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

By the end of April 2019, the transactions that were accumulated on the desk were finally handled almost exactly.

In this process, the Battle of Nanchang has come to an end. Due to Principal Chang's complicated operation, the 41st Army suffered a decisive failure and lost the ability to counterattack Nanchang.

This is the process of things.

In the initial stage of the battle, Luo Zhuoying, the commander-in-chief of the northern Jiangxiong, formulated more practical guidelines with the assistance of Chief of Staff Luo Weixiong.

This guideline is to learn from the lessons of several previous wars, not fight head-on with the Japanese army, and even Nanchang is not prepared to leave troops to defend the enemy. Instead, it disperses its main forces to the periphery and seeks opportunities to harass the exhausted Japanese army.

To put it bluntly, what I learned was the Tu Eighth Route Army. The Japanese fight the Japanese, and we fight ours.

Facts have proved once again that the Tujiao Route Army was easy to use. From the beginning of March to the end of the month, although the Japanese army captured large cities such as Nanchang and Wuning, they suffered heavy casualties.

During the entire first phase of the Battle of Nanchang, the Japanese army was injured more than 10,000 people in battle and more than 1,000 people were killed and more than 1,000 people were killed and about 2,000 people were killed.

The death ratio between the two sides was about one to two, which is actually very good.

Although it was said that Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, and a large area of ​​land were lost, but *** said it well: the land that has been left to lose people, the land that has been left to lose, and the land that has been left to lose people, and the land that has been left to remain.

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

For the national army, such casualty ratio is acceptable, but for the Japanese army, such war loss ratio is unacceptable. Therefore, after capturing Nanchang, Okamura Yasuji decisively ordered and suspended the offensive.

It should be said that the old Japanese devil, Okamura, was indeed cunning. After discovering that the Japanese army suffered too much damage, the old Japanese decisively innovated their tactics and no longer attacked like in the first stage of the battle. Instead, they decided to lure the national army out and achieve the tactical goal of eliminating the national army's vitality through defensive operations.

So Okamura Yasuji ordered the suspension of the attack, and found a reporter, and published several articles in succession, exaggerating and reporting the tragic situation of the 11th Army in the Battle of Nanchang.

Okamura Yasuji even publicly criticized himself, claiming that Xue Yue, the acting commander-in-chief of the Ninth War Zone, and Luo Zhengying, the commander-in-chief of the 41st Army, were the most powerful of all opponents he had ever encountered! It also said that although the Japanese army successfully occupied Nanchang, they were cautious and optimistic about whether they could defend Nanchang.

Okamura Yanji almost published it in the newspaper publicly and said: I'm almost unable to hold on, come and hit me.

This is a new thing. Since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army has always been arrogant and arrogant. When have they been too soft and admitted to being cowardly?

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

The officers and soldiers of the 41st Group Army on the front were even more motivated, and grassroots officers demanded to enter a counterattack.

However, Xue Yue and Luo Zhengying were very clear-headed. Their judgment was that although the Japanese army paid a great price, their overall strength was still far stronger than the Ninth War Zone. Therefore, if they launched a rash counterattack, they could only attack the stone with eggs. Not only could they not recover Nanchang, but they would consume their precious troops in vain.

So, no matter how the officers below made trouble, Xue Yue and Luo Zhengying were unmoved at all.

But there was another person who believed in Okamura's foolings, and this person was Principal Chang.

After the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese army was unable to launch a large-scale strategic offensive because of the excessive consumption of troops and the long front line. This is an indisputable fact. Therefore, President Chang believed that the performance of the Okamura Yasuji 11th Army on the Nanchang battlefield was also credible, and the Kuomintang army really ushered in a god-given opportunity to counterattack Nanchang.

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

Because since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, although the Kuomintang army can occasionally recover lost territory, it can only recover one or two county towns, and even slightly larger cities. If Nanchang can be restored this time, it will definitely be a major event that will be of great help to reverse the situation of the Sino-Japanese War.

President Chang, who was trapped in this logic, indeed ordered a counterattack.

It was also a coincidence that at this time, a division of American equipment helped by Zhong Yi was sent to the battlefield in northern Ganzhou.

After changing into US equipment, Zhu Liangcheng launched a small-scale counterattack in Wuning, and as a result, he wiped out half of the Japanese army's brigade with a lightning-throw army!

At this time, Principal Chang repeatedly urged him and Rong 1st Division's outstanding performance. Xue Yue and Luo Zhengying finally began to shake. After drawing up a combat plan, Luo Zhengying ordered a full-scale counterattack.

This is Masaaka Okamura Yasuji's intention, and the Japanese army changed from arduous offensive operations to defensive operations.

The counterattack of the Kuomintang army lasted for about a month. By the end of April, the number of casualties had expanded to more than 50,000. In other words, in the month of the counterattack, there were about 40,000 casualties. This is nothing. More importantly, almost all of these 40,000 casualties were killed in battle, and there were very few injured national troops!

This means that most of the injured soldiers of the National Army were sacrificed!

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

If the position cannot be defeated, the injured officers and soldiers will not be able to be carried back for treatment. They basically died heroically because of excessive blood loss.

So what about the casualties of the Japanese army?

The defense operations lasted for nearly a month, and the Japanese army suffered nearly 10,000 casualties.

About a thousand of these 10,000 people were killed. Before and after the battle, the number of casualties of the Japanese army was almost the same.

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

What is even more unacceptable is that among the troops participating in the war, the most casualties were the 41st Army, which had the strongest combat effectiveness. For example, Zhu Liangcheng's Rong 1st Division, was almost crippled!

When Rong 1 Division retreated from the battlefield, there were less than 2,000 officers and soldiers left in the division!

What is even more heartbreaking is that even the bodies of the dead officers and soldiers cannot be taken back!

As a last resort, Luo Zhengying could only erect a stone tablet in the mountains with the names of the dead officers and soldiers engraved on it. Some officers and soldiers had no names, so they could only be marked with anonymous names.

After the news reached Yinjiang, Zhong Yi could not eat for three days.

Rong 1st Division, this is an old army he brought out from Nanjing!
Chapter completed!