The 74th Army, which has become a strategic attack force, is the most front-line of the four attack armies, and is currently in the northern Jiangxi region of the Ninth Theater and is temporarily under the command of General Luo, deputy commander of the Ninth Theater and commander-in-chief of the 19th Group Army.

General Luo has such a powerful attack army in his hands, which is not used to defend the territory, but is used as a theater reserve or mobile force, stationed in the Shanggao area, which can support various important places at any time.

The time soon came to the thirtieth year of the Republic of China (1941), and Sangou looked back on the past twenty-nine years (the twenty-ninth year of the Republic of China, 1940), and almost all of the first half of the year were in the Fengxin area and the 33rd Division.

Since the second half of the year, there has been a lot of dissipation, and the troops have withdrawn to Shanggao, where they have been trained for half a year, during which they have received US aid weapons and have studied and trained a large number of new weapons to support the tactics of their arrival.

But the second half of the year is also an eventful season for China, the international environment is even worse, domestic public opinion is indignant, as soldiers, they can not have too much contact with social affairs, can only train more, prepare for the first.

Early this year, at the end of January of the Gregorian calendar, there was Chinese New Year's Eve, and the three dogs Lao Li Tou and several company commanders went to Shanggao together, purchased several large truckloads of New Year's goods, and spent a fat year in the station.

Just after the year, there was intelligence coming from the front, the Japanese train in Nanchang went north, the windows were open, and there were guns, but the windows were closed in the south, which was a bit of a feeling of wanting to cover up.

The reconnaissance of the middle ** is close to the railroad tracks at night, and the sound of the southbound train is dull, indicating that the body is heavy, and the sound of the northbound train is crisp, and the body should be frivolous.

This is obviously an empty car going north, and the car going south is either loaded with people or things, and the military train can be loaded with other things, either soldiers or weapons and ammunition.

At the same time, the Japanese army forcibly pulled people in Nanchang and the surrounding areas, and the people who were captured were not allowed to go home.

Japanese planes also began to move frequently, and some planes flew to various places every day to reconnoitre, and some even flew to Gao'an to Shanggao.

In the sky above the central ** position on the east and west banks of the Ganjiang River, the Japanese army also raised a reconnaissance balloon and floated in the air all day to take pictures and reconnoiter the central ** position.

The 20th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, which came from Shanghai, also entered the Liantang area of Nanchang to take over the peripheral defense of Nanchang after the 33rd Division was about to go north.

The 20th Brigade is also known as the "Ikeda Brigade" because the brigade commander is called Major General Naozo Ikeda, and this brigade is somewhat interesting because it was adapted from the remnants of the Fifth Division, which is known as the "Steel Army".

The Itagaki Division of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army, one of the four mechanized divisions of the Japanese Army, was an elite unit, and in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, it galloped back and forth on the battlefield in North China, almost invincible.

However, since its 21st Brigade was killed by the Eighth Route Army at Pingxingguan, not only did the myth of the Japanese army's own claim that the "Imperial Army is invincible" shattered, but their elite Fifth Division also began to embark on an unlucky road.

The Fifth Division was then beaten by Zhang Zizhong's troops of the Northwest Army in Linyi, and almost became the funeral companion of the Segu Brigade of the 10th Division in Taierzhuang.

After a period of stagnation, the Fifth Division went to South China, captured Guangzhou with the 21st Army, and then marched to Guangxi, hoping to reach the southwest of China.

On the one hand, it can cut off the supply line of Yunnan and Burma, on which China depends, and cut off the goods supported by foreign countries, the Chinese government will not be able to support it for several months, and when the time comes, the Japanese army will wait for the Chinese government to surrender.

On the one hand, you can also go up along Guizhou, go straight down to Chongqing, and completely solve the Chinese incident, which is the crazy idea of the Japanese army, so at Kunlun Pass in Guangxi, the Fifth Army, one of China's most elite troops, began to fight with the Japanese army.

The Fifth Army is the first mechanized armored unit in China, and the elite troops created by the whole army and even the whole country are not hesitating to be disabled in order to defend Chongqing and supply the lifeline, but also to fight to the death with the most elite troops of the Japanese army.

Therefore, in January 1940, two units that claimed to be the most powerful troops of their respective countries fought a bloody battle at Kunlun Pass in Guangxi for several days, and the Fifth Army also disabled the Japanese Fifth Division at the cost of being disabled.

The 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army, known as the "Flower of the Army", was almost completely annihilated, and the commander of the brigade, known as the "Constant Sabre", Nakamura Masao, was hit three times and also died at Kunlun Pass.

In December 1940, the Fifth Division was reorganized in Shanghai and reorganized into the 20th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade.

At the end of February 1941, the 20th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Division, formerly known as the Fifth Division, was transferred from Shanghai to Nanchang to prepare to replace the 33rd Division to assist in the defense of Nanchang.

The 20th Brigade, which was frightened, thought that it was just to assist the 34th Division in guarding Nanchang, so it happily went, but it did not expect that it would soon be alone to attack the central ** in the northern Jiangxi region.

In the northern Jiangxi region, in recent years, it has fought continuously with the Japanese army and tempered some hard stubble, such as the 49th Army expanded by the Northeast Army Zhang Shaoshuai's guard troops, the 70th Army of the Hunan Barbarian, the 58th and 60th Armies of the Yunnan Army, and the 72nd and 78th Armies of the Sichuan Army.

There are also three dogs, their 74th Army, and now in the eyes of the Japanese army, the 74th Army has become a hard-boned force, and no one wants to touch this army.

Now each division of the 74th Army has its own code name, the 51st Division is called "Kecheng Troops", the 57th Division is "Tianquan Troops", and the 58th Division is "Changtai Troops".

Since the three divisions all started with five, they were called "35 troops" by the Japanese army, and at the same time became "tiger troops", and they were considered to be as difficult to deal with as the tigers.

Now that the 74th Army has U.S.-aided weapons, even its military uniforms have been changed into olive (dark green) uniforms, which are much more foreign in front of the earth-gray uniforms of many other ordinary troops. And the Japanese army's yellow tweed uniforms have a fight.

Now that the 74th Army has positioned itself as a strategic assault force, not only has the number of troops directly under the military headquarters increased a lot, but even the three battalions of the three dogs have also become reinforced units in the reinforced battalion.

In other units, it is still the three-three system, but in the third battalion it is already a four-four system, with four companies, four platoons in each company, four squads in each platoon, and twelve to fifteen people in each squad.

Each platoon has more than 50 people, each company has more than 200 people, the third battalion has more than 800 people, plus the battalion headquarters has nearly 900 people, a battalion of more than 800 people, it is indeed a giant battalion.

The three infantry battalions of the 152nd Regiment, plus the regiment's machine gun company and regimental headquarters, also had a total number of more than 3,000 people, 3,000 armor and 3,000 tigers in the ancients, almost so many people.

The third battalion not only has a large number of people, but also the equipment is not bad, as an infantry battalion during the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, although the weapons of each company are a little miscellaneous, they are also relatively the best infantry weapons.

The individual weapons of each infantry squad soldier are usually medium formal rifles, 120 rounds of ammunition per base, four grenades, and cold weapons such as broadswords and daggers.

In addition to the riflemen, the infantry squad has a grenadier group, generally two people, one shooter and one ammunition man, the ammunition man carries a base grenade on his back, plus one rifle of his own, and the grenadier shooter himself carries a rifle.