Especially after World War I, there was a global anti-war wave. In addition, the Japanese army suppressed the domestic rebellion and sent troops to Siberia. The Japanese Army became unpopular and the problem of military service evasion became serious.
Therefore, disarmament and reform of the military system have become the general trend. In 1922, the Military Service Law Investigation Committee established in Japan implemented various ideas in the 1927 "Conscription Order" into the "Conscription Law", shortening the service time of active soldiers and increasing the number of soldiers of the same age. The number of people joining the army has been changed from three years of active service to two years.
This will allow soldiers to retire early and go home to reunite with their families, reducing the phenomenon of evading military service.
Of course, this does not mean that every man must join the military when he reaches the military service period. At present, there are only hundreds of thousands of troops in Japan, so they need to undergo physical examination first, and then select those with good physical condition to join the army.
Taro Tanimura, who least wanted to join the army, was in very good physical condition precisely because he had good nutrition since he was a child. Even if he wanted to find an excuse for being thin, he was quickly selected into the 6th Division.
It can be said that he was unlucky. Originally, his military service was only 2 years, which was okay. But when his service was about to expire, the Kwantung Army launched the September 18th Incident. The Kwantung Army did not allow soldiers to retire during the war, and later changed He was given the rank of corps commander, turning him from a soldier to the lowest non-commissioned officer, making him even less likely to retire in the short term.
Speaking of which, we need to talk about the Japanese army's grassroots non-commissioned officer system. This is the most basic factor in the Japanese army's strong combat effectiveness.
The Japanese military non-commissioned officers are divided into three levels: corps commander, sergeant sergeant, and cao commander. These three military ranks constitute the basic backbone structure of a small unit of the Japanese army.
Generally speaking, there are 13 people in the first Japanese detachment. Chief Cao is the detachment leader. Sergeant Cao is equivalent to the deputy detachment leader who mainly commands the machine gun team. There are also two corps commanders who command the rifle team of 3-4 people respectively.
When the All-out Anti-Japanese War broke out, a detachment of the Japanese First Class Division increased to 15 people. The main reason was that the grenade launchers that were originally only equipped at the squad level were directly equipped at the detachment level, and each detachment added one or two men. grenade support team.
It can be seen that in the Japanese detachment, which is the squad-level unit of the Chinese army, there are four non-commissioned officers with certain experience and tactical literacy as the core and backbone of the combat, and there is also a machine gun group and grenade launchers similar to The mortar fire support team is very capable of fighting alone.
However, Taro Tanimura was promoted to corps commander not because of his good performance or outstanding military skills. In fact, just because he wanted to go home as soon as possible, he did not pay too much attention and effort during the recruit training. For this, he was punished and abused a lot by the instructors, and finally he was thrown into the engineering unit to build roads and bridges.
But because of his good nutrition since childhood, this guy not only has a strong body, but is also not small. He is actually 1.63 meters tall. This is already considered a big man among the Japanese soldiers who are generally around 1.5 meters tall.
Therefore, it was because of his outstanding height that he attracted the attention of the regiment commander. During a review of the troops after the capture of Shenyang, the regiment commander admired his height very much and directly promoted him to corps commander because of his image comparison. It is in line with the temperament of the soldiers of the Japanese Empire and will have a morale-boosting effect on new recruits.
In this way, Taro Tanimura, who was just a little taller than a semi-cripple in northern China, actually became a tall and mighty spokesperson among the Japanese army.
Taro Tanimura, who was about to cry without tears, inexplicably became the lowest-ranking non-commissioned officer in the Japanese army.
However, no matter how low-ranking a non-commissioned officer is, he is still a non-commissioned officer, and his military service period will be extended indefinitely.
Now, he doesn't know when he will be able to go home.
At this time, Taro Tanimura quickly washed up and walked quickly towards the military camp a few hundred meters away from the river bank, but the shadow of Miss Kamei kept appearing in his mind, and he couldn't get rid of it.
He sighed inwardly, thinking that he was missing a woman again.
Thinking of this, Taro Tanimura couldn't help but recall what happened in the small village of Rehe more than twenty days ago, which was both exciting and slightly disturbing.
At that time, their regiment received an order to eliminate a small group of volunteers who appeared along the Lingyuan to Chengde railway and attacked the railway garrison.
At this time, since all the infantry regiments of the 6th Division were waiting for supplies and were on their way to concentrate on Chengde, the commander of the Sakamoto Division handed over this task to the Engineer Regiment, which had hardly participated in the Battle of Jehol. Team.
You must know that although the Japanese engineer regiment is not a combat unit, it still undergoes a lot of military training, and the military quality of the officers and soldiers is not low. When necessary, they should also fight on the front line with the infantry. It just has almost no configuration in terms of artillery and heavy machine guns.
Therefore, after receiving the combat mission, in order to strengthen the firepower of the engineer wing, the division headquarters also ordered the infantry artillery team of Lingyuan Garrison Brigade to join the suppression force with two 92 infantry cannons.
The Engineer Regiment and the Cavalry Regiment are the only Japanese units that do not have a brigade at the Regiment level.
The engineer wing of the 6th Division has a total of 3 squadrons and a demolition team. Including the personnel of the wing headquarters, there are only more than 700 people in total.
After the regiment arrived in Lingyuan County, after a detailed introduction by the captain of the garrison brigade, they learned that this Chinese anti-Japanese volunteer army was very ferocious.
Just yesterday, this group of unknown Chinese armed men actually set up an ambush between Lingyuan County and Sanshijiazi Town after sneak attack on the guard team of Sanshijiazi Railway Station, causing the Lingyuan guard to All the reinforcements of a squadron sent by the brigade have lost contact, and no one has been able to come back to report the news.
Later, they even frantically bombarded the Imperial armored train that went to investigate the situation, causing this expensive armored train to be basically scrapped.
Moreover, the captain of the garrison brigade also judged that the missing squadron was probably in danger, which required the engineer brigade to verify and avenge them.
After understanding the situation, Lieutenant Commander Mizoguchi Yuki's face darkened, and there was a flash of anger in his eyes.
However, Taro Tanimura knew that the captain was not angry because of the sacrifice of the imperial warriors, but because the opponent's strength was unexpected, which made him feel a little troublesome, so he hid something from the Lingyuan garrison. The intelligence was annoyed.
You know, in the impression of the Lieutenant Commander, only a few volunteers in the Northeast can annihilate an entire Imperial garrison squadron. What’s more, the volunteer army in front of me also has cannons, which is a bit difficult to handle. .
