** Eight years of anti-Japanese war, killed 3 million people, the will to move the world, can shake the sun and the moon, but in fact, there are many unnecessary mistakes in the tragedy, these mistakes could have been avoided, but in the end because of such and such human factors to hate the battlefield, such as the Battle of Songhu Zuihou stage because Chairman Chiang was lucky to the Western powers, such as Chairman Chiang in the defense of Nanjing, and Gui Yongqing, Huang Jie and Long Muhan escaped in the Battle of Lanfeng.

In terms of influence, Chairman Chiang's luck in the Zuihou stage of the Battle of Songhu directly led to the loss of more than 80 elite divisions the opportunity to retreat, and as a result, the first army was defeated like a mountain, and even the four defense lines built with a lot of money did not play the expected role, and the capital Nanjing was also directly exposed to the Japanese army, which led to a sharp decline in the situation of the entire Sino-Japanese War, and a large area of land in East China and the Central Plains fell, and its impact can be described as extremely bad.

In terms of tragedy, Chairman Chiang's first rat at both ends in the defense of Nanjing directly led to more than a dozen divisions to give up resistance, and 100,000 defeated soldiers poured into the docks of Xiangxiaguan, but they were captured by the Japanese army because they could not cross the river, and Zuihou was killed by the Japanese army like chickens and sheep, and the little Japan that was so killed even turned the butcher's knife to the civilians, which led to the tragic Nanjing Massacre.

In terms of anger, Gui Yongqing and Long Muhan escaped twice on the battlefield of Lanfeng, so that the combat operation of the ** encirclement and annihilation of the Tufeiyuan Division was lacking, so that the blood of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers killed in the army, the 71st Army, and the 74th Army was shed in vain.

It's a pity, but none of the mistakes can compare to the loss of Madang Fortress.

Madang Fortress is located in Madang Town, Jiangxi, the Yangtze River has turned a bend here, the river surface has narrowed sharply, the water flow is turbulent, and there are many reefs under the river surface, it is extremely dangerous, as early as last year, after the defeat of the Battle of Songhu, Chairman Jiang has actually Yujian to Nanjing, in fact, it has become a Jedi, in order to keep the geographical center of Wuhan, Chairman Jiang hired experts in German affairs to design, and spent a huge amount of money to build the Madang Fortress, and its solidity is even better than the Jiangyin Fortress.

The rigor of the Germans was consistent, and at that time the fortress of Madang was absolutely impregnable.

The main body of Madang Fortress is a barrage-type blocking line, three mine defense lines are arranged on the water surface, a total of nearly 2,000 mines have been put in, there are 49 shipwrecks under the water, 35 artificial reefs, in the mountain peaks on the north and south banks, a large number of pillboxes and batteries have been built, a total of more than 20 artillery pieces are equipped, including four super-large caliber naval guns, these four super-large caliber naval guns are dismantled from the self-sinking warship, and they are by no means furnished.

Due to the restrictions on the Yangtze River waterway, the battleships and heavy cruisers of the Chinese fleet of the Japanese Navy could not go up the river, and with the firepower of light cruisers or gunboats alone, they would never be able to break through the Madang fortress head-on, and it would be useless for the navy and army aviation to provide fire support from the air.

The final facts also proved that the Germans could stand the test, the Japanese Navy failed to break through the Madang Fortress in the first few strong attacks, but was sunk by the first river defense artillery, and the Japanese Navy even dispatched more than a dozen long-range bombers of the Kaya and Kisarazu air forces, but in the end it was also to no avail.

The more than 200 pilots of the Soviet Union's air force to aid China were not vegetarians, and they flew the fighters and bombers aided by the Soviet Union to pose a great threat to the Japanese army and navy, and with the help of the Soviet Union's air force to aid China, the Nationalist Government even organized a transoceanic bombing of Tokyo, because the range was too long for the bombers to carry bombs, and in the end they could only drop tens of thousands of leaflets over Tokyo, but this incident still caused a great shock to Japan at that time.

The Germans were rigorous, Madang Fortress could not only block the enemy from the river, but also resist the attack from the land, because the fortress was surrounded by hills, lakes and marshes, although these hills were not steep, and the lakes and marshes were not large, but they were enough to have a fatal impact on the Japanese mechanized heavy equipment, and if the Japanese army wanted to attack Madang Fortress from land, they had to throw away all the heavy equipment and could only rely on light weapons to attack.

Alternatively, the Japanese army can also transfer sappers to build improvised roads, but this will be extremely time-consuming, and the cost will definitely not be small, because ** has occupied the commanding heights such as Madang Mountain and Changshan Mountain, **as long as mortars and Makqin heavy machine guns are erected at the commanding heights, it is enough to cause a large number of casualties to the Japanese sappers who build the road.

It is precisely because of this that Chairman Chiang has high hopes for Madang Fortress.

Under normal circumstances, if the Japanese army wants to break through Madang Fortress, it is absolutely impossible to break through Madang Fortress without three months to half a year, Chairman Jiang hopes that Madang Fortress can block the Japanese army for one to two months, in fact, it is already relatively conservative, but things are bad in the normal situation.

The defense system of Madang Fortress is composed of two parts, the core position is the bunker fortification group at the dangerous points on both sides of the strait, which is garrisoned by the first brigade of the Marine Corps, and the outer defense line is in charge of Li Yunheng's 16th Army, the predecessor of Li Yunheng's 16th Army is the 53rd Division of the Hunan Army.

