There was a faint sound of cannons outside, the empty street guards were everywhere, the road was covered with abandoned debris, the river wind blew, paper scraps on the ground rolled up in the wind, and all the shops were closed tightly... All the vehicles that could move were loaded with crowds and supplies to drive south, and several lonely soldiers looked around alertly, looking back from time to time, waiting for the order to arrive.

"Boom!" A huge explosion came from the direction of the train station. The soldiers couldn't help looking in the direction where the sound came. After a while, two jeeps appeared on the street. The soldiers suddenly became nervous. When the car drove closer, they could see the blue sky and white sun flag flying above.

The jeep stopped in front of the barricade with a harsh sound of brakes. The squad leader ran to the car and saluted the soldier who was wearing the rank of lieutenant general in the passenger seat, and then said: "General, please show your certificate."

The lieutenant general took out the ID from his shirt pocket and handed it to him, and asked casually: "Why haven't you withdrawn yet?

"The sergeant closed the certificate and replied, "Where are the Japanese?"

"I don't know, the farthest from the city is only five kilometers. You'd better send someone to contact your superiors. Damn, what are you doing!" The lieutenant general cursed, and the sergeant saluted and thanked the lieutenant general with gratitude, then waved his hand to order the soldiers to move and get the obstacles, and the jeep rolled over the checkpoint like a gust of wind.

Several flyers were blown to the car by the wind, and the lieutenant general picked them up. The red title was printed with: "To give up Wuhan, please inform the whole country." He kneaded the flyers into a ball, threw them into the air, muttering: "If I had known today, why would you have been there?"

"Commander, this is the order of the Chairman, so you don't have to worry." The adjutant sitting in the back seat whispered.

"I should have evacuated the supplies early. The Cultural Revolution reminded me, alas, I feel sorry for thinking about it." Hong Junqi shook his head and sighed. As early as early December, he began to evacuate supplies around Wuhan. There are three main directions for evacuation. Once you go south to Changsha, north to Xiangfan, and finally to Yichang.

However, the battles outside Wuhan were still fierce, Tianjia Town was still holding on, and Hong Junqi did not dare to evacuate the material funds department. As a result, after the Tianjia Town Fortress fell at the end of December, when Wuhan began to evacuate on a large scale, various means of transportation were requisitioned by citizens and various military agencies, and the logistics evacuation became even more difficult. When the Japanese army approached Chengheng, there were still two warehouses without time to evacuate the materials.

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The fortress of Tianjia Town finally fell for more than 20 days. After the Japanese captured Guangji, they were ready to bypass Tianjia Town and attack west along the Guangxi Highway. Bai Chongxi personally commanded the 103rd Army and the 27th Army that arrived at the battlefield to intercept it. The Japanese army was unable to break through, so they turned around and went south to attack Tianjia Town.

Li Yannian led his troops to defend Tianjia Town, Bai Chongxi commanded the 34th Army on the periphery to counterattack Guangji, Chiang Kai-shek dispatched He Zhizhong's 86th Army and Xiao Zhichu's 26th Army to reinforce, and the Japanese army also dispatched a division from the 11th Army and the Second Army to support. The Second Army suffered heavy artillery fire from the air, land and river surfaces, and the officers and soldiers held on and refused to retreat, and commanders at all levels moved forward.

The soldiers of the Second Army knew the importance of Tianjia Town to Wuhan. Therefore, despite the great losses in the Huangmei Battle, the morale of the entire army was still high and they relied on solid positions to block the Japanese army. Li Yannian ordered the implementation of the revolutionary military squatting method. No one was allowed to retreat, and those who retreated would die.

During the fierce battle in Tianjia Town, Bai Chongxi commanded the 34th Army to counterattack Guangji, and for another 90 years, he bypassed Guangji and attacked the Japanese flanks of Tianjia Town. The Japanese army caught off guard and suffered heavy losses. He was forced to divide his troops to block the attack. This move greatly alleviated Li Yannian's situation and was also the main reason why Tianjia Town could hold on for more than 20 days.

The Japanese army attacked during the day, and the Chinese defenders counterattacked at night; this rule was broken until all the outer positions were lost. The Second Army suffered heavy losses in the periphery battle. Two brigade commanders and more than 6,000 officers and soldiers of the 56th Division were killed. The Japanese army suffered huge losses. Three brigade leaders were killed, two regiment captains were seriously injured, and more than 3,000 soldiers were killed in battle.

