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Chapter 527: Fierce Battle at Honghua Ridge (7)

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    After entering August, the scorching heat slowly receded and was gradually replaced by cool autumn, and the Japanese troops in Jiangbei also began to take action.

    There was no other way. Although the kidnappers of the Second Army still wanted to rest for a while, Okamura Neiji couldn't let them drag on any longer. Therefore, he personally called the Commander of the Second Army, His Highness Prince Higashikaru, and asked the Second Army to immediately  Head west into the Dabie Mountains and attack the Chinese army on the northern front.

    After receiving the telegram from Okamura Neiji, the Second Army did not dare to neglect. The Corps Headquarters immediately ordered the Sixth Division to act as a vanguard and attack westward.

    But after the Sixth Division received the telegram, there was a lot of complaints from all over the place!

    No wonder, the Sixth Division has been fighting really hard during this period. After they captured Qianshan in mid-June, they rested there for more than a month. During this period, more than 2,000 people were lost due to malaria.  It was not until July 24 that the attack began from Qianshan to Taihu, Susong and Huangmei in the southwest.

    At that time, Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro assigned the newly appointed Major General Katsuji Imamura to command the 11th Brigade. At the same time, he assigned them the powerful firepower of two artillery regiments, namely the 6th Field Artillery Regiment and the 2nd Independence Mountain Artillery Regiment.  The regiment serves as the vanguard.

    According to Inaba Shiro¡¯s idea, with such powerful firepower, they would be able to easily defeat the Chinese defenders in front of them. However, he did not expect that the result would be unsatisfactory.

    Those fortified in this area of ??Jiangbei at that time were Liu Ruming's 68th Army belonging to Li Pinxian's 4th Corps, guarding Susong, Huangmei and the Xiaochikou area on the other side of Jiujiang; Wang Zanxu's 29th Army, Xu Yuanquan's 26th Army, and Liao Lei's 21st Army  They were all deployed at the southern foot of the Dabie Mountains, relying on the Dabie Mountains, and preparing to flank the enemy on the Qianshan, Taihu, Susong, and Huangmei highways.

    This deployment was mainly based on the opinions of General Bai Chongxi, acting commander of the 5th Theater (so Li Zongren was seeking medical treatment in Wuchang at that time), and the purpose was to prevent the enemy from attacking Hankou from Jiangbei.

    Therefore, after Imamura's 11th Brigade set off from Hetoupu and Taoxiwu west of Qianshan, it encountered continuous resistance from the troops deployed in the 5th theater in Huangpu, Taohuapu, Xiaochi, Liushanpu and other places along the way.  .

    It is about 40 kilometers from Qianshan to Taihu Lake. According to a normal march, one day is enough. However, because the defenders adopted the tactics of blocking attacks, the little Japanese had to walk for three days on the not far distance, and the troops suffered heavy losses.  .

    But at any rate, the Japanese army relied on their strong firepower to capture Taihu County at noon on July 26.

    However, the defenders were not willing to fail. Li Pinxian's 4th Corps, which was stationed in this area, began a large-scale counterattack on the evening of the 26th relying on the pavilion position southwest of Taihu City and the nearby mountains.

    After the fierce fighting began, both sides successively deployed additional troops to the battlefield, fighting each other in close combat for a hilltop and a village. After three days and three nights of counterattack, the Chinese army voluntarily withdrew from the battlefield to the Dabie Mountains to the north after killing a large number of Japanese troops.  In the Yingshan and Luotian areas of the district, we continued to monitor the actions of the Japanese troops.

    During the three days and three nights of fierce fighting, according to statistics from the enemy's 6th Division, they suffered more than 290 counterattacks.

    After this fierce battle, large and small forest belts in the mountainous areas west of Taihu Lake caught fire.  In areas where fighting is fierce, dense bullet marks can be seen everywhere on the walls of villages and tree trunks in forest areas.

    This is the growing season for plants. However, after the fierce fighting, many villages¡¯ houses collapsed, turning the forest area that was originally full of green branches into a scorched yellow.

    After a fierce battle, the 6th Division immediately used the 13th Infantry Regiment of the 11th Brigade Nakano Hidemitsu and the 47th Infantry Regiment and the attached artillery section to take advantage of the opportunity that the main force of the defenders had withdrawn northward via Liangting River and Kuoping.  Tan, Xianjueling and Youzhailing, attacked and advanced, and captured Susong on August 1.

