Xu Rui thought of doing it, and sat down in front of the radio again late that night, and delivered an enthusiastic radio speech to the patriotic compatriots in Central China, saying that he would lead more than 7,000 officers and soldiers of the Dameishan Independent Regiment to cross the Yangtze River south into northern Jiangxi and fight side by side with General Xue Yue's 1st Army Corps.

However, in order to ensure the safety of the Dameishan base area, especially after the departure of the main force of the independent regiment, the Dameishan base area will become extremely empty, so it is hoped that the national government can provide ten tons of ash to the Dameishan base area, and at the same time appoint an engineering expert.

Xu Rui's radio speech immediately aroused the vigilance of the Wuhan camp, especially now that the Fuxing Society has found out the ins and outs of the Wuhan student movement some time ago, it is particularly vigilant against Xu Rui.

As a result, Chairman Chiang personally gave instructions and resolutely rejected Xu Rui's request for war.

It is said that Chairman Jiang's original words are like this: What, Xu Rui is going to northern Jiangxi? What does he want to do? It's not enough for him to occupy central Anhui, but also to occupy northern Jiangxi? No, resolutely no, in just a few months, his Dameishan Independent Regiment has grown from 500 to more than 5,000 people, if he is really allowed to go to northern Jiangxi, his troops will be able to change from more than 5,000 to more than 50,000 in the blink of an eye, do you want my 1st Legion?

But how could Xu Rui give up, and the next day he continued to broadcast, and faintly revealed the meaning of mobilizing students and workers from all over the country to force the palace to the Nationalist Government, don't you really say, with Xu Rui's current reputation, with the current degree of love for him by the people of the whole country, if Xu Rui really mobilizes students and workers to force the palace, public opinion can really form great pressure on the Nationalist Government and Chairman Jiang, and you have to agree if you don't agree at that time.

Chairman Jiang saw that it would not work if this continued, and that it would not work for the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army to come forward to do the work, so he immediately bypassed the Third War Zone and the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army, and directly sent someone to contact Xu Rui, saying: Even if we understand the goodwill of your troops to go to northern Jiangxi to participate in the war, the troops in northern Jiangxi are quite sufficient, and besides, the anti-Japanese battlefield in central Anhui is also very important, and your troops cannot leave the defense area lightly.

Xu Rui's goal has been achieved, so he also got off the donkey, no longer mentioning the matter of going to northern Jiangxi to participate in the war, and then sent a transport team to cross the Dabie Mountain to Luotian to receive the ten tons of ash supported by the Nationalist Government to the Dameishan base area.

Accompanying the transport team back to the Dameishan base area was Mr. Mao Yisheng, dean of Tangshan Institute of Engineering and Technology, who was holding a meeting in Wuhan at the time.

All of this happened at the end of June.

On the same day that Mr. Mao Yisheng arrived in Meizhen, after seven days of stubborn resistance, the Matsuura Division was finally attacked by the 305th Regiment of the 74th Army, the main position of Zhanggushan, and the division commander Matsuura Junrokuro committed suicide by drinking bullets, and all the more than 18,000 people of the Matsuura Division when it was drawn from Ruichang were killed, except for more than 3,000 people.

This was also the largest single battle loss of the Japanese army since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War.

At the same time, this victory at Wanjialing also broke the golden body of the Japanese army, which had never had a division or regiment formed unit completely annihilated by the enemy since the Meiji Restoration, which had a great impact on the international community.

Zhang Lingfu, the head of the 305th Regiment, who was imprisoned for the murder of his wife, became famous in the first battle and became a world-famous general of the Anti-Japanese War, and left a deep impression in the heart of Chairman Chiang, and has been rising all the way from then on.

However, as the old saying goes, blessings and misfortunes lurk, and misfortunes and blessings rely on, and the great victory of Wanjialing created a precedent for the formation and annihilation of a division of the Japanese army, but it also aroused the shame and courage of an old devil.

This old devil is Okamura Ninji, and after the Matsuura Division was completely annihilated, this old devil immediately made a profound review to the headquarters and base camp of the Central China Dispatch Army, and began to make a serious summary.

Then, Okamura Ninji discovered the secret of Xue Yue's inverted eight-character tactics.

After cracking Xue Yue's tactics, Okamura Ninji regrouped, mobilized his army, and launched an offensive against De'an again, vowing to be disgraced.

Shunroku Hata also gave the only remaining reserve division of the 22nd Division to Okamura Ninji.

Although Shunroku Hata was very dissatisfied with Okamura Ninji, he refused to send the 22nd Division to the De'an battlefield before, and it was for this reason that the 11th Army's rescue was weak, and finally the Nationalist Army seized the fighter plane to encircle and annihilate the Matsuura Division, and Shunroku Hata was also reprimanded by the base camp for this incident.

So this time, Shunroku Hahata and Ninji Okamura are finally in unison.

Shunroku Hata and Ninji Okamura have already worked together to clear all unfavorable factors, but there is a discordant scene on the side of the Nationalist Government.

After the victory in Wanjialing, Chairman Chiang's brain began to heat up again, and he once again made a serious misjudgment of the battle situation.

