[Volume 57] Chapter 549: Chapter 285 The Battle of Wuhan: The Praying Mantis Catching the Cicada (1)

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Chapter 285: The Battle of Wuhan: The Praying Mantis Catches the Cicada

Zhang Lingfu, commander of the 153rd Brigade of the 51st Division, volunteered to lead a suicide squad to outflank the trail and attack from the cliff of the back mountain where the Japanese army had neglected to guard against. After a fierce and unusual hand-to-hand combat, they finally occupied the main peak position of Zhanggu Mountain.

And after dawn, the main force of the Japanese army was under the command of Inaba Shiro.

After the battle, Zhang Lingfu fought hard and regained the position. Zhang Lingfu led his troops to fight to the death and was wounded in the leg, but still did not get out of the firing line. The top of Zhanggu Mountain was covered with corpses and a sea of ​​blood. There were muddy earth and rocks mixed with blood everywhere, broken corpses and cracked bodies.

The internal organs smell burnt? It makes you feel nauseous. (e)

When the battle in Wanjialing was at its fiercest, Gao Fei led a newly formed regiment of more than 2,000 people to the Wanjialing area. Gao Fei accompanied him and brought ten four-level 20mm Forbes anti-aircraft guns.

Fei's arrival expressed simple thanks, but Gao Fei's Central Special Operations Group came to observe the running-in in accordance with the order of the Supreme Military Council, and Xue Yue had no actual command authority. Anti-Japanese Blood Sacrifice Mountains and Rivers 54985

In fact, Xue Yue's attitude towards Gao Fei, a late-born junior, is already quite good. This is because Chiang Kai-shek is so heavy on Gao Fei, and a reinforcement regiment of more than 2,000 people under Gao Fei's command will not have much effect even if it is put into the battlefield.

The ten Forbes four-barreled 20mm anti-aircraft guns were attached to the Wuhan camp of the Supreme Military Council, so Xue Yue could not keep them.

Because the troops transferred from the Wuhan New Training Center of the Central Special Operations Cluster would wear military police uniforms in order to hide their identities when they were not wearing combat uniforms, so the two thousand military policemen came and they could not be dispatched by themselves, and they had ten more anti-aircraft guns and they had no right to use them.

Xue Yue, however, has no right to call or interfere. If Li Zongren dares to play, he will be outside.

The reason why the military orders were not accepted was because Li Zongren had rebelled against Chiang many times and was also a leader of the New Gui faction. Although Xue Yue was also a senior figure, he did not dare to be like Li Zongren. Xue Yue knew what Chiang Kai-shek hated the most, so for the superiors

He would never do anything Commissar Chiang did not like.

The battle at Wanjialing always affected Xue Yue's nerves, so Gao Fei asked to command a battalion to transport ten Forbes four-barreled 20mm anti-aircraft guns to Wanjialing for backup. At least he could use the terrain to block Japanese tanks. For Gao Fei

Xue Yue hesitated and nodded in agreement with Fei's excuse. After all, this was Gao Fei's request, which was different from his own dispatch. Even if his subordinates were injured, Xue Yue could not be held responsible.

Gao Fei led his troops to reinforce Wanjialing by car, and went straight to Toulingpo, where the 74th Army headquarters was located. On the way, Gao Fei took a deep breath. In addition to the mountains of corpses and seas of blood in Songhu, Gao Fei

Other than that, it is just a side project, and there are not many opportunities for real frontal battle operations. In addition to the special operations brigade, the other two brigades and three regiments in the peak reorganization of the Central Special Operations Cluster can be used for frontal battlefield operations.

In Gao Fei's eyes, most Chinese people only know Zhang Lingfu as a fierce general and think that he is arrogant and bandit-like. They think that he is a brave but foolhardy vanguard like Zhang Fei and Li Kui. In fact, this is a misunderstanding.

