"What?" Comrade Lao Guo, who was originally weak and not very strong in his heart, raised his tone by 50 decibels.

An incredible look was also revealed in his eyes.

If you weren't familiar with Tang Dao's newly recognized nephew, "what" must be a "fool".

His 43rd Army had just fought a bloody battle with the 106th Division of the Japanese invaders in Mahuiling Town, and exchanged 1,800 Japanese troops for 3,000 casualties. Although his record was good, it was also a trauma.

If he fought again in Jiujiang according to Tang Dao, then the 26th Division he had just replenished was similar to the Battle of Songhu, and there were basically only some bones left.

To be honest, Comrade Guo, who has been fighting in the Central China War to this extent, has actually understood that although this battle may not necessarily lead to a great defeat like the Battle of Songhu, Jiangcheng can basically not be saved.

How much does the Japanese army attach to this battle?

Information from the Chinese theater showed that the Japanese army invested a total of 350,000 troops in the army and navy, mobilized more than 500 aircraft, more than 120 warships, and had combat funds of 3.25 billion yen.

In August, the Japanese base camp issued No. 188, and the Chief of Staff ordered No. 250: "Capt Jiangcheng and expel the Chinese government from the Central Plains!" The dwarf sitting on the throne said clearly: "What is expected in this war is that the regime represented by the Chinese government is reduced to local governments!"

The Japanese army has already given its full strength!

In fact, to be precise, it was already overloaded for the Japanese Army! Until the post-war declassification of the Japanese headquarters’ documents: "The army devoted all its strength to the Central China Battle, and had no strength to respond!" The only guard division left by Japan at that time was also on standby to reinforce the Central China Battle on the Chinese battlefield at any time!

Faced with the desperate tactic of the Japanese army, which almost made all its fists smoke, even if China gathered nearly 1.1 million troops and all the navy and air force across the country, it would be difficult to win the final victory.

Of course, that person is still rational. On the one hand, he gathers his remaining strength to fight against the Japanese army, and on the other hand, he also puts forward a guideline: "In this battle, our army will not focus on the gains and losses of one city and one place, but will automatically choose a favorable combat area and fight to the goal of annihilation of the enemy's living forces!"

The supreme commander of the Chinese military power suddenly woke up and accepted the "protracted war" strategy proposed by Principal Baili and An Yan.

Lao Guo is firm enough to resist the war, but he is also a person with a deep and active mind. At the Battle of Shanghai, he fought bravely until the last soldier. Now he saw that the Supreme Commander said this. If he doesn’t fight for a city and a land, he will be able to kill the enemy. We can just run and fight. Why bother to fight in a place?

Especially when Jiangcheng was about to lose, he temporarily protected his strength. He returned to the southwest Sichuan and Guizhou provinces to gain the upper hand with the high mountains and dense forests and the Japanese army's fighting again.

Then he knew that Tang Dao didn't even think about it, and directly said a direction that was completely opposite to his thinking.

However, after a brief surprise, Comrade Lao Guo still stabilized his emotions for a very short time. He reached out to pick up a cigarette and lit it, took a deep breath and turned his eyes to Tang Dao: "Why?"

Tang Dao walked straight to the map and pointed his finger at the area where Mahuiling Town is located: "Because, the 106th Division is here!"

"Do you know that although the 106th Division is a special division, its veterans and backbones are all drawn from the 6th Division, and their combat effectiveness is not weaker than ordinary divisions like the 14th and 18th Division." Comrade Guo's eyes were quiet.

"In the battle of Mahuiling Town, our 26th Division had three infantry regiments, a total of more than 7,000 people, and a total of one infantry regiment and another artillery brigade against the enemy, which lost nearly half of it. The 70th Army and a unit of the 4th Army had nearly 50,000 talents, which barely resisted its main force!

Now, the 70th Army and the 4th Army retreated to the Lushan area. In addition to the 106th Division, the 9th Division of the Japanese army has captured Ruichang and advanced to the southwest. Chief Xue’s army has only 2 armies with a total of 60,000 troops. In addition, I have less than 10,000 people, do you think it can be stopped?

Not all infantry regiments can be equipped with mountain cannons and heavy forces like your four-line regiment!”

