Rise From Eight Hundred

After fighting for half the night, the battlefield miraculously returned to calm during the day.

Ushijima Sadao, who received the news of the 36th Infantry Brigade's defeat at dawn, was surprisingly not angry. Instead, he was calm in a way that even he himself did not expect. He waved his hand and ordered all artillery units to stop shelling, which was a meaningless act of consuming ammunition.

If a Japanese saw the corners of the mouth of the highest commander of the Japanese Army on the Jiashan front hidden in the dark, they would be surprised to find that the corners of the mouth of the lieutenant general, whose facial muscles had relaxed and slumped, were actually curled up.

Facing this night attack that used more than 40 artillery pieces, consumed 3,000 shells, and deployed nearly 4,000 infantry but still failed, was this lieutenant general actually laughing? What the hell is this? Could it be that he was stimulated to lose his mind by the continuous failures!

No one can see through his true thoughts, except himself.

Only the Japanese Army Lieutenant General knew that from the beginning, he did not have much hope for this night attack.

The Chinese were able to resist his all-out attack for a whole week, and launched night attacks from various parts of the defense line for three consecutive days, causing huge losses to the division. The commander's talent and will are already the best. How could he relax his vigilance in the face of such a strong enemy?

The reason why he pretended to agree with the opinions of several subordinates was probably because he wanted to take a chance, and there was also a dark thought that he didn't want the bastards of the Sixth Division to have a good time.

As the three main divisions of the Tenth Army's attack this time, the 114th Division is a special division, the 18th Division is a division that was reorganized after being cut because of this war, and the Kunisaki Detachment was borrowed from the Fifth Division. Only the Sixth Division is a permanent division. Whether in terms of fame or division ranking, the Sixth Division is the No. 1 in the Tenth Army.

In this world, everything is decided by strength. As the main force among the main forces, the Sixth Division is naturally superior to all other divisions. Knowing that they are not as strong as the other divisions, they naturally bow their heads and obey when the Sixth Division is arrogant. Even if the dead ghost Tani Hisao has the same rank as their division commanders, and occasionally gives some orders, they listen calmly.

But things in the world are so wonderful. When the powerful Tenth Army successfully completed the beach landing and planned to complete the strategic plan formulated before the war in one go, a small town became a roadblock for the 100,000-man army.

That's fine. No matter how weak the Chinese giant is at the moment, there are always a few capable people. But no one expected that after the 114th Division and the Kunisaki Detachment were beaten black and blue by the Chinese, the most powerful Sixth Division became the most miserable one.

I don't know if the Sixth Division was deliberately hated by the Chinese. They set a trap in the city at all costs to cripple the 13th Infantry Brigade under their command, and sent sharpshooters to lurk out of the city and shot the arrogant Tani Hisao in the head.

To be honest, when he heard the news, Ushijima Sadao's face was filled with grief, and the little devil holding the trident in his heart seemed to be dancing. If he hadn't had enough self-control, the little devil who was twisting his butt hard would have almost shouted "Oh Yeah!" through his mouth.

The arrogant idiots of the Sixth Division are no good. If the Tenth Army wants to make a difference on the Chinese battlefield, who else can do it except the 18th Division under his command?

That is, Ushijima Sadao, who was so dark in his heart, never dreamed that after giving the unlucky child of the Sixth Division a blow, it was still the group of Chinese who actually gave his 18th Division a kick in the crotch, smashing his eggs to the ground.

Ushijima Sadao, who has entered his sixties, has been up and down in the officialdom for forty years. His position has been transferred from a military commander like a colonel to an instructor at the Army University. After lying dormant for several years, he was re-activated as a brigade commander, and then transferred from the position of a lieutenant general division commander to the reserve. This time he was re-activated, which can be said to be several ups and downs. What kind of storms have he not experienced?

Naturally, he is not willing to capsize on the small boat of the Chinese battlefield. With his current strength, he will definitely not be able to chew the hard bone in front of him by force. If he does not want to become the unlucky guy like Ushijima Mitsuru who left tragically, he can only rely on "internal potential".

Let the bastards of the Sixth Division go to die. The weaker they are, the more important the 18th Division, which still maintains most of its troops, can be highlighted.

As long as the war is not over, the North China Expeditionary Army Command will not easily move him. Changing generals before the battle is a taboo in military tactics.

