Chapter 174: The Battle of Wuhan (9)

Regarding how to fight this big battle, in fact, Xue Yue already had a plan in his heart. But he still wanted to hear the opinion of Han Yunhua, the leading victorious general, so he specially sent a telegram to Han Yunhua to ask.

Han Yunhua was also paying close attention to the dynamics of Pengze and Hukou during this time, so he also had a little bit of his own opinion, and even sent a telegram back to Xue Yue: "Brother Boling, the Japanese army is gathered in the area of Wuhan, but Madang, a key place in the east of Wuhan, has fallen into the hands of the enemy, so Hukou and Jiujiang have become the last gateways to Wuhan, and there is no room for loss." After the loss of Madang Fortress, Pengze's military value has risen greatly, but it is not a place that must be defended, as a last resort, as long as the Japanese army can afford to pay the price, then we can also give Pengze to the enemy. Although the strategy of the Japanese chief Okamura Ninji's troops to divide into multiple routes and fully blossom has its merits, and it can mobilize our army to defend it to the greatest extent, the strategy of all-round flowering also has its fatal loopholes. Flowers are blooming everywhere, but the Japanese invaders are also in a state of multiple routes, so it is conducive to our army's various breakthroughs. As long as our army drags down one part of the main force of the Japanese army, gathers one part of the main force and annihilates one or two of its divisions, the Japanese army's intention to invade Wuhan will surely be frustrated............"

After Xue Yue read the telegram sent by Han Yunhua, he laughed and said: "The future is terrifying, there are really a lot of talents in the **, this Han Yunhua's strategic and tactical level is indeed not ordinary, and it is better than those senior officers who have received orthodox military studies." Immediately, Xue Yue also sent a telegram back to Han Yunhua: "Brother Yunhua: The heroes see the same thing, the Japanese chief Okamura Ningji really looks down on my Chinese citizens and my patriotic soldiers. Full bloom is just a joke, blooming in front of my million-strong army will only turn his Eleventh Army into a pile of dead grass. Your department is the elite of your party, and this time our army's action still needs the help of Brother Yunhua, our army's plan is ........."

After reading Xue Yue's military plan, Han Yunhua had to admire that this world-famous general was indeed extraordinary, although it was only a rough military plan, but some of the tactics mentioned in it still benefited Han Yunhua a lot. After carefully analyzing Xue Yue's plan, Han Yunhua could only say that Xue Yue was making another big gamble, but the chance of winning this gamble was relatively large, even if it could not achieve the expected goal, it would definitely not cause the overall situation to deteriorate, and Han Yunhua finally felt that this military plan was very feasible. Han Yunhua's reply to Xue Yue didn't say much, only eight words: "Brothers are of the same heart, and their benefits are golden"

After Xue Yue saw it, he felt a sense of clarity in his heart.

Next, the Japanese army found that the battle on the south bank of the Yangtze River suddenly became strange, although the Botian detachment broke through Penglangji and the watershed, and the second wing of the Taiwanese infantry had also been stationed in Quanshan Town, but then it was difficult to move an inch, and every step had to pay a huge price, and finally stopped near the county seat of Pengze County.

Before the 101st Division entered Hukou County, it was stubbornly blocked by the Nationalist Government, and the entire division of more than 20,000 people was blocked by the seven divisions of the First Corps on the line of Yunding Mountain, Huiling, and Shenxian Ridge, and could not advance an inch.

However, Lieutenant General Honma's 27th Division and Lieutenant General Matsuura Junrokuro's 106th Division were progressing smoothly, especially the 27th Division, and the firepower of the 2nd Division, which had stubbornly resisted the day before, gradually weakened the next day.

As Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma had predicted, by four o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st, the squadron at the Kirikojian position was completely "defeated", and the Kiritko position was occupied by the 27th Division. Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma ordered his troops to take advantage of the victory and pursue them in pursuit of the depth of the lake. However, it was blocked by the ** squadron on the front line of Huajiashan and Lingshan.

The 106th Division occupied Wanzhen on the 19th, and on the 20th, it routed the troops of the Nationalist Government at Yangling and Wufengling, and approached Duchang. Although Duchang County is far away from Jiujiang, as long as the 106th Division occupies Duchang County, then the Japanese army will be able to attack the hinterland of Jiujiang from the south of Jiujiang, just like the 106th Division in history.

