Chapter 138: Matsui casts his net
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6.138 Matsui casts his net
When Zhao Xuanyang talked about letting the 10th Army, a Guangdong army, be behind, his attitude was so natural, as if it was a matter of course for non-central troops to be cannon fodder!
Huang Haoran is very disgusted with Zhao Xuanyang's attitude!
What happened to the ragtag army? Aren't the ragtag army human?
In Huang Haoran's mind, every Chinese who fell on the battlefield of resistance against Japan was a national hero! What is the difference between a lineage and a miscellaneous card? These warriors who died fighting against foreign humiliation have only one name in common!
That's the Chinese military!
Zhao Xuanyang continued to talk about his theories of lineage and miscellaneous cards, and he didn't notice that Huang Haoran's eyes began to turn cold. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The reason why Zhao Xuanyang dared to say so blatantly and unscrupulously in front of Huang Haoran was because in his heart Huang Haoran's 99th Division had also been classified into the lineage of the highest authorities.
Don't look at the fact that after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, China's armed forces all carried the same banner, which seemed to be an army, but in fact it was not.
On the battlefield of resistance against Japan, the Chinese army is still a combined army with various banners, and to use a metaphor, it is like a joint company composed of several large and small shareholders. The person who now serves as the chairman of this joint company is the highest authority, and in the face of the tide of the nation's war of resistance, even powerful major shareholders like Chief Li and Yan Laoxi can only temporarily put aside their differences and lead their ragtag army to coexist and die together with the central army of the highest authority.
Originally, such a cooperative relationship should have been very harmonious, and everyone gathered together to fight Japan, which sounded like a romantic story... Unfortunately, superficial peace does not mean everything, and there are all kinds of small stories between the chairman of the board of directors and his shareholders......
There is not a single leader who does not want a pure ranks, and the highest authorities are no exception! For so many years, between the Central Army and the Miscellaneous Army, the game of annexation and anti-annexation has been going on, and it is by no means something that can be stopped if you want to! When the Japanese did not come, the Central Army and the miscellaneous army were fighting, and the two sides did not stop after the Japanese came, and many miscellaneous generals on the Songhu battlefield scolded the Central Army of the highest authority for taking the opportunity of resisting Japan to consume or even annex the miscellaneous army, these words are actually not false at all! That's exactly what the highest authorities did in Songhu! But then again, in China in 1937, no matter who sat in the current position of the highest authority, he would have chosen to do it like the highest authority!
There is nothing wrong with the Central Army annexing the Miscellaneous Army. As a ragtag army, there is nothing wrong with opposing annexation, just like the battle to unify China thousands of years ago, Qin's annihilation of the Six Kingdoms and the resistance of the Six Kingdoms to Qin are their respective correct choices.
Everything is just a process of unification!
Against such a complicated background, what kind of banner a general and his army will fly and who to follow is the primary question related to whether or not they can survive and develop in the future! Now the general trend has gradually become clear, as long as the highest authority does not surrender to Japan, the position of the leader of the country will not fall to the heads of others, all the army has to rely on the snort of the highest authority, there are many miscellaneous army generals because of this, so they began to desperately move closer to the central army, Zhao Xuanyang believes that Huang Haoran, the big red man in front of the highest authority, will never stand on the wrong team at such a time, so give up the miscellaneous army, keep the central army, especially their own capital, It has become Huang Haoran's inevitable choice now!
Zhao Xuanyang's ideas would be correct for most of the generals of the Central Army, but Huang Haoran does not belong to the majority, from 1932 to the present, Huang Haoran's troops have always been an "outlier" in the Central Army!
