The Battle of Wuhan lasted more than five months, and although the Chinese army was superior in numbers, the air force was equal, and the artillery was not less than that of the Japanese.

However, China did not have a matching navy, and although a lot of mines were laid along the river, it could not really stop the Japanese navy from going up the river.

The warships along the river could effectively reinforce the heavy firepower of the Japanese troops on both sides of the Yangtze River. In addition, the command systems of China and Japan are too large.

The middle and lower commanders of the Japanese army were tactically proficient, their command was flexible, and their soldiers' fighting will was strong. Each time he was able to attack the Chinese defenders with a very small number of troops.

At the same time, due to the tacit understanding between the various branches of the Japanese army and between the various units, it is often possible to assemble a large number of troops in a short period of time to carry out heavy firepower strikes against the Chinese army, and to form a situation in which more troops are fighting less in a short period of time.

For example, the radio of the Japanese army can be assigned to the squad level, while the radio of the Chinese army can only be assigned to the regiment level even if it is the Central Army, and many miscellaneous armies even have radios at the brigade level.

As a result, there is a big difference in the grasp of the battlefield among the middle and lower-level commanders of the two armies, and the commanders of the Japanese army can change their offensive strategy at any time according to the situation on the front line. And the Chinese commanders, even if they want to change their tactics, cannot immediately send orders to the individual combat units.

The corresponding Chinese army lacked tacit understanding with each other, and the equipment of each unit was also very different, and the Chinese army, which was often surrounded, had been wiped out by the Japanese army, and the reinforced troops were still slow to move halfway. As a result, the Japanese army was surrounded and destroyed again.

Since this situation was prevalent throughout the Wuhan battle, the Battle of Wuhan did not defeat the Japanese side despite the best efforts of the Chinese side.

In the end, the Battle of Wuhan ended with the complete withdrawal of Chinese troops from the Wuhan area and the occupation of Wuhan and the surrounding area by Japanese troops.

In this battle, the Chinese suffered more than 300,000 casualties and the Japanese suffered 80,000 casualties. After this battle, although the Chinese army failed again, it wounded 80,000 Japanese troops, and also forced the Japanese army to launch another strategic offensive.

In fact, since the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese army has changed from a strategic offensive to a situation of strategic stalemate and partial offensive.

The Chinese army, on the other hand, has entered an era of strategic stalemate and local counteroffensives.

From this time on, there was no major strategic battle between China and Japan for several years. At the same time, because of the sparks of anti-Japanese organizations in various parts of China, the Japanese army was busy responding.

In order to consolidate Japan's occupation zone in China, Japan had to increase its troops from home again, and a large number of new soldiers began to flood the entire Chinese battlefield.

At this time, the Japanese army adopted the tactics of combining the old and the new, and although the overall combat strength had decreased, it was still superior to the Chinese soldiers in the case of equal strength.

Moreover, because the overall strength of the Japanese army is too different from that of China, even after many increases in troops, in such a vast territory of China, if you want to launch another attack, the strength of the Japanese army is obviously insufficient.

At the same time, due to the shortage of Japanese military resources, in order to maintain Japan's huge military consumption, the Japanese army urgently needed oil, rubber and other strategic resources.

Therefore, the base camp of the Japanese army, which had just completed the Battle of Wuhan, had already set its sights on the Manzhouli area on the border between China, Mongolia and the Soviet Union. Southeast Asia, as well as Hainan Island.

In view of the fact that the Kwantung Army in the Northeast was closest to the Mongols, the Japanese headquarters decided that the Kwantung Army could be ordered to launch a small campaign against the Mongols at the appropriate time, so as to occupy some of the land on the border between China and Mongolia, and also take the opportunity to test the reaction of the Soviets.

And just when the Battle of Wuhan had come to an end, on October 11, 38, more than 70,000 Japanese troops and 27,000 pack horses suddenly landed in Daya Bay, Guangzhou.

At this time, most of the troops of Liangguang were transferred to the Wuhan area, and only Yu Hanmou's 12th Group Army was stationed in the entire Guangdong Province.

