8.113 Interesting coincidences

"The 1st Wing of the Taiwan Infantry suffered more than 1,400 casualties; The 1st Infantry Wing of Taiwan suffered more than 900 casualties; The mountain artillery wing suffered more than 1,000 casualties and lost 39 artillery pieces of various types; 200 casualties of the baggage troops......"

Looking at the long list of dead in his hand, and then looking at the dejected officers in front of him, Lieutenant General Hatada Shigeichi understood that it was impossible for the Hatada detachment to capture the fortress with its current strength! Until the new army division sent by Commander Okamura Ninji arrives in the Matao area, he and his men will remain passive, and the most rational option should be to temporarily stop the attack. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Botian detachment, which was originally a second-class citizen in the eyes of the military department, once again lost the aura of honor, who would have thought that after the victory in Anqing, it had just stood on the top and was immediately beaten back to its original form in Madang! This kind of roller coaster ups and downs, if you have a bad heart, you really can't stand it!

"Gentlemen, how do you think I should explain it to Commander Okamura?"

Full of sad questions, Lieutenant General Shigeichi Harata rarely lowered his posture, and as a result, his abnormality made the Japanese officers of the Harata detachment a little overwhelmed, everyone lowered their heads, and no one dared to answer Lieutenant General Shigeichi Harata head-on. The performance of the Chinese army has taken all the pride out of these Japanese officers!

It is said that the troops guarding the fortress were a miscellaneous unit of the Central Army of the Wuhan Government, and from the beginning of the landing battle on the night of 19 September, the Botian detachment fought fiercely with such an opponent in the Matao area for eight days and nights, and paid a total of more than 3,500 officers and men casualties, and even the artillery wing suffered heavy losses in the air raid and almost completely lost its combat capability. The most unacceptable thing for these Japanese officers is that they are still blocked from the periphery of the core position of the Madao Fortress after paying such a painful price, and according to this progress, it may take two to three months to conquer the Madao Fortress! Such a result is equivalent to a complete defeat for the Japanese Army!

"Your Excellency, General! Command telegram! ”

Finally, a voice broke the deathly silence in the room, and the officers turned their heads to look at the voice, only to see a captain standing outside the headquarters with a telegram, his face covered with sweat! It looks like this should be an urgent telegram.

"Bring it here....."

Lieutenant General Shigeichi Harata smiled a little helplessly, at this moment he was very indifferent to the so-called urgent telegrams sent by the headquarters! Anyway, the Potian detachment has now lost the ability to attack, so what is the use of the generals of the Central China Dispatch Army putting more pressure on him? If you have this time to find him Hauda Shigeichi's trouble, it is better to urge Okamura Ninji more, and let the follow-up army divisions come up as soon as possible is the most important thing at the moment!

But let's, even if there is a fixed number in his heart, the content of this message still has to be read, in front of so many subordinates, Lieutenant General Harata Shigeichi must maintain respect for his superiors, he is already a defeated general, and it will be very bad if people are caught by other handles......

After unfolding the message paper and hastily scanning a few lines, the expression on Lieutenant General Hakata Shigeichi's face suddenly froze! The junior officers exchanged inquiring glances with each other, and they couldn't think of any kind of telegram that could make the already somewhat disheartened Captain Hatada react so much!

Could it be that the Central China Dispatch Army intends to transfer them out of the Chinese battlefield and send them back to Tuntian, Taiwan? If this is the case, many Japanese officers will not be able to ask for it!

Speculation is speculation, and if you want to reveal the answer, you can only wait for Lieutenant General Shigeichi Habata to speak, or let the captain who sent the telegram leak the secret, obviously the road ahead is more realistic.

"Your Excellency... Did the headquarters or the military department send another telegram to rebuke ......? ”

Most of the officers in the room were thinking about the same thing as the officer who asked the question, but they all guessed wrong! After reading the entire message, Lieutenant General Shigeichi Harata's originally pale face resurfaced with blood! He asked in an excited tone:

"Gentlemen! Do you know which Chinese army is fighting with us at Madao? Do you know who their Supreme Commander is!? Yes.....? ”

If there were no preceding series of anomalies as foreshadowing, all the Japanese officers present would have replied without hesitation that the Chinese defenders of Madao were the 16th Army of the Central Army, and the commander of the fortress was Wang Xitao. But after seeing the performance of Lieutenant General Shigeichi Hatada, they immediately realized that the original answer must be inaccurate!

That's great! It turned out that the Chinese army guarding the fortress was an elite! Their commander must be a ruthless character too! Losing to a strong opponent and losing to a weak opponent are two completely different concepts! Amaterasu bless! There is hope that the honor of the Hakuda detachment will be preserved!

"Could it be that our opponent is the elite of the Wuhan government? 18th Army? German mechanic? Tax Police Corps? Or teach the corps? Soga! No wonder we're fighting so hard here! It turned out that the intelligence services made a low-level mistake! ”

The Japanese officers of the Hatada detachment thought they had found the cause of their frustrated attack, and one by one they came back to life. People are sometimes so ridiculous, obviously they have also suffered the fate of defeat, but the party with excuses to prevaricate will always be much happier than the other party who can't find an excuse! The current Hata detachment is the one who found an excuse.

"Nope! Neither! ”

Lieutenant General Shigeichi Harata's tone was full of lightness and pleasure, and he first vetoed the speculations of his subordinates, and then loudly announced: "Gentlemen! There are units of the 25th Army, the ace of China, in the defenders of Mada! As for their commanders! It is Huang Haoran, the victorious general of the imperial army who has defeated the imperial army many times in Lishui and Taierzhuang! The generals of the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters apologized in a telegram to our Botian detachment! The military headquarters had already ordered that Huang Haoran's troops must be treated as five group armies! Commander Okamura Ninji will send us reinforcements right away! ”

Rumble! The news rolled through the hearts of the Japanese officers of the Hatada detachment like a thunderstorm! It's amazing! I didn't expect it to be Huang Haoran's 25th Group Army! The first trump card of the Wuhan government! The Japanese officers of the Hatada detachment first gasped en masse, and then fell into ecstasy!

It turned out that the Botian detachment was defeated by the elite of Huang Haoran's men! No! It should be said that it was a tie with Huang Haoran's elite! This is not a tragedy, but an honor! Think about how many elite army divisions were wiped out in the hands of Huang Haoran, and even Kenji Dohihara tried his best to escape death! The Botian detachment, which has only one brigade size, can always be on the offensive in front of Huang Haoran's 25th Army, who dares to say that the Botian detachment is incompetent!?

"Onboard! The Hata detachment is onboard! ”

"Wait for reinforcements, and fight the ace of China!"

The person who saved the honor of the Potian detachment is actually the bitter master of the Potian detachment! What an interesting coincidence! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )