The Commander's Department of the Ninth Theater did not know that their operational orders had been deciphered by the person himself, so he withdrew his headquarters from Changsha to Xiangtan on November 18 according to the original plan.

At the same time, Wang Yaowu's 74th Army also ran into trouble, and its vanguard 57th Division found that Chunhua Mountain had been occupied by the Japanese army when it arrived near Chunhua Mountain on the north bank of the Laodao River.

Anan's main purpose was to defeat or even annihilate the 74th Army in one fell swoop, in order to avenge the humiliation suffered by the 11th Army during the Battle of Gaohui. Therefore, before the headquarters of the 74th Army could react, the Japanese launched an attack on Swan Mountain, and the two sides fought fiercely all night, and it was not until the morning of the 19th that the Japanese army was repulsed. The 57th Division took the opportunity to counterattack, recaptured Chunhua Mountain, covered the main assembly of the 74th Army, and then handed over Chunhua Mountain to the 58th Division, and went north to Malin to meet the Japanese army.

On the morning of the 19th, the main force of the Japanese 3rd Division, with the support of the Air Force, continued to attack the 57th Division head-on, but was stubbornly resisted by the 57th Division; Its air force was also intercepted by the air force of the Nationalist Government and the air force units reinforced by Chen Feng's troops in the south, and the two sides launched a large air battle over Chunhua Mountain.

The air battle lasted for one and a half hours, and the Chinese and Japanese air forces suffered heavy losses; in this battle, the 4th Air Force Group and the enemy flight group of the Nationalist Government were shot down 78 fighters, and 54 fighters were wounded, almost completely annihilated, while the 3rd Air Group of the Japanese Army also suffered heavy losses, shooting down 66 fighters and wounding 28 others. In the end, both sides had to return due to the exhaustion of fuel. However, in general, the Chinese Air Force still had the upper hand in this air battle, after all, the Japanese were shot down by the latest Zero aircraft, and the Nationalist Government was shot down by only Soviet-made Iraq-15 and 16 fighters.

Seeing the failure of the air force attack, the Japanese army threw another part of the 3rd Division to attack the left flank of the 57th Division. The 57th Division was wounded by the backbone of Wang Yaowu's 74th Army, and it was the elite who had piled up the lives of more than 100,000 people since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War for a few years.

At the same time, the 58th Division was on the lines of Chunhuashan, Xiajiatang and Wujiadu, the 51st Division was on the lines of Wujiadu and Yangjiatan, and the 95th Division of the 37th Army fighting in coordination with the 74th Army also engaged in fierce battles with various units of the Japanese army on the lines of Wangjiachong and Yanggongqiao. The defending units held their positions on both sides of the Laodao River, blocked and flanked the Japanese army, or took the initiative to attack the Japanese army, inflicting considerable casualties on the Japanese army, but they also suffered serious losses themselves, and the 74th Army was fully mired in a bitter battle.

Because the Japanese army had been prepared for a long time. So with local superiority in forces. Deal a major blow to the 74th Army. By the night of the 22nd, more than half of the casualties of the 74th Army had been killed, two major generals and brigade commanders were killed in battle, and one deputy division commander was seriously wounded. As a last resort, the Ninth Theater had no choice but to order the 74th Army to withdraw from the battle and move east to Dongyang City, Hengjiang River to the south bank of the Liuyang River, and prepare to flank the Japanese army. The 74th Army withdrew. The Japanese army began to force the crossing of the Laodao River. It then went straight to Changsha, and its main forces, the 3rd and 6th Divisions, advanced from the east of Changsha to Zhuzhou.

The Ninth Theater of Operations, as well as the Military Council, were confident. It was believed that the Japanese 11th Army could not break through the defenses of the Ninth Theater with a force of less than 50,000 men, so they were not prepared for defensive operations in the suburbs and urban areas of Changsha.

However, only the 79th Army and the 2nd Provisional Army, which came to reinforce from the 6th and 7th Theaters, arrived in Changsha with the 98th Division and the 1st Brigade of the 8th Provisional Division, and the main forces of the two armies were still on the way.

