Chapter 235: Taking Nanchang Again (2)

In the Japanese army in Nanchang City, it was the 17th Mixed Brigade that remained on garrison. The Japanese army is generally divided into two kinds of mixed brigades, one of which is an independent mixed brigade formed separately, which is a separate combat unit, and like a division and regiment, it is under the leadership of the army and has independent combat power and armament. Infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineering, and baggage are fully equipped, and most of them are subordinate units with brigades, with a strength of about 7,000 to 10,000 troops.

The other is a brigade subordinate to a division or regiment, which is not a separate combat unit and is under the command of the division or regiment. Other auxiliary arms are incomplete, generally only artillery brigades and no other arms, and even if there are, they are at the squadron level or brigade level, and the number of arms is much smaller.

If you act alone, you often bring many other branches of the army, and the number of troops is uncertain, maybe more than 3,000 people, sometimes it reaches more than 10,000 people, it is called a detachment, and sometimes a detachment has about 20,000 troops, which is about the same as a division.

The strength of the Japanese army was sometimes chaotic, and the number of troops was not necessarily the same, and it was not very accurate if it was determined by the number of divisions and regiments alone. During the Battle of Shanghai, the Japanese army was a permanent division with a strength of more than 28,000 troops, but the troops that actually went to China to participate in the war left behind a lot of troops and carried a large number of supplementary corps, so the strength of a division directly participating in the war was only more than 10,000 people.

During the period of Xuzhou and Wuhan, the strength of the new divisions of the Japanese army was more than 24,000 people. By the end of the Battle of Wuhan, the strength of the Japanese army's triple division was only between 16,000 and 18,000. At the same time, there were many independent mixed brigades in North and Central China, and their strength fluctuated even more, with a minimum of more than 6,000 men and a maximum of more than 10,000 troops.

The uncertain composition of the troop makes it more difficult for the enemy to determine battlefield intelligence, but it also causes some misunderstandings about the command of the enemy. The Nara detachment attacking the Hayago and Zhuzhou directions, because it was an offensive battle and a roundabout attack, needed to be quick and conducive to mobility, with few heavy troops and many fast troops. There were few heavy soldiers and many engineers, so the strength reached more than 10,000 people.

The 17th Mixed Brigade left behind in Nanchang was called the Kamimura Detachment, and the brigade commander, Major General Akiki Kamimura, had a relatively small number of troops, only 8,000 people, and the auxiliary troops accounted for one-third, and the combat infantry only had five brigades of more than 5,000 people.

There is a division of puppet troops in Nanchang City, they are the 11 th Yasukuni Army of the Central China Autonomous Government, and some of the officers are transferred from the northeast as puppet Manchukuo officers, and they are formed by the troops of the Nationalist Army who were surrounded and surrendered by the Japanese army in the North China battlefield.

The division commander was part of the 54th Army of the former Hebei Daimyo Mansion, and the division commander Lin Yuying was the former commander of the 54th Army. He became a division commander and worked hard to clear out the local guerrillas, but in fact the Japanese army did not trust him.

This time, after Nanchang was occupied by the Japanese army, in order to show the common prosperity of Greater East Asia and show that Japan had no intention of occupying China, it cooperated with the negotiations of Wang Jingwei and his gang to form a puppet government, and specially transferred Lin Yuying's 11th Division of the puppet army into Nanchang to prepare for the establishment of the Nanchang Jiangxi Provincial Government to actually control the Jiangxi region.

When Xue Ru withdrew from Nanchang, he did not plan to counterattack again, but only left a long-term arrangement in Nanchang. When the Anti-Japanese War was won in 1945, Nanchang was taken over by China after the surrender of the Japanese army, which others did not know, but Xue Ru knew. Xue Ru has always been reluctant to regard Japan's refusal to recognize China's victory in World War II, saying that the United States won the victory, and that China just picked up a bargain and became the victorious country.

As long as she has the opportunity, she will not wait until the Japanese surrender to receive it, but she may not have the ability to attack when she counterattacks, so Nanchang City has left a long preparation. But the battlefield changes Xue Ru said that it didn't count, so there was a temporary counterattack on Nanchang again. Forcibly attacking with troops and capturing the city with human lives, Xue Ru will not do it, and how to capture Nanchang will become a problem.

Even if the snow fox is dispatched as a whole, it may not be able to storm down, a division of the Japanese army is more than 10,000 people, plus more than 10,000 puppet troops, more than 20,000 troops, even if the puppet army is weak in combat, it is impossible to have no guard force. She thought of a way, and since that was the case, she would send back a detachment. Although it was a division, there were only four brigades of more than 6,000 people.

For these reasons, Xue Yue was asked to send troops to support. Originally, he didn't expect Xue Yue to send so many people, so he decided to use the long-term arrangement that he had left behind.