"In addition, I want to tell you one thing. The information shows that the enemy 106th Division, which is resting in Mahuiling Town, has received 6,000 troops. The commander of the 11th Army, Guangang Village, also transferred the 52nd Artillery Regiment of the 22nd Division from Hangzhou to the 106th Division. The division can operate up to 15,000 infantrymen, and is equipped with more than 60 75mm howitzers. Tang Dao, how do you think you can fight?"

"You can fight!" Tang Dao seemed to have not heard Comrade Guo's solemn analysis of the enemy's strength, and still stared at the map and nodded with certainty.

The map is marked with the Chinese military stationed on the junction of Jiangxi Province and Hubei Province. It took Tang Dao several seconds to finally confirm that although the upcoming battle was slightly delayed by a few days, the deployment of both sides was still the same.

Commander Xue, who is famous for fighting tough battles, still "stubbornly" put forward the "anti-eight-character formation". The seven infantry troops were all in Ruichang and Lushan areas, and the main force of his 1st Corps was fighting with the Japanese army in Ruichang and Wuning. A very narrow gap appeared between the Nanxun Railway and Ruiwu Road!

Koji Gangmura, known as "Japan Zhuge Liang", not only has enough strategic and tactical vision, but at least he has opened the "Sky Eye". The Japanese reconnaissance planes have to fly back and forth over the battlefield in one day, which is much better than the Chinese commander.

If nothing unexpected happens, the "miss" that many people seem inconspicuous will definitely not be spared!

"Huh? It seems that there is something cheap to pick up!"

It is worthy of being Lao Guo. Seeing that he described the situation on the battlefield so clearly, Tang Dao still firmly claimed that he could fight, so he knew that there must be a story here.

If it were someone who didn't know Tang Dao, just looking at Tang Dao's age, he would definitely be considered a young man, and it would be done with a rashness. But people like Lao Guo and Lao Wu of the 67th Army were very clear that if anyone treats Tang Dao as a reckless man, it is a trivial matter if he beats him so hard that he can't even recognize him. There are not even one or two Japanese generals who have lost their heads.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Uncle Guo, your conclusion on getting a bargain is a bit prejudiced!" Tang Dao grinned. "You should say, what big bargain can you pick up!"

"Don't say it for now, I'll take a look!" Comrade Lao Guo took a breath and stared at the map unwillingly for a long time.

However, even if the eggs were mixed, I couldn't see any flower.

The map still shows that the three divisions and detachments of the Japanese 11th Army are under the attack of nearly 90,000 troops. The seven Chinese infantry troops have a total of 200,000 troops to resist. Not to mention that a drop of water in the sea is at most a small wave, which is useless.

"Uncle Guo, look! Is there a gap here? If you are the young man from Gangcun, what would you do?" Tang Dao smiled slightly and pointed at the gap in the defense line.

"If it's me, I dare not enter, but if it's Xiaoci in Gangcun..." Comrade Lao Guo answered silently after following the area where Tang Dao's fingers.

It’s not that he was timid, but that the battlefield was not far from being scattered across hundreds of miles, but the two sides gathered more than 300,000 troops to fight. The soldiers he could use as the commander of the army were actually three infantry regiments. He asked him to drill the gap. He did not achieve the tactical purpose, and his opponents would just be mobilized to swallow them clean.

But who is Koji Gangcun? He has a heavy Japanese general with an army of 100,000 in his hand, and the Japanese offensive is in full swing at this time. If he sees this gap in the defense line, the possibility of being moved is higher than 70%.

On the battlefield, for the commander, the possibility of being higher than 50% is worth a bet, let alone 70%.

"So! Uncle Guo, where do you think that Japanese army will be sent by Gangcun Xiaoci?"

"Are you talking about the 106th Division?" Comrade Lao Guo's eyes were filled with murderous intent.

The 106th Division was only formed in Japan in May this year. If you want to say you have a grudge against Lao Guo, you would have a bloody battle with the 26th Division at Ma Huiling half a month ago. However, 3,000 was exchanged for 1,800. Both sides fought each other and were bleeding profusely. The 106th Division did not take any big advantage.

But the mother of the 106th Division was the 6th Division, and its skeletons were drawn from the 6th Division. The 6th Division that entered Jinling and the Chinese army had a great grudge. The Chinese army was more than the 43rd Army when they saw them. The 70th Army and the 4th Army also fought with the 106th Division in the battle, and directly fought the 106th Division for half a month. The soldiers alone had supplemented 6,000 people.

