From August to October, there was no military action in the Reading Army, and at this time, General Xue Yue, deputy commander of the Ninth Theater of Operations, commanded the troops to completely annihilate most of the 106th Division of the Yue Army, and achieved a great victory at Wanjialing.

The victory of Wanjialing annihilated more than 8,000 people, which greatly encouraged the determination of all our people to resist, and the vast number of soldiers on other battlefields also struggled to block, but on October 11, the 21st Army of the Yue Army raided Guangzhou, and Yu Han's division could not resist it, and on the 21st, Guangzhou was lost, and the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway was cut off.

On October 25, the army occupied Hankou, the next time it occupied Wuchang, and on the 27th it was to occupy Hanyang, and the defense of Wuhan came to an end.

Although the battle was won by the Yue army, it consumed a large number of vital forces and strategic materials of the Yue army, and its strategic purpose of capturing Wuhan to force the national political axe to surrender was not achieved. He said that he would "be more mournful, more persevering, more steadfast, harder, and more courageous" and strive for a comprehensive and protracted war of resistance.

In terms of the battle of Wuhan, the army occupied the three towns of Wuhan and controlled the belly of China, and won the battle, but in terms of general strategy, the operation of the army was a failure, and the army used the largest force that could be assembled ((about 250,000 personnel for the attack, and the personnel were replenished four or five times during the battle, and the total number of troops invested should be about 300,000), giving full play to the absolute superiority of land, sea and air equipment, fighting hard for four and a half months, not only did not annihilate the main force of the [***] teamThis did not weaken the will to resist the war and the combat effectiveness of the Chinese [***] troops, but dealt a serious blow to the effective forces of the Chinese army.

After the Battle of Wuhan, as the battle line lengthened, the army was no longer able to organize such a large-scale strategic offensive as the Battle of Songhu, Xuzhou, and Wuhan, with the goal of conquering cities and territories, and was forced to turn to strategic conservatism. At this point, China's War of Resistance changed from strategic defense to strategic stalemate, and the city fell into the quagmire of a protracted war that they were most unwilling to wag, but the ambition of the base camp remained undying, and it attempted to consolidate the areas it had already occupied, and formulated the strategic goal of running Manchuria and striving for the defense of North China and Central China, and its main force was changed from a frontal battlefield to a so-called "public order" operation behind enemy lines.

Due to the continuous development and growth of the Reading Army, the base camp of the Yue Army has deeply felt that a time bomb must be removed in time. Otherwise, the threat in the future will drop greatly.

Therefore, the base camp of the Chinese army planned to transfer the sixth, ninth, and thirteenth divisions from the Wuhan front, and the fifth and twentieth divisions from North China, and the three divisions of the joint Mongolian Corps, so as to concentrate a total of eight divisions and regiments to prepare for the encirclement and annihilation of the Ordos and Baotou Reading Troops in one fell swoop.

The operation was commanded by Terauchi Shouichi, the commander of the North China Army, with Seishiro Itatsuro as the commander of the former enemy, and Ishihara Wanji as the staff officer. First of all, the 5th Division and the 20th Division respectively marched towards Suiyuan by rail. The three divisions on the front line also went north by rail or by car.

At this time, after two months of training, the recruits have basically met the requirements, and only have actual combat experience. Zhang Mingyu's arsenal was already beginning to produce the first batch of fighters, and Soviet and German workers and technicians followed Zhang Mingyu's requirements to learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses of the BF-109 fighter and the Soviet-style La-5, and such a new type of fighter was born, and Zhang Mingyu named it "J-1". The bomber was also produced by the Soviet Union and Germany, and Zhang Mingyu named it "H1".

After having fighter planes, the pilots sent by Zhang Mingyu to study in the Soviet Union also returned, and Hitler assisted 100 German pilots in the Reading Army, so Zhang Mingyu had the capital to form the first batch of air forces, but at this time the aircraft were only produced less than 20 aircraft, and the bombers were still in the test period and had not officially begun production.

Since the Zero fighter of the Yue Army had not yet been born at this time, when the Zero of the Yue Ben came out, Zhang Mingyu's arsenal would produce a more advanced imitation of the American P-51 Mustang, which could completely restrain the Zero War.

By this time the German workers had built an airfield not far from the arsenal for the pilots to practice and familiarize themselves with the new fighter, and when the German pilots saw the new fighter and exclaimed: "Oh my God! At this time, an advanced new type of fighter. ”

When the construction of the aircraft factory had just begun, Zhang Mingyu asked Liu Cheng to build an airfield near Ordos, and after two months of hard work, the airfield has been completed, and the airport can park 200 planes at the same time, and there are multiple airstrips for eight planes to take off at the same time.

After several days of training and familiarization, the pilots flew twenty J-1 fighters manufactured by the arsenal to Ordos Airport. After all 20 J-1s landed at the airport, Zhang Mingyu, who had been waiting for a long time, and the division commanders of the Reading Force were excited: "I finally have my own plane!" ”

The next day, Zhang Mingyu secretly established the First Flying Squadron of the Reading Power Army, codenamed Flying Eagle. The squadron leader of the Flying Eagle Squadron was Su Dingtian, who had the best grades during his studies in the Soviet Union, and the deputy leader was the German pilot Longer.

In order to prevent the news from leaking, only the senior officers of the Reading Force knew about the establishment of the Air Force, and the appointment ceremony was simply held and it was hastily concluded.

The airport was built near the Wushen Banner and was defended by a regiment of the First Division, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, and in addition to this regiment, there was also an airport garrison reading brigade, and the airport was equipped with more than 50 antiaircraft machine guns and more than 20 antiaircraft guns.

At this time, Zhang Mingyu did not know that the army secretly mobilized eight divisions in an attempt to encircle and annihilate his reading army, and on the same day he rushed to the base with the guard company and walked into the hollowed-out cave, which was a two-kilometer-long cave, which was enlarged several times in the middle of the cave, and this was his aircraft production line, at this time his aircraft engines and various aerospace equipment were imported from the Soviet Union, and a large number of aircraft parts and aerospace equipment were piled up in the dark rooms on both sides of the cave.

After Zhang Mingyu inspected it, he went to the artillery production workshop, and then Liu Cheng greeted him, and when he saw Zhang Mingyu, he saluted, and then pointed to a production line that had just been built and said: "Junzao, these are the production lines for the production of heavy artillery, and it won't be long before we can produce heavy artillery by ourselves." ”

Zhang Mingyu nodded and said, "Brother Liu, you have worked hard, you are doing so many things!" ”

"It's all about fighting devils, there's nothing hard to do!" Liu Cheng said.

Now Liu Cheng has been appointed by Zhang Mingyu as deputy army commander and head of the logistics department, mainly to manage the arsenal in the base area and the foster care baggage of the troops.

Zhang Mingyu was about to go to the tank arsenal under construction to have a look, when suddenly a communications soldier ran over panting and reported: "Military seat, Chief of Staff Zhang has something urgent to find you, let you go back quickly!" ”

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