But they underestimated Jiang Haoran's use of troops, such a big flaw has long been seen, but they don't disdain to send them to the gallows so quickly, first, they don't want to 'force' them too tightly, so that they can retreat prematurely, and secondly, it is indeed a lack of troops, and third, that is, Jiang Haoran also wants to leave more time for the Eighth Route Army to take Lu'an, and these, Anan Weiji and Kinoshita Yong may not have dreamed of-(novel)-79-

In the afternoon, various planes of the Japanese navy and army aviation appeared in the skies above the outer positions of Wuhan as scheduled, and launched an unprecedented round of bombing; the planes dispatched in one afternoon were more than the total number of planes in successive days, and the sky was full of planes with plaster "medicine" flags, and the combat area included Huangshan, Nanchang, Jiujiang, Xinyang, Jingzhou, Yueyang, Tongshan, and Xiushui, and the entire outer defense line was taken care of.

Moreover, if they do not move, they will inevitably cover the sky and the sun, as many as locusts, even if the ** air force has the most advanced radar, but the enemy group dispatch, not at all to give you a plan to break one by one, with the number of ** air force, you can only look at the sky and sigh, after all, the ** air force is still in the reconstruction stage, and it cannot be consumed in a battle. It was only one day that the Japanese planes abused all the front-line troops "79,", and the offensive momentum immediately decreased sharply.

In order to open the way for the 35th Division, the Japanese army plowed all the suspicious targets along the line, causing many casualties to the Eighth Route Army. At the same time, the 35th Division of the Japanese Army advanced twenty or thirty miles in one afternoon.

At night, all the fighters of the 14th Air Force and the Independent Flight Group of the 40th Group Army also went out, and under the command of two early warning aircraft, they also turned a round of retaliatory 'sex' attacks on the Japanese army Tongshan, Xiushui, and Yueyang, especially the 35th Division of Zhumadian, which suffered a round of heavy losses without defense. [A lot of good novels]

During the entire bombing process, the Japanese army could only look at the sky and sigh, and several night sky fighters and reconnaissance planes could only watch from a distance and run away, and if they ran slowly, they would be immediately caught up and killed, and the Japanese army had not yet understood how Jiang Haoran realized all-weather combat with his planes.

In the next few days, the two sides seemed to have reached a tacit understanding, one day they went out to bomb and machine gun fire everywhere, and the other night they went out, the target was to focus on the Japanese 35th Division and the 36th Division to bomb.

The course of the battle had to be slowed down because of the absolute superiority of the Japanese air force, and the 11th Army also successfully transferred the 40th Yueyang Division back to Wuhan in the past few days, most of which merged with the remnants of the 13th Division to prepare for the counterattack on Xinyang.

At this point, the Japanese army's southwest defense line is more compact, Jiayu, Tongshan, Wuning, two divisions plus a wing and tens of thousands of puppet troops, all pressed on this defense line that is only dozens of miles long, for a while, so that ** is helpless at all.

Another thing that has to be mentioned is that when the Japanese navy appeared in the waters of the East China Sea, the Japanese aircraft carrier guns also carried out a tentative 'sexual' attack on Wenzhou, but fortunately, all the shore-based artillery in Wenzhou was replaced with a 200-mm caliber cannon, and the ten 'guns' cannon played the role of the mainstay, and the Japanese army's tentative 'sexual' attack did not succeed, but lost a light cruiser.

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

The New Fourth Army retreated to Hukou and Pengze, and their task was relatively easy, and while being responsible for the sneak attack of a small group of enemy troops across the Yangtze River defense line, they also went up the mountains to cut wood, and cooperated with the Zhouqiao troops of the 40th Group Army's armored brigade to prepare for the crossing of the Yangtze River.

Since the New Fourth Division occupied Jiujiang, the Japanese naval ships tried to get through to Guò several times, but they were all beaten away by the dense shells of the two artillery regiments, and the dense drifting mines on the Yangtze River were too much to prevent, and after several attempts to no avail, the Japanese had to completely abandon this idea.

So far, the most 'fierce' frontier of the war was Zhumadian, and the two divisions of the Japanese army pressed the border, and it was no longer a small-scale sabotage war or guerrilla warfare that could solve the problem, and the Eighth Route Army, which was not good at positional warfare, had no choice but to deploy its troops in the field and start a positional war with the enemy.

However, Mr. Zhu is not a good person, he built three lines of defense on the side of the Shahe River in Luohe, confronted the Japanese army, and fixed the Japanese army on the east bank of the Shahe River, and did not move forward for a few days, the entire Shahe River was dyed red 'color', and the floating corpses of the Japanese army were all over the field, but on the south bank of the Shahe River, the Eighth Route Army was also full of corpses, and the tragedy of the battle was unimaginable.

Fortunately, the Eighth Route Army had just taken Zhumadian, and a large number of Japanese equipment had been seized from Zhumadian, and there was no shortage of weapons, ammunition, and ammunition, among which there were dozens of 'doors' of various artillery fires.

At the critical moment, Bai Chongxi did a great favor, and the artillery of four artillery companies was 'drawn' from the two group armies and urgently sent to the front of the Eighth Route Army by car, which made these artillery fires play a role.

It was precisely because of these artillery fires that all the pontoon bridges built by the Japanese army several times were destroyed by artillery, which contributed to the Eighth Route Army's success in blocking the two divisions of the Japanese army on the east bank of the Shahe River for ten days, and also laid a solid foundation for the victory of the entire Wuhan Battle.

It seems that Wuhan is still in the hands of the Japanese army, and the entire southwest defense line has become an insurmountable barrier, but in fact, a substantial change has taken place, and the Japanese 11th Army is deeply encircled has become an ironclad fact, and all foreign aid troops basically have no hope.

The troops of Xuancheng and Lin'an, because of the loss of Huangshan, no longer have any significance for reinforcements. The 35th and 36th Divisions on the periphery of Zhumadian have not been able to advance a single step on the east bank of the Shahe River because of the desperate resistance of the Eighth Route Army. The two divisions of the Kwantung Army were even more interesting, the Eighth Route Army and the Jinsui Army in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo area were dispatched from multiple routes and points, and the entire railway line from Shijiazhuang to Xuchang was completely stripped off, and they often put on a posture of large-scale attack, attacking Taiyuan today, Heshun tomorrow, and Handan the day after tomorrow, so that the Japanese army was busy running for their lives and returned in vain.

Because two divisions were 'drawn' from North China, the Japanese army's strength in North China was also stretched, and this time the two divisions of the Kwantung Army were set in Shijiazhuang, and they did not dare to move their nests at all.

Therefore, the 11th Army of the Japanese Army in Wuhan has completely become a lone army, and the main source of all strategic materials is to cross the Dabie Mountains from He'fei and Lu'an to enter Wuhan, but this route is rugged and narrow because of the storage of the Dabie Mountains.