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The Namada detachment was completely wiped out, which was no less than a bolt from the blue for the always ambitious Neji Okamura!
Okamura Neiji highly recognized the combat effectiveness of the Namada Detachment. Although the Namada Detachment came from the colonial bay island, not all of its soldiers were Japanese, and there were extremely serious internal antagonisms, it was still very good in terms of combat effectiveness. Even many second-class divisions are far behind.
This can be seen in the previous battles of Anqing, Madang, Hukou, and Jiujiang, so Okamura Neiji has always used the Botian detachment as the main force.
Especially after the Namada detachment captured Jiujiang, Okamura Neiji personally went to the base camp to ask for credit for Namada Juichi and asked for his promotion to Army Lieutenant General.
The base camp was also very considerate of him as the new commander of the Eleventh Army, and quickly approved the promotion of Shigeichi Namada to Army Lieutenant General.
However, the approval from the base camp had just come out, and within three days of Juichi Namada putting on the lieutenant general uniform, the entire army was destroyed. How could Neji Okamura accept this?
More importantly, once the Botian detachment is completely wiped out, the 106th Division attacking the Jinguan Bridge line of the Nanxun Line will be in danger.
You must know that after taking Jiujiang, Lieutenant General Okamura naturally turned his attention to the Chinese army's second-line positions, and then ordered the Japanese 106th Songpu Division to go south from Jiujiang to attack the Chinese defenders on the Jinguan Bridge line.
At the same time, the 6th Division attacking Guangji and Huangmei along the north of the Yangtze River was ordered to step up its offensive. According to Okamura Neiji's strategic deployment, on both sides of the Yangtze River, the two leading divisions of the 11th Army formed "eight" to the south and west. Word, he attacked all the way, and he planned to fight all the way to Wuhan like this.
It has to be said that Okamura Neiji is indeed a handsome man with amazing strategic vision, who is by no means comparable to Susumu Fujita and Masaki Yin Dong.
According to the strategy of the base camp, the troops should attack directly to the west after occupying Jiujiang, but Okamura did not do this. He chose to take a shortcut to shock Wuhan. The route was from Hukou and Jiujiang southward in an attempt to capture De'an and Nanchang. Then move westward to Changsha, cut off the Guangdong-Hankou Railway, and form a strategic encirclement of Wuhan.
This move will not only eliminate the threat of Xue Yue's dozens of divisions on the left, but also strategically cut off Wuhan's retreat, completely shake the will of the Chinese defenders, and ultimately encircle China's hundreds of thousands of heavy troops.
Okamura's grand strategy really worked, and the Nationalist Army also saw Okamura's insidiousness. In order to prevent the Nanjing tragedy from happening again in Wuhan, and to reduce the burden on the Military Commission, while constantly blocking the Japanese army, the Nationalist Government also decided to An evacuation plan was made.
Not long after the fall of Jiujiang, the Political Department of the Wuhan Garrison Headquarters issued a statement urging people in Wuhan to evacuate.
The next day, the Hubei Provincial Party Headquarters issued the "Advice to the People to Evacuate the Population of Wuhan", requiring citizens and other government agencies except the Military Commission to evacuate as soon as possible. In the next few days, a new wave of outbreak emerged in Wuhan.
I have to say that Okamura Neiji was indeed successful in strategy. If the alien under Li Guoyao hadn't suddenly appeared and destroyed Okamura Neiji's plan, Wuhan would have been completely in chaos.
However, due to the strong counterattack by Li Guoyao's troops, Neji Okamura's nearly perfect plan was directly riddled with loopholes. In particular, the destruction of the Botian detachment directly affected the 106th Division's operations on the Nanxun line.
You know, if the Botian detachment had not blocked the left defense line of the 106th Division, the 106th Division would have been surrounded by no less than 300,000 Chinese troops. By then, it would have been completely destroyed, and even gods could not save it. Matsuura Division.
In view of this, Okamura Neiji did not dare to neglect, and immediately ordered Chief of Staff Yoshimoto Teiichi to immediately send a report to the 106th Division on the front line, ordering them to retreat immediately, heading north, targeting Jiujiang.
At the same time, Okamura Neiji once again ordered the main force of the 15th Division to immediately move westward and cooperate with the 106th Division to retake Jiujiang City.
