Although Japan has a complete reserve system, most of its reserve soldiers have never seen blood, and the country simply cannot find more than 200,000 reserve soldiers who have experienced war and seen blood.

But compared to Japan, China has always been in the midst of warlord warfare, and many soldiers have been fighting for many years, and they can quickly be added to the regular army.

All they need is the learning of weapons and new knowledge, and in contrast, China's advantage appears. This is just the beginning, when the young and middle-aged Japanese soldiers are dead, they will send old people and children to the battlefield, and Japan will have to surrender at that time.

However, Fujiwara still had confidence in the Empire's reserve system, believing that soldiers would regain their combat effectiveness after a certain period of fighting.

But he still overestimated the empire, or rather the combat effectiveness of the trough.

"Woo! Woo! "A reconnaissance plane flew by, followed by a continuous period of artillery fire, which did not look like a Japanese attack on China at all, but rather like a Chinese attack on the Japanese army.

Fujiwara carefully extended the telescope out of the command post, and by the explosion range he could conclude that it was a howitzer with a caliber of more than a hundred.

With the addition of reconnaissance planes flying in the sky, Fujiwara could conclude that it must be the Southwest Army of China that was blocking his advance, and that force was vaguely superior to the Imperial in combat effectiveness.

You must know that the German or American mechanics in Daochina do not have more than 100 howitzers, and there are independent reconnaissance aircraft, this southwest army is really too luxurious.

Suddenly, several bombers appeared in the sky, whining towards the headquarters.

Fujiwara's first instinct was to run, "Transfer!" Fujiwara left his command post like a lost dog, and he didn't dare to bet that it was a coincidence.

The aircraft scouts in China were really too strong, and it was terrifying that they analyzed their own command in just a few minutes, and sent heavy bombers to bomb them.

Fujiwara hoped that his prediction was false, but in just two minutes, his command post was a pile of ruins, and a lot of information was not transported away.

"The Southwestern Army in China is too strong, they actually have heavy bombers." Fujiwara's face was full of gunsmoke, and he held a command knife in his hand, and his brain was quickly thinking about what to do.

The Japanese army was already dissatisfied with a large-scale attack, but the Southwestern Army did not carry out a counter-charge again.

Du Yuming had personally ordered and reprimanded Cai Tingkai, unless it was a major collapse of Japan, a large-scale counteroffensive would never be allowed.

Cai Tingkai knew very well that Du Yuming was afraid that they would be bitten by the Japanese army, and he did not complain anything to Lu Shang, knowing that the temper of these young Zhuang factions in Huangpu was going to die, and there was no need for him to offend Shangguan for this matter.

The Japanese army's long-distance detour tactics were discovered by Li Zongren and Liu Yuan, and then quickly blocked, so if the Japanese army wanted to make progress, it could only achieve results from the middle or the right.

Gu Shoufu followed the mad dog, desperately resisted the 59th Army under Zhang Zizhong's command, and fought fiercely for three days and nights, and the defense line was broken by the Japanese army.

Zhang Zizhong retreated to Linhuai Pass and began to rest.

Just arrived at the north bank of the Huai River, He Zhenhan appeared in front of Zhang Zizhong with a dark face, "General, this is the five thousand recruits that Commander Liu Yuan prepared for you, all of them are militiamen recruited in Guangdong, and many of them have been trained by the commander. ”

Zhang Zizhong left his southwest department at this time, temporarily led the 59th Army, and his life was unsatisfactory, but he didn't expect that his old commander had not forgotten himself, and had prepared so many recruits and a large number of ammunition for himself, and it would be nonsense to say that he was not moved.

"Commander Xie Lu for me, just say that my Lao Zhang will definitely live up to the general, if possible, I am willing to shroud the body of Ma Leather and repay the general." Zhang Zizhong said to He Jinhan.

