Chapter 847 is like a note

December 29, 1939 was definitely the most memorable day in Okamura's life. He couldn't have imagined that a good battle situation would develop to such a point! Amaterasu

In the forward command post of the 11th Army in Xianning, Okamura Ninji sat in front of the map, his eyebrows locked, and watched as the chief of staff, Major General Shigesei Aoki, led two staff officers to work on the map, marking the situation of the enemy and us on the map according to the reports of the troops on the front.

After Aoki Shigesei finished the work on the map, he turned around and said, "Your Excellency, it seems that the Chinese army has arranged a large encirclement."

Okamura Ninji didn't say a word, staring at the map in distraction.

Seeing that Okamura Ninji was silent, Aoki Shigesei couldn't help but remind: "Your Excellency Commander, should you order Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro to command the follow-up troops to speed up the attack, break through the defense line of the Zhina Army on the first line of the Laodao River, and directly attack Changsha?" ”

It's not that Aoki Shigesei is stupid, it's that he doesn't know that the Chinese army has seen through the Japanese army's plot and is about to close the net. In his opinion, a Sixth Division, attacking as soon as it wants and withdrawing whenever it wants, can completely smash all attempts by the troops of the Ninth Theater.

Okamura Ninji was silent for a long time, and then raised his head and said to Aoki Shigemako: "Aoki-kun, since the launch of the attack, our army has continuously broken through the two defense lines of the Xinqiang River and the Miluo River in the Ninth War Zone of China, and the front of the troops has been directed at the city of Changsha. I ordered the whole army to stop the attack, immediately alternate cover, and withdraw to the starting position to hold on. Ordered all the aviation forces to be dispatched to cover the retreat of the whole army. ”

Okamura Ninji deserves to be the first-class commander of the Japanese army, decisive in killing, clean and neat, and he did not forget to put a fig leaf on himself, saying that he had completed the scheduled combat mission.

Aoki Shigesei was a little reluctant and reminded: "Your Excellency Commander, our army only needs to withdraw to the line of the Miluo River, and there is no need to retreat to the starting position. As long as we withdraw to the north bank of the Miluo River, we can retreat and defend, advance and attack, and the Chinese army can only sigh across the river. ”

Okamura Ninji shook his head and said in a low voice: "Execute the order, remember, tell Nara-kun that you must cover the forward attack of the Sixth Division and withdraw to the north bank of the Miluo River, and then alternately cover and retreat quickly." Tell Kamimura-kun that he is still retreating from Dongting Lake. They are on ships, fast. After withdrawing to the starting position, it was necessary to quickly consolidate the position and respond to the retreat of the 6th Division and the Nara detachment. The 15th Division disengaged from contact with the Chinese Army and quickly retreated. The 10th and 6th Divisions also withdrew to their starting positions, taking special care not to fall into the defense of the Chinese army. ”

Aoki Shigesei's face was full of sadness, as if he had died of his father, and he turned around to send a telegram.

Okamura Ninji stopped him again, thought for a while, and said, "Order all troops to retreat during the day and camp for defense at night." ”

Shigesei Aoki understands this, there is air cover during the day, the safety factor is large, and the retreat at night is easy to be attacked by the Chinese army, and the losses are large.

In this way, Okamura Ninji gave the order to retreat on the entire front two days earlier than in history.

Okamura Ninji's decision was decisive enough, but it was already a little late. You must know that in history, when Okamura Ninji ordered a retreat on October 1, Xue Yue was still in the dark, and it took a few days to react and order a pursuit, when the main force of the Japanese army had basically retreated. At this time, the situation was different, and Liu Yimin told Xue Yue conclusively that Okamura Ningji would take the initiative to order a retreat when he saw that he could not do anything, and asked him to prepare for the pursuit in advance. Who is Xue Yue? That is one of the most decorated generals in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in history, and Liu Yimin's mention, he will naturally make corresponding arrangements.

Finding that the Japanese planes were flying like crazy and bombing the front line of the Laodao River, Xue Yue initially thought that the Japanese army was going to concentrate on the onslaught. Later, I found out that something was wrong, the devil who broke through the Laodao River turned around and retreated, and immediately understood that Liu Yimin's judgment had come true, and the little devil was going to run.

