readx; When Okamura heard that Kondo's attack had been frustrated, he ordered the various units that had landed from Gutang to intensify their offensive, advance in depth, and encircle Jiujiang along the northern foot of Mount Lu. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info So, the naval artillery and ground artillery of the Yue army concentrated on the Gutang front.

At this moment, General Zhang Fakui, commander-in-chief of the 2nd Corps, who had wanted to use the Yangtze River and Lushan as natural fortifications to fight with the Yue army, personally arrived at the position on the shore of Poyang Lake in the eastern suburbs of Jiujiang and strictly ordered Li Jue's 70th Army, Li Yutang's 8th Army, and Wang Jingjiu's 25th Army to consolidate the Jiujiang defense line on the front line of Poyang Lake in the southeast of Jiujiang. As soon as the call between him and Wang Jingjiu ended, more than 30 naval guns of the Chinese army on the lake seemed to have taken aim at him, and shells flew like locusts all over the world.

"it!" Zhang Fakui was so angry that he scolded. The dignified general and commander-in-chief, curled up in the bunker like a turtle worm and unable to move, was not "happy" at all. It was not until the enemy artillery stopped firing that he got up and turned his head and ran, and finally ran out of range, until he was so tired that his face turned white and his lips were black, and he sat on the ground, unable to speak for a long time.

Wu Qiwei, commander-in-chief of the Ninth Group Army, also rushed to Jiujiang in an open-top car from Nanchang with his operational staff officer Hu Xiang and others on that day. The sound of artillery in the direction of Jiujiang was endless. When Wu Qiwei learned that the army had landed, this short general, who was known as "Grandma", actually scolded a very rude word. It seemed that the defense of Jiujiang had become a collapse, Zhang Fakui telegraphed and ordered all units to move in, and Wu Qiwei urgently ordered Li Jue's 19th Division to occupy a position at Matsu Mountain, cover the safe transfer of the group army, and prepare for a second-line decisive battle from Shahe to Jinguanqiao according to the "three-line defense" envisioned by Chen Cheng.

The planes were always circling overhead, constantly strafing and dropping bombs. Hu Xiang and other staff officers hid in the woods and persuaded Wu Qiwei to take refuge in the woods. Wu Qiwei waved his hand, shook off the dust that shook off the grass house, and explained something to Li Hansoul on the phone. The bombing and strafing of the plane became more and more ferocious, and the staff suspected that there was a Han Jianji near the headquarters who was indicating the target to the plane. When Hu Xiang ran in to ask him if he wanted to change the place, he found the commander-in-chief lying on the table and snoring like thunder.

After the Songpu Division and the Botian Detachment landed from Gutang, Li Hanxun commanded Chen Gongxia's 155th Division, Kong Kequan's 187th Division, Ji Jianzhang's 6th Division, and Zhao Xitian's 3rd Division to resist stubbornly, which was very unexpected by Okamura; And the blockade of Li Jue's first part of Matsu Mountain firmly dragged the back of the artillery. The Kondo Sea Squadron was eager to enter Jiujiang Castle first to seize the lead, and on the 25th, they launched a larger-scale attack on the Jiangbin defense line with all their might.

It's a smoke screen again, but with an increased effect. Just now it was red in the sky, and it was like a dark night in an instant. The enemy fired directly at the front line with artillery fire, and the large and small ships advanced at the same time in the smoke screen of artillery fire, laid down all the rubber boats, and rushed to the shore in a desperate manner.

Forty-four years ago today, on July 25, the First Sino-Japanese Naval War broke out. Ito's fleet crushed the Qing fleet in one fell swoop, turning the oriental power, which thought itself the center of the world, into the world's antiques, and now Ito's descendants have burrowed into the heart of this politically rotten river like roundworms.

In the explosion of guns and grenades, 100 soldiers rushed onto the riverside road in confusion. "Poke the enemy down!" The head of the regiment, Mao Daijun's Hunan accent, let out a long whistle. The officers and men of the 9th Pre-Division crawled out of the bombed bunkers, all with mud heads and black faces, looking like ghosts.

