The reinforcements that arrived before dawn were not the new 38th Division or the new 22nd Division, but 2,000 people drawn out by Fan Ziying, Rao Guohua received the support of these 2,000 people, withstood the attack of the Yue Army, before noon, the forward of the New 22nd Division finally arrived at Fujin Mountain, stabilized the crumbling Fujin Mountain front, Sun Liren led the new 38th Division also arrived at noon, and the two divisions fully took over the defense line of Fujin Mountain, and the Yue Army found that Chinese reinforcements had arrived before the evening, so they stopped the attack.

That night, Sun Liren commanded the troops to launch a night attack, recovering all positions, the army launched several attacks after dawn, after being defeated, it stopped the attack and turned to defense, after Sun Zhen got the news, judged that the army was too much to lose, and was unable to attack, and ordered Sun Liren to turn to the counteroffensive.

The 49th Group Army won successive battles, Zhuang Jihua instilled an offensive consciousness in this unit, and the mentality of the generals was completely different from that of other troops, and if the generals of other units were to turn to the defense, their choice would probably be confrontation, but the 49th Group Army would not, and their choice would definitely be a counteroffensive.

The offensive and defensive momentum of the Fujin Mountain battlefield reversed, the [***] team turned into a counteroffensive on the whole line, the army did not expect the [***] team to launch a counteroffensive so quickly, and retreated again and again, the [***] team continuously regained Songshugang, Yejialouzi seven or eight villages, and attacked Yejiaji in one fell swoop, the two sides launched a fierce battle on the front line of Yejiaji, and the army gradually stabilized its position, mobilized heavy troops to counterattack from the flank, and forced the [***] team out of Yejiaji, and a company that attacked Yejiaji was all killed, and none were captured.

After two consecutive days, the two sides around Yejiaji launched a fierce battle, the army finally found that the reinforcements of the [***] team is more difficult to fight than the original defenders, the soldiers' will to fight and the officer's command ability is stronger, more importantly, this army is full of attacking spirit, as long as there is a gap in the defense line, it will be caught by them, incurring a blow, the original situation of calmly dispatching the attack is no longer there, the entire battlefield is no longer in their control, the squadron has taken away control of the battlefield.

Most of them participated in the Songhu Campaign, the Nanjing Campaign, and the Jinpu Road Campaign, and they have an understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Chinese [***] team, and understand that this must be the 49th Group Army, which is likely to be the 101st Army, the strongest army in China.

At this time, Sun Liren also learned about the situation of the army on the other side from the captured prisoners, this army was Haneda as the commander, with a total strength of more than 60,000 people, after the battles of Lu'an and Fujin Mountain, the strength of the army was sharply reduced to more than 40,000 people, and both operations paid heavy casualties, not only many casualties among the captain-level officers, but also one person killed and three wounded by the wing commander, and two wounded by the brigade commander.

In addition, there is another important situation: according to the prisoners' confessions, a large number of soldiers in the army are recruits who have been in the army for less than half a year, and the expansion of the army is too fast, and there are not enough veterans at all, so a large number of veterans have been transferred from the standing divisions and regiments, and a large number of new recruits have been filled.

Sun Liren didn't care about these prisoners, handed them over to the local security regiment, since the battle, he found that the combat effectiveness of the army and the first Jinpu Road battle has declined sharply, Rao Guohua even more bluntly said that the gap between the army and the Guangde battle is even greater, that is, the soldiers are extremely tenacious in terms of combat experience and combat will, even if they are in a desperate situation, they do not give up resistance, and they can't catch prisoners at all, but now, they actually catch prisoners with guns.

However, even so, Sun Liren also stopped the counteroffensive, and the 18,000 men of the New 38th Division and the 15,000 men of the New 22nd Division added up to only 33,000 people, even if the remnants of the 122nd Division and the 145th Division were counted, the total strength was only equal to that of the Yue Army.

The Fujinshan battlefield had just stabilized, and the northern battlefield had changed and regenerated, and after the army conquered Xincai, it turned to rest and recuperate, but in view of the stalemate on the southern front, Nishio Shouzo ordered the 5th Division and the 56th Division to be returned to the southern front, and Nakajima Yasuken led two divisions to the south from Xincai, and went straight to Huangchuan along the Xinhuang Highway, threatening the rear road of the Chinese defenders on the front line of Fujinshan in Gushi.

After ascertaining the movements of the Yue army, Bai Chongxi hurriedly ordered the 200 divisions that were moving north to stop at Xinyang, and then transferred the 31 st Group Army from the northern front to transport Xinyang in an emergency car, and ordered the 21 st Group Army to abandon the Gushi line and retreat to Huangchuan, and must occupy Huangchuan in front of the Yue army.

As soon as Gushi retreated, the flank of Fujin Mountain was threatened, and Sun Zhen immediately led the 102nd Army and the 103rd Army (composed of the new 38th Division and the New 22nd Division) to retreat to the mall.

The [***] team retreated quickly again without the reaction of the army, Sun Zhen led the troops to retreat to the mall, Liao Lei led the troops to Huangchuan, Nakajima Yasuken eliminated the resistance of the [***] team along the way, and forcibly advanced to Huangchuan, Haneda urged the troops to pursue quickly, the two armies chased wildly in the Dabie Mountain, and the air forces of the two sides were still strangled together in the sky, and air battles were happening every day.