On November 23, the 98th Division of the 79th Army encountered the Japanese Zaoyuan Detachment on the front line of Sanyaotang and Baimaopu north of Changsha and engaged in a fierce battle. The Japanese army was supported by aviation firepower and continued to assault; The battle lasted until the night, breaking through the first line of positions of the 98th Division and approaching Changsha. On the 24th, the Japanese Hayabuchi detachment broke through the position of the 293rd Regiment of the 98th Division and broke through to Changsha. The provisional 6th Division of the 79th Army, which had just arrived at Yuelu Mountain, was ordered to enter Changsha and engage in street battles with the Japanese army.

By November 27, the Japanese 6th Division also arrived in Changsha, and its 3rd Division had broken through to Zhuzhou and fought with the vanguard of the provisional 2nd Army, and the provisional 2nd Army immediately withdrew. The 1st Division of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army was assembled near Zhentou City, the 40th Division was assembled near Shixingshan, and the Araki Detachment and the Eto Detachment were responsible for covering the rear line of communication. At this point, the Japanese 11th Army believed that the expected operational objectives had been fully achieved and stopped the offensive.

Originally, the Japanese army believed that the intended combat objectives had been fully achieved. Just as they were preparing for the next stage of operational deployment, the Nationalist Government suddenly sent eight elite divisions to the Ninth Theater, and at the same time, two fighter groups in the Eighth Theater suddenly moved from Taiyuan to Zhengzhou, and then directly launched an air attack on Yueyang, where the headquarters of the Japanese 11th Army was located.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, the troops on the front line of the Japanese army did not know anything at all, and when more than 100,000 well-equipped Central Army suddenly appeared on the outskirts of Changsha, the Japanese army was dumbfounded. Soon, the Japanese army felt the tremendous pressure of the frontal battlefield, and had no choice but to give up the plan to completely occupy Changsha and retreat with the whole army.

finally waited for the reinforcements to arrive, Xue Yue easily let the Japanese army slip away from his hands, and immediately ordered the provisional 2nd Army and the 79th Army to follow and pursue the Japanese army in front of him; The 74th Army, the 4th, 20th, and 58th Armies of the 27th Army, which were located in the area north and south of the Laodao River and the Miluo River, and commanded the 72nd, 26th, and 99th Armies to intercept and flank the Japanese troops according to their current positions, so as to ensure that they could not safely cross the Xinqiang River.

At the same time, Lao Chiang also sent a telegram requesting: "The Ninth Theater should take advantage of the enemy's exhaustion, boldly pursue, take the opportunity to occupy Yueyang, and should actively sabotage the Wuyue Railway, and retreat in all directions, and the enemy should attack and ambush along the way, and strike fiercely so that it cannot retreat to its original defense; and contain the defense and delay its transfer to Wuhan, so as to facilitate the operations in the third, fifth, and sixth theaters."

In accordance with the above orders, all units pursued the retreating Japanese troops, volleyed them and flanked them, inflicting heavy casualties on the Japanese troops. Due to Anan's serious injuries and coma, the headquarters of the 11th Army was temporarily leaderless. The Japanese army, which had lost the command of its superiors, was completely disrupted. By November 30, in addition to the 3rd Division, about 6,000 men of the 6th Division and about 3,800 men of the 40th Division were surrounded by the Nationalist Government north of the Xinqiang River.

The General Headquarters of the Japanese Chinese Dispatch Army ordered the troops on the front line to rescue the more than 10,000 Japanese troops at all costs, but under the strict defense of more than 300,000 troops of the Nationalist Government, the Japanese army failed to break through the defense of the Xinqiang River in many attacks, and its air force fought with the ground forces many times during this period, and conducted many air battles with the Northern Air Force and the Air Force of the Nationalist Government, and both sides suffered damage.

By December 2, after the encircled Japanese troops had run out of ammunition and food, and most of them had been wiped out, all the remaining soldiers surrendered to the Ninth Theater of the Nationalist Government, and the war situation returned to its pre-war state again. The Second Battle of Changsha ended.

According to the statistics of the Nationalist Government, the Ninth Theater of the Nationalist Government of China lost more than 34,000 soldiers in the entire battle. Among them, more than 31,000 were killed and 2,300 were captured; The Fifth Theater lost 12,000 men, of whom 6,000 were killed and 3,000 wounded, and another 3,000 were captured or missing, while the Sixth Theater lost 18,000. Of these, 8,000 were killed. Eight thousand people were wounded. More than 1,600 people were captured, and more than 400 were missing or routed. The Japanese suffered more than 16,000 casualties, of which 8,348 were killed and 5,231 were wounded. 879 people were captured.

