It has been more than four months since the Southern Expeditionary Army led by Han Xing returned to the Guanxian base area, and it is now September 1939.

In the northern fields, the green gauze tent has shown some signs of decay, and the original green crops have turned a little green and yellow. But when the harvest season came, the corn stalks more than one person high, like a mother-like mother, hugged the corn fat doll tightly and dressed it in layers of clothing.

But the dolls were not willing to be lonely, and naughtily stretched out their green coats, poked out their little heads, and shook their heads, like babies about to be born.

Rows of sorghum smiling and bent over. The red ears of sorghum are huge and plump, like a strong and strong heart. The leaves of the sorghum occasionally swayed a few times, as if the poet was stretching out his arms to express his passion.

There are also Luxi's big red dates in the jujube forest, fat jujubes, crisp and sweet, the side facing the sun is red, and the side facing the sun is pale yellow, just like an aunt seeing the shy face of a young man.

The bumper harvest of agriculture has a lot to do with the efforts of Lei Qing of the Agricultural Bureau and Daddy Xu of the Seed Company, and of course, it is also very related to the excellent varieties introduced by Hanhang.

The bumper harvest in agriculture laid a good material foundation for the Southern Expeditionary Army.

From March to early May this year, Han Xing led the Southern Expeditionary Army to Nanchang, captured the Liaocheng airfield occupied by the Japanese army in the first battle, and controlled the flight base of the Southern Expeditionary Air Force. Then he counterattacked the Liaocheng Japanese and puppet troops who were trying to recapture the airfield, and defeated the attack of a Japanese aviation squadron from the sky, a Japanese squadron on land, and an Imperial Allied Army brigade.

With this air base, all the soldiers of the Second Southern Expedition were airlifted to Nanchang.

The first battle of the Battle of Nanchang was the Battle of Fengxin. On March 22, the Japanese army's mechanized troops suddenly attacked Fengxin County, east of Nanchang, and poisoned the 49th Army Artillery Regiment. Han Xing had already ordered Liu Zhiyuan's regiment to lie in ambush behind, and Liu Zhiyuan's regiment grabbed artillery and rescued people, saving the artillery regiment of the 49th Army.

In order to grab the merit, the Japanese tank unit ventured forward overnight, trying to kill the city of Nanchang at once, but as soon as they crossed the Luhe Bridge, they were ambushed by the tank battalion of the Southern Expeditionary Army, and completely annihilated the Japanese tank group. Immediately after that, the Japanese heavy artillery unit that came up behind was bombarded indiscriminately by Han Xing's air force for a while, and suffered heavy losses.

It was precisely because Han Xing's mechanized troops dealt a major blow to the Japanese mechanized troops that Xue Yue, who was defending Nanchang, relieved the pressure and was able to calmly deploy and retreat.

In the Qingyunpu Airport in Nanchang, Han Xing organized several air battles, and together with the Soviet Air Force and the Republic of China Air Force, he conducted several air battles against the Japanese air force, which greatly dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese air force and assisted in the defense of Nanchang.

In the Battle of Suizao in May, Han Xingqin led the tank battalion that swam forward to fight the 14th Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army, and with the cooperation of Sun Lianzhong's Group Army, the 14th Cavalry Brigade was almost completely annihilated.

In the entire Second Southern Expedition, Han Xing's Southern Expeditionary Army was remarkable, greatly supporting the frontal battlefield of the Kuomintang. Now that it was September, the sky over Changsha was full of battle clouds, and the Japanese army was ready to attack this important strategic point after some preparations.

After discussing with Zhang Weihan, the commander of the Zhuxian Column, Han Xing and with the approval of his superiors, he wanted to lead the southern expeditionary army to carry out the third southern expedition.

Autumn soldiers on the battlefield, autumn winds and war drums.

In a large empty field in Guanxian County, there were neatly standing teams of soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army.

The rostrum of the venue is to sit in the north and face south, which is also exquisite, the Jinluan Hall in Beijing is sitting in the north and facing south, and the rostrum of the venue of the Southern Expeditionary Army is also sitting in the north and facing south! A good omen.

The troops of the southern expedition were arranged from east to west, and the first force was the tank battalion that swam forward. These M2 tanks, with 2 tanks in the first platoon, were the command vehicles of the battalion, and they swam forward, of course, standing in the front, and then the commander of the first company. Then there were 5 tanks in the back, in a company and a platoon, with the platoon commander standing in the middle. Behind it is a row of two rows, a row of three rows. This was followed by the second and third companies.

The repair personnel led by Walty stood at the back, such a complex tank unit went on the expedition, and it would not work without mechanical repair personnel. So these Americans also put on the clothes of the Eighth Route Army, enlisted in the army en masse, and marched south with the team.

The second unit was Hou Dashan's heavy artillery regiment, and because the deputy regiment commander swam forward to the tank battalion, the deputy regiment commander was changed to Wang Dawu. He turned out to be the commander of the howitzer regiment of the 49th Army, and thanks to Han Xing's rescue in the second southern expedition, he saved the lives of all the soldiers of their regiment. The whole regiment carried howitzers, and all of them participated in the Southern Expeditionary Army.

For this reason, Xue Yue also asked Han Xing to pass the howitzer regiment, which was relied on by Han Xing in various ways.

Nowadays, the equipment of the heavy artillery regiment has been greatly enhanced, in addition to the original coastal artillery, Wang Dawu's howitzer has been added, and there are also various mountain artillery guns that have captured devils.