When the Japanese army occupied Nanchang, it took two days to dare to enter Nanchang, and they almost turned Nanchang over, because they were worried that Snow Fox would leave the arrangement to attack again. For the cunning Snow Fox Corps, the Japanese army was suspicious and suspicious of anything. It was not until the Japanese army determined that there was no arrangement on both sides of the city gate on the city wall, and there was no *.

Major General Akiki Uemura separated a division of the puppet army and defended the four city walls with his brigade, because he was worried that the puppet army would not be able to fight well, and the defense force still relied on his own imperial army.

In the direction of each city gate was a brigade of Japanese troops and a regiment of puppet troops, so that there were two or three thousand people on each side, leaving a brigade to defend the city center and headquarters, and a part of the puppet army became a security army to assist the gendarmes in guarding and defending the people in the city.

The people of Nanchang ran out at the beginning, and there were still not many people at this time, less than half of what they were under normal circumstances, and it seemed a little quiet. When the 32nd and 79th Divisions of the Chinese Army appeared under the city of Nanchang, Akiki Uemura was not too worried, for these two divisions fought from Shanghai to Nanjing, and from Wuhan to the present, they were also old rivals, and everyone knew what each other's abilities and combat effectiveness were.

The casualties of the two divisions after the outer defense battle were not small, and the number of troops was less than 20,000, so Akiki Uemura was not worried at all. These troops are still unable to attack Nanchang, and the most important thing is that the Chinese army has a limited air force, insufficient artillery, and the defense can still hold out, and the attack on the city is too far away.

Moreover, according to the spy report, the Chinese army is preparing ladders, that is, they are planning to attack the city. If they can't take it in a day, the Japanese planes can defeat them.

After receiving the report, Okamura Ninji ordered Major General Akiki Uemura to hold Nanchang to hold Nanchang and contain the attacking troops, and at the same time ordered the 6th Division, the 106th Division, and the 33rd Division to intensify their offensive and definitely capture the defensive line and capture Changsha.

As long as Xue Yue's troops are defeated and Changsha is obtained, Hunan will not be a problem. Even if Xue Yue captures Nanchang, he can't solve the problem. Akiki Uemura continued to strengthen his defense and prepare supplies.

There was one thing he didn't calculate, that is, the Nara detachment of the 13th Mixed Brigade of the Strange Soldiers he sent was ambushed in the Shinfeng River, the whole army was annihilated, and even the brigade commander was killed.

In this way, Xue Yue freed up the last reserve to draw out two divisions of troops, from the gap in the Japanese attack, into the city of Nanchang, and then a little beyond the calculation of the Japanese army, this kind of large-scale interspersed, direct attack behind the enemy's action, the Chinese army will not do it, they have always been passive defense.

In fact, it is not to blame the Japanese army for thinking so, if the national army had done this earlier, the Japanese army may not have been so easy, and it will inevitably get the east and lose the west, and no matter how much it occupies, it will also be lost.

But the Chinese army just didn't do that, where the imperial army attacked, they defended, but only fought the imperial army head-on, and most of the troops were killed and wounded under the aircraft artillery. Some counties do not have many troops at all, and some big cities are just a wing, a brigade, if the Chinese army attacks, how can it stop the attack of the national army? It's a pity that the sluggish Chinese army will put up a frontal resistance.

The CCP army, which knows this tactic, has insufficient offensive strength because of its small number of troops, poor equipment, and less ammunition. Therefore, once the Japanese army occupies an area, it does not worry at all, it can command a heavy attack, and there is no need to leave too many troops behind.

In North China and Shanxi, the Japanese army could only leave one or two divisions within an area of tens of thousands of square miles. There was only one 22nd Division and one mixed brigade in the whole territory of Shanxi, but it controlled all parts of the Tongpu Railway and Taiyuan.

But this time Xue Yue also learned the tactics of the snow fox, and the 79th and 32nd divisions entered the vicinity of Nanchang and did not launch an attack on Nanchang, but launched operations around Nanchang with divisional and brigade-level units. Nanchang County, Xinjian, Jiaogan, Qingyun, Yugan, Wannian, Xinfeng, Gao'an and Anyi counties were lost one after another, and the two divisions swept through the counties around Nanchang like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves.

In just a few days, Nanchang became an isolated city, and Akiki Uemura didn't dare to move, if Nanchang was lost, he couldn't afford it. But the surrounding counties were lost, and he had a hard time in Nanchang.

Okamura Ninji was also a little dizzy. Xue Yue's use of troops was indeed unusual, disrupting his deployment, if the back road was cut off and Nanchang was lost, the possibility of the Japanese army attacking Changsha did not exist.

