Chapter 18, Nanchang, Nanchang (Seven Watches)
The airfield has been built, the planes have also been settled, and at present, Lu Qiang's air force has 25 Jian-5 and 10 Il-76s. There are still 25 J-5 ready, and the pilot is missing, but if you want to fly, it will take a while, after all, a jet plane is not a propeller plane, and children can fly it (at the beginning of the Pearl Harbor movie, a child drives a propeller plane, although it is not driven, but it also shows that the propeller plane is simple to operate), if you want to fly a jet plane, you must first have a cultural foundation, and everything else is secondary.
It is quite troublesome to choose people, after all, jet planes are suspected of some secrets, if they are mixed in by some lawbreakers, it is not good, so choose pilots, loyalty first, culture second, knowledge can be learned if you don't understand, but people are not careful.
The training team was handed over to his subordinates, and there was nothing to do except run to the base every other day. Lu Qiang, who was a little bored, took out a map and drew out some of the main points of the Japanese army's forces, and the original plan of the Japanese army was to attack China from the south to the north. However, after the start of the battle, the strategic direction has changed from east to west, and at present, several divisions and regiments of the first division have been leading the troops to attack inland, continuing to attack Changsha.
Guangdong and Fujian are under the occupation of the Japanese army, Guangxi is complicated, relatively barren, and the people are fierce, the Japanese army feels that it does not matter whether this place wants or not, so they only send some people to garrison, and Jiangxi still has Nanchang and other places not occupied by the Japanese army, there is still some resistance in various places, and the guerrillas in Jiangxi are quite active. The Japanese army dispatched troops to prepare to defeat Nanchang ahead of schedule and prepare to completely encircle Dabie Mountain. In addition, the main reason is the army of more than 50 divisions of Chen Cheng and Xue Yue in the Ninth Theater. They were deployed to the west of Poyang Lake in the south of the Yangtze River, relying on Jiugong Mountain and Mufu Mountain, and had been actively reorganizing and preparing for a counteroffensive, and they could cut off the "neck" of Okamura's army (the Yangtze River waterway communication line) at any time, so that the Japanese army in Wuhan fell into a heavy encirclement and death. In the west and north of Wuhan, more than 30 divisions of Li Zongren's Fifth Theater set up positions in the Suixian area near the first line of the Japanese army, and peeked into the city of Wuhan in front of them. Therefore, the Japanese army not only had to face the 250th Division of Lu Qiang, which was equipped with advanced equipment, but also had to face more than 80 divisions and two major theaters.
The Japanese army was not afraid of its fruit army, in their eyes, the fruit army was a bunch of war scum, and what they were most afraid of was the newly appointed 250th division of the fruit army in the Dabie Mountains. After all, the battle record is there, with more than 20,000 guerrillas, plus he has only suffered many casualties, but he can defeat or even annihilate their four complete divisions, including three A divisions, such a record is here, so they have to be afraid.
Commander Gangmura's telegram to Tokyo believed that these two waves of armies were a great threat to him, so he tried his best to ask the Central Command to replenish troops and ammunition, increase combat strength, launch a major offensive, expand outward, expel these two waves of troops, and protect the safety of Wuhan, plus the current 250th Division, which made him feel even more breathless.
The Japanese base camp sent a surprisingly fast telegram this time, and soon the commander of Gangcun, who received the telegram, immediately began to attack Nanchang, first, to defend the Wuhan occupied area, and second, to merge the team in Dabie Mountain.
The various signs of the Japanese army's actions told those people in Chongqing very obviously that they were going to fight Nanchang, and Lu Qiang could only live on a little intelligence from the old communists because he was closed and the intelligence was blocked, and he didn't know how to train intelligence officers at all, so he couldn't receive any signs of the Japanese army's movements, and finally a telegram came from the Fourth Army, clearly indicating the signs of the Japanese army's movements, and he was actually going to Nanchang.
For Lu Qiang, this is not good, now he only has Nanchang this door, and it is still a door crack, if this door crack is sealed by the Japanese army again, then he will be completely surrounded, and at that time, the Japanese army can slowly grind him, so Nanchang must not be defeated. Originally, he thought that the Japanese army would not fight until March or April next year, but he completely forgot about the wings of his butterfly, which caused the Japanese army to launch the Battle of Nanchang ahead of schedule.
It was necessary to break the encirclement of the Japanese army, and then Lu Qiang immediately called a meeting of personnel.
In the operational command room, Lu Qiang and other 9 people gathered, and Bai Yiren, as the deputy division commander, also had some skills, so he was also at this meeting.
A large map marked with the marks of friend and foe, the Japanese army marked it in red, while its own side marked it in blue, and the Guo army marked it in yellow, but it was not on the map of the old communists, because they ran around all day long, and there was no definite location at all, and if they marked it today, they would not know where to run tomorrow.
"The Fourth Army just received the information, and the Japanese army made another big move." Lu Qiang got up.
"What a move?" Lynx asked.
"The intelligence is here, you can take a look at it yourself, and according to the Japanese army's movements above, you can infer that the Japanese army is preparing to fight Nanchang." Lu Qiang said.
