9.142 Front fine-tuning

On the position of the 36th Division, Chen Ruihe was under great pressure. It's been two days since the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info started the war, and Lieutenant General Ogishu seems to have trouble with him. Initially, with the 26th Brigade Major-General Numata Shigetoku commanding an entire brigade to storm the positions of the 36th Division. But Major General Numata's seven or eight thousand men were held back by Chen Ruihe. Seeing that the mouth of the Fujin Mountain Gorge had not been opened for two days, Ogishu was furious and transferred two more brigades from the 103rd Yamada Brigade to reinforce Major General Numata together with the two brigades of the 10th Division, hoping to break through the Fujin Mountain position from the left flank.

The 36th Division did not see an increase in the number of soldiers, but the opponents it faced increased from the initial two or three thousand to seven or eight thousand, and then to tens of thousands. Chen Ruihe, who was still arrogant two days ago, saw that the Japanese army was constantly increasing its troops, but he was constantly reducing his troops, and he was a little breathless. He called Song Xilian's military headquarters, and the request was very simple but a headache for the army commander: either increase the troops, or abandon the position and move back. His reasons were very good, but it was very painful for the commander, the casualties of the troops were too great, and the attrition was more than a third.

Chen Ruihe is careless but careful, he thinks that Song Xilian will not look at his old family suffering and ignore it. You must know that without the 36th Division, there would be no Song Xilian today; And today's Song Xilian is also inseparable from the 36th Division. This army is not only the 71st Army, but also all of Song Xilian's "family base".

But Song Xilian only gave Chen Ruihe an answer, that is, he was not allowed to retreat a step!

As a senior general of the Wuhan government and a professional soldier, Song Xilian's conduct and professional ethics are far better than his Huangpu classmate Hu Zongnan and others. Gui Yongqing dared to give up Lanfeng without a fight, but Song Xilian didn't dare and wouldn't. At this time, he was loyal to the highest authorities, but he did not do anything unconscionable. Hu Zongnan can look down on Li Zongren, but he is just as respectful and polite to Sun Lianzhong, a miscellaneous general. The reason is very simple, Sun Lianzhong is his boss, his chief, and the chief is not divided into Huangpu descendants or miscellaneous brands.

In front of the position of the 36th Division, dozens of Sokans were already lying with the corpses of Japanese soldiers. On the position of the 36th Division, the fortifications had long been rubbed away by the Japanese bombs and ground artillery shells that "came" the positions every day. The officers and men of the 36th Division stepped on the half-foot-deep void soil, fighting with craters and dead bodies.

For seven days in a row, the 20,000 heavy soldiers of the commander of the Ogishu Division were dragged to the foot of Fujin Mountain and could not cross a single step.

Sun Lianzhong, commander-in-chief of the Corps, dialed the phone number of the military headquarters of the 71st Army and said to Song Xilian: "Commander Song, can you hold on?" ”

Song Xilian thought for a while and said, "Commander, the battle is hard. What about the marketplace? How many more days do we have to keep watching? ”

"At least 3 days. It takes at least 3 days for the mall's defense to be stable. Brother Song, you are a tough guy, and it is not easy to keep it for five or six days. Just now, Commander Bai called, and the theater commended the 36th Division for its stubborn and miraculous feats. I hope you can hold out for a few more days until your allies are firmly established behind you before withdrawing. ”

"Commander, rest assured, the 71st Army will do its best."

Putting down the phone, Sun Lianzhong said to his old subordinate Chi Fengcheng with emotion; "Song Xilian is a man, better than me. He's a lot better than Towne's bastards. ”

The Ogishu Division could not be attacked for a long time, and was seized by Japanese war correspondents. Soon, the tabloids in Tokyo appeared from time to time: "In the Battle of Fujin Mountain, due to the stubborn resistance of the main force of the Chinese Army, Song Xilian's troops, the Imperial Army suffered heavy casualties, and the battle situation was unsuccessful." "Our army is helpless when it encounters a strong opponent......"

