There was a faint sound of cannons outside, the empty streets were deserted, the roads were full of abandoned debris, the river breeze blew, the confetti on the ground rolled up with the wind, and all the shops had closed their doors and windows. All the vehicles that could move were loaded with people and supplies and headed south, and a few lonely soldiers watched their surroundings vigilantly, looking back from time to time, waiting for the order to arrive.

"Boom!" A huge explosion came from the direction of the railway station, and the soldiers couldn't help but look in the direction where the sound came from, and after a while, two jeeps appeared on the street, and the soldiers suddenly became nervous, and when the car got closer, they could see the blue sky and white sun flag fluttering on it.

The jeep stopped in front of the barricade with a screeching sound of brakes, and the sergeant squad leader ran to the front of the car, saluted the soldier with the rank of lieutenant general sitting in the passenger seat, and then said: "General, please show your card."

The lieutenant general took out his ID from his jacket pocket and handed it to him, and asked casually, "Why haven't you withdrawn?"

The sergeant did not receive the order and closed his ID and replied, "Where is the devil?" ”

"I don't know, it's only five kilometers away from the city, you'd better send someone to contact your superiors, damn, what are you doing!" The lieutenant general cursed, and the sergeant saluted the lieutenant general gratefully, and then waved his hand to order the soldiers to move and block the obstacles, and the jeep swept over the checkpoint like a gust of wind.

Several leaflets were blown to the car by the wind, and the lieutenant general picked them up, and the red headline was impressively printed: "For the abandonment of Wuhan to sue the national circular" He vigorously crumpled the leaflets into a ball, threw them into the air, and muttered: "I knew today, why bother in the first place." ”

"Commander, this is the chairman's order, so you don't have to worry about it." The adjutant sitting in the back seat whispered.

"I should have evacuated the supplies sooner. The Cultural Revolution reminded me, alas, it hurts to think about it. Hong Junqi shook his head and sighed, as early as the beginning of December, he began to evacuate the materials around Wuhan, and the direction of evacuation was mainly in three directions, one went south to Changsha, all the way north to Xiangfan, and finally went west to Yichang.

However, the battle on the periphery of Wuhan was still fierce, Tianjiazhen was still holding on, and Hong Junqi did not dare to evacuate the Ministry of Materials and Funds, as a result, after the Tianjiazhen fortress fell at the end of December, when Wuhan began to evacuate on a large scale, all kinds of transportation were requisitioned by citizens and various military organs, and the logistics evacuation became more difficult, until the Japanese army approached the city. There are also two warehouses where supplies have not been evacuated in time. Had

Destroy.

After more than 20 days of hard fighting, the fortress of Tianjiazhen finally fell, and after the Japanese army captured Guangji, it was ready to bypass Tianjiazhen and attack westward along the Guangxi Highway. Bai Chongxi personally commanded the 103rd Army and the 27th Army that rushed to the battlefield to intercept it, but the Japanese army could not break through, so they turned around and attacked Tianjia Town.

Li Yannian led his troops to hold Tianjia Town, Bai Chongxi commanded the 34th Group Army on the periphery to counterattack Guangji, Chiang Kai-shek sent He Zhizhong's 86th Army and Xiao Zhichu's 26th Army to reinforce, and the Japanese army also sent a division from the 11th Army and the 2nd Army to help. The Second Army withstood heavy artillery fire from the air, land, and rivers, but the officers and men held fast and did not retreat, and the commanders at all levels moved forward.

All the officers and men of the Second Army were aware of the importance of Tianjiazhen to Wuhan, so despite the heavy losses in the Battle of Huangmei, the morale of the whole army was still high, relying on strong positions to block the Japanese army. Li Yannian ordered the implementation of the law of joint sitting of revolutionary soldiers. No one is allowed to retreat, and whoever retreats dies.

When the fierce battle of Tianjia Town, Bai Chongxi commanded the 34th Group Army to counterattack Guangji, and bypassed Guangji in 90 years to flank the Japanese flank in Tianjia Town.

The Japanese attacked during the day, and the Chinese defenders counterattacked at night; This pattern was not broken until all the outer positions were lost. In the peripheral battle, the Second Army suffered heavy losses, with two brigade commanders and more than 6,000 officers and men of the 56th Division killed, and the Japanese losses were equally huge, with three brigade commanders killed, two wing commanders seriously wounded, and more than 3,000 soldiers killed.

