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Chapter 492 Prelude to the Battle of Shanggao
The people of the country were very happy, and the devils in Guangdong went crazy.

Constantly sending troops to search for his own general on a large scale, digging the ground three feet, but never found the body.

According to the photos published in the "Central Daily" published in Chongqing, these ghosts found the crash site in horror, but they found nothing at the crash site except for the wreckage of the plane.

And the third column entrenched here has already run away in a hurry.

The devils, who couldn't find the body of their general, carried out a crazy massacre in the local area
On the Xiangjiang River position, temporarily in the brigade headquarters.

"Deputy Brigadier!"

"Deputy Brigadier!"

On the way back to the brigade, officers and soldiers along the way saluted Li Chong.

"Old Li, you're back."

"Happy New Year!"

Entering the brigade headquarters, Li Chong and everyone paid homage to his old age.

"Yuan Daili, this time he hit the big luck. This new year's start is scary."

"Tsk tsk, this luck really cannot be said."

Everyone in the brigade was also discussing the surprise that happened in Zhongshan County.

Two days later, Chongqing held a press conference to show the world what the Japanese military documents reflected.

Another boulder was thrown into the calm lake.

The document shows: Japan intends to use 2 main naval fleets, 10 infantry divisions and 1 mechanized division to invade Southeast Asia!

For a time, domestic and British, French and American public opinion was in an uproar, especially the British, who suddenly discovered that the Japanese had aimed their guns directly at their sphere of influence in Asia.

And according to the troops mobilized in the Japanese documents, they found that they were beyond their reach and unable to resist!
At noon in late February, Chen Tinghe, who was on the phone with an old classmate in the division, hurriedly got up, patted Li Chong who was at another desk, and said, "Lao Li, let's go! Go to the division!"

"whats the matter?"

"There is news from the division that the Americans agreed to the Lend-Lease bill proposed by Chongqing in the middle of the year. The first batch of leased materials included American-made Thomson submachine guns! And these guns have now been shipped to Changsha City."

Hearing this, Li Chong got up straight away. The bullets made by the Americans are large and powerful, they are a good thing!The first and second in command of the temporary brigade got up and got on the bus, and when they arrived at the division headquarters, everyone who smelled the fishy smell came.

When we got to the military headquarters, hey, good guy, there are so many people who covet these American weapons!
In the afternoon of the same day, Li Yutang, the army commander, led the team to the city in a jeep.

Li Yutang has enough confidence to ask for this batch of submachine guns. He is a unit directly under the theater, or one of the best ace troops. If he doesn't assemble these weapons first, who will he assemble them for?

As expected, the Minister's Department favored the two ace armies. The Tenth Army and the 74th Army each took four-fifths of the total, and each accounted for two-fifths. Submachine gun firepower!

The next day, Chen Tinghe and Li Chong drove the jeep back to the brigade headquarters with guns pulled, and they were happy all the way.

The American-made Thomson submachine gun has a unified standard of 7.62 mm, a rate of fire of 700 rounds per minute, and an effective range of 200 meters, which is farther than the 150-meter effective range of the old Hanyang made by the national army.

It is conceivable that on the battlefield, this reinforced platoon is armed with a submachine gun, who would dare to rob its edge?

The intelligence system of the Japanese is very powerful, and the import of this batch of leased materials from the United States has not been hidden from their eyes. At the end of February, the Japanese military base camp issued an order to blockade the coast of China, preventing the materials from the United States from entering by sea!

Yangchun March, the season of recovery of all things.

In Wuhan, the headquarters of the 11th Army.

In this spring season, Commander Yuan Hebe Ichiro squatted in Changsha City, thinking about moving.

The reason for being quiet and thinking about moving is that the 33rd Division stationed in Nanchang was ordered to be transferred to the North China battlefield as a battle sequence for the security war in North China. , Before the No.33 Third Division was transferred to the north, it launched an attack on the anti-Japanese armed forces within a hundred kilometers deep in Nanchang to reduce the pressure on its defense.

Now the Hong Kong "Tong Work" secretly carried out by the base camp has stalled, and the sound of the empire going south has intensified. Yuan Hebe Ichiro thought that if there is no further movement, the base camp should not directly weaken the impression of the 11th Army. You see, the 11th Army is about to be suppressed now. Draw a division to go.

As soon as the 33rd Division left, the burden of stationing Nanchang fell on the 34th Division and the No.20 Brigade, which was preparing to be transferred from the Shanghai area. The anti-Japanese forces in Nanchang are also everywhere. With only one division and a brigade that is coming to garrison, they can only effectively rule important counties, and some small counties and villages are likely to lose their rule completely.

However, the deployment of the 33rd Division was an order from the Front Army Command, and they must not be disobeyed. Yuanwabe Ichiro thought that Ogamo's suggestion was worth considering, and the biggest force that directly threatened Nanchang was the No.19 Army led by Luo Zhuoying. up high.

As an important county seat in the upper reaches of the Jinjiang River in Jiangxi, occupying it can overlook the entire eastern Jiangxi plain, attack Changsha in the west, and capture southern Jiangxi in the south. Gate portal.

Now the north gate for attacking Changsha from Yueyang and Linxiang, and the west gate for attacking Changsha from Wuhan have already been opened, and the southeast and southeast routes from Nanchang along the Miluo River are blocked.

The road to attack Changsha from Nanchang along the Miluo River has proved to be unfeasible in previous combat operations to attack Changsha. In the Kuzhuling area of ​​Jilong Mountain, the 33rd Division suffered a lot.

Since it is difficult to open a road to attack Changsha from Nanchang along the Miluo River, how about letting the Nanchang defenders completely bypass the south and attack from the east?
Yuan and Ichiro think this is very feasible.Because as the direct east gate of Changsha, Shanggao is not as difficult to fight from the direction of Nanchang, and the terrain is relatively flat.

At that time, Yuan and Ichiro thought that if he could win Shanggao, he would kill two birds with one stone. Not only would it relieve the pressure on the Nanchang defenders in the future, but he could also occupy the east gate of Changsha.

If you can occupy the east gate of Changsha, then attack Changsha next, and you will completely occupy the three attack directions.

This undoubtedly increased the chips for capturing Changsha.

The only thing to note is that the four armies of the [-]th Group Army of Luo Zhuoying, deputy chief of the Chongqing Ninth War Zone, are stationed here. This is the main force of the Ninth War Zone that should not be underestimated.

The last time General Okamura attacked Changsha, he used a brigade to deploy troops against a main division of the Chongqing Army or an ordinary army, but he suffered a disadvantage. Judging from the performance on the battlefield, it has to be admitted that he underestimated the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the Ninth War Zone of China.

Right now, on the basis of maintaining the garrison strength, I need a certain amount of troops to respond.

Slowly, Enkabe Ichiro gradually formed a battle plan to seize the east gate of Changsha in his mind. When considering the offensive force in his mind, he fully absorbed the lesson of General Okamura's previous attack on Changsha: the main force of the Chongqing Army in the Ninth War Zone did not Imagine the vulnerable.

Therefore, he decided in his mind to focus on the 33rd Division and the 34th Division as the main divisions while maintaining defenses in key areas. At the same time, he took out a brigade from the Sixth Division to form two and a half divisions. High power on offense.

Two and a half divisions faced off against the four armies of the Nineteenth Group Army. Yuan Hebuichiro felt that he had paid enough attention to the arrangement of troops.

(End of this chapter)