Attentive Japanese may have noticed that since the Battle of Wuhan, there have been more and more frustrations like this in the Japanese newspapers.

However, Song Xilian, who was on the front line of Fujin Mountain, didn't know anything about this. On September 9, he once again came to the headquarters of the 36th Division in the half-waist of Fujin Mountain.

Chen Ruihe, the commander of the 36th Division, may not have washed his face for a few days, and his skin is so rough that it looks like it is about to crack. His face was so dark that he looked like he was wrapped in a hard shell. I don't know how many days I haven't closed my eyes, my eyes bulge outward, crawling with dense bloodshots, and my fingers make the smoke burnt yellow. Unkempt hair, like a living ghost who has just crawled out of hell.

"I'm sorry for you, Brother Chen." Song Xilian was a little sad when he saw the love of life.

"It's nothing, it's just that the brothers ......" Chen Ruihe was also a little sad and couldn't go on.

"Commander-in-Chief Sun called and said that the theater expressed its condolences to you and reported to the Military Commission to ...... for you."

Chen Ruihe stretched out his hand to stop Song Xilian, "Junzuo, the dead brothers will not be rewarded for their merits." You say happily, how many more days do we have to keep watch? ”

"At least 2 days, including today."

"What is Zhong Bin's 88th Division doing?"

"Master Zhong is also fighting. Moreover, they are the reserve of the army. When Song Xilian said the last sentence, his tone was aggravated. But when he looked at Chen Ruihe, who had a dark look in his eyes, his heart softened again.

"Brother Chen, how many people are there in your division?"

"More than 1,000, including the lightly wounded."

"I'll transfer a regiment from the 88th Division to you. In two days, I hope that Fujin Mountain will still be in our hands. After speaking, he stepped forward and gently patted Chen Ruihe's shoulder with one hand, "Old Chen, the country is in danger, and the brothers sacrificed their lives for the country, so we should be proud of them." The 36th Division must always stand and must not lie down. Beat hard, and the brothers can die without regrets. ”

Stepping out of the division headquarters, Song Xilian stepped onto the front line where the war was temporarily suspended. Looking at the soldiers who were bandaged in twos and threes, like the land lord who had come out of the ground, he felt proud, encouraged, and sad. He walked up to a teenage child soldier, straightened his steel helmet, patted the dirt off the soldier's body, and turned to leave.

On September 12, Gushi was lost. The Japanese rushed to the southwest and outflanked the rear road of the 71st Army of Fujinshan, and the defenders were ordered to withdraw westward.

For 10 days, the 71st Army held back the strong enemy in front of the battle without losing an inch of land. On the south bank of the Huai River, the 71st Army and the 13th Division of the Chinese and Japanese armies had their respective trump cards, and after 10 days of blood and fire, they ended in the victory of the Chinese army.

At the foot of Fujin Mountain, Song Xilian inflicted heavy losses on the Dizhou Division and annihilated more than 10,000 enemies. Won a precious 10 days for the 3rd Corps, which had rushed into battle.

The Chinese defenders were poorly equipped and suffered no light casualties. Song Xilian's 36th Division, the starting capital, was sharply reduced from more than 10,000 before the war to 8 or 900. The entire unit was crippled.

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"The fire is almost over, the 6th Division has penetrated deep into the Guangji area, becoming a lone son who has broken through, the situation of annihilation has been formed, now we need to relieve some pressure on Okamura Ningji and let him focus on other places! If the 11th Army increases its troops in the Guangji area, then I won't be able to eat it! ”

After sighing for Song Xilian, Huang Haoran focused all his attention on the vast area of Huangmei and Guangji. So far, all of Okamura's actions are still expected by Huang Haoran, although it seems that the entire Chinese army on the battlefield in Wuhan is retreating, but Huang Haoran's long-awaited fighter plane has quietly appeared!

