Chapter 200: Yang Zhen's send-off operation

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Regarding Nishiyama Fukutaro's idea of retreating, the unwilling Koga Ryutaro Osaku said with some hesitation: "Your Excellency the brigade commander, the order given to us by the Kwantung Army Headquarters is to recapture the Xingshan Fortress at any cost. We also had a whole wing on hand that was not put into use, and a large amount of decisive gas that we carried was not used. 【. netbsp; "Xingshan Fortress is an important defense fortification for the empire to control the northeast Manchurian region, defend against the attack of the Soviet army, and protect the lifeline of the empire's Manchurian and Mongolian regions. Failure to recover it would be a great loss to the Empire. The Fourth Division has been designated as reinforcement to the Normenhan battlefield, and as soon as we withdraw again, the Kwantung Army will have no other units in the northeastern Manchurian region to carry out the task of reconquest. ”

"Even if this anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese armed force eats my 108th Wing, judging from the strong combat effectiveness of the 108th Wing and the command ability of Matsuno-kun, the number of enemy casualties will not be a small number. It was the best time for our division to take advantage of the weakness and annihilate it. ”

"If we withdraw like this, how can we explain to Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada and the Kwantung Army Command? Even if the 104th Division has already been scheduled to return to China for restoration, is it very inconsistent that we withdrew without even seeing the face of Xingshan Fortress? Your Excellency, Major General, don't forget that even if the reservist officers and soldiers who were called up in the division and regiment are to be rehabilitated, you and I still need to continue to serve in the 6th Army. ”

It was clear that Ryutaro Koga did not intend to retreat like this. Ryutaro Koga, who dreamed of bringing the rank of major general, but because the 104th Division had been determined to recover collectively, he thought his dream was in vain, cherished this rare opportunity.

As long as this anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese forces take over the Fuxingshan Fortress, an important defense fortification of the empire, the rank of major general will no longer be out of reach for him. Now that he has hit a place very close to the south gate of Xingshan Fortress, although the casualties are a little larger, these are not important things to him.

Koga Ryutaro thought that the opponent's forces were extremely empty, and it could be seen that the previous blocking force was only a few hundred people. What if the opponent comes with more than 2,000 reinforcements? I still have a reorganized wing on hand. Not to mention that he also carried a large number of gas shells.

In his opinion, with the Imperial Army's usual poison gas opening tactics, plus a complete wing in his hands, it can be said that it will be easy to recapture the Fuxingshan Fortress. At this time, Jean Koga Ryutaro, who already seemed to see the rank of major general beckoning to him, retreated, and he was really a little reluctant.

I heard that Koga Ryutaro Osa didn't want to retreat, and wanted to continue fighting. Fukutaro Nishiyama, who was very clear about his true intentions, shook his head and said, "Koga-kun, we really need to give an explanation to the Kwantung Army Headquarters. But this confession, I think the ending of the 108 United is enough. ”

"As for explaining to Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, I don't think it's necessary. If this anti-Manchurian armed force was so easy to fight, why did his Fourth Division, as the first batch of veteran divisions formed by the Imperial Army, not to mention that it was not able to be exterminated, and the enemy ate the 44th Wing of the 11th Division? ”

"Also transferred the Fourth Division to reinforce the Normenhan battlefield? I don't know what water was mixed in the head of the staff officer of the Kwantung Army command. If brave troops such as the 2nd Division and the 7th Division are not mobilized, these Osaka soldiers must be transferred to reinforce Nomenhan. Aren't you afraid that these people will lose face and lose face in the world? ”

"A division that can't even deal with a guerrilla formation of anti-Manchu forces can still go against the Soviets' planes and heavy artillery? The Kwantung Army Command and Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada knew too well the virtues of their Fourth Division that they transferred our 104th Division to Jiamusi to replace these Osaka people. ”

"If this anti-Manchurian armed force is so easy to fight, can it still be our special division to do this kind of meritorious work? I'm afraid that Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru has already snatched it up. Koga-kun, I support the idea that you want to make a contribution, but you also have to look at the person when you pinch the persimmon. ”

"The 108th Wing has completely lost contact now, and Matsuno-kun is afraid that he will go to see Amaterasu now. And Maori Qiaojun stepped on a landmine before, lost a leg, and is still unconscious. Of the three wing captains who attacked this time, you are the only one left intact. ”

"I don't want you to follow in their footsteps, you didn't take the rank of major general, but you lost your life. If you have any more accidents, and all three wing commanders have accidents, I really have no way to explain to His Excellency the division commander. Moreover, all three wing commanders were killed and wounded in the First World War, which can be said to be a record in the Imperial Army's battle against China. The 104th Division will become the laughing stock of the Imperial Army. ”

