readx; Gao Fei spoke eloquently to everyone's expectant eyes, and he said: "Since the beginning of the Battle of Wuhan, we have always thought that the strength of the Yue army is insufficient, but we have forgotten that the enemy has a large number of elite divisions stationed in the northeast and can be reinforced at any time. In addition, www.biquge.info has long established a sound reserve system, and with its strong economic and industrial strength and a population of nearly 100 million, it is not impossible to expand the number of divisions and regiments by another 100. If we really advance to Wuhu according to the original plan, we will definitely force the army to expand the army on a large scale, and when the time comes, it is very likely that there will be five, ten, or even more divisions and regiments fighting against our army, so where will we have any chance of winning! ”

In this way, Goofy very skillfully recovered the emotions of the commanders from the initial shock, diverted their attention to how to deal with the offensive of the Japanese army, and eliminated the negative emotions!

A few days later, all the troops except the 167th Division and the New Fourth Division were assembled in Jingdezhen, ready to go south to defend Fujian at any time, and then at the same time that the 21st Army of the Yue Army landed in Daya Bay, the Second Army of the Yue Army, which advanced from the northern foot of Dabie Mountain to Wuhan, also captured Xinyang, and then the 10th Division of the Yue Army moved south along the Pinghan Railway with one section, and the main force made a detour to Hanyang and Hankou west of the Pinghan Road through Yingshan, Anlu, Yunmeng, and Yingcheng, and cooperated with the 11th Army of Okamura Ningci to attack Wuhan.

The 119th Brigade of the 116th Division also captured Lanxi on the north bank of the Yangtze River and advanced within a few days to the vicinity of Yangluo, only 35 kilometers from Wuhan. At the same time, the 11th Army, after receiving full reinforcements from the 101st and 26th Divisions, quickly broke through the defensive line in the Lushan area and advanced to the vicinity of the Hesheng Bridge in Wuchang. As a result, the army has formed a situation of encirclement of Wuhan from the east, north, and south.

Just when the situation in Wuhan was already precarious, the Fourth Route Army in Guangdong was defeated and retreated under the continuous blows of the Yue army, and the 21st Army of the Yue Army quickly advanced to the city of Guangzhou, and occupied Guangzhou on October 24, completely cutting off the Guangdong-Hankou Railway, so that [***] fell into the painful situation of fighting on both sides.

In order to retain the strength to continue the war of resistance, Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang political axe base camp began to evacuate the party, government, and local political axe organs in batches and evacuate the people in the city.

On October 16, the Military Committee of the Nationalist Axe decided to abandon Wuhan in light of the situation of the fighting outside Wuhan and the landing of the army in Daya Bay in Guangdong on October 12, and at the same time organized all units to retreat in a planned manner: the main force north of the Yangtze River withdrew to the Hanshui coast west of Pinghan Road and the Dahong Mountains, while Liao Lei's 21st Group Army remained in the Dabie Mountains to carry out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines; Xue Yue's 1st Corps was still fighting the enemy south of the Jiujiang River, and could retreat to Hunan as appropriate; The Second Corps relied on the Makufu Mountains to cover the Guangdong-Hankou Railway to the west; Luo Zhuoying commanded the operation of the Golden Bull south of Wuchang to cover the retreat of the various armies; In the entire city of Wuhan, only one brigade of regular troops of the garrison was left as a symbol of resistance.

In view of the ineffective operation of Yu Hanmou and the Fourth Route Army, Chiang Kai-shek and the base camp decided after several days of discussion to remove General Yu Hanmou from his post as commander of the Fourth Theater and replace him with Gao Fei, commander-in-chief of the Ninth Army Corps.

This appointment of the base camp can be called a stroke of genius: the Ninth Army is famous all over the world, and with its outstanding performance on the battlefield, it is easy to win the support of the military and people of Guangdong.

After receiving the official appointment of the base camp, Gao Fei divided the five divisions assembled in Jingdezhen into two routes, of which the 60th Division, the 26th Division, and the New Second Division advanced to the Jiangxi-Guangdong border, entered Guangdong through Nanchang, Ji'an, and other places, and joined up with the Fourth Route Army to secure Shaoguan, and the provisional First Division and the 53rd Division marched to Fujian together with the group army headquarters, and then continued southward after replenishing Fuzhou, advancing south from Shantou. In addition, the 167th Division and the New Fourth Division, which remained in Madang, retreated to the Jingdezhen front line to consolidate the flank of Nanchang.

