Zhong Yi just showed his face in Badou Town and left. It was not until the royal special plane Jinlong No. 1 and the escort group had returned to Nanhua that Chongqing and Yan'an knew that the Han emperor had arrived at the Hunan front in China. Missing a great opportunity to meet, the chairman of the committee regretted it and had to call Boss Dai over to reprimand him. He also instructed Xue Yue, commander of the Ninth Theater of Operations: Be sure to organize all the military forces, cooperate with the Han army, and fight the battle of Hunan, Jiangxi and Hubei well!

On the Yan'an side, the transportation of Han machinery and equipment was more important, and the Northern Group Army took Guangzhou and entered Hengyang in the north, reproducing the hope of opening up the Guangdong-Han line. As long as Changsha is captured again, it is not impossible to liberate the area south of the Yangtze River. Yan'an ordered the New Fourth Army to actively join the battle, hoping to obtain more assistance from South China.

On the Japanese side, in addition to the 11th Army led by Lieutenant General Gangcun Ningji in the Hunan region, the 3rd Tank Division, which was the only part of the Chinese Dispatch Army, was also stationed in Xiangtan to counter the armored forces of the Han army. The division is armed with the Type 97 medium tank, the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Hatch Modification and the Type 95 light tank, as well as an artillery fighting vehicle (self-propelled artillery) and a maintenance squadron. But it is only this one wing that can achieve mechanization, and the other wing of the Third Tank Division is called the motorized infantry wing, which has 3 brigades, each brigade has 3 infantry squadrons, 1 heavy machine gun squadron, and the wing is also directly under 1 mountain artillery squadron; In addition, it is attached to a search team, a mobile artillery wing, an air defense team, an engineer team, and a maintenance team, with a total number of more than 13,800 people. Such a unit, in the more than two years since the Lugou Bridge Incident and the Japanese army invaded China in an all-round way, fought all over the world invincible, and in the Battle of Xuzhou and the Battle of Wuhan, the Third Chariot Division broke through the city wall position. Many ancient cities in China that are more than 1,000 years old have been destroyed by his hands.

However, when this information on the equipment of the personnel of the Japanese tank division was sent to Huo Lu of the First Royal Guards Division, Division Commander Huo smiled, "Director Mu, are you sure that this is really the most popular tank division in the Japanese army?" And not a training regiment of the school of armored forces? ”

Seeing Huo Lu's deterioration, Zuo Shou, who had been promoted to the deputy commander of the 77th Armored Army, took it, glanced at it a few times, and followed it with a few "hehe" sounds, and then handed the information to General He Zhuguo.

He Zhuguo had previously served in the local coast guard, and then was called by His Majesty to serve as the head of the Armored Forces Command College in the capital Chang'an. Taking over Yu Xuezhong as the commander of the armored army this time can be regarded as a wish fulfillment, but he has the experience of the "returning to his hometown" flag incident, and he is more cautious, unlike Huo and Zuo.

Boss Mu is very familiar with the virtues of these boys in the Guards Legion, and he has not seen them in general, and his face is still expressionless, "This information is not easy to come by, and three comrades from the Second Division of the Military Intelligence Bureau have sacrificed for this!" ”

"Lean on ......" Zuo Fat Man put away his laughter, and said solemnly: "Director Mu, don't worry, we will use the entire chariot division of the little devil to pay for their lives!" ”

Huo Lu nodded as he approached He Zhuguo, who was still looking at the situation carefully, "Commander He, you can't rob our guards division this time, these bullshit chariots of the little devil are mine!" ”

"Why? Your Majesty said that we will concentrate our superior forces to fight a war of annihilation, focusing on destroying the living forces of the little devils! How many tanks do you have in one division? Can it be more than our 77th Army? "He Zhujun didn't squeak, the fat man left to stop doing it first!

