5.16 Nakajima's confusion

Changshu, the underground headquarters of the 99th Army Defense Line. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Huang Haoran was pacing by the huge sand table, and the staff officers of the military department were in the middle of the war. Under Richie's command, he constantly unplugged and planted small flags on the sand table.

These small flags represent the current advance and retreat of the Chinese and Japanese armies.

However, in the past few days, the staff officers of the military department have pulled out the blue flags representing the Chinese army, and they have planted the red flags representing the Japanese army.

In other words, the Chinese army in Songhu has been losing ground these days.

There are 2 small blue flags on the Changshu-Fushan defense line representing the Chinese defenders, one with 99 written on it and the other with 15.

The small blue flag with 99 on it naturally refers to Huang Haoran's 99th Army, while the small blue flag with 15 on it represents Luo Zhuoying's 15th Group Army.

The highest authorities have now finally realized the importance of the Ngoh Phuoc line, to which the three theaters of operations have been massing troops these days.

General Gu did not let the 99th Army fight alone, and the Luo Zhuoying Group Army, which had just been withdrawn from the Songhu area, was transferred to Changshu by the Commander's Department of the Third Theater, and the 15th Group Army and the 99th Army would work together to defend against the Japanese army on the defense line from Fushan to Changshu.

As soon as Luo Zhuoying arrived in Fushan, he sent an order to the 99th Army, according to Commander Luo's plan, the 98th, 44th, 32nd and 11th Divisions under the 15th Group Army would be responsible for the defense of Changshu City and outside the city, and the 13th Division would be responsible for the defense of the Yushan position.

Luo Zhuoying swore in the telegram that his 15th Group Army was the main force defending Changshu, so it was his duty to stick to Changshu, but such nonsense could not deceive Huang Haoran.

The national defense fortifications near Changshu have been greatly improved after more than half a year of construction by the 99th Army, and although the national defense fortifications in the Fushan area have also been repaired by engineering units, the result of this repair is only known to God.

Luo Zhuoying was simply greedy for the complete national defense fortifications near Changshu, so he gave this order to let the 99th Army move its nest, he wanted his 15th Army to hide behind the strong fortifications to fight, so as to preserve his strength......

Of course, it is impossible for Huang Haoran to accept such an order!

The 99th Army no longer belongs to the battle sequence of the 15th Group Army, and Luo Zhuoying's order naturally has no effect in front of Huang Haoran.

Moreover, Huang Haoran is also the commander of the Changshu Garrison Command appointed by the Nanjing government with a letter of appointment, and the supreme commander in charge of Changshu's defense should be Huang Haoran in terms of the division of powers.

Of course, Luo Zhuoying, the commander of the group army, would not be willing to obey the dispatch of a military commander in Changshu, and as a result, Huang Haoran and Luo Zhuoying were unwilling to bow their heads, and this lawsuit about the operational command soon reached the headquarters of the commander of the third theater.

It seems that only Chief Gu can decide who should listen to Huang Haoran and Luo Zhuoying.

Standing behind Huang Haoran and Luo Zhuoying are Jiang Baili and Chen Cixiu, two bigwigs. This time, neither of the two bigwigs expressed any opinions, and that was because they had a good relationship in private.

However, not speaking out does not mean that Jiang Baili and Chen Cixiu do not have their own ideas.

Jiang Baili naturally thought that his brother Huang Haoran should command Luo Zhuoying's straw bag.

But Vice Minister Chen felt that Luo Zhuoying didn't know how to advance and retreat, when was it now? Still dwelling on this kind of issue! Changshu is about to become a furnace, what is there to fight for such a supreme official?

Chen Cixiu also felt that Luo Zhuoying had disgraced him in Songhu, and the 15th Group Army not only did not achieve any decent results under the command of Luo Zhuoying, but now he was a group army commander who could not even command a commander, and he was embarrassed to come to the Third War Zone to complain!

Vice Minister Chen regretted recommending Luo Zhuoying to the throne of commander-in-chief of the 15th Group Army......

Who doesn't know that he, Luo Zhuoying, is a general in the "Civil Engineering Department"? Many people from other factions in the government are already talking about the poor results of the 15th Army.

Therefore, Vice Chief Chen did not protect his shortcomings as before this time, but remained silent on this matter......

As soon as General Gu saw this case, he immediately felt that his head had become two big, Jiang Baili and Chen Cixiu did not want to offend anyone, but this matter was related to military affairs and he had to make a decision, so General Gu decided to push the case away, continued to turn up, and finally transferred it to the highest authorities.

