Moreover, because the defenders' equipment was inferior to that of the Japanese army, and there was a fear of war, the Japanese army had broken through Qiujin and Xujiabu and other places in the Xiuhe defense line, and then the Japanese army quickly moved south, successively occupied Fengxin, Anyi and other places, Bai Fei, who was stationed in Wucheng, saw that the Xiuhe defense line had become useless, and at the same time, in order to avoid his own troops being surrounded by the Japanese army, he could only abandon Wucheng and retreat to Nanchang City along the west bank of Poyang Lake.

However, due to the dense roads of the river, it took a whole day for the troops to retreat to the area of Jiangxiang Town, which is on the outskirts of Nanchang. At this time, only the rumbling of cannons inside and outside Nanchang City was heard, and the battle was very fierce, Bai Fei was anxious, and was about to order the troops to step up the march to rush to support, when he suddenly saw a large number of defenders pouring out from Changdong, Youkou and other places, and fled to the southeast in a hurry.

Seeing this, Bai Fei's heart sank, and he immediately ordered someone to stop some of the retreating defenders to inquire about the situation, and when he learned that the Japanese army had entered Nanchang City, Bai Fei suddenly felt dizzy. After composing a little, he scolded: "Bastard! How the hell did you defend the city? Nanchang City is high and deep, how could it fall so quickly. I order you to stop the retreat at once, reorganize your troops, and follow me to the counterattack! ”

Several soldiers of the national army in front of them were stunned by Bai Fei's scolding and did not dare to answer.

At this time, a young major officer with a hurried expression walked out, and asked with a blank face, "Which part of you are from?" Why are you here to stop us from evacuating, and you still want to order us, it's not a small tone! ”

Li Hu sneered on the side: "Boy, your tone is not small." Listen, we are a regiment directly under the Central Military Police, and this is our regimental seat and commander of the Ninth Military Theater, General Bai Zhenyu. Now do you have the right to command you? ”

The major officer was shocked when he heard this, he obviously knew about Bai Fei's person.

However, although he was nervous, he still said stubbornly: "General Bai, we are from the 102nd Division, belonging to the Third War Zone, we can't agree to your request, you have no right to ask us..."

"Bastard..."Bai Fei was even more angry when he heard this, and was about to attack, Wang Weiguo hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, and whispered: "Zhenyu, calm down!" He is right, you are now only the commander of the gendarmerie of the Ninth Theater of Operations, and you really have no right to order them directly. ”

Bai Fei was speechless angrily, so he had to signal Wang Weiguo to ask.

Wang Weiguo said to the major officer: "102nd Division? Is your division commander's name Bai Zhanghui? I guess your division commander hasn't forgotten what happened in Guide last year, don't say it's you, even if your division commander saw our group, you have to be polite. ”

The major was even more shocked when he heard this, but he heard Wang Weiguo say again: "What the hell is going on in Nanchang? You make it clear to us, otherwise even if you are from the third war zone, we will have a way to make you well! ”

The 102nd Division returned to Germany in a battle, suffered heavy casualties, and later received some supplements from other places, and this major officer was only newly replenished from the reserve army to the 102nd Division, so although he had a little understanding of the previous experience of the 102nd Division, he was not very clear.

It turned out that as early as the beginning of the Nanchang Campaign, because Xue Yue commanded the 106th Division of the First Corps to encircle and annihilate the Japanese 106th Division and create the "Wanjialing Great Victory", Chiang Kai-shek was not only happy, but also overestimated the combat effectiveness of the national army, and was very happy with the character of great achievements, and issued a tough-worded combat order to the defense units of Nanchang, and he was quite eager to defend Nanchang to the death and fight a decisive battle with the enemy. However, after the Japanese army broke through the defense line of Xiuhe and repelled the defenders Yang Sen's 27th Army and most of Luo Zhuoying's 19th Army, Chiang Kai-shek, who was far away in Chongqing, could not help but feel worried when he learned of the situation. At this time, he deeply felt that the obstacles to the southward movement of the Japanese army had been removed, and it was only a matter of time before Nanchang was captured. And his previous intention of ordering all ministries to serve their lives to protect Nanchang is obviously no longer possible. So he had the idea of killing and wounding the enemy, and then giving up Nanchang. A special telegram was sent to Xue Yue, commander of the Ninth Theater Command, Luo Zhuoying, commander-in-chief of the 19th Group Army, and others, saying: "This battle is not about the gains and losses in Nanchang, but about dealing the greatest blow to the enemy. Even if Nanchang is lost, our armies should attack according to the designated target regardless of everything, and decide on future combat plans in accordance with this policy. ”