The third unit is Yin Zhaoli's special operations battalion. They were neatly lined up one by one, this is the elite of the Southern Expeditionary Army, and it is also the special forces of the Zhuxian Column. Zhang Xiuguan, commander of the first company, Li Yuzhong, commander of the second company, and Wang Dahai, commander of the third company.

The fourth army is Liu Zhiyuan's direct regiment, which is also the main regiment of the Zhuxian Column, and of course they are indispensable in the Southern Expedition. The regiments directly under them were organized in a neat manner, one company after another. They were equipped with the same infantry as the infantry, with assault rifles for each soldier, one Type 81 7.62 mm machine gun per squad, and three 12.7 mm heavy machine guns for each company.

In addition, a mortar battalion with almost 100 mortars was equipped. This is after the heavy artillery regiment that swam forward added artillery, Liu Zhiyuan asked for these mortars that originally belonged to them back.

The fifth unit is Zhang Xiaosan's guard company. Zhang Xiaosan's company commander stood at the front, Wu Xiaoming, the platoon leader of the first platoon, stood behind Zhang Xiaosan, and Li Dazhong, the squad leader of the first platoon, stood behind Wu Xiaoming.

Don't look at it as just a guard company, but most of the officers and soldiers were transferred from the special operations battalion. The leaders of the Southern Expeditionary Army are particularly important, but if there is no decent guard force, the leaders of the Southern Expeditionary Army will be like a layer of window paper that will be broken at the slightest poke.

Then there is the headquarters of the Southern Expeditionary Army, mainly the General Staff Department, including Pan Xiaoan, Minister of Intelligence, Zhang Zuogan, Chief of Operations, and Wang Qiankun, Chief of Logistics.

The last logistical unit is the health team. Health team captain Fan Shuyu, doctors and nurses Wei Xiumei, Wang Xiaoling, etc.

Originally, Han Xing didn't want a health team, but Zhang Weihan had to persuade Han Xing that there must be a health team. It is inevitable that there will be wounded on the battlefield, and it is somewhat unreliable to count on the Kuomintang health team. If you don't get it right in the morning, you can save a soldier's life, and if you are a minute late, a living life will be over.

Han Xing also has one of the most elite troops, that is, the air force of the Southern Expeditionary Army, which has been waiting for a long time at the temporary military airfield.

In order to have an airfield for planes to take off and land, the people of Guanxian County, under the leadership of the local anti-Japanese government, worked for more than two months in a row to build this temporary airport.

Because of the second southern expedition, in order to seize the Liaocheng airfield paid a heavy price, so after returning from the second southern expedition, after discussing with the relevant leaders, the construction of the Guanxian airfield in the base area began.

Han Xing's military theory is that this is not to fight wolves, and it is useless to go to too many troops. The main thing is to assist Xue Yue's troops to fight the Battle of Changsha, which has the advantage of fewer people and fewer people, and convenient air transportation.

Behind the troops of the Southern Expedition were the troops of the Eighth Route Army that did not go out to fight, and in the outer circle, there were groups of local people. Seeing that the troops of the Eighth Route Army were so mighty, and the common people of dozens of miles of land, under the leadership of the anti-Japanese cadres, came to cheer, they just wanted to be happy and happy, and they wanted to applaud, shout, and cheer for the anti-Japanese athletes who went out.

The blue sky, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the autumn is high and cool, even God is blessing this army to go on a good journey!

On the rostrum, Zhang Linzhi, secretary of the Luxi Special Committee of the anti-Japanese government, Zhang Weihan, commander of the Zhuxian Column, and Han Xing, commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army, sat on the rostrum.

After the host of the pledge meeting announced the start of the conference, the audience burst into warm applause, firecrackers, gongs and drums!

Zhang Linzhi, secretary of the special committee of the Supreme Local Government in Luxi, spoke first, saying: "Villagers in the base areas, comrades of the party, government and army who resisted Japan, and our friends. This southern expeditionary army is about to go on the march, and he is going out on behalf of our Luxi base area, so we must show our prestige and morale, and we must not disgrace the common people of Luxi and the party, government and army of Luxi......"

The audience burst into warm applause and cheers.

Zhang Weihan said: "The troops who went out this time are the elite of our first column. Our Eighth Route Army's Zhuxian Column is to fight out, resolutely support the frontal battlefield, and strike a fierce blow at Japanese imperialism......"

The audience burst into warm applause.

Han Xing, commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army, said: "After the Japanese army occupied the Nanchang line, after this stage of preparation, it concentrated 6 divisions and more than 100,000 troops to attack the strategic Changsha line. If they occupied Changsha, it would open the door to invade the rear of southwest China, and they would shake the will of the Kuomintang government to resist the war, and at the same time plunder the rich natural resources to feed the war.

We must not allow their plot to succeed, and at present we are concentrating the elite of the Luxi Zhuxian Column, pointing at Changsha to support our Chinese troops. Our slogan is, the head can be broken, the blood can be shed, vow to protect Changsha and our country, and swear not to kill the Japanese criminals! ”

The yellow sandy land, the Langlang Qiankun, the 3,000-strong Southern Expeditionary Army and all the soldiers who did not go to the Southern Expedition, as well as the people who watched, at the same time issued a roar of majestic mountains and rivers, "The head can be broken, the blood can be shed, swear to protect Changsha and my country's land, and do not kill the Japanese and swear endlessly!" ”

The roar of tens of thousands of people merged into a powerful air current, which broke through Guanxian, rose into the air, and flowed to the south of China, echoing throughout the vast land of China.

Pay attention to the official QQ public account "17K Novel Network" (ID: love17k), read the latest chapters first, and grasp the latest information at any time