Early the next morning, Bai Fei led more than 2,000 people from the regiment directly under the military police, boarded the train again, hurriedly left Nanchang City, where he had only stayed for one night, and headed north along the Nanxun Line to Yongxiu County, a famous historical and cultural city in Jiangxi.

Yongxiu was called Aidi in ancient times, and as early as the Qin Dynasty, Jiujiang County was set up here. During the Gaozu period of the Han Dynasty, Haiyang County was set up (that is, the fiefdom of Haiyang Hou, where a lot of gold coins were unearthed). During the Southern Song Dynasty, it was changed to Jianchang, and then it was used until the Republic of China. In the third year of the Republic of China, it was renamed Yongxiu, which was named because there was water repair in the territory, and it was named after it, which means "Pan Lin repairs water and will always receive its benefits".

Yongxiu is an ancient cultural city since ancient times, there are more than 10 cultural sites in the Neolithic Age, more than 10 sites in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, literati and writers of the past dynasties such as Bai Juyi, Su Dongpo, Huang Tingjian, Zhu Xi, Wen Tianxiang, etc. have visited here and left poems and ink.

During the Battle of Wuhan, in order to clear the obstacles in the south of the Yangtze River, the Japanese army used sneak attacks and other means, coupled with the failure of the national army's garrison at that time, and first captured Madang Fortress, which Chiang Kai-shek had high hopes for. After the fortress was lost, the Japanese army advanced west and occupied Pengze Lake and other places. Subsequently, the Japanese army took advantage of the waterway of Poyang Lake and with the assistance of its navy to adopt a sneak attack and landing operation, and captured Jiujiang in one fell swoop.

Digression: De'an has produced several celebrities, the most famous of which is Academician Yuan Longping. There is also a Ms. Lu Yan, who is the supermodel with a very controversial appearance. In addition, the ancestral home of the well-known filmmaker Ang Lee is also in De'an.

Straight to the point.

Because the Japanese army occupied several cities in the south of the Yangtze River in a short period of time at that time, they were arrogant for a while, and even whimsically planned to go south along the Nanxun line in an attempt to cut off the Guangdong-Hanzhou railway. However, in the ensuing battle, the Japanese encountered hard bones. At that time, Xue Yue's First Corps was stationed in the southwest area of Lushan, with strong combat effectiveness, and the Japanese army fought many fierce battles on both sides of Lushan, the pass north of De'an, Mahuiling and other places, the two sides suffered mutual damage, held each other for more than a month, and the Japanese army could not advance an inch.

By the end of September, the commander of the 11th Army, Okamura Ninji, saw that the progress of the Nanxun line was slow, and he was about to go crazy in a hurry. In order to break the stalemate, Okamura Ninji was opportunistic and planned to send a force to pass through the gap between the national defense zone between the Nanxun line and the Ruiwu line, and then jump to the front of the Nanxun line to defend the national army in the back and stab him in the back. He expected that once this plan succeeded, the 200,000 Chinese troops on the Nanxun Line would inevitably collapse under the attack of the three Japanese divisions in front and behind.

Although the strategy is good, Okamura Ninji knows that this is a very bold risky plan, and if it is not mastered well, it will end up with heavy losses. Therefore, when choosing the execution force, Okamura Ninji finally assigned this extremely risky errand to Junrokuro Matsuura, who had suffered a defeat in Anqing and almost affected him.

Well, it is estimated that Okamura Ninji must have been thinking in his heart at that time: I resigned from the last time you were a dog, and this time I will give you a hard bone to gnaw, if it is a fluke and succeeds, then hello to me, hello everyone, if it unfortunately fails, it can be regarded as revenge.

After Junrokuro Matsuura received the task, he also knew that the trip was extremely risky, but he had no reason to shirk it. His previous poor command in Anqing and other places led to a crushing defeat for his subordinates and brother troops, and his own 106th Division was almost disabled by Bai Fei (later after the battle damage was replenished, the 106th Division had regained its strength), if it were not for the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, who had a good relationship with him at that time, Hata Junrokuri Bao, he would have been escorted back to Tokyo for trial at this time.

