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Text Chapter 285 Nishihara Kanji¡¯s different feeling

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    This feeling was the first time Kanji Nishihara had after he was transferred to the Kwantung Army. On the way to retreat from Hailar to Nanxing'an last time, even though he was turned into a rabbit by the opponent's aviation force, he did not feel this way in his heart.  At that time, I just felt that the Anti-Japanese Alliance's use of aviation was far superior to the Kwantung Army's aviation. Its entire tactical deployment was unprecedented and was quite targeted.

    But that was all he felt at the time. Of course, even the chief of staff of the division was killed in the air raid. Needless to say, he was embarrassed. He had not thought too deeply about it, but in this battle in Linxi County  After that, this feeling kept lingering in his heart. This not so good feeling made Kanji Nishihara feel very uncomfortable.

    The opponents in front of them are far superior to the Chinese government forces in Guannei in terms of tactics and strategies. Their equipment and fighting will are far beyond comparison with the Chinese government forces. Especially the fighting will makes it the first time for them to fight against the Anti-Japanese Alliance.  Kanji Nishihara, who was fighting on the ground, could hardly believe his eyes.

    In the key battle outside Linxi County that was related to the trend of the entire Linxi battlefield, there was only one battalion of troops at the closing position of the entire encirclement circle. Faced with a force that was equipped with some armed foreigners and concentrated most of the artillery support.  The two brigades of the 23rd Division took turns attacking from inside and outside, relying on simple fortifications to stay there without taking a step back.

    A battalion was forced to fight into a platoon. In the end, almost all the officers were killed in the battle. They did not take a step back under the command of only one platoon leader. Moreover, the tactical counterattack was not large in scale, and it could be said that it was the entire forest.  The battle of life and death on the Western Front almost never stopped.

    There was even only one platoon left, and the siege force launched a beautiful counterattack, seriously injuring a captain, and destroying the last bit of confidence of the siege force. If the 23rd Division had been passive in the entire Linxi battlefield,  reasons, but in this battle, the 23rd Division had the absolute upper hand in terms of military strength and firepower.

    The two brigades attacked from front to back, but failed to capture a battalion's position under the overwhelming support of artillery fire. This was almost impossible to imagine on the battlefield in Guanhai. In terms of the attack power that the Japanese army has always been proud of, this kind of failure was so great.  Extreme situations are almost unprecedented.

    Kanji Nishihara, who was in Linxi County at that time and witnessed this life-and-death battle for the troops of the encircled 23rd Division, was silent for a long time after putting down his telescope. The Japanese army, which has always been known for its strong will to fight,  In front of this opponent who has a fierce style and tenacious will, he seems to be even more different.

    Since the Kwantung Army has missed the best time to annihilate them, the missed opportunity will never be found again. Facing such a powerful opponent, a missed opportunity is lost forever. Nishihara Kanji is in Linxi County  After the loss, the consideration was no longer how to reverse the situation of the battle and hold on to the existing position without losing it, but how to save the last remaining defeated soldiers of the 23rd Division.

    It's just that although the current battle situation of the 23rd Division has deteriorated to the extreme, and it actually has no ability to counterattack, from the perspective of the Kwantung Army, although the 23rd Division has suffered heavy losses, even Linxi County has been lost.  , the entire division was almost within Linxi territory and had almost been swept out.

    However, the current 23rd Division does not count the troops in Daban and Lindong. Although the remaining troops cannot carry out a comprehensive counterattack against the enemy, they can use a force to attack the front line of Sunjiayingzi and separate the current enemy.  Come and persist until the main force of the Kwantung Army counterattacks across the board.

    Therefore, for the counterattack of the 23rd Division, the Kwantung Army placed great hopes on it, and strictly ordered Nishihara Kanji to seize the front line of Sunjiayingzi at all costs, complete the division of the anti-circumstantial forces, and before the Kwantung Army counterattack  Before the goal is achieved, we must stick to the front line of Sunjiayingzi.

    As for the current predicament of the 23rd Division, it is not for the Kwantung Army to consider. The 23rd Division applied for no less than two rapid-fire artillery squadrons. As a requirement for the anti-tank reserve, the Kwantung Army headquarters directly provided  There was no clear two-word answer. The request for aerial cooperation was still missing. The request for strengthening anti-aircraft artillery was still missing.

    In this counterattack that could be said to determine the fate of the 23rd Division, the only support the Kwantung Army gave to the 23rd Division was to allocate 2,000 rounds of artillery shells and 500,000 yuan from Zhangwu to the 23rd Division.  For the replenishment of bullets, and even the most basic fuel replenishment, Nishihara Kanji and Matsuda Iwa repeatedly requested, and only five tons of gasoline and diesel were given.

    Even of these five tons, only one and a half tons finally reached the hands of the 23rd Division. The remaining ones, together with the artillery shells supplied to the 23rd Division, were intercepted by anti-Union aircraft and transport trucks on the way.  It was blown up to the sky, and the ton and a half of fuel that arrived was not enough for the third tank regiment to launch an offensive.

      It is also based on the orders of the Kwantung Army. Although he knows that he no longer has much strength to fulfill the orders of the Kwantung Army, Lieutenant General Kanji Nishihara, who has always regarded obeying orders as his bounden duty and considers himself an authentic soldier, still based on the current situation of the division.  strength, as well as the situation of the entire battlefield.

    It was formulated that the Third Tank Regiment, which had suffered the least losses before and was currently the most complete among the entire 23rd Division and its affiliated units, was to make an all-out assault in the direction of Twelve Tu to attract the enemy troops in Linxi territory.  reserve team, thereby creating at least considerable conditions for the main force of the division to break through the Sunjiayingzi front line, dividing the enemy forces, and creating at least considerable conditions for the Kwantung Army's comprehensive counterattack.

