This July, the weather in Anqing is as humid and stuffy.

Even though it was late at night, it was still so hot that it was hard to sleep. Okamura Nishi sat up from the tatami and found that his forehead was covered with sweat, and his whole body was like he had just been fished out of the water. There were buzzing beeps in the dark, like dozens of bombers and hundreds of bombers were bombing him in an indiscriminate manner.

It's not a bomber, it's a mosquito, but it's even more terrifying than a bomber.

The Matsuura Division just sent a telegram saying that malaria had appeared in Jiujiang. As a senior commander, Okamura Yanji knew that malaria was a very terrible disease. Once it broke out on a large scale in the army, the consequences would be unimaginable. What made Okamura Yanji even more worried was that the humid, sultry climate and a large number of corrupt corpses of Jiujiang were also a breeding ground for the large number of mosquitoes and flies carrying malaria roots. The large-scale outbreak of malaria seemed to be inevitable.

Okamura Yasuji had sent a telegram to the base camp, requesting the urgent supply of quinine water. The quinine water in the No. 1 army stocks, and the quinine water were also shipped to the front line. In order to transport as much quinine water and quinine water to Jiujiang front line as quickly as possible, Okamura Yasuji even suspended the delivery of military supplies.

But this is not what Okamura Nishi is most worried about. Although malaria is terrible, it has not yet exploded on a large scale. Okamura Nishi is most worried. It is still Jiujiang and De'an's battle situation. The Matsuura Division's offensive against the Nanxun Line has lasted for more than half a month. It consumes no ammunition, but has no progress.

During the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese base camp had high hopes for Okamura. The commander of the Central China Sect Condemnation Army, Dian Toshiro, also specially called Okamura to Nanjing for a long talk. In addition, the strength of Okamura's Nishiji Army was also one and a half more division than that of Higashikuramiya Nianhiko. Okamura was excited and felt a heavy responsibility on his shoulders.

The initial stage was quite smooth. The Hatan Detachment, which could only be considered a miscellaneous unit in the Japanese army, was in a state of unstoppable momentum, conquering Anqing, Madang and Hukou, and finally even Jiujiang was in full swing. Just when Okamura Yasuji believed that the national army had been disintegrated and the Beijing-Shanghai collapse was about to repeat, Xue Yue gave him a blow on the Nanxun Line.

Thinking of the battle situation in Nanxun, Okamura Yasuji suddenly felt no more sleepy. He put on his clothes and stood up, pushed open the bedroom door and walked into the study. The lights in the study were on, but the voltage provided by the generator was not stable, and the lights flickered, adding a bit of depressing atmosphere to the already dim and solemn study.

Okamura Yasunobu breathed a sigh of relief, as if he was about to exhale the turbid air in his chest, then walked to the desk, picked up a magnifying glass and stepped onto the large map flat on the floor. Before the Sino-Japanese War broke out in full swing, the Japanese government did make a lot of preparations, one of the preparations was the map.

In the coastal Beijing-Shanghai, Pingjin areas, especially the four northeastern provinces, Japan has sent engineers to secretly draw maps, but China is too big and big. Even though Japan has been secretly surveying and mapping for decades, it is impossible to map the entire China into a map. As a last resort, it has to send agents to steal maps from China.

The map that was trampled by Okamura Natsuji was stolen by Sakagi from the confidential room of the Beiyang warlord Sun Chuanfang more than ten years ago. He was very dissatisfied with this map. It not only marked with confusion, but also made many mistakes, but what was even more infuriating was that there were many common sense mistakes.

But there is no way, no matter how unsatisfied Okamura Yasuji can only use this map.

Okamura Yanji's eyes moved little by little along the map with the magnifying glass, and finally stayed at Xingzi. Okamura Yanji had been planning to hit Xingzi for several days. The aviation force reported that there were only a small number of Chinese troops near Xingzi, and there was also a stone road for cars to pass directly to Mahuiling. If a powerful force could quickly capture Xingzi, he could occupy Mahuiling before the national army on the front of the Nanxun Line responded.

Once the Japanese army occupied Mahuiling, it will not only cut the Nanxun Line into two pieces, but also encircle hundreds of thousands of national troops gathered in the northern foot of Mount Lu. At that time, the Songpu Division will crush the Nanxun Line again, and the national army will inevitably be defeated, and this battle will become another Xinkou Battle.

However, what made Okamura Yanji hesitate was that his troops were seriously insufficient.

Although the 1st Army had five and a half divisions on the books, the only ones that were truly in place were the Matsuura Division, the Hatan Detachment and the First Division expanded from the North China Garage Army. The Hatan Detachment had been exhausted from the previous continuous combat. Masaharu Honma's First Division had to be responsible for the attack mission on Ruiwu Road. In fact, there was only one division in Nanxun Line.

After more than half a month of fierce fighting, the Matsuura Division's troops have been reduced to less than 10,000 people. This force is still a bit reluctant to maintain the offensive against the Nanxun Line, so how could it be drawn to attack Xingzi? If the troops are forcibly divided, once the national army on the front of the Nanxun Line reacts and takes advantage of the situation to counterattack, even Jiujiang will be lost.

Okamura Yasuji couldn't help but curse the bureaucrats in his heart again. The battle between Wuhan has been almost two months ago. The Di Pei Group, the Di Pei Group and the 10th Di Pei Group have not yet been in place. The efficiency of this is too low. With this efficiency, God knows when it will take to fight to the city of Wuhan.

