Soon after the victory at Wanjialing, Xue Yue's 1st Corps was ordered to abandon De'an and retreat to the line of Nanchang, Shangfu and Gao'an, responsible for protecting the security of Changsha's flank.

In the Battle of Wuhan, although Little Japan achieved the military occupation of Wuhan and caused great losses to the Nationalist Army, the strategic goal of forcing the Nationalist Government to surrender was not achieved.

Of course, there is one thing that must be said, it has been more than a year since the Sino-Japanese war broke out in full force, and if we count from the September 18 incident, the state of war between China and Japan has even lasted for seven years, and millions of Chinese soldiers and civilians have died.

No one knew that Chairman Chiang Weishenme would not declare war, and this was a historical unsolved case.

The Nationalist Government did not compromise after abandoning Wuhan, and continued to play a role in Chongqing, the capital of the country, leading the national military and civilian resistance against Japanese aggression, and local warlords such as Yan Xishan, Long Yun, and Li Zongren did not stand up to challenge the authority of Lao Chiang.

However, Little Japan is not for nothing, and the biggest gain of Little Japan is Wang Jingwei

Wang Jingwei, who did not hesitate to sacrifice his life to stab people, has now completely degenerated into a politician, Wang Jingwei has always been suppressed by Chairman Chiang within the Nationalist Government, although his qualifications are old, his ability in all aspects is far inferior to Chairman Chiang, and several times he has failed to defeat Chiang, and in order to show his ambitions, Wang Jingwei finally threw himself into the arms of Little Japan.

Wang Jingwei's ability in all aspects was not as good as that of Chairman Jiang, but his qualifications were there, and he was still extremely influential at that time.

With the card of Wang Jingwei, there is a basis for the implementation of Little Japan's strategy of using China to contain China, and after the Battle of Wuhan, Japan's domestic economic situation has further deteriorated, and the entire national economy is already on the verge of collapse, and it can no longer financially support such a large-scale battle as the Battle of Wuhan.

On the other hand, the Communist-led war of resistance behind enemy lines gradually posed a threat to the Japanese-occupied areas.

Although it was less than a year before the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army marched behind enemy lines in great strides, the speed at which the Communists pulled the ranks was extremely astonishing, and in less than a year, the Eighth Route Army had grown from 30,000 to 100,000, and if the militia and guerrillas were included, the number was even greater, and the New Fourth Army had grown from several thousand to tens of thousands.

Although the equipment of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army was very poor, and the armed forces were very scattered, the maximum number of troops that could be concentrated in each battle was only three or five hundred, and even one or two people put cold guns there at a time, and the damage to small Japan was extremely limited, and it was considered a great victory to kill more than a dozen Japanese soldiers in one battle.

But the problem is that the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army dare to take the initiative

The Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army frequently took the initiative to attack? The mainstream view is that the Communist Party's anti-Japanese proposition is more active and more active, but in fact this is not necessarily the case, the reason why the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army took the initiative to attack was actually due to the pressure of survival, because unlike the Nationalist Army, which had military supplies provided by the Nationalist Government, and the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, whether it was weapons or rations, had to rely on themselves to solve the problem, and it was impossible for you to go to the Kuomintang-controlled area to compete with the Nationalist Army, so you could only go deep into the enemy-occupied areas to grab from Japan.

This reality has created a circular effect, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army want to go deep into the enemy-occupied areas to grab food from small Japan, naturally the more people and the more guns, the better, so the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army began to attack the small Japanese transport convoy non-stop, and at the same time desperately absorb local armed forces and even bandits, but you have more people and more guns, the pressure on supply is greater, so the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army are desperately expanding their territory, and the result is that the armed liliang of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army is expanding like a snowball. The area and population of the base area also increased wildly in a geometric progression

By the time the Battle of Wuhan was over, the shadow of the Eighth Route Army could be seen everywhere in North China, and the whole of Central China was also full of guerrillas of the New Fourth Army

The original intention of small Japan in occupying the vast areas of North and Central China was to build these occupied areas into war bases for the Japanese army and to provide the Japanese Government with a steady stream of materials and troops.

