Minako Suzuki thought for a while and said: "Your Excellency Commander, to be honest, I don't have any confidence about the humble position of General Chen who assassinated China, compared to assassinating Jiang, the leader of China, it is more difficult to assassinate Chen Feng, because Chen Feng not only has an intelligence agency with extremely high anti-reconnaissance and anti-infiltration, but also has a powerful special forces around him, each of its soldiers is strictly trained, and his combat effectiveness is very strong, and more importantly, Chen Feng himself is not as powerless as Jiang, in the assassination in Showa 13, Seeing Chen Feng almost kill a special operations squadron in the empire with just one sniper rifle, his strength is extremely terrifying! ”

Yan Junliu didn't expect Minako Suzuki to have such a high evaluation of Chen Feng, and it was also the first time he heard that the general of Shina was so powerful himself!

"Miss Minuchiko, no matter how difficult the task is, it is imperative to assassinate Chen Feng and Yan Xishan, the commander of the Second Theater of Operations. Now the government of China has shown a tendency to unite with the United States and Britain and other countries to fight against the empire, if the military attack cannot achieve the goal, then it can only risk assassinating the leader of China, Chiang, and China's Chen, Yan and other senior commanders, once Chiang has an accident, China will inevitably fall into a long period of civil strife, and even directly regress to the warlord melee decades ago, which is extremely beneficial to the annexation of China by the Japanese Empire. ”

"And although the several big warlords in China do not have the kind of appeal of Jiang, they can also cause turmoil in the military and political aspects of China, so the base camp will touch you two imperial elites!" Yan Jun Liudao.

"Say, rest assured, Commander. Although this task is very difficult, he will definitely go all out, even if it is a broken jade! Minako Suzuki said loudly.

"Yo Xi, the base camp also knows the difficulty of assassinating Chen Feng, so a team composed of all high-level samurai has been specially transferred from China to cooperate with you, and all the resources of the dispatched army will be tilted towards you! Even if it costs a lot, I will help you break into the interior of China! "Yan Jun Liudao.

"Hay! Mission completion guaranteed! Swear allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor! ”

"Great Japanese Empire onboard!"

"His Majesty the Emperor is on board!"

Whether it was Lao Jiang in Chongqing or Chen Feng in Guisui, they didn't know that the Japanese army was trying to assassinate them, but when it came to their position, even if they didn't know what specific actions the Japanese had. But we will always be on guard.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War. The confidence of the Nationalist Government and Lao Chiang himself in the war of resistance became sufficient, especially after the talks with Roosevelt and Churchill, and after receiving the joint commitment from Roosevelt and Churchill, Lao Chiang became more confident in winning the war. Therefore, it is rare to take the initiative in the war against Japan. The Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Theaters of the Nationalist Government were ordered not only to do a good job of defense. At the same time, it is also necessary to find an opportunity to take the initiative to attack the Japanese army.

It is rare for the chairman to have such ambitions, and the people below such as Gu Zhutong, Yang Sen, and Xue Yue dare to slack off while being overjoyed, so the top and bottom of these theaters have strengthened their attention to the Japanese army. If this concern is not tightened, some small actions of the Japanese army will be revealed.

After receiving information from the intelligence department about the frequent movements of the Japanese army, Xue Yue resolutely judged that the Japanese army was taking advantage of the favorable opportunity of its navy and army to achieve a major victory in the South Pacific to launch a limited offensive against the party-state.

At the meeting, Xue Yue pointed out in particular that the main reason for defeating the enemy was to rely on careful preparations in peacetime and the vigorous morale of the army and the people. He also put forward a new tactical concept, that is, to deploy heavy troops on both sides and fronts of the enemy deep into the interior of northern Hunan Province; When the enemy advanced to the area of the Liuyang River, when the forces had been dispersed, they carried out a frontal counterattack and pursuit; The troops in the mountainous areas in the east and along the Xiangjiang River in the west carried out flanking attacks and encirclement.

Subsequently, Xue Yue formulated a detailed battle plan, and after reporting to the Military Commission, he began to arrange defensive positions, and the third battle of Changsha was about to break out.

On August 27, the 6th Division completed the assembly from Xinqiang Town to the area on the right bank of the lower reaches of the Xinqiang River, and concentrated its main forces near the riverbank. The 40th Division, on the other hand, had entered the vicinity of Tuoba in batches five days earlier, preparing to launch an offensive. The 3rd Division assembled a little later, around the 27th, between the 6th Division and the 40th Division, in preparation for an offensive from the morning of the 28th.

However, at the same time, the Japanese army also discovered that the troops of China's Ninth Theater were moving north, and at the same time intercepted Xue Yue's orders to the 37th Army and the 78th Army, and learned of part of the operational plan of the Ninth Theater. However, it is a pity that the Japanese military top brass did not care about this, especially as the commander-in-chief of this battle, General Anan completely ignored the importance of this information.

On the evening of the 27th, the vanguard of the Japanese army, the 6th and 40th Divisions, a total of 6 infantry wings, arrived at the north bank of the Xinqiang River. The heavy rain in northern Hunan that night covered the Japanese army's movement on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also hindered the Japanese army's crossing and advance, so the real offensive began on the morning of the 28th.

