Many "military fans" know a little about the "Wanjialing Victory" during the War of Resistance Against Japan, because the Japanese 106th Division was almost completely annihilated by the Chinese army led by Xue Yue, and such a victory was very difficult to achieve, so the "Wanjialing Victory" has always been relished by "military fans", but when it comes to Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura, the commander of the 106th Division, there are not many people who know his resume, and the confrontation between the two armies requires understanding each other's number, troop allocation, and commander's name, otherwise this battle cannot be fought, the so-called "knowing oneself and knowing the other." This is the truth, so what kind of Japanese soldier is this Matsuura Junrokuro?
Junrokuro Matsuura (second from left) on the Front Line at Manjarin
Junroro Matsuura (1884-1944) was a native of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, who attended the Tokyo Army Infant School, the CSKA Infant School, the Army Noncommissioned Officer School, and the Japanese Army Grand School, and received a complete Japanese militarist education, and such a military education resume, almost all officers above the rank of major general in the Japanese Army are like this.
In November 1903, Matsuura Junrokuro graduated from the 15th Infantry Section of the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, and was assigned to serve in the 24th Infantry Regiment of the 24th Brigade regiment of the 12th Division of the Japanese Army, and the 24th Wing was stationed in Fukuoka, so Matsuura Junroro also returned to his hometown to serve, and the following year he participated in the "Russo-Japanese War" with the 12th Division.
On December 25, 1907, Junroro Matsuura was admitted to the 24th term of the Army Academy with the rank of lieutenant, and together with Kenji Doihara, Ozo Yamada, Kiyoshi Kazuki, Heisuke Yanagawa, Sadao Ushishima, Shouo Tane, Shigeyasu Suzuki, Shiro Inaba, Andai Hoji, and other students, although there were only 54 graduates in this period, Junroro Matsuura's graduation results were not good enough to enter the "Saber Group" of this period.
In November 1912, after graduating from Luda, Junroro Matsuura worked in the general staff headquarters, the Army Province, and the Directorate of Education of the three centers of the Japanese Army, and also served as a military instructor at the Toyama School and the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, and even more in the field troops, serving as the commander of the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Guards Division and the 13th Infantry Regiment of the 6th Division.
Japanese troops waiting for orders
On August 1, 1930, Junrokuro Matsuura was promoted to major general and appointed commander of the 12th Infantry Brigade of the 12th Division. When the 28th Incident broke out, the 12th Division sent three infantry brigades and 1 mountain artillery brigade to Shanghai to fight in a mixed 24th brigade, but Matsuura Junrokuro did not go with it, but on February 29, 1932, he was transferred to the personnel bureau of the Army Province, which was a department with real power, in charge of the personnel adjustment of middle and senior officers in the Japanese Army, and the Minister of War at that time was Sadao Araki, and Sadao Araki was the leader of the "Imperial Road Faction" of the Japanese Army, and Junroro Matsuura served as a wing commander under him, and was a confidant of Sadao Araki Naturally, he is also one of the core members of the "Imperial Dao Sect".
On August 1, 1934, Junroro Matsuura was promoted to lieutenant general, and in March of the following year he was transferred to the principal of the Japanese Army Infantry School, which was founded in 1912 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, which is a specialized school for the study of infantry education and tactics, where many generals of the Chinese army studied, such as Song Xilian, Liu Fei, Mou Tingfang and others.
Graduate of the Army Infantry School
On December 2, 1935, Junrokuro Matsuura succeeded Miji Kenkawa as the commander of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, which was one of the Japanese divisions of the First Division, with a certain combat effectiveness, and many "military fans" were also familiar with this division, after the outbreak of the "July 7 Incident", they landed at Theagukou in Tianjin, attacked the Taierzhuang area under the leadership of Isoya Rinsuke, and were bitterly degraded by the troops belonging to Li Zongren's Fifth Theater, so the Chinese army achieved the "Taierzhuang Victory".
"II. After the outbreak of the "26 Incident", emperor Hirohito was enraged, and he appointed Terauchi Shouichi as Minister of War, with an "iron fist" to clean up the army, and single-handedly took charge of the army's personnel transfer power, since then the "unification faction" controlled the Japanese army, and Matsuura Junrokuro, who was a core member of the "Imperial Taoist Faction", was naturally suppressed by Terauchi Shouichi, and in March 1937, taking advantage of the personnel adjustment, he was stripped of his position as the head of the Tenth Division, succeeded by Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isotani, and junroro Matsuura was put into the reserve, and his military career was completely terminated.
After the fall of Nanjing, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters began to prepare for the attack on Wuhan, and with the 6th Division's remaining division as the backbone, it was organized into the 106th Division, under the jurisdiction of the 111th Infantry Brigade and the 136th Infantry Brigade, each of which had 2 infantry companies, of which the 111th Brigade under the 113th Infantry Regiment and the 147th Infantry Regiment, while the 136th Brigade Regiment under the 123rd Infantry Regiment and the 145th Infantry Regiment.
The headquarters of the 106th Division was also directly subordinate to the 106th Cavalry Regiment, the 106th Field Artillery Regiment, the 106th Engineer Regiment, the 106th Infantry Regiment, the 106th Infantry Regiment, and other direct units including the Signal Brigade, the Health Brigade, the 1st to 4th Field Hospital, and the Ordnance Repair Service, and Junroro Matsuura was reinstated to active service and became the commander of the 106th Division on May 16, 1938.
