The 216th Wing of the 34th Division of the Japanese Army, under the command of Wing Commander Ogawa Daisa, struggled to retreat towards the east gate of Fengxincheng, and the 152nd and 153rd regiments of the 51st Division could only sigh in admiration.

The east gate of Fengxincheng is not an area controlled by the 51st Division, nor is it a place where brother troops operate, it belongs to the enemy-occupied area, an umbilical cord area retained by the Japanese army and the Nanchang side.

At the same time, the assault of the 57th and 58th divisions of the 74th Army on the line from Gao'an to Fengxin, as well as the coordinated operations of the 32nd and 58th armies of the 19th Army, put tremendous pressure on the Japanese army.

The Japanese army had to hold its strongholds, and the Japanese troops in Fengxin retreated to the Meiling area west of Nanchang, and the Japanese troops in Jing'an, Anyi, Nanchang and other places also urgently abandoned their outlying strongholds and concentrated their forces to garrison the city.

The 32nd, 58th, and 74th armies of the ** squadron were in enemy-occupied areas and wreaked havoc on the Japanese army's lines of communication.

The Japanese army was worried that the Chinese army would launch a larger-scale attack again, so they had to hold their positions, retreat from it, and allow the Chinese to sabotage their communications and communications.

After the winter offensive was launched on December 13, and after the end of January of the following year (1940), the central ** in northern Jiangxi achieved good results.

It conquered the enemy's front-line positions on the outskirts of Nanchang, restrained the diversion of Japanese troops, and captured more than 1,000 rifles, dozens of light and heavy machine guns, and several mountain artillery, dealing a heavy blow to the Japanese army.

At this time, there was also frequent good news on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War, on December 30, Kunlun Pass, far away in Guangxi, was recovered by the Fifth Army.

After every major battle, the combat units had to be transferred to the rear for a period of repair, and this time the 51st Division was transferred back to the Shanggao area, and the third battalion was also able to rest and retrain.

However, the results of the winter offensive gave the Military Commission and the Ninth Theater a temptation, judging that the Japanese army in the northern Jiangxi region was weak in strength, had a large defensive area, and was profitable.

Therefore, during the training of the troops, the second round of offensive was started, hoping to expand the results of the battle in northern Jiangxi, and even recover Nanchang.

These military secrets naturally can't reach Luo Zhicheng of the third battalion, but everyone can also feel the determination above, so they try their best to complete them when they are repairing and training.

At this time, it was the end of the lunar calendar in the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), and it was almost the New Year.

When they are busy, they don't miss their relatives much, but now that they are relatively free, Luo Zhicheng and Yang Muhua miss their son Xiaohu very much.

Now Xiaohu is far away in Shangrao's hometown, and the two of them have jobs, and the officers of the army are not allowed to ask for leave at will, so it is impossible to visit their son in their hometown.

But in Shanggao, although in the most difficult days of the Anti-Japanese War, everyone, whether military or civilian, had to live, and Sixi, where the 51st Division was stationed, flourished into a small bazaar.

The villagers picked up all kinds of agricultural products and sold them to the troops, and a large number of family members of the army officers also rented houses here and hired nanny workers to serve.

Luo Zhicheng is very unaccustomed to this kind of phenomenon, the country is like this, why is it home? These people enjoy life so much in wartime, and even more so in peacetime.

Luo Zhicheng did not rent a house and hire people, although he and Yang Muhua's salaries could afford it, and there was another point, both of them are now the backbone of their own units, and there is no way to be idle officials and official wives like other officers' families.

But Luo Zhicheng felt that it was not a way for him to run to the field hospital all the time, so he went less and devoted himself to the whole training of the third battalion.

The unit has been supplemented by new recruits and midshipmen who have graduated from military academies, and now the Whampoa Military Academy has not only opened a number of branches, but has also changed the original three-year graduation system to a two-year system.

In the middle of the process, there were constantly people who graduated and were assigned to various units to strengthen and fill the vacancies of grass-roots officers in each unit, and the troops fought against the powerful Japanese army, and the grass-roots officers were quickly consumed.

The third battalion, like other troops, exercises and lectures three times a day, Luo Zhicheng personally led several companies to exercise and run in the morning.

Running five kilometers every morning, training sessions sometimes climb mountains, climb walls, jump dirt pits, etc., whoever is fast will be rewarded. According to Liu Guangyu, soldiers can't be idle, and if they are idle, it's hard to manage.

In the morning and afternoon, the military training was handed over to the various company commanders to be responsible, and Luo Zhicheng could talk about some of the military classes, but because the affairs of the battalion headquarters needed to be handled by someone, they were also handed over to the instructors sent down from above to be in charge.

Even though the New Year was approaching, the troops still did not have the slightest intention of taking a holiday, and they also grasped it very tightly, and it was not until the Chinese New Year's Eve in early February that the troops were prepared for the New Year.

Last time in Fengxin and Ganshulong, the seventh company and the eighth company all captured the Japanese artillery, and there was a large amount of reward, although the artillery in Fengxin was destroyed by the Japanese army, but the seventh company also got a little reward.

Several company commanders of the third battalion are fellow villagers and Luo Zhicheng's cronies, and everyone spends the money, and each company has a little money left for its own company headquarters, and more money is given to the battalion headquarters for unified disposal.

In the past few days to prepare for the New Year, the spy elder Li Tou was very busy, with a huge amount of funds, and took the cooking team to purchase everywhere, and the fat pig bought several in a row.

There are five or six hundred people in a battalion, and one pig is not enough for these people to stuff their teeth, and the kitchen of the battalion headquarters cannot cook for so many people, so they are assigned to the cooking classes of each company.

The small kitchen of the battalion headquarters has a small stove, which is responsible for the food of the battalion headquarters' clerical work, communications, guards and others, while Luo Zhicheng is in each company almost every day, playing a piece with everyone, eating and living together.

There was no war during the Chinese New Year, everyone had a good last big meal, eating pork in large pieces, and the food provided by the troops on weekdays was only 24 taels of rice (16 taels and one and a half catties, one and a half catties), which was later reduced to 22 taels.

This bit of rice is not enough for young adults who have no oil and water in their stomachs, they can only eat two meals a day, and they are very tired and consumed a lot of training every day, and many soldiers in the army cannot eat enough.

There were soldiers who couldn't get enough to eat, so they secretly beat the villagers' dogs to eat, and the villagers were so angry that they came to the door, because the officers also got the dog meat to be honored, they could only pretend that they were wild dogs, or they were mistaken.

When the dog meat is in the stomach, there is no proof of death, but this kind of thing is very hurtful to the relationship between the military and the people, Luo Zhicheng gave a death order in the third battalion, and he was not allowed to touch the slightest thing of the fellow countrymen, and whoever moved, no one could cover it.

In addition to strict military orders, it is also necessary to provide logistical support, which solves the worries of the soldiers, so that everyone can resolutely carry out the order, everyone can eat enough, and who will go to fight the countryman's dog to eat, after all, there is a huge risk of making mistakes.

The funds of the third battalion are relatively generous, and from time to time on the battlefield there will be small victories to get some oil and water for munitions, similar to the last time the artillery can get a reward.

In addition, the garment factory and farm opened by Luo Zhicheng in his hometown have now begun to make a profit, and every time they send new recruits over, they will bring some dividends and cotton underwear and underwear and socks.