Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 400 According to Intuition
The 36th Infantry Brigade of the Sixth Division was the first brigade-level unit of the Tenth Army to arrive at the Baihegang Bridge.

After receiving Yanagawa Hirasuke's order to speed up the pursuit of the whole army, Mitsuru Ushijima used almost all the mechanical power he could use to load the infantry.

Because the naval reconnaissance plane reported that the main force of the Chinese is still 30 kilometers away, and the reconnaissance of the divisional cavalry regiment is enough. The 36th Infantry Brigade, which was chasing frantically, did not send reconnaissance infantry at all. The three-wheeled motorcycles used for reconnaissance There are six infantrymen on board, and three motorcycles are enough to carry an infantry squad. The truck loaded with rations and even artillery shells is full of soldiers, and even several of them are lying on the roof.

Of course, it is impossible to drive at high speed, but even marching at a speed of five kilometers per hour can keep the infantry strong enough to fight in the shortest time when encountering the Chinese.

Ushijima, who had the opportunity to be promoted to lieutenant general, was full of energy this time, even if he organized the 36th Infantry Brigade under his command to be the same as in A Sanguo.

At 40 o'clock in the afternoon, it took them only seven hours to march [-] kilometers with all the heavy equipment and arrived one mile away from the Baihegang Bridge.

This speed, for a non-mechanized army, is absolutely eye-popping.

You know, on the future northern ice sheet, a Chinese infantry regiment spent 14 hours running 80 kilometers on the rugged mountain road with light clothing. More than the wheels that shuttle through the mountains.

Although the 36th Infantry Brigade is on the plains, and there are certain trucks and carriages, but this kind of continuous march with heavy weapons for more than seven hours and a long distance of up to 40 kilometers, they are said to be a first-class strong army. Not at all.

The more than 6 soldiers in Songjiang's army, under the threat of death, were exhausted after running for 30 hours overnight and marching [-] kilometers away, and were forced to stop for rest.

If he is forced to stop by the constant harassing of Japanese planes from the sky, it is not impossible for Yanagawa Heisuke to catch up with the main force of the Matsue defenders before sunset.

Ushijima began to have pains before his boss.

What hurt Niu Dao was not the bombing of the Baihegang Bridge.

But the bridge is still there.

Many traces left in the wilderness have shown that a large number of people once gathered and passed here.

That also means that the main force of the Chinese has crossed the river through the bridge.

Then why didn't they blow up the bridge?

Keep it so that the pursuers can chase them effortlessly?

Niu Daoman thought with his back heel, and knew that the Chinese would not be so stupid.

"Liu Chuanheisuke, you're a bitch, you're here! I'm so angry waiting for you!"

"Moji Suematsu, you idiot, you only have this speed, by the time you get home, there will be dozens of cuckolds!"

"Niu Dao is full of idiots, my brother is on the other side of the river, if you have the ability, come and beat me!"

The Chinese people are becoming more and more proficient in the Japanese style slogan with a Chinese taste, which makes Ushishimaman sure that the main force of the Chinese people has crossed the river.

That is, you scolded those lieutenant generals, why did you mention me, a little army major general?Niu Daoman was a little depressed and inexplicably happy when he was scolded by the Chinese people.

Could it be that even the Chinese think that besides His Excellency Gu Hisao, the Sixth Division is the most powerful of me?

Don't tell me, even though Niu Dao is full of 'Fu Xin' men at this time, he really thinks right.

Tang Dao, who is familiar with history, really did not underestimate this guy, even though he is only a young major general now.

In the past time and space, Ushidoman, who performed well in the First World War in Southeast China, was just emerging. In the following Jiangxia battle, he led the 36th Infantry Brigade to complete a bold tactical penetration, blocking hundreds of thousands of soldiers. In the rear of the army, although his dream of wiping out hundreds of thousands of troops was not realized due to the small number of troops, the annihilation of the last Chinese heavy artillery brigade made the Chinese army, which lacked heavy weapons, no longer able to counterattack.

This feat enabled him to be promoted to lieutenant general a year later and serve as the principal of the non-commissioned officer academy, but this was not the peak moment of Ushidoman's military career.

A few years later, on the Pacific battlefield, Mitsuki Ushijima, who had been promoted to general of the army, led two divisions and one brigade to a head-to-head encounter with the American cowboys on the small island of Okinawa.

The Japanese army, which is armed to the teeth with the American cowboys, is comparable to the comparison between China and Japan. Under the leadership of this man, they have achieved a record that makes the American cowboys tremble.