In order to verify his judgment, Xue Yue ordered Chief of Staff Wu Yizhi to immediately contact all units to see if the devils were retreating on all fronts. As a result, the reports of the various units were mixed, and the troops on the front line of the Laodao River reported that the little devils were withdrawing to the north bank of the Laodao River. The 20th Army and the 79th Army, which were responsible for monitoring the flanking 15th Division, reported that the Japanese were still attacking, and that the main force of the Japanese army had captured Zhuxichang, and the main force had entered the area of Changshou Street, Longmen Factory, and Xianzhong, and there was an attempt to join the Japanese army in Pingjiang. Luo Zhuoying's department in northern Jiangxi reported that according to the order of Commander Xue Dai, the 57th Division of the 72nd Army and the 74th Army was increased, together with the 183rd and 184th Divisions, to surround the 106th Division in Ganfang, and the two sides launched a tug-of-war in the area of Ganfang, and the battle was extremely fierce. There is currently no sign of a Japanese retreat.

Xue Yue still firmly believed in his own judgment and thought that the Japanese army was going to withdraw. However, it was the afternoon at this time, and the Japanese planes were scurrying in the sky, even if they knew that the Japanese army wanted to run, they could not order the troops to pursue, and the Japanese planes were waiting for the Chinese troops to show up.

Haobu was easy to wait until dark, and Xue Yue gave an order to fight back on all fronts.

At this time, the six divisions of the 15th Group Army, which were ambushed on both sides of the Laodao River, were all dispatched, and the signal flares kept crossing the sky, and the sound of the military horn echoed in the vast night, killing the little devils.

This is only the first wave, according to Xue Yue's order, the Fourth Army deployed in Xiangtan, the 70th Army controlling the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line, and the Fifth Army transferred from Hengyang, as the second echelon of the attack, are rushing towards the battlefield. This time, the tiger boy Xue Yue was powerful, and he wanted to swallow the little devil who invaded the south in one bite.

The 195th Division was destined to be the brightest star in the First Battle of Changsha.

After the Fulinpu ambush, Qin Yizhi and Han Meicun reorganized their troops and rushed to Jinjing to flank the Japanese army attacking Jinjing.

At this time, due to the ambush of Fulinpu and the elimination of a Japanese brigade, the devil planes were scurrying in the sky, and the transportation had been destroyed, the speed of the Japanese army's movement was limited, and the speed of our army was also limited. The brothers of the 195th Division carried heavy machine guns and mortars, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and they had to dodge the air raids of the Japanese planes, and they walked very slowly. In the middle of the afternoon, the 195th Division encountered the Japanese troops who were severely attacked by our troops in Jinjing.

After receiving a report of the search company's encounter with the enemy, Qin Yizhi and Han Meicun led two brigade commanders to personally observe the incident. This close observation, Qin Yizhi smiled. The Japanese army, numbering about 700 men, was retreating northwest to Xiangjiazhen along the main road, led by two tanks, with black smoke emitting from their butts, struggling to crawl along the main road. When encountering a big pothole, you have to take a detour, and the speed is as slow as a snail. It seems that the little devil is going to get on the highway and move closer to the main force of the Japanese army.

Han Meicun said: "If this person is lucky, the rabbit can run to the tree and die, waiting to pick it up." Division, how about it, let's fight"

Qin Yizhi and Han Meicun both graduated from Huangpu and are not rude in their speech. But at this time, I couldn't be rude or not, I saw Qin Yizhi's swarthy face glowing with blue, his eyes were bright and bright, and he opened his mouth to say a Guangxi dialect: "Lose that mother"

It's not so easy to say that it's not that easy to fight, and the Japanese machine in the sky is not easy to mess with. As long as the 195th Division does not pay attention, it may become a target for the Japanese aircraft. Brethren are not afraid of death, but they cannot be so foolishly sent to death.

After discussing with the two brigade commanders, Qin Yizhi and Han Meicun decided to send search troops to hang the devils from behind, anyway, the devils' marching speed was not fast, and the whole division launched in the dark to catch up and completely solve this group of little devils.

Before dark, Acting Commander Xue Yue's order to counterattack on all fronts and encircle and annihilate the devils at night was issued. Qin Yizhi said excitedly to Han Meicun: "Another Taierzhuang victory is about to be born, our counterattack will start from the elimination of the remnants of the devil's defeated army, this time, we must take revenge."

Finally, when it was almost dark, Qin Yizhi couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately ordered the whole division to launch a pursuit, pounce on it, bite the little devils, and kill them.

This group of devils was also unlucky, and when they attacked Jinjing, they were blocked by the Chinese army and suffered heavy casualties. I was still thinking about asking the wing commander for help and capturing Jinjing in one fell swoop, but who knew that I received an order from the wing commander to quickly retreat and move closer to the main force. In desperation, he had to withdraw his troops. However, the conscience of the people of China was greatly bad, and they destroyed all the roads and roads, and even the land was turned over deeply, and they stepped on a nest at a time, and they struggled to march fast

After dark, the captain of the devil brigade was in a hurry. At this rate, it will take two or three hours to reach Xiangjiazhen, and if it encounters a Chinese army to block it, it will be troublesome. The captain of the devil brigade immediately ordered a flashlight and quickly advanced towards Xiangjia Town.

