The Battle of Xuzhou was over, and although there was a bloody victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang, it could not change the situation that the Chinese army as a whole was too inferior to the Japanese army.

At the same time, due to the participation of Li Tiehai's air force, the Chinese soldiers fought the Battle of Xuzhou with great success, and it was also the battle of Taierzhuang that defeated the Japanese army, and achieved twice the record of the previous life, which greatly encouraged the morale of the Chinese military and people in the War of Resistance.

At this time, because of the great victory in Taierzhuang, Commander Jiang had been carried away by the victory, and he actually threw hundreds of thousands of troops into the Xuzhou area, preparing to completely defeat the Japanese army in the Xuzhou area.

As soon as the Japanese army saw that Commander Chiang made this stupid move, they were worried that the Chinese army was running too fast to catch up, and now hundreds of thousands of troops have all entered Xuzhou, doesn't that give the Japanese army a chance to be fully encircled?

However, the great battles in the past few days have overstretched the Japanese army's strength for a time, so after the Japanese army occupied the periphery of Xuzhou, it immediately transferred a large number of troops from the northeast into the pass.

In a short period of time, the Japanese army once again gathered 100,000 troops in Hebei and other places, nearly 200 planes of various types, nearly 200 combat vehicles, and more than 1,000 artillery pieces.

The Japanese army prepared to encircle Xuzhou from north to south, hoping to wipe out the Chinese army in Xuzhou, so as to achieve the strategic goal of forcing China to surrender.

Commander Chiang, who had already made Shengzao dazed, immediately ordered his descendants to deploy heavy troops on the front line of Henan to prevent the Japanese army from moving north to Xuzhou.

Many of the units of the Nationalist Army, which were originally responsible for blocking the attack, were the elite of a hundred battles, and even if they fought one-on-one with the Japanese army, they did not fall behind.

But no matter how brave a soldier is, he is afraid of his pig-like teammates, as Commander Jiang's descendants, Gui Yongqing and Huang Jie, even if they have the strongest German armament.

However, the two fled without firing a shot at the most critical time, which eventually led to the collapse of the Henan defense line, and the Japanese army occupied Henan almost bloodlessly.

And Commander Jiang, as the leader, did not shoot the two to death, but only temporarily removed the two from their posts and woke up. At this time, Commander Chiang found that his hundreds of thousands of troops in Xuzhou were about to be surrounded by the Japanese army.

So he immediately changed his intentions and ordered the entire army to retreat. And so another big rout happened. Fortunately, there was no incident of the generals of the various armies stampeding each other this time.

Instead, they fought separately, evacuated Xuzhou from the mountains and other places, and finally jumped out of the encirclement of the Japanese army at a very small cost.

However, Commander Jiang did not shoot Gui Yongqing and Huang Jie. This laid the groundwork for the subsequent incidents of the Chinese army, especially those with good relations with Commander Chiang, who fled without a fight.

It was precisely because of Commander Chiang's lax management of the army that in the subsequent wars, the Chinese army was always invincible against the Japanese army.

After the Japanese army occupied Henan, it did not succeed in encircling and annihilating the Chinese army in Xuzhou, so naturally it did not complete the strategic intention of pressuring the Chinese army to surrender, and saw that the government of the Republic of China had not given up its determination to resist.

The Japanese base camp decided to launch an attack on Wuhan in advance. Commander Chiang, who was frightened by the Japanese army, still sent troops to open the Huayuan mouth on the south bank of the Yellow River in Zhengzhou according to the original history, causing the Yellow River to be artificially diverted.

As a result, more than 120 counties and cities in four provinces were affected, and tens of millions of people were affected by floods. Although this move effectively prevented the Japanese army from pursuing, it also brought great disaster to China.

And after the Huayuankou embankment burst, the first person to stand up and accuse Commander Jiang was Liu Xiang, the king of Sichuan. Liu Xiang scolded Commander Jiang for being a cold-blooded butcher who would do whatever it took to achieve victory, even his own people.

At the same time, as dissatisfied with Commander Jiang, Liu Xiang urgently recalled the 100,000 personal soldiers who were defending on the front line in Zhengzhou to return to Chongqing, so he didn't want the 100,000 elite soldiers he had worked hard to cultivate to be framed by Commander Jiang and become cannon fodder.

Commander Chiang, on the other hand, was greatly dissatisfied with Liu Xiang, and vigorously criticized Liu Xiang for not knowing the general situation on many public occasions, and also claimed that he was unruly in order to achieve great things.

However, Commander Chiang's order to blow up the garden mouth did cause dissatisfaction among many generals. In the eyes of these generals, even if a few death-daring troops were left, they could not achieve the purpose of hindering the pursuit of the Japanese army at the expense of the lives of ordinary people. This is not the work of soldiers who shout every day to defend their homes and defend the country.

If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese army had already overwhelmed the border, I am afraid that more generals would have risen up to resist Commander Chiang's rule.

The bursting of the embankment at the mouth of the garden did achieve the goal of stopping the Japanese pursuit, and the Japanese army also suffered a lot of losses, in addition to several brigades being washed away, and a baggage wing was washed away by the flood. Because of this, the Japanese army had to stop the pursuit, and could only wait for the flood to subside before making plans to attack Wuhan.

When the news of the Huayuankou embankment burst reached Li Tie's ears, Li Tie was also very impatient, even though he had made many efforts, he still failed to prevent the Huayuankou embankment bursting incident.

It seems that they are going to do the aftermath work for Commander Jiang again, and there is no way to let the post-disaster reconstruction work be their food bureau specialty.

