The 6th Division of the Little Devil died under artillery fire overnight, and the first to know the news was not the Little Devil, but the reconnaissance company directly under the 52nd Army Headquarters of Guan Zhenglin.

When Commander Guan Zhenglin's headquarters was evacuated, he was worried that the little devil would follow and pursue, and at the same time, he also wanted to find out the next move of the little devil, so he left a reconnaissance company behind.

However, this company did not approach Baoding, but was hidden near the railway on the Ranzhuang line, 20 kilometers south of Baoding, and sent two classes of brothers to wander around disguised as peasants every day.

The earth-shattering artillery fire on the night of September 25, 1937, finally made the reconnaissance company suspicious. Because the Central Army is on the front line of Shijiazhuang, the Northeast Army, the Northwest Army, and the Jin Sui Army have all been defeated, who has such a powerful artillery fire, and has a face-to-face encounter with the little devil?

In order to find out the specific situation, the company commander decided to come and see it in person at about four o'clock in the morning the next day. I didn't expect to come and take a look, and I was immediately scared!

The whole Baoding was dead silent, there were corpses of little devils everywhere, and guns and ammunition were everywhere on the entire battlefield. Although there is no heavy equipment, the Type 38 rifle and crooked machine gun are enough to equip two divisions!

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! The reconnaissance company commander ordered his men to clean up the battlefield as quickly as possible, and at the same time report to the commander as quickly as possible.

It's a pity that the large troops who came later were a little late, and only cleaned the battlefields east and south of Baoding City, and someone had already reported that the 20th Division of the little devil had come up.

"Your Excellency Commander: As we pursued, we killed six people. Judging from the weapons and uniforms seized, it was the 52nd Army of the Guan Zhenglin Division of the Chinese government army that had just retreated from the battlefield. Could it be that they launched a night attack last night and completely annihilated the 6th Division? ”

The commander of the 20th Division, Kawagishi Fumizaburo, had just arrived at the front line when he received a report of the search team's funeral, and he immediately entered a petrified state.

"Nani? Although the 6th Division fought relatively hard the day before yesterday, it was very impossible for Guan Zhenglin's 52nd Army to completely annihilate the 6th Division! Kawagishi Bunzaburo absolutely could not accept this result: "Could it be that the central army of the Shina government army has come up?" Keep searching the battlefield and see what else you find, hurry! ”

After more than three hours of searching by an infantry wing, the final result came out: "Report to Your Excellency Commander, all the senior officers of the Front Army Headquarters, the Sixth Division Headquarters, and the Sixth Division are all broken, only His Excellency General Terauchi and His Excellency Lieutenant General Tani Shofu are missing!" ”

This is bad news that the sky is falling!

Kawagishi Bunzaburo did not dare to slack off, so he hurriedly sent an urgent telegram to the base camp about the facts he had seen: "The headquarters of the North China Front Army and the 6th Division are all jade shattered, and the whereabouts of His Excellency General Terauchi Shouichi and Lieutenant General Tani Shoufu are unknown. In the end, I was defeated by the 52nd Army of Guan Zhenglin of the Chinese government. ”

"At present, the government army of China is gathered on the front line of Shijiazhuang, and the front line of Pingjin is extremely empty, and I hope that the base camp will quickly adjust its strategy and urgently dispatch reinforcements. Otherwise, all the imperial armies in North China are likely to be wiped out again! ”

Kawagishi Bunzaburo sent a simple telegram to Monkey Island in the Pacific Ocean, and the entire upper echelons of the dwarf were alarmed.

This telegram is simply earth-shattering!

The 6th Division (Kumamoto) and the 2nd Division (Sendai) are known as the two strongest and most effective units in the Japanese Army.

Its predecessor was Kumamoto Towndai, which was established in 1873, and during the Southwest War on the main island, this army was surrounded by the Satsuma clan troops led by Saigo Takamori in Kumamoto Castle, and won the final victory with a strong will to withstand the tide of Saigo's attack.

In the First Sino-Japanese War, the 6th Division, under the leadership of Hei Mu Weizhen, landed on the Jiaodong Peninsula and captured Weihaiwei in one fell swoop. In the Russo-Japanese War, it was attached to the 2nd Army in Obaogong. Participated in the Battle of Shahe and the Battle of Mukden, and the Russian army fled.

Throughout the establishment of the Sixth Division, whether in the period of civil war or in foreign wars, it can be said that it has conquered all battles and conquered everything. The army is invincible everywhere and is known as the "Iron Army" of the Japanese Army.

It is such an iron army that "attacks like a hurricane and defends like a rock" that was completely wiped out overnight, is this God satirizing the Great Japanese Army?

Because of this, starting from the emperor and going to the military headquarters base camp below, everyone on the dwarf island mourned: "Poor imperial iron army, melted in the land of China!" ”

The anger can not be vented, and the dwarf also understands this truth. Therefore, the first decision made by the dwarf base camp was: "This matter must be kept secret, and all media are not allowed to report it, and the people must not be allowed to know!" ”

After stabilizing the country, the base camp of the dwarf began to be nerve-wracking.

This is really "the house leak happened to be rainy, and the ship was broken and encountered a head wind." "Before the 5th Mixed Brigade could fully land, it was beaten to a comminuted fracture and a destroyer was sunk. The Sixth Division of the Iron Army had just entered North China and was completely annihilated.

