Chapter 256: Dispatch (Medium)
The Japanese Army, which has received education in modern Western military technology, has formulated a unique system of camping in Japan, and in addition to taking care of the living habits of Japanese officers and men themselves, it has basically completely digested the plan for the construction and setting up of barracks and the strict barracks management system of European armies. The barracks where the Morimoto Brigade was stationed were built by these Japanese soldiers little by little.
When Morimoto's brigade first arrived at the camp site marked by their superiors on the map, it was still a blank flat land on the edge of a mountain woodland, so the first task of the brigade after arriving was to find a way to build a standard Japanese army camping area. Originally, this kind of camp construction work should have been completed by the engineer unit, but the engineer wing of the Fifth Division had been dispersed and transferred to various parts of the defense area to complete the construction of the outer line fortifications and the repair and maintenance of the supply roads, and at this time even a small team could not be dispatched.
The local civilians had always been violent and uncooperative with the Japanese army, so there was no way to hire a sufficient number of civilians. Catch strong men directly in the local area? Now the mountainous areas from Nanning to Qinzhou are full of armed guerrillas organized by the Chinese government, and the baggage transport units to which the division belongs are unable to speak.
In the end, the princes could only roll up their pants and build their own nests, and finally all the soldiers of the Morimoto brigade came from Hamada City, a fishing port facing the Sea of Japan, and most of the soldiers were born in fishermen's families, and they all learned one or two carpentry jobs at home, and there were many skilled craftsmen. Anyway, the surrounding mountains and forests were full of thick logs, and no one dared to take care of the invaders' indiscriminate felling, and at the same time, the captain also sold an unknown number of favors through various relationships, and got a batch of building materials that were quite precious at that time, and finally took a whole month to build a decent army barracks, when the project was finally completed. All the officers and men couldn't help but shout that the sky was dark and the cards were loaded, and many of them left tears of excitement, and they could finally sleep in a place with a roof.
But when Morimoto's brigade returned to this barracks at midnight on August 22, they found that it had changed beyond recognition, and if it weren't for the familiar Japanese notice on the camp gatepost, Morimoto Nakasa almost thought that he had gone the wrong way and entered the ruins of a deserted village. Less than a day after they left, the barracks was like it had been hit by a magnitude 8 storm, and all the buildings had been destroyed. The neatly arranged wooden barracks were all piles of garbage and broken wood, and the brigade headquarters in the center of the camp was reduced to a few concrete columns. Even buildings such as kitchens and toilets were badly damaged, and the scene was so tragic that it was unbearable to witness.
Morimoto was in a hurry at that time, so he hung his head and planted a war horse, and he encountered unbelievable things in one day, could it be that he offended which god and Buddha? But it was close to midnight, the troops were exhausted, their morale was even lower, and the conditions did not allow for a full-fledged search. So Morimoto had no choice but to let his brigade set up tents in the open space between the camps. Deal with this night first, and wait until dawn to make a decision. So under the accompaniment of the forest animals crying wolves, the Taijun of the Morimoto Brigade spent a sleepless night tremblingly.
The next day, Morimoto and his subordinates launched a comprehensive investigation. In the end, all kinds of evidence at the scene showed that all of the damage was caused by man, and if it wasn't for the fact that it was too close to the mountains and forests, the other party might have set a fire to destroy the corpses. Because they have already found some traces of the arson preparations of the other side. It's just that who the prisoner is and why he did it, but there is no clue at the scene. Morimoto jumped to his feet and vowed to make those criminals pay. This must involve local anti-Japanese organizations, and these people must be made aware of the consequences of challenging the military might of the Imperial Japanese Army.
Because he felt that the incident was very serious, Morimoto had to make a detailed report to his superiors, and then he became the laughing stock of the entire Fifth Division, and was repeatedly told as a funny story by other captains and wing commanders at the wine table. Some officers who don't deal with Morimoto on weekdays also give Morimoto Nakasa a loud bandit nickname of "Camping Captain", which makes Morimoto become very manic when he hears someone mention military tents.
Morimoto Otaji endured all kinds of humiliation and ridicule, and vowed to thoroughly investigate this matter, and finally let him find out some clues, but when the truth of the incident appeared in front of him, he was personally called by the wing commander to warn him not to continue to investigate, and at present, the Japanese Army must maintain a stable border situation, and must not make any further troubles at this time.
