[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 834: The New Wall River Position Lost (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

In view of the fact that the Japanese government could not make a strategic breakthrough in the Chinese theater of time and was at war with the Netherlands and France in Southeast Asia, the Japanese government, with the support of the cabinet and the base camp, began to actively contact the Soviet Union and began secret negotiations. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this time, the Battle of Changsha had entered the most critical moment, and the Military Commission decided that the Ninth Theater should hold the existing positions on both sides of the Xiangjiang River and the south of the Miluo River, strengthen resistance, maintain the main force on the outer flank, and strive to attack the enemy's flank, and at the same time order the Third and Fifth Theaters to take advantage of the situation to attack the enemy in front of them, so as to prepare for the operation of the Ninth Theater.

After the Sixth Theater actively attacked the Japanese troops in the Jingzhou and Yichang areas, and after the order to recover Yichang was issued, the troops of the Chinese Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Theaters in the entire Central China region moved rapidly.

In the direction of northern Jiangxi, after eliminating the defenders of the 9th Theater near Gao'an, the 6th Division of the Japanese Army covered its left back with a section, and the main force entered the vicinity of Xiushui and Sandu, cutting off the rear route of the 30th Army and the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi border area. Accordingly, the 6th Division of the Japanese Army carried out defensive operations in the southwest area of Fengxin with the Sae Detachment, and drove to Wuning with one brigade, while the main force assembled near Shangfu and prepared to advance westward.

However, the Japanese army did not expect that Luo Zhuoying ordered the 32nd Army to take the opportunity to cross the Jinjiang River north by night on the 13th, repel the Japanese army, and recover Gao'an on the 14th.

However, the Japanese army was not willing to lose, and the main force of the 6th Division began to advance westward in the direction of Xiushui, and captured Shangfu, Hengqiao, and Ganfang, and the other part of its main force advanced through Jiuxiantang and Shawoli to Huangsha Bridge, about 30 kilometers southeast of Xiushui, and launched an attack on the base of Wangling of the Chinese 30th Group Army, and the 30th Group Army fought and retreated.

Luo Zhuoying urgently transferred the 60th Army and the 74th Army to intercept the Japanese troops attacking westward, and Wang Yaowu led the 74th Army to participate in the battlefield, fought fiercely in Gao'an, an important town in northern Jiangxi, intercepted the Japanese army attacking Changsha, and effectively cooperated with the main battlefield of the Battle of Changsha. Subsequently, the two sides launched a tug-of-war in Shangfu, Yecheng, and Ganfang.

Luo Zhuoying commanded the troops to attack and defend, and mobilized several divisions to counterattack in the area of Ganfang, so as to achieve the purpose of depleting the Japanese troops of the unit, blocking its westward advance into southern Hunan, and echoing northern Hunan. However, the combat mission of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army this time is to contain the main force of the 9th Theater, so it is not stubborn with Luo Zhuoying's department, and the two sides have been facing each other on the front line of Xiushui.

On the southern Hunan, the Japanese 33rd Division, under the command of the division commander, Lieutenant General Ganji Shigetaro, launched an offensive in southern Hunan. Its purpose is to avoid the two defense lines set up along the Xinqiang River and Miluo River from the east, and to attack the **** 15th Group Army deployed on the defense line of the Xinqiang River and Miluo River with the main force of the Japanese army in northern Hunan in the Pingjiang area.

The 33rd Division of the Japanese Army was formed in Sendai, Japan in February 1939 as a special three-unit division for garrison, and the 9th Theater was the main force of Yang Sen's 27th Army to defend the southern Hunan. After the Japanese 33rd Division attacked from the south of Tongcheng, it first made a feint attack on the 79th Army's frontal position Nanjiang Bridge with one force, and at the same time, prepared to bypass the eastern side of Mufu Mountain and advance to Changshou Street through Baishaling.

Yang Sen quickly determined that the Japanese army was trying to cut off the retreat of the 79th Army, and then encircle and annihilate it. He immediately reported to Xue Yue, and at the same time urgently ordered the 20th Army south of Tongcheng to flank the Japanese army from west to east. Xue Yue was shocked when he received the report. If this Japanese army joins up with the Japanese army in northern Hunan Province, then the 15th Group Army, which is deployed on the defense line of the Xinqiang River and the Miluo River, will be flanked, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

At the same time, he ordered Fan Songfu, the guerrilla commander in the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi border region, to attack the enemy from south to north and flank from east to west with troops from Dahu Mountain and Jiugong Mountain, forming a situation of flanking and encircling the Japanese army from the north and south.

On April 15, the Japanese army occupied Gaochong, Tanghu City, and Ligang City, northwest of Maishi. On the 18th, they besieged the wheat market again. The 140th Division of the 79th Army withdrew from Maishi due to heavy casualties, and then fought side by side with the 134th Division of the 20th Army that rushed to reinforce in the area south of Maishi, and continued to block the enemy's southward movement.

After capturing Maishi and Peachtree Harbor, the Japanese army continued to attack and advance southward. The 133rd Division of the 20th Army fortified in the areas of Kuzhuling, Nanlouling, and Gedoushan. However, due to the weak troops, they were forced to withdraw under the attack of the Japanese army.

