After the Japanese army occupied the fortress of Ma, the Central China Dispatch Army issued the No. 140 combat order: "The 106th Division will land near Xiangkou with the main force one by one, and prepare to capture Hukou after gathering troops near Ma. ”

At the same time, after the Potian detachment attacked Pengze from Anqing, it cooperated with the 106th Division to attack Hukou.

Hukou is the mouth of Poyang Lake into and out of the Yangtze River, there are clouds since ancient times, those who get the mouth of the lake get Poyang Lake, and those who get Poyang Lake get northern Jiangxi, therefore, Hukou is an important town with great military value.

As the "key to the rivers and lakes", the mouth of the lake, since Zhou Yu, Zhu Yuanzhang, Taiping Army, Li Liejun and others have fought fiercely here, in order to compete for this strategic place and occupy Poyang Lake, the land of fish and rice.

After the loss of the horse fortress, Li Yunheng, the commander of the 16th Army of the Chinese **, was punished by military discipline for negligence and ineffective combat, and Xue Weiying, the commander of the 167th Division, was shot in Wuhan on August 15 of the same year for the crime of delaying the fighter, and the number of the division was revoked.

The 26th Division of the Chinese ** is defending Hukou, the 26th Division is the Sichuan Army, with average weapons, but it is very desperate, and the Japanese army is fighting to the death, you come and go, and the Japanese army is helpless all of a sudden.

In the end, the Japanese had to send warships and planes to bombard the 26th Division's fire points incessantly and indiscriminately, and each machine gun fire changed its shooter more than ten times due to casualties.

After several days of fierce fighting, the 26th Division was finally forced to retreat due to heavy casualties, unable to receive reinforcements, almost no ammunition consumption, and outnumbered. Late at night on July 4, the mouth of the lake was lost.

After Ma, Pengze, and Hukou were lost one after another, the gateway to Jiujiang was opened. Jiujiang is also the gateway of the Yangtze River to Wuhan, and once Jiujiang misses, the Japanese army will have a strong foothold on the front of attacking Wuhan.

But Jiujiang can be said to be an easy place to defend and difficult to attack in the era of cold weapons, backed by Lushan Mountain, facing the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake, but in the era of hot weapons, it is different.

For the squadron without navy and air force support, the rivers and lakes and ground barriers in turn limit the flexible and flexible movement of their own troops, and in the face of the long stretch along the rivers, lakes and marshes, in order to prevent the Japanese army from landing, it is necessary to fortify everywhere, the troops are scattered, and the combat effectiveness is weakened.

In addition, the depth of the operation in the Jiujiang area was only ten miles, and most of the positions were within the range of the enemy's artillery fire, and the artillery fire of the squadron could not suppress the artillery fire of the Japanese ships.

The Japanese army took advantage of the warships, planes, and artillery, and the original advantage of the water in Jiujiang became a disadvantage, and the Japanese warships could adjust the angle of attack at will to bombard the isolated city of Jiujiang.

Originally, when the Central Military Commission was designing the Battle of Wuhan, it put forward the operational policy of not focusing on one city or one place, but focusing on killing and injuring the Japanese army's vital forces, fighting and retreating step by step, and fighting the Japanese army in the mountains.

In fact, this operational policy is also applicable to Jiujiang, but the Supreme Command has changed its original operational policy due to two things.

The first thing was the rashness of the loss of the horse fortress, so that the Military Commission found that the original policy would allow the troops below to use it as an excuse to avoid defeat and retreat and preserve their strength.

The Horse Fortress is a Yangtze River fortress that has been carefully operated for several years, and it is really necessary to do its best, and the Japanese army did not take it so easily.

Originally, the horse fortress was expected to drag the Japanese footsteps for a little more time, so that the troops of the second line could enter the predetermined position as soon as possible, but the horse fortress was lost in only three days.

As a result, the Central Military Commission had no choice but to begin to adjust its policy and deal with a number of responsible persons, and at present Jiujiang was at this cusp, and it was also at the cusp of the Japanese army's inevitable victory, so it was necessary to defend it to the death.

