Lao Jiang sent several divisions in the direction of the Xinyang Pinghan Line at once, and also sent his cronies and generals Luo Zhuoying to take unified command, does that mean that Xinyang's side can also be as stable as Mount Tai? Reinforcements on the battlefield are often not as simple as 11 1 = 2. With the Xinyang battlefield where Luo Zhuoying's corps and Hu Zongnan's corps coexisted, it became a model for chaotic coordination and difficult command in the battle of the national army!

Just when the 3rd and 16th Divisions of the Japanese army were in the mountains west of Dabie Mountain, drilling into a ravine, and fighting fiercely with the eight divisions under Sun Lianzhong, Commander Minoru Wang of Dongjiu Palace in Hefei finally waited for his fourth division, the 109th Division. The 109th Division was originally subordinate to the First Army of General Terauchi Shouichi, but due to the needs of the war, the base camp transferred the 109th Division from East China to Hefei, and came under the name of the Second Army of King Minoru of Higashikurenomiya.

Commander Minoru Higashikunomiya looked at it, Ah, the 109th Division has finally arrived, and although it is not a standing Division A, it is still a Type B Division with 24,000 men! Looking at the battlefield pattern, in the mountains west of Dabie Mountain, there are two divisions, the Third Division and the Sixteenth Division, which are enough to toss around, and there are too many people to show it! And here in Luodian, the 10th Division is facing the First Army of Zhina, and it needs to be supported immediately.

Okay, you, the 109th Division, will immediately go to Gushi and Luodian to reinforce the 10th Division! The commander of the 109th Division, Shigehou Yamaoka, immediately took the 109th Division to Gushi. The 109th Division's action was still very rapid, and it took only three days to rush from Hefei to Gushi County, where it joined forces with the 10th Division.

After the two divisions joined forces, they divided into three routes on the same day and rushed to the Xinyang and Pinghan Railways. Hu Zongnan, on the other hand, commanded the three divisions that could fight together and the three Sichuan army divisions that played side drums, and took advantage of the hilly area here in Xinyang to resist the attack of the two divisions of the Japanese army little by little. While resisting the Japanese army, Hu Zongnan asked for help from Wuhan one after another.

Lao Jiang saw that Hu Zongnan asked for help again and again, and knew that his first army was struggling to resist, so he hurriedly urged Luo Zhuoying to send troops to Xinyang as soon as possible. From Wuhan to Xinyang, it is the fastest to go north out of Dabie Mountain and enter the hilly area of Xinyang from the Pinghan Railway Passage to the north. Then the most important thing is a place called Willow Forest. Liulin Town is not a big place, but its location is quite important, which Luo Zhuoying understands, Hu Zongnan understands, and the two divisions of the Japanese army, the commanders of the two divisions, Yoshio Shinozuka and Shigemo Yamaoka, also understand.

After the two divisions of the Japanese army were divided into three routes, the middle road pointed directly to Xinyang, the north road pointed to the Changtai Guanhuai River Bridge, and the south road, that is, the main force of the replenished Shinozuka Division, rushed to Liulin Town. As long as the devil takes Liulin as soon as possible, then the Luo Zhuoying group, which reinforces Xinyang from Wuhan, will be blocked and it will be difficult to get out of the Dabie Mountain.

In contrast, Liulin Town is much easier to guard than the Huaihe River Changtai Pass, in addition to the fact that he himself has been hidden in the Dabie Mountain, more than ten kilometers in front of it, there are also mountain passes such as the Shihe River and the Longwang Village of Zhenlei Mountain. The north of Liulin Town, the south of Xinyang, that is, the lowland hills of Zhutang Township, Dongshuanghe, can also be regarded as a basin at the northern foot of Tongbai Mountain in Dabie Mountain, which we call "Xinnan Basin".

At the east end of the "Shinnan Basin", Shibu Port in Qingshan Town, there are only some relatively rugged and low mountains, and here is the eastern gap of the "Shinnan Basin", where the southern front of the Sinna Campaign was fought. "Xinnan Basin" and Liulin, as long as this place is well guarded, and the defenders in the area of Xinyang City echo the battle, it is not so easy for the devil to capture it.

The two sides launched an offensive and defensive battle in Xinyang, and in the first few days, seven divisions including Hu Zongnan's army and the Sichuan army tried their best to block the attack, and the fight was okay. After several days of fighting, Luo Zhuoying and the others came, and the two divisions of Liu Heding's 39th Army had passed through Liulin, and the follow-up troops were also passing through Wusheng Pass one after another.

This would have been a good thing, the front was resisting steadily, and the reinforcements from the rear arrived, and the situation was not very good, but it could also be regarded as a small good. However, that night, something happened. On that day, Hu Zongnan felt that so many of Luo Zhuoying's troops had come, and Liulin could be handed over to him, so he withdrew his troops that were originally guarding Liulin to the Xinyang front, which was tight; Luo Zhuoying felt that his troops were only passing through Dabie Mountain and Liulin now, and Hu Zongnan should be responsible for guarding them well, and he also did not send troops to deploy defenses.

Such a serious and fatal matter of a military change of defense can be like child's play! It is actually necessary to decide on action by taking it for granted! This kind of thing makes any general of any army, whether it is ancient or modern, whether it is the East or the West, it will feel incredible, but it is like this, and it really happens in a strange way (how can I say the word "again").

In so many battles since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army has always had many loopholes in its offensive, and we have always been unable to take advantage of them; once we make mistakes, the devils will always be able to hit one accurate one after another, and the intelligence work of both sides is not of the same grade at all. After the Japanese 10th Division learned that the defenders had made such a low-level and unbelievable mistake, that night, the 10th Division broke through the defense line of Qingshan Pu Shigang with a very crazy offensive regardless of casualties, and then a fast force rushed more than 20 kilometers and seized Liulin Station overnight, cutting off Luo Zhuoying's army!

