The result of the victory of the Chinese Air Force was almost decisive, and after the victory of the 711 Air Force, the Military Commission sent a message to the front line that night, informing them of the results of the battle and boosting morale.

This battle report was quickly spread to all positions in the front, and sure enough, the morale of the squadron was further raised, and that night, the squadron on the front line of Jixian Pass launched a fierce attack.

Although the Japanese army was partially supplied, there were too many wounded and sick, and the Japanese army lost most of its strength in more than ten days of hard fighting.

The loss of Hanjialing marked the division of the Sakai Detachment and the 5th Heavy Artillery Brigade, the Japanese army lost its commanding heights and lost its ability to counterattack, and the encircled Japanese army was really in danger.

When the news reached Nanjing and Tongcheng, Okamura Ninji was anxious, but there was nothing he could do.

I can't go to urge Tongcheng yet, Inaba Shiro is too anxious, resulting in repeated setbacks in attacks, and now the upper echelons of the Japanese army in the entire Nanjing City have become ants on a hot pot, anxious to turn around.

When the kingdom is about to die, there will be demons, people will be defeated, and all nonsense will come out.

Japanese officer A: "Let them take the defense as the attack, leave a part of the defense to contain the Chinese army, and then raid Jixian Pass..."

This old man should have been inspired by Xu Ming's sneak attack on Tan Yuanpu, Chief of Staff Miyamoto asked angrily: "The two brigades have less than 3,000 combat troops, which is completely hard to support, in the face of more than 10 times the number of the Chinese army, how can they break out of the encirclement and attack Jixian Pass, which is known as a natural danger?" ”

Another suggestion seemed even more illusory, "Lower-level officers have suffered serious casualties, can a group of officers below the squadron leader be parachuted?" ”

Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, who participated in the joint meeting, said with a dark face: "Takada-kun, this is technically difficult to achieve, even in the plains, the ground is completely controlled by our army, and the airborne personnel are extremely dangerous. "Not to mention that the Chinese Air Force will definitely block it, even if it is airborne, the current positions are staggered, and I am afraid that seventy percent of the airborne troops will fall on the opponent's position.

This is not a rescue, this is a gift to the enemy.

Or the proposal of the southern adjutant has not yet been reliable, "Is it too late to implement the landing from the east of Anqing?" ”

A week earlier, this point had been put forward by the Southern Wai Mao Qi Daisa, which was unanimously opposed by the 11th Army and the Central China Front.

In fact, this suggestion is theoretically reasonable, and an opening of the map shows that the distance in a straight line from Mawo to the current besieged Hanjialing is less than 40 kilometers, which is far less than the distance from the trailer river to there.

Moreover, landing from Anqing can also reduce the pressure of the besieged Japanese troops at Jixian Pass.

But whether it was Yan Junliu or Okamura Ninji, they vetoed such a suggestion at once.

It is not that the troops are insufficient, the Japanese army still has a lot of troops in Wuxi, Changzhou, Nanjing and other places, and if they are dispatched urgently, there is no problem in making up 20,000 or 30,000 people.

The biggest problem is the navy, and the contradictions between the Japanese army and navy have been going on for a long time, and the two sides have often fought in a big way over resources and interests. For example, at the beginning of the year in Lianyungang, according to the agreement signed by the two sides, the army should occupy it, but the navy took the lead, and the army was greatly dissatisfied, and then when the squadron counterattacked, the army did not go to the rescue, resulting in heavy losses for the Japanese marines. The two sides quarreled from China to Japan over this matter, and finally the base camp held a joint meeting to forcibly suppress it.

After the battle of Mawo, the squadron placed countless mines on the river from Zongyang to Anqing, and the minesweeping team of the Japanese Navy was sweeping, but it was greatly disturbed, and intelligence showed that China had invested at least 3 divisions near Zongyang, Qingyang, Guichi, and the Japanese minesweepers were almost braving the artillery fire of the squadron to forcibly clear the mines, and the destroyers were covering. In the battle, there were casualties, more than 10 Japanese minesweepers were damaged, and 2 destroyers were sunk by mines, and the progress of minesweeping was extremely slow.

The mines were not cleared, so that a large number of ships of the Japanese Navy risked the danger to carry out the landing, how could it be!

Yan Junliu doesn't have this face either, unless the chief of staff and the minister of war kneel down and beg bitterly, and then take the initiative to cut the army's quota in military rationing...

China has the problem of the army supporting its own troops and not listening to dispatches, and Japan has the contradiction that the army and navy do not cooperate with each other.

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July 12, Trailer River.

The Japanese army carried out the last madness, there was no air force cover, no artillery cover, and even the soldiers did not do any tactical evasion maneuvers, like a squadron launched a fierce charge.

Xu Ming also threw all the troops into it, and carried out counterattacks with artillery engineers in local areas, and all the commanders of all the troops were on the front line to command, and even several division commanders picked up guns and went into battle.

Now even if the air force of any side is on it, it will not be able to drop bombs and strafe, and the lines of the two sides have been completely staggered, and countless squadrons in gray military uniforms and Japanese soldiers in yellow uniforms are engaged in white-knuckle combat at close range.

At the end of the day, the situation was stalemate.

That night, both the Chinese and Japanese armies engaged in a large-scale night battle, and once again there was no winner.

The next day, Xu Ming organized the troops, carried out a large-scale counterattack, and put all the engineers, baggage troops and other capable combat personnel into it.

