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Chapter 684: Follow-up to the Battle of Nanchang!

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    Nanchang fell, and the whole country was in an uproar!

    Since the war between China and Japan, China has lost dozens of large cities, including Shanghai, Nanjing, and Peking, but no city has fallen as quickly as Nanchang.

    From the day when the Japs started fighting on the 20th to the fall of Nanchang on the 27th, it only took a week, and the 200,000 national troops were defeated and collapsed in such a short period of time. This is really unbelievable.

    Although Nanchang City is not suitable for defense, the Chinese defenders carried out comprehensive construction of the entire city's defenses before the war began. Especially after May 1938, the Japanese army's intention to invade Nanchang became increasingly obvious. In order to resist the Japanese attack,  The Kuomintang army also began to make various military preparations in Nanchang.

    In addition to special military war preparedness, roadblocks, river barriers, and mines were also set up on some water and land transportation routes to resist Japanese invasion.

    ??Among them, in the Wugongmiao waters of the Ganjiang River, the Chinese army set up a special defense line to resist the Japanese invasion of Nanchang from the waterway.  They laid nearly a thousand wooden piles in the center of the river bed, extending straight from the river bank to the center of the river.

    The wooden piles are spaced 3 meters apart horizontally and 2 meters apart vertically. A dense grid is woven between the wood piles. From the bottom of the water to the water surface, the grid is densely covered with rhombus-shaped iron wires.  There are three lines of defense in total, and there are bunkers on the embankments of each line of defense.

    These are just the tip of the iceberg. The real fortifications were built almost to the city of Nanchang, which cost a lot of manpower and material resources.

    However, these were like paper in the face of the Japanese attack, and they were all gone in less than a week!

    It¡¯s not that the Chinese people can¡¯t accept the fall of Nanchang, it¡¯s that they can¡¯t accept such a rapid fall!

    For a time, people from Changsha to Chongqing to Chengdu, Kunming, Xi'an and other places took to the streets to protest.

    "Lao Jiang was also very dissatisfied with this. He did not expect that the Chinese defenders lost Nanchang in just a few days, and the defenders also suffered heavy losses.

    Especially after occupying Nanchang, the Japanese army did not stop the attack. Instead, they continued to pursue westward, aiming directly at the important town of Gao'an.

    However, the Chinese army could only retreat step by step, which made Chiang Kai-shek extremely angry. Taking advantage of the anger of the people's demonstrations, Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered the frontline troops to counterattack Nanchang, and formulated a spring counterattack plan.

    "After the news of the fall of Nanchang reached Shandong, Li Guoyao stood on the top of the mountain speechless for a long time, and in the end he could only sigh.

    In fact, when the Battle of Nanchang started, Li Guoyao already knew the result. Despite this, Li Guoyao still hoped for a miracle to happen!

    "But the inertia of history is still strong. Even if they do it with great momentum in Shandong, they still can't affect the situation at the Nanchang station. What is supposed to come will still come.

    Like all national army generals, Li Guoyao was disappointed with the results of the first phase of the Nanchang Battle. In the first phase, China invested more than 200,000 troops, but lost more than 42,000 people and only killed and wounded more than 2,200 Japanese troops, a ratio of 19 to 19.  1.

    This may be the worst record the Chinese army has had on a frontal battlefield since the Anti-Japanese War. Even the most tragic Battle of Songhu did not have such a disparity.

    In the Battle of Nanchang, strategically speaking, the Japanese army slightly won, but the difference was not far behind.

    Both China and Japan failed to achieve their goals. From the Japanese side, they captured Nanchang and attacked the main force of the Anti-Japanese War in China's Ninth Theater, but failed to effectively annihilate it.

    From China¡¯s perspective, the first phase of the battle resulted in more than 42,000 losses and only more than 2,200 Japanese casualties, a ratio of 19 to 1. It did not achieve the goal of killing the enemy¡¯s effective forces, let alone defend the city of Nanchang.

    From a tactical perspective, China was completely defeated.

    In terms of intelligence work, China¡¯s intelligence collection is single and the effect is very poor. It adopts human sea tactics and uses the advantages of local operations to make up for it.  Although there were individual moments of inspiration, generally speaking, we were basically semi-blind to the movements of the Japanese army and the inside information of the troops.

