**In the eighth year of the War of Resistance, three million people were killed. The will of death moved the world and could shake the sun and the moon. However, there were actually many unnecessary mistakes in the tragic and heroic situation. These mistakes could have been avoided, but in the end they hated the battlefield due to human factors. For example, in the final stage of the Battle of Songhu, Chairman Chiang was lucky to the Western powers, such as Chairman Chiang's first rat in the defense of Nanjing, and Gui Yongqing, Huang Jie and Long Muhan escaped in the Battle of Lanfeng.

In terms of influence, Chairman Jiang's lucky intention in the final stage of the Battle of Shanghai directly led to more than 80 elite troops losing their final chance of retreat. As a result, the defeat was like a mountain. Even the four national defense lines built with a lot of money did not play the expected role. The capital Nanjing was directly exposed to the Japanese army's military front, which led to a sharp decline in the entire Sino-Japanese War. The fall of large areas of land in East China and Central Plains, and its impact was extremely bad.

In terms of tragic, Chairman Jiang's first rat at both ends of the defense of Nanjing directly led to more than a dozen divisions giving up resistance. Ten thousand defeated soldiers rushed to Xiaguan Wharf like a tide, but they were captured by the Japanese army because they could not cross the river. They were finally killed like chickens and sheep by the Japanese army. The Japanese army was so killed that they even turned their butcher knife towards the civilians, which led to the tragic Nanjing Massacre.

In terms of anger, Gui Yongqing and Long Muhan escaped twice on the Lanfeng battlefield, resulting in the operation of the encirclement and annihilation of Tufeiyuan Division, which caused the blood of tens of thousands of dead officers and soldiers of the 71st and 74th Army troops was emptied. Long Muhan was shot to death, and Gui Yongqing should have been shot.

But it's a pity that no mistake can compare to the loss of Madang fortress.

Madang Fortress is located in Madang Town, Jiangxi Province. The Yangtze River turns a corner here. The river surface narrows sharply, the water flows fast, and there are even reefs under the river surface. It is already extremely dangerous. As early as last year's defeat in the Battle of Songhu, Chairman Jiang had actually foreseen that Nanjing had become a Jedi. In order to protect Wuhan, Chairman Jiang hired German experts to design and spent a huge amount of money to build Madang Fortress. Its strength is even better than that of Jiangyin Fortress.

The Germans' rigor was consistent, and at that time, Madang Fortress was definitely considered impeccable.

The main body of the Madang Fortress is a dam-like blocking line. Three mine defense lines are arranged on the water surface, with nearly 2,000 mines being deposited. There are 49 shipwrecks and 35 artificial reefs at the bottom of the water. A large number of bunkers and forts were built at the dangerous peaks on both sides of the north and south sides, and a total of more than 20 artillery pieces are equipped, including four super-large caliber naval guns. These four super-large caliber naval guns were dismantled from self-sinking warships, and are by no means disguised.

Due to the restrictions on the Yangtze River channel, the battleships and heavy cruisers of the Japanese Navy's Chinese fleet could not go up the river. With the firepower of light cruisers or gunboats, it was absolutely impossible to break through the fortress head-on. Even if there were navals, it would be useless for the army aviation to provide fire support from the air.

The final facts also prove that the Germans could stand the test. The Japanese Navy failed to break through the Madang Fortress in the last strong attack. Instead, it was sunk several warships by the Jiangfang artillery. The Japanese Navy even dispatched more than a dozen long-range bombers from the Kiritsu Air Force, but in the end it was useless.

The more than 200 pilots of the Soviet Aid China Aid Team were not vegetarians. They were flying Soviet-aided fighter jets. The bombers posed a great threat to the Japanese army and navy. With the help of the Soviet Aid Team, the National Government even organized a cross-ocean bombing on Tokyo. Because the range was too long, the bombers could not carry bombs, and they could only drop tens of thousands of flyers over Tokyo to make the matter happen. However, this incident still caused a great shock to Japan at that time.

The Germans were rigorous. The Madang Fortress could not only block the enemies from the river, but also resist attacks from land, because the fortress was surrounded by hills and lakes. Although these hills were not steep and were not big, they were enough to have a fatal impact on the Japanese army's mechanized heavy equipment. If the Japanese army wanted to attack the Madang Fortress from land, they had to throw away all the heavy equipment and could only rely on light weapons to attack.

Alternatively, the Japanese army could also send engineers to build simple industrial roads, but this would take time and the cost would never be small, because ** has occupied commanding heights such as Madang Mountain and Changshan. As long as mortars and Maxim heavy machine guns are set up at the commanding heights, it will be enough to cause a large amount of damage to the Japanese engineers who built the road.

It is precisely because of this that Chairman Jiang has high hopes for Madang Fortress.

Under normal circumstances, it is absolutely impossible for the Japanese army to break through the Madang fortress without three months to half a year. Chairman Jiang hopes that Madang fortress can block the Japanese army for one to two months, which is actually quite conservative, but the situation is bad, and the four words "normal" situations are bad, because in the Battle of Madang, ** the abnormal situation happened here.

The defensive system of Madang Fortress consists of two parts. The core position is the fortification group at the critical point on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, which is stationed by the Marine Corps. The outer defense line is led by Li Yunheng's 16th Army. The predecessor of Li Yunheng's 16th Army was the 53rd Division of the Hunan Army. Before the Central Plains War, Chiang Kai-shek expanded the 53rd Division into an army in order to win over Li Yunheng, but in fact he changed the number. Li Yunheng's 16th Army still had only one division.

Such situations are not uncommon in the battle sequence of **, and even some armies have only one division of troops.

Li Yunheng's 16th Army also participated in the third phase of the Battle of Shanghai, and suffered heavy losses. After the war, the remnants of the 53rd Division were reduced to a regiment, and Chiang Kai-shek never replenished the 53rd Division. For local troops, Chiang Kai-shek's usual strategy was to win over, then consume, then reduce, and then reorganize. This is how the two million Central Army earned.

Therefore, except for the Marine Corps, Madang's garrison only had the 313th Regiment of the 16th Army.

Even if Madang only has one 313th Regiment and one brigade of the Navy, it is actually not a big problem, and the deployment of the ** Commander's headquarters is not a problem, because a small Madang town cannot station too many troops, and with the solid and complete fortifications of Madang Fortress, it is not a problem for the 313th Regiment and the Marine Corps to support for three to five days.

As long as the 313th Regiment and the Marine Corps can last for two days, the nearby ** can come to reinforce. Pengze, less than fifty miles from Madang Town, stationed a division, which is Xue Weiying's 16th Pei. Although the 16th Pei was born in the Northwest Army, it has now been reorganized into a complete Central Army. Xue Weiying also came from Huangpu.

Therefore, there is no problem with the deployment of the ** Commander in Madang Fortress.

The problem lies with Li Yunheng, the commander of the 16th Army. I don’t know what was wrong with this guy. At the moment of the war, he suddenly remembered to set up an anti-Japanese military and political university, and called all the deputy officers of the 16th Army and the local security chief of Ma Dang. It started on 10th of the 10th of the 10th of the U-month period and had been busy for more than ten days. He also said that he would hold a grand graduation ceremony in Japan. In order to create influence, Li Yunheng even sent invitations to many Western reporters, asking them to come to Ma Dang to attend the ceremony at that time.

As a result, this news was accidentally transmitted to Hatan Shigeichi's ears through Western reporters. The old Japanese keenly felt that this was a god-given opportunity to raid Madang fortress, and immediately decided to attack Madang in the early morning of the u month and day, because the officers of the 16th Army at that time must have gathered in Madang, and the ** in charge of the river defense would lose effective command.

Hatan Shigeichi's judgment was very accurate. As early as the evening of the U-month, all the captains (company commanders) and above of the 16th Army had gathered in Madang Town to attend the graduation ceremony scheduled by the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University the next morning. Li Yunheng also sent an invitation to the officers of the Marine Corps. Fortunately, Bao Changyi, the captain of the Marine Corps, did not go there, and did not let his officers go to Madang to attend the so-called graduation ceremony.

In the early morning of 24th on the u month, the Hatan Detachment re-used the same trick and launched a night raid on the Madang Fortress. Due to the absence of the chief officer, the officers and soldiers of the 313th Regiment, responsible for the outer defense line, were in chaos. The Hatan Detachment went on ashore on the Xiangkou River without any effort, and then launched a fierce attack on the main position of the 313th Regiment of Xiangshan. At dawn, the Xiangshan position was finally lost.

At this point, the Madang defense line, which was painstakingly managed by the Japanese army, had a gap opened by the Japanese army. After occupying the Xiangshan position, the Hatan Detachment continued to launch a series of fierce attacks on Changshan and Madangshan core positions where the Marine Corps were stationed, trying to dismantle the Madang defense line in one fell swoop. Fortunately, the Marine Corps officers and soldiers were prepared and relied on solid fortifications to give the Japanese head-on attack.

Li Yunheng was awakened by the sound of gunfire from his sleep. After learning that the Japanese army landed in Xiangkou at night and had already captured Xiangshan, Li Yunheng was shocked and lost his seven souls. He immediately ordered the commander of the 313th Regiment to organize a counterattack, but Li Yunheng knew very well that after the Xiangshan position was lost, it was impossible for the 313th Regiment to restore the position alone.

So, Li Yunheng urgently ordered Xue Weiying, who was stationed in Pengze, to rush to help Ma Dang in emergency.

Although Xue Weiying was nominally temporarily affiliated with Li Yunheng's 16th Army, Xue Weiying, who was born in Huangpu, did not take Li Yunheng, the old Hunan Army clan seriously at all. After receiving the order, he refused to execute it. Li Yunheng had no choice but to send a telegram to the head of the Fifth War Zone.

At that time, Li Zongren was lying in bed, and the commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone was temporarily appointed by Bai Chongxi. After receiving Li Yunheng's telegram for help, Bai Chongxi did not dare to neglect it. He immediately ordered Xue Weiying to lead 16 Pei along the highway to quickly help Madang.

**'s faction was really killed. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the reason why all American equipment was equipped with more than 4.5 million ** lost the Liberation War, was not only political reasons, but the direct military defeat was the faction. In the Battle of Menglianggu, Li Tianxia only had to go forward ten miles to rescue Zhang Lingfu, but he refused to execute the order.

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the faction of ** was actually very serious.

Bai Chongxi was also a prominent figure in the Chinese and Western world at that time. Zhuge was not a fame. Now he is the acting commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone. Therefore, Xue Weiying did not dare to be too negligent and immediately ordered the gathering of troops to reinforce Ma Dang. However, Xue Weiying did not obey Bai Chongxi's orders. He did not follow the road, but chose the small road west of Taibai Lake. The reason was also high-sounding. The highway in the east was wide and was easily bombed by Japanese bombers, which was not as safe as the small road.
Chapter completed!