Okamura Yasuji actually wronged the officials of the Japanese base camp. They really didn't intend to delay.

As the Sino-Japanese War continued to escalate, the scale continued to expand, casualties and equipment losses became increasingly greater, and the operation of the small Japanese war machines became increasingly difficult.

The Di Pei Regiment, the Di Pei Regiment and the 10th Pei Regiment participated in the Battle of Shanghai, the Nanjing Defense War and the Xuzhou War. The personnel and equipment suffered huge losses. It was indeed not easy to replenish them and restore them to the pre-war level. The officials of the Japanese base camp and the logistics department were almost pulling away their hair.

However, at that time, Japan's comprehensive national strength was far better than that of the National Government. Although it was difficult, in early August, the Dipai Regiment and the 10th Pei Regiment finally replenished and rushed to the Jiujiang battlefield one after another. The Dipai Regiment divided into three groups to launch an attack on the national army. The Dipai Regiment went straight to Tianjia Town, the last gateway to Wuhan, with the cooperation of the Hatan Detachment, and rushed to Ruichang along the south bank of the Yangtze River.

As for Ito Masaki's 10th Peace Regiment, according to the long-planned idea of ​​Okamura Yasuji, he took a boat to cross Poyang Lake and launched a raid on the "weakness" of the national army.

Yu Huan felt a little heavy when she woke up early in the morning. She reached out and touched her forehead. It was a little hot. She forced herself to hold her back and clean her wounds and changed her medicine. She was about to go to Cao Jiao to ask for a few quinine tablets. Yu Huan suspected that she also had malaria, and this disease was not a joke.

Yu Huan originally wanted to follow Shu Tongwen to Yan'an, but was firmly opposed by his family. This time, even his cousin Ye Ruxue, who had always loved her, did not support her. She settled for the second best. Yu Huan could only join the 19th Brigade. The family originally had firmly opposed it, but Yu Huan forced her to die and her parents could only give in.

Yu Huan thought a little naively. She thought that since the Kuomintang and the Communist Party had cooperated, one day she and Shu Tongwen would meet on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War. Then she would just secretly join Shu Tongwen to join the Eighth Route Army. At that time, her parents would not care about her anymore, but she didn't know that she would almost never see Shu Tongwen again.

Yu Huan found Cao Jiao, the captain of the health team, and asked, the quinine film was gone long ago.

The medical conditions of the Japanese army were far superior to those of the Kuomintang army and were bothered by malaria, so the Kuomintang army became even more difficult. The Matsuura Division died of hundreds of people due to malaria infection. Junroro Matsuura was so anxious that he jumped out of his feet. However, hundreds of people died of malaria every day. What is even more heartbreaking is that the captains of various troops were helpless.

Due to the weak national industry, the National Government even relied on imports of even a plate of gauze, not to mention first aid drugs such as sulfonamide powder, quinine, and anesthetics. After a large-scale outbreak of malaria in the De'an battlefield in Jiujiang, the National Government urgently sought help from the British, French and other Western powers. The Western powers took the opportunity to raise the drug prices, and the National Government could only grit their teeth and bear it.

What’s sad is that just such a little pitiful medicine will be ruined by some generals of the National Army.

The medicines are limited, but there are many factions within the National Army. If you give the Central Army local troops, you give the civil engineering system and the Hu Zongnan system, you have the same opinions. In the end, there is no way, you can only divide it equally.

The commander-in-chief of the Corps, Zhang Fakui, made it even more crisp. After getting the quinine water, he gave each soldier a small bottle and said that he would treat the disease without illness. As a result, the ill people were not cured, and the ill people did not prevent the disease. In the end, he got infected because two bottles of quinine water needed to be effective, and one bottle was useless at all.

Of course, Xu Shijiu would not waste precious medicines like this, but the quinine that was distributed to the 19th Brigade was only a little bit, but the number of officers and soldiers infected with malaria in the past half month has increased. The only quinine tablets, the quinine water was quickly exhausted, and the officers and soldiers infected later could only lie there and wait for death.

When Ye Ruxue came over, Yu Huan had a high fever and started talking nonsense, keeping calling Awen.

Looking at his cousin who was talking nonsense on the simple hospital bed, Ye Ruxue was so anxious that she burst into tears. She didn't know what to do. When Xu Shijiu walked in, Ye Ruxue immediately grabbed the life-saving straw like a drowning person. She grabbed Xu Shijiu's arm and begged with tears in her eyes: "Captain Xu, save Xiaohuan, please."

Xu Shijiu looked at Cao Jiao with tears in her eyes and shook her head. There was really no quinine film.

Seeing Cao Jiao shook her head, Ye Ruxue couldn't help crying loudly, and Xu Shijiu's eyes dimmed. Why didn't he want to save Yu Huan? This girl was willing to be a lady from a family, and she was caring for dozens of wounded people every day. The patients never complained about being tired. Even if she risked death, she never retreated. The brothers of the 19th Brigade had long regarded her as their sister and as an inseparable member of the 19th Brigade. How could he want her to leave?

But what else can I do? Although Xu Shijiu can fight, he cannot turn into a small bottle of quinine water.
Chapter completed!