[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 818: The Battle Begins (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

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Anan Yui, who had just taken over as the commander of the 11th Army, had just come out of the conference room and had a day's meeting, and he felt that he was about to fall apart from exhaustion, but his mood was very happy.

Although in comparison, Anan Yuji's command level is far inferior to Okamura Ninji, Yamashita Fengfumi and others, but Anan Yuji has a very good killer feature, that is, his luck is quite good.

And this person is very self-aware, Anan is not very articulate, he and Yamashita Fengfumi, Gansu Jutaro, Ando Saburo These people are all at the same time, in the first team, the four of them took the Lu University together, and the results passed the written test but all failed the oral test. When I came back the next year, I went up the mountain to Fengwen one, and in the third year, three people went again, but Anan was still swept down.

In Japan, Lu University can only take the exam three times, but Anan's luck is very good, and it is rare that the co-captain likes Anan, so he let him take the exam for the fourth time. What made Anan even more pleased was that the oral examiner that year came out of the first wing where he was located, and he didn't know what was so boring, anyway, Anan was admitted to the 30th session of Lu University for the fourth time, and his graduation rank was 18th out of 60 people.

Anan's good luck is not only manifested in the exams, Anan is not as slender as the average Japanese, Anan is tall and has long legs. Because Anan was the shortest in early school, in order to keep up with everyone's steps, Anan walked with a very large step, which made Anan walk very good-looking since then, so he got the emperor to become a military attaché from 1929.

At that time, the chief military attache was the number one torpedo warfare master in the history of the world's navy, Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, and Anan knew that he was not smart, so he kept following Suzuki, an old-timer, in the mix.

Anan also knew that he had never been a leader's material, so he didn't join any faction. Two. At the time of the 26th Incident, Anan, then the head of the Tokyo Army Infant School, gave a lecture to all the students in the school, severely criticizing the rebel generals and saying that soldiers should not be involved in politics. Those who want to call for political reform should first take off their military uniforms and then affirm their claims. After the incident, Anan was able to serve as the director of the military affairs bureau and the director of the personnel bureau of the Ministry of War with the advantage of not being a faction.

However, because of his opposition to Emperor Showa's younger brother, Prince Yoshihito Chichibu Miyashihito, who was only Osaku at the time, replaced the elderly Prince Zaihito of Kanin in charge of the staff headquarters, which angered Seishiro Itagaki at the time, so he was punished and sent to Shanxi to become the commander of the 109th Division. Guarding the northern section of the Tongpu Railway, Anan, who only entered the battlefield at the age of 51, concentrated five brigades to attack and surround the four divisions of Yan Xishan in Shanxi, and the continuous attacks quickly crushed the other side.

If it is said that Okamura Ninji is the one with the highest level of operational command among the Japanese generals, then Anami is the most fortunate and unfortunate of all the Japanese generals who invaded China. He believed that his good luck would be invincible on the battlefield, and he would take tens of thousands of troops under his command all the way to Chongqing.

Anan Weiji learned the lessons of the Battle of Wuhan, and did not invest a large number of troops to attack the main battlefield in northern Hunan as soon as he came up, but was the first to launch an attack on the Dayun Mountain area north of the Xinqiang River in order to test the reality of the defenders.

Dayun Mountain is located at the junction of Yueyang County and Linxiang City to which Yueyang City belongs in the north of Hunan, belongs to the northwest branch of Mufu Mountain, is a famous spot in the south of the Yangtze River since ancient times, Taoist Cave Heaven, is called Circling Seventy-two Peaks, and the altitude is 911.1 meters. A few kilometers to the south of this Dayun Mountain is the Xinqiang River, the gateway to Changsha, which has become one of the important forward positions of the Ninth Theater since the fall of Wuhan.

Due to the particularity of the geographical location of Dayun Mountain, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, not to mention that it is still relatively close to the Japanese army's sphere of influence, so Xue Yue regarded this place as a forward observation post in the Ninth War Zone, and sent heavy troops to garrison here. Knowing that the Japanese army was preparing to launch the Battle of Changsha, the Ninth Theater urgently dispatched additional defenders to Dayun Mountain.