However, at present, the vast Japanese occupation areas in North China and Central China have been transfused with blood, and the Japanese garrisons responsible for guarding the vast Japanese-occupied areas are still losing blood, and if the frontal fighting is not ended as soon as possible and troops are mobilized to carry out a large-scale public order and regular battle, the situation in the occupied areas will deteriorate even further, and the entire occupied areas will become a big quagmire with which the Japanese army will be exhausted to deal with.

Therefore, after the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese base camp gave up the strategy of focusing on military offensive and supplemented by political inducement, and changed to military offensive as a supplement and political support as the mainstay.

As a result, the Sino-Japanese War also entered a stalemate from the strategic offensive of small Japan.

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In the wee hours of the morning, it was pitch black on Poyang Lake, and the cold north wind rustled the reeds around the lake, making this war-torn land of fish and rice even more bleak.

A small boat slowly sailed out of the reeds with the slight sound of oars and pulled into the dock by the lake.

Gao Shenxing jumped lightly on the port, and then put his hands to his mouth and learned a few wild duck calls in front of him, and more than a dozen figures soon appeared in the dark night on the opposite side, and the person who walked in front had two box cannons in his hand, and the nose of the machine was open, who was not Xu Shijiu? Xu Nineteen was followed by more than a dozen remnants of the Nineteenth Brigade.

Xu 19 left the garrison overnight with more than a dozen remnants, and when he went out of the city, he lied that he was carrying out a top-secret mission, and it was a platoon commander of the De'an Security Regiment who guarded the city gate, and at this time, under the propaganda of various media, the image of the 74th Army being able to fight a tough battle has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the platoon commander of the De'an Security Regiment heard that the 74th Army was going out, and he was released without even asking.

After leaving De'an, Xu 19 took a dozen remnants of the army all the way to the north, from De'an to the south is the national control area, although relatively safe, but it may also be discovered and captured by the national army, from De'an to the north is the Japanese-occupied area, although it is dangerous, but there is no risk of being captured by the national army and then shot, Xu 19 would rather die in battle than be captured back as a deserter and shot.

Fortunately, the entire De'an area is steep mountains, although small Japan blocked several traffic arteries, but it is impossible to block the mountains and ravines, and it has entered the harsh winter season at that time, and the snakes and insects in the mountains have long been extinct, so after more than ten days of difficult trekking, Xu Shijiu finally took more than a dozen remnants of soldiers into the Qinglongwan ferry near Xingzi.

Before the arrival of the Japanese army, most of the common people of Xingzi fled or hid in the deep mountains and old forests, and only a very small number of old people or squires who had unrealistic illusions about little Japan stayed.

Okamura Ningji and Ishihara Wanji are known as one of the only two strategists in Japanese history, not without reason, at least on the issue of dealing with the Chinese people in the occupied areas, Okamura Ningji's vision is much far-reaching than other small Japanese generals, after occupying Jiujiang, Xingzi, and Ruichang counties, Okamura Ningji did not go on a killing spree, but quickly co-opted the local squires who remained, established dozens of maintenance associations, large and small, and did enough Sino-Japanese goodwill articles.

Seeing that little Japan did not kill anyone, the common people who hid in the deep mountains and old forests also plucked up the courage to return home, and many people who had fled into the national control area heard the news, and also helped the old and the young to return home, and Okamura Ningji also did not embarrass them for those who returned home, Okamura Ningji knew very well that the people's hearts and minds would directly determine whether Japan could rule China for a long time.

Therefore, when Xu Shijiu and the others went deep into Qinglong Bay, the order of the entire Xingzi County had been basically restored, and Gao Shenxing easily borrowed a sampan from his fellow villagers.