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The 6th Division cooperated with the navy and captured Wuhan along Guangji, Qichun, Xishui, Shangbahe, and Xinzhou on the north bank of the Yangtze River, passing through Gushandian. The "Taiwan Brigade", that is, the Botian detachment, cooperated with the navy and attacked Wuchang along the south bank of the Yangtze River through Ruichang, Yangxin, and Daye. The 9th Division and the 27th Division advanced side by side, moving west from the new area of Ruichangyang, passing through Sanxikou and Aoxia to capture the areas along the Heshengqiao and Xianning Railways, crushing the main Chinese forces in the area and blocking the Guangdong-Hankou Railway, so as to prevent the Chinese troops from reinforcing Wuhan and retreating southward.

The 101st Division passed east of Lushan and the 106th Division passed west of Lushan, and captured Nanchang along the Nanxun Railway through De'an and Yongxiu

When Matsuura was frustrated outside the Splendid Valley in the northwest of Lushan, and Ito was blocked in the famous scenic spot under the Jinlun Peak in the southeast of Lushan, Okamura sighed that he "doesn't love mountains and rivers", and at this moment, when the white-haired Maruyama Masao murderously pounced on the Minshan area where the peaks turned back to the mountains, the beautiful waters of Lishan here became a shameless prostitute, and the clothes of every conqueror were reversed.

On the 24th, the Maruyama Brigade captured Ruichang, went straight down to the Nanxun Line, and plunged into the rear of Wu Qiwei's 9th Group Army in front of the 106th Division, and drove straight along the Minshan Mountains in the southwest, with the intention of encircling Wu's troops in the Jinguanqiao position.

After the rain, when the evening breeze was cool in the western mountains, on the bank of Xiaoyaojin in the northeastern suburbs of Hefei, the commander of the 2nd Army, Lieutenant General Minoru Higashikurenomiya, and his chief of staff, Major General Machijiri Liangki, rode on a high-headed horse and walked with all their might.

The famous ancient battlefield of the Three Kingdoms, the past is like smoke, who are the heroes? Only a few old willows were left to pour a few points of clear waves and return to the crows, so that future generations could sigh.

Two swallows quietly chased over the water, like a pair of cheating wind-scratching men and women hurriedly rushing to the love nest. Higashikuregu stopped staring until the two little blacks disappeared into the distant sky.

This is a middle-aged man with a broad forehead, a sharpened chin, and an oval face, with long eyebrows and handsome eyes, floating in the midst of the frivolous and cynical prodigal son**.

It is said that when he was a second lieutenant student at the Army University, he ignored Emperor Meiji's invitation and refused to attend the imperial dinner. He had a fight with the crown prince, the later Taisho Emperor, and it seemed that he didn't care about the glorious imperial status. However, Hirohito was his brother-in-law, and his wife was Hirohito's aunt. The golden crony was firmly intertwined with the power of the imperial family, and like famous families such as Fujiwara, Taira, and Hojo, it was the best way to control the government by letting the emperor give birth to his own nephew. Although the current politics of the Ashikaga clan no longer have the prominence of the Ashikaga clan, and some members of the imperial family are no longer just stone lions decorating the ancient city gates, the Higashikure Palace with his higher education and martial arts experience makes him and the Kanin Palace, Chichibu Palace, and Rimoto Palace still the basic pillars of the political arena. The bohemianism of his youth and the admiration for the free life of the common people that he inherited from studying in France are nothing more than the sighs of the boatmen in "The Storm". When he became commander of the 2nd Army as head of the aviation headquarters, he thought that his samurai saber would cut down half of China for the emperor.

After receiving the battle order from Shunroku Hatata, Higashikurenomiya dictated the main points of the battle with great ambition:

The 10th and 3rd Divisions defeated the enemy in front of them at Lu'an and Yeji, captured Xinyang through Shifo, Gushi, Huangchuan, and Luoshan, blocked the Pinghan Railway, and then detoured along Yingshan, Anlu, and Hanchuan west of the railway to the north bank of the Yangtze River southwest of Hankou to cooperate with the troops and navy of the 2nd Army on the north bank of the Yangtze River to capture Wuhan.

The 13th and 16th Divisions captured the Shangcheng and Xinxian areas from Lu'an and Yeji, and then crossed the Dabie Mountains south through Shawo and Xiaojieling, and captured Hankou from Lianglukou, Changlinggang, Macheng, and Songbu in coordination with the 6th Division

Yesterday, on the 27th, in the middle of the rain, the 10th and 13th Divisions set off. In the afternoon, the good news came that the 10th Division had entered Lu'an, and the 13th Division had also broken through the defense line of Shengren Mountain of the [***] team and moved troops under Huoshan City. Like the weather after the rain, the start was good, and Higashikurenomiya was in high spirits, and the chief of staff, Machijiri, each rode their own pets, and the scramble came.

