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Chapter 691: Battle of Xiong'er Mountain (2)

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    The fight on Shinozuka Kunigoro's side was also not smooth. The remaining two thousand troops set off from Shanting and marched eastward, heading straight for Xiong'er Mountain.

    " However, Shanting itself is a small mountain town, surrounded by mountains, and there are endless hills outside. Therefore, they have no buffer. As soon as the troops went out, they were frantically blocked by Zhang Tengjiao's troops.

    Shinozuka Kunigoro is a smart man. Although he looked down on the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, he put away his contempt after experiencing the previous painful march.

    During the two days when the troops were resting, he continuously sent out elite squads to survey the terrain. At the same time, he transferred dozens of local puppet troops from Zaozhuang City who were familiar with the terrain to serve as guides, preparing to show off their talents in the next attack.

    Just like the commander of the 12th Army, Odaka Kamezo, wanted to be promoted to a general, Shinozuka Kunigoro was most eager to be promoted to the major general level through this battle.

    Shinozuka Kunigoro is very aware of the promotion rules of the Imperial Army of Japan. There has always been a saying within the Imperial Army of "earning seniority." Outstanding trainees who graduated from the Army Sergeant School and Army University can be recruited by the Army Headquarters. As long as they do not make big mistakes, they will be promoted.  There are many people who can be promoted step by step, and eventually be promoted to positions such as division commander and chief of staff.

    ??Looking at it this way, it seems that the promotion of officers is easy, but this is not the case. This promotion method is only for cadets who come out of military academies.

    It just so happens that Shinozuka Kunigoro is not from a formal academic background. He is just an ordinary soldier. His promotion to captain of the Colonel Alliance has exceeded everyone's expectations.

    For ordinary soldiers, soldiers from other countries will soon be promoted to officers if they perform well. However, the hierarchy within the Japanese army is very strict, and it is very difficult for soldiers to become officers.

    The Japanese Army has a promotion channel for ordinary soldiers, but this promotion channel is limited.  Due to the restrictions of the concept of hierarchy, even if soldiers are promoted, they can only become junior officers.

    Generally speaking, second lieutenant is the promotion limit for Japanese soldiers, because if a soldier wants to be promoted to second lieutenant, he must advance to at least four levels, namely, private, first class, corps commander, sergeant, commander, and second lieutenant.

    How many people can a second lieutenant command in the Japanese army?

    According to the establishment of the Japanese army, a second lieutenant is generally a squad leader.  An infantry squad consists of 54 people, including a 7-man squad headquarters, three 13-man infantry detachments, and an 8-man grenade detachment.

    Except for second lieutenants, the top soldiers in the Japanese army actually still have a slight chance to advance to the next level, but they need to seize the opportunity-further study.

    According to regulations, junior officers with relatively outstanding performance will have the opportunity to be transferred back to Japan for short-term training at the Army Noncommissioned Officer School.

    In this way, they have gained an additional status as "land officer cadets". From the perspective of Japan's strict hierarchy, they have "sublimated" and stepped into the middle and upper classes. The promotion path has been opened again, including brigade commanders, division commanders, etc.  Regiment commander and chief of staff may be extravagant expectations, but it is still possible to achieve the goals of wing captain and group captain.

    And Shinozuka Kunigoro is such an officer who climbed up from the bottom and seized the opportunity to further his studies. However, he was already 48 years old when he was promoted to captain of the Osaka Alliance.

    In fact, it is surprising that an officer with a non-scientific background like him could reach this point, but Shinozuka Kunigoro is not satisfied with being a mere captain of the Colonel-General. He wants to be a general like his predecessor Norihide Abe.

    It¡¯s just that he is now 48 years old and will soon pass the limit age for promotion to general.

    There is an unwritten rule in the Imperial Japanese Army that the golden age for a colonel to be promoted to major general is 40 to 45 years old. Officers like him who are promoted from soldiers may be relaxed, but they will not exceed 48 years old.

    In other words, if he is unable to be promoted to major general this year, he will have to stay at the rank of colonel for the rest of his life.

    Shinozuka Kunigoro is unwilling to give in. Thinking about how much he has paid along the way, he must be promoted to the rank of general, only in this way can he change his own destiny and that of his family.

    Fortunately, this time is an excellent opportunity. As long as we capture or kill that hateful *** officer, there is still a chance for everything.

    In order to avoid the opportunity being snatched away by the other two armies, Shinozuka Kunigoro did not set off at 8 a.m. on the 12th as scheduled by Tsuchiya's troops. Instead, he ordered the soldiers to get up at about 5 o'clock and started taking action after 6 o'clock.

    "But what Shinozuka Kunigoro didn't expect was that the mountain road that was normal two days ago was dug into tatters overnight. Not to mention that cars couldn't move, even war horses couldn't move.

    In desperation, Shinozuka Kunigoro could only order the chariot troops.

    ?? Take staple food as an example. Although it is stipulated that three meals a day are 9 taels of rice, during the actual Anti-Japanese War, national army soldiers generally could only eat two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, which means that they only had 6 taels of rice a day to satisfy their hunger.

    Only the Fifth Army, the most elite mechanized force, and the most valued Huangpu cadets in the rear can eat three meals a day.

    Let¡¯s talk about non-staple food.  Most of the time, it was just boiled vegetables in salt water. Today, it is a standard diet meal. The army that a country relies on eats this. There is only one pot filled with multi-grain rice, without any non-staple food.

    It is unimaginable that, forced by the environment, the soldiers of the national army can only use the spirit of "eating what they have" to the extreme.

    For example, the troops stationed in the Yungui area invented the method of chopping the roots of plantains into small pieces, soaking them in water for three days, then cutting them into shreds and frying them. This is the only non-staple food for many national soldiers.

    If you don¡¯t eat it, others will eat it.

    The food situation of the national army during the real battle can only be described as "horrible".

    There are two types of food for front-line combat. The first is emergency rations carried by the soldiers themselves.

    During World War II, the main emergency rations of almost all the armies of the participating countries were canned beef. However, the vast majority of soldiers in the national army had never seen what a canned food looked like.

    The wartime emergency food of the Chinese army is usually the multigrain flatbread commonly eaten by northern farmers, and the fried noodles that everyone is familiar with in primary school textbooks.

    A piece of flatbread or a handful of fried noodles, along with the pickles you bring with you, is a complete meal.

    "However, emergency meals are generally only available for two or three days in order to be easy to carry. Once the war starts, it lasts day and night. How can the soldiers survive only with their own rations?"  So the only option was for the cooks in the rear to cook the food and send it to the front line despite the hail of bullets.

    "However, the Japanese air force was extremely powerful and the army's artillery fire was extremely fierce. It was almost impossible to deliver meals during the day. Therefore, ordinary cooks would deliver meals once at dusk. Now the national army could only eat one meal a day.

    This is still good. In the critical front-line fierce battle, the rear of the Chinese army was completely blocked by Japanese firepower. Even if the meal delivery person risked his life, he could not get up at all.

    For example, in the famous Battle of Wanjialing, there were fierce battles in the mountains, and the cooks almost crawled forward little by little.

    It took at least a day or two for a meal to be served. When the cooked meal reached the hands of the national army, it was already moldy and spoiled.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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