Chapter 133: The Fall of Wuhan

"To Lao Tzu, resist, resist, support will come soon."

Li Yannian hung up the phone in an angry manner, the 86th Army was forced to break through, and the 26th Army didn't even know where it was, so he sent a telegram to the chairman of the committee and there was no more news.

The strength of the two divisions has been resisting the Imamura detachment for two days, and Bai Chongxi has not had any news so far.

If the Japanese break through the current last line of defense, the Japanese tanks will have to drive in front of the fortress.

"Commander, the devil on the river is here again."

"Hell, ask for artillery support from the other side."

Li Yannian kicked off the stool, picked up the telescope and looked at the river, the devil's ship had not yet arrived, and it was estimated that it had just set off from Jiujiang.

"Next time, make it clear, and make a fuss about Lao Tzu killing you."

On September 22, the heavy rain for half a month finally subsided, ushering in a sunny day.

The 11th Squadron of the Japanese Navy, more than a dozen shallow-water gunboats with dozens of motorboats, went up the river mightily.

The defenders of the riverbank fired a volley of artillery fire, and could fail to sink one.

At this time, not only Tianjiazhen and Wanjialing were resisting the Japanese attack, and the Japanese Second Army launched a formal attack because of the pacification of the Zhang Gufeng incident.

When the Japanese army launched the attack, it was already August 22, and the Japanese army attacked Lu'an and Huoshan in two directions.

The Japanese army had been accumulating strength for a long time, and Lu'an and Huoshan were quickly captured, and continued to attack in two directions along the two major directions.

The 13th and 16th Divisions intended to penetrate directly into the Dabie Mountain, and wanted to cross the Dabie Mountain to approach Wuhan, echoing the 6th Division in the south.

All the way to Luoshan, in a vain attempt to directly cut off the Pinghan Railway and occupy the last communication line between the north and the south.

Ogishu successfully attacked Fujin Mountain, which is a lonely mountain on the side of the highway, and the road can be blocked from a high point on the mountain.

The Japanese army could not enter Wuhan, so they could only stop gnawing the hard bone of the 71st Army, and Song Xilian did not lose much in Nanjing, and now he has all recovered.

Moreover, the 114th Division of the 51st Army of the Northeast Army assisted in the defense, and directly put on a posture and waited for the Japanese army to attack.

The 36th Division of the German Armament Division was stationed in the main position, with the 114th and 88th Divisions on the left and right respectively.

Most of the tactics used by the Japanese army were to use artillery fire and aircraft to strike, and to carry out onboard charges, if it didn't work once, it would be twice, and if it didn't work twice, it would be three times.

This time, the Japanese army encountered a real hard bone, and until September 6, Ogishu could only look at the mountains and smile bitterly.

Seeing that a frontal attack was not possible, Ogishu prepared to flank the weakest 114th Division, after all, most of the Northeast Army were apprentices of the Japanese army.

While attacking Ogishu on the side, he still wanted to sneak attack, so he sent a brigade to detour back to the rear of Fujin Mountain to sneak attack.

Unexpectedly, he was discovered by the 88th Division, and the Japanese army was ambushed, leaving more than 400 corpses and fleeing.

Ogishu could not be attacked for a long time, so he could only ask for help and wait for the 16th Division to come to help, which was already September 11.

In order to avoid a decisive battle, the Wuhan base camp adopted the principle of continuous resistance, just to gain time to rush supplies to Sichuan.

The defending army had no reinforcements at all, and they could retreat when the defensive time period arrived, but Song Xilian was powerless in the face of the two divisions, and he was unable to fight again after nine days of fierce fighting, so he could only retreat.

Directly retreated to the area of Xiaojieling, at this time there were only more than 800 people left in the most elite German 36th Division.

Xiaojieling, as the last barrier given to Wuhan by Dabie Mountain, could not be lost, and Sun Lianzhong directly used three armies to occupy a strong terrain to block the Japanese army.

Sun Lianzhong, who occupied the favorable terrain, fought fiercely with the Japanese army.

