Chapter 828: The Battle of the New Wall River (Subscription Requested!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

After two days and nights of fighting, the 27th Group Army was never able to completely annihilate the 13th Wing of the Japanese Sixth Division, and the Japanese army was reinforced by the Araki detachment that had just arrived from northern Jiangxi, and the battle was extremely fierce. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Subsequently, the Ninth Theater found signs that the Japanese army was about to launch a large-scale attack on Changsha, so it ordered the main force of the 27th Army to move south of the Xinqiang River, and the battle of Dayun Mountain came to an end.

As a result of this attempt, all the Japanese troops transferred from various localities to northern Hunan had been assembled and entered the predetermined offensive position. Having learned the lessons of the previous dispersion, Anami Kiki deployed the attacking forces side by side on a narrow front in the hope of making a breakthrough in depth.

This time, the Japanese army deployed 44 brigades and 322 artillery pieces and mortars on a front only 20 kilometers wide north of the Xinqiang River, and only sent the 63rd Brigade (Hirano Detachment) of the 14th Brigade to the south by boat, attacking Qingshan and Yingtian, covering their right flank, and planning to fight with the main frontal force.

In addition, the 63rd Brigade of the 14th Brigade, the main force of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, set out from the vicinity of Yueyang; The Araki Detachment of the 6th Division set out from the north side of Sangangzui; The Abyss detachment set out from the vicinity of Qingfeng Station; The 3rd Division departed from the vicinity of Kazuguchi; The 14th Infantry Brigade (Eto Detachment), which was independently mixed into the 62nd Brigade Regiment, set out from the vicinity of Straw Shoe Ridge; The 40th Division set out from the vicinity of Majiaqiao and simultaneously launched against the defense area of the 9th Theater.

Under the command of Xue Yue, the 59th, 102nd, and 90th Divisions of the 4th Army and the 60th Division of the 37th Army were transferred to the south bank of the Xinqiang River.

Unlike the hasty response of the Ninth Theater in history, the Ninth Theater had already determined the intentions of the Japanese army at this time, so it began to strengthen the defensive positions on the front line of the Xinqiang River as early as a few months ago.

Although the Ninth Theater fought with the Japanese 11th Army many times, they were all remembered and fought, and the 11th Army was not only the most elite field unit of the Japanese army, but also the only field army in the Japanese army that invaded China with mobile combat missions as the mainstay. Historically, since the fall of Wuhan, the Japanese army has launched many attacks on the frontal battlefield, except for the Battle of Guinan, which was launched by the South China Front Army, and the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, which was launched by the North China Front, all of which were launched by this 11th Army.

It stands to reason that China's military intelligence department is monitoring the movements of the 11th Army more keenly and closely, but in fact the Ninth Theater knows nothing about it. Even if the battle began, the Ninth Theater did not know that the 11th Army had actually transferred a large number of troops from western Hubei, southern Hunan, and northern Jiangxi in order to prepare for this battle, and then concentrated it in northern Hunan.

For as long as one month, the strategic intelligence department of the Military Commission, the campaign intelligence department of the Third, Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Theaters, and the tactical intelligence departments of various units that had face-to-face contact with the Japanese army were unaware of such a large-scale troop movement, and it was not until a day or two before the Japanese army was about to launch a full-scale offensive that it was discovered that the Japanese army had massed heavy troops in northern Hunan Province, which shows the paralysis and laxity of China's military intelligence departments at all levels.

However, due to the unclear situation, the Ninth Theater had no way to carry out the battle and had no time to make targeted preparations, and its front-line garrison troops, the 4th Army and the 58th Army, were even attracted by the Japanese army and stuck to Dayun Mountain. The Japanese army succeeded in concealing the battle attempt and giving full play to the suddenness of the battle, while the Ninth Theater lost the opportunity at the first step of the battle, rushed to deal with it, and lost every step in the face of the Japanese lightning-like attack.

Similarly, the 6th Theater of Operations did not know anything about the transfer of the Pingyuan Detachment of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army and the 18th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade. One month later, it was discovered that the troops of the 13th Division had been transferred south in the northern Hunan battlefield, and it was too late to deploy a counteroffensive against Yichang; By the time the counteroffensive began, the Japanese had finished the Changsha operation, and the Pingyuan detachment was about to return to Yichang.

If it can be detected early, prepared early, and launched a counteroffensive a few days in advance, Yichang will definitely be able to recover. On the contrary, the Japanese army's special intelligence department has deciphered the telegrams of the Ninth Theater many times and knows the deployment of the Ninth Theater well, so it can adjust the deployment in time and have a chance of winning.