    On the other hand, they attacked Huangmei from Luhualiangting, Erlanghe (town), Jieling, and Zingqianma. On August 2, they occupied Huangmei County, about 20 kilometers southwest of Susong.  However, due to too many casualties, the Sixth Division was temporarily suspended in Huangmei for reinforcements.

    To be honest, neither Shiro Inaba nor Prince Higashomi, the commander of the Second Army, were very dissatisfied with the battle during this period. They thought it would be a one-sided massacre, but they found that the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army was  Not weak at all.

    The powerful Sixth Division has been fighting hard in Qianshan, Huangmei and other places, and the troops have been beaten to pieces.  Seeing that Wuhan was in sight, he did not dare to launch an attack. He just kept sending reports to the military headquarters, asking for people, guns, and ammunition.

    At this time, Inaba Shiro on the front line was also helpless. Their Sixth Division was the unit with the smallest number of troops among the three armies but the fastest attack speed. If he continued to fight at this speed, if he had enough soldiers and equipment, he would be able to  I am confident that I can break into Wuhan first.

    However, the current situation is that his Sixth Division is a bit weak. The total number of the entire division is less than 10,000, which makes him extremely anxious.?There is nothing we can do.

    In view of this, Okamura Neiji decided to allocate the Shima and Ishihara detachments to the Sixth Division, and ordered them to launch an attack on the Tianjia Town Fortress immediately after receiving reinforcements, in preparation for the next all-out attack on Wuhan.

    Despite this, Okamura Neiji was still reprimanded by the base camp and the Central China Front Army Headquarters.

    The reason is also very simple, because Jiujiang was counterattacked by the Chinese army, and the Botian detachment was completely wiped out, which made the Central China Front Army headquarters and base camp extremely angry.

    Because he received two reprimanding telegrams one after another, Okamura Neiji can be said to be the most annoyed and frustrated among the three commanders.

    Before the war, troops dispatched from Central China to the Tokyo Military Headquarters had the highest hopes for him, allocating the most troops to him, and he was the earliest to launch his own attack.

    But three months later, the high mountains of Lushan Mountain and the tenacious Xue Yue had wrapped around him like brown candy.

    For three months, he has been struggling between the tenacious Chinese defenders and mountain barriers.  The beautiful Lushan Mountain has long lost its charm in his eyes.  Thinking of Lushan Mountain, he even had a headache.

    Originally, the capture of Jiujiang gave him hope of reaching Wuhan directly, but now with the counterattack of Li Guoyao's troops, this hope has been shattered, and he even joined a Botian detachment and a naval team.

    A message was forwarded from Tokyo, expressing dissatisfaction with his performance.

    General Yanjun of Nanjing also sent a telegram, expressing "deep concern" over the delay in progress of his offensive, and accusing the entire battlefield of being affected if the main force of the 11th Jiangnan Army failed to advance as planned and cut off the retreat route of the Chinese defenders on the Guangdong-Han Line.  action.

    Okamura Neiji, a tactician who is experienced in fighting, has never made such a fool of himself. Has he ever seen something like this?

    Lieutenant General Okamura, the darling of the imperial army with outstanding military exploits, has never been accused of this, nor has he fallen into this dilemma because of fighting against the Chinese army.

    Victory and defeat are common matters for military officers, and Okamura, as a veteran soldier with deep knowledge of military affairs, would not know this.

    But the unexpected failure and unexpected setback made his blood surge and his head became hot.

    ¡°The biggest disaster for him is his deep-rooted contempt for the Chinese military.

    Therefore, driven by anger and desire for victory, Okamura Neiji immediately ordered the 15th Division to immediately counterattack Jiujiang when the Matsuura Division stormed Honghualing, and at the same time mobilized the 27th Division and the 3rd Division to go south.  Frontline battlefield.

    The navy was also very dissatisfied with the failure some time ago, and immediately dispatched all the remaining sixty warships and gunboats of the Third Fleet to the Yangtze River!

    In order to cooperate with the plan of the front-line troops, the Japanese base camp also spent a lot of money and immediately mobilized 300 fighter planes from China to the Chinese battlefield, two-thirds of which were assigned to the Central China Front Army.

    After being supplemented, the morale of the Central China Front Army rose again, and a terrifying battle broke out again.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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