On March 24, 1941, the Japanese army once again attacked the Zhongxian defense line, the Zhongxian county defense line was broken by the Japanese army, the defenders surrendered, and the remnants of the sixth theater had to retreat 20 kilometers to the second line of defense.

As a last resort, the supreme authorities had to order Xiao Zhuge to take over as the commander of the Sixth Theater and rush to the front line overnight to maintain the defensive line.

After Xiao Zhuge arrived at the front line, he found that the so-called defense line could be said to be full of loopholes, the troop structure had been completely disrupted, almost all heavy weapons had been lost, ammunition was seriously insufficient, morale was low, and the morale of the army was fluctuating.

Without a word, the troops were purged overnight, and two army commanders, five division commanders, and seven brigade commanders were shot in a row, and the floating military spirit was finally stabilized, but it was really unrealistic to rely on the existing troops and weapons to block the Japanese army's advance.

Fortunately, the losses of the Japanese army in the previous series of battles were not small, and the Sixth Division, which was the main attacking force, had already lost 8,000 people.

The losses of the 13th Division were relatively small, but they were only relative, because the 13th Division bore the brunt of several times against the tank troops of the 6th Theater, and the veterans of the front-line troops suffered a large number of casualties, so that the morale of many troops was not high, and they urgently needed to rest and recuperate.

After the retreat of the main division of the Japanese army, the attack on Zhongxian did not stop, on March 25, under the supervision of the Japanese army, the puppet army began to attack the Zhongxian defense line, due to the artillery group response, the offensive of the puppet army troops was quite fierce, several times in the defense line opened a gap, if it was not for Xiao Zhuge in time to drag the reserve into the battle, I am afraid that the defense line has been broken.

Thinking about it, it is understandable that the current situation of the Shancheng government is quite critical, the Japanese army is like a bamboo, and there is a tendency to take Shancheng in one go. The back road of bullshit, the battle has reached such a point, does the mountain city government still deserve to be everyone's back road?

On 25 March, a material warehouse of the Ministry of Military Affairs on the outskirts of Shancheng was detonated by Japanese spies, and all the 50-mm grenades urgently produced by the Ordnance Industry Administration were destroyed, along with 82-mm mortar shells and more than 8,000 rounds of high-explosive grenades used by the Type 41 mountain artillery that were to be replenished to the First Army.

On the same day, a convoy urgently transported from northern Shaanxi to Shancheng was attacked by bandits, and more than 1,000 tons of fuel were destroyed; because the highway was seriously damaged, Shancheng had to wait at least another month to obtain fuel by land, because the Ministry of Military Affairs discovered that many of the oil depots in Shancheng had been sold out by Japanese spies in collusion with managers, and judging from the current state of fuel, the military would not dare to use it even if it had mastered the armored aircraft group, and even the air force would not be able to hold out for a few days.

On 26 March, the troops of the Ninth Theater of Operations arrived at the three towns of Wuhan, and the Japanese troops did not choose to fight to the death in the periphery and the Ninth Theater, but took the initiative to retreat to the urban area.

Helpless, Chief Xue of the Ninth War Zone had to stop the troops under the city of Wuhan, and turned around to clean up the towns that he left behind, Anan Weiji almost transferred the garrison troops of the 11th Army Defense Zone for this combat operation, so that many counties have only one squad stationed in them, and there is even only one reinforced detachment left in the county seats, which is so empty that if you don't take this opportunity to conquer the city, you are really sorry for such a God-given opportunity.

On the same day, the troops of the Nationalist Army in the direction of Nanchang also launched a counteroffensive operation, although the Devil's troops in Nanchang were not as empty as Hubei Province, but the Japanese army, which had not been replenished, fought very hard, and the artillery fire of the Nationalist Army extended to the urban area several times, in order to cope with the operation in the mountain city, the troops near Nanchang did not count the casualties, regardless of the cost, killed and wounded a large number of Japanese troops with their own huge losses, and continuously recovered nearby towns, if the Eleventh Army did not adjust its deployment, it was only a matter of time to recover Nanchang.

On March 27, the naval death squad infiltrated behind enemy lines with the assistance of the guerrillas in eastern Sichuan and laid mines in the section of the Fengjie River, blocking the retreat of the Japanese naval fleet. Just after the Japanese navy was complacent and believed that they had squeezed out the last bit of blood of the Chinese navy, the second wave of attacks came.

The two 1124 patrol boats bravely met the four destroyers and five minesweepers on the opposite side, and at this time, the mountain battalion of the provisional 68th Division, which had finally arrived, began to release floating incendiary bombs and smoke canisters into the river to cover their own ships.

On the Japanese Navy's side, there was an artillery battle with the two 1124 torpedo boats, the firepower of the 1124 torpedo boats was too weak for the Japanese fleet to cause any effective damage, and the firepower on the devil's side was very strong, but the 1124 torpedo boats were too small, and the smoke was not accurate at all.

But just when the officers and men of the Japanese fleet began to get a little agitated, four G-5 torpedo boats rushed out of the smoke at high speed, and several torpedo boats released torpedoes at a very close distance from the Japanese fleet, and then they turned around and fled in all directions.

The Japanese fleet did not lose nothing in the previous counterattack operations, several warships were damaged to varying degrees, and there were also losses in the personnel and close-in defense weapons on board, and they were attacked again, naturally they were not as strong as before, and after a while, two destroyers and a minesweeper were destroyed, and another minesweeper was injured so that the Japanese fleet hurriedly retreated and hid under the cover of army artillery fire, and even those colleagues who fell into the water did not care, well, this is a special Japanese navy.

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