Junrokuro Matsuura was in a depressed mood, but Xue Yue was in a good mood.

In the headquarters of De'an's L Corps, there were even more laughter, and the nerves of several group army commanders and corps commanders were finally relieved today after two days of tense tension.

"The 18th Pei is a block, and little Japan is in a catastrophe."

"If we can let little Japan slip away this time, we won't have to fight in the future."

"What's this called? This is called three fingers to grasp the snail, and nine out of ten are stable. ”

There was constant laughter in the headquarters, Wu Qiwei, commander of the Ninth Group Army, Shang Zhen, commander of the Twentieth Group Army, Li Hansoul, commander of the 29th Army Corps, and Wang Jingjiu, commander of the 37th Army Corps, all had smiles on their faces, and even Wu Yizhi, chief of staff of the L Corps, joined in and joked with several senior generals.

Xue Yue was also smiling, but his heart was still clear enough.

"Don't rejoice too soon." Xue Yue put down the dishes and chopsticks, wiped his mouth and said, "Although the 10th Pei Regiment has given up the plan to break through, this does not mean that the more than 10,000 small Japan will lay down their arms and surrender, there is still a battle to be fought in the future, our troops are good at defense but not good at attacking, and the follow-up difficulties are likely to be beyond imagination." ”

Xue Yue originally said this, but in fact, he may not think so in his heart.

Unfortunately, however, Xue Yue's casual remarks eventually turned into cruel facts, and the attack of the Nationalist Army on the 10th Pei Regiment of Little Japan did not go well.

The 10th Pei Regiment of Little Japan was weak in attack due to insufficient strength and lack of heavy weapons, and in the face of the heavy clusters of the national army that were crushed from all directions, it could only protect itself, but once the small Japan shrank its forces and curled up, the disadvantage of insufficient troops was immediately made up, and the dependence on heavy weapons was not so strong after switching from offensive to defensive.

On the other hand, when the national army was fighting a defensive war, it relied on its superiority in strength and terrain to fight impressively, but once it switched from defense to offense, the disadvantages of insufficient heavy weapons and poor tackling of fortified positions were immediately exposed.

From the morning of October 7 to the evening of October 8, more than a dozen divisions of the Nationalist Army surrounded the 10th Pei Regiment of Little Japan and stormed for two days and one night

Okamura even saw hope of turning defeat into victory.

Because Xue Yue transferred more than a dozen divisions from the front line to carry out encirclement and annihilation operations against the 10th Pei Regiment, the result was to weaken the defense of the front of the Ruiwu Road and Nanxun line, just yesterday, the 10th Pei Regiment launched an attack on the east and west Guling and Niu Shidun as usual, but the result was a big surprise, the 10th Pei Regiment actually took Niu Shidun without much effort, and broke through the defense line of East and West Guling that had not been broken through for a whole month before

Although the Nationalist army quickly re-established a defensive line between the East and West Guling and the Mahui Ridge, this unexpected result gave Okamura Ninji great confidence, and Okamura Ninji even transferred the Hatada detachment to Xingzi and ordered the Maruyama Masao Brigade that was resting in Nanjing to mobilize urgently.

Okamura Ningji planned to concentrate the forces of one division and two other detachments to form a heavy army cluster, and launch a diagonal offensive from Xingzi to Wanjialing, the old devil not only wanted to defeat more than a dozen national army divisions in Wanjialing and rescue the Songpu division, but also wanted to achieve the task that the Songpu division could not complete, cut off the Ruiwu Road and the Nanxun line behind the national army in one fell swoop, and complete the encirclement of Xue Yue's corps.

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Longtouling, the temporary headquarters of the 10th Pei Regiment of Little Japan.

Akiyama Yoshitaka hurriedly walked up to Junrokuro Matsuura, handed over the telegram in his hand, and said, "Division commander, this is the H operation jihua that the headquarters has just formulated. "The so-called H operation jihua actually refers to the jihua that Okamura Ninji decided to concentrate one division and two other detachments to launch a diagonal attack on Wanjialing.

"Yo Si." After reading the telegram, Junrokuro Matsuura finally showed a smile on his face.

