[Volume 57] Chapter 499: Chapter 248 Using Water to Replace Soldiers (Part 2) (1)

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Chapter 248: Using Water to Replace Soldiers (Part 2)

Replacing troops with water is an established strategic decision of the national government. It is to sacrifice countless sacrifices to win the opportunity for the Chinese nation to fight back. In other words, it is to exchange space for time with the flesh and blood of countless soldiers and civilians! But this sacrifice is too much.

It is a big country, and most of the victims are the most ordinary people, who have never enjoyed the slightest bit of this country.

Welfare, but they have been struggling with countless exorbitant taxes and living a life of hunger and hunger! When the country was in danger of alien invasion, they sent their husbands, men, and sons to the front line without hesitation.

Under the scorching firepower of the Japanese invaders, these simple Chinese people used their flesh and blood to defend the so-called honor that no longer existed.e

Only then did Gao Fei realize what he was doing as the so-called colonel and director of the Military Legal Supervision Department of the Supreme Military Commission. He was taking the blame for the Supreme Military Commission and doing the same job as the military commander. If the fifth column was turned into Chiang Kai-shek's garrison

Guard troops, this is equivalent to restricting the hands and feet of the fifth column, which makes Gao Fei feel that his ambitions cannot be used. Anti-Japanese Blood Sacrifice to Mountains and Rivers 49948

However, based on the overall strategy, although the Huayuankou embankment burst caused heavy losses to the people in the flood areas, for the sake of the war of resistance and for the survival of our nation, they were sacrifices that had to be made. The so-called abandonment of the people on one side to save our own

The war histories of various countries in ancient and modern times are rich in examples, and the merits and demerits of history are self-evident.

Faced with the Japanese army's strategic attempt to capture Wuhan and subdue us in the Central Plains, they organized twelve divisions, cooperated with the Marine Corps and more than 500 aircraft, divided the river into Nanxun Road, Ruiwu Road, and along the north bank of the Yangtze River and along the Dabie Mountains.

Beilu attacked Wuhan. Wuhan was the largest city in the world, and it had an important strategic position as a national water and land transportation hub and a national military, economic, political and cultural center.

In the middle of the month, a battle plan to defend Wuhan was formulated. It was determined to use the ground barriers of Poyang Lake and the Dabie Mountains to fight against the hills and lakes on both sides of the Yangtze River. The focus was on the outer wings. No matter whether the offense or defense advanced or retreated, they could be in an active position and expected to fight the enemy for four to four days.

For five months, the main purpose is to consume the enemy and crush the offensive. No needless sacrifices are made. Considerable strength must be maintained and ready for use as the basis for final victory.

It can be said that the raging Yellow River breach bought the Chinese defenders who gathered in Wuhan two months. On the other hand, the Japanese dispatched troops from Central China under the leadership of former commander Matsui Iwane to occupy Nanjing and created the Nanjing Battle that shocked the world.

Massacre in Guan Pass, Massacre in Xiaguan Massacre

There were tens of thousands of Chinese civilians and wounded soldiers. The Yangtze River was once blocked by corpses. Tens of thousands of corpses formed a huge corpse floating belt several kilometers long. Due to the pressure of domestic and foreign public opinion, the Japanese base camp had to withdraw to Matsui Iwane.

Shunroku Hata took over as commander of the Central China Expeditionary Force.

In terms of the overall strategy, the Japanese army captured Xuzhou and the Longhai Line was opened. However, the main force of more than 500,000 people in the Chinese Army that was scheduled to be annihilated had already withdrawn in advance under the command of Li Zongren. The area occupied by the Japanese army became wider and wider, and the situation of uneven distribution of troops became more serious.

, then, the Chinese government blew up the Henan Garden

The Yellow River embankment near the mouth of the Yellow River blocked the penetration of Japanese troops in North China. More importantly, this incident showed the attitude of the Chinese government that it would rather be broken than destroyed, and it gave rise to hopes that the Chinese government would soon surrender to Japan.

Like a soap bubble, it disappeared among the upper echelons of the Japanese government, military, and government.

Moreover, the current war has made Japan's personnel become a tiger. The Japanese government increased war expenses by 3.52 billion yen in just three months, and recruited 240,000 new soldiers within two months to form ten new divisions.

Bite the bullet and launch an attack on Hankou that exceeds the national strength allowed, Japan

In accordance with the decision of the Imperial Council, the Imperial Headquarters officially issued an order to the army and navy to prepare for the Wuhan operation. The North China Expeditionary Army and the Central China Expeditionary Army were officially renamed the North China Front Army and the Central China Front Army. The base camp began to formally prepare to form a General Army-level Continental Expeditionary Army.

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After the Central China Front Army received the combat order, Shunroku Hata began to actively prepare for the attack on Wuhan. He first sent troops to capture the military town of Anqing, and deployed the basic forces of the aviation regiment of Lieutenant General Dezhou Haomin here to facilitate the Japanese fighter jets.

Take off from here, bombing Hankou to seize control

Air power. Subsequently, at the end of June, Shunroku Hata exchanged the "Memorandum of Agreement between the Army and the Navy on the Hankou Attack Operation" with the Chinese Fleet Commander Shiro Kawako on the warship Anzai, and reached an agreement on joint operations with the Navy, and the Navy was responsible for opening up

Yangtze River waterway transportation transports armies along the Yangtze River.

As the commander of the Central China Front, Shunroku Hata, while hoarding supplies, directed the troops of his fourteen divisions and an aviation corps to invest in the Wuhan strategy formulated by the General Staff Headquarters under the supervision of the base camp. For this purpose, Shunroku Hata carried out detailed

According to the deployment, he ordered the four divisions of the Second Army led by Lieutenant General Higashikata Higashiyan to assemble near Luzhou, and ordered the 11th Army led by Lieutenant General Okamura Neiji.

The army's five divisions and the Botian detachment, which it regarded as the elite, moved closer to Huangmei and Jiujiang. Shunroku Hata only used the front-line offensive troops to reach nine divisions and two independent mixed brigades, as well as special forces units totaling 25

In order to ensure that there would be no "fire in the backyard", Shunroku Hata deployed the troops of five newly formed divisions from the mainland in occupied areas such as Shanghai, Nanjing, and Anqing.

It can be said that during the Battle of Lanfeng, Chiang Kai-shek personally flew to Zhengzhou to cheer up his Huangpu students, hoping that his direct generals could perform well in the Battle of Lanfeng. According to Chiang Kai-shek, Li Delin could rely on other talents in Taierzhuang.

The army won the victory, but as a result, the 200,000 elite Huangpu direct descendants were defeated by one division of the Japanese army?

The Japanese 14th Division, which had the advantage in firepower, was not a delicious dumpling. Under the superior ground and air firepower of the Japanese army, although the morale of the squadron was high, the equipment was at an absolute disadvantage. In the face of the intensive firepower of the Japanese army,

The Chinese ** team's attacks were disintegrated like waves crashing on the shore, and in the end they were forced to lead their troops by water.

After this battle, Chiang Kai-shek also realized that steel will cannot replace steel cannons, fighter planes, warships and tanks. Under the superior firepower of the Japanese army, he besieged the 71st Division, which was the most ferocious in the battle.

The Army and the 74th Army suffered more than half of their casualties. According to the campaign analysis by the General Staff Headquarters, the Japanese did not yet have the strength to completely annihilate the Japanese division-level troops that were in a state of entrenchment.
Chapter completed!