The third part of the Bloody War of Resistance, Chapter 9, Rushing, and Section 5 Assault

This is indeed an inconspicuous but very serious loophole.\ In fact, Chen Cheng's offensive in Jiangnan this time was a bloody one, and the civil engineering department was descended from the 19th Group Army, the 11th Group Army, and the newly formed 30th Group Army, and 300,000 men and horses launched an attack on the Yangtze River in two ways.

On the left flank was the 100,000 men of the 19th Army, attacking from Hukou and attacking along Pengze and east; On the right flank were 200,000 people of the 11th Group Army and the 30th Group Army, attacking Qimen, and after recovering Qimen, the troops were divided into two routes, the 11th Group Army took the stone platform, and the 30th Group Army crossed Jiuhua Mountain and went straight to Tongling.

In Zhejiang, Gu Zhutong mobilized the 23rd Group Army and the 32nd Group Army, with a total strength of 160,000 troops, and the troops were also divided into two routes, Tang Shizun's 23rd Group Army attacked Jinhua, and Li Mo'an's 32nd Group Army attacked Jinyun, and launched a fierce battle with the 22nd Division of the Japanese Army stationed here.

As many as 500,000 people were directly engaged in the battle, and between the two main battlefields, there were also harassment troops composed of the 44th Army and the 73rd Army, which launched harassment attacks from southern Jiangsu to Nanjing. On the second line, the 10th Army, the 52nd Army, the 25th Group Army, and the 35th Group Army were all ready to fight back against the Japanese army.

In the sky, there are the first and second divisions of the Air Force, a total of 300 combat aircraft of various kinds, shuttling back and forth, diving and bombing; Japanese planes took to the skies to meet them, and a melee ensued in the sky. After six years of development, the Chinese Air Force has all been refitted with P40 and P51, and the performance of the main aircraft P51/B exceeds that of the Zero fighter, and the air superiority in the air battle is obvious.

The huge Jiangnan counterattack attracted the attention of the whole country, but in contrast, the Jiangbei Theater was quiet, and I saw frequent troop movements, but there was no movement. Zhuang Jihua, commander of the theater, frequently appeared at mass rallies in Henan, and the main force of the Jiangbei Theater, the 49th Group Army, the First Mechanized Group Army, the Fifth Group Army, and the 31st Group Army, remained on the banks of the Yellow River without the slightest sign of moving south.

But Nishio Shouzo still did not dare to take Jiangbei lightly, and did not dare to transfer Jiangbei troops to the south to participate in the war, but on the contrary, he repeatedly ordered the Jiangbei defenders to be vigilant and strengthen combat readiness.

After the Battle of Northern Hubei, the remnants of the 11th Army retreated to northern Anhui, and the original Tokyo base camp supplemented seven divisions for the Chinese Dispatch Army, but North China Okamura Ningji resolutely asked to supplement the North China Dispatch Army, and because the Chinese side increased its troops in Henan, North China threatened Japan, and Tokyo transferred five divisions from the Mongolian Front Army and the Kwantung Army to reinforce North China, so that the Chinese Dispatch Army received a total of 12 divisions and regiments, seven of which were given to Central China.

However, except for the Fifth Division, the rest of the five divisions of the North China Dispatch Army could not be compared with the reinforcements obtained from Central China, the 18th Division, the 9th Division, and the 28th Division transferred back from Nanyang, the newly formed 138th Division in China, and the 10th and 27th Divisions of the Kwantung Army drawn from the battlefield in Soviet Russia; In addition, the remnants of the 11th Army, the 3rd Division, the 104th Division, the 68th Division, and the 39th Division were replenished, and the annihilated 6th, 13th, and 17th Divisions were rebuilt.

The total strength of the Japanese army in Central China, which had been supplemented and reinforced, reached 370,000, but these 370,000 were distributed in a vast area south of the Huai River to southern Zhejiang, and both Nishio Shouzo and Itagaki Seishiro had to admit that more than one-third of them were new troops, and the soldiers were either seventeen or eighteen-year-old dolls, or "old men" in their thirties and forties, and the training was only carried out in a hurry for two months, which could not be compared with those veterans who had lost at all.

This question made Nishio Shouzo and Itagaki Seishiro very annoyed, these soldiers were not wanted by the army at all six years ago, but now they have to lower their standards and step up training, but even according to the minimum standards of the soldiers' discipline, before the squadron launched an attack, these people could not be considered mature soldiers.

The common opinion of Nishio Shouzo and Itagaki Seishiro was that those newly built and rebuilt units could not fight in this battle, and could only rely on the old units and those transferred back from Nanyang.

In Anqing, the 9th Division and the 116th Division were transferred back from Nanyang in charge of defense, and near Nanjing, the 18th Division and the 11th Brigade and the 13th Brigade were independently mixed, and Zhejiang was filled with the newly arrived 138th Division and the 28th Division, which were independently mixed into the 17th Brigade; Almost all the units of combat effectiveness were deployed south of the Yangtze River.

North of the Yangtze River were the 3rd and 104th Divisions that had retreated from Wuhan, and the newly arrived 137th, 68th, and 39th Divisions, of which the main 2nd Mixed Brigade was placed in the Anqing area on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and the 3rd and 15th Divisions were placed further north in Hefei.

