The news of the loss of Dongguling reached Jiujiang, and Okamura Ninji was once again in trouble. He stared at the battlefield situation map hanging on the wall of the command post for a long time, his eyes glazed and his face blank.

The red and blue arrows on the battlefield situation map are very eye-catching to mark the progress of the battle on the Nanxun Line, and the two red arrows representing the offensive direction of the Japanese 11th Army are like two dead snakes that have been hit with "seven inches", weakly paralyzed in front of their respective positions.

The arrow, representing the 106th Division of Songpu, collapsed on the Mahuiling on the Nanxun Railway, not far from the Jinguan Bridge. The arrow, which represented Ito's 101st Division, was paralyzed under the Donggu Ridge on the Dexing Highway in the west of Poyang Lake.

Okamura Ninji let out a long sigh, and with trembling hands, he took out a copy of the "List of Cadres of the Eleventh Division and Regiment of the Central China Dispatch Army" from the drawer, and then picked up a brush and dipped it in red ink in the red ink bottle on the table.

Okamura first opened the list of cadres of the 101st Matsuura Division, and then crossed out the names one by one with a red pen on the roster according to the list of dead cadres of the Jinguanqiao Division submitted by the division.

Okamura Ninji first crossed out the names of the cadres of the 106th Matsuura Division who died at Jinguanqiao, and these lists were all cadres above the captain level, they were:

Wing Commander of the 113th Wing: Tanaka Seido Osa

The first captain of the 113th Wing: Akio Sazo Shosa

The second captain of the 113th Wing: Shigeo Tajiri

The third captain of the 113th Wing: Utsumi Changsheng Shaosa

Second Brigade Captain of the 145th Wing: Captain Sakata

Adjutant of the 145th Wing: Takeo Motoyama

The first captain of the 123rd Wing: Ueda Nakasa

The third captain of the 147th Wing: Tani Minoru Nakasa

After drawing the list of fallen cadres of the 106th Division of Matsuura, Okamura Ninji trembled and flipped to the 101st Division of Ito. When he lifted the red pen and crossed the name of the 101st Wing Wing Captain Iizuka Kunigoro Osa, facing the long list below, his right hand holding the pen seemed to be crazy with chicken feet, trembling and trembling and unable to draw it down.

A few cloudy tears rolled out of Okamura Ninji's eyes, and the brush dipped in red ink in his hand could no longer be held, and fell on the open cadre roster on the page, and as the brush rolled, a long list of names were swept away by the red ink.

Okamura hurriedly grabbed the brush that was rolling towards the table with his hand, but he accidentally knocked over the bottle of red ink on the table, and the red ink poured out of the bottle splashed heartily on the roster that was being opened. In the blink of an eye, the bright red ink completely soaked the "List of Cadres of the 11th Division and Regiment of the Central China Dispatch Army".

Looking at the roster that was soaked in blood-red ink, a hint of foreboding swept through Okamura Ninji's heart.

Since the occupation of Jiujiang on July 26, Okamura Ninji's invincible army has lost all its strength among the lofty mountains and mountains of the Nanxun Line.

First, the 106th Division of Matsuura suffered a crushing defeat at Jinguanqiao, and his attempt to attack head-on from the Nanxun Line was declared bankrupt; Immediately afterwards, he ordered Ito's 101st Division to make a detour from Dexing Road on the west shore of Poyang Lake, in an attempt to outflank the rear road of Xue Yue's First Corps.

Okamura Ninji faced the blood-red arrows that were as limp as a dead snake on the battlefield situation map, and he only felt that everything was burning inside. More than a month passed in the blink of an eye, and his army ran into walls everywhere, and was defeated by Xue Yue's First Corps.

Facing the reckless mountains in the distance outside the window, and facing the Chinese general named Xue Yue who was hiding troops in the depths of the mountains, Okamura Ninji felt so powerless for the first time......

Okamura Ninji, who was at a loss, stood in front of the battlefield situation map as if he were calm. His gaze moved slowly on the battlefield situation map, from west to east, from east to west, from south to north, and from north to south.

Okamura Ninji's blank gaze was fixed on the map like a magnet, and after a long time, his heart suddenly moved, and he once again slowly moved his gaze from the stars on the western shore of Poyang Lake to the west. His gaze moved over Dexing Road, moved over the Nanxun Line, and finally settled on Minshan Mountain in the northwest direction of De'an on the Nanxun Line.

