[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 463: Bad Wuhan Battlefield (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

Li Lanqing left, leaving with Ma Zheng's expectations. Her mission in the United States was to collect money, and after collecting money, she bought a dock and a factory. Then weapons and equipment were manufactured, large warships and other high-level equipment needed by the navy and army.

After the little daughter-in-law left, Ma Zheng felt empty in his heart, and unconsciously this beautiful and intellectually beautiful woman had entered his heart. Her departure made Ma Zheng quite reluctant. In this troubled world, this farewell is not when we will meet again, or I don't know if there is a chance to meet again.

But for the sake of the country and the nation, this distinction is necessary, and in that land where the flames of war cannot be burned, Ma Zheng must have a spokesperson, a trustworthy spokesperson.

However, Ma Zheng and Li Lanqing both understand that soldiers in war times should have such an awareness, and they should have this kind of ease in the face of parting. Therefore, Ma Zheng's reluctance was soon driven out of the clouds by his busy work.

Although the Battle of Northern Jin came to an end temporarily, the Second Battle of Wuhan was still in full swing, so much so that the Nationalist Government even forgot the commendation order for Ma Zheng's routine work.

On the outskirts of Wuhan, in early June, Chinese and Japanese armies began a full-scale bloody struggle on four fronts in close proximity. For the Japanese army, these four fronts were like the four pincers and claws of two large and small vices, and the purpose was to clamp down on the millions of troops in the third, fifth, and ninth theaters of the Nationalist Government and directly take Wuhan.

In the Nanxun Road battlefield, Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji, commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, commanded five divisions to set out from Anqing and Nanchang in early June, successively conquering Pengze, Hukou, and Jiujiang, and attacking all the way from the east and north to the vicinity of De'an, in an attempt to destroy the main force of the Ninth Theater of the Nationalist Government in this area, and to advance to repair water to protect the left flank of the Japanese army.

On the other hand, to the west, they attacked Yangxin, Daye, Sanxikou and other places, in an attempt to take Xianning directly, cut off the Yue-Han line and advance out of the vicinity of Tongshan to defend the Kuomintang troops in northern Hunan.

The commander of the direction of Nanxun Road is still Chen Cheng, the commander of the Ninth Theater of the Nationalist Government, and the first level of the Wuhan Battle is the same, the Nanxun Road Front, the Nationalist Government has two combat corps, the first corps is responsible for the area near De'an, and the commander is Xue Yue. It commanded two army groups, 12 corps of three corps, and about 29 divisions. The Second Corps was responsible for Yangxin, Xintanpu, Daye, Xianning, and Tongshan, and its commander, Zhang Fakui, commanded three group armies and one corps, with a total of about 7 armies and 18 divisions.

At the beginning of the campaign, the Japanese divisions and regiments attacked fiercely. The 9th Division, the main force of the 11th Army, assembled in Anqing in June, captured the important town of Pengze on the 6th, opened the door to attack Hukou, and then advanced from Pengze along the south bank of the Yangtze River to Hukou, Jiujiang, and Yangxin.

The 15th Division, supported by naval artillery, attacked Xingzi, and after a fierce battle with Xue Yue's 1st Corps, captured Xingzi on June 9, and then attacked De'an along Dexing Road.

The 37th Division arrived in Nanchang on June 11, and together with the 9th Division, captured Hukou and Jiujiang along the Yangtze River, and marched south from Jiujiang, attacking the Jinguanqiao position of the 1st Corps of the 9th Theater of the Nationalist Government on June 18

In this way, from the beginning of June, in the above-mentioned sections, the Nationalist government used the preset defensive positions to engage in fierce battles with the Japanese army. The Japanese army took advantage of superior artillery fire and naval and air forces to break through the various defensive positions of **** and forced the ninth theater to retreat step by step. During this period, the Kuomintang troops stubbornly resisted the Japanese army in a few positions, so that the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties and could not break through. This includes the battle of Jinguanqiao, the battle of Fuchikou, the battle of Qilinfeng, and the battle of East and West Guling Pass Street on Dexing Road.

By the end of June, the two main divisions of the Japanese 11th Army had entered Yangxin, Hubei, less than 200 kilometers from Wuhan.

On the north bank of the Yangtze River, on the front lines of Huangmei, Guangji and Tianjia Town, the fighting was also very unfavorable to the Nationalist Government. The Huangguang line was the left claw of a small vice for the Japanese army, and it was an important part of the Japanese army's clamping down on the Kuomintang troops.

