Chapter 528: Resistance one by one

With the deliberate retreat of the Chinese army, the various units of the Japanese crusading army successively occupied some Chinese villages, and then gradually expanded their territory. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but the repeated resistance of the Chinese army in various places also forced the Japanese army to continue fighting, and the supply of the Japanese army and the rest of the soldiers also became a big problem.

However, in Uehara's view, the Japanese army's problem was that it was too cautious, and the navy was even more reluctant, especially the death of the navy soldiers caused by several heavy guns falling into the water, which made the Japanese navy no longer actively cooperate. Yusaku Uehara had wronged the navy, and if he hadn't insisted on unloading the heavy artillery from the ship and sending it to the shore on the day of the typhoon, he would not have let the transport ship run aground and sink.

Rear Admiral Asada was so angry with the splint that he could only hide in the captain's cabin every day and drink whiskey.

Although he felt that everything was not going well, Uehara was still very confident that the 16th and 17th Divisions were the main forces of Japan, not the miscellaneous troops such as the Chinese Wing and the Taiwan Wing. At the beginning of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army was able to drive the Qing army all over the mountains, and he believed that if the crusading army was prepared, there would be a scene of the Japanese army chasing the Jiangbei army all over the mountains.

"Go to Yangzhou and capture Wang Yongan alive."

Indeed, on the seventh day of the Japanese landing in Nantong, the Japanese army had already occupied half of Nantong, and cut off the connection between Haimen County, Qidong County, Chongming County and Yangzhou, the capital of Jiangbei, and the Japanese army was close to Yangzhou, and Uehara Yusaku was of course full of confidence.

On the first day after he disembarked from the battleship Mikasa, the Japanese advanced 30 kilometers, and the day after he disembarked from the battleship Mikasa, the Japanese advanced 35 kilometers, you must know that this speed was not much slower than the speed of the full-speed march, and on the third day after he disembarked, the Japanese army advanced 40 kilometers and occupied Jinsha Town, which was 20 kilometers away from the county seat of Nantong, and the Japanese army only needed one day to occupy the county seat of Nantong.

Uehara was triumphant, but the only thing that made him unhappy was where the Japanese army passed, the Chinese people only left some old people who couldn't walk and were unwilling to leave their hometowns, and all the young people and children were forcibly taken away, and Nantong County really became a dead land.

Now the Japanese army could only rely on the navy to transport supplies from the east coast and carry them by hand along the dirt roads along which the Japanese army was advancing - the Chinese did not even leave a single horse, and the Japanese had to push carts themselves. Uehara originally hoped that the Japanese in the south would be able to support him, but he learned that there was now a vigorous "anti-Japanese and anti-Japanese aid to Jiangbei" campaign throughout China, and the momentum was extremely huge. Not only did all walks of life in China donate money and materials, but even patriotic young people from all over China ran to Yangzhou, Jiangbei, preparing to fight the Japanese army to the death under the city of Yangzhou.

All walks of life in Shanghi not only boycotted Japanese products, but also refused to sell food, people and materials to any Japanese, and even did not sell toilet paper to the Japanese. Some dock workers patrolled the shore day and night, and if any Chinese workers delivered supplies to the Japanese, they would soon be killed and thrown into the Huangpu River. The Qing Gang also secretly assisted in spying on the Japanese transport ships, so that the Japanese could not get supplies in Shanghi, and the Shanghi people also gave a good start to the patriots throughout China, causing the shops and people of all China to refuse to cooperate with the Japanese, refuse to communicate with the Japanese, and refuse to talk to the Japanese.

At the same time, Wang Yongan telegraphed in Yangzhou and said: "I will be in Yangzhou, behead the head of the Japanese chief Uehara Yong, and never retreat half a step." The reason why Yusaku Uehara put forward the slogan of "fight to Yangzhou and capture Wang Yongan alive" to the soldiers was a response to Wang Yongan's beheading. Uehara Yusaku knew that the real behind-the-scenes boss in Jiangbei was Wang Yongan, not Zhang Jian, so even if Zhang Jian was arrested, as long as Wang Yongan was still there, the Jiangbei Army would exist, and only by arresting Wang Yongan alive and killing Wang Yongan could the Jiangbei Army be annihilated and the great revenge could be avenged.

On April 28, the 16th Division of the Japanese Army launched a fierce attack on Nantong County, and the 17th Division launched a fierce attack on Wolf Mountain, Junshan and other places. The 9th Division of the Jiangbei Army, the Chinese defenders, resisted bravely, and the Japanese artillery fire continued to smash on the Nantong City and the Wolf Mountain and the Army Mountain, and the two sides fought a bloody battle for a day and a night, and the Japanese army was never able to move forward. At this time, the 4th Division of the Jiangbei Army and the 3rd Division of the Jiangbei Army began to launch a fierce attack on the rear of the Japanese army, forcing the Japanese army to divide its forces.

On April 30, Huang Zhan, commander of the 9th Division of the Jiangbei Army of the Chinese defenders, ordered the withdrawal of troops and took the initiative to abandon Nantong, and the whole division lost more than 2,000 people in a bloody battle for two days and two nights, Jiao Yuchen, the commander of the Fifth Regiment, was killed, Ni Baoguo, the commander of the First Regiment, was seriously injured, and Huang Zan himself was slightly injured.

The 9th Division retreated to Nantong Railway Station, and the Japanese took the opportunity to occupy Nantong County and Langshan Port, and the two sides temporarily rested for a day, and then Yusaku Uehara ordered to continue the attack on Nantong Railway Station. Although the Ninth Division of the Jiangbei Army was supplemented by 2,000 recruits, its combat effectiveness was not restored, but fortunately, Huang Zan was very experienced in defense, and the Ninth Division became more and more sophisticated, and the Japanese army could not overcome it for a long time, so it had to wait for an artillery attack.

After two days of resistance, Huang Zhan continued his retreat to the north on 3 May.

The Japanese army's battle line became longer and longer, and Uehara Yusaku insisted on advancing despite the opposition of some officers, and fought inextricably with the 18,000 troops of the 9th Division of the Jiangbei Army. If it weren't for Liu Hui's 3rd Division and Chen Jian's 4th Division constantly putting pressure on the Japanese in the rear, forcing the Japanese army to never attack with all their strength, Huang Zhan's troops would have been surrounded by the Japanese crusading army long ago. Today's Japanese crusading army is like a pack of lions, and the Chinese defenders are like a pack of wolves, the Japanese are constantly pressing, the Chinese army is constantly retreating step by step, and in order not to be eaten by the lions, the wolves have to sacrifice some soldiers to delay the opponent's attack.

Uehara Yusaku always thought that the Chinese army in his rear was only a small part of the resistance forces, and he didn't think that there were two army divisions behind him harassing, and the Japanese army's intelligence acquisition was extremely difficult, especially after the Japanese spy network in Yangzhou was wiped out, the Japanese army could only rely on sending soldiers to explore the way to obtain information, but this way of using soldiers to obtain information led to a gradual increase in Japanese casualties, but Uehara Yusaku was carried away by the continuous victories in front of him, and did not take into account his own casualties at all.

Perhaps the Japanese army was too strong, and the total casualties of the Japanese army did not exceed 500 until now, but it had already caused nearly 5,000 casualties among the Chinese defenders, and even Uehara Yusaku estimated that the casualties of the Chinese army could reach 8,000 to 10,000, which could not make Uehara Yusaku full of confidence.

The typhoon weather finally stopped, and Uehara Yusaku's mood also became better with the sunny weather, he ordered Nantong as a temporary base camp and left 3,000 soldiers to guard Nantong, he personally led 30,000 troops to Yangzhou!