Since the Daya Bay defense war started at 1 o'clock in the morning on December 12, 1938, the 12th Army of the National Army and the 512th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army strive to block the 18th Division of the Japanese Army. The remaining 35,000 people of the 104th Division fought for several days, and the battle was extremely fierce, and both China and Japan were killed and injured.

By the early morning of December 15, 1938, there had been three days and nights.

The 512th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army also reduced its troops from more than 75oo to more than 55oo, and the number of casualties exceeded 2ooo;

The 62nd Army of the 12th Army of the National Army, the 151st Division and the 152nd Division under its jurisdiction, also directly reduced more than 60,000 troops, leaving only less than 10,000 troops to fight;

With the death of Lieutenant General No. 1, the division commander of the division, Mijo Hakuto, was temporarily appointed as the commander of the 18th Division, and under the jurisdiction of the Japanese 55th Regiment, the 56th Regiment, the 114th Regiment, as well as other artillery gangs, engineer gangs and logistics gangs.

The troops killed more than 5 ooo soldiers in the naval battle. In addition, for three consecutive days of fierce fighting, the total strength of its troops increased from more than 21,000 to more than 13 ooo.

The Japanese 104th Division, Lieutenant General Miyake Toshio, commander of the division, has multiple combat units such as the Hinaga Brigade, Kikuchi Brigade, and the Heavy Artillery Corps.

The unit was at the back end of the naval battle, with a small number of casualties, with only more than 1 ooo. With three consecutive days of fierce fighting, the unit still had more than 12 ooo fighting soldiers left.

When Ouyang learned from the information reported from each of his out-of-the-battle field that there were 25,000 Japanese troops, he was also very sad.

"The Japanese are really too many!"

Ouyang kept outlining on paper, making another guess as to how long Daya Bay could hold on to the upper limit of time.

"Why"

Chief of Staff Wang Yaqiao sighed: "Brig Commander, according to the current combat situation, we have been in Daya Bay for at most for 3 days. This is still under other combat units of the 21st Army of the Japanese Army, without any other actions."

"kindness!"

Upon hearing this, Ouyang nodded. The intensity of the battle was far from everyone's imagination. In just three days of fierce battle, apart from the Daya Bay Battle, both China and Japan lost 16,000 people in Daya Bay.

After countless corpses fell, endless blood was shed, completely dyeing the sea area red. The sand, reefs, trees, etc. on the coast were also stained with blood, and there was a shocking blood-red color everywhere.

This defensive battle that broke out in Daya Bay, Guangdong is destined to be recorded in history!

Chief of Staff Wang Yaqiao advised: "Brig Commander, the Japanese army is determined, and dozens of aircraft bombardment are difficult to defeat. If this battle continues, our brigade and the 62nd Army will be unable to complete the interception of the Japanese army even if they all explain here!"

In a word, the number of Japanese troops is too large!

"If you can't beat it, you have to fight!"

Ouyang said in a deep voice: "One day we can hold on here, and one more day of safety in Guangzhou will be able to have more materials to transport them to the Wuhan battlefield to support the Wuhan battle."

Persist more for one day.

Ouyang obviously has the will of death!

Although the Chinese defenders in Daya Bay were suffering huge casualties, they at least occupied extremely favorable terrain.

Once you withdraw from Daya Bay, the next battle will not have such a good terrain advantage, and it will undoubtedly be even more difficult to fight.

In short, to the best of the possible use of the Japanese army in Daya Bay, consume as much vitality as possible, which is a strategic goal.

Suddenly at this moment, Ye Guanxin, the deputy company commander of the communications company, came.

"Brig Commander, Chief of Staff, and Captain He Chenguang, a squadron of the Wolf Tooth Brigade, just arrived with an emergency message, and it's urgent to be in a hurry!"

Ye Cunxin said solemnly.

Ouyang immediately took the message and checked it with Chief of Staff Wang Yaqiao.

The content of the telegram: "The 5th Division, known as the "Steel Army", under the 21st Army of the Japanese Army, arrived in Meizhou, Guangdong at 5 am today, and launched a strong attack on the 187th Division of the 12th Army of the National Army and the 361st Independent Brigade, and the resistance was very difficult."

"Just two hours after the battle started, the 5th Division of the Japanese army successively captured the four county fortresses of Pingyuan, Jiaoling, Dapu and Fengshun under Meizhou City."

After reading the content of the telegram, Wang Yaqiao and Ouyang were both shocked!

All of them lamented the strength of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army!

The 5th Division of the Japanese Army once set a record of half of the division's strength and swept across 70 Chinese divisions. How could its combat effectiveness not be strong?

During World War II, the number of 6 military divisions formed by the Japanese army was as high as 169. Among them, in terms of combat effectiveness and record, two divisions were the most powerful, one was the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, and the other was the 5th Division of the Japanese Army that came to Guangdong to fight this time.