"The 104th Division itself was formed by conscripted reserve officers and soldiers of the 4th Division. Not all of its soldiers came from Osaka, but a significant portion of it did come from there. The continuous casualties, coupled with the strange shelling just now, made the previous bravery of these Osaka soldiers disappear from the embers. In the fight, the unlucky ones can only be ourselves. ”

"What if there is a decisive gas? The opponent can capture so many full sets of Japanese-style equipment, and his gas mask can be missing? Didn't Matsuno-kun mention in his previous report that a large number of complete Empire-style gas masks appeared on the corpses of the opponent's fallen soldiers? We have lost the last resort to win. Koga-kun, why do you want to humiliate yourself? ”

Regarding Major General Nishiyama Fukutaro's insistence on withdrawing, although Koga Ryutaro was reluctant, he also knew that Nishiyama Fukutaro's words were true. After the strange shelling just now, the frightened expressions of his subordinates Ryutaro Koga were not unnoticed. He knew that the blow of this new weapon had caused the morale and morale of his subordinates to drop to the extreme.

If you stubbornly insist on fighting, you will really bring humiliation on yourself as His Excellency the Major General said. After a short period of thought, Ryutaro Koga finally nodded slowly and agreed to retreat.

As a matter of fact, after being subjected to a rocket bombardment, the officers and men of the 170th Wing were already frightened of this powerful and somewhat strange new weapon, and they had already begun to retreat. It's just that because there is no order, he is still barely holding on to confronting each other with the opponent's new reinforcements.

As soon as the order to retreat was heard, these Japanese officers and soldiers who had already been beaten a little chilled, the degree of retreat can be said to have set a record for the wing. When I came, it took me most of the night to crawl to a place less than five miles away from Sekinaizuiko Mountain.

By the time of the retreat, in less than two hours, its vanguard had already withdrawn to the mountain pass. The speed with which these people retreated can be described as returning to their hearts like arrows. They didn't even notice that the anti-aircraft artillery squadron that had been left on the road when they came had been unloaded because the pack horses had been unloaded and had disappeared en masse.

The officers and men of the 170th Wing did not notice the disappearance of the anti-aircraft artillery squadron, but it did not mean that Major General Fukutaro Nishiyama and Ryutaro Koga did not notice. Those bulky anti-aircraft guns, without pack horses, could not have disappeared out of thin air. Those artillerymen also did not have that ability, and used manpower to carry those anti-aircraft guns weighing 60 kilograms and retreated to Xingshan Street on their own.

Just as Major General Fukutaro Nishiyama was about to dispatch troops to search for the missing anti-aircraft gun squadron, the rear half of the marching column of the 107th Wing suddenly heard the characteristic sound of this kind of anti-aircraft guns firing intensively and the screams of the officers and men who were hit. Listening to the familiar and dense sound of artillery and the screams of officers and soldiers, Major General Nishiyama Fukutaro couldn't help but be stunned.

If ordinary officers and men did not know the result of such anti-aircraft artillery shells hitting people, Fukutaro Nishiyama, who had seen this kind of anti-aircraft artillery targeting, knew very well. He clearly knew that the 20-millimeter anti-aircraft shells used by this kind of anti-aircraft artillery could easily tear a person in half if they hit a person.

The screams coming from the rear of the team strongly shook the hearts of every officer and soldier of the 107th Wing. It was not until the sound of the artillery had stopped for a while that the surviving officers and soldiers who were lying on the ground stood up in fear under the kicking and beating of the officers. Looking at the corpse that had been broken in two, Fukutaro Nishiyama, who was quite calm, was completely furious: "These damn thieves. ”

The loss of the six empire's latest anti-aircraft guns is not too important for Nishiyama Fukutaro. But these turned guns caused a squadron of casualties on himself, which was difficult for him to accept. Despite the loss of the six anti-aircraft guns, each of them fired only one magazine for six shells.

But these only 362 mm shells brought more casualties to the Japanese than a mountain artillery squadron. The power of the explosion of this anti-aircraft artillery shell is indeed far from that of the 75 Mountain Cannon, but the penetrating power is extremely strong. Unsuspecting Japanese soldiers, even a single shell penetrated and tore a rifle crew.

Before the furious Nishiyama Fukutaro could draw out his troops, he found out those damn ones, it was too much to rob his anti-aircraft guns, and he actually turned the muzzle of the gun to pay tribute to his bandits, a swishing sound familiar to the officers and men of the 104th Division came from the sky again.

