It is a good thing that morale has picked up, but Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura's mood is still very bad, and the mood of depression seems to indicate that something is happening, just as Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura was about to ask when the follow-up troops would arrive, Second Lieutenant Shibu Hoichiro, the leader of the reporting team, hurriedly ran in and reported: "Report to Your Excellency Commander, the follow-up troops of our division have been attacked by the Shina Navy, and the troops have suffered heavy losses. ”

"Baga, how did the China Navy get here, what warships are there, how do those fools in the Navy fight, and how do you let the China Navy still have the energy to attack us." The furious Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura reprimanded loudly, the current Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura is a wounded beast, and he may break out and hurt people at any time, so the senior officers around him did not speak, and everyone knew that His Excellency the division commander was on fire at this time, and whoever provoked him was unlucky.

"The Chinese Navy sent a total of four gunboats to attack our army's transport fleet, because before the arrival of our regiment, the cunning Chinese army had already collected all the large ships, leaving only some small and medium-sized fishing boats, these fishing boats have extremely poor protection, and they are not at all opponents of the naval gunboats, and more than 100 fishing boats carried by more than 3,000 follow-up troops of our army were sunk 76 were sunk, 19 were damaged, and only five were safe and sound, and they were on their way here." Second Lieutenant Shibu Hoichiro's voice trembled very much, he has been following Junrokuro Matsuura for more than three months, every time there is bad news, he is always the first to suffer, the slap is second, sometimes he will even be pulled out by the angry division commander and shot, or directly chopped to death with a katana, Second Lieutenant Shibu Hakuichiro privately heard that his previous predecessor was cut in half with a knife when he reported the battle report to His Excellency the division commander.

Now not only Lieutenant General Matsuura Junrokuro's heart is blocked, but the more than 10 senior officers in the command tent temporarily set up are uncomfortable, until after encountering this hateful 66th Army of China, everything has not gone well for the 106th Division, and it has only been a few days, and it has only been five and a half days from the battle of Wanzhen to today, and now there are only 10,000 of the 106th Division's 17,000 people left, and more than 7,000 soldiers have been consumed in this way, and the results achieved are extremely limited. A small Duchang county simply can't offset such a huge loss.

The loss is so huge, this is Matsuura Junrokuro never imagined, he has always served in the country, what he can know about the strength of the combat effectiveness of the squadron is from Tokyo's large and small newspapers and broadcast media. Under the unified propaganda of these media, the image of the squadron has been seriously scandalized, and the combat effectiveness has been degraded as useless, and it is no longer enough to describe the squadron in the eyes of the Japanese people.

Although Junrokuro Matsuura was still skeptical of the propaganda and reports of the newspapers and media, when Beiping, Tianjin, Taiyuan, Zhangjiakou, Guisui, Baotou, Shanghai and Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist Government, fell into the hands of the Japanese army one after another, and tens of thousands of ** became prisoners of the Japanese army, Junrokuro Matsuura also began to believe that the combat effectiveness of the ** squadron was indeed not very good. However, during this period of the war against China, Matsuura Junrokuro had a certain improvement in the squadron, and the combat effectiveness of the Central Army of the Nationalist Government seemed to be much stronger than the domestic media propaganda of the Japanese Empire, but at this time, Matsuura Junrokuro still did not want to believe that the squadron would defeat the Japanese army in the same number.

Junrokuro Matsuura is not afraid of fighting a war of attrition with the squadron, but thinking that the battle during this period of time has made him have an iron fist on cotton, it seems that the 106th Division has the upper hand, but in fact, the 106th Division lost more than 7,000 people in the victory, although Junrokuro Matsuura believes that it is still no problem to defeat the Shina army on the front line of Dean, but how many people are left in the 106th Division after the victory is unknown.

The 106th Division pursued the "66th Army" without the consent of Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji, if the loss of these 7,000 people was borne by Matsuura Junrokuro himself, Matsuura Junrokuro believed that his best result would be to be dismissed and return to China to be examined, and although he would not be sentenced in the end, his military career would definitely end here, which Matsuura Junrokuro did not want to see anyway.

Now that it is a tiger, the only way is to come up with a big result, so that Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji and the entire base camp have to accept that the loss of 7,000 people is worth the big result. And such a major achievement can only be the occupation of Jiujiang, an important military town in China, as long as the occupied Jiujiang, let alone 7,000 people, even if he takes the entire 106th Division into it, no one will dare to reprimand him. ,

Junrokuro Matsuura was secretly ruthless in his heart, and decided to break the cauldron and fight once, if he succeeded, he would be a national hero, and if he failed, he would be removed from his post and return to China.

"Order, the whole army is now divided into two routes, the first route is Major General Shandi Heng (commander of the 111th Infantry Brigade) as the commander, leading the 147th Infantry Wing, the 113th Infantry Wing, and the 106th Artillery Wing 1st Brigade to act as originally planned, and must arrive at the foot of De'an City before October 26. The second route was personally commanded by me, leading the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 113th Infantry Wing, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 123rd Infantry Wing, the 2nd and 3rd Brigades of the 106th Artillery Wing, and the 106th Engineer Regiment, and directly attacked De'an from here. If you have fought this battle, you will have no problem getting promoted and getting rich, but if you fail, then you will polish your swords and prepare for seppuku. Junrokuro Matsuura's eyes looked at the trembling leader of the newspaper team, and he ordered all the officers with a cold face.

