Tang Longzai withdrew to Jiujiang City with the 272nd Brigade in one go, and Wang Haitao personally went out of the city to greet these comrades-in-arms after the bloody battle. A large number of seriously wounded had already been sent back to Jiujiang, and now there are only more than 4,000 people left in the 272nd Brigade, and half of them are slightly wounded. The team that appeared in front of Wang Haitao had dirty and tattered uniforms, and everyone had a strong smell of gunsmoke, but their eyes showed a murderous spirit and a firmness.

Wang Haitao believed that even if he gave an order from now, they would not hesitate to pounce on the enemy and completely tear the enemy apart! In the face of these soldiers, Wang Haitao, Su Zuxin, and others all gave solemn military salutes. After entering the city, the soldiers of the 272nd Brigade were stationed in the barracks that had been prepared for a long time, and Tang Longzai came to Wang Haitao's headquarters.

Except for the 547th Regiment, which was not mainly composed of soldiers from Guangxi, the remaining five regiments of the entire 90th Division were mainly composed of soldiers from Guangxi, and the 271st Brigade was all soldiers from Guangxi.

In order to allow the 90th Division to still have such outstanding combat effectiveness, Wang Haitao planned to pull the 90th Division directly back to Longzhou after the 271st Brigade was also withdrawn to replenish its troops in Longzhou. There is also a 10,000-strong all-German mechanic division in Longzhou City, receiving Tang Renli's report, which is a mechanized division trained by German instructors.

Historically, in 1938, Germany formed an alliance with Japan and withdrew its military advisory group from China, but during this time and space, although Germany stopped official arms exports to China, it did not form an alliance with Japan and did not withdraw its military advisory group. Tang Renli was also constantly purchasing weapons, ammunition, and military supplies from Germany through the Krupp firm in Guangzhou.

When Wang Haitao first arrived in Jiujiang, a colonel of the German advisory group, accompanied Liu Xing, commander of the Wuhan River Defense, to see Chamadang as a fortress, and specially met with Wang Haitao and brought Wang Haitao a greeting from General Guderian, commander of the German Second Mechanized Army. The wheel of history has deviated from its original trajectory, which may also be what Wang Haitao is happy to see.

After capturing Qianshan, the Japanese army rested for a few days in the ruined Qianshan County and continued to attack in the direction of Jiujiang. This time, they were facing Taihu County, where the 271st Brigade was stationed. There is not only the 271st Brigade in Taihu County, but also the headquarters of the 90th Division. Wang Haitao put the heavy artillery brigade of the 90th Army together and placed it in Jinxi Town, southwest of Taihu County.

The heavy artillery brigade of the 90th Army alone has 60 large-caliber heavy artillery, of which 20 130 cannons are absolute weapons of destruction, as well as 20 152 howitzers and 19 122 howitzers, and the strength of these heavy artillery is definitely above the 6th independent heavy artillery brigade of the Japanese army. The 272nd Brigade held out in Qianshan County for more than half a month with only one 75th Artillery Regiment, and this time with the support of the entire heavy artillery brigade, this Taihu County will be another hard bone for the Japanese army.

After resting, the 101st Division of the Japanese Army, as the first to come to the outside of Taihu County, the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Ito Masaki, stood on a high place, looking at the countless bunkers, bunkers, and various fortifications in front of him with a telescope, and his scalp couldn't help but tingle. In Qianshan County, he has learned the stubborn resistance of the defenders with strong fortifications, and now it seems that the fortifications here in Taihu County are better than those in Qianshan County!

In Qianshan, the 101st Division disabled a brigade, and then Ito Masaki organized the units in the division with some combat effectiveness and added them to the field wing, but the combat effectiveness of the reorganized wing still could not be compared with the original field wing. So if we have to fight hard again here in Taihu County, how much more combat strength will our division and regiment have? But our own division and regiment have just returned to the battlefield in China after replenishing from the mainland. Worried about it, Commander Okamura's order still had to be carried out, and Ito Masaki had to set up a position outside Taihu Prefecture again, preparing to launch an attack on Taihu County.

Before the 101st Division arrived in Taihu County, Tang Renxin, commander of the 90th Division, received an alert from the reconnaissance unit and made preparations to engage the enemy in view of the approaching 101st Division. Outside Taihu County, like Qianshan County, there are also three lines of defense, with the 544th Regiment as the main force of defense. Because of the support of the entire heavy artillery brigade behind him, this time Tang Renxin put the divisional artillery regiment in the city for centralized use.

As for the immutable offensive method of the Japanese army, as long as the national army units that have fought a few times are very clear, not to mention the 271st Brigade, they are even more familiar with the Japanese army. When the 101st Division of the Japanese Army used its artillery wing to shell the defenders' positions outside Taihu County, the soldiers of the 544th Regiment were all hiding in the anti-artillery holes, and no one took the Japanese artillery bombardment seriously.

On the contrary, Tang Renxin ordered the artillery regiment of the 90th Division to counterattack the Japanese artillery, and the reason why Tang Renxin immediately let the artillery regiment counterattack was because the 271st Brigade now had the support of the heavy artillery brigade, so there was no need to be afraid of the heavy artillery of the Japanese army. When in Qianshan County, the 272nd Brigade also counterattacked the Japanese artillery with its subordinate artillery battalion, but it was suppressed by the Japanese heavy artillery for a short time. Even the 75th Artillery Regiment of the Heavy Artillery Brigade suffered some losses under the heavy artillery of the Japanese army.