Lao Chiang stubbornly believed that by the time the Sino-Japanese War had been fought, Japan's treasury had been empty and its follow-up was weak, and the Japanese army had suffered heavy casualties and was exhausted, while the Nationalist Army had already possessed the ability to counterattack after receiving the weapons and equipment that the Soviet Union had just provided, especially after receiving 1,000 attack planes and fighters of various types.

Therefore, Chairman Chiang dispatched troops to reprimand generals, and despite the strong dissuasion of Bai Chongxi, Chen Cheng and other senior officials, he insisted on fighting a decisive battle with Little Japan on the De'an battlefield.

General Xue Yue was cool-headed, although he won the first Battle of De'an and completely annihilated the Songpu Division, but he knew that there was still a huge gap between the strength of the Nationalist Army and the Japanese army, and at least at this stage he did not have the confidence to fight a head-on decisive battle.

As a result, Chairman Chiang thought that Xue Yue was cowardly and was furious, so he directly dismissed Xue Yue, and then Luo Zhuoying, commander-in-chief of the 19th Group Army, temporarily assumed the post of commander of the 1st Army Corps, and brazenly launched a counterattack.

In order to confuse and deceive the Nationalist Army and achieve the attempt to completely annihilate the main force of the Nationalist Army on the De'an battlefield, Okamura Ningji ordered the 27th Division on the left flank of the battlefield to feign defeat and flee, and Luo Zhuoying, who was more than capable of defending and not enterprising, was really fooled and ordered the ace 74th Army in his hand to immediately launch a counterattack.

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When the Battle of De'an was in full swing, the Independent Regiment was building the Shaqiaogang Fortress.

After surveying the topography of Shaqiaogang, Mr. Mao Yisheng proposed a complete set of design schemes.

According to the design scheme proposed by Mr. Mao Yisheng, the Shaqiaogang fortress is mainly composed of three parts, of which the first part is also the main body of Shaqiaogang, which is composed of three large pillboxes.

The location of these three large bunkers is at the entrance of Meizhen, directly opposite the Shangsha Bridge.

The largest of the main bunkers was built on the site of the original locust tree, which has been removed for hundreds of years, and the other two secondary bunkers are located diagonally behind the main bunker to protect the side of the main bunker.

The three large pillboxes are all made of concrete and steel bars, with a wall thickness of four meters on the front, three meters on the sides and at the rear, and a thickness of more than five meters at the top, and a buffer in the middle.

At least at this stage, the air force and heavy artillery of Little Japan have no way to take this pillbox.

The main guns of the battleship with a caliber of more than 300mm may be able to blast open the front of the three pillboxes, but the problem is that the battleships of the small Japanese Navy cannot drive into the Mei River to attack the fortifications, so there is no need to think about it.

The second part of the Shaqiaogang fortress is the heavy artillery position built on the cliffs on both sides.

As mentioned above, there is a large canyon outside the mouth of Meizhen, the widest part is more than two thousand meters wide, only a sand bridge in the middle is connected, the left and right sides of the sand bridge are cliffs, and it is connected with the remaining veins of Qingniuling and Qingfeng Ridge, and the wolf's tooth squadron can climb over this grand canyon with tools, and the large army is absolutely unable to pass.

The second part of the Shaqiaogang Fortress, that is, the heavy artillery position, is located on the cliffs on both sides of the entrance to Meizhen, which is condescending enough to block the open area outside the Xiasha Bridge, and in wartime, if these two heavy artillery positions are not destroyed first, the devils will not even be able to assemble in the open area outside the Xiasha Bridge, let alone launch an attack.

In order to build these two heavy artillery positions, Mr. Mao Yisheng also took great pains to select two tunnels in the narrow places of Qingniuling and Qingfengling mountains, and penetrated them from the back of the mountain, that is, in the direction of Meizhen, chiseled through the entire mountain, and went straight to the cliff on the other side, and then chiseled one by one gun positions on the cliff.

Finally, the front of the gun emplacement was resealed with concrete, leaving only a small hole to extend out of the gun port.

Here, it should be noted that Xu Rui also left a hand in the last transaction, and did not hand over all the more than 160 heavy guns, but left twelve 150mm caliber heavy howitzers, and now these twelve heavy howitzers just come in handy.

With these twelve heavy howitzers, plus these two heavy artillery positions that are so strong that they have become more than five, the devil artillery has no way to form an effective countermeasure at all, is it possible that the devil artillery can still shoot the shells into small holes a few kilometers away? The devil's aviation is also in a rut, if you drop a bomb at a high altitude, you can't throw it at all, and you can dive and drop the bomb? Hit the cliff directly.

There is only one way to crack these two heavy artillery positions, and that is to break them from the inside.

Therefore, in view of this weakness of the heavy artillery position, Mr. Mao Yisheng designed the third part of the Shaqiaogang Fortress, the third part of the fortress is a large number of pillbox fortifications scattered on both sides of the entrance of Meizhen, Qingfeng Niuling and Qingfeng Ridge, these fortifications could not stop the attack of the Japanese heavy army group, but it was enough to prevent the penetration of small troops.

This formed a chain of dead buckles, and one day, this Shaqiaogang fortress was officially completed, and the devils basically stopped thinking about attacking Dameishan from the front.