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Another signal soldier hurriedly came to him and immediately reported: "Chief of Staff, I just intercepted the clear code telegram of the 799th Regiment of the Sichuan Army, saying that they have captured Jiujiang City, and the regiment commander Zhao Baishi made it even clearer that more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the 799th Regiment have sworn to live and die with Jiujiang City!" ”

"Nani, the 799th Regiment of the Sichuan Army?!"

Hearing this, Yoshimoto understood everything.

The one who met Xu Rui at the foot of Wushi Mountain before was not the remnants of the Sichuan army entrenched on Jigong Mountain? There is only this Sichuan army within a radius of hundreds of miles from Jiujiang, so the only one who raids Jiujiang can only be this Sichuan army, and there can be no other family!

It's just that the performance of this Sichuan army in the past few months is like that, it's okay to bully the puppet army, let them really start a battle and fight a positional battle with the Japanese army, borrow the courage of the two of them! However, now, this Sichuan army was suddenly reborn, not only daring to start a battle with the Japanese army, but also raiding Jiujiang in one fell swoop!

Isn't all of this telling?

Obviously, this group of Sichuan troops is reborn because of Xu Rui's command, so it will suddenly become so powerful, as an enemy, Yoshimoto Sanichi is very reluctant to admit that Xu Rui has the ability to make an army reborn in a short period of time, but the facts are the facts after all!

Whether you admit it or not, the facts are there!

"Yaga!" Yoshimoto sageed his teeth and roared, "Xu Rui, this cunning Chinese rabbit! ”

At this moment, Yoshimoto Sadaichi felt angry and even more ashamed, starting from the assassination of Commander Okamura, this series of battles between him and Xu Rui, he can be called a complete defeat! Whether it was the mound being deflated, the cliff on the east side of Jigongling being played, or the later sound of the east and west, he was like a fool, and he was played by Xu Rui in the palm of his hand.

After several minutes, Yoshimoto finally broke free from the huge sense of shame, and immediately pulled out his saber with his backhand, pointed in the direction of Jiujiang with the tip of the knife, and shouted loudly: "Order, return to Jiujiang!" ”

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Tonggu County, Headquarters of the First Corps of the National Revolutionary Army.

Xue Yue had a good night's sleep and had recuperated his energy, and he had already returned to the war room again.

It's just that the progress of the war in Shanggao, Gao'an, Zhangshu, and Xinyi is not going well, although the devil garrisons in these four places are not many, but the combat effectiveness is very strong, and the national army participating in the attack has four corps and ten infantry divisions, and the total strength is almost ten times that of the little devils, but on the battlefield, it does not reflect much advantage.

Speaking of which, this was actually the iniquity of Chairman Chiang, and the erroneous decisions made by Chairman Chiang in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing finally began to show evil consequences at this time.

Because in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing, a large number of elite veterans of the Nationalist Army died, especially in the Battle of Nanjing, the 100,000 most elite Central Army, because of Chairman Chiang's head and rat, lost the will to resist, threw away their weapons and hid in the safe zone, but in the end they were searched out by the Japanese army and killed like chickens and sheep.

Of the 300,000 unjust souls of the Nanjing Massacre, at least 100,000 were elite veterans of the Nationalist Army!

This is also the main reason why little Japan refused to admit the Nanjing Massacre after the war, because they insisted that only some prisoners of war were executed, and not civilians!

Due to the loss of a large number of elite veterans in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing, forcing the Nationalist Government to frantically recruit troops in the rear, most of these conscripted strong men were weak and weak, and they were sent to the cruel battlefield without much training, and the result can be imagined, the vast majority of strong men became cannon fodder, and only a few survived.

In this way, the national army entered a vicious circle, a large number of conscripts, sent to the battlefield to become cannon fodder, then conscripted, and then sent to the battlefield to become cannon fodder, these poor strong men did not have time to grow into a veteran before they died, so that after several rounds of vicious circles, even the grassroots officers lost about the same, and the combat effectiveness deteriorated.

Among the main forces of the National Army in various theaters, Xue Yue's First Corps can already be regarded as capable of fighting, but compared with the Central Army before the Battle of Songhu, it is not at the same level at all.

And this was after the Soviet Union provided a large amount of weapons and equipment.

Without the large amount of weapons and equipment provided by the Soviet Union, the gap would be even greater!

But looking at the Japanese army on the other hand, the situation is exactly the opposite of the national army!

Before the Battle of Songhu, the small Japanese army actually did not have much actual combat experience, even if it was 17 permanent divisions and regiments, and only grass-roots officers had gone to the northeast to participate in the battle of encircling and suppressing the Democratic Resistance League, but the strength of the Democratic Resistance League was just like that, and the effect of the actual combat training that could be provided to the Japanese army was also extremely limited.

That is to say, before the Battle of Songhu, almost all the Japanese devils were newcomers on the battlefield.

But now, the situation is completely different, from the Battle of Songhu to the Battle of Nanjing, to the Battle of Xuzhou, and then to the Battle of Wuhan, because the Japanese army has been advancing steadily, has been firmly in control of the initiative on the battlefield, the casualties are relatively small, and all the wounded can be treated in time, and then return to the team.