"The government army still has a secret weapon!" After the third post, the base camp thought: "We need to increase the pressure and let the government of China taste the power!" As for Shanghai, the navy should play its role, and at the same time, it should send two divisions to land in Hangzhou Bay to break the enemy in front of it in one fell swoop and directly threaten Nanjing. ”

"A country cannot be left without a master for a day, and an army cannot be without a commander for a day. The headquarters of the North China Dispatch Army was immediately reorganized, and General Sugiyama Mototo was appointed to take over the post of commander of the North China Front, while at the same time strengthening the forces. ”

"Order: to form the North China Air Corps, with the commander Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, and the headquarters in Jinzhou. 24 Kawasaki 95 attack aircraft were added to a squadron, 12 squadrons of 96 medium attack aircraft, and 4 new Type 97 crit fighters. ”

"The Bohai Bay Detachment was dispatched, with the cruiser Feilong as the flagship, one destroyer each of the Furong and Chaoyan, 12 9.5-ton 'large engine boats' and 8 34-ton 'extra-large engine boats'. In order to ensure the safety of the fleet, the home port was set up in Lushun, and it was necessary to find out the real cause of the maritime failure in Tanggu and deal a fatal blow to the Chinese army. ”

In the dwarf, the leaders of the hard-line main battle faction are the two old miscellaneous people of Terauchi Shouichi and Sugiyama Moto. Sugiyama Gen was sick because of a cecal problem and came to recuperate at home. I didn't expect many people to want to kick him out of the cabinet, and now the opportunity has finally come.

However, Sugiyama Gen himself doesn't care, the commander is sent abroad, that is, the military power is in hand. Although he was a little far away from the emperor, he still spoke strongly.

Therefore, at the same time as Sugiyama Yuan flew to Tianjin, the Bohai detachment immediately set out, and it was already encamped in Lushun in just seven days.

Of the three additional fighters, two of them have just begun to be put into combat testing. Fortunately, Jinzhou began to build an airport in 1934, and it was not difficult to welcome 40 planes into the station.

The little devils are in full swing to arrange their troops to take revenge, and the first target turned out to be Guan Zhenglin's 52nd Army!

It's a pity that Bai Shujie didn't know that he, the initiator, didn't expect that the little devil was thinking about the problem with one tendon, and as a result, Guan Zhenglin was asked to carry the black pot for him!

However, Bai Shujie soon knew the news of the little devil's increase in Lushun and Jinzhou.

It turned out that when Shi Liancheng returned to Chengde, he brought back the first special operations platoon and handed it over to the headquarters, and naturally it became Bai Shujie's direct unit.

In the recent period, the main scope of activities of the 1st Special Operations Platoon has been Jinzhou, Yingkou, Dalian, and Lushun. So if the little devil has any trouble, the telegram has already reached Bai Shujie's hands.

The information on the little devil's increase in troops, Bai Shujie suddenly became a little excited: "Lamei, you go and ask Wei Chong about that deflated calf thing, how is his Fourth Division of the Flying Dragon?" Also, how is the movement of Zhao Dayong's artillery division? In addition, call me Zhang Nianzu, the head of the aviation regiment. ”

It turned out that since Yang Erya gained a firm foothold in Tianjin, Bai Shujie gave her a top-secret order: "Find the lost personnel of the former Northeast Army Air Force." ”

Bai Shujie has an impression that after the "918 Incident", Xiao Liuzi's Northeast Army Air Force collapsed, and pilots, ground crews, and maintenance personnel all went their separate ways.

Among them, 60 or 70 people, including Gao Zhihang, Sun Zhonghua, and Yang Xianglin, went to Nanjing and were demoted and used. Zhang Niansco and six or seven others went to the northwest to vote for Sheng Shicai, and two others went to Sichuan to vote for Liu Xiang. More than 10 people, including the former deputy commander Xu Shiying, were discouraged and simply stayed in Beiping.

Because when he retreated from Mukden from the "918 Incident", Zhang Xiang raided Dongta Airport and blew up the plane, at that time he didn't know what aero engines were, let alone what the final assembly line was, and only drove 24 tanks back.

However, when the tank crews used the captured trucks to load their things, they took more than 40 sets of unopened aircraft parts and 48 engines purchased from the Czech Republic, as well as a complete set of equipment from the accessory equipment factory, back to the base area of Wohu Villa.

After the secret factory and warehouse of the Sanxiandong base area in Chengde were put into use, all the things of Crouching Tiger Villa were transferred here for storage. Bai Shujie also found out by chance that there was an aircraft spare parts and assembly production line!

Because of this, Bai Shujie secretly asked Ma Deyao, Luo Dingkun and other armored soldiers who were born in the Northeast Army to start contacting the lost former Air Force personnel.

Later, Bai Shujie asked the little devil for compensation, and the Shuanglian Aviation machine gun did not let Zhao Jinxi disassemble and use it, just looking forward to one day being able to have his own plane.

It turned out that when Xiao Liuzi went to Europe for drug rehabilitation in 1930, he encountered a huge opportunity, that is, a life-and-death battle between German fighter manufacturers!

The protagonists are Heinkel and a newly founded company in 1926, the Bavarian Aircraft Factory (BFW).

BFW is responsible for the production of the M-20, a 10-seater aircraft with a metal monoplane structure for Deutsche Air Deutsche Air (DLH).

The first prototype crashed on February 26, 1928, when Messerschmidt and his design team were responsible for designing the aircraft, killing the test pilot by parachuting at 250 feet. Erhard Milch, DLH's purchasing representative, immediately cancelled all production orders.

The second prototype was finally tested in August, and DLH bought the two M-20 prototypes and placed an order for 10 production models.

But before the first planes were delivered, two more M-20s crashed, one of which had 8 Wehrmacht officers on board, all of whom fell to their deaths!

As a result, the media pointed the finger at DLH and the manufacturer, and Congress even held a special discussion. Annoyed, Milch canceled the order again and refused to accept the M-20 that had already been produced, and the Bavarian aircraft factory had no hope of survival.

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.