After the loss of Guangzhou, the Guangdong-Hanzhou railway was cut off, and Wuhan was not worth defending with heavy troops, in the face of this situation, the Chongqing government learned the lesson of the defense of Nanjing, did not be a lonely city, decided to abandon Wuhan, and abandoned Wuhan on October 25.The Japanese army occupied Wuchang and Hankou on the 26th.On the 27th, Hanyang was occupied, and the battle for Wuhan ended.The Battle of Wuhan lasted four and a half months and ended with the voluntary withdrawal from Wuhan.In terms of the battle, the Japanese army occupied the three towns of Wuhan and controlled the hinterland of the country, and won the victory.Strategically, however, Japan has not been able to achieve its strategic objectives.The Japanese base camp believed that "as long as Wuhan and Guangzhou are captured, they can dominate the country", so the Japanese Imperial Council decided to launch the Battle of Wuhan and quickly capture Wuhan in order to force the government to submit.To this end, it also stipulates that "the forces of the state should be gathered to achieve the objectives of the war within the year" and "the war against the country should be ended."
However, the Nationalist Government did not succumb to the loss of Wuhan and Guangzhou, and Japan's war of aggression against China did not end with the Japanese occupation of Wuhan and Guangzhou.After the fall of Wuhan, the government stated that "temporary changes in advance and retreat must not shake China's determination to resist the war" and "the gains and losses of any city must not affect the overall situation of the war of resistance"; He said that he would "be more mournful, more persevering, more steadfast, harder, and more courageous" and strive for a comprehensive and protracted war of resistance.After the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese army, which had originally felt that its troops were insufficient, felt more and more insufficient with the extension of the battle front, and was unable to organize such large-scale strategic offensives as the battles of Songhu, Xuzhou, and Wuhan, with the goal of conquering cities and territories, and was forced to switch to strategic defense.As a result, the country's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression developed from a strategic defensive stage to a strategic stalemate stage, and the Japanese invading army fell into the quagmire of a protracted war that it was most unwilling to wag and could not extricate itself, resulting in a change in Japan's policy of aggression against China from focusing on military attacks and supplemented by political inducements to political inducements and military strikes.
Instead of conducting frontal operations with the main force on the frontal battlefield, it has changed to transferring troops to conduct "law and order" operations in the battlefield behind enemy lines.After the loss of Wuhan, the Japanese North China Dispatch Army began to concentrate all its efforts on the 25-way siege of our Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area.The Anguo Independent Regiment under Li Guotao's command was temporarily under the direct leadership of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, so Li Guotao was also fortunate to attend the meeting.At this meeting, Commander Nie of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region made a summing up discovery of the gains and losses of the Battle of Wuhan, saying: "The vast number of officers and men of the Warring States of the Wuhan Conference were generally brave and tenacious, and they had killed and wounded a large number of Japanese troops and dealt a major blow to the Japanese army.However, due to the improper operational guidance of the top decision-makers and some senior generals, they consumed too many of their own dead officers and men while consuming the enemy, and the military committee counted 254628 people and more than 400,000 wounded, mainly because the campaign was simply a positional defense and a struggle with the Japanese army for attrition.The country is vast, and the Japanese army can avoid our positional facilities, but the Japanese army's habitual tactics are roundabout encirclement, even from the perspective of positional defense, there are deficiencies and mistakes in operational guidance, and the troops are scattered, and defensive battles are carried out in continuous front-line positions, and the forces are used one by one, lacking a strong strategic reserve corps; In the process of battle, he was often in a passive position, following the enemy's actions everywhere, and many measures were similar to "digging up flesh and mending sores"; In the command system, the influence of personnel relations is too great, and many troop deployments are not based on operational needs, but are appointed according to factions and seniority, and their positions are not suitable for the troops to which they belong, resulting in the malaise of "erecting a house under a roof and stacking beds on top of each other."
The transmission of orders and reports shows that divisions from the Military Commission to the basic strategic units can only be reached through five levels: theater, corps, group army, corps, and corps, and it is inevitable that the fighters will be delayed. ”Commander Nie paused, and then said, "Our Eighth Route Army should fully learn from this battle, the Japanese army is well-equipped, well-trained, and extremely strong in combat, which is obvious to all.However, the Japanese army is not invincible, while our Chinese nation will never give in.As long as we persist in resisting, we will certainly be able to achieve the final victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan.The great victory at Pingxingguan, Taierzhuang, and Wanjialing all proved that the Japanese army was not invincible, and as long as we used our strategy properly and made use of our strengths and avoided our weaknesses, we could strike a severe blow at the Japanese army, and even completely defeat the Japanese army.For example, in our anti-sweeping operation, the Japanese army dispatched tens of thousands of troops, which was far superior to our army, and it can be described as menacing.However, we still won the Fuping Battle and the brilliant victory of the 163rd Wing because of the correct strategy we adopted.Facts have proved that our guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines has been very successful, and as long as we persist and continue to strengthen ourselves while constantly consuming the enemy, we will certainly be able to achieve the final victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression."
At this meeting, the leaders of the military region once again made it clear that in order to smash the enemy's sweep, they should adopt the policy of blocking, attrition, and exhausting the Japanese army with extensive guerrilla warfare, and concentrating the main force on the movement to annihilate one part of it.At the beginning of November, the Japanese army, which had been resting for a period of time, under the personal command of Terauchi Shouichi, once again launched a large-scale attack on our anti-Japanese base area.On November 1, General Kuangmu Chongming, commander of the 110th Division of the Japanese Army, personally commanded most of the 108th Brigade and the troops directly under the 110th Division with a total strength of more than 7,000 people.In view of the unfavorable situation in which the enemy is strong and we are weak, the headquarters of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region has studied and decided to temporarily avoid the enemy's front, adopt the strategy of guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare, constantly wear down the exhausted enemy, and finally try to gather superior forces and annihilate one part of the enemy's operational policy in order to smash the enemy's large-scale offensive.Li Guotao was ordered to lead the Anguo Independent Regiment to move to the mountainous area south of Chengnan Town and west of Jiukouzi, and was secretly waiting to find fighters.On November 2, Sangmu Chongming personally led thousands of Japanese troops to capture Chengnanzhuang, and a group of little devils with bright bayonets rushed directly into the Jinchaji Military Region Headquarters, but unfortunately, at this time, the organs and units of the Military Region Headquarters had been transferred again."
Baga" Sangmu Chongming looked at the Jinchaji Military Region Headquarters in front of him, and scolded angrily, "It's really hateful to let this group of cunning people escape" aa2705221: