The black soldier who picked up an adjutant knife was none other than Chen Chao, but he was not just promoted to platoon commander afterwards, but his battle record has not yet been counted. So his heroic exploits have not yet been unearthed.

It is only said that Gangcun Ningci, who is now returning from a big defeat, has a full 30,000 Japanese troops in Changsha City, 30,000 puppet troops, plus the 30,000 Japanese troops he just brought reinforcements today.

The entire army of 90,000 can still follow him and flee for his life now, but more than 20,000 people are himself. This is counting the nearly 10,000 puppet troops who didn't have time to flee in a hurry.

In front of them were the 20,000 central army and the 80,000 local army led by Xue Yue, and Xue Yue laid three blockade lines on the road to Jiangxi by the Japanese army.

In the eyes of the Nationalist Army, Gangcun Ningci's newly defeated army has no heavy weapons, and it is simply a fool's dream to break out of the Nationalist Army's obstruction.

But the final outcome of the battle once again stunned everyone. It turned out that hundreds of fighters of the 11th Army's air force, which had been intercepted by the Hainan Air Force, had finally arrived at the battlefield after running out of ammunition and returning to Wuhan to reload ammunition and fuel.

At this time, the battle of Changsha was irreversible, in order to open a life channel to Jiangxi for the defeated army led by Gangcun Ningci, and at the same time to atone for the action of the Air Force for missing the fighter.

The air force pilots of the 11th Army desperately attacked Xue Yue's defense line, and some fighters even launched suicide attacks when they ran out of ammunition.

In the case of repeated misses, some planes also turned their planes into aerial bombs and directly dived and blew up the command post of the Central Army.

Xue Yue, who originally wanted to pick peaches, now regrets very much that he should not have sent away the powerful Hainan Escort Army, let alone tried to stop Gangcun Ningci without the cover of the air force.

As the so-called dog jumps over the wall, the current Japanese army is a vicious wolf that has been driven crazy, and anything that stands in front of him, even Xue Yue, who thinks he is a roadblock, was bitten all over his body by Gangcun Ningji.

In addition, Xue Yue's central army and local troops did not cooperate silently, and the three lines of defense were formed temporarily, so loopholes were inevitable.

As a result, the cunning Gangcun Ningji seized Xue Yue's defense loopholes several times, and more than 20,000 Japanese troops and puppet troops were stunned to break through Xue Yue's three blockade lines with the help of aircraft. Xue Yue, who was unwilling to let the big fish of Gangcun Ningci run away, chased after the Japanese army.

However, Gangcun Ningci's Eleventh Army took advantage of Xue Yue's eagerness to pursue the soldiers and hit Xue Yue two ambushes in a row, so that Xue Yue had to slow down the pace of pursuit.

In this way, Xue Yue's pursuers always maintained a distance of more than ten kilometers from the Japanese army, and the Chinese army was more like a gift to the Japanese army.

When Gangcun Ningci's troops finally arrived at the border of Jiangxi, looking at the Japanese army that was running faster, Xue Yue, who knew that the poor Kou Mo was chasing, looked at the distant figure of the Japanese army and shouted unwillingly: "There is a kind of you don't run." ”

When the generals of the Nationalist Army around heard this, they felt that Commander Xue's shout was very inspiring, so they shouted one after another: "There is a kind of you don't run." ”

It's a pity that the Japanese army didn't hear the shouts of the Chinese army at all, and of course even if they did, they couldn't understand it. When Gangcun Ningci finally fled back to Nanchang, Jiangxi with the defeated troops a few days later, Gangcun Ningci fell ill all of a sudden.

The battle of Changsha made him discover the horror of China's growing military power, and then thought of China's huge human resources, he deeply felt that if he could not quickly defeat China in a short time, in a few years, I am afraid that the end of the Japanese would come.

Therefore, despite his illness, Gangmura Ninji repeatedly sent telegrams to the emperor suggesting that he immediately increase his troops in China, and immediately increase his troops in Jiangxi and Hubei, and that he should lead his troops to attack Hunan again as quickly as possible, and that he must defeat China in the shortest possible time, and must not fall into a protracted war with China.