    As early as early March, the Chinese army came up with an attack plan for the Nanchang battle: strike first to defeat the enemy and use offense as defense.  Prepare to take the initiative to launch an offensive against the Japanese army in De'an before the Japanese attack, in order to consume the Japanese army's combat power and make it unable to plot Nanchang.

    But things went against expectations. After the Wuhan battle, the departments of the Ninth Theater were still resting and reorganizing, and their actions were slow and delayed in arriving at the designated theater as planned.

    Ten days later, the Japanese vanguard began to forcibly cross Xiushui and rushed towards the national troops stationed in Yongxiu. The Battle of Nanchang began.

    Then, the Japanese general Neiji Okamura came to the front line and personally directed the artillery to bomb the national army positions.  The national army fortress along the Xiushui River was leveled, and the Japanese army launched a forced crossing.  The national army assembled a number of mountain artillery organizations and secretlyThey used firepower to prevent the Japanese boats from docking and sank 7 boats.

    The Chinese army also launched floating mines, which successfully prevented the Japanese boats from docking. However, the cunning Japanese army later snatched dozens of buffaloes from farmers¡¯ homes and rushed to the water center to detonate the floating mines.  The next day, the entire Japanese army successfully crossed the river.

    After breaking through the Xiushui defense line, the Japanese troops divided into two groups and advanced towards Fenxin and Anyi.  What surprised the Japanese army was that the Chinese army did not set up a defense line in an area more than 200 kilometers deep.

    The construction of roads leading to Nanchang is relatively developed, and most of them were built by the national army during the "suppression of bandits".  Okamura Neiji took advantage of this convenient situation and boldly used tanks and artillery to advance.  As a result, the Japanese mechanized attack column was at home like a fish in water and marched straight in.

    The Japanese army airdropped fuel supplies and tank troops traveled day and night to carry out a "blitzkrieg" and attack Nanchang.  The Chinese troops defending the city were caught off guard and fell the next day.

    It can be said that the Japanese army made quite adequate preparations in terms of intelligence and other aspects in the early days of the war. This is far beyond the comparison of the Chinese army. However, after the war began, the Japanese army's intelligence level did not improve significantly.

    After the war began, the Chinese army¡¯s interpretation of the Japanese troops they faced was significantly improved, and there was nothing particularly absurd. This was mainly due to the troop information, documentary materials collected from the corpses of Japanese soldiers, and the interrogation of prisoners of war.

    ??The Japanese army did a lot of intelligence work before the war began, sending a large number of personnel to use various identities and different methods and means to understand the information of the Chinese army. This made the two sides not on the same level in understanding each other before the war.

    In addition, China's failure also lies in problems with the quality of weapons, the quality of soldiers, and logistics supplies. From a command point of view, China's top commander, Chiang Kai-shek, was too suspicious of the execution ability of the grassroots and ignored the unfavorable situation at the time.  Randomly command the troops on the front line.

    Frontline commander Luo Zhuoying is a typical example who is good at planning but poor at decision-making. When deploying the water-repair defense line, he was extremely attentive. During the war, he also planned many counterattacks and adjustments in an effort to improve the situation. However, he overestimated his own strength.  Many deployments were made but were far behind schedule, especially delays or errors in determining the direction of the Japanese attack.

    So this battle was fought like this not only because of Japan¡¯s superiority in weapons and equipment, but also because of China¡¯s series of mistakes.

    But now that the matter has come to this, Li Guoyao can only do nothing!

    More importantly, if history has not changed, Chairman Chiang will take advantage of the fact that the Japanese army has just captured Nanchang and is not yet stable, and orders the main force of the Ninth Theater to counterattack Nanchang, and the second phase of the Nanchang Battle will begin.

    Although the second phase of the operation achieved unexpected results and indeed caused a big shock to the Japanese army, it still failed to regain Nanchang City. On the contrary, the national army itself suffered heavy casualties, and the gains outweighed the losses.

    Although he knew this, Li Guoyao was unable to change the current situation. First, he could not tell Chiang Kai-shek these words, and the other party might not believe him.

    Secondly, the people across the country are now very angry and extremely dissatisfied with the results of the first phase of the Battle of Nanchang. If the Nationalist Government does not make some statements, the people's enthusiasm for the Anti-Japanese War will be dampened. This is what no one wants to see.

    However, Li Guoyao didn¡¯t know that just when he was worried about the battle on the front line in Nanchang, the headquarters of the 12th Army of the Little Japanese had already figured out their details and was planning to mobilize heavy troops to encircle and suppress them.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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