The second incident is the Zhang Gufeng incident, Zhang Gufeng is an inconspicuous small peak on the Sino-Russian border, because of the dispute over the national border, the Soviet army and the puppet Manchukuo and the Japanese army caught fire and fought.

The occurrence of the Zhang Gufeng incident made the Chinese government feel that it was an opportunity, and it was very hopeful that a major war would break out between Japan and Russia again in order to ease the pressure of the Japanese army on China.

Therefore, in order to show goodwill to the Soviet Union and show that China could fight side by side with them, they resolutely resisted the advance of the Japanese army, and therefore, Jiujiang was at this juncture.

Therefore, the Military Commission gave a death order to Zhang Fakui, commander of the Second Corps stationed in Jiujiang:

Jiujiang is the gateway to Wuhan, if Jiujiang is not defended, then the Japanese army can take Wuhan in the west, and Nanchang and Changsha in the south, forming a situation of encircling Wuhan. Jiujiang must be defended to the death, and the Japanese army must not be allowed to fall!

The poor officers and men of the Second Corps of the Ninth Theater had to defend Jiujiang City, which was exposed to the artillery of the Japanese warships, with their flesh and blood.

General Zhang Fakui, out of consideration for the war, placed the Fourth Army of the Northern Expeditionary Iron Army in Lushan as a general reserve in case it was needed, but he almost lost his official position because of this incident.

Because the Fourth Army is Zhang Fakui's descendant army and the trump card army of the Guangdong system, after the loss of Jiujiang, this has become a handle and is controlled by others.

Principal Jiang wanted to abolish the trump card of the Cantonese system out of selfishness, or out of public intentions, and had room to play in cracking down on Zhang Fakui's fake public and private preservation of strength, so with a paper order, he directly hung Zhang Fakui high and set him up.

Fortunately, General Chen Cheng, the commander of the Ninth Theater of Operations, stood up, whether it was out of the overall situation of the Anti-Japanese War or out of the protection of his subordinates, and interceded with General Zhang.

General Chen Cheng said that it was his personal order to let the Fourth Army be placed in Lushan as a reserve, and it was also for the consideration of the long-term war of resistance in the future.

General Chen was the right-hand man of President Chiang's confidant, and he also wanted the Cantonese army to fight to the death for the next attack of the Japanese army, so he temporarily withdrew his fate, and General Zhang Fakui was able to retreat with his whole body, but the commander of this corps could no longer be the commander.

Besides, in the Zhang Gufeng incident, both Japan and Russia had to face their own strong opponents, and they did not want to fight a decisive battle in advance for the time being, so they turned the big incident into a small one and resolved it peacefully.

This incident made the Chinese side hiccup, full of hope, and so on came great disappointment, and the enthusiasm of the face was attached to the cold ass of the Soviet Union, and many people were lost in Jiujiang in vain.

A weak country has no diplomacy and relies on itself for everything. The weak do everything possible to rely on the strong to benefit, but they don't want to think that the strong don't want to harm their own interests to help you.

Instead of whispering and begging for help, it is better to turn yourself into a strong person and succeed. God rewards hard work, that's the truth.

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The Japanese army wanted to walk on two feet, and the 11th Army ordered the 6th Division to go from Anqing to Qianshan, Taihu County, Susong to Huangmei, and lay down Huangmei, which echoed Jiujiang south of the Yangtze River.

The 6th Division was the main force of the Nanjing Massacre, and the original division commander Toshio Tani had returned to Japan.

After the infamous Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese army, the heinous crimes committed by Gu Shoufu and others in Nanjing shocked the world, and the Japanese base camp itself felt shameless and uneasy.

In order to avoid being condemned by world public opinion, Tani was transferred to the Home Defense Force on December 27 of the same year to serve as the commander of the Central Army.

His superiors, Ishine Matsui and Heisuke Yanagawa, were incorporated into the reserve on February 14 of the following year. On 12 September 1939, he was transferred to the reserve along with several other main perpetrators of the massacre, and has not held any official position since.

The main generals of the 6th Division have all changed, but only a few people are staying, such as the brigade commander of the 36th Brigade, Mitsuru Ushijima, who is still serving as the brigade commander.

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