Although in terms of troop losses, the Nationalist government still lost more than the Japanese army, and its total casualties were more than three times that of the Japanese army. However, judging from the results of the entire battle, the Nationalist Government not only held Changsha, but also inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army. On the other hand, the Japanese army not only did not achieve the strategic goal of capturing Changsha, but also lost a large amount of vital energy, so the Japanese army fought a great defeat in this battle, while the Nationalist government achieved an unprecedented victory.

After the battle, the Nationalist Government informed all theaters and provinces of the results of the battle, and gave them the title of great victory, and at the same time informed the theaters of the meritorious units and officers and men who had been commended, among which Chen Feng, commander of the Eighth Theater, the three major fighter groups of the Northern Air Force that participated in the battle, and more than 400 pilots appeared impressively on the list of commendations.

In this battle, a total of 2 pilots in the 8th Theater were promoted to major general, 29 pilots to colonel, 51 to lieutenant colonel, 89 to major, 129 to captain, and 145 to lieutenant. Almost all the pilots who participated in the war were promoted, and even the 47 pilots who died in the war were rewarded by the Nationalist Government, posthumously awarded the rank of major in the Air Force, and a large number of pensions were allocated.

The Second Battle of Changsha finally ended with the real victory of the Nationalist Government, and Chen Feng was also a little relieved, although the battle in the direction of southern Hebei was still in full swing, but both Chen Feng and Tada Jun and others knew that the loss of southern Hebei was a foregone conclusion, and the Japanese army was simply unable to hold southern Hebei, unless the North China Front was willing to make a desperate gamble and transfer all the available forces to southern Hebei.

However, Chen Feng believes that Tada Jun will not do this, after all, the North China Front is now involved in the whole body, although the various units in the Eighth Theater have posed a huge threat to the North China Front, but at least the passage connecting the Kwantung Army and the Japanese army in Central China is still relatively smooth, once they make a desperate bet, then it is likely to break the current relatively stable situation, which is extremely unfavorable to the Japanese army.

Therefore, Chen Feng concluded that the main purpose of the Japanese army's westward advance was to relieve the besieged Kimura Division, rather than to continue to defend southern Hebei.

However, after breaking through the defense of Xu Fufu's department, the Japanese army rescued the Japanese puppet army in Xingtai and Handan City, and quickly retreated, and retreated until Luxi did not stop, and the Battle of Southern Hebei ended.

In this battle, Chen Feng's troops annihilated more than 28,000 Japanese puppet troops, and lost more than 8,400 people. However, the Eighth Route Army lost more than 18,000 men, and if this is counted, plus the battles elsewhere, the losses of the Chinese and Japanese sides are roughly equal.

In this battle, in addition to getting southern Hebei, Chen Feng also gained more than 260 million system points, plus the system points he had accumulated before, and the account balance finally exceeded one million points. In addition, he has completed many main line side quests before, as long as Chen Feng is willing, he can upgrade the system at any time to reach the ultimate version.

But Chen Feng is very clear that once the system is upgraded. Then the points he has worked so hard to accumulate in the past year and a half will be completely cleared, and even if there are some leftovers, it will not exceed 10,000 points. Now that the Pacific War is about to break out, the importance of the navy is becoming increasingly prominent, and the navy is a gold-swallowing beast, if there is no massive points to support, his dream of a great navy is a joke, so although the system upgrade is a great temptation, but compared to the development of the navy, compared to the overall situation, Chen Feng still decided not to upgrade the system for the time being.

The Battle of Southern Hebei has just ended. Chen Feng received a top-secret telegram from Germany. Hitler hoped that Chen Feng's department could provide Germany with $10 billion in penicillin drugs at one time, and if they could, they would be willing to pay a high price for the production process of penicillin drugs.

This telegram can startle Chen Feng a lot, and the significance of this kind of telegram sent by the Germans at this time is not just an ordinary drug transaction. It seems that the Germans wanted to get rid of their dependence on the Trans-Siberian Railway as soon as possible. To be precise, to get rid of dependence on the USSR. This shows that Hitler has decided to send troops to the Soviet Union.