On October 24, Chiang Kai-shek formally ordered the abandonment of Wuhan. The Military Committee of the Nationalist Political Axe held a press conference in Wuhan and solemnly announced that it would voluntarily withdraw from Wuhan. At the same time, the newspaper of the Military Committee of the Nationalist Political Axe, the newspaper of the Sweeping Daily, and the newspaper of the central organ of China, Xinhua Bao, respectively published editorials saying goodbye to Wuhan.

On the evening of the 24th, Chiang Kai-shek, as the supreme commander in wartime, and Soong Meiling, secretary general of the Aviation Committee, left Wuchang by plane and flew to Hengyang, Hunan. Zhou Enlai, the representative of the Central Committee in Wuhan and deputy director of the Political Department of the Military Commission of the Kuomintang, and Xinhua Bao also flew out of Wuhan on this day. At the same time, the Chinese defenders in Wuhan began to evacuate as planned, and all of them withdrew from the city by the night of the 25th.

The Battle of Wuhan lasted four and a half months and ended with the Chinese [***] team taking the initiative to withdraw from Wuhan.

Although as far as the battle is concerned, the army occupied the three towns of Wuhan, the heroic defense of Wuhan by the Chinese [***] team was a failure. However, in a strategic sense, he was not able to achieve his strategic intentions and achieve the expected victory.

The base camp thought that a quick capture of Wuhan would force the Chinese political axe to surrender and end the war against China. However, the Chinese political axe did not surrender due to the loss of Wuhan and Guangzhou as expected, and after the Chinese [***] team took the initiative to withdraw from Wuhan, on October 31, Chiang Kai-shek issued a "Letter to the National People for [***] Withdrawal from Wuhan":

"The main significance of the military defense of Wuhan was to block the enemy's westward advance, to consume the enemy's strength, to prepare rear communications, to transport the necessary weapons, and to relocate the industries in the southeast and central of our country for the construction of the southwest. At present, most of the manpower and material resources in the central and southeastern parts of our country have been transplanted to the western provinces, and the development and transportation construction of the western region have reached a preliminary foundation. Therefore, our mission of guarding Wuhan has been completed and our goal has been achieved. Moreover, the key to the military victory of the War of Resistance is not in Wuhan alone, but in maintaining the lasting strength of our continued War of Resistance. From now on, we must be more mournful, more patient, more steadfast, harder, and more courageous in order to devote ourselves to the all-out war and the enrichment of the base areas of the War of Resistance, so as to bring about the final victory. ”

The Battle of Wuhan had a major impact on the entire war situation, and the army suffered nearly 100,000 casualties, wounded, and sick in this war, and more importantly, its all-out offensive spirit was greatly frustrated.

By the end of the Battle of Wuhan, 32 of the 34 divisions and regiments of the army had been put into the Chinese battlefield, but it could not meet the needs of continuing the war, and in desperation, the base camp decided to expand the army again, adding eight new divisions and regiments to cope with the expanding battlefield, and at the same time began to continuously transfer the backbone of the Kwantung Army stationed in the northeast to enrich the front line of the Chinese battlefield, hoping to make breakthrough progress in the new year

Five sailboats with a carrying capacity of about 50 tons lined up and sailed forward, on the river with dense buildings on both sides, the sailboat was like a big fish with a high back, parting the clear water of the Suzhou River, swimming straight forward, and the waves behind the boats dragged into a foamy road. The two stirred up waves, which looked like two beautiful fins from a distance, paddled on both sides of the ship's side, and whenever a gust of wind blew, it splashed a large splash and made the deck wet.

Slowly, the number of boats in the river began to increase, and the fleet had to slow down, and when approaching the entrance of the Huangpu River, all the boats stopped, and lined up in a queue hundreds of meters long in front of the outpost set up by the army, waiting for inspection.

After a long wait of half an hour, the fleet finally arrived at the outpost.

The bow of the sailing ship at the front sank, and a spy wearing a silk shirt and a shell gun at his waist jumped down with two soldiers with loaded guns.

"Who's the boss?" After boarding the ship, the spy squinted his triangular eyes and asked the shipwright at the stern helm: "The fucking shelf is not small, the imperial army personally came to the ship to check, but no one came out to greet him!" Do you want to taste the gendarmerie chili water! With that, he rolled up his sleeves and scolded and drilled into the cabin.

