The Japanese Uemura detachment had about half a division's strength, and Li Lei thought that Wang Han's plane would throw that thing over, and the Uemura detachment would lose almost a quarter of its strength.

There are still a lot of troops left.

It's not realistic to want to beat it down in a short period of time.

The combat effectiveness of the 70th and 73rd armies cannot be compared with that of the 8th Army.

Even with the addition of his new brigade, at most it was barely able to block the attack of the Kamimura detachment towards Changsha.

However, the troops in northern Hunan were insufficient, and now the Japanese army was attacking the defense line of the Tiger Boy in the Xinqiang River.

If the defense line is penetrated, Changsha will also not be guaranteed.

If this kind of fight continues, the entire war situation in Hunan will be too dangerous.

If you want to make the Uemura detachment ineffective, you must cut off his baggage.

The Uemura detachment was a lone force of the Japanese army, and they occupied the camp field, and if they wanted to get the baggage supplies, they could only transport them by Japanese ships.

On Dongting Lake, there is the 11th fleet of the Japanese army.

It would be nice if we could take out the Japanese fleet of ships.

Li Lei thought, alas, he did not have anti-ship bombs.

In this case, the camp can only be taken back, so that the baggage of the Uemura detachment will not be able to go ashore.

At the same time, the baggage supplies of the Japanese army in northern Hunan can also be destroyed for them.

As long as their supply lines are cut off, the Japanese army in northern Hunan will be weak in attack.

With the current deployment of troops in northern Xiangbei, it should be able to hold it.

Li Lei told Zhao Gang about his thoughts.

Several people thought it was feasible.

So Li Lei asked Zhao Gang to immediately send a report to the New Fourth Army, asking the chief to send troops to southern Hubei to destroy the supply lines of the Japanese army.

From southern Hubei to Hunan, there is a railway.

The supply of the Japanese army was through this railway.

In the middle of this railway, there is a bridge.

As long as the bridge is blown up, the supply of the Japanese army will be cut off immediately.

Even if the pontoon bridge is erected, it will take at least a day.

And with pontoons, supplies can only be transported by truck.

There are small numbers, and it is also easier to fight their ambushes.

Even if supplies arrived, they would be slow and not in sufficient quantities.

Without supplies, Okamura Ninji's troops would have no teeth.

It's hard to say who will hit whom at that time.

As soon as Li Lei's telegram was sent, the commander of the New Fourth Army received it.

After the chief made a study and judgment, he immediately transferred the nearest 3rd Division to southern Hunan.

At this time, the Uemura detachment, after receiving an order from Okamura Ninji, left a squadron to guard the camp.

Others, under the command of Uemura, directly began to attack the defense line of the 70th Army.

The strength of the Seventy Army could hardly withstand the powerful attack of the Uemura detachment.

Tiger Boy ordered the 70th Army, after blocking the Kamimura detachment for three hours, to immediately move east and let the Kamimura detachment pass.

Then the defensive line was rearranged and prepared to encircle the Kamimura detachment.

The attack of the Uemura detachment was fierce, and the defensive line of the Seventy Army was very badly impacted.

The troops on the defensive line, the casualties were very large.

The strength of a company was killed in less than ten minutes after going up.

Of course, the Uemura detachment was not easy there either.

The casualties were no small either.

However, because Uemura received an order from Okamura Ninji to die, he had to rush to Sanniang Bridge.

Therefore, the attack of the Uemura detachment was very fierce.

There was simply no respite for the Seventy.

Within an hour, the Uemura detachment broke through the two lines of defense of the Seventy Army.

At this rate of attack, if the Seventy Army were to hold off the Kamimura detachment for three hours, the casualties would be very large.

In order to preserve the strength of the Seventy Army and give them the ability to surround the Kamimura detachment, Tiger Boy could only order the Seventy Army to retreat immediately, get out of the defensive line, and let the Kamimura detachment in.

At this time, Li Lei's new brigade had already rushed to the outskirts of Yingtian.

The Uemura detachment has already gone to Sanniang Bridge.

Tiger Tsai told Li Lei about the breakthrough of the Shangcun detachment through the defense line of the 70th Army.

Listening to the meaning of the tiger boy, the Uemura detachment dispatched almost all the troops, otherwise it would not have been possible to attack so fiercely.

In that case, there are not many Japanese troops stationed in Yingtian?

Li Lei was a little surprised.

In order to figure out the situation, Li Lei asked Xu Hu to take a few people to investigate the situation in Yingtian.

Li Lei, on the other hand, sent a telegram to Tiger Boy.

The content is that the 73rd Army must block the Uemura detachment.

His plane will drop special bombs on the Uemura detachment.

Although Li Lei didn't say it explicitly, the smart tiger boy heard it as soon as he heard it.

Special bombs?

What these four words mean, Tiger Boy is clear.

It's just that why does Li Lei even have this kind of thing?

This took him by surprise.

At the same time, it also made the tiger cub a little worried.

The use of such bombs can have an impact on their reputation.

Lao Wu is also a little worried, is it really good to use special bombs?

The tiger boy wrinkled his brows and thought for a while.

What is personal reputation for the sake of national interests?

If you use it, you will use it.

In order to resist the overall situation, something happened, and I took it.

This time, in order to defend Changsha, how many soldiers have been sacrificed!

