When Yue Weihan was busy building the fortress, the [***] on the frontal battlefield was already defeated, and it was even more tragic than in history, and even more collapsed!

On July 25, the 27th year of the Republic of China, Wuhan was lost.

On July 28, the 27th year of the Republic of China, Jiujiang was lost.

On August 5, the 27th year of the Republic of China, Jingzhou was lost.

On August 15, the 27th year of the Republic of China, Yueyang was lost.

On August 20, the 27th year of the Republic of China, Changde was lost.

On September 10, the 27th year of the Republic of China, Changsha and Yiyang were lost.

On September 25, the 27th year of the Republic of China, the 21st Brigade of the Infantry of the 5th Division of the Forward Army advanced to the vicinity of Hengyang.

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Hengyang, the military headquarters of the New Fifth Army.

Du Yuming is convening a meeting of the principal officers of the New Fifth Army.

The predecessor of the New Fifth Army was the chariot regiment directly under the Military Commission, Du Yuming was the first regiment commander, and the chariot regiment gradually expanded, and Du Yuming was gradually promoted from the regiment commander to the lieutenant general.

After the fall of Nanjing, Du Yuming was ordered to lead the New Fifth Army to withdraw to Hengyang for rest.

The New Fifth Army is the first mechanized unit in the [***] battle sequence, but it has never officially entered the battlefield after it became an army, so it has always been laughingly called the honor guard of [***], and everyone thinks that the New Fifth Army is just a show force with no combat effectiveness, and even Chairman Jiang thinks so in his heart.

However, Du Yuming doesn't think so!

All the officers and men of the New Fifth Army also do not think so.

"Ladies and gentlemen." Du Yuming got up suddenly, put the general's hat on his head, and his sharp eyes swept over the faces of the three division commanders Zheng Dongguo, Qiu Qingquan and Dai Anlan one by one, and said, "As the so-called raising soldiers for a thousand years, using soldiers for a while, now that the national crisis is at the head, it is time for our New Fifth Army to gallop on the battlefield and serve the country and the nation!" ”

"Throne!" Zheng Dongguo said, "The brothers have been looking forward to this day for a long time! ”

Zheng Dongguo is the commander of the Honorary 1st Division, and the officers and soldiers of the Honorary 1st Division are all composed of veterans who have returned from injury, these veterans have a super will to fight, they think that they have died once, and they are no longer afraid of life and death, and what they want is to be able to return to the battlefield, kill a few more devils, and avenge the dead brothers!

Dai Anlan also said: "After today, everyone will know that the New Fifth Army is ...... Not a guard of honor! ”

Qiu Qingquan pursed his lips and said with great disdain: "If you want me to say, the Fifth Division of the Army is just a fart, and I don't need to go out in person without a military seat, my new 22nd Division can beat them back to Dongyang Island!" ”

"Anyone can say big things!" Du Yuming glanced at Qiu Qingquan coldly and said, "Crazy Qiu, let me tell you, if you don't fight well in this battle, I, Du Yuming, am not good, and you crazy Qiu don't think about it!" ”

"Throne!" Qiu Qingquan stood upright and said, "The new 22nd Division will never disgrace you!" ”

After that, Qiu Qingquan and the other three division commanders saluted Du Yuming at the same time, and then turned around and left.

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Fifty miles north of Hengyang, Sister Ridge.

The 21st Infantry Brigade of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army was marching forward along the Changheng Highway, and the brigade commander, Major General Nakamura Masao, was proudly inspecting his troops through the windows of armored vehicles.

To this day, the 5th Division has re-proved her martial prowess.

Since participating in the Battle of Wuhan, the 5th Division has repeatedly undertaken heavy responsibilities, and the Battle of Ruyang has forced the [***] elite Xue Yue Corps into a desperate situation, and since then, as the vanguard of the army, he has repeatedly conquered Wuhan, Changde and Changsha, Nakamura Masao firmly believes that in two hours at most, he will be able to stand on the streets of Hengyang and report to the division commander Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka.

The communication vehicle in front of it suddenly stopped, and Masao Nakamura's command car also stopped.

Immediately, a young officer ran to the command car, and suddenly retracted his feet and said uprightly: "General, Kameda Squadron reports that it has encountered the Shina Army ten miles ahead, with at least two regiments, artillery and chariots, and rapid firepower!" ”

"Artillery, chariots?" Nakamura Masao said abruptly, "It's the honor guard of the Shina Army, right?" ”

After saying this, Nakamura Masao coldly ordered again: "Order, the 41st and 42nd Infantry Wings and the 3rd Brigade of the Yorino Field Artillery will be deployed immediately, and the opposite Shina Army will be defeated within half an hour!" ”

"Hello." Staff Officer Shao Zuo bowed his head abruptly and took the order.

At that moment, Nakamura Masao got out of the armored command vehicle accompanied by the chief of staff of the brigade, and at this time, the 4th Brigade of the Reading Force Engineer was already busy arranging the brigade headquarters, and Nakamura Masao did not even have the slightest worry about the upcoming encounter, in his opinion, the victory of the Imperial Army was an undoubted thing.

Nakamura Masao is not all careless, although the New Fifth Army can be called well-equipped, and even equipped with more than 200 combat vehicles and dozens of artillery, but after all, they have never really been on the battlefield, and the 21st Infantry Brigade of the Army can be called experienced in a hundred battles, and it is also well-equipped, compared with the opposite [***] team is not inferior.