"Liu San, who are you going to invite to the gendarmerie to drink chili water?" As soon as the words fell, the curtain in front of the cabin was lifted, and a middle-aged man wearing a tweed hat and a silk jacket lowered his head and came out, and then blocked in front of Liu San, looking him up and down with a smile, although his eyes looked very peaceful, but occasionally raised his eyebrows, his eyes were as sharp as knives. A young man in a green cloth robe with a low brim came out from behind the middle-aged man, and then leaned straight against the hatch, grasping the toothpick in his hand with all his attention, as if there was no Liu San and the two soldiers in his eyes at all.

After seeing the middle-aged man's appearance clearly, Liu San's back immediately became flexible, and his face also changed to another expression, and he said flatteringly: "It turned out to be Qin Ye!" The little ones don't know Mount Tai with eyes, don't go to your heart! ”

Although he was just a gangster on the beach, Liu San also knew that the person in front of him was Qin Xiuyuan, a figure he could never provoke: long before the occupation of Shanghai, Qin Xiuyuan and the Central Tax Police Corps were engaged in a large-scale arms smuggling business, and the backstage boss of the Central Tax Police Corps was Song Ziwen, the Minister of Finance of the National Political Axe!

With such a hard backstage, who would dare to mess with him! What's more, the young man leaning on the cabin is Yang Jing, the famous "knife" on the beach, and there are rumors in the market that his flying knife is faster than bullets! If he annoyed Qin Xiuyuan, he and the two imperial troops behind him probably wouldn't even have a chance to draw their guns! Thinking of this, a cool breath came out of Liu San's back, and he hurriedly bent his waist a little more, and at the same time peeked at Yang Jing's expression.

Qin Xiuyuan laughed heartily, patted Liu San's shoulder, and said, "I haven't seen you for a few days, you kid has actually mixed up!" Now doing things for the Imperial Army? After that, he looked at Liu San meaningfully.

Liu San said with a stammering smile on his face: "Where, where, the small one is just a bowl of rice to eat!" Then the two triangular eyes grunted around a few times, and pretended to be bold and asked, "What kind of cargo is on this ship, and you actually want Qin Ye to escort it personally?" With that, he peeked at Yang Jing again, and involuntarily took a step back, standing between the two soldiers.

Qin Xiuyuan's eyes stared directly at Liu San, seeing that his heart was furious, his right hand subconsciously touched the shell gun on his waist, and the two soldiers on the bow of the boat noticed the situation of the troops, and immediately picked up their rifles and looked at the few people in front of them.

The corners of Qin Xiuyuan's mouth showed a disdainful smile, and he said loudly: "I bought some medicinal materials and am going to sell them to Anhui, do you want to check it!" With that, he turned his body to the side, made an inviting gesture, and then looked at Liu San with a smile.

"Medicinal herbs!" Liu San secretly scolded in his heart: "If you Qin Xiuyuan can fucking sell medicinal herbs, sows can go up trees!" Thinking of this, he and the soldiers behind him muttered a few words, and then said to Qin Xiuyuan: "Master Qin, I'm really sorry, the imperial army must take a look!" As soon as he stood beside him, he immediately felt that his courage had grown, and he was not so afraid of the two people in front of him.

Seeing that Qin Xiuyuan was not angry, Liu San's courage became even stronger, he walked quickly to the hatch, lifted the curtain and prepared to drill inside. At this time, Qin Xiuyuan said: "The medicinal materials in it are very valuable, and everyone will not look good if they are damaged, so I will accompany you to check it!" Then he rushed ahead of Liu San and entered the cabin.

After entering the cabin, his nose was immediately filled with the strong smell of Chinese medicine, and Liu Sanlian sneezed a few times, and then carefully examined it with the faint light coming from the bow of the ship. Qin Xiuyuan leaned on the board of the boat casually, watching Liu San rummage through the pile of medicinal herbs.

After opening the half-meter-thick medicinal herbs, Liu San suddenly found neatly stacked boxes at the bottom of the cabin, and the familiar smell of opium immediately came over. Liu San's face was happy, but before he raised his head, he found that it was dark in front of him, and when he looked up, he saw Qin Xiu staring at him condescendingly, and asked with a smile: "Liu San, you are still very good at doing things!" With that, he handed over a yellow gold bar.