Zhang Lingfu is actually an authentic Confucian general. He is tall and handsome. In particular, Zhang Lingfu first studied in the history department of Peking University, and then joined the army in Huangpu. Wenbei University, Wuhuangpu, and both had academic qualifications from the highest universities in China at that time. He was a good person.

He is good at calligraphy and has written many military books and articles. Zhang Lingfu can be regarded as a rare talent among generals with generally high cultural literacy.

, if he had not been killed in a fight with his roommates, the achievements of this famous anti-Japanese general would not be lower than those of Rommel, Zhukov and others, and he would definitely be able to expand the territory of the country in the future! After all, death is like a lamp going out. How can one say that he is arrogant?

A general who commands thousands of troops is not arrogant. Which general who commands an elite army is not extremely arrogant? Only the comments of future generations will be left in this life! But how much of these comments are true and how much are false?

The Japanese 106th Division attacked Wanjialing in an attempt to encircle the left wing of the De'an position of the First Corps of the Chinese Wuhan Garrison Area, so Xue Yue ordered two divisions of the 66th Army, two divisions of the 74th Army, and the Fourth Army

The two divisions encircled the attacking enemy. The battle was extremely fierce. The Japanese

The two infantry brigades of the 106th Division of the Army suffered heavy casualties and serious losses of weapons and equipment. The 66th Army conquered Shitoling after several days of bloody battles. The 74th Army stormed Changling under the command of Yu Jishi. Zhang

The two commanding heights of Gushan were fiercely contested by the Chinese and Japanese armies after days of bloody battles.

After several days of tug-of-war, the Chinese ** team gradually narrowed the enemy's encirclement, allowing the Japanese army to occupy only a narrow area of ​​more than ten square kilometers between Wanjialing, Zhanggushan, etc., until dawn on October 8, Gang

Murura Ningji found that the 106th Division was in a desperate situation, and hurriedly sent planes to airlift ammunition, food and grass, and sent the 27th Division to rescue with all-out efforts. However, they were blocked by the Chinese Army and the progress was slow.

After Chiang Kai-shek received the battle report, he immediately ordered Xue Yue to eliminate the enemies in the encirclement as soon as possible. Since the Battle of Wuhan, wherever the Japanese army attacked, where did the Chinese defenders passively defend? The Chinese ** team's positional defense warfare combined with mobile warfare has been suppressed by the Japanese army.

Fight, the failure to completely annihilate the Japanese Setani detachment in the Battle of Xuzhou is actually a knot in Chiang Kai-shek's heart. If he can completely annihilate Inaba Shiro's 106th Division this time, setting a precedent for annihilating the Japanese division organization, he will fight a

A great victory that inspired the entire people.

Under the desperate pursuit of the Chinese army, the Japanese 106th Division suffered heavy casualties, especially the casualties among junior Japanese officers. General Hata Junroku, commander of the Central China Expeditionary Force, personally organized an airdrop to the Wanjialing area in preparation for the airdrop.

Airdrop 200 junior officers to the surrounded 106th Division.

Gao Fei set up an anti-aircraft artillery position on a hill not far from Zhanggu Mountain and outside the range of the Japanese field artillery. Due to the attack on the Japanese Hengdian Field Airport, the Japanese Army and Navy aviation forces, which suffered heavy losses, were unable to attack the Japanese troops who penetrated deep into the Wanjialing area.

The Japanese 106th Division provided strong air support, and Okamura Neiji could only ask for help from Shunroku Hata, the commander of the dispatched army to Central China, so this surprise airborne landing was carried out.

Almost all the junior officers who were airborne by the Japanese army to Wanjialing participated in parachuting for the first time. They only knew how to jump out of the cabin. Shunroku Hata had long been mentally prepared for the loss of the airborne. As long as 50% of the officers could reach their control alive.

area, the 106th Division can break out of the encirclement.

The Japanese army's first large-scale airdrop on the Chinese battlefield did play a huge role in history. When the Japanese 106th Division was facing disorganization and was about to collapse, these officers almost turned the tide and avoided the third attack.
Chapter completed!