The highest authorities need a pure force, why didn't Huang Haoran think so? From the beginning of the initial temporary 10th Brigade, Huang Haoran has always been very resistant to the officers of the Political Department sent by Shangfeng, he just does not want his army to be led by other people's thoughts, no one knows better than Huang Haoran the performance of the highest authorities in the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, the chairman of the United Company cherishes his own capital very much, take the future 6th Army stationed in India as an example, this elite American unit was actually transferred to Chongqing by the highest authorities to do the Imperial Forest Army after the end of the fighting in Burma! Since then, they have never been able to show their edge in front of the Japanese! This has to be said to be the tragedy of the new 6th Army, Huang Haoran does not want his troops to become high-end toys in the hands of the highest authorities, the brave army belongs to the battlefield, if you want to compete with the little devils on the frontal battlefield, it is doomed that Huang Haoran can not get too close to the descendants of the highest authorities!
Moreover, all this cannot be detected by the highest authorities! The supreme authorities are very partial, and in his eyes there are only his descendants, and as for the other miscellaneous armies, for the supreme authorities, they are just some things that will sooner or later withdraw from the stage of history!
Either one's own people are enemies, and the logic of the highest authorities in distinguishing between friend and foe is very simple and straightforward!
In order not to let Zhao Xuanyang find out anything, Huang Haoran gave the dancing Zhao staff officer an encouraging look.
With Huang Haoran's "encouragement", Zhao Xuanyang behaved like he had been beaten with chicken blood, he felt that this time he was betting right, not only was he able to use Huang Haoran's hands to eliminate a ragtag army and make meritorious contributions in front of his master, but also because of this incident, he could shorten the distance between himself and Huang Haoran, it was really killing two birds with one stone!
Huang Haoran pretended to continue to listen to Zhao Xuanyang's nonsense on the surface, but he was thinking about him in his heart.
The aspirations of the highest authorities are full, but the reality in China is very skinny, and due to historical factors, the proportion of miscellaneous armies in the Chinese army is much higher than that of the Central Army.
Taking the troop sequence promulgated in 1933 before the Anti-Japanese War as an example, the army belonging to the Nanjing government had 171 divisions and 40 independent brigades. The army of the new warlords in the southwest, which was not part of the Nanking government, consisted of 65 divisions and 18 independent brigades. Among these many armies, the descendants of the troops that really belong to the highest authority actually have only 27 divisions and 5 brigades, which means that the other 209 divisions and 53 brigades are all miscellaneous armies! At that time, even the highest authorities had the heart of a pure army and did not have the power, and this situation lasted until 1937, after the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance, the highest authorities finally waited for his opportunity!
After the "77 Incident", the warlords of the original separatist side were unified under the anti-Japanese banner of the Nanjing government. As of New Year's Day 1938, the Chinese army had 211 infantry divisions and 12 cavalry divisions. Among these division-level units, the number of troops belonging to the Central Army has risen to 43, and the other 180 divisions are still miscellaneous armies. After several rounds of reorganization by the Military Commission and the consumption of the War of Resistance, the number of "miscellaneous armies" has indeed decreased by a batch, but the actual total strength of the army has still maintained an upward trend! In order to digest these miscellaneous armies as soon as possible, the supreme authorities instructed the Central Military Commission to resort to the trick of "mixed formation," and the so-called "mixed formation" actually means putting together the divisional-level units of the Central Army and the divisional-level units of the miscellaneous armies to form a new army-level unit!
Take Huang Haoran's troops as an example, his 99th Army is composed of divisions of several different factions, and the Military Commission actually did this to let the Central Army better divide and absorb the miscellaneous armies.
What kind of wishful thinking is played by the highest authorities, Huang Haoran knows it very well!
After the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression began, except for a few local military factions, such as the Jin Sui Army, the Ma Jiajun, the Xingui Army, the Liu Wenhui Sichuan Army, and the Dian Army, which still retained their own base areas, most of the small local factions no longer had their own territory. The loss of territory means that these ragtag armies must be economically dependent on the highest authorities. Food, ammunition, and soldiers all depended on the Nanjing government for assistance, and its independence was greatly restricted.
