By noon, Jiang Haoran had already passed Shitai County, and it was only a few dozen miles away from Chizhou, and the troops followed in an orderly manner. This made Jiang Haoran feel very strange, the Japanese army put on such a large formation, but the attack strength was not large.

In addition to the round of artillery attacks in the early morning, only one fierce attack was organized after dawn, and since the retreat began, the Japanese army was not in a hurry, but followed behind ** from a distance, and there was a feeling of driving sheep into the pen.

The more he thought about it, the more wrong it became, Jiang Haoran ordered the troops to stop retreating and garrison on the spot, and at the same time ordered the troops in Chizhou to quickly transport the materials out and distribute them to the troops.

As soon as this side stopped, the devils really attacked, and the two Japanese troops in Jingdezhen and Pengze in the rear immediately turned to attack the new Ninth Division and the New Seventh Division.

"Hey, hey!" On the contrary, the Japanese army's behavior made Jiang Haoran amused, and tentatively ordered the troops to start retreating again, and the devil's attack stopped immediately, and the Japanese army in the direction of Huangshan did not move at all, and this attempt to drive the sheep into the circle was already very obvious.

Jiang Haoran immediately ordered the staff officer to take out the map, looked at it carefully, and finally saw that there was a way, and he was going to drive himself into Chizhou for another pot of stew.

Although the outline of Chizhou is high and deep, but the terrain is low, and it is on the edge of the Yangtze River, the naval artillery can be blown into without the strength of blowing, once the first enters the city, several divisions of the Japanese army besiege the city on three sides, condescending to the cannons, a wild bombardment, hundreds of thousands of troops are unable to escape, and even will not bring too many casualties to the Japanese army.

Okamura Ningji calculated Jiang Haoran's current situation, there was no other way but to enter Chizhou, and he was not even willing to waste some troops and make a mistake, I stopped the enemy, I stopped the enemy to catch up, just waiting for myself to properly enter Chizhou and lie under his gun.

"Humph!" Jiang Haoran snorted coldly and scolded: "Okamura Ningci, this old bastard, is easy to calculate, he actually played tricks with Lao Tzu, he is sure to eat Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu's temper really doesn't pee on his pot, order, the new 11th Division and the Snow Wolf Special Combat Team immediately withdraw from Chizhou and move closer to me." Order, all troops rely on the favorable mountain terrain to build fortifications on the spot, Lao Tzu will not leave! ”

The staff officer hurriedly issued Jiang Haoran's order, and Yin Donglai, the acting chief of staff of the new 32nd Army on the side, said worriedly: "General seat, I'm afraid we won't be able to support it for long if we don't enter Chizhou, there is no ammunition, no effective support, no reinforcements, just relying on the flesh and blood of the soldiers to block the steel torrent of the Japanese army, no matter how strong the will will will be broken?" ”

"Don't worry, as long as you survive this afternoon, the ammunition will be there!" Jiang Haoran replied affirmatively. He immediately ordered Leng Rushuang to personally draw up a telegram to report the situation to the Military Commission, requesting the Military Commission to order the Air Force to take advantage of the unfavorable dispatch of Japanese fighters in the evening to carry out a large-scale airdrop.

A few months ago, the Soviet Union provided 100 planes to the Nationalist Government, although because of the "Soviet-Japanese Non-Aggression Pact", the follow-up weapons promised by the Soviet Union have come to naught, and even the Soviet pilots sent in the early stage have returned to China, but China lacks nothing and is not short of people, although the planes were lost as early as the Battle of Wuhan, but the Kunming Aviation School is still recruiting students, and a few old training planes have really cultivated a lot of talents for the Chinese Air Force.

With these 100 planes, although it is not enough to confront the Japanese air force head-on, it is really not difficult to organize a large-scale airdrop, and beforehand, Jiang Haoran also discussed this matter with the chairman of the committee, and the chairman also agreed at the beginning, after all, it is related to the life and death of more than 100,000 soldiers, and this support cannot be stingy.

Sure enough, the Military Commission immediately called back, and at about 6 o'clock in the evening, the airdrop was carried out, and according to Jiang Haoran's request, all of them were weapons, ammunition, and medical supplies.

Subsequently, Jiang Haoran sent another telegram to the base, ordering Ye Zhaofeng to also join the airdrop, all of which were supplies from the Snow Wolf Special Combat Team. The Snow Wolf Special Combat Team is Jiang Haoran's sharp knife, and it can't be blunt anymore.

Because of the stagnation of **, the Japanese army turned away from the attack again, thinking that this time ** would collapse at the touch of a button, and the Japanese army did not attack on a large scale. Like the 156th Division of the Japanese Army in the direction of Pengze, it even just sent a brigade to pretend, but who knew that this time it suffered a big loss.

Guarding the Pengze defense line were the new Ninth Division and the Poyang Lake ** Brigade, and the division commander Li Jian and the brigade commander Wang Shanhu were not good at stubble, and when they saw the Japanese army despising themselves so much, they immediately became angry, and the headquarters had already sent an order to resist step by step, and informed them that there would be sufficient airdrops of weapons and ammunition in the evening.

As soon as Li Jian and Wang Shanhu combined, they immediately ordered the soldiers to take out all their family resources and fight the devil fiercely. Both troops were accustomed to a hard life, and although Jiang Haoran ordered all the captures to be handed over to the new Eleventh Army, they still intercepted a small half, and it was only by virtue of this that they had confidence.

The new Ninth Division, which originally had only more than 8,000 troops left, lost more than 2,000 in the battle in the early morning, and the whole division had only more than 6,000 people left. According to the regulations of the US army, such a unit can surrender to the enemy, but the squadron is different from the US army, if a division of the US army only has more than 6,000 people left, then basically only surrender remains, because their troops are often mechanized, and the technical troops and logistics personnel account for almost half of the division, and there is no combat effectiveness in this fight. But **, especially for a miscellaneous division like the new Ninth Division, the degree of mechanization is equivalent to nothing, there are few technical soldiers, and even the artillery is pitiful, except for the doctors and nurses in the field hospital, and even the cooking squad is a soldier when he picks up a gun. Therefore, even if such a unit is disabled, its combat effectiveness is still good, and it is a big deal that the division is organized into a brigade.

In fact, the troops had already entered the southern Anhui border, and after the Japanese 140th Division withdrew from Chizhou, the two armies had more than 100,000 men and horses and an area of hundreds of miles longitudinal and horizontal, which was enough for them to make trouble.

Southern Anhui is also a hilly area, the mountains are not high, but there is no end to the rolling and undulating, the new Ninth Division and the Poyang Lake ** Brigade are on the road of the Japanese army at this moment, occupying the mountains less than 100 meters high on both sides.

When the advance unit of the 156th Division of the Japanese Army, the Sakata Brigade, arrived at the front, the new Ninth Division and the Poyang Lake ** Brigade had already dug trenches and built bunkers, and were ready for battle.

The captain of the Sakata brigade, Sakata Nobu, saw the style of the army on the mountain, and immediately felt funny, a group of routs with few bullets in the guns, but they would pretend, and it was estimated that they should flee again after a few shots.

But soon, Sakata Shin's illusion came to naught, and after nearly 20 rounds of rapid fire from eight small steel cannons of the artillery squadron, the mountains were blown up with flames and rubble, and even many of the Zhina Army flew out of the trenches, but they did not move.

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