The current commander of the 6th Division is Shiro Inaba, who wanted to surpass his predecessor Tani Toshio and make some meritorious achievements, but when the troops entered the hidden mountains, they were attacked by an epidemic of malaria, and the troops were reduced by more than 2,000 people.

It was not until the Jiujiang River in the south of the Yangtze River was laid that the 6th Division was able to stop the malaria epidemic, and in late July, the Imamura detachment of the vanguard arrived in Taihu County.

The area of Susong and Huangmei is the southern foot of Dabie Mountain, which belongs to the defense of the 3rd Corps of the Gui Army, and General Li, the commander of the Fifth Theater, treats the wounded soldiers, and is now represented by General Xiao Zhuge Bai.

On the one hand, General Bai mobilized troops for a frontal vertical defense, and on the other hand, he took advantage of the large number of troops to carry out roundabout flanking attacks and long-range attacks on the supply lines of the Japanese army, which only made the Japanese army extremely uncomfortable.

The Japanese army had no choice but to send out the 36th Brigade of another brigade, Ushijima Man, to defeat Susong, and the two brigades joined forces to attack Huangmei together.

With the help of more than 20 planes and the saturation blow of the heavy artillery wing, the soldiers of a division attacked with all their might, and finally took Huangmei and kept pace with Jiujiang.

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The menacing Japanese army, in just over a month, successively attacked Anqing, Ma, Pengze, Hukou, and Jiujiang, and immediately reached the foot of Lushan Mountain. The well-arranged front-line defensive positions in the first class have gone bankrupt.

After Jiujiang was occupied by the Japanese army, the situation on the battlefield around the Nanxun Line became more tense. The situation of the First Corps where the three dogs were located immediately became dangerous.

Nanxun line is the railway and highway line from Nanchang to Jiujiang, has always been an important transportation hub in the north of Jiangxi, and the strategic position is also very high.

At that time, although the railways and highways of the Nanxun Line had been destroyed, the terrain was still relatively flat, and after it was opened, it could be repaired casually, and the mechanization of the Japanese army could be left immediately.

Therefore, a large number of troops were stationed in Ruichang and De'an on the Nanxun line, and Sangou's troops were temporarily in De'an, as the general reserve of the theater, on standby at any time.

After the Japanese army in the south of the Yangtze River conquered Jiujiang, they did not immediately attack Lushan, after all, Lushan was towering into the clouds, and for the mechanized troops, it was equivalent to abolishing their own strengths.

However, Lushan has a characteristic, although it is the remnant of Makufu Mountain, it is not connected with other mountains, but its strategic position is very significant.

Lushan overlooks the Jiujiang River in the north and faces the Yangtze River, the south can control the stars, the east is the boundless Poyang Lake, the southwest is connected to De'an, and the west is the Nanxun line.

It can be seen that as long as you occupy Lushan, you can go north to Jiujiang to cross the river, go south to Xingzi to threaten Nanchang, press the west bank of Poyang Lake in the east, and control the Nanxun line in the west.

In addition, Lushan has high mountains and steep mountains, stretching for more than 200 kilometers, which can ambush millions of soldiers, attack in all directions, dominate the entire northern part of Jiangxi, and block the road for the Japanese army to Wuhan.

But Lushan is so important, why the Japanese army did not capture it, it was because the Japanese army did not want to abandon its mechanization advantage and fight with the Chinese soldiers in the mountains.

Therefore, I wanted to send troops to first beat away the middle ** around Lushan, isolate and besiege Lushan, and finally take it in one fell swoop.

According to this operational policy, the Japanese 106th Division moved south along the Nanxun Line from Jiujiang to attack Ruichang, preparing to open up the Nanxun Line and fight all the way to Nanchang.

At the same time, the 11th Army and the 3rd Fleet exchanged on 1 August with the "Memorandum of Agreement between the Army and Navy on the Tracing of the River and the Poyang Lake Operation in Preparation for the Capture of Hankow" stipulated:

In early August, after the 11th Army occupied Xingzi and ensured the safety of the near shore of Poyang Lake, the Navy assisted the army in the waters of Poyang Lake.

In terms of the central **, Zhang Fakui's post as commander of the Second Corps has been removed at this time, and the army under him has been separated from Xue Yue and Wu Qiwei.

However, these two people are also Cantonese generals, and they are also Zhang Fakui's old subordinates, and they handed over the troops to them, Zhang Fakui was also relieved, and Lao Jiang did not say that he had carved up and dismembered the Cantonese troops.

Just such a move made the generals and troops below feel a sense of shame, and they all vowed to play with prestige and save face for the commander-in-chief.

At this point, the Second Corps was deployed in the Jiujiang area, the Fourth Army of Ouzhen, the 64th Army of Li Hansoul, and the 70th Army of Li Jue, and were assigned to the command of General Xue Yue of the First Corps.

The Fourth and 64th Armies were the Guangdong troops, but the 70th Army was not, they were the Hunan Army, and the army commander Li Jue was the son-in-law of Chenglong under the knee of He Jian, the leader of Hunan.

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At the moment of the great enemy, General Xue's old boss Zhang Fakui was removed from his post in disguise, and the burden of defending the south bank of the Yangtze River fell on his shoulders.

However, now, the troops under the command of General Xue suddenly increased the strength of three armies, and Xue Yue couldn't help but feel a great increase in confidence.

Moreover, these three armies are accustomed to mountain warfare, and the overlapping mountains in the second-line positions give them a place to use. In addition, the 4th and 64th armies were all old units from before, and they knew each other well, and they were also handy in command.

According to the direction of the Japanese army, General Xue placed more than a dozen divisions and more than 100,000 troops on the line of Niutou Mountain, Jinguanqiao, and Shili Mountain on the Nanxun line.

In order to avoid the pretense of not putting the Guangdong troops on the front line like Zhang Fakui, General Xue put the Fourth, 64th, and 70th Armies, as well as Li Yutang's Eighth Army, on the front line of the Nanxun Line in one go.

I also hope that the children of Guangdong can show their majesty in this battle to stop the Japanese army and save face to the old commander General Zhang.

At the end of July and the beginning of August of the 27th year of the Republic of China, as soon as the battle began, the Japanese offensive was extremely fierce and fierce.

The 106th Division of the Japanese Army, relying on its strong air power and artillery superiority, came up with three axes: artillery bombardment, aircraft indiscriminate bombing, and finally a coordinated charge of infantry and tanks.

Xue Yue's First Corps fought so hard in Henan before, because Henan was located in the Central Plains, suitable for the Japanese army's mechanized operations, and now the battlefield has reached the mountainous areas of northern Jiangxi, and the Cantonese Yankees under him will immediately exert the power of the Northern Expedition to sweep the northern army that year.

General Xue is a famous general of a generation, and from the beginning of the battle with the Japanese army in Songhu, he learned and changed his own tactics while fighting, and at this time he almost found a set of methods to contain the Japanese army.

In the operation of the large corps, they set up a defensive position in large depth, resisted and retreated in an orderly manner one by one, grinding the rampant Japanese army to the point of gradually losing its sharpness, and luring them into the encirclement.

At the same time, a large number of small forces were sent to constantly harass and raid the supply lines behind the Japanese army, and finally a strong reserve ace army was sent to attack on both flanks to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army.

Of course, this is a countermeasure and a bold idea for him against the powerful Japanese army, and he has not yet had a chance to realize it.

Although the Japanese army is extremely strong, we must also dare to resist it, and even dare to encircle and annihilate them, and show the prestige and strength of our Chinese army, so as to mobilize the confidence, determination and upsurge of the nationwide war of resistance.

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