Unlike the Botian detachment, Han Yunhua had long anticipated the enemy they were going to face, although Han Yunhua was a commander who knew history well, but after all, there were many historical truths buried in the dust, and it was impossible for him Han Yunhua to know everything that happened decades ago. However, Han Yunhua calculated after the outbreak of the Battle of Wuhan that he believed that the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region were most likely to meet the troops of the 6th Division, the 16th Division, the 106th Division, and the Botian Detachment.

Out of his understanding of the Botian detachment, Han Yunhua was very sure that the Inner Mongolia Military Region was the first to face the Botian detachment, after all, the Botian detachment was the vanguard of the Wuhan battle, and in the five-month battle in history, the Botian detachment fought almost all the Chinese [***] teams.

On October 4, Han Yunhua's department rushed to Hukou Fortress by train, and originally according to Chen Cheng's opinion, Han Yunhua's department was asked to take a warship to Hukou, but Han Yunhua knew that now he was looking for death by taking a warship. Not to mention colliding with a warship of the Japanese army, even if it is touched by a plane of the Japanese army, it is also extremely dangerous. In addition, almost all the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region are men from the north, and there are few people with the surname Shui, most of them are landlubbers, and once they fall into the water, there is still a way to live.

Although taking a warship is much faster than a train, Han Yunhua still decided to take a train with a slow speed and a high insurance factor to rush to Hukou. Along the way, although the train taken by Han Yunhua and others was bombed by Yue Ji, it was not in danger.

On October 8, Han Yunhua and others finally arrived at Hukou, in fact, Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Cheng knew that although Hukou Fortress was also called a fortress, it was far from being comparable to Madang Fortress, whether it was terrain conditions or the construction of fortifications and firepower points, Hukou Fortress was not as good as Madang Fortress.

In the eyes of the high-ranking officers of the Kuomintang, once the Madang fortress was lost, then the Jiujiang Lake Estuary and other places in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River would be in no danger to defend, and the Hukou would sooner or later fall into the hands of Yue himself. Chiang Kai-shek sent Han Yunhua's troops to Hukou at this time, and his sinister intentions can be imagined. If the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region held the mouth of the lake, it was he Jiang who had the insight to hand over such an important strategic place to the troops of [***] for defense, regardless of his previous suspicions, and he Jiang should be the first to take the lead in this battle. If Hukou is lost, then it is the fault of the Eighth Route Army, which happens to be leveled with him in the Madang Fortress, and it is also the Eighth Route Army that has failed to live up to his expectations of Chairman Chiang, [***] should give an explanation to the people of the world. Of course, this did not have the intention of consuming the Eighth Route Army, but these Han Yunhua didn't mind, after all, they came to fight devils when they went south, not to participate in the banquet of the national political axe.

When Han Yunhua arrived at Hukou, he did not transfer all the troops to Hukou Fortress and Hukou County, but only brought one regiment of Jiang Spruce into Hukou Fortress, and took over the defense of Hukou Fortress from the 457th Regiment of the 22nd Division of the Kuomintang 22nd Group Army. Han Yunhua also transferred one battalion of the artillery regiment and one battalion of the fire support regiment into the Hukou Fortress. At the same time, Han Yunhua transferred the 1st Battalion of the 88th Regiment, the 2nd Battalion of the Fire Support Regiment, and the 3rd Battalion of the Artillery Regiment to Hukou County, while other units were concealed outside Hukou and stood by.

Although Han Yunhua did not have a detailed plan to deal with the Yue army, he knew that the Hukou Fortress was in no danger, and if the density of troops was too large, it would likely become a target for the devils, especially the planes of the Yue army. Moreover, now the army knows that part of the main force of Han Yunhua's department has arrived in Wuhan, but it has not been known until they have many troops.

Sure enough, on the second day after Han Yunhua and others entered the Hukou Fortress, the main force of the Botian detachment arrived at the periphery of the Hukou Fortress and carried out a tentative attack on Han Yunhua's headquarters. But he was soon repelled by Han Yunhua's subordinates, leaving behind more than 200 corpses.

However, the army obviously did not give up its intention to occupy Hukou, and this part of the main force of the Hatachi detachment actually camped on a small hill not far from the Hukou fortress, preparing to wait for the detachment commander (brigade commander) Major General Hakata Shigeichi to lead a large army to continue to attack the Hukou fortress. However, no one expected that the squadron defending the Hukou Fortress that night would take the initiative to attack the Yue army stationed on the periphery of the Hukou Fortress, and it was a blatant attack.

At around 11 p.m. on October 9, the sweltering heat of late summer made it difficult for most people, including the Japanese army, who had just invaded the Yangtze River region. However, these were not a problem for the soldiers of the Potian detachment living in Taiwan, and after dinner, under the compulsory order of the officer, most of the soldiers took the initiative to enter the barracks to rest.

