Chapter 187: Briefing on the Battle of Jiujiang
(Cat flutter Chinese) "Commander Li now has no reserves in his hands, and there are no extra personnel to replenish us, and now there are four disabled formed divisions, and now the commander of the Second Corps is Zhang Fakui, who is in charge of command, and his own troops are all short of major generals, how can it be possible to supplement our foreign army. Please search (@¥) to see the most complete! The fastest update," Liao Peng replied with a frustrated face on his face.
"Lao Tzu led people to kill three in and three out with the little devils, five and a half battalions of troops, and now there are less than two battalions, and now when he turns his face, Lao Tzu will become a foreign army!" As soon as Fu Zhiyong heard Liao Peng's words, the anger immediately rose up again, and he kicked a bench next to him and yelled.
"Regiment commander, this can't be blamed on Commander Zhang, after all, we are only a regimental unit......" He Xue found that Liao Peng's face was ugly, and immediately walked out to deal with Zhiyong and persuade him to dissipate his anger.
"Fuck off! Lao Tzu is just one regiment, but the battle can top up to the two divisions of them! Don't add to Lao Tzu...... I'll fucking lead the troops to strike! "Liao Peng! Go, give Lao Tzu an order immediately, disband the assembled troops immediately, pack up your things for Lao Tzu, take our wounded, and we will leave immediately, and go back to the Shichuan Army to rebuild. After Fu Zhiyong finished scolding, he looked around for his boots, and gave orders directly to Liao Peng without looking back.
"Huh?" "This ......" "This battle is not fought!" "Regiment Commander, if you disobey the order before the battle, you will be shot......" "Regiment Commander, you can't be rash!" "That's right, this thing is not a joke, a bad one is going to die." When a group of people around heard that Fu Zhiyong actually dared to disobey the order and order the withdrawal of the army without authorization, they all blew up at the moment, and they all surrounded Zhiyong to persuade him.
"Fuck off! This matter Lao Tzu decided so, don't take Lao Tzu's subordinates as people, what kind of battle do I fight, I Fu Zhiyong has never begged them to give a shot and a bullet to a piece of the ocean, and now let Lao Tzu's only remaining more than 500 people go up to fight with the little devil, he thinks I Fu Zhiyong is brain-dead, isn't it! "Execute the order!" Fu Zhiyong pushed away Yu Hua and Zhang Dali, who were blocking in front of him, and after scolding, he turned around and yelled at Liao Peng, with an attitude that could not be questioned.
"Uh...... Hey, I know the regimental commander. Liao Peng sighed, facing Fu Zhiyong's eyes that were about to burst into flames, he could only agree and turn around and go out to convey the order.
"Hey......" "I'm afraid I'm going to poke the big basket again." "Forget it, we have done our best to fight so far, and there will be almost a battalion of wounded alone." "Judging from the current situation, I'm afraid Jiujiang here can't hold it, and sooner or later it will have to be withdrawn." Although Zhang Dali and Yu Hua and others had a somewhat helpless expression, they had no objection to the retreat order issued by Fu Zhiyong, after all, whether they were to the government, the war zone or the people, they had already done their best, after all, even if they were all Da Luo Jinxian, they were helpless in the face of the Japanese army formed troops covered by aircraft and heavy artillery, and any sneaky tactical tactics in this situation would not be useful, and only a head-on confrontation was feasible. The five hundred or so of them went up, and they were filling in the pits.
"Where's my boots!" Fu Zhiyong searched for a long time in the house barefoot and didn't find his military boots, so he immediately shouted angrily......
"Commander, this is the battle report you want for the past few days." After He Xue sorted out the documents and materials that Fu Zhiyong wanted to see, she listed them and handed them to Fu Zhiyong.
"Hmm......" Fu Zhiyong didn't say much after taking it, and slowly looked at it on the table.
July 22 battle report: The 53rd Division and the 60th Division that received the order immediately counterattacked the Japanese landing force in Zhaojiayan, the Japanese defenders were insufficient, and after half a day of fierce fighting, Empress Cang withdrew, and the Zhaojiayan position was recaptured, and the two divisions suffered more than 2,000 casualties. The 128th Division counterattacked the first-line position in Gutang with the cooperation of two reinforcement divisions, and fought fiercely until the evening of the 22nd, the Japanese reinforcements were not in time, the Japanese defenders were forced to break through to the south, and the Gutang defense line was recaptured and stabilized.
Okamura Ninji advanced his combat command post to the foot of Shizhong Mountain at the mouth of the lake, and he planned to assemble his elite Hatada Detachment and most of the remaining forces of the 106th Division to launch a total attack on the Jiujiang area on July 23.
July 23 battle report: At 0:00, dozens of Japanese landing craft rushed towards Gutang at full speed, with the first part of the Botian detachment as the lead, and most of the 106th Division followed up, and it was expected that with the cooperation of the troops that landed in advance, the headquarters of the pre-11th division stationed in Gutang would be flanked before and after, but what the Japanese did not know was that the Japanese troops who landed in advance had been killed and wounded at this moment, and the strange troops sent out were also defeated by Fu Zhiyong and others who suddenly collided, and they were no longer able to cooperate with the frontal landing operation.