At this time, the brothers of the 195th Division quietly caught up from behind. They are all Chinese soldiers, they don't have so many leather shoes to wear, they wear cloth shoes. When some of the brothers saw the dirt digging into their cloth shoes, they simply took off their shoes and began to run barefoot. Not to mention, it really works. Soft ground is suitable for bare feet, which is much lighter than wearing shoes.

The devil is running, the 195th Division is chasing, and the goal is very clear, that is, the light of the devil's flashlight. It's a bit like a hunter chasing a rabbit.

By the time the Japanese army found out that something was wrong, it was too late, and the brothers of the 195th Division, who had run barefoot, surrounded them from all directions.

In the dark night, there were only gunshots and grenades, and the shadows and pupils around seemed to be Chinese troops.

It's okay to leave a squadron, it's meat to eat until you eat it. Qin Yizhi and Han Meicun are not greedy, the two of them have already tasted the sweetness from today's Fulinpu ambush, and they know that fishing for a chopstick is a chopstick.

The 195th Division concentrated the fire of the whole division and beckoned to the blocking squadron of the little devils. The little devil is just a squadron, and he doesn't know if there is a shortage of personnel, no matter how experienced their tactical actions and accurate marksmanship are, how can a squadron be the opponent of a division? What's more, the 195th Division received a brigade of devil equipment, and its firepower was greatly strengthened?

It didn't take much effort to eliminate this devil squadron, the machine guns of the 195th Division were used intensively, and they were beaten against the ground, and when they cleaned the battlefield, they found that not a single devil was hit by only one bullet, and at least three or more bullets.

After eliminating the devil blocking squadron, the brothers of the 195th Division chased after the retreating devil barefoot.

That night, from the Laodao River to the Miluo River, there were fierce battles everywhere. Gunfire rang out all night. The troops of the Kamimura detachment and the 6th Division, which had moved south to attack the defense line of the Laodao River, were all attacked. The little devil originally wanted to use counter-shock tactics to repel the counterattack of the Chinese army. It was only later that it was discovered that the strength of the Chinese army was too large for a counterattack. In the end, the little devils of the Sixth Division could not resist it, so they had to fight and retreat along the railways and highways, and fled to the Miluo River. The Shangcun detachment was even more straightforward, withdrew directly to the camp, and fled to Dongting Lake in a motorboat with a whine.

By dawn, Inaba Shiro found out that the 11th Brigade he sent to attack Changsha had lost almost half of its troops, which was equivalent to being disabled.

Shiro Inaba's heart was bleeding, you must know that his Sixth Division attacked the northbound troops of the Eighth Route Army on the Longhai Road last month, and the losses were very large. Just replenished, this time there were such a big casualty, where did he put his face.

After dawn, the Japanese aircraft made a large-scale sortie to cover the retreat of the Japanese army. The Chinese army had no air supremacy, so it could only rest during the day and wait for the pursuit at night.

In the evening, the Chinese army roared again, chasing the little devils and beating fiercely, and the 11th Brigade crossed the Miluo River in a hurry, and fled north under the response of the 26th Brigade.

The 79th Army, which was responsible for pincerizing the 15th Division of the Japanese Army, acted quickly enough, and even intercepted the Nara detachment in Pingjiang and beat the little devil in the head.

In this way, the Japanese retreated during the day, and the Chinese army pursued at night, and by October 2, the 195th Division had pursued to the Xinqiang River.

By the evening of October 3, the 195th Division took the lead, crossed the Xinqiang River, and restored the Xinqiang River defense line. At this point, the First Battle of Changsha came to an end.

Bai Chongxi, Chen Cheng, and Xue Yue, who received the report, immediately sent a report to Chiang Kai-shek to report the victory, saying that the Battle of Changsha had ended victoriously, and that the Japanese army had suffered more than 30,000 casualties and our army had suffered more than 30,000 casualties.

The good news reached Chiang Kai-shek, and with a wave of the brush, it turned into more than 60,000 Japanese casualties and more than 30,000 casualties of our army.

Chiang Kai-shek was dizzy with excitement, if the Japanese army really suffered 60,000 casualties, the Ninth Theater could directly take Yueyang and then recover Wuhan.

Soon, newspapers and radio launched propaganda about the victory of northern Xiangbei. Chiang Kai-shek's congratulatory telegram was full of joy: "The victory in northern Hunan and the excitement of the whole country are sincerely proof of the final victory, and it is especially important for the people's faith and international audio-visual." Jun Lie's great achievements, good and deep Jiaqing".

