As the Sino-Japanese war continued to expand, Wuhan, as a wartime companion capital, naturally received the focus of the Japanese army, and was bombed almost every two or three days. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Sometimes many times a day, the national air force is weak, even with Soviet aid, the battle in the air can only be at a disadvantage, but it does not mean that the Chinese air force will give in.

The Chinese Air Force did not give in, and although their fighters were damaged and did not replenish them, they still resolutely piloted the only aircraft of their own aircraft to fight the Japanese in the sky.

Before dawn, low-altitude raids, dive bombing!

The piercing sirens instantly sounded over the three towns of Wuhan, and the old Jiang Ye guards got up from their beds and hid in the air-raid shelter near the official residence.

This is not the first time that something like this has happened, and Lao Jiang has been able to deal with it calmly.

He is also angry, but there is really no way, the national strength is weak, and there is no strong and complete heavy industry system, once the invasion comes, he can only be passively beaten.

"Sir, Yudong has won the battle, this is a telegram that Xue Boling just sent from Guide."

In the air-raid shelter, Lao Jiang changed into a set of summer military uniforms, the stuffy air-raid shelter is indeed not a good office location, but there is no way, the Japanese plane has not flown far, and must wait for the alarm to be lifted before going back to the cool air-conditioned room.

"Weiwen, what's the good news?" Lao Jiang had a headache all night, and he didn't know how to reply to Xue Boling about how to deal with Huang Jie.

"Chief Xue Boling, they captured alive one of the culprits of the Nanjing Massacre, the commander of the 36th Brigade of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, Major General Ushijima Man, and more than a dozen Japanese officers accompanying him." Lin Wei reported in a slightly surprised trill.

"What, catch Ushijima full?" Lao Jiang's eyes widened in an instant.

"Yes, alive."

"Okay, good, great, Xue Boling did a beautiful job, whoever caught Ushijima Man, I want to reward him heavily!" Lao Jiang said excitedly.

"It was a staff officer of the Staff Office of the Commander's Department of the First Corps in Eastern Henan who led an assault team, pursued in the rainy night, chased for hundreds of miles in the heavy rain, and finally intercepted and surrounded and annihilated a Japanese army that broke through.

"Okay, what a rainy night to pursue, what is the name of this staff officer, I will reward this staff officer heavily." Lao Jiang said very excitedly.

"I don't think the telegram said it." Lin Wei smiled.

"Ask immediately, if I can, I will personally meet this staff officer who captured Ushijima Man." Lao Jiang commanded.

"Yes!"

"Sir, also, Kenji Dohihara finally broke through from the front, and his next target is most likely to be Takujo." Lin Wei continued.

"Takujo, how much combat power do the remnants of Kenji Dohihara have?"

"It's hard to say, according to Xue Boling's analysis and judgment, Kenji Dohihara is very cunning, what we can think of, he will definitely think of it, so he may do the opposite, there is only one local security regiment in Tuocheng, but the Eighth Army was stationed for a short time before, leaving some supplies, if you let Kenji Doihara's remnant troops get it, then it will be much more difficult to eliminate this remnant army."

Lao Jiang frowned, it would be a pity if he let go of Kenji Dohihara like this, this old devil is a China expert, and his previous impression of him was still good, many Japanese conspiracies in China have this person, getting rid of him, it will be of considerable help to the overall situation of the war.

"This Huang Jie, it's really not enough to succeed, more than enough to lose, in vain I have always trusted and valued him so much, Niang Xipi!" Lao Jiang scolded.

"Sir, this morning's Council of Ministers ......"

"Notice went down, due to the bombing of enemy planes, the meeting time was postponed by an hour." Lao Jiang thought for a while and commanded, the bombing of enemy planes will inevitably cause chaos in traffic and all aspects, and some people can't catch up, which is a very normal thing, and it is not Lao Jiang who deliberately postponed the meeting time for his own sake.

"Yes."

