Turn your attention back to the Jiujiang battlefield.【ㄨ】
Starting yesterday, the 799th Regiment of the Sichuan Army abandoned the east, south and west blocks of the city and retreated to the north block.
There is no way around this, because after all, the 799th Regiment of the Sichuan Army is an isolated army. Although it has sufficient supplies, it cannot get supplementary personnel from the rear, so every casualty reduces its strength by one point. Up to now, the entire 799th Regiment of the Sichuan Army has
There are about 500 people left, and Gou Ligui's security brigade is even worse, with less than 200 people left!
Among these 700 people, there are still more than 200 wounded, and only less than 500 can actually fight.
War has always been extremely cruel, but street fighting is especially cruel! The 799th Regiment of the Sichuan Army has persisted in Jiujiang for seven days, which is already a miracle. It is impossible to ask for more.
The strength of the 799th Regiment of the Sichuan Army was reduced by more than half, and it would be a bit difficult to defend all the urban areas. Therefore, Xu Rui decisively ordered to abandon the remaining three urban areas and shrink the troops to defend the Beicheng District. Xu Rui's move was very effective.
This alleviated the troop disadvantage of the 799th Regiment, and at the same time prevented the Japanese from taking advantage of their troop strength.
Because the Beicheng District of Jiujiang is only that big, even if the Japanese have a division, the most they can deploy in a front-line position is an infantry brigade.
After a whole day of fierce fighting, the little devil calmed down again.
The remaining soldiers of the 799th Regiment of the Sichuan Army and the Guard Brigade took the time to eat and then fell asleep.
After seven consecutive days of fierce fighting, these remnant soldiers have reached their limit in terms of energy and physical strength. Several of them fell to the ground with steamed buns in their mouths and fell asleep. They were too sleepy and wanted to sleep.
They had to get some sleep first even if it was going to be heavy.
Except for the vigilance sentries who were responsible for keeping watch, most of the remaining soldiers fell asleep after dinner.
However, the regiment headquarters of the 799th Regiment of the Sichuan Army was already in chaos, because a moment ago, Xiao Taohong received Xue Yue's order - to break out in the direction of De'an!
"What, what do you mean? Breakout?" Young Xue opened his blood-red eyes, with a cannibalistic look on his face, and roared almost hysterically, "Let us break out from Jiujiang? This means that Commander Xue will not
Are you planning to come to Jiujiang? Since he doesn't plan to come, why did he ask us to stick to it in the first place?"
"That's right!" Hou Zhigang also stared with blood-red eyes and roared loudly, "If it weren't for that bullshit order, our 799th Regiment would have been risking our lives with the Japanese in Jiujiang? There are so many brothers, and the second brother, just use
Don’t die here, turtle son, this is playing on us, this is playing on us, this matter is never over!”
After seven days of fierce fighting, the 799th Regiment of the Sichuan Army suffered heavy casualties. Li Sijing also died in a counterattack, so every brother in the 799th Regiment, including Xue Laoyao and Hou Zhigang, was red-eyed and worried in his heart.
The only thought I had was to wait for the main force of the First Corps to come over, and then wipe out all the Japs in Jiujiang to avenge the dead brothers!
However, now that the First Corps suddenly stopped coming, how about revenge? A breakout? That's easy to say!
In an instant, Xue Laoyao, Hou Zhigang and several company commanders were like firecrackers that were lit and exploded. Zhao Baishi spent a lot of effort to finally eliminate the storm. Zhao Baishi said something
That's right. This is already the case. Besides, are these useless? Now, it's better to prepare for a breakout.
Zhao Baishi and the others turned their attention to Xu Rui again, only to find that Xu Rui was still looking at the map in a daze.
Leng Tiefeng bumped Xu Rui several times with his arm, and Xu Rui finally woke up from a dream. When he looked around again, he found that everyone was looking at him with worried eyes.
Xiao Taohong asked with concern: "Uncle, are you okay?"
"It's okay, I'm okay." Xu Rui shook his head, but his face looked sad.
At this moment, in addition to sadness, Xu Rui also had lingering strong guilt.
If he had not seized the equipment of a heavy artillery brigade from the Japs and traded most of the equipment of the heavy artillery brigade to the National Government, there would not have been the disastrous defeat of the Second Battle of De'an.
The 74th Army would not have been completely wiped out in the De'an battlefield, and the Hunan-Kiangxi battlefield would not have collapsed thousands of miles away.【ㄨ】
Out of guilt, Xu Ruicai tried his best to make amends, so he risked his life and went deep into Jiujiang to assassinate Okamura Neji.
Xu Rui originally thought that as long as he killed Okamura Neiji, even if he could not completely reverse the final outcome of the Wuhan battle, he would at least have a chance to draw a draw. As long as Wuhan did not fall in the end, then even if Changsha and half of Hunan were lost, the situation would be different.
However, it is basically the same as in history, rather than getting worse.
However, Xu Rui never expected that the Japanese base camp would actually send a bold man named Seishiro Itagaki! Faced with the fall of Jiujiang and the danger of the Hunan-Jiangxi Highway being cut off, instead of being conservative, Itagaki, an old devil, boldly attacked.
They actually tried to seize Jingzhou and cut off the water and land transportation routes from Wuhan to central Sichuan!
