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Chapter 884: Battle in Changsha (Part 2)

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    Okamura Neiji is a proud man. Although the performance of the Chinese army in the past six months has been amazing, he still secretly looks down on the Chinese army.

    In this attack on Changsha, although Okamura Neiji openly dispatched five divisions of troops, most of the troops only mobilized a small number of troops to participate in the battle, and the total strength was only about 40,000.

    In his opinion, this amount of troops was enough to deal with Xue Yue's ninth theater. Based on the results of the battle during this period, Okamura Neji discovered that not only the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Japanese Army had declined, but the combat effectiveness of the Chinese government forces had also declined.  The decline is obvious, even the magnitude of the decline is even greater, and it is completely vulnerable.

    Therefore, when formulating this combat plan, the combat effectiveness of the 11th Army was calculated based on the strength of one brigade equivalent to one division of the Chinese army. In the past, one regiment was usually equivalent to one division of the Chinese army.  The teacher will calculate.

    Okamura Neiji also believes that if you add your air superiority and artillery superiority together, a brigade is completely sure to defeat a division of the Chinese army.  Judging from past combat practice, a division of the Chinese army can rarely defeat a brigade of the Japanese army.

    However, in this battle, not only did they underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, but they were slapped hard!

    Furthermore, Okamura Neji also found that he had overlooked a more important factor, which was the power of the local people.

    Before the battle began, the local people, under the organization of the government, cooperated with the Chinese army to destroy all the main transportation arteries between Xinqiang River and Laodao River. Even the land in this area was turned over.  The first floor has become new soil, which makes it impossible for the mechanized troops of the Imperial Japanese Army to display, and its combat effectiveness is correspondingly weakened, and even logistics cannot be fully guaranteed.

    In this case, rushing to Changsha can only be a risk. After carefully weighing it, Okamura Neiji finally issued an order to retreat across the entire line: "The Chinese army is tenacious and is still lurking in the areas on both sides of the Mi River and Xiu River. In order to avoid  If the situation is unfavorable, we should quickly move back to the original position in order to restore our combat effectiveness, and we should strictly guard against the pursuit of the Chinese army."

    After receiving orders from Okamura Neiji, the Japanese troops who entered Yongan City first retreated to the north of Laodao River.  Subsequently, Japanese troops in Qiaotou Station, Uesugi City and other places retreated one after another.

    The enemy's 6th Division retreated from Qingshan City and Malinqiao area, while part of Uemura Mikio's 5th Brigade retreated from Yingtian to Yueyang by boat.

    Guan Linzheng, who was on the front line, noticed signs of the Japanese retreat. He immediately ordered all units to track and attack the enemies retreating from Uesugi City. Then the units of the 15th Group Army began to pursue and recaptured Uesugi City that day.

    Immediately afterwards, the 25th and 195th Divisions pursued the enemy to the vicinity of Fulinpu and Jinjing, and the Japanese army began to retreat to the north bank of the Miluo River.  In mid-October, the 15th Group Army regained Changle Street, Miluo, Xinshi and other places.

    At this time, the 9th War Zone was in front of Changsha, the main force in the mountains on the flanks of Pingjiang, and the troops originally behind the enemy lines, according to orders, attacked the enemy everywhere and conducted combat pursuits.  At this time, the enemy dispersed and garrisoned troops north of Mi River, and suffered the greatest losses.

    The frontal pursuit and flank and rear encirclement in the 9th Theater killed a large number of enemies, captured a large number of weapons, and captured many Japanese soldiers, and finally won the victory in the Shobei Operation.

    This time the Japanese army invaded northern Hunan, just like fighting in other places, in the occupied areas, the Japanese troops burned, killed and committed all kinds of crimes.

    Some of them dug in the ground in front of residents' houses, behind their houses, in haystacks in front of and behind villages, looking for food and property hidden by the people. Some went to the mountains to look for hiding women. When retreating, some of them burned down houses.  They defecated in the rice pots of some people's homes; some smashed all the water jars, pots, and bowls in people's homes; in some places, the bodies of people they shot and killed were placed on both sides of the gate.  These beastly acts of the enemy troops were reported by Chinese and foreign field reporters accompanying the Kuomintang troops.

    When the troops of the 9th War Zone were chasing the enemy, many people armed with wooden sticks and iron forks followed the troops to look for and annihilate the enemy.