If these motley armies are kites, then the salaries, ammunition, and soldiers are the red threads that involve these motley armies at the highest level. With these red lines, the connection between the miscellaneous army and the central army will become closer and closer, with the continuation of the War of Resistance against Japan, the brutal war will inevitably bring a large number of attrition to these miscellaneous armies, and the ragtag army without territory wants to rely on itself to replenish the army, which is simply a fantasy! In this way, the supreme authorities will be able to justifiably infiltrate a large number of Whampoa students into the miscellaneous army, and with the idea of Whampoa students, the local characteristics of the miscellaneous army will gradually disappear from the salaries of recruits and military commissions from all parts of the country, and as the command of these armies at all levels is occupied by the Whampoa students, the miscellaneous army will be transformed into a central army or a semi-central army.
Huang Haoran's transformation of the 121st Division actually has many similarities with these practices of the highest authorities, adding a Zheng Tao's 662 Regiment is equivalent to the Whampoa officers in the hands of the highest authorities, with the attrition in the battle and Huang Haoran's repeated replenishment of the 121st Division, the number of Guizhou soldiers has been less than one-third of the total number, and the current 121st Division is no longer the previous Guizhou army, Wu Jianping wants to do something unfavorable to Huang Haoran and no one may cooperate with him!
The difference is that the supreme authorities did this in order to strengthen his central military system and consolidate his leadership position, while Huang Haoran wanted to make himself a decisive force on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War as soon as possible!
From Songhu to Nanjing, Huang Haoran did win a lot of battles, and at the same time he also felt the lack of strength, after the city of Nanjing was broken, he often thought like this, if he became the supreme commander of the Chinese army when he was in Songhu, then the Chinese army will fail? Or, will this Battle of Nanjing still happen?
The assumption afterwards does not have any practical significance, on the battlefield of Songhu, Huang Haoran is just a small division commander, in Nanjing, Huang Haoran mastered the army of more than 100,000 for the first time, and it feels good to have a duel with Matsui Shigen with a strong soldier! If Huang Haoran hadn't become the commander of the Nanjing Garrison and was still a division commander, would he still be able to inflict heavy losses on the 114th Division in Lishui? Can you still humiliate Japan's prime minister in Nanjing?
The answer is clearly no! Strength is the confidence to fight hard with Little Japan on the battlefield! Huang Haoran is now eager to get more troops, eager to have a second and third 99th Army! He wants to make his troops grow stronger in the shortest possible time!
Annexing miscellaneous cards is indeed the best way to improve your strength in a short period of time!
Huang Haoran is not the highest authority, and it is very difficult for him to eat the whole ragtag army now, and the 23rd Army in Wuhu is not an unexpected gain, and good luck like this is hard to come by.
A more realistic method is to forcibly reorganize and then annex a small group of miscellaneous armies by disrupting the structure and replacing the officers with troops.
Huang Haoran didn't notice that his thoughts at the moment had become very different from his thoughts when he first arrived in the Republic of China, and after more than five months of all-out anti-Japanese war, Huang Haoran finally completed his transformation!
On the morning of New Year's Day in 1938, in a dim wing room of Chaotian Palace, a sharper Huang Haoran was born......
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The Japanese who suffered the most in front of Huang Haoran's New Year's speech were none other than Matsui Ishone, Tokyo's Prime Minister Konoe became hysterical after being slapped twice by Huang Haoran, Konoe Fumima, an "honest man", this time he lost face, the reason why Emperor Hirohito let Konoe stand up and lie and did not personally announce the Japanese occupation of Nanjing is to leave a back hand, the god-like emperor will not make mistakes, and it can only be the Japanese cabinet that makes mistakes, this time it goes without saying that it can only be borne by Konoe Fumima to take the responsibility of lying!
Less than two hours after the end of Huang Haoran's evolution, there was a voice of impeachment of Konoe Fumima in the Japanese government, and Konoe Furuma, who felt that his prime minister's position was in jeopardy, vented all his anger on the heads of Lu Xiang Sugiyama Yuan and Matsui Ishone, especially Matsui Ishone, it is not too much to describe his experience with dog blood!
