my bright sword career

Chapter 207 After the artillery battle
SJZNo.12 Army Command

At around eight o'clock in the morning, Lieutenant General Tuqiao, the commander of the [-]th Army, who was still asleep, was woken up by the staff.

"I need you to give me a reasonable explanation!" Dohashi Ichiro glared fiercely at the staff officer in front of him.

"Your Excellency, something is wrong. Just now, the No. 16 Division and the [-] Division sent urgent calls. They were attacked by the Chinese army on the second floor. Now the troops have been defeated."

"Nani?"

Dohashi Jijiro almost stared his eyes out. The army of the Imperial Japanese Empire was attacked by the Chinese army?Are you sure you're not kidding me today?

Seeing Ichiro Dohashi's expression, the staff officer also knew that the matter was a bit ridiculous, but this telegram was sent jointly by the two division heads Ishihara Wanji and Iwase Takehiko, so there is no doubt about its authenticity.

In order to dispel the commander's doubts, he handed the telegram to Dohashi Yichiro.

"Whoosh..."

After reading the telegram, Dohashi Ichiro almost lost his breath. In this telegram, Ishihara Wanji and Iwase Takehiko reported in detail how they were attacked.

What made Dohashi Jijiro unable to believe his eyes was that the casualties of the two divisions were ridiculously high.

More than 6000 people were killed or injured in the 8000th Division, and only a little over [-] people escaped from the [-]-strong division, and the [-]th Division was even worse.

The Sixteenth Division belongs to the standard packhorse division, which adopts the four-four system. The division has two brigades, and the brigade has two infantry regiments. The division also has an artillery regiment and a supply regiment. , an engineer regiment, a cavalry regiment (four cavalry squadrons and a machine gun squadron), and other units.

The artillery wing has 36 field guns and twelve 120mm howitzers. The infantry wing has a wing artillery squadron and a rapid-fire gun squadron (four 37mm rapid-fire guns), with a total staff of about 25000.

But such a division actually lost nearly 2 people in this attack, that is to say, only more than 5000 people escaped. If it is harsher, the [-]th Division can already be included in the sequence of the Japanese Army Removed.

The [-]th Division and the [-]th Division encountered a militia armed from Shanxi on their way to reinforce Shanxi. Ichiro Dohashi knew about this. He was dissatisfied after being sniped for several days, but because the relationship between Ishihara Wanji and Commander Tada Toshi was so good, he didn't want to anger Tada Jun because of this trivial matter, so he just turned a blind eye.

Originally, they planned to send a telegram to reprimand the two in two days, but they didn't expect that the telegram hadn't been sent yet, but they waited for the bad news that the two divisions had been severely injured.

"Your Excellency, Commander, what should we do now?" The staff officer also knew that the matter was serious, and asked in a panic.

"What else can I do?" Dohashi Ichiro glared at the staff officer, "Immediately report to the headquarters of the front army, and report this world in detail to Commander Tada Toshi.

Didn’t the third chariot group that reinforced the [-]th and [-]th divisions set off the day before yesterday? Immediately send a report to Major General Kenichi Kurosawa, asking him to speed up the reinforcements. We must arrive at Qingyuan River before this evening , Take out the [-]th Division and the [-]th Division, especially Ishihara Wanji and Iwase Takehiko, they must not make any mistakes again. "

"Hi!" The staff officer nodded emphatically. He understood what Ichiro Dohashi meant. The disastrous defeat of the two divisions would definitely be a major event that shocked the local area. If even the two division heads had problems, he, the commander of the No. I am afraid that the officials will have to be laid off, and the base camp will not tolerate defeated generals.

"Wait a moment."

Just as the staff officer turned to leave, he was stopped by Yijiro Dohashi again, "Send a report to Commander Tada immediately, requesting to send the wave 8604 troops over, and ask them to go to Qingshuiyuan to investigate on the spot. What is it?"

The first time he heard the wave word 8604, the staff officer couldn't help shivering, and then turned around and went out...

Just when Tuqiao Yilang was busy dispatching troops to meet the remnants of the [-]th Division and the [-]th Division, Gao Hongming, who led his troops to defeat the two divisions, ordered to stop the charge and began to clean up the battlefield.

Although many people were very puzzled by this order, the military order was like a mountain. Since Gao Hongming gave the order, they could only carry it out. Anyway, they killed enough today.

On the way to clean up the battlefield, they got a big surprise. They actually captured three Japanese alliance flags.

These three wing flags are the Infantry Ninth Wing and No.19 Wing belonging to the 20th Brigade of the 108th Division, and the 222nd Wing of the [-]th Division.

This time the harvest is too great, the three alliance flags can be captured, which also means that the three alliances will disappear from the devil's establishment, not to mention the weapons and equipment that have been thrown all over the mountains and plains.

However, what made the Liantai militia soldiers feel dizzy was that there were so many left on the battlefield that they had to be careful when seizing weapons, for fear that it would be troublesome if they accidentally tore the protective clothing.

It only took more than two hours to fight, but it took them half a day to clean the battlefield. They finally withdrew to the starting position in the afternoon, and then dared to take off their protective clothing after a series of disinfection treatments.

Moreover, this batch of protective clothing can no longer be used after use, and can only be burned on the spot.

On October 1940th, [-] AD, a clear-coded telegram shocked the entire China... no... the world.

This clear-coded telegram was sent by Gao Hongming, head of the militia group in Liantai County, Shanxi Province. The text of the telegram is as follows.

"Compatriots, Hong Ming was originally a student in a normal school. After graduation, he returned to his hometown and originally wanted to inherit the family business and live a stable life. However, when he returned home, he saw the sad news that his father died at the hands of the Japanese invaders.

Out of anger, he formed a militia armed force, and after more than half a year of fighting, it can be regarded as a little bit of a bad name.This time Hong Ming led his troops from Shanxi, and was originally ordered to support the Eighth Route Army in the Hundred Regiments War. Unexpectedly, he encountered the [-]th and [-]th Divisions of the Japanese invaders on the way.

The two sides fought fiercely for several days, but they never thought that during the artillery battle today, a shell hit a storage place of poison gas bombs in the Japanese Artillery Regiment, causing mass casualties to the Japanese army. It is a pity that the Japanese invaders still carry so many poison gas bombs with the army today.

For this reason, Hong Ming couldn't help but ask, Japan keeps boasting that it is a civilized country, but it carries poison gas bombs with the army and is ready to use them at any time. Its ulterior motives are really outrageous.

　
(End of this chapter)