9.90 Insidious Hata

"Your Excellency, General! According to this morning's progress, it will take at least a week for the Navy to clear the minefield laid by Chinese, and Commander Okamura will never allow our Hata detachment to consume so much time in Mata......"

"Yes! General, it looks like we're going to have to do it ourselves! ”

On the flagship of the 11th Sentai Sentai "Ataka", the captain of the 1st Wing of the Taiwan Infantry of the Hauta Detachment, Sato Katsuda, the commander of the 2nd Wing of the Taiwan Infantry, Takahashi Ryosa, and the commander of the Taiwan Mountain Artillery Wing, Nakajima Yoshinakasa, were surrounding Lieutenant General Shigeichi Harata and making suggestions, but it was obvious that Lieutenant General Hatada Shigeichi did not listen to what his subordinates said. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In the binoculars in the hands of Lieutenant General Shigeichi Hada, the fortress was shrouded in artillery fire and gunsmoke, and although the counterattack artillery fire of the Chinese army was not intensive, it was definitely not as weak as the Central China Dispatch Army Command imagined.

Half an hour earlier, Lieutenant General Shigeichi Harata had seen a HNA attack plane hit by a shell fired by the antiaircraft artillery unit of the Madao Fortress and disintegrating in the air.

Those damn intelligence agents, when will the information they provide be more accurate?

"Gentlemen! I don't want you to get carried away by Anqing's victory! Remember! There is no comparison between the Central Army garrisoning the Fortress and the Sichuan Army garrisoning Anqing! If you despise your enemies, you will pay the price in blood! ”

As the supreme commander of the Harata detachment and an expert in landing warfare in the eyes of middle-level Japanese officers, Lieutenant General Hata's words still carry a lot of weight. After sensing Lieutenant General Harata Shigeichi's dissatisfaction, the officers who had been excited just now immediately quieted down and waited for their Excellency the General to make a final decision.

"The meaning of this Chinese character refers to a rock or a small stone mountain protruding from the river, and part of the main body of the fortress we need to capture is on such a rock! Only an idiot would let the warriors of the Imperial Army attack the near-vertical stone wall! Unless any of you want to see the rivers around you stained red with the blood of the Imperial Army! ”

When Lieutenant General Shigeichi Habata said this, he suddenly put down the telescope in his hand, and then turned around and pointed hard at the Yangtze River flowing on the side of the warship! It was as if he had seen the end of the failed onslaught of the Hatian detachment.

Sato and Takahashi Ryoshi looked at each other, then lowered their heads, and the forehead of Nakajima Yoshinakasa, who was standing next to them, was sweating even more!

Yes, what if the Navy opened the channel for the Hatian detachment on time? Judging from the reaction of the Chinese defenders of the fortress after being attacked by the imperial army, the Chinese troops waiting for the Potian detachment in this garrison area may have been waiting for a long time!

If they insist on storming the fortress on the riverside with strong firepower and dangerous terrain under the rain of bullets, even if the Hatian detachment is proficient in landing operations, it will have to pay great losses if it wants to complete the task assigned to them by General Okamura Ninji, commander of the Central China Dispatch Army. The main officers of the Botian detachment present knew very well that the battle of Madao was only the opening battle of the 11th Army's attack on Wuhan, and if the strength at hand was exhausted here, then the honor of capturing Wuhan could only be handed over to other army divisions.

Lieutenant General Shigeichi Harata is right! Only an idiot would let the warriors of the Imperial Army attack the near-vertical stone wall! To capture the fortress of Madao, you must find another way!

Perhaps, we should repeat the old tricks and use the tactics of conquering Anqing again!

"Hata-kun, it seems that you, an expert in landing warfare, have a good idea again! That's good! In the face of a strong fortress like Xiangma, the small and medium-caliber guns on these warships under my command can only create some smoke screens for the people of China at most! Steel... But the strategic materials that the empire is in short supply should not be wasted like this......"

A very inopportune voice suddenly sounded, and the officers of the Hatada detachment turned their heads to look and found that the person who spoke turned out to be Vice Admiral Kondo, commander of the 11th Sentai Squadron of the Navy.

Although Vice Admiral Kondo Eijiro was telling the truth, the naval guns equipped on the small-tonnage warships of the 11th Sentai could only scratch the fortress and had no effect. But when these words reached the ears of the middle-level officers of the Hatada detachment, they immediately became the meaning of the navy's reluctance to cooperate with them.

Lieutenant General Eijiro Kondo noticed the change in the expressions on the faces of the mid-ranking officers of the Hata detachment, but he didn't mean to explain. The Navy and the Army are two completely different worlds, and if it weren't for the fact that the Hatada detachment still has the title of Marine Corps, Vice Admiral Kondo Eijiro would not have said what he just said.

"The naval attack cannot be stopped, Kondo-kun, I need your naval guns to draw the eyes of the Chinese firmly on the river." If necessary, I'll also have my infantry wing launch a few useless attacks on the shore, so that we have a chance to surprise us! ”

Unlike Lieutenant General Eijiro Kondo, Lieutenant General Shigeichi Harata never referred to China as "Shiina". This is because the grassroots soldiers of the Hatian detachment are basically Taiwanese, and if the Japanese officers commanding these Taiwanese soldiers are to say "zhina" in front of their Chinese subordinates, it is likely to arouse the disgust of the Taiwanese soldiers. If you want someone to work for you, you have to at least give them some respect.

This is the reason why the Taiwan brigade, which also uses Chinese soldiers, was able to show many times more powerful combat power than the "puppet army" in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression......

However, Lieutenant General Shigeichi Hatada's approach was a sign of "weakness" in Lieutenant General Kondo Eijiro, and in the eyes of Lieutenant General Kondo Eijiro, the Chinese did not deserve the respect of the Japanese at all, even the Chinese who helped the imperial army fight! It's just a bunch of tools!

Lieutenant General Eijiro Kondo glanced at Lieutenant General Shigeichi Harata with a playful look, and then said:

"Is it up to our navy to be in charge of the feint? That's absolutely no problem! However, it is better for Ha Tianjun to determine the landing area as early as possible, after all, it will take time to deploy transport ships and prevent artillery fire to cover the store, not to mention the need to coordinate with HNA......

Although the Japanese army in 1938 was far from the standards of Western countries, it was already a veritable multi-branch army, which gave them a great advantage over the backward Chinese army.

"Kondo-kun, you can deploy the landing operation now! Fragrant! This is the lifeline of the Chinese defenders! My detachment will give the Chinese army a fatal stab from here! (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.) )