After venting his anger, Konoe Funma gave Matsui Shigen a death order: the Central China Front must kill Huang Haoran in Nanjing! Only in this way can the insults suffered by the Great Japanese Empire be washed away! It is said that this is also what Emperor Hirohito meant.
Matsui Ishine did not defend himself for half a sentence, as for whether he could stay as the commander of the Central China Front after the Battle of Nanjing, he did not mention a word, the matter has developed to the point where it is inevitable, Matsui Ishine will be removed from his post after the war, as for whether to apologize to the emperor or go to a military court, there should already be people in the cabinet thinking about him!
Matsui Shigen finally completely let go of all the interference and put all his energy into the battle to hunt Huang Haoran!
The staff officers of the Central China Front Headquarters had already marked all the latest situation of the Nanjing battlefield on the huge sand table in the center of the hall, and Matsui Shigen looked at the narrow strip between Nanjing and Wuhu and fell into deep thought.
According to the report of Sadao Ushijima, the commander of the 18th Division who attacked the riverside passage, the number of the Chinese army engaged with the 18th Division has reached 9 divisions, not including the Central Teaching Corps, if you add the 23rd Army Corps of the Sichuan Army in Wuhu, the total strength of the Nanjing Garrison in Jiangning has exceeded 100,000 people, while the Central China Front has only three divisions in this area: the 18th Division, the 101st Division and the 4th Division. The attrition of the 18th Division has been close to one-third, to be honest, Matsui Shigen has no confidence in annihilating Huang Haoran's 100,000 troops in Wuhu, the 101st Division that played an important role in Huang Haoran's way to the road is not an elite A division, and the 100,000 Chinese troops in Jiangning are all elites who have made the 114th Division, the 18th Division and the 6th Division suffer a lot, and Matsui Shigen believes that the two divisions of Masaki Ito and Sadao Ushijima cannot complete the dual task of blocking and besieging at all.
As for the 4th Division, let's not mention it.......
So far, this merchant unit has not launched any decent attack on Wuhu, it seems that the Japanese officers and soldiers of the 4th Division prefer to stay on the edge of the battlefield and cheer for the 101st Division, this unit plays more of a deterrent role, Matsui Ishine has given up urging the 4th Division to march, he only hopes that he can kick this group of waste back to the icy northeast before he leaves, it should be the last good thing that he, the commander, will do for the Central China Front!
The situation of the chief of staff of Tsukada Tsukada is not much better than that of Matsui Ishone, the Ministry of War has already spread the wind, after the war, the chief of staff of Tsukada will be transferred back to the country as a reserve officer, for such a departure Tsukada Tsukada Chief of Staff is not unacceptable, to be able to return to the homeland and reunite with his family, this is actually a reward in the eyes of the chief of staff of Tsukada Tsukada, everything that happened on the battlefield of Nanjing made Tsukada Tsukada Chief of Staff to the war launched by Japan began to become less optimistic, Although the generals of the military department kept shouting that the Chinese were only one Huang Hao, that is, Huang Haoran could be killed by the fierce generals of the Japanese Army, but the chief of staff of Tsukada Tsukashi had some reservations about this statement in his heart.
Most of these troops on the Nanjing battlefield participated in the Battle of Songhu, and it can be said that Huang Haoran led a broken division in his hands, while the Central China Front came with the residual power of capturing Shanghai and Suzhou, and it can be said that in terms of the quantity, quality, and even morale of the army, Huang Haoran's Nanjing garrison was not an opponent of the Japanese army.
But such a pair of opponents with disparity in strength have been fighting for a month on the battlefield of Nanjing! The chief of staff of the Tsukada attack obviously felt the changes that Huang Haoran had brought to these troops of the Nanjing Garrison!
Commander Matsui was right! Can't let Shina give birth to heroes! One Huang Haoran can turn the 100,000 remnants of Nanjing's army into fierce tigers, who can guarantee that there will not be a second Huang Haoran!