This was serious, Luo Zhuoying urgently ordered Liu Heding to turn back and attack Liulin Town in the north and south of the Yang Sen Department in the Wushengguan passage, and at the same time let the 15th Army Corps (just a 13th division) who went to Xuanhuadian quickly go out of Dabie Mountain to attack the Shigang area. It's just that Liulin is located in the passage of Dabie Mountain, and as long as the Japanese army has one or two brigades occupying the hills on both sides and taking advantage of the favorable terrain, Liu Heding and Yang Sen's troops will not be able to recapture even if they run out of troops.

Liulin failed to recapture, but the Japanese army fought more and more, the main force of the 10th Division continued to rush in, the Dongshuanghe White Horse Temple in the north of Liulin Zhenlei Mountain was lost one after another, and the battle was until the tenth day, the main force of the 10th Division has completely entered the "Xinnan Basin", to the south in Liulin has blocked the Wushengguan channel, and to the north can attack Xinyang with other two devils. Fang Jing's 13th Division, which came out of Xuanhuadian, recovered Qingshandian, Shibu Port Zhutangji, not because they were so powerful, but because the troops of the 10th Division had come over, and those few small towns in the corners that had been left behind, Yoshio Shinozuka did not want to divide his troops to occupy them.

On the same day, the Japanese army on the north route captured the south bank of the Huai River in Changtai Pass, and the Japanese army on the middle route approached Xinyang, and Xinyang City was surrounded by the Japanese army on three routes. At noon on the 12th, Hu Zongnan, who was fighting alone, had to retreat, and Xinyang fell. From the time the two divisions and Japanese troops launched an attack together, it only lasted 12 days, which was the same time as Zhang Zizhong's battle of Huangchuan, much less than the devils that Zhang Zizhong eliminated in Huangchuan, and of course his own casualties were much less than Zhang Zizhong's.

After the Japanese captured Xinyang, seven divisions under Hu Zongnan's division retreated westward to Nanyang. However, although the Japanese army occupied Xinyang, there was still Luo Zhuoying's group army at Wuyang Pass at Wusheng Pass, plus Sun Lianzhong's corps was guarding the Xiaojieling pass, and there was General Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army here in Xuanhuadian in the middle, and Lao Jiang strengthened General Zhang Zizhong's 77th Army with Liu Ruming and Feng Zhi'an's 68th Army to form the 33rd Group Army.

From this point of view, there are three group armies of Luo Zhuoying, Zhang Zizhong, and Sun Lianzhong at the western foot of the entire Dabie Mountain, and the strength is also quite strong. But a good battle, fought like this, made the old Jiang who personally went to Wuhan to supervise the battle vomit blood.

However, Lao Jiang guarded Wuhan, and still held the idea that he could keep the rules, and if he really couldn't hold it, he wouldn't fight hard with the Japanese army. During this period of time, all the factories and equipment in Wuhan were moving to Chongqing in full swing. Now the old Chiang Ji will no longer be like the one during the Battle of Liaohu, fighting hard with the Japanese army everywhere, and the idea of preserving strength and exchanging space for time has been established.

Just when Lao Chiang thought that the Wuhan form was okay, the Japanese army hit Lao Chiang dizzy with another heavy blow, that is, the Japanese army attacked Guangzhou with the strength of three divisions and regiments, under the cover of the navy, and occupied the Pearl River Delta in Guangzhou in one fell swoop. Since the start of the Sino-Japanese war, the weakness of the Chinese navy has left China with no coastal defense at all.

Following the fall of Yantai, Qingdao, Lianyungang, Shanghai, Fuzhou and other seaport cities, Guangzhou has become China's last port to the outside world. The fall of Guangzhou meant that China would lose all overseas aid channels, and China would become a completely landlocked country. This blow was even more serious than the loss of Nanjing and Xuzhou.

With the loss of Guangzhou, the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway lost its significance, it was even more unnecessary to hold on to Wuhan, and Nanchang and other places also lost most of their importance. In fact, the loss of Guangzhou was also a relatively serious matter for Wang Haitao, and once Guangzhou was lost, the metal materials of the United States, the oil and chemical raw materials of Britain and France, and the smuggled arms of Germany were all cut off, and now Wang Haitao could only hope that Longzhou would have enough reserves.

The Japanese 21st Army attacking Canton consisted of the 11th, 28th, and 104th Divisions, of which the 11th Division was withdrawn to the Japanese mainland for reorganization after the Battle of Nanjing, while the 28th Division and the 104th Division had just been formed in Japan. Of the three divisions, the newly formed 104th Division and the 28th Division did not fight Wang Haitao, while the 11th Division was defeated by Wang Haitao.

After learning that the Japanese army had captured Guangzhou City, Wang Haitao's first thought was to lead his troops to recapture Guangzhou City and drive all three divisions of the Japanese army into the sea, but after calming down, Wang Haitao knew that even if Lao Jiang agreed to lead his troops to fight Guangzhou, it would be impossible for him to deal with the three divisions of the Japanese army with these troops who had fought a lot of battles in his hands, especially to recapture Guangzhou City.

In desperation, Wang Haitao could only send a telegram to Tang Renli in Longzhou, asking about the situation at the same time, asking Tang Renli to pay close attention to the movements of the Japanese army, no matter what, Longzhou could not be lost, even if it was disobedience at a critical time, Wang Haitao would lead troops back to Longzhou County. After sending the telegram, Wang Haitao, who was still not at ease, decisively sent Tang Longzai and the 272nd Brigade back to Longzhou County.