Battle of the Third Reich

The story will begin in the early morning of September 12, 1940. ↗ As usual, the Japanese soldiers who fought the whole night with the terrible mosquitoes were awakened from the dream by the bright wake-up call. The soldiers used the habits developed over the years and months of training to quickly put on their military uniforms, put on short leather shoes, and then carefully put on their leggings. According to the practice of the Japanese army, some morning training is done after getting up in the morning. Generally, a set of morning exercises is done first, and then a few laps around the camp. After the people's bodies are all active, they will line up and go to the cafeteria to receive breakfast.

Most of these soldiers are veterans who have served for three years. They have long learned how to survive in the army. Long-term battlefield battles have also tempered their tenacious nerves, but even such powerful soldiers have already been The terrible jungle exhausted the spirit. Since late August, the morale of the troops has obviously declined. Not only has the military discipline changed a little, but even some dissatisfaction with the superiors of the coalition and even the commander has begun to appear between the bottom officers and soldiers.

The third brigade of the 21st Wing of the Fifth Division of the Imperial Japanese Army was stationed at a place called Ershan Village, close to the Sino-Vietnamese border, and only a half-hour walk from Zhennanguan. This unit is now subordinate to the Miki unit composed of the backbone of the 21st Wing. The commander is the leader of the 21st Wing, Army Assistant Nosuke Mitsuke Miki. In addition to the infantry unit to which the wing originally belonged, this mixed force was also organized into a squadron of chariots and a part of the weight and water supply units. Its task was to block the frontier of the southern front of the town and to block French Indochina. Material transportation to China.

For Japan, this is a strategic action, because the Japanese Staff Headquarters at that time circulated the idea that as long as the transportation of foreign materials from China was cut off, the Chinese government in Chongqing would lose the capital to continue fighting. It will help Japan win this protracted war as soon as possible.

So when the Japanese army launched the Nanning campaign, they once again shouted the slogan "This is the last battle" they once shouted under Nanjing City. At this moment, the Japanese army thought that as long as the Yunnan-Burma Road and the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway were cut off, Japan would You can win this war.

Of course, history proves that this is only the wishful thinking of the Japanese, but at the time, the Japanese Military Department did indeed place great expectations on this. Even in order to obtain navy air and sea support, he did not hesitate to bow to those old enemies. However, after the Japanese army defeated Nanning, they found that the changes in the situation were not the same as originally expected, although they successfully won the Zhennan Pass. However, the Japanese Military Ministry suddenly found that it was their own side who was currently trapped to death.

As for the bitterness, Zuo Morimoto, the first-line commander, was most touched by this. The 45-year-old Morimoto Nakasa was the most standard young military officer in the Japanese army. He graduated from the 28th issue of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School. He was a classmate of the same period as Chang Yong and Qingyi Yimu who were famous in later generations. There was also a Chinese student who was very famous in that period, and that was He Yingqin, who was the chief of staff of the Republic of China. To tell the truth, this Nakasawa's official movement is not particularly good, just relying on the standard military qualifications to progress. Many of the students in the same period have already become the Nakasawa or United captain two or three years ago, and Morimoto was not promoted until September last year. , Was appointed as the commander of the third squadron of the 21st Wing, and finally blended into the middle of the Japanese Army.

Before he was promoted, he didn't wait for him to warm his ass. The Fifth Division was transferred from the comfortable and prosperous South China to the wild and turbulent Guangxi battlefield. After landing from Qinzhou, Morimoto took the third brigade and burned and rushed into Nanning City. When I was about to take a break, I was transferred to the periphery of Nanning to undertake the security task. When he climbed to his destination and looked at the map, the place was called Kunlunguan.

What kind of battle did the battle of Kunlunguan have? There are too many historical materials, so there is no need to elaborate here. It is only one point that must be explained. If according to the report of the police, the Morimoto Nakasa should have been killed in Kunlun by this time, and his body was rotten. (For a while, the author also believed in the **** record of Kunlun Guan Dajie. So when I found the name of Morimoto Miyake when looking through the historical data, I thought it was two people. Then I found out that I checked the resume. It was really this guy who took the third brigade to support Kunlunguan, and this person not only did not die there. Eventually, he retired in North Korea as Dazuo.)

In the chaotic Kunlunguan battlefield, the third brigade has been wandering between Batang and Qitang, and has not been placed on the first line. Compared with the unlucky first and second brigade, it has not suffered much. Loss. In the end, it was pulled out alone because of the largest number of veterans in the army. Putting it on the outside line to perform the border blockade task, perhaps the captain of the coalition is also a little bit overwhelmed, and also specially assigned a tank squad for it, stationed in the nearby village to cooperate with the operation of the Morimoto brigade.

