Chapter 111: The Ignored Security Corps

As early as three days ago, Xue Yue had already laid out a pocket waiting for the 106th Division and the 101st Division to come in, and now although the 101st Division did not come, this did not mean that Xue Yue would let them go. In the past few days, Xue Yue has quietly commanded the four armies to carry out a tactical encirclement of the 106th Division.

On 22 September, Xue Yue ordered Wu Qiwei, commander of the Ninth Army, to launch an attack on the 106th Division, and at the same time ordered the 29th Army to cut off the connection between the 27th Division and the 106th Division. After receiving the order, Wu Qiwei ordered the Fourth Army, the 66th Army, and the 74th Army to complete preparations for the attack before the 24th, and launched an attack at 16 minutes on the morning of the 25th, and on this day the Battle of Wanjialing began.

As early as the 22nd before the campaign was launched, he ordered the 106th Division to build fortifications on the spot to prepare for positional warfare, and by the 24th, the 106th Division had initially built fortifications, and the Chinese army was not very smooth at the beginning of the battle due to the lack of heavy weapons, and at this time the security regiment and the reserve 6th Division led by Su Jin came to the vicinity of Wanjialing under such circumstances.

Wanjialing is located more than 20 kilometers northwest of De'an City, Jiangxi Province, and is shrouded in rain and fog all year round. This ridge is less than 50 meters high, surrounded by high hills on three sides, and cannot be found on the map, but this originally unknown place has recently become the focus of attention of both China and Japan.

Located on the south side of Wanjia Ling, Tuolin is the headquarters of the Ninth Army that is responsible for the main attack task, these days the army gathers, one after another troops pass near it, two days ago another unit drove here, this force is not large, only about 3,000 people, after arriving in Tuolin, this unit was arranged to be stationed in Tuolin, has not moved for several days.

"Tuanza. What the hell is going on, we have been here for two days, why are we sitting here motionless while others are fighting so lively? ”

In a private house that temporarily served as a command headquarters, there was a ticking sound, Zhang Xiuniang and two young girls who were also wearing military uniforms were sitting in front of three radio stations to receive telegrams, and next to them, several Su Jin had obtained several staff officers by prying the foot of the wall to point and point at the map hanging on the wall to discuss something.

"Tuanza, it's been a few days since our security team came here, but we can't do anything but watch the excitement here, what the hell is going on?" In the center of the house, Li Wei was complaining to Su Jin. And Su Jin was smoking unhurriedly.

"And what do you want?" Su Jin raised his head and squinted at him, and reprimanded: "Let me take my brothers back to Nanchang?" ”

"Not really, but at least you'll have to ask the chief here to see when you can send us on. You see, the Sixth Reserve Division that came with us has now done it with the devils, but we are staring at us here, don't they look down on us? Seeing Su Jin's dissatisfied gaze, Li Wei lowered his voice and muttered in a low voice.

Su Jin looked at Li Wei with a sneer: "They just look down on us, so what's the matter?" The Sixth Division is also a regular unit of the national army, and we are just a security regiment. What do you think of us? Will you give us up? I guess people have forgotten about us a long time ago. ”

"I'm ......" Li Wei snorted twice and stopped talking, Su Jin was right, he was the security team. In the eyes of others, in addition to fighting bandits in the countryside, it is okay to fight the Japanese head-on...... It's better to save it.

Su Jin was right, since the general attack on the 106th Division, countless enemy situations have converged on the former enemy headquarters. Wu Qiwei, who served as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, still remembered that a security regiment from Nanchang had been hung near the headquarters by himself for several days.

"Under the command of General Xue Yue and General Wu Qiwei, the brave soldiers of our army have completed the encirclement of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army in the Wanjialing area, and the enemy has now become a turtle in an urn. Now tens of thousands of our national troops are launching a fierce attack on the 106th Division. This is another great victory won by the Nationalist army since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and Chairman Chiang specially ordered General Xue Yue to annihilate all the 106th Division, so as to demonstrate the determination of our army and people to never give in and resist to the end......

"Touching ......"

Before the news on the radio was finished, a slap on the table sounded, and Okamura Ninji scolded in the office: "Bagayalu, a bunch of bastards...... It's been three days, and the 27th Division still hasn't been able to get through the contact with the 106th Division, and the 101st Division, what are they doing, traveling at the Lushan Pass? ”

As a general who has spent more than ten years in China and specializes in Chinese culture, Okamura Ninji's high level of Chinese language is self-evident, because he also likes to listen to the radio of the Nationalist Government in his spare time. But today, after hearing this broadcast, his mood can no longer be as calm as before, and it seems to him that every word of this broadcast is like a sharp sword piercing his heart.

In front of Okamura Ninji, Kazuo Miyazaki, the director of the war room, and Ichiro Miyamoto, the combat staff officer, all stood with their hands down and did not dare to say anything, they all knew that this time the matter was big. Originally, the siege of the 106th Division was only known to the top level of the 11th Army, but now that the broadcast is like this, I am afraid that even Tokyo will be alarmed, and if the 106th Division is really completely annihilated, it will create a shame for the Imperial Japanese Army since the Meiji Restoration, and then Okamura Ninji, who is directly responsible, will probably be nailed to the pillar of shame in the history of the Japanese army.

After taking two deep breaths, Okamura said to the two of them with red eyes and almost in a roaring tone: "Immediately reinforce Wanjialing from the Fifth Brigade of the Electric Bell Chariot, and then urgently ask for reinforcements from Commander Yan Junliu, and ask him to send reinforcements immediately for reinforcements, if it's too late, it's too late!" ”

"Hai ......"

Miyamoto and Miyazaki bowed in unison, and then turned to leave.

Yan Junliu, who was the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, was also shocked after receiving Okamura Ningji's urgent telegram for help, and was deeply afraid that the 106th Division would be completely annihilated, setting a record of shame in military history, so he immediately mobilized the 102nd Brigade and the Suzuki Wing of the 17th Division in the Suzhou area, and three brigades and one artillery wing to reinforce the 106th Division day and night.

With the addition of these reinforcements, Xue Yue, who was paying close attention to the movements of the Japanese army, immediately realized that the Japanese army was about to play with his life, and hurriedly telegraphed Wu Qiwei, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, to ask him to send reinforcements to block the Japanese reinforcements. (To be continued......)