This order is equivalent to saying: "It doesn't matter whether you defend the city or not, it is important whether you can kill the enemy and protect yourself." And then what? Take it one step at a time! ”

From Chiang Kai-shek's standpoint, this is actually not wrong. Indeed, now that the Japanese army is strong, and has broken through the defense line of the national army to repair the river as the Great Wall, the will to capture Nanchang is resolute, rather than to defend it, it is better to take the initiative to abandon Nanchang and seek to kill and injure the enemy's living force. However, when the news reached below, it was very distorted. It turned out that although the defenders of the previous departments were very afraid of war, they were still afraid of Chiang Kai-shek's earlier orders and did not dare to leave their posts without permission, but now this order is equivalent to loosening the ties to the defenders of all departments.

So the various departments of the defenders began to fight their own small Jiujiu, what desperate resistance is no longer mentioned, often with the Japanese army a little battle, they have to evacuate, some do not even wait for the Japanese army to come, they run in advance, such as Jing'an, Anyi, Fengxin defenders are like this. It is no wonder that the Japanese army advanced so fast, and in a short period of time, it had already attacked Nanchang, not only occupied Zengjia, Shengmi and other places on the left bank of the Ganjiang River on the west side of Nanchang, but also crossed the Ganjiang River by civilian boats, detoured to Nanchang from the south, and cut off the Zhejiang-Jiangxi railway. At this point, Nanchang City has been encircled on three sides.

Earlier, when the defense line of Xiuhe was not broken, Chiang Kai-shek learned in Luo Zhuoying's telegram that the defense of Nanchang was weak, so he sent a special telegram to Gu Zhutong, the commander of the Third Theater of Operations, to quickly transfer the 102nd Division to Nanchang to strengthen the garrison of Nanchang; The 16th and 79th Divisions of the Third Theater were also transferred to Dongxiang and Jinxian, southeast of Nanchang, to guard the south bank of Poyang Lake and plan for operations in Nanchang. When they reached Nanchang, the 16th and 79th divisions of the Third Theater had just arrived in Dongxiang and Jinxian, and they had no time to react at all, so they could only stick to the above-mentioned areas for defensive purposes. The 32nd Army, which was withdrawn from Yongxiu, because of heavy losses and being chased by the Japanese army, only a small part fled to Nanchang, and most of them withdrew to the southwest of Nanchang.

Therefore, in the whole of Nanchang, there are almost only some remnants of the 102nd Division and the 32nd Army, in the face of the Japanese army with tanks and artillery, a large number of armed to the teeth and extremely vicious, the 102nd Division is not an opponent at all, in a short period of time, it was broken into the city by the Japanese army, although the defenders in the city stubbornly launched a fierce street battle with the enemy, but in the end they could not change the overall situation, with the increase in casualties, they could only abandon the city and evacuate.

After a brief introduction to the situation, the major officer said to Bai Fei and Wang Weiguo: "Commanders, it's not that we don't care about fighting, it's just that the Japanese army is moving too fast, and the weapons are sharp, relying on artillery and tanks to keep advancing, and we are weak, and we can't stop it at all with these weapons in our hands." Besides, we were ordered to evacuate after fierce resistance..."

After Bai Fei listened, he was completely speechless, he sighed deeply and asked, "Who else is in Nanchang City now?" ”

The major said, "Where are there still people in Nanchang?" Except for those of us who were soldiers, there were only Japanese devils left. Earlier, I heard that the government was organizing the evacuation of personnel, but now even the common people have almost run away. ”

After hearing this, Bai Fei felt a little comforted in his heart, and asked again: "What about the people from the Chief's Department?" Where did Luo Zhuoying go? ”

The major was stopped on the way to retreat, and now that he had been delayed for so long, he was already anxious like an ant on a hot pot, and looked back behind him frequently, for fear that the little devil would chase after him.

Seeing Bai Fei's questions one after another, although he was not angry in his heart, he didn't dare to make a mistake, so he could only continue to answer: "The chief's department withdrew yesterday, I don't know if it was withdrawn to Jinxian or Fengcheng, as for the last question you asked, I am soft-spoken, where do I have all the strength to know the whereabouts of Commander Luo." General Bai, now that the Japanese army occupies Nanchang is a foregone conclusion, I advise you to withdraw quickly, otherwise once the little devil blocks the retreat, everything will be over..."

He didn't wait for Bai Fei to say anything else, and said at a very fast speed: "I'm sorry commanders, it's too late, I must lead my subordinates to evacuate quickly..."