Chapter 897: One Arrow of Revenge
But whether you have a headache or not, what should happen will still happen, and you can't stop it.
Just when the Japanese army began to retreat, the ** three-way army on the dry road also launched a charge, and the armies of the waterway accelerated their speed, and even before the Japanese army had time to withdraw from the battlefield, they had already begun to land, and the position was already closer to the edge of the city than the Japanese army.
What followed was a large-scale scuffle, and the entire perimeter southwest of Wuhan was turned into a pot of porridge, and the defense line for dozens of miles was full of gunfire and explosions, and it was not until dawn that it gradually thinned out.
**More than 100,000 horses in more than 10 divisions of the two group armies, dealing with the Japanese army with a B division and a puppet army division, all add up to only more than 30,000 horses, the result of victory and defeat can be imagined, the Japanese army is simply a rout, countless casualties, according to post-war statistics, in the peripheral battle alone, the casualties of the Japanese puppet army are close to half, ** is simply chasing the heel of the Japanese puppet army into Wuhan, and the brutal street fighting also started before dawn as scheduled.
After a night of melee, the troops in front had already entered the stage of street fighting, but there were still Japanese troops in the rear who were stubbornly resisting on a certain hill and pass, but basically these devils were just one step away from death, and it can also be seen that there were also big loopholes in the command system of the Japanese army, and even the retreat could not be carried out simply and thoroughly.
To tell the truth, if this was in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, a B division of the Japanese army, let alone blocking the advance of the two group armies, even if it was to attack them, it would not be a new thing to defeat them. But the current shape is not the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War.
Since the end of the Battle of Wuhan, these two group armies have basically not experienced any major battles, and there are no major casualties, and after more than a year of rest, the troops have been fully reorganized, and the equipment is even more because of Jiang Haoran's 331 base, which is more complete than the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, and then Jiang Haoran's all-people anti-Japanese war is electrified. The soldiers are all determined to fight this battle with the determination to die, and the morale is already bursting, and there is one of the main reasons, the Japanese army has shown a defeat, Jiang Haoran has been advancing all the way on the East Road, and it has also given the soldiers unlimited confidence.
A new day finally came, at about eight o'clock in the morning, the former enemy headquarters at the foot of Yuelu Mountain.
The cheers were deafening, the chairman of the committee was full of excitement and danced like a child, and there was no leader at all, and the staff officers and generals were also so excited that they were not human, and there were many who were dancing and grinning stupidly, and there were not a few who hugged and cried.
Just 10 minutes ago, the 27th Army and the 19th Army sent telegrams one after another, saying that they had broken through the defense line of the 39th Division of the Japanese Army in front, and the troops had fully entered the stage of street fighting, and the full occupation of Wuchang was in the next second.
This is undoubtedly a huge good news for **, entering the street battle, it means that the Japanese air force has completely lost its advantage, the two forces are mixed together, the Japanese air force has no threat to **, and ** with an absolutely overwhelming force advantage, coupled with the fact that the Japanese army has no intention of retreating, it is bound to become a flood swept by the posture, ** can be said to have won the battle.
"Silence, silence!" The chairman of the committee knocked on the table, and when the noise subsided, the chairman said loudly with full of energy: "The telegram ordered Yu Jishi's department and Yang Sen's department to be the first to take the first credit for the Wuhan camp." At the same time, the 30th Group Army and the 15th Group Army were ordered to speed up the march, advance to Wuhan, cooperate with the 19th Group Army and the 27th Group Army to carry out a comprehensive sweeping campaign, and be sure to annihilate the remnants of the Japanese 11th Army on the Yangtze River in Wuchang. ”
The location of the Wuhan camp is close to the Yangtze River, and the Wuhan camp is laid, basically the entire Wuchang is already under the control of the first place, and the four group armies poured into Wuchang City at the same time, which is undoubtedly a disaster for the Japanese army who is eager to retreat. At present, it is only three days since the Japanese army issued the order to retreat, and it is obviously impossible to complete the entire retreat task in three days, let alone transport away the facilities in the city, and it is very difficult for even hundreds of thousands of troops to cross the river in an all-round way.
How similar was the situation of the Battle of Nanjing to the battle in front of you? After Tang Shengzhi, the defender of Nanjing, received the retreat order from the chairman of the committee, the enemy entered the city of Nanjing three days later, and the defenders in the city fled in panic, the command system was directly paralyzed, and even the commanders left the soldiers to smear oil under their own feet and fled, and thousands of Chinese soldiers used their bodies to block the enemy without the command of the commander.
As a result, the Chinese defenders were unable to form effective resistance and retreat in an orderly manner, which directly caused the officers and soldiers stranded in the city to fall into a situation of organizational collapse, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers were captured, and became the targets of brutal massacres by the Japanese army.
Therefore, the chairman of the committee also hoped to see the Japanese army in chaos, the story repeated, and the scene of blood staining the Yangtze River again, but this time the blood of the Japanese army was used to avenge Nanjing's revenge.
As soon as the chairman's voice fell, General He pulled the general's uniform on his body, stepped forward and said, "Bench, you still missed an order?" ”
"Oh, what order?" Chairman Qi Dao.
General He said, "According to the plan, when Wuchang is captured, it is the time to block the retreat of the Japanese army, and then we should order the troops of the Fifth Theater to launch a general attack on Jinzhai, in order to achieve the strategic goal of comprehensively encircling the enemy, and at the same time, while the enemy's reinforcements have not yet arrived, we can quickly launch an attack on Lu'an, so that we can not only occupy Wuhan, but also crush the purpose of the Eighth Route Army stationed in Dabie Mountain." ”
"Yes, yes, Jingzhi reminded me right, this matter will be left to you and Degong, as much as you can urge Bai Chongxi to act, you must not give the Eighth Route Army any opportunity to take advantage of." The chairman nodded repeatedly.
"Yes, take a seat!" Admiral He stepped forward and replied, then turned his face to Admiral Li on the side, and said, "Duke De, then let's study how to fight this battle again, right?" ”
Admiral Li did not answer General He's words, but turned his face to Dai Li, and said, "Yunong, is your intelligence true, can Chen Qian's troops from the First Theater really arrive in Xinyang tomorrow?" ”
General Li did not forget Jiang Haoran's explanation, before the troops of the first theater arrived, they must not launch a general attack on Jinzhai, otherwise the troops will be divided, and the enemy will take the opportunity to launch a counterattack on Xinyang, and the fifth theater may be cut in half by the enemy, so he must finalize this matter before this.