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The harvest season in southern Jiangsu has arrived, and wheat and early rice have opened one after another! Shunroku Hata is not in a hurry, there is so much grain, it has to be dried after the harvest, it will take a few days, and when it is time to dry, the cavalry and trucks of the imperial army quickly occupy the main road of transportation, cut the farmland into blocks, collect the grain piece by piece, and squeeze and eliminate the Wumu army by the way!

When the devils successfully occupied the villages, the peasants obediently handed over the grain, but the report of the troops below made Hata Junroku unable to laugh: the local peasants' livestock and carts were pulled into the mountains by Wu Mujun, and the grain was piled up in the courtyards and village heads of the villages and could not be transported, so it could only be transported by limited trucks and carriages of the transport brigade; But almost every grain transport team was attacked by Wu Mujun's cold guns, and Wu Mujun ran away after the fight, and there was no one to be seen at all. On the first day, more than 200 people were killed and wounded, more than 200 horses were lost, 17 cars were blown up, and not a single grain was delivered!

The next day, Shunroku Hata changed his strategy, gave up collecting grain, and swept the ambush first. As a result, gunshots rang out throughout southern Jiangsu, either dense as raindrops or sparse, and the devils and Wu Mujun were intertwined and infiltrated and shot at each other. Wu Mujun's light weapons are superior to those of the devils, because in addition to rifles, light and heavy machine guns, and grenadiers, the Wu Mujun has more submachine guns and shell guns, and the devil's planes and artillery can't help at all in the melee, plus the Wu Mu army has a preset position, and the devil suffers a big loss! At the end of the day, more than 4,000 devils were killed or wounded, 100 trucks and carts were destroyed, and more than 20 trucks and more than 100 carts were taken away by Wu Mujun.

Shunroku Hata is really angry! He sent armored troops to rush to the aid of the grain collection troops overnight to see how high the Wumu army could jump!

More than 50 armored vehicles and tanks that were rushing overnight were blown up with blasters by demomen who came out of nowhere on the road, and 7 of them were injured with blasters. At the same time, the devil's camp was either surrounded or sent to help, and more than 2,000 people were lost.

The summer nights are short, but fortunately, the sky is soon bright, and the devil finally ends the night full of nightmares. When tanks, armored vehicles, and infantry assembled and formed their battle formations, they found small groups of people retreating towards the mountains. Officers at all levels of the devil quickly chased after him while urgently reporting it.

When Shunroku Hata heard the news, he laughed: "Damn the Shina, my net can finally be closed!" Pass on my order, all the units participating in the battle, including the artillery, cavalry, engineers, and baggage of all branches of the army, all pressed on, and under the tactical guidance of the aviation troops, the bandits of the dog branch of the country on Tuesday were annihilated in the Lisu Mountains! ”

In fact, they are just the remaining troops of the 11th Army, totaling more than 20,000 people, including a large number of engineers and baggage soldiers, but he firmly believes that the second-rate troops of the Imperial Army can gather and destroy or defeat some bandits.

The 20,000 Japanese army divided and surrounded many units of the Wumu Army on dozens of hills, and under the cover of a large number of artillery and aircraft, they went all out to encircle and suppress them. For a time, the devil's heavy firepower advantage was highlighted, although most of the infantry were sappers and baggage soldiers, but the artillery density was extremely high, because the artillery was preparing to go to the Wuhan front line after the exercise in southern Jiangsu, and the planes were also stepping up the exercise.

The Wu Mu army relied on the dense vegetation on the mountain, and the casualties were not large, and the multiple encirclements of the devils wasted troops, and the battle line was thin, so the Wu Mu army, which was bombed, could often break out of the encirclement with a countercharge. The art of war says: Ten will surround it, five will divide it, and multiple will attack it. The devil's strength is not superior to that of the Wu Mu army, and he dares to set up multiple encirclements, so he looks vigorous, but in fact, the attack effect is not even the first-line commander of the devil himself!

After a day's attack, the Japanese army was extremely tired, and the Wumu army was the defender who waited for work. In the evening, the Japanese planes no longer took off, and the infantry and artillery were also on guard to prepare for dinner. A large number of trucks pulling mountain artillery and field artillery rushed out of the western mountains, and the trucks were equipped with Czech light machine guns or 96-type light machine guns, and a large number of combat squads also emerged in the fields.

