9.145 Huangchuan, Luoshan, Ruichang

Prince Minoru Higashikunomiya tapped his slender fingers on the table a few times, and then said to the chief of staff, Major General Machijiri, with a calm face: "Machijiri-kun, why is the Shinozuka division still stuck at Huangchuan?" ”

"It's like," Machijiri said cautiously, pushing down his glasses, "the Shinozuka division has encountered stubborn resistance from the enemy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"I want to go to Yeji to see, what do you think?"

"Well," said Machijiri, "Your Excellency, I'm afraid it's not the time yet. ”

At this time, Prince Minoru Higashikuremiya had ordered the 13th and 16th Divisions to conquer Fujin Mountain to occupy the mall and cross the Dabie Mountains to the south, trying to join the 6th Division as soon as possible and share the wine and flowers of the capture of Wuhan. However, the logo of our army on the map shows that the course of the battle at the northern foot of the entire Dabie Mountain is greatly unsatisfactory.

"Huh?" Prince Minoru of Higashikure Palace let out a low cry of a fierce beast in his throat, "Is there any danger?" ”

"The war there has just ended, and I thought there would be a lot of aftermath to deal with, and in the chaos, I'm afraid it will be inconvenient to receive it."

"Humph!" Prince Minoru Higashikuremiya threw the newspaper on the table and walked out angrily.

Although he knew that Prince Minoru Higashikunomiya would be unhappy, Major General Machijiri still said so! Because at this time, with Yeji as the center, the area within a radius of more than ten miles has been shrouded in a special stench for four or five days.

The stench all came from the site where the Japanese soldiers burned the corpses. More than 4,000 bodies of Japanese officers and soldiers were transported from Fujin Mountain and all of them were cremated in Yeji. At first, it was poured with gasoline on firewood, but gasoline was a scarce material and could not be squandered, so it was changed to pure wood. Layers of wood were erected, and the corpses were placed on them neatly and neatly, like a group of people lying on the open-air kang in an orderly manner. Later, he was not very responsible, and stacked the wood and corpses like a pyramid like a hill, and burned up the smoke to the sky, forming pieces of black clouds and rolling with the wind, like a mirage of evil spirits and evil spirits.

Yeji, a town of 100 households, is a large economic and cultural center in the hinterland of Dabie Mountain. Because of the abundance of mountain materials, except for the gables, which are made of masonry, the inner walls of the street are all made of wooden planks. After Ye Cheng built the crematorium, although the market was still the same from a distance, it was unrecognizable up close, like a ruin that had been built with a gable and hurriedly dismounted due to lack of funds. Not a single piece of wood. Rafters, purlins, beams, columns, and even tables, chairs, boards, and stools were all used as materials for the cremation of corpses. Not only Yeji, but also the wood of more than a dozen nearby villages was all looted, and mountains of ashes were burned in Yeji......

Can Machijiri let His Royal Highness Prince Minoru Higashikurenomiya see Haji's columbarium? Of course not!

Prince Minoru Higashikurenomiya was dissatisfied with the results, mainly because he wanted to enter Wuhan first to take the lead. In fact, at this time, the four main divisions of the 2nd Army were sweeping the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains like the wind, which was much better than the stagnation of the 11th Army of Okamura on the southern front, especially Major General Okadazi of the 8th Brigade of the 10th Division, whose diary was full of praise.

"Okada-kun will undoubtedly be the first major contributor to the capture of Hankow......"

In this battle of Wuhan, Okada led his 8th Brigade to capture Lu'an, Gushi, Huangchuan, and Xinyang, and then Lianke Hubei Yingshan, Anlu, and Yingcheng, rampaging through Jianghan, and was deeply appreciated by the emperor, and was promoted to lieutenant general, and later climbed to the position of Gao Jue, the commander of the 13th Front Army. Of course, Okada's pyramid was nothing more than a mound of bones left by Japanese soldiers in Yeji and other places, but at this moment, when his 39th Wing crossed the Zhugang River and entered the county town of Luoshan, only 800 of the more than 2,800 young conscripts from the Hokuriku region set out from Hefei. And what about the 2,000 officers and soldiers? Sixty percent of them groaned and screamed in the hospital, and forty percent became lonely ghosts in a foreign country.

