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Chapter 518: Honghua Ridge

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    Li Guoyao has long been fond of the 106th Division commanded by Matsuura Junrokuro, not because of how awesome the opponent is, but because this division is definitely a soft persimmon among all Japanese troops, so easy to pinch!

    As a special B division, the 106th Division can definitely be regarded as a famous presence in China, because Xue Yue's famous battle, the Battle of Wanjialing, was fought against this Matsuura Division.

    It is worth mentioning that the reason why the Matsuura Division was almost annihilated in the Battle of Wanjialing was due to Neji Okamura's amazing assist.

    We mentioned earlier that Okamura Neiji took advantage of the failure of Sun Chuanfang's troops to steal a map of Central China. For this, he was rewarded by the military. In addition to being promoted, he also received a large bonus.

    Okamura Neiji thought he had gained an unexpected fortune, but he never expected that 12 years later, it would be this picture that killed more than 10,000 Japanese officers and soldiers, and these more than 10,000 officers and soldiers were members of  Matsuura Division.

    It is said that when the Wuhan battle was at its most tense, Okamura Neiji sent a total of more than 50,000 troops from the 27th Division and the 9th Division to attack from the direction of Nanxun Road in an attempt to outflank Wuhan from the south.

    Xue Yue quickly mobilized heavy troops to intercept the invading enemies on Nanxun Road. However, during the troop mobilization, a gap of more than ten kilometers wide accidentally appeared between Nanxun Road and Ruiwu Road. This situation was discovered by the reconnaissance team sent by the Japanese army.  The machine was discovered.

    At this time, the Japanese army encountered tenacious resistance from the Chinese army on the front battlefield and made little progress. Neji Okamura was overjoyed when he received the news. He immediately ordered the 106th Division to set out lightly, slip through the gap, and launch a surprise attack on the Chinese army's flanks and rear.  The frontal Japanese attack wiped out the main force of the Ninth Theater Corps in one fell swoop.

    After receiving the order, the commander of the 106th Division, Junroku Matsuura, ordered the soldiers to carry 200 rounds of ammunition and six days of rations each, replace the draft horses with pack horses, install all heavy machine guns, disassembled mountain cannons and other heavy weapons, and then  Dive into the high mountains and ridges of northern Jiangxi.

    Before leaving, Okamura Neiji handed Matsuura Junrokuro a map, which was the 1:500,000 military map of Central China that he had stolen from China.

    After entering the mountain, Matsuura Junrokuro discovered that the map was quite inaccurate. Many places and landforms were marked incorrectly, and some were not marked at all. The army was temporarily lost and did not know where they were.

    Junroku Matsuura breathed a sigh of relief when he thought there was still a compass, but after opening it, he discovered that the compass had malfunctioned because of the strong magnetic field in the area.

    Junroku Matsuura was so angry that he almost vomited blood, but he was helpless. More than 20,000 officers and soldiers were wandering around in this high mountain and dense forest.

    Soon, this group of Japanese soldiers was discovered by the scouts of the Ninth War Zone and reported to Xue Yue.

    Xue Yue immediately adjusted his deployment, deployed four main forces from the frontal battlefield, ordered them to approach covertly, and secretly completed the encirclement of the Japanese 106th Division.

    On October 2, 1938, all units had arrived at their designated positions, the 106th Division was already trapped in a tight siege, and Xue Yue issued an order to encircle and annihilate it.

    The battle first started in Wanjialing. In an instant, the 106th Division, which was wandering blindly in the mountains and forests, was suddenly hit by gunfire and rumbling artillery. It was stunned by grenades, artillery shells and dense rain of bullets falling from the sky, causing heavy casualties.  He panicked and began to flee.

    By the 13th day of the war, more than 10,000 Japanese corpses were found. Only with the desperate efforts of two Japanese divisions to rescue the siege, the remnants of the 106th Division fled from the mountains of northern Jiangxi in a hurry.

    During this battle, the Chinese army once attacked a place less than 100 meters away from the headquarters of the 106th Division. Matsuura Junrokuro almost became a prisoner. The division became the first division in the history of the Japanese Army to suffer annihilation.

    And for the great victory of Wanjialing, Okamura Neiji "contributed indispensably", as a single map destroyed more than 10,000 Japanese troops.

    Although there were many elements of luck in this battle, it is undeniable that the 106th Division is indeed not a strong army, and there is no impressive record even on the frontal battlefield.

    Li Guoyao was never willing to let go of such a soft persimmon that came to his door.

