March 12, 1941, Qijiang County, the headquarters of the 68th Division of the National Revolutionary Army

"Damn, the first person in Huangpu, shit, let a fool command, the Sixth War Zone will not collapse so quickly, it is twenty Central Army training divisions, ten Sichuan Army divisions, three heavy artillery regiments, and 300,000 troops." Li Yunlong jumped to his feet and scolded in the headquarters.

At the beginning, when the Japanese army launched an attack from Yichang, Li Yunlong didn't take it seriously, tens of thousands of tired little devils, attacking hundreds of thousands of elite national troops who were waiting for the battle, even if they could achieve results, they would definitely suffer heavy losses, and breaking the first line of defense of the national army would be almost over.

But in fact? The assault group composed of Lieutenant General Anan Weiji's poor armored forces of the 11th Army actually tore through the defense line of the national army at once, and it took only three hours from the first shot to tear through the defense line of the national army.

As for the national army opposite the Japanese army, it was equipped with 300 tanks alone, including "high-grade goods" such as Valentine infantry tanks, but it was useless, and the hundreds of tanks were almost completely left to the devils.

At that time, Lieutenant General Anan was almost silly when he took pictures on the front line, and when attacking the second line of defense of the national army, the Japanese army used a lot of captured tanks, and even simply forced the prisoners of war of the national army to drive tanks to charge our defense line, which had a great impact on the defenders of the second line of defense.

There is also the fort near Fengjie, the Sixth Theater actually handed over all the defense of the fort to the fortress artillery and the marines, and all the precious anti-aircraft firepower was kept to protect its own headquarters, and not even a battalion was assigned to the battery, which was the contribution of the aviation of Yamamoto's troops.

After the loss of the fort, Hu Shoushan did not estimate the scale of the amphibious operation of the devils, leaving only a broken Sichuan division in Fengjie, and in the face of the impact of the devil marines, in just one round, the Sichuan division, which was seriously lacking heavy weapons, collapsed under the blow of the Japanese naval guns.

The most infuriating thing was that a heavy artillery regiment of the Central Army, which was on standby, sternly refused to cooperate with the Sichuan army in battle, on the grounds that it was worried that it would be retaliated by the Japanese navy.

In the next battle of the sixth theater of war against Fengjie County, this heavy artillery regiment equipped with M1910 122 mm howitzers caused great losses to the counteroffensive troops, and what is even more ridiculous is that the counteroffensive troops did not have any decent heavy weapons in their hands, and could only rely on a few artillery battalions equipped with Shanghai-made Krupp 75 mountain guns, which were wiped out in a short time.

The loss of Fengjie was not only to divide the defense area of the Sixth War Zone in two, but more importantly, Anan Yuji obtained almost everything he needed here, weapons, ammunition, food, vehicles, and even very convenient individual rations.

Before taking Fengjie, the front-line troops of the Japanese Eleventh Army had only three days' rations, and the field troops could only get two rice balls doped with soybean meal before the attack.

"Lao Li, don't worry, didn't the Ministry of Military Affairs send reinforcements? The Ninth Theater also began a diversion war, and the situation was not so bad. Ding Wei looked at the map and said that judging from the current strength and weapon configuration, the national army still has a great advantage.

"Lao Ding, what is the use of the map, when did we not maintain an advantage over the devils, but when was it not pressed to the ground and beaten by others, the reinforced troops were not handed over to Hu Shoushan for command, do you understand that 'what is incompetent, tired to death of the three armies'?" Li Yunlong shook his head helplessly, he really couldn't understand, obviously he had lost more than 100,000 troops and a large number of heavy weapons, and the highest authority still trusted Hu Shoushan, and cobbled together more than 100,000 troops from near the mountain city to support Hu Shoushan, and even the navy and air force units were transferred to the Sixth War Zone.

"Lao Li, that Hu Shoushan is also a classmate of the brigade commander, and it is said that his grades are better than those of the brigade commander, so he won't even be able to cope with this situation, right?" Ding Wei was reminded by Li Yunlong that he didn't feel the bottom in his heart, if the hundreds of thousands of troops were also buried, the mountain city would be really empty, thinking that the Japanese army would fight all the way to the mountain city, he actually had a chilling feeling.

"Lao Li, it's not good, the navy was defeated, the seaplane carrier Ding'an was injured and stranded, the Tongde, Yining, and Weining were sunk, the Chuguan and Chu Qian were seriously injured, and our navy is finished." At this time, Kong Jie pushed the door and broke in.

It turned out that as soon as he obtained the command of the naval fleet, Hu Shoushan ordered the navy to cover the counterattack of the troops of the Sixth Theater of Operations on Fengjie; in his opinion, there were no large warships that the Japanese army could drive to Fengjie, and the batteries along the river were also destroyed.

But Hu Shoushan didn't count the ground artillery fire of the devil, that is, the heavy artillery group of the captured sixth theater, M1910 122 mm howitzer, B-4 M1931 203 mm heavy howitzer, M14/M16 100mm gun, 75 miss, the Japanese army concentrated hundreds of captured artillery to assist the navy in the operation, and the intensive artillery fire instantly annihilated the naval fleet.

But even if this is the case, I am afraid that I will not be able to count on the navy in a short period of time, after all, except for the Chu Guan and Chu Qian, the remaining small gunboats and torpedo boats are probably not the opponents of the devil warships.

"One general is incompetent, tired to death of the three armies, Lao Li, really let your kid say it." After listening to the information brought by Kong Jie, Ding Wei also felt very powerless, how long has it been, and the small fleet of the navy, which was still full of scenery last month, was almost disabled.

"Look, this is just the beginning, this little bit of the highest authority's family will be sold out sooner or later by the son of a loser." Li Yunlong pursed his lips, his brows furrowed even tighter, without the navy's response, the situation in the sixth theater would be even more dangerous.

On the same day, the Japanese army began to airdrop its paratroopers into the hinterland of Sichuan Province on a scale of detachments and squads, and launched a large-scale sabotage operation against transportation hubs, bridges, and other places, although it did not cause any great casualties to the national army, and even the airborne troops themselves were quickly annihilated, but they still paralyzed several major highways in Sichuan Province, and they could not be restored in ten days and half a month.

At the same time as the paratroopers launched a sabotage attack, the Japanese Army Air Force sent a bomber formation to make a detour through Guizhou Province and break into Sichuan Province, bombing several shipping wharves in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, destroying a large number of wharf facilities, and sinking and damaging hundreds of large and small ships.

On the night of 14 March, the Japanese Army Aviation Corps, under the guidance of agents of the Special High Division, carried out a large-scale bombing of the mountain castle, although most of the bombs used by the Japanese army were crude cast iron bombs produced in Jinling or Hankou, and they were filled with nitrocellulose starch, but this did not affect the morale of the people in the slightest.

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