Chapter 298: The Current Situation
Huang Haoran did not leave Minister He a chance to intervene. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoFan Jie, Wang Huanzhi, Cao Fulin, and Liu Zhaomu, who got the order, acted in a good show. The 55th Army and the 188th Division engaged in a skirmish "confrontation" in front of the officers of the Political Department sent by the army group, and then they were immediately "suppressed". In order to control the "chaotic situation", Huang Haoran's troops were "forced" to draw out 5 regiments to monitor the transfer of the 55th Army and the 188th Division to the rear. After this incident, the 25th Army's remaining troops in the line of fire were only most of the 99th Army and two divisions of the 100th Army, totaling 50,000 or 60,000 horses.
In this way, time slowly came to November 22, 1938. Half a month has passed since Huang Haoran woke up.
The five war zones where Xiao Zhuge sat were struggling under the fierce attack of the six generals of the six generals of Hata. And as the Japanese base camp once again increased two brigades to the Wuhan battlefield, the Ninth Theater commanded by Xue Yue also fought more and more difficult.
The highest authorities were worried that the young and vigorous Xue Yue would be aroused by the Japanese, so they urgently transferred Gu Zhu, who was old and respectful, to the Ninth War Zone and served as the commander in charge of the overall situation. After being corrected for a short time, Xue Yue returned to the position of deputy commander of the Ninth Theater.
On the Longganhu side, the Central China Dispatch Army carried out large-scale airdrops to the 27th Division three times in succession, replenishing Honma Masaharu with nearly 4,000 officers and soldiers and a large number of weapons and ammunition, greatly delaying the destruction of the 27th Division.
At the same time, the 11th Army sent a division and two brigades in two directions to storm in the direction of the Tianjiazhen fortress. Such a blatant siege of Wei to save Zhao made Chen Cixiu have to draw troops from the troops besieging the 27th Division to defend. After Chen Cixiu took office, the Jiang Defense Army paid the price of more than 30,000 casualties, but still failed to annihilate the Honma Masaharu Division, which had been besieged for many days.
The three battlefields were comprehensively frustrated, which made the atmosphere in Wuhan become tense again.
It's okay to say that the two sides of the Fifth and Ninth Theaters are still far away from the three towns of Wuhan where these two battlefields and the Japanese army are fighting.
The most tricky was the 27th Division, which was besieged by the Jiang Defense Army. If it could not be completely annihilated before the arrival of Japanese reinforcements, the 27th Division in the forward position would be able to play a surprise role, complete the strategy of "flowering in the center" that the 106th Division of Songpu had not completed, and become the poison buried by the devil in the defense area of the Chinese army.
The highest authorities, aware of the seriousness of the problem, transferred all five corps originally arranged by the Military Council to guard the three towns of Wuhan to the line of fire. He also handed over three of them to Chen Cixiu, and demanded that the Jiang Defense Army eliminate the Honma Masaharu Division within the five-day period.
As for whether Chen Cixiu can do this, Huang Haoran expressed doubts.
The Battle of Wuhan finally entered the final climactic stage. Regardless of whether the Honma Masaharu division will be wiped out by the Chinese army. The Japanese attack, the defense of the Chinese army, has become the next main theme.
Fortunately, in this battle, Huang Haoran had successfully broken the Japanese army. According to incomplete statistics, as of the early morning of November 22, the number of Japanese casualties in the Battle of Wuhan had exceeded 200,000, which was almost half of the total number of troops invested by the Japanese army at the beginning of the battle.
If it weren't for the reinforcements drawn from the Kwantung Army such as the Taiwan garrison several times later, I am afraid that the Battle of Wuhan would have ended with a victory for the Chinese army. (To be continued.) )