On April 20, the 1st Regiment of the 140th Division recaptured the two heights of Nanlouling and Gedoushan after a counteroffensive. The Japanese 33rd Division was stopped between Dabaiyan, Jilongshan, Panshi, Arrowhead, and Maishi, and could not advance. It was changed to attack Kuzhuling, then entered Taoshu Harbor in Xiushui County, and headed towards Changshou Street. On the way, they were blocked by the 133rd and 134th Divisions of the 20th Army at Baishaling, and the 82nd and 98th Divisions of the 79th Army were flanked on the right side.

In the main battlefield of northern Hunan Province, while capturing the two alert positions of the 52nd Army on the Xinqiang River, the Japanese army also captured the important strongholds of the 52nd Army's advance positions such as Xiayan'an and Majiayuan on the north bank of the Xinqiang River, and the troops of the 52nd Army were forced to retreat to the south bank of the Xinqiang River.

After receiving the report that all the guard positions and advance positions of the 52nd Army had fallen on the north bank of the Xinqiang River, Guan Linzheng immediately ordered the 37th Army to transfer all the remaining positions to the south bank of the Xinqiang River, except for one division to garrison the camp field, and cooperate with the 52nd Army to garrison the positions on the south bank of the Xinqiang River. The original defensive line of the 37th Army was handed over to the garrison of the 70th Army, which had come to reinforce it.

On the morning of April 17, the Nara Detachment, the main force of the Japanese army, first concentrated more than 80 artillery pieces and fiercely shelled the positions of the 2nd Division of the 52nd Army, which was defending the south bank of the New Wall River. An hour later, the artillery fire extended, and the Japanese began to force their way across the Xinqiang River from the vicinity of Qibutang. But it was stubbornly resisted by ****, and at sunset, the two sides were still facing each other on the front line of the Xinqiang River.

However, the Japanese army suddenly resorted to another killing move, and the Kamimura detachment made a surprise attack on Yingtian. The move of the Japanese army to land in the camp was indeed something that neither Xue Yue nor Guan Linzheng expected. Yingtian was lost, and Guan Linzheng was especially shaken the most. The main force of the Japanese army attacked head-on from the Shinqiang River, while the Nara detachment pressed on him from the right, and the Yingtian Kamimura detachment came ashore in a steady stream, and several of his troops were encircled in the middle, and they were surrounded on three sides, and one was facing the desperate situation of the water, and there was a danger of being surrounded and annihilated.

So after obtaining Xue Yue's consent, Guan Linzheng immediately organized the retreat of all armies. This determination was made in a very timely manner, and the Japanese army was very dissatisfied with Guan Linzheng's lack of cooperation, and scolded Guan Linzheng for his weak will to fight, and he did not give up the position that he had painstakingly managed for half a year to a year.

After the Japanese army captured the Xinqianghe position, the door to Changsha was opened, which was a big blow to the Nationalist Government.

As a last resort, Xue Yue immediately convened an emergency meeting in Changsha to discuss countermeasures. In the end, the meeting made an operational plan to lure the enemy to the outskirts of Changsha to carry out a counter-encirclement and decisive battle against the enemy, and then annihilate him, that is, the so-called Heavenly Furnace Tactics.

Xue Yue's idea was to follow the topography of Hunan, leaning on Dongting Lake on the left and Mufu Mountain on the right, and using the four rivers of Xinqiang River, Miluo River, Laodao River, and Liuhe River as the basis for delaying the Japanese army, and thoroughly implementing the practice of "turning roads into fields and transporting grain up the mountains" to eliminate the mobility of the Japanese army's mechanized troops. Therefore, the overall policy is to "retreat and fight a decisive battle and strive for the periphery".

The specific tactics were to move between the four rivers and the Makufu Mountains by fighting and retreating, attacking and then retreating and hiding, dragging the Japanese army into the four rivers, and finally using the main force in Changsha City and the troops hiding in the mountains and forests on the periphery to encircle the Japanese troops deep into the four rivers. Then, Xue Yue ordered the 4th Army and artillery directly under the command of the theater to advance to Yuelu Mountain, Changsha and their northeast areas to occupy the starting position of the attack, while the front command post of the 9th theater was moved to Lukou.

But at this moment, Lao Jiang's will to defend Changsha was shaken.

Although Chiang was now anxious to win US aid, he did receive a positive and positive response from the US side. However, with the loss of the Xinqianghe position, the main force of the Japanese Central China Dispatch Army has formed a joint encirclement of Changsha from the three directions of northern Jiangxi, southern Hunan, and northern Hunan.

After so many years of ups and downs, Lao Jiang has seen through many things, especially the war has been going on for the third year, and Lao Jiang has actually looked down on the gains and losses of local wars, and what he values is the situation of the army in his hands.

Lao Chiang knew very well that as long as the Central Army in his hands was still there, even if he retreated to Sichuan, Xikang, or even Tibet, he would still be the leader of China's resistance against Japan, but if he did not have the two million army in his hands, he Jiang would be nothing, so Lao Chiang did not support the plan of the Ninth Theater and the Japanese army in Changsha. (To be continued.) )