Okamura Ninji, who had already taken his headquarters into Xianning, was very irritable, and these actions were enough to affect his battle plan, and the three divisions attacking could fail and be surrounded. Okamura Ninji, who had a gloomy face in the headquarters, paced back and forth, and even Yoshimoto Sadaji didn't dare to speak, and the other personnel were even more cautious, for fear of provoking the commander to be punished.

At this time, the surrounding situation, watching the national army retreat one after another, but because of the continuous retreat, the Japanese army attacked forward, and the back was empty, and gradually became a lone army deep, and the extra troops were commanded by Xue Yue to attack his back and flank, and the Japanese army had to stop the attack and guard the rear.

Yoshimoto Sadaji thought for a while and said, "Your Excellency Commander, I think stop the attack and let the troops come back!" Otherwise, not only will Changsha not be able to be occupied, but Jiangxi will also be in danger behind. ”

Okamura understood that this attack was to boost morale, and if it did not achieve its goal, it would reduce morale. But he can't afford to lose too much, which will lower morale even more. Just when he hesitated: "Report" The Japanese staff officer came over: "Report to the commander, I just received a report that the 13th Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Army was ambushed by the Snow Fox Corps in the Xinfeng River, and the whole army was annihilated, and General Nara was broken. ”

Okamura Ninji's footsteps stopped, the pencil in his hand fell to the ground, and his face changed at that time. He had been waiting for news, thinking that Nara Kawa Xiong could create a miracle, as long as he attacked Changsha, he could make Xue Yue fail, but ......,

He slammed his fist on the table: "Baga, snow fox, snow fox again." ”

Okamura Ninji found out that he had lost at the hands of this snow fox every time. I have always wondered how the Chinese army became smarter this time, and why did it become different from the original tactics? It turned out that this woman was cheating. Xue Yue and Xue Ru have a close relationship, and it seems that this time it is Xue Ru who is in command.

She gradually became a senior commander of the national army from a small captain, and I heard that the Snow Fox Corps had become two divisions, and Xue Ru was transferred to Guangxi as the director of the camp, and I thought that she had fallen out of favor again and lost her military power, but she didn't expect to hide behind the scenes and command the Ninth War Zone, which made Okamura Ningji a little scared.

Sadaji Yoshimoto was even more worried: "Commander......." Okamura Ninji raised his hand, he wanted to say that if he wanted to attack forcibly, he must take Changsha, but he hesitated and said: "Order the 106th Division and the 6th Division to stop the attack and return, surround the troops on the periphery of Nanchang, and stabilize the occupied area." The 33rd Division continued to attack Changsha, maintaining pressure to contain the Chinese counteroffensive. ”

Sadaji Yoshimoto understood, and the commander had admitted defeat. At this time, the two divisions came back, and there were only two divisions around Nanchang, which could not hold on. Although Changsha was not captured, Jiangxi was not lost and must be restored to a normal state. Immediately order the two divisions to stop the offensive and return again to clear the Chinese troops around Nanchang.

The report of the staff officer of the "report" surprised Xue Yue, there was no news of Wu Yizhi going to Fuzhou, the Japanese attack was very fierce, although the 30th Group Army Hu Zongnan's headquarters entered the battle, but the Japanese army broke through the defense line to enter Liuyang, Miluo, and Pingjiang, and then broke through the last line of defense and attacked Changsha, but Changsha was bound to lose if its last reserve was above the front line.

Why didn't Snow Fox have a way to capture Nanchang this time? In this case, why did Xue Ru let himself send two armies into Nanchang, what is the use of cleaning up the surrounding counties? So the staff officer's report surprised him.

The staff officer said: "I just received a report from the front that the Japanese 106th Division and the 6th Division suddenly stopped the offensive and retreated, and the 33rd Division strengthened its attack. ”

Xue Yue walked to the map in one step, stared at the map for a long time, and suddenly laughed: "Little fox, give me a problem, give me a ...... order."

The staff officer behind him immediately straightened up and picked up the record book. Xue Yue said: "Order the First Army to attack north to block the 33rd Division, and the 15th Group will concentrate its forces to pursue with the Japanese 106th Division, attack west at Pingjiang and Tonggu, and sweep away the surrounding districts and counties to regain lost territory." The 19th Group Army pursued the 6th Division in the direction of Xiushui and Yongxiu and encircled Nanchang. The 27th Group Army attacked in the direction of Zaoxiang and Yichun, detoured to the direction of Zhangshu and Fengcheng, and advanced to attack the Wuning area and enter the border of Mufu Mountain. ”

"Yes" The staff officer did not know why the commander was happy, but this was a full-scale counteroffensive, which meant that the defense of Changsha was victorious. The national army has been fighting against the Japanese army for so long, and has not yet defeated the Japanese army, and when the defense war is won, as long as the place where the Japanese army attacks, no matter how long it lasts, it will eventually fall

Xue Yue shook his head, only now did he understand the reason why Xue Ru had planned like this.