The first defeat of the Japanese army

Japanese "loser" division in World War II

In many people's minds, the Japanese army was an outlaw in World War II. But few people know that the Japanese army at that time had a poor fighting capacity.

The famous replacement force is Osaka Fourth Division, which is known as the "First Defeated Division of Imperial Army". Japanese historian Guan Xingfu wrote in the article Japan

In "The First Defeated Son of the Army", various anecdotes of the Fourth Division are described in detail. Interestingly, this famous "weak brigade" was preserved after the war.

Even today, the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force still has the Fourth Division.

Before the war, the officers and men collectively pretended to be sick, and the furious commander sat in the infirmary.

The fourth division of Osaka was established in 1888. Soldiers are mainly composed of vegetable vendors in Osaka and are one of the oldest divisions of the Japanese army. This branch

The team has four wings, equipped with first-class weapons and equipment, and can be called the "elite" of the Japanese army. However, not long after its establishment, the reputation of "loser" spread all over the world.

The whole Japanese army. In particular, the eighth United Front, the core force of the Fourth Division, won the victory of the eighth United Front because of repeated battles and defeats in the Russo-Japanese War.

Nickname for Team.

Since then, until the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the 4th Division has never been to the front. However, this does not mean that it has no chance to show its "brave" spirit.

1933, Private Matsui of the Fourth Division ran a red light in downtown Osaka and clashed with the police. The head of the department, Kakuichi, tried to "defend Japan"

The dignity of the imperial army resolutely led troops to destroy the police station, which is known as the "Osaka incident" in history, and the "military courage" of the Fourth Division of Japan can be seen.

1937, due to the shortage of Japanese troops stationed in China, the Japanese base camp transferred the Fourth Division to the northeast of China and placed it under the Kwantung Army. How do we make this?

What about the fighting spirit of the troops? The Japanese base camp really took some thought, and the conclusion was that the commander played a decisive role in the combat effectiveness of a unit.

So the Japanese base camp dispatched several divisions to train and consolidate in the future. For example, Yamashita Tomoko, nicknamed "Tiger of Malay", served as the department head, but he

I can't help the loose fourth division.

After two years of intensive training, the fourth division finally had the opportunity to show its face. 1939, the Soviet Union and Japan fought in the Nomenkan area on the border between China and Mongolia.

The Eastern Corps ordered two divisions stationed in Osaka and Sendai in northern Manchuria to urgently mobilize reinforcements to the front line. After receiving the order, Sendai Division (Second Division),

Forced to March from Hailar to Nomenkan for 4 days, he went into battle on the day he arrived at the battlefield, but was quickly beaten out of the water by the Soviet Union.

On the contrary, although the dispatch order of the fourth division was issued, it was delayed. The reason is that after the mobilization order was issued, the number of patients in the division surged.

Looking around, the whole battalion is officers and men who ask to stay behind for various reasons. The excited Japanese co-captain, in a rage, personally attended the infirmary.

Diagnosis, this reluctantly organized troops to go to the front, and the joke that "the joint captain turned to be a doctor" spread in the Japanese army. However, this is not the case.

Before it was over, the soldiers of the fourth division played a new trick-being lazy. From Hailar to Nomenkan, the second division walked for 4 days, and the fourth division

A group of people walked for eight days, and a large number of people were left behind. Coincidentally, on the day when the advance team of the Fourth Division arrived at the front line, the Soviet Union and Japan declared a truce. news

The officers and men of the fourth division who fell behind quickly followed up as if they had taken strong medicine. Even the officers and men left behind rushed to the front, but still

I am very sorry to complain that I have no chance to fight a war.

Ironically, after returning to China, the Fourth Division, which is full of personnel and full of energy, became the most formidable force in the Japanese army and took the lead.

However, the second division went to the battlefield, lost its helmet and armor, and the camp was full of injuries. The kwantung army officer in charge of news propaganda couldn't stand it anymore, so he took a pen and presented it to a Japanese newspaper.

The news headline of "I am invincible to the fourth Reich strategist's return" was changed to "I am invincible to the fourth Reich strategist's return".

I made an oblique mockery of this "soft egg" army.

Although it made a fool of itself, the fourth division was lucky, because the Japanese invaded Central China at that time and needed reinforcements urgently.

We had to give up the investigation of the fourth division and urgently transfer to the south to reinforce. The Fourth Division was reorganized as a member of the Japanese elite 1 1 army.

"The fourth division went to war, and the battles that could have been won were also lost ..."

In fact, the reputation of the Fourth Division has long been heard by the China army. As early as the battle of Xuzhou, China's army encountered a "strange Japanese army".

. At that time, facing the encirclement of the Japanese army, Li Zongren commanded 400,000 troops to skillfully jump out of the encirclement of the Japanese army. But after the China army broke through, it was already exhausted.