The Fifth Division under Seishiro Itagaki is also "prestigious", because most of its soldiers come from the island nation of Hiroshima, Gu is also known as the "Hiroshima Division", and since Seishiro Itagaki took office, it is also called the "Itagaki Division". Romance debut??? The Chinese w.81zw.com of the 17 permanent divisions of the Japanese army, one of the first seven divisions formed by the Japanese army, and one of the four mechanized divisions of the Japanese army.

Its combat effectiveness is even more said to be fierce, and it is known as the "Steel Army" in the Japanese army. The most proud achievement for them was, of course, the defeat of more than 30 divisions in North China. At the same time, they were also the troops with the widest combat range in the war of aggression against China. Attacking Nankou, invading northern Shanxi, fighting Songhu, bloodbathing Nanjing, occupying Xuzhou, Taierzhuang Campaign, surprise attack on Guangzhou, and invading Guangxi in Qinzhou Bay, they are everywhere, according to incomplete statistics, in the entire war of aggression against China, they fought with more than 70 Chinese divisions before and after, and none of them were defeated.

It was precisely because of their fierceness that the Japanese army in Central China transferred the Fifth Division to Huangshan to block Jiang Haoran's 40th Group Army, and after entering Huangshan, the Japanese army also equipped the Fifth Division with an independent tank wing, plus its own four infantry wings, a motorized wing, a cavalry wing, a field artillery wing, and a baggage wing, a total of nine wings, with a strength of more than 41,000 troops.

With such a division commander and such a soldier, it is understandable that the New Tenth Army did not take Huangshan within three days. Although they are no worse than the enemy in terms of weapons, and their artillery is even stronger than the Japanese army, the quality of the soldiers is really not as good as these little devils who fought in the south and the north. After all, the New Tenth Army has only been formed for more than a year, and the original old foundation has been almost fought in southern Anhui, and at least half of the soldiers after the reorganization are new recruits, although they have received very strict training, but they have not undergone the baptism of blood and rain, and their experience and willpower are far inferior to those of the Japanese army.

Moreover, they do not have an advantage in terms of troops, although the three divisions are all A type of establishment, each division has 18ooo people, excluding 3,000 left-behind troops, in fact, it is 15ooo thousand people, plus heavy artillery brigades, troops directly under the military department, the total strength can be 50,000, it seems that it is slightly better than the Japanese army, but don't forget, the Japanese army still has a puppet army, at this time there are two divisions of the puppet army in Huangshan, with more than 20,000 troops.

It can be said that the New Tenth Army's three-day offensive did not take advantage of the Japanese army, on the contrary, the direct casualties of the war were multiple of the Japanese army, of course, the heavy artillery brigade still played a role, tens of thousands of shells smashed into the city, and also caused a lot of casualties to the Japanese army, so that the two sides were at most drawn. 、

Although the Japanese army did not suffer a loss, at this moment, the commander of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army, Seishiro Itagaki, became an ant on a hot pot, he clearly knew that Jiang Haoran would not fight an uncertain battle, and the lore would appear at any time in the next second. The 3rd Division, which could have been counted on, had been blocked in Shitai, and there was no reinforcement at all in a short time, and the Xuancheng troops that could reach within three days were also blocked by the Hurricane Column, and the reinforcements were far away, and the only thing that could be counted on was reinforcements from the Lin'an direction, but they would not be able to arrive in at least two days, but could the 5th Division hold out for two days? Facing the fierce and vicious Jiang Haoran, Itagaki Seishiro really had no bottom in his heart.

"Itagaki Jun, you don't have to worry too much, ** although the artillery is strong, but their soldiers are not the legendary brave and good at fighting, according to reliable information, they have no troops to adjust in the short term, the possibility of increasing troops is basically not, as long as tonight, tomorrow the imperial army's navy will sail into the East China Sea, we can get strong air support, and the imperial army may attack Wenzhou at any time, forcing the new tenth army to return to help, and the situation of the war will soon be tilted in the direction of the imperial army's victory." Major General Nishimura Junmasa, chief of staff of the Fifth Division, was much calmer than Seishiro Itagaki, at least he could sit on the side and smoke comfortably at this time.

Seishiro Itagaki stopped pacing, glanced at Nishimura Junmasa, sighed, and said, "Hopefully?" ”

In these three days, the Japanese planes could not appear in the sky over Huangshan at all, and the first planes were simply like long eyes, and it was not easy to have a flying team to support Huangshan, and the first planes immediately swarmed in, and with an absolute numerical superiority, the imperial planes could only escape with their lives, but caused the Fifth Division to face a volley.

Itagaki Seishiro knows that there is a third flight division in the entire central China region, the flames of war are burning everywhere, they have to take care of the entire Wuhan area, plus the first air force has begun to rise, not only the performance is stronger than the imperial army's zero battle, but also the 14th air force of the rice army joined, the number is far greater than the third flight division, the situation that cannot be taken into account is inevitable, but this situation will be fully reversed with the imperial navy entering the East China Sea tomorrow, with absolute air supremacy, the next battle is really much easier to fight, At least their heavy artillery brigade could not have been so arrogant.

Perhaps it was Nishimura's words that gave Itagaki Seishiro some comfort and made him stop wandering, pull out a chair and sit down next to Nishimura Junmasa.

"Come, smoke a cigarette to relieve the pressure, you and the Fifth Division have created a lot of miracles, this time will not be an exception, victory belongs to the imperial army after all." Nishimura Shunmasa handed Itagaki Seishiro a cigarette and said with a smile,

"Yo Xi!" Itagaki Seishiro finally had a smile on his face, took the cigarette, took two puffs on the match that Nishimura Shunmasa handed over and had already lit, sat up straight and spit out a puff of smoke, and the sorrow between his eyebrows seemed to be swept away in an instant.

At this moment, a staff officer hurriedly came in to report that the army had begun to attack again, and it was a massive attack from the south gate.

"What?" Itagaki Seishiro ejected, and the cigarette he had just lit was smashed to the ground by him, and sparks splashed everywhere, "Eight grid tooth road, that person is endless, order the troops to attack the invading enemy!" ”

"Hay!" The staff officer responded and left in a hurry.

"Itagaki-kun, something seems wrong?" Chief of Staff Nishimura Shunmasa stood up and said.

"What's wrong?" Seishiro Itagaki looked suspicious.

Nishimura Shunmasa said: "In the past, there would definitely be an artillery attack before the attack, and it would take half an hour to smash it, how could it be that this time even the artillery attack was saved, could it be that Jiang Haoran's descendant team would have fewer shells?" Moreover, in the past few days, their attacks have been attacked from both sides of the southwest, and on this big night, how could they choose the frontal with the strongest strength of our troops as the breakthrough point? ”

"Shuffle!" Seishiro Itagaki nodded repeatedly, agreeing with Nishimura Shunmasa's statement.

In the following time, the two discussed for a long time, but they still didn't understand the essentials, and they didn't understand where Jiang Haoran's intentions were.