The important town of eastern Henan, Guide, was occupied by the Japanese army for nearly half a month, and finally returned to the hands of the national army, which paid a terrible price for casualties, annihilating more than 19,000 people of the main force of the 14th Division of the Japanese army, plus the 6th Division led by Ushijima Man, and 3,000 Japanese troops returned to Germany in a surprise attack.

Not counting the 1,000 remnants of the Japanese army who broke through, a total of 22,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, which is almost 8% of the assistant division of the Japanese army. Ninety troops.

This victory was no less than the Battle of Taierzhuang, but it was slightly inferior in the number of enemies destroyed.

Amazing!

It's amazing!

However, the cost of the victories in these two battles was also very tragic, and the casualties paid by the national army were more than 200,000.

It's hard to say how much!

In the two battles, excluding the New First Army and the New 38th Division, the First Corps of the Fifth Theater and the First Theater of Hendong eliminated the Japanese army, adding up to less than 20,000 in total.

And the Battle of Xuzhou and the battles of Luxi and Eastern Henan, how many Japanese troops were annihilated in total?

More than 70,000 people!

Who wiped out more than 50,000 Japanese troops, whether it was the New 38th Division that served as the main force in the Battle of Taierzhuang, or the New First Army in Luxi, which competed with Kenji Dohihara's 14th Division, these two units played a decisive role.

This is undeniable.

However, now almost no one mentions the merits of Leng Feng and the New First Army, but the new 38th Division has become a dazzling star on the battlefield of resistance against Japan in eastern Henan.

The division commander Luo Yufeng suddenly became a national idol, newspapers and magazines were overwhelmingly publicized, and even foreign memoraries rushed to eastern Henan.

If Luo Yufeng hadn't been in one place, he was fighting with his troops and his whereabouts were close, I am afraid that he would have been picked up by these reporters a long time ago.

The Japanese army lost more than 70,000 people in more than two months, which is an incredible number, and the final casualties of the Japanese army in the battle of Songhu were only more than 70,000.

Shanghai is an international metropolis, the Republic of China's financial and tax land, important or not, fighting such a city, the Japanese army only suffered 70,000 casualties, of course, about 40,000 people died in battle.

The national army used 700,000 troops, which was roughly the same as the strength of these three campaigns, but the quality of the soldiers and equipment were completely different.

After more than three months of fighting in Songhu, the national army suffered more than 300,000 casualties, but this time, the casualties were only more than 200,000, and the actual casualties were only 150,000 or 60,000.

In terms of scale and the importance of the campaign, the Battle of Xuzhou and the battles of Luxi and Eastern Henan were not as good as the Battle of Songhu and the subsequent Battle of Nanjing.

Of course, the overall strength of the national army is inferior to that of the Japanese army, and this fact still objectively exists.

The Songhu Warring States Army fought very tragically, and some troops were withdrawn in the end less than one-tenth of the establishment, but in the Xuzhou and eastern Henan battlefields, it seems that there has not been such a tragic situation, except for the beginning of the Tengxian Defense Battle, the Sichuan Army was the largest loss in the entire battle, but later after withdrawing, it was immediately replenished, and the combat effectiveness recovered very quickly, and now the Sichuan Army can be regarded as one of the most combat-effective troops in the five theaters.

In the first battle of Tengxian County, the Sichuan Army became famous in the first war and became a hard-core army that could not be defeated.

The Battle of Xuzhou and Luxi, and the Battle of Eastern Henan fought for more than two months, and it was the annihilation of more than 70,000 Japanese troops.

The casualties should be divided into battle dead and wounded, the wounded he did not die, but he may be seriously injured or amputated, the person is still alive, once the wound is healed, he can continue to fight on the battlefield.

Annihilation, that is, complete annihilation, the end of man's individual life.

Therefore, in the past two months, the Japanese army has really broken its muscles and bones, and its vitality has been damaged, and almost all of the two main divisions and regiments have been annihilated.

This was unprecedented in the history of the Japanese Army, and it was also two elite divisions, equipped with a large number of mechanized equipment and heavy artillery.

actually lost so badly, I stripped off all my clothes, and I didn't even have a crotch cloth left.