When the Japanese army attacked Tianjia Town, it also attacked Fuchikou on the other side of the river, and the 11th Army attacked Ou Zhen's Fourth Army stationed at Fuchikou with the main force of the Botian Branch, and Chiang Kai-shek urgently transferred the 54th Army to reinforce it. Huo Huizhang took the 18th Division as the vanguard to reinforce Fuchikou, and the commander of the 18th Division, Li Fang, was slow to act, resulting in the Fourth Army fighting alone, and Fuchikou was lost, and Chiang Kai-shek was angry and ordered Li Fangtie to be arrested and brought to justice.

The loss of Fuchikou led to a more difficult situation in Tianjia Town, the Japanese army set up heavy artillery in Fuchikou, and bombarded the core position of Tianjia Town with naval artillery, the commanding heights of Tianjia Town Songshan was finally lost, the core position fortifications were all destroyed, all the heavy artillery was destroyed, and all important strongholds were destroyed, the Japanese army launched an attack on Tianjia Town, although the soldiers of the Second Army still fought, Li Yannian personally led the guards to counterattack. However, the Japanese still rushed into the town, and after the New Year, Chiang Kai-shek finally confirmed that Tianjia Town could not be held. Ordered to abandon Tianjia Town.

During the fierce battle in the fortress of Tianjiazhen. After resting and replenishing, the Japanese army in Henan attacked again, and the Japanese army was aware that the Fifth Army in Xinyang was stationed. Then he turned south to attack the mall, at this moment the mall was only the lone army of the 102nd Army stationed, in the face of the fierce Japanese army, Sun Zhen did not stick to the mall, but retreated south to the Shawo, Ma'anshan line to hold on to the first line to wait for help.

The 1st and 2nd Japanese North China armies also launched an attack on the front of Henan, at this critical moment. Chiang Dingwen ordered the Fifth Army to launch a counterattack on the flank of the Japanese attacking Mall through Luoshan and Huangchuan.

This order made China the first. The Mechabook Army entered the lofty mountains of Dabie Mountain, instead of counterattacking the Japanese troops moving south on the plains.

The rugged road of the Dabie Mountains made the Fifth Army call for the Evening Class, and the Japanese army seized the mistake of the squadron. Give up Luoshan to lure the enemy deeper. In Huangchuan. "The Panlong Valley in the west is in ambush. After two days of fierce fighting, the main force of the Fifth Army was encircled, but more than 200 tanks and dogs of the main attack fist of the group army were destroyed, dozens of of them escaped, and Qiu Qingquan, the commander of the 200th Division, was seriously injured.

The defeat of the Fifth Army led to the destruction of all the mobile units of the entire Fifth Theater, and Chiang Kai-shek was furious, dismissed Jiang Dingwen as commander of the Fifth Theater, and ordered Li Zongren to replace Jiang Dingwen as commander of the Fifth Theater. Unified command of the troops of the 15th Theater.

In fact, the Japanese army's attack spanned the 15th Theater, and the entire north bank of the Yangtze River was already a unified battlefield, and unified command was urgently needed.

When Li Zongren took over the Fifth Theater, the troops of the entire Fifth Theater were entangled by the Japanese army, and the 102nd Army was fighting hard in Shawo, the situation was the most urgent. Wei Lihuang's counteroffensive attracted the Japanese troops south along the Pinghan Road back to Zhengzhou, turning Xuchang into safety.

The crisis in Xuchang was lifted, but the crisis in Xinyang reappeared.

After the fiasco of the Fifth Army, the Japanese Nakajima Yasan Fifth Division took advantage of the victory to pursue, Xu Tingyao could not stand on his feet, abandoned Luoshan and retreated to Xinyang, and Nakajima Yasanjian continued to pursue. When Xu Tingyao fled to Xinyang, he sadly found that only the brigade directly under the group army was left, and the other troops had completely lost contact.

Xu Tingyao directly asked Chiang Kai-shek for help when he had no choice, and Chiang Kai-shek was shocked and angry when he heard the report, and he hated it greatly, Jiang Dingwen's move not only buried the entire Wuhan defense battle, but also buried the elite troops of the Fifth Army. But at this time, Chiang Kai-shek had no mobile reinforcements in his hands, so he had to order Xu Tingyao to hold on.

