9.147 Stubborn

On September 25, another tragedy of the 101st Division finally struck! Their division commander, Masaki Ito, was unfortunately hit by a shell fired by the Chinese army, and hung up the color!

Masaki Ito, a native of Takeaka Village, Oita County, Oita Prefecture, Japan, was 58 years old at the time, graduated from the 14th class of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and participated in the Lushun Siege in the Russo-Japanese War and won military achievements. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 After that, he entered the Japanese Army University to study, and successively served as the commander of the Guards Artillery Wing, the commander of the Mishima Brigade, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in 1934. After the 77 Incident, he commanded the 101st Division in the Japanese invasion of China and participated in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing. In 1938, the 101st Division was ordered to enter the Wuhan Campaign, attacking westward along the foothills of Lushan Mountain, intending to advance to De'an from the direction of Xingzi, in an attempt to encircle the flank of Xue Yue's headquarters in the Ninth Theater of the Chinese Army and cut off the Nanxun line. "Tiger Boy" Xue Yue keenly noticed the movement of the Japanese army, and immediately waved his army to block it, and the two sides continued to fight fiercely.

Although the Chinese and Japanese armies on the battlefield of the Nanxun Line were also attacked by the plague, they were the first to recover! The Chinese and Japanese armies, which had just escaped from the arms of death, immediately launched a new round of fighting at the pass!

The two divisions of the 25th Army of the Chinese army were not the opponents of the 101st Division in terms of equipment and training, but the Chinese army skillfully took advantage of the steep terrain of the local Lushan Mountains to wait for work, and held the Japanese army to the death on the outskirts of De'an, so that it could not make progress in a hard battle for more than ten days. The two sides are rivals.

Ito Masaki, who is known as a Confucian general, and Wang Jingjiu, commander of the 25th Army of the Chinese Army, fought on a par with each other!

Judging from his resume, Wang Jingjiu is a native of Jiangsu, born as a student, entered the Huangpu Military Academy as the first graduate, commanded the German armor division, and was deeply trusted by the highest authorities. This resume is easy to make people feel "Gong Jin back then", and there were really many young ladies who were very eager for him at that time, and they rushed to get married. Unfortunately, this General Wang is actually an out-and-out "rough embryo", born with five holes facing the sky, his appearance is not good, he does not speak, and his demeanor is vulgar, full of swearing, and impolite, he likes to squat on the ground to eat when eating, and he likes to squat on a chair when he holds meetings. Several young ladies who were going to marry saw that the general was either disgraced as soon as they met, and would rather go to Dai Li's concentration camp than marry, or after getting married, they shouted for a refund and fled. Even his subordinates were known for their untidy military appearance.

Against such an opponent, Ito Masaki felt very embarrassed in his heart.

However, Wang Jingjiu, a "rough embryo", is very good at fighting. During the Battle of Shanghai on August 1, it was Wang Jingjiu who led the 87th Division to attack the Japanese concession. This time at the pass, Wang Jingjiu used a division to block Ito Masaki's 101st Division for seven days and seven nights, and did not retreat to the second-line position until the fortifications were completely destroyed.

After that, although the 101st Division suffered heavy casualties, it was never able to break through Wang Jingjiu's defensive line!

So the anxious Ito Masakaki decided to go to the front line to observe the deployment of the Chinese army, trying to find a flaw in it.

Because Masaki Ito was a very cautious general, he did not go straight to the front-line position, but chose a high ground on the side of the position to observe the battle between the two sides. At this time, the two sides were engaged in a fierce artillery battle, and Ito felt that the place he had chosen should be a safe place.

However, a dramatic scene occurred. Not long after Ito Masakami began to observe, a cannonball flew over. Then Masaki Ito fell in a pool of blood!

No one knows exactly how this cannon of the Chinese artillery hit! It may also be that the Chinese artillery hit too accurately, or maybe the Chinese artillery fought too badly, completely deviated from the intended target, and finally flew to the side of Masaki Ito! In contrast, it should be the latter who is more likely! Because if the Chinese artillery was aiming, they shouldn't have fired this artillery!

So the moment the cannonball exploded, Masaki Ito felt that his luck was really bad luck!

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At the foot of Lushan Mountain, the Japanese 101st Division was wounded by the artillery of the division commander, Lieutenant General Masaki Ito, and it was difficult to rise for a while. Near Xiaoao, the 27th Division of Masaharu Honma, which was expanded and organized by the North China Garrison Mixed Brigade, received Okamura Ningji's death order and rushed towards Huangmei desperately! A posture that will be buried in Huangmei if the 6th Division is not rescued!

With the silence of these two Japanese divisions, the entire battlefield of the Nanxun Line froze. But in the midst of the war, this silence is unsettling, as if a new storm is coming.

In a small village southwest of De'an, General Xue Yue was pacing in disbelief in the forward headquarters of his 1st Corps. The steps are sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and they are a little chaotic. In his heart, it was as if there were two people fighting fiercely, one shouting "let go" and the other shouting "can't let go". It made him in a dilemma, and he couldn't make up his mind.

