The most cattle cottage in the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 618

Li Fengming has a close relationship with Gao Jiu, and the two led the coalition forces to fight in the direction of Henan, and they also did not approve of Xue Dongsheng.He knew why Gao Jiu was planning to leave, and he hurriedly dissuaded him: "Master Jiu, don't leave in a hurry, we can discuss anything. Just wait a moment."

After speaking, he said to Deputy Commander Zhang: "Sir! Please take a step to speak."

Then the two came to a lounge in the war room, and Li Fengming said: "Sir, do you know why Mr. Gao left? It was because of Xue Dongsheng. Xue Dongsheng was narrow-minded, and he had a problem with Mr. Gao last time. With him here, it will be difficult to work together in this battle, and it may be difficult to win the battle."

Deputy Commander Zhang knew the Ninth War Zone very well, he said: "I have already considered what you said, the reason why we are here is not to coordinate the command?
I have already discussed this matter with the Commander, and the Commander has given Xue Dongsheng a death order, he must obey my command, and he will not dare to play tricks with me. "

Li Fengming suddenly realized, and said: "Sir! It turns out that you have already thought about it, that's good, I will communicate with Mr. Gao about this matter."

Deputy Commander Zhang also didn't want to expose the complicated situation inside the Ninth War Zone in front of Gao Jiu, and he didn't want to tell Gao Jiu directly.He said: "This is the best. It is convenient for you to talk, try to persuade Mr. Gao to stay."

Back in the war room, Li Fengming quietly called Gao Jiu aside again, and told him what Deputy Commander Zhang had said.

Although Gao Jiu was still uneasy, but when it came to this matter, he couldn't refuse.

At noon, the 20th Corps held a reception banquet.At the banquet, Deputy Commander Zhang said: "Take a break in the afternoon, everyone will think about the battle plan. We will summarize it tomorrow morning."

In the afternoon, Li Fengming came to Gao Jiu's room. He wanted to discuss with Gao Jiu the outline of a plan first, and then discuss it accordingly.

高九说道：“日军的序列从东到西，分别是第3师团、第11师团和第6师团。我带领第20兵团负责攻打日军第3师团和第11师团，第21兵团负责与日军第6师团作战。”

Li Fengming saw that Gao Jiu was going to use the five divisions of the 20th Corps of the Sichuan Army with backward equipment to face the two permanent divisions of the 5rd Division and the 3th Division of the Japanese Army alone. It is really incomprehensible that the 11st Corps of the 11th Division of the Central Army that was equipped only dealt with one division of the 21th Division of the Japanese Army.In his plan, this was to be reversed.He wanted to use the troops of the Central Army as the main force, and let the 6th Corps be responsible for containing the 20rd Division of the Japanese Army.

He said worriedly: "Jiu Ye, isn't this kind of campaign plan inappropriate in terms of troop deployment?"

Gao Jiu asked: "Do you think Xue Dongsheng's 21st Corps can eat up the Japanese 6th Division?"

Li Fengming thought about it seriously, and said: "I'm afraid it's impossible to eat the 6th Division of the Japanese army. But forcing them to retreat, there should be no problem."

Gao Jiu shook his head and said, "Has Xue Dongsheng ever had a record of eating up a brigade of the Japanese army?"

Li Fengming said: "Although there were none before, but now the 21st Corps has replaced a lot of beautiful equipment, and its strength has indeed strengthened. This time there should be no problem."

Gao Jiu shook his head, and said: "Wars are not entirely about weapons and equipment, but about the morale of the army. One raging soldier, one raging general. I'm sure, with Xue Dongsheng's peeing nature, not only can they not fight When the 6th Division of the retreating Japanese army faces the enemy's attack, they will definitely be defeated."

Li Fengming thought that Gao Jiu's words had some truth, but he still didn't believe that the 21 people of the 15st Corps could not deal with the 6th Division of the Japanese Army.In the past, when the weapons and equipment of the 21st Corps had not been changed, they still withstood the Japanese attack and held their positions. Now that their strength has been greatly enhanced, there should be no problem.

Li Fengming said: "Master Jiu, why do you do this? The Sichuan Army only has five divisions, and their equipment is also backward. Let them deal with the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army. Why do you put so much pressure on yourself?"

Gao Jiu said: "If you want to win this battle, you can only follow my plan. Otherwise, I will withdraw from this battle."

Li Fengming was still very convinced of Gao Jiu, he said: "Alright then, I will report your plan to Deputy Commander Zhang."

After listening to Li Fengming's report, Deputy Commander Zhang was also incredulous, and even thought Gao Jiu was a little arrogant.But for so many years, Gao Jiu has never lost a battle. He must have his reasons for making such a decision.Deputy Commander Zhang decided to come to Gao Jiu in person to find out his intentions.

