Tanxi, the headquarters of the 19th Group Army, Luo Zhuoying didn't sleep all night; The 32nd, 49th, and 79th armies on the front line sent urgent telegrams one after another; The devil's offensive was a rapid mess, and the soldiers on the front line suffered heavy casualties......

"Report, Theater Command emergency call!" The staff officer handed over a telegram from Xue Yue!

"The water defense line must be held for seven days, and now the supporting forces of the 74th Army, the 10th Army, and the 27th Army are already on the way; Seven days later, the whole front launched a counterattack! Xue Yue! ”

"What's the matter, Xue Yue doesn't have back pain when he stands and talks! It would be nice to be able to hold on for another day, the devil is a heavy artillery group! Tank group charge! What shall I keep? Luo Zhuoying scolded,

"How's the front line now?" Luo Zhuoying asked,

"The 106th Division of the Devil in Aicheng and Qiujin has successfully crossed the river, the defending 49th Army has suffered heavy casualties, the 76th Division of the 79th Army has also suffered heavy casualties, and the commander of the 76th Division, Wang Lingyun, has been poisoned and sent to the hospital; Now the 79th Army and the 49th Army are launching a counterattack, but it is estimated that it will be difficult to drive the devils down the river, the devils have a lot of artillery fire and aircraft support, and the troops we launched a counterattack are killed in battalions and companies! The 32nd Army in the Tujiabu area only has two divisions, and now Song Kentang has set up the military headquarters two kilometers behind the second-line defense line to supervise the battle nearby! However, the effect is not ideal, some of the devils have already crossed the river to establish a beachhead, and it is estimated that the loss will be a matter of speed! "The staff officer said the latest information received!

"Order the Seventy Army to shrink the defensive line and occupy the first line of Wuxi and Anyi on the second line; Anyi is the place where we will fight on the second line, and we must hold it! In addition, the 79th Army, the 49th Army, and the 32nd Army were ordered to hold the defensive line and strictly prohibit retreat! Luo Zhuoying ordered,

"Commander, what are the reinforcements that the ministries are asking for?" The staff officer asked,

"Tell them that there are no reinforcements, you ask them, and if you can't stop the labor, you will take your own guard regiment with you; This is the last reinforcement! Luo Zhuoying roared,

At ten o'clock in the morning of the 21st, Tujiabu was broken through on the whole line, the 101st Division of the Devils all landed, and the remaining troops of the 32nd Army retreated to the second-line position in Lehua; Prepare to rely on Lehua County to defend it!

At 12 o'clock in the morning, the 49th Army collapsed, and the 106th Division of the Devils interspersed to the west, trying to outflank the rear of the 79th Army, and the 79th Army immediately retreated.

It was more than 50 kilometers from the first-line position in Xiushui to the second-line position in the Anyi area, and the 70th Army, which was ordered to rush to Anyi to deploy defense, advanced on the avenue by footsteps, but the devil's tanks, cars, and cavalry had already pursued the rout of the 49th Army along the avenue, and the 79th Army, the 70th Army, and the 49th Army had no way to engage the devils without strong fortifications and sufficient anti-tank guns in the field, and several armies were forced to enter the mountains and forests and assemble slowly towards Anyi;

On the afternoon of the 21st, the Japanese flying group began to sortie and bombed along the advance route of the tanks, and the headquarters of the 19th Army in Tanxi Town was stuck in the path that the devils had to pass;

On the 22nd, the Japanese army dispatched more than 50 planes to bomb Tanxi to clear the obstacles ahead for the tank troops; The headquarters of the 19th Army was completely destroyed by aerial bombs, and Luo Zhuoying's communication with the deployment was interrupted. The 139th Division of the 32nd Army protected Luo Zhuoying and the group army headquarters to retreat to the rear, the Japanese army continued to advance at high speed, and the tank group bypassed the strong defense line of the national army in Tanxi, and raided Anyi at 5 pm on the 22nd, and occupied Anyi after two hours of fierce fighting.