The Hunan Army, the Sichuan Army, so many troops, in order to resist the Japanese Eleventh Army, suffered heavy casualties.

Some troops have lost more than half of their direct losses!

It's not just a number, it's a strip of bright red life.

They were all raised by their parents, so they lost their lives in Hunan.

I'm a tiger boy, my reputation is damaged, and I don't deserve to be a general, what is it?

The tiger boy gritted his teeth and told Li Lei that he was relieved to fight, and if something happened, he would bear it.

At the same time, Tiger Tsai ordered the 73rd Army to block the Kamimura detachment.

Their reinforcements will arrive soon.

Wang Han received Li Lei's order and immediately flew the plane to Sanniang Bridge.

Just as the Kamimura detachment was advancing towards Sanniang Bridge, the sky, which was still bright just now, suddenly became dark.

Uemura looked up and was shocked.

Solar eclipse!!

What's going on?

Not only Uemura, but also the Japanese troops of the entire Uemura detachment watched in horror as the sun above their heads became smaller and smaller.

A large black shadow was obscuring the sun.

The Japanese army is very superstitious about solar eclipses, and when a solar eclipse appears, something bad will definitely happen.

The entire Kamimura detachment was in a panic.

Looking at the darkening sky, I panicked.

Li Lei was also stunned for a moment.

I didn't expect there to be a solar eclipse today.

Solar eclipse??

Li Lei was stunned for a moment, and suddenly his heart was overjoyed.

Solar eclipses are often followed by heavy rain.

This is the summary of many old people.

If there is really heavy rain, then this battle, Okamura Ninji, will really lose.

Li Lei immediately sent a telegram to the tiger boy.

I told him about my analysis for the reference of the tiger cub.

Li Lei's approximate meaning was that the Third Division of the New Fourth Army had already gone to sabotage the supply routes of the Japanese army.

If there are no accidents, it will definitely succeed.

The Japanese railway was destroyed.

It cannot be repaired in a short period of time.

Replenishment can only be carried out by car.

In good weather, the supply of vehicles was barely enough to meet the needs of the Japanese army.

But if it rains heavily for the next few days, it will be difficult for the Japanese trucks to move.

Not only the Japanese trucks, but also the Japanese artillery, will also get bogged down.

Not only will the speed of the Japanese attack be weakened, but their ammunition and food supplies will also be in big trouble.

Without supplies from the rear, the ammunition of the Japanese army could last two days at most.

At that time, on their own side, the advantage in the number of personnel was highlighted.

A large-scale counteroffensive is possible.

After the loss of Yingtian, Li Lei felt that something was wrong.

The nose of the Japanese army is too sensitive, right?

It is very likely that Ke Lijuan reported the strength of the camp to the Japanese army.

In order to prevent another leak of secrets, Li Lei specially sent Zhao Gang to Changsha and met Tiger Boy and Lao Wu.

It is suggested that the telegram between him and the tiger boy should be first published, and one person should be involved.

That way there will be no leaks.

The loss of Yingtian also made Tiger Boy and Chief of Staff Wu suspicious.

It seems that there is indeed a mole in his headquarters.

Otherwise, it would not have been possible that as soon as they mentioned Yingtian, the Japanese army suddenly attacked.

No matter how coincidental it is, it can't be such a coincidence.

At this time, Tiger Boy and Chief of Staff Wu felt that what Li Lei said was right.

There must be a mole.

The key is whether this mole is Ke Lijuan or not, it is not easy to determine.

To be on the safe side, Chief of Staff Wu specially assigned a person to be in charge of the telegram exchange between them and Li Lei.

This person receives and receives telegrams not at the newspaper office, but in the office of Tiger Boy.

No one else can go in.

So now Li Lei and Tiger Boy's telegram is impossible to leak at all.

If there is still a leak, then needless to say, it must be the operator.

The tiger boy was taken aback when he received Li Lei's telegram.

Did the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army go to sabotage the Japanese railway?

Tiger Boy hurriedly walked to the map and looked at the railway between Wuhan and Changsha.

If this section of the railway is destroyed, it will be very beneficial to the war in Changsha.

However, what the hell did Li Lei say that there would be heavy rain in the next two days?

It's not strange that he understands military affairs, and he also understands this weather?

Lao Wu was also strange, looking at Li Lei's telegram tone, he seemed to be very sure.

"If there is really a heavy rain, then the whole of northern Hunan will become a country. At that time, the Japanese army will not only have difficulty in supplying, but the speed of the march will also be greatly slowed.

Their heavy artillery, trucks, infantry guns, will all get bogged down.

If you want to attack again, it will be difficult. ”

Tiger Boy nodded: "If that's really the case, then our troops can completely form a short-term advantage over the Japanese army." As long as we attack, Okamura Ninji will definitely retreat.

If he does not retreat, then his troops are in danger of being surrounded.

Okamura Ninji would never allow this to happen.

If his eleventh army is heavily damaged by us.

Then there will be a big change in the war situation of the whole country.

The 11th Army was the only mobile combat unit of the Japanese army.

If something goes wrong with the Eleventh Army, the blow to the Japanese army will be significant. ”

"But I'm still worried about one thing.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army will be weakened by then.

But if we attack in a big way, our troops will also suffer heavy casualties.

Although the Japanese army was short of ammunition, it was no problem to hold out for two days. ”