Throughout the Battle of Okinawa, more than 25 ground troops were invested, hundreds of aircraft, hundreds of ships, and hundreds of American cowboy casualties exceeded 60,000 people, and a lieutenant general commander died in battle.

Ushijima Mitsuru, who led the battle, was not only hailed as an "excellent tactician" by Japanese military critics, but even American cowboys called him the most difficult enemy to deal with before they were beaten by Chinese soldiers.

The "Puxin" man has seen through the Chinese tricks with a fairly wise mind.

He was not in a daze to do something about the entanglement of "what is true is false, and what is false is true". He sent a report to Liu Chuanping to know that the Chinese had passed the Baihegang Bridge, and at the same time ordered the infantry brigades to send out search teams with infantry squads as units. , Search along the river banks on both sides of the bridge, looking for shoals or available boats that can cross the river.

Anyway, the pies left by the enemy will never be a good thing. Ushido, who doesn't want to be a dog, doesn't want to waste the lives of soldiers in vain.

The main reason is that he has already consumed a lot in Matsue Castle, although it is much less than that idiot Sakai Tokutaro.

"Damn it, you're quite smart, and you still don't rush over the bridge after being scolded like a bear." Leng Feng, who was lurking in the bushes 50 meters away from the river bank, cursed angrily.

At his hand is a detonator connected to a wire, and 150 kilograms of explosives are placed on the bridge head [-] meters away from him. As long as he presses it hard, this steel bridge that can pass cars and trains will crash into the water.

Lei Xiong's order was to blow up the bridge after the entire army evacuated, but Leng Feng, who was in charge of the blasting, firmly believed that even if he had doubts, some Japanese troops would enter the bridge to search, and then he would detonate the bridge again. It can be considered that the explosives did not blow up their own things in vain.

Thinking about what this guy said was right, Lei Xiong didn't argue with him too much, and let him go.

As a result, Leng Feng, who had been waiting for several hours, received a wise response from the Japanese army.

Thousands of Japanese came in black, but none of them went to the bridge. Instead, they sent a large number of infantry teams to search along the river. It looked like they were planning to wade across the river.

It was almost exactly the same as Tang Dao predicted.

Yes, the Suzhou Creek is considered a big river here, but after all, it is the dry season after winter, and if you find a suitable shallow river bank, you still have a chance to cross the river with a gun.

The Japanese cavalry had tried to cross the river several times along the long river bank of more than ten miles. Two cavalry had even passed the center of the river, and the water had just reached the belly of their horses. They were about to cross the river victoriously.

However, the gunshots rang out.

Two Pathfinders in the big river died helplessly in the river, and were hit by a group of colleagues standing on the bank of the river to fight back.

But geese, that's no use for birds, they'll die as hell, and the unobstructed river center is a death zone for both parties who greet each other with bullets.

Not only the Japanese have cavalry, but the Chinese also have them.

With 6 cavalry companies, the Chinese cavalry has more than 200 horses so far, and they were scattered on the 20-mile bank along the river by Tang Dao.

As long as it is found that the Japanese army is trying to cross the river, they will launch an attack and destroy their attempt in the river.

If the Japanese army is iron-headed and implements a large-scale river crossing on a certain river bank, then leave it to the infantry deployed along the bank to handle them.

Yes, the advance regiment led by Tang Dao did not continue to run away, but came to record the carbine. According to the terrain on the opposite side of the river bank, a simple field position was built along the river bank to block the Tenth Army.

"Abandoned pawns to save handsome?" Ushi Daoman gasped when he heard the news.

"Survive with broken arms!" Yanagawa Heira, who received a telegram from the Chinese to deploy blocking positions along the north bank of the Suzhou River, made a painful judgment.

This is an old Chinese routine, which has been used many times in the North China battlefield.

Once encountering an invincible pursuit, it will immediately block with a rear guard to let the main force escape.

Although most of the rear troops collapsed within a short period of time, they could be delayed for a while no matter what.

What's more, it's that army.

Intuition told Yanagawa Heisuke that if he wanted to cross the river, it would be difficult to rely on the strength of the 36th Infantry Brigade before dark, unless the Heavy Artillery Brigade could arrive in time, or he had to invest more force.

"Order the 36th Infantry Brigade not to act rashly, only allow small-scale tentative attacks, order the whole army, and then speed up, try to arrive before [-]:[-], rest for half an hour, and launch an attack on the Chinese on the other side of the river. Kill all They, I don't want any prisoners, not a single one."

Yanagawa Hirasuke gritted his molars and issued the military order on horseback.

The truth is, the Japanese lieutenant general's instincts were wrong.

(End of this chapter)