China's weakness and retreat raised the appetite of the Japanese army and Japan, and Japan, thousands of miles away, entered a state of madness inflated by greed and victory.

The Japanese, who have been brainwashed by ****, dream of sweeping the entire land of China like the Qing soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty, and come to enjoy the incomparably vast land, enjoy the supreme glory and wealth of generations.

What's more, they dream of achieving a ***** circle, dominating Asia, and then becoming the hegemon of the world.

In the midst of this feverish dream, the streets of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Yokohama, Kobe, Sapporo and other places were full of people who joined the army and participated in the war.

Some of the young people who did not meet the qualifications to join the army committed suicide radically, which made the media portray heroes who died without a fight, which greatly stimulated the Japanese people.

Even the "Field Service Corps", which provides *** for the soldiers at the front, is overcrowded due to fanatical young female students vying to sign up.

To tell the truth, apart from the act of aggression, Japan did have the strength and capital to fanatize, and at that time, Japan's strength was really huge with that of Asian countries, and in that era when the winner was king, anyone would have ambitions.

Therefore, relying on their huge strength and unprecedented domestic support, the Japanese army ignored the Yellow River to stop their westward advance, and instead went up the Yangtze River to attack Wuhan.

After the Yellow River burst on June 9, on June 12, the Central China Front of the Japanese army immediately began to attack Anqing, an important town on the Yangtze River.

For a while, the mountains and rivers changed color, and the blood and rain were bloody.

Wuhan is the birthplace of the Xinhai Revolution, and now it is the center of the Chinese nation's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The reason is normal, because Wuhan and Nanjing have one thing in common, that is, there is no danger to defend.

The reason why Wuhan is big is that three cities are connected together to form a super city, but in addition to the Yangtze River, there are no high mountains around, similar to an egg cake, which is spread out very large and thin.

Moreover, this Yangtze River natural danger, once the fight starts, it is very likely to be the same as the Yangtze River in Nanjing at that time, and it did not stop others, so that it killed itself.

Because the Japanese army has powerful naval ships, it can blockade the big rivers at any time, and where there are big rivers, it is more beneficial to the Japanese army, and where there are high mountains and lofty mountains, the Japanese army's superior mechanization and heavy artillery will be neutralized.

Therefore, in view of the painful lesson of the Battle of Nanjing, which finally turned into a turtle in an urn, the Central Military Commission decided to boldly change the combat mode of defending the city and blocking the attack in the past to defend Wuhan this time, and to place the center of gravity of defensive operations in the outlying areas of Wuhan.

Look a little farther, in the east direction, there is Dabie Mountain in the north, and there is Makufu Mountain in the south, the mountains are continuous and treacherous, and you can lay ambushes, fight with them, and block the enemy's westward advance.

Looking a little farther away, both sides of the Yangtze River from Wuhan to Nanjing, the southern part of Henan and Anhui provinces, and the northern part of Hubei and Jiangxi provinces are all vast peripheral battlefields.

Defend Wuhan without fighting in Wuhan, strive to consume the Japanese army to the maximum, exchange space for time, and win time for the organs, institutions, organizations, schools, and factories that have moved to Wuhan to retreat to the rear of the Southwest University.

At that time, the state government adopted the "Third Phase of the Military Commission's Operational Plan" in Wuhan, which clearly stated:

"** To ensure Wuhan as the center, with the peripheral theaters as the outline, build a strong position in the mountains of eastern Hunan, northern Jiangxi, western Anhui, and southern Henan, consume the Japanese army's strength, and protracted the war of resistance."

At the same time, at the end of June, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government issued the "Propaganda Outline for the First Anniversary of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression", officially putting forward the slogan of "Defending Great Wuhan".

Among them, the anti-Japanese war song "Defending Great Wuhan", composed by Zheng Lucheng and lyrics by Sha Brigade and Erdong, began to be widely sung in the north and south of the river, and the three dogs were also singing during the training of the troops in the past few days:

The blood is boiling in Poyang, and the sparks are flying in the Yangtze River;

The whole country roared violently, defending Wuhan!

Wuhan was the center of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Wuhan is the largest metropolis today.

We will resolutely defend her,

Like the Spanish people defend Madrid,

crush the enemy's offensive and consolidate the anti-Japanese front;

Use our infinite power to defend Wuhan!

crush the enemy's offensive and consolidate the anti-Japanese front;

Use our infinite power to defend Wuhan!

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In view of the outstanding performance of the 74th Army in the previous Anti-Japanese Wars, the army commander Yu Jishi was appointed as the commander of the 36th Army Corps, under the jurisdiction of the 74th Army and the 29th Army.

This 29th Army was not the Northwest Army originally stationed in Pingjin, and the original Northwest 29th Army, which was famous for killing the enemy with a big sword at Xifengkou during the Great Wall War of Resistance and had a glorious tradition, was abolished.

After the abolition, it was changed to the First Group Army, and the 29th Army was also divided into three armies, namely Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army, Liu Ruming's 68th Army, and Feng Zhi'an's 77th Army.

In order to strengthen the military strength to defend Wuhan, the Military Committee formed the 29th Army on the basis of the 79th Division, adding 40 divisions, which were directly under the jurisdiction of the Military Committee of the National Defense Kuomintang, with Chen Anbao as the commander and commander of the 79th Division.

At this time, the Central China Front of the Japanese army also set up a special 11th Army to attack Wuhan, with Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji as the commander.

The 11th Army of the Japanese Army has under the jurisdiction of the 6th Division, the 101st Division, the 106th Division and the Taiwan Botian Detachment, as well as the ground artillery, antiaircraft artillery, machine gun brigades, communications, field searchlights, bridges and river crossings, etc., with a total strength of more than 100,000 troops.

The key point is that the 11th Army is a purely field mobile force, and it does not have any garrison mission, and its combat purpose is basically to destroy the opponent's backbone forces, and as soon as the occupied area is handed over to the troops receiving the defense, it will carry out the next target operation.

Of course, before fighting against it, the Chinese ** did not know that the Japanese 11th Army was such a unit, and now it only learned about the establishment and establishment of this army.

It wasn't until after the fight that I knew that this army would always be the bitter master of the unit where they were in the future, especially the three dogs, and they were also the main opponents, and they were the troops who killed the most enemies by the three dogs.

In late July, Sangou and their troops received a notice to go to Jiangxi, and when the news came, some veterans of the old seventh company were very excited and wanted to go back to their hometown.

Sangou's leg injury was also just right, and when he was recuperating before, Xiucai replaced Sangou and combined and trained the new soldiers with everyone.

Because they all know the tension of the situation, the training is very hard, and Sangou is afraid that Xiucai is kind-hearted, and he is too merciful when leading the troops, and the quality of training cannot keep up.

Later, Sangou secretly asked Yang Muhua to push the wheelchair to the training ground, took a look, and found that he was wrong, the well-mannered Xiucai was on the training ground, like a vicious wolf, more ruthless than himself.

Xiucai took the military stick and really beat the brothers who didn't complete the training task, and really beat it. Whether it is a recruit or a veteran, there is no face, and because of fairness, almost no one dares to resist.

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