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Although Junroku Matsuura said it lightly, he didn't think so in his heart.
The main reason why he did not order the troops to attack in the past two days was that he knew his troops too well.
His 106th Division is just a special B division. Like the A division, it also has four infantry regiments and one regiment each of cavalry, artillery, engineering, and baggage. It looks quite powerful, but in fact The army is just like a paper tiger. All the soldiers in the division are formed by temporarily recruiting reserve personnel.
There is no big difference in the number of personnel between ad hoc divisions and active divisions, but there is a big difference in quality. Taking an infantry regiment as an example, the only personnel in the ad hoc division who are on active duty are the group captain, regiment captain and regiment adjutant, while the other squadron captains, squad captains and soldiers are in reserve or reserve service.
When forming the army, the commanders of each army were drawn from various ministries, but their ability to cooperate with each other was poor and their combat effectiveness was not strong.
Most of the soldiers of the Matsuura Division come from the four prefectures of Kumamoto, Oita, Kagoshima, and Miyazaki in southern Kyushu, and some are traders and employees from Osaka City.
Compared with other units, the 106th Division has a considerable number of Osaka merchants. Therefore, among all the Japanese troops in Central China, the 106th Division is the unit with the weakest offensive capability and the least obvious Bushido spirit. On the contrary, It seems that the cunningness of the traders is stronger than the traditional Bushido of the Japanese army.
Lieutenant General Songpu, who graduated from the Army University, encountered such a unit for the first time as a division commander, and he really felt a little bored.
Because he knew what kind of troops he had, Junrokuro Matsuura did not directly order the troops to attack. Instead, he continued to bombard the Chinese army's positions with artillery fire, intending to take the lead.
Otherwise, once the troops are blocked by the Chinese army on the southern front and cannot open up the situation, he will be unable to communicate with Commander Okamura, the front army and even the base camp.
However, even so, Songpu still did not expect that the Chinese army opposite him was too tenacious. Even the steel lions that faced the Japanese army with flesh and blood still did not retreat.
It is fitting that Matsuura Junrokuro was unlucky. In the Battle of Jinguanqiao, the Chinese defenders included not only Ou Zhen's 4th Army, known as the Northern Expedition Iron Army, but also Li Yutang's newly formed 8th Army and Li Jue's 70th Army. These troops were all Not just anyone.
After the heavy artillery bombardment, Matsuura Junrokuro believed that the defenders had lost their combat effectiveness, and immediately ordered the troops to attack and seize the defenders' positions.
However, after enduring two days of unprecedented heavy bombing, the defenders stepped on the scorched earth and relied on emergency repairs of simple bunkers, bomb craters, and even dead bodies to move the attacking Japanese troops to a distance of 20 to 30 meters, relying on rifles, machine guns, grenades and other light firearms. Fight back violently.
The vendors and employees from Osaka in the 106th Division, after encountering a fierce blow, either turned around and ran back, or lay still in the crater.
Seeing this situation, the angry Matsuura Junrokuro immediately sent the supervising team to supervise the battle on the spot. If anyone dared to hesitate or become a deserter, the supervising team had the right to kill anyone directly.
However, what Matsuura Junrokuro didn't expect was that the quality of the soldiers of the 106th Division was far worse than he imagined. Although he mercilessly killed several defeated soldiers who fled in front, the troops just couldn't rush forward. .
The battle lasted until ten o'clock in the morning, and the troops suffered considerable losses, but the progress was very limited.
Not only did Matsuura Junrokuro not expect this situation, but also several commanders under his command were dumbfounded. Suddenly, these Japanese military officers who had been brainwashed by the spirit of Bushido could no longer calm down. With red eyes, they came to the front of the position to personally supervise the battle.
Soon, the scale of the attack escalated step by step, and the focus of the main attack became more and more concentrated. Along with this, the offensive and defensive battles between the two sides became more intense and tragic.
The defenders of the front line from Shahe to Jinguanqiao are Li Jue's 70th Army. Li Jue, named Yunbo, graduated from Baoding Military Academy in 1924. He later joined the Hunan Army and was an old subordinate of Hunan warlord Tang Shengzhi and the eldest son-in-law of Hunan Provincial Chairman He Jian.
Li Jue is not an unknown person. He participated in the Northern Expedition and led his troops to block the Long March Red Army on the banks of the Xiangjiang River, causing heavy casualties to the 1st Red Army. Both combat experience and command level are very high.
But at this time, Li Jue was under unprecedented pressure. His 70th Army originally had two divisions, of which the 19th Division was his trump card and his starting unit. In the Battle of Songhu, the 19th Division was one of the 10 divisions with the best record of the Kuomintang army.
After the war, as a reward for Li Jue's skillful command and the dedication of his soldiers, Chiang Kai-shek assigned the 128th Division to Li Jue and ordered him to form the 70th Army. Unexpectedly, the 128th Division failed to live up to expectations, and the previous battle collapsed.
For this reason, the division commander Gu Jiaqi was dismissed by Chiang Kai-shek and investigated, and the division's designation was also cancelled. The war is urgentAt this critical moment, Li Jue was carrying the air of a military commander, and still only had his 19th Division at his disposal.
