Chapter 325: Merits and Honors

So, Okamura Yasuji's 13th Division, 16th Division, 18th Division, 101th Division, 114th Division, 116th Division, and four other divisions of the mixed brigades, the brigade commanders went to Fengtian to ask for an initiative to launch a final strike against the headquarters of the 10th War Zone in Chaoyang. In fact, Okamura Yasuji's request was a very normal tactical action, but in Kenji Ueda's eyes, this was completely causing trouble for himself.

The battle sequence that Okamura Yasuji belongs to should belong to the Chinese dispatched army sequence, not to Ueda Kenyoshi's Kanto Army. Moreover, Okamura Yasuji was particularly cared for by Emperor Hirohito. As an insightful person in the Japanese Showa army, the army generals, Okamura Yasuji was indeed a core member of the three-man gang of Baden and Baden, and Hideki Tojo was just a watchman at that time.

The North China Front Army, which has seven field divisions and a ** mixed brigade, has strengthened special forces, and is a self-contained system with the Kwantung Army. The two are incompatible. Since Kenyoshi Ueda is the commander of the Kwantung Army, there is no direct affiliation with Okamura Yasuji, it is just a temporary relationship between the battle.

Therefore, Okamura Yasuji seemed a little indifferent. It was actually impossible to say that Okamura Yasuji didn't care about Ueda Kenyoshi's orders and feelings at all. Okamura Yasuji is not a fool. It is necessary to cause trouble for people with higher military ranks, qualifications, and positions than him. If you don't know how to advance and retreat, you will have no future in the army.

After several hesitations, Kenyoshi Ueda finally made up his mind to attack the Chaoyang area with the troops of the North China Front Army commanded by Okamura Yanji and defeated the main force concentrated there in one fell swoop. In Kenyoshi Ueda's view, the armored divisions under the 10th War Zone may have drawn emergency reinforcements to Baotou, Rehe, Chahar, Suiyuan and other places. The developed railways in Reha, Chahar, Suiyuan and other places made Zhang Xuewu deliberately and quickly concentrate the troops and even dispersed to fight. This was something that the Kanto Army commanded by Kenyoshi Ueda could not do.

Faced with two choices that made him extremely embarrassed, Kenyoshi Ueda finally chose a relatively stable tactic to carry out the battle based on the actual situation. He did not put the seven divisions, four mixed brigades of Okamura Nishi's troops into new directions and attacked in a new direction according to the previous plan. You should know that the Japanese troops of the North China Front Army commanded by Okamura Nishi were an important strategic chess piece. The weight of this chess piece can completely affect the overall balance of this battle. This is like the competition between two giants, and often overwhelming the opponent a trivial straw that was thrown up in the last five minutes.

It is obvious that the North China Front Army troops commanded by Okamura Yasuji have long been separated from the scope of "straw" and are completely a deadly boulder.

Therefore, Kenyoshi Ueda finally chose a conservative combat method, because the first and second fronts of the Kwantung Army suffered serious losses, and the troops of the third fronts of the Yamashita Tofumi were not successful in attacking Zhangjiakou. If the chariot division commanded by Hideki Tojo and the 23rd Mechanized Division attacked the Baotou Industrial Base, it would be a battle of death. For the combat effectiveness of the elite Kwantung Army's chariot division and the 23rd Mechanized Division, and the will to fight to the death for the great Japanese Empire, Kenyoshi Ueda, as the commander of the Kwantung Army, believes that this is beyond doubt.

It can be said that the Japanese were very successful in overall strategy, because the Japanese successfully seized the so-called gap between the National Civil Affairs and Zhang Xuewu's 10th War Zone and focused on attacking the Tenth War Zone. However, the National Civil Affairs Department was like a person who had nothing to do and became a spectator? This strange phenomenon on the Chinese battlefield made European, American and international countries feel very difficult to understand?

The 3rd Army of Pang Bingxun, the 20th Army of Tang Enbo, the 20th Army of Sun Lianzhong, the 22nd Army of Sun Zhen, the 31st Army of Liu Shiyi, the 51st Army of Yu Xuezhong, the 59th Army of Zhang Zizhong, the 59th Army of Du Yuming, the 74th Army of Wang Yaowu, the 83rd Army of Deng Longguang, the 87th Army of Liu Yinggu, the 89th Army of Han Deqin, the 9th Army of Li Xianzhou, the 9th Army of Feng Qinzai, the 10th Army of Shi Zhongcheng, and the 9th Armored Regiment of the two heavy artillery brigades assigned to Li Zongren, the 10th Armored Brigade of Qiu Qingquan were allocated to the Fifth War Zone. The 4th Army of the Fifth War Zone had more than 400,000 troops under the Fifth War Zone, and the reinforcements from Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Wuhan were still continuously joining the combat sequence of Li Zongren's Fifth War Zone.

Regarding the excited request for battle in the Fifth War Zone, the Supreme Military Commission's instructions were only a few simple words. The time was not yet ripe? Those who dared to act without authorization should be severely punished. Therefore, the Fifth War Zone, where arrogant soldiers and generals gathered, could only frequently attack the Chinese Japanese army, making the Japanese army nervous. When the Japanese army realized the Chinese team's arrogance, they began to be unscrupulous, because the Japanese army knew that the National Civil Affairs Department wanted to let Zhang Xuewu of the Tenth War Zone fight to the death with the Kanto Army of the Great Japanese Empire.