In the face of the 3rd Division and the 10th Division, Zhang Zizhong held for a full ten days, which was obtained by the Japanese army with a large number of artillery shells, but Zhang Zizhong still held for three more days.

After passing Huangchuan, the Japanese army smashed Luoshan and Xinyang, which were important nodes on the Pinghan Railway and the barrier of Wuhan, and attached great importance to them.

The general who defended the city was Hu Zongnan, and he had been waiting for a long time with the First Army and the Forty-sixth Army.

The name of the First Army is not for nothing, not to mention other equipment, it is the first.

The First Army had the only tank unit in China at that time, as well as an artillery brigade with the largest number of artillery at that time, and it was completely inferior to the Japanese in terms of firepower.

So there was a frantic exchange of fire, artillery against each other, tank against each other, infantry against each other.

At this time, something happened that made me unable to eat and sleep well.

The Japanese army secretly gathered the strength of three divisions in the northeast, and with the support of the Japanese Fifth Fleet, they made a surprise attack on the only outlet to the sea of the Republic of China, Guangzhou.

At that time, it was thought that it was just a bluff by the Japanese army, in a vain attempt to make it withdraw troops from Wuhan.

didn't believe it, and sent a division from Guangzhou to the north to support Wuhan, and Yu Hanmou almost scolded his mother Xipi.

On the evening of 11 October, when the 86th Army was still on board, the Japanese army had already forcibly landed in Daya Bay, and Guangzhou, which did not have many troops, was connected to four cities, and the Japanese troops were directed towards Guangzhou.

At this time, Tianjiazhen had already fallen, and from the moment the 86th Army broke through, Tianjiazhen meant that it had fallen.

The Japanese army concentrated its forces, cooperated with the ships on the river, and the planes in the air, and told Li Yannian what a combined sea, land, and air strike was.

In just a few days, all the outer positions of Tianjia Town were lost, and after getting the news, in order to preserve their strength, they abandoned Tianjia Town.

Li Yannian was ordered to retreat to Qizhou by land, Jiangbei fell, UU read book .nt Jiangnan fortress fell, and the Japanese battlefield turned to Jiangbei.

The Japanese 11th Army advanced along the southern foot of Dabie Mountain, and there were many blocking troops, which could be mostly lost troops, so they could only be difficult to block.

In the north of Dabie Mountain, Sun Lianzhong resisted for more than ten days, and finally gave up because Hu Zongnan ignored the military order.

Hu Zongnan's entire seven divisions were not weaker than the Japanese army in firepower, and the Japanese army, which had fought several bloody battles, was defeated.

Yu Hanmou led the 12th Group Army from Daya Bay to entangled with the Japanese army to Guangzhou, and only on the 21st, Guangzhou fell.

At this time, Guangzhou fell, and the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway was no longer useful, so in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, a retreat was ordered.

Li Zongren was discharged from the hospital with illness and ordered Hu Zongnan to retreat south to cover the westward retreat of the army.

The Japanese army broke through and took Macheng and Xinyang.

The army that has no way to retreat can only retreat into the Dabie Mountains and recuperate.

Wuhan had begun to evacuate the masses several months earlier to avoid a repeat of the massacre, and the massacre in Nanjing had not stopped until now, and the atrocities of the Japanese army were too numerous to mention.

The fall of Wuhan woke up to the fact that the War of Resistance was not a matter of one or two days.

When Zhang Ziwen knew about these things, it was already October 30th, and his first reaction was that Lu Qingman was now in Hong Kong.

The Japanese army did not make enemies with the British, but no one can say for sure.

The great powers will always wear the same pants, and the Japanese army has begun to invade the Chinese concessions of various countries, and no one knows if Japan will go crazy.

"Call the division headquarters and ask if the division commander is not at the division headquarters, and say that I have something important to ask for."

Ma Xiaobao saw that Zhang Ziwen was nervous, and he also understood what Zhang Ziwen was thinking, so he hurriedly went to the radio class.

After a while, Ma Xiaobao came back expressionlessly.

"Brother Wen, the division headquarters called back, and the division commander went to Changsha."

When Zhang Ziwen heard this, he had no choice but to wait patiently.