However, Okamura Ninji's opinion was not taken seriously, after all, he was only a general of the defeated army now, and in a country like Japan, which attaches great importance to the achievements of the army, a general of the defeated army, no matter how brilliant his past achievements were, his opinion would not be taken seriously.

What's more, although the battle of Changsha was defeated this time. However, in order to boost the morale of the army, it was still publicized as a great victory by the Japanese, after all, they besieged Changsha City for seven days.

In the end, Xue Yue's pursuit of Gangcun Ningci was also publicized by Japanese propaganda agencies as the two sides reached an agreement on the battlefield, so there was a friendly scene of the two sides striking the army and sending Xue Yue for dozens of miles.

Xue Yue, who heard such shameless propaganda from Japan, was so angry that he almost vomited blood, because he focused on describing in the battle report sent to Commander Jiang that his 100,000-strong army destroyed countless enemies and captured a lot, and finally Gangcun Ningci almost lost his pants before he successfully escaped back to Jiangxi. When it came to the mouths of the Japanese, how could it be that he and Okamura Ningji were sympathetic?

As a last resort, Xue Yue could only send a telegram to Commander Jiang again to clarify the true situation of his pursuit and killing of Gangcun Ningci. Fortunately, Commander Jiang actually had great trust in Xue Yue. Regardless of what the Japanese say, it is an indisputable fact that the Chinese army won the battle of Changsha.

First, the Chinese army wiped out at least 40,000 Japanese troops and 20,000 puppet troops. The Chinese army suffered only 30,000 casualties, including nearly 10,000 troops of the Third Army of the Hainan Escort Army and more than 20,000 local troops.

Second, the strategic intention of the Japanese army to invade and occupy Hunan was broken, and the two sides returned to the areas under their actual control before the war. If there was anything different about the outcome of this campaign.

That is, the Chinese army only lost a large number of soldiers, and no high-ranking generals were killed. The Japanese army was different, and the loss of Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba of the 6th Division alone was unbearable for the Japanese army, not to mention the death of dozens of generals and colonels.

At the same time, Chen Chao, an ordinary soldier of the Hainan Third Army, who killed Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba, also became a real anti-Japanese hero.

Due to the great merit of Chen Chaoli, and at the same time, in order to buy off the officers and men of the Third Army in Hainan, Commander Chiang personally issued an order to promote Chen Chao to the position of commander of the Central Army. And four or five medals of various kinds, including the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun, were issued.

It's a pity that Commander Jiang's hard work was in vain, because Chen Chao, who was a soldier of Guangxi, looked down on the Central Army in his heart, and he would rather be a platoon commander in the Third Army of Hainan than a major commander in the Central Army.

Fortunately, the Third Army of Hainan did not treat him badly, and Li Tie deliberately named the engineer battalion where Chen Chao was located Chen Chaoying, and promoted Chen Chao to be the battalion commander. And let him apprentice with Bai Fengxiang, hoping to become a qualified battalion commander in the shortest possible time.

With Li Tie's usual wealthy style, the Chen Dynasty was rewarded even more financially, an officer's villa on Hainan Island, plus 100,000 yuan in cash, such a rich reward suddenly captured the hearts of the soldiers of Guangxi.

Everyone muttered in their hearts, "It's better to follow the Hainan Guards, not only do you have meat to eat, but also fat and oily." ”

After the Battle of Changsha, the Third Army of Hainan returned to Vietnam, and Chen Chao happily went to Bai Fengxiang to receive the reward.

However, Gangmura Ningji, who was many times more senior than the Chen Dynasty, returned to China in disgrace, because of his great defeat in the Battle of Changsha, and also because his remarks about wanting to expand the war conflicted with the current Japanese policy, so he was afraid that the Japanese army base camp that he was messing around with in China had to urgently recall Gangmura Ningji to the base camp and give him an idle post as a military senator.

