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Chapter 510: The thief Bo Tian retreats

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    Following Li Guoyao's order, more than 13,000 people from the 61st Army's Temporary Seventh Division all boarded the ship, and then sailed down the Yangtze River to Jiujiang.

    At the same time, the remaining troops of the 61st Army set off overnight and headed towards the Lion Rock.

    Yong'an is less than thirty kilometers away from Jiujiang City, and at the speed of naval ships going down the river, it only takes half an hour.

    At 4:30 in the morning, the Seventh Division and all naval ships arrived on the river outside Jiujiang City!

    ¡°Then the fleet lined up on the Jiujiang River and launched a fierce bombardment against the river defense positions and docks stationed by the Japanese army.

    At the same time, dozens of small landing craft were released from the warships, and the main force of the 7th Division began to land.

    Since Chuichi Namada never dreamed that the Chinese would counterattack Jiujiang from the Yangtze River behind Jiujiang, only one brigade of defenders was left in the city.  The total strength was less than a thousand, and the rest of the troops followed him to the front line of Lion Rock.

    Half of the more than a thousand defenders were deployed along the Xunyang River, because this was the only supply point for the Botian detachment, and the rest were all in the urban area.

    It is a pity that these Japanese troops suffered heavy losses in the first round of shelling and were quickly annihilated in the subsequent landing battle.

    After occupying Jiujiang Pier, the 7th Division began to attack the entire Jiujiang city.

    At this time, there were only less than 500 defenders left in Nuo City.  How could we stop this tiger and wolf army under Li Guoyao? By five o'clock in the morning, the entire Jiujiang was recovered by Li Guoyao's troops.

    After regaining Jiujiang, Li Guoyao did not let the troops rest and recuperate. Instead, he left a regiment of troops to guard Jiujiang. At the same time, he eliminated the remaining enemies in the city, cleaned the battlefield, and counted the loot.

    And he personally led the rest of the troops to Lion Rock, fifty kilometers away from Jiujiang, where he wanted to encircle and annihilate the Botian detachment.

    Hatazushige, who was on the front line of Lion Rock, already knew that Jiujiang had been attacked and the defenders suffered heavy losses. After receiving the news, Hatada was shocked.

    ??The Chinese army actually came from the Yangtze River. How is this possible?

    You must know that the 11th team is on the Yangtze River. If a large number of ships pass by them, will Kondo Eijiro remain indifferent?

    But no matter what, the defeat of Jiujiang City has become an established fact. Namada Juichi no longer dwells on this, and immediately ordered the frontline troops to retreat.

    Namada Juichi knew very well that if he continued to stay here, he would probably be attacked from both front and rear by the Chinese defenders, and by then his troops would be unable to fly.

    It is the wisest choice to jump out of the encirclement before the Japanese army has completed the encirclement. Of course, this is the only thing he can do at the moment.

    However, Namada Chuichi did not order the troops to retreat south, but to withdraw to Jiujiang City along the original route. He wanted to counterattack Jiujiang.

    As the commander of the Namada detachment, Namada Juichi¡¯s tactical command level is still very high, so he can naturally see the danger of this move.

    However, through reports from the troops left behind in Jiujiang, Namada Juichi learned that the number of Chinese troops who landed did not seem to be very large, only a few thousand.

    This gave Juichi Namada hope. He was still very confident in the combat effectiveness of his troops. Based on their past combat experience, if the Namada detachment let go of its hands and feet, it could easily win a head-on confrontation with 10,000 Chinese defenders.

    In addition, this sudden Chinese force has just occupied Jiujiang and has not yet established a firm foothold. It should be easy to defeat or even annihilate them by counterattacking Jiujiang at this time.

    More importantly, Namada Shigeichi looked at the map carefully. Because he underestimated the enemy and rushed forward, there are now a large number of Chinese defenders to the west and south. To the north is the natural danger of the Yangtze River, and the only direction to retreat is to the east.

    In addition, the 11th Army Headquarters is currently stationed at Hukou in the lower reaches of Jiujiang. The nearest unit is less than 60 kilometers away from Jiujiang. If you take a car, you can get there in one and a half hours at most.

    Therefore, no matter how you look at it, retreating eastward is their only way to survive.

    Li Guoyao did not expect that Juichi Namada would choose to counterattack Jiujiang at this time, and Juichi Namada did not expect that Li Guoyao's army would have such a big appetite. After taking Jiujiang, he still wanted to annihilate them, so the two armies were on the same road.  They drove over face to face.

