Because of its closer distance and slightly wider road, Huoshan will surely become the first choice for the retreat of the Japanese mechanized troops, which highlights the importance of its geographical location.

Because Huoshan is located in the hinterland of Dabie Mountain, its complex terrain and steep mountains made the Japanese army relax their vigilance, and only placed a brigade of the Japanese army and a brigade of the Imperial Allied Army here, and after Lu'an was attacked, the Japanese army also transferred two-thirds of this strength to help Lu'an, which also gave the second detachment of the New Fourth Army an opportunity.

The New Fourth Army had been active in the Dabie Mountains for a long time, so it was naturally very familiar with the terrain in this area, and the second detachment used more than 10 days to cross the Dabie Mountains, taking a road that the Japanese army did not even think about. A thousand men and horses rushed straight to Huoshan, directly from the rear of Huoshan, and took the Japanese army by surprise. Another thousand men and horses set up an ambush halfway, and when they reached the halfway road, they were shocked to hear that Huoshan was attacked, and hurriedly went back to the Japanese army into the ambush ground, a thousand soldiers machine guns, grenades, and bazookas swept out like raindrops, and annihilated more than half of the Japanese army in the first round, and then a charge submerged them all, and the unique ravine terrain made the Japanese puppet army not even have a chance to escape.

Although there are only about 2,000 people in the New Fourth Army, they are all capable soldiers selected from the troops, and the weapons they carry are also excellent, although there is no artillery fire, but they have received Jiang Haoran's assistance, light and heavy machine guns, grenadiers and even bazookas, all of them are young and old, plus the strength is almost the same as the Japanese army, but the overall quality is much higher, the battle basically took less than two hours from the start to the end, only a small number of Japanese troops and puppet troops in Huoshan saw the opportunity earlier, fled westward and escaped from the battlefield, and most of them were completely annihilated or captured by the New Fourth Army.

As soon as the battle ended, Su Zong immediately ordered his troops to build two lines of defense at Heishidu to block the retreat of the Japanese army in Wuhan.

Heishidu is located in the west of Huoshan Mountain, which is the only way for the Japanese army in Wuhan to enter Huoshan, and its terrain is a narrow strip of low-lying in the middle, cliffs on both sides of the road, and surrounded by mountains on all sides. There are narrow passes at both ends of the entrance, the east end is called Kafang Ridge, and the west end is called Majialing, which is the dangerous pass of "one husband is the pass, and ten thousand people are not open".

Don't look at Su Zong, there are only 2,000 men and horses, but in this kind of terrain, the Japanese army can only invest a large number of troops at most, as long as the weapons and ammunition are sufficient, the Japanese army will be in vain even if it is thousands of troops and horses, which is also the main reason why Jiang Haoran wants to attack Huoshan.

Huoshan fell into the hands of the squadron, the Japanese army can choose the only retreat route Jinzhai, Wuhan Eleventh Army hundreds of thousands of troops can only hope to recapture Lu'an through Jinzhai and open up the retreat route, after all, Lu'an only has a division of the Eighth Route Army, and the success rate seems to be quite high, and it is precisely because of this "seemingly high success rate" that Jiang Haoran has contributed to the strategic layout of Jiang Haoran's "thousands of troops and horses blocking Jinzhai".

The Japanese army probably did not expect that after the New Fourth Army took Madang Fortress, except for one regiment to hold on, all the other troops drove to Dabie Mountain, and the good mass relations and the cover of the green barrier in the mountainous area made the New Fourth Army invisible in the eyes of the Japanese army.

Just when the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army defeated Lu'an, more than 40,000 New Fourth Army, under the leadership of Wang Shanhu, was only more than 100 miles away from Lu'an.

At dawn, at the foot of Yuelu Mountain, the ** former enemy headquarters.

The chairman of the committee sat in the first place with a gloomy face, and below him sat a group of party-state members who were silent, and only Dai Li, director of the Military Command Bureau, bowed his head and stood beside the chairman, with a look of chagrin on his face, and a civilized stick on the ground that the chairman was accustomed to was broken in two.

Just received the news that the Eighth Route Army had conquered Lu'an, and the chairman of the committee could still be calm, after all, this was a part of what they had already expected, but then it broke out that the New Fourth Army had defeated Huoshan, and the chairman's face was already very ugly, he began to suspect that the Yan'an troops would have any big actions next, and immediately set his eyes on the nearest New Fourth Army, and ordered Dai Li to investigate, and actually found that the New Fourth Army had left the Yangtze River a few days ago. At this time, the chairman of the committee was furious, and greeted Dai Li's body with a civilized stick, and he didn't relieve his hatred until he broke the stick in two, and slapped Dai Li's twice.

As the director of the Military Command Bureau, Dai Li actually got nothing of such important information, and he should have received this meal. Before the war, Dai Li reported that the Eighth Route Army was 20,000 or 30,000 horses, and during the war, it became more than 80,000, and now it is certain that the troops of the Eighth Route Army in the front line have reached a terrifying 130,000 people, which has made the chairman extremely dissatisfied with him, and now that he has made such a big mistake, where can the chairman spare him.

The matter in front of us must come up with a suitable plan to solve it, and the chairman of the committee must not let the Yan'an troops gain a firm foothold in Hubei, Henan, and Anhui.

After some deliberation, Tong Guò finally came to a conclusion that satisfied everyone, that is, the Seventh Army postponed the attack on Jinzhai, opened the main road, and let the Japanese Eleventh Army troops in Wuhan pass, the Eighth Route Army plus the New Fourth Army was a great 50,000 horses, and the Japanese Eleventh Army was hundreds of thousands of troops, see if they can withstand a few days of attrition, and when they are finished, they will raise troops to catch up, as long as the goal of recovering Wuhan is achieved, everything else is no longer important.

After giving the order to the Seventh Army, the chairman did not forget to give Jiang Haoran an order, ordering his Jiujiang troops to postpone the crossing of the river and wait for the battle situation to be clear before making plans.

Nanchang, headquarters of the 40th Group Army.

The news that Lu'an and Huoshan were taken made the headquarters boil, the encirclement had been formed, and it was already a matter of time before the Japanese 11th Army was annihilated.

Just when they were smiling, the chairman's telegram arrived, and when Jiang Haoran received the telegram, the expression on his face suddenly froze, and then a deafening angry scolding broke out: "I'm rubbing the fuck, shit, this is just a bullshit order!" ”

According to the plan, at this time, the 40th Group Army should transfer all the troops that can be drawn, cross the river as far as possible, and go straight from Huangmei to Luotian and Yingshan, if the Japanese army sees the opportunity quickly, the 40th Group Army will be the pursuing force, and if the Japanese army still has the dream of holding on to the reinforcements and fighting back to Wuchang, the 40th Group Army will decisively cut them off, divide the Japanese army into two battlefields, east and west, and then the troops from all directions will rush up. The end of the campaign is a matter of ten days.