Chapter 657: Fill Yourself In!
In the early morning of September 4, the devils arrived as promised, as the Japanese army's A division, they were on the bar with the 11th Division, and the 35th and 36th Wings still put the direction of attack on the positions of the 61st and 66th Regiments.
It's not that they don't want to break through from the position of the Sichuan army, but the position of the 11th Division is too critical, if they dare to bypass it, once they are stuck by the Sichuan army, they will be outflanked by the 11th Division from behind, and the advantage of troops in a short period of time can wipe out all the troops they bypassed, which is the deterrent brought to them by the elite troops.
Headquarters, after Feng Ye rested for a day and a night, he continued to be a student in high spirits, learning the abilities of the staff officers in the command, these things, he learned when he was in the military academy, but he hadn't been in contact with it for a long time, and he was already a lot unfamiliar.
"Brigade commander, Deputy Division Commander Ye is calling."
The staff officer delivered a telegram.
"Whew!"
Mei Chunhua let out a sigh of relief after reading it, but her frowning brows did not expand.
"It will take three more days, if the devil continues to maintain this offensive, the 11th Division will be finished!"
Mei Chunhua slapped the table.
"Send a telegram to the division commander and continue to ask for reinforcements."
Mei Chunhua asked the signal soldiers to continue to telegraph for help.
Since this morning, the devil's attack has been very fierce, and the four remnants of the regiment, according to yesterday's tactics, have fought with the devil on a par, but behind the devil there is a steady stream of reinforcements, and he can't even see the shadow of the reinforcements now.
"Feng Yi, Luo Xianda's 62nd Regiment is in a bad situation now, you are ready to support the 62nd Regiment."
Mei Chunhua beckoned Feng Yi, there are not many people left in the direct battalion now, but he has no other troops to assign, so he can only let the people in the direct battalion take over.
"Brigade commander, I'm fine, but we're leaving, what about the safety of the headquarters?"
Feng Yi asked suspiciously, here, he didn't see any other guard troops, not even recruits.
"This kind of battle, it doesn't have to last too long, in two days, there will be no need for this command to exist, and then it will be my turn to fill in."
Mei Chunhua smiled bitterly, he had already reported this difficult situation to Peng Shan, but the battle situation was like this, maybe Peng Shan had no other way.
On 4 September, the four regiments at the front were very bitter, and in the bloody battle, the platoon commanders of the 62nd and 65th regiments had already suffered more than half of the casualties, and the combat effectiveness of the two regiments was lost half at once.
"Give me the thirty-third brigade Wang Yan."
In the evening, after receiving the battle damage report from the four regiment commanders, Mei Chunhua couldn't stay stunned and directly asked the communication soldier to connect the phone.
"Brigade Commander Wang, I'm Mei Chunhua."
picked up the phone, Mei Chunhua revealed his identity.
"The battalion directly under the 31st Brigade is now not even one company, and your direct battalion should have two more companies; Starting tomorrow, there will be no forward command, I will take the personnel of the battalion and brigade headquarters directly under me to the position of the 61st Regiment, and if there is a situation, contact the division headquarters directly by telegram! ”
Mei Chunhua said helplessly on the phone, until now, he didn't understand why he was the person in charge of the forward command, no one didn't add, how could he fight?
"Communications staff, remove the stitches."
"Feng Yi, pull out the camp, we will go to Biwang Mountain overnight."
Mei Chunhua didn't wait for Wang Yan to complain, hung up the phone directly, and directly asked the staff officer and Feng Yi to start preparing for the camp.
"Wait, don't tear it down yet!"
When Mei Chunhua walked out of the command post, Feng Yi stopped the communication staff officer from removing the threads.
"Battalion Commander Feng, what's wrong?"
The communications staff officer frowned.
"Stupid! The brigade commander is going to Biwang Mountain, does Commander Long know? ”
Feng asked.
"I haven't said it yet."
The communications staff officer shook his head.
"Immediately connect with Commander Long and ask him to prepare the brigade headquarters bunker immediately, and he must be safe."
Feng Yi reminded the communications staff officer.
"Oh! Thank you Camp Commander Feng for the reminder. ”
The communications staff officer nodded, indicating that he understood.
After doing his own thing, Feng Yi strode out of the command post, and he wanted to organize the brothers to make preparations before departure.
The supplies of the brigade headquarters do not need to be moved by Feng Ye and the brothers in person, the pack horses and logistics personnel are enough, a large amount of materials have been consumed in the battle, and the brigade headquarters does not have much left.
More than 150 remnants of the battalion directly under the battalion accompanied the logistics personnel and staff officers of the brigade headquarters, and under Mei Chunhua's strict order, they marched towards Biwang Mountain.
In fact, the current battle situation on the front line of Ruichang and De'an has made the theater command hesitate, Xue Yue's First Corps firmly blocked the two divisions of the devil in the Mahuiling area, and the 11th Division and the 30th Group Army also made a breakthrough on the Ruichang line. Here are mountains and hills, which are beneficial to the squadron.
However, what the theater did not expect was that the 27th Division of the Japanese Army would soon arrive at the battlefield and attack the Ruining Highway; The 31st Army and the 32nd Army Corps assembled in the theater of operations will soon also encounter the enemy, and the troops counterattacking Ruichang will soon be unable to defend themselves.
And the Japanese army is also having a headache now, they originally wanted to take Wuhan with a thunderbolt and force the Chinese government to surrender, but the result is that the fight is becoming more and more difficult.
In order to take Wuhan, the Japanese army gathered heavy troops this time, including 14 divisions, the 3rd Fleet of the Navy and the Air Regiment, and more than 250,000 people, about 120 ships of various types, and about 300 aircraft of various types directly participated in the Wuhan operation.
Japan is an island country, all kinds of resources are lacking, what they are most afraid of is to fight a war of attrition, the daily consumption of weapons and ammunition on the battlefield, the rear medical supplies are astronomical, with their own material reserves, if the war continues to stalemate, the situation will deteriorate, this is what they do not want to see.
In particular, the 6th Brigade changed its battle plan without authorization, not only did it not make the battle smooth, but on the contrary, it made the offensive on the south bank of the Yangtze River fall into a worse situation.
"The 9th Division must break through the Chinese position in front of it within three days, provide cover for the 27th Division's southward attack, and continue to advance west along the Yangtze River, while threatening the ...... of Nanchang and Wuhan."
A telegram from the commander Okamura Ninji was placed in front of Lieutenant General Yoshizumi Ryosuke, who now had to pay the price for his sloppiness.
"Yaga! Opposite us is the elite of the Chinese, the Eleventh Division! ”
"There are no special ammunition, no aviation, no heavy artillery, so let's break through the positions in front of us, do we rely on the corpses of the warriors?"
Yoshizumi Ryosuke slapped the table, two consecutive days of attack operations, the 35th Wing and the 36th Wing have suffered nearly 500 casualties, and if such a mountain is consumed one by one, he estimates that the Ninth Division does not need to go to Wuhan, and the jade can be declared broken in this mountain.