The operational area of the Huangguang front line is under the jurisdiction of the **** Fifth Theater, and the commander of the theater is Li Zongren, who commands 12 armies and is responsible for operations in this area. The Japanese forces fighting in this area were the 6th Division and the 3rd Fleet of the Navy in the Yangtze River, plus the Ishihara Detachment in the later landing operations, and the Japanese troops along this route were still under the command of Vice Admiral Okamura Ninji, commander of the 11th Army.

Before the battle, the Japanese army successively dispatched the 6th Division, the 3rd Division and the 13th Division to attack Hankou along the north bank of the Yangtze River, and was equipped with a large number of heavy artillery and tanks, as well as cavalry, engineers, baggage troops and naval and air forces, and the battle on the north bank of the Yangtze River was commanded by Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba Shiro, the commander of the **** regiment of the Japanese army.

The 6th Division was the most elite unit of the Japanese Army, and in the Battle of Nanjing, the 6th Division first attacked the city of Nanjing and participated in the Nanjing Massacre, so the division commander Toshio Tani was transferred.

In the Battle of Songhu before the Battle of Nanjing, it was also the 6th Division, when the main forces of the two sides were stuck in the triangle of Songhu and did not distinguish between victory and defeat, the 6th Division landed in Hangzhou Bay, quickly broke through the layers of barriers with an extremely ferocious attack, and suddenly inserted into the flank of the **** main force, and broke into the **** formation of hundreds of thousands of troops with only one division and regiment, rampage, such as entering a no-man's land and hitting hundreds of thousands of **** with the surprise attack tactics of attacking the center from all sides, throwing off their armor and fleeing. Thus the battle stalemate of several months was resolved at once,

It was the strong and ferocious 6th Division that made the final decision that led to the complete rout of **** in the Songhu area. Therefore, the commander of the 11th Army, Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji, handed over the heavy task of attacking Hankou to the 6th Division, and ordered the lone army to go deeper, with only a few tens of thousands of people rushing into the defense line of the Fifth Theater and smashing Hankow.

Inaba Shiro really lived up to Okamura Ningji's high expectations, and the Sixth Division, under its command, set out from Shucheng on June 4, spraying fire and iron all the way, splitting the pass and seizing the pass, defeating layers of **** blockades, capturing Qianshan, Taihu Lake, Susong and other important places, and on June 22, Huangmei was captured.

During the attack of the 6th Division, the main forces of the 26th Army, the 27th Army, the 21st Army, and the 29th Army of the Nationalist Government successively adopted the methods of flanking and blocking head-on, but failed to complete the task of intercepting and destroying the 6th Division.

The 6th Division only carried a large number of heavy equipment with a force of tens of thousands of people, ignored the rear, and rushed to attack many important places in the **** hundreds of thousands of people in the long distance, which made the **** main force that was repeatedly defeated along the way sigh, and it really deserved to be the most powerful beast army in the Japanese army.

At this time, the Japanese army on the north bank of the Yangtze River has occupied all the important towns on the Huangguang line, leaving only the fortress Tianjiazhen on the back of the enemy, if the fortress of Tianjiazhen is lost, then the Japanese Navy will carry the army infantry up the river, and board the north bank at any place to block the retreat of the main force on the Huangguang line, in that case, the situation of **** will be extremely unfavorable.

At this time, the navies of China and Japan engaged in a fierce battle on the waters of the Yangtze River on the outskirts of Tianjia Town, and the two sides dispatched nearly 100 warships of all sizes and hundreds of aircraft. Due to the cooperation of the navy and air force, coupled with the tenacious operation of the defenders of the Tianjiazhen fortress, the Japanese offensive on the north bank of the Yangtze River was contained this time.

But both Lao Jiang and Okamura Ningji have already seen that the situation in the second battle of Wuhan is very bad for the defenders, and the two vices of the Japanese army in the north and south are getting more and more dead. As long as the two Japanese armies from the north and south converge on the periphery of Wuhan, then Wuhan will be really dangerous.

As the most important city in China at this time, if Wuhan falls, it will be a real blow to the Nationalist government, not only economically, but also militarily and politically, and may even threaten the cornerstone of the Nationalist government's rule.

For a time, the eyes of the people of the whole country were fixed on Wuhan, hoping that the Nationalist Government could fight another beautiful counterattack at the gate of Wuhan, just like the first Wuhan battle, to hold Wuhan. (To be continued.) )