Okada is indeed unlucky, in the first battle of Liu'an, Mu Zhong Heng Weihe was a hindrance, and he did not give an inch; At the beginning of the consolidation, Zhong Song of the Central Army fought Li Ji, and Shi Shui was red; Pointing to Huangchuan, Zhang Zizhong immediately headed the city, waiting to fight.

On September 4, Okada, with the cooperation of aircraft and artillery, launched an attack on the position of the 26th Brigade of the 180th Division of the 180th Division in the east of Huangchuan. Zhang Zizhong, whose corps headquarters was located in Ren Dazhuang, received an order from Sun Lianzhong, commander-in-chief of the 3rd Corps, at the same time as he received the front line and opened fire with the Japanese army: "Hu Zongnan's 17th Army is starting from Xinyang and will open a position east of Luoshan, and the 59th Army must hold Huangchuan City for 7 days and take a step back to engage in military law!" ”

Zhang Zizhong understood in his heart that the 1st Central Army of Hu Zongnan, which was about to arrive, was "a sharp weapon of the country, and it cannot be shown." The chairman of the committee has taken out this army for a decisive battle, how can this battle be underestimated? He immediately waved his hair and wrote a warrant to pass on to all departments.

“…… At this critical juncture for the survival of the country and the nation, our officers and men must make concerted efforts to fight the enemy to the death......"

Enemy planes flew over the roofs, and the tiles were moved. Zhang Zizhong is like he has no feeling, and he walks the dragon and snake, "for the country, the nation and the position to live and ......die together"

Okada, whose headquarters was located in Chunhe, was annoyed and ashamed, and pinched down the small red flag that had just been moved back on the map by a staff officer, threw it on the ground fiercely, and ordered the gas bomb to be fired. "Give me poison! Poison me all these filths! ”

In the deep sound of hissing and strange screams, all the positions of the Chinese army in Huangchuan City were buried in milky white clouds.

The poison gas dissipated, and it was time for the Japanese to attack. Liu Zhensan's eyes were red, encouraging the officers and soldiers to kill the enemy bravely, and "Brothers......" He was waving his arms impassionedly, and there was another explosion of "porphyria" on the battlefield, and terrible white smoke was filled......

Okada's eyebrows are clear, but his expression is cold and gloomy. Solomon's lips under his mustache were crooked, and he smiled into the phone and said, "Ota-kun, it's up to you now!" ”

The commander of the 39th Wing, Yyo Ota, shouted loudly over there, "Hay! ”

Under the air cover of more than 20 aircraft, the Ota Yyo Wing set out in three ways to besiege Huangchuan Castle. One of them was fierce, and he slammed into the back of Zhang Zizhong's army headquarters. The enemy wolves rushed to the jackals, and they were vividly visible, swarming towards the ruined city wall of Huangchuan City.

"It's dangerous!" A staff member reminded: "Commander, move the corps headquarters!" ”

"!" Zhang Zizhong was annoyed, and the swear words came out. He looked at the map, poked his index finger, and said: "Order, the commander of the 26th Brigade Zhang Zongheng personally led the 678th Regiment to repel the enemy!" ”

In the area of Luoshan, the 1st and 45th armies of Hu Zongnan's 17th Army, Qiu Qingquan's armored troops, and Peng Mengxi's artillery brigade...... The most well-equipped units of the Chinese army have been majestically lined up on the banks of the Zhugang River, waiting to show their might......

The 678th Regiment, under the leadership of Zhang Zongheng, fought with the enemy in hand-to-hand street battles wall by wall and house by house, and crushed the Japanese army.

