Chapter 729: Bloody Ganjiang (1)

**The operational policy for the counterattack on Nanchang is: "First attack the enemy along the Nanxun line with the main force, cut off the enemy's contact, and then take the opportunity to start the attack on Nanchang, which is scheduled for April 24." "The main content of its troop deployment is: to order Gao Yinhuai's 74th Army to advance to the Nanxun Railway between Xiushui and Nanchang through Fengxin and Dacheng areas respectively, completely destroy communications, cut off enemy reinforcements, and cooperate to attack Nanchang; ordered the 49th Army to advance to Gao'an one by one, as the general reserve; ordered Shangguan Yunxiang's 32nd Group Army to attack Nanchang from the east of the Ganjiang River with the strength of 3 divisions, and organized 1 regiment of troops to attack Nanchang by surprise attack; Ordered Wang Lingji's 30th Army to attack Wuning. The former commander-in-chief of the enemy was Luo Zhuoying, commander of the 19th Group Army.

Luo Zhuoying is a Hakka family member in Yuyangping Village, Baihou Township, Dapu County, Guangdong Province.

Born in a farming family, Lo Cheuk-ying studied while farming at an early age, and entered SΔ« Juku at the age of 7, and later entered Tai Po Government School and Tai Po. After graduating from middle school, he was admitted to the eighth artillery department of Baoding Military Academy. Here, he met Chen Cheng, the noble man in his life, and the two became friends.

In 1925, after the Northern Expeditionary Army returned to the division, Luo Zhuoying, who returned to his hometown to work as a farmer after graduating from the eighth artillery department of the Baoding Military Academy, joined the army and was promoted all the way, becoming the second person in the civil engineering department of the Central Army.

After the start of the Anti-Japanese War, Luo Zhuoying led his troops to reinforce the Songhu battlefield, starting from the flesh mill Luodian, and fought to the death with the Japanese army. The Songhu Anti-Japanese War, the Nanjing Defense Battle, the Wuhan Defense Battle, the Penghu Battlefield, and now the Nanchang Battlefield.

Nanchang is a heroic city, and Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expeditionary Army Headquarters was stationed in Nanchang during the Northern Expedition. The August 1 Nanchang Uprising was shot out, and the people's army was born. Before the Anti-Japanese War, Nanchang's status was already very important, equivalent to China's companion capital, and Wuhan, Guangzhou, and Chongqing were equally famous.

From the point of view of military science, Nanchang City is surrounded by mountains on all sides, relying on the Ganjiang River in front and the Fuhe River and the Jinjiang River in the back. However, Nanchang is in the lower reaches of the Ganjiang River and on the delta on the shore of Poyang Lake, and is the key point of water and land in Hunan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang, and the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway and the Nanxun Railway meet in Nanchang, and the Xiangtang Highway is connected with the Beijing-Hunan National Highway.

Before the Battle of Nanchang, the Military Commission had already determined in February that the Japanese army was attempting to occupy Nanchang based on intelligence, so it decided to preemptively attack. On March 8, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to Xue Yue, acting commander of the Ninth Theater: "In order to secure the line of communication between Nanchang and its rear, the Ninth Theater will immediately control the enemy and turn to the offensive in order to destroy the enemy's attempts. Preparations for the attack should be completed by 10 March, and the scheduled start date for the attack is 15 March. Chiang Kai-shek also gave principled instructions on the guiding essentials and deployment, requiring the 19th Army to hold its current position and resist the enemy's attack across the river; The 8th and 73rd armies commanded the 8th and 73rd armies from Wuning to De'an and Ruichang and attacked the enemy's left flank; The 30th and 27th armies assembled near Wuning, and the 1st Army advanced to Xiushui and Sandu, preparing for a later battle.

