[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 836: Dilemma (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

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Without warning, the Japanese army retreated, and neither Xue Yue nor the Japanese troops fighting on the front line received any news in advance, but suddenly received an urgent telegram from the headquarters of the 11th Army in the early morning, ordering all units on the front line to cover each other and retreat, and to rest on the east bank of the Daoxinqiang River.

There is no way to retreat at this time, Hunan is located in southwest China, and in terms of topography, the line from Yueyang to Changsha is precisely the most suitable terrain for defense. Just as the former commander of the 11th Army, Okamura Ninji, said before, from Yueyang to Changsha, the east is the Shogunate Mountain, Jiuling Mountain and other mountain ranges, which are natural obstacles, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is difficult for the Japanese army to break through.

To the west are Dongting Lake and the Xiangjiang River, and it is difficult for the Japanese army to break through effectively. Then, the only suitable for the advance of the large army is the middle road, that is, the straight line from Yueyang to Changsha. Unfortunately, this line is also not suitable for attack.

This line is all hills and mountains, and although it is not as dangerous as Guangxi and Sichuan, it also poses many obstacles to the attacking side. What's more, Hunan doesn't just have mountains, but also a lot of rivers.

From Yueyang to Changsha, from north to south, there are rivers including the Xinqiang River, Miluo River, Laodao River and other rivers as natural obstacles, and the Japanese attack is even more difficult. Therefore, the terrain can weaken the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army by 30 percent.

And this time, the Chinese defenders on the front line gave full play to the terrain advantage, and with the help of hundreds of thousands of civilians, the roads along the way of the Japanese army were completely destroyed, and they could not walk at all.

For the Japanese soldiers on the front line, not to mention the battle, the mountainous terrain on the line to Changsha alone made them complain. With the cooperation of the people of Hunan, the road on this line was completely destroyed, and the Japanese trucks and carriages could not pass, so they had to rely on horses and manpower to carry them.

As Fujiwara Akira, a Japanese officer, recalled: "Our unit began to repair automobile roads between Tongcheng and Pingjiang according to the assigned tasks. Although it is a road for automobiles, the road has been damaged due to the fact that the area has been attacked by the Japanese army many times, and the Chinese army has deliberately destroyed it to block the Japanese army. ”

"Although there are road markings on the map, there are actually many places where the original shape of the road has not been left at all, and some places have even been turned into paddy fields. Although there are still a lot of mountainous areas, the flat land is mostly paddy fields and wetlands, and when it rains, the rain floods and the roads become muddy ponds, so how can cars pass? We don't know what to do. ”

More importantly, the weight of the Japanese soldiers during the war was not light, in addition to rifles, ammunition, bayonets, backpacks, raincoats, tools, emergency food, etc., the total weight was also very large. After 10 days of arduous marching in the mountains, the soldiers were quite tired and miserable.

In addition, this line was completely under the control of the Ninth Theater of Operations, and fierce fighting was almost all the time 24 hours a day, and the Japanese officers and men were highly nervous and mentally exhausted.

As the officers Ananwi sent to the front to supervise the battle reported to him, the troops at the front spent the first two weeks in the construction of roads fighting the mud. Not even a third of the tasks assigned to the front-line troops were completed, but the soldiers were already very tired. Moreover, as we get closer and closer to the front of the line of military stations, the supply of food is also insufficient, especially the non-staple foodstuffs, which are not supplied at all.

In fact, the Japanese army did not have any supply plans from the very beginning of the operation. Because the supply of the Japanese army was completely dependent on the local requisition and distribution of supplies, but after entering Hunan, the results of the Japanese army's requisition were often zero. Physical fatigue, combined with insufficient nutrition, led to a sharp decline in the combat effectiveness of the troops.

To make matters worse, the Japanese army's food and ammunition supplies were getting dwindling and dwindling. The transport vehicles of the baggage troops could not keep up, so they could only rely on manpower and horses to carry the baggage, and the volume of transportation was drastically reduced. And because the logistics and transportation lines were constantly attacked by small groups of **** troops, follow-up transportation was almost interrupted. How many baggage troops can follow the march of the front-line troops?

According to the estimates of the front-line troops, the supply of food and ammunition for the front-line troops can only last for a week and a half, that is, about 10 days.

Although Anan Weiji is a bit stupid, this person is very pragmatic and smells danger very early. However, before the order to retreat was issued, Ananwi was still in a dilemma for several days!

The main reason is that Ananwei feels that it is very difficult to continue to occupy Changsha in the south, and the losses may be beyond expectations, but it does not mean that it is impossible.