The artillery regiment of the 90th Division is not like the artillery regiment of the other two divisions, there are only 20 or 30 Japanese-style 75 mountain guns, and the artillery regiment of the 90th Division also has 24 German-made 105 mm caliber howitzers, which is far more powerful than the Japanese-style 75 mountain guns. Speaking of which, the artillery regimental firepower of the 90th Division has exceeded the firepower of the artillery wing of the Japanese divisional regiment.

The commander of the Ito Masaki Division, who was observing the effects of his own artillery bombardment, suddenly saw that the defenders of Taihu County had launched a counterattack against his artillery wing with ferocious artillery fire, and an artillery bombardment of the defenders' positions turned into an artillery battle between the two sides, and he couldn't help but be surprised and happy. What was surprising was that the Chinese army had concentrated so many artillery pieces in this Taihu County, and it seemed that the firepower was not under the fire of its own artillery wing.

The good news is that as soon as the 6th Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade arrives and destroys the artillery of the Shina army with heavy artillery, it will be easier for the Shina army without artillery to deal with it! After more than 10 minutes of artillery fighting between the two sides, Ito Masaki saw that his artillery wing could not gain the upper hand in the artillery battle, so he resolutely stopped the attack, and then ordered his troops to retreat a few kilometers and set up a position. Masaki Ito: This is waiting for the arrival of the heavy artillery brigade in the back.

In Tang Renxin's view, if your Japanese army is not in a hurry, I will not be in a hurry, and everyone will be in a hurry to see who can consume whom! Although there are only a few dozen kilometers from Qianshan County to Taihu County, the roads along this road were destroyed by the 272nd Brigade when they retreated, and in addition, this season, there will be a torrential rain in two days, and the roads of several tens of kilometers will be even more muddy.

Several large and small rivers flowing out of the Dabie Mountain are also the most abundant in water, and the highway bridges on the rivers have been destroyed without exception. Therefore, the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade is advancing towards Taihu County at a turtle speed. In this regard, General Okamura Ningji in Anqing City is also helpless. After arriving in Anqing, General Okamura Ninji planned to send troops along the north and south banks of the Yangtze River in unison, while the Yangtze River Fleet assisted in the attack on the river.

The plan is good, but the implementation is difficult, the 106th Division on the south bank of the Yangtze River, has successfully taken the Madang Fortress, seeing that Jiujiang City is at your fingertips, I did not expect Wang Haitao to quickly launch a counterattack, so that the 106th Division lost a whole brigade, and the remaining brigade was also unable to attack for a long time in front of the Changshan position.

The Fifth Division and the 101st Division, which had high hopes, only captured a Qianshan county town after more than half a month of hard fighting, and it was still far from reaching Jiujiang, and the Yangtze River Fleet was even more blocked in the waters of Anqing by Madang Fort. All kinds of unsatisfactory things made General Okamura Ningji so depressed that he almost vomited blood, and he hated Wang Haitao completely in his heart.

But what made him even more depressed was that the second army led by King Minoru of the East Kure Palace had all arrived in Hefei City, and would soon launch an attack on the Dabie Mountains. He launched an attack a few months earlier than the Second Army, and if the Second Army first opened up the Dabie Mountains, broke through from Macheng to Wuhan City, or even occupied Wuhan by himself, then he would lose all his face.

The Second Army under King Minoru Higashikunomiya had a total of four divisions, namely the 3rd Division, the 10th Division, the 16th Division, and the 108th Division. After the 3rd and 10th Divisions arrived in Hefei, Commander Minoru Wang of the East Kyugu Palace made meritorious contributions and launched an attack from Lu'an on the Yeji and Fujinshan positions in Jinzhai County without waiting for the other two divisions to arrive.

Song Xilian's 71st Army was stationed on the Yeji and Fujin Mountain positions, and after Lao Jiang repeatedly supplemented the 71st Army, the current 71st Army has four divisions, of which the 36th Division, the 87th Division, and the 88th Division are all-German divisions, and the other two divisions are half-German divisions. Only the 61st Division, although not a German division, was also an ace division armed with the latest medium and formal rifles and a large number of light and heavy machine guns.

With the four ace divisions of the 71st Army against the two standing divisions of the Japanese army, it seems that the 71st Army, which has a favorable time and location, still has to fight, but it is a pity that the 71st Army is not only guarding Yeji and Fujin Mountain, but is responsible for the defense of the area from Gushi County in Henan Province to Fujin Mountain. Song Xilian placed the 36th Division, which had the most combat effectiveness, in Fujin Mountain, the 61st Division in the section from Gushi to Zhun He, and the 87th Division between Gushi and Fujin Mountain, and the 88th Division in the high mountains behind Fujin Mountain as a reserve and cover.

Fortunately, in order to strengthen the defense of Dabie Mountain, Lao Jiang transferred the 51st Army of Yu Xuejun to the command of Song Xilian, who placed the 51st Army in Jinzhai County in the south as the Right Hebei Corps of the 36th Division, and the 114th Division of the 51st Army was connected with the 36th Division at the stone gate under Fujin Mountain. The 71st Army took over the position from the 91st Division, and with the foundation of the 91st Division, the officers and men of the 36th Division built Fujin Mountain into a fortress in more than a month!