The first to attack was the Japanese 40th Division, which waded from the east of Tongxi Street in the middle reaches of the Xinqiang River, lined up three wings from west to east, and attacked the position where the 134th Division of the 20th Army of the National Revolutionary Army was stationed.

At the same time, the 6th Division of the Japanese Army waded east to Xinqiang Town at the Iron Bridge on Yuehan Road. From west to east are the 45th Wing, the 13th Wing, and the 23rd Wing. The two wings on both flanks were engaged in battle at noon on the 28th under the cover of artillery fire, and the 13th Wing was engaged in the battle on the afternoon of the 28th. Opposite the division was the 20th Division of the 133rd Army.

Although the Japanese army, with the assistance of aircraft, artillery and warships, broke through part of the positions of the 20th Army on the same day, the Japanese army was also stubbornly blocked by the 20th Army and suffered heavy casualties.

Speaking of which, we have to talk about the strength of the two warring parties, because the Japanese government has been seeking to go north or south in the past two years, and at the same time, it is also limited by the increasingly consumed resources in Japan, so the Chinese dispatch army, which is responsible for resolving the China incident, has been forced to reduce its troops, limit the combat area, and limit the military station. In the two years of 1939~1941, the 11th Army only received half of the ammunition in the Wuhan operation in 1938, which undoubtedly greatly limited the offensive ability of the Japanese army.

At present, the total number of troops in Central China is 382,000, of which about half are the strength of the 11th Army. However, the 9th and 5th theaters of the 11th Army of the Japanese army were powerful theaters of the 8th theater of China's 9th theater of operations at this time, second only to Chen Feng. At present, the 9th Theater has a total of 36 divisions with a total of about 380,000 men, which is just twice the number of the 11th Army.

This quantity alone is not terrible, what is terrible is the quality of the Ninth Theater and the Fifth Theater, in terms of quality, most of the troops in the 9th Theater have experienced a series of battles since the Battle of Wuhan, and some units are even troops that have fought all over the field since the Songhu War of Resistance.

In this nationwide war, many troops of the Nationalist Government, the main force of the War of Resistance, were still very heroic, and no one can deny this. After more than four years of war, some units collapsed, such as the "German-style division" that performed very well at the beginning of the war, because these units were taken care of by the Japanese army at the beginning of the war, such as the 36th, 87th, and 88th divisions, which had been wiped out after the end of the Battle of Wuhan.

However, there are also some troops that are getting stronger and stronger, such as the 74th Army, which has the highest record in the National Revolutionary Army, and the 20th Army Corps of Tang Enbo, and even the Yang Sen Department of the Sichuan Army, which was not valued by the Japanese army before, has developed into an iron army of the Anti-Japanese War. At this time, the 9th Theater of Operations, both in terms of quantity and quality, was the essence of China's entire national defense strength. Therefore, for this campaign, both Chairman Chiang in Chongqing and Commander Xue in Changsha had great expectations.

Responsible for the first-line defensive position of the Xinqiang River is the 20th Army of Yang Sen's 27th Group Army, this army has been introduced before, is the first Sichuan Army to fight against the Japanese, although it was a force called Huazi before, and the weapons and equipment can only be compared with the Eighth Route Army, but after several years of beating, this army entered the eyes of Lao Jiang with the courage to fight, whether it is to buy people's hearts or for others, anyway, Lao Jiang's treatment of this army is still very good, at least in terms of weapons and equipment is very generous, Now the entire 27th Army can be described as strong.

After a day and night of fierce fighting, the 20th Army was ordered to retreat to the Sanjiangkou, Guanwangqiao, and Wangjiafang mountains in the southeast. On the same day, the new 11th Division of the 58th Army arrived at Yanglin Street and coordinated with the 20th Army to attack the enemy attacking from the south from east to west. On the Japanese side, the 23rd Wing and the 45th Wing of the 6th Division pursued the Dajing Street side after overcoming the resistance of the Nationalist Army. The 40th Division divided its troops into two columns.

On the whole, the Japanese offensive was relatively smooth, and due to proper command, several main forces of the Ninth Theater of the Nationalist Government were repelled in just one day and one night, which was even smoother than the previous Chinese Dispatch Army Command had expected.

It's not necessarily a good thing if it's too smooth, and people tend to get stuck when they're most proud. When launching this campaign, Anan Weiji said that the purpose of this operation was to destroy the field army of the national army, but because the progress was going smoothly in the early stage, Anan Weiji was hot-headed and made up his mind to take the opportunity to seize Changsha.

Because Anan judged that the Chinese army was not as strong as it seemed on the surface, and the defense line was not very strong, if the Imperial Japanese Army insisted, it should be "very easy to enter Changsha and Zhuzhou", and the capture of the two places would "have a great effect on containing Guangdong." "With these in mind, Anan Weiji decided to revise the previous battle plan and capture Changsha and Zhuzhou! (To be continued......)