It would be fine if I didn’t want to fight the 106th Division. Now Tang Dao is the main battle. After listening to the name of the 106th Division, will the new and old hatreds fall into the hearts of Comrade Guo?

"Wait a minute, don't say it, I'll take a look!" Comrade Guo was still unwilling to give him any idea. After all, he was considered a famous general in Sichuan, right?

"The 106th Division will be dispatched, and it will inevitably cut off the connection between the Nanxun Railway and Ruiwu Road. It is the defense zone of the 4th Army. They still have less than 23,000 troops now, so it is too difficult to defend. If we add our 43rd Army..." Lao Guo shook his head slightly and sighed.

"No! Now the 106th Division is in a complete range of troops, with more than 60 75mm caliber howitzers, and aircraft assisting the situation. Even if we gather our two armies, we will suffer heavy casualties. This is not a cheap one, but a road south wall!

"However, I can inform the 4th Army of this news so as not to catch them off guard."

"Haha, the 4th Army and the 43rd Army can't stop it, and what about the 66th Army, the 74th Army, the 91st Division, the 19th Division, and the 6th Preparatory Division?" Tang Dao connected the fingers on the map and said with a smile.

"You mean?" Comrade Lao Guo was not stupid. He was stunned for a moment and understood what Tang Dao meant.

Except for the 66th Army and the 74th Army, which are under the jurisdiction of the First Corps on the Lushan Front, the remaining three infantry divisions are still used as reserves after the defense line. The only one who can mobilize them is the only one.

That almost means that this gap was deliberately left by the commander of the First Corps of the 9th War Zone. Otherwise, who could cooperate with him to mobilize tens of thousands of reserve teams?

"40,000 can't kill more than 20,000 people from his 106th Division, so add two more than 40,000!" Tang Dao smiled in his eyes. "Uncle Guo, now you understand why that Chief Xue let the 43rd Army rest so easily!"

"The surname of Xue is really not a thing!" Comrade Lao Guo's pale face flushed.

Not only angry, but also shy.

What angered was that the commander of the First Legion was really a dog, afraid that the 43rd Army would make new contributions. His face was filled with sighs and praised the 43rd Army for its tenacity in fighting. In order to avoid greater losses, he agreed to retreat to the Jiangcheng Defense Zone for rest. In fact, the special thing was that he used up and kicked away to avoid scoring points to help his military achievements.

But he was ashamed that he claimed to be a general with a wise mind in Sichuan, but he was not allowed to talk about the commander who was seven or eight years younger than him. He was grateful to give him two gold bars before today.

Good guy, are all young people like this nowadays?

"You are not a good thing either! I won't say it sooner." After scolding that person, Comrade Lao Guo still angrily pointed the Tang sword.

'You always yell at you that you don't have to say nothing about you!' Tang Dao really wanted to roll his eyes, but he finally held it back and let the uncle who was fooled and lame for a while, so as not to continue to take the blame for someone.

However, Comrade Lao Guo was also angry.

Tang Dao knew how awesome that Xue Boling was. He won the titles of "Three Musketeers of the Guangdong Army", "God of Anti-Japanese War", and "Chinese General who annihilated the Japanese Army the most during the War of Resistance". The key is that they lived for a long time!

Born in the late 19th century, this person lived to the end of the 20th century in one breath, and he had reached the threshold of the 21st century one or two years.

The so-called kings, princes, generals, and ministers, who are extremely powerful and have made great achievements, have been transformed into clouds and mists for only a hundred years. However, the general surnamed Xue has lived for a hundred years. Whether on the battlefield or in the political arena, he has endured all his opponents to death. Looking at the big guys lying on the strait, do you think they are the big winners?

Anyway, even Tang Dao didn't have the confidence to be able to beat him in this way, so he was so handsome that he could slightly overwhelm him.

Not to mention Comrade Lao Guo, even his opponent, Gangcun Xiaoci, made the helpless evaluation of "It is easy to shake the mountain, but it is difficult to shake General Xue!"

That was all the result of being beaten up by that man. The battle in Wanjialing was actually the first battle for Xue Boling to beat Xiaoci in Gangcun.