Such a situation is not uncommon in the battle sequence of **, and even individual army groups have only one division of strength.

Li Yunheng's 16th Army also participated in the third phase of the Battle of Songhu, and suffered heavy losses, after the war, the remnants of the 53rd Division were reduced to a regiment, Lao Chiang never replenished the 53rd Division, for local troops, Lao Chiang's consistent strategy is to first draw, then consume, then downsize, and then reorganize, this is how the two million Central Army earned.

Therefore, in addition to the 1st Marine Corps Brigade, the garrison of Madang only had the 313th Regiment of the 16th Army.

Even if Madang only has one regiment of the 313th regiment and a brigade of the navy, in fact, it is not a big problem, and there is no problem with the deployment of the ** command, because a small town of Madang cannot station too many troops, and with the strong and complete fortifications of Madang Fortress, it is not a problem for the 313th regiment and the marines to support for three to five days.

And as long as the 313th Regiment and the Marines can survive two days, the nearby ** can rush to reinforce, less than fifty miles away from Madang Town, there is a division stationed in Pengze, which is Xue Weiying's 16th Pei, although the 16th Pei was born in the Northwest Army, but now it has been reorganized into a complete Central Army, and Xue Weiying is also from Huangpu.

Therefore, there is no problem with the deployment of the ** Command in Madang Fortress.

The problem lies in Li Yunheng, the commander of the 16th Army, this guy doesn't know which tendon is wrong, at the moment of the war, he suddenly remembered to build an anti-Japanese military and political university, and called the deputy officers of the 16th Army and the security chief of Madang to go, and it was lively and lively for more than ten days from the 10th of U, and he also released a saying that he would hold a grand graduation ceremony in Japan, in order to create influence, Li Yunheng even sent invitations to many Western reporters, inviting them to come to Madang to attend the ceremony.

As a result, the news inadvertently reached the ears of Habata Shigeichi through Western reporters, and this old devil keenly felt that this was a godsend opportunity to raid Madang Fortress, and immediately decided to attack Madang in the early morning and night of the U month, because the officers of the 16th Army at that time would definitely gather in Madang, and the ** in charge of river defense would lose effective command.

As early as the evening of the U month, all the officers above the captain (company commander) level of the 16th Army had already gathered in Madang Town to prepare to attend the graduation ceremony of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University scheduled for the next morning, and Li Yunheng also sent an invitation to the officers of the Marine Corps, but fortunately, Bao Changyi, the captain of the 1st Brigade of the Marine Corps, did not go, nor did he let his officers go to Madang to attend this so-called graduation ceremony.

In the early morning of the 24th of the year, the Botian detachment repeated its old tricks and launched a night raid on Madang Fortress, due to the absence of the commander-in-chief, the officers and soldiers of the 313th Regiment in charge of the outer defense line were in a big mess for a while, and the Botian detachment went ashore on the side of the Xiangkou River without much effort, and then launched a fierce attack on the main position of the 313th Regiment of Xiangshan, and at dawn, the Xiangshan position was finally lost.

After occupying the Xiangshan position, the Potian detachment continued to launch a fierce attack on the core positions of Changshan and Madangshan garrisoned by the marines, trying to break the Madang defense line in one fell swoop.

Li Yunheng was awakened by the sound of guns and cannons from his sleep, and learned that the Japanese army landed from Xiangkou at night and had captured Xiangshan, Li Yunheng was suddenly shocked that the three souls lost seven souls, and even if he ordered the commander of the 313th Regiment to organize a counterattack, Li Yunheng knew very well in his heart that after the Xiangshan position was lost, it was impossible for the 313th Regiment to recover the position alone.

So, Li Yunheng urgently ordered Xue Weiying's 16th Pei stationed in Pengze to rush to the aid of Madang.

At that time, although Xue Weiying's 16th Pei was nominally temporarily subordinate to Li Yunheng's 16th Army, Xue Weiying, who was born in Huangpu, did not take Li Yunheng, the old lord of the Hunan army, into account, and refused to carry out the order after receiving it.

At that time, Li Zongren was sick in bed, and the commander-in-chief of the Fifth Theater was temporarily represented by Bai Chongxi, who did not dare to slack off after receiving Li Yunheng's telegram asking for help, and immediately ordered Xue Weiying to lead 16 Pei to rush to the aid of Madang along the highway.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the reason why more than 4.5 million people with all the American weapons and equipment lost the Liberation War was that in addition to political reasons, the direct cause of military defeat was the faction's collapse, the battle of Meng Lianggu, Li Tianxia only needed to advance ten miles to rescue Zhang Lingfu, but he just refused to carry out the order.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the factional rebellion of ** was actually very serious.

Bai Chongxi was also a prominent figure in the ** world at that time, and he was not a wasted name, and now he was the acting commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone, so Xue Weiying did not dare to be too lazy, and immediately ordered to gather troops to reinforce Madang, but Xue Weiying did not stubbornly carry out Bai Chongxi's orders, he did not take the road, but chose the path west of Taibai Lake, the reason is also high-sounding, the road in the east is open, easy to be bombed by Japanese bombers, and it is not as safe as the path.

But how can the trail be so easy to walk? Coupled with Xue Weiying's deliberate delay in speed, as a result, most of the dead and wounded of Bao Changyi's troops were forced to evacuate the Changshan position, and the 16th Pei did not arrive.