The person who could make Xue Yue so embarrassed was naturally none other than the highest authority. Two days ago, Xue Yue received an urgent telegram from Wuhan, ordering a soldier to transfer the 74th Army to Changsha for rest. In view of the fact that the 1st Corps was a mobile corps, which not only had to block the enemy, but also had to counterattack the Japanese army on a large scale, Xue Yue was reluctant to let go of a single soldier, so he sent a telegram back to the highest authorities, saying: "The troops cannot be transferred. ”

However, the highest authorities did not seem to give up, and called again last night, saying: "The 74th Army suffered heavy casualties in Minshan, and it should be transferred and reorganized." "It seems that the highest authorities are a little angry, and they will not give up until they achieve their goal.

This has to be replaced by other generals, especially those who tend to be inflammatory, or those who are timid and afraid, I am afraid that no one will dare to offend the highest authorities. But Xue Yue, a general from Guangdong and known as the "tiger boy", did not believe in this evil. The shame of Lan Feng 4 months ago still makes him hot and dry when he thinks about it, and his memory is still fresh.

At that time, it was the highest authorities who did not help, and in the end, Gui Yongqing's 27th Army disturbed Xue Yue's good thing of annihilating the Tufeiyuan Division. But after the incident, the highest authorities put the blame on Xue Yue and Cheng Qian, and even ridiculed his defeat as "a laughing stock in the history of war".

The previous shame still remembers that Xue Yue naturally does not want to be a puppet anymore and be at the mercy of it again. In addition, he also knew why the highest authorities cared so much about Yu Jishi and the 74th Army at the critical moment.

Yu Jishi's ability to win favor in front of the highest authorities was mainly due to two key factors: first, Yu Jishi was a native of Zhejiang with the highest authorities, and second, Yu Jishi was a general of Whampoa. But what is different from others is that in his early years, his Cantonese uncle Yu Feipeng was the quartermaster of the Whampoa Military Academy, so he could often say good things for him in front of the highest authorities.

From the two Eastern Crusades to the years after his graduation from Whampoa, it was this special relationship that allowed Yu Jishi to follow the supreme authorities and serve as a bodyguard. The special identity brought Yu Jishi invisible power and successive exceptional promotions, and at the same time gave Yu Jishi a kind of ambition and empty pride.

In 1933, when Yu Jishi was appointed as the director of the Zhejiang Provincial Security Department, because a plan he formulated was delayed in the provincial government for some time, he scolded Yang Mianzhong, a close confidant of the provincial chairman Lu Diping, at the provincial government meeting: "The reorganization of the security regiment is a special matter of the commission, and the plan drawn up is adhering to the will of the commission. After saying that, he was still angry, so he raised his fist and swung it at Yang.

Yu Jishi openly pulled the banner of the tiger and raised the highest authority, so that Lu Diping, chairman of Zhejiang Province, an old warlord who had an important influence in the military circles of old China, could only sigh: "I have been in the army for decades and have fought thousands of miles, when I am a general, this kid is still in infancy, why should I fight with him for a day." Hey, forget it! ”

Yu Ji is fearless and arrogant. None of the military and political dignitaries in various localities wanted to provoke the Taibao under this supreme authority, which made him even more crazy for a while. Everywhere he went, his relations with friendly forces were stiff. As a result, no one appreciates him, and no one accepts his favors.

No one in the friendly army felt sorry for him, but the highest authorities felt sorry for him. In the two-month battle of the Nanxun Line, although Okamura Ninji's Songpu and Ito divisions suffered heavy casualties, the Chinese officers and men were naturally more seriously killed and wounded when they were inferior in artillery fire and equipment. The highest authorities felt sorry for the troops, but they could not let the Japanese army go to Wuhan in one go. So in a dilemma, he naturally extended his favor to his descendants and to the pillar army that maintained his power.

Throughout his life, the highest authority never seemed to forget to distinguish between a lineage and a miscellaneous army, which was also a major feature of his political and military career. For decades, his descendants have been very loyal to him, and his descendants have laid a foundation for him and supported the country. But the two sides of things are not subject to his will. He got a lineage, and got a force group that could ostensibly intimidate the army and control the regime, but he lost his military heart and temperament, and finally lost the country.

The descendant troops are not only the pedal for the supreme authorities to dominate the world, but also the broken bridge for the supreme authorities to fall into the abyss. It's really a success, and a failure.

Xue Yue knew very well the relationship between the 74th Army and the highest authorities. Although he did not want to offend the highest authorities, he did not want to let go of the 74th Army at this time. The battle of northern Jiangxi has just entered the main drama, and the good show is still to come. Letting go of the 74th Army will not only lose a new force, but will also lose the morale of the entire front-line troops. At the moment, among his 1st Corps, the 74th Army suffered the lowest losses. Release people just on the basis of the face of the highest authorities? That's not going to work!

After making up his mind, Xue Yue called the confidential secretary, and then dictated the message: "The combat time of all armies in northern Jiangxi is longer than that of the 74th Army, and the casualties are greater than those of the 74th Army. ”

Xue Yue's move "will be outside, and the king's order will not be affected", which makes it really have a little bit of Huang Haoran's taste!

The highest authorities received a telegram from the First Corps, and they were in a very bad mood! But what Xue Yue said was reasonable and responsible, and the highest authorities could not forcibly ask for the transfer of the 74th Army! So a few days later, the highest authorities called Xue Yue again. "Transfer the 64th Army to fight in Guangdong."

Xue Yue understands that the supreme authorities are dying to save face, and if he doesn't let go of the 64th Army, I'm afraid the supreme authorities won't stop! But Xue Yue was earnest with his soldiers, and he could pick and pick if he could, and he still had a division from the 64th Army! (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.) )