While Liu Yimin was inspecting the rest and recuperation of the troops and the work of various departments, the two sides of the Wuhan battle had already become a pot of porridge.

Chen Cheng and Zhang Zhizhong had deduced the defense of Wuhan with Liu Yimin when they were in Xi'an, and now Zhang Zhizhong has been transferred, and Chen Cheng has served as the commander of the Ninth Theater, commanding his troops to defend both sides of the Yangtze River.

Li Zongren, the commander of the Fifth Theater who served as the commander of the defense of the northern and southern foothills of Dabie Mountain, met Liu Yimin in Xuzhou, and the two of them also had a deep discussion about the situation of the Anti-Japanese War, and they had already had a good idea of this battle to defend Wuhan.

Chen Cheng has nothing else to say, at least he has not been ambiguous on the issue of resistance. After being ordered to form the Ninth War Zone, Chen Cheng quickly mobilized troops to carry out a series of counterattacks with an elite force, and the main force was placed on the enemy's flank to ambush, flank, and counterattack at any time.

Li Zongren is even more unambiguous, he is a well-deserved anti-famous general and strategist. In addition, the troops of the Fifth Theater have been baptized by the great victory in Taierzhuang, their morale is high, the terrain is favorable to our side, and the Gui troops, the main force of the Fifth Theater, are good at fighting mountain warfare.

In this way, the Battle of Wuhan is very different from the Battle of Wuhan in history. The purpose of the squadron is very clear, to rely on the favorable terrain and consume a large amount of the army's vital forces; The strategic goal of the army was also very clear, to quickly capture Wuhan, annihilate the main force of the [***] squadron, destroy the will to resist of the Chinese political axe in one fell swoop, and force Chiang Kai-shek to surrender. Both sides regarded the Battle of Wuhan as a key battle to advance the transformation of the war situation into one favorable to their own side, and it was difficult to solve the battle for a while.

Autumn in the mountains of Fujin is colorful.

This hill located on the south bank of the Shihe River in the south of Gushi County, is only four kilometers long from north to south, only two kilometers wide from east to west, and the main peak is 326 meters above sea level. Because it connects Lu'an and Hefei in the east, Huangchuan and Xinyang in the west, and when the Ye (Jiaji) Shang (City) Highway is rushed, the mountain is steep, and it has become a barrier to enter the hinterland of Dabie Mountain from east to west, and it is a place where soldiers must fight in history.

Song Xilian, commander of the 71st Army of the National Revolutionary Army, is a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan, and graduated from the first phase of Huangpu at the age of 31 this year.

After the 71st Army retreated from Lu'an, Song Xilian concealed the 36th, 88th, and 61st Divisions in Fujin Mountain, determined to take advantage of the favorable terrain of Fujin Mountain to resolutely block the devils.

It should be said that the 71st Army at this time was one of the strongest combat units in the [***] team, because the 71st Army had two German-style divisions, that is, the 36th Division and the 88th Division.

Historically, the 36th and 88th Divisions participated in the Battle of Songhu and suffered heavy casualties, and in the following Battle of Nanjing, the elites of the 36th Division and the 88th Division were exhausted, and they were re-rested and replenished before they were put into the Battle of Wuhan.

Due to Liu Yimin's arrival, although the 36th and 88th Divisions suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Songhu, they avoided further losses in the Battle of Nanjing. In particular, the 88th Division, under the command of Zhang Zhizhong, also played a majestic role, cooperating with the 74th Army to eliminate the 7th Wing of the 9th Division of the Yue Army in Chunhua, and later cooperated with the 87th Division to launch a counterattack against the vanguard of the 6th Division of the Yue Army at Zhonghua Gate, and achieved good results. In the following Battle of Lanfeng, these two troops accompanied Song Xilian to attack the 14th Division of Tufeiyuan, and once again paid heavy sacrifices. It's a pity that at the critical time, Long Muhan, the commander of the 88th Division, was unwilling to be a scapegoat when Gui Yongqing led his troops to evacuate Lanfeng, and also led his troops to retreat, resulting in a big loophole in the encirclement carefully deployed by Xue Yue, allowing Tufeiyuan to escape and be caught, and Long Muhan himself was severely punished.

Song Xilian was full of confidence in the Fujin Mountain blockade. This Fujin Mountain is not the plain area of Lanfeng, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and if the little devil wants to pass under the nose of the 71st Army, he will have to pay a heavy price.

Before the war, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to Song Xilian, asking him to ponder the tactics of the 88th Division in the defense of Nanjing, and think about Chen Cheng, Zhang Zhizhong, and Liu Yimin's deduced fighting methods during the Battle of Wuhan.