Wu Mujun is actually compassionate and compassionate this time, has the virtue of a good life, and does not kill all the devils, as long as the devils throw away their equipment and run away desperately, Wu Mujun will open the net, because they still have more important tasks ---- carry food.

When it got dark, Zhao Dahu sent a small force to clear the remnants of the enemy, and the large army cooperated with the concentrated trucks and cart transport teams to pull the grain collected by the devils into Xishan. This is the military rations handed over by the common people to Wu Mujun, let the devil get his hands wet first, and be happy; The common people's own grain is hidden in the cellars.

In three days and nights, the devils suffered more than 11,000 casualties, lost more than 6,000 rifles, machine guns, and grenadiers, 21 mortars, 24 infantry guns, 17 mountain artillery and field artillery, 19 tanks, and 4 armored vehicles.

I don't know if Shunroku Hata can understand a Chinese art called cross talk, and there is a famous paragraph called ---- "Teasing you"!

Shunroku Hata was a dignified general of the Imperial Japan, and he would never allow the despicable Shina people to tease him, so he decided to mobilize heavy troops and completely pull out this nail at the gate of Nanjing! He decided: Send the 18th Division directly under the Central China Dispatch Army to comprehensively encircle and suppress the Wumu Army!

The 18th Division is one of the standing divisions of the Japanese army, a first-class A division, well-equipped, with more than 27,000 men.

Lieutenant General Sadao Ushijima, commander of the 18th Division, and Chief of Staff Megumi Koto.

Major General Kamifu Ueno, commander of the 23rd Infantry Brigade:

Wing Commander of the 55th Infantry Wing Notomi Shotoku Osa

Wing Commander of the 56th Infantry Wing, Saburo Fujiyama Nakasa

Brigade Commander of the 35th Infantry Brigade Major General Tezuka Province:

Wing Commander of the 114th Infantry Wing, Kakuji Kataoka

Wing Commander of the 124th Infantry Wing said that Fang Matsu Nakasa.

Captain of the 22nd Cavalry Brigade Koike Shoji Nakasa

Wing Commander of the 12th Field Artillery Wing, Sueyoshi Asano, Nakasa

Wing Commander of the 12th Engineer Wing, Shinosa Izawa

Wing Commander of the 12th Wing of the Heavy Infantry Kawauchi Masumi Osa.

Ushijima Sadao is also experienced and resourceful. He did not despise this warlord army as much as other Japanese generals, and through several previous examples, he believed that the Wumu Army had at least three group armies, no less than 150,000 troops, and was tactically flexible, brave and good at fighting, and he was not sure of the strength of one division of his own.

Therefore, he personally drew up a battle plan: 1. The 23rd Infantry Brigade of Major General Kamifu and the 12th Wing of the Field Artillery of Asano Sueyoshi Nakasa were the Southern Route Army, starting from Wuxing (now Huzhou City), attacking along the line of Changxing, Guangde, and Langxi, cutting off the south of the Lisu Mountains and the Tianmu Mountains, and then launching a full-scale attack to the north, forcibly attacking the basic base and command core of the Wumu Army with heavy firepower, and being sure to clear them; 2. With the 35th Infantry Brigade of Major General Tezuka Province and the 22nd Cavalry Brigade of Koike Masaji Nakasa, as the Northern Route Army, starting from Changzhou, the troops were divided into two routes, all the way to Danyang, Jintan, Maoshan, and Jurong to attack and advance, all the way to Yixing, Liyang, and Lishui, and then to the south to attack the Lisu Mountains; 3. The 12th Engineer Wing of Izawa Shindasa, and the 12th Wing of the Heavy Troops of Kawauchi Masumi Osa, each dispatched a brigade to wait for the navy to transport gunboats and motorboats to Taihu Lake, and when the war reached a critical moment, they crossed Taihu Lake as a surprise soldier, attacked the eastern part of the Lisu Mountains, and broke through into the Lisu Mountains; 4. Defeat and pursue the enemy in the Lisu Mountains and the Southern Jiangsu Plain; 5. Please ask the garrison and garrison troops around Nanjing to assist in destroying the remnants of the enemy.