A month later, when the flood had all receded, the Japanese first launched an attack on Wuhan, this time the Battle of Wuhan actually involved Anhui, Henan, Jiangxi, Hubei four provinces and cities, is the history of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the largest scope, the largest number of participants, the longest time, but also the most tragic battle.

In this battle, 110 Chinese troops participated in the battle, and 300,000 Japanese soldiers directly participated in the battle. From the very beginning, the war entered into a white heat.

Since all the heavy weapons purchased by the United States and Li Tie's latest purchase had arrived in Wuhan at this time, the battle of Wuhan was even more fierce this time.

At this time, in Wuhan, the Nationalist Army already had 400 aircraft, including 100 bombers and 300 fighters. The Japanese side has 500 aircraft, but the number of fighters is 100 more than that of the Chinese side.

As for artillery, the Chinese side is still at a disadvantage, but all kinds of small artillery and anti-aircraft guns are no less than the Japanese army. In addition, the number of Chinese troops at this time was much larger than that of the Japanese army.

At this time, almost all Chinese generals believed that the Battle of Wuhan would end in a Chinese victory. In this battle, the Chinese side had Commander Chiang as the commander-in-chief and Chen Cheng as the deputy commander. On the Japanese side, it was led by General Gangmura Ningji and General Yanjun.

Li Tie was appointed deputy commander of the Air Force because of his meritorious contribution to the aircraft, and although he did not directly command the Air Force's battles, he was already able to participate in all Air Force combat meetings.

And Li Tie is also very conscientious, although Li Tie is not really from a professional background, but his whimsical ideas can always give unexpected ideas in the air battle between China and Japan. And the Japanese Air Force also suffered a lot because of Li Tie's devils.

Including the arrangement of fake artillery positions to attract the Japanese Air Force to bomb, and then attacking Japanese aircraft with real anti-aircraft artillery fire, etc.

However, not long after the Battle of Wuhan began, a bad news came, Li Tie, who was commanding the Hainan Air Force in Wuhan to fight a bloody battle against the Japanese army, had no choice but to leave Wuhan for Chongqing.

It turned out that Liu Xiang, the king of Sichuan, was suddenly critically ill and had been in a coma many times, Liu Xiang repeatedly asked to see Li Tie for the last time on top of the collapse, and Li Tie, who got the news, could only fly to Chongqing quickly.

When Li Tie arrived in Chongqing, it was already late at night. Dozens of military vehicles escorted Li Tie to Chongqing Huaxing Hospital along the way.

Outside the hospital's special care ward, dozens of Liu Xiang's 100,000 generals were already waiting outside the ward. Seeing Li Tie coming, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

In the past few years, Li Tie and Liu Xiang have been brothers and sisters, and they have contributed more money and efforts to the construction of Sichuan. So everyone's relationship with Li Tie has always been very close. Now seeing Li Tie flying from Wuhan, everyone is also moved.

It's a pity that now is not the time to catch up, and Liu Xiang asked to see Li Tie alone, so the generals hurriedly sent Li Tie to the door of the ward.

Li Tie slowly pushed open the door of the special care ward with a worried heart, and found that only Liu Xiang's wife and Wang Ruiling, the person in charge of Chongqing Huaxing, were present in the room.

As soon as Liu Xiang saw that he had arrived, a smile suddenly appeared on his originally sad face. Li Tie walked into the ward, and for some reason, Liu Xiang motioned for his wife to leave the room, leaving only Wang Ruiling to accompany him.

And Liu Xiang's wife seemed to have expected this to happen, so she walked out of the ward very obediently.

Li Tie saw that Liu Xiang, who was already bloodless, wanted to struggle up, and immediately stepped forward to support Liu Xiang, and asked with concern:

"Brother Liu, my brother is late, why are you suddenly seriously ill? Your body has always been tough, and Sister Ruiling will check your body on schedule, and you are in the prime of life, how can you suddenly become seriously ill? ”

Liu Xiang looked at Li Tie with relief and did not answer his question directly: "Brother Li Tie, there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good fortune and misfortune." I, Liu, should have this catastrophe in my life, and I can't complain about others. Ruiling did her best, don't blame her. ”

Li Tie glanced at Wang Ruiling beside him and found that her face was gloomy, she wanted to say it but didn't dare to say it, Li Tie knew that Wang Ruiling must know the truth, but she was entrusted by Liu Xiang not to let her tell herself. It seems that I can only wait for the opportunity to ask Wang Ruiling in the future.

And Liu Xiang also knew that the cause of his illness would be known to Li Tie sooner or later, so Liu Xiang solemnly called Li Tie to the bedside and admonished:

"Brother, the eldest brother has been friends with you for twelve years, and he knows you very well, I know that you are not an ordinary person, I not only know that you are powerful, but I also know that you hate the Japanese from the bottom of your heart.

Brother, my illness came suddenly, and the real cause Rui Ling also found out, I was poisoned. ”

"Poisoned? How so? What kind of poison do you have? Who has such a great ability to poison you in Chongqing? Hearing that Liu Xiang was poisoned, Li Tie couldn't believe it.

"It's no big deal, the poison has entered the bone marrow, and there is no cure, and I also relied on Ruiling's medicine to hang it, so I kept supporting you back. My time is precious, and you let me finish my sentence.

As for who poisoned me, I believe that Ruiling will definitely tell you if she has the opportunity, and now I only have one request, if it is finally determined that the person who killed me is Japanese, then please avenge me.

But if the person who killed me is Chinese, no matter who the other party is, there is no need to avenge me. Seeing Li Tie's look of questioning, Liu Xiang covered Li Tie's mouth and said lightly:

"I, Liu Xiang, have killed countless people in my life, and it is my blessing to die at the hands of Chinese."