As a matter of fact, the division and regiment have long found out the truth of this incident, and those military police finally did not eat their military rations in vain, and the so-called criminals who demolished the barracks of the Morimoto Brigade were actually Chinese villagers from several villages near the barracks.
Morimoto's brigade was dispatched in accordance with the order, and it was indeed prepared not to return to the station, so there were no barracks guards left. As everyone knows, every move of the Japanese is actually watched by the local people, and when they found out that the Japanese soldiers in this barracks poured out, they immediately had a bold old watch enter the barracks to check, and after repeatedly confirming that the Japanese were really all gone, the villagers in the nearby villages and towns immediately fell into a carnival.
These are all good planks and wood, planed and brushed and painted, and there are even furniture made by the Japanese soldiers themselves in the barracks. Anyway, I don't know who made the first move, and soon a civil demolition activity was vigorously launched. When it is found that there is a cheap price to pick up, the people's combat effectiveness and action will become extremely amazing, anyway, at that time, everyone had a word in their heads, dismantling, you don't want to give it for nothing, maybe when the Japanese will turn back, while no one is watching now, don't make more efforts to quickly dismantle it, this wood looks good, and there is a lack of a latch at home.
Once the power of the masses is mobilized, it can move mountains and seas, and a Japanese barracks was completely dismantled in half a day, and a few brave descendants wanted to set a fire, but they were stopped by some old people, and the sides were all woods, what to do if it caused a mountain fire.
So this incident is not the destruction of an anti-Japanese organization at all, but the villagers have taken a fancy to the wood, and the truth is actually as simple as that. At this time, the Japanese Army already had some evidence, and it was completely able to carry out a clean-up and arrest or even directly create a bloody case of slaughtering villages, as they often did in North and South China. The problem is that this place is too close to the Sino-Vietnamese border, and the residents on both sides of the border do not regard the border as anything at all, and often go back and forth, and the relationship between these big families is very close, and even most of them are related, once these civilians are punished because of the incident in Morimoto's barracks, and once there is bloodshed, the news will definitely leak to the ears of the French people on the other side, which will definitely affect the diplomatic negotiation process between the two countries that is currently underway.
Previously, the Ministry of War had issued a formal order that before the negotiations were completed, the headquarters of the Fifth Wing must restrain his subordinates, and no accidents should occur along the border, but now Morimoto must refrain from patience, and Miki assured him that when the matter is over, the Wing will definitely give him a satisfactory explanation.
Putting down the co-captain's phone, Morimoto Nakasa almost crushed his back molars, and he no longer knew how to express his indignation at this time. The dignified Imperial Japanese Army has fallen to such a point, it is simply bowing to civilian officials again, becoming a vassal of those shameless politicians, Tojo still has the face to call himself a razor, that man has obviously fallen in front of power, the military prestige of the Imperial Japanese Army is fought by swords, when do you need to see the faces of those Western ghost animals. Morimoto felt that he had to do something, and that the current situation had to change, otherwise he would not be worthy of being called a Japanese army officer loyal to His Majesty the Emperor.
Morimoto thought about it all night in his humble barracks, and he finally cleared up his thoughts, and the army and himself fell into the current field, and the culprit was clearly revealed, which was the group of ghost animals on the other side.
It is these sinister and cunning Frenchmen who constantly send war materials to China, and it is said that hundreds of tons of military materials are sent to Chongqing from here every day, and the Chinese rely on these materials to continue to resist the attack of the Japanese army, and it can be said that every franc earned by the French in the middle is stained with the blood of Japanese soldiers. If it weren't for their refusal to break off this deal, the Fifth Division would not have landed in Qinzhou to attack Nanning, and it would not have stayed in this forest camp itself, enduring the scorching heat every day to feed flies and mosquitoes, and worrying every day about what the soldiers would eat for their next meal.
By the way, there are also those timid navies, who are not worthy of calling themselves soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire, who were frightened by a small French fleet, and finally caused the entire combat operation to be aborted, these weak guys, simply shameless.
From that day on, a thought lingered in Morimoto's mind, since the above are all incompetent cowards, and the colleagues are unreliable, then do it yourself, just take this brigade to do it, as long as the incident is big, then there will be a group of people of insight in the army to support him, and he wants everyone to know that those French ghost animals are not a big deal.
Morimoto made up his mind, and silently planned and prepared by himself, and finally in the early morning of September 12, Morimoto felt that the time was ripe for action.
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