From the battles between the Nanjing garrison and the Central China Front, Chief of Staff Tsukada had discovered that many of the Chinese officers under Huang Haoran were good seedlings, and these people had not been visible before, mostly because of a stupid pig-like boss sitting above their heads. Huang Haoran, a famous general, gave these officers a full opportunity to perform in Nanjing, and Chief of Staff Tsukada believed that in the near future, these good seedlings would grow into a formidable opponent of the Japanese Imperial Army!
The terrible thing about Huang Haoran lies in this, he can not only fight himself, but also stimulate the potential and courage of friendly forces, no wonder Prime Minister Konoe and the Emperor would rather give up the plan to encircle the Nanjing garrison and bury Huang Haoran in Nanjing City, before meeting Huang Haoran, no one in Japan would have thought that he could have such a big impact on the Sino-Japanese war situation!
Could it be that Huang Haoran, who was born out of nowhere, is indicating that this ancient empire still has a glimmer of life?
And what about the century-old ambitions of the empire?
Thinking of this, Tsukada Tsukasa's arm began to tremble slightly......
"Tsukada-kun! What's wrong with you? ”
I don't know when, Matsui Ishine walked to the side of the chief of staff of Tsukada, just now next to the sand table, Matsui Ishine encountered a difficult problem to decide, for the tactical literacy of the chief of staff of Tsukada, Matsui Ishine believed, he now wants to hear the opinion of the chief of staff of Tsukada.
As a result, Matsui Ishone saw the abnormal reaction of Tsukada Tsukasa's chief of staff's arm.
"Oh... Nothing! Nothing! It's just that we're too tired these days, and our two old guys are exhausted by Huang Haoran's kid! In the end, I also lost to him physically, and I was really a little unwilling! ”
Matsui Shigen doesn't like Tsukada Attack Chief of Staff to belittle himself as soon as he comes up, although Matsui Shigen has always admired Huang Haoran, but he always thinks that Huang Haoran is not a perfect commander, a famous general is not something that can be refined overnight, Huang Haoran may be a genius, but now, there is still some heat short!
"Tsukada-kun! Don't you want to wash away the shame that Huang Haoran brought you? Right now... But there's a good opportunity! ”
Matsui Ishine is a person who doesn't talk big easily, and since he said that he had a chance to be ashamed, then there must be a chance!
Chief of Staff Tsukada followed Matsui Ishine to the sand table, and then watched Matsui Ishine pick up a tactical pole and draw a circle between Nanjing and Wuhu.
However, this tactic is a bit too idealistic, is there enough troops? What if I miss it?
After seeing something flickering in the eyes of Chief of Staff Tsukada, Matsui Ishone clicked a few times in several places on the outskirts of Nanjing City, and then used a tactical pole to move his wife, who represented the number of the Japanese division, several times.
After such a busy pass, the eyes of the chief of staff of Tsukada Tsukasaki's attack suddenly brightened!
Matsui Ishine seemed to be very satisfied with his new tactic, and he touched his beard and said to Chief of Staff Tsukada Tsukasa: "Being able to eliminate the military genius of the Chinese in my last command operation can be regarded as a happy ending!" I think I'll be nostalgic for this battle, Tsukada-kun! You'll be nostalgic too! ”
Chief of Staff Tsukada didn't interrupt Matsui Ishone's interest, his Excellency Commander hadn't been so happy for a long time, sometimes, he should also relax, shouldn't he?
Chief of Staff Tsukada smiled, and his smile was an encouragement to Matsui Ishone......