"Kill!" Roars burst out of the dust, and there was no explosion, only the clatter of bayonets, the screams of beasts, and the brutal scolding

The white-knuckle fight on the riverside lasted from 4 p.m. until the sun sank, the streets and alleys were full of corpses, the purple blood bubbling down the river slopes made the waves red, and the Yangtze River was inlaid with a red edge

This army was finally annihilated by a non-retaining army, but the position on the west bank of the Longkai River was broken through by the army. When the monster of the army rushed across the iron bridge with a shout and rushed towards the position of the 2nd Battalion of the 26th Regiment, the officers and men of the whole battalion, under the leadership of the battalion commander, met the bayonets one after another and stabbed the soldiers to pieces. The Hatada detachment had learned the bayonets of the [***] team in Madang Changshan, and the Kondo naval team discovered for the first time that China also had warriors who regarded death as home.

This night, they were all exhausted, and the banks of the Longkai River and even the riverside were quietly empty. A crescent moon hangs in the western sky, and the fireflies are bright and low at what time. There is not a single star of light in the urban area, like a gloomy cemetery. Jiang Bo whispered, like a pampered young wife muttering terrible nightmares to her lover. A person on the embankment looks at the river for a long time, like a lover in a folk tale waiting for a loved one who will never return.

A small man with a pistol on his back came over and said in a low but firm tone: "Division commander, our regiment is going to make a counterattack tonight and drive the enemy on the west bank of the Longkai River into the water!" ”

"Nope." Zhang Yanchuan said lightly: "The enemy has become an east-west encirclement of us, and the corps commander ordered our division to withdraw from Jiujiang and enter the Shahe position before 2 o'clock tomorrow morning."

On this night, the Chinese [***] team all withdrew from the Jiujiang defense line. The next day, at 7 o'clock on the 26th, the Kondo Marine Brigade and the Hatada Detachment entered the Jiujiang urban area. Okamura's old friends were not able to catch a glimpse of Zhou's legacy until they left China, because of the cholera epidemic in Jiujiang, the plague was rampant, like a foul-smelling lupus, which made people retreat.

According to the operational order issued by Okamura Ninji on 19 July, when the Jiangnan Army had indeed captured Jiujiang on 26 July, the Inaba Division of the Jiangbei Army was still fighting hard in the area of the Pavilion River between Taihu Lake and Susong, and it was still more than 100 miles away from its destination Huangmei in eastern Hubei Province. Only a small steamed bun hill in Liangtinghe Town, Taisu Road, was enough to toss Inaba Shiro for three days and three nights.

It's not that the 6th Division is old, it's that Bai Chongxi's military order is ruthless.

In the military sequence, the 6th Division, which was formed by the soldiers of southern Kyushu, is famous for its assassination. Division Commander Shiro Inaba said on 18 August that Okamura Ningji, who had always come to inspect Qianshan, said proudly: "The fighting spirit of the officers and men of our 6th Division is invincible! ”

This is a special force. It is a treaty port in southern Kyushu and a base for warships on expeditions to foreign countries. Not all of the ships were full of large sums of money, and almost all of the failed merchants became pirates. When the "Lockdown Order" made it illegal to do business in the oceans, the harbors of southern Kyushu became a paradise for pirates.

It is not surprising that the military culture of the Han and Tang dynasties, which flourished for a nation without borders and no army, turned businessmen who lost money and overturned ships into pirates, frustrated politicians into ronins, and ambitious generals coveted the dynasty.

Southern Kyushu is known as the pirates of the Ryukyus, the sails of Fukuoka, and the important ministers of Satsuma. Interestingly, it is also on this island that drifts in the southern region that matures the big companion housekeeper and the mountain Yiliang. The "Nankai Salon" at the foot of Mt. Aso has nurtured generations of waka giants. If Tokyo style is the epitome of Honshu's culture, Kyushu's popularity is the freak of Honshu's fornication with foreign countries. The centripetal force of national cohesion and the aggression of foreign expansion are pushed to the extreme here. Outsiders are often puzzled by the excessive politeness of people in front of acquaintances and the rudeness of people in public places where there are no acquaintances, which is the necessary way to divide the two personalities of the samurai culture, sheep and wolves, rigorous self-cultivation and crazy venting. When these samurai set foot on the land of China in a thorough "public place" with the emperor's "edict", they were like the gods sent by heaven in "Journey to the West", and they degenerated into blood-drinking demons at the slightest thought, and the debauched and hungry believers were more greedy than earthly beings.

