Chapter 163: Jiujiang Crisis (Ask for subscription!) ）

The family banquet in Hefu is very rich, with vegetables, meat and fish, as well as good old wine, and the taste is quite the taste of Kweichow Moutai. Later, He Yingqin introduced that he himself is from Guizhou and likes to drink Guizhou's old Moutai, so he always has some at home.

After dinner, He Yingqin originally wanted to leave Ma Zheng in He Mansion for the night, because Chairman Jiang would have to meet Ma Zheng early tomorrow morning. But Ma Zheng did not agree, after all, now that the troops had just arrived in Wuhan, there were still many things to do, and they couldn't do without him, so he resolutely resigned.

In desperation, He Yingqin had to send his own guards to escort Ma Zheng to the Xishan military camp.

After returning to the Xishan military camp, Ma Zheng found that most of the soldiers had not yet fallen asleep, and they were still fully armed.

Ma Zheng asked Huang Sicheng, who was walking over: "What's going on, the soldiers haven't rested so late, I don't know if we have to train tomorrow?" ”

Huang Sicheng smiled bitterly: "Commander, the soldiers don't dare to sleep!" ”

"Why?" Ma Zheng asked in surprise.

"First, you haven't come back yet, and the soldiers are afraid that something will happen to you! On the other hand, the soldiers were still not at ease with the Kuomintang, and were afraid that ****** would send troops to give us a surprise attack, so they were reluctant to sleep. Huang Sicheng replied.

Ma Zheng knew that this was the tradition of the Duqi Division, and it was also one of the results of Ma Zheng's training, so he was vigilant against everything around him, including friendly troops.

But Ma Zheng knew that ****** would not attack the Duqi Division at this time, and although he had done a lot of things that were disapproved by the world****** he would not be able to do anything wrong with Ma Zheng at the moment, otherwise he would not even be able to deal with the troubles within the Kuomintang, which was not a mistake that a far-sighted strategist and politician should make.

As a soldier of later generations. Ma Zheng knows ****** person better, although people jokingly call ****** "peanuts", and joke that ****** strategic and tactical command level is only suitable for being an infantry battalion commander.

But Ma Zheng knew that ******'s strength was not to command soldiers to fight, and what he was most praised by the world was his political sense and vision, as well as his political skills. If Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi are a sharp sword out of the sheath, and Yan Xishan is an old man who is obscure, then ****** is a wise man who looks at the world with a smile and is good at observing current affairs and strategizing.

So Ma Zheng concluded. For the defense of Wuhan and the long-term existence and development of the Nationalist Government, ****** will not do stupid things that make enemies happy and relatives hurt. Moreover, it will also treat the troops of the Seventh Division with courtesy to a certain extent, and there will be no shortage of ammunition and food supplies.

In this way, the Nationalist Government can show the Chinese people its "broad and broad-minded" mind, and at the same time, it is also a signal to the troops within the Kuomintang that I, Chiang Kai-shek, can accept even a mortal enemy, and that there is no problem for your miscellaneous army, as long as you fight bravely and kill the enemy, I, Chiang Kai-shek, will not treat you badly.

Ma Zheng had a plan in his heart. So he said to Huang Sicheng: "Sicheng, you go down and explain, just say that I'm back, I'm tired, and I'm going to rest!" Tonight, except for the necessary patrol posts, all the soldiers should return to the barracks to rest as soon as possible, and tomorrow morning all the troops will carry 30 kilometers of heavy cross-country loads, and those who fail to pass the road will be sent to the clothing factory to work as workers after returning. ”

Huang Sicheng knew that the commander was making the soldiers let go of the knots in their hearts in disguise. He is a dignified commander of the military region who dares to sleep peacefully here, what are the concerns of these people?

Nothing happened overnight. When the soldiers saw that the commander had fallen asleep peacefully, they all knew that there should be nothing wrong, so they all fell asleep one after another. At 8 o'clock in the morning of the next day, He Yingqin sent someone to invite Ma Zheng to attend the combat meeting and issue combat tasks for all units.

The Wuhan Garrison Command is now busy. The operational staff officers came in and out, and everyone had solemn expressions. When Ma Zheng came to the headquarters, an adjutant came over and said, "Is it Chief Ma?" I've asked me to wait for you here, and I'll take you to the conference room as soon as you arrive at headquarters. ”

"Lead the way ahead" Ma Zheng did not entangle with this adjutant, and as soon as he entered the Wuhan Garrison Headquarters, Ma Zheng found that the atmosphere suddenly became tense. It seems that something big is happening.