Under such tremendous pressure, the 106th Division broke out with huge explosive power, and its combat effectiveness increased geometrically, both officers and ordinary soldiers were not afraid of death, causing huge casualties to Jiang Spruce's department, Qiao Jiayu fought a regiment and a battalion commander Wang Zhizhong was killed, and there were only 214 survivors in the whole battalion; The 1st Regiment, 2nd Battalion, and 3rd Company of the Battle in Mayotang Village were all wiped out; Liu Zhiguo, deputy commander of the third battalion of the first combat regiment of Gaomiaogang, sacrificed his life for the country, and more than half of the casualties of the third battalion were .........

The huge casualties also brought huge results, and the Second Route Army led by Junrokuro Matsuura suffered extremely heavy casualties under the stubborn resistance of Jiang Yunshan's troops, and the entire Second Route Army was left with less than 3,000 people. Both sides were red-eyed, and as long as they encountered Jiang Spruce's troops, Matsuura Junrokuro ordered his troops to attack at all costs. Although the casualties were heavy, on the afternoon of October 25, Junrokuro Matsuura led his troops to the foot of De'an Castle. At the same time, after a hard battle, Major General Shandi Heng also led his troops to the north of De'an City, and all the towns and villages north of De'an fell into the hands of the enemy.

At five o'clock in the afternoon of October 25, under the successive attacks of the Japanese army, the two infantry battalions stationed in the headquarters of Ande Han Yunhua stubbornly resisted for two and a half hours and finally withdrew from the city, and the 106th Division occupied De'an.

Immediately after the capture of Dean, Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura, who was at ease, sent a telegram to the commander of the 11th Army, Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji, requesting operational guidance.

After receiving a telegram from Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura asking for help, Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji was taken aback, and secretly said when the 106th Division crossed Poyang Lake, didn't they let them wait for the 27th Division and the 111th Division to cross the lake after taking Hukou County? Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji looked at the map, his heart couldn't help sinking, and the secret was bad, this bastard lone army went deep into the hinterland of the Chinese army, although De'an was only defended by an infantry regiment of the National Government of China on the surface, and the encounter of the 106th Division in De'an City also confirmed that there was indeed only one infantry regiment in De'an City, but there was an integrated army of the National Government around De'an City, and what worried Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji the most was that the ** unit that only gave endless humiliation to the Japanese Empire heard that it was also there. The 106th Division surrounded by strong enemies has simply become a big piece of fat, as long as the squadron reacts, the 106th Division will be torn to pieces in the first time.

Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji, who was in a cold sweat, immediately ordered the 106th Division to retreat, and at the same time analyzed the current situation to Junrokuro Matsuura, and sent a report to the 9th Division, which was on the eastern bank of Poyang Lake, ordering the 9th Division to rescue the 106th Division at all costs.

However, Okamura Ninji's order was obviously issued a little late, and just ten minutes before his order reached the headquarters of the 106th Division, Han Yunhua's more than 13,000 men completed the siege of De'an Castle and launched an attack on the Japanese troops in the city.

Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura is not a fool, after reading the telegram sent by Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji, combined with the battle during this time, Junrokuro Matsuura knew that he had fallen into the trap of the enemy, and the intention of the Shina troops was to completely annihilate his 106th Division. However, although Matsuura Junrokuro was a little worried about the heavy losses of his troops, he did not think that the enemy had such a strong strength that he could swallow all his troops in one go.

And then the news of the siege of the first squadron frightened Matsuura Junrokuro, so far the bad news one after another, under the attack of Han Yunhua's troops at no expense, the defensive positions in the southeast and north of De'an City were crumbling, and the Japanese troops defending the city were beaten without the power to fight back.

Matsuura Junrokuro personally went to the front line to take a look, he was stunned by the battle situation in front of him, and saw that the squadron ** team on the opposite position alone had no less than 100 large-caliber artillery, Matsuura Junrokuro saw 37 battle defense guns and 105mm caliber field heavy artillery from inside, and the heavy machine gun fire network lined up on the position made Matsuura Junrokuro tremble, and there were no less than 600 in the Dongcheng position alone. Even the most elite first-class divisions of the empire are inferior to this branch in terms of weapons and equipment. Moreover, Lieutenant General Junrokuro Matsuura also knew that such a unit had one in each of the other directions of De'an Castle, and the 106th Division seemed to be unable to fly.

Just when Junrokuro Matsuura was about to despair, Chief of Staff Akiyama Yoshiro Osaku reported that although the strength of the attack of the Shina troops west of De'an Castle was also fierce, it was obviously incomparable with the Shina troops in those directions in terms of weapons and equipment and numbers, and it should be okay to break through from the West Gate with the strength of the 106th Division.