readx; In the areas of Shahe Town, Ma'anshan, and Jinjiashan on the south line of the Jiujiang River, the 107th Division of Songpu and the 1st Corps of Xue Yue of the Kuomintang Army have been fighting for five days and five nights. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As mentioned earlier, this battle was expected by Chen Cheng.

On 25 July, Chen Chengte sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, saying that the army "plans to use its fleet to attack Jiangxi after it succeeds in Jiujiang, and its army will use the main force to move towards Ruichang and Nanchang, and at least one division or more will approach Nanchang through De'an." Although more than 20 divisions have been concentrated in the vicinity of Jiujiang, "they all pay attention to the garrison along the rivers and lakes, which are weak everywhere, and the enemy can still force a landing anytime and anywhere, and because the defense of Guang is unable to control the mobile troops, it will be difficult to cope with changes in the situation." Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram back the next day to express his support: "Decisive battle with the enemy in the area of De'an Ruichang!" ”

Okamura has the false name of "Shina Street". He is only familiar with the quality of the Chinese team, but he forgets that the strategy accumulated over thousands of years is the essence of combat power. He was calculated to death by Chen Cheng, and after capturing Jiujiang, he swept Ruichang west with the main force of the Botian detachment and the naval team, and used the 107th Division to whip De'an along the Nanxun Railway.

On August 1, Xue Yue was ordered to command the decisive battle of Nanxun Road. He used Li Jue's 70th Army, Li Hansoul's 74th Army, Li Yutang's 8th Army, and Ou Zhen's 4th Army to meet Songpu.

Matsuura is a type B division, with 4 infantry wings, namely the 113th, 123rd, 145th, and 147th wings, with 3 brigades in each wing. However, the 147th Wing and 3 brigades remained on guard in Wuhu and other places, and only 8 infantry brigades actually participated in the battle.

The 7th Division, across the river, was the son of the 107th Division. After the 7th Division took Huangmei, it was not that Inaba was playing some old trick of waiting for work, but that the blade had been dull and had to be temporarily hung up to avoid the battle. The 107th Division smuggled into Gutang at that time, took Jiujiang lightly, and swept through the 128th Division of Gu Jiaqi. It was a blind cat touching a dead mouse. Gu Shi is a native of Xiangxi, and his weapons are all old antiques made in Hanyang. This time, Matsuura's luck was greatly bad.

Heavy artillery bombardment, chariots opening the way, and aircraft cooperating, although Matsuura only had eight brigades, the pace of its three-dimensional combat power of hot weapons was like the magma of a volcanic eruption, and everywhere it went, it was scorched earth. The officers and men of the [***] squadron have mastered the law of the army's offensive. When Matsuura showed off his firepower, the soldiers all hid in the garrison to recuperate, and they didn't show their heads when they saw the devils. The army came up, the officers and men took their positions, and a dense stream of bullets was spilled over. Zhang Fakui felt sorry for the 4th Army, the proud son of the Guangdong Army, and did not dare to use it easily, and was reprimanded by Chiang Kai-shek for preserving strength. Xue Yue put the 4th Army on the front line. Xue Yue and Chen Cheng's thoughts are the same: on the battlefield of northern Jiangxi, the more smoothly you fight in the early stage, the better it will be in the later stage. If you miss the opening, you will be passive.

The 4th Army really lived up to the reputation of the "Iron Army", repeatedly fought for seven days and seven nights with Songpu in the outpost position, fought and retreated, and stubbornly held the main positions of Ma'anshan and Jinjiashan. On the day of 30 July, the planes strafed the hill, and the artillery fire of the 500 troops led by the commander Shigeo Tajiri and the army was about to collapse. Zhang Deneng, commander of the 58th Division, withstood the enemy's fire and personally led the guards directly under him into battle, "Brothers! I'm Master Zhang, poke the little devil down! This roar is greater than ten thousand books. The warriors of the 4th Army crawled out of the bombed and buried fortifications, screaming and rushing towards the army. In Okamura's view, the officers and soldiers of the southern Kyushu reserves, who had been away from the team for a long time, had married and had children, and were old in the world, and they did not need to be beaten, and they suddenly turned around and ran for their lives. Shigeo Tajiri held a war knife and screamed, and took the lead in the charge, but there was no successor, so he gave Qingqing his surname in vain, and it is said that he went to the Kudanzaka Shrine to take a seat

I heard that Tajiri died in battle, and Okamura on the meditation couch of the ancient temple of Shizhongshan was difficult to sit on at night. It's not about the purpose of dying Shaozo, how did Matsuura do it, always going around in that piece of projectile land? Despite the plague of dysentery, cholera, and malaria in Jiujiang, he still decided to take command of Xunyang and personally commanded it.

Jiujiang is far away. Kondo seemed to remember something, squinted at Okamura and smiled, "Okamura-kun, do you remember 10 years ago?" It seems to be this time. I really have a relationship with you! ”

"Oh, of course, remember," the luncheon was not luxurious, but it was exquisite. Okamura and Kondo drank three cups, Kondo was already drunk, Okamura was slightly drunk: "At that time"

At that time, in 1827, Okamura worked as a "consultant" under Sun Chuanfang, and used this position to carry out the business that has continued to this day. In the summer and autumn of that year, Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expeditionary Army arrived near Jiangxi, and Okamura was commissioned by Sun to go to Nanchang to formulate a battle plan. Commander Sun of Nanchang lent a map of 1/50,000 of central China to Okamura.

