[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 169: Depressed Xie Gangzhe

Baihua Town. The headquarters of the Seventh Division is stationed.

In the past two days, the battle on the Ruichang front line was in full swing, and there was no movement at all on the side of the Duqi Division, which gave Ma Zheng's headquarters time to rest, and at the same time took this opportunity to build some fortifications, so as not to be caught off guard by the Japanese army.

However, what made Ma Zheng feel depressed was that when he asked the headquarters of the Second Corps to allocate some cement and steel bars, he was told that the cement on the entire front line had long been consumed, and there were no steel bars at all, so the corps commander was also powerless.

In desperation, Ma Zheng had no choice but to let the soldiers take materials on the spot, something is better than nothing, otherwise once the Japanese army landed here, the consequences would be unimaginable, and without fortifications, I am afraid that it would not be able to last even a day.

The battle on the Ruichang front line entered a stalemate as Ma Zheng expected, and Ma Zheng's heart also hung up with the progress of the battle over there. Once the Hatian detachment's attack on that side was blocked, Ruichang's back became their next breakthrough point, which meant that the Japanese attack was likely to come in the next moment.

Therefore, Ma Zheng ordered all units to sit back and be ready to meet the Japanese attack at any time, and at the same time sent a large number of reconnaissance troops to reconnoiter everywhere, and also sent special combat teams with radio interception equipment to intercept the Japanese army's telegrams.

Finally, there was news from the special forces team on the evening of the 25th!

After receiving the news from the special combat team, Ma Zheng's brain began to run at high speed. The imaginary Pota detachment did not divide its troops to the north, but asked for help from the 6th Division on the north bank, which was beyond his expectations.

However, the intention of the Japanese army to land behind Ruichang by water was the same as Ma Zheng had expected, so that the 7th Division would face a powerful Japanese fleet and an infantry wing of the 6th Division.

In terms of troops, the Japanese army is far inferior to Ma Zheng's division, but in terms of firepower, Ma Zheng's division is not comparable to the Japanese army if it increases by five times. Because the firepower of a single Third Fleet is enough to be worth five artillery regiments, and the power of ship-borne artillery is not comparable to that of ordinary mountain artillery and field artillery, the guns of a large warship are often more than 300 millimeters, a shell is at least a few hundred kilograms, or even thousands of kilograms, and the killing radius of a cannon is several hundred meters. The power is amazing.

Therefore, it was impossible to rely on the strength of the Duqi Division to hold the tidal flat position and prevent the Japanese army from landing, but Ma Zheng did not give up. Since the Nationalist Government put his troops here, on the one hand, it certainly intended to let him fight to the death with the Japanese army, so that they could reap the benefits of the fishermen. At the same time, after the retreat of the Duqi Division, I waited to see their jokes, so that the people of the whole country would know that the so-called elite of the Duqi Division was nothing more than that.

But on the other hand, they don't feel that the combat effectiveness of the Duqi Division is really strong, and I hope that they can hold the back of Ruichang and win time for the other battlefields of the Battle of Wuhan.

Even so, he can't be behind no matter what, not because he is afraid of being laughed at by others, but because he has an ambition in his heart. I don't want China's current political center to be occupied by the Japanese army again, unlike the hearts of the Chinese people who are once again stinging.

After thinking for more than an hour, after Ma Zheng threw the troops to Huang Sicheng, he transferred a platoon from the guard regiment and left the division headquarters, and then went to a mysterious place.

The place where Ma Zheng was going was actually Baiyang Town, 60 kilometers away from Baihua Town, where the headquarters of the Ninth Theater General Defense Force was located.

This Xie Gangzhe Ma Zheng knows, the former commander of the Third Fleet of the Navy of the Nationalist Government. As a result, the two cruisers belonging to the Third Fleet sank themselves in the Jiangyin waterway in September last year, and Xie Gangzhe, the commander of the fleet, and all the naval officers and men became Jiangyin defense troops.

Ma Zheng came to Xie Gangzhe this time to make a deal with him. A deal about people.

At this time, although it was already more than eleven o'clock in the evening, the headquarters of the river defense force in the Li family ancestral hall in Baiyang Town was still brightly lit, and the commander of the unit, Xie Gangzhe, was looking at several subordinates with a frown.

