The original defense battle of Sihang Warehouse took place from October 26 to November 1 and ended on November 1.

It’s just that Liu Feiyang successfully withdrew his troops in advance.

After withdrawing his troops, Liu Feiyang did not take his troops to join other troops in the capital.

Instead, he took his troops to a place outside Nanjing, in a mountain forest, to rest and recuperate, and to quickly replace them with new weapons and equipment for training.

Of course, the most important thing is to train these veterans to adapt to the shooting and use of new weapons and equipment.

Beginning on November 8, the headquarters of the Third Theater Command also issued an order for a comprehensive retreat from the Songhu battlefield, and then hundreds of thousands of national troops began to retreat in a hasty and chaotic manner.

In the retreating troops, not only the division commander could not find the regimental commander, but also the company commander could not find the platoon leader. The platoon leader himself was helpless to find that none of his troops could be found and they were all scattered.

In short, the retreat situation at that time was extremely chaotic.

At the same time, the defense of the capital city is also imminent.

Therefore, the Wu Fu Defense Line has become one of the key points of defense for the national army, and it plans to use it to stabilize the retreat of the collapsed army.

But the most terrible thing was that after capturing Songhu, the Japanese army quickly began to attack the left-wing front defended by the 58th Division of the National Army's 74th Army. They covered it with overwhelming artillery every day, and

A swarm of planes bombarded them indiscriminately to advance.

Therefore, the left defense line 3, which had not been able to hold on for many days, was breached by the Japanese army on November 11.

On the same day, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, commander of the Japanese Army's 10th Army, made an ambitious decision to lead his troops to break through the prescribed combat routes of the Japanese Army's Central Province and base camp, and insisted on going his own way, preparing to capture Suzhou first.

, and then began an all-out attack on Beijing, the capital of the national army.

Of course, just to be on the safe side, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, commander of the Japanese Army's 10th Army, also dispatched part of his troops to assist Lieutenant General Susumu Fujita's troops, commander of the Japanese Third Division, in attacking Songhunan City.

, prepare to comprehensively invade the Songhu urban area and occupy Songhu on November 12.

In fact, when the war came here, Matsui Iwane himself was a rather contradictory character.

He himself is a war maniac who expands factions, but he is also a person who wants to use peaceful means to obtain maximum benefits.

So when he faced an infinitely good situation and liked to use "lower to overcome superior", the Army went wild and normalized the "will not accept the orders of the foreign emperor" mode, allowing the 10th Army to do whatever they wanted and adopt their favorite combat methods.

Advance into Beijing, the capital of the national army.

Matsui Iwane was very angry at the arrogant behavior of Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, the commander of the Japanese Army's 10th Army.

If Yanagawa Heisuke was not an expert in detour tactics, it would be impossible for a loyalist faction like him who was ordered to remove his official position to be reactivated as the commander of the Japanese 10th Army.

In addition to being very dissatisfied with Yanagawa Heisuke's behavior, Matsui Iwane also

At this moment, he was also very unhappy with the behavior of the general staff.

The Army Staff Department is divided into five parts: the first department is the Operations Department, the second department is the Intelligence Department, the third department is the Transportation Department, the fourth department is the Codification Department, and the fifth department is the General Affairs Department.

General Affairs Department

The general affairs class is divided into: general affairs class, telegraph class, accounting officer, and military medical officer

Education Section (the 1st Section, the section chief concurrently serves as the 1st Section Chief of the Education Directorate from March 18, 1977).

The operational part of the first department is: (The minister concurrently serves as the chief of staff of the base camp military station general department)

Combat Class (Lesson 2), Organization Mobilization Class (Lesson 3)

The information part of Part 2 is:

Russia class (Lesson 5), Europe and America class (Lesson 6), China (China) class (Lesson 7), strategy class (Lesson 8).

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Because the Japanese military commanders and staff did not necessarily all obey the orders and constraints of the Japanese central and provincial headquarters to conduct operations.

To put it simply, the Japanese Army Ministry really put the "general will not accept the order of the foreign emperor" model to its fullest extent.

When the Japanese troops sent by Matsui Iwane searched for Liu Feiyang's troops for several days and nights, but still had no results or news, Matsui Iwane was also anxious and walked back and forth in his Songhu combat command room with a gloomy face.

"Report! Your Excellency, Commander!"

"Lieutenant General Susumu Fujita, the commander of the third division, reported via telegram! Their commander of the third division has surrounded Songhunan City and will be able to occupy the entire Songhu before tomorrow according to the original battle plan, so I am asking for your instructions.

One-step combat deployment!"

Just when Matsui Iwane was very agitated, communications officer Kazuyuki Iwata hurriedly knocked on the door and entered the command room. He bowed his head respectfully to Matsui Iwane and said a military salute.

"Well! Fujita Susumu's marching speed and execution ability are still very good!"

"Reply him to me. As long as we fully occupy Songhu every day, just wait for my next order!"

"But let him be mentally prepared. After tomorrow, we will continue to march towards the capital of the China Army, so he must be prepared for the war!"

"Although the China Army at this moment is very vulnerable and in a rout, the China Army and Liu Feiyang's troops have escaped. We haven't found them yet, although we don't know if Liu Feiyang's troops will continue to participate.

The battle for the capital of the Chinese Army!”

"Or maybe something happened to Liu Feiyang's men in the Sihang Warehouse, and they all disappeared!"

"But you must inform me of Lieutenant General Susumu Fujita, the commander of the Third Division, and be extremely careful of Liu Feiyang's sudden appearance and attack!"

"Of course, there is no need to inform them on the side of Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, the commander of the 10th Army!"

"Perhaps it would be better to let the 10th Army try out the power of Liu Feiyang's troops!"

"Because if you do this, maybe this army that doesn't obey my orders will obediently come to beg me to send troops to support their battle!"

"Although Liu Feiyang's troops may not necessarily be the opponent of the 10th Army, which has a large number of troops, I firmly believe that as long as Liu Feiyang's troops are still alive and can still fight, they will definitely inflict a certain price of casualties on the 10th Army!

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"When the time comes, Yanagawa Heisuke's complexion will look very good, I believe!"

"Hahaha!"

When Iwane Matsui heard the hurried report from one of his closest confidants, communications officer Kazuki Iwata, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly thought about how to plot against the commander of the 10th Army, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke.

Because Matsui Iwane and Army Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, the commander of the 10th Army, were really at odds with each other. They both hated each other.

He is also an ambitious person.

So the conflict between them arose.

Regarding Matsui Iwane’s calculations,

Liu Feiyang, who was far away from Nanjing, had no idea at all.

At this moment, he really wanted to try out the combat performance of the new aircraft he had just acquired and see how many Japanese infantrymen it could kill.
Chapter completed!