February 4, 1941, Lichun

The silence that lasted for a long time on the Asian battlefield was finally broken on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, and this time it was no longer the Japanese who took the initiative but the Shancheng authorities, and it was not the Tiger Ben of the Ninth Theater who fired the first shot, but the navy that was almost forgotten; on February 4, there was a morning fog in the Wuhan River section that rarely appeared in winter, and under the cover of this morning fog, more than 100 wooden-hulled speedboats produced by the Wanxian Shipyard suddenly appeared and desperately hit the Japanese ships on the river with torpedoes tied to the bows.

To say that the sentries of the devils also discovered these attackers at the first time and reported them in time and made countermeasures, but because of the fog, their little reaction time was not even enough for the soldiers to run to their positions, and only some sporadic sailors used rifles to carry out futile counterattacks. As for circumvention? Don't make international jokes, okay, the devils are also a group of poor ghosts, the vast majority of the warships placed in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River are coal-fired boilers, and if you want to start, you need to make a fire, you need to pressurize, you need to replenish lubricating oil, and you don't even think about it for a few hours.

As a result, in less than half an hour, almost all the warships of more than 500 tons docked in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River were sunk and damaged, and they completely lost control of the Wuhan Jiangduan. The locust army wept one by one, not because they didn't work hard, but because the enemy was too cunning, the wooden boats were all dressed up as civilian ships when they went downstream, and the engines and torpedoes were hoisted from neutral freighters after they were close to Wuhan. Therefore, there is no trace of several cordons from Yibin to Wuhan.

The first wave of the navy's attack is a good start, followed by the Yamashiro Air Force, which was hit hard some time ago, and the devils have also begun to study radar in this year, but in central China, the devils don't have that high-end goods, so everyone's early warning system is about the same, relying on manpower and microphones to carry out early warning, which has a loophole to drill.

Before the attack was launched, the Military Command Bureau, under the leadership of the local guerrillas, attacked the observation post of the devils and completely cut off the external communications of the Devils' Navy and Army Aviation Command.

But they were faced with nearly 100 of the most advanced Dwatina D520 fighters, just a fighter with a face was blown up, and the pilot didn't even have the opportunity to parachute, before, the Air Force of the Yamashiro government also used D520 fighters, but because the pilot was not familiar with the operation, he did not achieve any results, so it did not attract enough attention from the devil's side.

Therefore, the devils do not have a target fighter on the mainland battlefield now, so even if all the devil's fighters take off to meet the battle, it will not play a role, and of course, they will not have that opportunity.

Only the first wave of bombing, the devil's airfield and antiaircraft artillery positions were completely destroyed, in order to bomb the mountain city concentrated here a large number of fighters and aviation materials and ammunition did not take long to turn into ashes, watching the ground covered in fire devils running around the airport, the pilots of the air force felt unprecedented pleasure, a few years, they have been pressed by the devils for several years, today, finally have a chance to counterattack.

Immediately afterwards, the important facilities in the city, warehouses, factories, barracks, stations, docks, lost the cover of the air force, these became the best targets, and after a while, the whole Wuhan was shrouded in heavy gunsmoke, even in the battle of Wuhan, the city did not suffer such a strong bombardment, no way, it is really a devil and poor.

After the bombs were dropped, the group did not rush to leave, but continued to hover in the sky in search of suitable targets for strafing. It was not until the military commander reported that a group of devil planes from the direction of Jiujiang had come over that they reluctantly returned to the ship.

However, for the headquarters of the 11th Army, the attack on Wuhan was not the most serious, because almost at the same time as Wuhan was bombed, the Ninth Theater of Operations, which had been sharpening its knives, was suddenly launched.

On the long front, the Ninth Theater invested 50 full-fledged infantry divisions, nearly 600,000 troops, more than 400 tanks, and nearly 1,000 artillery pieces at one time to launch an all-out attack on the defense line of the 11th Army.

Only an hour after the battle began, the headquarters of the 11th Army gave the order to shrink the troops, and two hours later, the devils lost eleven county towns, and even one infantry company that was not in good shape was annihilated by the superior armored forces of the other side.

That's right, it was annihilation, artillery bombardment, armored troops broke through and divided, infantry units moved and encircled, and the field wing of thousands of people was annihilated by the other side without even having a chance to make a counterattack.

As a last resort, the headquarters of the 11th Army had no choice but to ask the headquarters of the dispatch army in Jinling for tactical guidance, but what they didn't know was that the headquarters of the dispatch army had become a mess at this moment, because not only the troops of the 11th Army had been attacked, but almost all the areas under the jurisdiction of the dispatch army had been violently attacked, from Guangdong Province to Hebei Province, from the magic capital to Wuhan, at least 300 divisions appeared on the battlefield.

With thousands of tanks, thousands of artillery pieces, hundreds of warplanes, and millions of troops, the Yamashiro government threw all the capital into it at once like a madman, so that the Japanese army headquarters didn't know how to play for a while.

Fighting for troops, the strength of the Japanese army cannot be compared with the mountain city government at all, and now there are 300 divisions, and if they want, the highest authorities can throw another 300 divisions.

Fight weapons, although only a small part of the weapons invested by the Yamashiro government are more advanced than the Japanese army, but you can't stand the number of people, the Yamashiro government only has more than 2,000 Renault Ft17 tanks put into battle, with the configuration of the devil's anti-armor weapons, it is not enough to use it well, and the M1897 75mm field gun, there are also thousands.

Fight for quality, the quality of the devil's field troops is indeed good, but the more numerous garrison troops are not good, training, equipment, and supplies are all rotten, compared with the troops of the Shancheng government, it is half a catty and eight taels, and no one can laugh at anyone.

After careful calculation, the devil army, which had always been arrogant, was shocked to find that they had unwittingly lost their absolute superiority on the battlefield of the eastern powers.

——