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Chapter 1569: Ohta¡¯s shock (please vote)

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    The battle during the day gave Lieutenant General Ohta a new understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, and it also shocked him extremely.

    Kameji Ota is 52 years old this year. During September 18, 13 years ago, he was a lieutenant colonel-level combat staff officer at the Kwantung Army Headquarters, and personally experienced the pinnacle event of the Kwantung Army's honor.

    In the following ten years, he successively served in the secret service and the Central China Front Army, and also served as the commander of the main brigade in the Pacific Theater. It was not until recently that he was transferred back to Manchuria to serve as the commander of the new 111th Division.

    In the past ten years, Lieutenant General Ohta can be said to have been fighting against the Chinese army, so he thinks he knows the Chinese army very well, and he even calls himself a China expert.

    In his understanding, the Chinese army has first-rate soldiers, but only second-rate officers, third-rate generals and an inferior supreme commander.

    This is not only Lieutenant General Ohta¡¯s summary of the Chinese military, but also the evaluation of the Chinese military by mainstream Western countries.

    The combat effectiveness of the Chinese army is summarized quite clearly every day. Under the national military system, the Sichuan Army and the Guangxi Army are quite tenacious, the Central Army is average, and other local armies are quite poor. Only a few units have performed well.  Most were in capitulations and routs.

    The Eighth Route Army behind enemy lines is the most tenacious force with the strongest will to fight. Although it lacks weapons and equipment, it can cause the Japanese army a headache in the occupied areas, and has never been captured by the Japanese army in an organized manner, not even a platoon.

    Before the war between the United States and Japan, I also communicated with American military officers and quoted the US military¡¯s evaluation of the Chinese army. China has first-class soldiers, and the rest are not worth mentioning.

    Ota Kameji once served as the captain of the regiment in Shanghai during the Songhu Battle, and fought head-on with the Chinese army. Based on what he saw on the Songhu battlefield, he felt that the Americans¡¯ evaluation of the Chinese army was quite fair.

    Think back to the beginning, after the war between China and Japan, the Nationalist Government proposed the "Iron Fist Plan" and put it into action, commanding the national army to conduct the Battle of Songhu!

    But under the wrong command of Chairman Chiang in Nanjing, the Battle of Songhu ended in a disastrous defeat!  It also developed into the largest and most brutal battle in the history of the Anti-Japanese War, and also laid the groundwork for the short-term fall of Nanjing!

    At the same time, Ota Kameji saw too many shocking scenes in the Battle of Songhu. Many heroic figures emerged in that battle!

    ??For example, the small Chinese army that defended Baoshan County, the 800 warriors who served as the last totem of Shanghai, and the heroic pilot who drove a fighter plane directly into a Japanese warship.

    Most of them are ordinary soldiers at the lowest level. Many of them have experienced warlord melees, the Central Plains War and other major wars. I believe that those who can survive in so many major battles must be veterans of hundreds of battles.

    In the Battle of Songhu, they held the belief that every inch of mountains and rivers, every inch of blood, swore to live and die with the position. They repelled the Japanese attacks time and time again. They fought without retreating and used their actions to defend the honor of the Chinese soldiers. The whole battalion  Except for one soldier who was ordered to break out and report the military situation to his superiors, all the others died on the battlefield. Such soldiers are definitely the best soldiers in the world!

    In the Battle of Songhu, grassroots officers of the Chinese army also suffered heavy casualties, especially officers at the four levels of platoon, company, battalion and regiment.

    They are brave and unafraid of death. In the era of warlord melee, they can defeat the enemy with just one charge. However, in the Battle of Songhu, they faced Japanese troops who had undergone military training and had excellent military literacy!

    During the melee between warlords, there was no need to consider the use of tactics, but in the Battle of Songhu, there was no use of tactics and all one knew was to rush forward blindly, only to be beaten in vain!

    When a battalion commander led the whole battalion of soldiers to rush forward under the cover of Japanese machine guns, two Japanese machine gunners destroyed them in three minutes. This is the tactics and fighting style of second-rate officers!

    When the Supreme Command ordered the retreat, the brigade commander, division commander, and corps commander who finished the meeting did not even take their troops with them, but just took the guards around them and ran away.

