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Chapter 543: Battle in the Mountains of Northern Jiangxi (7)

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    In the battles of the first two days, the 27th Division fought with restraint. After discovering that the Chinese army in front of them was not as weak as imagined, Masaharu Honma also performed very well and did not order the troops to sacrifice lives.  , but continued to use artillery units to carry out heavy bombardment.

    As a field division, the 27th Division has a three-unit system, but its artillery strength is not much worse than those of Class A divisions.

    Originally, the 27th Division had only one artillery regiment, with a total of 24 Type 41 75mm caliber mountain guns, 12 field guns of the same caliber, and the rest were all small-caliber mortars and infantry guns.

    However, because the 106th Division went south to fight in the mountains and could not carry these heavy artillery, the division's complete artillery wing was left in Red Clay Ridge and placed under the command of the 27th Division.

    In this way, the little devils on the front line of Hongtu Ridge will have the powerful firepower of two artillery regiments!

    So many artillery pieces together far exceeded the strength of Li Guoyao's artillery. Therefore, in the first few days, the artillery regiment of the 61st Army suffered extremely heavy losses.

    During the artillery battle, Zhu Jiansheng, commander of the 61st Army Artillery Regiment, was seriously injured. Zhang Weihua took over the command of the artillery regiment. However, Zhang Weihua was also injured two days later, and the unit was commanded by Chief of Staff Xu Hark.

    The artillery could not suppress the Japanese army, and the infantry was in trouble!

    Under the crazy bombardment of the Japs' artillery, the defenders suffered extremely heavy losses. More importantly, the simple fortifications built before were basically flattened by the Japs. The soldiers could only fight with flesh and blood in the dilapidated fortifications.  The body resists the steel cannonballs of the little devil.

    Fortunately, the terrain of Hongtu Ridge is narrow and large troops cannot move. Many of the Japs¡¯ heavy weapons cannot be used when attacking fortresses, so the troops can still persevere.  The little Japanese's attacks were repelled every time, but instead they left dense bodies in front of the position.

    In September, the temperature on the south bank of the Yangtze River is still very high, and the body will smell bad within two days of being left on the ground. At this time, China and Japan have been fighting here for more than ten days, although both sides have organized corpse collection teams during this period.  , the bodies of the dead have been collected twice, but five or six days have passed since the previous time.

    In the past five or six days, thousands more Japanese soldiers were killed on the forward positions. Many of the corpses were already smelly and rotten, and the whole air was filled with a disgusting rotten smell.

    But no one on both sides is focusing on these corpses now. Everyone knows that the battle has entered its most exquisite moment, and they are all thinking about how to kill the other party.

    At this time, Li Guoyao was also trying to ride a tiger. He originally wanted to use the favorable terrain of the Red Clay Ridge to consume the strength and vigor of the Matsuura Division. When the Japanese reinforcements went south to attack De'an, he would allocate part of his troops to detour back to Matsuura.  Behind the division, catch them all in one fell swoop.

    However, who knew that that bitch Okamura Neji would not follow common sense and ordered the Matsuura Division to go south, leaving the 27th Division on the Red Clay Ridge line.

    You must know that although the 27th Division is a third-class division with a three-unit system, its combat effectiveness is not weak at all. In addition, it has just arrived in Central China. Everyone is thinking about making achievements and their morale is high. They want to  It's not easy to eat it.

    Because of this, the strategic plan of encircling and annihilating the 27th Division could not be implemented for a while. The troops could only continue to rely on favorable terrain to consume the strength of the Japanese army and wait for news from Xue Yue's headquarters.

    Li Guoyao thought very clearly that if they relied solely on their 61st Army at this time, they could indeed kill Honma Masaharu's men. However, after this battle, the 61st Army suffered heavy losses and was even likely to be beaten back to its original shape.

    Although it has only been more than 20 days since we came out of Wuhan City, the 61st Army Company has lost more than 8,000 people who were killed and injured, and the total number of people in the entire army who can still fight is less than 20,000.