Fortunately, the 19th Division did not embarrass him. Although the position had been turned upside down by the Japanese bombs two days ago and was a scorched earth, it was still firmly controlled by the 70th Army.
During the battle, Major General Zhuang Wenshu, commander of the 57th Brigade, was injured. Li Jue promoted Zhou Kunyuan, the commander of the 114th Regiment who had made meritorious service in the battle, to brigade commander, and promoted Liu Yangsheng, deputy commander of the 114th Regiment, to replace Zhou Kunyuan's vacancy and continue the battle.
Around 10:30 in the morning, the Japanese Colonel Tanaka threw all the main force of the 113th Regiment and a large group of tanks in front of the 19th Division and launched a new round of fierce attack.
The battle on the position reached a fever pitch. Under the personal supervision of Colonel Tanaka, the Japanese army's major, middle and squad captains pressed forward one after another, and their sharp command swords frightened the "vendors" in Osaka.
A large number of Japanese troops poured into the breach, stepping on the corpses of their companions. The 57th Brigade position was in emergency. Seeing the critical situation, the newly promoted brigade commander Zhou Kunyuan made a desperate move and led the only remaining guard company around him to fight back. The two sides launched a fierce melee.
Colonel Tanaka¡¯s reserves have been exhausted, and he can only watch the attacking troops being defeated.
Anxious and furious, he slashed a second lieutenant and team leader who was retreating in panic, but it was to no avail, and the troops were eventually defeated.
However, Junrokuro Matsuura, who was unwilling to fail, immediately mobilized the troops of two brigades to Tanaka and ordered him to continue the attack.
Subsequently, Tanaka led the reinforcements to swoop into the 19th Division Jinguanqiao position again and released a large amount of poison gas.
The dull explosion, mixed with light blue smoke, suddenly descended on the defenders' position like a ghost.
The Chinese defenders were caught off guard, and a large number of officers and soldiers immediately fell to the ground with bruises on their faces. The frontline was in chaos and was surrounded by crises.
In the rear command post, Li Jue saw that the situation was not good and urgently ordered the 114th Regiment to withdraw from the rest and reorganize to counterattack the front line and counterattack the invading enemy.
During the battle, Liu Yangsheng, the new commander of the 114th Regiment, was unfortunately shot and killed. The officers and soldiers temporarily lost their command, their positions became loose, and they were afraid of poison gas. The counterattack finally failed, and the Chinese army withdrew to the main position.
Colonel Tanaka Seido fought hard for several days and finally captured the forward position defended by the 70th Army.
The division commander, Lieutenant General Songpu, determined that the Chinese defenders were at the end of their strength. Without waiting for the various regiments to rest and replenish, he once again ordered all units to take advantage of the victory to attack.
Songpu was blocked at Jinguan Bridge for several days and had been severely reprimanded several times by Commander Okamura. At this time, he was eager to expand his results and break the deadlock.
However, Songpu miscalculated again. The 19th Division lost its forward position, but the ambushes on several hills in the wing were able to effectively support the defense of the main position.
In addition, after Li Jue learned the news that reinforcements were coming, he also made partial adjustments to his forces, and almost all the reserve teams were moved into position. The main position of Jinguan Bridge has more complete fortifications, more personnel, and more intensive firepower.
The attack of the Tanaka and Kawaba Regiments seemed to have hit a wall, blocked from the front. On the Tushian Mountain Ridge on the flank, the heavy machine guns and mortar shells of the 2nd Battalion of the 110th Regiment of the 19th Division fell from the sky like raindrops, falling on the Japanese army. in shape.
The attacking Japanese army was attacked from both sides and suffered heavy casualties.
Tanaka Shoido returned from defeat and became furious. He once again asked Matsuura for a thousand additional troops, and prepared to attack the Toutian Mountain Ridge in an attempt to eliminate the flank threat.
But as soon as the thousand Japanese troops entered the battle, they were pinned down on the mountainside by the mortars and light and heavy machine guns of the National Army on Jiwo Ridge on the side, unable to raise their heads, and the battle reached a stalemate.
Just when Matsuura Junrokuro was about to invest more troops and break through the Jinguanqiao garrison position in one fell swoop, a telegram from Okamura Neiji arrived.
After reading the emergency telegram from Okamura Neji, Matsuura Junrokuro was shocked. He did not expect that when he was fighting with the Chinese army on the front line of Jinguanqiao, such a big mess would occur in Jiujiang behind him.
¡°Not only was Jiujiang City lost, but the entire Namada detachment that cooperated in the battle was also shattered. Even Namada Juichi, who had eyes on his forehead, died on the front line.
Although Matsuura Junrokuro looked down on Namada, the leader of the colonial mixed brigade, he still felt a little uncomfortable now that this guy was dead.
Of course, what made him even more uncomfortable was that once Jiujiang was lost, the previous achievements of the Imperial Japanese Army were completely in vain, and his division was still in danger of being surrounded and annihilated by that person.
Out of anger, Matsuura Junrokuro immediately ordered the troops to stop the attack, and then the entire army immediately went north to counterattack Jiujiang. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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