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Chapter 559: The Battle of Fujin Mountain begins!

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    After the meeting, Li Guoyao returned to his room and fell into deep thought!

    It¡¯s not that Li Guoyao couldn¡¯t see the danger of this trip, on the contrary, he saw it very clearly, better than anyone else.  But compared to his own personal safety, Li Guoyao cared more about the outcome of the Wuhan battle.

    Personal honor, disgrace, life and death are important, but whether Wuhan can be saved is equally important.

    As the wartime capital of China, the outcome of the Battle of Wuhan is crucial. If Wuhan is defended, the Chinese will gain a lot of strategic advantage.

    On the contrary, once Wuhan falls, it will be disastrous for China's war of resistance!

    First of all, it was an extremely serious blow to the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the people across the country, and secondly, the military losses were not small.

    And if history has not changed much, once Wuhan is captured by the Japanese army, the Japanese will change their policy towards China and begin to implement a strategy of supplementing military offensives and focusing on political inducement. This has led to different voices within the National Government.  , the resistance is not as good as before.

    ¡°Then traitors like Wang Jingwei appeared and openly split the Kuomintang, casting a huge shadow on China¡¯s war of resistance.

    Historically, the National Government and the Japanese army fought for five months on the outskirts of Wuhan and in the city, but ultimately failed. This result was something Li Guoyao did not want to see.

    After working hard for so long, what is Li Guoyao¡¯s purpose? Isn¡¯t it just to block the enemy¡¯s attack?

    But after this year, Li Guoyao discovered how insignificant his power was. Even if he had systematic assistance, it would be difficult to change the overall historical situation. He tried his best to defend Nanjing, but the city of Nanjing was still occupied by the devils. In the Battle of Bengbu, his family fortune  If all the children are born, what will be the result?  Bengbu City was not occupied by the Japs. The only difference was that they severely damaged the Japs soldiers in Bengbu City.

    Coupled with the subsequent defense of Mengcheng and Guide, Li Guoyao discovered a pattern, that is, his personal ability alone cannot change the overall historical situation, at most he can only change some details.

    Although he killed part of the main force of the Third Fleet of the Japs on the Wuhan battlefield and wiped out the entire Botian detachment, Jiujiang City was still captured by the Japs, so Li Guoyao has been worried about whether Wuhan City will be like what happened in history.  Captured by the Japs?

    Because of this, he must seize every opportunity to change this unfavorable situation. Not to mention going north to reinforce Sun Lianzhong's troops, he will not hesitate to put him in front of the 11th Army.

    In a word, Li Guoyao wants to keep the city of Wuhan, even if it costs his life!

    However, some things still need to be fought for. Then Li Guoyao ordered someone to say hello to Zhang Fakui of the Second Corps and relayed the order of the General Committee. After all, Lao Zhang is still good. Even if he wants to leave, he must say hello.  .

    Then Li Guoyao sent another telegram to Wuhan and put forward his own requirements. First, he must properly arrange the thousands of wounded and non-combatants of the 61st Army. Secondly, he must allow the remaining troops of the 61st Army to gather broken troops and recruit in Wuhan City.  New recruits are finally required to replenish ammunition and equipment.

    For the three requests made by Li Guoyao, the Military Commission agreed without hesitation. After all, these conditions were reasonable and they had nothing to hesitate.

    On October 12, the Military Commission officially approved Li Guoyao's command, requiring the 61st Army to immediately hand over its position to the 30th Group Army on the right, and then the entire army immediately headed north to Wuxue.

    At the same time, the Military Commission decided to allocate them 3,000 new guns, 100 light machine guns, 40 heavy machine guns and 12 mortars. In addition, they also prepared 1 million rounds of ammunition and 8,000 rounds of artillery shells of various calibers.  There are also more than 50,000 grenades, but these equipment and ammunition cannot be collected until the 61st Army arrives at Wuxiao.

    After receiving the order from the Military Commission, Li Guoyao did not hesitate and immediately ordered the troops to set off immediately, and the entire army rushed to Wuxue!

    It is only more than thirty kilometers from Ruichang to Wuxue. Although the road was not peaceful and Japanese fighter planes continued to harass them, the 61st Army arrived at the port town on the bank of the Yangtze River at 11 o'clock in the evening on the 12th.

    Here, the National Army's Jiang Defense Force has been waiting for Li Guoyao and others. They have prepared more than a hundred large and small ships here to help Li Guoyao's troops cross the river.

