Chapter 851: Unharmed Imperial Army (Asking for a Monthly Pass)

This made Tang Yongming, chief of staff of the regiment, who was quite anxious, and Zhang Ruhao, deputy of the regiment, look at each other and are greatly puzzled.

Tang Yongming has been dealing with Liu Lang since the Battle of the Great Wall, and has long been trusted by Liu Lang, and he is very clear about Liu Lang's layout in Rehe. In 1933, Zhang Ruhao, who was parachuted from the Ministry of Military Affairs to serve as the deputy of the regiment, also did a very good job in the year and a half of the independent regiment.

Although there may still be a sense of investigation, it is undeniable that Zhang Ruhao has basically entered the real core layer of the independent regiment, and has begun to contact more and more secrets that the independent regiment cannot be grasped by the bald boss.

These two now know that Liu Lang is interested in Sun Yongqin's department in the Rehe area, not to mention that when the logistics warehouse of the Eighth Division was captured during the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, he didn't want to stuff weapons, ammunition and food to them, and they also specially sent his three most important special forces to stay there to help him train soldiers. In the past two years, it has been transiting through Qinglong Mountain, and has continued to smuggle equipment there on a small scale.

Obviously, Liu Lang was cultivating Sun Yongqin's troops as a nail firmly inserted into the Japanese-occupied areas, and the money and food spent on them even exceeded the consumption of another regiment in Sichuan.

However, when the Japanese army was about to approach Sun Yongqin's department, why could Liu Tuanzuo still laugh? You must know that it was a full two infantry wings plus at least one artillery brigade of the Japanese garrison in Rehe, and the power of a dozen mountain guns plus a dozen infantry guns is not a joke, even the independent regiment and the 288th and 289th regiments in Luowenyu that day relied on superior terrain and complete fortifications to compete. A year and a half ago, all the more than 4,000 officers and men of Sun Yongqin's department were just a bunch of peasants, and their combat effectiveness was far from theirs.

In this form, Sun Yongqin's department is in danger. Not to mention continuing to work with the little devils in the Rehe Mountains, it is doubtful whether they can retreat to the Great Wall Mountain Range through the retreat route that has been set for a long time.

But they don't know, it doesn't mean that the little butterflies who travel through time and space in the future don't know.

The main thing is that the fame of this Japanese army that came to "encircle and suppress" is too great.

Liu Tuanzuo, who knew all this, of course had to laugh, because the standing division mentioned by Xia Wenyun to encircle and suppress Sun Yongqin's department was really famous, and it can be said that among the entire 17 standing divisions of the Japanese army, the reputation of this division is not at all half a point smaller than that of the second division known as the Japanese Guards Division, the fifth division known as the Steel Army, and the sixth division of the strongest army, and it can even be said that the fame of this division will be more popular than those divisions mentioned above in a few decades.

Although Liu Lang didn't know that this "famous" unit should have been transferred to the Kwantung Army in 1937, it was probably related to the fact that the Eighth Division was defeated by the Independent Regiment two years ago.

In fact, it is true, because of the birth of Liu Tuanzuo, a little butterfly, the Eighth Division, which was supposed to be the humerus of the Kwantung Army, was almost disabled, and the Japanese Army base camp could only endure a toothache and transfer a certain division that had been hidden in the snow to the Kwantung Army in advance to replace the position of the Eighth Division.

For Mao, even the Japanese Army itself is so disgusted with its own standing division? You know, it's one of the 17 standing divisions that the people of the island country can't want to want!

Then we have to mention the famous Fourth Division of the Japanese Army. Known as the Osaka Division, the Hawker Division, an army made up entirely of Osaka's vegetable vendors.

As a veteran standing division in Japan, the 4th Division has two brigades and four infantry wings, one wing each of external processing, cavalry, artillery, and hammer, a total of 8 wings, plus 28,200 non-combatants at the division headquarters and two brigade headquarters. At the same time, it is also equipped with first-class weapons and equipment, which can be called the "elite" of the Japanese army. Just listening to it, I feel that it is awesome, don't want it.

Actually, if it's just cheeky, they're absolutely awesome.

The division's fame was not only gained during the all-out war with China, but not long after it was founded.

However, it was not the Steel Army or the Guards. His Majesty the arrogant Emperor of Japan is probably not very happy to let a bunch of small vegetable vendors protect him! Of course, the real reason is that in addition to the hawker division, the nickname of the Fourth Division also has the title of "wreck". In particular, the core unit of the 4th Division, the 8th Wing, received the nickname "The 8th Wing" because of its repeated defeats in the Russo-Japanese War.