    He knew that if the enemy reserves in front of him did not move, the strength of the 23rd Division in Linxi would not be able to break through the front line of Sunjiayingzi, so he used the largest capital at hand, which was currently  The Third Tank Regiment, the most complete formation in the entire division, was all placed on the 12th line, hoping that these guys could attract the enemy's reserves.

    This plan was drawn up by Nishihara Kanji and Matsuda Iwa personally without any operational staff. The third tank regiment's position in this plan is very important. This combat plan can be said to be the work of these two people.  It took great pains to build up almost all the remaining assets of the 23rd Division.

    Even with the exception of one squadron of mountain artillery and two 120mm howitzers, all artillery units were allocated to the Twelve-Turn line. At the same time, 70% of the existing artillery shells were also allocated to the Twelve-Turn direction.  The one used as the focus here is the third tank regiment.

    But if your Third Tank Regiment is so ineffective, your opponents will not see the problem. If the enemy's reserve team deployed in the northwest of Linxi County cannot be transferred to the 12th and 12th lines, based on the current situation alone,  The remaining troops of the division simply cannot capture the Sunjiayingzi front line. If the Sunjiayingzi frontline is unable to be broken through, it will affect not only the 23rd Division, but also the entire Kwantung Army's comprehensive counterattack.

    It's just that this guy refuses to take either soft or hard advice in person, and he is only temporarily attached to it. He is not really assigned to your 23rd Division organization. He only cooperates with the 23rd Division in combat, even though it makes Colonel Matsuda Iwa hate him.  His teeth were itching, but there was nothing he could do to deal with this guy. Even if he wanted to exchange generals on the battlefield, he didn't have the right.

    Moreover, within the 23rd Division, after the two tank squadron captains were killed one after another, no one knew how to use tanks. Even if they had the right, no one could replace them, and the 3rd Tank Regiment was required to strictly follow the division's deployment.  Execution is one thing, but the specific tactical execution is another matter, but no one can replace him, and he does not have the right to change generals on the battlefield, but Ikoma Lin's performance made Matsuda Iwa and others furious.

    Although it is still unclear when the Kwantung Army launched a comprehensive counterattack and the specific plan, Matsuda Iwa was keenly aware of the various orders issued by the Kwantung Army to the 23rd Division based on his intuition from many years of military service.  The Third Division is now in a very critical position.

    But the 23rd Division, which has suffered heavy losses now, has limited strength. Whether it can complete the tasks assigned to the division by the Kwantung Army and achieve the division commander's battle plan, the main hope lies with the inexperienced guy in front of him, but this  The guy's performance made Matsudayan feel powerless for a while.

    But he didn't have many options, so he could only persuade this damn Lieutenant Commander Ikoma Hayashi to change his current attitude and thoughts, but this guy was helpless and couldn't listen no matter how hard he tried to persuade him. In desperation, Matsuda Iwa  Under the full cover of the artillery behind them, they took the risk of moving the lightweight Type 41 mountain cannon and the Type 92 infantry gun forward, and used direct-aiming shooting to destroy the defenders' machine gun positions.

    At the same time, he ordered the attacking troops to hold on wherever the offensive was forced to stop. If there were no fortifications, they would use the bodies of dead soldiers or the seriously wounded who could not be removed to build fortifications on the ground, even if only one person was left.  , and are not allowed to take half a step back. In order to break through the defense of the twelve front-line defenders as soon as possible, Colonel Matsuda Iwa will not hesitate even if the entire army of these five infantry squadrons is shattered.

    As for the Third Tank Regiment and Lieutenant Colonel Ikoma Hayashi, since he is afraid of death, let him stay where he is. After the war, we will settle the general account with him and his Third Tank Regiment and disobey his superiors.  Following orders and avoiding battle are absolutely intolerable in the Imperial Army.

    Colonel Matsuda Iwa has made up his mind that no matter what the outcome of this battle is after the war, he will kick this disgrace of the Imperial Army out of the army to prevent such people from remaining in the Imperial Army that he is proud of and corrupting it.  The atmosphere of the Imperial Army was that Colonel Matsuda Iwa, who was infuriated by Ikoma Hayashi, was internally burned, but he did not understand this guy's true thoughts.

    In fact, most of them are adapted from the Japanese tank department, which has always been aristocratic cavalry in the Japanese army.I don¡¯t know if the team¡¯s tactical literacy is top-notch or not. I don¡¯t know how much tank tactics they have learned. However, the cavalry unit developed for the emperor¡¯s personal soldiers has learned a lot about its inherent arrogance.  .

    It is not impossible to fear the enemy and avoid fighting, but for a proud and arrogant person like Ikoma Lin, that is absolutely impossible. If you make him shrink into a cow, it will be more uncomfortable than killing him, especially  In the Battle of Nomonhan, the Japanese tank troops were completely defeated when fighting the Soviet army, which was quite difficult for him to accept.

    In particular, the Japanese Angan detachment that reinforced Nomenhan was criticized as a waste by the infantry because it had too few troops. Compared with the overwhelming number of tanks of the Soviet army, it was too few. Moreover, due to improper use of tactics, it did not play the role expected by the infantry.  The conclusion made him almost want to vomit blood.

    In fact, Commander Ikoma Hayashi adopted the current tactics not because he was timid. In fact, the reason why he did so was because he wanted to preserve his strength. However, this preservation of strength was not out of fear of death, but in this guy's heart.  There is an idea that never forgets, that is to fight a tank battle with the opponent.
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