However, it was different now, because the Nationalist Government knew early on that the main direction of the Japanese army's attack was in Changsha, so the Ninth Theater was extremely calm in the movement of troops, and also formulated a detailed battle plan, so for the Japanese army's attack, Xue Yue was still relatively calm.

He believed that although the Japanese army was menacing, its total strength was only 50,000 or 60,000, while he had more than 300,000 troops in his hands.

However, in fact, Xue Yue still overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Ninth Theater, and at dawn on April 11, the Japanese army launched a full-front attack under the command of Lieutenant General Anan. After the test of the battle of Dayun Mountain, Anan Weiji already had a very intuitive understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Ninth War Zone. Especially when he saw the tattered weapons and equipment of the 27th Army on the front line, Anan Yui was relieved.

In Lieutenant General Anan's view, the will of the Chinese government army to fight was unquestionable, far more bloody than what he knew and saw the army in North China, and when he was in North China, he could command an infantry wing to easily crush a division of the Chinese army.

Every time there is a battle, the Imperial Army is attacking, and the people of China are just forced to defend, it is good to be able to win, and it doesn't matter if they can't be defeated, if they can't be defeated today, there will be tomorrow, and if they can't be defeated tomorrow, there will be the day after tomorrow, and no matter how strong the fortifications are, they won't last long.

Therefore, when he was in North China, Lieutenant General Anan looked down on the Chinese army very much, not only because of the low combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, but more importantly, Lieutenant General Anan believed that the Chinese army had lost the bloody nature of a soldier and was not worthy of being called a soldier at all.

However, after the battle of Dayun Mountain, Lieutenant General Anan clearly felt that although the fighting power of the Chinese army engaged in the battle with the Japanese Imperial Army was not very strong, and the weapons and equipment were not good, the will to fight was very high, and those Sichuan Yankees, who were not much taller than the Yamato nation, had an invincible momentum in every battle.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Anan did not dare to take risks easily, and only after the artillery and aviation were in place, and after the fire support from the ground and air was strengthened, the troops of the Japanese front line forced the crossing of the Xinqiang River with the cooperation of combat vehicles.

Lieutenant General Anan's tactics were successful, although the troops of the 9th Theater of Operations put up extremely fierce resistance. In particular, the 102nd Division of the 4th Army resisted the concentrated attack of the Japanese 3rd and 6th Divisions head-on, and the battle was particularly fierce.

After several hours of fierce fighting, the 102nd Division suffered one-third casualties, all heavy weapons were lost, and even the division headquarters was attacked by the Japanese air force, the deputy division commander Li Jiangong was seriously wounded, and the chief of staff Huang Weihua was killed in battle. At 7 p.m. on the 11th, the Japanese army successfully crossed the river and broke through the first line of positions of the defenders.

The 4th Army moved to the second line positions east and west of Changhu and continued to resist. The Japanese 3rd and 6th Divisions and the Hayabuchi Detachment quickly advanced southward along both sides of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, and the 3rd Division made a detour to the flank of the 4th Army. The Japanese Hirano detachment also took naval ships to advance along the east side of Dongting Lake to land near Qingshan at the mouth of the Xiangjiang River, and coordinated with the main force to attack the defending 99th Army on this side.

However, just when the Japanese army attacked with land and air, trying to break the Fourth Army and capture the second line of defense of the defenders. The 4th Air Force Destroyer Group, which had been transferred from Zhengzhou Airport in Henan Province, arrived at the battlefield and launched a siege and killing the Japanese air force that was raging on the battlefield.

This air battle did not last long, and it took only more than ten minutes from the entanglement to the end, although the time was not long. But the results were brilliant. The 4th Group won the first battle, shooting down 12 Japanese Type 96 carrier-based fighters in one fell swoop and damaging 9, while only 44 of the 60 Japanese fighters escaped back, and the rest were either shot down or wounded and crashed on the way back.

With the air reinforcement of the 4th Brigade, the troops on the front line of the Xinqiang River quickly grasped air supremacy, and finally stabilized the formation, and the Japanese army did not connect two lines of defense in one day.

However, the Japanese army's attack during the day still scared the top brass of the Ninth Theater out of a cold sweat, although they felt that they had overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, but now it seems that the Japanese army's offensive strength is far sharper than they imagined, and if the air force does not arrive today, I am afraid that the Fourth Army will not be able to hold the second line of defense at all. (To be continued.) )