    After arriving at the port town, Li Guoyao reorganized the existing troops. The existing two divisions and four brigades remained unchanged. However, due to the need to fight northward, he personally recruited all the troops from the temporary seventh division and the new 100th division.  Soldiers who could still fight were mobilized and formed three infantry regiments of 2,500 people. Then they brought in the cavalry regiment, artillery regiment, air defense regiment, guard regiment and special operations team to form the 61st.?Northward detachment.

    The Northward Detachment has a total of 13,500 people, accounting for almost 80% of the combat troops of the 61st Army. After these troops were transferred, the 61st Army was left with only an empty shell.

    Then, Li Guoyao led Xu Hu, Zhang Tengjiao, Lu Dashan, Xie Baojun, Wen Debiao and others across the river to the north, while Hou Zhifu, Liang Chenghu and others evacuated to Wuhan City with more than 7,000 wounded and more than 2,000 non-combatants of the 61st Army.  

    At the same time that Li Guoyao's troops were moving north, the fighting on the front line of Fujin Mountain in the Dabie Mountains became increasingly fierce.

    Faced with the powerful Japanese offensive, although the national army on the Fujinshan front line knew that the strength of the enemy and ours was very different, they still did not retreat or collapse. Instead, under the command of General Sun Lianzhong, they quickly built a defense line to block the Japanese army from advancing westward!

    Due to the obstruction of the Shihe defense line, the Japanese army was delayed on this line for more than three days. In the end, they had to detour to the weak defensive areas of the northern part of the river before crossing the river. However, taking advantage of these few days, the Japanese army finally crossed the river.  The 71st Army and the 30th Army have built defensive positions on the front line of Fujin Mountain and are waiting for the little Japs to come.

    In order to block the Japs¡¯ front and buy time for the corps and the theater commander to dispatch troops, generals Song Xilian and Tian Zhennan personally visited the frontline battlefield to guide the construction of fortifications, and even went to the Shihe battlefield to command operations.

    Seeing the two generals coming to the battlefield to command in person, the soldiers on the front line were infected as never before and unleashed a powerful fighting force.

    The main attack vanguard of Prince Dongjiuxun's 2nd Army was the 13th Division and part of the 10th Division. After arriving at the front line, these two Japanese armies began to survey the terrain. Then they discovered that Fujin Mountain was very close to Yejiaji.  On the south wing of Shangliu Highway, they could block the road from a high position on the mountain. They couldn't go around it, so they had no choice but to bite the bullet and attack Mount Fujin.

    The first to participate in the attack was Tanaka Shizuichi's 13th Division. After this unit was severely damaged by Li Guoyao's troops in Bengbu, it once lost its combat effectiveness. In more than four months from May to September, this unit  The troops can only fight in the rear.

    But the Japanese base camp obviously would not let such a field division stay in the rear, so it mobilized a large number of supplementary troops from the country to central China and used the huge resources to completely replenish the division.

    The 13th Division did not disappoint the base camp. After restoring its combat effectiveness, Tanaka Shizuichi commanded this unit to launch a comprehensive encirclement and suppression of the remnants of the national army in Bengbu and Hefei. In less than half a month, they defeated many Chinese troops.  The army, even Lu Wenlong's Jiangnan guerrillas and the New Fourth Army, suffered heavy losses at the hands of this force.

    Not long ago, the main force of the Central China Front marched eastward to Wuhan, but the Second Army responsible for the northern front had to postpone the attack due to the Japanese-Soviet Zhang Gufeng incident, and did not start moving south until the end of August or early September.

    At the beginning of the Second Army's offensive, Tanaka Shizuichi's subordinate was the sharp knife in the hands of King Higashino Higashihiko, clearing the way for the Japanese army, and successively conquered Lu'an and Huoshan, the gateways to the Dabie Mountains.

    After that, the 2nd Army divided into two groups. The 13th and 16th Divisions on the left passed through the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains and approached Wuhan. The right group went straight to Luoshan and Xinyang and detoured to Wuhan.

    After the 13th Division arrived at the foot of Mount Fujin, they found that the terrain conditions here were easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, if they did not capture Mount Fujin, they could not continue to advance westward according to the established strategy. After having no choice but to attack Mount Fujin, Tanaka Shizuo had no choice but to issue an order to storm Mount Fujin.  Battle orders.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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