This kind of mind that consumes the strength of friendly forces to highlight his own importance is dark, and naturally it can only rot in his stomach, even if he is as close as his sons and nephews, he will not say it.

The battle situation at night was roughly the same as what Ushijima Sadao had expected. The 36th Infantry Brigade failed in the night attack under his order. However, what was slightly unexpected to him was that the Chinese were much better than he thought. The 600 elite soldiers were swallowed by the Chinese, leaving only a little residue.

Fortunately, these unlucky guys blocked the guns, and Ushijima Sadao was secretly glad.

However, the loss of 600 people was not enough. It would be best if these unlucky guys took the lead in the next attack and lost another one or two thousand people.

That would be enough to ensure that the infantry brigade under the 6th Division, which still had combat effectiveness, would be completely defeated, and the responsibility for the failure would not be attributed to him, the supreme commander.

He was a lieutenant general division commander commanding tens of thousands of troops, not a nanny. He could not make correct tactical guidance on the local battlefield on a front as wide as more than ten kilometers. Those were what the major general brigade commanders and colonel regiment commanders needed to do themselves.

It can be said that although the old devil Ushijima Sadao has a sinister mind, his brain is definitely buling, buling, and he has played the routine of "I would rather die than die with my friend" to the extreme.

Tanigawa Masanori of the 36th Infantry Brigade, let alone not knowing the crooked thoughts of this lieutenant general, even if they knew, they would probably be cannon fodder under the military law rule that the higher the rank, the more powerful the person, and make this old guy successful.

But life is so wonderful. Ushijima Sadao, who thinks he knows people's hearts and human nature and the rules of officialdom, does not know that it is precisely because of his little thoughts that the 36th Infantry Brigade lost nearly 600 people in the battle, and also killed an unknown little person in the battle.

Although this "little person" has a military rank of only a small lieutenant, only the two colonel commanders of the 36th Infantry Brigade and the resigned Ushijima Mitsuru know that his real name should be read backwards.

Fujiwara Kawanishi!

In Japan, there are not many people with the surname Fujiwara.

The worst thing is that Fujiwara Kawanishi, who had to hide his real name when he joined the army, knew the tricks behind it.

If this Fujiwara was the Fujiwara who had controlled the Japanese royal family for nearly 300 years and was best at marrying the eldest daughter of the family to the emperor as the empress, and then his grandson became the emperor, the army lieutenant general Ushijima Sadao would probably be scared to tears.

The Fujiwara family is the most prominent noble family in Japanese history, almost without exception.

But unfortunately, the stubborn young Japanese army second lieutenant who stood in the pond facing the old and the young and still did not kneel down to surrender and wanted to kill them was the eighth son of the third generation of the Fujiwara family.

After the Japanese royal family gradually gained power a hundred years ago, the power of the great nobles in Japan was reduced, and they naturally would not be willing to accept it. The royal family can be the leader, but the younger brothers can't say that they will sink!

It is the most common practice for the Japanese nobles to continuously send their direct descendants to the military and political arena for training, and eventually occupy high positions. Even the Japanese royal family, which holds great power, can do nothing about it.

The sedan chair needs someone to carry it, and the ones who carry the sedan chair for the Japanese royal family must be these nobles. Without them, the royal family, which relies on the promotion of the aristocratic hierarchy in Japan to maintain the supreme imperial power, is not stable.

It was in this context that the direct descendant of the most famous Japanese noble entered the Sixth Division as a second lieutenant of the army.

Originally, with the strength of the Sixth Division, Fujiwara Kawanishi served as a second lieutenant staff officer in its division headquarters, which was safe, but no one expected that the ambition of this outstanding child of the Fujiwara family was not satisfied with just gilding the position of the division headquarters staff officer and returning to the country. He wanted to make achievements on the front-line battlefield.

This is the pride of an excellent person. His life must be chosen by himself.

So, he died, died in the hands of a Chinese "coward" who could be scared to tears by the sound of gunfire.

The cold and pale body of the eighth son of the third generation of the proud and outstanding Fujiwara family was placed in front of Colonel Masanori Hasegawa, the acting commander of the 36th Infantry Brigade.

In stark contrast to the mood of the Japanese Army Lieutenant General who was smiling quietly in the military tent, the Japanese Army Colonel was stunned!