Sun Sanmin immediately replied to Sun Saihua and said: "What's wrong with the long meat, I am a person who drinks cold water and grows meat, so what's there, did my father give it!" Who is like you, even if you soak in the noodle jar and don't grow meat, what is that, that's a cheap life! ”

"Then can't you practice more and practice more kung fu to kill the enemy? Just like you, let alone fighting, you can't run anymore, why are you fighting devils? ”

"Then you don't care, don't care about the black cat and the white cat, catch the mouse is a good cat, when the time comes, I will beat the devil down, squat on the ass, and smash him to death."

This sentence attracted ridicule from Sun Saihua for a while, and everyone laughed too.

Fan Zhuxian said: "Now let Chief of Staff Han talk about the specific combat arrangements!" ”

Han Xing nodded, and talked about the shape of the battle between the two sides and the specific combat missions: "In the area of Wuhan, the Chinese army has concentrated 1.1 million troops by land, sea and air, and Japan has concentrated 300,000 troops by land, sea and air, and launched an unprecedented general battle in the area centered on Wuhan.

The combat area was mainly concentrated in four places, one was the Japanese army attacking along the river, mainly by the Japanese Hatada detachment. They were a mixed brigade group from Taiwan that traveled west from Wuhu to the west. On the night of June 11, the Botian detachment took advantage of the rainy night to raid Anqing, and the Yang Sen division of the 27th Group Army of the Sichuan Army was ineffective in fighting and was expelled from the city overnight. asked him to counterattack Anqing, Yang Sen called back, Xu Yuanquan's 26th Group Army could not block the attack of the Japanese Sixth Division, exposing his back, and he had to withdraw from Anqing as a last resort, and the matter was over.

After capturing Anqing, the Botian detachment continued to advance west along the Yangtze River with naval vessels, and in late June arrived outside the blockade line of the Jiangfang fortress Madang. Designed by German military advisers, the Nationalist army operated for several months, at great expense, and was exceptionally strong, a fortified fortress against the Japanese navy, and Chiang Kai-shek had high hopes that it would stop the Japanese offensive for at least a month or so.

The Japanese Navy first tried to open the passage from the river, but there were too many mines, sunken ships and artificial reefs, and the minesweepers could not clear mines under the fire of the defenders.

Seeing that the river could not be carried out, the Japanese army changed to a roundabout attack by land, and the defenders near Madang Fortress were Li Yunheng's 16th Army. On 24 June, Li Yunheng also lavishly held a grand graduation ceremony, which was attended by officers at all levels of the 16th Army and local gentry.

The Japanese army must have received this information in advance, so in the early morning of June 24, they successfully landed in the eastward direction of the 16th Army, and then captured Xiangshan and Xiangkou, which were neither prepared nor commanded by the commander-in-chief. Fortunately, the 2nd Marine Brigade defending the core position of Changshan in Madang Fortress did not send anyone to attend the graduation ceremony.

Under the command of the general captain Bao Changyi, the 2nd Brigade put up stubborn resistance and repelled three large-scale group charges of the Potian detachment. Bao Changyi's side fought in the dark, and Li Yunheng's graduation ceremony was very grand, and after speaking, there was a meal, and he drank a mess. Seeing that the 16th Army could not be counted on for the time being, Bao Changyi hurriedly sent a report to his old boss Xie Zhegang in Wuhan.

As soon as Xie Zhe saw the telegram, he was very surprised, and immediately reported to Chiang Kai-shek, and at the same time urgently asked the air force to dispatch. Chiang Kai-shek was even more surprised when he read the telegram sent by Xie Zhegang, and immediately called Bai Chongxi, who was inspecting Tianjia Town, and asked him to think of a way. Bai Chongxi reacted quickly, looked at the map and immediately called Peng Ze's 167th Division, asking the division commander Xue Weiying to immediately lead his troops to reinforce Changshan.

