Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 231

Chapter 231: You get used to being beaten too much (please subscribe! Get a monthly pass at the end of the month!)

Regardless of how the Japanese navy and army were slapped in the face because of their first encounter with the Chinese in the early morning of November 6, and how they quarreled and blamed each other, Matsue Castle, a place that must pass through, will still have to be fought. .

As the biggest victim and the abuser who vented his anger by Commander Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, the 114th Division, one of the motley crews of the Japanese Army, was on the road in a hurry before finishing breakfast.

Yes, just as there are Type A and Type B divisions in China, the same is true for the Japanese Army. The seventeen standing divisions are Type A divisions, that is, those with numbers within 20 are Type A, and those with numbers beyond 100 are Type B. At the end of the war, there were even better C-type divisions.

However, this does not mean that the Type B divisions are not good. The 114th Division is one of the stronger Type B divisions, and it has become one of the seven divisions that once broke into Jinling in time and space and committed heinous crimes.

　　It's just that this guy has too many unlucky attributes. In the past time and space, he only stayed in China for two years, and his designation was revoked because his division commander was killed.

This time, the original unlucky attributes were obviously increased by the arrival of a certain little butterfly.

When he came up, he was slapped in the face and given a sap by the Chinese.

The face of his division commander Suematsu Shigeharu has turned livid since he received the broken telegram from the reconnaissance squadron.

Landing from the Jinshanwei tidal flat, the 114th Division, which was used as the vanguard of the Tenth Army, began to run into obstacles.

In the landing battle on the morning of November 5th, they killed nearly a thousand Chinese people and suffered nearly a thousand casualties. The one-to-one battle damage seemed to be quite acceptable for the landing battle.

By the afternoon, a small offensive and defensive battle, with the help of naval guns and the artillery carried by the division itself, resulted in hundreds more losses and was delayed for precious time.

The face is swollen.

However, when he was bored at sea, Suematsu Shigeharu even thought about his wife wearing a pile of hats in the empty boudoir alone, but he never thought that his 400-person reconnaissance squadron would be completely shattered.

The most outrageous thing is that those idiots will die as soon as they die, and not even a cent of the reconnaissance report has been sent back.

Are they just going to send heads to other Chinese people thousands of miles away?

“Please Shigeharu-kun, please command Matsue immediately. The honor of the Imperial Army cannot be slandered like this.” The wording of Yanagawa Heisuke's call was not intense, but his already full anger level was clearly visible on the page.

How could Shigeharu Suematsu not be angry when he was reprimanded so mercilessly by a commander of the same rank?

Chinese people, do you think our 114th Division is easy to bully? Otherwise, it will always be me who gets hurt?

After three consecutive setbacks, the once-satisfied Lieutenant General of the Class B Division sat on his big green horse and felt a sense of self-pity.

To put it bluntly, the headquarters formed the Tenth Army in North China, and deployed the Eighteenth Division, known as the "Double B of the Empire", and the Sixth Division, known as "black skin, bright red blood", but then felt that the strength was still not enough. , he additionally took part in the 114th Division, which had just entered North China. He may have felt that the 114th Division's combat effectiveness was a bit scummy, so he even assigned a detachment to them. It was nominally controlled by his 114th Division, but actually came from the Fifth Division. The Kunisaki detachment, which had nearly 10,000 troops in the division, basically ignored him.

They are all awesome divisions, but he is the only B-division, and they still choose to be the vanguard. This is to use his 114th Division as cannon fodder.

How can Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeharu and his nearly 10,000 men not hold their breath when they are despised by their colleagues and their own men are not up to par?

The only people to vent your anger on are the Chinese.

March all the way.

By noon, the Chinese cavalrymen 15 kilometers away from Songjiang City saw through their telescopes the billowing smoke and dust stirred up by the Japanese vanguard.

Murderous!

Suematsu Shigeharu, who spent the lives of nearly 400 of his men, proved that the Chinese defenders in the Matsue area were much bolder than he thought. This time, the Chinese dared to release artillery out of the city to sneak attack on the gunboats in the river. That sneak attack Infantry is no problem.

The vanguard force alone consists of more than half of the cavalry regiment, an infantry brigade carried by motorcycles and trucks, and an engineering regiment. The strength is as high as more than 2,000 people, and its combat effectiveness is at least as strong as that of a Chinese infantry brigade.

If the Chinese dare to repeat their old tricks and sneak attack on this vanguard force, then the Chinese have made the wrong idea. The total number of cavalry and infantry soldiers exceeds 1,300. Even if a Chinese infantry division comes, they can hold it off for a while. The main infantry force following behind quickly followed up and could swallow it in one bite.