In this way, the two armies fought in the field, and the results were self-evident.

However, the progress of the war proves that Nakamura is too optimistic!

In less than ten minutes of fighting, the artillery of the Nakamura Brigade was completely suppressed by the artillery of the [***] team, which was equipped with a larger caliber and a longer firing range, and the artillery of the [***] team was not at all like a recruit who had never been on the battlefield, they were old and spicy, and the shooting accuracy was not even below the artillery of the army!

The ensuing infantry clash was also unexpected by Nakamura Masao.

The performance of the [***] team is not at all like a guard of honor that has never been on the battlefield, on the contrary, they are not only brave in combat, but also extremely skilled in technical and tactical movements, in the infantry assault, the two armies of the Chinese and the two armies with the same strength for white-knives stabbing, the [***] team actually achieved an overwhelming advantage, which is simply unimaginable!

However, for the Nakamura Brigade, the disaster has just begun!

After two hours of fierce fighting, dozens of tanks suddenly rushed out of the jungle under Sister Ridge and rushed into the position of the Yue army with an unstoppable momentum, and the battle line of the Yue army was thrown to pieces! This tank group was a tank battalion directly under the new 22nd Division, and it was led by Qiu Qingquan and Qiu Maniac, who greatly admired the tactics of the German army's blitzkrieg.

By the time the military aviation arrived, the two armies had completely become a mess!

By the time twilight fell and the military aviation was forced to return, the Nakamura Brigade had been basically wiped out.

The Nakamura Brigade totaled more than 7,000 people, of which more than 4,000 were killed, more than 500 were captured, and the brigade commander, Major General Nakamura Masao, was also killed in the chaotic battle.

When the news spread, the whole country suddenly shook, and the New Fifth Army became famous in the first battle.

The army was hit hard by this, its vigor was lost, and the momentum of its southward movement was stopped.

At this time, the army fought fiercely on the thousands of kilometers long front from Shanxi in the north to Hunan and Jiangxi in the south, and the front was staggered, and a careless attack was very likely to cause a global collapse due to local defeats, coupled with the continuous war that led to the lack of materials and soaring prices in the country, the base camp of the army was forced to order a suspension of the frontal offensive.

At this point, the Battle of Wuhan came to an end, and the War of Resistance officially entered the stage of stalemate.

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Jingcheng County, the garrison of the 39th Group Army.

The battlefield of the two lakes is turbulent, and the battlefield in North China is also turbulent.

The Jingcheng ash plant has already been completed and put into operation, and thousands of tons of ash have been supplied to the Tumen Fortress project!

The main project of Tumen Fortress has been basically completed, the eighteen sub-mother bunker groups with Conch Mountain and Baocalf Mountain as the core have all been completed, and the underground of the entire fortress has been almost completely hollowed out, and on this basis, the perfect living and combat facilities such as power supply, water supply, ventilation and storage have been constructed, which is like a large ant nest hidden underground.

After the main project of Tumen Fortress was basically completed, the Niangziguan Fortress was officially built.

Relatively speaking, the Tumen Fortress is close to the Southern Plain, which is more conducive to the mobility of the mechanized troops and heavy equipment of the army, so the military value is higher, and it is more difficult to guard, and the Niangzi Pass originally had a complete Guancheng, and the terrain is extremely steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so the project of the Niangzi Pass Fortress is ranked behind the Tumen Fortress.

In addition, after a large-scale sweeping operation, although the Yue Army recaptured all the county towns in southern Hebei, the vast countryside was still firmly controlled by the 39th Group Army, and the 30 battalions that were originally sent by Yue Weihan to operate on the southern Hebei Plain have expanded to more than 30 regiments, and the total strength of the 39th Group Army has now exceeded 100,000 people!

In addition, the North China Front Army of the Yue Army also officially sent people to try to pull Yue Weihan.

In order to gain time to build the Tumen Fortress and the Niangziguan Fortress, Yue Weihan did not directly refuse the pull of the army, but adopted the strategy of giving the snake committee a false idea.

The army is not in a hurry, Yue Weihan is delaying time, why isn't the army also delaying time?

From the standpoint of the Yue Army, it would be great if Yue Weihan was willing to surrender, and if he was unwilling, it would be fine, as long as he stabilized this tiger and prevented him from making waves on the South Hebei Plain, it would be a victory, and when the dozen or so field divisions that participated in the Battle of Wuhan returned to North China, they could destroy the 39th Group Army with a turn of their hands.

However, in recent days, the military side seems to have smelled something.

The garrison of Luxian County has cracked more than a dozen infiltration cases in a row, and arrested dozens of pseudo-spies, these pseudo-spies seem to be coming to the Tumen Fortress, obviously, the army has already noticed something!

In addition, the 4th and 8th brigades of the mixed army have also been reorganized.

The special operations brigade reported that the southern Hebei army was moving frequently, and there seemed to be major operations.

Finally, on the day when the New Fifth Army won the victory in Hengyang, Yue Weihan ushered in an important guest!

This guest is none other than Mr. Zhu, the founder of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and the commander-in-chief of the Eighteenth Group Army!

(To be continued)