The rainy season in northern Jiangxi continues, and this rain has exceeded all expectations; The construction of their fortifications, including those in the Ninth War Zone, came to a standstill; The Japanese army was even more uncomfortable, and the deployment of logistics materials and the concentration of troops were affected;

The continuous spring rain has made the whole northern Jiangxi region cold and damp, and a few lonely gray tile houses stand quietly in the early morning fog and have not yet woken up, and the cold mountain breeze slowly sweeps by; The trenches were full of mud, and soldiers in cotton uniforms carried rifles on their backs, digging bunkers hard, and reinforcing the bomb shelters with various materials.

More than a dozen soldiers in blue-gray military uniforms squatted in the semi-underground headquarters, which had a canopy above it, and the rain could not come in, and the fire in the middle was still emitting heat, their uniforms were already covered with mud, and their original colors were already very blurred.

"Is there a situation?" Wang Qiang entered the headquarters and asked,

"Battalion commander, there is no situation; I had just taken my brothers for a kilometer ahead, and there was not a single ghost; One of the brothers who was crouching on the fire said,

"Well, when the clothes are dry, go to the back and get some hot ones; Rest well! Wang Qiang confessed, and lay down on the haystack at the headquarters, saying that it was hay, but in fact it was still damp;

Now although Wang Qiang is still the battalion commander, He Jianye allocated two new barracks to him at once; There is also an air defense battalion, he is now not short of heavy firepower here, but the terrain of Wanshou Palace is really not good, if the devil has fought Xiushui, if he wants to occupy Nanchang, this is a place that must be passed; The order he received was to hold here until he received the order to retreat;

Now He Jianye in Nanchang City has no choice, it turns out that there are only eleven experienced and trained infantry battalion commanders, and the eldest brother sent more than 30,000 recruits at once, He Jianye only promoted all the trained and experienced deputy battalion commanders and company commanders to recruit battalion commanders, and the remaining officers were promoted in order, the platoon commander was promoted to company commander, and the squad leader was promoted to platoon commander;

"Commander, you are now a commander worthy of the name; There are more than 65,000 brothers under your command, and many of the commanders of the group armies are not as strong as you! The key is that you also have five 75mm artillery battalions and three 88mm anti-aircraft artillery battalions; As for those air defense battalions, let's not talk about it, I think the devil is destined to hit his head and break the blood flow under Nanchang City! "Leng Qi has woken up laughing since he saw so many well-equipped soldiers;

"O officer! We don't have so many battalion and company commanders! The devil gathered 100,000 troops in Xiushui, and rushed to Nanchang, if it weren't for this heavy rain, I'm afraid the fight would have started a long time ago; I'm praying now that this rain will last longer and that we can be more prepared! He Jianye said,

"Commander, the brethren don't have enough food! Can it last for a month? Lenzaki asked,

"All the grain of the city was scraped clean, including those of the merchants; Coupled with the nearly 300 tons of grain left behind before the government withdrew, it is enough for two months; But I don't think God will give us two months, the spring rain hasn't been that long! He Jianye said,

"I contacted my hometown, and my grandfather decided to support us with 100 tons of food; Recently, it will pass through the water, and the destination is Tujiabu; It is the territory of the 32nd Army, and while this section of the railway is still in our hands, we must get wagons from Nanchang to transit! Leng Qi said slowly,

"Oh? What a good thing! No problem, I'll contact you about the wagon; Your family has a lot of water cultivation and a wide range of contacts; Help me ask if there is more food for our family to buy; He Jianye was energetic as soon as he heard the food, and hurriedly asked,

"I don't know, I'll write a letter, you can arrange for someone to take my letter and go directly to repair the water!" What is the situation of the Leng family, Leng Qi really doesn't know, only to be a bridge builder;

He Jianye is now living a good life in Nanchang, the soldiers are strong and strong, but it is a fortunate job to spend a few hours a day lecturing the grassroots officers who have just been promoted; Fortunately, Leng Qi is now very energetic, completely abandoning the polite education method of the Whampoa graduates, teaching in the morning, and in the afternoon it is a field confrontation between the two battalions......

"Damn, Li Qiang; 1,200 of your brothers in a fortified camp are piled up in front of you; How was it told to you? How do you deal with the two wings of the devil outflanking? ”

"Liu Dagui, you are a pig! How many times have you said that there are so many machine guns on your way to attack, did you let the brothers die? ”

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Now the whole of Nanchang is He Jianye's training ground, and the only way to make up for the lack of enough officers is to have 11 infantry battalions under He Jianye, and there are still 29 infantry battalions in reserve; The basic framework of the first batch of 11 infantry battalions is complete, that is, each battalion is equipped with two or three reserve infantry battalions; Let them learn in training and building fortifications! Now He Jianye doesn't have enough time to train them......

At the end of February, the No. 1 Department of the Military Command Department of the Military Commission, based on information from all sides, finally figured out the true intention of the Japanese army's combination punch, that is, to capture Nanchang, and put forward corresponding opinions.

"Commission, the intention of the Japanese army is obvious, that is, to capture Nanchang; Recently, the heavy rain in northern Jiangxi has helped us, and the logistics and troop build-up of the Japanese army have been delayed by the heavy rain, otherwise the Japanese army would have already begun to attack; Bai Chongxi stood next to the combat map and reported to Chiang Kai-shek,

"Mother, Xipi! The devil has an eleventh army in Wuhan, with 200,000 people; actually went out in all directions; Order Xue Yue, strike first! It was enough to defend Nanchang with the 19th Group Army, and let the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi border advance army command the 8th and 73rd armies from Wuning to De'an and Ruichang, and attack the enemy's left flank; The 30th and 27th armies assembled near Wuning, and the 10th Army advanced to the front line of Xiushui! Three-way advancement, catch the devil off guard! Chiang Kai-shek ordered,

"Commission, now the rain is flowing on the front line in northern Jiangxi, and there is no sign of stopping in the near future; I'm afraid the movement of troops is not so fast! Bai Chongxi said,

"Tell Xue Yue to give him a week to complete the preparations for the attack; Attack in a week! Chiang Kai-shek said;

At the Ninth Theater Command, Xue Yue and Wu Yizhi were studying the situation on the front line of Xiushui and the front line of the Xinqiang River, and their brows were already furrowed......

"There are not enough troops! If I can have two more group armies in my hands, I can keep the water repair line in the first line without leaking! Xue Yue frowned and said,

"Sir, the key is that there are no weapons and ammunition; Now the recruits in the rear are very fast, and people are not a problem; Now I will give you two recruits from the group army, what can you do without weapons! Wu Yizhi said,

"As far as I can, I want the elite of the two armies; If it's a new recruit, I might as well strengthen the weapons and ammunition to the existing several army groups, so that they can play a greater role! Especially the First Group Army, the Dian Army is brave and good at fighting, but their equipment is a big problem! Xue Yue sighed,