In mid-to-late September, when the battle between the north and south foothills of Dabie Mountain and the area from Ruichang to Yangxin on the south bank of the Yangtze River was in full swing during the Battle of Wuhan, the Nanxun line from Jiujiang to Nanchang was temporarily silent due to the lack of Japanese troops. &1t;/p>

Due to the fact that during the Battle of Minshan at the end of August and early September, the 74th Army was too strong, and although it drove away the Maruyama Brigade of the 9th Division, it was also greatly damaged. &1t;/p>

At present, the 74 th Army, because it is constantly fighting tough battles and winning battles, has also attracted sufficient attention from the Central Military Commission, and on the premise that other armies are getting weaker and weaker, the 74 th Army is fighting more and more fiercely, and this has given the Military Commission a great joy. &1t;/p>

For this purpose, the Military Commission demanded that the 74th Army, which is currently exhausted from fighting, be pulled to Changsha for repair. &1t;/p>

As a result, this order was disobeyed by Xue Yue, commander of the First Corps of the Ninth Theater, and it was extremely rare and feared on the battlefield to resist the top. &1t;/p>

But General Xue, a tiger boy, has such courage, no matter how much he urged and said, he just didn't agree, and called back and said that the other troops were also fighting very badly and tired, so why could the 74th Army be withdrawn and repaired? &1t;/p>

At this time when there was an urgent need to employ people, taking away the most powerful army in General Xue's hands was indeed asking for his old life, so he dared to be tough and disobey his orders at the expense of his official position. &1t;/p>

At present, the situation of Nanxun Road, although the 1O6 Division on the front was blocked by the 4th and 8th Armies in the Mahuiling area, the 1O1 Division on the right flank was blocked by the 9th Army at the Pass Street in the east and west of the Dexing Road, and the Maruyama Brigade of the 9th Division on the left flank was repulsed by the 74th Army. &1t;/p>

Okamura Ningji pushed the 7th Division, which had just rushed to the battlefield of the Nanxun Line, to the left flank of the First Corps of the Chinese Army and carried out an attack on the Ruiwu Road, in an attempt to defeat Jixi and Wuning and cut off the retreat of the First Corps to the west. &1t;/p>

The 7th Division of the Japanese Army was a newly formed division, which was formed in June on the basis of the Chinese Tun Mixed Brigade, and the division commander Masaharu Honma had just arrived from the Pingjin area. &1t;/p>

Last year's Lugou Bridge Incident, which was provoked by this unit, can be regarded as a Japanese army unit that the Chinese army hates. &1t;/p>

The commander of the 7th Division, Masaharu Honma, was more special in the military circles of the Japanese army, and he was Aiwen, who studied at Oxford University in the United Kingdom in his early years, and was known as the first English in the army, he loved to watch Western movies, painted and wrote poems during the war, and was nicknamed "Poet General". &1t;/p>

This seems to be a Confucian general, Masaharu Honma, has a lot of ambitions, otherwise he wouldn't have let go of a good official and come to the Chinese battlefield to suffer. &1t;/p>

Pulling a three-wing division to expand the brigade and regiment stationed in Tuntun, he wanted to burn three fires as soon as he came up, and he was not willing to just defend the position on one side. &1t;/p>

Since there are still the Ninth Division and the Hatian Detachment in the direction of Jiujiang Ruichang, there are no worries, Okamura Ningji obeyed Honma Masaharu's wishes, and simply came ruthlessly. &1t;/p>

Let the 7th Division make a big detour and go straight to Wuning in the southwest direction, with great ambition and appetite, ready to cut off the rear road of the Ninth War Zone, and then annihilate these hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops in the mountains of northern Jiangxi in one fell swoop. &1t;/p>

If it goes well, it can also move westward and take Changsha, cutting off Wuhan's back road to the south and forcing the Chinese government to surrender. &1t;/p>

Even if the Guangdong-Han line was not attacked, the base camp of the Japanese army had already begun to use troops along the southeast coast of China, preparing to block China's sea routes, prevent aid supplies from coming in, and trap China. &1t;/p>

Returning to the battlefield of northern Jiangxi in the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese army made a big detour this time, thinking that the most unfortunate result was to compress the two corps of the Ninth Theater to the south and press them to the Nanchang area. &1t;/p>

When it arrives in the northern Jiangxi Plain on the Nanchang side, the Chinese army will have no danger to defend, and at that time, several mechanized divisions of the Japanese 11th Army can sweep thousands of miles and kill hundreds of thousands of Chinese fresh troops in the Ninth Theater in one fell swoop. &1t;/p>

