Anan Weiji's face was red, a touch of pain flashed from his eyes, and he said in a low tone for a long time: "Yes, that battle was indeed commanded by me, at that time, the Songhu troops of the Chongqing government were preparing to retreat to the rear from the Zhejiang-Anhui-Jiangxi border and Changzhou, and the two divisions of the Seventh Army of the 21st Group Army were urgently transferred to Zhejiang, preemptively occupying Wuxing and covering the westward retreat of the Chongqing government army. and Lijia Lane in the rear of Wuxing, four lines of defense were set up to block the imperial army. At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the 6th and 114th divisions of the Imperial Army advanced to Nanxun, and then launched an attack on the Seventh Army, the Imperial Army annihilated one of its regiments with the casualties of a squadron, but it was not able to push forward further, the soldiers of the Seventh Army did not care about the casualties and resisted to the death, until the next day, the Imperial Army urgently transferred the tank wing, opened the road with more than 50 tanks and armored vehicles, and ran over all the way, only to tear open the enemy's defense line and smoothly advance to Shengshan, but the resistance did not stop there, the Imperial Army attacked in many ways, outflanked in a roundabout way, and the tanks and heavy artillery took turns to fight, Only in the evening to take the mountain, but did not expect that at night, the seventh army actually launched a large-scale night attack on the imperial army, overnight to recapture the mountain, so that the imperial army had to redeploy the next day, the attack again, until the morning of the third day to fully lay down the mountain, but the real resistance is still in Wuxing, three days, full three days, Wuxing City corpses are all over the field, blood flowed like a river, the imperial army's aircraft, tanks, heavy artillery, soldiers group charge and attack, so that Wuxing City almost became a ruin, But the Seventh Army still used the only ruins to entangle with the Imperial Army, and still resisted for a day. This battle caused nearly 5,000 casualties of the imperial army, delayed the two divisions of the imperial army for seven days, and allowed the troops of the Chongqing government army to escape smoothly from the Songhu battlefield.

After Anan finished speaking, his face was gloomy and his eyes were misty, which made people suspect that his mind had returned to that unbearable battle again.

The generals in the command headquarters were also silent because of this secret history, this is the shame of the imperial army, and it is also their shame, it took a long time before a Zhongzuo broke the silence and asked: "Your Excellency General, I think the two divisions of the Seventh Army should be wiped out in this battle, right?" ”

Anan Wei glanced up at him a few times, and only replied after a long time: "No, they retreated in the night, and the last remaining troops of the two divisions are estimated to be less than two regiments, but this battle was lost by the imperial army."

"Huh!" Because the atmosphere in the room was a little dull, Kinoshita Yong laughed and got up, and said: "Everyone, these are the past history, the imperial army still controls most of China, and the soldiers have been directed at Southeast Asia, victory belongs to the imperial army after all, a battle is not enough to explain anything, but it is worth everyone to face our enemy, and we can't let this vicious incident happen again because of our underestimation and misjudgment." ”

Kinoshita's words were very energetic, and the house suddenly shouted loudly, and the slogan of the imperial army's victory was shouted loudly, and then they began to return to the topic, drawing up a plan to send troops to reinforce Xinyang, and there was no arrogance in the deployment, and it was completely like a great enemy.

At this moment, a staff officer hurriedly arrived and reported that an urgent telegram had been sent from the Special High School, and it was reported that Chiang Kai-chung, the leader of Chongqing, had arrived in Changsha this morning.

The command was in an uproar, speculating about the purpose of Chiang Kai-chung's trip. Originally, it was not shocking news that the Chongqing leader came to Changsha, but the time of coming happened to be when the Gui Army troops and the Eighth Route Army were active on the Pinghan Railway Line, which had to make people connect the two, but still no one suggested that they were going to counterattack Wuhan.

Obviously, the Yunnan-Burma Highway has been cut off, and all the materials coming in are pressed on a hump route, even though there are thousands of planes constantly going back and forth on this route, but they are carrying hundreds of millions of people's living materials in a country, and the share used for war is a very small part, and the scarcity of weapons and ammunition is not at a critical point that is about to run out, but I am afraid that it is not much worse. Of course, with the exception of the 40th Group Army, the 331 base does not need foreign aid at all, and the small number of arsenals of the Chongqing government is simply negligible.

The strategic materials, weapons and ammunition consumed in such a big campaign as a counteroffensive in Wuhan can be described as astronomical, and it is simply impossible to afford it with a 40th Army or the 331 base, once the battle reaches a stalemate or the time drags on a little longer, the only war reserves of the national army will be exhausted, and the whole army will face the terrifying situation of bayonets.

But the Japanese army did not expect, all this is their imagination, the 331 base has been beyond their imagination, in the past two years, Jiang Haoran took advantage of the convenience of controlling the Shunchang Trading Company, has successively added several artillery, guns and ammunition production lines, and are the most advanced assembly line today, its scale may not be as good as the Wuhan Hanyang Arsenal, but its productivity has been several times that of the Hanyang Arsenal, and the reserves of weapons and ammunition have long been enough to cope with the battle in front of them.

In the command headquarters, the speculation has not yet been fruitful, and the telegrams of the special high school have arrived one after another, first the two military camps in Changsha City do not know when they have been empty, and the troops are nowhere to be found, and then Hengyang, Xiangtan, Shaoyang, Jishou and other places have discovered that the national army is rapidly advancing in the direction of Changsha.

This news is no less than a thunderbolt in the clear sky, which frightened everyone in the command headquarters with cold hands and feet, and as soon as all the news was summarized, no matter how much Anan believed it or not, the truth about the Chongqing government army's counterattack on Wuhan was about to come out.

"Quick, quick, drip, notify Yueyang, Tongcheng, Xiushui, De'an, Huangshan, Xinyang, all troops will immediately enter the first-level combat readiness and start defense!" Anan Weiji waved his short arms and roared wildly, causing the command headquarters to suddenly be in a hurry.

In less than half an hour, all the troops on the entire line, up to the headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army in Nanjing, and even Okamura Ninji in North China already knew the news.

After doing all this, Anan Weiji sat down heavily, the throbbing in his heart still could not be calmed, he knew that as soon as Jiang Haoran came back, there would be no good thing, all of this could only be his arrangement, to be honest, the troops in the Fifth War Zone and the Ninth Chapter District, Anan Weiji had not yet taken them into account, and what really made him jealous was Jiang Haoran and his 40th Group Army.