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Chapter 616: Withdrawal of Troops from Wuhan (11)

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    On December 28, Sano Torata's 23rd Infantry Regiment captured Hankou City two hours after capturing the Daijiashan position!

    Three hours later, the 51st Regiment, the main force of the 15th Division, arrived in Wuchang and broke into Wuchang City from Binyang Gate. Then the Japanese flag was planted on the city gate.

    Of course, when the Japanese troops arrived outside Binyang Gate, the first thing they saw was not the majestic city gate, but the Japanese corpses lined up at the gate.

    In fact, more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers died at Binyang Gate last night. However, because many Japanese soldiers were buried directly in Dongmen Street, mixed with soil and rubble, Li Guoyao did not order anyone to collect their bodies.

    After seeing the bodies of these fallen, Colonel Ikeda Renji, the captain of the 51st Regiment, suddenly lost the excitement of occupying Wuchang, because he knew that Wuchang City was not conquered by them, but was abandoned by the Chinese themselves.

    At the same time, the 9th Division of the Japanese Army and the 12th Marine Corps also arrived at the outskirts of Wuhan City. During this period, the 94th Army and other units of the Chinese Army that stayed behind in Wuhan City also resisted to a certain extent and also made great efforts.  Although there were casualties, it still failed to prevent the Japanese army from capturing Wuhan City.

    In the afternoon of the 28th, the dazzling sun flag also flew in Hanyang, and the national anthem "The Generation of Kings" was played crazily over the three towns of Wuhan.

    At this point, the Japanese army occupied the entire territory of Wuhan and Wuhan fell.

    In this battle, the Japanese army attacked Wuhan with a strong force of 9 divisions and 2 infantry brigades. Starting from June 2, when the 6th Division attacked Shucheng from Hefei, it took a total of 6 months and lost ten people.  With tens of thousands of troops, they finally invaded the Wuhan area.

    Although the Japanese army captured Wuhan City, the leaders from the base camp to the commanders and division commanders of various regiments and divisions on the battlefield in China were not as happy as they imagined, and they were far less happy than the previous occupation of Nanjing.

    Because everyone knows that the Japanese Imperial Army failed to achieve its set goals in both tactics and strategy in this battle. The original purpose of the Japanese army in capturing Wuhan was to try to shake our country's determination to resist the war, but to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Chinese army.  in the outskirts of Wuhan and the Dabie Mountains.

    As a result, although the Nationalist army was defeated in the Wuhan Battle and the city of Wuhan was lost, the Nationalist government did not give up resistance as the Japanese army expected, nor did it grovel to engage in peace talks with them. The Japanese army's idea of ??ending the war with war was in vain.

    As for the encirclement and annihilation of the Chinese army and the periphery of Wuhan, it is even more speechless. Originally, according to the battle plan of the base camp, the Japanese troops on the front line could indeed achieve the tactical goal of encircling and annihilating the Chinese army on the periphery of Wuhan by cooperating with each other.

    However, the Japanese generals at all levels on the front line were short-sighted and eager to compete with each other for the first place in the invasion of Wuhan. From Okamura Neiji to Nishio Juzo to the division commanders and co-captains at all levels, they were all the same.  It's good to break up the trouble, so what else can we do to cooperate?

    Especially the closer the troops are to Wuhan City, the worse the cooperation between the Japanese troops is. The Chinese defenders outside Wuhan have successfully broken through one after another.

    In fact, when the Japanese army was about to arrive in Wuhan City, its main force, the Second Army, had already completed the encirclement of the Fifth Theater Zone near the Dabie Mountains. Not only was the main force of the Fifth Theater Zone trapped in the Japanese encirclement, but even the Fifth Theater Command headquarters was also surrounded by Japanese troops.  in it.

    Once the Japanese army encircled and attacked, the hundreds of thousands of troops in the fifth theater would be wiped out in an instant, which shocked Chief Li, Lao Jiang and others.

    In the middle of the month, the Japanese troops at the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains had crossed Huangchuan to the west and continued to occupy Luoshan. Afterwards, Hu Zong's southern army had a fierce battle east of Xinyang. Hu Zong's southern army was severely beaten, resulting in the death of about 5,000 enemies, and the Japanese army was forced to retreat.  Go to Luoshan and wait for reinforcements.

    However, as soon as the Japanese reinforcements arrived, they immediately launched another fierce attack. Hu's troops suffered heavy casualties, so they voluntarily abandoned Xinyang without the approval of the commander-in-chief of the 5th Theater Command and withdrew to the vicinity of Nanyang. The Japanese army then captured Xinyang.

    Then, a powerful force was used to cross the Tongbai Mountains from Pingjingguan in the west of Xinyang, occupy Yingshan, and shake the entire line.

    If the Japanese army quickly moves south from Yingshan to Anlu, Yunmeng, Xiaogan, and Hanchuan, all troops fighting in the Northeast will be trapped in the Japanese encirclement.