In the past two days, Matsuura Junrokuro's mood has been tense, but with the stability of the defensive line, the military spirit and fighting spirit of the 10th Pei Regiment are recovering, and this afternoon the Iino United even launched a small-scale counterattack, defeating a main regiment of the opposite national army in one fell swoop, and also capturing two mountains, Matsuura Junrokuro can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

However, it was always a problem to have military supplies and ammunition reserves, and Matsuura Junrokuro asked, "Akiyama-san, how many combat shares are left in the army's rations and ammunition reserves?" ”

Akiyama Yoshitaka's face also sank, and he replied in a low voice, "There are only three days left to fight." ”

However, Akiyama Yoshitaka soon said: "But the division commander does not have to worry, Your Excellency the commander has already asked His Excellency Tokugawa of the Aviation Corps to say hello, and starting tomorrow, the Aviation Corps will organize 16 bombers and reconnaissance planes to carry out airdrop supplies to the Longtouling Mountains controlled by our army, so military supplies are not a problem." ”

"Yo Si." Junrokuro Matsuura untied the saber pillar and nodded happily.

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Junrokuro Matsuura was in a good mood, but Xue Yue scolded his mother at the headquarters of his corps.

Xue Yue scolded Wang Jingjiu, the commander of the 37th Army and the commander of the 25th Army, Wang Jingjiu did not fight well in the Battle of Songhu, and abandoned the army and absconded in the Battle of Nanjing, but his popularity is not bad, and he is not as arrogant and arrogant as Sun Yuanliang.

However, a few days later, Wang Jingjiu was reported to the Military Commission by Zhu Shaozhou, commander of the Luoyang garrison, because of his misdeeds, and was removed from his post by Chairman Jiang in anger, but not long after he was free, Wang Jingjiu was promoted by Gu Zhutong, the commander-in-chief of the Third Theater of Operations, and was also promoted to the commander of the 37th Army Corps.

The Battle of Wuhan broke out, and the 37th Army was soon assigned to Xue Yue's L Corps.

For protégés of the Son of Heaven like Yu Jishi and Wang Jingjiu, who had a history of disobeying orders or abandoning the army and absconding, Xue Yue's trust was very limited, so even when the battle on the Ruiwu Road and Nanjin lines was the most difficult, Wang Jingjiu's 25th Army did not go to the battlefield, and was always held by Xue Yue as a reserve.

The 10th Pei Regiment of Little Japan went deep into Wanjialing, and Xue Yue immediately mobilized effective troops to block and chase after him, and successively transferred the 4th Army, 8th Army, 74th Army, and the 1st Army and UU Army belonging to Xue Yue's lineage to the battlefield, and Xingzi's defense was handed over from Li Yutang's 8th Army to Wang Jingjiu's Army.

Xue Yue originally thought that Wang Jingjiu was no longer reliable, and it would never be a problem to rely on the strong fortifications of the East and West Guling for a few days, but Xue Yue predicted that the Battle of Wanjialing would only take three days at most to annihilate the 10th Pei Regiment of the small Japanese army, so it was no problem for Wang Jingjiu's army to take over the defense of Xingzi.

However, people are not as good as heaven, Xue Yue never expected that Wanjialing didn't even gnaw the fur of the 10th Pei Regiment of Little Japan, and Wang Jingjiu's army on the Xingzi side had already lost the strong fortifications built on the east and west lonely ridges and cow piers, which caught Xue Yue off guard.

What worries Xue Yue even more is that Okamura Ningji will definitely not let go of this opportunity.

How difficult Okamura Ningji is, Xue Yue knows better than anyone that this old devil can defeat hundreds of thousands of anti-Japanese coalition troops in the Northeast in just half a year, how can he be easy to match? In the Jiujiang and De'an battlefields, don't look at Okamura Ningji's record for the time being, but that's because he didn't get a chance.

Once the old devil Okamura Ninji gets the opportunity, it will be a big trouble.

If Okamura Ningji reacted quickly and mobilized heavy troops to seek a breakthrough from the direction of Mahuiling, Wang Jingjiu's army, which had lost the defense line of the eastern and western solitary leaders, would definitely not be able to stop it, and Xue Yue's heart faintly filled with a sense of foreboding, the Battle of Lanfeng was a failure because of Gui Yongqing's escape, would the Battle of Wanjialing also fail because of Wang Jingjiu?