However, Okamura Neiji has not yet figured out what happened to the Navy, but he immediately sent a telegram to the Third Fleet Headquarters, requesting support from the Navy.
Jinguanqiao front line. Japanese 106th Division headquarters.
Like the Botian detachment, the 106th Division is also the vanguard of the 11th Army, serving as the vanguard in the attack on Wuhan.
It¡¯s just that this time the 106th Division didn¡¯t have the same luck as before, because the opponents they encountered were different. They were no longer Yang Sen and others, but Xue Yue and Xue Boling, known as the tiger cub.
" Compared with the anxious old Jiang and Zhang Fakui on the northern line, Xue Yue, the commander-in-chief of the Nanxun line, was in a very good mood. The southern front is not the main line of defense for the Japanese attack, and the terrain on the southern front is more suitable for defense, so Xue?The arrangement is very relaxed.
However, Xue Yue was still holding his breath in his heart. If Li Guoyao hadn't saved the battle in Lanfeng a few months ago, Xue Yue would have become an eternal joke, so this time he was very ambitious and wanted to do something big on the Nanxun Line. The first enemy of the First Corps was the 106th Division, which went south with a great victory.
On July 27, the Japanese 106th Division, as the main vanguard, first launched an attack on Jinguan Bridge.
However, the 106th Division did not launch an attack immediately after moving south. For two consecutive days, Lieutenant General Songpu Junrokuro was not in a hurry to invest troops. Instead, he used all artillery fire and Japanese aircraft to assist the Jinguanqiao garrison position. Indiscriminate bombing.
For a time, dozens of hilltop positions along the Jinguanqiao front line were covered in smoke and fire, and tons of ammunition fell onto the defenders' positions, causing losses to the officers and soldiers of the 4th, 8th, and 70th armies of the national army who lacked artillery. Not small, a large number of positions were blown into pieces of scorched earth.
In the headquarters, Lieutenant General Songpu held a telescope to observe the smoke and fire rising in the distance, with a ferocious smile on his face.
Behind him, Captain Tanaka Shomichi of the 113th Regiment, holding the command sword on his waist, became a little anxious: "Your Excellency, division commander, charge! The army has been hit by artillery fire and fell to the ground. , if the fortifications are lost, the imperial army will chase them away like ducks."
The other captain of the 145th Regiment, Colonel Ichikawa, was even more impatient: "Your Excellency, division commander, we don't need so many artillery shells to deal with that person. Maybe only one round of group bombing will destroy their souls." Flying! I ask your Excellency to allow my unit to attack immediately."
Songpu put down the telescope, turned around, glanced at his two tiger generals, shook his head and said: "Don't worry, that army doesn't have cannons. We should let them see the power of cannons and let them know what they are." modern war."
"Hai!"
Then Matsuura Junrokuro continued: "In addition, there is an old Chinese saying that you should remember, strike first. Now that I haven't fought with them, I have already made them lose five points in their hearts. Isn't this a good thing?"
"The division commander is wise. He takes the lead and defeats his opponent both psychologically and physically. He has learned a lesson from his humble position!" Colonel Tanaka sent a flattering blow in time.
Colonel Nagaichikawa, who had been robbed of venture capital, also hurriedly said: "I have long heard that the division commander is very proficient in Chinese culture. When I saw him today, he was indeed extraordinary."
Matsuura Junrokuro was naturally very pleased with the flattery of his two subordinates. He laughed loudly and said: "The Chinese only have culture that is worth learning from the Japanese Empire. The rest have been surpassed by the Japanese Empire." .¡±
Then, Matsuura Junrokuro once again fixed his gaze on the artillery regiment commander Kuniga Colonel, and ordered in a cold tone: "Kuniga-kun, your artillery did a good job, I will ask Commander Okamura to take credit for you! "
"Thank you very much, Division Commander, for your cultivation!" Colonel Kuniga said hurriedly.
"Keep 2 basic ammunition, and send the rest to the enemy's position, let them see the power of the God of War of the Japanese Empire!" Junrokuro Matsuura said with a cruel smile.
After speaking, he turned around and Matsuura Junrokuro said softly to his subordinates: "Don't worry! The war has just begun. There are still many more attacks to come. When will you show off your power?"