Accompanied by Li Fengming, Deputy Commander Zhang came to Gao Jiu's residence.

The three surrounded the map of the war zone and listened to Gao Jiu explain his battle plan in detail.

After hearing this, Deputy Commander Zhang still thought that there was something wrong with Gao Jiu's troop deployment.He still hopes that the 21st Corps will deal with the Japanese 11th and 6th Divisions.

Gao Jiu sighed, and said: "In this case, I will be in charge of commanding the 20th Corps to attack the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army. After the battle starts, I hope that you can personally sit in the 21st Corps and hope that they can follow the battle plan. implement."

Deputy Commander Zhang believes that the 21st Corps is the main force in this battle, and of course he is going there to command on the spot.He agreed with Gao Jiu's opinion.

Gao Jiu also made a request, requesting that the guard regiment of the Ninth War Zone, which he fought side by side with last time, be transferred to himself as a reserve team.

Deputy Commander Zhang agreed without hesitation.

Soon after, under the auspices of Deputy Commander Zhang, a joint meeting of the 20th Corps and the 21st Corps was held in Yichang City, at which the campaign plan formulated by Li Fengming was announced.

When Xue Dongsheng heard that he was going to deal with the 11th and 6th permanent divisions of the Japanese army, he raised doubts on the spot, thinking that such a deployment of troops was unreasonable, and he asked to send other troops to contain the 6th division of the Japanese army. .

Deputy Commander Zhang was very angry and said: "The 20th Corps has only 5 infantry divisions. Their equipment is backward, and they have to face the Japanese 3rd Division. Your 21st Corps has 11 divisions and 15 troops. , well-equipped, why is it unreasonable to face the two divisions of the Japanese army?"

Xue Dongsheng said: "Although the troops have been refitted with American weapons, only a part of the troops have been refitted, and the training time for the troops after the refitting is too short, and they have not yet mastered this batch of equipment proficiently. The main division, it is really too embarrassing."

Deputy Commander Zhang recalled Gao Jiu's original plan to use the five divisions of the Sichuan Army to deal with the two master regiments of the Japanese army. Now that Xue Dongsheng really did not dare to face the two master regiments of the Japanese army, he became more and more angry. He said: "This I have reported the battle plan to the commander in chief, and it has also been approved by the Military Commission. If anyone dares to disobey the order, military law will be followed."

After the combat meeting, the deputy commander and chief of staff of the 20th Corps who participated in the meeting returned to the headquarters of the 20th Corps and told Gao Jiu about the situation at the meeting.

Gao Jiu saw that it was exactly as he had guessed, and said, "If this is the case, we need to adjust the deployment of our troops."

After the new battle plan was formulated, Li Fengming came to the headquarters of the 20th Corps to check the battle plan of the 20th Corps.

When he saw Gao Jiu's battle plan, he still didn't quite understand it.

He pointed to Qingsong Ridge and said, "Master Jiu, this is the junction of the 20th Corps and the 21st Corps. You put a division here, and the position is so far behind. Why is that?"

Gao Jiu said: "I am worried about Xue Dongsheng. I am very worried about being betrayed by him, so I must defend this place to prevent the Japanese army from outflanking."

Li Fengming also knew Xue Dongsheng very well. Although he didn't think this kind of situation would happen in this battle, he understood Gao Jiu's caution.So he didn't say anything, and promised not to report the situation here to Deputy Commander Zhang.

In the battle plan against the Japanese 3rd Division, Gao Jiu planned to attack the Jingmen County occupied by the 3th Regiment of the Japanese 27rd Division with the strength of one division, and mobilize the main force of the Japanese army to come for reinforcements.Eat up part of the Japanese army in the field, and make plans for the next step according to the progress of the battle.

After formulating the campaign plan, Gao Jiu started a series of preparations.

Gao Jiu first called the big boss of the military command and asked his subordinates to provide information about the 3rd Division and the 11th Division of the Japanese Army.

Zhang Quan received Gao Jiu's telegram and immediately led 400 members of the Taohuashan Special Forces First Squadron and Du Shengxi's firepower team to Yichang with a large number of Type [-] infantry guns, mortars and anti-aircraft guns.Gao Jiu has already called the Aviation Committee and asked them to send a transport plane to Peach Blossom Mountain to transport them over.

In order to prevent a vacancy after the main force of Taohuashan left, Gao Jiu sent a telegram to the Southwest Military Division of Lu, asking Jiang Xiaomei to send a regiment of the independent brigade to temporarily garrison Taohuashan.

Next, he sent a telegram to Yokota Makio.

After receiving the telegram, Yokota Makio immediately sent his adjutant to the Japanese Sixth Air Force stationed in Zhongxiang.

At the airport, the chief of staff of the Japanese Sixth Air Force received Makio Yokota's adjutant in secret.