The Kuomintang, the Nationalist Government, the Communist Party, the democratic parties, important members of the Nationalist Government, and celebrities from all walks of life also sent congratulatory telegrams one after another, and all kinds of condolences also poured into Changsha, and donations of 340,000 yuan for the medical trauma of the wounded alone were as high as 340,000 yuan. Not only Xue Yue was busy holding a press conference, but even Guan Linzheng and other generals were also busy holding press conferences, accepting interviews with reporters, and receiving representatives from all walks of life who came to offer condolences. It's a pity that there are so many propaganda articles, but none of them write about Liu Yimin, as if this battle has nothing to do with Liu Yimin.

Xue Yue's character has a shortcoming, that is, he is excited as soon as he wins a battle, and he will suffer a loss if he follows it. No, he was excited, and did a stupid thing, asking Chief of Staff Wu Yizhi to organize a group of people to fight at night to compile a modern Peking Opera "New War of Changsha", and then stepped up rehearsals. In the play, Xue Yue wears a handsome helmet and a handsome armor, with a horse boy in front and a big silk in the back, and a big "Xue" is written on the silk, and the dragon sets on both sides play the banner of "Jing Loyal to the Country", as if he is "Yue Wumu". Wu Yizhi wore a "scarf" on his head, held a "feather fan", and wore a "gossip clothes", as if he regarded himself as "Zhuge Liang". The two of them excitedly forgot Chairman Chiang's strategy, forgot the personal command of Commander Bai and Commander Chen, and forgot the bloody fighting of the soldiers. As for Liu Yimin, he can't even think about it.

Now, if you get into trouble, you don't have to wait for Chairman Jiang to be unwilling, and you don't have to wait for Chief Bai, Commander Chen, and the soldiers who fought bloodily to be unwilling, and Wang Guanghai, secretary general of Xue Yue's Ninth War Zone, was unwilling at first, and on the night of the audition, he threw away after watching half of it, which made Xue Yue and Wu Yizhi not embarrassed. The best drama is that it can't be acted, and the two people pass the buck to each other. Xue Yue said that this matter was done by the chief of staff and had nothing to do with him. Wu Yizhi said that he did it, but the commander agreed.

In any case, no matter how much jokes are made, people can understand, because the victory of Xiangbei is real. Since the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, on the frontal battlefield, this was the first time that the Japanese army had been exhausted and exhausted, and after losing its troops, it had fled on all fronts, and obediently fled back to the starting position, without even advancing the battle line by one meter. Jokes can't hide the aura of victory on Xue Yue's head.

In the first Battle of Changsha in history, it is fair to say that China and Japan only fought to a draw. The Nationalist Army announced that the Japanese army suffered more than 30,000 casualties and our army suffered more than 40,000 casualties. The Japanese army announced the elimination of 48,000 Chinese troops, and suffered 3,580 casualties of its own. Of course, the Chinese side has elements of exaggerating the results of the war, and the Japanese side is suspected of concealing casualties. Generally speaking, however, the initiative on the battlefield is in the hands of the Japanese army, and they can attack if they want to attack and withdraw if they want to. Xue Yue's Heavenly Furnace method of battle was only half of the success, he just led the Japanese army to the side of Changsha, and the Japanese army just looked at Changsha and waved his hand to withdraw. By the time Xue Yue came to his senses and ordered the pursuit, the Japanese army had already withdrawn across the Miluo River. It is also because of this that Okamura Ninji considered him a victor in his memoirs.

This time it was different, the Japanese army was like a sour scholar's wedding night, overly excited, hairy, and just entered the port, they were like a note. As soon as their vanguard broke through the Laodao River, they fell into an ambush circle of the national army. Okamura Ninji hurriedly retreated under vigilance, and the national army immediately launched a counterattack and pursuit, but the little devil who beat him couldn't stand on his feet, and fled all the way, and the casualties were great. Moreover, due to the advance of the counterattack and the reduction of positional warfare, the casualties of the national army were indeed reduced.

Just when the national army was celebrating happily, the Japanese army also announced the battle losses in the Battle of Hunan and Jiangxi, saying that it had destroyed 38,000 Chinese troops and lost 8,600 of its own. This figure, compared with the figures released by the Japanese army in history, the national army lost 10,000 fewer people, and the Japanese army lost 5,000 more people. To say, the credibility is still relatively high.

In the entire campaign, the best performance of the Japanese army should be the 106th Division. These devils, under the siege of Luo Zhuoying's troops, actually opened the counter-impact, tore a hole in the encirclement, and returned to the Wuning defense area without stopping.

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