But look at the time again. It's December, winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and it's colder in the Soviet Union at this time. For the Soviets, who lived in the ice and snow all year round, it was probably nothing. But for the Germans it was not very comfortable.

Moreover, the extreme cold was the natural barrier of the Soviet Union and even the former Tsarist Russia, otherwise the Slavic nation would have been conquered by Napoleon a hundred years ago, and it would have been Hitler's turn. If Napoleon had not suffered a crushing defeat in Russia, the vast French Empire would not have collapsed.

Presumably, under the deterrence of Napoleon, Germany will not be unified so easily, and I am afraid that there will be nothing to do with the Germans after that, it can be said that the cold winter of Moscow defeated Napoleon, saved the Slavic nation, and also created an excellent opportunity for the Germanic people to rise.

Hitler was not an idiot, he would not have been ignorant of the meaning of the cold winter in Moscow, and besides, the winter of this year would certainly not be too warm, and as soon as December began, the temperature outside had dropped to an unbearable level, and the steel would not be frozen to pieces until thirty-nine days, so this was definitely not the best time to attack the Soviet Union.

Hitler would not have understood this truth, even if Hitler did not understand, presumably the German staff had people who understood, and now Germany is the time when famous generals have emerged, whether it is Guderian, an armored expert, Rommel, the desert fox, or Manstein, who formulated a plan to invade France, these people are war geniuses with great strategic and tactical vision, and they will not let Hitler take this risk.

After all, it is a large order of tens of billions of dollars, which is equivalent to one-twelfth of the annual government revenue of the United States and one-seventh of the annual income of Germany.

Chen Feng has tens of billions of dollars of goods, but Chen Feng is very skeptical that Germany has tens of billions of dollars in cash, although it can be said that the financial situation in recent years has been much better, but since the end of World War I, Germany has been exploited and oppressed by Britain and France and other victorious countries, coupled with the blow of the economic crisis in the world of 29 years, in fact, Germany's economic strength is very weak.

Even if it has recovered in recent years, since Hitler came to power, Germany has begun to expand its forces on a large scale, from the army, the navy to the air force, from the infantry to the armored army to the submarine corps of the navy and the airborne troops of the air force. And the army is a big money-swallower, how much money can be eaten by this gold-swallowing beast, so Chen Feng didn't believe that the Germans could come up with tens of billions of dollars at once.

Therefore, Chen Feng called Hitler, I have medicine, although the amount of 10 billion US dollars is relatively large, but together we can still meet the needs of the Germans. The technology for the production of penicillin drugs can also be sold to Germany, but at what price can the Germans buy it, and can Germany come up with tens of billions of dollars at once?

Soon Hitler sent a reply to Chen Feng, saying that Germany really could not deliver 10 billion US dollars in cash at one time, and even 100 million US dollars could not be taken out. But Germany had a lot of gold and priceless works of art, which they could trade with Chen Feng's department.

In addition, Chen Feng can spend tens of billions of dollars to buy a nearly barren island from Australia, and now the German Empire also has many colonies overseas, and they can also use the land to pay for the goods.

Hitler's answer made Chen Feng extremely moved, although this penicillin drug is important, but it is not a top secret now, and its production formula is afraid that other major countries have also mastered it, after all, it is now the end of 1940, even without his influence, this drug is about to be mass-produced, to put it bluntly, in a few years, penicillin drugs will directly turn from gold to soybeans, and quickly fall from dozens of dollars a box to the price of cabbage, and it is a good note to sell it while it is still valuable.

In addition, although he doubted whether Hitler was capable of coming up with $10 billion, he had no doubt that Hitler could come up with $10 billion worth of gold. After hundreds of years of plunder, 70% of the gold in the world has flowed to Europe, and now that most of Europe is controlled by Hitler, will he be short of gold?

Joke, after beating France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Denmark, Norway, and the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia, the mustache is not lacking gold, not to mention tens of billions of dollars worth of gold, with the degree of love for gold in European royalty, I am afraid that there are thousands of trillions of dollars of gold.

Speaking of art, France is a big country of art, and now that France has fallen, those works of art created by France itself and plundered from all over the world have become mustache's private collections, which are any fine products worth hundreds of millions in later generations, and now it is a good choice if you can exchange some of them. (To be continued......)

PS: Due to my mother's hospitalization and some other things, it's a change these days, although the number of words is eight or nine hundred at most, but please forgive me!