The Japanese 106th Division was annihilated by the Chinese army in the Wanjialing area, which caused the shock of the invading Japanese army, and even the little devil emperor was very shocked.

The invading Japanese army urgently needed a victory to save face, so the Central China Army concentrated its superior forces and began to counterattack the Chinese army.

The Japanese 3rd and 10th Divisions were responsible for advancing west along the road to Huangchuan, and as a result, they were engaged head-on with the 77th Army.

The two divisions of the Japanese army desperately attacked the defenders of Huangchuan, but the two divisions of the Japanese army did not take Huangchuan for ten days.

The 77th Army held back the main force of the Japanese army for many days, and retreated after completing the task of holding on.

After the devil's troops occupied Huangchuan, they smashed Luoshan and Xinyang, and when the Japanese army was advancing all the way, the enemy encountered the main force of the 1st Army of the National Army.

The 1st Army claims to be one of the best armed units in the Nationalist Army, and is even supported by armored and artillery units.

The Nationalist Army invested 3 armies and 7 divisions in several bloody battles with the two elite divisions of the Japanese army, and the two sides fought fiercely for more than 20 days, and the Nationalist Army still had the upper hand, and finally lost Xinyang due to the commander's command error, so that the front gate of Pinghan Road was opened......

The two divisions of the Japanese army attacked on the west route and achieved an unprecedented victory, which also prompted the Japanese army to speed up the attack on Wuhan. ，

The Japanese army suffered the loss of Wanjialing, and the devil commander did not blindly and confidently adopt a lone army to fight in depth and alone, but concentrated his forces to attack and stab the combat strategy.

After all, a great victory in Wanjialing could not change the situation of the war, and other units of the Nationalist Army suffered successive defeats in the battlefield on the outskirts of Wuhan, resulting in the Wuhan gateway being exposed to the artillery of Japanese aircraft.

While the commanders of the Nationalist Army were busy mobilizing troops to defend Wuhan to the death, a newly formed surprise unit of the Japanese army actually occupied the important port of Guangzhou.

After the fall of Qingdao and Shanghai, Guangzhou became the most important port in China at that time.

Although the port of Canton was very important, the Nationalist troops did not send heavy troops to defend it, because most of the Cantonese troops of the 1st Corps were transferred to participate in the Battle of Wuhan.

The Japanese Central China Dispatch Army fought against the Nationalist Army on the frontal battlefield and suffered repeated setbacks, and the progress of the war was slow, and the base camp of the devils could not wait, so they quickly transferred three divisions to form the 21st Army, which was led by General Koro Furujo, and with the support of Koichi Shiozawa, the commander of the 5th Fleet of the Navy, made a surprise attack on Guangzhou.

Because the Nationalist High Command strategically underestimated the Japanese army, the Japanese army's march into Guangzhou did not attract attention.

In 1938, on the evening of October 11, more than 70,000 Japanese troops and 27,000 horses successfully landed in Daya Bay, Guangzhou, and they were like bamboos all the way, connecting Tamsui, Huizhou, Boluo and Zengcheng, and on the 21st, they had attacked the suburbs of Guangzhou.

The 12th Army of the Nationalist Army was defeated by the formidable Japanese troops after only ten days of fierce fighting with the Japanese army, and ordered the defenders of Guangzhou to retreat, and Guangzhou fell on the afternoon of the 21st. As soon as Guangzhou was lost, the Guangdong-Hankou railway was cut off, and Wuhan was even less worthy of heavy defense, and in the face of this situation, the national army command decided to abandon Wuhan.

On October 25, all the Nationalist troops abandoned the Wuhan area, and then the Japanese troops advanced all the way and quickly occupied Wuchang and Hankou......

The Chinese and Japanese sides lasted 4 and a half months, more than 100 battles, large and small, and with the withdrawal of Chinese troops from the Wuhan area, the Battle of Wuhan came to an end!

Ostensibly, the Japanese forces captured most of the urban areas of Wuhan and took control of the heartland of China, and won the victory.

However, from a strategic point of view, the Japanese army did not take advantage of the Battle of Wuhan, and this battle consumed a lot of manpower and material resources of the Japanese army.

As we all know, Japan is a small country with few supplies, and they started this war with all their national strength.

The national strength of the Japanese army can only last for a short period of time, and if the war is protracted, the little devils can't afford to spend it at all, which is also the beginning of the destruction of the little devils......

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After the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese aggressors had no choice but to adjust their policy of aggression against China and adopt a strategy of mainly political inducement to surrender to China, supplemented by military strikes.

The Japanese high command knew that the military strategy of a quick battle and a quick victory would not work, so it adopted a rearmament of forces and waited for the opportunity to annex the Chinese defenders in one fell swoop.

After the Japanese army made strategic adjustments, the Nationalist Army High Command also redeployed and adjusted the various theaters.

Two months later, the 5th and 9th Theaters of the Nationalist Army fought together and counterattacked the Japanese troops from the southeast as the line of attack.

The Japanese army was empty, and in order to contain the counteroffensive of the Nationalist army, the Japanese army rushed to drop 5 divisions from the mainland to support the Wuhan area.

The Central China Dispatch Army and the 5th and 9th Theaters waged a protracted war against each other......

Late February 1939.

Because Xue Boling commanded the 1st Corps to annihilate the 106th Division in Wanjialing, and made immortal contributions, he was promoted from the original deputy commander of the 9th Theater to the commander-in-chief of the theater.

After Xue Boling was promoted to the commander of the 9th Theater of Operations, the weight of power and speech naturally increased, and he knew that Li Hong was a deputy general, so Xue Boling asked the headquarters many times, and finally put Li Hong's security regiment under his command.

As long as Li Hong has a little devil to fight, as long as Shangfeng is not a foolish worm who blindly commands, it doesn't matter which war zone he goes to serve.

The key is that Xue Boling paid special attention to Li Hong, and the security regiment became a force directly under Xue Boling, and promised that the security regiment's weapons and equipment would be replenished first.

There have been no major battles in the theater of operations in the near future, and all departments are resting.

The security regiment was also resting, and taking this opportunity, Li Hong went to the 9th Theater Headquarters.

Changsha, Hunan, 9th Theater Command.

"Li Hong, what is the military intelligence matter for you to come to my headquarters to find me?" Xue Boling asked Li Hong in confusion.

Li Hong saluted the other party and said, "Report to Chief Xue, there is no important military situation, but I have a reluctant request for my own ......."

Xue Boling glanced at Li Hong curiously, and said jokingly: "Li Hong, looking at your embarrassed appearance, do you want to find me to pull a relationship and promote you?" Or are you looking for an approval slip for my supplies? ”

"Hahaha......"

Xue Boling knew that Li Hong no longer cared about his official position and weapons and materials, with Li Hong's reputation now, as long as he nodded, he would be able to be promoted to three levels in a row, besides, it has always been the security group that sends supplies, and he has never seen Li Hong reach out and ask for something.

Li Hong and Xue Boling looked at each other and smiled, and then, Xue Boling handed Li Hong a cup of tea.

After Li Hong drank a glass of water, he spoke frankly, and said bluntly: "Chief Xue, let me tell you the truth, because I have been fighting on the front line, I have been separated from my daughter-in-law for more than half a year, and I want to go back to meet my daughter-in-law......"

As soon as these words came out, not only Xue Boling was taken aback, but the other officers in the command headquarters were also stunned.

Wu Yuejin, the chief of staff next to him, saw the officers looking at Li Hong in shock, and he hurriedly made a round and asked the others not to make a fuss and continue to work.