The scheming supreme authorities saw at a glance that there was something wrong with it. Among Jiang Baili and Chen Cixiu, the highest authorities still have to favor Chen Cixiu in their hearts, after all, Chen Cixiu is the "descendant" of his highest authority.

However, the highest authorities thought about it, and they made Jiang Baili unable to step down in the presidential palace a few days ago, and Jiang Baili not only did not hold a grudge, but helped him at a critical time, so the highest authorities decided to sell Jiang Baili a face.

There is a more important reason that compared with Luo Zhuoying, Huang Haoran's record is the difference between heaven and earth, the Japanese are now in full swing, and it is better to put a "winning general" in a strategic place like Changshu......

The final result of this lawsuit was that the 15th Group Army and the 99th Army divided their respective powers and responsibilities according to the region, the 99th Army was responsible for the first line of Changshu City and Yushan positions on the Wufu Line, and the 15th Group Army was responsible for the defense of the Fushan Line, and all the stragglers who had lost their formation and withdrew to the defense area of the two armies on the Songhu Front were sorted out and dispatched by the 99th Army and the 15th Group Army for the purpose of enriching the defense of the Wufu Line.

This is typical and dilute mud!

The 99th Army and the 15th Group Army, two combat units that were one level behind, actually became equals after this order, and the two armies did not control each other on the Wufu line, and they were both under the command of the commander's department of the Third Theater.

The defense line from Changshu to Fushan was divided into two, with the 15th Army in the north and the 99th Army in the south.

In order to appease Huang Haoran and Luo Zhuoying, the two favorite generals, the highest authorities also rewarded one person with a sweet date, don't underestimate the last few words, in fact, the highest authorities gave the 99th Army and the 15th Group Army the power to annex other troops, as for how much you can swallow, it depends on your ability!

In this lawsuit, in fact, Huang Haoran, the army commander, had the upper hand, and Luo Zhuoying was also keenly aware of Huang Haoran's weight in the eyes of the highest authorities, and the attitude of the 15th Group Army towards the 99th Army immediately softened a lot.

The defenders of the Wufu line finally had a relatively harmonious relationship with each other, which was also very helpful for the upcoming fierce battle.

Huang Haoran looked at the troop configuration of the 99th Army on the sand table, and he had to admit that although Luo Zhuoying was very domineering, his judgment on the key points of Changshu's defense was still correct.

Fan Jie and Feng. Richie's defense plan for the Changshu section that he had planned long ago was basically the same as Luo Zhuoying's plan.

Huang Haoran placed two regiments of Wang Shankui's 139th Division in Changshu City, and the Yushan position was garrisoned by the 301st Brigade of the 99th Division, the remaining two regiments of the 139th Division, the 121st Division and the 47th Independent Brigade were deployed in the long defense line fortifications, and the 302nd Brigade and the supplementary regiment of the 99th Division were used as the reserve of the whole army.

The artillery regiment has entered the preset position selected in advance, and the howitzers of the 10th Artillery Regiment are deployed in the second line with the engineer regiment and the troops directly under the 99th Army because of their relatively long range.

Xu Xinghua of the secret service had already checked out a group of Japanese scouts in the crowd of the rout, and there were quite a large number of them.

It can be inferred from this that the day when the Japanese will attack Changshu is today and tomorrow!

Now the whole army of the 99th Army is waiting for the little devil to come to the door!

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Bai Maokou, 16th Division, Lieutenant General Nakajima Imasago command.

More than a dozen scout units sent out by Chief of Staff Mitsuo Nakazawa made contact with the division headquarters at this time of the day, and the news coming from the direction of Fukuyama and Wuxi showed that the retreating Chinese troops continued to be in disarray.

Everything was expected by the commander of the Nakajima Division and himself.

The reason why the Japanese army sent so many scout teams was to exacerbate the chaos of the Chinese army, not only the 16th Division, but also other Japanese divisions sent a large number of scouts.

Scouting, assassination, seizing bridges, directing bombing......

These scouts performed very well, they held back the Chinese and cleared the way for the Japanese army's large forces, but these small troops of dozens of people made a greater contribution than thousands.

All the personnel in the scout force are the elite of the Japanese Army!

Chief of Staff Nakazawa felt that he should pay tribute to these warriors of Great Japan!

Of course, not all the scout squads went smoothly, and several squads sent by the 16th Division to the Changshu area did not turn on the radio at the appointed time.

Is this just a coincidence?

The only thing that didn't go well was precisely Changshu, which the commander of the Nakajima Division cared about the most?

