However, Han Yunhua also knew that the Party Central Committee was also gambling on the more than 17,000 people under Han Yunhua's department to fight in the south. Although Han Yunhua himself has become a pawn on the chessboard, as a staunch [***] person, he still agrees with the Party Central Committee to exchange him Han Yunhua and the troops under his command for a better future for the party and the country, and he thinks that this deal is worth it. If the Party Central Committee surrenders Chahar and Suiyuan to the Kuomintang for the sake of these people, or tears up his face with the Kuomintang, although Han Yunhua will not say anything and will still abide by the orders of the Party Central Committee, Han Yunhua will definitely launch another larger-scale battle in the Chahar area to attract the firepower of the devils and support the Battle of Wuhan on the side.

In Han Yunhua's view, exchanging his personal future for the rebirth of the nation is a very worthwhile and necessary thing. Han Yunhua, who was an excellent military commander in later generations, did not attach much importance to his own development, and in this era, it was better to have thousands of soldiers than to have a thousand soldiers. Having soldiers is the most important thing, and only with military power in hand can you do things according to your own wishes, this is the thinking of warlords in this era. But as a top military talent who has been carefully cultivated by the country, he did not want to be a high-ranking official to serve in the army at the beginning.

In Han Yunhua's heart, or in that era of rampant materialism, only soldiers are the purest group, regardless of personal gains and losses, they have their figure in every inch of the motherland, whether it is the Himalayas where birds are difficult to cross or the Saibei Plateau where the north wind howls all year round, they are stationed there, stationed in the sacredness in their hearts.

Han Yunhua is one such group, although he knows that although the KMT and the CCP seem to be in harmony now, there will be a war between these two legitimately representing the interests of different strata of China sooner or later. But at the moment, he knew that only when the war of resistance was over would the Kuomintang and the Communist Party be tense, and before China had achieved the decisive victory, although there would be friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the scale would not be too large, so he Han Yunhua could completely let go of his hands and feet. When the Kuomintang and the Communist Party really break up in the future, it is still unknown whether he Han Yunhua is still alive, even if he is lucky enough to survive this national war, Han Yunhua will definitely not participate in this civil war. As for what the way out was in the future, Han Yunhua didn't think so far, but he already had a vague idea in his heart.

Madang (now Madang) is one of the most important fortresses of the Yangtze River, located in Pengze County, Jiangxi Province, and the small lonely mountain in the river is far away, forming a horn trend. The sandy beach in the middle of the river divides the Yangtze River into two, and the left waterway is narrow and has been silted up. The right waterway flows through the foot of Madang Mountain, is the main channel, here is the narrowest place in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the width is less than 500 meters, the water flow is turbulent, the situation is dangerous, the formation of a husband is a pass, the moat of ten thousand people can not be opened.

Since the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression on July 7, 1937, the Military Committee of the Nationalist Axe has expected that one day a powerful navy will appear on this great river of the blood of the Chinese nation, using the waterways of the Yangtze River to attack China's deep hinterland. In order to block the enemy's westward advance and ensure the safety of Jiujiang and Wuhan, the Military Committee of the Nationalist Political Axe specially established the Yangtze River Blocking Committee, which was responsible for the design and construction of the blocking project.

At the same time, the Nationalist Axe also spent huge sums of money to build river defense fortifications and set up river defense troops. After two large-scale constructions, the Yangtze River Blocking Committee built a barrage-type blocking line in the center of the river, leaving only a narrow channel on the south bank of the Yangtze River that can only be navigated by one boat, and whether this channel can be navigated is also controlled by the national political axe, as long as the national political axe is willing, this great river, which is called the golden waterway, will be completely paralyzed, and all ships will be prohibited from sailing.

Moreover, in order to further consolidate this waterway, the Nationalist Axe also set up fortifications such as fortifications, pillboxes, and trenches at the dangerous points of the peaks on both sides of the river, which were built by the Nationalist Axe under the guidance of German advisers. The object of its defense is very clear, that is, the navy, which ranks first in Asia and third in the world. The Nationalist Axe laid a total of three mine defense lines on the water surface of the Yangtze River, and laid more than 4,500 mines before and after.

In order to strengthen the defense capability of this fortress, the national government axe built a large number of military facilities and river defense fortifications, and at the same time deployed heavy troops to defend Madang fortress. Madang Fortress is garrisoned by the 2nd Corps of the Jiangfang Garrison, a battalion of the 26th Division of the 43rd Army, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Garrison, and the 8th, 41st, and 42nd Artillery Regiments.

The national political axe in the surrounding area of Madang Fortress also placed heavy troops to defend it, preventing the Yue army from bypassing the defense range of Lushun Fortress and attacking the back of Lushun Fortress from behind as it did when they attacked Lushun Fortress in Port Arthur in the past. In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, the Nationalist Axe also stationed a large number of troops in the areas of Huangshan, Xiangshan, Zangshanji, Xiayuban, Huanglishu, and Malukou in the lower reaches of Madang, which were garrisoned by the 53rd and 167th Divisions of the 16th Army of the Jiangfang Army.

