The positions along the Xiushui River have been completely abandoned, and the Japanese troops can easily cross the natural danger of the Xiushui River. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sun Weiguo knew that after the Japanese army crossed the Xiushui River, they would definitely march quickly towards Nanchang, but Sun Weiguo was more worried about Wuning.

The defense near Wuning was garrisoned by Wang Lingji's 30 th Group Army, the 30 th Group Army was a Sichuan Army unit, the Sichuan Army was poorly equipped and weak in combat effectiveness, Sun Weiguo had already learned from the Theater Commander's Department that the Japanese army was also stationed in the Wuning area, and Sun Weiguo was worried that this force would quickly break through the position of the 30 th Group Army.

"If the Japanese troops break through from the 30th Group Army, the consequences will be unimaginable, I hope that the Sichuan Army troops of Commander-in-Chief Wang can resist the pressure of the Japanese army." Sun Weiguo looked at the sand table, and he muttered to himself, because the intelligence section had been active in North China before, and after the new 1st Division arrived in Jiangxi, the intelligence section had not yet fully launched its activities.

If Sun Weiguo knew that it was the troops of the Japanese Sixth Division that were facing the troops of the 30th Group Army in Wuning, then Sun Weiguo would definitely be even more worried.

The night of 20 March was extremely tense for the Chinese troops, as the four corps of the 19th Army completely abandoned their positions along the Xiushui River, the 32nd and 70th Armies began to set up defensive positions in Yongxiu County, and the 49th and 78th Armies began to withdraw to the area west of Yongxiu County to assemble and stand by.

These four corps were subjected to large-scale artillery bombardment by the Japanese army when they were stationed in the defensive positions on the first line of the Xiushui River, and after the Japanese artillery bombardment ended, they also released poison gas bombs and poison gas cartridges, and a large number of wounded appeared in these four armies, and the morale of the troops was affected to a certain extent.

You must know that the Japanese army has fired more than 3,000 poison gas bombs and tens of thousands of poison gas cartridges, which is a fatal blow to the Chinese troops without gas masks, and the dead officers and soldiers can be directly buried and disposed of, but the wounded need to be carried, and soldiers are needed to transport and escort them, which greatly reduces the number of combatants in the troops.

The 19th Group Army had four corps, but these four armies had all participated in the Battle of Wuhan, and the total strength of these four armies was only 60,000 or 70,000, and now there were nearly 10,000 casualties in the troops.

However, the officers of all departments are actively calming the mood of the troops, and they know that the troops cannot collapse now, and if the troops collapse now, Nanchang will definitely be lost.

The night passed quickly, and the fiery red sun began to appear in the east, and the sky became brighter.

The troops of the 101st Division and the 106th Division of the Japanese Army had already crossed the Xiushui River in one night, and now the Japanese tank group began to cross the river.

At this time, according to Okamura Ninji's order, the Japanese 106th Division launched an attack on Yongxiu County, while the Japanese 101st Division and Takahashi Detachment made a detour from the west of Yongxiu County, bypassing the defenders' defensive positions, and directly attacking Nanchang.

At nine o'clock in the morning of March 21, the main force of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army marched towards Yongxiu County, and they began to launch a fierce attack on the troops of the 32nd Army and the 70th Army.

At the same time, the Ishihara detachment of the Japanese army, which had landed in Wucheng as early as the 18th, also began to cooperate in the operation, and the Ishihara detachment intensified its attack on Wucheng because they wanted to cooperate with the troops of the 106th Division to defeat the Chinese troops in Yongxiu County in one fell swoop.

The Chinese and Japanese sides fought fiercely until 12 o'clock at noon, and the troops of the 32nd Army and the 70th Army repelled seven or eight group charges of the Japanese army in succession, and the position was still firmly in the hands of the Chinese troops.

At this time, the main positions of the 32nd Army and the 70th Army were in the central part of Yongxiu County, which was out of the range of the Japanese heavy artillery.

Without the help of heavy artillery, the devil soldiers are like tigers without teeth and sharp claws, and their attack strength is obviously weakened a lot.

The most important point is that the field artillery of the Japanese army, which was relatively easy to cross the river, was destroyed by the 3rd Artillery Brigade more than 30 pieces, the number of artillery carried by the Japanese army was reduced, and the heavy artillery could not be supported, so the combat effectiveness of the little devils naturally weakened a lot.

In any case, the troops of the 32nd Army and the 70th Army withstood the attack of the Japanese 106th Division in Yongxiu County.

At this time, the Japanese tank cluster troops quickly passed through the Xiushui River, and the tank cluster began to enter the road.

When the little devil chariot troops came to the road, they drove fast like wild horses.

By one o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese tank cluster had already begun to pull a three-kilometer distance from the main forces of the 101st Division.

At two o'clock in the afternoon of 21 March, the Japanese tank group entered the area of Baofeng Town, Jing'an County, and the Japanese tank units drove along the road, leaving the infantry far behind.

At this time, Yin Jinshan had already led the first armored battle group to quickly enter Jing'an County, and the first armored battle group was ready to meet the Japanese armored troops.

At 2:30 p.m., Yin Jinshan, commander of the 3rd Armored Brigade, received an order from Sun Weiguo, commander of the newly formed 1st Division, and Sun Weiguo asked Yin Jinshan to lead the 1st Armored Battle Group to attack quickly.

At the same time, the units of the 19th Army and the 49th Army of the 79th Army, which had been hiding in Jing'an County and nearby, began to attack the Japanese 101st Division, the Takahashi Detachment, to prevent it from reinforcing the tank cluster.

In Gaokou Village, Jing'an County, two Type 94 tanks and two Type 91 armored vehicles of the 9th Independent Light Armored Vehicle Squadron of the Japanese Tank Cluster suddenly encountered the vanguard unit of the 3rd Armored Battalion.

The 3rd Armored Battalion Vanguard was armed with four No. 3 tanks, which was an armored platoon formation.

Neither the Japanese nor the troops of the New 1st Division expected an encounter here, but the armored forces of both sides reacted quickly.

The Japanese Type 94 tank is equipped with a machine gun, and the Type 94 tank only looks like a tank, but is equipped with a machine gun, which is completely an armored vehicle.

The Type 91 armored car was equipped with three machine guns, and the two Japanese tanks and two armored vehicles were all armed with machine guns.

However, the 3rd Armored Battalion of the New 1st Division was equipped with Tank No. 3, which had one 37mm tank gun and two machine guns.

The Japanese tank armored vehicles quickly began to shoot, and the bullets quickly hit the No. 3 tank, and the bullets clanged on the armor of the No. 3 tank, but did not cause any damage to the No. 3 tank.

Immediately after that, the No. 3 tank began to reflect armor-piercing shells, and the No. 3 tank had an armor-piercing capacity of more than 20 millimeters at a distance of 500 meters, while the maximum armor thickness of the Japanese Type 94 and Type 91 tanks was only 12 millimeters.

Four grenades hit the Japanese tank armored vehicle, and one armor-piercing shell accurately hit a Japanese Type 94 tank, which was destroyed on the spot.

At the same time, a Japanese Type 91 armored vehicle was destroyed, while the other two armor-piercing shells missed.

There are many new soldiers in the armored corps of the new 1st Division, and this is their first time fighting, and it is inevitable that they will make mistakes.