Chapter 353: Prelude to the Great War
"Well! There is no problem with these, just leave them to our Twenty Army!"
Zhang Hansheng nodded. He also knew their current situation.
If they were to fight against the Japanese army, they really had nothing to be afraid of.
But the key is the Japanese people.
Before they came, they received a large amount of information about the Japanese inside the military sent them.
Many young people of the Japanese were influenced by the contemporary military headquarters.
They are likely to attack the army desperately when they go crazy.
This is the problem they need to solve at the moment. This is also the reason why Zhang Xunchen let Zhang Hansheng's 20th Army defend the internal defense.
Then Zhang Xunchen sent his 19th Army to the Shifang, Xingqiao and Xiaguan.
At present, the Japanese's troops are still deployed, and many of them are still on the way.
In Fukuoka Island, the Japanese have only one of the 10th Divisions sent to stabilize the plague some time ago. Moreover, the 10th Division is still scattered.
According to the military's prediction, they will not be able to gather all again tonight.
Other Japanese troops would not be able to arrive during the day today.
So today, the 19th Army will not encounter too much resistance, but tomorrow will not be the case.
Tomorrow they will be besieged by at least six divisions.
However, the Japanese troops did not arrive today, but one thing made Zhang Xunchen angry.
"Commander! Now the Japanese are attacking our troops. So far, more than 30 people have died from sneak attacks! They use pistols and other weapons to attack our troops. Some people are running towards our troops with explosives!"
Resistance!
The anticipated rebels of the military indeed appeared.
And there are quite a lot of them. These young Japanese devils who have suffered from their own nationalism have always believed that their empire is very powerful, and they also want to snatch the rich continent from China.
Now that the Huaxia Pingyuan Army has reached their homeland, do you think they will not go crazy?
"What's going on? They attacked on our march?"
Zhang Xunchen had a expressionless face. Before, the military headquarters told him to pay attention to the Japanese rebels.
At that time, he was a little unbelievable, thinking that once his army arrived, would they still dare to attack the army?
But the fact was that they gave him a hard blow, and they did dare.
And they not only dared, but also did it openly. They also suffered casualties.
"Yes! It was the sudden attack launched during our march, and many soldiers did not react!"
The consultant nodded.
"Where is our reconnaissance force? Why didn't these people be found? Did they say that their eyes were blind?"
Zhang Xunchen was furious. Before his troops could actually go to the battlefield, they suffered casualties. This was reported back to the country, and it would probably be a joke.
Among the forty standing armies in the country, the ten fast-response mobile troops and so many security divisions in the country, their own nineteenth army will become a complete joke. The troops will be killed before they go to the battlefield.
"They all thought they were ordinary people of the Japanese. They just dispersed them and stopped them from getting close to the troops and stopped them from getting close to the troops!"
"Ordinary Japanese people? Will ordinary Japanese people lean forward when they see the army?"
Zhang Xunchen feels that he is too kind?
Look at Zhao Tiezhu's Seventh Army, wherever he goes to Nanyang, he will resist fiercely.
But I didn’t see any casualties from other people’s troops. But what about my own?
On the first day of landing, more than 30 people died.
"this"
The staff officer is also quite aggrieved. I am just a staff officer in the headquarters. How can I know this?
"Go! Send a message to Huang Weigang and Tong Zeguang. Anyone who dares to approach the army will be shot!"
This time Zhang Xunchen was really angry.
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"Brother Xunchen, don't get angry! No one expected this kind of thing. To be honest, I didn't expect the Japanese to resist beyond expectations. It seems that we must be cautious in the next step!"
Now Zhang Hansheng and Zhang Xiuchen have formed a joint command center to advance and retreat together!
After all, in a foreign country, joint operations can be done.
"Brother Hansheng, I'm so angry! If Huang Weigang and Tong Zeguang were more cautious, this would not have happened at all. You and I were both surrendered, so you should be better. At least the Chief of Staff, Mr. Zhan Ning, is your principal. But I am different. My old commander at the time! You also know that it will be this time to see if I will be valued or benched in Pingyuan's army in the future."
Zhang Xunchen knew that Han Ling handed over the 19th Army to himself for his ability. But the 19th Army was not an elite force in Pingyuan Army.
There is now an unwritten rule in Pingyuan’s army.
If you want to be valued by Han Ling, you must serve as the commander of the top seventeen armies to be valued by Han Ling and the military headquarters.