However, most of the soldiers of Yu Hanmou's 12th Army had already been transferred to the Wuhan area to fight the Japanese army.

Commander Chiang did not believe that the Japanese army would suddenly transfer troops to attack Guangdong. As a result, just three days before the Japanese army landed in Guangzhou, Yu Hanmou's Twelfth Army, with another full division, was transferred to the Wuhan area.

Today, there are only 80,000 local troops in Guangdong as garrison troops, and these 80,000 troops are divided into more than a dozen troops and stationed in more than a dozen relatively large cities in Guangdong.

So on October 11, when the Japanese marines appeared in Daya Bay in Guangzhou with the help of the Japanese Fifth Fleet, the Japanese army successfully landed in Daya Bay in Guangzhou almost without encountering resistance.

Then the Japanese army, which had successfully landed, did not rush to capture Guangzhou, but bypassed Guangzhou, and began to sweep Yu Hanmou's 12th Army in other cities in Guangdong Province in three ways.

And where is Yu Hanmou the opponent of the Japanese army. In just ten days, more than a dozen major cities in Guangdong Province were occupied by the Japanese army. Then these tens of thousands of Japanese troops began to divide their forces to attack Guangzhou, making an ambush on all sides.

And Yu Hanmou, who was commanding and defending the city in Guangzhou, saw that in a few days, as long as he was surrounded by these Japanese troops who came from the division of troops, Guangzhou would become an isolated city, and he would have no chance to run even if he wanted to.

So he ignored Commander Chiang's order to keep him to the death, and he didn't care that several divisions that were coming from Hunan and Hubei to reinforce were still on the way. On the 10th day of the Japanese landing in Daya Bay, he took the initiative to lead the army to evacuate Guangzhou.

As a result, the Japanese army occupied the city of Guangzhou almost effortlessly, and although the people in the city spontaneously staged a rebellion, it was quickly suppressed by the Japanese army.

Under the pretext of the resistance of the people of Guangzhou, the Japanese army took the opportunity to burn, kill, loot and do all kinds of evil in the city of Guangzhou, and the entire city of Guangzhou made the people of the Japanese army untouchable.

The Battle of Wuhan ended on October 26, just five days after the occupation of all of Guangdong. After this battle, the Japanese army also occupied some cities in the Wuhan area and several surrounding provinces and regions.

At the same time, it occupied most of the Guangdong region.

Just when the Japanese army occupied most of Guangdong, Li Tie, who was bored in Chongqing, received a telegram from Wang Yaqiao, telling him that Guangdong had been occupied, and asked Li Tie if their Hainan Guards would send troops into Guangdong to fight the Japanese army.

At this time, Hainan Island had a total of 40,000 naval, land and air force forces, and it was not enough to defend itself and attack. Li Tie ordered an active defense, and he would immediately return to Hainan Island.

However, Wang Yaqiao's heart of resistance did not die, and he repeatedly emphasized that the current Hainan guards were strong and strong, and their fighting spirit was high, and as long as Li Tie allowed it, he was willing to personally lead 20,000 guards into Guangdong and expel tens of thousands of Japanese troops from Guangdong.

Seeing that Wang Yaqiao wanted to go into battle to kill the enemy so much, Li Tie couldn't help but reveal the bottom of him, Li Tie told Wang Yaqiao that according to the report of the spy personnel he buried in Japan, the Japanese army had been preparing for a full-scale attack on Hainan in three months.

Now he almost knew the line of attack of the Japanese army. Let Wang Yaqiao rest assured, as long as Li Tie returns to Hainan and immediately reorganizes his arms for war, there will be more opportunities to fight the Japanese in the future.

How did Wang Yaqiao know that Li Tie used the historical facts obtained by later generations to fool him, but he knew that Li Tie had buried nails in Japan.

However, since Li Tie said that he would soon meet the Japanese army in Hainan, he also gave up his mind of leading troops into Guangdong. Hainan began to conduct all-out military training.

When the Battle of Wuhan ended, Li Tie's dead word army didn't even have a chance to show its face, which made the soldiers of the Sichuan army very depressed.