Chief of Staff Nakazawa asked the division headquarters uh signal soldiers to call the call signs of the scout teams on the radio non-stop.

Could it be that they are experiencing a radio glitch at the same time? No, the odds of such a thing happening are almost non-existent!

Or are they all ...... unexpected?

Chief of Staff Nakazawa had a hint of bad feelings!

Lieutenant General Nakajima used a magnifying glass to keep comparing back and forth on the military map, and now the troops at the forefront of the 16th Division were less than 10 kilometers away from Changshu City.

The defense line of the Chinese is close at hand!

Last year, a Japanese reporter didn't know how to sneak into the construction site of the Wufu Line, and he took a few photos and published them in Japanese newspapers.

The reporter shouted in the newspaper: "The defense fortifications of China are exaggerated, and the imperial army can turn the defense line of the people of China into powder with just one thunderous blow!" ”

In the opinion of the commander of the Nakajima Division, this Japanese reporter should be a madman who got drunk and took a few photos of the construction site and reported it to the company to cheat money, the Chinese defense line began construction in 1934, and the construction should be completed no matter how slow the action is for three years, the Wufu line should be extremely strong even if it is not impregnable, and the 16th Division should have a hard battle.

Chief of Staff Mitsuo Nakazawa and Nakajima Isago have been working together for many years, and they have always been very tacit partners, and he knows what his division commander is worried about.

The progress of the 16th Division since the landing has been so smooth!

If the combat effectiveness of the Chinese is really so low, then the fiasco of the Marine Corps and the 11th Division in Songhu cannot be explained......

Since the start of the war in August, China has sent reinforcements three times, and the 16th Division, which was originally deployed as a combat unit in North China, has now also been transported to Songhu.

This can only show that the "Shanghai Dispatch Army" is fighting very hard in Songhu!

However, the Chinese troops encountered by the 16th Division since its landing were all at the touch of a button, and their combat effectiveness was simply not on the same level as that of the 16th Division.

Thinking of what his old friend Yamamuro Sotake said again, the head of the Nakajima division was completely confused......

When the Shanghai Dispatch Army and the 10th Army launched an attack and pursuit on all fronts, the 16th Division carried out a landing operation at Baimaokou on the Yangtze River.

At the beginning, the 16th Division received an order to cooperate with the 10th Army on the southern route to carry out a flank attack on the north and south flanks of the Chinese army.

Since the main force of the Chinese army had already begun to retreat, Commander Matsui Ishine was worried that the 16th Division was weak and could not hold back a large number of Chinese troops, so he temporarily added the Shigeto Detachment and the Yongjin Detachment to support Nakajima's 16th Division, which embarked on a ship from Wusong and sailed west with the 16th Division at Baimaokou on the Yangtze River.

At about 6 o'clock on November 13, the Shigeto Detachment and the Yongjin Detachment, as the vanguard troops, first landed at Hupukou, west of Baimaokou, and after occupying the coastal area, they advanced to the line about 10 kilometers east of Changshu in the evening of the same day. The 1st Division of the 16th Division landed near Baimaokou at 15 o'clock on the same day and attacked in the direction of Zhitang Town. On the 14th, the main force of the division landed at Baimaokou and advanced to Fushan and Changshu respectively.

In the face of the first encounter with the Chinese army, the commander of the Nakajima Division was very cautious, and the artillery preparation of the 16th Division lasted for a full hour before attacking Zhitang Town.

However, the performance of the 40th Division stationed in Zhitang Town disappointed the commander of the Nakajima Division, and according to the intelligence department, the 40th Division was also a main division of the Central Army, and as a result, the 16th Division only attacked for less than one hour, and the Zhitang defense line was shaken.

You must know that Zhitang Town is an important town belonging to the Kunzhi defense line of the Chinese army, and it has shown defeat in such a short period of time.

The 16th Division is nothing more than a wing of troops!

Just when the 40th Division was about to collapse, the 21st Army withdrew to Zhitang, and the 21st Army, seeing that the battle situation was critical, immediately entered the battle and launched an attack on the 16th Division with the 176th, 173rd and 174th Divisions.

The number of Chinese troops on the opposite side rose to 4 divisions, but the 16th Division still did not feel strained, and the counterattack of the 21st Army had almost no effect.

Lieutenant General Nakajima Imago led the 16th Division to attack with the support of tanks, breaking through the defensive line of the 21st Army in one fell swoop, and the Chinese army retreated in the direction of Changshu one after another, and the town of Zhitang was captured by the 16th Division.