Here, Li Yunheng and Bao Changyi also reacted after talking on the phone, and it was so coincidental that they also made a phone call to the 167th Division. Xue Weiying received two different orders at once, Bai Chongxi ordered him to rush from the road, and Li Yunheng told him to take the path. Faced with two different orders, Xue Weiying thought for a long time, and finally chose to listen to Li Yunheng's path out of contempt for the old miscellaneous deputy chief Bai.

After holding out for two days, Bao Changyi's 2nd Brigade suffered more than half of the casualties and ran out of shells. In order to avoid total annihilation, the 2 Brigade had to withdraw from its positions. After the Japanese occupied the Changshan position, the 16th Army counterattacked for a time, but it soon failed, and even the Madang battery was lost.

Chiang Kai-shek saw that Madang, which he hoped to hold for a month, had lost it before he could even hold it for a week, so he called Chen Cheng, commander of the Ninth Theater, over overnight and scolded him. Chen Cheng immediately ordered the 16th Army and the 49th Army to counterattack Madang. The Japanese army relied on Madang's strong first-class national defense fortifications to resist stubbornly, causing repeated setbacks and heavy casualties in the offensive of the national army, and Chen Cheng had to order to stop the offensive and retreat to Pengze. Chiang Kai-shek was so dissatisfied with this result that Li Yunheng was removed from his post and investigated, and Xue Weiying was shot.

After repelling the counterattack of the national army, the Botian detachment and the 106th Division came to reinforce Peng Ze, and Peng Ze was lost. Seeing that the situation was strict, Chen Cheng strictly ordered Li Hansoul's 64th Army, which was stationed at Hukou, to counterattack Pengze. After a battle of strength, the Japanese army not only repelled Li Hansoul's attack, but also took advantage of the situation to pounce on Hukou, Hukou fell, and the 64th Army retreated to Jiujiang.

After occupying Hukou, the exhausted Japanese troops rested for more than ten days, and on July 22, they continued to set off to advance to Jiujiang, an important town of Jiangfang. In the early morning of the 23rd, the Japanese army repeated its old trick, sneaked into Poyang Lake in the rain, and finally successfully landed at the defensive ground of the 11th Pre-11th Division south of Gutang.

For some reason, the defenders had landed at 12 o'clock, and it was not until four o'clock that they reported that they were calling for reinforcements, and the 128th Division of Gujiaqi that came to help was adapted from the natives of Xiangxi. After stabilizing the landing field, the 106th Division advanced in depth under the cover of naval guns, and cooperated with the frontal attacking Botian detachment to encircle Jiujiang.

Seeing that the overall situation was unfavorable, Zhang Fakui ordered the 2nd Corps to move forward, abandon Jiujiang, and retreat to the area of Jinguanqiao, a second-line position, to defend.

In general, the Chinese troops defending along the Yangtze River, under the attack of a small number of Japanese troops, were paralyzed, neglected their duties, and suffered a crushing defeat. It was because of their defeat that Wuhan was directly threatened by the Japanese army that advanced westward along the Yangtze River waterway.

Then there is the operational area on the south bank of the Yangtze River. After the Japanese army attacked Jiujiang, the Japanese soldiers on the south bank were divided into two routes, and the 106th Division of Songpu attacked De'an along the Nanxun Road. The Hatada detachment and the Marines continued their march west along the river with naval vessels to attack the next point, Ruichang.

On August 11, the Potian detachment and the marines successfully forced a landing at the port northeast of Ruichang, and broke the counterattack of the defender Sun Tongxuan's 12th Army and attacked Ruichang. The Chinese 3rd Army, reinforced by the 32nd Army Corps of Townenbo, fought hard.

In late August, the Japanese 9th Division also arrived in Ruichang under the escort of ships, and the 6th Brigade of the Forward Army landed all the way to Liyu Mountain, Bijia Mountain and other important places, and captured Ruichang on August 24. After the occupation of Ruichang, Maruyama Masao's 6th Brigade was supposed to attack southwest and cut off the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, but when he saw that the 106th and 101st Divisions of Nanxun Road were beaten by Xue Yue's 1st Corps, he felt incredible, and killed him in a hurry.

