Huang Xiandu called the person who answered the phone to immediately wake up Huang Dao and inform him of the news. So Huang Dao led more than 30 staff members and important documents to evacuate the office in Jiangxi at 12 o'clock in the evening on March 25, before the gendarmes attacked.

After Huang Xiandu informed Huang Dao, he informed his younger brother Huang Xiancai to retreat quickly, leading thirty or forty progressive young people to leave Nanchang, and not to go to the Jiangxi office again.

On January 4, 1941, the Southern Anhui Incident occurred, and more than 7,000 people of the New Fourth Army were captured, separated or killed under the attack of the Kuomintang army.

The Battle of Shanggao was just over two months after the Southern Anhui Incident, and the blood stains of friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party had not yet been wiped off, and for the sake of common national interests, the two parties were fighting a war against Japan shoulder to shoulder.

Han Xing suddenly felt that in this battle of Shanggao, the Southern Expeditionary Army was a team led by the Communist Party, and the senior officials of the National Army would not know that they would attack the Southern Expeditionary Army openly and secretly. Is it because of their special relationship?

Thinking of his identity, Han Xing's heart couldn't help but laugh, because he was carrying the identity of a military commander, he had repeatedly dealt with high-ranking officials within the national army. Whether or not it was because of their own relationship that the high-ranking officials of the Kuomintang let themselves go, this has to be told by history.

However, from another point of view, the Southern Expeditionary Army's previous contributions to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, including the chairman of the National Committee, will not be ignored, right? Besides, the commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army really chose the right person, and if the high-ranking officials of the Kuomintang attacked the Southern Expeditionary Army, they would have to be afraid and scrupulous!

At this time, Pan Xiaoan, the director of intelligence, walked up to Han Xing and said to Han Xing: "Commander Han, the two divisions of the Sichuan army have arrived and have arrived at the mouth of the Lingjiang River, but there are no boats and no bridges there, so the Sichuan army is in a hurry?" Can you contact Magistrate Huang and ask him to immediately send someone there to support the bridge. ”

Han Xing laughed in his heart, you, Liu Zhiyuan, and Huang Xiandu are all members of the Communist Party, just contact you directly! Do you still need me to turn a corner? Han Xing said to Pan Xiaoan: "Director Pan, you can do this thing, do you still need me?" ”

Pan Xiaoan glanced at Han Xing and said a little mysteriously: "Commander Han, it's more convenient for you to contact." ”

Han Xing understood in his heart and nodded, in this special and sensitive period, Pan Xiaoan was reluctant to contact Huang Xiandu directly, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble. As for Han Xing, the name is justified, and he can directly do business openly.

Han Xing found Huang Xiandu and told Huang Xiandu about the Lingjiangkou. County Magistrate Huang immediately agreed, and immediately mobilized half of his manpower to support Lingjiangkou.

It is 13 kilometers from the Jinjiang Bridge to the Lingjiang Estuary, and Huang Xiandu led nearly 20,000 people to walk to the Lingjiang Estuary and temporarily formed a bridge construction team.

When the people on both sides of the strait heard the news, they brought large and small wooden rafts and bamboo rafts, and they came down to the door panels one after another, and everyone worked together to turn the loess into gold, and it took only one day of hard work to erect a new pontoon bridge.

The new 14th Division, the new 15th Division, and the two divisions of the 72nd Army of the Sichuan Army successfully crossed the Lingjiang River, rushed to the flank of the Japanese army, cooperated with the attack, formed an encirclement of the Japanese army at Xiapiqiao, and forced the Japanese army to fight on both sides. It was precisely because of their participation that the pressure on the Jingshan Pass of the 74th Army in front was relieved, and the combat power of our army in besieging the enemy was greatly strengthened.

The erection of the two pontoon bridges has made the traffic between the rear and the front of me smooth, and there are no more worries, and Han Xing's heart is also very happy. For this dual identity of Huang Xiandu, Han Xing's heart couldn't help but have a great interest.

Han Xing said to Huang Xiandu: "County Magistrate Huang, what are you going to do next?" ”

Huang Xiandu said to Han Xing: "After the two bridges are built, speaking from the heart, the pressure in my heart has been reduced a lot. The people of our county have mobilized, and to be honest, there are many others, who have already participated in the fighting. I'm going to take a look at the front line. ”

Han Xing said: "Can I accompany County Magistrate Huang to have a look?" ”

"That's good," Huang Xiandu said, "I'm happy to have Commander Han with me." You are all battle-hardened troops, and we are ordinary people. How did the common people participate in the battle, and please ask Commander Han for guidance? ”

Han Xing knew that at this time in Shanggao County, there was the 74th Army blocking the 34th Division in the front, Li Jue's 70th Army on the left flank, the 72nd Army of the Sichuan Army attacking the 34th Division, and the 49th Army of Liu Duoquan besieging the 34th Division on the right flank. The encirclement of the 34th Division has gradually formed, and I am afraid of him!

Han Xing, Liu Zhiyuan, and Pan Xiaoan took the guard company and followed some people from Liu Xiandu's county government to see how they supported the battlefield operations.

The gunfire is fierce at the front, and where there is gunfire, there is the front line.

Along the way, I saw that the local people were holding broadswords, spears, and pulling pine cannons with cars, and they were advancing quickly towards the front line. The telephone soldier next to him climbed the telephone pole from time to time to repair the damaged wires. There are also people patrolling in twos and threes, armed with rifles, broadswords, and spears, and as long as they find suspicious people, they immediately go up and interrogate them. If you see that it is an enemy spy, immediately arrest it and send it to the relevant department.

The people of Shanggao County have formed a vast sea of people's war......