Fortunately, Li Tie vigorously persuaded the Dead Word Army, the Sino-Japanese War had just begun, and there were many opportunities to serve the country in the future.

I hope that they will train their troops well and bravely kill the enemy in the future. Li Tie left 100,000 Sichuan troops to Liu Wenhui, and left another 10,000 Hainan guards to defend Chongqing, and he wanted to return to Hainan immediately.

Liu Wenhui didn't expect Li Tie to trust him so much, Liu Wenhui promised to help Li Tie take care of the 100,000 Sichuan army, promised not to let a single person and a gun be pulled away by Commander Jiang, and also guaranteed that Sichuan would never be occupied by the Japanese army in a county town.

Due to the failure of the Battle of Wuhan, Commander Chiang and his team could only use Chongqing as the final political decision-making center, in order to avoid meeting with Commander Chiang, Li Tie had already planned to stay away from Commander Chiang, otherwise sooner or later Commander Chiang would have to clean him up.

Therefore, as soon as the Battle of Wuhan ended, while Commander Jiang was still rushing to Chongqing with the remnants of the defeated army, Li Tie had already returned to Hainan with nearly 8,000 men and horses of the independent regiment and the magical regiment of the meritorious troops of Nanjing City.

However, it is not easy to return to Hainan from the land, and now most of Guangdong Province has been occupied by the Japanese army, and there are only two ways to return to Hainan from the land, one is through Guizhou Province, through Guangxi Province, and from the port city of Guangxi Province to return to Hainan by boat.

One is to go directly to Haikou City through Guizhou Province from Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, through the Qiongzhou Strait. Due to the large variables of taking a boat from the seaport city of Guangxi Province.

So Li Tie finally decided to take the risk of Zhanjiang City, after all, Guangdong has just been occupied by the Japanese army, and most of the Japanese defenders are stationed in the city, and Li Tie's nearly 10,000 troops can only take Zhanjiang if they want to quickly pass through the Qiongzhou Strait.

Fortunately, both the independent regiment and the magical regiment are the fist troops in the Hainan Guards, and these two heroic units have defeated the Japanese army several times their own many times, so the two troops are not afraid to go straight to Zhanjiang from Guangdong Province.

And the fact is exactly what Li Tie predicted, when Li Tie sneaked all the way with 8,000 elite soldiers, and just after entering the ground of Zhanjiang from Guangxi by detour, the 5,000 Japanese troops in Zhanjiang dared to pursue Li Tie's 8,000 elite soldiers after only 3,000 Japanese troops.

So just outside Zhanjiang City, Li Tie led 8,000 elite soldiers of the Hainan Guard Army to teach the arrogant Japanese army a deep lesson.

When these 3,000 guards just chased out of Zhanjiang City, they were ambushed by Yang Shuai of the Independent Regiment and 2,000 heavy firepower soldiers, and as a result, nearly 1,000 Japanese troops were killed in the first battle.

Then, just when the Japanese army, which had been frustrated in the pursuit, had just reported the discovery of a large number of Chinese troops and asked for air force support, the independent group ran away.

Uncontrollably, the Japanese army continued to pursue, but just after chasing out ten miles, they were ambushed by Liu Aiguo's magical heavy firepower battalion. When hundreds of machine guns and hundreds of mortars covered the attack on the 2,000 Japanese troops, in just one wave, more than 1,000 Japanese troops fell on the way to pursuit.

Then the remaining 1,000 soldiers were gone, and no matter what the wing commander ordered, they would not pursue. was so angry that the co-captain almost didn't split the soldiers in front of him.

However, when the wing commander saw that the four planes that he had come to reinforce were blown up in the air by ten unknown planes flying from the direction of Hainan, the wing commander also gave up the pursuit of the city, and he ordered to immediately defend Zhanjiang City to prevent the counterattack of the Chinese army.

In this way, the 8,000 Hainan guards arrived safely at the edge of the Qiongzhou Strait, and then easily boarded several huge troop carriers sent by Wang Yaqiao.