People are not stupid, everyone can learn war from war, and Song Xilian is naturally like this. This time, Song Xilian also learned well, and he even learned to disguise, covering all the fortifications on Fujin Mountain with branches and grass. Then he hid the two regiments of the 88th Division at the mouth of the gorge of Fujin Mountain, preparing to give the little devils a ruthless blow first, and then fight a big blocking battle with the Yue army.

Lieutenant General Ogisu Tatsubing, commander of the 13th Division, was born in 1884 and graduated from the 28th class of Lu University. After the "77" incident, the 2nd Division left behind in Sendai was organized into the 13th Division, led by Ogizhou Libing, and went to Shanghai to participate in the Battle of Songhu and landed at Jinshanwei. Later, the division participated in the Battle of Nanjing and the Battle of Xuzhou, and committed many crimes.

After Ogizhou led his troops to the front line of Fujin Mountain, this old devil actually risked his life, did a close reconnaissance, and held a telescope to observe. But observing and observing, this old devil couldn't even see that there was an elite 71st Army hidden on Fujin Mountain. There was no way, but the Ogisu Libing still ordered the air force to dispatch planes to carry out reconnaissance and bombing.

It was said that the military air force was also very generous, and 24 planes came at once, circled over Fujin Mountain and reconnoitred for a while, but they could not see what was going on, so they carried out a wanton and indiscriminate bombing, so that Song Xilian, who was secretly observing the enemy's situation, muttered: "There are really a lot of bombs for the little devils, and if you collect all the bomb skins of the devils, I don't know if you can make a batch of rifles." ”

Seeing that the bombing had no effect, the soldiers of Ogizhou touched their gray beards and pondered for a long time.

The chief of staff on the side, Yusaburo Hata, couldn't hold his breath and reminded Ogisu Libing: "Your Excellency, Division Commander, this Fujin Mountain is an obstacle in front of our army, and we must step on it. Looking at the situation in front of them, it is likely that the Chinese army forgot to set up defenses here when they fled in a hurry. Please give an order from His Excellency the Division Commander to order the vanguard of the 26th Brigade to quickly pass through the gorge, occupy a covering position, and cover the advance of the main force to attack. ”

The reason why Ogisu Libing pondered was because he couldn't figure out whether there was a [***] team on the Fujin Mountain in front of him. After listening to Yusaburo Hata's words, Ogisu Libing thought about it again, and felt that in front of the elite 13th Division, Fujin Mountain seemed a little too small, and he was a little too careful. As a result, Ogisu ordered the commander of the 26th Brigade, Major General Numata Tokushige, to send a brigade to attack the gorge.

Numata Tokushige, this guy is the best pervert in the perverted army. At the age of 15, Numata Tokushige forcibly annihilated his own sister Sadako, and since then he has been unstoppable. Even he himself said in his chronicles that fighting and destroying silver virgins are his two major hobbies, and his biggest goal in this life is to be able to play with 10,000 female surnames before the age of 70, and they are all virgins. His biggest regret is that he has played with yellow female surnames all his life, and he longs for the army to go north to attack the Soviet Union or south to the Pacific to attack Britain, the United States and the Netherlands, so that he can have the opportunity to taste the different flavors of white beauties, black beauties, and brown beauties. With such a goal, Numata Tokushige naturally has to work hard. As a result, Numata Tokushige was bitten off a small ear by the fiancée of a colleague; In North Korea, a piece of meat was bitten off by a woman on the shoulder; In northeastern China, a woman was stabbed in the ass with a pen, and once a chin was bitten off; In Xuzhou, he was bitten off in half by a woman**. Every time he invaded a place, finding and snatching young and beautiful virgins for him became an important task for his staff and guards.

After Numata Tokuge received the order, what he thought of was not whether there was an ambush at the mouth of Fujin Mountain Gorge, but the beautiful Chinese women in the bustling Wuhan, as if those girls who were tall, with faces like peach blossoms, shaking three times and golden lotus step by step, were waving to him. Thinking of the silver evil, the 51-year-old pervert Numata Tokushige had a harasser in his mouth, his eyes radiated the light of the silver evil, and his throat kept emitting a dog-like "ho-ho" giggle.

It was still the herald who reminded him that His Excellency, the commander of the division, was waiting to see the troops capture the gorge, and Numata Tokushige woke up from the Italian silver, beckoned to the commander of the 58th Wing, Kuramori Gongren Osa, and ordered him to send a brigade to occupy the gorge immediately.

Kuramori Gongren Osa knew Numata Tokushige's virtues, and when he saw his pig brother on the side just now, he knew what he was thinking. When he heard that the 58th Wing was going to play in the front, Kuramori Gongren Dazuo was a little unhappy in his heart, thinking that this old pervert was simply a bastard, and he couldn't think of the 58th Wing when he enjoyed his virginity, and he remembered the 58th Wing when he started fighting.