"Hit Nanchang?" The monkey hesitated for a moment and said, "If we defeat Nanchang, then we won't be sealed." The monkey looked at what the information said, and said worriedly, and the paper he put down was taken by the monkey in an instant. Militarily blind, he didn't understand these at all, just glanced at it, and handed it to Hu Zhuang beside him. A group of big bosses didn't understand anything, looked at the black text one by one, shook their heads, and finally, the paper was handed to Bai Yiren.
He was a little surprised by the Japanese encirclement of their 250th Division, but he was also a little worried. He has already seen the future of the 250 division, such a powerful armament, once the training is completed, it is extremely terrifying to put a division together. Everyone likes an army with high combat effectiveness, and he is the same, so if he wants to get a higher command, he has to show his value, that is, to give advice.
Nanchang is the capital of Jiangxi Province, located in the south of the Jiujiang River, between the Ganjiang River and Poyang Lake, and adjacent to the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway in the south. During the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese 11th Army was entrusted with the task of attacking Nanchang. However, due to the setback of the attack of the 101st and 106th Divisions along the Nanxun Road, especially the almost total annihilation of the 106th Division at Wanjialing, it failed to complete its mission and was stopped on the north bank of Xiushui. At the same time, the air force of the Guo Army used Nanchang Airport as a base and often attacked Japanese naval ships sailing in the Yangtze River near Jiujiang, posing a huge threat to the rear supply lines of the Japanese army in Jiujiang and Wuhan.
The army attacking Nanchang, the Japanese army was changed to the 102nd, 103rd, and 105th divisions, plus a temporary detachment, about 3,000 people, and the number of a wing. Three divisions plus one detachment, beyond the original history of one division and one detachment.
The Japanese army dispatched troops, and all actions marked that the Japanese army was about to attack again, and Chongqing/government/government decided to take the lead and launch an attack on the Japanese army before the Japanese army launched an attack, and then they immediately held a meeting, and after spending two hours of verbal fighting, it was decided to appoint General Chen Cheng as commander and General Xue Yue as acting commander.
Chen Cheng and Xue Yue's more than 50 divisions were attached to the west of Panyang Lake, and they received a telegram from Chongqing that night, asking them to reorganize their forces and fight and to block the Japanese army. After the victory of Wanjialing, Xue Yue and other troops also suffered heavy losses, it took 4 months, and the number of personnel was re-replenished, which could block the Japanese attack.
On December 20, 1938, three divisions and one detachment of the Japanese army advanced from the front to the north bank of Xiushui in turn, occupying the starting area of the attack. In the early morning of the next day, the Japanese artillery attacked the water repair device, and the 49th Army and the 79th Army, which lacked heavy firepower such as artillery fire, could only be beaten passively.
The artillery fire was continuous, and all the guns of various sizes and calibers were pushed up, the largest being 150mm howitzers and 150mm heavy mortars, and the smallest caliber was 60mm mortars. Under the blow of such artillery fire, the defenders lacked counter-artillery means, so they could only survive. After half an hour of shelling, the sound of artillery slowly stopped, and the Japanese troops of the 102nd Division had already prepared and launched a charge against the defenders.
"Hey, hey, hey." Wang Lingyun, the commander of the 76th Division, took the phone and fed it vigorously, but there was no sound at all, and it was estimated that the telephone line should have been blown up somewhere. "When you go to the military headquarters, you say that we want to support, and one person is one person, go quickly!" He said to one of the guards.
"Yes." The guard received the order, and immediately ran to the rear, he is a guard can be said to be Wang Lingyun's henchman, the food training is better than that of ordinary troops, and the physical strength and endurance are relatively strong.
"Woo~~" The shells of large-caliber heavy mortars cut an arc across the sky, emitting a death-like scream.
Mortar shells have a slower velocity of only 200m/s, which is less than the speed of sound, and when you hear a whistling sound, it means that the shell is passing overhead. But when landing, the mortar shells fall faster because of their own weight, rubbing against the air and making a tearing sound, and when they hear this sound, the veteran oilers will lie on the ground (not lie down), or take the shell for a second or two before falling, looking for the nearest cover. The newly recruited soldiers after Wanjialing did not understand this, and when they heard the whistling sound, they thought that the artillery was coming, and they hurriedly ran, and as a result, a large number of them died.
Heavy mortars advanced with the Japanese army, providing fire support, in addition to artillery, more than a dozen Type 89 light tanks, with bullets, drove forward.
The battlefield was full of the "snapping" sound of the Japanese army's 38 big covers, and the official gunfire was almost inaudible. The Japanese army soon occupied the most advanced position, the forward position was lost, and the commander of the 76th Division, Wang Lingyun, was carried away by the guards and ran to the rear in a hurry.
Chen Cheng and Xue Yue, who were sitting in the Ninth Theater, were shocked, they didn't expect the 76th Division to be defeated so quickly, so they immediately asked the remaining 5 divisions of the 70th Army and the 79th Army to go up to intercept it, and they must block the Japanese army.
The 70th Division and the 107th Division of the 107th Army, the 79th Division's 98th Division, the 118th Division and the 5th Division, a total of 5 divisions.
Five divisions and three regular divisions served as the main attack, blocking the Japanese attack, while the two reserve divisions still served as reserves to support the battlefield at any time.
The forward troops of the 102nd Division, which was advancing headlong, were suddenly intercepted and were immediately taken by surprise, losing nearly 100 people, but the quality of the Japanese army was very high, and they soon entered a combat state, and the three Guo army units that intercepted them returned fire.