The Japanese troops were attacking the defensive positions of the 99th Army. The four defensive positions on the front line were smashed by the Japanese artillery. Every time they fought for a break in the middle, the soldiers had to strengthen their positions, otherwise they would all be flattened.

The Japanese were also anxious. Until now, they didn't know how many shells had poured into the position, but every time they rushed up, they were hit head-on. The Japanese troops left a large number of corpses and were beaten to retreat.

"Baga, it has not been shot yet. When will we go? Each place has two divisions of troops, so many artillery troops and tanks, why can't we catch it?" Anan Weiji said in a very angry voice after seeing the battle report sent from the front line.

He is very anxious now. Hu Bin's troops will come down at any time. If they can capture those positions in advance, their danger will be reduced. However, they have been attacking for a day and still haven't been defeated. He is a little anxious.

"Commander, Hu Bin is still in Shaanxi now, and based on the report of our reconnaissance aircraft and the information on the ground, Hu Bin's troops are still attacking north. I guess Hu Bin wants to capture Xi'an.

But there is one thing that is strange. Why don’t Hu Bin’s troops come back if we attack Hu Bin like this? Is Hu Bin so confident that his troops can block our attack?" said the Chief of Staff, looking at Anan Weiji.

"I'm just worried about this. Now my feeling is getting stronger and stronger. Our troops can't fight in at all. In other words, Hu Bin doesn't take our attack seriously at all. He trusts his troops quite well. From now on, his troops' combat power is indeed very strong.

If it were other troops, facing the attacks of our two divisions, I think it would be impossible to stop the troops without an army, but now Hu Bin has used about two divisions to not only block our troops, but also caused us to suffer a lot of losses.

Now I understand what Gangcunjun said. Hu Bin must be eliminated as soon as possible and cannot continue to make him grow bigger. Once he grows bigger, it will be a huge threat to our empire!" Anan Weiji sat there with a very serious expression on his face. He felt that the current attack seemed to be useless to Hu Bin's troops!

"What should we do? If we continue to consume this way, we must mobilize troops to go and reinforce!" the chief of staff looked at Anan Weiji and asked.

"If we can't break their defensive positions this afternoon, we will mobilize two divisions to go to those places to reinforce in the evening. We must fight tomorrow morning. Just go in. I believe that after we break through the defensive positions, our morale will definitely be low, and it may be easy to fight at that time!" Anan Weiji thought for a while and said.

Now that we have fought, we can't just retreat, we can only continue to fight inside and destroy Hu Bin's base in western Hubei. If possible, we can wipe out all the troops here, so that their goal can be achieved initially. They also have another goal, which is to let Hu Bin die!

"Hi!" The Chief of Staff heard it and nodded.

In the afternoon of that day, the Japanese continued to attack Hu Bin's position. Several waves of attacks were attacked by Hu Bin's troops until it was almost dark. The Japanese front-line commander had to order a retreat and sighed at the defensive positions.

At this time, the people from two places behind had already evacuated safely. That night, the troops of the two divisions guarding the front line received Li Tianxing's order and began to retreat.

At around 11 o'clock in the evening, the entire army quietly retreated back and ran to more than 20 kilometers away from the position. They took a car to retreat to the second line of defense. The soldiers of the special forces regiment were in charge of cleaning up the Japanese scouts who wanted to come to investigate, so the Japanese scouts could not let the Japanese scouts know that those troops had retreated. Therefore, the special forces remained there until after 3 o'clock in the morning before retreating from the front line.

At this time, Hu Bin's troops in Shangluo were already moving quickly. Hu Bin's troops had just entered the boundary of Henan and met Wei Lihuang. Hu Bin and Wei Lihuang were sitting in the car with sheds on the car. The two were sitting on the truck, discussing the troops' attack.

"Brother, my three divisions are also rushing to Xinyang. I guess we have arrived, and they have arrived too!" Wei Lihuang sat in the car and said to Hu Bin.

"Well, this time we gathered 90,000 troops to attack Wuhan. We must be quick. My troops are responsible for the attack and your troops are responsible for the defense! Of course, when attacking Wuhan, you need to take out a division of troops to participate! Once Wuhan is captured, your troops are stationed here, and my troops continue to go south, seal the Japanese retreat, and capture Wuhan. The materials in the Japanese warehouse are all ours.