Machijiri was as tame as a cute horn dog in front of Higashikure Palace, but he was actually a typical Samurai who was weak on the outside and arrogant on the inside, and soon became the commander of the 6th Division and became one of the hottest figures in the army. He listened intently. Yes, where the red light was shining, there seemed to be a faint sound of cannonballs—it was his hallucination. At this time, there was no artillery battle on the front line, bayonets were fighting.

Guarding Lu'an was the 51st Division of the 114th Army of Yu Xuezhong of the Northeast Army. This unit is, of course, a "motley card" in Okamura's opinion. There are exceptions to everything. Lieutenant General Mu Zhongheng, commander of the 114th Division, a student of the ninth phase of Baoding Lu School, has held Wu Peifu's military flag, served Liu Wenhui's whip, served as Zhang Zongchang's regiment commander, and served as Zhang Xueliang's staff

In the flood years when the dragon boat capsized and hundreds of boats competed for the current, there was a lonely sail drifting. The heavenly court is convex and round, the physique is high, and the appearance is dignified. However, he was born with a severe stutter, and Ai Ai was deeply ashamed of himself. It is probably because of the difficulty of language that it is especially self-cherishing. No scooping, no gambling, no concubines, no private wealth, no tobacco and alcohol for life. There are pro-soldiers who forcibly annihilate the people's daughters, and they criticize one word: behead! The self-respect, the soldiers are self-strict, the army is self-prestige, and the battle is fierce. In the Battle of Xuzhou, the Mu division held on to the Huai River for half a month, losing its position repeatedly, and nearly 4,000 officers and soldiers were killed and wounded in repeated battles, and never retreated. Blocking Taodun, fighting with the enemy village by village, the brigade commander Major General Hu Xianmei was also killed in hand-to-hand combat

The street battles in Rokuan Castle lasted from dusk in Machijiri until dawn the next day, and the narrow streets were filled with corpses lying under bayonets and grenades.

Since the beginning of the war, the old street in the southeast of the city has "collapsed", and all the restaurants that do business have moved, and no one has lived there. Because there are dead soldiers at the door and in every house, it stinks in one day, and when it is cool in autumn, there is still the smell of dead people, and it is often haunted by fires, and in the middle of the night I hear the sound of fighting bayonets, "kill-" shouted the loudest

For the defense of Lu'an, Bai Chongxi had already made a pre-order: how long can it be held, but the front line of Weihe must be held until September 4.

Mu Zhongheng withdrew his troops from the fortified positions that had already been built on the Weihe River.

It was the hottest few days at the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains. The army's "Records in the Battle" said that the four days from August 28 to 31 were all sunny, and the temperature was as high as 43 degrees Celsius. The source of troops came from the 10th Division in the Hokuriku region, and it was all Wu Niu gasping for the moon. The division commander, Yoshio Shinozuka, was ambitious, and he also had to hide his troops to avoid the battle. But when he launched his attack on the night of 3 September, he used a lot of gas bombs. A platoon guarding our Balitan position was all killed in the poison gas. The army easily occupied the beachhead of the Wei River.

"Take it for me, take it back!" Mu Zhongheng shouted to Fang Shuhong, the commander of the 340th Brigade.

Fang Shuhong knew that this Mu stammered because he stammered, so he rarely spoke, but once he spoke, the voice would definitely smash a hole on the ground. He poured out the strength of the two regiments of the brigade and launched an overwhelming attack on Balitan.

Bullets and shells screamed overhead. Mu Zhongheng monkey leaned his waist and approached the first line, and Fang Shuhong also had to lean forward. The four regiment commanders on the front line were in a hurry, and jumped out of the trench together, "Brothers, rush with me—" and rushed towards Balitan. The battalion commander, company commander, platoon commander, and squad leader all rushed up, are the soldiers still afraid of death?

A counter-impact snatched Balitan back from the hands of the Yue army.

Shinozuka is still interesting, and the next day he bypassed the position of Mu Shi, went north to the Oolong Temple, and went in the direction of the Shihuang River. However, it was not a smooth road, because Zhang Zizhong, a fierce general who always wanted to fight hard with the devil, had been waiting there anxiously.

The 13th Division of the Ogisu Legislatures was more successful than Shinozuka, relying mainly on the 51st planes of the 1st Flying Regiment of Hefei and the 19th Mountain Artillery Wing of Yokoo Kuo Nakasa, bombing up and down, and paving the road like a carpet. Even so, it was intercepted and killed by the 37th Division of Feng Zhi'an's 77th Army for two days and two nights on the line from Shengren Mountain to Dahechang. But Ogisu was rigid, unlike Shinozuka that stopped for 3 days, but marched according to the high temperature, constantly pouring down some straw bales with heat stroke along the way. Just seven days after the start of the war, each squadron of the Ogisu Division had lost an average of 40 men.

