As winter approaches, it begins to rain in Shanghai. Although it is pouring, it still gives people a not-so-refreshing feeling.
In addition, the people in Shanghai are not in a very good mood at this time, so I find the weather to be really annoying.
"The Japanese Emperor's troops entered Hankou, and Wuhan citizens lined the streets to welcome Master Wang!"
Li Wei looked at the very eye-catching headline in today's newspaper and the sparse raindrops outside, and he felt a little irritable in his heart.
Although in the photos in this newspaper, those civilians who "welcome" the Japanese soldiers basically have frightened and uneasy faces, and only a few people have flattering smiles on their faces, it is obvious that these are pro-Japanese elements and traitors
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But this also means that Wuhan has fallen!
Although Li Wei spent a lot of money in the Shanghai intelligence market to purchase pieces of valuable intelligence, and sent this intelligence back to the Kuomintang government in a timely manner.
They even purchased an extremely important piece of information, which was that these intelligence brokers had discovered that the main force of the Japanese 106th Division had penetrated deep into the Wanjialing area.
When Li Wei knew that the intelligence dealers had obtained all this information, he ordered Chen Xuan to purchase it without hesitation. In the end, Li Wei spent 30,000 US dollars to buy this information.
According to this intelligence, because the Japanese learned that the main force of the 1st Corps of the Ninth Theater of the Kuomintang was fighting on the Rui (Chang) Wu (Ning) Road, the garrison strength between the Nanxun Railway and Ruiwu Road was relatively weak.
Up, there will be a gap in the defense force.
Therefore, the Japanese immediately ordered the Japanese 106th Division, which had initially regained its strength after reorganization, to quickly advance westward in an attempt to cut off the connection between the Chinese defenders on Nanxun Road and Wuning Road.
After Li Wei passed this information to the headquarters in a timely manner, the headquarters immediately sent it to the Ninth War Zone. The Ninth War Zone immediately conducted detailed verification of this situation and finally confirmed the situation.
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Therefore, the commander-in-chief of the Ninth Theater District thought that this opportunity was rare, and immediately sent a message to the Wuhan Military Commission and the Ninth Theater Command Headquarters for instructions, hoping to mobilize large forces to annihilate the intruding Japanese troops and stabilize the rear.
In response to this, Chang Shenkai quickly called back and agreed, and said that he would dispatch additional troops to support the ninth theater.
As the top leader made up his mind, the Kuomintang army immediately began to mobilize troops. Soon more than 100,000 Chinese troops were gathered and began to move among the high mountains and surrounded the Japanese on all sides.
Of course, if the Japanese cannot detect such a large-scale march by the Chinese army, it must be fake.
Therefore, this situation was also discovered by the Japanese commander Neiji Okamura in Jiujiang from air force reconnaissance.
In response, it immediately ordered the 106th Division to turn north and quickly break away from the encirclement. After receiving the order from Okamura Neiji, the Japanese 106th Division also hurriedly took action.
However, another episode occurred at this time, which indirectly led to the demise of the 106th Division.
Because in this battle of Wuhan, the Japanese used a 1/50,000 scale military map.
However, this map was stolen from the warlord by Okamura Neiji in 1926, then printed by the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, and then distributed to various troops.
Therefore, there were many inaccuracies in these maps, and the Japanese 106th Division had no way to correct its marching route according to the reference objects in the map marks.
Of course, they also tried to use a compass to determine the direction, but there were magnetite deposits in the area, so the compass also failed.
So at such a critical juncture, in this vast mountain, being unable to recognize the map means that they can't find the direction, and this is a huge thing for an army.
In this way, the Japanese ran around in the mountains like headless flies for a day or two, but in the end they still could not find a way out.
Moreover, during this period, they were often met with stubborn resistance from the Chinese troops who arrived in the Wanjialing area first.
Suddenly, the Chinese soldiers and the Japanese 106th Division were entangled and biting each other like two giant dragons in the Wanjialing area. They clashed from left to right. The two armies penetrated each other and attacked everywhere. The battle situation was also very serious.
of tragedy.
At this time, Okamura Neiji was also anxious and hurriedly ordered to rescue the 106th Division at all costs. Even the old guy Okamura Neiji wanted to surround the Chinese army in turn.
Then let the 106th Division bloom from the center, and the Japanese troops on the periphery immediately launched operations to completely annihilate the Chinese troops surrounding the 106th Division.
Therefore, the Chinese army must first deal with the Japanese soldiers who came to the rescue before they can confidently make dumplings and eat them.
As for these Japanese plans, the commander of the Ninth Theater Command had already thought of countermeasures.
Besides, on the battlefield, this kind of encirclement and counter-encirclement war is actually about seizing the outside line. Whoever takes the outside line will have the opportunity to win and the rope that binds the blue dragon.
So within a few days, the Chinese army was able to defeat Neji Okamura's multiple counter-encirclement plans, and even surrounded the Japanese tightly.
Then the Chinese army began to adopt the method of division and encirclement, driving them one by one with several times the enemy's strength, chasing and annihilating them, and defeated the 106th Division.
At this time, big problems also occurred within the Japanese 106th Division.
Because this group of scoundrels has never been subjected to such iron barrel-like siege tactics since they invaded China.
In addition, they have always been very arrogant and domineering, so when they first set out, they thought they could break through the siege of the Chinese army in three days.
Therefore, each officer and soldier was only given five days' worth of supplies, 180 rounds of ammunition, and 2 grenades.
But now they have been besieged and fought for seven days. Not only have they not taken a step out of Wanjialing, they have been pursued and beaten by the Chinese army.
Suddenly, the Japanese were short of food and very little ammunition.
Under this situation, on the one hand, the Japanese army used aircraft to air-drop food and bombs, and on the other hand, it continued to rescue the 106th Division and other troops at all costs.
However, at this time, the Chinese army used its superior strength to not only block the reinforcements from the enemy far to the west of Wanjialing, but also annihilated a Japanese detachment.
At this point, the Japanese army had no more reinforcements to send, and the 106th Division was already besieged on all sides. It could only desperately send a "triple A" emergency call for the first time, asking Okamura Neji to send aircraft for support.