After the loss of Wuhan, he organized the General Staff to conduct a war game, and this attack in the Jiangnan Theater was exactly the same as their prediction. Nishio Shouzao seized the calm of the four months from March to July, built tight fortifications in the Anqing area, built a total of six lines of defense before and after, and erected three pontoon bridges on the Yangtze River to communicate between the two sides of the strait.

But soon the troops of the Jiangbei Theater on the north bank of the Yangtze River began to be frequently mobilized, and Nishio Shouzo was suddenly a little frightened, he knew that the Jiangnan Theater alone could not defeat him, but if the two theaters of Jiangnan and Jiangbei acted at the same time, it would not be something he could resist, so he continuously sent telegrams to Okamura Ningji, asking him to be ready to attack Henan at any time and contain the main force of the Jiangbei Theater, and ordered the 12th Army of the North China Dispatch Army in Shandong to Matsui Shigen to be ready to reinforce Central China at any time.

After making all these arrangements, Nishio Shouzao's heart was a little calmer, and he did not dare to hope that the Chinese generals would not send troops due to factional problems, and the Battle of Northern Hubei gave him a profound enough lesson.

But just when he thought that Jiangbei had been arranged, an urgent telegram from Suzuki Sadaji, commander of the 104th Division, arrived, and the troops of the Jiangbei Theater of China launched an attack on the periphery of Anqing, and the numbers that had appeared on the battlefield were the 21st Group Army and the Fourth Group Army.

"..., the offensive of the Chinese army is fierce, and the current outer defense line is sparsely lost, and our department is retreating to the first line of defense according to the scheduled deployment."

This sentence did not give Nishio Shouzo and Itagaki Seishiro any comfort, and the two of them nervously checked the map on the map, and the staff officers moved quickly, and they had already marked the new situation on the map.

"With the habit of General Echina, it will definitely not be the only way to go out." Itagaki Seishiro looked at the map and muttered, the Japanese army has suffered too many losses from Zhuang Jihua, and is already very familiar with his combat style, besides, the Jiangbei Theater has many soldiers and generals, and will never only dispatch such a few troops.

Where else would he go? Nishio Shouzo's eyes searched back and forth on the map, Tongcheng, Shucheng, Hefei, Huainan, which area is it? Or all of them? The Jiangbei Theater has an army of nearly one million, with countless elite soldiers and strong generals, and the 21st Group Army can barely be regarded as a second-rate army, and the Fourth Group Army seems to be the Northwest Army? It's not even a second-rate army at all, where are those elite soldiers deployed?

According to intelligence, the 49th Group Army and the Fifth Group Army, the first strongest army in China, are all on the south bank of the Yellow River, and there is no place to move, what does General China want to do?

For a long time, the Japanese army has emphasized offensive and lacked research on defense, and their defensive experience is mainly the experience of the last European war, fortress-style defense, but the current situation in the Chinese battlefield is completely different, due to the lack of troops, it is impossible to form a dense defensive line, and it is not possible to achieve Versailles-style defense at all. It is also impossible to fortify everywhere like the squadron at the beginning of the war.

"No matter what General Shina does, there are a few key points that must be kept," Itagaki looked at it for a long time, still had no clue, and simply said to Nishio Shouzo: "First of all, the periphery of Anqing, followed by Hefei and Huainan, these three points must be kept, and the telegram ordered them to strengthen their vigilance, and the Shina army is likely to attack with the main force." ”

Nishio Shouzao pondered for a long time, as a soldier, several key points were clear, but what he was worried about was that the Huainan garrison was the newly formed 137th Division, which was formed on the basis of the domestic garrison, and had no combat experience at all.

"Is there any activity in the vicinity of Huainan?" Nishio Shouzo asked.

"The 137th Division did not report." Deputy Chief of Staff Harem Jun replied.

"Call immediately and ask Toshio Akiyama." Seishiro Itagaki immediately understood Nishio Shouzo's thoughts.

Nishio Shouzao regretted a little in his heart, he shouldn't have put the 137th Division in Huainan, he should have put the 15th Division in Hefei here, and let the 137th Division go to Hefei, but why did he do this in the first place? Didn't I think of deploying two powerful divisions in Hefei at the beginning, which could be in the middle of the strategy, and could go south to reinforce Anqing and north to reinforce Huainan.

However, he was negligent, and the Chinese army had a large number of troops, and it was possible to attack these three points at the same time.

Soon, Toshio Akiyama called back, the periphery of Huainan was calm, and the Chinese army did not move. This telegram did not reassure Nishio Shouzo, but made him even more worried, and hurriedly telegraphed Akiyama to strengthen his vigilance and not to relax in the slightest.

There was an inexplicable mood in the entire dispatch army headquarters, the flames of war were raging on the outskirts of Anqing and Nanjing in central Zhejiang, and the squadron continued to attack, and the Japanese soldiers were struggling to hold their positions under the indiscriminate bombardment of the squadron, and they thought they could hold the first line of defense for half a month, but in just five days, they were lost.

On the battlefield in central Zhejiang, the first squadron attacked Jinhua, cut into the Jinhua defense line from three sides, and reached the city of Jinhua, and the commander of the 22nd Division, Saburo Ikita, began to ask for tactical guidance.

On the Anqing battlefield in Jiangbei, the 21st Group Army attacked from the front, and the Fourth Army made a detour to the north, conquered Huaining, cut off the connection between Anqing and Hefei, and detoured back to the Anqing side, and the Anqing battle situation deteriorated.

"Order, Uchiyama, reinforce Anqing." Deputy Chief of Staff Hiroshi Nemoto suggested.

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