Chiang Kai-shek was very worried about the sharp deterioration of the situation in the Fifth Theater, and he finally ordered that the Fifth Army, the only mechanized group army under the direct control of the Military Commission, be assigned to the Fifth Theater, and the whole army would be transported to Xinyang in preparation for a decisive battle with the Yue Army in Xinyang.

Chiang Kai-shek finally made this decision that the Ninth Theater finally won a victory, and after the 11th Army conquered Jiujiang, Okamura Ningji followed the established deployment and went south to Nanchang with a force of troops, detoured to Changsha, cut off the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, and encircled the Chinese defenders in the Wuhan area with the Northern Army.

After the army launched an attack, it soon occupied De'an, Xue Yue adopted the strategy of retreating and fighting a decisive battle, intending to attract the army to the city of Nanchang, but after the army occupied De'an, Tada Jun intervened in the operation on the south bank of the Yangtze River, believing that the progress on the north and south banks of the Yangtze River was uneven, and the south bank was making rapid progress with the assistance of the navy, while the north bank of the Yangtze River was far behind.

The reason that Tada Jun did not explain was also guessed by Okamura Ningji, although the northern front operation has made great progress, but the middle [***] team moves quickly, and every time the encirclement has not yet been formed, the middle [***] team quickly withdrew from the threat of encirclement, although such progress has been made, but the strength of the middle [***] team is not consumed much. Now that the central [***] team is gradually stabilizing the front, the northern front is beginning to become difficult, and now there is only the ability to draw troops from the southern front to reinforce the northern front.

Okamura Ninji protested, Tada Jun specially rushed from Nanjing to Anqing, where he explained his overall strategy to Okamura Ninji, the Fifth Theater gathered most of the elite main forces of the Central [***] team, the imperial army suffered repeated setbacks in the Fifth Theater, and the Fifth Theater became a hero in the hearts of the Chinese, so both in terms of morale and strategy, the Fifth Theater must first defeat the Fifth Theater.

Although Okamura Ninji was reluctant to help Nishio Shouzo and wanted to win the honor of conquering Wuhan, Tada Jun specially went to Anqing from Nanjing to explain to him, which already gave him face, and he couldn't disobey.

In desperation, Okamura Ningji had no choice but to suspend the operation on the Nanxun Line, and dispatched the 106th Division and the 101st Division to attack Huoshan in the north, attracting the 47th Army, and three more divisions to prepare to attack Guangji.

In fact, Tada Jun grasped the weaknesses of the [***] team very accurately, and the main force of the Ninth Theater was deployed along the river, but the north bank of the Yangtze River was very empty. The battlefield in Henan was tight, Jiang Dingwen evacuated the defenders on the north bank of the Yangtze River, the north bank of the Yangtze River is now very empty, and there is only one pre-second division and several security regiments in Taihu Qianshan Guangji.

The 11th Army withdrew nearly half of its strength at once, and after weighing it again and again, Okamura Ninji temporarily stopped attacking to the west and adopted a defensive strategy to the west, and the main five divisions continued to attack Nanchang along the Nanxun line.

However, the purpose of the battle was exposed, Chen Cheng and Xue Yue judged Okamura Ningji's intentions at the same time, and Chen Cheng boldly transferred Yang Sen's 24th Group Army, Yu Jishi's 11th Group Army, as well as Huang Wei's 18th Army and 11th Army, and Li Hansoul's 7th Corps (under the jurisdiction of the 62nd Army and the 64th Army) and other elite troops to Xue Yue.

When Okamura Ningji launched another attack, these troops were already in place, and when the attack reached the city of Nanchang, the 24th Army took the lead in the front and launched a counterattack on Ruichang. Subsequently, the 11th Group Army also launched a counterattack on De'an from Xiushui, encircling the 46th Division of the Yue Army at Mahuiling, the 18th Army (heavy army, full 50,000 people) defeated the 31st Division in Jing'an, and Hu Lian led his troops to attack Xishan at night to conquer Xishan in one fell swoop, threatening the flank of the Nanchang siege army.

The battle situation changed dramatically, Okamura Ninji hurriedly withdrew his troops from Nanchang, and at the same time put the 7th Division of the reserve into battle, first lifting the encirclement of the 46th Division of Mahuiling, and the troops under the city of Nanchang attacked to the north and threatened the 11th Group Army from the southern front.

After the 7th Division moved south, it was blocked by the 11th Army, which resisted steadily, and the 7th Division made slow progress. The troops attacking Nanchang retreated north, Huang Wei took the opportunity to attack from the flank, biting the troops behind the broken army, and Li Hansoul led his troops out of Nanchang. The two of them attacked one on the left and one behind, which greatly slowed down the speed of the army's northward retreat, so that it did not dare to let go of the northward retreat to relieve the siege of the 46th Division.

The entire Nanxun Line was under fierce fighting in mid-to-late November, and Okamura Ninji was somewhat unable to support it, so he was forced to transfer a division of troops transferred to the north bank of the Yangtze River back to the battlefield on the south bank, and at the same time urged Tada Jun to transport the second division on the outskirts of Nanjing to De'an by water.

At this moment, both sides understand that the key to the battle situation on the Nanxun Line lies in Mahuiling, and if the 11th Group Army can preemptively destroy the 46th Division, then the Central [***] Brigade will have the initiative on the battlefield, and the main force of the Army's northward retreat may be encircled at the southern end of the Nanxun Line; otherwise, the 11th Group Army will be attacked by the north and south of the Chinese Army, and its situation will become very dangerous.

(To be continued)