His four defense battles in Tanzhou, the highest glorious in the Patriotic War, have not yet begun.

Yes, Tang Dao strongly advocated that the 43rd Army fight the battlefield again in Jiujiang, and it is in Wanjialing!

That was also the highest moment for the Chinese army in the entire Central China Battle.

This is mostly due to the fact that the "Japanese Zhuge Liang" looked down from the high altitude of the reconnaissance aircraft and keenly noticed the loopholes in the Chinese military's defense line and decisively dispatched the 106th Division, which was still in the rest period.

Then, the arrogant 106th Division went deeper under the command of its commander's "wisdom".

As a result, the commander of the First Legion of the Ninth War Zone of China, who had lost his own flaws, was a super ruthless man. When the 106th Division was about to arrive at the Wanjialing battlefield, he obtained the consent and sent troops to dispatch troops. A 100,000 army advanced through the mountains and ridges. The 4th Army blocked the 106th Division's advance direction, and surrounded the 16,000 people of the 106th Division in a large pocket.

There is a clear enough description of this battle in the history of the war:

On October 5 and 6, the main force of the 74th Army and other units of the 1st Corps fought fiercely with the 106th Division of the Japanese Army at Changling, Beixi Street, Zhanggushan, Shiziyan and other places.

On October 7, the general surnamed Xue believed that the time to annihilate the Japanese army in front of him had come, and issued a combat order to launch a general attack on the enemy's 106th Division. At 8 o'clock that night, the general attack began, and the 66th Army attacked Shibaoshan with the 195th Division and the 160th Division.

Under the command of the division commander of the 74th Army, the 153rd Brigade was the main attacker and the 151st Brigade was the reserve team, attacking Zhang Gushan with its main force and occupying Zhang Gushan's main position.

That night, the Japanese army counterattacked and fought fiercely. "The reserves of the 305th Regiment were exhausted, and the battalion commander Wang Zhigan was killed, and the company commander was below the company commander, and many casualties were also killed." By the morning of the 8th, under the bombing of more than 20 Japanese aircraft, the Japanese army launched a counterattack attack, and both fought fiercely. The commander of the 305th Regiment Tang Shenghai and the commander Hu Xiong were both seriously injured. At dusk, the Kuomintang army once again captured the main position of Zhang Gushan. Yu Qingxiang, the acting commander of the 305th Regiment, died in the country, and the officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties and were not allowed to retreat.

Under the attack of the Chinese army, the 106th Japanese Division suffered heavy losses, especially the casualties of Japanese grassroots officers. General Tian Jun, commander of the Central China Front Army, personally organized the airdrop of more than 200 officers below the corps captain to the Wanjialing area to strengthen their strength, which was unique in the entire China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

At 15 o'clock, the general surnamed Xue ordered each unit to select 200 to 500 brave soldiers to form a brave team to serve as the vanguard attack. At the same time, all ministers were in front of the command, and the general surnamed Xue himself also came to the front line.

At 18 o'clock, artillery fire was ready. At 19 o'clock, the Feng Yong team attacked, and the main forces followed closely behind and attacked the entire line at Jianlusu, Wanjialing, Tian Busu, Leiminggu Liu, Yangjiashan and other places.

All troops went on one after another, rushing hard on the corpse!

After a night of bloody battle, the defensive positions of the 106th Division completely collapsed. On the morning of the 10th, the 66th Army recovered Wanjialing, Tian Busu, the 4th Army recovered the southwest highland of Dajinshan and the highland east of Jianlusu, the 74th Army recovered Zhanggushan, the 91st Division recovered the unnamed village in northeastern Yangjiashan, and the 142nd Division recovered the northern highland of Yangjiashan.

During the battle, the 4th Army's vanguard commando broke through to the nearest of the 106th Division of Wanjialing. Because it was too dark and it suffered heavy casualties, it failed to detect Lieutenant General Matsuura in time.

According to a Japanese prisoner after the battle, "After attacking several times, the command staff were all dispatched to participate in the battle, and the division commander also carried guns. If you advance 100 meters firmly, the division commander would be captured or septidized."

Failure to capture Matsuura Rokuro alive became the biggest regret in this battle.
To be continued...