As for the consequences of such a whooshing sound in the sky, Fukutaro Nishiyama, who had already seen it, couldn't help but curse with a break that greatly lost his major general's demeanor after being the first to make a tactical move with agility, the first to lie down, and rolling into a drainage ditch on the side of the road: "Yaga, these damn people are not finished." ”

Along with his words, another dense rain of bullets fell on the heads of the officers and men of the 107th Wing. Although the 107th Wing's marching line was very open because of the opponent's previous anti-aircraft artillery shooting, the number of strange shells fired by the opponent this time was far less than the previous one. But the casualty figures caused by the shelling are still unforgettable for Fukutaro Nishiyama.

After another rain of bullets, the Japanese soldiers who had been hit hard by both their hearts and souls couldn't even bother to clean up their corpses, threw away the equipment that could be thrown away on their bodies, and even threw away the large number of poison gas bombs they carried, and ran out of this mountainous area that left them with unforgettable memories for a lifetime.

When he ran back to Xingshan Street in one breath, Fukutaro Nishiyama looked at the wolf who was running and was unbearable, almost everything he could lose on his body was lost, and many people even had nothing left of his subordinates except the crotch cloth, and remembered that when he came out, not counting artillery, the infantry alone had two neat wings and two infantry brigades, with nearly 10,000 troops.

But now in the first battle, a wing and an infantry brigade were lost, and the only remaining wing was also half-crippled. There is also a brigade ordered to eliminate those troublemakers, but it has never been contacted and is in the process of missing en masse.

In other words, in just half a day and one night, the 104th Division inexplicably became crippled, not to mention the heavy losses in troops. I still lost in a daze, and I don't even know where I lost.

Especially when it was learned that among the three wing commanders of the sortie, the last surviving Koga Ryutaro Osa, was directly hit by the first 20 mm shells fired by the sneak attackers because of his own initiative, and even the body was cut in two. Major General Fukutaro Nishiyama, who was inexplicably sad and indignant, did not lift it in one breath, and a mouthful of blood spurted out on the spot, and then lost consciousness.

For Fukutaro Nishiyama, who vomited blood and was in a coma due to the heavy losses of the troops and the three wing commanders, if he knew that the 60 rockets that his opponent had smashed on his head at the last time were the last 60, he would have not replenished them for at least a short time after he had exhausted them.

And the people who robbed him of the anti-aircraft gun ran out of magazines and retreated. Not because he was afraid that he would send troops to clean it up, but because he didn't know how to use these anti-aircraft guns, and after he ran out of magazines, he wouldn't know how to replace them. However, it must only make him feel that he has lost more.

What Nishiyama Fukutaro didn't know was that the series of attacks he encountered on the way back was only a send-off move because his opponent, who was no longer able to fight, was afraid that he would make a comeback.

After Liu Changshun led two battalions to arrive, Yang Zhen used him to replace Wang Guangyu, who had suffered heavy losses in the night battle, and served as the defense of the front line of Guanmenzuizi Mountain. The troops led by Wang Guangyu directly withdrew to Xingshan Fortress to rest.

After Wang Guangyu withdrew to Xingshan Fortress, there were only more than 2,000 recruits left at hand who had not yet completed basic training, and Yang Zhen, who had almost lost the ability to fight again, was optimistic about the success of Nishiyama Fukutaro's retreat, but he was also worried that he would kill a carbine.

After receiving a report from Li Mingrui that he had eliminated a squadron of anti-aircraft artillery and captured all the anti-aircraft artillery of the squadron. Yang Zhen, who was well aware of the power of this kind of small-caliber weapon to shoot at the ground, immediately formulated a plan to send off the passengers. Of course, for Yang Zhen, who lacks air defense weapons, he will never abandon the rare anti-aircraft artillery.

In order to cover up, the original intention was to slip away after the fight, and now Li Mingrui, who was required to bring back these anti-aircraft guns intact, was able to withdraw smoothly. Yang Zhen took out the only sixty rockets left on hand that were originally used to go to the north for a firepower display, and concentrated on firing a salvo to completely crush the Japanese army's heart to fight again.

At least for now, it seems that Yang Zhen's send-off plan has been implemented perfectly. Throw away the weapons and equipment that can be thrown away on your body. All three wing commanders were killed or wounded, and after Fukutaro Nishiyama fell into a coma, the 104th Division, which had lost its commander at the same time, did not even dare to stay on Xingshan Street. hastily tied up a stretcher, carrying the unconscious Nishiyama Fukutaro all the way and retreating directly to Jiamusi.

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