As soon as he heard that Nanchang had become an empty city, Zhang Dabiao was so angry that he threw his hat on the ground, and suddenly realized that the Japanese army did not want to counter-encircle the new third division and the new fifth division at all, but to escape.

It's very simple, if the Japanese army pours out of the nest and loses the backing of Nanchang, the national soldiers who pour into Nanchang from the southeast can continuously put their forces into the Nanxun line, and the Japanese army will still surround a ghost?

Soon, the New Sixth Brigade and the New Fifth Brigade also came with news that the Japanese were not thinking about attacking, and after they withdrew from the defensive line, the Japanese did not pursue them, but only cared about passing through the defensive line and surging directly in the direction of Xiushui.

After receiving the news, Zhang Dabiao was silent for a long time, knowing that he had missed an excellent opportunity to intercept and kill the Japanese army, if he ordered his troops to desperately block the attack, as long as he could block the enemy for an hour, the new fourth division in the south would be able to reach the enemy's rear and flank the enemy from both sides, not to mention forcing the Japanese army into the city, at least taking advantage of the chaos to annihilate a part.

It's too late now, the enemy has already cleared all the way, and there must be defense, and the Japanese puppet army of 100,000 people, it is useless for this little force to go to the flank, so they have to let the Japanese army go.

"Send a report to the head office!" Zhang Dabiao muttered to the kitten.

When Jiang Haoran received the telegram, his surprised expression was no less than that of Zhang Dabiao, but he immediately had an epiphany that the Japanese army was losing the car to protect the commander.

At this time, the entire periphery of Wuhan was under the siege of the third and ninth theaters, the shape of the shì bad can be imagined, everywhere is in urgent need of reinforcements, Wuhan has been empty and there is no troops to adjust, decisively abandon Nanchang, vacate nearly 100,000 puppet troops in the city to reinforce the periphery of Wuhan, and at the same time strengthen the defense line from Wuning to De'an, while ensuring Wuhan worry-free, it can also ensure the safety of De'an, the Japanese army's move is indeed wise, and it is also very clever.

In this way, Jiujiang's hold became meaningless, and immediately dangerous, and Jiang Haoran was sure that De'an's Japanese army must have sent troops to advance quickly towards Mahuiling.

At this time, it is no longer possible to consider the problem of holding on, but how to retreat, the Yangtze River is no longer to be counted on, the ships of the New Fourth Army when crossing the river were almost destroyed in the Japanese attack, and then to the west is Wuhan, of course, it is impossible, to the south is De'an, it is even more impossible, at night, De'an's troops are probably as thick as an ant's nest, and then I am afraid that it is already difficult to open up the Nanxun line.

The only thing that can be counted on is Poyang Lake in the east, although there is already a wing of Japanese troops on the opposite bank who are building pontoon bridges, but Jiang Haoran is really counting on the Japanese pontoon bridge to be erected quickly at this time, it is best that before the Japanese navy enters the Yangtze River again, the troops in the city have no boats, and if they want to cross Poyang Lake, they can only find a way from this pontoon bridge.

Jiang Haoran urgently summoned the commanders of the two detachments of the New Fourth Army and Wang Shanhu, and told them unreservedly about the current bad situation, and also pointed out that their only way to escape was to cross Poyang Lake and enter the southern Anhui region.

And in southern Anhui, there is still the second detachment of the New Fourth Army operating in this area, Jiang Haoran was actually referring to them when he said the strange soldiers, originally expecting them to rush to the aid of Jiujiang at the critical moment, but they did not think of it as a chess piece when retreating.

Jiang Haoran discussed with Mr. Chen that since the Japanese army transferred troops from Jingdezhen to support Jiujiang, it would definitely not be only the wing that he saw in front of him, and there would definitely be troops coming over one after another, so the second detachment of the New Fourth Army was needed to block the follow-up troops of the Japanese army and cover the troops of Jiujiang across Poyang Lake.

Considering that the second detachment may still have a misunderstanding of itself in the "Gannan Incident", this is very obvious, otherwise the second detachment would not have been able to abandon the already solid base in Zhejiang and Jiangxi and run to southern Anhui, although the second detachment is still nominally the battle sequence of the 40th Group Army, but they may not listen to their own orders, so this telegram can only be sent by President Chen, after all, it belongs to the New Fourth Army, and it is related to the life and death of fraternal units, and the second detachment should be duty-bound.

Of course, Jiang Haoran could also send the telegram directly to Yan'an through Guò Lin Long, asking Yan'an to give orders directly to the second detachment, but this back and forth took too much time and couldn't wait.

Mr. Chen readily agreed, and immediately said that there was absolutely no problem with this, leaving aside the relationship between the brother units, and relying on his personal relationship with Mr. Su, he had to help with this favor, and immediately did not be verbose, and ordered the telegraph soldiers to immediately send a message to the second detachment requesting support.

As soon as the arrangement was completed, Zhao Zhi of Mahuiling sent a message that the enemy had arrived at Mahuiling, and had just launched a tentative attack, but was repelled by them, and Zhao Zhi also swore that Jiang Haoran would rest assured that as long as he Zhao Zhi was still there, the Japanese army would not want to come from Mahuiling.

His courage is commendable, but Jiang Haoran still reminded Zhao Zhi that he didn't have to hold on, and he couldn't persist and report as soon as possible.