Walking into the conference room, Ma Zheng found that the entire conference room was full of people, although the vast majority of people Ma Zheng did not know, but the Kuomintang military rank Ma Zheng still would not admit mistakes, in addition to Lao Jiang, there were three generals, 17 lieutenant generals, and 32 major generals, which can be described as a star-studded gathering.

In addition to He Yingqin, Ma Zheng also saw famous generals such as Chen Cheng, Xue Yue and Luo Zhuoying, and Ma Zheng found that it seemed that the people who participated in this military meeting were all officers from the civil engineering department, like Wang Yaowu and others were not there, I don't know why.

Although Ma Zheng's military rank and position are not very high among these people, the lieutenant general and division commander can only be regarded as a second-rate minor role here. Many lieutenant generals and commanders of group armies attending the meeting were present.

But even so, no one dared to underestimate this Ma Zheng in a dark green weird military uniform. These people themselves were born in the army, and they have been leading soldiers to fight all their lives, and they know everything about the army. Ma Zheng's department and the Mongolian army from the Japanese Kwantung Army fought in the dark in the Saibei grassland, and the results were quite fruitful.

But at their level, they will definitely not think so, maybe Ma Zheng's department can achieve such a record is indeed a little luck and a little luck, but if there is no strong strength as support, it is impossible! Besides, sometimes luck is also a kind of strength, and with lucky people, even if they are bombarded by shells, they may not have anything at all.

After Ma Zheng sat down, Chen Cheng got up and said, "Take a seat, everyone is here, then let's start!" ”

"Hmmm! You, the commander of the Wuhan garrison and commander of the Ninth Theater, will first tell you about the current battle situation on the front line! "Old Jiang Dao.

"Yes!"

"The day before yesterday, the headquarters of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army issued another operational order to the three divisions and one brigade attacking along the river: ordering the Botian Detachment, the 106th Division, and the navy to cooperate with the navy to capture Jiujiang from Gutang, and then make operational preparations to Ruichang to the west and De'an to the south. Secondly, the enemy's 6th Division advanced west from Qianxi to Taihu, Susong, and Huangmei, in order to respond to the attack on Jiujiang by the naval forces along the river and the land troops south of the Yangtze River. The 101st Division advanced to the vicinity of Hukou and took over the garrison of the 106th Division. ”

Then Chen Cheng continued: "My 9th Theater has more troops guarding Jiujiang, and directly garrisoning the west bank of Poyang Lake west of Hukou, from Gutang to the north to the banks of the Yangtze River, is Li Hansoul's 64th Army; Garrisoning Gutang south to Xingzi was Wang Jingjiu's 25th Army; Jiujiang City was defended by Zhao Xitian's 3rd Division (in the south of the city), Chen Gongxia's 155th Division (in the east of the city), Zhang Yanchuan's 9th Reserve Division (in the eastern suburbs of the city), and Kong Kequan's 187th Division. ”

"How is the battle going now, how long will it be able to hold out?" Lao Jiang asked again.

"Returning to the commission, the enemy Botian detachment was on a boat at the mouth of the lake and covered by the navy, and when it approached Gutang, about 20 kilometers southeast of Jiujiang, at midnight the day before, it was fiercely counterattacked by the 64th Army. The enemy's water forces immediately fired a salvo of various large-caliber artillery, suppressed the defenders, supported the landing. Between the beachhead and the water, the defenders fought at close range with bayonets and grenades in the dark night, but the enemy finally landed. Then, a steady stream of enemy follow-up troops also arrived. The battle lasted until 11 o'clock yesterday evening, when the brigade captured the front line of Tading Mountain in the southeast of Jiujiang. ”

"The 106th Division of the enemy's 2nd Line Force had set out by boat from Hukou the night before and landed at Gutang, and then attacked south and west of Gutang in order to expand the occupation of the front and prepare for an attack on the area near Jiujiang. Today, after all these two enemy forces landed, they launched an attack on Jiujiang City half an hour earlier as planned. The enemy navy carried out a river attack and blockade in front of Jiujiang, and landed near the oil factory east of Jiujiang City and west of Jiujiang City; The "Botian Detachment" and the main force of the 106th Division were side by side, attacking Jiujiang in a roundabout way from the northern foot of Lushan. ”

"Although our army has gathered 100,000 heavy troops in the Jiujiang area to defend against the enemy's Botian detachment, a newly formed division and part of the navy, the victory or defeat is still between five and five, and the situation is really not optimistic!" Chen Cheng concluded. (To be continued.) )