At the end of August, as soon as Lu'an and Huoshan in Anhui Province, which were close to the border of Henan, were lost, Gushi, Henan, which was adjacent to them, was immediately exposed to the front of the Japanese Second Army. &1t;/p>

The first line of defense was lost so quickly, that is, in two days, which caught the 71st Army, the solid defender of the second line of defense, a little off guard. &1t;/p>

Fortunately, under the leadership of General Song, the 71st Army built several solid defensive positions in the area of Fujiaji Fujin Mountain in late August, and dug out a defense system in depth on the mountain of Fujin Mountain. &1t;/p>

Fujin Mountain, belongs to the remaining veins of Dabie Mountain, where West Jiuhua Mountain is located, the mountain is gentle and steep, shaped like a fan, overlooking the highway from Lu'an to Xinyang, easy to defend and difficult to attack. &1t;/p>

The commander of the 71st Army, Song Corps, arranged for the 6th and 88th Divisions to defend Fujin Mountain, and the 61st Division to defend the beginning, hoping to delay the pace of the Japanese army here, delay the time to Xinyang and Wuhan, and ensure the operation and retreat of hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops on both sides of the Yangtze River. &1t;/p>

From this point of view, it is similar to the Dangshan defense battle of the last Xuzhou breakthrough, which has extraordinary strategic significance, and both the Chinese and Japanese armies see the important role of this point, the Japanese army is bound to win, and the Chinese army is desperately defending each other. &1t;/p>

The Japanese army dispatched two divisions of troops in one go, but because Fujin Mountain was only three or four kilometers long, it could not spread the strength of the two divisions, after all, it was not in the vast northern plain, and it could only be attacked by the 1st Division and the 6th Brigade first. &1t;/p>

As a mountain and a stronghold, the Japanese army can send a brigade to attack at once, which is relatively rare in the War of Resistance. &1t;/p>

On September 2, the 27th year of the Republic of China (198), that is, when the 74th Army fought a fierce battle with the Maruyama Brigade of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army in the Jiujiang Minshan area on the south bank of the Yangtze River, a fierce offensive and defensive battle also began on Fujin Mountain here. &1t;/p>

It's just that the offensive and defensive sides are a little reversed, in the south of the Yangtze River, the 74th Army attacked a mountain held by a brigade of the Japanese army, and in the north of the river, it was a mountain held by a brigade of the Japanese army attacking the 71st Army. &1t;/p>

On the morning of 2 September, the Japanese army dispatched a large number of planes to Fujin Mountain to bomb the position, and dozens of planes poured a large number of aerial bombs on the mountain. &1t;/p>

On the ground, the field artillery wing of the 1st Division of the Japanese Army, and the large-caliber artillery were also bombarding Fujin Mountain, and for a time, the entire Fujin Mountain was shrouded in a dark cloud. &1t;/p>

After the baptism of the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Nanjing, and the Battle of Lanfeng, the 87th and 88th Divisions were rebuilt several times, and their combat effectiveness declined sharply. &1t;/p>

And the 6th Division, although it has also been baptized by several major battles, the main body has not been destroyed. &1t;/p>

For example, in the Battle of Nanjing, the 6th Division, as the rear unit guarding the area of Rujiangmen, did not fight with the Japanese army, and was given priority to retreat, with little loss. &1t;/p>

Therefore, compared with the 87th and 88th Divisions, as well as the Teaching Corps, the Tax Police Corps and other troops, the 6th Division is the only remaining fruit in the German Armament Division. &1t;/p>

Although it is said that it is a German armament division, in fact, it is lightly armed with German armament, and there are almost no artillery and tanks, and even if they have, they cannot afford to consume it, and they cannot produce their ammunition by themselves, and if they are consumed, they have to import them, and the constraints of this kind of army are too great. &1t;/p>

Besides, after the Sino-Japanese war began, Germany no longer sold weapons to China, and even its military advisers were withdrawn, so the German armourers lost a single piece of weapons and ammunition, and could not be replenished in any way. &1t;/p>

The country's military industry cannot keep up, and equipping German armament troops is a big pit, and there is no advantage in air supremacy, and even if there are heavy troops on the ground, they will become the target of bombing by enemy aircraft. &1t;/p>

Therefore, it is said that it is a German armament division, in fact, it is better with light weapons and sufficient ammunition, compared with the domestic armed forces at that time, it does have advantages, but compared with the Japanese army, there is almost no advantage at all. &1t;/p>

After the Japanese artillery bombardment ended, the 6th Brigade of the 1st Division sent an infantry wing to attack Fujin Mountain, and thousands of Japanese troops charged towards Fujin Mountain in multiple waves of scattered formations. &1t;/p>

The officers and men of the 6th Division on Fujin Mountain used small cannons and heavy machine guns to hit the devils in the distance, and light machine guns and rifles to hit the approaching devils. &1t;/p>

In order to facilitate command and show attitude, the 71st Army moved its headquarters to Myoko Temple on Fujin Mountain, a distance that the Japanese artillery could reach, which really showed the attitude of life and death with the soldiers. &1t;/p>