In addition, the Nationalist Axe also guarded Huaining in the north of the Yangtze River and the eastward flow in the south of the Yangtze River in order to respond at any time. Such a defense of a fortress was almost absent in all the great wars of the Nationalist Axe, but the importance of the Madang Fortress forced the Nationalist Axe to do so.

After the loss of Anqing, a gap was opened in the periphery of Wuhan's river defense, and a complete defense system was forced into a nail by the army. In order to achieve the predetermined military objectives as soon as possible, on September 18, 1938, the Central China Dispatch Army and the Naval Command Department simultaneously issued an order to the Potian Detachment and the Chinese fleet to "move along the Yangtze River and occupy the Hukou and Jiujiang areas."

As soon as this order of the Central China Dispatch Army was issued, the Botian Detachment of the Chinese Army and the 11th Naval Squadron could not wait to attack Madang from Anqing to Jiangxi. As a result of the continuous bombardment by the Chinese Air Force, the artillery fire of the river defense forces on both sides of the river, and the laying of mines in the middle of the river, the advance was extremely slow, three motorboats were sunk by artillery fire from the shore, and one warship carrying troops was sunk by a mine, and the troops suffered heavy losses but made limited progress.

At first, the army thought that the reason why Madang Fortress was difficult to fight was because they did not have large-caliber artillery, so they mobilized larger-caliber ships to come. As a result, after two days of fierce fighting, the army was still unable to open the water passage. The Botian detachment was then forced to abandon its plan to attack from the river, and instead landed in the Maolinzhou and Xiangkou areas east of Madang with a force, and attacked Madang in a roundabout way along the south bank of the Yangtze River.

The commander of the Mahu District Fortress Command, who was responsible for the defense of Madang-Hukou, was Li Yunheng, commander of the 16 th Army; in order to curry favor with Shangfeng, this Li commander went so far as to set up a two-week so-called "Anti-Japanese Military and Political University" in the local area at this critical time, and transferred the deputy officers and platoon commanders of the 16 th Army and the local township security chief to leave their posts for training.

Beginning on September 10, 1938, it was lively and lively for more than ten days, and although the battle of Wuhan was tight, Li Yunheng himself and most of the senior officers of the 16th Army still decided to hold a graduation ceremony at 8 a.m. on October 1, and issued a notice on 28 October, ordering officers of all units at the rank of captain and above to attend the meeting and have dinner at the headquarters after the meeting.

After receiving the order of Commander Li, but at this time, the troops guarding the defense of the Xiangkou River were the subordinate units of the 16th Army. In order to attend this so-called graduation ceremony, officers above the company level of the 313th Regiment of the 53rd Division, which guarded the Xiangkou River Defense, and officers of other units under the 16th Army went to Madang Town on the evening of 1 October to prepare for the graduation ceremony the following day.

On the evening of October 1, there was no fighting in the entire Madang Fortress, and there was silence. The entire 16th Army, including the ambitious and talented Commander Li himself, was silent in joy, but no one thought that this was just the calm before the storm.

As early as when the 16th Army was preparing for this graduation ceremony, the army realized that this was an opportunity. And Han Jian, who had infiltrated the training class, had already transmitted this important information to the Yue army. Every move of the 16th Army was under the watchful eye of the Army. Every half an hour, the annihilators lurking in the 16th Army will report a telegram like the supreme commander or person in charge of the central responsibility area of the special high-tech section of the army, and the frequency of such frequent reports is very rare in the history of the special high-tech department, which shows the degree of attention paid by the army to the battle of Wuhan.

At 4 o'clock in the morning of 2 July, the Chinese army docked with dozens of gunboats and small boats and secretly went ashore from the Xiangkou River; after landing, the Japanese army immediately assembled troops and launched a fierce attack on the 313th Regiment of the 53rd Division, which was responsible for the defense of the Xiangkou area. At this time, most of the officers above the company level of the 313 Regiment had been ordered to leave the unit to attend the graduation ceremony of the so-called "Anti-Japanese Military and Political University", and they were completely unprepared for the surprise attack of the Japanese army, there was no one to direct the battle, and the leaderless positions of the dragons were in chaos. In the face of the powerful offensive of the Yue army, the 313th Regiment had almost no power to fight back. Although the soldiers of the 313th Regiment also put up stubborn resistance, they were outnumbered, and after three hours of fierce fighting, Xiangkou was lost, and the 13th Regiment guarding the Xiangjiang Estuary was almost completely annihilated.

After the capture of Xiangjiang, the Yue army was not satisfied, especially the Potian detachment of the Yue army. Since the landing of the Hatian detachment in China, it has been smooth sailing, and the enemy in front of it is almost always crushed when it is touched, so the entire Hatian detachment, at least the detachment commander down to the ordinary soldier, looks down on the [***] team in their hearts, and in their eyes, the [***] team is not as powerful as the North Korean sticks. Subsequently, the Botian detachment, with the cooperation of naval guns and aircraft, launched a fierce attack on Xiangshan and other positions, as if the heavens were helping the Yue army, and soon after, Xiangshan and other positions were also lost one after another. It made the Botian detachment even more rampant, arrogant and arrogant, and shouted that it would conquer Madang Fortress within half a month.

(To be continued)