Minshan was located in the rear of Xue Yue's First Corps, and its defense was relatively weak. Since the frontal attack from the Nanxun line was blocked, and the detour from the Dexing Road was frustrated, why not send a surprise army to attack Minshan.

Judging from the map, Minshan is in the rear of the Chinese defenders, and the rear defense should be relatively weak according to the convention, and if Minshan is occupied, the entire defense system of Xue Yue's 1st Corps will be shaken.

Thinking of this, Okamura Ninji suddenly thought about it, and he immediately called his 11th Army Operations Division Commander Miyazaki Monday to ask Yoshizumi Ryosuke where the 9th Division had arrived now.

Miyazaki reported on Monday: "Yoshizumi Ryosuke's 9th Division has just arrived in Ruichang. ”

Okamura walked to the map again and found Ruichang's location. Ruichang is not far northwest of Minshan.

Okamura Ninji immediately gave an order to Miyazaki Zhou: "Miyazaki-kun, pass on my order, Lieutenant General Ryosuke Ryoyoshi of the 9th Division will quickly move south from Ruichang after receiving the order and occupy Minshan!" ”

"Hello!" Miyazaki, the head of the operations section, took the order on Monday.

After Yoshizumi Ryosuke received the order, he immediately ordered Major General Maruyama to lead the 6th Brigade to form the Maruyama Detachment, and quickly moved south from Ruichang to attack Minshan. And the Ninth Division also became the only "trump card" in the hands of Okamura Ninji.

Okamura Ninji is worthy of being an experienced commander, and his analysis is really good, because Minshan is the rear of the Chinese army, Xue Yue only deployed Wang Lingji's 72nd Army here.

Wang Lingji's 72nd Army is a miscellaneous Sichuan army, this army is known as the "double-gun army", the weapons and equipment are very inferior, the weapons in the hands of the soldiers are still the "Hanyang-made" old sleeves made by the "Hanyang Arsenal" of Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang in the late Qing Dynasty.

In addition, each soldier has a long-roded cigarette barrel in his hand. After the outbreak of the Battle of Wuhan, they had just left their hometown in Sichuan and came to the Nanxun battlefield.

is talking about Wang Lingji, this person is definitely the best person among the senior generals of the national army, lustful and crazy, and no woman is unhappy.

In the early years of the Republic of China, Wang Lingji took refuge in Yuan Shikai as the envoy of Chongqing Town, and then went to Shanghai to enjoy a "long three halls". Unexpectedly, Chairman Jiang also fell in love with this woman, and he was actually picked up by Wang Lingji when he flirted around, and the chairman couldn't go to Wang for a while, and was slapped twice by Wang. Originally, no one knew about this kind of thing, but Wang liked to be public, and he especially liked to talk about it with people.

Wang Longji led the troops to fight and never forgot to prostitute himself. During the Red Army's Long March, Wang Lingji took tens of thousands of people to block the attack, but as a result, the team of tens of thousands of people was left alone and ran to the county seat to prostitute themselves, and finally returned defeated.

This may be the biggest failure of Xue Yue's Nanxun line defense, he actually let a "double-gun army" and a lecherous general to guard Minshan, and Ruichang to the north is the ninth division of the Japanese army. Once Minshan was captured by the Japanese army, the Fourth Army of Ou Zhen, the 64th Army of Li Hansoul, and the Eighth Army of Li Yutang on the front line of Jinguanqiao were attacked by the enemy and fell into a desperate situation.

Ruichang is located 34 kilometers west of Jiujiang and less than 100 kilometers away from Zhangchong 184th Division. The Ninth Division is second only to the Sixth Division in combat effectiveness and is the absolute main force of the 11th Army.

Founded in 1898, Yoshizumi Ryosuke's 9th Division is Japan's oldest permanent division, with two infantry brigades and four infantry wings, with a total strength of more than 23,000 people, and is one of the most combative divisions in the Japanese army.

After receiving the order of the division, the Maruyama detachment quickly moved south to Minshan. A bloody battle around Minshan began......

(This Minshan is not the Minshan in the poem "Long March", there is no "thousands of miles of snow", that is in Sichuan.) ）

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