Southern Kyushu, the land with the greatest sense of conquest and aggression, the more typical the samurai, the more vicious the devil. In Nanjing, where the 6th Division passed, there is no doubt about the story of the extinction of human surnames.

Such a force could hardly have living young men and untainted young women everywhere it passed, sheep angels to Okamura and Inaba, and fierce beasts to the Chinese. Okamura's so-called instruction to "curry favor with Jiang Aimin" is like a animal trainer waving a whip at a man-eating tiger through an iron fence, and it is completely playing the harp to a cow.

As Inaba said, the samurai of southern Kyushu were invincible in previous battles.

However, after entering Qianshan on June 18, he had to ask for a truce and rest. The malaria epidemic caused the troops to lose more than 2,000 men, and even the newly appointed rice leaves withered for a time, and they only regained their spirits by eating quinine.

On July 22, when Jiangnan launched an attack, Inaba, who could hear the sound of artillery across the river, admired the thunderous explosion in the distance as if listening to music, and the ears and temples of a young battalion who had just been sent in.

He knew that the army defending Jiujiang had a journey of the third division and would not give up easily; And he is only more than 100 miles away from Huangmei, and with the combat strength of the 6th Division, he can go down for 4 days at most.

He also has a little Jiujiu who will not say it explicitly: the fierce battle in the south of the Yangtze River will undoubtedly attract the army in the north of the Yangtze River, and he just takes advantage of the situation to take advantage of the fisherman. Therefore, it was not until the night of the 23rd that he summoned the commander of the group and above to the division headquarters, pointed to the military map hanging on the tent, and deployed the attack on the 24th.

The vanguard was the 11th Brigade. This unit was notorious for attacking Nanjing, breaking through the Zhonghua Gate, and pushing the beast surname of the Yamato samurai to the extreme.

The brigade commander Tokutaro Sakai accompanied his division commander Toshio Tani to return to China to report on his work in the wind and rain of the city.

The newly appointed Major General Katsuji Imamura, a family of shomons, ambitiously grabbed the pioneer seal, and with the cooperation of the 6th Field Artillery Wing and the 2nd Mountain Artillery Wing, the cars roared along the Qiantai Road, and the flood surged like a cracked bank.

Imamura is very hot. Soon after the departure of the troops, they were flanked by the [***] team in Huangpu Town. If you drive straight ahead, you will be cut off from the back road by the [***] team; Stopping the attack, the enemy is in danger of luring into Dabie Mountain. Finally, this [***] team was completely defeated, and it didn't travel far, and another more powerful firepower extended down the foothills of Dabie Mountain

When he marched west from Wuwei Tongcheng, he was also stubbornly resisted by the enemy's [***] team, but they were all dangerous places, such as Hengshan Ridge, Ten Thousand Mountains, Anhui River, etc. This time, however, it seems that every small mound under the egg wings of Dabie Mountain is fighting with him in the same village. Peach Blossom Shop, Liu Shanpu, Xiaochi and other places, fierce battles again and again, until noon on the 26th, three days have passed, and the troops of the village arrived at Taihu Lake, with a journey of less than 40 kilometers. And the spy news came that Jiujiang in the south of the Yangtze River had triumphantly sang, and he took the town of Liangtinghe on the Taisu Highway where Huangmei must pass in the west, but there were heavy enemy troops gathered to meet the gentle and Confucian general Zhang Mu Inaba couldn't hold his breath at this time, and accused Imamura on the phone of using troops too softly, which disappointed him.

On the night of July 23, when Inaba deployed to attack Huangmei, in the Kuixing Pavilion of the Central Primary School in Meichuan Town, Guangji County, a starry man with a burly physique and a white face wearing rimless glasses was gathered in the Kuixing Pavilion of the Central Primary School in Meichuan Town, Guangji County, and his voice was majestic in his southern accent.

Bai Chongxi, deputy chief of staff and acting commander of the Fifth Theater, summoned the generals above the 4th Corps and the Tianjiazhen Fortress Division to deploy the imminent Jiangbei blockade!

(To be continued)