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On the north and south banks of the Xiushui River, Chinese and Japanese artillery men launched an artillery battle, and one shell after another was constantly hit on the opposite bank, and the sound of explosions was deafening.

The 5th Artillery Regiment shelled for a full forty minutes, and after the loss of thirteen howitzers, the 5th Artillery Regiment stopped firing.

Immediately afterwards, the 38 Type 94 mountain guns of the 4th Artillery Regiment began to fire poison gas shells, which quickly hit the position of the devil soldiers.

In a short time, the Japanese positions began to sink into a cloud of red smoke.

It's just that Sun Weiguo's control of the gas bombs is limited, and the gas bombs will be launched after a while.

At this time, the 13th and 14th battalions, field artillery companies, and mortar companies of the newly formed 4th Regiment began to fire on the Japanese motorboats.

Four 65mm field guns, four 82mm mortars, six Type 92 infantry guns, dozens of light and heavy machine guns began to fire fiercely.

Cannonballs and bullets kept hitting the Devil Soldier Motorboat, and the Devil Soldier who was crossing the river was completely blinded.

More than a dozen motorboats were overturned on the spot, and hundreds of devil soldiers fell into the Xiushui River.

The Browning heavy machine gun has become a scythe of death, and once a large-caliber heavy machine gun bullet hits the body of the ghost soldier, the ghost soldier will be beaten into a mess of meat on the spot.

Seeing that the casualties of their troops were getting bigger and bigger, the captain of the assault brigade immediately ordered the motorboats to disperse, and at the same time he kept firing signal flares and asked for artillery support on the north bank of the Xiushui River.

However, the north bank of the Xiushui River is currently shrouded in poison gas, the devil soldiers are busy wearing gas masks, and the artillerymen are unable to provide fire support to the assault group.

Wang Tieniu, deputy commander of the newly formed Fourth Regiment, personally controlled a Czech light machine gun to fire, and bullets kept hitting the devil soldiers.

More than 1,800 devil soldiers of a reinforced brigade have now been killed, and more than 500 people have been killed, and the surface of the Xiushui River is all blood-red.

The Fifth Artillery Regiment and the Fourth Artillery Regiment also began to take the opportunity to attack the Japanese troops crossing the river, and shells began to fall on the river one after another, and many motorboats were directly overturned.

Time passed little by little, and at nine o'clock in the evening, the Japanese artillery officially began to fire a strike.

The 3rd Artillery Brigade fired a limited number of poison gas bombs, and all the Japanese troops were equipped with gas masks, and the gas bombs caused some trouble to the devil soldiers, but they did not cause them too many casualties.

More than 300 artillery pieces fired a salvo again, and one shell after another quickly hit the position of the 3rd Artillery Brigade.

The artillery of the 3rd Artillery Brigade was completely suppressed, and they had to temporarily stop firing.

The infantry of the newly formed 4th Regiment also began to be attacked by Japanese artillery, and various firing points began to bear shell hits.

Seven or eight light and heavy machine guns were destroyed on the spot, and mortars and infantry guns, as well as field artillery, were suppressed.

The Japanese assault brigade quickly marched towards the south bank of the Xiushui River, and with the assistance of artillery units, the devil soldiers did not receive any blows.

At this time, the troops of the new 4th Regiment had begun to stop firing, and they were patiently waiting for the devil soldiers to land.

At 9:10 p.m., the assault brigade of the 106th Division of the Japanese army began to land in the vicinity of Yongxiu County, but this assault brigade had more than 1,800 people when it set off, but when they landed, they only had more than 1,000 people, and those 800 people were killed when crossing the river.

The Japanese landed under artillery cover, and they thought they could capture the positions of the Chinese troops, but immediately after their landing, they were hit hard by the 13th and 14th battalions.

Wang Tieniu, deputy commander of the newly formed Fourth Regiment, led his troops to begin a counter-charge against the Japanese army, and the two sides launched fierce battles on the shore.

At 9:40 a.m., the Japanese assault brigade was annihilated by more than 500 people, and the remaining 500 or so people were almost driven down the Xiushui River.

But at this time, the Japanese heavy artillery began to fire indiscriminately, and both China and Japan were within the range of the Japanese heavy artillery, and Wang Tieniu immediately began to give the order to evacuate.

At 10 o'clock on 20 March, the troops of the 3rd Artillery Brigade received a telegram from the General Headquarters of the 19th Group Army that all units of the 19th Group Army had withdrawn from the front-line positions, and Luo Zhuoying ordered the troops of the 3rd Artillery Brigade to immediately withdraw from the first-line positions at Xiushuihe and return to the new 1st Division.

After Liang Zerui received the order to retreat, he immediately began to order the two artillery regiments to evacuate first, while the infantry of the New Fourth Regiment was responsible for covering the artillery withdrawal.

After the 3rd Artillery Brigade was responsible for the 19th Army, they lost 16 105mm howitzers and 8 75mm mountain guns, and the infantry also paid the price of more than 400 casualties.

The 3rd Artillery Brigade destroyed 32 Japanese field guns and killed and wounded more than 1,500 Japanese soldiers.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, the 3rd Artillery Brigade withdrew from its positions on the south bank of the Xiushui River, while the Japanese troops immediately captured the coastal positions, and their engineering units quickly erected pontoon bridges.

In the regimental headquarters of the 101st Division of the Japanese Army, the commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, Okamura Ninji's face became extremely pale, and his eyes looked coldly at Junrokuro Matsuura.

This time, the 106th Division and the 101st Division and the tank cluster were going to attack the main attack, in order to make them have stronger combat effectiveness, Okamura Ninji gathered more than 200 artillery pieces, counting the artillery of these two divisions, the Japanese army had more than 300 artillery, so the number of artillery was unprecedented in the Japanese army since the beginning of the war.

But with such a number of artillery, the Japanese troops were even severely attacked by the Chinese troops.

Thirty-two field artillery guns of the 101st Field Artillery Wing and the 106th Field Artillery Wing were destroyed, and more than 400 artillery casualties were suffered in the two field artillery wings, while the 106th Division paid the price of more than 1,500 casualties, and the Japanese troops had not yet crossed the Xiushui River, and the number of casualties among the troops exceeded 2,000.

The cost of such casualties made Okamura Ninji very dissatisfied, and his heart was full of anger, and he wanted to slap Junrokuro Matsuura a few times right now.

"Your Excellency Commander, according to artillery statistics, we have destroyed more than 30 artillery pieces of the Chinese troops, bringing at least more than 6,000 casualties to the Chinese troops, and at present all the Chinese troops have withdrawn from their positions along the Xiushui River, the troops of the 106th Division have begun to cross the river in the area of Yongxiu County, and the troops of the 101st Division have landed in the area west of Yongxiu County."

The staff officer of the 11th Army, Yoshimoto Sadachi, came to Okamura Ninji, and he reported softly.

"Your Excellency Commander, the new First Division unit that appeared in Nanchang is very likely to be Sun Weiguo's troops, according to my judgment, the one who just covered the main force of China to withdraw from the positions along the Xiushui River must be Sun Weiguo's troops, and only Sun Weiguo's troops will have such sophisticated weapons."

The commander of the chariot cluster, Momoyo Kunomura, was silent for a while, he looked at Okamura Ninji, and said in a solemn tone.

After this operation, Kunomura Momoyo could be sure that Sun Weiguo's troops must have been transferred from Shanxi to Jiangxi to fight.

Judging from the casualties of the 106th Division and the configuration of the opponent's weapons, Kunomura Momoyo is even more sure that this is Sun Weiguo's troops.