From September 4 to September 14, a full 10 days passed, and Zhang Zizhong finally received Sun Lianzhong's instructions to withdraw the unit from Huangchuan and a telegram of encouragement for exceeding the task. Since the Battle of Wuhan, there have never been many troops that have completed the blocking task on schedule, not to mention that it has been more than 3 days! Zhang Zizhong washed away the dirt left in Beiping, Zhu Hongzi became noble, and was soon reused by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander-in-chief of the group army.

However, at this time, Zhang Bu had been attacked on three sides, and he was locked with the Japanese army. If you are careless and retreat, you will be cut off by the Japanese army and the whole army will be annihilated.

He wasn't in a hurry at all. With the pistol battalion and the 715th Regiment, which had performed well in every battle, he came to the eighteen-mile shop southeast of the city and ordered the troops to occupy positions and cover the retreat. He lay down on a straw pile by himself, and suddenly snored like thunder.

It's too dangerous. Okada, seeing that the Chinese troops in front of him were beginning to fall silent, suspected that they were retreating, sent a brigade to make a tentative detour to the left flank of Shibalipu. I thought that if I retreated, I would have no intention of fighting, and I would be able to hold the last fish as if I had a net. Of course, he didn't know there was an extra-large fish; If it hadn't retreated, its spirit of resistance would have been okay.

"Grandma's!" Zhang Zizhong was awakened by the sound of gunshots, got up and ordered, "Brothers, beat the devil down for me!" ”

"Brothers," Chen Fangzhi, the acting head of the regiment, waved his hand, "follow me!" ”

The 715th Regiment is like a little tiger, and the pistol team is Zhang Zizhong's guaranteed trump card, which is easy not to take out. After three hours of rushing and fighting, the devil couldn't resist it, retreated back, and gave Okada a reassurance.

Okada Riveted this time and vowed to take Huangchuan. The air force sent to bomb reported to him that Huangchuan was an empty city. Okada was really angry when he heard this. After he entered Huangchuan, he was so angry that he did not take a break, and ordered to pursue the victory and smash Xinyang with great momentum.

Hu Zongnan's Luoshan defense line is not paper-paste!

Among the generals of the Chinese army, Hu Zongnan is a very storied figure, it is said that his head grew on Chiang Kai-shek's shoulder, and he was a guy who did not even recognize his own father. Chiang Kai-shek told him to "suppress the Communists", and he resolutely "suppressed the Communists"; Chiang Kai-shek ordered him to resist Japan, did he resolutely resist Japan?

For soldiers on the battlefield, the battle is good and good, and the battle is not good, no matter how good it is. Okamura Ninji ordered the army and discipline to be rectified, and took the 101st and 106th Divisions very seriously, and locked up a veteran soldier from Asakusa in the 106th Division, Yatsuko, because he beat his superior. As for the 9th, 27th, and Pota detachments, the battle reports sent to the base camp after occupying a place were full of clichés and nonsense that "the military discipline is strict and there is no crime in the autumn".

For these three strong teams, the anger can not be vented.

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The 27th Division only reached the west of Ruichang on September 12. In accordance with the established policy, Okamura ordered the 27th Division to take Xiushui, Xianning, and Daye along the Rui (Chang) Wu (Ning) Road, the 9th Division along the Rui (Chang) Yang (Xin) Road, and the Botian Detachment along the banks of the Jiangnan River. Okamura vaguely felt that the Chinese troops stationed west of Ruichang did not seem to be very ordinary in terms of equipment and morale.

Yes, the 18th, 13th, 54th, 92nd, and 98th armies of Tang Enbo's 31st Group Army of Zhang Fakui's 2nd Corps of the Chinese army on this line are all so-called "central descendants", and the generals of the army and division are all in the first, second, and third phases of "Whampoa."

Huang Wei, commander of the 18th Army who participated in the 27th Division, was born in the first phase of Huangpu. His army headquarters was set up behind a hill only 1.5 kilometers away from the Huanggang battlefield, lying in the bushes on the top of the mountain, and the formation of the Japanese attack and the figures of the soldiers of our 11th Division who were dropping bombs in the telescopes could be clearly seen.