In front is Fujin Mountain, the provincial border between Anhui and Henan. In April and May, when Bai Chongxi was pondering the strategy for the battle of Wuhan, he planned to fight several decent decisive battles at several mountain passes through which the army must pass. Fujin Mountain is one of them. However, it is suspected that the army will not give in, and this plan is in a state of semi-implementation. Just like he did not avoid the high temperature of the march, Ogizhou honestly drilled Bai Chongxi's cage according to the route of march demarcated by the Dongjiu Palace, so that Chiang Kai-shek's proud protégé, Song Xilian, the commander of the 71st Army, became famous in this battle.

The first battle with Maruyama Masao on the Minshan front line was at the base of the tomb of the Sichuan Army. It is said that Wang Lingji has been brilliant since he was a child, and he taught at the Sichuan Military Academy in the year of the weak crown, and then the famous warlords Liu Xiang, Yang Sen, Pan Wenhua, Tang Shizun, Wang Zhangxu and other white wolves and black tigers who were rampant in Bashu were still on the door wall at that time. Wang Lingji is also a character, in that ancient basin where "the world is not chaotic and Shu is chaotic", Panlong attached to the wind and rain, leaving some folk tales of infighting, drilling camps and horses, and Huang Ting, so that future generations can laugh at the case.

Of course, it's not Maruyama's equal, and he hasn't even figured out how many devils there are, so he dragged his gun away. It's not that the Sichuan army can't fight, the key is how the Sichuan generals are.

In the headquarters of the 1st Corps of the Ninth Theater, when the battle reported that the "hundreds" of the army were attacking fiercely in the direction of Minshan, Xue Yue, who was distraught, said to the chief of operations, Di Xingyu, very unhappily: "Order the 74th Army to send a regiment to occupy" He handily pointed out a place name on the map, "Goose Gongbao, drive the enemy out, and cover the safety of our 9th Army!" ”

What exactly does Okamura want to do? In the past few days, Xue Yue has been shaking a big pu fan in front of the map that is also mixed with some texts, and has been meditating all morning and afternoon.

It would not be wrong to surround Wuhan from west to east. However, why did they gather heavy troops in the direction of Xingzi? But only one 101st Division wants to eat snacks on the road and catch up with the banquet in Wuhan through the Dexing Highway, that is too much appetite, right? There should be a large force in the direction of Ruichang, but what is the plan to go south to Minshan? Will the 106th Division in front of Shahe encircle our Wu group? It is impossible and impossible, its combat purpose is Wuhan, so why delay the war from west to east? Will Okamura take this step? I don't rule out the possibility of this: to monitor the troops of our First Corps with a force to cover the safety of their flanks and backs, and the main force will quickly encircle Wuhan; At the same time, the 101st and 106th divisions attacked us at the same time, and kept me here, in any case, the threat of the Yue army appearing in Minshan to our Shahewu group is obvious, and we should not take it lightly.

"Yifeng," Xue Yue coughed, his index finger tapping the table, and ordered Zhao Zili, the chief of the combat section, "Pay close attention to the actions of the enemy on the Minshan side!" ”

What Maruyama wants to do, even he can't figure it out. When he landed at Ruichang, it was when the 106th Division was frustrated. According to Okamura's order, he should lead his troops to attack southwest and go to the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway. But the 106th Division was beaten by the enemy in front of him and couldn't move, which made him unbelievable. Could it be that this is the enemy's ace main force? He was determined to deal a complete blow to this enemy, which could break the morale of the [***] squadron and open up the situation for the 106th Division. So, after he obtained the approval of Okamura Ninji and Matsuura Junrokuro, he did not kill the general

The 74th Army was stationed outside the city of De'an. Army commander Yu Jishi heard Di Xingyu say that it was General Xue's order, so he didn't dare to be sloppy, and immediately ordered his most trusted general, Wang Yaowu, to lead the 51st Division to the enemy. Wang's troops crossed the mountains and mountains, and the rear guard of the corps marched to the front line of Minshan, and sent the 302nd Regiment of the 151st Brigade to attack and advance. On the morning of August 30, the 302nd Regiment was advancing to the foot of Minshan Mountain through Xiaoyangpu, when suddenly, enemy fire poured down on the highlands such as Minshan and Damujian, and the 302nd Regiment was taken by surprise.

