9.86 Where there are people, there is strife

"Miyazaki-kun, why bother with those false names? The honor of a soldier should be taken from the battlefield! The emperor has given us the stage of Wuhan, and the next thing is to see how we perform......"

Okamura Ninji was ostensibly encouraging his combat section chief Miyazaki Monday Osa, but in fact he was also expressing his own inner depression, although he, the commander of the 11th Army, looked beautiful, but the pressure he was actually under was amazing!

In the hierarchy pyramid of the Japanese Army, the ladder from division commander to army commander has always been a watershed, and the future of the Japanese generals who can successfully cross it is extremely ambitious. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

According to the tone that Lu Xiang Sakagaki Seishiro privately revealed to Okamura Ningji, Okamura Ningji's promotion has caused the dissatisfaction of many Japanese generals who do not want to expand the war in Central China!

It can be said that if it were not for the Japanese Army's disastrous defeat at Zhang Gufeng and the eagerness of the Soviet Army in the Far East, and the lack of a suitable candidate for the post of commander of the 11th Army within the Central China Dispatch Army, General Shunroku Hata would not have thought of Okamura Ninji in the northeast at all.

From the sequence of attacks on Wuhan arranged by the Central China Dispatch Army, it is not difficult to see the attitude of General Shunroku Hahata towards Okamura Ninji, an "outsider".

Although the commander of the 2nd Army, Lieutenant General Minoru Higashikuremiya, had only 4 army divisions under his command, they were all the elite of the Central China Dispatch Army. Compared with the 2nd Army, which has a total of 4 divisions and regiments such as the 3rd, lO, 13th, and 16th divisions and the 5th Brigade of Field Heavy Artillery, and the 5th Division and 5 divisions under its jurisdiction, and the 11th Army, which has a total of 5 divisions under its jurisdiction, such as the Botian Detachment and the 6th Brigade of Field Heavy Artillery, the combat effectiveness is several grades stronger!

After the start of the war of aggression against China in 1937, the Japanese army began a major expansion, most of the standing divisions were changed from one to two, and the four second-class divisions that had been abolished were also restored.

By 1938, the number of divisions in the Japanese Army had grown to thirty-four. Among them, the newly built army divisions with serial numbers after 100 are called "special divisions", such as the 101st Division and the 114th Division, which are formed by the reservists of the 1st Division and the 14th Division respectively.

In the Japanese Army structure, the "ad hoc divisions" belong to the third-class divisions, and their status is only higher than that of the fourth-class divisions composed of pure recruits, and the actual combat effectiveness ranks even lower!

Okamura Ninji's impression of the 11st and 106th "special divisions" composed of reservists in their thirties can be said to be extremely poor!!

Okamura Ninji had just arrived and took officers from the 11th Army Headquarters down to the 101st and 106th Divisions to inspect them. It turned out that these two army divisions were not only unqualified in terms of discipline and tactical literacy, but also did not even possess basic management!

Even the gas masks that the Japanese army required officers and soldiers to wear when using "Class A bombs" were heavily damaged because they were not carefully cared for!

An important reason for the poor combat effectiveness of the "ad hoc divisions and regiments" is that the reservists in their 30s have been wallowing in society for many years, and they have become extremely realistic and accidental, and they are no longer as willing to "meet at the Yasukuni Shrine" as young officers and men do, and the fear of death and injury has greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the "ad hoc divisions" compared with the permanent divisions and regiments!

Okamura also heard that among the reservists of the 101st Division recruited from Tokyo, there were many rogue leaders from Asakusa (a gathering place for the underworld in Tokyo), and many officers actually washed their feet like subordinates when facing these rogue leaders!

This is a side effect of the Japanese army's implementation of the regional conscription system, and the reservists from the same region are very familiar with each other because they live in the same place all year round. At the local level, many reserve officers are even subordinate to the reservists.

The thought of having to eat under their own soldiers after the recovery made these "temporary officers" naturally unable to stand up.

It is precisely for these reasons that the "ad hoc divisions" cannot be managed as harshly as permanent divisions or recruit units after they are reorganized. The Japanese Army, which has relied heavily on the strict hierarchy of superiors and subordinates in administering the army for many years, has a bearing on the complete ineffectiveness of the "special divisions and regiments."

The soldiers have no will to fight, and the management cannot be perfected, which dooms the "special divisions" to become crappy goods that no one wants in the Japanese Army! The commanders of the Japanese Army's front forces preferred even new divisions made up of new recruits to receive these "ad hoc divisions" made up of reservists.

It stands to reason that since Okamura Ninji has such a force in his hands, his 11th Army should play a secondary role in the attack on Wuhan, and find some soft persimmons to pinch. But the reality is the opposite! The strength of the Chinese army that the 2nd Army and the 11th Army had to face was inversely proportional to the strength of the 2nd Army and the 11th Army!

The elite division led by the commander of the 2nd Army, Lieutenant General Minoru Higashikuremiya, had to deal with a bunch of miscellaneous troops withdrawn from Xuzhou in the 5th Theater, while Okamura Ninji's 11th Army needed a bloody battle with the elite troops of the Wuhan government in the 9th Theater of Operations, which had received Soviet assistance and relied on several defense fortresses!

Where there are people, there are disputes, and the Japanese Army is no exception!

No wonder several division commanders of the 11th Army said in private that the Battle of Wuhan was simply a show arranged by General Shun Hata to Lieutenant General Minoru Higashikuremiya, commander of the 2nd Army! The honor of being the first to attack Wuhan will definitely belong to the 2nd Army of Lieutenant General Minoru Higashikunomiya.

But Okamura Ninji doesn't think so!

In the eyes of Okamura Ninji, the outcome is still unknown! The strength of the Chinese army is far from being able to be distinguished by "miscellaneous" and "elite" one after another! What Ryosuke Isoya encountered in Taierzhuang was the "miscellaneous card" of the Wuhan government, but in the end he lost his life! However, Kenji Dohihara was able to kill himself from the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of Chinese "elites" in Lanfeng, and these two battles are very revealing!

Although on paper, the strength of the Chinese army in the 9th Theater of Operations is greater than that of the 5th Theater, but because the Japanese army controls the Yangtze River and most of the sky and has strong mobility capabilities, Okamura Ninji can completely rely on these advantages to create an absolute superiority of the 11th Army in a relatively closed battlefield! The Chinese "elite" who defeated the 9th theater of operations and entered Wuhan is much more dazzling than the honor picked up by the 2nd Army!

The military department is not blind, and the emperor is not a fool! If he Okamura Ningji put on a wonderful performance in Wuhan, then he will definitely be rewarded!

After taking Jiujiang, Okamura Ninji will use the 6th Division as the arrow to attack Wuhan along the Yangtze River, and at the same time launch an offensive in northern Jiangxi with the 9th Division, 101st Division, 106th Division, 27th Division and other powerful troops, expand the results to protect the flank of the 6th Division, and capture Nanchang. Then march west to Yueyang and cut off hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops encircling the 9th theater!

If this plan can be implemented smoothly, then Okamura Ninji will become the brightest star in the Japanese Army! At that time, not to mention the position of commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, which is occupied by General Shunliu Hata, and even the position of land minister held by Seishiro Sakagaki, Okamura Ninji will have the qualifications to compete!

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