The morale of the Japanese army rushing to Xinyang was high, and the victory of defeating the Chinese elite made them rush to victory, and after that, the squadron was powerless to block, so that Nakajima Yasuken keenly felt that the squadron was in danger of chaos, and he lined up the two divisions under his command and divided them into two roads to boldly intersperse, just to take Xinyang.

Nakajima was anxious to take Xinyang, allowing most of the Fifth Army troops that were dragging behind to escape from the Japanese encirclement. But it also made it impossible for the squadron to quickly reinforce Xinyang, and the battle for the defense of Xinyang ended almost before it began.

Nakajima Yasuken captured Xinyang with lightning speed, leaving Nishio Toshizo in Beiping and Tada Jun in Nanjing overjoyed. Immediately, a division was dispatched from the front line of the mall and quickly moved westward to support Nakajima Kangjian. Nakajima was then ordered to move south to attack Wusheng Pass, which had only a crippled Hong Brigade of the Fifth Army.

Only two regiments of the Hong Brigade were less than 2,000 to reach Wusheng Pass, and the brigade commander Luo Guofu was a graduate of the third phase of Huangpu, and at this moment he was facing unprecedented pressure, Chiang Kai-shek directly ordered that "the Bi Brigade must hold the Wusheng Pass, and at the same time ordered the remnants of the 103rd Army and the 47th Army to rest in Macheng to immediately reinforce Wusheng Pass."

Bai Chongxi rejected Chiang Kai-shek's order, the 103rd Army and the 47th Army were to rush from Macheng to Wusheng Pass, and it was too late in time, Bai Chongxi measured the overall situation and ordered the 47th Army to rush to Wusheng Pass, and at the same time told Li Jiayu that if Wusheng Pass was lost, the 47th Army would retreat to Suixian or Zaoyang; The 103rd Army rushed to the garden on the Pinghan line, and if the Japanese army conquered Wusheng Pass, the garden would be the last line of defense against the Japanese army.

The development of the war was as Bai Chongxi expected, "the Bi Brigade exhausted its power and failed to hold Wusheng Pass, the battle of Wusheng Pass lasted only a day and a half, the Japanese army rushed into Wusheng Pass, Luo Guofu command post and the Japanese army started a street battle, and finally the whole army was killed, and no life was left."

At this time, Chiang Kai-shek had fully understood that Wuhan could not be defended, and on the day after the loss of Tianjiazhen, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the evacuation of Wuhan, and the navy began to lay mines upstream of Tianjiazhen, which caused unexpected trouble to the Japanese army, and it took the Japanese army three weeks to clear the mines on the channel.

After Li Jiayu arrived at the news of the loss of Wusheng Pass, he did not immediately retreat to Suixian, but stayed at Xuanhuadian west of Wusheng Pass, and after the main force of the Japanese army moved south, he led his army to launch a counterattack on Wusheng Pass. Nakajima Yasuken did not expect to be counterattacked by the ** squadron, although he was not satisfied, but this Xuan he was alone in the depths, and the 102nd Army was still stubbornly holding on to the sand nest despite heavy casualties, so he had to ensure that Wu Sheng was in his hands.

On the northern line. Li Zongren dispatched the 71st Army of the 36th Group Army and the naval division of the 22nd Group Army to counterattack Xinyang. dragged the 56th Division of the Xinyang Defenders. Nakajima had to stop rushing to Wuhan. Turning back and counterattacking the 47th Army attacking Wusheng Pass.

The attack of the 47th Army bought the 103rd Army time to return to the defense of Huaguo, but the 47th Army paid a heavy price. Army commander Li Jiayu was bombed by Japanese planes during the counterattack and was seriously injured and died, and the Nationalist Government posthumously awarded the army general. More than 7,000 remnants of the 47th Army retreated to Suixian. There is no longer the strength to fight again.

With the loss of Wusheng Pass, the retreat of Wuhan began, and the troops on the north bank of the Yangtze River began to move to western and southern Hubei. The 34th Army turned to western Hubei, and the remnants of the Second Army withdrew to southern Hunan. The 102nd Army abandoned Shawo and retreated to Wuhan first, and then transferred to western Hubei, where the 22nd Group Army, the 36th Group Army, the Third Group Army, and the Second Group Army, which were fighting on the Henan front, also retreated one after another and moved to western Henan and eastern Hubei.

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