Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 783
In Hangzhou, Zhejiang, at the headquarters of the South China Front Army, Matsui Iwane was standing upright, listening to the reprimand of Commander Hata Shunroku of the Chinese Expeditionary Army.

In Ouyang Yun's original time and space, the headquarters of the Japanese Army's China Expeditionary Force was established in September 39, and the commander was Hisao Nishio.And in this time and space, because of the policy change brought about by the negotiations between the Japanese government and the Nationalist government's so-called peaceful settlement of the "China incident", the command stepped onto the stage of history ahead of schedule, and the commander candidate became Shunroku Hata.In that time and space, Hata Shunroku had the opportunity to replace him because Matsui Iwane concocted the Nanjing Massacre that shocked the world when he was the commander of the Central China Front Army.In this time and space, he was able to become the commander of the Central China Front Army and further become the commander of the China Expeditionary Army because of two reasons.Unlike those blindly aggressive Japanese officers, Hata Shunroku has a more rational understanding of the Chinese war situation. He supports the cabinet's proposal to resolve the "China Incident" peacefully, and advocates not changing the situation on the Chinese battlefield through war under the current circumstances.It is precisely because he is consistent with the current China policy of the base camp, and because the Central China Front Army supported by Matsui Iwane suffered a big defeat in the Battle of Nanjing, so he replaced Matsui Iwane first, and was immediately appointed as the commander of the Chinese dispatched army.What Hata Shunroku is going all out for now is to use the achievements of the North China Front Army in the Northwest to deter Mongolia, with a view to establishing a puppet regime similar to the puppet Manchuria in the Northwest.His idea is that once the Northwest is stabilized, the North China Front Army will be able to borrow strength from the Kwantung Army and then point to Wuhan, thus forming a north-south confrontation with the Chinese army and promoting the peace talks to take effect.After the peace talks take effect, you should concentrate on managing the occupied areas to make them a booster for the empire.After that, it is time to deal with the Xuebing Army.

As one of the top generals in the Japanese army, Hata Shunroku is qualified to know all the truth about the war of aggression against China, so he is very clear about the failures of the Japanese army in China.The Japanese army was defeated one after another by the Xuebing Army, a warlord force. This made Hata Shunroku look at this new army with admiration, and spent a lot of time and energy studying the Second Great Wall Battle and the Battle of Nanjing.

As a cannonist, Hata Shunroku highly admired the artillery. Therefore, when he summed up the reasons for the failure of the Japanese army in these two battles, he paid special attention to the role of the artillery on both sides.It is believed that it was precisely because of the unparalleled superiority of the self-propelled artillery of the Xuebing Army that this caused the failure of the Japanese army.He then came to the conclusion that it is not impossible for the empire to deal with the Xuebing army as soon as possible, but the effort would be too much. Therefore, it is extremely unwise to launch the Minyueqiong strategy before the cannon technology is improved.

Hata Shunroku's attitude towards the student army is obviously different from that of the base camp, which makes Matsui Iwane who is caught in it a different person.The order from the Japanese base camp to Matsui Iwane is to actively prepare for the war and be ready to attack Fujian at any time. Hata Shunroku gave him instructions to defend steadily. While digesting the occupied area, try to avoid actively provoking the student army, and even limit the time when the student army is advancing. The contraction of the defense line in order to cause its high-level ideological paralysis.

In the inertial thinking of the Japanese, they think that they must be the offensive side, and the Chinese army must only be passive defense.Therefore, when the news that Xiaoshan, Quzhou, and Ningbo airports were attacked at the same time reached Jun Hata's six ears, he subconsciously thought that it was because Matsui Iwane refused to obey his orders and took the initiative to provoke and attack Fujian, which attracted the attention of the Xuebing Army. revenge.

"What do those people in the cabinet know? What other abilities do they have besides talking and fighting with each other on paper? It is extremely unwise to start a war with the student army before the occupied area is fully digested and absorbed. Why did they fail in the early stage of the Xuzhou battle? Stubborn resistance is certainly the main reason, but there are two other points that those in the Army Ministry do not understand. The artillery of the Chinese is sharp, especially the self-propelled artillery unit of the Xuebing Army. Its high flexibility ensures its own survivability At the same time, it dealt a heavy blow to our army; also, those Chinese people, the threat of them forming a group is huge! What is the scariest thing about China? Its population, [-] billion people! If so many people hold together , with the current strength of the empire, there is no way to carry the war to the end..."

Hata Shunroku spattered wantonly on the other end of the phone, the more he talked, the clearer his thinking became, and the more angry he became, it seemed that the bombing of the three airports was all caused by Matsui Iwane's incompetence.