After the 6th Division left Huangmei, it swept through many blocking forces in the 5th Theater and has now captured half of Guangji City. Stimulated by the huge military exploits, Inaba Shiro had completely fallen into a frenzy, and he even ordered a brigade of the 6th Division to bypass Guangji in an attempt to take Tianjia Town in one fell swoop! This beast army has finally returned to the invincible state of the Battle of Nanjing!

The best way to get it to die is to make it crazy first! Huang Haoran has done this!

On the side of the 5th Theater, because Song Xilian and Zhang Zizhong successfully completed the blocking mission, "Xiao Zhuge " got out of the crisis, but this Guangxi bigwig still has no way to free up his hands and feet to deal with the 6th Division. Therefore, "Xiao Zhuge " could only agree to Huang Haoran's plan to borrow Li Pinxian's army from the 5th War Zone.

Zhang Fakui of Jiujiang also secretly transferred the 4th Army and Wang Lingji's 30th Group Army of the Sichuan Army to the Tianjiazhen area, plus Li Yannian's 11th Army Corps, which was originally stationed in Tianjia Town, Huang Haoran has actually obtained the command of more than 20% of the troops in the 9th Theater. Coupled with the original men and horses of Li Pinxian's army and the Jiang Defense Army, the Wuhan Garrison Command, which was originally the weakest, has now become the most powerful unit on the battlefield in Wuhan!

Now that the knives and forks are all in place, it's time for a big meal!

"Send a telegram to Zhang Fakui and ask him to give up Jiujiang! Then the second line will entangle the 106th Division, and I will squeeze all the mobile troops in the hands of Okamura Ninji! Let's see what else he can do to save the 6th Division! ”

Fan Jie answered "yes" and then picked up the notebook and began to draft the telegram, and when he was halfway through writing, Fan Jie suddenly remembered a question.

"General, Jiujiang is lost, the 99th Army will definitely not last in Hukou, and we can't do without Shen Laoer's troops in the battle to encircle and annihilate the 6th Division. Is it to let Ma Yuan's independent 47th Brigade withdraw now, so that Shen Laoer's troops can get out of the war? ”

Huang Haoran nodded, and then said to Fan Jie: "Send a telegram to the defenders of Madao, they can evacuate, from mid-August to now, it will be a full month, and the value of the fortress has been fully reflected!" Leave now, no shame! ”

"Do you want them to go to Hukou to join the 99th Army and then enter the Huang and Guang battlefields?"

Fan Jie's consideration is the most conventional kind, Ma Dai is next to the Hukou garrison area, although a small number of Japanese troops are wedged in the middle, but if it is not difficult to break through with the 99th Army on both sides, as the chief of staff of the 25th Group Army, Fan Jie always hopes to see that the troops belonging to the headquarters can be recycled and reorganized, as well as those marines stationed in the Ma Dai Fortress, at this time have also been regarded by Fan Jie as a high-quality supplementary source for the combat units of the 25th Group Army.

"Nope! Don't let them go to the mouth of the lake! Let them go to Lushan via Jiujiang! Go up the mountain and fight guerrillas! We took four or five troops from Chen Cixiu's hands at once, and it's time to do something for him! Chen Cixiu has not yet realized the great value of Lushan, and the troops put on the mountain are few and miscellaneous, so we have to remind him! ”

Huang Haoran's instructions surprised Fan Jie a little, but soon he understood that this move "reinforcement of Lushan" had to be said to be a clever move! As soon as Zhang Guangfu's troops were thrown to the Nanxun line, Huang Haoran's side was equivalent to having the eyes and ears of the southern front, and from now on, there was no need to ask for information on the southern front from the 9th War Zone!

In addition, if the defenders of Madao are allowed to go to the mouth of the lake, I am afraid that Okamura Ninji will make arrangements there. You must know that on the battlefield, the actions mastered by the enemy are the most dangerous actions! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )