Chapter 2232 The Wuhan Battle begins!
Ma Ping'an agrees with the Dragon Boat Festival suggestions.
However, at this moment, Dragon Boat Festival proposed a new suggestion, that he would destroy Qisanyao's branch in Dalian and kill Akasaka Koyuan and Miyato Ichiro, including those doctors of Qisanyao's branch in Dalian.
For their own honor, these people deserve to use the Chinese as experimental materials.
Ma Ping'an also agreed with this. But he was a little worried about the safety of Dragon Boat Festival. After all, they have entered the enemy-occupied area and are surrounded by enemies. Once they are surrounded by enemies, the consequences will be unimaginable.
So Ma Ping'an attached a condition, and the action should be discussed after he contacted the Dalian underground party.
After thinking about it for a while, Dragon Boat Festival agreed. Then he expressed his other concern, whether Hideo Sato would return to China in the next ten days.
Ma Ping'an smiled and said, "Please rest assured that this is the moment. Our people are always staring at Hideo Sato and are taking him to travel to various scenic spots in Europe. He will not be able to come back in two or three months."
Dragon Boat Festival felt a little relieved at this time. At least before arriving in Dalian, Hideo Sato should not be able to come back.
So in the next ten days, Dragon Boat Festival responded easily to Koizumi Akasaka and Ichiro Miyato, and obtained a lot of information from both, including the start of the Wuhan Battle.
The war in Wuhan began as expected by Dragon Boat Festival.
In addition to being the gateway to the Japanese army's attack on the mountain city, Wuhan is located on the Jianghan Plain and is the intersection of the Pinghan and Guangdong-Han Railways.
After some institutions of the National Government moved from Nanjing to Wuhan in November 1937, the place actually became the center of China's military, political and economic development, and its strategic position was very important.
Wuhan is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and was the second largest city in China at that time, with a population of more than 2 million. The city is divided into three parts by the Yangtze River and Han water: Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang. Wuchang is the political center, Hankou is a concentration of commerce, and Hanyang is an important industrial center. After the completion of the Guangdong-Hankou Railway, it was an important transportation center in China's inland China and a hub for transporting foreign aid from southern ports to the inland.
After the Japanese army occupied Nanjing, although the National Government moved westward to Shancheng, most of the government agencies and military command were in Wuhan. Wuhan actually became the national military, political, economic center and wartime capital at that time.
At that time, China's military forces concentrated on defending Wuhan, and the Japanese government and the Chinese Expeditionary Force headquarters both expected that the fall of Wuhan would cause China to stop resisting.
Therefore, for this reason, the Japanese base camp concentrated 14 divisions of troops in central China.
The forces of the 2nd Army and the 11th Army were directly involved in the Wuhan operation, as well as the 3rd Navy Fleet, the Aviation Corps, etc., with a total of about 120 ships of various types and about 300 aircraft of various types.
For this battle, the Japanese gathered more than 250,000 Japanese troops to face the border in order to capture Wuhan head-on and force the Republic of China government to surrender.
However, the Republic of China government was not without any preparation. I am afraid that the importance of Wuhan is not even clearer than the Chinese.
Therefore, in addition to purchasing a large number of advanced weapons for this battle, many arsenals of the National Government were also producing at full capacity, transporting a large number of weapons and equipment to the front line.
In addition, in order to enhance the command and combat capabilities, the Military Commission of the National Government decided to adjust the combat sequence and newly compiled the 9th War Zone in mid-June 1938.
At the same time, it was decided to use the troops affiliated to the 5th and 9th war zones to defend Wuhan. The troops participating in the Wuhan defense battle, the air force and navy, totaling 14 armies, 50 armies, about 200 combat aircraft, more than 30 ships, and a total force of nearly 1.1 million.
Since June, the troops of each corps have used natural barriers such as Poyang Lake and the Dabie Mountains to speed up the construction of fortifications and carry out defensive operations.
However, the Japanese army's attack speed was very fast. The main force of the 11th Army of the Japanese army attacked along the south bank of the Yangtze River, while the Hatan Detachment had landed in the northeast of Ruichang and encountered the Third Army of the National Revolutionary Army in front.
The two sides fought fiercely along the Yangtze River, but it would probably take at least half a month to decide the outcome.
In this regard, Dragon Boat Festival has left everyone to do his best. After all, what he should have prepared for the Battle of Wuhan. What's more, from a historical perspective, the Japanese won't get any advantage in this battle.
Although the Japanese army finally occupied Wuhan, they were also seriously injured.
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Time passed like a flash of time. In a blink of an eye, ten days passed. On the evening of the tenth day, the port of Dalian was already near.
The afterglow of the sunset shines on the sea, shimmering, reflecting a golden world. The port of Dalian is like a vivid picture, presented to everyone.
The Dragon Boat Festival stood at the bow of the boat and looked into the distance, but saw dock workers busy carrying goods on the wide and sturdy wharf. The dock was filled with boxes of various shapes and sizes, as well as mountains of coal, iron ore, etc.
These are the resources plundered by the Japanese from China. They piled them on the dock to transport them back to Japan.
Everyone knows that Japan has poor resources. If you want to make fire and cook, you don’t even have coal, so they like to eat raw food so much.
Because there is no way, they don’t have enough coal and wood. If they don’t eat it raw, they will have to starve to death.
So when they covet China's territory and these mineral resources so much.
They loaded ships day and night, hoping to transport the entire China back to Japan.
So at the port, a large number of Japanese transport ships were docked.
And some Japanese transport ships were dumping goods downwards. The wooden boxes were loaded with Japanese strategic supplies.
Although the Japanese set up an arsenal in Fengtian after occupying Fengtian, some weapons and equipment still need to be transported from the local area, otherwise the Japanese war machines would not be able to operate normally.
When the Dragon Boat Festival looked at the military supplies at the port, all he thought about was to blow up the other party so that the Japanese could hurt them severely.
But thinking about it, Dragon Boat Festival gave up this plan. Because the branch of the 7310 troops in Dalian poses greater threat to the Chinese military and civilians.
According to historical records, the Japanese army used bacterial weapons in Northeast China, North China, Northwest China, Central China, East China, South China and Southwest China.
Especially in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, Changchun, Nong'an, eastern and western Shandong, Shangrao, Guangfeng, Jiangsu, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Quzhou, Jinhua, Yiwu, Yunhe, Jiangshan, Longyou, Lishui, Changsha, Changde, western Yunnan and other regions, bacterial weapons have caused huge harm, resulting in explosive pandemics such as plague, cholera, and typhoid fever in the above areas, causing unimaginable human disasters.
According to the rough statistics of the book "Research on the Bacterial War Crimes of Japan's Invasion of China": "During Japan's invasion of China, bacterial attacks were carried out on more than 20 provinces and cities in mainland China. The outbreak and spread of about 298 cities, counties and banners, causing about 2.37 million infectious epidemics, of which about 650,000 died.
Chapter completed!