The tug-of-war in Fengjie County continued, although Li Yunlong was not transferred to the front line, but the preparations for the war had already begun, Qijiang County began wartime mobilization, a large number of registered veterans were quickly organized, in just three days, Li Yunlong pulled up twelve 1,000-man infantry regiments in Qijiang County, three of which were simply composed of soldiers of the former Hans Wehrmacht, plus the iconic M35 steel helmet, at first glance I thought it was the Hans Wehrmacht really came.

Lao Li also regretted it at this time, he seized a lot of good things when he suppressed bandits before, but he couldn't look down on those things at that time, so he secretly sold them little by little, and some of the things that were not easy to deal with were directly sent favors, so the equipment of these twelve infantry regiments was really average, rifles, light machine guns were a lot, Qijiang County could produce them themselves, but heavy machine guns and small-caliber artillery were very few.

Li Yunlong had the 41-type mountain cannon sent by Wang Yue in his hand, but it was very difficult for that thing to accompany the troops, it needed a lot of livestock, and it also accounted for the establishment, and it couldn't be used as an infantry artillery mortar, right? The key is that Wang Yue left too few shells, and each artillery is only five or six rounds, and it is not troublesome enough to bring them to the front line.

After consulting Comrade Hu Bicheng, Li Yunlong sent these pieces of artillery to the Ministry of Military Affairs, and then exchanged them for the required heavy weapons from the warehouse of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and at least armed these 12 infantry regiments, plus the security regiment of the Qijiang County Government and the Qijiang Marine Police Force, Li Yunlong was able to directly and indirectly mobilize nearly 30,000 troops.

On March 14, the air forces of the two countries broke out in a large-scale space in the Fengjie area, and nearly 500 fighters on both sides engaged in a large-scale melee for nearly three hours, although in the end the Shancheng Air Force won with a record of 108:122, but because Fengjie County was under the control of the Japanese army, most of the pilots who parachuted to escape fell into the hands of the Japanese army, and most of the Japanese pilots were rescued after parachuting.

From this point of view, the Nationalist Air Force should have lost, and moreover, the country did not have the ability to mass-produce aircraft, and if these planes were lost, one would be less, while the Japanese could not only produce them themselves, but also quickly mobilize planes from other regions to support, just like this air battle, if it were not for the participation of 50 Zero Combat Fighters of the Japanese Naval Air Force, the Nationalist Army would not have lost so many fighters.

When the air forces of the two sides were fighting fiercely in the airspace of Fengjie, the Nationalist army sent bomber units to carry out a large-scale bombardment of Hankow, but strangely, they were not intercepted in any way, let alone fighter jets, not even anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns.

Later, it became clear that the devils had completely given up the air defense of the urban area of Hankou, and the limited Japanese puppet army troops simply went directly into the residential areas and stationed them, using civilians as meat shields to avoid bombing, and as for the air defense units and aviation units deployed by the Japanese army in the three towns of Wuhan, they had all been concentrated in Yichang at this time, and in order to ensure the military needs of the front line, the price of grain in the three towns of Wuhan had tripled, and there was a tendency to continue to rise, because the Japanese army was constantly buying military tickets and coupons.

The Japanese army even directly used transport planes to transport a large number of central reserve bonds from Jinling, what economic laws, what inflation, what stability in the occupied areas, all of these are not a problem here in Lieutenant General Anan Weiji.

The national army bombed the three towns of Wuhan, and the Japanese bomber group was not idle, but as before, they did not bomb the big cities, but concentrated on destroying the Yangtze River shipping and road transportation.

In order to prevent accidents, the Japanese army also used a large number of incendiary bombs to intensively drop on the relatively dry forests in spring, forcing the mountain city government to devote a lot of manpower and material resources to extinguishing the mountain fires instead of restoring transportation.

The notorious Unit 731 also appeared again, they began to release viruses into the rivers and lakes in the rear, plague, cholera, anthrax, malaria, and all kinds of bacteria began to spread, although they will not be wreaked havoc immediately, but if they are not dealt with in time, they will definitely cause huge losses.

Even with such caution, malaria broke out in the Sixth War Zone, and in just a few days, more than 50,000 people were infected.

On March 17, the Japanese Sixth Division captured Yunyang, and the main force of the Sixth Theater had to abandon the tens of thousands of sick numbers in the field hospital and withdraw to the rear, and the Japanese army naturally did not care about these abandoned sick numbers.

However, some middle and high-ranking officers of the Sixth Theater were frightened by the Japanese army, and when Hu Shoushan transferred the sick number backwards, many officers mixed into the sick number and fled from Wanxian.

On 19 March, an infiltration squad of Yamamoto's unit entered Wanxian and shelled our Sixth Theater Command with a 150-mm short mortar.

When the headquarters was attacked and communications were cut off, the troops around Wanxian could not help but fluctuate, and at this time, a huge Japanese attack group composed of hundreds of tanks appeared outside Wanxian County, and before the Japanese armored troops could attack, a national army unit turned around and ran.

With the first one, there was a second one, and a third one, which was only a battalion-sized unit at the beginning, but soon there were troops at the division level who escaped from the battle, and soon, more than 100,000 national army troops around Wanxian County were all involved.

Naturally, the Japanese army would not give up such an opportunity, nor did it wait for the follow-up troops, and the armored troops chased along the road from Wanxian to Zhongxian until the last drop of gasoline in the fuel tank was exhausted, and then they reluctantly pursued the footsteps.

When Hu Shoushan, who was coerced by the chaotic army, went to Zhongxian County to count the troops, he was desperate to find that there were only more than 50,000 troops left in his hands that were simply disorganized, and all the heavy weapons and materials were discarded.

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