    But at that time, Wuhan had not yet decided whether to fight or withdraw, so the Fifth War Zone was unable to retreat the troops in time. Therefore, when they received the Military Commission's decision to abandon Wuhan City, the troops were already surrounded by the Japanese army.

    So on the day Wuhan was captured by the Japanese army, the Chinese army in the direction of the Dabie Mountains began to break out under the order of the Fifth War Zone. The first to bear the brunt was Song Xilian's command, who was facing the main force of the Japanese Second Army.

    Song Xilian¡¯s 71st Army suffered heavy losses after the Battle of Fujin Mountain, but after all, it was a field battle with strengthened troops.??, its strength still cannot be underestimated, and it is also a national army unit that the Japanese army desperately wants to eliminate. After all, the performance of the 71st Army in the Battle of Fujinshan shocked all Japanese army departments.

    When the troops broke out, the headquarters of the 5th Theater Command was located in Chenjiazhuang, between Anlu and Huayuan. After learning the news that the Central Military Commission had abandoned Wuhan, the 5th Theater immediately ordered the troops to quickly retreat to the area west of the Han River.

    Sun Lianzhong, commander-in-chief of the Third Corps and commander-in-chief of the 2nd Army, notified Song Xilian's troops by phone, ordering them to withdraw from the Xiaojieling line and move to the area west of Zhongxiang via Huayuan, Yunmeng, and Jingshan.

    Under the orders of the Fifth War Zone, almost all the national troops in the upper direction of Dabie went westward. In the end, only more than 20,000 Song Xilian's troops were left in the core area of ??the battlefield and were surrounded by the Japanese army.

    Song Xilian¡¯s tribe is in a very dangerous situation at this time and may be discovered by the Japanese army at any time and be annihilated.

    After analyzing the battlefield situation, Song Xilian immediately ordered the 61st Division on the left to move towards Zhongxiang, and personally led the 87th Division and its directly affiliated troops in 4 columns westward along the highway from Huang'an to Huayuan.

    At 3 p.m., three batches of nearly thirty Japanese aircraft flew over the 71st Army, bombing bridges and ships from Xiaogan to Yangtze River Port, in an attempt to prevent and delay the retreat of the Nationalist troops.

    In the evening, all the troops led by Song Xilian arrived near the garden, and then immediately convened a meeting with all officers above the battalion commander level.  Explain to them that the current situation is that they are in a large encirclement of the enemy. If they go westward, they may slip into the enemy's pocket and be in danger of being wiped out.  While waiting and watching, the enemy forces will narrow the encirclement and are in danger of being annihilated. Therefore, the troops must take immediate action.

    Song Xilian then temporarily dispersed and hid his troops in Sanli City, Xuanhuadian, Qiliping and the northeastern area of ????Huayuan, waiting for an opportunity to break out.

    Song Xilian then gave clear instructions on the marching route of each unit, the general area of ??hiding, and future contact methods.

    It was night when the troops began to break through, and Song Xilian personally led the troops directly under the army to follow the original route eastward.  After about an hour, we turned north and entered the jungle area.

    At the same time, the entire division, led by Commander Shen Fazao of the 87th Division, marched from Huayuan via Erlangdian to Sanli City.

    After a night of marching, by the morning of the next day, most of them had arrived in the area around Sanli City and Xuanhuadian.

    Surprisingly, there is almost no atmosphere of war in these areas.  The streets are full of people and bustling, especially Sanli City, which is quite prosperous.

    What particularly pleased Song Xilian and others was that they discovered more than 2,000 bags of military rations stocked by friendly forces in Sanli City, each bag weighing 200 kilograms, totaling more than 400,000 kilograms.

    Song Xilian immediately ordered the military supplies personnel to notify the troops to collect them. In addition to eating, they should try to bring enough food to move to the periphery.

    The 71st Army used the night to gradually move northward and settled twenty to thirty miles south of the highway between Xinyang and Huangchuan.

    According to detailed reconnaissance results, only Xinyang and Huangchuan were guarded by Japanese troops between Xinyang and Huangchuan. Armored vehicles often patrolled the Xinhuang Highway during the day, but it was quite quiet at night.

    So Song Xilian decided to cross this road at night, and then all the troops under the command of Song Xilian successfully passed this road and jumped out of the enemy's encirclement.

    Everything was implemented according to the planned deployment. On December 30, the main force of the 71st Army arrived in Xixian County and moved forward in two directions toward Zhumadian and Queshan.

    After the military headquarters and the troops directly under it arrived at Zhumadian, they immediately reported the situation to the Military Commission via the radio. They immediately received calls from Chairman Chiang Kai-shek and Chief of Staff He to commend each other, with the words "extremely gratifying" in them, and ordered the troops to assemble in the Nanyang area immediately.  Training.

    The 71st Army was also the last unit to break out of the Wuhan battlefield. After the 71st Army withdrew from the battlefield, the Japanese army only got an empty city and not even a complete Chinese infantry division was wiped out.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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