    The Battle of Songhu failed, and hundreds of thousands of army soldiers ran back. As a result, the soldiers could not find their officers, and the officers could not find their soldiers. Everything was in chaos!

    The Chinese general at that time abandoned his soldiers and ran away, only caring about his own life and not thinking about any consequences. He didn¡¯t know how he became the person in power in the army who was so greedy for life and fearful of death!  It's not bad to call them third-rate generals!

    As the architect of the "Iron Fist Plan", when Chairman Chiang decided to drive the thousands of Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai down the river, the thousands of Japanese troops would not be able to hold on for long. If they go all out, they will definitely succeed.

    ?Unfortunately, in order to delay the arrival of reinforcements, the Japanese army put pressure on Chiang Kai-shek through the Red Cross, saying that the war would cease for two days to allow civilians in the war zone to safely evacuate before fighting again.  As a result, the opportunity was missed and the army was defeated!

    When Chiang gave the order to retreat, he learned that the Nine-Nation Convention was being held in the West. He ordered the troops not to retreat and continue to garrison. The soldiers who had just packed up and were about to retreat could not retreat!  After a while, one order made the soldiers lose their morale, and the soldiers had no morale at all!

    And the unrealistic fantasy of the Nine-Nation Pact also made Chiang taste the bitter pill!  At the same time, the Japanese troops who learned about the Nine-Nation Pact became even more unscrupulous!  The national army, which had missed the best time to retreat, ran back in a swarm. Thousands of miles of roads were covered with wounded soldiers, and there was no organized retreat.

    The 400,000-strong defeated army was all exposed to the eyes of the Japanese Air Force. A bomb would kill them piece by piece.

    There are no ambulance personnel. They can only lie on the roadside and slowly wait for death. How painful it is. These soldiers who shed blood for the country still shed tears.

    However, today, just today, Ota Kameji saw another different Chinese army. Although their military uniforms were in tatters and they did not have uniform clothes, they looked like a beggar army.

    However, the weapons and equipment are no worse than those of the Imperial Japanese Army. The soldiers hold imperial-produced Type 38 rifles, and the machine guns use crooked handles and Taisho 16-year-old models. The opponent's troops also have grenades.  barrel, the only difference is the grenade used by soldiers on both sides.

    The Imperial Japanese Army still used melon grenades, while the one who carried them used German-style long-handled grenades. Other than that, there was almost no big difference.

    That¡¯s all. What surprised Lieutenant General Ohta the most was that the man actually had an organized artillery force, and the number was no less than the artillery force of the Imperial Japanese Army.

    The most important thing is that the opponent does not have armored troops, but it does have powerful anti-tank troops. The flat-firing artillery like a large trumpet can completely destroy any type of imperial tank at close range.

    In today's daytime battle, in less than 4 hours before the war started, 118 of the 204 tanks of the 4th Tank Brigade were destroyed, 21 were injured, and less than 60 tanks are still fighting.  Vehicle, the loss is not unbearable.

    Moreover, Lieutenant General Ohta was shocked by the combat qualities displayed by the Chinese army on the opposite side. The soldiers on the other side advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, and fought bravely and decisively. When defending, they were like tigers sitting on mountains, and when attacking, they were like hungry wolves hunting.  Fear of death.

    The other side¡¯s officers used tactics properly, the artillery and other light and heavy weapons were arranged reasonably, and even the defenses exceeded everyone¡¯s expectations.

    Ohta was really shocked, so he decisively gave up the idea of ??monopolizing the victory.

    He knew very well that what he was facing was by no means a simple Chinese army. The opponent was probably an elite who had grown up through thousands of battles. Facing such an enemy, he must not be brave, otherwise, he would definitely be defeated.  Bloody.

    Anyway, he is the commander of the Western Front right now and has the authority to command all the troops on the front. It is better to wait until the 75th Division arrives.

    "A dead Taoist friend will never die a poor Taoist, this principle is applicable everywhere!"

    What Lieutenant General Ohta didn¡¯t know was that at the same time that he was frightened by the Chinese army, Lu Zhanwu¡¯s troops were organizing troops to retreat on the main battlefield a few kilometers away.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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