At the end of April 1938, Huang Wei was promoted from the commander of the 67th Division to the commander of the 18th Army. In the reception room of the Luojiashan Villa in Wuchang, Chiang Kai-shek smiled and trembled slightly, and instructed Huang Wei to lead the troops and kill the enemy bravely. When shaking goodbye, Jiang took out a 6-inch large photo from the drawer and immediately signed the six words "Pei My General to Remember". Huang Weiben "enlightened me", but Jiang gave me a book of "Pei I", and Huang Wei received the photo, although it was like a treasure, carefully treasured, but it was quite unessential. He knew that the principal was commensurate with the name of the student, and he also heard that the principal had a small notebook that recorded various interpersonal relationships, such as birthdays, family members, and other small files. Every time I meet so-and-so, I turn over the small notebook first. He believed that the principal did not make a mistake by accident, and that there must be a deep meaning in it. Yes, "Whoever cultivates me, cultivates me!" Huang Wei was suddenly empowered, realized the karma, changed his name to "Pei Me", and was used for life.

After going down to Luojia Mountain, he participated in the farewell banquet set up by Chen Cheng at the Military and Political Department of Dongchangkou in Wuchang. It is better to say that it is to listen to Chen Cheng's political report. Chen Cheng was originally a good teacher, but because he was honored with the important task of garrisoning Wuhan, and the war was imminent, he took a small drink to splash the block in his chest, and fiercely talked about the determination and situation of the Anti-Japanese War. Huang Wei and the others stopped listening attentively, and ate a meal for three hours.

At the beginning of September, Huang Wei heard that his old classmate Yu Jishi's 74th Army was fighting hard in Minshan and was in urgent need of support, so he immediately led the 11th Division to cross the defense of Wang Lingji's 30th Group Army, went straight out of Zhangshuling, intercepted the Maruyama brigade, withstood Marushan's fierce offensive, and made Yu's troops finally stand in Mahuiling. Two days later, an old classmate, Wu Shaozhou, commander of the 110th Division of the 13th Army, came to the door with a young bearded colonel and said that he wanted some anti-tank weapons.

Bearded Colonel Liao Yunzhou, then the commander of the 656th Regiment of the 328th Brigade of the 110th Division, was a dragon-eyed and heroic. Huang Wei heard that Liao graduated from the fifth phase of the Huangpu Artillery Department, and he was a rare technical talent, and after a serious interview with Liao's professional command ability, he put up the score of the senior grade and said with a big grin: "Okay! Good classmates! I see that you are very good at commanding artillery, what is a few guns? I'll give you an anti-tank battery under your command! ”

Huang Wei, who applied to Whampoa because he was dissatisfied with the darkness of warlord rule, left his hometown in the same car as Fang Zhimin, a famous figure in the Communist Party. This person is bookish, slightly unurbanized, withdrawn and old-fashioned, unkind, and does not pat his shoulder to give small favors, he is hated by ordinary soldiers, but he is very appreciated by Chen Cheng. Huang Wei heard Liao Yunzhou say that it was a good thing to fight against Japan with anti-tank artillery to fight devils, so he was generous and helped him.

On the third day of Liao Yunzhou's borrowing of the anti-tank artillery company, he made a great contribution on the Rui (Chang) Yang (Xin) Road.

The Mufu mountain area in western Jiangxi is full of winding "S" shaped mountain roads. Liao's regiment was ordered to cooperate with the main force to flank the Japanese 9th Division advancing westward at a place called Xiaoao. Liao arrived at the small col and found that when the defenders turned in, they had forgotten to lock an ammunition depot behind the small plateau. Liao Ming opened it and saw that it was full of mortar shells, and the bullet boxes were flicked one by one, and there were tens of thousands of rounds. "My mother, I'm getting rich!" Liao Yunzhou happily pinched his beard and hummed as if his chin had a toothache.

