Chapter 444: Strangling in the bud

Okamura Ninji vaguely feels that something big is coming, but he doesn't know what the problem is, and fear often stems from the unknown.

Okamura Ninji ordered Kinoshita to quickly organize a staff team to conduct a military chess exercise, and he must find out Jiang Haoran's true intentions in the fastest time.

When Okamura Ninji changed into his military uniform and arrived at the war room, the war games had already begun.

The role of wargame deduction is to deduce the two sides to arrange troops and use battlefield resources to simulate the war, and then analyze and compare the commander's decision-making in the process of deduction to find the best strategy suitable for this war.

There has been no result here, the latest news on the battlefield has come, the Chinese Army has broken through the 157th Division is defensive line, and the troops have begun to break through to the south.

At this time, the imperial army of Huangshan completely entered 30 kilometers north of Huangshan because of the encirclement and suppression of the Zhina army, and the defense line was chiseled through, and it had fallen behind the Zhina army, that is to say, the current strength of Huangshan was no longer enough to resist the advance of the Zhina army, and after two hours, the Zhina army could easily occupy Huangshan or pass through Huangshan.

According to Okamura Ningji's thoughts, Jiang Haoran's intention was by no means to occupy, only possible to pass through, but after passing through Huangshan, he entered the Zhejiang zone, and was still deep in the encirclement of the imperial army, but the area was wider, and the four divisions of the imperial army were completely left behind him, but as long as the imperial army increased troops to Quzhou and Shangrao, the Zhina army was still in the middle of the four cities of Huangshan, Jingdezhen, Quzhou, and Shangrao, and there was still no way to escape.

Okamura Ninji couldn't figure it out right here, Jiang Haoran tried his best to jump from this encirclement to another?

Obviously impossible, could it be that his target is Quzhou? However, Quzhou and Huangshan are separated by more than 100 kilometers, not to mention that the Qingxiang plan has been implemented well in this area, and many artillery towers and sentry posts have been built, and it will take at least three days to march at full speed of the infantry, but the two garrisons of the imperial army in Hangzhou and Nanchang can be reached in one day through the Guò Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway, and the time for assembling and deploying trains will only take two days at most. It's too late to count the Chinese army.

If they take 10,000 steps back, even if the Chinese army occupies Quzhou, they will not be able to cross Shangrao and Yingtan, and the troops of Nanchang and Hangzhou will reach, and they will still have a dead end.

The war games continued to be deduced, assuming that the Fifth Army of the Shanggao Zhi Na Army and the 75th Army of the Gao An Zhi Na Army attacked Nanchang at the same time, holding the 104th Division of the Nanchang defenders, but the forces of Hangzhou could still be quickly put into the battlefield, and the Zhi Na Army was unstoppable.

Although Jiang Haoran had no chance of winning the deduction, Okamura still believed that Jiang Haoran's purpose was Quzhou, because there was no other way to enter this area......

In view of the fact that the failure of the first encirclement and suppression had become a fact, Okamura Ninji no longer dwelled on the reasons for the failure, and immediately ordered the 157th Division and the 140th Division to temporarily rest and recuperate, and then continue to advance the army when all the men and horses arrived. The 141st Division immediately retreated, and advanced rapidly south to Shangrao through Jingdezhen, blocking his rear road before the Chinese army reached Quzhou. The 156th Division entered Jingdezhen, and at the same time, it immediately sent a report on the battle situation to the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters, requesting General Toshiroku Hata to immediately send the 133rd Division stationed in Hangzhou to aid Quzhou, so as to nip a Qiē possibility in the bud.

By the time this was done, it was already dark, and the news from the front made Okamura Ningji feel even more tired, and the Zhina Army left one division to garrison Jixi County, and at the cost of half a division's casualties, it blocked the imperial army's frantic attack for four hours, prompting the remaining five divisions to quickly loot Huangshan City, and then retreat south on the whole line.

Okamura Ningji's encirclement and suppression was almost completely defeated, not to mention the battle losses, the loss of strategic materials was hundreds of tons, and the entire southern Anhui region was turned upside down by the Chinese army, although it also annihilated 30,000 or 40,000 Chinese troops, but the difference from the expected effect was more than 108,000 miles.

Ten kilometers south of Huangshan, Jiang Haoran took the four squads of the Snow Wolf Special Combat Team, the Hurricane Detachment, the New Ninth Division, and the New Tenth Division, and was marching rapidly.

Jiang Haoran's arrival gave them hope for life, and at the same time, Jiang Haoran also told them that as long as they entered Quzhou, they would be absolutely safe, and they had to hold on to breaking their legs in order to be responsible for their lives.

In order to avoid the bombing of the devil's planes, the troops were divided into three roads and marched together, Jiang Haoran led all the way to the center, Yin Donglai led the new 7th Division and the new 8th Division on the right side, and Liu Jian took the new 11th Division and the new 12th Division on the left side.

The Snow Wolf Special Combat Team was divided into three, as the vanguard force, because the Japanese army had already established many artillery towers and sentry posts in this area, the Snow Wolf Special Combat Team had excellent weapons in its hands, and the brick and stone turrets built in a hurry by the devils were just right to prevent the guerrillas of the New Fourth Army and the guerrillas behind enemy lines of the National Army, but for the Snow Wolf Special Combat Team, it was also a bazooka matter.

The Japanese army's huge plan to clear the countryside actually did not have many devil soldiers, except for a few divisions and regiments of the national army that were frontally encircled and suppressed, and only a small number of troops were in the Wendìng area. There are only one or two devil squadrons in a county town, and with the addition of the oversized brigades of the Imperial Cooperative Army, it is enough to deal with poorly equipped stragglers, but once they face several divisions of regular troops, they are purely looking for death if they do not retreat. Therefore, after trying to hold on to the two county seats, the Japanese army decisively opened the road, and the national army advanced to preserve its strength and hold Quzhou.

By noon, the Nationalist army had advanced 40 kilometers, but the Japanese fighters and bombers also came and began to frantically strafe and bomb the officers and men of the Nationalist army.

In view of the fact that the soldiers were indeed exhausted, and the Japanese army did not keep up, and it was estimated that they had suffered a lot of casualties and were exhausted in yesterday's battle, Jiang Haoran decided that the troops would stop advancing and look for favorable terrain to avoid the Japanese planes. After that, try to rest during the day, and start a rapid march after dark. In this way, it will definitely take another day or two more in terms of time, but there is no way to do this, the national army does not have air defense weapons to deal with the Japanese planes at all, and it cannot always advance in the rain of bullets. In addition, more and more wounded soldiers in the army will drag down the entire army, and Jiang Haoran has no precedent of leaving behind wounded soldiers, so this is the only way.

After entering a wood, Jiang Haoran ordered the troops to seize the time to rest and settle the wounded at the same time.

Sitting on a big rock, Jiang Haoran asked Wang Dingyuan, who had been following him like a soldier, for a cigarette, and Zizdi smoked it.

"Boss, I heard that you don't usually smoke, once you smoke, there must be something troublesome that can't be solved, are you encountering any problems?" Wang Dingyuan asked flatteringly.