However, at this time in the Ninth Theater, the training of the second-line troops had not been completely completed, and it was difficult to replenish the troops, and Chiang Kai-shek said that it was easy to say, and it was absolutely too late to attack and disrupt the deployment of the Japanese army from March 15. Xue Yue called Chiang Kai-shek on March 9 and 10, requesting that the implementation be extended to March 24. Chiang replied on 13 March, emphasizing that "the attack should begin no later than the 24th of this month, however, because the purpose is to contain the enemy in advance and to contain the diversion of the enemy's forces." However, while the team was still preparing to take the offensive, the Japanese began to attack, and the 9th Theater had to go on the defensive. Luo Zhuoying, the former enemy commander, was limited by his strength and distributed 21 infantry divisions on a frontal defense line of hundreds of miles, without even a reserve. Such a defensive line lacked defensive depth, and under the assault of the Japanese armored group and the continuous attack of the artillery group, it was naturally impossible to hold it. In addition, the Japanese army used the armored group to attack Nanchang in a roundabout way, and the reinforcements mobilized by our army's Ninth Theater had not yet arrived, and if they were not careful, the troops of the Nanchang Defense Battle might be forced by the Japanese army to the Ganjiang River to be encircled and annihilated.

After Nanchang was broken by the Japanese army, Luo Zhuoying ordered all units to avoid the enemy's front, establish an anti-Japanese base south of Xiushui and west of the Ganjiang River, and confront the Japanese 101st and 106th divisions.

From a strategic point of view, Chiang Kai-shek believed that the Japanese army's defense was lax after occupying Nanchang, and that there were only the 1st 106th Division around Nanchang, which was the best time to counterattack Nanchang, so he issued an operational order for the April offensive.

Luo Zhuoying is Chen Cheng's deputy, and he is naturally the descendant of the first lineage, and he resolutely implements the order of the Military Commission to counterattack Nanchang. After Liu Yimin's telegram arrived, it was too late for Luo Zhuoying to adjust the deployment, because it needed to be reported to the Ninth War Zone, then to the Guilin camp, and then to the Military Commission, and to obtain approval at all levels. Otherwise, if we revise the battle plan without authorization, we will be suspected of fearing the enemy and delaying the fighters. Luo Zhuoying resisted Japan and killed the enemy and never left behind, how could he delay the fighter? In this way, in addition to playing a little warning role, Liu Yimin's telegram was tantamount to a loud fart, and the counterattack on Nanchang began according to the predetermined plan.

Of course, even if Liu Yimin's telegram was a loud fart, there was a sound, wasn't it?

Since he embarked on the battlefield of Songhu, Luo Zhuoying led his troops to fight with the Japanese army in flesh and blood, fighting defensive battles that were attacked by the Japanese army and defended by our army. Now that he can finally change from passive to active, he can fight an active offensive battle in which the Japanese army is defending our army's attack, and it is a surprise attack with concentrated forces, Luo Zhuoying feels confident that he will win.

Now, even Liu Yimin, who is far away in Shandong, is looking at Nanchang, and Luo Zhuoying is even more confident. He thought about it, the big plan could not be changed, and the attack time could not be changed, but what Liu Yimin said was reasonable, and if he didn't hear about it, he might regret it, so he decided to change the surprise attack of one regiment on Nanchang formulated by the Military Committee to one regiment, and the two regiments changed their plainclothes souls into Nanchang to respond, hoping to recapture Nanchang in one fell swoop.

The de facto counteroffensive was indeed unexpected by the Japanese army. After capturing Nanchang, Okamura moved the headquarters of the 11th Army to De'an, south of Jiujiang and north of Yongxiu. The Japanese army maintained a confrontation with China's Third and Ninth Theaters along the southeast shore of Poyang Lake in the east, as far as Xiangtang in the south, and on the line of Gao'an, Fengxin, and Wuning in the west. At this time, Okamura Ningji was ambitiously staring at the team position north of Hujing Mountain, mobilizing the 3rd Division, the 13th Division, the 16th Division, and the 4th Cavalry Brigade to prepare to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Fifth Theater and remove the threat from the north of Wuhan.

Okamura Ningji's ambition is inflated, and he really sees ** Jian'er as a soft persimmon, and he can pinch it as much as he wants, and he is destined to be unlucky.

If he fought against the instructor of the Eighth Route Army, he would be scared to death by Okamura Ningji, and he would not dare to arrange the formation like this. Because he couldn't figure out where Liu Yimin would hide the main force, Liu Yimin would not put his troops in a long snake formation for the Japanese artillery to bombard and planes to bombard, maybe he would stand out and take Okamura Ningji's 11th Army Headquarters!

On April 20, just as Okamura Ninji was about to give the order to attack the position of the team north of Jingshan, the 74th Army of the National Revolutionary Army south of the Jinjiang River, under the command of army commander Yu Jishi, forcibly crossed the Jinjiang River and fired the first shot of the counterattack on Nanchang, and the front of the troops was directed at Gao'an. The leader was naturally the elite 51st Division of the Hundred Battles, and the fierce general Zhang Lingfu went into battle and led the 153rd Brigade to open the way for the whole army.