    Naturally, the sudden withdrawal of Japanese troops on the Lion Rock front line could not be concealed from the Chinese defenders, especially the sudden withdrawal in the middle of the night. This made Wang Lingji, commander-in-chief of the 30th Group Army, a little confused.

    Before dark, the Japanese army also conducted several attacks on their positions, and even conducted a large-scale attack.The regimental charge did not seem to be a sign of withdrawal.

    ??Besides, although the Botian detachment suffered a lot of losses in the two days of attacks, the main force is still there, the combat effectiveness is still very strong, and there is no problem of weakened attack power.

    More importantly, news came on the afternoon of the 28th that the main force of the Japanese Third Fleet suddenly cleared the waterway west of Jiujiang and appeared on the Yongan front line, and launched a several-hour shelling of the 61st Army of the Eighth Route Army stationed in Yongan.

    According to intelligence, the Japanese army even used 300mm naval guns to bombard the 61st Army's positions.  Although there are no specific casualty reports coming from there, it is conceivable that under such fierce bombardment, Li Guoyao's troops must have suffered heavy losses.

    The intention of the Japanese army to flank Ruichang's back was quite obvious, because the Ninth War Zone deployed two divisions of troops north of the Ruichang Great Wall to prevent the Japanese army from suddenly approaching the city after breaking through the 61st Army's position.

    According to this logical inference, there is absolutely no possibility of the Japanese army withdrawing their troops. They have even imagined that the Japanese army will definitely strengthen their offensive tomorrow. For this reason, Wang Lingji specially sent a request for assistance to the Second Corps headquarters after dark, requesting artillery fire and air defense.  aspects of support.

    But I didn¡¯t expect that the Japanese would withdraw before they woke up, and they withdrew in such a hurry that many marching tents were still left in the temporary campsites.

    Originally they thought it was a Japanese plan, but it turned out not to be the case. The scouts they sent came back and reported that the Japanese troops had indeed withdrawn, and they did not even have time to take away the bodies of the dead.

    You must know that the Japanese army attaches great importance to the remains of the fallen. In the tradition of the Japanese army, abandoning corpses on the battlefield is harmful to the sense of belonging of the soldiers and will seriously affect the morale of the troops. In addition, the Japanese army is very face-saving.  "Considering this, the remains of the fallen will also be disposed of in a timely manner.

    Normally, the Japanese army follows a complete system in dealing with the dead.  Generally, the corpses of the fallen are burned into bones immediately on the battlefield and carried in urns; after the war has come to an end, commanders at all levels will personally preside over and hold a large-scale mourning ceremony, and then choose an opportunity to transport them back to Japan.  Buried and enshrined in a shrine.

    If there is a disastrous battle and it is difficult to dispose of the complete body in time, officers will cut off an arm or a hand, and soldiers will cut off a hand or a finger, and then use a special "chemical burning blanket" or simply put firewood on it to burn the remains.

    When the Chinese army counterattacked, the retreating Japanese soldiers still carried urns wrapped in white cloth around their necks. A widely sung military song by the Japanese army during the war was "Embracing the Bones of Comrades in Arms". Unless they suffered a disastrous defeat,  The situation cannot be dealt with in time, otherwise the body will never be abandoned.

    "Now the little Japs can't even dispose of their own bodies. That's obviously not intentional. Something big must have happened in their rear areas, so that these Japs soldiers have abandoned even the most basic principles.

    Not to mention that the 13th Army was gathering troops to pursue the retreating Botian Detachment, but the 61st Army and the Botian Detachment met unexpectedly at Lion Rock in southwest Jiujiang, and a thrilling encounter began.

    In view of this, Wang Lingji did not dare to neglect, and immediately ordered the frontline troops to immediately send out advanced soldiers to conduct investigations along the direction of the Japanese retreat. It was necessary to find out why the little Japanese retreated.

    But what happened next left Wang Lingji stunned. The Japs actually fought a bloody battle with a mysterious armed force in Dajianshan, and even discovered a huge armed force on the north side of their 30th Group Army.

    Commander-in-Chief Wang was shocked by the sudden change. He immediately ordered the troops to shrink their forces, and at the same time reported the situation to the Second Corps headquarters behind and requested instructions.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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