Then he marched westward, killed in Changsha, and hunted Wuhan with the Second Army in the north, forcing the Chinese government to surrender and ending the Chinese war. &1t;/p>

Of course, these are the wishful thoughts of Okamura Ninji and the Japanese army base camp, no matter how weak the Chinese army is, it will not be so stupid that this simple strategy cannot be distinguished. &1t;/p>

Not to mention General Chen Cheng, commander of the Ninth Theater of Operations, even General Xue Yue, commander of the First Corps, knows very well that the Japanese army likes to run long distances and take a roundabout approach. &1t;/p>

This is also normal, people have that strength, and if the Chinese army has this strength, it will do the same. &1t;/p>

At present, the strength is not as good as the Japanese army, so it can only be steady and steady, and when you see an opportunity, you will give a hammer, and if you don't fight, you will come back quickly, and everyone will gather together to prevent the Japanese army from eating, as long as you hit, you will come with a few more hammers. &1t;/p>

Therefore, in view of the fact that the Japanese 7th Division was going farther and farther on the Ruiwu Highway, the 9th Theater immediately ordered the 30th Group Army of the Sichuan Army on the front line of the Ruiwu Road to occupy the pass around Qilin Peak and block the eastward advance of the 27th Division of the Japanese Army. &1t;/p>

Originally, the Chinese army on this line belonged to the Second Corps of the Ninth Theater, but in order to facilitate unified command, the troops on this line were assigned to Xue Yue of the First Corps to command. &1t;/p>

General Xue saw that the Japanese 7th Division was menacing, and thought that instead of hitting head-on, it was better to attack from behind, cut off its rear roads and supply lines, and force the troops to retreat. &1t;/p>

Therefore, while organizing the 30th Group Army to intercept at the front, it sent four divisions of troops to flank, tail, and harass along the way. &1t;/p>

In late September, when the Japanese army advanced to the area of Xiaoao on the Ruiwu Highway, the focus of both sides was on the strategic point of Qilin Peak. &1t;/p>

Qilin Peak is not only the pass from Ruichang to Wuning Highway, but also the key pass from Ruiwu Highway to De'an from the east. If the 7th Division takes Qilin Peak and returns to De'an, it can completely surround hundreds of thousands of troops of the Chinese army. &1t;/p>

Therefore, this Qilin Peak has become the main point of the frantic contention between the hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Japanese armies, and it can be said that it is the life and death of the whole chessboard. &1t;/p>

Defending Qilin Peak is the new 1st Division of the Sichuan Army Group Army, this unit was originally guarding Minshan, and was attacked by the Maruyama Brigade of the Ninth Division of the Japanese Army, and it was crushed at the touch of a button, but fortunately, it was the 74th Army that fought hard to recapture Minshan. &1t;/p>

This time, the Sichuan army retreated to the rear to collect and repair the troops, and the Japanese army ran into it again, for the shame of a snow Minshan, the Sichuan army looked forward to proving itself in this battle, and the whole division went all out. &1t;/p>

There is a high ground in the east of Qilin Peak called Covered Blood Mountain, the Japanese army launched a fierce surprise attack on the high ground with all its might, and the defenders of our Covered Blood Mountain suffered heavy casualties, almost the whole army was wiped out, so that the high ground was lost. &1t;/p>

The Japanese troops who occupied the Covered Blood Mountain immediately pressed westward, attacking Qilin Peak and other places from the east and west. &1t;/p>

On the evening of September 25, the Japanese 7th Division raided our positions at night and occupied the northeast heights of Qilin Peak. The newly formed 13th Division of the Sichuan Army launched a counter-attack on the enemy, and more than half of the casualties of one brigade were lost, and the brigade commander still fought to the death. &1t;/p>

The two sides were still fighting and fighting hand-to-hand repeatedly, and in the forward command post, Major General and Deputy Division Commander Ming Jiguang was desperately supervising the battle under artillery fire. Japanese shells exploded near the command post, air waves rushed into the command post, and the map hanging on the wall was also lifted. &1t;/p>

The figure of the Japanese charge was clearly visible, and someone in the command post suggested retreating. Deputy division commander Ming Jiguang pulled out a pistol from his waist, his eyes were cold, and his face was pale: "Those who dare to retreat will be killed!" (To be continued)&1t;/p>

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