Among them, the 6th Japanese Division, after participating in the battle against Nanjing, was transferred to the combat sequence of the Northeast Kwantung Army and fought to the death with the Soviet army Zhukov.

Therefore, the 5th Division of the Japanese Army has become the most powerful division among all the Japanese divisions.

Now the 5th Division of the Japanese Army is heading to Meizhou, Guangdong, and the 12th Army has only one division and one brigade. Isn’t it the enemy of the Japanese “Steel Army”?

Meizhou is hard to protect!

"Chief of Staff, once Meizhou falls, the progress of the mechanized troops of the Japanese 5th Division will be able to reach Heyuan City within half a day. With the strong combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, I am afraid that General Zhang Ruiguo's 63rd Army will not be able to withstand a few days!"

Ouyang said in a deep voice.

Wang Yaqiao nodded and said, "I'm afraid not only that, once the Japanese army breaks through Meizhou, it can completely separate some of its troops and go straight to Huizhou!"

Huizhou?

Currently, the Chinese defenders stationed in Huizhou have only one brigade under the 62nd Army, plus the 885th Regiment of the Zhou Weiguo Ministry.

The main military forces of the 151st Division, the 152nd Division, and the 512th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army under the 62nd Army were all concentrated in the Daya Bay area to resist the 18th Division and the 1o4th Division of the Japanese Army.

Ouyang Hansheng said: "Once Huiyang falls, our 512th Brigade and the 62nd Army will be completely surrounded by the Japanese army, and its destruction will only be in the evening!"

Meizhou, Heyuan, and Huizhou, these three prefecture-level cities have become life and death triangle areas. If any of them falls, the triangle formation will collapse completely.

"Meizhou must not be lost, otherwise our troops and the 62nd Army will completely lose the strategic significance of sticking to Daya Bay."

Ouyang slapped the table and shouted.

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Meizhou.

The 187th Division of the 12th Army.

The commander Liu Xiaohan was overwhelmed by the extremely bad form in front of him.

In the huge Meizhou, only in the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, it lost four counties, Pingyuan, Jiaoling, Dapu, Fengshun, and almost all the peripheral positions in less than 2 hours.

Meizhou - in danger!

"Dog~Damn~ Zhang Guangdian, it's a mistake for the party and the country!"

The division commander Liu Xiaohan roared at the adjutant: "Where are others going to die? As the commander of a regiment, he was stationed in Pingyuan County, and before the Japanese arrived, the entire regiment evacuated without a single shot, making a mess of the great situation. I want to shoot him!"

Pingyuan County is the bridgehead in Meizhou's defensive formation and the most important strategic location among the entire peripheral positions.

With this place, it is enough to resist the Japanese division for more than two days.

However, before the battle began, the Zhang Guangdrive regiment stationed in Pingyuan County abandoned the city without a single shot, causing the three counties, Jiaoling, Dapu and Fengshun, to lose their strategic support. Even if the soldiers of the national army fought back hard, it would be useless.

Within less than 2 hours, all the external positions in Meizhou fell!

The 187th Division, more than half of the casualties!

"The master, leader of Zhang GuangDrive, isn't right, Zhang GuangDrive, this bastard led his troops to bypass Meizhou and fled towards Huizhou!"

The adjutant's expression at this moment was really ugly than crying.

"Dog~Damn~ Zhang Guangdu, I swear to kill this beast!"

The commander Liu Xiaohan said angrily.

After yelling, the commander Liu Xiaohan fell silent, but in just one minute, he burst into laughter.

The laughter is filled with endless sadness and bleakness!

Division Commander Liu Xiaohan said heartbrokenly: "With half of the division, plus the forces of a local security brigade, and if the peripheral positions are lost, how can we resist the tiger and wolf division of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army?"

"Not to say that you have persisted for a few days, even if you persist for a day, it is a lucky thing!"

For a moment, all the soldiers and soldiers around the country felt a very sad aura.

Meizhou is not protected!

"I still have a lot of glory and wealth that I haven't enjoyed. I can't die in this place!"

At present, some people who are opportunistic and good at scheming, as well as those who are greedy for life and fear of death, all want to escape.

The adjutant gritted his teeth and said, "Master, then where should we go now, our 187th Division?"

"Hahaha!"

The commander Liu Xiaohan laughed again, then turned to sadness, and said in a deep voice: "The country is about to perish, and our soldiers can only fight to the death!"

With the loss of all the peripheral positions in Meizhou, the situation of the entire Guangdong Battle has taken a sharp turn!

The good situation of Daya Bay defense war was also exhausted!

Ouyang and others also face the problem of withdrawing or not withdrawing.
Chapter completed!