However, Zhang Xuewu no longer had the energy to take into account the attitude of the National Civil Affairs towards the Tenth War Zone, because Zhang Xuewu deployed a joint mission for Qin Buer and Gao Zhihang, that is, the air force troops concentrate all combat power, and completely suddenly the northeast, so that a Japanese aircraft could not be seen in the sky of the entire northeast, and then cover the bomber troops to use the incendiary bombs processed by the Soviet Union to raid the Japanese 569th Army barracks base in Qiqihar, and airborne special forces with light glider troops to attack the 731st Army in Harbin. After completing the attack, the troops retreated to the Soviet Union.

Generally speaking, in Zhang Xuewu's eyes, this is an implementable plan. If the Japanese Army's 569 and 731 units take action in advance, their own losses will probably be difficult to calculate, so the idea of ​​starting first has always been Zhang Xuewu's first choice.

In fact, Zhang Xuewu has considered the issues of commendation, awarding medals and awarding honor badges and other issues more than once, and it can indeed very effectively stimulate the fighting enthusiasm of officers and soldiers. Medals first appeared in ancient Europe. In order to distinguish knights fighting on the battlefield, a symbol system called medals was developed. Almost every noble would design a unique logo and make it on his shield, coat, flag and seal.

The garment decorated with the knight's logo became his battle robe, which allowed people to distinguish from the logo. The Genealogy and Heraldry Academy is an excellent organization that specifically designed unique logos and ensures that each one is unique. Its officials will record the logo in special books and keep it in their custody.

The army mostly uses armbands as a symbol of military branches, arms or technical services, and some are also used as military rank symbols or symbols of their units. For example, the Soviet armband generally represents military branches or technical services. The US armbands are mainly used to represent the ranks of non-commissioned officers and soldiers. For example, the level of the army is distinguished by golden corners and arcs.

However, the medal was formulated and issued by the Ministry of Military Affairs. Judging from his relationship with the Supreme Military Commission of the National Civil Affairs Bureau, Zhang Xuewu probably wouldn't get the level and number of medals he wanted! It would be difficult for others to report them layer by layer.

Therefore, Zhang Xuewu thought about whether he could give rewards to officers and soldiers in another form, a unique reward belonging to the officers and soldiers of the 10th War Zone. For example, the Iron Cross Medal worn by German officers and soldiers made Zhang Xuewu very envious and inspiring. Zhang Xuewu decided to let Chief of Staff Li Xinkai lead the study of a batch of unique honor ornaments in the 10th War Zone. Zhang Xuewu suggested making a batch of shields with a diameter of ten centimeters and a size of about fifty grams, called "Meritorious" honorary seals. According to the first, second and third levels, they were made of three-level copper, second-level sterling silver, first-level gold and silver alloy, and the shield pattern was the Great Wall in the background of the national territory. Level 3 and second-level awarded those who have outstanding military achievements in combat. The standards were formulated by the staff. The awarding standards for each level were ten times the previous one, which shows the difficulty of obtaining them.

Those who award first-class merit and honor medals to the Army Infantry will make new contributions. They can add double swords, national emblem, rubies inlaid on the merit and honor medals, and tanks, national emblem, rubies inlaid on the armored soldiers, and cannons, national emblem, rubies inlaid on the artillery, rubies, communications soldiers, medical officers, civilians, military police, special forces, engineering troops, etc., their respective professional military symbols, national emblem, rubies.

On the Air Force, fighter pilots have double wings, national emblem, sapphire, and bomber troops have the bomb logo, national emblem, sapphire, and fighter troops have the same honor as tank soldiers, that is, every time an enemy plane is shot down, a star can be added to the bottom of the shield. If dozens of Japanese fighter jets are shot down like Gao Zhihang, it is equivalent to using a small star to turn the shield into a circle, which is very dazzling and beautiful.

Moreover, Zhang Xuewu also specially made a batch of armbands. For example, the Beidaying fired the first shot to fight against the Japanese invaders. The surviving officers and soldiers would have two pairs of finger-wide honor sleeves sewn on the cuffs. The left side of the above is written in Chinese and the right side is the blue blood and blue sky!

The surviving officers and soldiers who participated in the Nanjing Defense War were revenge and regained their sorrows! At the junction of the two ends of the Xiufeng, there were words such as commemorating the Beidaying's fight against the enemy, commemorating the Nanjing Defense War, commemorating the Chengde Defense War, commemorating the Chaoyang Counterattack War and other words.

Zhang Xuewu believed that this could bring a material incentive to the officers and soldiers. The 10th War Zone troops wearing new military uniforms, wearing honor armbands and wearing merits and honors, can be said that except for the blue sky and white sun military emblem above their heads, it has little to do with the National Civil Affairs! Now, except for taking care of the face and distributing military pay to the 12th Division in the 10th War Zone, all the remaining supplies were stopped. Even so, Chiang Kai-shek still believed that Zhang Xuewu intercepted too much from Su aid supplies.

In fact, Zhang Xuewu is also difficult to tell the difference, because the international standard material aid model is subject to consumption and losses on the way. For example, ten tons of gasoline consumed seven tons during transportation, and the actual reception is only three tons, but on the book, it must be received according to ten tons.

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Chapter completed!