In fact, it cannot be said that only the red troops will engage in this mass mobilization and ideological work, and they will, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are originally one family, and when the Whampoa Military Academy was first established, the things taught were the same, and they were all things that were studied by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party together.

With the support of the people, the battle was easy to fight, and a large number of locals, with their incomparable familiarity with the grass, trees, sand and stones of their hometown, brought excellent guides and intelligence to the troops.

Originally, the intelligence system of the first class in China lagged far behind the Japanese army in terms of equipment and technology, but now with the help of local villagers, it can make up for a large part of such a vacancy and backwardness.

It can't be said that all the fellow villagers are good people, and there are also bad people who sell the country for some money and become traitors, but this kind of person is despised everywhere.

When the battle between China and Japan is fierce, these potential hidden traitors will jump out, and the local villagers, with a deep hatred for the devils, are even more unbearable for the traitors.

This is a great benefit to the Chinese **, this kind of purging traitors has caused the Japanese army to lose a lot of eyes and ears, and it has also improved the secrecy of the Chinese ** operation.

This time, the 51st Division of the Three Dogs also forcibly marched to Fengxin Lion Rock on the basis of this kind of fellow countrymen, and suddenly appeared in front of the Japanese army like a divine soldier descending from the sky.

In less than half a day, the 51st Division took the position of the Japanese army in Lion Rock, and immediately cut off the main road from Fengxin to Huibu Shangfu.

At this moment, the 106th Division was greatly shaken, and it also frightened the old fox Okamura Ningji, and urgently ordered the 106th Division to no longer fight in Changsha alone, and immediately turned around and withdrew to Nanchang.

It is difficult to say whether the resoluteness and courage of the 51st Division quickly cut off the rear road of the Japanese 106th Division, which played a good or bad role in the entire battle situation.

If it was not cut off in time, the vanguard of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army had already made the two Sichuan armies of the 30th Group Army extremely uncomfortable, and there was almost no chance of returning the favor.

If it continues, the water repair will be lost, and the water repair with the best geographical location in the Mufu Mountains will be lost, and then the relatively gentle Pingjiang River and Liuyang will be difficult to hold.

At that time, Changsha really didn't know if it could hold it, so for the sake of the overall situation, it was best to cut off the 106th Division as soon as possible, and force them back to the army as soon as possible.

But for the battlefield in northern Jiangxi, it is still a bit premature, because General Xue not only has to withstand the pressure of the Japanese army from northern Hunan, but also has to encircle and annihilate the 106th Division again in the mountainous areas of northern Jiangxi.

If the troops are mobilized quickly, and then the Japanese army is attracted to the northern mountains of Jiangbei, where Xiushui is repaired, and all the troops go all out, they can really fight a great victory in the encirclement and annihilation battle of Wanjialing again.

But this is a dangerous move, in case it can't surround the 106th Division, or even let the 106th Division break through to Pingjiang Liuyang, it will be bad.

Therefore, in the end, the Ninth Theater can only seek stability, first protect Changsha, and on the premise of keeping Changsha, and then see if it can surround the 106th Division in the Fengxin area and make him a hammer.

It's just that the mechanization of the Japanese army is in the Fengxin hilly area, and the speed of movement is too fast, and the Sichuan army in Jiuxiantang in front can't bite the retreating Japanese army.

Now the pressure is all on the 51st Division, and Lion Rock has become the chess eye of the Chinese and Japanese armies, and the Japanese army has been cut off from the east and west, but the east and west roads have begun to attack Lion Rock.

Several regiments of the 51st Division, distributed around Lion Rock, dug fortifications according to the usual practice, and strengthened the original fortifications of the Japanese army, although I thought that the Japanese army would definitely fight back wildly, but I didn't expect that the Japanese army's counterattack was really crazy.

In order to escape for their lives, the Japanese army mobilized more than 100 planes to bomb various positions on Lion Rock.