On the night of July 13, the two sides completely stopped, and originally attacked again that night according to his intentions, but seeing that his soldiers were exhausted one by one, and most of them were still Gui and Sichuan troops, he temporarily stopped the attack and prepared to take a breath.

In the early hours of the morning, snipers in front of the cold light reported that a large number of Japanese troops were secretly moving towards our positions.

Xu Ming was furious, "Organize field troops, attack immediately, there is a way in heaven if you don't go, and there is no way to break in hell!" Xu Ming is determined to eliminate all these bold devils, and now since the sniper battalion in front of the cold light seized the initiative of the cordon and search, the night completely belongs to Xu Ming.

Fighting, crackling again.

Xie Jinyuan first noticed that something was wrong, "Master, something is wrong, it seems that the devil is not here to attack." ”

Xu Ming also reacted, "Yes, why did you attack in one direction, without cooperation, and without artillery cover?" ”

"It seems to be robbing corpses, could it be that there is an important person in the devil who was killed by us, and now they are using the night to rob it?"

Xie Jinyuan's words reminded Xu Ming, "Pass the order, stick to your position, you must not take a step back, retreat, and implement the "Revolutionary Soldier Sitting Law"!" ”

Whether it was snatching corpses or something else, anyway, what the Japanese army wanted, the squadron must not let them succeed, and the scale of the battle between the two sides gradually increased, and they killed most of the night.

In the early hours of the morning, the Japanese army finally retreated, and Xu Ming also arrived at the scene and saw the target that the devils were desperately trying to recapture last night.

It was Shiro Inaba, the commander of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army.

A bullet hit him in the lower abdomen, but it was not a fatal wound, a fatal wound was a wound left by a bayonet, at least 7 wounds all over his body

The commander of a lieutenant general division of the dignified Japanese army was assassinated and killed, which seems incredible.

Carefully examining the relics around him proved the identity of Shiro Inaba, even if it was that old face, after tidying up, he could vaguely recognize it.

The reporter is taking photos, and the swift action has already typed the draft, ready to be written as quickly as possible, and then disseminated to the world.

"Bury him, and then erect a monument." Xu Ming looked at Inaba's corpse and said expressionlessly.

"Why don't you drag him to Anqing to set up an exhibition." Qin Husheng said on the side.

"The decisions and decisions of the division, you don't interfere!" Seeing that this student soldier was neither big nor small, Chief of Staff Zhang Shaofang severely criticized.

Qin Husheng's face turned red, Xu Ming has always been kind to others, and explained: "If it is Gu Shoufu, the culprit of the Nanjing Massacre, it will definitely be dragged to major cities to parade, even if Inaba Shiro is counted, as a senior general of the Japanese army, it is rare to be able to charge in person." ”

Wei Yunsong said with a smile, "It is estimated that I saw that the devils in Jixian Pass were about to be wiped out, and I couldn't face the facts, so I simply committed suicide." ”

"That's how it should be!" Xu Ming nodded in agreement.

Naturally, the Chinese side did not know how "crucial" Okamura's telegram was.

The successive blockages of reinforcements, the imminent annihilation of the besieged troops, and even the death of Shiro Inaba made the Japanese command in Nanjing completely lose confidence.

"Let them break out." The head of the operations division, Miyazaki, made a proposal on Monday.

Okamura Ninji looked out the window with his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking, but after getting the news of Inaba's death, his face was like a layer of frost, gloomy and terrifying.

"Your Excellency Commander, the Sakai detachment and the Uchiyama brigade are no longer able to support it, and it is time to break through." The chief of staff, Major General Miyamoto Sadachi, said boldly although he saw the uncertainty on Gangmura's face.

Okamura Ninji turned around, looked at the subordinates in front of him one by one, and said the only sentence in the entire meeting.

"Agreed."

Thousands of remnants of the defeated generals, without any external response, trying to break through in front of more than 10 times the opponent, the difficulty can be imagined.

The Japanese army will point the direction of the breakthrough to the remnants of Dabie Mountain, Dalong Mountain. The remaining 3,000 Japanese troops burned their artillery and baggage, and then divided into small units to break through to Dalongshan in the east.

Luo Zhuoying immediately ordered all troops to surround and intercept, and formed various search teams to carry out the search and arrest, and Lao Jiang also sent a telegram order, "The enemy army has completely collapsed, and no one person can escape the net!" ”

In a cave, the Chinese soldiers who searched the mountain found that there was movement inside, shouted to no avail, threw a grenade into it, and then entered and found that the commander of the 5th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade Uchiyama Eitaro had been killed.

Tokutaro Sakai committed suicide by caesarean section.

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"July 14, 1938, Central News Agency: The Uchiyama unit of the enemy's Sakai Army, which had been surrounded for a long time and ran out of food and ammunition, was completely annihilated yesterday, and more than 30,000 people under the commander of the 6th Division of the Japanese Chieftain, Shiro Inaba, commander of the 11th Brigade and Regiment, Tokutaro Sakai, commander of the 5th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, and more than 200 generals and colonels were all killed by our loyal and brave **, and by the time of the power transmission, our army had driven the remnants of the Japanese army back to Tongcheng. In this battle of Anqing, more than 50,000 corpses of the Japanese army were left at the scene, and the battle ended with a complete victory for our army! ”