The adjutant said, "Did you send planes to bomb a factory outside Chongqing on September 9?"

Due to the lack of supplies of the Japanese Air Force, the reserve of aerial bombs is not large, and the Air Force does not go out to bomb every day, so the chief of staff has some impressions of the bombing operation on September 9.He asked: "That's the case, what's the matter?"

The adjutant said worriedly: "Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, you are in trouble! When you were bombing, Gao Jiu's wife happened to go to that factory and was bombed."

"What? There is such a thing?" The chief of staff was really shocked.Gao Jiu's Peach Blossom Mountain Special Team is elusive, if Gao Jiu is following them, the life of the Sixth Air Force will be difficult.

The chief of staff hurriedly asked, "Is Gao Jiu's woman okay?"

The adjutant said: "Her car driver was killed, and the car hit a rock on the side of the road. Although she has nothing to do, she has been pregnant for several months, and the child is almost lost."

"It's okay. It's good that people are fine." The chief of staff breathed a sigh of relief.

The adjutant said: "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, I'm afraid you don't know that this is Gao Jiu's first child. Gao Jiu loves his wife very much and attaches great importance to this child. He lost his temper very much about this matter. He said he was coming to trouble you."

Although the chief of staff was worried, he knew that since Yokota Makio's adjutant came, it meant that there was room for improvement.

He asked, "What did Mr. Gao tell your commander?"

The adjutant said: "Thanks to the mediation between our commander and Gao Jiu, he said all the good things for you and spent a lot of money. Mr. Gao agreed. As long as you agree to one condition, he will not let you go." Trouble with you."

The Chief of Staff asked, "What conditions?"

The adjutant said: "Mr. Gao said that the commander of the 20th Corps of the Guojun Sichuan Army is his good friend. Starting today, as long as you don't bomb the troops of the 20th Corps, this matter will be cancelled."

The chief of staff was originally worried that Gao Jiu would put forward some harsh conditions, but he didn't expect the conditions to be so easy. He immediately said: "We will definitely follow through on this matter. You go back and tell your commander, if Mr. Gao takes any action in the future, please let us know in advance." Let us know."

The chief of staff agreed to Gao Jiu's conditions so readily, not only because he was afraid of Gao Jiu, but also because Gao Jiu was their big benefactor now.They got a lot of benefits from Gao Jiu through Mufu Yokota, and now they are all fat, and they don't want to lose this source of income.

Although the adjutant used Gao Jiu's name to scare the chief of staff, he knew that the chief of staff would have to spend money to manage it after he returned, so he gave the chief of staff another 1 meters in gold.

The 1 meter gold was paid by Mufu Yokota himself, because Gao Jiu had already agreed to him, and soon Gao Jiu would give them a large number of stock certificates.

The chief of staff returned to the headquarters of the Sixth Air Force with 1 meters of gold, and reported to the commander the intention of Adjutant Makio Yokota.

Hearing that the bomb almost killed Gao Jiu's wife and children, the commander was also taken aback. He didn't want to provoke that creepy Gao Jiu.Regarding Gao Jiu's conditions, he thinks that they are not excessive at all.Therefore, he summoned his cronies and arranged the matter.

9月29号凌晨5点，驻扎在荆州的日军第27联队遭遇了川军的围攻。与此同时，驻扎在沙洋县城的日军也遭到了国军第21兵团部队的围攻。宜昌战役正式打响了。

The 20th Corps used a division of troops to surround the Japanese 27th Regiment stationed in Jingmen.The Taohuashan guerrillas also dispatched an 88mm anti-aircraft gun unit to cooperate with them.

After the battle started, the troops of the national army launched a violent bombardment of the Japanese army with artillery fire.The Taohuashan Special Forces used anti-aircraft artillery to blow down a section of the Japanese city wall, and the national army launched a fierce attack towards the gap in the city wall.

For a long time, the Japanese army has been on the offensive.They didn't expect that the national army would dare to launch a counterattack against them, especially the troops of the 3rd division. They were facing the Sichuan army with backward equipment.

Therefore, the troops of the Sichuan Army could sneak up in the middle of the night and suddenly surrounded the Japanese 27th Regiment. The captain of the 27th regiment saw the fierce artillery fire and the large number of enemy troops. On the one hand, he ordered the troops to defend the county seat, and on the other hand, he sent a telegram to request tactical guidance from his superiors.

The 3th Brigade of the 6rd Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Zhongxiang immediately organized the main force of the brigade to go to Jingmen to reinforce the besieged 27th Wing.

On both sides of the road from Zhongxiang to Jingmen, two infantry divisions and an artillery regiment of the 20th Corps were already in full swing.

At 9:40 in the morning, a large number of Japanese troops appeared on the highway, rolling towards the encirclement of the Guo army.

(End of this chapter)