For this kind of blocking battle, Sangou doesn't know how many times he has fought, but it is the first time for these recruits from his hometown to fight a blocking battle above the division level.

The entire Lion Rock was hollowed out by several regiments of the 51st Division, and the 15th Regiment (formerly the 305th Regiment) of the Three Dogs was both offensive and defensive, and was placed in the main position of the Lion Rock, that is, on the mountain.

Lion Rock is not high, in this area, the mountains are not high, most of them are hills, it is said to be a mountain, but it is just a big hill.

The 153rd Regiment (formerly the 306th Regiment) was resilient enough and placed in the first defense, that is, the first-line position, next to the 15th Regiment, and the 151st Regiment (formerly the 301st Regiment) was placed behind the mountain as the reserve of the whole division.

The Field Replenishment Regiment (Field Replenishment Regiment, formerly the 30th Regiment) served as a mobile unit, waiting for orders from the division headquarters at any time, ready to make a detour and flank attack on the Japanese army.

Now after the 51st Division has withdrawn its brigade headquarters, Li Tianxia, the former commander of the 153rd Brigade, as the division commander, has placed the two regiments of the original 153 Brigade (305 and 306) on the front line and the place where the Japanese army is on top of the cattle with a high profile.

The former 151 Brigade Zhou Zhidao is now the deputy division commander, and the two regiments (301 and 30) under his original command are one as a reserve and the other as a mobile unit, which is relatively preferential.

At present, a small Lion Rock, including a few miles of surrounding land, is occupied by several regiments of the 51st Division, and the positions of the 15th and 153rd regiments are in the bright spot, which has been bombed to pieces by the Japanese army.

After the Japanese artillery fire was extended, the soldiers of the 153rd Regiment in the first defense immediately occupied the position, although they temporarily blocked the attack of the Japanese stragglers, but also suffered from the frantic strafing of the Japanese planes.

Whether it is a Min-2 quadruple machine gun or a Soviet-style Maxim water machine gun, it can also hit low-flying planes when it is raised, and the 153rd Regiment was uncomfortable by the Japanese planes, and regardless of whether the heavy machine gun fire point was exposed or not, it was set up and Maxim was fired.

Maxim's steel-core bullet, the power is still good, flying low at more than a thousand meters of the plane, once hit, it will basically be pierced.

The Japanese fighters, whether they were the early Type 91, the Type 96 and Type 97 in the middle period, or the Type Zero in the later period, were all known for their flexibility and speed.

But they are correspondingly less heavy and thicker, and many of them are very thin guards, which can even pierce rifle bullets if they hit.

Last time in Wanjialing, Sangou shot a Japanese plane, which was also a rifle bullet, and it may have been lucky enough to hit the fuel tank, and it immediately caught fire and finally exploded and dismembered.

Rifle bullets can hit, not to mention the Maxim steel core bullets that can penetrate the Japanese light tank, and the muzzle velocity and range of heavy machine gun bullets far exceed those of ordinary rifle bullets.

Seeing the heavy machine gun firing in the air, the Japanese fighters knew each other more, immediately pulled up, circled a few times, and when they saw that there was no benefit, they flew away.

Fighters are different from bombers, bombers drop bombs as soon as they come, and when they are done, they leave when they are done, and they only have a few heavy machine guns on their planes at most to protect themselves.

Due to their bulkiness and high fuel consumption, they are rarely used as fighters or to strafe ground positions, while fighters are the same, they are agile and fast, rarely carry bombs, and mainly rely on machine guns.

Therefore, after the Japanese fighters gained air supremacy, they had nothing to do except protect the bombers, so they swooped down and strafed the ground positions by the way.

In Songhu that year, because the Chinese leader was told by his superiors that he was not allowed to shoot Japanese fighters, the Japanese fighters were very arrogant and flew at low altitudes.

Even by lowering the plane and flying along the treetops, people on the ground could see the Japanese pilots poking their heads out to observe the situation on the ground.

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