The routed 176th, 173rd and 174th Divisions and the 40th Division ran wildly on the road, and the 16th Division pursued them closely.

At the same time, the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, which was advancing west from Taicang, pursued along the Taicang-Changshu road from the 14th; After the 13th Division captured Liuhe on the 14th, it also attacked westward towards Changshu Meili; The 9th Division advanced westward along the Shanghai-Nanjing line, and after occupying Kunshan on the 15th, the offensive was directed in the direction of Suzhou.

The Chinese's Kunzhi defense line was so easily broken!

Could it be that Munetake Yamamuro lied to himself??

Who's telling the truth?

Was the 11th Division really defeated at the hands of such an opponent?

99th Army? How can it be different from these Chinese troops that the 16th Division is encountering now?

Nakajima began to wonder if what the head of the Yamamuro Sect said to him at the docks was passing the buck for himself......

Chief of Staff Nakazawa saw the change in the expression on the face of His Excellency the Division Commander, and knew that His Excellency the Division Commander remembered his friend again---- the Commander of the Yamamuro Sect Martial Division, who had been transferred to South China.

Due to the fact that Nakajima Imago and Yamamuro Sotake were friends, the silence of the 16th Division in the "Yamamuro Somu Incident" made some colleagues in the "Central China Dispatch Army" very dissatisfied.

The 16th Division is now assigned by its superiors to attack the Changshu section of the Wufu Line, which is garrisoned by the "Chinese ace" 99th Army, which has some elements of retaliation in it.

The 99th Army's record in Songhu can indeed be regarded as a miracle in the Chinese army, two Japanese generals have fallen into the hands of the 99th Army, and Huang Haoran's troops are definitely not good.

However, the intelligence department has very little information about this tiger general, and there is really not much valuable analysis from the thin pages of documents, but it makes people have a mysterious feeling about Huang Haoran.

In order to quickly break through the Chinese defense line, Commander Matsui Ishine placed four main divisions on the Wufu line at once, and the 16th Division, which was responsible for attacking Changshu, was in the position of the arrow among these four divisions, and the success of their attack would be directly related to the Japanese army's battle situation on the Wufu line.

The 16th Division now has only the road to victory left.

Chief of Staff Nakazawa seemed to see the top brass of the 10th Army looking at him with a playful eye, and these bureaucrats were very satisfied with the little trouble they had caused the 16th Division......

However, the scout team that sent to Changshu has all lost its news, and the infiltration operation that the commander of the Nakajima Division is best at is now completely out of space.

can only compete with Huang Haoran's 99th Army in Changshu!

This is the best chance for the 16th Division to prove itself in front of friendly forces!

"Your Excellency the division commander, our outpost is already very close to the Wufu line, do you want them to test the Chinese's firepower first?"

Chief of Staff Nakazawa decided to give his division commander some advice.

"Nope! Wait until all the troops have reached their predetermined position before attacking! ”

Nakajima decided to trust his old friend one last time, if the 99th Army continued the performance of the Chinese army encountered by the 16th Division before, then Nakajima Imago would never believe Yamamuro Sotake again.

"However, Your Excellency Division Commander, General Fujita's 3rd Division is also very close to Changshu, after all, our 16th Division is the main attack force in Changshu recognized by the Central China Dispatch Army, if the 3rd Division is the first to attack, I am afraid it will be ......."

Nakajima's brows furrowed, he knew Lieutenant General Fujita Shin of the 3rd Division too well, and with such an opportunity to snatch the merits in front of him, the 3rd Division would never let it go!

"Okay, let's give Katagiri Daisa's 9th Wing a try! Tell Katagiri Goro Osa to let him follow behind the retreating 21st Army, to suddenly launch an attack when the Chinese army has passed the pass, take advantage of the chaos to seize their checkpoints, and then send a telegram to the 19th Brigade and let them cooperate in the battle according to the battle situation of the 9th Wing, and I will give Major General Kusaba Tatsumi the power to decide! ”

"Hay!" Chief of Staff Nakazawa received an order from Nakajima Imago, turned around and began his work.

After Chief of Staff Nakazawa left, Nakajima raised his magnifying glass again.

Everything on the Wu Fu line has gradually become clear in front of Nakajima Imago, Nakajima Imago has never believed that there is an insurmountable defense line in this world, but he still doesn't know anything about the enemy in front of him.

Everything in Changshu, as well as the mysterious Huang Haoran, is still shrouded in a fog......

Can only after the attack be launched can you know what exactly is waiting for your 16th Division there?

Nakajima thought hatefully......

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