When the Japanese army attacked Tianjia Town, they also attacked Fuchikou on the other side of the river. The 11th Army used the main force to attack Ou Zhen's Fourth Army stationed at Fuchikou, and Chiang Kai-shek urgently dispatched the 54th Army to reinforce. Huo Luzhang used the 18th Division as the vanguard to reinforce Fuchikou. Li Fang, the commander of the 18th Division, was slow to tie the robbery, resulting in the Fourth Army fighting alone and Fuchikou was lost. Chiang Kai-shek was angry and ordered Li Fang to be tied up and arrested.

The fall of Fuchikou made Tianjia Town even more difficult. The Japanese army set up heavy artillery at Fuchikou and together with naval artillery fire to bombard the core position of Tianjia Town. Songshan, the commanding height of Tianjia Town, was finally lost. All the fortifications of the core position were destroyed, and all the heavy artillery was destroyed, and all the important strongholds were destroyed. The Japanese army launched an attack on Tianjia Town. Although the soldiers of the Second Army were still fighting, Li Yannian personally led the guards to counterattack. However, the Japanese army still rushed into the town. After the New Year, Chiang Kai-shek finally confirmed that the Tianjia Town could not be defended. He ordered the abandonment of Tianjia Town.

During the fierce battle in the Tianjia Town Fortress, the Japanese army in Henan, who had been resting and replenishing, launched another attack. The Japanese army was aware of Xinyang's Fifth Army stationed. Then they turned around and went south to attack the mall. At this moment, there were only one or two troops stationed alone in the mall. Facing the fierce Japanese army, Sun Zhen did not defend the mall, but retreated south to Shawo, and stood on the line of Ma'anshan to wait for assistance.

The First and Second Army of North China also launched an attack on the front of Henan. At this critical moment, Jiang Dingwen ordered the Fifth Army to launch a counterattack on the flanks of the Japanese army attacking the mall via Luoshan and Huangchuan.

This order allowed China's first mechanical book army to enter the high mountains of the Dabie Mountains, rather than counterattacking the Japanese army heading south on the plains.

The rugged roads of Dabie Mountain made the Fifth Army called Xiaoershi. The Japanese army seized the mistake of the squadron and gave up Luoshan to lure the enemy into the depths. They set up an ambush in Huangchuan. After two days of fierce fighting, the main force of the Fifth Army broke out and surrounded, but the army mainly attacked more than 200 tanks and dogs were destroyed, dozens of vehicles that were sharply rescued escaped, and Qiu Qingquan, the commander of the 200th Division, was seriously injured.

The defeat of the Fifth Army led to the destruction of all the mobile troops in the entire Fifth War Zone. Chiang Kai-shek was furious and revoked Jiang Dingwen's commander of the Fifth War Zone and ordered Li Zongren to replace Jiang Dingwen and also serve as the commander of the Fifth War Zone. He unified the commander of the 15th War Zone.

This order was very timely. In fact, the Japanese army's attack spanned the 15th War Zone. The entire north bank of the Yangtze River was already a unified battlefield and urgently needed unified command.

When Li Zongren took over the Fifth War Zone, the entire Fifth War Zone troops were entangled by the Japanese army. The 102nd Army fought hard in Shawo. The situation was the most urgent. After repeated thoughts, Li Zongren decided to use attack as the defense and mobilize Wei Lihuang's 14th Army to counterattack Zhengzhou. Wei Lihuang's counterattack attracted the Japanese army heading south along Pinghan Road back to Zhengzhou, making Xuchang safe.

Xuchang was lifted urgently, but Xinyang was in danger again.

After the defeat of the Fifth Army, the Japanese Nakajima Kangjian's Fifth Division took advantage of the victory to pursue him. Xu Tingyao was unable to stand up and gave up Luoshan to retreat to Xinyang. Nakajima Kangjian continued to pursue him. He defeated the Fifth Army's guard west of Luoshan, which caused panic in the entire Fifth Army. Each unit did his own business. When Xu Tingyao fled to Xinyang, he sadly found that only the direct brigade of the Army was left at hand, and the other troops had completely lost contact.

Xu Tingyao was helpless and asked Chiang Kai-shek for help. Chiang Kai-shek was shocked and angry when he heard the news, and hated him greatly. Jiang Dingwen's move not only ruined the entire Wuhan defense battle, but also ruined the elite unit of the Fifth Army. But at this time, Chiang Kai-shek had no more mobile troops to reinforce, so he had to order Xu Tingyao to stand firm.