Speaking of which, Matsui Iwane is actually a senior of Hata Shunroku, and this Hata Shunroku’s background is different from other senior Japanese generals. He did not study in an army school since he was a child. Before he became the commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army, he was called Orthodox Matsui looked down upon.Everyone has a three-point temper. Hearing his tone became more and more severe, Matsui Iwane, who was already deprived of the post of commander of the dispatched army by Hata Toshiro, suddenly became angry for no reason, and suddenly put the phone on hold. up!Putting down the call from Hata Junroku, Matsui Iwane was still indignant and scolded angrily: "Bage Yalu, Hata Shunroku, this bastard, how great does he think he is? Is his current status based on his achievements? Eight Ge, is the Xuebing army invincible? This bastard Ouyang Yun has succeeded many times before, but it’s just luck. This time in Ningbo, he didn’t lose his troops. Come on, ask Takeda Zang to send me the captured Chinese pilots Go to Nanjing! I'm going to slap Hata Shunroku, a guy who can only talk big, with facts!"

Takeda Zang was the commander of Ningbo Airport. Because of his "powerful command", he shattered the Chinese air raid and severely injured it. Now it has become a banner in the hands of Matsui Iwane.

Matsui Iwane's personal adjutant Takakura Kenji was frantically picking up the phone to call Ningbo Airport when another phone rang.Iwane Matsui gasped for breath twice, adjusted his mood and picked up the phone: "Hi, I'm Matsui, Commander of the South China Front Army—" Before he finished speaking, he froze, his mouth was just open, but the muscles on his face were involuntary spasms.

After Gao Cangjian finished conveying the order to Takeda Zang, he put down the phone and looked at the commander. He was startled when he saw him like this, and quickly asked, "Your Excellency, what's wrong with you?"

"Pfft!" Matsui Iwane sat down on the chair first, then suddenly jumped up like a spring on his buttocks, put the microphone to his mouth and shouted: "Hold on, hold on to me, I will call immediately Reinforcements!" After hanging up the phone, he was trying to clear his mind when the phone rang again.He could only pick up the phone again, and listened, first he said "um", then his face, which had been rosy because of the outbreak just now, immediately turned into a liver color, and he roared angrily: "Ba Ge, how can you allow this?" What happened? Are you a pig? Why put all the heavy guns together, we are fighting on the land of China, any Chinese can be our enemy, they will inform their army what they know ..." Matsui Iwane's scolding lasted more than 5 minutes.

When he hung up the phone and was panting heavily, Gao Cang Jianhui hurriedly found out the antihypertensive medicine from the drawer and handed him two tablets, then held him a teacup, and asked anxiously, "Your Excellency, what happened?" What's the matter?"

"The Chinese have launched a ground attack! The two regiments of the Independent 8th Brigade were surrounded by Yingtan and Guangrao. The Chinese marched mechanized at such a fast speed that Mizuhara Yoshishige didn't react at all. The Qingshi Town artillery in Quzhou requisitioned the land The 13th Artillery Wing suffered heavy losses in an air strike. If I expected it to be correct, the Chinese should attack Quzhou next.

"Ah!" Gao Cang Jianhui was dumbfounded, and then he asked something stupid: "Is the Chinese going to launch a counterattack?"

Matsui Iwane took the antihypertensive medicine with a gloomy face, and said: "They should have learned that we are negotiating with the Chinese government. This is to take advantage of our army's incomplete assembly to strike preemptively. Takakura, we will absolutely You can’t lose, if the 8th Independent Brigade collapses, do you know how serious the consequences will be?” Without waiting for Gao Cang’s answer, he continued: “In that case, once the peace talks are exposed, the Chinese government will be severely punished. Great pressure can only lead to the breakdown of the peace talks in the end."

"Your Excellency, what should we do now? The 8th Independent Brigade is at stake, us?"

"What we need to do most now is to contact all the troops on the front line and let them obtain detailed information at all costs. We must first figure out whether this is an action by the cadet army alone against the Independent 8th Brigade, or a larger-scale operation Attack. Let's go, let's go to the communication agency, I will report to the headquarters immediately, and seek the support of the naval aviation. Without air supremacy, we will fall into a completely passive situation..."

Matsui Iwane leapfrogged to report to the base camp, not only to seek the support of the naval aviation to seize the battlefield air supremacy, but also thought of a way to rescue the independent 8th brigade.It's just that the method was too vicious and seriously violated the "Geneva Treaty". He didn't dare to take responsibility for it alone, so he kicked this hot potato to Seishiro Itagaki in the base camp.

In the Japanese military circles, Seishiro Itagaki has always been famous for his boldness, and the so-called Ishihara's job of Itagaki's courage is recognized by the Japanese army.It can be said that Matsui Iwane's hand just caught Itagaki's itchy flesh.As he wished, Itagaki made a decision on the matter without even discussing with other people. In the telegram sent to Matsui Iwane, he said: When the peace talks are about to be concluded, the significance of maintaining the coercion of the South China Front Army on the Xuebing Army Very important, any means are worth a try.

Matsui Iwane was overjoyed when he received this telegram, and immediately asked the communication agency to generate electricity for Mizuhara Yoshinori, and taught him all the clever ideas he had come up with.Then, he called Suzuki to go down to the field and asked him to personally lead the 58th and 104th Regiment to Guangrao, making sure to open the traffic line from Quzhou to Guangrao.

(End of this chapter)