Xin Shaoting, a third-term student of Huangpu and a major general brigade commander who was acting with the regiment, was also moved when he saw so many shells and said, "Commander Liao, do you want to fight here?" ”

"Why don't you want to!"

"It's a pity it's a mortar." Xin Shaoting had some regrets.

The enemy's 9th Division had a powerful tank, and Wu Shaozhou asked Huang Wei for anti-tank guns for Liao's regiment. The Liao regiment had two mortar companies, and so many shells really made the veteran artilleryman Liao Yunzhou reluctant to lose them. "Brigade commander, this terrain is very good, I am determined to set up an artillery position here," Liao Yunzhou opened his voice and raised his fist, saying to every officer and soldier present, "Give the devil a heavy blow!" ”

Liao Yunzhou's idea was that the mountains in this place were high and the roads were narrow, as long as the tanks in front were knocked down, the ones behind would not be able to pass, and then it would be time for mortars to be in the limelight.

As soon as Xin Shaoting heard the reason, he transferred a mortar company of the 655th Regiment to Liao.

Liao Yunzhou ordered the anti-tank artillery companies to occupy positions on both sides of the road, focusing on both sides of the enemy tanks, and it was necessary to destroy the first and second tanks of the Japanese army and block the passage; More than a dozen mortars sequentially took up positions in the enemy's depth.

The situation of the battle turned out to be as Liao Yunzhou had designed. At dusk that day, seven or eight enemy tanks entered the small col in a brazen manner, and the anti-tank artillery company burst into a burst of artillery fire, and the two or three tanks in front of them were immediately beaten into thick smoke.

This is an armored motorized advance unit under the command of Major General Maruyama Masao, commander of the 6th Brigade, of the enemy's 9th Division. Hearing that the front was blocked, Maruyama ordered the tank and vehicle units behind to quickly follow. On the winding mountain road, the flute sounded noisily for a while, the troop chariots were rushing, and the clouds pushed the tide and galloped forward. When Maruyama's mechanization filled the small pass, more than a dozen mortars opened fire.

Liao Yunzhou has been in the army for more than ten years, and for the first time he appreciated the majesty of an artillery commander. The artillery platoons rumbled and bombarded, and the gunners did not need to aim, but hit the road. From dusk to the moon volley, it bombarded non-stop. The barrel of the gun was hot, and they took turns unbuttoning their pants to pee. The Japanese army, which had always been proud of its artillery fire, finally got the retribution of artillery fire. They originally wanted to attack after the shelling stopped, but the shelling was too "Bageyalu" and could not be stopped for four or five hours. The valley that winds for two or three miles, like a huge and friendless lightning, lies in the depths of this big mountain, and the arc is shining, and the thunder roars......

Maruyama Masao was puzzled for a long time by the powerful artillery fire in front of him, and hurriedly ordered a retreat. Some of them lay on the side of the road or under the car according to the tactical essentials and thought that they were foolproof, and all of them were buried in the fire.

The remaining shells were ready to be carried, and Liao Yunzhou ordered to stop firing. He knew that the Japanese army would not dare to move lightly after this artillery battle, and instructed the troops to sleep boldly in the second half of the night. Early the next morning, Liao Yunzhou sent people to count the results of the battle, except for more than 20 tanks, there was a layer of auto parts that had been blown up in a ravine two or three miles long, and it was impossible to count how many of them. Liao Yunzhou, who is extremely accurate in numbers, can only vaguely say that "countless cars have been blown up" in the reported results.

This battle was fought with courage and wisdom. He Yingqin, who listens to Japanese radio broadcasts every day, heard from the Japanese radio that his armored unit was besieged by the powerful firepower of the First Artillery Group of the Chinese Army on the Ruiyang Road. The largest artillery establishment of the Chinese army is a brigade, where does the "group" come from? After finding out the truth, he sent an enthusiastic commendation message to Liao Yunzhou. (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.) )