The morale of the Japanese army rushing towards Xinyang was high, and the victory of defeating the elite Chinese troops was just around the corner. After that, the squadron was unable to block, which made Kazushima Nakajima feel that the squadron was almost in chaos. He lined up the two divisions he commanded and divided them into two routes and boldly interspersed, just to win Xinyang.

Kazuya Nakajima was eager to take down Xinyang, allowing most of the Fifth Army troops dragged behind to escape from the Japanese encirclement. However, it also prevented the squadron from quickly reinforcing Xinyang, and the Xinyang defense battle ended almost without the beginning.

Kasuke Nakajima captured Xinyang with lightning speed, which made Nishio Shouzuo from Peking and Tada Jung from Nanjing overjoyed. Then he drew a division from the front line of the mall to quickly advance westward to support Kasuke Nakajima. Then he ordered Kasuke Nakajima to go south to attack Wusheng Pass, and Wusheng Pass only had a broken Hirou of the Fifth Army.

There were only two regiments of Hongyou who arrived at Wusheng Pass for less than 2,000. Brigade Commander Luo Guofu was graduated from Huangpu's third phase. At this moment, he was facing unprecedented pressure. Chiang Kai-shek directly ordered that "Biyou must stick to Wusheng Pass, and at the same time ordered the remnants of the 103rd Army and the 47th Army that were resting in Macheng to immediately reinforce Wusheng Pass.

Bai Chongxi rejected Chiang Kai-shek's order. The 103rd Army and the 47th Army were going to rush from Macheng to Wusheng Pass. It was too late to go. Bai Chongxi measured the overall situation and ordered the 47th Army to rush to Wusheng Pass. At the same time, he told Li Jiayu that if Wusheng Pass was lost, the 47th Army would retreat to Sui County or Zaoyang; the 103th Army rushed to Huayuan on the Pinghan Line. If the Japanese army conquered Wusheng Pass, the garden would be the last line of defense to block the Japanese army.

The development of the war was indeed as Bai Chongxi expected. "Bi Boutiks failed to defend Wusheng Pass. The battle lasted only one and a half days ago. The Japanese army rushed into Wusheng Pass. Luo Guofu's command headquarters launched a street battle with the Japanese army. In the end, the entire army was killed and none of them survived.

At this time, Chiang Kai-shek had fully understood that Wuhan could not be defended. On the day after Tianjia Town fell, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the evacuation of Wuhan. The navy began to lay mines upstream of Tianjia Town. This move caused unexpected trouble for the Japanese army. It took the Japanese army three weeks to clear the mines on the waterway.

After the news of the loss of Wusheng Pass, Li Jiayu did not retreat to Sui County immediately, but stayed in Xuanhuadian west of Wusheng Pass. After the main force of the Japanese army headed south, he led his army to launch a counterattack at Wusheng Pass. Kazushima did not expect to be counterattacked by the squadron. Although he was not willing to do so, Xuan was alone in the deep. Despite the heavy casualties of the 102nd Army, he still stood stubbornly in the Shawo, so he had to make sure that Wusheng Pass was in hand.

On the northern line, Li Zongren dispatched the 71st Army of the 36th Army and the 22nd Army of the 36th Army to counterattack Xinyang, and dragged down the 56th Division of the Xinyang defenders. Nakajima Kangjian had to stop rushing towards Wuhan and turned around to counterattack the 47th Army of Wusheng Pass.

The attack of the 47th Army won the 103th Army back to defend Huaguo, but the 47th Army paid a heavy price. The commander Li Jiayu was bombed by Japanese planes during the counterattack and was seriously injured and died. The National Government posthumously awarded the title of Army General. More than 7,000 remnants of the 47th Army retreated to Sui County. There was no more strength to fight.

With the loss of Wusheng Pass, the Wuhan retreat began, and the troops on the north bank of the Yangtze River began to transfer in western Hubei and southern Hubei. The 34th Army turned to western Hubei, and the remnants of the Second Army retreated to southern Hubei. The 102nd Army gave up Shawo, retreated to Wuhan first, and then moved to western Hubei. The 22nd Army, the 36th Army, the Third Army, the Second Army and other troops who fought on the Henan front also retreated one after another and moved to western Henan and eastern Hubei.

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