Chapter 120: Crazy Nogi Maresuke
Thanks for your support, brother ‘Feng Zhi Lian Shang’. I can’t afford to write 6 chapters a day. I can only write more than 10,000 words a day. But according to other people’s 2,000 words per chapter, there are 6 chapters. I’ll take my time. Haha, I’m very happy if someone supports me.
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Wei Jichen didn’t know that his small telegram would cause a stir in the world. Originally, he was just afraid that the higher-ups would blame him for withdrawing from Ximu City without authorization, and he threw all the responsibility on the dead Feng Sheng’a.
And he did go through a hard battle, so it was inevitable to be passionate.
Unexpectedly, it became a big deal now.
The whole Liaodong began to revolve around his telegram.
In Yingkou, Song Qing first received a telegram from Li Hongzhang from the Zhili Governor’s Office, asking him to cooperate with Wei Jichen to counterattack Ximu City. Soon, he received a telegram from the Military Affairs Office, asking him to send an army to Haicheng under Wei Jichen’s command to jointly plan a counterattack on Ximu City.
At the horse race, Yiktang'a also received a telegram from the Military Affairs Office, asking him to harass the Japanese in Ximucheng and cooperate with Wei Jichen in the counterattack.
At Dagaoling, Nie Shicheng also received a telegram from the Governor-General's Office of Zhili, asking him to pay more attention to the movements of the Japanese 5th Division and not to let the 5th Division split its troops to support the 3rd Division.
After receiving the telegram, Song Qing was speechless for a long time. In the end, he could only say with deep emotion: Young man, you are really amazing. I have fought all my life, but I don't have such courage as him.
Then he carefully considered the strategy of counterattacking Ximucheng mentioned by Wei Jichen. Yingkou, Haicheng, and Gaiping are arranged in the shape of a product on the map. Ximucheng is in the middle of the product. Not only can Yingkou send troops, but the Japanese can also support from Gaiping.
The current garrison of Haicheng is the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Japanese 1st Army. Because the Japanese attacked all the way and occupied many Chinese cities, they had to divide their troops to garrison.
Therefore, the Japanese had fewer people the more they fought, while the Chinese army was not good at fighting. The various armies retreated continuously and finally retreated together. It seemed that the momentum was very strong, but the combat effectiveness needed to be scrutinized.
If Wei Jichen wanted to attack Ximu City, he had to prevent the Japanese from Gaiping from supporting him, so he became an indispensable member. I didn't expect that Wei Jichen even planned for me. I really couldn't help him.
Seeing that there was still a lot of room for recovery of Ximu City, Song Qing immediately decided to join Wei Jichen's counterattack plan and sent the third battalion of the Gongwei Army Infantry under Xu Bangdao to Haicheng to discuss the plan.
Xu Bangdao was over 60 years old and was brave and strategic in combat. He first stationed in Jinzhou and repelled the attacks of the Japanese First Division many times. Later, he retreated to Lushun. When he learned that the Japanese were about to invade, he set an ambush on the road that the Japanese must pass through and hit the Japanese head-on. He was considered to be an extremely outstanding general when he was stationed in Lushun.
After the fall of Lushunkou, Xu Bangdao led his defeated soldiers to Jinzhou and followed Song Qing. His official position was also stripped by the court, but he still led his own battalions of guards to fight against the Japanese with Song Qing.
Up to now, the war has been eliminated. Several cowardly generals have either fled or been captured by the Qing court. The remaining commanders are still quite capable.
Xu Bangdao received Song Qing's order and set off without saying a word.
Yiktang'a was a general in Heilongjiang, so he naturally would not obey Wei Jichen's dispatch. Fortunately, the Military Affairs Office only asked him to send troops to harass the Japanese's rear, which was not a big deal. Yiktang'a naturally had no reason to disapprove.
Nie Shicheng was in a stalemate with the Japanese. When he heard that Wei Jichen was going to counterattack Ximu City, he also expressed his spiritual support.
For a time, Wei Jichen's proposal to counterattack Ximu City actually involved the defenders of Liaodong, which was really a matter of tethering one thing to another.
The Japanese spies soon learned of the Qing army's great movement, and they were shocked and quickly spread the news to various places.
In the Ximucheng government office, the headquarters of the 3rd Division had been moved here. Katsura Taro learned that Wei Jichen was trying to counterattack Ximucheng, and hurriedly summoned all the generals to discuss countermeasures.
Yamagata Aritomo left a four-line poem to Katsura Taro, "There is no expectation of dying on horseback, how can I return empty-handed before the battle is halfway? But the emperor summoned me so urgently, and I was in tears before leaving the battlefield! ', and repeatedly told Katsura Taro to avenge the 3rd Division and defeat Wei Jichen.
Then, he returned to his country with a full of resentment towards the headquarters. Fortunately, Yamagata Aritomo had great power. After returning to his country to meet the emperor, although he was relieved of his duties as the president of the Privy Council and the commander of the First Army, he was changed to the "military supervisor" and was still able to participate in important decisions of the headquarters.
In the temporary headquarters of the 3rd Division, in addition to the division commander Katsura Taro and the chief of staff Ogawa Jiro, there were also Osako Naotoshi, Miyoshi Nariyuki, Sato Masaru, and the commander of the 6th Brigade, Oshima Hisanao, who had just arrived.
Katsura Taro was afraid that the troops were insufficient, so he immediately ordered Oshima Hisanao to lead the main force of the 6th Brigade to rush to the front line of Ximu City. Unexpectedly, he really got the upper hand.
"Gentlemen, the situation is not optimistic." Ogawa Jiro adjusted his glasses on his nose, stood at the front with a serious face, and spoke first.
The Japanese generals below all looked worried.
Ogawa Jiro continued: "According to the information from the imperial intelligence department, Wei Jichen gathered front-line troops in Haicheng, Yingkou, Tianzhuangtai, and Niuzhuang in an attempt to counterattack Ximu City. The combined strength of the Qing troops in this line reached more than 10,000. The most important thing is that , these people will be commanded by the Chinese Wei Jichen. Our 3rd Division is facing an unprecedented crisis. Now we are walking on thin ice. If we are not careful, we will fall into a situation of no return. "
Ogawa Jiro first greatly exaggerated the difficulties faced by the 3rd Division, and then continued: "Fortunately, the Qing army has complex factions. Wei Jichen is young and obviously lacks qualifications. He will definitely not be able to command these armies." So comfortable, this is our opportunity.”
Katsura Taro sighed, stood up and said: "The base camp believes that our First Army's attack should end here and retreat from Ximu City in order to re-adjust the battle line. Gentlemen, this is an attack on our 3rd Division. What an insult. Our 3rd Division went through all kinds of difficulties to capture Ximu City, but the base camp thought that we were unable to hold it. Fortunately, Mr. Shanxian strongly opposed it, so the base camp gave up. "
"Gentlemen!" Katsura Taro looked at everyone with a pair of sad eyes, and continued: "Our 3rd Division has always been brave and good at fighting, how come it has fallen to this point? Gentlemen, I, Katsura Taro, swear here to never give up. Any opportunity Wei Jichen can take advantage of, the honor of the 3rd Division must be maintained by you, and the shame of the 3rd Division must be washed away by you. Please work together with me, Guitaro, to let this little boy Wei Jichen The lost troops will be surrendered at the foot of Ximu City."
Katsura's words obviously had an effect.
The Ai soldiers must win. Now the 3rd Division was severely humiliated by Wei Jichen. All these Japanese were eager for revenge. When they heard that Wei Jichen actually organized an army to counterattack Ximu City, they all gritted their teeth and clenched their fists. I want to get my place back.
Ogawa Jiro waited until Katsura Taro led everyone to express their determination, and then said: "The Qing army has a numerical advantage. Therefore, I think our army should implement a strategy of slowly luring the enemy into a trap, leading the Qing army to our defense fortifications, and then counterattack." plan."
Everyone, including Katsura Taro, nodded in agreement.
Seeing this, Ogawa Jiro showed a smile and said: "You don't have to worry too much. The base camp of our 3rd Division is very aware of the situation. Therefore, the base camp has ordered the Nogi Nogi Nogi mixed brigade of the Second Army stationed in Gaiping at any time. Keep in touch with our army. Once Wei Jichen leads his army to attack, Major General Nogi will attack to cut off the Qing army's retreat, making Wei Jichen's attack useless. "
Who is Nogi Nogi? He is a fanatical war fighter who openly wrote poems before the war to express his ambition to invade China: The fat horse and the big sword have not yet been paid, and the emperor's favor has been spent in vain. The bucket of ladles fills up the lingering dreams of drunkenness, and tramples through the four hundred states of China.
Nogi Nogi was not only a pioneer in the invasion of China, but also a crazed and cruel butcher. It was he and Yamachi Genji who ordered the brutal massacre of 20,000 innocent civilians in Lushun.
After that, he led the Japanese army north to occupy Fuzhou, ordered the gates of Fuzhou to be closed, and allowed his subordinates to loot, loot, rape, rape, burn and kill, and committed all kinds of evil.
Nogi Nogi is most famous for his saying, "I kill my brother and my father's Nogi." During the Russo-Japanese War, Nogi Nogi served as the commander of the Third Army and adopted the unprecedented "suicide tactics of meat and bombs" to pay tribute to Lushun launched three general attacks, and eventually more than 50,000 Japanese soldiers died in the battle. Even his two sons died heroically. Family members of his troops in Japan began to throw garbage at his house. However, Lushun was still in the hands of the Russian army and caused a huge disaster. Yan asked him to give up command, but as luck would have it, the Russians had no fighting spirit and surrendered to him.
After Mutsuhito's death, this extremely crazy fan of Mutsuhito committed suicide by caesarean section together with his wife, and was called Japan's "Military God" by the Japanese empire and activists.
Even the Japanese themselves in later generations called him a foolish general.
The reason why this foolish general was able to achieve victory in Liaodong was because when he attacked Dalian Bay, Zhao Huaiye fled, and the Chinese army resisted little. When he attacked Lushun, Gong Zhaoyu and Huang Shilin escaped, so the more he fought, the more fierce he became. Fight fiercely, be invincible all the way, and be invincible.
Of course, in addition to this, Nogi Nogi's victory is also related to the fact that the quality of the Japanese sergeants is much higher than that of the Chinese sergeants. A fool will have a way to fool a general, and that is Zhengzi.
In Sun Tzu's Art of War, there is a right combination and a surprising victory. With the elite Japanese troops in hand, Nogi Nogi was able to defeat the Chinese army without using Qi.
When all the Japanese officers heard Ogawa Jiro talking about Nogi Nogi, their expressions became much more relaxed. Nogi Nogi fought all the way, killing ordinary people as soldiers, and using newborn children as the number of enemy casualties. and report it to the base camp.
This made the base camp who didn't understand the situation think that he was brave and invincible. In addition, this guy had served as Mutsuhito's personal soldier, and he suddenly became a rising star in the Japanese military circle and was very popular.
The military lavishly praised his achievements, set him up as a model, and praised him as rare in the sky and unparalleled in the world. It seems that there is news that he will be promoted to lieutenant general, which vaguely molds him into a new generation of Japanese military god. trend.
Now that even the new military god has come to help, everyone has put down the stone in their hearts.
Not only the Japanese in Ximu City have high hopes for Nogi Nogi, but even Nogi Nogi himself in Gaiping is full of confidence in himself.
He was extremely excited after receiving the order from the Japanese base camp to be ready to support Ximu City at any time.
Nogi Nogi has long wanted to compete with Wei Jichen. Wei Jichen continued to win in Liaodong and even killed the older generation of Japanese military god Naofumi Tachimi. This surprised Nogi Nogi and thought that he could finally find someone in China who could do it. Warring opponents.
A master is as lonely as snow, and his opponents are rare.
"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, Wei Jichen was able to escape from the heavy encirclement of the 3rd Division, which shows that he is very good at leading troops in battle. This time he plans to attack Ximu City, and he must have bad intentions." Captain Heli, the commander of the regiment, put down the information in his hand and said with some concern.
Nogi Nogi knelt down on the tatami, his body upright. There was a samurai sword on the table in front of him. He opened his eyes and said slowly: "Your Majesty hates Wei Jichen deeply. As your Majesty's ministers, how can we do this?" Don't you solve the problem in your heart? It is our responsibility to be loyal to His Majesty. No matter what difficulties we have, we must solve Wei Jichen. "
Colonel Heli, the commander of the regiment, said quickly: "Your Excellency, the brigade commander, is right. Wei Jichen, the sick man of East Asia, does not dare to show off with our army on the frontal battlefield, but instead goes around slandering His Majesty's reputation. He really deserves death. "
Nogi Nogi drew out his samurai sword, gently stroked the back of the sword with his fingers, and said with a smile: "Actually, Wei Jichen's Wei Zijun suffered heavy losses after the battle with the 3rd Division at Yushu Castle, and was no longer alive. His current army The soldiers in the army are all merged with the Sheng Army. The soldiers of the Sheng Army have always been greedy for life and afraid of death. The combat power of his Wei Zijun has been greatly weakened compared to before. This is a great opportunity for us to deal with him. "
"I didn't expect that the brigade commander would even take this into consideration. If Wei Jichen dares to lead the attack this time, he will definitely come back in vain." Colonel Kawari looked at Nogi Nogi's confident look and couldn't help but feel sad Dading.
Nogi Nogi Nogi nodded with a smile and said: "The other troops of the Qing army have nothing to fear. They are all defeated by me. As long as Wei Jichen is defeated again, the Qing Dynasty will be able to see the power of Nogi Nogi Nogi, and the Qing Dynasty will no longer dare to take it lightly. If we fight back, it won't be long before the imperial cavalry breaks through the capital of China."
When Nogi Nogi said this, he no longer looked calm as before, but had a fanatical look on his face, and his ferocious look made Colonel Kawari a little scared when he saw it.
Does Heli know that his brigade commander is a truly ruthless character who kills without batting an eyelid? He once saw with his own eyes Nogi Nogi skewering two Chinese babies with bayonets.
It can be said that among the various Japanese brigade leaders in China today, Nogi Nogi is definitely one of the most conscientious characters.
Colonel Heli felt that it was necessary to remind his brigade commander, and he said cautiously: "Your Excellency, if our army supports Ximu City, I am afraid that Song Qing will cut off our army's way back. At that time, our army will be in a dilemma and will be unable to survive."
Unexpectedly, Nogi Nogi said: "The gain or loss of a city or a place is not important. Even if we lose Gaiping, if we can kill Wei Jichen and vent his anger on His Majesty, it will be worth it."
This guy who was truly loyal and sincere to the Emperor and who swore to do his best for the Emperor put Mutsuhito at the center of everything. No wonder after Mutsuhito died, he felt that he had no hope for life and followed him away.
When Nogi Nogi said this, Colonel Kawari really didn't know what to say.
Nogi Nogi suddenly stood up, waved the katana in his hand, and said in a hateful voice: "So, it's okay if Wei Jichen doesn't come. If he dares to come, he will be attacked wildly by my mixed brigade until every soldier is killed." Soldier, even if I am unfortunately killed in battle, as long as I can kill him, solve the serious problems for the empire, and wash away the shame of His Majesty, I am willing to shed the last drop of blood in my body. "
Nogi Nogi cut the desk in front of him into two pieces with one knife, and he didn't even notice that his jaws were split open and bleeding.
Colonel Heli shivered all over. He didn't know whether he was unlucky or lucky to follow such a brigade leader.