The 11th Group Army is composed of the descendants of the 71st, 72nd, and 74th armies of the central army, and the entire group army has reached 120,000 people, of which the predecessor of the 71st and 72nd armies is the German armament division, which is the elite of the elite and the descendant of the descendant, although the predecessor of the 74th Army is not so glorious, but the combat achievements since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression are not weaker than those German armament divisions.

After the second Jinpu Road operation, the unit was redressed as a whole, and the entire group army was redressed and trained in accordance with the equipment of the 49th Group Army, thus raising its combat effectiveness to a higher level.

According to Chen Cheng's summary, the war of annihilation against the Yue army could only be carried out by gathering more than six times the strength of the Yue army, but the total strength of the 46 th Division of the Yue Army was only more than 16,000 men, and the 11 th Group Army besieged it with nearly 10 times the strength of the army.

In order to understand the siege of the 46th Division, the Air Force suspended the bombing of Wuhan and concentrated more than 200 planes, while the main force of the Chinese Air Force was sent to the Henan battlefield, leaving only one brigade of planes on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and these dozens of planes still had to shoulder the task of defending Wuhan's airspace, so only a very small number of planes could be sent to the battlefield on the Nanxun Line.

The air superiority of the Yue army caused great trouble for Yu Jishi, and the heavy artillery units were very careful with each shelling, and each shelling could not last more than ten minutes, and then they had to immediately move their positions, which severely limited the artillery support.

The lack of heavy artillery can also be supported by light artillery, but the threat from the sky is not only this, the infantry attack is often bombed by the planes, in order to avoid the bombing of the planes, the attack of the squadron often chooses to attack the positions of the troops at night, under the cover of night, and gradually compress the positions of the troops.

The Mahuiling operation was carried out under such circumstances, and the [***] squadron relied on the strength of the people to storm the army, and the ground army resisted step by step with the support of the air to gain time. The northern and southern armies attacked desperately, hoping to relieve the besieged army.

Yu Jishi transferred two divisions from the troops besieging the 46th Division to build a defensive line south of De'an to block the Yue army.

The entire Nanxun Road was in fierce fighting from north to south, the 46th Division suffered heavy casualties, it was struggling to support itself in the encirclement, the space was constantly compressed, the artillery fire was about to hit the division headquarters, the division commander Matsuma and the guard troops of the division headquarters were sent to the position, and the air force carried out the battlefield airdrop for the first time to replenish ammunition for the 46th Division.

The battle became more and more intense, the 46th Division broke through several times and was beaten back by Yu Jishi, the 74th Army broke through Liantang and split the 46th Division into two pieces, and the 71st Army then conquered Zengjialong, severing the connection between the Shixin Wing and the division headquarters.

When the 46th Division was about to collapse, the Third Fleet of the Japanese Army carried Fujimoto's troops to land at the bridge ferry northeast of De'an, Fujimoto's troops were temporarily formed, and Tada Jun was formed by troops drawn from all over Jiangnan in view of the unfavorable situation on the Nanxun Line, with a total strength of 7,000 people, led by Major General Fujimoto Kikushi, and handed over to Okamura Ninji at the most critical time of the campaign, Okamura Ninji did not throw him into the northern front, but appeared in the northeast of De'an in the form of a surprise army.

Okamura Ninji's move surprised Xue Yue and Yu Jishi, and the defenses in this area were very weak, so Fujimoto quickly occupied the hot spring town, and then defeated the local security group and occupied the pass town.

After Yu Jishi received the report, he didn't care at first, and only sent a brigade to counterattack, the counterattack of this brigade quickly failed, and he was forced to take a defensive position, Yu Jishi found that he had misjudged it, and hurriedly dispatched the 51st Division to block it, but it was too late, Fujimoto's troops occupied Taoyuan Cliff with rapid movements, and there were only five miles left from the 46th Division, only a Hosoya Mountain was separated in the middle, and only a 51st Division was left in the middle.

On the northern front, Okamura Ninji took the risk of transferring the 69th Division from the Ruichang front, ignoring Ruichang, taking advantage of the gap of 20 miles between the 11th Army and the 72nd Army to launch an attack from the flank and rear, and crushed the 50th Brigade of the 16th Division of the 11th Army.

The situation on the battlefield changed abruptly, Yu Jishi once again dispatched the 88th Division to counterattack, and the remnants of the 46th Division in the encirclement took the opportunity to break through, and finally joined the 69th Division after a day and a night of fierce fighting.

Although the army broke out of the encirclement, the vitality of the 46th Division was greatly damaged, and there were only more than 3,000 people left in the division, and most of them were wounded. Xue Yue was very angry that the 46th Division could not be completely annihilated, and asked Yu Jishi to pursue it immediately, and the 69th Division that would be reinforced in the future would be annihilated together.

However, Chen Cheng stopped his impulsiveness, although the 11th Group Army annihilated more than 10,000 enemies, its own losses were not small, especially there was a certain shortage of ammunition, and if it continued to attack, it would fall into the middle attack of the northbound and westward advancing armies.

The 11th Group Army then withdrew from the Nanxun Line, the army did not pursue, and the three armies abandoned De'an after the convergence and galloped towards Ruichang. After the 69th Division was transferred, Yang Sen launched a fierce attack on Ruichang, and rushed into Ruichang City twice, although it was finally beaten out, but the army suffered heavy losses, Ruichang City was in danger, and Okamura Ningji urgently dispatched reinforcements to help in the starry night.