It is no wonder that due to the heavy casualties of the army invading China over the past year, especially the total annihilation of several elite divisions and brigades by the instructors of the Eighth Route Army, the devil commanders have long lost the arrogance they had at the beginning of the war.

Although he was unwilling in his heart, Kuramori Gong Ren Dazuo had to bite the bullet to carry out the order. There is no way, the military order is strict, and although Cangmori Gongren Dazuo feels that his brigade commander is not as good as a pig and a dog, he still has to carry out this order that is not as good as a pig and a dog.

The 13th Division has not been really attacked after arriving on the battlefield in China, whether it is the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Nanjing, or the Battle of Xuzhou, the luck of this division is really good, and it is all about attacking cities and conquering places, and its morale is okay. After the battle order was issued, a brigade of little devils began to cross the Shi River and searched and advanced along the Ye (Jiaji) Shang (Cheng) Highway to the mouth of Fujin Mountain Gorge.

When Song Xilian was designing this ambush battle, he thought that it would be best for the army to pour in a wing, so that the 36th and 88th Divisions could give full play to their firepower and win a big victory. As a result, the little devil was so unplanted, and only sent a brigade. Although he felt a little regretful in his heart, Song Xilian couldn't hesitate, he had to send the arrow on the string, and besides, this kind of opportunity was fleeting, and when the devil understood, I am afraid that this rich gold mountain will become a meat grinder like Luodian. So, Song Xilian grabbed the phone and gave the order to attack.

Ogisu Libing, who was holding binoculars and observing the progress of the vanguard troops, suddenly heard the sound of gunshots like bursting beans and the explosion of grenades and mortar shells, and his hands trembled so much that he almost threw the telescope. Finally calmed down, Ogisu Libing hurriedly raised his binoculars to look again, only to see that the mountain at the mouth of the gorge was full of Chinese soldiers shooting and throwing bombs, and his brigade had been beaten to the point of crawling on the narrow road at the mouth of the gorge like a snake that froze to death in winter, and saw that there were many dead and few alive.

Ogisu Libing also did not care about the demeanor of the lieutenant general of the Imperial Army, so he quietly ordered the retreat, ordered the artillery to open fire to cover the retreat of the vanguard troops, and ordered the aviation to contact and quickly provide air support.

By the time the devil's artillery began to shell, the gunfire at the mouth of the gorge had basically stopped. A large group of little devils, full of calculations, withdrew more than 200 people, which is equivalent to being completely disabled.

The first battle was successful, and the 88th Division did not have time to clean up the battlefield, and the shells of the devil's artillery wing fell, and the soldiers had to quickly hide and wait for the next wave of devils' attacks to fight.

Just at the mouth of Fujin Mountain Gorge, the little devil attacked for three days, which was three days more than in history. Later, it was Song Xilian who saw that the casualties of the two regiments of the 88th Division were too great, and the firepower of the army's aircraft and artillery was too strong, so he ordered the defenders to retreat and let the little devils attack and advance.

After the devils passed through the gorge, the frontal positions and flanks of Fujin Mountain were all exposed to the heavy firepower of the devils, and the tragic Fujin Mountain resistance battle could be regarded as entering the main drama.

At the beginning, in order to avoid the poison of the artillery of the army's aircraft, Song Xilian could withdraw his troops to the bottom of the mountain in time, leaving the troops to monitor the enemy's situation, and constantly launched surprise attacks on the devils at night. But it didn't work later, because there were too many planes of the devils, and they kept bombing and strafing, and they blew up a mountain full of verdant and colorful rich gold into a mountain of soft and empty soil.

Defending the front of Fujin Mountain was the most elite division of the 71st Army, the 36th Division, and the division commander was Chen Ruihe.

Chen Ruihe graduated from the second phase of the Huangpu Artillery Department, and after so many years of fighting, he also accumulated rich combat experience. However, now on Fujin Mountain, the enemy and us have already turned red, and the firepower of the Yue army is so strong, the 36th Division will have to fight hard sooner or later if it continues to defend like this.

Chen Ruihe couldn't help but call the military seat: "Military seat, how many days do we have to stay here?" The casualties of the troops were too great, and the artillery fire of the little devils was too fierce. ”

Song Xilian on the other end of the phone had long lost his elegant temperament, and told Chen Ruihe in a hoarse voice that he would have to stay for 10 days or more than half a month.

Chen Ruihe asked again if there were any reinforcements, and if he could let the 36th Division withdraw to rest and take a breath.

Song Xilian told him directly: "There is no reinforcement, and the 36th Division is not allowed to retreat at a step." ”

As soon as Chen Ruihe heard this, he understood that his brothers were afraid that they were going to bury their bones here, and after hanging up the phone, he took the guards to the front line and kept shouting to the soldiers: "The 36th Division must stand forever and must not lie down." Beat hard, and the brothers can die without regrets. ”

(To be continued)