In the evening, General Chen Ruike, the commander of the 6th Division, also organized a number of small units to go down the mountain to attack and harass the Japanese army at night. &1t;/p>

After two days of fierce fighting, the Japanese army failed to open the mouth of the Fujinshan Gorge, and the commander of the 1st Division, Ogisu Libing, was furious and transferred two more brigades from the 1O Brigade to join the 6th Brigade in the hope of breaking through the Fujinshan position from the left flank. &1t;/p>

After the Japanese army learned of the specific location of the Chinese army headquarters, they successively sent planes to bomb Myokoji Temple, and almost all of Myoko Temple was razed to the ground, leaving only one mountain gate. &1t;/p>

Fortunately, the command of the 71st Army followed Commander Song to the front line to comfort the soldiers and boost morale, otherwise they would all have to be martyred. &1t;/p>

On September 7, the Seya Detachment of the 1O Division, which was advancing towards Gushi County (the unit that had been severely attacked by the Chinese army in the front of Erzhuang, was replenished and rejoined the battle) reinforced the 1st Division. &1t;/p>

The Japanese 1O Division captured the county town of Gushi, and with the strength of one wing, it moved south to attack Wumiaoji west of Fujin Mountain, seriously threatening the flank of the Fujin Mountain position, and was detected by the Chinese army. &1t;/p>

Army Commander Song immediately urgently transferred a regiment of the 88th Division of the General Reserve Army to Aokoutang, the road through which the Japanese army must go south, to set up an ambush, inflicting heavy losses on the invading enemy, annihilating more than 4oo Japanese troops, and forcing them to retreat to Gushi. &1t;/p>

In front of Fujin Mountain, the 16th Division of the Japanese follow-up unit had advanced to the west of Lu'an, and the 1st Division relieved its worries and made every effort to storm all positions in Fujin Mountain. &1t;/p>

By the 9th, the number of lightly wounded people who could still shoot in the 6th Division Company was only a thousand. Commander Song personally went to the position to boost morale, and although the enemy's 1st Division attacked the position west of Yejiaji with all its might, it suffered more than half of the casualties under the stubborn resistance of the defenders. &1t;/p>

On the ninth day of the Battle of Fujin Mountain, Mrs. Jiang's wife, Ms. Song, came to the front line of Fujin Mountain in military uniform, braved the artillery fire and bombardment of the Japanese army, and comforted and encouraged the front-line soldiers along the trenches, which greatly boosted the morale of the army. &1t;/p>

From the 9th to the 1oth, the fierce attack continued day and night, and the 6th Division fought bloody battles to crush all the Japanese attacks. The Japanese 1st Division began to attack with all its might in the early morning of the 11th. &1t;/p>

By September 11, the entire line of Fujin Mountain was bombarded by the enemy's heavy artillery fire, and the battle was extremely fierce, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties. The main positions were lost one after another, and the various units were still resisting stubbornly, and although they wanted to regain their positions, they were no longer able to do so. &1t;/p>

By 4 p.m., the 6th Division had lost all positions except for the commanding heights of the main peak of Fujin Mountain. At such an urgent moment, Division Commander Chen still organized the remnants of the division to carry out the last counterattack. &1t;/p>

However, the remaining soldiers of the 6th Division were less than 1,000 men, and it was difficult to fight again, so the commander of the Song Army counterattacked from the right flank of Fujin Mountain with the 61st Division, seizing the line from the 8oo Heights to Myokoji Temple to cover the retreat of the 6th Division. &1t;/p>

For 1o days, the 71st Army blocked the strong enemy at the foot of Fujin Mountain, and the Japanese divisions and regiments killed more than 4ooo people, and the corpses were all "incinerated by the Yunye family, and the smell was more than ten miles." ”&1t;/p>

In this battle, the Chinese army killed and wounded more than 10,000 people of the Japanese 1st Division, including Major General Numata Tokushige, the commander of the 6th Brigade of the 1st Division, who was seriously wounded, and the commanders of the four wings under him were killed and wounded, and the average infantry squadron of the 1st Division was only 4o people left. &1t;/p>

More than 10,000 Japanese casualties were caused on a single Fujin Mountain, and these more than 10,000 people were all field troops of the Japanese army's most effective fighting division, not a heavy logistics unit that killed more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers in a certain battle. &1t;/p>

The 71st Army also suffered a lot of casualties, and the only remaining 6th Division of the German-style division was sharply reduced from more than 10,000 to 8oo in this battle, almost completely lost, becoming the swan song of China's last German armor division, and writing the last glory and glory for the German-style division! &1t;/p>

In this blockade battle, the Chinese defenders "completely smashed the Japanese army's strategic attempt to cross the Dabie Mountains and detour to Wuhan with inferior equipment and favorable terrain, and created a successful example of positional defensive operations during the Anti-Japanese War." ”&1t;/p>

This battle also won precious time for the Chinese army to adjust its deployment, and completely smashed the Japanese army's campaign attempt to cross the Dabie Mountains and detour to Wuhan. &1t;/p>

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