    They captured many Japanese soldiers who had lost their way and changed into civilian clothes in the mountains and wild areas along the way. Even the Japanese rear medical staff such as Tomiko Kondo and others were captured. The Warring States Army did not stop their pursuit until they reached the Xinqiang River line.

    After that, the Japanese army resumed its original occupation posture in northern Hunan and northern Jiangxi, and the battle was finally concluded.

    In this battle, the Chinese army suffered more than 30,000 casualties. The Japanese army was killed about 850 people and injured about 2,700 people.  Although the Chinese army suffered a heavy loss in terms of record, the Chinese army in this battle smashed the Japanese army's strategic attempt to attack Changsha and saved Chongqing in the rear area despite the low morale of the new defeat in Wuhan. It did not lose strategically.

    Although the Japanese army claimed that more than 800 people were killed and 2,700 injured, this was only the Japanese army.Even if you think about the casualty data released by the 11th Army, you will know that there is a lot of water in it.

    In such a large-scale battle, the Japanese army only suffered so few casualties, but the little devil dared to say so.

    But in any case, this battle is over, which means that China and Japan will maintain temporary peace on the Changsha frontline for a long time to come, and no one will be able to launch a second attack.

    And this also means that the focus of the next phase of the Japanese attack is no longer the west, or even the battlefield in central China!

    In fact, the base camp received the news immediately after the 11th Army withdrew its troops. After analyzing the reasons for the failure of the Changsha Battle, the base camp believed that the 11th Army's performance in this battle was quite satisfactory, although there was nothing outstanding.  But there were no strategic mistakes, and his performance in tactical command was even remarkable.

    The reason why they failed to capture Changsha in the end was that on the one hand they underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Chinese military and civilians working together, and secondly because of the containment and harassment of other national military units in North and Central China, which greatly restricted the strength of the Imperial Japanese Army.  As a result, there were not enough reinforcements to reinforce the Changsha battlefield at the critical moment.

    Especially the Chinese troops in northern Jiangsu and southern Shandong were very active during this period. They not only sent troops to Linyi, but also showed the intention of attacking Linyi and its nearby counties. They even sent troops to destroy several major cities near Haizhou City.  The salt field greatly dealt a blow to the imperial army's power in northern Jiangsu.

    Therefore, as soon as the battle in Changsha ended, the base camp ordered the North China Front Army and the Central China Front Army to actively prepare for war and completely wipe out the Chinese troops operating in northern Jiangsu and southern Shandong.

    After receiving the order from the base camp, the Japanese commanders in central and northern China did not dare to neglect and took action one after another!

    However, while the Japanese army was busy dealing with the Chinese army in Lunan, Li Guoyao, who was unaware of the approaching danger, held a mountain opening ceremony in Jiagu Mountain.

    Of course, the protagonist is not Li Guoyao himself, but Zhu Hongzhu, the boss who is already quite famous on the green forest road in northern Jiangsu.

    Since the elimination of Liu Guitang's men, the reputation of Boss Zhu Hong has been completely established on the green forest roads of northern Jiangsu. For this hero who is both powerful and loyal, all the bandits and salt lords in northern Jiangsu are very interested.  While they are afraid of each other, they also want to make friends.

    In addition, the troops will continue to mix in this area in the future, so under Li Guoyao's order, Zhu Hong decided to hold a mountain opening ceremony and formally erect the pole.

    This is like establishing a sect. Regardless of the size of the sect, you must first open the mountain gate and hang up the plaque to let others know which sect you belong to!

    And I heard that Boss Zhu from Jiagu Mountain was going to set up a pole in northern Jiangsu. Regardless of whether he received the invitation or not, the bandit gangs and salt lords from nearby 180 miles away sent representatives to Jiagu Mountain with gifts.

    At this time, Jiagu Mountain has a completely new look. Although only a few small wooden buildings have been built, they no longer look dilapidated after the previous fire.

    The entire opening ceremony was held very smoothly. Everyone showed great "goodwill" to Mr. Zhu, the dragon crossing the river. There was no way, who could let him have such a big fist!

    Although loyalty is the most important thing on the Green Forest Road, what people value in this world is strength. Without strength, everything is in vain!

    Zhu Hong did not refuse the goodwill released by these bandits, especially those salt owl, Zhu Hong handed over them without hesitation, and the two sides were in harmony.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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