Anti-Japanese heroic righteousness

But they underestimated Jiang Haoran's use of troops. They have already seen such a big flaw, but they don't bother to send them to the gallows so quickly. First, they don't want to push them too hard, so that they will retreat prematurely. Second, It is true that there is a shortage of troops, and the third is that Jiang Haoran still wants to allow more time for the Eighth Route Army to take Lu'an, and these, Anan Weiji and Kinoshita Yu may never have dreamed of.

In the afternoon, various aircraft of the Japanese army's Hainan Airlines and Army Aviation appeared in the sky above the outskirts of Wuhan as scheduled, launching an unprecedented round of bombing. The number of aircraft dispatched in one afternoon was more than the total number in the past few days. The planes with plaster flags covered Huangshan, Nanchang, Jiujiang, Xinyang, Jingzhou, Yueyang, Tongshan, Xiushui, and the entire outer defense line was taken care of.

Moreover, if they don't move out, they will be like locusts if they are out. Even if the National Army Air Force has the most advanced radar, but the enemy is dispatched in groups, there is no plan for you to defeat them one by one. The number can only be sighed at the sky. After all, the National Army Air Force is still in the rebuilding stage and cannot be consumed in one battle.Only one Japanese plane could abuse all the front-line troops, and the offensive momentum immediately dropped sharply.

To say that the hardest-hit area was still the defense area of ​​the Eighth Route Army, in order to clear the way for the 35th Division, the Japanese army plowed all the suspicious targets along the route, causing a lot of casualties to the Eighth Route Army.At the same time, the No.30 Fifth Division of the Japanese Army advanced twenty or thirty miles in one afternoon.

But the national army is not to be bullied by devils. At night, all the fighter jets of the 40th Air Force and the No. 30th Army's Independent Flying Brigade are also dispatched. A round of retaliatory attacks was also launched, especially the Zhumadian No.[-] Fifth Division, which suffered a round of heavy losses without any precautions.

During the entire bombing process, the Japanese army could only look at the sky and sigh. A few night sky fighter jets and reconnaissance planes could only wait and see from a distance before running away. How did Haoran realize the all-weather combat of the aircraft.

In the next few days, the two sides seemed to have reached a tacit agreement. One was dispatched during the day, bombing machine guns were fired everywhere, and the other was dispatched at night. The targets were the No.30 Fifth Division and the No.30 Sixth Division.

The progress of the battle had to be slowed down due to the absolute superiority of the Japanese air force, and the No.11 Army also successfully transferred the No.40 Division of Yueyang back to Wuhan in the past few days, most of which were with the remaining No.13 Division. Converge at one place to prepare for the counterattack against Xinyang, and a small part of them retreated to Jiayu, forming horns with Tongshan.

At this point, the Japanese defense line in the southwest became more compact. Jiayu, Tongshan, and Wuning, two divisions plus a regiment, and hundreds of thousands of puppet troops were all pressed against this defense line that was only a few dozen miles long. Let the national army have nothing to do.

Another thing I have to mention is that when the Japanese navy appeared in the East China Sea, the Japanese aircraft carrier guns also launched a tentative attack on Wenzhou. Fortunately, all the shore-based cannons in Wenzhou were replaced by 200mm cannons. Ten cannons played the role of the mainstay, the Japanese tentative attack did not succeed, but lost a light cruiser.

On the defense line in southern Anhui, the Japanese Third Division had already retreated to Chizhou, and the Hurricane Column set up a line of defense between the Yangtze River, Shitai and Huangshan.

The New Fourth Army retreated to Hukou and Pengze. Their tasks were relatively easy. They were in charge of the entire Yangtze River defense line while a small enemy force crossed the river for a sneak attack.

Since the New Fourth Division occupied Jiujiang, the Japanese naval ships tried to pass through several times, but they were all driven away by the dense shells of the two artillery regiments. Moreover, the dense floating mines on the Yangtze River were hard to defend against. After several attempts to no avail, the Japanese had to Totally abandoned the idea.

So far, the most intense frontier of the war is Zhumadian. The two divisions of the Japanese army suppressed the border. It is no longer a small-scale raid or guerrilla warfare that can solve the problem. The enemy fought a positional battle.

However, Boss Zhu is not a good person. He built three lines of defense on the edge of the Shahe River in Luohe, confronted the Japanese army, and fixed the Japanese army on the east bank of the Shahe River. It was dyed red, and all the floating corpses were the corpses of Japanese soldiers, but on the south bank of the Shahe River, the corpses of the Eighth Route Army were also strewn all over the field, and the tragedy of the battle was unimaginable.

Fortunately, the Eighth Route Army had just captured Zhumadian, and seized a large number of Japanese military equipment from Zhumadian. There was no shortage of weapons and ammunition, including dozens of artillery pieces of various types. few.

At the critical moment, Bai Chongxi helped a lot. He mobilized artillery from four artillery companies from the two group armies and rushed them to the front of the Eighth Route Army by car. This made the artillery fire effective.

It was precisely because of these artillery fires that the pontoon bridges built by the Japanese army several times were all destroyed by the artillery, which led to the Eighth Route Army successfully blocking the two divisions of the Japanese army on the east bank of the Shahe River for ten days. The victory laid a solid foundation.

The time soon came to July 11th, and the entire Wuhan battle had been going on for half a month. It seemed that Wuhan was still in the hands of the Japanese army, and the entire southwest defense line had become an insurmountable barrier for the national army, but in fact, everything Substantial changes have taken place. It has become an iron fact that the No.[-] Japanese army is deeply encircled, and all foreign aid troops basically have no hope.

The troops of Xuancheng and Lin'an, because of the fall of Huangshan, have no meaning for reinforcements.The 35th and 36th divisions on the outskirts of Zhumadian, because of the desperate resistance of the Eighth Route Army, the two divisions are still on the east bank of the Shahe River and have not been able to move forward.The two divisions of the Kwantung Army are even more interesting. The Eighth Route Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia area were dispatched in multiple ways. The entire railway line from Shijiazhuang to Xuchang was completely removed, and they often put on big moves The offensive posture, Taiyuan today, Heshun tomorrow, and Handan the day after tomorrow, kept the Japanese army busy running for their lives and returning without success.

Because the two divisions of the Kwantung Army were transferred from North China, the strength of the Japanese army in North China was also stretched. This commotion made the two divisions of the Kwantung Army stay in Shijiazhuang, and they did not dare to move.

Therefore, the No.11 Japanese Army in Wuhan has completely become an isolated army. The main source of all strategic materials is to enter Wuhan from Hefei and Luan through the Dabie Mountains. However, because of the existence of the Dabie Mountains, the road is rough and narrow. .