The Japanese army is now expanding its army in the country on a large scale, while promoting the establishment of the Chinese puppet regime, and began the measures of "Chinese people governing China", and on March 30, 1940, the Wang puppet regime in Nanjing was established.

The establishment of this traitor regime dealt a very heavy spiritual blow to the Chinese.

At that time, no one could see that the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression would be won in the end, and most people knew that the strength of the Japanese army was far greater than that of the Chinese army, and under this premise, pessimism and war weariness also spread among the troops.

Now that the Wang puppet regime has appeared, it makes everyone feel that there is no hope for the War of Resistance, and that they will be conquered and ruled by the Japanese in the end anyway, so it is better to give up senseless resistance as soon as possible and reduce innocent sacrifices.

Therefore, the Central Military Commission has paid more attention to the "two stresses" within the armed forces and stresses politics. Governing ideology, stressing patriotism, etc., to enhance the consciousness and patriotic feelings of the soldiers.

At the same time, in the face of Japan's measures to expand its army and absorb the puppet army, the Chinese army also began to expand in large quantities.

This gave Luo Zhicheng the space and channel for the young Zhuang officers to rise, and Luo Zhicheng also realized this, and cultivated the ability of these company platoon commanders under his command from time to time on weekdays, and was ready to be promoted at any time.

Within the 74th Army, after Wang Yaozu became the commander, he constantly sent the officers of the 51st Division of the old army to the 58th Division to enrich and control the cadre team there.

Among them, Zhang Lingwu became the deputy division commander, and brought Cai Renjie to be the commander of the 173rd Regiment of the 58th Division, and brought the original company commander of the 51st Division, Mingcan, to become the commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 174th Regiment.

Therefore, the gap of grass-roots officers in the 51st Division is still relatively large, and Luo Zhicheng is promoted fast enough, in terms of time alone, in two years, from a trainee officer, to a platoon commander, a company commander to a battalion commander.

This is almost impossible in peacetime, but in the Anti-Japanese War, the troops led by Luo Zhicheng have continuously achieved good results, and they have been promoted so quickly, and nothing has fallen into the mouths of others.

In those days, young officers abounded, and many became battalion commanders and regiment commanders in their early twenties, after all, there was a shortage of talents, and the gap in demand was too great.

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In March of the same year (1940), the commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, Okamura Ninji, received an order from the Japanese High Command to return to Japan to accept a new post.

The second commander of the 11th Army was served by Kazuichiro Sonobe, and the 106th Division, which was originally favored by Okamura Ninji, was not welcomed and transferred back to the mainland.

Now the Japanese army in northern Jiangxi is even more empty, and the newly appointed Sonobe Kazuichiro has to shrink his forces and take charge of the defense of Nanchang and the surrounding areas with the 33rd and 34th divisions and the 14th independent mixed brigade.

In the periphery of Nanchang, a defensive line with a strong stronghold as the core was built, and kilometers were actively repaired, and heavy troops were stationed in Jing'an, Anyi, Dacheng, Xishan and other important places.

The Japanese army learned the lessons of the Chinese army's winter offensive, and knew that when the Chinese army launched an offensive, the Japanese army would have difficulty rushing to each other's aid, and would even lose their lives, so they turned all key points into fortresses and held them independently.

The Japanese 11th Army took a defensive position around Nanchang in the northern Jiangxi region in order to draw troops to attack the Fifth Theater in the north and west of Wuhan, expand the area occupied by Wuhan, and even advance in the direction of Chongqing.

This gave the Ninth Theater of Northern Jiangxi a cheap, and at the same time, in order to contain the main force of the Japanese army, the Military Commission ordered the troops in northern Jiangxi to launch a summer offensive and launch a larger-scale offensive.

After the New Year, the 74th Army began preparations in this regard, and in fact began to work after the end of the winter offensive, such as reconditioning and targeted training.

The main thing is the operational coordination between the battalion level and the company level in the regiment-level troops, and now the establishment has been changed to a three-three system, and most of the coordination is generally changed according to the three roles of the main attack, the reinforcement, and the reserve.