Personnel of the Divisional Headquarters
After Arriving in The Chinese Battlefield with junroro Matsuura, the 106th Division was incorporated into the combat sequence of the Central China Dispatch Army, and the Japanese General Staff Headquarters temporarily organized the Japanese Eleventh Army on July 4, 1938 in order to implement the Battle of Wuhan, and the 106th Division of Junro Matsuura and the 6th Division of Inaba Shiro, the 101st Division of Ito Masaki and the Hakata Detachment were incorporated into the combat sequence of the 11th Army, and Lieutenant General Ningji Okamura, then commander of the 2nd Division of the Kwantung Army, was promoted to the commander of the 11th Army.
Okamura's promotion by the rank of skipperge caused dissatisfaction among Junrokuro Matsuura, Shiro Inaba, and Masaki Ito, because the three division commanders were all in the 24th period of Rikudai, and Okamura Ninji was in the 25th period of Rikudai, and the apprentice became the head of the senior, which is still very rare in the Japanese Army, and the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, Hata Shunroku, was also very dissatisfied with the appointment of the Japanese army base camp, because this was entirely the result of the secret operation of the new Minister of War, Itagaki Seishiro, and Itagaki Seishiro's seniority was even shallower. He is only the 28th issue of Lu Da.
Hata Shunroku and Okamura Ning were second-class Japanese chiefs
Shortly thereafter, Yoshisumi Ryosuke's Ninth Division, Ushishima's Eighteenth Division, Honma Masaharu's Twenty-seventh Division, and Kishimizu Kishige's 116th Division were also incorporated into the eleventh army's combat sequence, attacking Wuhan from all directions, and the Chinese army also resisted one after another on the outskirts of Wuhan, delaying the offensive momentum of the Japanese army, because Honma Masaharu was newly promoted to the commander of the Twenty-seventh Division, lacking the actual combat experience of the unified troops, and the division was formed on the basis of the Chinese mixed brigade in Tuntun, so it was once besieged by the Chinese army. Okamura Ninji ordered Junrokuro Matsuura to lead the 106th Division to quickly reinforce the siege.
The Japanese army is on the march
Matsuura Junrokuro then led the 123rd Infantry Regiment of the 106th Division, the 145th Regiment, the 147th Infantry Regiment and the 1st Mountain Artillery Regiment to break through the Wutailing position, and the troops attacked Erfang Zheng and Lishan in two ways, and soon arrived in the Wanjialing area at the end of September 1938, at the same time the 149th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Division was also ordered to enter the area to join the 106th Division, at this time the Japanese army under the unified command of Matsuura Junroro was about 12,000 people.
Former site of division headquarters
General Xue Yue, then commander-in-chief of the First Corps, believed that the Japanese 106th Division had been attacking for a long time and was alone and deep, and was completely unfamiliar with the terrain and landforms, so he decided to seize the favorable fighter and quickly mobilize the nearby Chinese troops to encircle the 106th Division, and when he learned that the 106th Division was surrounded, Honma Yaqing was a little too unwilling to go, so he sent an infantry company of the 27th Division to reinforce, Xue Yue sent one to block the enemy, and other troops surrounded and annihilated the 106th Division, and launched a fierce battle in the Wanjialing area.
The Battle of Wanjialing can be described as an unprecedentedly fierce and vicious battle, the 106th Division's Adjutant-level officers were killed or injured, the Japanese army had more than 200 Adjutant-level officers to ensure the integrity of the structure and combat effectiveness, but these people were completely annihilated before they could perform their duties, and the crazy Japanese army even used mustard poison gas.
The Japanese used mustard gas
At one point, the Chinese army attacked near the headquarters of Matsuura Junrokuro Division, only one step away from completely annihilating the 106th Division, the Battle of Wanjialing lasted 12 days, the 106th Division was devastated, more than 10,000 were annihilated, more than 100 were captured, and Matsuura Junrokuro only led more than 1,700 remnants to escape.
Junroro Matsuura was injured and lay on a stretcher
The 106th Division, despite heavy losses by the Chinese army, remained intact, and after replenishing a certain number of troops, it participated in the Battle of Nanchang under the leadership of Junrokuro Matsuura, and its performance was remarkable, until after the end of the Battle of Nanchang, Matsuura Junrokuro was transferred back to China on May 19, 1939, and Nakai Ryotaro succeeded him as the commander of the 106th Division.
The Japanese army occupies Nanchang
Returning to Japan, Junroro Matsuura was temporarily assigned to the General Staff Headquarters, and on July 15, 1939, he was again discharged from active service and returned to the field, even after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese Army was not reactivated until February 12, 1944, when he died, but the specific cause of death is unknown.
The 106th Division and the 6th Division can be said to be of the same origin as soldiers, it is based on the 6th Division's remaining divisions, the two divisions have the same source of soldiers and combat styles, and Matsuura Junrokuro is also not shallow, if it were not for the "Imperial Road Faction" was purged, its military career would not be so lonely, under the command of the rising star Okamura Ninji.
Xue Yue (center) at the front
Although the 106th Division is not as strong as the 6th Division, it is by no means a weak brigade, and its combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated, and the reason why the 106th Division can be annihilated by Xue Yue, the Chinese army has almost occupied the time and place, which highlights Xue Yue's military command ability and the perfect cooperation of the Chinese army, and Xue Yue is also worthy of a generation of anti-Japanese generals.
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