In the following time, the Nanjing battlefield suddenly changed in wind and rain, the Japanese 18th Division gave up the attempt to attack Banqiao, turned to attack the sandbank, the 6th Division in the direction of Zhonghua Gate also divided a part along the Ming City Wall to attack the west of Nanjing, the battle on the front line of Jiqing Gate suddenly began to intensify, it seems that this time, the Japanese are determined to cut off the retreat of the Chinese army in Nanjing City, Matsui Shigen suddenly completely gave up Fan Jie's concentration in Banqiao 3 divisions went straight to the Nanjing City Wall, this hand made Fan Jie unexpected, According to the devil's current way of playing, it is equivalent to putting down the butcher's knife on the neck of the Nanjing garrison in Jiangning! The two Japanese divisions close to Wuhu wanted to encircle all of Fan Jie's troops, and now there was a great opportunity in front of Fan Jie, as long as he was willing to pay a certain price, it was entirely possible for Jiangning's Nanjing garrison to break through the Japanese interception in Wuhu and withdraw to Tongling or Anqing! Matsui Ishone's hand is really suspected of being waterproof!
But Fan Jie can't do that!
Because Huang Haoran is still in Nanjing City!
Matsui Ishone's hand is to attack it and save it! Matsui Shigen knew very well what Huang Haoran meant to the Nanjing garrison, and he tried his best to block Huang Haoran's retreat to force Fan Jie to return to the army to rescue, unless Fan Jie dared to bear the charge of not saving Huang Haoran when he saw death.
And the defensive circle of the 18th Division and the 6th Division is by no means something that the Nanjing Garrison can break through if it wants to break through now, even if Fan Jie transfers the elites of Wuhu and Banqiao back to pick up Huang Haoran! At the same time as the 18th Division launched the attack, the 3rd, 9th, 16th, and 13th Divisions in the east of Nanjing, as well as the main force of the Kunisaki Detachment, began to move towards the Lishui Gaochun line......
As long as Huang Haoran can be used to delay the Nanjing garrison in Jiangning for a day, then Matsui Shigen's Central China Front will be able to complete the encirclement of the Nanjing garrison in the Jiangning area!
This is Matsui Ishone's ultimate plan!
Seeing that Huang Haoran's retreat was about to be cut off, Fan Jie finally lost his cool!
In order to restore communication with Nanjing, Fan Kai successively threw the 51st and 88th Divisions in the Shangxinhe and Shuangzha areas into the battle of the 18th Division, but Ushijima Sadao's 18th Division had already received the death order from Matsui Ishone, and ignored the attacks from the 51st and 88th Divisions, and plunged towards the Hexi area almost at any cost.
Because Fan Jie had previously focused his main efforts on Wuhu and Banqiao, in the west of Nanjing, he only left these two divisions to meet Huang Haoran's troops, facing increasing defensive pressure, Fan Jie had to ask Huang Haoran to start breaking through immediately, as long as the 99th Division can now be killed from the city and cooperate with the 51st Division and the 88th Division to flank the 18th Division, it is still possible to open a retreat channel, but Huang Haoran actually refused Fan Jie's request!
This time Fan Jie is really in a hurry! He already felt that the devil's hand must have a deep intention, but Fan Jie still can't see what kind of calculation Matsui Shigen is playing, for the sake of insurance, Fan Jie once again asked Huang Haoran to withdraw from Nanjing to Banqiao immediately, as long as Huang Haoran and the troops have left Nanjing, then they are not afraid of what tricks Little Japan plays!
Fan Jie finally received an order to break through this time, but it was not Huang Haoran in Nanjing City who wanted to break through, but Huang Haoran ordered Fan Jie to immediately lead Jiangning's troops to attack the 101st Division in Wuhu with all their strength and withdraw to Anqing!
At the end, a sentence was added, if there is disobedience, military law will be engaged!
Fan Jie sighed at the sky, and then said helplessly: "Listen to the commander!" Let's withdraw! ”
Jiangning's Nanjing garrison began to storm Wuhu, and the 51st and 88th Divisions, which were engaged with the 18th Division, gradually began to cease fire and retreat, and Fan Jie's actions surprised Matsui Shigen!
Chinese doesn't care about his own manager!?
Could it be that the Nanjing garrison started infighting? In this way, it is too late to complete the encirclement of Jiangning, and the encirclement and annihilation of the Nanjing garrison and the elimination of Huang Haoran are really two things, is it really impossible to have both fish and bear's paws? (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.) )