When the Botian detachment secretly descended to a distance of more than 1,000 meters from Gutang, the officers and men of the 11th Pre-11th Division, who were in charge of observation and reconnaissance, discovered this sudden appearance of the enemy's situation, and just as they were about to send a warning signal, the Japanese artillery positions deployed in Anshan and the Japanese warships on Poyang Lake launched artillery bombardment at the same time, and the shells smashed overwhelmingly on the defenders of the 11th Pre-Gutang Division.
The officers and men of the 11th Pre-Division braved the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese army and tried their best to resist and sank more than 10 Japanese landing craft, and the officers and men of the defending officers and men of the 11th Pre-division immediately fought fiercely with the landing Potian detachment for more than three hours, and finally was forced to retreat because of the heavy casualties of the Japanese artillery fire.
After receiving this report, Zhang Fakui, commander of the Second Corps, immediately issued a death order, ordering the 11th Division to launch a counterattack against the enemy who had landed, and at the same time urgently ordered the 118th Division and the 15th Division, which had just completed replenishment, to immediately reinforce and drive out the landing Botian detachment with Fo Xiaoqian.
After dawn, the Japanese landed in the Botian detachment received favorable support from naval aviation, dozens of Japanese fighters carried out crazy strafing and bombing on the squadron that constantly launched a fierce attack, and the Japanese artillery bombardment was also more accurate because of the dawn, the pre-11th division suffered huge casualties but failed to achieve the purpose of repelling the Japanese landing force, and then the 118th Division and Liu Hanjie's 15th Division were suppressed by the Japanese army's fierce bombardment and artillery fire on the potholed road leading to Gutang, and they could not go forward to reinforce the battle. Although the reserve of the 11th Pre-11th Division was relatively close to the beachhead area, because of the small number of soldiers and the poor armament, several counterattacks and counterattacks were beaten back by the landing Potian detachment, and the troops suffered considerable losses, and on the 23rd, the two sides fought fiercely for a whole day, and the corpses of the dead soldiers were piled up, and the position was several degrees.
Battle report on July 24: The Japanese army launched about 100 sorties of fighters to attack and bomb Gutang and other key defensive positions in Jiujiang, and Okamura Ninji ordered the Japanese 106th Division, which followed up and landed, to launch a fierce attack on Gutang, and occupied all the positions in the Gutang area at 4 p.m., and the remnants of the 11th Division were forced to retreat.
The 53rd and 60th Divisions, which were responsible for defending Zhaojiayan, abandoned their positions and immediately returned to reinforce, consolidated the second line of defense on the front line of Qijiazhen to prepare for battle, concentrated their forces to defend one by one, and cooperated with other divisions to launch counterattacks.
Because Jiujiang is adjacent to the Yangtze River in the north and Panyang Lake in the east, it is very beneficial for the Japanese fleet and aircraft to play their firepower superiority, so Zhang Fakui considered that the troops are now suffering heavy casualties and it is quite difficult to hold all positions in Jiujiang, so he plans to set up a second-line reserve position in the hilly area southwest of Jiujiang, once Jiujiang is lost, it can be used as a basis for effective resistance to contain and consume the Japanese army's vital forces, but when the order reported on the Wuhan Supreme Military Command, it was categorically opposed by Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek heard about the battle situation in Gutang. Fearing that Zhang Fakui would give up the first-line position in Jiujiang desperately, he immediately sent an urgent telegram to Chen Cheng and Zhang Fakui, commanders of the Ninth Theater, again explicitly ordering Zhang Fakui to defend the first-line position in Jiujiang, and the troops must not retreat half a step.
"Jiujiang is over, this battle is this nest, the defensive position that took more than ten days of desperate and bloody battles to stabilize, Lao Tzu was beaten with a thousand holes after only four days of coma, it's really fucking." Fu Zhiyong slapped the information in his hand on the table hard, and scolded angrily.
"Boom, boom...... Rumble...... Boom ......" As soon as Fu Zhiyong's words fell, a dull explosion sounded outside the house one after another, judging from the sound that it should have come from the direction of the Suojiang Tower near the river, judging from the rumbling cannons and explosions, it seemed that the artillery positions of the defenders were launching a fierce artillery bombardment with the Japanese ships on the river.
"What's going on outside, immediately send someone to check if it's a little devil calling." Fu Zhiyong immediately walked out of the house, looked around, and ordered loudly.
"Report to the regiment commander, the gunboats on the little devil river are shelling my Suojiang Tower, our artillery position is going all out to start an artillery battle with the little devil, and the little devil's minesweeper is sweeping mines on the river, it seems that they want to open up the river waterway." It didn't take long for a soldier to run back in a hurry, and after finding Fu Zhiyong, he reported directly.
"Hmph...... The little devil is trying to drive straight in with the ship's guns. Fu Zhiyong snorted coldly with a calm face and said.
"If our Madang Fortress is still there, why would the little devil be so rampant on the river, hey......" Liao Peng also walked over at this time, gritted his teeth and said.
"Okay, that's how it goes, it's still a piece of, it's almost noon now, how are the troops assembled? Are you all ready? Fu Zhiyong looked at Liao Peng and asked.
"It's almost there, when we came, we just traveled lightly, and there was nothing to clean up, but there were too many wounded, and it would take some time." Liao Peng looked up at the sun above his head and replied.
"Well, speed up and try to ......leave at noon," Fu Zhiyong nodded, straightened his armed belt and said, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by a small group of officers and soldiers who suddenly walked into the courtyard.
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