However, the problem is that if you blindly attack Changsha, the supply of troops will be basically exhausted at this time, and the heavy weapons will not be able to come up, so I am afraid that we will not be able to cope with such a siege battle. If the battle lasts for more than a week, there is no **** to fight, and the Japanese army itself will be finished because of the lack of supplies.

But if you don't go to Changsha, the 11th Army has already suffered more than 10,000 casualties, although it has also caused more than 20,000 casualties among the defenders of the Ninth Theater, but because the defenders have planned to retreat, they have not annihilated the main force of the Ninth Theater at all. The loss of more than 20,000 people is nothing compared to the total number of 300,000 defenders on the Changsha front. Obviously, the so-called goal of annihilating the main forces of the Ninth Theater before the war was impossible to achieve.

Another problem is that before launching this campaign, they formulated a total of two operational objectives, one was to severely damage or even encircle and annihilate the main force of the Ninth Theater, and the second was to capture Changsha City.

At this time, the main force of the encirclement and annihilation of the Ninth Theater should not think about it, it has already been a complete failure. If they don't even complete the occupation of Changsha, won't they be beaten by chickens and eggs, and slapped themselves?

In this case, Ananwei almost didn't know how to explain how to send troops to China, Commander Yan Junliu! But just when Ananwi was hesitating, the special high school gave him an emergency. According to the reconnaissance of the Japanese seaplanes on Dongting Lake, on the Changsha line, about six elite divisions of the Chinese Ninth Theater have been assembled.

After reading this information, Ananwi suddenly realized. It turned out that Xue Yue's purpose was not to hold Changsha, but to try to completely defeat the more than 30,000 Japanese troops on the periphery of Changsha. If he insisted on attacking Changsha regardless of it, as long as he was invincible for a few days, the combat effectiveness of the troops was exhausted, and there was no supply, at this time, Xue Yue concentrated the main force to give a head-on attack, and he would not be completely defeated.

More importantly, if we take 10,000 steps back, even if the Imperial Japanese Army does not suffer a devastating defeat near Changsha, it will still have to go a long way to return to the security area on the outskirts of Wuhan, and the preliminary estimate is at least more than 100 kilometers. All of this was under the control of the Nationalist Government, and once the Ninth Theater fought back, the Imperial Japanese Army would inevitably suffer heavy casualties.

Anan Weiji, an old devil, has the best quality, that is, he is pragmatic, not as arrogant and arrogant as Isoya Ryosuke of Taierzhuang before and Kunlun Guan Imamura later, and he is so happy. He weighed the weight and decided to take the great risk of being condemned for defeat and to have all his troops retreat.

Why? Because at this moment, in order to save face, if you are defeated under Changsha City in the future, you will still have to retreat, and you will suffer heavy losses. Compare the lesser of two evils!

In fact, this determination is very difficult to decide. Perhaps for other soldiers around the world, victory and defeat are commonplace, and there is nothing to be ashamed of advancing and retreating. But for the so-called Imperial Japanese Army, there was never a word for retreat in the dictionary. The Japanese army has always taken advance as the only goal, and has never taken the **** with weak combat effectiveness in its eyes.

Before, he said that he occupied Changsha in early May, but now he retreated at will, which is just bragging and blowing, and it is extremely embarrassing. But now that it's here, what's the other way?

Death to save face can certainly save some face, but the consequences are equally serious, once defeated, it is not as simple as withdrawing troops, it is likely to be defeated on all fronts, and the losses will be so great that I am afraid that he, the lieutenant general commander, will be difficult to bear.

The Japanese army on the front line of Changsha retreated, but Ma Zheng was stumped, this Nima everything is ready, tens of thousands of troops have also been assembled on the front line of Tianzhen, just wait for Ma Zheng's order, tens of thousands of troops will advance all the way to the south, attack Baoding, the capital of Hebei Province, and then go straight to Shimen, an important town in Jizhong, and then take Shimen with the cooperation of the Jizhong Military Region, and completely surround the first army of Yoshio Shinozuka in the hinterland of Shanxi.

Now it's good that the Japanese army on the front line in Changsha has withdrawn its troops, and now as long as the Japanese army in North China needs it, the Japanese army stationed in Henan and Anhui will go north to reinforce at any time, and it will inevitably evolve into a large-scale strategic decisive battle, which is inconsistent with the strategic goals set by Ma Zheng before, and Ma Zheng is in a dilemma for a while. (To be continued.) )