Liu San took the gold bar with lightning speed, put it into his close-fitting pocket, and then pressed it hard through his clothes, convinced of its existence, but said softly in his mouth: "Master Qin, your old man is too polite!" Without waiting for Qin Xiuyuan to speak, he quickly laid out the medicinal herbs and walked out of the cabin.

Liu San walked quickly to the two soldiers at the bow of the boat, nodded and said a few lame words, which meant that there was no problem with the goods on the ship and could be released. Unexpectedly, these two soldiers had been on the battlefield for a long time and had the intuition of beasts, and they felt a strong murderous aura from Yang Jing's body, so they held their rifles and stared at Yang Jing deadly, asking for their documents.

A cold sweat broke out on Liu San's forehead, and he spread his hands at Qin Xiuyuan, indicating that he was powerless, and at this time, the Yue Jun on the sentry post also noticed something was wrong and ran over quickly.

Qin Xiuyuan unhurriedly took out a business card from the placket of his shirt and handed it over, Liu San took it and looked at it, only to see that it was written: Qin Xiuyuan, manager of the Zhabei branch of Minhua Company.

He hurriedly handed the business card to a soldier, and the soldier's reaction was beyond his expectations: the two soldiers immediately put away their rifles, and then bowed to Qin Xiuyuan very respectfully, and kept apologizing in words, making Liu San inexplicable. Then, the two soldiers shouted a few times at the soldiers who ran over to prepare for reinforcements, telling them to go back, and then signaled that Qin Xiuyuan's fleet could leave, and there was no need to even check the ships behind.

Liu San didn't expect that a business card would have such a great magic, he couldn't help his curiosity, and asked Qin Xiuyuan: "What does this Minhua company do, why is it so powerful?" ”

Qin Xiuyuan pretended to be proud and replied: "Minhua Company is a company opened by the Ben Kodama Agency, how can they afford to provoke a few small soldiers!" He laughed.

Liu San said sourly: "It's still your Qin Ye who is amazing: every time you can get such a hard backer, it's hard not to get rich!" ”

Qin Xiuyuan laughed and said, "Everyone is doing things for themselves, and everyone earns money!" Then he deliberately touched the pocket where Liu San put the gold bars.

Liu San saw that Qin Xiuyuan had no intention of asking for the gold bars, and was afraid that he would regret it, so he hurriedly said goodbye: "Your old man is still in a hurry, so don't bother the little one!" Useful place in the future despite words! So saying, he hurried ashore.

After Qin Xiuyuan's fleet went farther and farther away and disappeared into the Huangpu River, Liu San spat hatefully at the direction where the fleet was leaving, and scolded in a low voice: "The person who pretends to be a dog is not like Lao Tzu!" ”

Inside the cabin, Yang Jing asked puzzledly, "Boss, why didn't you show them the business card at the beginning?" Liu San is a little deflated like this, and we can buy it? ”

Qin Xiuyuan said with a smile: "Do you think you have wasted a yellow croaker?" ”

Yang Jing replied, "Isn't it? Liu San is not worthy of lifting shoes for our masters! ”

Qin Xiuyuan explained: "The main purpose of the reason why I want to personally escort this trip is to open up the joints along the way to ensure that the materials can be transported unimpeded in the future." said that I am very easy to do, they all know what Minhua Company is doing, and they will definitely not stop it, it is precisely a little man like Liu San who may bring us trouble! Only when the roads are paved with money and they are all fed can the supplies be delivered with confidence. ”

Yang Jing said worriedly: "Although we have helped the Ninth Legion, what if someone investigates us to do things for me in the future and scolds us for being Han Annihilation?" ”

Qin Xiuyuan said confidently: "You don't have to worry about this, as a high-flying person, you will never cross the river and tear down the bridge!" Although we do things for ourselves, most of the materials will still be transferred to Fujian, and the merit is still greater than the fault! In addition, even if we don't do it, there are many people who are willing to do it and are already doing it! ”

Speaking of this, Qin Xiuyuan began to be a little angry: "Du Yuesheng, Gu Zhutong, and his younger brother Gu Zhuchuan, aren't these people doing this kind of thing now: smuggling tobacco and soil into the national control area, and then smuggling strategic materials such as copper, cobalt, nickel, and mica that are urgently needed into the occupied area. In order to extract profits from the drug trade, they worked together with Yue himself, as if there was no war between China and Yue at all! ”

Yang Jing spat at the mouth and scolded: "These scumbags, I really can't wait to kill them with a knife!" China is destroyed in their hands! ”

(To be continued)