Sadao Ushijima submitted the battle plan to the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters, along with an analysis of the situation of the enemy and the enemy on both sides. Ushijima Sadao played a cautious eye, he cited the summary data of the Japanese army in the previous battles of southern Jiangsu, and estimated the strength of the Wumu army at 150,000, in fact, he knew very well that those defeated colleagues would definitely exaggerate the strength of the other party to cover up the incompetence of the defeat, and he quoted these data to prepare for his ending: winning the battle is naturally more glorious and brilliant, in case there is a whip and stirrups are short, there is a decent reason to push it up.

Shunroku Hata looked at Ushijima Sadao's battle plan, and saw that Ushijima Sadao used both the engineer unit and the baggage unit, and did not even leave the reserves.

The commander of the 55th Wing of the 23rd Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army, Notomi Shotoku, never dreamed that it would be so easy to occupy Changxing County, and the people of China retreated into the mountains without even resisting it for two hours. While ordering the troops to continue the attack and advance, he also set up his wing headquarters.

The commander of the 56th Infantry Wing, Fujiyama Saburo Nakasa, also secretly rejoiced that the troops were progressing very smoothly, as long as they were not too close to the position of the Wu Mu Army, the Wu Mu Army actually ignored the actions of the Japanese army and soon occupied Guangde, and the ** guerrillas of Guangde had retreated, leaving an empty city. Major General Kamifu, commander of the 23rd Infantry Brigade and Regiment accompanying him, ordered the 56th Wing to continue the attack and advance, and the 12th Field Artillery Wing remained to garrison, with the 55th Wing Matsuyama Brigade assisting in the defense, and after the 56th Wing occupied Langxi, the 55th Wing and the 56th Wing were in the center at the same time.

After receiving the report that the 56th Wing had occupied Langxi, Major General Ueno Kamifu, commander of the 23rd Infantry Brigade, telegraphed to all units to deploy troops close to the Lisu Mountains and launch an all-out attack at 5 a.m. tomorrow.

As a result, all units of the Japanese army immediately arrived at the Lisu Mountains to arrange troops: the 55th Wing was deployed along the line of Shuikou, Xiaopu, and Erjieling; The 56th Wing was deployed along the line of Taocheng and Zhaocun; The 12th Field Artillery Wing was stationed in Liudong under the protection of the Songshan Brigade of the 55th Wing, in order to cover most of the Lisu Mountains with 24 mountain guns and 24 field guns.

On Tuesday, Gou and Zhao Dahu were collecting all kinds of intelligence at the headquarters in Meishan, and the headquarters was busy. At 1 o'clock in the evening, Tuesday Dog and Zhao Dahu finally made a decision.

At 5 o'clock in the morning, all the units of the Japanese army were fully prepared, and just after receiving the order to attack, they were covered by the fire of the Wumu army. In fact, the two sides happened to set the attack time at the same time, but Wu Mujun's watch was faster by more than 20 seconds.

First of all, the artillery positions in Liudong were covered and bombed by 16 field artillery and mountain artillery of the Kehua Division, and suffered heavy losses. After a few minutes, only 3 mountain guns and 5 field guns remained, with more than 1,200 casualties. The brigade commander, Major General Ueno Kamefu, personally commanded the front line and immediately ordered the Matsuyama Brigade to attack the artillery positions of the Shina Army.

The Matsuyama brigade reacted quickly and advanced towards Kehua's artillery position. Unexpectedly, the mountain road was covered with bamboo sticks, and it was also mixed with mines, tripping mines made of grenades in the grass and woods, and snipers from the Zhina people in the distance, and soldiers were killed and wounded every meter of advance.

Captain Songshan has been prepared for a long time, with dozens of 10-meter long bamboo front end plus a 3-meter-long beam to push forward, pull out the bamboo sticks, detonate the mines, encounter mines can not blow up people, at most blow up the bamboo, just replace one, but the soldiers who sweep the bamboo sticks are always sniped, after more than 20 soldiers were killed and wounded, the troops finally opened up more than 5 meters wide and more than 100 meters long in the bamboo stick mine array, but the artillery of the people has long been gone!

Captain Matsuyama was mad, and he ordered his troops to move forward at full speed to kill all the people in the mountains!

Obviously, Captain Matsuyama was wishful thinking. When about 1 squad of the Songshan Brigade passed through the bamboo stick mine array and was setting up a guard position, an infantry company of the Wu Mu Army came over.

An infantry company of the Wumu Army is equivalent to a reinforced squadron of the Japanese army, with 246 people, with 3 heavy machine guns, a sniper squad, and submachine guns and shell guns, while a Japanese brigade is equipped with 12 heavy machine guns from a machine gun squadron.