    After the meeting, Li Guoyao immediately ordered people to tidy up, and then moved the general headquarters out of the former Second Corps headquarters.

    Subsequently, except for one regiment left by Li Guoyao to continue to transport the loot, the rest of the troops immediately went south and rushed to Honghualing to set up defenses.

    As the most important highland on the southern line of Jiujiang, if the Japs want to seize Jiujiang, they must go to Honghualing.

    Hukou. Headquarters of the 11th Army.

    Hukou, for the legion commander Okamura, this is not the place he should stay.

    The reason is very simple. It is too close to the front line Jiujiang, only a few dozen kilometers away.

      And it is not far from Wuhan and Nanchang. Although the Chinese Air Force's combat effectiveness has dropped sharply, it is still capable of launching air strikes against the Imperial Army on the front line. Once the Chinese Air Force learns that the headquarters of the 11th Army is in Hukou City, China  The Air Force will never miss this opportunity.

    And although Hukou was defeated by the Japanese generals, there were still companies and battalions of broken-down Chinese troops near Hukou. These troops were still in danger.

    But Okamura didn¡¯t take this seriously. This was his professional habit. Whenever there was a big battle or a fierce battle, he always had to run forward and liked to take a look at the battlefield.

    He likes to hear the rumbling sound of gunfire, which is exciting, and he also likes to smell the slightly pungent gun smoke.

    In the temporary command post in Hukou, Okamura stood at the table with a gloomy face, motionless.

    His chief of staff and several section and division chiefs were restlessly guarding the outer room. The commander had been in a bad mood ever since he received the news that Jiujiang had been counterattacked by the army this morning.

    Okamura, who has always been resolute and indifferent to emotions and anger, actually yelled at his staff officers in the military headquarters in the morning. This had never happened before, but everyone understood his feelings.

    Originally, the army had been fighting very hard during this period. Since late July, the roads, bridges, stations, and docks east of Jiujiang were crowded with noisy marching teams. The entire army was in chaos, which made Gang  The new commander Murura Ningji was very dissatisfied.

    But he also knew that there was nothing wrong with the forward route and advance deployment formulated by the 11th Army Headquarters. This was a plan he personally participated in formulating.

    But in the Yangtze River Basin in July and August, sometimes the sun is scorching hot and sometimes it¡¯s rainy.  The harshness of the marching road, the annoying rainy season and heat, the laborious and time-consuming river crossing, and the chaos of logistical supplies seemed to be a deliberate attempt to make it difficult for the 11th Army's hundreds of thousands of troops.

    In addition, the most terrifying infectious diseases on the battlefield, such as cholera and malaria, were rampant, causing huge non-combat attrition to the 11th Army.

    Before the war started, field hospitals were filled with wounded and sick officers and soldiers. Many people died on the sickbed every day. Exhaustion and death made people miserable.

    After so many days, the eagerness for war that the Imperial Japanese Army had before the war had long since disappeared without a trace.  Complaints and negative morale began to emerge among the troops, which was obviously a taboo for soldiers before the war.

    For this reason, the chief of staff once suggested letting the troops rest for a few days so as to adjust the chaotic logistics supplies.

    But Okamura refused flatly, and his attitude was very firm: "There must be no pause! And the troops must speed up their concentration in Jiujiang. As for Jiujiang, we must not allow the Chinese army to have a chance to breathe."

    Okamura is a true professional soldier, he knows the importance of military speed!

    Give the Chinese army one more day, and the difficulty of its attack will increase, and the cost of casualties in the future will also be higher.

    "At the moment, the imperial army is in trouble, and so is Chiang Kai-shek in Wuhan. The head-to-head military competition is not only about strength and wisdom, but to a certain extent, it is more about will.

    But he did not expect that his persistence would lead to the annihilation of the Botian detachment in a short period of time, and the Jiujiang City that was finally captured was also taken back by the Chinese army.

    It can be said that he lost this battle, and he lost miserably!

    After a setback in the first battle, Okamura calmed down.

    At this time, he understood that the Battle of Wuhan was different from that of Nanjing, and the dozens of elite divisions of the national army in front of him were definitely different from those defeated troops in the Battle of Nanjing.  If this powerful force is not eliminated, attacking Wuhan along the river will be a nightmare. The deadlock on the southern front must be broken first.

    Thinking of this, Okamura Neji punched the map in front of him, and the place he hit was the position of Li Guoyao's command - Honghua Ridge!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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