"I don't care which of you goes up, I want to use the command knife of Hideo Yamaji, the head of the Devil Division, to pay tribute to my brothers! If you can't do this, you'll just wait for our military intelligence agency to invite you to tea! ”

Boss Mu's face became even more gloomy when he said this, and Huo Lu and Zuo Shou couldn't help but shudder. Military intelligence, please drink tea? This is not a joke, which one has been caught in the military situation, and he must not peel off his skin to come out? It's good to be able to come out, but that proves that you don't have any problems, if there is a problem...... The two looked at each other, and Huo Luli saluted, "Please rest assured Director Mu, the First Guards Division will guarantee the completion of the task." ”

The entire battle of Hunan, Jiangxi, and Hubei lasted for 37 days, and the Japanese army participated in the battle with 360,000 troops, accounting for more than one-third of the total number of Japanese troops invading China, and concentrated the most elite units of the Japanese army invading China, such as the 3rd Chariot Division, the 6th Kumamoto Division, and the 2nd Sendai Division.

In terms of the Great China Alliance, the total number of troops participating in the war has reached more than 700,000, and the Xue Bing Department of the Ninth Theater alone has concentrated 400,000 people from more than 30 divisions of 16 armies. The number of troops of the Northern Han Army, the two corps, plus the 77th Armored Army and the 1st Guards Division, which attacked from the south to the north, was also nearly 300,000.

If we include the New Fourth Army's southern guerrillas and other local forces, the number of troops on the Allied side will be even more impressive.

The genuine million-strong army fought to the death in northern Hunan, southern Hunan, eastern Hunan and western Jiangxi. In the area of Fengxin and Huibu in Jiangxi, the 106th and 101st divisions of the Japanese army fought repeatedly for positions with the **** 19th Group Army. In a hillside position called Shiguling, it changed hands several times in one day, and the red-eyed Japanese army used poison gas bombs in a frenzy, and a reinforced regiment of the **** 32nd Army was brutally poisoned. The Allied command quickly ordered H36 Howler bombers to take off from the surrounding airfields and drop solid gasoline incendiary bombs on the Shiguling position, covering the proud little devil Changyou Wing in a sea of fire and regaining its position.

In the southern part of Hubei Province, the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army built fortifications on the Luo River, and the **** 15th Army fought fiercely at Maishi and Taoshu Port, and with the support of the Air Force, it steadily pressed to the second line of defense of the Japanese army at the Nanjiang Bridge.

The fiercer battle took place at the Xinqiang River in northern Hunan Province, where the Japanese elite 6th Division was defended by the Allied air force units several times, but the cunning little devils scattered the artillery positions and hid them. After the **** 52nd Army forcibly crossed the Xinqiang River began, it attacked in the middle of the river, mountain artillery, field artillery, cannons, and even self-propelled howitzers fired in unison, and the river was full of corpses of Chinese warriors, and the Xinqiang River became a river of blood. At the same time, Lieutenant General Machijiri Shiki, who had just been appointed commander of the 6th Division before the war, ordered the Kagoshima Wing to land on the north bank at Yingtian near the mouth of the Bora River, and opened a flanking attack on the 52nd Army, and the entire line of Xiangbei **** was defeated. After hearing this, the chairman smashed the most beloved purple clay pot of the Ming Dynasty, "Niang Xif, tell me that Xue Bing must defend the line of the Xinqiang River and drive the Japanese army back to the south bank!" ”

Xue Yue, who had only studied in the military academy primary school in Huangpu, was different from other protégés of the Son of Heaven, and was rarely reprimanded by the principal, but this time when he saw that the tone of the words on the telegram was quite harsh, he also felt that he was disgraced, and hurriedly urged the 15th Army to counterattack the north bank of the Boluo River and the Xinqiang River.

At this time, the battle of Zhuzhou and Xiangtan has gradually come to an end, and the 1st Royal Guards Division of the Han Dynasty defeated the 3rd Tank Division of the Japanese Army, and relied on the strong mechanized bridge building ability of the engineering unit to successfully cross the Xiangjiang River, and the troops pointed directly at Changsha!