In addition to the top of the hill garrisoned by a reinforced battalion of the 4th Army, there are the 102nd Division and the 306th Regiment of the 4th Army on the west side, and an infantry battalion of the newly formed 11th Division of the 58th Army on the east side, with a total strength of about 5,800 people, and a reinforced machine gun company is also stationed here. In view of the frequent activities of the Japanese army, the 9th Theater Command ordered the 4th Army to immediately keep a close watch on the Japanese troops opposite, and if necessary, to send small units to attack the rear of the Japanese army and destroy its transportation facilities.

The headquarters of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, after discussion, believed that the existence of Dayun Mountain had seriously threatened the flank security of the Imperial Japanese Army, and in order to ensure the smooth implementation of the "plus operation" plan and cover the main force of the 11th Army to assemble north of the Xinqiang River, Anan Weiji ordered the 6th Division, which was originally garrisoned in the Yueyang area, to sweep Dayun Mountain and remove the threat from this flank.

On the morning of April 4, the 23rd and 45th Wings of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, with the support of aviation, launched an attack from Zhongfang to Yanling and Zhanjiaqiao on the north side of Dayun Mountain. Its 13th Wing attacked the west side of Dayun Mountain and engaged in a fierce battle with the defending 102nd Division.

At the same time, the 27th Group Army of the Ninth Theater also detected signs of the Japanese 40th Division in the Xianning area of southern Hunan, which was moving to northern Hunan and was an old opponent. They were still relatively clear about the Japanese army's every move, so they judged that the 40th Division must have been on its back to change defense with the 6th Division, and the Japanese army's attack on Dayun Mountain was a routine offensive before the change of defense.

In order to ensure the safety of the Dayun Mountain direction, at 10 o'clock in the morning of April 4, the Ninth Theater ordered the 58th Army to send troops to fight with the 4th Army, and ordered the 20th Army to prepare to attack the Japanese army from Tongcheng to the west, and to strike at the Japanese army when it changed defenses.

For the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, the Ninth Theater has always been relatively fearful. This division of the Japanese army, a division of the Japanese Army, was one of the 17 standing divisions of the Japanese army before the outbreak of World War II.

The defenders on the east side of Dayun Mountain only had one infantry battalion of the new 11th Division of the 58th Army, with less than 400 troops.

The Japanese army after occupying the positions on the eastern flank. Use this as a base. Launch a fierce assault on the top of the hill and the positions on the western flank. Even aviation units were brought in to coordinate operations. After a day and night of fierce fighting, the defenders suffered heavy losses, but they still held their ground.

Next. Under the cover of armored vehicles, the main force of the Sixth Division launched an attack on the position on the west side of Dayun Mountain, but although the altitude of Dayun Mountain was not high, the terrain was very steep, and the Japanese armored vehicles only advanced less than 300 meters before being blocked at the front of the position, and the Japanese had no choice but to stop the attack after losing more than 20 combat vehicles.

However, the commander of the Japanese 6th Division, Lieutenant General Kanda Masazen, was extremely dissatisfied with the performance of the 6th Division, and ordered a squad leader who failed to attack to commit suicide by disembowelment on the spot, and at the same time authorized the front-line troops to use special ammunition. Although the agreement signed between the Japanese government and Ma Zheng's department strictly prohibited the use of special ammunition on the battlefield, this agreement was implemented relatively thoroughly in the north, and the Japanese army generally did not dare to use poison gas bombs and other dirty bombs. In case of retaliation from Ma Zheng's subordinates.

However, in Central and South China, this agreement did not work so well, although the Japanese army would not use poison gas bombs unless it was absolutely necessary, but due to the lack of supervision, once the attack did not go well, the Japanese army would still take risks, and the situation germinated.

Once the Japanese army decided to use poison gas bombs, in order not to be caught, they would often destroy the evidence at all costs, so even if they knew that the Japanese army used poison gas bombs, it was difficult to collect their evidence.

With the assistance of poison gas bombs, the Japanese army finally captured the position on the west side of Dayun Mountain, and in view of the ferocity of the Japanese army, the Fourth Army had no choice but to order the troops on the mountain to retreat and abandon the position, and Dayun Mountain was lost. (To be continued.) )