"Don't mind, if you die, Liu Yuan will definitely complain that the quality of the soldiers I added to you is not good, you should live well." He Jinhan was very uninterested in non-Whampoa soldiers, but he was embarrassed to refuse the things arranged by Liu Yuan.

On August 6, the mad dog Gu Shoufu finally advanced to the Fengyang generation, and Li Pinxian's 11th Group Army finally began to fight with the little devils.

Mingguang City fell, the defense of the Middle Route Army was meaningless, the large army withdrew to Fengyang, and the Ninth Division attacked rapidly and entered Fengyang.

The flames of war burned to the Huai River, and Li Pinxian was ready to fight against the water. reprimanded Liu Yuandian and had to choose to cross the Huai River. In the last battle, except for Xiang Yu, few people sat like this, and Li Pinxian obviously couldn't be Xiang Yu.

When Li Pinxian retreated, Du Yuming also realized that he had no interest in defending Bengbu, so he abandoned Bengbu and began to build a defensive position north of the Huai River.

On 9 August, most of the defenders of China's southern front withdrew across the Huai River to complete the task of the headquarters, and the Japanese 109th Division launched an attack from the flank, and Liao Lei commanded the Seventh Army of Steel and the 109th Division to engage in street fighting in Huainan City, repelling the attack of the 109th Division.

Most of the Japanese soldiers were concentrated in Bengbu for a generation, and in the northern Jiangsu region, the Japanese army was empty, and a large number of guerrillas, the New Fourth Army, and the second-line troops began to besiege the battlefield in northern Jiangsu.

On 8 July, Toshiroku Hata reluctantly ordered his troops to force the crossing of the Huai River, and the three divisions launched attacks from Linhuai Pass, Bengbu, and other places.

Chinese troops and Japanese troops carried out cross-shelling around the Huai River. The two sides refused to give in to each other, and even broke out in an air war at one point.

On 10 July, more than 1,000 men of the Ninth Division broke through the blockade and, under the cover of aircraft, landed on the north bank of the Huai River.

The artillery brigade of the 33rd Group Army carried out a scorched earth shelling of the sharp positions of the 9th Division, and more than 1,000 people did not die under the artillery bombardment.

Du Yuming has a cannon in his hand, and his life is very comfortable, Li Pinxian runs to him every once in a while, nothing more than asking for artillery support.

Is he Du Yuming a stingy person? Apparently not? As long as he can help his allies, he has never hesitated.

Just when Du Yuming was thinking that he could rely on the Huai River to resist the Japanese army for a few months, Liu Yuan, the headquarters, sent a telegram to let the Japanese army cross the Huai River.

Du Yuming was puzzled, appealed to Lu Shang, and prepared not to carry out the order.

Zuo Quan telegraphed to Du Yuming that the Luhan Division of the Dian Army was about to enter the southern front battlefield, and they would cooperate with Liao Lei of the Gui Army to conduct an encirclement and annihilation battle against the 109th Division of the Japanese Army. Du Yuming was depressed for a long time, but Liao Lei was so excited that he wanted to die, this is the rhythm of a big fight.

Just when the headquarters was preparing to encircle and annihilate the Japanese 109th Division, the Japanese army also began to think about it.

Shunroku Hata felt that the existence of the 21st Army was always a great threat to them. Two wings were temporarily transferred to form a mixed brigade and join the Huainan battlefield.

This time, Gu Shoufu's strength was fat, because the mixed brigade that was temporarily replenished was under his command, but if he couldn't take the Huai River, then his life would be even more difficult.

The tactics formulated by the Japanese were to flank the north and south, but of course it was no longer as simple as opening up the lifeline, because hundreds of thousands of Chinese elite groups had already gathered in the Jianghuai region and the Shandong region, and if these hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers were annihilated, then Nanjing would inevitably choose to compromise with Japan.

On the northern front, because of Han Fuqu's incompetence, the tension of the Japanese army was very fast, especially when Seishiro Itagaki had already defeated Linyi, Shandong, and the morale of the northern front was greatly shaken.