    "The 27th Division originally had more than 17,000 troops. Including the artillery regiment left by the 106th Division, the total strength was about 18,000. The strength of the two sides was actually almost the same.

    Even if calculated based on one-to-one casualties, the Japs can consume all Li Guoyao's troops in one battle, so Li Guoyao does not want to fight against the Japs.

    Li Guoyao waited. As long as Xue Yue's troops finished their work and the main force of the First Corps moved north, they would be able to easily encircle and annihilate the 27th Division.

    At the beginning, Honma Masaharu did not notice any abnormalities, so the fight was not hurried. However, when the news came that the Matsuura Division was surrounded by the First Corps on the southern front, Honma Masaharu's troops noticed the abnormality.

    Realizing that the Matsuura Division was in a bad situation, Honma Masaharu immediately ordered the troops to strengthen their offensive efforts in an effort to defeat the Chinese army facing them.?Then we can either go north to attack Jiujiang City, or we can go south to reinforce the Matsuura Division.

    As soon as the Japanese army exerted force, Li Guoyao felt the pressure.

    Especially after the Matsuura Division failed to break through, Okamura Neiji also became anxious. He ordered the 15th Division east of Jiujiang to speed up the attack and occupy Jiujiang City as soon as possible.

    At the same time, Okamura Neiji also discovered that the key to breaking the deadlock in this battle lies with the 27th Division.

    As long as the 27th Division can make a breakthrough, then this battle will be really stable!

    In view of this, Okamura Neiji immediately ordered Honma Masaharu to break through Li Guoyao's headquarters at all costs, and then immediately divided his troops, one went north to attack Jiujiang, and the other went south to reinforce the Matsuura Division.

    However, what Okamura Ningji did not expect was that the 61st Army stationed at Red Clay Ridge showed amazing perseverance and unimaginable combat effectiveness. Even after more than ten days of fighting with the Japanese army at Red Clay Ridge, they were still like a rock.  Still unmoved.

    On the 26th day of the battle, Okamura Neiji felt more and more that the situation was not good. You must know that the reason why he dared to place the Matsuura Division in an encirclement of more than 100,000 Chinese troops was that his biggest reliance was that the Matsuura Division could break out of the encirclement at any time, and  He also believed that with the combat effectiveness of the 15th Division, five days would be enough to capture Jiujiang City.

    "As a result, he did not expect that the overall combat capability of the Matsuura Division was far inferior to that of Shiro Inaba's Sixth Division. It was unable to come and go freely, and was actually trapped on the Wanjialing line by Xue Yue's troops.

    And the 15th Division also failed to achieve its strategic goal, and Jiujiang City was never recaptured!

    As a result, the Matsuura Division is in a dangerous situation. If it cannot break through Jiujiang's front-line defenses in a short time, not only will the Matsuura Division be in danger of being annihilated, but the 27th Division and the 15th Division may also be surrounded.

    In view of this, Okamura Neiji personally called Honma Masaharu and asked him to take Hongtu Ridge within two days and defeat Li Guoyao's troops.

    In order to achieve this goal, Okamura Neiji agreed to deploy two aviation wings to support the operations of Masaharu Honma's headquarters.

    After receiving the combat order from Okamura Neiji, Honma Masaharu was a little uneasy at first. After these few days of fighting, he already knew the true details of the Chinese army in front of him. The defenders on the opposite side were definitely not nothing.  Withered and soft persimmons, maybe their teeth will break this time.

    But if there are two flying wings cooperating in the attack, then there will be no problem.

    As a division commander, Masaharu Honma has great faith in the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Japanese Army's aviation regiment. Normally, only one aviation group is needed to show off its power on the Chinese battlefield, but now the commander has mobilized two  Flying Wing, of course there is no problem.

    Thinking of the overwhelming swarm of destroyers and bombers from the Japanese Empire, the scene couldn't help but make people tremble with excitement. Masaharu Honma was full of confidence for tomorrow's battle.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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