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Chapter 553: Jiujiang is lost!

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    Due to time constraints, the Japanese army did not dare to delay. In the early morning of October 7, dozens of warships and troop transports from the 12th Squadron of the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet rushed towards the Ruichang River carrying the main force of the 9th Division.

    At the same time, part of the main force of the 9th Division continued to land from the Gutang area, then turned south and headed straight for Honghualing!

    At 7 o'clock in the morning that day, the Japanese army landed in Yong'an Town, north of Ruichang. After defeating a regiment of the defending Jiang Defense Command, the Japanese army successfully established a foothold in the west of Jiujiang City.

    " Then before Zhang Fakui and others could recover, more than 10,000 Japanese troops gathered on the Yong'an front line and headed straight for Jiujiang City.

    After receiving the report from the Jiang Defense Headquarters, Zhang Fakui was shocked and immediately ordered Wang Lingji's troops who were resting in the rear to immediately go to the Yong'an front line to stop the Japanese troops. At the same time, he strictly ordered the troops in the direction of Ruichang to strengthen their vigilance.

    However, the Second Corps still underestimated the speed of action of the little Japanese. After landing, the little Japanese almost did not stop and rushed straight to Jiujiang City. All the garrison strongholds and fortifications along the way were easily captured by the Japanese army.

    Among the Japanese troops on this route, the Maruyama detachment composed of Major General Maruyama's 6th Brigade moved the fastest and was the first to exchange fire with the Chinese army.

    It is said that Wang Lingji's unit fought with the Japanese 15th Division on the Gutang line for three days and three nights. The unit suffered extremely heavy losses and had to withdraw to the rear to rest. However, before they could rest for a few days, they received a call from the Japanese army.  Upon hearing the news of the frontline landing in Yong'an, the headquarters made emergency preparations and was dispatched to Yong'an to stop the attack.

    However, Wang Lingji's troops themselves had already lost all their vigor due to being beaten, and coupled with their poor equipment, they lost the key points of Zhangjiadu and Wangjiacun. As these commanding heights fell into the hands of the Japanese army, key points in the rear were lost, leaving the Chinese defenders in the Jiujiang area  The military positions were shaken across the board.

    Zhang Fakui was horrified after receiving the news. He had a bad secret and quickly mobilized the Central Army's elite 30th Group Army to block the Maruyama detachment's attack and cover the left back of the Chinese defenders on the front line of Jiujiang City.

    "But what Zhang Fakui didn't expect was that Tang Enbo, commander-in-chief of the 30th Group Army, only sent one regiment to search and advance. As a result, they were defeated by the Maruyama detachment just after the encounter with the Japanese army.

    On the 8th, Zhang Fakui ordered Tang En not to send the second batch of reinforcements to the Yongan front line.  However, Tang Enbo regarded himself as a direct descendant of the Central Army and relied on his own troops, but he still did not send out the main force. As a result, he was defeated again.

    At this time, the main force of the Ninth Division rushed towards the Jiujiang front line with all its strength, threatening to cut off the retreat of the Chinese main force of Jiujiang front line troops.

    The situation in Jiujiang has taken a turn for the worse and is extremely critical.

    Zhang Fakui had suffered losses from the Japanese roundabout attack before, losing Jiujiang City, and was almost dismissed from his post because of this, and his memory is still fresh in his mind.  At present, the Japanese army is approaching Jiujiang, and the Chinese army does not obey the command, so they can't help but get angry.

    While he ordered Jiujiang's front-line defenders to build fortifications in the city and prepare for street fighting, he called Tang Enbo's command and ordered him to immediately send the main force to block the Ninth Division.

    Zhang Fakui was also furious. Regardless of the fact that Tang Enbo was Chairman Chiang's confidant, he still issued a stern order to him in a stern voice: "Commander Tang, why are your troops repeatedly failing in reinforcements? I now order you to send all the troops."  Drive to the west of Jiujiang and leave no one behind. Listen, if you retreat further and make it impossible for the troops in front to withdraw, we will engage in military law."

    Tang Enbo thought about it and became a little scared.  In the past, he relied on the fact that he was a fellow villager of Chairman Chiang and was favored by Chairman Chiang, so he often obeyed the orders of his superiors.

    But if today's reinforcements are unfavorable and several main forces are in trouble, they may be eaten by the Japanese and lose the entire Jiujiang War, then Chairman Chiang will not give him this face no matter what.

    Forced by helplessness, Tang Enbo threw away the phone angrily, cursed Zhang Fakui a few words, and then personally led the entire army to the west of Jiujiang City.

