Chapter 80 Taiyuan City Headquarters
In Taiyuan City, Shinozuka Yoshio roared: "One person... One person!"
He suddenly drew out his command knife and chopped all the debris in front of him into pieces. The commander of the 52nd Division and the two brigade commanders standing in front of him didn't dare to breathe.
"One division, two brigades, more than 20,000 people, and they can't keep even one person!"
Shinozuka Yoshio's finger had already reached the nose of the 52nd Division Commander: "Are all your 20,000 men useless?
Or is the opponent Zhao Zilong who went in and out of Changbanpo seven times?
But this is not Changbanpo, this is Taiyuan City. You have brought shame to me and the Imperial Army!
(When the Japanese of that period used the past to illustrate the present, they would not talk about the characters of the Warring States Period, but preferred to talk about the characters in Romance of the Three Kingdoms or Water Margin. Readers who don’t believe this can go and look up the information.)
You make me unable to hold my head up in front of General Okamura, you make me unable to hold my head up in front of all my colleagues, and you make the entire Shanxi Expeditionary Army unable to hold their head up in front of His Majesty the Emperor!
In Taiyuan City, where a division was stationed, one person actually wiped out half of the regiment in his own territory, and he couldn't even stop the enemy!
This is a shame!
What a shame! "
After roaring for a while, he took a long breath before he recovered.
A division commander and two brigade commanders had already lowered their heads like grandsons; they also felt embarrassed.
"Why don't you speak?"
"Hmm? Don't you have anything to explain to me?
Where were you when the battle took place?
Where are your troops?
Why can't so many people leave each other alone?
And the loss is so great?"
As Shinozuka Yoshio spoke, he began to get angry.
"General!"
The commander of the 52nd Division was a major general. He said tremblingly: "General, we had already arrived at our posts when the explosion occurred at the arsenal.
He began to order a thorough investigation into the cause of the explosion. When he learned that there was only one person on the other side and that Captain Sonoda had already led a team to arrest him, he thought that he could be captured, so he did not take it seriously.
This led to the situation where half of the regiment's soldiers were killed without catching the enemy!
It was we who were careless, please punish us, General!"
In fact, he was complaining in his heart.
He had indeed arrived at his division headquarters at that time and had received a reporting call long ago.
When he learned that there was only one person who blew up the arsenal, he thought that a regiment of more than 2,000 people was enough.
He felt that it was an overreaction to have more than 2,000 people catching one person, and wondered why a whole squadron was needed to handle something that could be done by two small teams?
It was not until later, when he heard an explosion like frying beans , that he knew something was wrong.
Chaodou is usually used to describe the sound of gunfire, meaning that the gunfire was very dense, but if it is used to describe the sound of an explosion, it can be seen how many small grenades exploded?
So many grenades, who are they targeting?
His first reaction was that the Sonoda Unit used it to bomb the enemy.
But one of his own brigade commanders said that Sonoda wanted to capture the other party alive.
Why did you change your mind now?
But when the explosion continued, he couldn't sit still anymore. Why was it still exploding?
Just then a soldier from the telephone department came to report that the Sonoda Company had lost a squadron.
A squadron?
hiss!
"Ask clearly, how many people are there on the other side?"
Isn't there only one person on the other side?
How could the Sonoda Regiment lose an entire squadron?
This is less than 200 people!
The enemy's number must be wrong!
The soldier at the phone office went to inquire again and got the answer that there was indeed only one person on the other side, and that the Sonoda Regiment had already lost five squads.
How can it be?
The Sonoda Corps could not capture a single person and lost five squads. How absurd! How ridiculous!
Who is the other party?
How come you are so powerful?
God?
Battle reports came in over the phone every few minutes, and without exception, they were all reports of damage .
The other side started the mode of fighting to support the war, and used grenades to baptize the Sonoda Regiment, and then picked up grenades from their corpses to use for baptism again.
The Sonoda Corps lost three more squads, but the enemy remained unscathed and they also gained a large number of grenades.
Although I don’t know why the other party has the strength to throw the grenade so far and for such a long time.
However, he could not let Sonoda continue to command like this, so he turned around and shouted at one of the two brigade commanders:
“Captain Jingbian, Sonoda is your subordinate, go and help him clean up this mess, and don’t let more brave soldiers die under the command of such an idiot!
As for Sonoda, after this incident, you should let him commit seppuku!"
Just as he finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of bombardment, it was artillery fire!
Just for one person, they actually used a cannon?
"Go and ask what's going on!"
After a while, the soldier at the telephone came to report: "It was Captain Sonoda, who used the Type 92 infantry gun to cover the enemy with artillery fire, but the enemy escaped!"
Then another soldier came in to report: "Captain Sonoda's artillery position was counterattacked by the enemy and all of them were destroyed!"
This sentence confused a division commander and two brigade commanders at the scene: "Doesn't the other side only have one person? Where did they get the cannon?"
Next, Sonoda challenged the opponent alone and was killed by the opponent.
Yamamoto then directly covered the enemy who had killed Sonoda with artillery fire.
When the person at the phone office reported that they had finally killed the other party, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
But then there was another explosion, the man was not dead, and then the man’s trace was lost again!
Two brigades were stationed in one city, and all the counties around Taiyuan were under control. It was never thought that one day a battle would take place in Taiyuan city.
Therefore, they deployed relatively few soldiers on the four city walls, and most of them were in the camp.
However, they did not expect that this hasty battle would make them lose their direction even though they had assembled in the camp.
Because there was only one enemy, the houses were tall and the alleys were deep, even though they had 20,000 people, they didn't have time to pull them into the battlefield, and the battle was almost over.
After that side of the city wall was hit by grenade launchers, the enemy escaped from the city and escaped from Taiyuan.
Today has become a day of shame for their Shanxi Expeditionary Army.
In a city with a population of more than 20,000, more than a thousand people were killed or injured, and not a single enemy could be retained.
Such a ridiculous thing happened. As the commander of the 52nd Division, how could he still have the face to speak?
Shinozuka Yoshio turned his head to look at Yamamoto Ichibo who seemed to be absent : "Yamamoto-kun, your special forces were also nearby and participated in the battle, and many people were killed and injured.
But I heard that you achieved certain results, but you actually injured the other party!
Do you have anything to say?
This...
You actually... hurt the other person!
And he used an exclamatory tone!
Is this a compliment?
Absolutely not, this is blame, this is accusation!
Didn’t you say that special warfare methods are invincible? How come the entire special forces team couldn’t take down a single enemy at the scene, and suffered many casualties!
Yamamoto understood what Yoshio Shinozuka meant.
His face was calm and composed: "General!"
"I think it's time to move your headquarters!"
