freenovelworld Chapter 482 It’s all bad news
Chapter 482 It’s all bad news
Although the commander of the 3rd Battalion, Major Yoshitsugu Matsui, suffered a head injury, it did not mean that his head was broken. The moment he thought of this problem, he ordered all the officers and soldiers of the 2nd Regiment to prepare for defense first. Then he sent someone to notify the regiment chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Junki Sakamoto, who was commanding the artillery and logistics troops on the Yongqin Highway, to come and clean up the mess.
When Lieutenant Colonel Junki Sakamoto, the chief of staff of the 2nd Regiment who was commanding the artillery and logistics troops on the Yongqin Highway, heard the report from the signalman sent by Major Yoshitsugu Matsui, commander of the 3rd Battalion, he was stunned.
In the eyes of Lieutenant Colonel Junki Sakamoto, the chief of staff of the regiment, he originally thought it was a very easy combat mission, but he did not expect it to bring him such shocking news. If this signalman was not a signalman of the regiment headquarters and was not someone he knew, he would have thought that this was someone from the Chinese army pretending to be someone else and delivering false information.
After receiving the news, the chief of staff of the regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Junki Sakamoto, quickly rushed to the front line with a small team of officers and soldiers. The commander of the artillery unit was in charge of the troops here. He needed to go to the front line quickly to organize the troops. In case the Chinese army launched a counterattack, given the current situation of the Second Regiment lacking grassroots officers, it would most likely be defeated by the Chinese army. In that case, the Second Regiment would have to take the blame.
However, the new 100th Division had no plans to counterattack the troops of the nd Regiment of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade. Zhang Wenwu and Ouyang Heng knew that the troops had not yet arrived completely, and the officers and soldiers had traveled such a long distance and had been thrown into the battle with basically no rest, which consumed a lot of physical strength and energy.
Anyway, the task assigned by the war zone is to defend the Luwu defense line and prevent the Japanese reinforcements from entering Kunlun Pass. The most important thing now is to let the officers and soldiers have a good rest so that they can exert their maximum combat power when counterattacking. If they have to fight, they must kill the Japanese in one fell swoop.
The Chief of Staff of the Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Junki Sakamoto, arrived at the headquarters of the Second Regiment on the front line at two o'clock in the afternoon. Faced with the low morale of the officers and soldiers of the Second Regiment, the Chief of Staff of the Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Junki Sakamoto, first reorganized the troops, and then appointed all the officers in the regiment headquarters to serve as grassroots officers in the combat troops.
After doing all this, the Chief of Staff of the Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Junki Sakamoto, also sent a telegram to the Commander of the Fifth Division, Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura, reporting the offensive situation of the Second Regiment. It was important to report what should be reported, so as to avoid letting the Second Regiment bear the blame for the failure after the war.
The chief of staff of the regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Junki Sakamoto, also ordered all units to prepare for defense, and the newly appointed officers to quickly familiarize themselves with their own units. He also ordered that no further attacks would be launched on the Chinese army's defense line in Rikuya today, giving everyone as much time as possible to make various preparations.
In fact, the chief of staff of the 2nd Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Junki Sakamoto, felt that the current 2nd Regiment should immediately withdraw from the front line and return to the rear to replenish officers and soldiers. Given the current combat morale of the officers and soldiers of the 2nd Regiment, it is really not suitable to continue to perform offensive combat missions.
The chief of staff of the regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Junki Sakamoto, saw that the officers and soldiers in the camp were all listless or dejected, and had completely lost the courage to continue the offensive. Even if the Second Regiment continued to attack the Chinese army's defense line on the side of Luwu, the effect of the attack would not be ideal, and it would not be of any help to the battle situation.
However, for Lieutenant General Hitoshi Imamura, commander of the 5th Division, today's tragedy of the 2nd Regiment was just one of the bad news he received.
Colonel Yoshinosuke Miki, commander of the 21st Regiment at Kunlun Pass, led his troops in launching fierce attacks on the main position at Kunlun Pass again and again, but by the afternoon when all the attacking troops were exhausted, they had not made any breakthroughs.
The regiment commander, Colonel Yoshinosuke Miki, also rarely sent a telegram requesting a pause in the attack so that the officers and soldiers in the army could have a good rest. Even Colonel Yoshinosuke Miki, the regiment commander who was always labeled as bellicosity and bravery, sent such a telegram, which shows how fierce the battle at Kunlun Pass was and how exhausted the officers and soldiers had reached the limit.
The 1st Regiment of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade in the Liutang direction was as unsuccessful as ever. Apart from the cold figures of casualties, there was nothing to say about it. Of course, they were facing the elite 22nd Division of the Chinese government, which had armored vehicles and tank units, so it was understandable that this situation had occurred.
However, the battle report from the Second Regiment of the Taiwan Mixed Brigade was simply out of the question. They had actually lost their regiment commander and a battalion commander in this morning's attack, and the loss of the grassroots officers in the army reached 80%. Did the commander of the Second Regiment, Colonel Nobuyoshi Watanabe, organize an officer charge? How could they lose so many officers at once? This was simply too crazy.
Moreover, it can be clearly known from the telegram sent by the Second Regiment that the Chinese army in Luwu must have been replaced by the direct troops of the Chinese government. The 175th Division of the Guangxi Clique, which was originally responsible for the defense, is definitely not capable of such a strong defense.
Lieutenant General Imamura Hitoshi, commander of the Fifth Division, held three telegrams from the front in his hands and pondered over the map on the wall, wondering which direct troop of the Chinese government was in Luwu? The troops of their Fifth Army had already appeared in the main position of Kunlun Pass and Liutang, which meant that it was definitely not the troops of the Fifth Army.
The New 22nd Army, the direct force of the Chinese government? However, according to the reconnaissance of the intelligence forces before the war, the troops of the New 22nd Army, the direct force of the Chinese government, were in reserve in the north of Kunlun Pass. This was obviously the force used by the Fourth War Zone of the Chinese government for the decisive battle of Kunlun Pass. Moreover, if the troops of the New 22nd Army were to rush to Luwu, it would take at least a day and a half, so the time didn't match.
Lieutenant General Imamura Hitoshi, commander of the Fifth Division, thought for a long time and it seemed that only the New 22nd Army of the Chinese government had this combat capability, and that the defensive combat style and tactics also matched. However, how did the New 22nd Army of the Chinese government get to Luwu in less than a day?
Lieutenant General Imamura Hitoshi, commander of the Fifth Division, thought for a long time and felt that the New 22nd Army, which was directly under the Chinese government, was fighting on the Chinese mainland after all. They were very likely to have taken a shortcut and taken a small road to get to Luwu in such a short time.
Therefore, Lieutenant General Imamura Hitoshi, commander of the Fifth Division, ordered the intelligence forces to quickly investigate and find out whether all the troops of the New 22nd Army of the Chinese government had arrived or only a part of them. This must be clarified.