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After returning to Yinjiang, Zhong Yi was very busy for a while.

By the end of April of '39, the backlog of desk affairs had finally been dealt with.

In this process, the Battle of Nanchang had come to an end, and due to President Chang's commotion operation, the 41st Group Army suffered a decisive defeat and lost the ability to counterattack Nanchang.

Here's how things went.

In the initial stage of the campaign, Luo Zhuoying, the commander-in-chief of the former enemy in northern Jiangxi, drew up more practical guidelines with the assistance of Luo Weixiong, chief of staff.

This guideline is to draw lessons from the previous wars, not to face the Japanese army head-on, and even Nanchang is not prepared to leave troops to defend to the death, but to disperse the main forces to the periphery, looking for opportunities to attack and harass the tired Japanese army.

To put it bluntly, what I learned was the dirt road, the devil fights the devil, and we beat ours.

From the beginning of March to the end of the month, although the Japanese army captured Nanchang, Wuning and other large cities, it paid heavy casualties.

In the entire first stage of the Battle of Nanchang, the Japanese army suffered more than 10,000 casualties and more than 1,000 casualties, while the Nationalist army suffered about 10,000 casualties and about 2,000 killed.

The ratio of casualties between the two sides is about one to two, which is actually pretty good.

Although it is said that Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, and a large area of land have been lost, but it is said that the land is lost, the people and the land are lost, the people and the land are lost, and the people and the land are saved.

As long as the army is still there, sooner or later there will be a day when Nanchang will be recovered!

For the national army, such a casualty ratio was acceptable, but for the Japanese army, such a battle loss ratio was unacceptable, so after capturing Nanchang, Okamura Ninji decisively ordered to stop the offensive.

After discovering that the Japanese army had suffered too much damage in battle, the old devil decisively innovated his tactics, no longer blindly attacking as in the first stage of the campaign, but decided to lure the national army out and achieve the tactical goal of destroying the living forces of the national army through defensive operations.

So Okamura Ninji ordered the attack to be stopped, and found reporters to publish several articles in a row, exaggerating and reporting the tragic situation of the Eleventh Army in the Battle of Nanchang.

Okamura Ninji even did not hesitate to openly blacken himself, claiming that Xue Yue, the acting commander-in-chief of the Ninth Theater, and Luo Zhengying, the commander-in-chief of the 41st Group Army, were the most powerful of all the opponents he had encountered in his life! He also said that although the Japanese army successfully occupied Nanchang, it was cautiously optimistic about whether it could hold Nanchang.

Okamura Ninji almost published a newspaper and said: I am about to lose it, so come and beat me.

This is a new thing, since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army's face has always been arrogant.

When the news spread, the national army was immediately excited.

The morale of the officers and men of the 41st Group on the front line was even higher, and the officers at the grassroots level demanded that they be transferred to counteroffensive operations.

However, Xue Yue and Luo Zhengying's minds were very clear, and their judgment was that although the Japanese army had paid a great price, its overall strength was still far stronger than that of the Ninth Theater, so a rash counterattack could only hit the stone with an egg, and instead of recovering Nanchang, it would consume valuable troops in vain.

So, no matter how the officers below made trouble, Xue Yue and Luo Zhengying were not moved at all.

But there is another person who also believes in Okamura Ninji's fooling, and this person is Principal Chang.

After the Battle of Wuhan, it is an indisputable fact that the Japanese army was unable to launch a large-scale strategic offensive because of the consumption of too many troops and the long front, so President Chang believed that the performance of Okamura Ningji's 11th Army in the Nanchang battlefield was also credible, and the national army really ushered in a God-given opportunity to counterattack Nanchang.

More importantly, if the Ninth War Zone can recover Nanchang, it will undoubtedly greatly boost morale.

Because since the full-scale outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, although the national army has occasionally been able to recover lost territory, it has only recovered one or two county towns at most, and even slightly larger cities have not, if Nanchang can be recovered in one fell swoop, it will definitely be an unprecedented major event, which will be of great help in reversing the situation of the Sino-Japanese war.

Caught in this logic, Principal Chang really ordered a counterattack.

It was also a coincidence that at this time, the American weapons of a division assisted by Zhong Yi were sent to the battlefield in northern Jiangxi.

After changing into American weapons, Zhu Liangcheng launched a small-scale counteroffensive in Wuning, and as a result, he wiped out half of the Japanese army with a lightning speed!

At this time, with the repeated urging of Principal Chang and the outstanding performance of the Rong 1st Division, Xue Yue and Luo Zhengying finally began to waver, and after hastily drawing up a battle plan, Luo Zhengying ordered a counterattack on the whole front.

At this time, it was the middle of Okamura Ninji's hands, and the Japanese army turned from a hard offensive operation to a defensive operation.

The national army's counteroffensive lasted for about a month, and by the end of April, the number of casualties had expanded to more than 50,000, that is to say, the counteroffensive had suffered more than 40,000 casualties in this month, which was nothing, and more importantly, the more than 40,000 casualties were almost all killed, and the wounded national army was very few!

That is to say, the wounded officers and soldiers of the national army have basically died!

The reason for this is also very simple, because the national army lacks the ability to attack fortifications, and the vast majority of attacks end in failure.

If the position could not be defeated, it was impossible for the wounded officers and soldiers to be carried back for treatment, and basically they were martyred because of excessive blood loss.

And what about the Japanese casualties?

The defensive operation lasted almost a month, and the Japanese suffered almost 10,000 more casualties.

About 1,000 of the 10,000 were killed, and the number of Japanese casualties was about the same in the two phases before and after the battle.

In other words, in the second stage of the Battle of Nanchang, the ratio of enemy to enemy to death reached an unimaginable one to forty, which is really spicy!

What is even more unacceptable is that among the various units of the national army participating in the war, the 41st Group Army with the strongest combat effectiveness was precisely the 41st Group Army, such as Zhu Liangcheng's Rong 1st Division, which was almost disabled!

When the Rong 1st Division withdrew from the battlefield, there were less than 2,000 officers and soldiers left in the division's more than 9,000 officers and soldiers!

And what is even more distressing is that there is no way to bring back even the bodies of the dead officers and soldiers!

As a last resort, Luo Zhengying could only erect a stone tablet in the middle of the mountain, on which were engraved with the names of the officers and soldiers who died in battle.

After the news reached Yinjiang, Zhong Yi couldn't eat for three days.

Rong 1st Division, this is the old army he brought out from Nanjing!

After the Battle of Wuhan Baohui, the combat strength of the Rong 1st Division reached its peak and became the elite unit with the highest combat effectiveness among the more than 200 divisions of the National Army.