But since the third brigade assumed this task, it was like falling into a nightmare. At this time, the border between China and Vietnam is full of dense primitive jungle. The climate is hot and humid, and the maximum temperature during the day has reached more than 40 degrees. It was extremely difficult for the troops to supply supplies, and they couldn't even get fresh vegetables from the nearby mountain people. The station was full of dense and reckless forests, full of poisonous snakes and poisonous insects. If you were not familiar with the road, no one would dare to go inside. The eyes of the nearby villagers were full of indifference, and the language was completely incomprehensible. No matter how they compared with the officers who knew Chinese, they just shook their heads and said they could not understand. As soon as night fell, the jungle outside the camp began to make all kinds of strange sounds, and there were all kinds of weird howlings besides the tigers and howlings. The Japanese soldiers did not dare to walk out of the barracks alone at night.

At this time, not only the third brigade unit, the entire fifth division was in trouble. At that time, the local villages in Guangxi were very poor, and the civilians were extremely hostile to the Japanese invading army. Bai Li and the two Gui giants had long kept the drip of Guangxi governance. With their long-term propaganda and agitation, the people of Guangxi became very exclusive. It is embarrassing to say that it is a Japanese invader even if the central army comes in.

The Japanese simply cannot get food from the local area, let alone dishes with meals. The troops belonging to the Fifth Division, the rice white noodles and the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar that are consumed every day can only be shipped from overseas. These grains are unloaded in Qinzhou Port and then transported to Nanning by truck. The supply line of more than 100 kilometers from Nanning to Qinzhou needs to cross countless mountains. Armed mountain people are everywhere in the mountains. When they meet the Japanese army, they are happy to visit a bandit and rely on the fifth division. The troops in his hands could not protect the safety of the entire line, so each replenishment could only rely on the concentrated **** of heavy soldiers, and barely completed the basic material security of the division.

The original fifth division was a mechanized division, but because most of the area in this operation was mountain and jungle, the division changed the original mechanized equipment before departure, and the fifth division became a mule at this moment. Ma Hua, in addition to the necessary ammunition and oil, the transportation vehicle in his hand can only guarantee the delivery of edible rations every day. There is no extra capacity to transport any non-staple food such as canned meat and vegetables. It is completely guaranteed, after all, Nanning is a big city.

If the subordinates are unlucky and can’t get vegetable staple food nearby, they can only eat rice with miso and soy sauce. Especially the troops stationed in the mountainous depression, such as the third brigade of Morimoto, lived a miserable day. It’s just a matter of eating badly. The soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire shouldn’t have been greedy for enjoyment. Morimoto Nakasa put it this way, rice and soy sauce is a kind of tempering, and it can reflect the lord’s soul. In addition, sometimes the United team will open up. Occasionally, a few cans of emergency stocks are prepared to allow them to open them. Because the local climate is too humid and hot, even the cans are not well preserved.

In the eyes of Japanese soldiers, this is indeed not the biggest suffering. What makes them talk is the endless army of insects in the jungle. The most raging insects during the day are flies, which are ubiquitous, and the number is staggering. Morimoto ordered the whole camp to be hygienic according to domestic habits, but he found that if he wanted to eliminate the flies, he had to clean the entire forest outside. And as night fell, various mosquitoes of all sizes, like black clouds, came out of the woods. They flew into the Japanese military barracks through the gap between the bamboo and window walls of the doors and windows, and then found a flesh and blood guy Enjoy it fast. Japanese soldiers have tried to resist and used various methods, but in the face of this amazing small jungle demon, it has little effect. And because of the virus carried by the mosquitoes, it caused a large number of illnesses, the most common of which were dysentery and malaria, and even two soldiers also developed jaundice.

What makes Morimoto crazy is that the officers and soldiers have suffered so much, but the tasks given by the superiors cannot be completed at all. Between the mountains on the first line of Zhennanguan, the villagers and hunters opened up countless trails, making this borderline look like a colander. Simply defending the road cannot block the transportation of materials. Qing's smuggling horse gangs, driving local unique dwarf horses, carrying important materials across those borders from those trails. Those who are familiar with the roads can easily bypass the Japanese defense line and cross the high mountains to transport the goods to the control area of ​​the Chinese government.

Japan once raised solemn protests to the French for this. The French immediately indicated that they would strengthen the management of the border, and at the same time agreed to the Japanese army to send an observation team to supervise, to completely prevent such acts that undermine the friendship between France and Japan. As a result, before the Japanese celebrated a diplomatic victory, the French turned their heads and did not recognize them. The French Indochina federal authorities refused to recognize the agreement that the two sides had reached and claimed that it was only the personal behavior of the Governor-General Karut at that time. , Has no legal effect at all. Special envoys of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Army, an angry and frustrated request to meet with Karut, a scene that surprised the Japanese appeared, the French responded directly, Karut has been dismissed and investigated, and there are any diplomatic issues, please wait The new governor will discuss it after he takes office.

As the days of misery passed, Morimoto Nakasa’s mood became more and more depressed every day. After his daily work was completed, he would sit blankly and wipe his ancestral sword in the bamboo-built bedroom. In the middle of the night, weeping wailing. Morimoto Nakasa has suffocated his stomach, and he is anxious to find a place to vent. But this captain will not know that there are more people who are more anxious than him. The staff of the Army Staff Headquarters have become ants on the lid, because they are frightened to find that as the world situation changes, their wishful thinking is taking place. Step by step.

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