At present, in view of the fortressification of the Japanese strongholds, a large amount of training has also been carried out in attacking fortifications and blasting, and a lot of training has been carried out in the coordination of infantry artillery and infantry explosions, and the demolition teams in the unit have also been expanded a lot, and the supply of explosives and mortar shells is also sufficient.

Since the Japanese army lost Fengxin, Jing'an and Anyi in the north have lost the stability of the original Iron Triangle, and Gao'an in the south has also lost the protection of Fengxin in the north.

Both Jing'an and Gao'an are now embedded in the middle of the new Chinese army, and the outer barrier and the mutually echoing defense system have been destroyed.

At the end of March and the beginning of April of the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940), General Luo Zhuoyin, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy in the northern Jiangxi region of the Ninth Theater, developed the beginning of the summer offensive.

This can also be regarded as a counterattack against the establishment of Wang's puppet regime, let those traitors who sang about China's War of Resistance show that the Chinese army is not afraid or compromise on the strength of the Japanese army, and it is head-on, taking the initiative to attack and break a new world.

After several months of rest and patriotic education, the soldiers of the 74th Army, both physically and psychologically, were in a good state and fought again and again.

It was only in the first stage that the 74th Army was regarded by General Luo Zhuoyin as the general reserve of the theater, cruising between Fengxin and Gao'an, and supporting the fraternal troops on the front line at will.

At the beginning of April, the 58th Army of the Yunnan Army took the lead in launching an offensive, attacking Gaoyoudu in Gao'an in one fell swoop, and the 60th Army of the Yunnan Army entered Jing'an in the north of Fengxin.

The new 1st Army and the 32nd Army inserted into the middle of Gaoan and Fengxin and penetrated into the Chitu Street area, and the defenders of the Japanese army on all lines were caught off guard and retreated one after another.

The Japanese army in charge of the defense of these areas was the 33rd Division of the 34th Division, and its division commander Sakurai Sanji was shocked and had to arrange the main force in the hilly areas around Anyi to defend it strictly.

Because the commander of the Japanese 11th Army, Kazuichiro Sonobe, was intensively preparing to launch the Battle of Zaoyi north of Wuhan at this time, he was unable to take care of the war in northern Jiangxi, and there were no troops to send.

The 33rd and 34th Divisions of the Japanese Army could only give up some important places in Jing'an and Gao'an, shrink their forces to the strongholds of Nanchang, Xishan Wanshougong, and Anyi, and hold the outer line of Nanchang.

By mid-to-late April, the Chinese army in northern Jiangxi made persistent efforts, the 58th Army broke through the big city of Gao'an and approached Xishan, the 32nd Army approached Anyi, and the 60th Army laid down Ganzhou Street, expanding the depth of Fengxin's defense and threatening Anyi's flank.

Seeing that Anyi would be broken and the barrier and rear road of Nanchang would be interrupted, the Japanese army sent a brigade of troops, supplemented by aircraft and artillery, to raid Fengxin, repelled the new 3rd Army, and occupied Fengxin.

Fengxin, who was in his hands, was snatched back by the Japanese army, and Luo Zhuoyin was so angry that he immediately mobilized the 74th Army of the theater general reserve to come out.

The 74th Army was divided into three routes, the 57th Division cooperated with the 58th Army to storm Xishan, the 58th Division cooperated with the 32nd Army to advance to Anyi to attack, the 51st Division attacked Fengxin, and the New 3rd Army coordinated.

The 3rd Battalion of the 152nd Regiment of the 51st Division embarked on the journey again and came to the familiar periphery of Fengxincheng.

This time, the Japanese learned the lesson of the previous time, and in the east and north areas, the defense was tight, and the 51st Division had to carry out a strong attack in the west. Take a look at the latest chapter of "Iron and Blood Road of the Anti-Japanese War: Eight Thousand Miles of Iron and Blood Claw Book House" to read it for free for the first time.

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