Junrokuro Matsuura knew that he had to prove himself by acquiring more exploits, or he would never be able to undo his previous defeats. So without saying a word, he immediately followed Okamura Ninji's guidance and acted.

I have to say here that Junrokuro Matsuura's unlucky guy is really unlucky. Originally, this plan was very good, but if all went well, it was likely that the outcome would be as Okamura Ninji had predicted, and the Chinese army would collapse on all fronts due to the enemy, and he himself would make a great contribution. Moreover, before the operation, Okamura Ninji also personally planned for him, asking him to divide the 106th Division into 5 parts, which would not only facilitate the covert passage through the defensive gaps of the Chinese army, but also support each other in the event of an attack. However, when the 106th Division officially began its operation and entered the Wanjialing area west of De'an, it found that it could not find any markings for the area on the military map that they used every day and carefully drawn and produced by the General Staff Headquarters of the Japanese base camp.

Aren't you saying it's unlucky!

Because of this, many officers and soldiers of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army were suddenly collectively confused, because they were lost! When they were headless and flying around the depths of the mountains, Xue Yue, who was then the commander of the 1st Corps, had already received the news, so he immediately commanded tens of thousands of troops including the 4th, 66th, and 74th armies to detour from the flanks and rear and surround them.

The 106th Division was so encircled that it could only passively defend on the spot, but because the two sides were located in the mountainous area and the little devils were not familiar with the local terrain, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses as soon as the two sides exchanged fire. After three days of fighting between the two sides, the casualties among the middle and lower-ranking officers of the 106th Division were very serious, almost to the point of breaking their muscles and bones.

When Okamura Ninji received the news, he was so anxious that he ordered the air force to airdrop hundreds of officers to his location in order to restore the command of the front-line combat units. However, none of these Japanese officers were able to see the 106th Division alive, and most of them were still in mid-air with parachutes in tow, and they were beaten into a sieve by the Chinese troops on the ground like targets.

Seeing that the airdrop could not work, Okamura Ninji had no choice but to order the rest of the troops to attack from the periphery to respond, and at the same time ordered the air force to carry out bombing assistance, the two sides stuck together, and fought in Wanjialing for another week, and the 106th Division finally found an opportunity to break through the encirclement of the Chinese army, and hurriedly retreated back with the remnants.

In this battle, the Japanese soldiers who died directly on the battlefield were about 5,000, and the number of wounded was about this number. It's ridiculous that Matsuura Junrokuro is an unlucky bastard, the troops first let Bai Fei be disabled in Anqing, and not long after the completion of the replenishment, Xue Yue was disabled after the battle of Wanjialing.

However, this time Okamura Ninji did not embarrass Matsuura Junrokuro too much, and he didn't know if he felt guilty or had other ideas, so he only let him continue to serve as the division commander of the 106th Division, and led the remnants of the main battle unit to retreat to the northern section of Nanxun Road to serve as a garrison for rest and replenishment.

After the victory at Wanjialing, when Xue Yue was preparing to redeploy his troops, the Japanese 101st Division, which had been blocked east of the pass, continued to carry out small-scale attacks on the area of the pass north of De'an, with the obvious intention of containing the actions of the 1st Corps.

Xue Yue naturally would not be fooled, and at this time, the battle of Wuhan was nearing the end, and after the defenders in the city took the initiative to withdraw, Xue Yue ordered the main force of the 1st Corps to begin to move south of Xiushui, in order to continue to resist the Japanese army by relying on the favorable location of Xiushui. After the main force withdrew, De'an, located north of Xiushui, was soon broken by the Japanese because of the empty defenders.

It is worth mentioning that at that time, the 139th Division was serving as a defense in De'an City, and when the Japanese army attacked, the defenders were weak and weak, but the 139th Division still struggled to resist, and Chai Jingzhong, the commander of the 716th Regiment of the 139th Division, died in a fierce battle with the Japanese army in Yifeng Mountain in the north of De'an City. After the Japanese army broke through the defense line and entered the city, Wang Qiming, the commander of the 723rd Regiment, led his troops to stick to the southeast city of the city, and fought with the Japanese army in the streets, fighting house by house, fighting for every inch of land, and organizing counterattacks. This incident was quite praised by public opinion at the time, and Feng Yuxiang once wrote a poem to praise it.