"You can see the demeanor of an ancient famous general from your Excellency the General. Your opponents should feel honored that Luo Ying can become the general. They should feel lucky to have died at the hands of our Thirteenth Division. You must know that our Thirteenth Division is the same as the Chinese The Central Military Commission has deep roots."
The 103rd Brigade Chief of Staff, Lieutenant Colonel Kazuo Uyei, saw that the brigade commander was not interested in talking, so he started to make fun of him. A chief of staff who can't make fun of him is not a qualified chief of staff, because the commander occasionally likes to pretend to be funny and show off. When there is no one to join in the fun, it is like a delicacy without salt.
After learning that Luo Ying was going to fight the 103rd Brigade in Kunshan City, Major General Yamada was in a good mood. Lieutenant Commander Kamei's witty words were intentional. Major General Yamada immediately became interested and said directly:
"Is Mr. Shangjing talking about the non-commissioned officer of the 19th Field Artillery Regiment? It is rumored that he was arranged to raise horses later? Isn't this the Bute Ma Wen in Chinese novels?"
As soon as Major General Yamada finished speaking, the two of them looked at each other and smiled, and their pride could not be expressed beyond words.
Lieutenant Commander Kamei continued to say jokingly:
"Whether he has fed horses to the imperial army has been too long to be verified. The most important thing cannot be verified. He must save some face for others. After all, he is now leading the country of China and is gathering millions of people without overestimating his capabilities. The army and the imperial army are stubbornly resisting, and it is simply a wishful thinking to defend Jinling City!
But one thing is certain. After graduating from Zhenwu School, he entered the 19th Field Artillery Regiment of our 13th Division as an internship as a "non-commissioned officer candidate". This is recorded;
It was the Imperial Army who taught him the big gun, but now he actually wants to fight the Holy War against the Imperial Army. It has to be said that he has forgotten his roots! "
"Kamii-kun, I heard that this Luo Ying is still his student. A preparatory student who can't even enter the Imperial Army Military Academy. How strong a student can he teach? Can our 103rd Brigade treat them as opponents of the same level? Luo Ying The general should feel honored. In Chinese terms, his family’s ancestral graves are filled with smoke.”
Kamei Nakasa laughed after hearing this, and then said with a charming smile:
"Your Majesty the General is really humorous. He treats the enemy as nothing. This is the style of a famous general of the Imperial Army. If it were anyone else, he would never be so arrogant as to fight the Imperial Army in a small town like Kunshan that has no danger to defend. That would be the same as risking death. It makes no difference, does he think Kunshan is a fortress-like four-row warehouse?"
Major General Yamada smiled proudly, secretly glad that he was lucky, because he only had a week, and it would take a day for the army to reach Kunshan City. If Luo Ying gave up defending the city and played hide-and-seek with him, he was really not sure. In the remaining six days, a lone brigade of one to two thousand people was captured.
Just as the two were singing along, explosions and intensive gunshots were heard from the front. Yamada's expression immediately changed and he shouted coldly:
"Ba Ge Ya Road, what kind of work?"
After a while, a staff officer ran over in a hurry and reported to Major General Yamada:
"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, the cavalry regiment leading the way was attacked by a small group of troops. They buried several bombs on both sides of the road and detonated them when the cavalry regiment passed by, causing more than 20 cavalry casualties. The cavalry regiment It’s driving them away.”
Major General Yamada said with a cold face:
"Tell Colonel Uchiyama that this is just a harassment tactic of the Chinese. The purpose is to delay the march of the imperial army so as to buy time for them to build city defenses. So don't pay too much attention to them, just drive them away. The ammunition of the Chinese has always been It's very nervous, wasting so many bombs to cause such negligible casualties, they are now at the end of their rope."
Just as the communications staff officer was about to take the order and leave, there was intensive gunfire from the front. Lieutenant Commander Kamei's face changed drastically and he said loudly:
"Your Excellency, Commander, the sound of gunshots is from German weapons. It is estimated that the pursuing cavalry regiment was ambushed by the Chinese. We must notify them to withdraw to the main road as soon as possible to avoid falling into the Chinese conspiracy."
As a general, Major General Yamada still has this kind of self-cultivation. He just nodded and said:
"Yo Xi, Luo Ying still gave us a surprise. I take back what I said before about belittling him. These are just some small tricks. How effective can they be in the main battle with tens of thousands of people?