After thinking about it, Jiang Haoran still sent a battalion to support in the direction of Mahuiling, after all, Mahuiling at this time is the key to Jiujiang, although it has the advantage of terrain, but the Japanese attack must be extremely fierce, don't wait for the time to rescue it is too late.

After making these arrangements, Jiang Haoran ordered Leng Rushuang to find the pilot who was rescued last night.

After the plane was hit, the pilot knew that the plane was damaged, so he urgently drove the plane away from the battlefield, parachuted one minute before the plane exploded, and successfully landed on the water.

The pilot's name is Tang Zhisheng, a cadet of Kunming Aviation School, he is only 20 years old this year, and he is not tall and looks younger than his actual age, and the beard on his mouth is still two hairs. Although he had already seen Jiang Haoran at the base, he was still so nervous that he couldn't speak when he stood in front of Jiang Haoran at the moment, and it was Jiang Haoran who asked him what his name was, and he replied with a red face and stammering.

"Tang Zhisheng, well, a good name, how long have you been studying at Kunming Aviation School?" Jiang Haoran asked.

"Report to the general seat, the subordinate is the 26th year of the Republic of China to enter the pilot class of Kunming Aviation School, it has been more than three years, and the flight experience is 300 hours." Tang Zhisheng stepped forward and replied, with a smug look on his expression.

During the same period, Japanese pilots were usually allowed to fly planes after six or seven hundred hours of flying experience, but the Chinese Air Force was limited by the number of planes, and those who could fly for 300 hours were basically very good students.

"Hehe, I can't see that you're not old, you're still an old pilot, can you repair airplanes?" Jiang Haoran said with a smile.

"Report the total seat, as long as it is not a big machine failure, there is no problem with small problems."

"Okay, isn't there a plane left at the airport yesterday, go see if it can be repaired, if you can drive it back, if it can't be repaired, it will blow it up, and you can't leave it to the devil?"

"Yes, Chief!" Tang Zhisheng agreed.

Jiang Haoran asked the acting chief of staff to arrange a few New Fourth Army troops to help him, and told him that the time left for him would not be too long, and he must not be delayed.

The second detachment of the New Fourth Army finally called back, informing them that they had already noticed the movement of the Japanese army in Huangshan and had deployed a blocking plan, even if Mr. Chen did not send a telegram, they would block the Japanese army, and assured Mr. Chen that the Japanese army in the direction of Huangshan would never reach Jiujiang.

This news reassured Jiang Haoran a lot, as long as there would be no reinforcements from the Japanese army in the direction of Poyang Lake, he was still a little sure that he would fight from here.

Zhao Zhi's combat effectiveness of these hundreds of people was greatly beyond Jiang Haoran's imagination, by four o'clock in the afternoon, the enemy had been repelled four attacks, and the defense line was still immovable, of course, a battalion of support had already arrived, but it was regarded as a reserve, and it was not on the battlefield at all, the will of the soldiers was one aspect, and the absolute advantage of the terrain created the legend of Zhao Zhi.

In the evening, the Japanese navy finally came, and more than a dozen frigates surrounded the dense troop transport ships, and drove into the waters of the Jiujiang River.

However, this time there was no defense of the New Fourth Army on the riverside, and the Japanese marines landed directly, and Jiang Haoran ordered the troops to hide in the anti-artillery holes in the city, originally thinking that after the arrival of the Japanese naval ships, this artillery attack was inevitable, but who knew that the Japanese army did not move at all when it was completely dark, and even the Japanese troops who landed stopped a mile outside the city wall, as if they did not intend to attack immediately.

Because the siege of De'an had been lifted, the Japanese army was not in a hurry, and the pontoon bridge over Poyang Lake was bombed by planes last night, and it was not completely unblocked today, and the Japanese army probably knew that the land combat effectiveness of the Marine Corps was really worrisome, so they did not launch an attack, and it was estimated that they would have to wait for the Motorized Wing of the Fifth Division on the other side of Poyang Lake to cross the lake and advance in unison.

If the Japanese army does not attack, of course Jiang Haoran will not provoke them, and he is hoping that this time will be as long as possible.

Tang Zhisheng's plane has not yet been repaired, although the second detachment of the New Fourth Army has promised to block the enemy, but has not yet received accurate information, these will still take time, of course, the most important thing is that the Japanese army in the direction of Poyang Lake has not yet finished building a pontoon bridge to cross the lake.

Jiang Haoran's wishful thinking was to wait for the Japanese army to cross the lake and start attacking, then use the tunnel to penetrate behind the enemy, quickly occupy the pontoon bridge, and build a defensive line behind the enemy, and then the soldiers in the city quickly entered the tunnel, blew up the tunnel entrance, and the troops quickly crossed Poyang Lake and entered the southern Anhui area to join the second detachment of the New Fourth Army.

Although the plan is simple, it is very practical, and the probability of success is quite high, after all, the Japanese army does not know the existence of this tunnel, and there are still several miles from Poyang Lake to Jiujiang City, once the Japanese army begins to attack the city, the rear is absolutely empty, and the Snow Wolf special combat team is taken by surprise, and it is not difficult to occupy the pontoon bridge.

The biggest threat came from the Japanese naval guns, but I was afraid that the Japanese army would put a few warships on Poyang Lake in order to cover the lake, and no matter how strong the Snow Wolf Special Combat Team was, it would not be able to confront the warships.