They are also the key training targets of the military headquarters.
For someone like Zhang Xiuchen who has been in the army for a lifetime, who doesn’t want to command an elite force?
Who doesn’t want to be valued by superiors?
"Brother Xunchen, we are in the same situation now. This time it is our opportunity! But if we seize it, it is an opportunity. If we don't seize it, it is not an opportunity!"
Zhang Hansheng was also a little helpless. As a student of Zhan Ninggong, he was considered a good one.
But because he had not held a very high position in other warlords before.
It's just a teacher.
After surrendering to Pingyuan Army, Han Ling gave him the position of commander of the 20th Army, but because he did not have the chance to go to the battlefield, he could not find an opportunity to prove his abilities.
Look at Gu Mosan, someone else was a surrendered general, but he proved his ability on the battlefield several times, and later followed Han Ling closely, and now he serves as the commander of an elite army such as the commander of the Eighth Army.
This made many officers who graduated from Baoding Military Academy envious.
As for Sun Cuiya, the commander of the First Army, they cannot compare.
Although this person was also a surrendered general, since others defected to Han Ling, they have been following Han Ling.
And he is a fellow townsman with Han Ling. In this era when the circumstances of fellow townsman are very serious, it is not surprising that he can take this position.
On the first day of landing, Zhang Xunchen was sending troops to occupy the area, while Zhang Hansheng was stabilizing the ruling area.
The next day, on the morning of January 2, 1933.
The second batch of landing troops arrived.
The 21st Army landed in Kitakyushu.
At twelve:30 noon, the 22nd Army also landed in Kitakyushu.
At this point, the number of troops of Pingyuan's Japanese soldiers in the Japanese has increased to 400,000.
At the same time, the Japanese had already surrounded these four armies.
The eight divisions of the Japanese are: the First Division, the Fourth Division, the Fifth Division, the Ninth Division, the Tenth Division, the Eleventh Division, the Twelfth Division, and the Twentieth Division.
The First Division, the Fourth Division, and the Fifth Division competed for control of Xiaguan in Xiaguan and wanted to open up the passage between Kyushu Island and Fukuoka Island.
The other divisions landed on Fukuoka Island through waterways.
The 9th Division is in Kurume, the 10th Division is in Hida, the 11th Division is in Nakazin, and the 12th Division and the 20th Division are in Fukuoka.
Because of the importance of this battle, the Japanese specially sent a heavyweight, Kawahosaki.
Although this person’s name is not very good, it has been unknown in its original history, but it does not mean that this person is incapable of ability.
This person is not only aristocratic in the Japanese, but also has strong abilities.
He is highly valued by the Japanese Emperor.
In original history, this person was the second commander of the Kwantung Army. Later, after returning to China, he took over the position of Chief of General Staff of the Japanese Army, a Field Marshal of the Japanese at that time, and became the new Chief of General Staff of the Army.
The same is true in this time and space, except that later the Japanese Emperor let his uncle serve as the chief of staff of the Army, and he became a veteran figure in the Army and retreated behind the scenes.
Although he rarely appears and seems to have a reputation, he ranks second among the Japanese military headquarters, second only to the Marshal Uehara at that time.
This time, the Japanese sent him as the front commander of this battle, which shows how important the Japanese attached to this battle.
The Japanese Kyushu Island, Mei Ni
Kawaka set up his front-line headquarters here.
It is not far from the front line battlefield and is not close at the same time, so it is very suitable for commanding front line combat.
"Who will tell me now about the deployment of the Chinese army?"
After Kawakao rushed to the command he had ordered to form, he looked at the three division commanders who were already waiting here.
"Hi! Commander, let me tell you!"
Lin Xianzhi, the commander of the First Division, said.
As the commander of the First Division, his position among the commanders of the divisions of the Japanese Army was second only to the commanders of the Guard Division.
The three division commanders here, the commander of the First Division, the commander of the Fourth Division, and the commander of the Fifth Division, are the highest in his position.
"According to the information we have received now, China's army in my country has four armies of 400,000. Their four armies are called standing army and belong to the kind of army with strong combat effectiveness.
At present, they have arranged the forces of two infantry divisions in Shigaoguan, hoping to cut off our ties with Fukuoka Island.
And their other troops are on Fukuoka Island, I believe the 10th Division knows this better than us.”
Chapter completed!