When hundreds of thousands of troops in the third and ninth theaters joined forces to counterattack Nanchang, the Japanese army also felt unprecedented pressure, after all, the current Japanese army in Nanchang is not very strong.

The main thing is that the 101st, 106th, and 116th divisions are not permanent elite divisions, and they also have to share their forces to defend the periphery of Nanchang and the safety of the line from Nanchang to Jiujiang.

Therefore, the 101st Wing of the 102nd Brigade of the 102nd Division, which is far away in Gao'an, is now facing the siege of tens of thousands of Chinese troops, and it is still a question whether it can safely withdraw to Nanchang.

Seeing this, General Luo Zhuoyin, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy in the Ninth Theater, immediately ordered the 51st Division of the 74th Army to seize the time to attack Gao'an City, and the sooner the better.

By April 23, the 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), the 58th Division of the 74th Army had cleared the enemy's position in the north of Gao'an, and the 51st Division had also cleared the enemy in the west of Gao'an, forming a three-sided siege of Gao'an.

The Chinese army did not think about encircling the enemy in Gao'an, and Dacheng in the direction of Nanchang in the east was also defeated by the 57th Division, almost forming an encirclement of the 103rd Wing of the Japanese army in Gao'an.

The 101st Division of the Japanese Army was shocked and hurriedly dispatched the 157th Wing of the same brigade to quickly set off from Shengmi Street in the southwest of Nanchang to attack the Xishan Wanshou Palace, hoping to open up the retreat of the 103rd Wing.

Xishan Wanshou Palace is the strategic commanding height of the triangle of the confluence of the Jinjiang and Ganjiang rivers, and the occupation of this place not only cuts off the connection between Gao'an and Nanchang, but also chokes the throat of road traffic between Fengxin and Gao'an.

Therefore, the Japanese army sent a large number of troops and aircraft and artillery to carry out a frantic attack on the Chinese army in this place, using poison gas, artillery shells, tanks, etc.

When the battle of Xishan Wanshou Palace was in full swing, the 51st Division, the main attacker on Gao'an's side, also began a fierce attack on Gao'an City under the urging of General Luo Zhuoyin.

The 305th Regiment was responsible for attacking the West Gate, and the three battalions moved from the position of Dayu Temple outside the West Gate to the West Gate of the Japanese army, and the Japanese light and heavy machine guns, mortars and infantry guns in the city constantly attacked the Chinese army's attack.

The three battalions of the 305th Regiment continued to attack, but they could not be effective, and the lack of offensive weapons was the main reason, and the machine gun company and the regimental machine gun company were only equipped with mortars of 50 or 60 caliber at most.

The shells of this small cannon hit the Gao'an city wall, similar to scratching the boots, and had no effect, and the 51st mountain artillery of the 75th artillery battalion of the division did not dare to drag it out to fight now, and the Japanese planes and artillery had been waiting.

Since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese army has mainly lost ground and lost divisions, and has been defeated and retreated all the way, at most it has won some local battles, similar to the current counteroffensive and reconquest of lost territory, very rarely.

In particular, it is even rarer to recover cities with high walls and fortified cities, so that the Chinese army has very little experience in attacking fortified cities, and the weapons prepared for attacking fortified cities are also extremely scarce.

There is no way, there is a lack of weapons, so I can only fill it with human life, but this life is still limited, Sangou feels sorry for the soldiers who sacrificed in the three battalions, and there is no way to work immediately.

If you are not in a hurry, the three dogs will mobilize the whole battalion to dig tunnels, hollow out the underground of the city tower at the west gate of Gao'an City, and then pile up explosives to kill the devils of the dog day.

But this method is too slow, and it can't work now, so you can only attack.

Sangou took the battalion headquarters around for most of the day, and finally found a relatively high Yao village, where all the mortars and heavy machine guns of the whole battalion were concentrated to suppress the fire on the tower of the Japanese West Gate.

But it was not too late now, and he did not dare to expose all his heavy firepower, and it was not until after eight o'clock in the evening, when it was all dark, that he cooperated with the general attack launched by the whole division.

The division commander Li Tianxia went to the front line in person and came to the position of the three battalions of Sangou, Sangou suddenly felt a huge pressure, and immediately called the monk and Changhua to protect the division commander.

This Master Li, although he has a little flaw in life, he is not ambiguous when he fights, and he rushes when he should rush and does not frown at all.

At that time, when he was the brigade commander, he personally led the death squad and killed them in Sanyi Village in one fell swoop, but he didn't answer Sangou them.

Now that they have come to Sangou again, all the officers and men of the third battalion, seeing that the division commander is here, have greatly increased their morale, and under the cover of mortars and heavy machine guns on the Yaocun Heights, they launched a continuous onslaught on the west gate of Gao'an City.

The Japanese army kept hitting the flares into the sky, and the three dogs went the opposite way, telling the bamboo poles to constantly hit the smoke bombs on the Ximen city wall.

First of all, at a point north of the west gate, there was a cloud of smoke, and the devils on the city tower couldn't see anything underneath.

And they didn't dare to look at it, because the heavy machine guns of the Chinese army were concentrated on the city tower in the smoke, and the heavy sharp bullets of 7.92 poured on the city tower like a splash of wind.

Some heavy machine guns did not hesitate to use the same steel-core bullets that hit Japanese tanks, and these bullets, under the propulsion of the powerful Miner II and Quadruple machine guns, could pierce and break the thick bricks on the castle towers.

For a time, the Japanese troops at this point were completely suppressed, and the demolition team of the third battalion, divided into several groups, jumped up at this time, approaching the base of the city wall from all directions.

First, they used grenades to stuff into the cracks in the bricks that had been blown open by bullets and bombs, and then continued to use small packets of explosives to blow up a relatively large hole.

In the end, everyone transported all the hundreds of pounds of explosives, filled the big hole, and after pulling the fuse, they all retreated back hundreds of meters.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, a huge explosion was heard, and the ground shook several times like an earthquake, followed by aftershocks.

The city tower at this point of Gao'an West Gate was bombarded into the sky, and a large number of bricks, gravel and mud suddenly covered the sky here, and in a short time, it became a dark night.

The light of the flares was covered, and then a large number of rubble and bricks fell in a radius of several hundred meters, hitting everyone's bodies and causing pain, smashing on the steel helmets with a loud bang.

Division Commander Li Tianxia was also hit a lot, this is also a tough guy, he didn't frown, but when he saw this situation, he became ecstatic and immediately stood up.

Division Commander Li jumped up, rushed forward and shouted, and the soldiers of the third battalion, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, followed the division commander and rushed frantically towards the gap in the city wall that had been blown open.

Sangou was very worried at the moment, and repeatedly told the bamboo pole to always pay attention to all the heavy machine gunners, as long as they saw a little Japanese firepower, they would immediately cover the suppression.

Sure enough, after a short period of enlightenment, the Japanese immediately organized fire to plug the blown gap, but as soon as their machine guns fired, they were immediately suppressed by the six heavy machine guns of the bamboo pole machine gun company.

The machine gun company of the 305th Regiment, at the other end, also began to fire with all its might, and began to hit behind the gap without sparing bullets and mortar shells.

The intention was obvious, to curb the arrival of Japanese reinforcements, and to buy such a little precious time for their own charging troops.

Due to the good suppression of firepower, the morale of the fighters of the third battalion of the main attack force was completely ignited by the division commander, and in just a few hundred meters, they rushed over in a few minutes.