With 123 casualties, the Sino-Mimetry coalition air force shot down 230 Japanese fighters, winning with a record of nearly 2 to 1, which also shows that the time has come for the rise of the Chinese Air Force, and the situation in which the Japanese army dominates the sky has gradually gone away.

Of course, compared with the Japanese pilots, there is still a certain distance between the quality of the Chinese pilots, and the key to the victory of this battle is that the performance of the Mustang fighter is completely superior to that of the zero battle, coupled with the all-round observation and command of the radar early warning aircraft, once the technical shortcomings of the pilots and the insufficient number of aircraft are compensated, the Chinese Air Force will not be far away from the abuse of the Japanese Air Force, although it will take time, but after this battle, all Chinese believe that this time will not be too far away.

At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the new 2nd, 4th, and 6th divisions of the 40th Group Army, and nearly 60,000 troops of the three divisions all crossed the river, and the forward troops rushed straight into the direction of Luotian and Yingshan.

But Jiang Haoran was not satisfied with this, as soon as the night fell, the two train ferries seized from Wuchang began to go to Jiujiang at full speed under the cover of night, and the armored brigade built a temporary wharf with steel plates and logs by the river, and at about nine o'clock that night, the two train ferries arrived at Jiujiang one after another, and at ten o'clock, the armored brigade began to cross the river.

Jiang Haoran did not intend to give the Japanese army any respite at all, he wanted to gather all the superior firepower and crush the Japanese Eleventh Army in one fell swoop.

On the highway in Macheng, Hubei, the Japanese army was marching rapidly.

In the dim moonlight, the dense Japanese army rolled forward like a stout army of ants, and the target direction was directly aimed at Jinzhai.

Since the loss of Lu'an Huoshan and Jiang Haoran's 40th Group Army crossed the Yangtze River during the day, Anan Weiji's last hope has also been dashed, and the counterattack on Wuchang has become a fool's dream, and he can't wait for reinforcements to arrive.

Therefore, starting from this morning, Anan Weiji has begun to formulate a retreat plan, the army left all its baggage, the troops are divided into two routes, and retreat in the direction of Jinzhai and Huoshan with all their might, because Huoshan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Anan Weiji is not sure that the imperial army can take Huoshan before the arrival of the troops of the 40th Group Army, and the main direction of retreat is Jinzhai, in order to quickly open the Lu'an passage for the vanguard troops, and the whole army jumps out of the Wuhan battlefield.

But dreams are always beautiful, but reality is always ¥∝dǐng¥∝diǎn¥∝ small ¥∝ said, .2●3.o♂s_(); With such and such cruelty.

On the morning of the next day, Anan Wei had just entered Jinzhai after a night of running, and before he had time to drink a sip of water, a report came from the front that the troops of the 40th Group Army had exchanged fire with the defenders in Luotian and Yingshan, and as soon as they came up, tanks and helicopters opened the way, and directly launched the most fierce attack, and the defense line built by the 40th Division of the defending army overnight was broken through in less than half an hour, and the shape was very critical.

"Poof!"

When Anan heard the news, a mouthful of blood immediately spurted, and the whole person fell to the ground, which frightened Kinoshita Yong and the other staff generals.

It's no wonder that the 40th Division is now the most complete defensive force of the entire 10th Army, and they all block the attack, even if the 10th Army is really finished, Anan Wei never dreamed that the 40th Army would come so quickly and rapidly, and in just one night, they actually advanced to Luotian and Yingshan, which are more than 100 miles away.

The 10th Army has a total of six divisions and three independent mixed brigades, of which the 3rd Division has jumped out of the battlefield and entered the front line of Chizhou and Xuancheng, the 5th Division has been completely annihilated in Huangshan, the 34th Division has also been completely annihilated in De'an, the 39th Division was disabled by the troops of the Ninth Theater when it retreated from Wuchang, and less than one-fifth of those who fled back have been disabled, and the 13th Division has also been disabled in Xinyang, which is not much better than the 39th Division.

Three independent mixed brigades, one has been completely annihilated by the Eighth Route Army in Zhumadian, although the remaining two have no casualties, but the 18th independent mixed brigade has been sent to Lu'an as a forward force, and the 15th independent mixed brigade, with the cooperation of the remnants of the 13th Division, is currently stationed in Macheng to block the pursuit of the ** Fifth Theater and the Ninth Theater.

As for the Japanese army, there are five group armies with a total of 15 divisions and nearly 200,000 puppet troops, it is not worth mentioning at all, nearly half of them were damaged in the battle with various divisions and regiments, and the remaining half has become a frightened bird, from the beginning of the retreat, I am afraid that tens of thousands of soldiers will break and flee, and the Japanese army will kill thousands of people even with killing and slashing, but they cannot stop their determination and pace of escaping.

At the critical moment, Kinoshita bravely came out to take the lead, and on the one hand, he ordered the 40th Division to defend to the death to buy time for the retreat of the large army, and on the other hand, he sent a telegram to General Nishio Shouzo in Nanjing, requesting urgent air support to contain the offensive of the 40th Group Army.

At the same time, the 18th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade was ordered to speed up the march, and it was necessary to take Lu'an tonight to open a life channel for the retreat of the imperial army.

In fact, the current Jinzhai is also in dire straits, ** the Fifth Theater troops gathered the strength of the two armies, since yesterday morning, launched a fierce attack on Jinzhai, the sound of gunfire has continued for a day and a night has not stopped, Jinzhai garrison force through Kinoshita Yong constantly mobilized remnants of troops to replenish, and put two divisions of the Imperial Army to the front, only to be able to suppress the position.

The only force that Kinoshita can count on now is the Imperial Army, which uses all kinds of coercion and inducement to encourage and coerce them to go to the front line to be shot and shelled, and build a great wall of flesh and blood for the Imperial Army.

But Kinoshita's wishful thinking was wrong, and this army, which he had never trusted, could not turn the tide for him at a critical moment.

Less than an hour after Isamu Kinoshita's distress message was sent, Japanese planes swarmed in and carried out intensive bombing and strafing of the 40th Group Army in the vicinity of Luotian and Yingshan.

However, because of the shortage of fuel, the remaining reserves of the Chinese Air Force can only be used on the blade, and yesterday's air battle did bring them a lot of casualties, and they have not appeared on the battlefield, so that the offensive momentum of the 40th Group Army has suddenly decreased sharply, and tanks and helicopters have to disappear from the battlefield.

Just when Kinoshita Yong thought he could take a breath, there was another urgent telegram from the direction of Macheng, and a division of the Imperial Allied Army actually turned back on the battlefield, killed the Imperial Army officers planted in the troops, and surrendered directly to the troops of the Fifth Theater on the battlefield, exposing the flanks of the Macheng defenders directly to the muzzle of **, and the Imperial Army was about to fall into a dangerous situation of being surrounded.

Rao is Kinoshita Yong is smart and scheming, and this will be helpless.

Forced by the shape of the shì, Kinoshita Yong only ordered the defenders of Macheng to fight and retreat, and move closer to the direction of Jinzhai.