When Han Xing and Liu Zhiyuan returned to the headquarters, the 74th Army was still engaged in a fierce battle with Shigeru Oshima's team.

On the 23rd, the 34th Division of the Japanese Army concentrated all its main forces, and with the cooperation of the 20th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, launched a desperate attack on the position of the Shanggao 74th Army.

The commander of the division, He Mao, was determined to win Shanggao, and even set up the division command post in Bijiazhuang, less than 10 kilometers northeast of Shanggao, obviously he did not think that he would be in any danger, but waited to enter Shanggao City directly.

On this day, the Japanese army dispatched a large number of air forces to bomb fiercely, not to mention the heavy artillery bombardment, there were dozens of artillery pieces. Although the Southern Expeditionary Army severely attacked the main artillery force of the division, the artillery of the various infantry wings and infantry brigades was still quite terrifying.

The officers and men of the 74th recalled afterwards that the number of planes dispatched by the Japanese army on this day was so large that they had not seen it since the Battle of Songhu. Although the air force of the Southern Expeditionary Army made many sorties, the Japanese army flew many sorties, and most of them directly participated in the attack on the ground, except for some entanglements with Xu Da's air force.

Fortunately, when the national army was building its position, it had already carefully considered the issue of bombing and shelling, so the position had a certain ability to resist.

Naturally, no matter how good the positions were, they could not stop the enemy's onslaught, and many positions were still destroyed by the Japanese army, and the 74 officers and men suffered considerable casualties.

When the Japanese bombarded and shelled, the 74 officers and men did not return fire, because there was no point in returning fire at this time, and they could only expose their own targets.

When the Japanese infantry charged, the 74th Army first used Soviet-made artillery in the second-line position to bombard the Japanese offensive line, and then fired fiercely with small arms to break the Japanese offensive. As soon as the small arms could not stop the Japanese army, the officers and men of the 74th jumped out of the trenches and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat, completely defeating the Japanese army.

The Japanese army had no choice but to intensify its artillery bombardment and bombardment, and at the same time make every effort to annihilate the artillery of the Nationalist army.

On this day, the casualties on both sides were extremely large, only in the Niejia position, the Japanese army was killed more than 1,000 people, the downhill bridge position was occupied by the Japanese army three times, and the 74th Army recaptured it three times.

After fierce fighting until the 24th, the 34th Division was still blocked outside Shanggao City and could not move.

On the 24th, Oga Shigeru ordered that Kamitaka be occupied, and on that day more than 100 Japanese planes were dispatched to repeatedly bomb the positions of the 57th and 58th Divisions, dropping as many as 2,000 bombs in front and behind, while dozens of artillery pieces bombarded indiscriminately throughout the day.

The air force of the Southern Expeditionary Army also made frequent sorties, in addition to returning to Hengyang Airport to reload fuel and ammunition, and immediately joined the battle after returning. Hou Dashan's mechanized regiment also engaged in fierce artillery battles with the Japanese artillery all day long.

The entire vicinity of Shanggao City was filled with the explosion of shells and bombs, and the mud and dust on the ground were blown up to a height of dozens of meters, and no one could be seen at all from a distance of more than ten meters.

At this time, most of the fortifications repaired by the 74th Army were also blown up, and the officers and men swore not to retreat and continued to fight in one bomb crater after another.

Under the cover of heavy weapons, the Japanese army once again launched a frantic attack, and the vanguard troops once again occupied the Jingshan Pass, which was only 1 kilometer away from Shanggao, and set up mountain artillery to bombard the inside of Shanggao City.

Yu Chengwan, commander of the 57th Division, took out the last reserve in his hand and fiercely counterattacked Jingshan Pass.

After 7 tragic hand-to-hand charges, the division not only annihilated all the Japanese troops at Jingshan Pass, but also routed the Japanese troops out of the downhill bridge position.

In this charge, the Japanese 34th Division was clearly no match for the Nationalist army. Because there are too many recruits, although they usually practice very well, they don't have much actual combat experience after all.

In the face of the 74 officers and men rushing forward with bayonets, some of the recruits really couldn't support themselves, so they stayed where they were and didn't dare to go up, and only Japanese veterans rushed up. And often after Japanese veterans were stabbed to death by soldiers of the 74th Army in the stabbing process, the Japanese recruits scattered in a hurry.

By the end of the fierce battle between the two armies in the afternoon, the 34th Division and the 20th Brigade were exhausted, their ammunition was almost exhausted, they completely lost their offensive capability, and had to abandon the offensive.

The 74th Army fought hard with the Japanese army for 4 days, buying time for the flank national army to encircle the Japanese army.

By the afternoon of the 24th, three corps of the Nationalist Army had been reinforced to the Shanggao area, and the strength of the Nationalist Army had increased to four armies and nine divisions. At this time, the 34th Division had been surrounded by the national army within an area of about 15 kilometers from east to west and 5 kilometers from north to south.

It was only at this time that the commander of the 34th Division, Oga Shige, sensed that something was wrong, and the information of the Japanese reconnaissance planes about the discovery of a large force of the National Army on the flanks reached his headquarters like snowflakes.

But at this time, the 34th Division was dozens of kilometers deep into the hinterland of the national army, and it was not so easy to retreat.

In a panic, the division commander He Mao immediately sent a telegram to the headquarters of the 11th Army in Wuhan asking for reinforcements.

After receiving a telegram from the 34th Division requesting reinforcements, Kazuichiro Sonobe of the 11th Army Corps was also at a loss for a while. When the soldiers are used, they hate less, and now the 20 mixed brigades have been combined with the 34 divisions. The only one that can be mobilized is the closest to the 34th Division, and the 33rd Division.