In 1980, with the popularity of the movie "Lushan Love", Lushan, the film's location, also became a tourist attraction, and people rushed to Lushan to see its beauty.
"The beauty of Lushan Mountain is in shannan, and the beauty of shannan belongs to Xiufeng." Lushan has been famous for its beautiful scenery since ancient times, but few people know that this picturesque place was once a cruel battlefield. 83 years ago, the Chinese defenders here relied on the natural danger of Lushan Mountain to fight against the enemy every inch of land.
On July 26, 1938, the Invading Japanese Army attacked along the Yangtze River to jiujiang. The commander of the Japanese Eleventh Army, Okamura Ningji, was full of ambition, and he looked at Lushan Mountain, hoping that within a few days he would be able to climb lushan, the "summer capital" of the Chinese government, and have a long-admired scenery.
Okamura Ninji
But he never expected that in the next 9 months, Okamura Ningji would face the Near Butt Climb Lushan several times. "I don't love landscapes and rivers" sigh. Some friends have to ask, how can this Battle of Wuhan be related to Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi? This also starts with the line of attack of the Japanese army.
Since the outbreak of the Battle of Wuhan in June 1938, Anqing, Madang, and Hukou have fallen into enemy hands one after another, and the important town of Jiujiang in northern Ganbei has also been knocked open by Japanese artillery fire in just two days. Taking advantage of the situation, the Japanese army went all the way south to borrow the Nanxun Line, the main railway route between Jiujiang and Nanchang, to occupy Nanchang, and then went west to take Changsha directly, cut off the Guangdong-Han Railway, and formed a large encirclement of Wuhan.
After the Japanese 11th Army occupied Jiujiang, the 9th Division, the 101st Division, the 106th Division and other units launched an offensive in northern Ganbei, and on August 3, the Japanese 106th Division launched an attack on jinguanqiao on the Nanxun Line, and Xue Yue, commander-in-chief of the 1st Corps, led his troops to fight back.
Xue Yue (薛岳), courtesy name Boling, joined the Cantonese Army in his early years and was one of Chiang Kai-shek's "Five Tiger Generals", known as the "Tiger Boy". During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he participated in the Battle of Songhu and commanded famous battles such as the Battle of Xuzhou and the Battle of Wuhan, and was considered to be "the Chinese general who annihilated the japanese army the most in the War of Resistance.".
Xue Yue
According to the judgment of the japanese army's movements, Xue Yue made a strategic plan of "defending the north and attacking the west". The so-called "northern defense" refers to taking a defensive position on the Nanxun Road; the "western offensive" refers to the death battle on Ruiwu Road and Ruitong Road to contain the Japanese army's encirclement of Wuhan. With the main force firmly holding the frontal position of Nanxun Road, the Chinese and Japanese armies launched a fierce battle for the Nanxun Railway.
From the map, this Lushan Mountain is in the north of the Nanxun Railway, which is a little distance away from the Nanxun Railway! So, how does the Nanxun line have anything to do with Lushan?
It turned out that the arrogant And arrogant Japanese army thought that the Chinese army was vulnerable and all straw bales that were about to collapse at a touch. It was easy to take down the Nanxun line! However, as soon as the Jinguan Bridge was exchanged, the Japanese army found that Xue Yue's 1st Corps was indeed worthy of the name.
By the middle of August 1938, the Japanese 106th Division had only one squadron leader with the rank of Grand Commander and two wounded, and hundreds of other officers of the rank of Commander and Lieutenant were killed or wounded, and thousands of soldiers were killed or wounded. In order to get rid of the predicament on the battlefield of Jinguanqiao, Okamura Ningji ordered the 101st Division to take the Poyang Lake waterway and attack the county seat of Xingzi, in an attempt to attack De'an along the Dexing Highway and cut off the back road of the Nanxun Line.
Now the Japanese army has burned the flames of war to the foot of Lushan Mountain. The Chinese defenders in Xingzi County knew that our achievements on the Nanxun Line were not easy to come by, and how could the Dexing Road allow the Japanese army to get involved in half a step? General Leng Xin, commander of the 52nd Division, decisively abandoned the unsurprising Xingzi County, was ordered to retreat to the line of Yujing Mountain, and arranged a machine gun company here, intending to give the Japanese a big "surprise".
Lushan scenery
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