blood feud

The 6th Division of the Little Devils all died under artillery fire overnight. The first to know the news was not the Little Devils, but the reconnaissance company directly under the 52nd Army Headquarters of Guan Zhenglin.

When Commander Guan Zhenglin's headquarters withdrew, he was worried that the little devil would follow him and pursue him, and at the same time wanted to find out the next move of the little devil, so he left a reconnaissance company behind.

However, this company was not close to Baoding, but on the Ranzhuang line 20 kilometers south of Baoding, hidden near the railway, and sent two squads of brothers disguised as farmers to wander around every day.

The earth-shattering artillery fire on the night of September 1937, 9 finally made the reconnaissance company suspicious.Because the Central Army is on the front line in Shijiazhuang, the Northeast Army, Northwest Army, and Jinsui Army have all been defeated. Who on earth has such powerful artillery fire and confronted the little devil head-to-head?

In order to find out the specific situation, the company commander decided to come and see in person around four o'clock in the morning the next day.I didn't expect to come over and take a look, and I was immediately frightened!

The whole Baoding was dead silent, let alone the corpses of little devils everywhere, guns and ammunition were everywhere on the entire battlefield.Although there is no heavy equipment, the [-]-type rifle and crooked machine gun are enough to equip two divisions!

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity!The reconnaissance company commander ordered his men to clean up the battlefield quickly, and at the same time report to the army commander as quickly as possible.

It's a pity that the big troops who came later were a little late, and only cleaned up the battlefields to the east and south of Baoding City. Someone had already reported that the 20th Division of the little devil had come up.

"Your Excellency, Commander: After our pursuit, we killed six people in total. Judging from the seized weapons and military uniforms, the one who retreated from the battlefield just now was the 52nd Army of the Guan Zhenglin Department of the Chinese Government Army. Could it be that they launched a night war last night?" Attack, actually wiped out the 6th Division?"

The head of the 20th Division, Fumisaburo Kawagishi, had just arrived at the front line when he received a funeral report from the search team and immediately entered a state of petrification.

"Nani? Although the 6th Division fought hard the day before yesterday, it is impossible for Guan Zhenglin's 52nd Army to completely wipe out the 6th Division!" Kawagishi Fumisaburo absolutely cannot accept this result: "Could it be that the Chinese government army The Central Army is here? Continue to search the battlefield and see what else you find, hurry up!"

After more than three hours of searching by an infantry regiment, the final result came out: "Report to Your Excellency, Commander, all the senior officers of the Front Army Command, the Sixth Division Command, and the Sixth Division are all broken. The whereabouts of Lieutenant General Hisao Tani are unknown!"

This is terrible news!

Kawagishi Fumisaburo didn't dare to be negligent, so he quickly sent an urgent telegram to the base camp based on the facts he saw: "The North China Front Army Headquarters and the 6th Division all jade fragments, the whereabouts of His Excellency Terauchi Toshiichi and Lieutenant General Tani Hisao Unknown. The one I defeated in the end was the 52nd Army of Guan Zhenglin of the Chinese government."

"Currently, the Chinese government army is gathering on the front line of Shijiazhuang, and the front line of Pingjin is extremely empty. I hope that the base camp will quickly adjust its strategy and dispatch reinforcements urgently. Otherwise, all imperial troops in North China are likely to be wiped out again! "

A very simple telegram from Kawagishi Fumisaburo arrived at Monkey Island in the Pacific Ocean, and the entire high-level staff of the short-haired people were alarmed.

This telegram is simply earth-shattering!

The 6th Division (Kumamoto) and the [-]nd Division (Sendai) are known side by side as the two strongest and most combative forces in the Japanese Army.

Its predecessor was the Kumamoto town station established in 1873. During the Southwest War on the island, this army was surrounded by the Satsuma army led by Saigo Takamori in Kumamoto Castle. The attack won the final victory.

During the Sino-Japanese War, the Sixth Division, led by Heimu Weizhen, landed on the Jiaodong Peninsula and captured Weihaiwei in one fell swoop.In the Russo-Japanese War, it was assigned to the 2nd Army of Obao Gong.Participated in the Battle of Shahe and the Battle of Fengtian, and beat the Russian army to flee.

Throughout the establishment of the Sixth Division, whether it was during the civil war or in foreign wars, it can be said that it has won all battles and won all battles.The army is invincible everywhere, known as the "Iron Army" of the Japanese Army.

It was such an iron army that "attacked like a hurricane and defended like a rock" was wiped out overnight. Is this God mocking the Japanese Army?

Because of this, from the emperor to the base camp of the military headquarters below, there were all mournful voices on Aizizi Island: "The poor iron army of the empire has melted into the land of China!"

You can't let your anger out, and this reason is also understood by short-haired people.Therefore, the first decision made by the Aizizi base camp is: "This matter must be kept secret, and all media are not allowed to report it, and the common people must not know it!"

After stabilizing the country, the base camp of the short man began to suffer.

This is really "a leaky house meets continuous rain, and a broken ship meets the headwind." The Fifth Mixed Brigade was beaten with comminuted fractures and a destroyer was sunk before it fully landed.The Sixth Division of the Iron Army had just entered North China, and the entire army was wiped out.

"The Chinese government army still has secret weapons!" After deliberation, the base camp decided after three years: "We need to step up the pressure and let the Chinese government try its best! In Shanghai, the navy should play a role, and at the same time, two divisions must be transferred from Hangzhou Bay. Landing, defeating the enemy in front of us in one fell swoop, and directly threatening Nanjing."

"The country cannot be left without a master for a day, and the army cannot be without a commander for a day. Immediately reorganize the headquarters of the Northern China Expeditionary Army, appoint General Sugiyama Yuan as the commander of the North China Front Army, and at the same time strengthen its strength."