Maruyama led his troops into the Minshan Mountains and plunged directly behind the defenders on the front of Nanxun Road. Xue Yue thought that the Sichuan army was lying about the military situation, so he ordered the 74th Army to send a regiment to drive away the enemy in Minshan and cover the safety of the flank of the defenders in front of Nanxun Road. A brigade sent by the 74th Army was almost dumpled.

Zhou Zhidao of the 151st Brigade immediately came back to his senses, and while leading his troops to fight and retreat, he reported to his superiors as soon as possible. After receiving the report, Wang Yaowu was also afraid that something would happen to the 151st Brigade, so he hurriedly led other troops of the 51st Division to support, but who knew that the 51st Division was not an opponent when it went together. The 51st Division was beaten and retreated, and Yu Jishi finally figured out the enemy's strength and number at this time, and hurriedly led all the other troops of the 74th Army to rush to support, but it was still weak and was defeated and retreated.

This is the current battlefield shape south of the Yangtze River. To sum up, the Japanese offensive was fierce, and the Chinese army was losing and retreating, and there was a danger of being defeated at any time.

At the beginning of June this year, the Japanese Sixth Division moved south from Hefei and broke through the defense of Xu Yuanquan's 26th Group Army, and after capturing Tongcheng on the 13th, it turned to the southwest to attack and captured Qianshan on the 17th. By the beginning of July, the Japanese army occupied Taihu Lake and east of Wangjiang in Jiangbei, and occupied the Yangtze River coastal area east of Hukou in Jiangxi in Jiangnan.

On July 24, the 6th Division of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army attacked from Qianshan in Anhui Province to Taihu Lake under the command of Inaba Shiro, fought bloody battles all the way, successively broke through the defense line of the 31st, 68th and 84th armies, and successively captured Taihu Lake and Susong, and finally occupied Huangmei, the gateway of Guangji, after fierce street battles on August 4.

After losing Huangmei, Bai Chongxi, the acting commander of the Fifth Theater, immediately commanded the troops to counterattack, but the Japanese army held on to the danger and released a large amount of poison gas, and the hard attack suffered heavy losses. Seeing that the strong attack could not work, Bai Chongxi transferred troops to flank the rear of the Japanese army, and Li Pinxian's corps recovered Taihu Lake and Qianshan, cutting off the land supply line and land retreat of the Japanese 6th Division, making Inaba Shiro in a difficult situation.

Bai Chongxi seized the opportunity and commanded the 28th Army, the 84th Army and other troops facing each other head-on, to take advantage of the opportunity to storm and attack with the intention of completely annihilating the 6th Division, which had committed numerous crimes in the Nanjing Massacre. This time, although Bai Chongxi's layout was clever, he still underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army. The 6th Division held on to the danger and at the same time released a large amount of poison gas to survive the difficulties.

Okamura Ninji also immediately sent the navy to open a supply channel at Koike across the Jiujiang River to supply ammunition and replenish troops for the 6th Division. After Inaba Shiro was replenished, he began to counterattack, and although Bai Chongxi went to the front line to supervise the battle, it was to no avail. Under the onslaught of the Japanese army, the 28th, 68th and 84th armies suffered heavy casualties, and the reserves were exhausted, but they were still unable to stop the Japanese offensive and were forced to retreat to Guangji.

Seeing the retreat of the defenders, the Japanese army immediately followed and pursued to Guangji, where there was a fierce battle, and the national army finally retreated, and Guangji, the gateway to Tianjia Town, was lost. After this tragic battle, the 6th Division suffered heavy losses and was unable to continue the offensive, so it could barely fight after resting on the spot in Guangji for 7 days and replenishing 3,200 new soldiers and equipment.

Summing up the battle situation along the way, the Chinese army is also in danger and barely supporting.