Okamura Ningji is a China expert, the current [***] team is very different from the [***] team he knows, the original [***] team smokes a lot, the officers are corrupt, and they have no will to fight, but the fighting will of the [***] team in front of them is tenacious and well-equipped, and they even dare to take the initiative to challenge the imperial army, which makes him a little surprised, he thought that the elite of the [***] team are in the fifth theater, but he didn't expect the troops in the ninth theater to be like this.

The failure of the Nanxun Line operation made Okamura Ninji realize that it was impossible to cut off the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway with his current strength and complete the Great Detour Operation, and after stabilizing Ruichang, Okamura Ninji decided to turn to the defense on the whole line and focus on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

The great victory on the Nanxun Line made Chiang Kai-shek see the hope of holding Wuhan, and also made him determined to assign the Fifth Army to the Fifth Theater and fight a decisive battle with the Yue Army in Xinyang.

The sound of gongs and drums and passionate cheers on the street penetrated into the room through the closed windows, but the air in the room was very tense, and the angry Zhuang Jihua was glaring at Song Yunfei viciously, who was standing straight in the middle of the office, and Gong Xiuhua, Wu Ziniu, and Li Anding were standing a little embarrassed awkwardly.

"Don't persuade! I think he's proud! The brain is carried away by victory! Zhuang Jihua was very saddened by Song Yunfei's misjudgment that led to the death of the three of Guo Yaoshi, Song Yunfei has always been the person he is most at ease with, but he didn't expect such a serious mistake to occur this time.

"You don't know the truth that arrogant soldiers will be defeated!" Zhuang Jihua's voice rose again, and Song Yunfei looked at him with eye level and said nothing: "What are you thinking here!" ”

"Cultural Revolution, didn't you say that where there is fighting, there are sacrifices..." Gong Xiuhua persuaded again, she didn't expect Zhuang Jihua to be so angry, this has never been done before.

"Sacrifice is not sacrificed like this, every soldier of the special forces is a treasure, I won't change a regiment in exchange!" Zhuang Jihua knocked on the table and shouted: "If he can calm down and use his brain a little, Guo Yaoshi and they will not be sacrificed!" ”

"Cultural Revolution, things have happened, let's learn a lesson." Li Anding also came over to persuade him, he didn't know the surnames of the special forces, but he knew that Song Yunfei and Wu Ziniu were Zhuang Jihua's two most powerful subordinates, and they were also the most trusted subordinates, closer than their classmates, when he was in Guangzhou, Wu Ziniu was also reprimanded, but Song Yunfei never enjoyed this kind of treatment. Now Zhuang Jihua is so angry that he doesn't save face for Song Yunfei.

In Li Anding's view, Song Yunfei was at fault, but the mistake was not so serious, and the real reason for Zhuang Jihua's anger was probably not happy, especially Wang Mingzhang's death made him feel a fire in his heart.

"Bai Chang is such a big man, he thinks he can fight, I told you a long time ago, the special forces can fight only at a low level, the most important thing is to be able to use the brain!" After Zhuang Jihua scolded him with some hatred and hard work, he felt smoke in his throat, picked up the water cup on the table and poured it violently.

"Cultural Revolution, Yunfei and they finally completed the task, they should have meritorious, according to you, he has no merit." Gong Xiuhua was a little dissatisfied.

"Merit is merit, and it is pass, and what I'm talking about now is his." Zhuang Jihua said coldly: "Don't intercede for him, after a few victories, you don't know how many catties and taels you have, and no one can look down on it, now the results are out, it's so comfortable!" ”

"Stupid!" Zhuang Jihua's roar could be heard throughout the floor, and the staff outside were trembling, this camp director who looked quite kind started a fire but was so terrifying.

After a long while, Zhuang Jihua sighed and said with some sadness: "The pharmacist is gone, Wang Mingzhang is gone, who will be next?" Yu Yi, I will leave Yunfei in western Yunnan, and this team will also stay here, Colonel Song Yunfei, I will give you two years, and you will be responsible for handing over a new special forces unit to me, this force must be familiar with the mountains and jungles of Burma, must be familiar with the customs here, and know how to fight. ”

"Yes, I understand." Song Yun saluted snappedly, turned around and left. Zhuang Jihua stopped him again: "Come back, where are you going?" ”

Song Yunfei turned around calmly and said, "I'll go see the brothers." ”

Zhuang Jihua was silent and said: "I will give you a month's vacation, go back to Yucheng, see your son, and go to the West Yunnan Office in a month to find Commissioner Li to report." ”

"Yes, thank you, sir."

After Song Yunfei went out, Li Anding shook his head lightly, he was very happy in his heart, Zhuang Jihua sent Song Yunfei in this way, which shows that he is undoubted about the Burma operation, and he also attaches great importance to it, with this right-hand man, isn't it a piece of cake to eliminate the bandits around.

Gong Xiuhua and Wu Ziniu smiled at each other, although Zhuang Jihua scolded fiercely, but the final treatment was very light, Song Yun flew to western Yunnan to fight against Myanmar in the future.

"Yu Yi, I have also looked at all the counties in western Yunnan, tomorrow I will go to Panzhihua, here I will tell you a few shortcomings, you sit down." Zhuang Jihua breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head to Li Anding and said: "First of all, it is traffic, and now this traffic is open to Sun Nan, but the vertical and horizontal are not enough, so the highway still needs to be repaired; Second, schools for ethnic cadres should be built as soon as possible; Third, after Yun Fei comes, don't put all the task of suppressing bandits on him, his task is mainly aimed at Myanmar; Fourth, the more recruits, the better, but don't send them to the front line easily, I'm fighting for the number of the new troops, and it should be coming down soon. Yunnan will form two more armies, 100,000 troops. ”

(To be continued)