    However, it was already too late. The main force of the Japanese army had already approached Jiujiang City. The defensive positions built hastily by Tang Enbo's troops were of little use and were quickly defeated by the Japanese army.

    At the same time, more than a hundred main battleships and auxiliary ships of the Japanese naval fleet suddenly appeared outside Jiujiang City, launching a thrilling water battle with the Chinese navy.

    General Chen Shaokuan personally commanded this battle, and the Air Force also sent a large number of fighter planes to participate in the battle!

    However, due to the huge disparity in strength between the two sides, even with the cooperation of the air force and army coastal defense forces, the Chinese navy still suffered heavy losses. Six warships were sunk and three were injured. It had just recovered a little strength and lost it again.

    ??However, the Japanese Navy did not take any advantage. During the war, 8 battleships and gunboats were sunk, 7 battleships were injured, and the main force of the 12th Team was severely damaged.

    However, although the Japanese army suffered considerable losses, the opponent's own blood transfusion ability was very strong, and the injured warships were evacuated from the battle in time.On the scene, the remaining warships drove away the Chinese naval fleet and continued to attack Jiujiang City.

    Powerful naval guns were aimed at Jiujiang Pier and other facilities, and then began a non-stop bombardment.

    Zhang Fakui from Jiujiang City really came to greet all the eighteen generations of Tang Enbo's ancestors, but he was unable to turn the tide of the war. Seeing that the Japanese army's two master regiments and a large number of technical troops had formed an encirclement on Jiujiang City,  If we continue to stay in Jiujiang City, the more than 50,000 people from the three armies in the city will probably be made dumplings by the little devils.

    In view of this, Zhang Fakui finally decided to evacuate Jiujiang!

    But he knew that Chiang Kai-shek would never allow them to give up Jiujiang easily. He could only order the troops to prepare for evacuation while slowly retreating.

    On the morning of October 9, the Japanese 15th Division arrived at the east gate of Jiujiang, and at the same time the 9th Division arrived at the west gate of Jiujiang, and the two sides launched a battle for city defense.

    At this moment, Zhang Fakui suddenly ordered the 61st Army on the Honghualing front line to immediately abandon the task of encircling the 27th Division, and the main force immediately went north to coordinate the main force of the Second Corps to evacuate Jiujiang.

    After receiving Zhang Fakui¡¯s order, Li Guoyao was really helpless!

    In the past two days, they have carried out multiple strong attacks on the main force of the 27th Division. Masaharu Honma's living space has been greatly eroded. If nothing unexpected happens, he will be able to completely defeat this Japanese division in three days at most.  The regiment was defeated.

    However, God seemed to be joking with him. He had just received an order from Zhang Fakui when a reinforced Japanese army suddenly went south to reinforce the 27th Division.

    Li Guoyao knew that the 61st Army had no chance to annihilate the 27th Division, not only because the Japanese reinforcements had arrived, but the most important thing was that the 61st Army had suffered extremely heavy losses during this period and no longer had the strength to annihilate the 27th Division.  .

    Fortunately, they did not fight this battle in vain. They cooperated with the First Corps to annihilate the Matsuura Division and severely damaged the 27th Division. This was enough.

    After thinking over and over again, Li Guoyao immediately decided to accept Zhang Fakui's order, so that part of the main force of the 7th Division would continue to stay at Honghua Ridge to block the Japanese army from moving north, while the main force would go north from Honghua Ridge to Jiujiang City to meet the main force of the Second Corps to break through.

    On October 10, the Double Tenth Day of the Nationalist Government, the Japanese army finally broke through Jiujiang City. With the support of the 61st Army, the Second Corps evacuated Jiujiang from the southern line and regained a foothold east of Ruichang.  , arrange defensive positions.

    Although the Chinese army lost Jiujiang City, which had held on for more than a month, the overall troop losses were limited and the troops were not seriously injured. Zhang Fakui breathed a sigh of relief.

    Although Wuhan criticized the Second Corps for losing Jiujiang City, Zhang Fakui commanded these miscellaneous soldiers to hold off the Japanese army of 60,000 to 70,000 for more than a month, and also cooperated with the First Corps to annihilate the Matsuura Division.  The credit is still there.

    In addition, the main force of the Second Corps has also withdrawn, so the Military Commission did not reprimand the Second Corps too much, but ordered them to immediately deploy defenses on new positions to prevent the Japanese army from continuing to advance westward.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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