Suematsu Shigeharu was right, China did not have the courage.

It's not that they are afraid of the 114th Division. Even in a field battle, the well-equipped 67th Army is not afraid to open up and fight with this B Division.

It's a pity that the 114th Division that came was just a forward, and there were two main Japanese divisions in the rear, so they really couldn't defeat them. Therefore, the 114th Division had an unobstructed journey. Even when the engineer regiment began to erect pontoon bridges on the selected river banks under the cover of cavalry and infantry, there was no attack on both sides of the Huangpu River.

This made the Japanese lieutenant general, who had a mentality of being beaten, a little hairy.

What conspiracy are the Chinese brewing?

The terrible inertial thinking caused the Japanese lieutenant general to be like a child who was used to being beaten. Suddenly one day he was treated with tenderness, and his mentality was definitely not moved, but doubtful.

Suematsu Shigeharu, who was still more than ten kilometers away, ordered the cavalry regiment under his command to use the cavalry squadron as a unit, one to search along the south bank of the Huangpu River, and the other to cross the preliminarily erected pontoon bridge to the north bank to search, so as to prevent the main force from being caught when crossing the river. The daring Chinese artillery attack.

The Japanese Army Lieutenant General somewhat understands the principle of attacking halfway across the country.

What does it mean to find your own style?

　　That's Shigeharu Suematsu.

The Chinese cavalry who originally stayed in the distance only closely monitored the movements of the Japanese troops and reported the time and location of the Japanese troops' arrival to the headquarters through the field radio they carried. They had no intention of fighting with the Japanese troops.

The Japanese army rushing towards Songjiang in a mighty manner was divided into three sections: front, middle and rear. At the head were cavalry and trucks and motorcycles. Their strength was close to an infantry regiment. No matter how tough the cavalry were, they would not encounter such a tough fight.

The middle road is even more fierce. Even though there is a river across the river, the Chinese cavalry hiding in the woods dare not show their courage. It is an infantry queue of more than 5,000 people. Even if there are no people, just move out a few infantry cannons. It can make them doubt their life.

The rear road was protected by artillery, baggage troops and accompanying infantry groups, so the cavalry could only watch.

But what are the Japanese doing right now?

They even arrogantly dispatched a cavalry squadron to cross the Huangpu River and head towards Songjiang.

"Brother, what do the Japanese want to do?" The obviously younger of the two cavalrymen who were responsible for reconnaissance in this area asked the veteran who was chewing grass roots and covered with stubble in confusion.

"What do you want to do? We were stunned by our artillery this morning. Come and find our artillery! We won't do this again when the main force crosses the river." The veteran answered casually, but with a look of admiration. "That Deputy Director Tang is so amazing that the Japanese actually chose the place where our two brothers are staying as a landing point."

For fear of encountering Japanese fighter planes searching for and exposing targets, the main cavalry force hid far away from the Huangpu River bank. They only left cavalrymen similar to observation posts about one kilometer near the river bank, in a group of two. If there was any situation, one cavalryman could report back first. .

Before Tang Dao took the artillery battalion back to Songjiang City, he specially drew a place on the map, saying that the possibility of Japanese troops crossing the river was extremely high.

Gong Shaoxun, the commander of the cavalry battalion directly under the military headquarters, was somewhat unconvinced and still followed his own ideas and dropped nearly ten groups of observation posts along the Huangpu River. Naturally, the cavalrymen supported their boss more.

But now it seems that Deputy Director Tang was right again, and the Japanese army really chose to land here.

Fortunately, Tang Dao's command in the morning battle wiped out the Japanese landing force and disabled three gunboats. Gong Shaoxun, who was not convinced, finally left two cavalry companies in this area as a key area and personally took charge.

“Well, brother, what should we do now?” The young soldier obviously had no time to admire Deputy Director Tang. He cared more about the present.

The Japanese cavalry of more than 100 people has finished crossing the river and has begun to form a team.

If you get closer and find them both, they will definitely die.

The war horses used by the Japanese are all tall horses improved from crossbreeding. They can sprint much faster than the short-legged Mongolian horses they are equipped with.

“Nonsense, get on your horse and run!” The veteran spat out the grass roots in his mouth, turned around and ran wildly with his little brother, and got on the horse tied more than 20 meters away.

　　Moving the war horse, he ran backwards without hesitation, which seemed like he was escaping in embarrassment.

　　However, even his little brother didn't see it, but the veteran's eyes were shining with his back to the Huangpu River.

The Japanese cavalry is nothing more than a cavalry squadron, not that terrible.

(End of this chapter)

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