Although the 106th Division was defeated and retreated, there was no rout and escape that often occurred in the army of the Nationalist Government, but according to the favorable terrain, the 106th Division was blocked one after another, causing great casualties to the 106th Division. From Wanzhen to Duchang this short few hundred kilometers, the 106th Division has now just reached the halfway point and has been blocked **71 times, although each time the 106th Division is able to quickly "defeat" the enemy in front of it, but there will always be large casualties. ,

The 106th Division was the most famous Japanese division during the Anti-Japanese War, and it was more famous than the 6th Division and the 16th Division and several other beast divisions. The commander of the division, Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura, and the chief of staff, Yoshitaka Akiyama, were Osa. The 106th Division was formed in Kumamoto, Japan on May 15, 1938, and was incorporated into the Central China Dispatch Army on July 20, and the 11th Army on August 4. Subordinate: The 111th Infantry Brigade (Brigade Commander Major General Yamachi Heng), and the 111th Infantry Brigade has two infantry wings: the 113th Infantry Wing (Wing Commander Kentensaku Iino) and the 147th Infantry Wing (Wing Commander Yoshio Sonoda). The 136th Infantry Brigade (Brigade Commander Major General Keiichi Aoki) and the 136th Infantry Brigade have two infantry wings: the 123rd Infantry Wing (Wing Commander Kijima Kasuo Osa) and the 145th Infantry Wing (Wing Commander Yozo Ichikawa Nakasa). The 106th Cavalry Brigade (Captain Mubukuro Junnakasa), the 106th Field Artillery Wing (Wing Commander Uga Takenakasa), the 106th Engineer Wing (Wing Commander Hideo Chamura Nakasa), the 106th Light and Heavy Infantry Wing (Wing Commander Yorikawa Sunbei Nakasa), the Signal Team, the Health Team, and the 1st to 4th Field Hospitals. The 106th Division is a complete field division, and its combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the 27th Division, and it is a well-deserved main division of the 11th Army.

However, the commander of the 106th Division, Junrokuro Matsuura, was a commander with low eyes, great achievements, and pride, and it was precisely because of his character that he was defeated by Xue Yue in the Battle of Wanjialing in history, becoming the first Japanese division-level unit in history to be completely annihilated.

In fact, Han Yunhua knew very well that in history, the Nationalist Government said that the 106th Division was completely annihilated, and the Japanese army judged that a unit was completely annihilated by two criteria, the first was that the military commander of this unit was killed or captured, and the second was that the military flag of this unit was captured by the enemy. However, although the Wanjialing Battle in history annihilated most of the main forces of the 106th Division, it was precisely the old devil Matsuura Junrokuro who escaped with a few officers and less than 300 devils, so until after the war, the Japanese army did not admit the fact that the 106th Division was completely annihilated.

The result of Xue Yue's consultation with Han Yunhua this time was that Han Yunhua's unit was responsible for defending the 106th Division, and would stop this Japanese special division at all costs in the area south of De'an, while Xue Yue's First Corps wanted to completely annihilate the 27th Division before the arrival of Japanese reinforcements. On the one hand, he ordered Li Hanxun's 64th Army to drag the Botian detachment in the Pengze area, and on the other hand, he organized seven divisions to block the 101st Division, which had strong combat effectiveness, and the 9th Division, which was not far from the 101st Division, in the mountainous area southeast of Hukou County. The 27th Division, which is still a well-known unit in the Japanese army, will advance smoothly to the hinterland of Hukou County, and finally enter the area between Chengshan, Shaoshan, Hualuan, and Fushan, where the First Corps has deployed a total of about 80,000 people in 9 divisions, and as long as the 27th Division enters this pocket, then this sleeve will begin to tighten until Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma and the more than 18,000 people under his command are all strangled to death.

However, this plan still has a great element of risk, and if it succeeds, the danger of the battle of Wuhan will be alleviated, and even the two sides will stop fighting. However, you must know that the Japanese army now has 8 divisions on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and one is equivalent to a Potian detachment of an integrated ad hoc division. In the area around Hukou alone, there were the 9th Division, the 101st Division, the 106th Division, the Potian Detachment, and the 27th Division, with a total strength of about 80,000 troops. At that time, as long as the Japanese army makes a breakthrough in any other direction, then Xue Yue's plan will be very useless, and even the headquarters will suffer great losses. And if Xue Yue's pocket formation is not tight and allows the 27th Division to rush out, then it will be difficult for this plan to succeed.

The risk is very high, but the profit is also very attractive, and the total annihilation of a field division of the Japanese army is not something that anyone can fight. Even Han Yunhua's department, which is now in the limelight, has actually not completely annihilated a single division, even if so many Japanese troops were annihilated during the Battle of Saibei, but none of the integrated divisions and regiments were annihilated.

Once an integrated army division is annihilated, the consequences are not something that Okamura Ninji can bear, and that kind of disaster is no less small than the annihilation of the main force of the Third Fleet. That's why Han Yunhua decided to play with Xue Yue, but Han Yunhua is not a vegetarian, even if Xue Yue knows that Han Yunhua definitely has more than one brigade, but he doesn't dare to think that the current independent 77 Brigade will have more than 15,000 people (more than 1,000 people lost during this time), and the strength is no less than the two divisions of the Central Army, not counting that Han Yunhua still has a special force in his hand that makes the Japanese army fearful, so Han Yunhua doesn't want Xue Yue to be in front of him, isn't it just a division, he Han Yunhua can also fight.