Until now, neither the national political axe nor the [***] people are very clear about the fact that this Hatada detachment that suddenly appeared is the great god of that place. However, Han Yunhua knew that the vast majority of the soldiers of the Botian detachment were from Taiwan, and it was a mixed unit with a brigade and regiment level. Although this unit is very tenacious in combat and has a very strong combat effectiveness, it has a very fatal loophole, that is, there is an extreme lack of internal unity, and Taiwan's local soldiers are often bullied by pure-bred people themselves, and they are very resentful.

Moreover, the vast majority of Taiwanese soldiers were forced by the authorities, and the families of these soldiers were hostages in the hands of the soldiers, and once these soldiers made mistakes on the battlefield, not only the soldiers themselves would be punished, but also the families of the soldiers would be implicated. Although this method can arouse the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, it cannot really arouse the combat and survival of the troops.

According to Li Dayong's suggestion, Han Yunhua only needs to send a regiment of soldiers to launch a surprise attack on the army, and he will be able to resolve the battle within an hour and completely annihilate this small army of only more than 1,000 people. But Han Yunhua didn't do it, not that Han Yunhua didn't dare, but that Han Yunhua didn't look up to the more than 1,000 soldiers. Compared with more than 1,000 people, Han Yunhua looked down on the more than 40 military ships moored on the Yangtze River.

In the Battle of Wuhan, the army not only dispatched a large number of aircraft and ground troops, but also dispatched a large number of navies. The Third Fleet of the Chinese Army, which entered the Yangtze River to support the ground forces, was not the most combat-effective naval fleet in the Chinese Navy, on the contrary, this navy could not be compared with several other navies in terms of the displacement of its ships and the firepower of its naval artillery. But now the target of the war is China, and the location of the operation is an inland river such as the Yangtze River. Compared with battleships and aircraft carriers with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons, a "tattered" navy like the Third Fleet has room to play. You must know that due to the restrictions of the operation and geographical conditions of the national political axe, large warships cannot appear in the Yangtze River.

Although the warships of the Third Fleet are very despised at sea, they are absolutely "giants" on the Yangtze River. The ships used by the Third Fleet were large ships such as battleships, but more often they were small ships such as cruisers, destroyers, frigates, torpedo boats, and gunboats. This fleet rarely shows up in foreign warfare, because such strength is inferior to that of the American and British fleets in Asia. But such a fleet is enough to deal with the Chinese Navy, which has only three or two kittens.

But now they are in Han Yunhua's eyes, in Han Yunhua's opinion, although the more than 1,000 troops are still delicious, they are far less attractive than the warships of the Third Fleet. It is still necessary to sneak attack the Yue army on the shore, only if the devils on the shore are hurt, the Yue military ships in the river will go crazy, so that Han Yunhua can also seize these warships.

Han Yunhua did not use the defenders in the Hukou fortress, but used the two infantry battalions of the 88th Regiment and the three battalions of the fire support regiment hidden in Hukou County, with a total of more than 2,300 people, to launch a surprise attack on the infantry on the shore. The Potian detachment was invincible along the way during this time, and the Kuomintang army, whether it was at the regimental and brigade level or at the division level, was defeated by the Potian detachment without exception. A few days ago, he used a brigade to capture the national political axe, a reorganized army, and two local divisions to guard the fortress. Therefore, the current Botian detachment can be described as high-spirited, and even those Taiwanese soldiers who have been bullied by purebred people are full of arrogance and arrogance. Since the beginning of the war, the army has been attacking, and the national political axe has been a passive defense, so the Hatian detachment never thought that the middle [***] team on the opposite side would take the initiative to attack.

For the Hakuda detachment, the battle happened very suddenly, just as the great Yamato warriors were about to rest, without warning a cannonball fell on the side, although there were no heavy artillery shells, but it still caused a lot of casualties to the Hatada detachment, less than two minutes of shelling, completely caused the Hatada detachment to lose one-fifth, about 250 devils were killed and wounded, lost combat effectiveness. The reason why such a great result was achieved was entirely because the army was not prepared at all, and at the same time, most of the soldiers of the army were preparing to rest, and the density was relatively high.

The captain of the third brigade of the Hakuda detachment, Kobayashi Jiro Nakasa, knew when he heard the sound of artillery that he was going to be attacked, and this group of hateful Shina people dared to launch a sneak attack on the heroic Imperial Army. While ordering the troops to organize a counterattack, Jiro Kobayashi reported to Major General Shigeichi Hada.

After receiving the telegram from Jiro Kobayashi, Major General Shigeichi Habata was also surprised, in his cognition, the [***] team seemed to only hide in the strong pillboxes and fortifications to resist passively, how could they take the initiative to launch a counterattack, this is the unilateral tactics of the Shina troops stationed at the mouth of the lake or the prelude to the great counteroffensive of the Shina political axe, which made Major General Hakata Shigeichi fall into contemplation.

(To be continued)