"Order: Form the North China Aviation Corps, commander Lieutenant General Tokugawa Hotoshi, headquartered in Jinzhou. Add 95 Kawasaki 24 attack aircraft to a brigade, 96 12 medium attack aircraft to a squadron, and the latest 97-type critical strike 4 planes."

"Dispatch the Bohai Bay Squadron, with the cruiser Flying Dragon as the flagship, one destroyer Furong and one destroyer Chaoyan, twelve 1-ton 'large engine boats', and eight 9.5-ton 'super-large engine boats'. To ensure the fleet Safety, the home port is located in Lushun, we must find out the real cause of the Tanggu maritime failure, and deal a fatal blow to the Chinese army.”

Among the short-haired people, the leaders of the hard-line war faction are two old bastards, Shouichi and Moto Sugiyama.Sugiyama Moto was recuperating at home because of a cecum problem.Unexpectedly, many people wanted to kick him out of the cabinet, and now the opportunity finally came.

But Moto Sugiyama himself doesn't care, sending the commander-in-chief means that the military power is in his hands.Although it is far away from the emperor, the dominant side still speaks powerfully.

Therefore, when Sugiyama flew to Tianjin, he gave an order, and the Bohai Squadron was dispatched immediately, and it had already arrived in Lushun to set up camp in just seven days.

Of the three additional fighters, two of them have just begun to be put into actual combat testing.Fortunately, Jinzhou has been building an airport since 1934, and it is not difficult to accommodate 40 aircraft.

The little devils lined up to take revenge, and the first target turned out to be Guan Zhenglin's 52nd Army!

It's a pity that Bai Shujie didn't know all this. As the instigator, he didn't expect that the little devil is so stubborn in thinking, and in the end he let Guan Zhenglin take the blame for him!

However, Bai Shujie soon found out that the little devil had increased his troops in Lushun and Jinzhou.

It turned out that when Shi Liancheng returned to Chengde, he brought back the first special warfare platoon and handed it over to the headquarters, so it naturally became a unit directly under Bai Shujie.

In the recent period, the main scope of activities of the Special Warfare Platoon has been Jinzhou, Yingkou, Dalian, and Lushun.So if the little devil makes any trouble, the telegram has already reached Bai Shujie's hands.

Bai Shujie suddenly became a little excited about the news of the little devil's increase in troops: "Lamei, go ask that bastard Wei Chong, how is his Flying Dragon Fourth Division? Also, how is Zhao Dayong's artillery division moving?" ? In addition, call me Zhang Nianzu, the head of the aviation regiment."

It turned out that ever since Yang Erya gained a firm foothold in Tianjin, Bai Shujie gave her a top-secret order: "Look for the lost personnel of the former Northeast Army Aviation Corps."

Bai Shujie has an impression that after the "September [-]th Incident", the air force of the Northeast Army of the little six sons fell apart, and the pilots, ground crews, and maintenance personnel all went their separate ways.

Among them, Gao Zhihang, Sun Zhonghua, Yang Xianglin and other six or 70 people went to Nanjing, and their salaries were reduced.Six or seven people including Zhang Nianzhao went to the northwest to vote for Sheng Shicai, and two others went to Sichuan to vote for Liu Xiang.Xu Shiying, the former deputy commander, and more than 10 people lost all hope and simply stayed in Beiping.

Because when retreating from Fengtian after the "September 24th Incident", Zhang Xiang raided Dongta Airport and blew up planes. At that time, he didn't know what aero-engines were, let alone what assembly line was, and he only drove back [-] tanks.

However, when the tank soldiers used the seized trucks to load things, they took more than 40 sets of unopened aircraft parts and 48 engines purchased from the Czech Republic, as well as a complete set of equipment from the accessory equipment factory, all back to the Crouching Tiger Mountain Villa base.

After the secret factory and warehouse in the Sanxiandong Base in Chengde were put into use, all the things in Crouching Tiger Villa were transferred here for storage.Bai Shujie also discovered by chance that there are aircraft spare parts and final assembly production lines!

Because of this, Bai Shujie secretly asked Ma Deyao, Luo Dingkun and other armored soldiers who were originally from the Northeast Army to contact the lost former Air Force personnel.

Later, Bai Shujie asked the little devil for compensation, and Zhao Jinxi and the others were not allowed to disassemble the dual aviation machine guns, hoping that one day they could have their own aircraft.

It turned out that when Little Six went to Europe for drug rehabilitation in 1930, he encountered a huge opportunity, which was a life-and-death struggle between German fighter manufacturers!

The protagonists are the Heinkel company and a newly established company in 1926 - the Bavarian Aircraft Works (bfw for short).

bfw is responsible for the production of a 10-seat passenger aircraft m-20 with a metal upper-wing structure for german airlines (lufthansa, abbreviated as dlh).

The aircraft was designed by Messerschmidt and his design team. The first prototype was tested on February 1928, 2. It crashed and the test pilot died after parachuting from an altitude of 26 feet.Erhard Milch, the purchasing representative of dlh at the time, immediately canceled all production orders.

The second prototype finally passed the test in August, and dlh bought the two m-8 prototypes and placed an order for 20 production models.

But before the first batch of planes were handed over, two more M-20s crashed, and one of them had 8 officials of the Wehrmacht on board, all of whom fell to their deaths!

As a result, the media pointed their finger at dlh and the manufacturer one after another, and Congress even conducted a special discussion.Frustrated with embarrassment, Milch canceled the order again and refused to accept the m-20 that had been produced. The Bavarian aircraft factory could not see the hope of survival at all.

After all, what happens next, let's see the breakdown in the next chapter.