During the four months of operations from the beginning of June to the beginning of October, the heroic Chinese air force fighters shot down a total of 82 Japanese planes, blew up 16 Japanese planes parked at the airfield before they had time to take off, and sank and destroyed 23 Japanese warships, including one cruiser. The air battle during the defense of Wuhan has aroused deep concern from all walks of life throughout the country, won unanimous praise at home and abroad, and public opinion from all walks of life has generally praised China's most outstanding troops as the air force, and they are the eagles soaring over Wuhan.

Besides, although there is the support of the air force, after all, the overall strength of the Chinese air force is far inferior to that of Japan. China has good pilots, but it lacks fighters with good performance. Although Japan was shot down nearly 100 planes during the Battle of Wuhan, because Japan's domestic industrial production capacity is far stronger than that of China now, the losses can be replenished more quickly, compared with the Chinese Air Force, the Chinese Air Force has suffered much more miserably, and from the beginning of the Battle of Wuhan to the present, the Chinese Air Force has not received an effective supplement. Therefore, the Air Force's support for the Second Corps was really limited, and two hours later, Bao Changyi's unit suffered heavy casualties. In view of the importance of Madang Fortress, Bao Changyi constantly asked Li Yunheng for reinforcements, and Li Yunheng replied to Bao Changyi: "167 Division reinforcements have been sent." ”

In fact, Li Yunheng is an old officer whose warlord thinking has gone deep into his bones, in his eyes, the army is everything, and the military power in his hands is the capital for him to enjoy glory and wealth, no matter who wins in Japan or the Chiang Kai-shek government, as long as he still has nearly 20,000 elites in his hands, then he can still be his big army. So he privately told Xue Weiying, commander of the 167th Division: "The troops will not go up for a few days, and Madang Fortress is still a loss." ”

And Xue Weiying, the commander of the 167th Division, is a guy who only looks forward to Li Yunheng, in his eyes, the military seat has the grace to promote him, and he wants to repay the military seat with everything he has. For Li Yunheng's words, Xue Weiying understood it. The straight road from Pengze County to Madang is 15 kilometers, and Xue Weiying detoured the rugged path east of Taibo Lake on the pretext of avoiding the bombing of enemy planes. The whole division was full of people and horses grinding back and forth on the path, and the distance of more than 40 kilometers was not completed in three days.

Except for a small amount of air support, he fought almost alone, resisting the frantic attack of a detachment (brigade) of the Japanese army and the navy and air force with a general unit (regiment), and the gap in strength and firepower was not an ordinary disparity, and the casualties of the second corps increased sharply. In fact, the firepower configuration of a wing (regiment) of the Japanese army often exceeds the firepower intensity of a squadron of the first army, coupled with the support of a large number of aircraft and ships of the Japanese army, a large number of soldiers will be killed in the second corps every moment. By October 3, Bao Changyi's troops had been fighting hard for more than two days, and they stubbornly repelled 15 attacks by the Botian detachment, and more than 700 Japanese corpses were floating in the lake in front of the position, and blood stained the lake red. The 2nd Corps also shot down 1 enemy plane, and the Chinese Air Force also sank 4 enemy ships and damaged 2. Although the fortifications had been razed to the ground, the position was still in their hands, and the Hatian detachment was always blocked in front of Changshan. Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to Bao Changyi's 2nd Corps to give him a herald commendation, and Chen Cheng, commander-in-chief of the Wuhan garrison, and Xie Gangzhe, commander of the garrison of the Jiangfang fortress, also called to commend him at the same time.

At dawn on October 4, Major General Shigeichi Habata changed his rigid tactics in the past, and when the defenders of Changshan were exhausted, he actually used the cover of the reeds of the embankment on the side of the Zangshiji River to touch the western end of the position and release poison gas, and almost all the 7 squadrons of the 2nd Corps stationed in this section were poisoned and died, and only 5 people fled back to the headquarters to report. The Japanese marines took advantage of the situation to land from Zangshiji, and their Xiangshan artillery and river warships provided intensive artillery support. The Changshan positions and fortifications were destroyed in many places, turned into scorched earth, the artillery was damaged, and the two heavy machine gun bunkers controlling the Taibo Lake road were also destroyed, with huge casualties and food and ammunition. The enemy then broke through to the position and cut the position into several sections, so that the Changshan position lost the effectiveness of the overall defense. The scuffle lasted until noon, and there was still no sign of reinforcements. Bao Changyi saw that the general trend had gone, so he had to order a retreat. The remnants retreated while fighting and withdrew from the Changshan position. Losing the guards of the Xiangkou and Changshan positions, the Madang Fort soon fell into the hands of the enemy, and the Madang Fortress fell.

The fierceness of the attack and defense of Madang Fortress is extremely rare in the history of Sino-Japanese wars. Later, when Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun reported on the battle, it quoted the battle diary of an officer who participated in the battle: "This fierce battle was much more fierce than when it broke through the Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing." When we crossed a small bridge southwest of Xiangkou, it was the fiercest bloody battle. The bridge was about five meters wide, and in the face of the enemy's four fortresses, we formed one, two, three, and even countless death squads, but they were completely ineffective and finally failed. I have been fighting hard for three days and nights, and finally I can be regarded as rushing through. When Bao Changyi, the captain of the second corps, led the remnants to withdraw from Changshan, less than 200 people remained in the team of more than 2,200 people, and all the rest were sacrificed, and almost all of them were injured, and the entire army almost lost its combat effectiveness. ,

When he reached the vicinity of Liusi Bridge in Hukou County, he was attacked by three Japanese planes. They found a person dressed in white, standing on the hill to signal the Japanese machine, and the Japanese machine followed this person's instructions to accurately blow up a warehouse in **. Bao Changyi immediately ordered a platoon commander to lead a group of people to search and found that there was an air raid shelter under the hill, which contained three traitor spies and was equipped with a wireless transceiver. The platoon commander was so angry that he killed three people on the spot.

** There is a habit in the frontal battlefield to resist the war, that is, when a unit is disabled, it will immediately withdraw and replace it with another unit to continue the battle. And this habit of the Kuomintang troops is contrary to the tactics used by the ** teams in the modern world. The habit of the world's leading units is: In battle, when a unit is put into the battlefield, it must fight to the end, and when it is disabled, it will draw troops from other units to supplement the unit, so that the commander and backbone of the unit will always fight on the front line. There is an advantage to this, these troops who have been on the front line in the battle, they are familiar with the battlefield terrain and the enemy's situation, and the initial combat plan can also be carried out consistently, so it can be said that they already have the potential of "the head snake of the ground." If it is not the river dragon, then this unit is very suitable for fighting in the battlefield in and near the place.

However, the Kuomintang army was divided into many factions, and it was impossible to draw troops from one unit to supplement the other. The new troops were not familiar with the terrain of the battlefield, the enemy's situation, and did not understand the initial battle plan, and when they mastered all this, the troops were basically disabled again, and they were withdrawn and replaced by another unit. Bao Changyi's department was even more unlucky, because Bao Changyi did not give Li Yunheng face in the matter of the "Anti-Japanese Military and Political University", and was angered by Li Yunheng, and after Bao Changyi's department withdrew from the battle, the remnants were stranded in the area of Sanli Street in Hukou County and no one asked about anything, and they could neither rest nor replenish.

In early October, Li Yunheng ordered: "All troops without combat effectiveness should leave the battlefield as soon as possible." Bao Changyi had to lead the remnants to cross Poyang Lake from Shoe Mountain and arrive at Haihui Town at the foot of Lushan Mountain. Yu Jishi did not know that Bao Changyi was ordered to evacuate, thinking that they had escaped from the battle, and could not be distinguished, so the remnants led by Bao Changyi were disarmed, and the soldiers were incorporated into other local units as supplementary soldiers, and all the officers were arrested and sent to Wuhan for detention.

Not to mention the ending of Bao Changyi and others, let's go back and talk about Madang Fortress. After the fall of Madang Fortress, Chiang Kai-shek was extremely annoyed. Originally, Chiang Kai-shek himself and all his staff officers had high hopes for the Madang Fortress. Moreover, when Madang Fortress was attacked by the Japanese army, Chiang Kai-shek also ordered Chen Cheng, commander of the Wuhan Garrison Command, to send troops to reinforce Madang Fortress, but Madang Fortress was lost so quickly, and the reinforced troops were still on the way, and it would take about a week to arrive. Chiang Kai-shek himself was furious and ordered that the fortress of Madang must be recaptured, otherwise all those responsible would be punished by military law. Li Yunheng realized the seriousness of the problem at this time, but he knew that the military sanctions issued by Lao Jiang Tai were not a joke, they were really going to die. Since the start of the Sino-Japanese war, many high-ranking officers have been disposed of by Lao Chiang, and many of these people are high-ranking officials at the level of army commanders, division commanders, and theater commanders.

Li Yunheng hurriedly organized his 53rd, 60th, and 167th divisions to fight back. Although the officers and men of the 16th were brave and tenacious, and they did not hesitate to die, at this time, the Botian detachment was mainly anti-guest, had occupied favorable terrain and reinforced concrete fortifications, built a solid shore and land position, and had the artillery support of warships and aircraft, and established a firm foothold. Tens of thousands of people on both sides repeatedly rushed and killed on the front line of Madang, fighting for each other, and the battle situation was extremely tragic.

On October 8, that is, the same day that Li Yunheng ordered Bao Changyi's unit to leave the battlefield, the Pota detachment opened the Madang blocking line by blasting, dredged the Yangtze River channel, and captured Pengze County on the same day, and led part of the main force of the department to Hukou County.

On the third day of the First Corps' Yu Jishi's headquarters to support Madang Fortress, Han Yunhua's headquarters was also sent to Hukou, the second blockade line of the Yangtze River, after receiving a part of the ammunition replenishment from the Nationalist Government, and was ready to compete with the Japanese army here.