If the Japanese have no supplies on the front line, it is easy to defeat them. Now it depends on how to block those holes. I guess that when you arrive later, you need to mobilize three divisions of troops from Henan to go south to assist Wuhan's troops in defense. The Japanese troops will definitely open the passage at any cost, so I think the key to this battle is whether they can block the holes.

Wuhan is easy to fight, and there are not many troops nearby. If we attack at night, we will kill the Japanese airport first. Then most of our troops will be safe when attacking during the day. However, the Japanese are in Fujian and Anhui, and they will definitely come to support them. However, after all, the journey is long and the bombers will not last long.

And if Wuhan was captured that night, when our troops arrived during the day, the Japanese bombers would probably be useless. When they came, they could only bomb our defensive positions, and the casualties caused were limited!" Hu Bin said while sitting opposite Wei Lihuang.

"Well, my troops have no problem. Once we attack, my second-tier troops will immediately go south to block the passage from Xinyang to Wuhan, and eliminate the way for the Japanese to retreat from us to Anhui.

The only difficult thing is the Xianning passage. Wuhan is far away from Xianning. On Xianning, according to our current information, there are two divisions here, and two divisions attacking in front. After we conquered Wuhan, I guess the Japanese would definitely choose to retreat from Xianning. The four divisions guarded a passage. We wanted to block it, but the difficulty was too difficult.

As long as the Japanese persist for a while and wait for other troops to come, although they no longer have enough materials to support them in order to continue attacking us, they will definitely have the power to fight. In the end, these troops will retreat to Jiujiang. So we captured Wuhan and could annihilate the Japanese at most three divisions, which will have no impact on the Japanese troops. After they rest and recuperate in Jiujiang, they will definitely continue to attack our Wuhan.

"The troops lost by the Japanese are not three divisions. As of this afternoon, my defensive forces have wiped out nearly 20,000 Japanese people. I don't know how many people were seriously injured, but I guess there must be tens of thousands of people. One of the Japanese divisions is gone. Once we capture Wuhan, I will order my troops to fight against the Japanese on this plain.

I estimate that the Japanese can leave at least 5 divisions, and the remaining divisions will probably have to rest. When they come to fight, it will be winter. Now that they have occupied Wuhan, we are not afraid of him, but they are afraid of them attacking. This time, the Japanese dispatched 8 divisions of troops, and I am not afraid of him.

After half a year, they will continue to dispatch troops to attack us, so we will be even less afraid. At that time, we will cooperate and continue to fight south. Let’s see if the Japanese attacks are faster or our attacks are faster!" Hu Bin lit a cigarette for Wei Lihuang, smiled and said.

"That's right, I'm not afraid of those Japanese now, and I'm not afraid of them in the future. But, brother, give me more guns, my army is now equipped with two divisions of troops. If all of them are equipped with such weapons, my army will dare to attack the Japanese head-on!" Wei Lihuang looked at Hu Bin and said.

"No problem. After fighting this battle, I will give you 10,000 new rifles!" Hu Bin said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll feel relieved if I have my brother!" Wei Lihuang slapped his thigh and said, "When he heard what Hu Bin said."

At this time, on the road from Nanyang to Xinyang, the vast army was quickly maneuvering towards Xinyang. They could only march in the night because the Japanese were able to take off bombers during the day at the airport in Wuhan. If they were targeted by Japanese bombers, the entire marching force would be in danger.

In Xi'an, Commander Jiang couldn't sit still at this time and walked into the garden where he lived, followed by He Yingqin and Li Zongren.

"Hu Bin's troops blocked today, it's not easy. The attacks of 8 divisions. Hu Bin is in Hubei with 5 divisions. Five divisions blocked the 8 divisions of the Japanese. I heard that they have caused a lot of damage to the Japanese. If our Chinese army is so strong, will the Japanese dare to invade our country?" Jiang Zhengshu said, looking at the stars in the sky.

"The commander will get better and better in the future. We have to admit that these weapons of Hu Bin solve our big problems, and his infantry training is the same. Now, the troops in other places, fighting against the Japanese, can fight 3-to-1. If we can equip Hu Bin's new weapons, we can fight 2-to-1 or even lower, and the situation of anti-Japanese resistance will get better and better!" He Yingqin stood behind Commander Jiang to comfort him. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!