When Lieutenant General Anan Yuji, who succeeded him in the Eleventh Army, visited him before leaving for China, Gangmura Ninji held Lieutenant General Zhinan's hand and repeatedly admonished:

"In China, the Central Army is the core of the resistance to the Japanese Empire, so after you enter China, you must find ways to defeat the Central Army as the most important task. Whether it is bribery or assassination, as long as the Central Army is defeated, the whole of China is defeated.

However, before you start a big war with the Chinese army in the future, you still have an opponent to pay close attention to, and I just didn't notice this opponent this time before I suffered a big loss.

This new opponent is the Hainan Escort Army led by Li Tie, not to mention the losses caused by this Hainan Escort Army to the Imperial Army three times and twice, only from the failure of the 21st Army to launch the Battle of Hainan last year.

We have already achieved too many defeats in the Hainan Guard, and we used to think that as long as we did not move Hainan, we would not provoke Li Tie, and it would not have an impact on the Empire's military operations in China.

However, in this battle of Changsha, the Hainan Escort Army appeared with the names of three units, namely the First Army of Hainan to the Third Army, not counting their already powerful Hainan Air Force.

I don't know how many times we will have to deal with Li Tie in future wars, but I know that you will have to pay close attention to the actions of the Hainan Guards in every step of your military action in China in the future.

Otherwise, they are likely to suddenly appear behind you and plot against you when you are in the midst of a fierce battle with the Central Army. ”

Seeing Gangmura Ningji's sincere words to him, Lieutenant General Anan was very moved, and he said that he would definitely lead the 11th Army well, and as soon as he arrived in China, he would definitely reorganize the 11th Army in the shortest possible time.

Now that the entire Eleventh Army, the four divisions have lost most of their losses, and the domestic recruits have not yet been replenished, and the burden of their Eleventh Army is very heavy, and I am afraid that they will not be able to attack the Chinese army again within a year.

Therefore, he will spend this year studying the National Central Army and the Hainan Guard.

In this way, after the battle of Changsha, China and Japan once again entered the stage of stalemate. As a concern about the strength of Li Tie's Hainan Guards, Commander Chiang once again wanted to dismantle the Hainan Guards.

Commander Jiang wanted to transfer the Hainan Guards to various anti-Japanese fronts in the interior to serve as cannon fodder for various reasons, but Li Tie prevaricated back for various reasons.

Seeing that Li Tie was so ignorant of affairs, Commander Jiang, who originally had a lot of good feelings for Li Tie, turned his careful thoughts again: "This Li Tie has money and soldiers. What reason do I have to use to make Li Tie bleed again? ”

Commander Chiang's official residence in Chongqing was calculating Li Tie. Li Tie, who was far away in Hainan, kept sneezing. Xu Meiqi took out a thin coat and draped it on Li Tie's body, afraid that he would catch a cold.

Although the weather in Hainan is hot, it is still cool on a quiet night when the humid sea breeze blows.

The winter of 1939 came, Hainan was still cool, but the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the whole of China was even higher, because the Battle of Changsha was the first great victory against the Japanese army presided over by the Nationalist Army, although Commander Chiang consciously erased the merits of the Hainan Guards, but the achievements of the Hainan Guards were quickly spread in private.

Nowadays, more children want to join the Hainan Guard, but now Guangdong is under the occupation of the Japanese army, and not everyone has this condition to go to Hainan Island by boat.

So more people made a detour to Guangxi to the Sino-Vietnamese border, where there was a recruiting station for the Third Army in Hainan. From the end of the Battle of Changsha in October 39 to the end of the 39th year, in just over two months, the Third Army of Hainan once again recruited 10,000 Guangxi soldiers and 20,000 young men from all over the country who came to join the army.

Looking at the growing team at hand, Li Tie, Wang Yaqiao and the thousand-tailed scorpion quietly came to the basement of Hainan, and they discussed, since they had so many soldiers under their hands, whether their plan to occupy more territory could be implemented.