Warn Colonel Uchiyama not to be fooled by the Chinese again. They just want to use this unsightly tactic to hold back the imperial army. The cavalry regiment only needs to protect the two wings and don't let the Chinese sneak attack the imperial army's baggage and supplies. Just the brigade department. "
The communications staff officer followed the order and left. A few kilometers away, Colonel Uchiyama, the captain of the cavalry regiment, looked at the corpses of people and horses on the ground. His nose was almost crooked with anger. He had been very careful, but he was ambushed by the Chinese during the pursuit. He suffered casualties. It was so heavy, and with the more than 20 cavalrymen who had been killed and injured before, his cavalry regiment had lost almost a squad.
The cavalry regiment is a small unit. A squadron has only two squadrons with more than a hundred people. A squadron has three squadrons. In addition, there are more than 300 people in the brigade headquarters. There are only more than 1,000 cavalry in a squadron. This is still an early level. The cavalry regiment of a division, an ordinary division only has a few hundred cavalry, which is very different from the infantry regiment of more than 3,000 men. So after losing dozens of cavalry at once, the old devil is still very painful. The cavalry can be They are all nobles, not comparable to the farmers, miners and shabby warriors in the army.
"Bagyalu only knows how to make sneak attacks, not a samurai!"
The section of road chosen by the sneak attackers was located near the mountains and forests. As soon as they succeeded, they ran into the mountains and forests. When the cavalry chased them, they were intercepted by intensive firepower, inflicting great damage to the Japanese cavalry, and then fled into the mountains and forests;
His anger had been completely ignited, and he was considering whether to pursue him into the less dense mountain forest when the communications staff officer from the brigade headquarters came over on horseback. He could only listen patiently to the brigade commander's orders.
"Your Excellency, Captain, General Yamada ordered you not to get too entangled with the sneak attackers. You only need to drive them away to avoid being ambushed by the Chinese—"
"Bagya Road is not a samurai's job!"
Colonel Uchiyama cursed casually. The cavalry regiment was directly under the division headquarters and was only temporarily assigned to the 103rd Brigade. In addition, Colonel Uchiyama was a nobleman, so he did not have much respect for Major General Yamada.
When Colonel Uchiyama fought, it was not his turn to be taught by the descendants of the fallen samurai. If it were the shogunate era before Meiji, Major General Yamada would only be assigned the head general of their Uchiyama family.
The communications staff officer was dumbfounded. He didn't dare to say anything. He pretended not to have heard Uchiyama's dirty words in greeting the brigade leader. He also had a sharp eye. Fighting between gods was not something that a brat like him could participate in, but his mission was accomplished. , the inner mountain leader will always give him an answer if he doesn't follow the military order, so that he can go back and resume his life.
Seeing that the communications staff officer had been stunned, Uchiyama Colonel knew how difficult it would be for the people below him, so he suppressed the anger in his chest and said coldly:
"I understand, tell General Yamada that the cavalry regiment will fulfill its escort mission."
After finishing speaking, with a wave of his hand, the communications staff officer was relieved. As long as Colonel Uchiyama issued the military order, he would pretend that he had not heard anything else. He had to be deaf when he should be deaf, otherwise he would be the one to suffer.
After the communications staff officer of the brigade headquarters left, Colonel Uchiyama, the captain of the first battalion, asked for instructions:
"Your Excellency, Baron, do you need to chase into the mountains and forests? These Chinese people are so abominable, they must pay the price with blood."
The dozens of cavalry lost were all from the First Battalion, so Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa, the captain of the First Battalion, was very angry. Even though he was just a small Lieutenant Colonel, he really didn't take Major General Yamada, who was born as a civilian, in his eyes.
The Tokugawa family is one of the top ten nobles in the country, ranking relatively high. The Tokugawa shogunate was still very famous during the Warring States Period. Although Captain Uchiyama was higher in rank than him, he did not dare to send him abroad in front of him. He scolded and could only say patiently:
"Tokugawa-kun, the art of war is as follows: Don't enter the forest, don't pursue the poor bandits, these Chinese people just want to lure the imperial army into the mountains and forests to sneak attack on us;
Don’t worry, they won’t give up here. There are still more than 20 kilometers to Kunshan. In order to buy time for the defenders in the city, they will still find opportunities to sneak attack us again, so you must be careful and don’t get hit again. Having caught their trick, when they appear again, Lord Tokugawa will let them see the blade of our imperial cavalry. "
Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa took the order with a hey and left. As the vanguard of the entire brigade, the Tokugawa Brigade continued to search towards Kunshan City.