However, Itagaki's attempt ultimately failed to materialize.
Just when Xu Rui thought he could finally take a breath, history once again showed its paradoxical inertia!
Xinyang, just like in history, is still Xinyang! Hu Zongnan's troops collapsed without a fight, leading to the fall of Xinyang, which in turn led to the defeat of Sun Lianzhong's Second Group Army, and then Wuhan was left empty-handed, and then the entire Wuhan battlefield was defeated like a mountain.
The strategic retreat during the Xuzhou Battle was repeated again on the Wuhan battlefield.
This means that all Xu Rui's previous efforts have been wasted.
Xu Rui's efforts failed to restore the unfavorable situation. In this time and space, when the Sino-Japanese war entered a stalemate stage, the situation faced by the Chinese government was much more severe than in the original time and space. In the original time and space, the Wuhan Battle ended
, the Japanese army only controlled the narrow areas around Wuhan and both sides of the Yangtze River in addition to North and East China.
However, now, most of Jiangxi, including Nanchang, half of Hunan, including Changsha, and half of Hubei Province, including Wuhan, have fallen. Compared with the original time and space, the defense line of the National Army in this time and space is
, moved back at least more than 500 kilometers, all the way to Hengyang, Loudi, and Changde.
Everyone is talking about the butterfly effect. Xu Rui didn’t believe it at first, but today he believes it.
Before handing over the equipment of the heavy artillery brigade to Chiang Kai-shek, did Xu Rui ever think that this day would happen?
Seeing that Xu Rui was dejected, Leng Tiefeng stepped forward and persuaded us: "Old Xu, you have always advised us that the National Government is rotten to the root. No matter how hard the National Army fights, it cannot save a government that is rotten to the root. So,
It’s not surprising that the Wuhan Battle would have such an outcome, so why should you be worried about it?”
Leng Tiefeng thought Xu Rui was sad about the failure of the Wuhan Battle, but he was not.
But Xu Rui couldn't explain this to others at all. What should I say? That he came from time travel?
At that moment, Xu Rui shook his head, cheered up and said, "Okay, let's discuss the breakout."
Zhao Baishi said directly: "There is no need to discuss, Commander Xu, just give the order directly, we will all obey you."
Gou Ligui on the other side also nodded subconsciously. After seven days of fighting side by side, both the Sichuan Army soldiers and Gou Ligui's police brigade officers and soldiers have seen Xu Rui's commanding ability. Zhao Baishi and Gou Ligui asked themselves, if they were to command the Jiujiang defense battle,
It can only last for three days at most.
If it is so difficult to defend the city, it will be even more difficult to break through.
Therefore, this breakout battle has to be left to the command of Xu Rui.
"Okay, then I'm welcome." Xu Rui nodded, pointed at the map and said, "Commander Xue's order is for us to break out in the southwest direction, that is, in the direction of De'an, and he also said that he will
Let the 74th Army go out of De'an and meet us at Mahuiling Town, but what I mean is to break through to the southeast."
Hearing what Xu Rui said, Leng Tiefeng immediately cast a surprised look.
After fighting side by side for so long, Leng Tiefeng has a very good understanding of Xu Rui's character.
Xu Rui always wants to take advantage when there is an advantage, and he also wants to take advantage when there is no advantage. Although there are only four or five hundred people in the 799th Regiment in front of him, they are all veterans of hundreds of battles. With Xu Rui's character,
How could they just watch and let them return to Jian Jian? Could it be that Lao Xu suddenly changed his gender? It doesn't look like it.
Xu Rui gave Leng Tiefeng a "be patient" look.
Of course, Xu Rui will not change his gender all of a sudden. This is a roundabout way for him.
If we forcefully propose to take them across the river to Damei Mountain now, the Sichuan Army soldiers of the 799th Regiment and the puppet army remnants of the Garrison Brigade will inevitably become resistant, especially Zhao Baishi, who is a serious colonel.
Chief, if you go to Dameishan, can the authorities give him the same position?
So Xu Rui had to draw a cake for the soldiers of the 799th Regiment.
Xu Rui is very clear about the bad nature of those senior generals of the National Army, especially Yu Jishi. He will not really lead the 74th Army back to Ling Town. At most, this guy will send a regiment to express his gratitude.
The officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Army of the 99th Regiment found that they had been completely abandoned by the Nationalist Government, so it was logical for them to take them across the river to Damei Mountain.
"Break through to the southeast?" Zhao Baishi said in astonishment, "Why not break out directly from the southwest?"
Gou Ligui also agreed: "Yes, if you break out from the southwest, you can go directly to Mahuiling Town after leaving the city, but if you break out from the southeast, you have to take a detour after leaving the city."
Xu Rui said: "Haven't you ever heard of the east attacking the west?"
"Speaking in the east and attacking in the west?" Zhao Baishi said, "What does Commander Xu mean by this?"
Xu Rui explained: "What I mean is that if we break out directly from the southwest, the Japs will soon see through our intentions and will definitely try their best to pursue and intercept us. We may not be able to reach Mahuiling Town smoothly, let alone
We can rendezvous with the 74th Army, but if we break out from the southeast, the Japanese will be suspicious."