The troops of the Matsuyama Brigade were crowded on the path in the bamboo stick mine formation and could not be deployed, so they had to withdraw the same way, and by this time they had already suffered nearly 200 casualties. That's not all, when the Japanese army went to rescue the wounded in front, the snipers of the Wu Mu Army lost no time in causing more casualties.

Captain Matsuyama was furious, and he couldn't help the wounded, so he had to take out the money to take care of his family, and used all 2 infantry guns and 12 heavy machine guns to cover the nurses and soldiers to rescue the wounded, and finally rescued more than 30 wounded, but more than 10 soldiers were killed or wounded.

A similar situation happened to all units of the Southern Route Army. In half a day, more than 7,800 people in the 23rd Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army plus more than 3,700 people in the 12th Wing of the Field Artillery, totaling nearly 12,000 people, with more than 1,900 casualties and a casualty rate of nearly one-fifth.

After receiving the battle report from Ushijima Sadao, Shunroku Hata really realized that this warlord unit known as the "Wumu Army" was indeed a difficult bone to gnaw, and decided that all the subordinate units on the periphery of Nanjing would enter a wartime alert state and cooperate with the 18th Division to annihilate the Shina army at any time, and at the same time, the 3rd Flying Regiment transferred a squadron to be ready to provide tactical guidance to the 18th Division at any time.

Ushijima Sadao immediately adjusted the battle plan, and the 35th Infantry Brigade of the 124th Infantry Wing set out from Changzhou to capture Yixing, and then attacked westward to capture Liyang, forming a flanking attack on the Lisu Mountains; After the 114th Infantry Wing captured Danyang, it swept the loose troops of the Wumu Army on the Sunan Plain and covered the flank of the 124th Wing; The 22nd Cavalry Brigade relied on the 114th Infantry Wing to sweep the loose troops of the Wumu Army on the Sunan Plain; The various units of the Southern Route Army continued to attack the Wumu Army with all their might.

Major General Ueno Kamefu, commander of the 23rd Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army, received the order and immediately organized an attack.

Removing the bamboo skewer minefield is easier said than done! The Wumu army only sent one infantry platoon from all directions, scattered the battle, only used rifles and submachine guns to shoot cold guns, and ran away with a maximum of three shots, and the devil's heavy machine guns and infantry guns were long since they found the target, and the target was long gone. The various troops of the devils suffered a total of 4,500 casualties before the bamboo stick minefield was cleared.

After receiving reports from various departments, Major General Ueno Kamefu felt that the progress of the various departments was not satisfactory due to the current situation, so he ordered all departments: After dinner, rest for 2 hours, and launch a full-scale general attack at 10 o'clock in the evening!

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the sky was about to darken, and the snipers of the Wu Mu Army in Liudong took advantage of the last ray of sunset to kill the patrols and mobile posts on the periphery of the devils, and then the grenadiers and mortars fired ten consecutive shots at the intended targets.

The combat quality of the devil soldiers is indeed very high, and they immediately reacted and launched a fire counterattack. It's a pity that many of the fire points were destroyed, and the effect of the counterattack can be imagined.

The Wu Mu army of the brigade rushed up, using shell guns, submachine guns, and light machine guns to open the way, and the riflemen followed, quickly tearing through the devil's defense line and penetrating directly into the devil's deep position.

The two sides engaged in a brutal melee in the darkness of night. Many small units of the Wumu army broke through the encirclement, but most of them were intercepted by devils in the Lisu Mountains. In the second half of the night, the two sides withdrew their troops and boycotted.

Ushijima Sadao received a report that the Wu Mu army was shaken and intended to break through to the Tianmu Mountains to the south. The Northern Route Army intensified its offensive and cooperated with the Southern Route Army to form a tough pincer offensive, trying to wipe out the headquarters and main force of the Wumu Army in the Lisu Mountains. He also particularly emphasized that the attacks of the Southern Route Army and the Northern Route Army did not distinguish between priority and priority, and the troops of the Wumu Army Headquarters were taken down first.

Shunroku Hata's order coincided with Sadao Ushijima, and he also informed Sadao Ushijima that the 3rd Flying Regiment would do its best to help in the battle tomorrow. The blood that excites Sadao Ushijima!

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