In Xuzhou and eastern Henan, as well as in the Luxi Campaign, the number of national armies was still slightly smaller, and the overall weaponry and quality of the troops were also much worse, but there seemed to be a huge gap in the results achieved.

This is all because of the emergence of the new First Army and the new 38th Division, and these two star anti-Japanese troops were created by the same person, a small staff officer with no name.

It can be said that this little staff officer stepped on the bones of the Japanese soldiers and rose up, and became the "devil" in the hands of the Japanese army.

Leng Feng, a name that the Japanese military circles are reluctant to mention now.

And such a fiasco, the Japanese army is still celebrating the so-called great victory in the occupation of Xuzhou, which is really a bit ridiculous to deceive themselves.

However, now whether it is the North China Front Headquarters, the First Army Headquarters in Taiyuan, and the Central China Front Army Headquarters in Nanjing, they are already in chaos.

From the early hours of June 16, they severed all contact with Guide.

Knowing that there was heavy rain in the eastern Henan region, accompanied by thunder and lightning, and also knowing that Kenji Dohihara and Ushijima Mitsuru decided to break through that night, and both troops stood out.

But when it was prominent, there was no movement, and it was not until six o'clock in the morning that the North China Front Command sent planes to reconnoitre, and found that the rain in that area had stopped.

Aerial reconnaissance, the city wall of Guide was also planted with the red flag of the Chinese blue sky and white sun.

However, the two Japanese troops who broke through the encirclement evaporated from the world, and no matter how they called, there was no response.

This can make Shunroku Hata and Sugiyama Moto, Kenji Dohihara and Mitsuru Ushijima considered the elite of the Imperial Army, and if they were captured, the impact would be great.

There is already a lieutenant general of the royal family who has been captured, and there is a suspected capture, if a lieutenant general and a major general are in the past, the four of them can make up a table of mahjong.

Whether it is Taiyuan, Beiping or Nanjing, they are anxiously waiting for news, this raid on Guide has been a complete failure, if it is completely annihilated by the Chinese, then many people's positions will not be able to sit still.

"Chief Xue, Tufeiyuan Kenji really went to Tuocheng, this is a telegram from Huang Jie, the commander of the Eighth Army, the Japanese army suddenly launched an attack on Tuocheng half an hour ago, and it took less than ten minutes to break into the city, and Commander Huang led the reserve team on the way to Tuocheng."

This news made everyone stunned in front of the commander's department of the First Corps in eastern Henan.

"Where is the assault detachment of the new 38th Division?"

"I don't know, because of the heavy rain, they only sent a reinforced regiment to Tuocheng overnight, but counting the time, no matter how fast they are, I'm afraid it will be difficult to arrive now." Wu Xiqi explained.

"If we give the Japanese a chance to breathe, even if it is to get an airdrop of supplies, it will be much more difficult for us to destroy them."

"I hope that Commander Huang and Deputy Division Commander Niu can arrive in time, and if they can intercept the Japanese army in Tuocheng, there may be hope that people will stay."

"It's hard, it's hard!" Xue Boling let out a long sigh, "How far is Huangjie from Tuocheng?" ”

"It's about sixty miles!"

"Sixty miles, his troops have to walk for at least four hours, if you count the current road conditions, maybe you can't get there in six hours, hey!" Xue Boling said hatefully, "Huang Jie misunderstood me!" ”

"Maybe Deputy Commander Niu ......"

"Chief Xue, the deputy division commander of the new 38th Division reported that he had led his troops to the outside of Tuocheng, and found that the remnants of the Japanese army had broken through and occupied Tuocheng." The confidential staff officer ran over and gave a military salute.

"Okay, haha, the road to the sky, Kenji Dohihara, see where you are running this time!"

"Chief Xue, how did they do it in less than eight hours and such a heavy rain?" In retrospect, Wu Xiqi's doubts were also surprising.

(To be continued.) )