On March 29, 1941, Du Fu Thatched Cottage, the former enemy headquarters of the New First Army

"Are all the pigs on the Wushan Fort? Such an important stronghold was actually taken away by the paratrooper commandos, this is simply a shame, a shame for the soldiers! Li Yunlong angrily scolded, although the Japanese navy had destroyed a lot of artillery on Wushan before, but the fortifications of the fort and its surroundings had always been in the hands of our army, and the highest authorities had not mobilized an elite infantry division and coastal defense artillery brigade stationed here when the battle was at its most intense.

I don't want to be at the moment when Li Yunlong and Anan Wei fought a bloody battle in Zhongxian, but a partial division of the Japanese army took Wushan Fort lightly and silently, so that Li Yunlong and they all advanced to Fengjie before they got a war report from the Ministry of Military Affairs.

"It is really a good calculation to take the initiative to give up Fengjie County, which has no danger to defend, concentrate on defending Wushan Tianxian, and lay a nail at the east gate of the mountain city." Xie Jinyuan, deputy chief of staff of the New First Army, said that until they recaptured Fengjie County, the war briefings showed that the Japanese army had put on a posture to defend Fengjie to the death, and the newspapers even clearly marked the locations and troop deployments of many of the Japanese army's technical weapons.

However, the actual situation is that there are only tens of thousands of puppet army routs and tens of thousands of Fengjie and its surrounding areas in Fengjie's defense line, and the weapons and equipment are all captured food and tattered on the battlefield.

However, the main force of tens of thousands of Japanese troops and nearly 100,000 elite puppet troops retreated to Wushan, taking advantage of the natural dangers of Wushan and the Little Three Gorges to confront our army.

"With this density of fortifications and terrain conditions, our armored forces cannot be deployed at all, and the artillery group cannot be deployed." Ding Wei looked at the photos taken by the reconnaissance planes on the table and said worriedly.

"The military rations captured by the devils in the six war zones are enough for them to eat for three months, and the defenders of Wushan have just been resupplied, so they can hold out on Wushan for at least four months." It was Zhang Zhonglin who spoke, who had been very cool recently, commanding the armored cluster to come several times in depth and outflanking, if it weren't for his fierce attack, maybe the Japanese army would really have a chance to fight the national army again in Fengjie.

"Three months? The Japanese will certainly not keep all their youth and strength after repairing the fortifications, and maybe they will eat 'rice meat' at that time, and if the factor of combat attrition is taken into account, they can hold out for half a year. It was Qiu Qingquan who spoke, and he said that he would let him play the main attack during the Fengjie Festival, and he really wanted to show his face, but he didn't want to meet Anan Weiji's empty city plan, which made him extremely awkward.

"According to the news from the Anti-War League, the Japanese army's imperial meeting has ended, and the Japanese army's general staff headquarters plans to send 200,000 elite Kwantung Army elites to the south, and at the same time, the naval command will also mobilize no less than 300 of the latest Zero fighters to Hankou and Jiujiang to fully support Anan Weiji, in a vain attempt to fight a decisive battle with our army in the eastern Sichuan region, seize the mountain city in one fell swoop, and force the government to surrender." Ding Wei continued.

This battle of Anan Weiji definitely broke the stagnant situation on the battlefield in China, and rekindled the hope of the Japanese monarchs and ministers who had already lost confidence in the complete destruction of China, and decided to gamble on the 200,000 Kwantung Army again, plus the strength in the hands of Anan Weiji, close to 300,000 Japanese troops and more than 100,000 puppet troops, it was definitely the largest battle on the Chinese battlefield since the start of the war.

"Can't give them time, order the Air Force, use napalm, burn! Burn it for Lao Tzu, I want to see if these little devils are afraid! Li Yunlong said categorically, even if the ground troops were to be sent to forcibly attack the Japanese army in Wushan, the necessary artillery preparations were also necessary, and the artillery group could not be deployed for the time being, so the air force could only go first.

Kong Jie smashed his mouth, wanting to remind him that there were still a large number of civilians on the mountain, but he couldn't say anything when the words came to his mouth, this is war, it has reached the point of life and death, how can he hesitate because of these? After the end of the war, compatriots can naturally ask Japan for this enmity.

The Air Force's B-25 bomber group appeared over Wushan after a while, hundreds of tons of napalm poured down, the Japanese army's main position in Wushan was instantly engulfed by burning flames, and the fire ignited the forest, Wushan in March and April was still relatively dry, and the effect of napalm was maximized in this case.

Although it is far away from Wushan, everyone in the headquarters of the New First Army still faintly feels that there is a trace of barbecue aroma in the air, as for what kind of meat it is, it is self-evident, the forest is ignited, the earth has become hot, even the stones on the surface have melted, and there is no longer a trace of life on the bustling main position of Wushan.

If it weren't for a spring rain that night extinguished the mountain fire, I am afraid that the entire Wushan would have been ignited by this fire, just like the Yellow River bursting.

The next day, Xie Baoqing's headquarters of the 69th Provisional Division tried to launch an attack on the main Japanese position in Wushan, but just when they thought that victory was in sight, a large number of firepower points suddenly appeared on the main position of Wushan in a scorched earth, and began to fire fiercely at the attacking troops, during which Xie Baoqing was seriously wounded in the chest by a 6.5 mm reduced-charge rifle bullet, and our army's first attack had to be terminated.

It was only at this time that the newly formed First Army got the defense blueprints of the Wushan fortress area, and Li Yunlong was so angry that the huge Wushan underground was about to be hollowed out by the garrison, and the use of incendiary bombs alone could not threaten the core of the fortress area, even if it was the use of heavy bombs.

"Damn, how did the little devil take it, a wing of people can do it, and there is no reason why Lao Tzu can't do it with an army." Li Yunlong scratched his head angrily, feeling that he was so useless, the same artillery group and tank group could not be deployed, the devil has naval superiority, but he also has air superiority.

"According to the latest information from the Military Command Bureau, the devils used at least 100 tons of poison gas bombs in the preparation stage of artillery fire, the defenders were killed and wounded, and the withdrawn troops did not even have a single formation." Xie Jinyuan put an intelligence report on the table in front of everyone, he was more depressed than everyone's emotions, two of his classmates were martyred in the first battle of Wushan, and there were fewer and fewer classmates in the same period, alas!

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