After the fall of Jiujiang, Jiangxi, the Botian detachment had to stop and treat the disease because of a cholera disease. At this time, on August 1, 1938, the headquarters of the General Staff in Tokyo, Japan, sent an officer, Ayabe Tachibana.
This guy came to the Chinese front for only one purpose, and that was to transfer the Botian detachment. It turned out that during the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese military department once again restarted the plan for Guangdong. As the first or even premier field expert in the Japanese military, Okamura Heard this order and directly and coldly refused.
The reason is also very simple, the Wuhan raiders are in a critical period, when it will be able to end the battle is still unknown, the Botian detachment is the most important in this unit, naturally can not let the base camp directly transfer it.
The reason given by Tokyo, Japan, is also sufficient: it is precisely because the Botian detachment, which is very prominent in the Wuhan raiders, also decided to transfer it south to Guangdong and play a greater role. The Wuhan Raiders have fought until now, and the Potian detachment will have no impact on the outcome of the war, and it is only a matter of time before Wuhan is taken. Guangdong is an important fortress of the Chinese revolution, and the resistance in Guangdong is bound to be very fierce, and the Botian detachment going south will help to open up the situation of Guangdong landing in one fell swoop.
Okamura simply replied: The 11th Army will not be able to do it.
Immediately after that, Ninji Okamura pushed his headquarters from the mouth of the lake to Jiujiang.
In fact, Okamura Ningji was also very anxious during this period, and the Hakata detachment broke through the barriers along the way, and some behaviors have exceeded his control.
First in Jiujiang, because of cholera problems forced to stop, although this time set off, but the combat strength needed to be restored, and there were some very low-level mistakes. For example, on the night of the invasion of Jiujiang, a group of heavy soldiers of the Botian detachment climbed to a certain high ground and found the war cannons left by the Chinese army, and several Japanese troops were curiously fiddling with them.
The Japanese naval air defense forces found that there was another sound of artillery in China's economy, so it was very complicated to fly to bomb, so tragedy occurred, and more than 70 Japanese troops were killed on the spot.
We have already introduced that the Bourbon detachment, like the 6th Division, is a unit from Kyushu, and they are gradually exposing their evil faces.
On the other side of the Jiujiang River is a small pond mouth, and the Botian detachment stationed here can be described as a humiliating practice. Okamura Ninji had planned to build an airfield nearby, and a local village chief had promised to bring people to build it, but as a result, the Japanese soldiers insulted the village chief's wife and daughter, causing the villagers who built the airport to disperse.
On the way of the Japanese army, war atrocities often occurred, and soldiers even said: We have not been to Nanjing, and it is okay here.
To be fair, as a senior Japanese general, Okamura Ninji and Nakajima Imago, Tani Shoufu and others are still different, he is preoccupied with the military, worried that these atrocities will cause extreme anti-Japanese sentiment among the people, which will not be conducive to the speed of his march into Wuhan.
Despite this, Okamura was still powerless to restrain his subordinates, and incidents like this happened frequently. Still in the 6th Division regiment in Jiangbei, this situation is even more serious. To this end, Okamura Ninji also conducted an investigation and found that 33-year-old soldiers were the most likely to commit acts of abusing women, and according to their information, many soldiers took photos of such atrocities and mailed them to friends in China.
Okamura ningji was puzzled by this, and even always wondered: what is the reason for the curiosity of the Japanese soldiers to develop to this point!