The Fourth Division, which is not afraid of defeat, is actually not a wreck, they also have the courage of flesh and blood. In the past time and space, until the outbreak of a full-scale war with China, the 4th Division, which had become famous, never had a chance to go to the front again. However, this does not mean that it does not have the opportunity to show the spirit of "bravery".

In 1933, Private Matsui of the Fourth Division ran a red light in the center of Osaka, and as a result, he clashed with the police. At least, it has the blood of a soldier, in the words of the hawkers: who dares to bully our brother in Baga, the buddy took off his head and sold it as a vegetable.

The "martial bravery" and "unity" in the country, of course, do not prove the prestige of the Fourth Division.

In the past time and space, in 1937, due to the shortage of Japanese troops in China, the Japanese army base camp transferred the Fourth Division to Northeast China and assigned it to the Kwantung Army. How can we make this army, which is full of fights and brawls, want to rejuvenate the fighting spirit of the troops? The Japanese base camp really took a lot of effort, and came to the conclusion that the commander played a decisive role in the combat effectiveness of a unit, so the Japanese base camp successively transferred several famous generals to train the division, for example, Yamashita Fengwen, nicknamed the "Malay Tiger", had served as the division commander, but he also had no way to take the free and loose Fourth Division.

After two years of intensive training, the Fourth Division finally had a chance to show its face. In 1939, when the Red Polar Bear was at war with Japan in the Nomenkan area on the Sino-Mongolian border, the Kwantung Army ordered two divisions stationed in the northern part of the puppet state of Manchukuo, Osaka and Sendai, to urgently mobilize to reinforce the front line. After receiving the order, the Sendai Division, also known as the 2nd Guards Division, forcibly marched from Hailar to Nomenkan for 4 days, and entered the battle on the day it arrived at the battlefield. Then, very quickly, the prestigious Guards Division was beaten to slag by a fighting people armed with aircraft, artillery and tanks.

Of course, if the Fourth Division had appeared with them, there would have been 28,000 more people, and I am afraid that the final erosion of the battle situation would be a little stronger, or 28,000 guns, even if it was 28,000 pigs? But that was just a self-consolation from the top brass of the Kwantung Army.

In fact, the 4th Division did not bother to fight the fighting peoples at all. For them, playing against the scumbag red polar bear simply "insulted" their combat effectiveness. Therefore, the order for the dispatch of the Fourth Division was issued, but it was delayed.

The reason was that after the mobilization order was issued, there was a sudden cold wave, and the number of sick patients in the division and regiment surged, and as far as the eye could see, the battalion was full of officers and soldiers who asked to stay behind for various reasons. The excited Japanese wing commander was furious and personally sat in the infirmary to participate in the diagnosis, and only then did he reluctantly organize the troops to march to the front line, and the joke that "the wing commander changed his career to become a doctor" also spread among the Japanese army.

However, the officers and men of the 4th Division, who were determined not to fight the scum, did not recover physically because of the frenzy of the wing commander. Although they were able to insist on carrying out the military orders of the dispatch, their bodies were still somewhat "weak". Therefore, the entire division went from Hailar to Nomenkan, and the second division walked for 4 days, but they walked for 8 days, and a large number of personnel were left behind. Coincidentally, on the day that the advance team of the 4th Division arrived at the front, Polar Bear and Japan announced an armistice. When the news came, the officers and men of the Fourth Division who had fallen behind quickly followed as if they had taken a strong pill, and even many of the officers and men who stayed behind rushed to the front line "sick," while complaining with great regret that they had no chance to fight a battle.

Ironically, on the way back, the 4th Division, which was fully manned and full of spirit, became the most formidable unit in the Japanese army, while the 2nd Division, which was the first to arrive at the battlefield, lost its armor and was full of wounded soldiers. The officer in charge of news and propaganda of the Kwantung Army really couldn't look past it, so he picked up his pen and changed the headline of the news "My Invincible Imperial Army's Fourth Division Returns with Might" submitted for review by the Japanese army newspaper to "I Returned with Strength Without Injury to the Fourth Division of the Imperial Army," and ridiculed this "soft egg" unit in a roundabout way.

Of course, this is only the performance of the 4th Division in 1939, and there will be more stories of them in the future in the battle with the Chinese army, which will make the Japanese base camp bite the back molars.

Anyway, we can see the attitude of the officers and men of the Fourth Division toward combat by using a popular phrase among the officers and men of the Fourth Division when they said goodbye: "Imperial Body Dache."

Translated, it means "take care of your precious body", "your body is the most important", or to put it bluntly, "save your life first".

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PS: Tearful begging for a monthly pass!!!!!!!