Okamura finished his official business and swept away the map. This kind of map was drawn by Chinese military academy students after returning to China after completing their studies at the Land Survey Department, and it was the top military secret at that time. At this time, Sun Chuanfang's general trend has gone, and his subordinates are scattered. Okamura received this treasure, discarded all his luggage, dressed as a Chinese countryman, hired a small boat, and defected to the "Ataka", which was the flagship of the First Dispatch Fleet when it was parked on the Jiujiang River. However, the sentry of the "Anzhai" thought that he was "Shina Zhanta" and refused to get on the ship. He implores to see Eijiro Kondo, the ship's senior staff officer, and Kondo lowers the soft ladder and takes in the lost dog of the [***] valve.

After returning to China, Okamura dedicated the map of China to the General Staff Headquarters, which greatly favored him and rewarded him with a large sum of money. At present, the maps hung by the high-level command organs in Central China, the headquarters of the Inaba Division, and even Bai Chongxi's Fifth War Zone are all from Okamura's third hand.

"At that time," Kondo said with emotion, "you came empty-handed!" ”

Okamura looked at Kondo and smiled, stopped talking, and said sadly, "Yes." ”

Jiujiang has arrived. Okamura's headquarters was located in a normal school on the southeastern outskirts of the city, and the bombardment from the front could be clearly heard.

When Matsuura heard that Okamura had arrived in Jiujiang, he knew that he had come to supervise the battle, and ordered the front-line troops to strengthen the offensive. Okamura ordered heavy artillery, chariots, and air forces to cooperate closely with Matsuura, and demanded that Matsuura must indeed occupy Ma'anshan and Jinjiashan, the main positions of the Central [***] team.

Matsuura did not dare to slack off, and with the full support of the chariots, field artillery, and aircraft supervised by Okamura, he launched a general attack on our main position. Seeing Matsuura's desperate appearance, in order to reduce casualties, Ou Zhen, the commander of the 4th Army, ordered to abandon Ma and Jin Ershan.

Attacking Ma and Jin Ershan was the 113th Wing of Matsuura Aces. As soon as the tattered sun flag was planted on the main position, Wing Commander Tanaka Seido Daisa sent a telegram to the military command organs and reporters in Jiujiang. In an instant, the good news with the title of "the heroic battle of the imperial army destroyed the steel defense line of the Nanxun army of the China Army in one fell swoop" danced wildly.

Xue Yue couldn't stand it anymore and angrily ordered the front-line troops to recapture the main position. Ou Zhen's 4th Army, Li Yutang's 8th Army's 3rd Division, and Li Hansoul's 155th Division immediately launched a large-scale counterattack. After two days and two nights of fierce offensives, the 113th Wing of the Chinese Army finally could not withstand it. Just hunger, heat, and fatigue also tortured the "divine soldiers" of southern Kyushu like ghosts, and their eyes were stunned and covered with filth. Tanaka Daisa, who set off the cannon and blew the bull, didn't care about Koto's shame, and went down the mountain quite shyly. Even if it's fate, it should be killed. Li Jue's howitzer battalion of the 70th Army aimed at him for a burst of random artillery and demanded his surname. Like Tajiri, a group of murderers who slaughtered foreign people, the soul came to Kudanzaka Shrine, and if Kusunoki Masanari really had a spirit in the sky and a little human conscience, he would also turn it away.

Li Jue, commander of the 70th Army, was originally in charge of the 18th and 128th Divisions. The 18th Division was one of the 10 best divisions fought in the Songhu War of Resistance last year, and Li Jue was promoted to army commander by Chiang Kai-shek. After the 128th Division was revoked, the Military Commission transferred Zhang Yanchuan to the 8th Division under his command. He knew that Zhang Yanchuan was not easy to control, so he let the surname Suo leave it alone, and only took his part-time 18th Division to complete the combat mission assigned by his superiors.

Li Jue's artillery battalion was set up in Jiwoling, on the west side of Lushan Mountain, with a bird's-eye view of the entire Shahe-Jinguanqiao position. Although there are not many cannons, there is a great tendency to block the pass.

At the beginning, Li Jue was afraid that his artillery would be killed by the concentrated firepower of the Yue army, and the configuration was very scattered. One day, he found a group of soldiers resting on the road in front of the battle, so he ordered the 108th Regiment to organize an attack.

A platoon commander of the 108th Regiment led the team to rush over, and the soldiers left their horses and a sack and fled for their lives. The platoon commander handed over the loot to the military headquarters, and when he untied the sack, he saw that it was all human palms. It turned out that after the officers and soldiers died in battle, when the corpse could not be recovered, one palm was cut off to replace the whole body.

Among the trophies of war is a book called the Army's Chronicles, which reads: "In several attacks, mortar shells on Lushan rained down from the sky, and the imperial army was greatly threatened, and the casualties were terrible. Li Jue suddenly came to his senses, and moved all the mortar platoons of each regiment to Lushan Jiwoling, under the unified command of the 108th Regiment.

If the Chicken Nest Ridge is not removed, Matsuura's southern offensive will always be threatened by artillery fire. After withdrawing from Ma and Jin Ershan, Matsuura concentrated his forces and went straight to the position of the 70th Army. At the same time as the frontal attack, a sneak attack on the chicken nest ridge was taken from the cliff.

The 107th Division's repeated attacks were thwarted, and Okamura asked Matsuura what the reason was. Matsuura was not in the best fighting spirit with his troops. Okamura actually said: "Jiangbei is also a southern Kyushu army, why is it brave and invincible?" Matsuura was speechless.

This time, Matsuura wanted to save face and launch an attack on the position of the 70th Army at the cost of blood.

Suddenly, every hill on the northwest side of Lushan was burned under the bombardment of aircraft artillery.

When the blazing fire reflected in the red sky, hand-to-hand combat began.

"Captain! You can't get on—" A soldier's voice cried.

"Brethren—"

A small middle-aged man with gauze on his head stood on the rock and shouted, "It's time to fight with devils!" ”

(To be continued)