In this way, a virtuous circle is formed.

So up to now, the more than 20 infantry divisions and regiments participating in the war, nearly a million devil soldiers, all of them have become veterans, and their actual combat experience is more than a cut above that of the national army.

Reflected on the battlefield, that is, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army is getting stronger and stronger, while the combat effectiveness of the Nationalist Army is getting weaker and weaker, and a German ordnance division in the Battle of Songhu can be on a par with an infantry wing of the Japanese army, and even have a slight upper hand, but up to now, a main division of the Nationalist Army is very difficult to face an infantry brigade of the Japanese army.

Because of this, the attacks of the various units of the First Corps on Shanggao, Gao'an, Zhangshu and Xinyu did not go well.

Wu Yizhi, chief of staff of the First Corps, was so anxious that he called several times to urge all front-line units to step up their offensives, but it did not have much effect, not because the Nationalist Army did not work hard, but because the devil was too fierce.

However, Xue Yue had already been mentally prepared for this, and even comforted Wu Yizhi in turn.

"Chief of Staff, don't worry, the battle has just begun, and the battle still has to be fought, don't worry." Xue Yue said indifferently, "Don't look at the devil who is very fierce now, and even launched a counterattack locally, but in my opinion, the devil is actually a strong stubble, this is actually a manifestation of the devil's weak heart, as long as he survives this period, the devil will be in trouble." ”

Wu Yizhi was not as optimistic as Xue Yue, and just as he was about to refute, a major staff officer walked in with a folder.

"Report!" The staff officer of the major saluted Xue Yue and Wu Yizhi, and said loudly, "I just received an urgent telegram from the 133rd Division and the 799th Regiment of the Sichuan Army in clear code!" ”

Xue Yue and Wu Yizhi were suddenly stunned when they heard this.

Xue Yue was surprised and said, "The 799th Regiment of the 133rd Division? Xia Jiong's troops? ”

Wu Yizhi also said: "Didn't the 799th Regiment of the 133rd Division let the devil's Botian detachment be defeated in Anqing? was so angry that the commission almost withdrew their numbers. ”

While the two were talking, the Major's staff officer had already delivered the folder.

Wu Yizhi reached out and took the folder, opened it, and immediately widened his eyes after just one glance.

"What?!" Wu Yizhi actually shouted out on the spot, "Jiujiang Kefu?!" ”

"Chief of Staff, what did you just say?" Xue Yue also looked awe-inspiring, "The 799th Regiment has recovered Jiujiang?!" ”

Wu Yizhi took a deep breath and handed the telegram transcription paper to Xue Yue: "Boss, you better read it yourself." ”

"Mother Tuo Lei, she really recovered Jiujiang!" After Xue Yue read the telegram, he burst into foul language in his hometown slang as soon as he was excited, then slapped the telegram on the table, and then strode to the front of the map, staring at the huge map posted on the wall with blazing eyes, and his mind began to calculate rapidly.

Wu Yizhi followed and stepped forward, and his expression was also difficult to hide his excitement: "General seat, the 799th Regiment is borrowing the corpse to return the soul, but they are making such a fuss, the situation has changed unexpectedly, Jiujiang is the headquarters of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, and it is also the material transfer station of the five divisions and regiments in the Hunan and Jiangxi battlefields, as long as the 799 Regiment holds Jiujiang for three days, the five divisions of the Japanese army on the front line will face the dilemma of shortage of military supplies, if 799 can hold Jiujiang for 10 days, the five divisions and regiments in the Hunan and Jiangxi battlefields will fall into a desperate situation of running out of ammunition and food, Especially in Changde and Yueyang, the 3rd Division and the 101st Division will be in danger! ”

"Hmm." Xue Yue nodded heavily, and then said with emotion, "I thought that Xu Rui would be able to kill Okamura Ningci and paralyze the command system of the Eleventh Army of the Devils, which was already the ultimate, but I didn't expect that in the end, I still underestimated Xu Rui, assassinating Okamura Ningci is far from his end, he is going to force the little devil to a dead end!" ”

"Xu Rui?" Wu Yizhi said, "The general seat is saying that the 799th Regiment recovered Jiujiang, which is actually Xu Rui's masterpiece? ”

"Do you need to doubt it?" Xue Yue shook his head and said, "Zhao Baishi, the acting commander of the 799th Regiment, was only a small company commander before, how could he have such an old-fashioned tactical vision, and how could he have such command ability?" There is no doubt that the 799th Regiment must be Xu Rui actually commanding! ”

"If the 799th Regiment is really Xu Rui's actual command, it may really be possible to hold Jiujiang for ten days!"

Wu Yizhi thought of the previous Feicheng defense battle, Xu Rui commanded a central Anhui advance brigade, and under the premise of not being favored by everyone, he held Feicheng for ten days, and finally even cheated to death to end the division headquarters of the Sixth Division, which almost reversed the battle situation of the Battle of Xuzhou.

"Hmm!" Xue Yue nodded heavily and said, "We should think carefully about the possibility of completely annihilating the 3rd and 101st Divisions of the Devils!" (To be continued.) )