of the Chinese dispatched army, Hisao Nishio, for not doing his job properly. Return to Jinan without hatred.

As Jun Tada's classmate and friend from Lu University, Ishihara Waner has long admired Gao Hongming's name, but he and Gao Hongming are in Hebei and the other in Shanxi, so there is a high probability that they will never see each other, but things in the world are so wonderful. People who were originally irrelevant are about to meet.

Thinking of this, Ishihara Waner, who has always been cynical, became serious, "Go and inform Iwase Takehiko immediately that the army on the opposite side is the Shanxi Liantai County Militia Corps, and ask him to stop attacking immediately, otherwise he will only add more troops." Senseless casualties.

If you have anything to say, wait until I arrive, and you will tell him what I mean right away. "

"Baga... Ishihara smiles too much to deceive others!"

Looking at the telegram in his hand, Takehiko Iwase was so angry that his forehead was smoking, he crumpled the telegram in his hand and threw it on the ground, "Ishihara Wanji is so arrogant!"

"Your Excellency, Division Chief Ishihara is mocking our division for not even being able to defeat the local militia in China."

The combat staff officer on the side was also aggrieved, "Our 108th Division is only a second-class division, but in addition to poor equipment, its combat effectiveness is not much worse than that of the first-class division. Ishihara Division Commander is too underestimating us. ?”

After getting angry, Takehiko Iwase suppressed the anger in his heart and asked, "Mr. Miura, how far is the Sixteenth Division from Qianqiu Bridge?"

The staff officer quickly replied: "The Sixteenth Division is still about [-] kilometers away from us."

"One hundred kilometers?" Takehiko Iwase calculated, "In other words, according to the normal situation, it would take at least four hours for them to reach Qianqiu Bridge.

Immediately send a report to Fujino Hisamaki and ask him to step up his attack, and wait until we..."

"Your Excellency, Commander of the Division, Captain Fujino sent a telegram. His attack on Qianqiu Bridge was blocked. The firepower of the Chinese people was extremely fierce. He lost a squadron within half an hour of the battle. He asked to wait for the main force to arrive before restarting." Attack."

"Nani?"

After all, Takehiko Iwase is a veteran lieutenant general. No matter how angry his heart is, his basic reason is still there. When he heard that the 222nd Regiment started fighting in half an hour, it was considered a squadron. A ladle of cold water was poured on his head, and when he thought of the fact that the other party still had a chariot unit and Ishihara Waner's warning, his anger was blown out immediately as if he had encountered a biting cold wind.

"Your Excellency, Head of Division...His Excellency, Head of Division..."

Just when Takehiko Iwase was in a daze, the voice of the staff officer woke him up again.

"Are you okay?" The staff officer looked at Takehiko Iwase, who looked uncertain as if his face had changed, and asked cautiously, "Shall we order the 222nd Regiment to launch an attack again?"

"no need."

Iwase Takehiko waved his hand, seeming a little frustrated: "Go and tell Fujino Hisamaki to let him defend on the spot and wait for the main force to arrive."

"Hi!"

Although he didn't understand why the division head changed his mind so easily, as a staff officer, he was not qualified to question the division head's order.

I don't know whether it was intentional or a coincidence, four hours later, at around 17 o'clock in the evening, the 108th Division and the [-]th Division led by Takehiko Iwase arrived at Qianqiu Bridge almost at the same time.

As soon as the two met, Ishihara Wanji greeted Iwase Takehiko with a smile: "Iwase-kun, it's been a while, your complexion is still so rosy."

Iwase Takehiko also responded with a half-smile: "Ishihara-kun, you are not bad... It seems that the injury you received in Manchuria did not affect your life."

Ishihara Wan'er's smile immediately collapsed. As the saying goes, hitting someone doesn't slap someone in the face. Ishihara Wan'er was once stabbed in the crotch by his own saber when he was in Kanto, which caused the opening of his urethra to tear and caused him to urinate blood for a long time.

This incident has also become a taboo for Ishihara Waner, except for his closest friends, people will basically not bring this up in front of him. Takehiko Iwase deliberately mentioned this today, obviously not because he cares about him.

Rao is Iwase Takehiko who is equal to him, but being stared at by Ishihara Waner like this is not only a little creepy in his heart.

After a long time, Ishihara Waner said quietly: "Iwase-kun, do you know why you are two terms higher than me, and you can only be a division leader in the second-class division until now? It's because you don't know how to judge the situation. I can’t make friends, so I ended up in this situation.”

Iwase Takehiko did not show any weakness: "It's better than getting younger as you become an official."

As early as 1337, Ishihara Wanji was already the deputy chief of staff (equivalent to the deputy chief of staff) of the Kwantung Army, but because of his disagreement with Hideki Tojo, he was almost transferred back to China and entered the reserve service. Under the protection of Seishiro and Tada Toshi, he was transferred to Kannai to replace Lieutenant General Fujie Keisuke as the division head of the [-]th Division.

Although the rank is still lieutenant general, compared to the hundreds of thousands of deputy chiefs of staff of the Kwantung Army, the division commander of a division is indeed too small.

Ishihara Wan'er didn't get angry this time, but curled his lips, "That's better than you. If it wasn't for me this time, your 108th Division would probably follow in the footsteps of the 41st Division. You should thank me."

"The footsteps of the 41st Division?"

Iwase Takehiko's heart moved, "You mean, the army on the opposite side is the one that caused Yukio Koizumi to be escorted back to the military court on the mainland?"

"Who else but him?" Shi Yuan said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)