"What the hell!" Hu Liqun, the commander of the 1st Battalion, was a Hunan "barbarian" who was eager to fight, so he hurriedly raised a spear, roared, and led the team to rush forward. When the Sichuan army abandoned the formation and fled, it was as fast as the legendary postman, the front of Maruyama hated himself for not having a pocket, and Hu Ying's headless charge made them stunned and novel, and before they could react, Hu Ying had rushed to the bottom of the mountain. The nearby hills were full of "Yoi-" "Gotcha!" Shouting. Shells hailed like hail - Hu Liqun fell.

Zhou Zhidao, the commander of the 151st Brigade, heard that the 302nd Regiment was blocked from Xiaoyangpu, and personally led the 301st Regiment to the foot of Minshan Mountain. This enemy is not to be underestimated, and it is by no means something that a regiment can deal with! Zhou Zhidao was born in the fourth phase of Whampoa, and climbed up from the captain's party representative during the Northern Expedition in the rain of bullets, and he was also calm in the battle. On the one hand, he reported the enemy situation to Wang Yaowu and even Yu Jishi, and on the other hand, he launched an attack on a small hill designated by Xue Yue.

On the 31st, after a day of fierce fighting, the Chinese army not only fired fiercely from grenadiers, small artillery, and mortars from the ground troops, but also bombed enemy planes in the air. The 151st Brigade suffered more than 600 casualties, and the attack made no progress, and the battalion commander Zhai Yuben was shot and martyred when he led the team to charge.

Zhou Zhidao felt that the enemy in front of the telegram was by no means "hundreds" but at least 2,000 people. Wang Yaowu was also deeply frightened, and hurriedly led all the 51st Division to go to aid Minshan in the starry night.

However, without waiting for most of the 51st Division to arrive, the brigade, with the cooperation of more than 20 aircraft, swept from Damujian and Zhangjiashan along the foot of Minshan Mountain to the position of the 151st Brigade, cut the 151st Brigade into several sections, and planned to divide and encircle the area around Egongbao. Zhou Zhidao followed the 301st Regiment to move, and seeing that he was about to be encircled, he had to order to move to Xiling. In the face of the approaching army, Luo Heng, the deputy of the 301st Regiment Major, personally led the death squad to counterattack the enemy for the safety of the brigade headquarters.

To Wang Yaowu's great surprise, in the darkness of the night, the main force of the division had just marched to the vicinity of Dongling and Dawa Mountain, and encountered the Yue army from nowhere. After dawn, the machine came to help, and Wang Yaowu was lying under the ditch and did not dare to raise his head. "!" Wang Yaowu admitted that he was unlucky, and hurriedly ordered the 153rd Brigade and the 151st Brigade to turn each other into horns and retreat alternately.

Wang Yaowu, who was born as a clerk, is well-behaved and clever, and his big pleasing eyes precociously see through the Qimen Dunjia in the officialdom. Whether it is "three Li is not as good as a king" or "a king is not as good as three Li", don't care about it for the time being, but at this time, Wang Yaowu, the lieutenant general and division commander who climbed the fastest military rank in the third phase of Huangpu, is indeed one of the young generals who are rarely trusted by Yu Jishi. In the face of the aggressive army, he felt that the situation was dangerous, and hurriedly asked Yu Jishi for instructions to move in.

"Jigong!" Wang Yaowu shouted Yu's tone, and the telephone operators all said that it was a kind of eunuch's flattery, "This enemy is like an elite division, and our department has fallen into a dangerous situation!" ”

In fact, the enemy who went south through Minshan Lianke Carp, Bijia Ershan, Xintangpu and other important places, and occupied the commanding heights of Minshan along the way, Yu Jishi and even Xue Yue were already very sideways to the enemy. Xue Yue ordered the signal regiment to absolutely ensure the smooth flow of the line in the direction of Minshan, and asked Yu Jishi to move with the telephone line in tow and always maintain direct communication with the corps headquarters. Yu Jishi also preliminarily found out that the enemy in front of him was at least one of the enemy's main brigades, and he heard that it was the 9th Division of the Chinese Army. Back in "I. 28 "During the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, Yu Jishi led the 88th Division to fight with it, knowing that this was a group of sheep and wolves greedy outlaws, and they must not underestimate the enemy. It's really a narrow road, who would have thought that they would meet again on the battlefield in Nanxun after 6 years. At present, only the 51st Division is in charge, and it is really at stake. He immediately ordered Deng Guozhang's 15th Division of the Sichuan Army on the west side of Minshan to contain the Yue army, and ordered Wang Yaowu to retreat steadily.

Yu Jishi deployed a halt, and then reported to Xue Yue. When Xue Yue heard this, he said two words coldly on the phone: "No!" ”

Early in the morning, the communication station of the Corps Headquarters that was listening to this radio sent Xue Yue a report, and Xue Yue had just skimmed through the two lines, slapped it on the table, and shouted: "Someone is coming!" ”

(To be continued)