The 101st Division on the Lehua side was not so easy, it was not so easy for the devil's heavy artillery to cross the Xiushui, they were still in the rear and did not come up, there was no heavy artillery, relying on the 75mm mountain artillery and 70mm infantry artillery of the division headquarters It was not so easy to destroy the second-line position of the 32nd Army, and the two sides fought brutally in Lehua;

Under the cover of dozens of planes of the 3rd Flying Regiment of the Japanese Air Force, more than 100 tanks of the Japanese army followed the route reconnoitred by the air force before the start of the war, bypassed the fortified fortifications of the national army, and drove straight in. At half past 11 o'clock in the evening of the 22nd, the Japanese armored forces broke the scattered resistance of the Nationalist army, broke through the weaker fortifications of the Nationalist army, and occupied the county town of Fengxin, which was about 70 kilometers away from the Xiushui River. From Xiushui to Anyi, if it was an infantry attack, it would take at least 3 full days, and the Japanese tanks and planes cooperated to catch the defenders off guard, and it only took 1 day, without encountering any hard fighting, and it was already taken.

At the critical juncture, the national army itself destroyed 4 100 mm caliber cannons, 3 120 mm caliber howitzers, and 31 mountain and field artillery, losing a total of 38 guns.

Fengxin was only 50 kilometers away from Nanchang, and the Japanese tank units could enter Nanchang in one day as long as they continued to advance. But the devil's tanks ran out of fuel, and they had to stop and wait for the 106th Division and fuel supplies in the rear; Sappers were on site repairing the tanks and replacing parts;

At this time, the Xiushui defense line had been completely broken through by the Japanese army, and the three armies on the front line retreated backwards and could no longer continue the battle. More than 100 tanks of the Japanese tank group advanced at high speed, almost crushing the empty second-line positions of the national army, and the 101st Division, 106th Division, and 6th Division immediately advanced at high speed in the rear of the tank troops for about 2 days, approaching Nanchang from two directions. Among them, the 106th Division and the tank group were outflanked from the west of Nanchang, trying to cut off the retreat of the defenders of the four armies of the National Army in the Nanchang area. In the eyes of the devil, Nanchang has become his own bag, and it would be better if he could encircle and annihilate Luo Zhuoying's 19th Army; This hand of the Japanese army directly frightened Xue Yue, because the Japanese army had done this in the past; The center broke through the flanks and outflanked, and the Chinese defenders had already lost a large number of troops on this hand of the Japanese army!

On March 25th, after the devils airdropped enough fuel in two days, they left Fengxin and continued to march towards Gao'an, as long as they occupied Gao'an, Nanchang was in front of them!

However, at this time, the vanguard of the 74th Army advanced to the vicinity of Gao'an County, 70 kilometers away from Nanchang, and on March 26, the 306th Regiment of the 153rd Brigade of the 51st Division of the 74th Army entered Gao'an only 2 hours after the 111th Brigade, the main force of the 106th Division, had already been killed.

The 306th Regiment of the 74th Army of the Anti-Japanese Iron Army fought fiercely with the superior Japanese army for several hours under the leadership of Zhang Lingfu, and the battle was extremely fierce, and Zhang Lingfu was broken by the Japanese machine gun and broke his leg bone. Zhang Lingfu still insisted on fighting and shouted a fierce battle, laying the groundwork for becoming a cripple in the end.

"Send a telegram to the Military Commission, and the devils occupy Fengxin; Only 50 kilometers away from Nanchang, the 106th Division of the Japanese Army made a posture of outflanking to the west, and our 19th Army was in danger of being annihilated! Request to abandon Nanchang! Xue Yue said,

"Chief Xue, there is no situation in Poyang Lake, Wu Qiwei's army is guarding the east bank of the Ganjiang River, and now it is in a fierce battle with the 116th Division, which can fully support it for a week, and the 79th Army still has combat effectiveness, so let them use Meiling and Xishan as a base to attack the enemy to the south. The reinforcements of Luján's 1st Army have arrived on the way, and the Japanese army is now alone in penetrating deeply, allowing the 1st Army, the 58th Army and the 60th Army, and the 30th Army, a total of 4 armies, to attack Anyi and Ayutthaya in 4 days; ordered the 49th Army to be contained and sorted out between Gao'an and Shanggao as a reserve; And the most important thing is that our 74th Army has been fighting fiercely with the 106th Division of the devils on the front line of Gao'an; It's entirely possible that we can turn defeat into victory. Zhao Zili, deputy director of the General Staff Office, dissuaded,