"Commander, you have to be the master for us, if the troops are defeated, we will admit it. But if someone stabs us in the back like this, we are really unwilling! One of the major generals said with tears in his eyes.

"Changyi, I know that your Second Corps has been wronged this time, but he Yu Jishi is the commander of the theater and the confidant of the commission, what do you think I can do? Can I still go to the commission and sue him, and then I will say. Even if I can do this for you, can I still punish him? Xie Gangzhe sighed and said.

To be honest, thinking of this, Xie Gangzhe was also on fire in his heart. The man in front of him is called Bao Changyi, who was originally the deputy commander of the rear admiral of the Third Fleet of the Navy, and he Xie Gangzhe was the commander of the Third Fleet at that time, so it can be said that Bao Changyi has always been his deputy.

In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the Third Fleet was ordered to remove the ship's guns and sink the ships in the bay to block the shipping lanes to prevent the Japanese from landing. Xie Gangzhe was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the river defense of inland waterways, and Bao Changyi's department was incorporated into the garrison of Madang Fortress, and he himself was appointed as the commander of the 2nd garrison corps.

Bao Changyi was a naval general with a very high level of tactics, and although he was now overused by the Nationalist Government and regarded the commander of the naval detachment as a rear admiral, it still could not conceal Bao Changyi's brilliance. He placed his three infantry brigades on Changshan, east of Madang, and relied on eight strong fortifications made of reinforced concrete here for defense.

As an outstanding military strategist, especially a commander who was very good at naval operations, Bao Changyi had made a certain analysis of the Sino-Japanese Battle of Wuhan before the war, and he had a premonition that the enemy situation was serious, and once this war began, it would be a life-and-death battle that would never stop fighting.

Therefore, when he received the order of his immediate boss Li Yunheng and Li Dajun, he did not send his subordinate officers to participate in Li Yunheng's so-called training class, and then he did not carry it out after receiving Li Yunheng's notice of meeting, but ordered the officers of his subordinate to stick to their posts and not go to Madang Town to attend the graduation ceremony of the so-called Military and Political University. Therefore, when the Botian detachment attacked Madang, Bao Changyi was the only senior officer in charge of command on the battlefield, and the rest of the officers were eating and drinking from Li Yunheng.

Before the Japanese army launched an attack on Madang, Bao Changyi reported to the Wuhan River Defense Command and ordered his headquarters to be on standby. However, what made Bao Changyi depressed was that after receiving his report, the Wuhan Jiangfang Fortress Command was still a little unconvinced, and it was indeed surprising that more than 19,000 troops directly under the two divisions and several regiments of the 16th Army could not even defend a single Madang fortress. Therefore, the Wuhan River Defense Command did not believe very much in the military situation reported by Bao Changyi, and did not immediately send reinforcements to Madang, but ordered Bao Changyi to find out the situation and report to the headquarters as soon as possible.

Although in the end, the Military Commission and the Ninth Theater ordered the 167th Division to reinforce Madang, but Li Yunheng knew very well that Madang had become a powder keg at this time, and it was useless to go to any number of troops, and this person was still an old officer whose warlord thinking had penetrated deep into his bones.

In his eyes, the army is everything, and the military power in his hands is the capital for him to enjoy glory and wealth. No matter who wins the Japanese or ****** government, as long as he still has these nearly 20,000 elites in his hands, then he can still be his big army. So he privately told Xue Weiying, the commander of the 167th Division, that the troops would not go up for a few days, and Madang Fortress was still lost.

And the division commander Xue Weiying is a guy who only looks forward to Li Yunheng, in his eyes, Li Yunheng has the grace to promote him, and he wants to repay the military seat with everything he has. Therefore, when he saw that Madang was already in danger, he did not immediately find a way to rush to the battlefield as soon as possible, but began to find ways to avoid the battle in order to preserve his strength.

At that time, the straight road from Pengze County to Madang was 15 kilometers, and Xue Weiying detoured the rugged path east of Taibo Lake on the pretext of avoiding the bombing of enemy planes. The whole division was full of people and horses grinding back and forth on the path, and the journey of more than 40 kilometers was not completed in 3 days, and the bastard behavior of Li Yunheng and Xue Weiying not only harmed themselves, but also made Bao Changyi miserable. (To be continued.) )