Immediately afterwards, on April 21, the 1st Army attacked Fengxin with the 60th Army's 184th Division and the 58th Army Division, and monitored the Japanese army in Jing'an with the 58th Army Division; The base of the 30th Army Wang Ling launched a fierce attack on Wuning. The four-way army came out together, and for a while, the earth shook.

The 32nd Army suddenly entered the battle, and the 16th Division, the 79th Division, the 5th Reserve Division and a part of the 10th Reserve Division of the 29th Army crossed the Fuhe River on April 23 and attacked Nanchang.

Garrisoned in Gao'an was the 102nd Brigade of Major General Yoshio Kudo of the 101st Division of the Japanese Army, under the command of the 103rd Wing of Kozo Furukawa and the 157th Wing of Kotaro Fukui. Because although the battle of Nanchang suffered heavy losses, but did not achieve the goal of annihilating the team under the city of Nanchang, the two sides were in a confrontation, Major General Kudo Yoshio under the orders of Lieutenant General Saito Yahei Tai, the commander of the division, and the chief of staff, Kunitake Sanchio Daisa, organized the troops to take Gao'an as the core, fortify at all levels, and set up strongholds.

Zhang Lingfu has become famous in the first battle since the bloody battle of Zhang Gushan in Wanjialing, and after recovering from his injury, the deputy brigade commander was promoted to the full brigade commander. At this moment, this double-top student from the History Department of Peking University and the Whampoa Military Academy is holding a telescope to observe the battlefield. The orderly took his beloved wolf dog by the hand and stood aside.

The situation on the battlefield was not optimistic, and the Japanese army did not hesitate to resist in the face of our army's offensive, relying on fortifications. The 153rd Brigade attacked from the front, fought for three days, and at the beginning it was still marching all the way, and the 49th Army cooperated with the 74th Army to flank the devils, so that the 74th Army was attacking head-on, and the 49th Army of the 19th Group Army was feint on the flank, forcing the little devils to retreat again and again. When they arrived at the city of Gao'an, the attack became extremely difficult, the Japanese army fought to the death and did not retreat, our army's artillery fire was insufficient, and the siege war had to be fancy, and it became a meat grinder for both sides to fight for courage and personnel.

If it goes on like this, when will it be able to break into Nanchang City?

Seeing that the attacking troops were once again beaten back by the Japanese from Gao'an, Zhang Lingfu was furious, grabbed a steel helmet and buckled it on his head, picked up a submachine gun, shouted "Brothers, follow me", and led the reserve team to kill.

The brigade commander led the charge, do the brethren still care about this life? Even the Governor team rushed forward with Zhang Lingfu.

Wang Yaowu, the commander of the 51st Division, who was commanding in the back, saw Zhang Lingfu kill him, and knew that he had to go all out to break the city, otherwise his morale would be discouraged, and it would be difficult to break the city again.

Wang Yaowu is not ordinary, he graduated from the third phase of Whampoa. There were a total of 1,300 people admitted to the third phase of Huangpu, and 11 people died in the Shaji tragedy, 6 people died in the Liede Campaign, 5 people died in the Dongjiang Campaign, and 53 people died of illness during the study period, which was the largest number of people who died of illness in Huangpu in the past. At the time of graduation, there were 1,233 students, including one Taiwanese cadet and five North Korean cadets. Of these, 300 were sent to the Soviet Union to learn to fly, most of them served in the First Army, and some of the cadets were sent to the units of the Beiyang warlords to engage in underground activities, and some of them joined the workers' and peasants' movement. In addition to Zhu Yunqing, the earliest chief of staff of the Central Red Army, Wang Yaowu is the brightest star in the third phase of Huangpu.

Wang Yaowu immediately grabbed the phone and ordered the whole division to launch a general attack, supervise the team to set up machine guns, and those who dared to take a step back would be killed!

The main force of the 51st Division moved on all fronts, and the 153rd Brigade, which followed Zhang Lingfu, rushed towards Gao'an City.

History is written in blood!

Not only did the light and heavy machine guns hit the sky, the infantry cannons and grenadiers fired desperately, but the Japanese infantry even rushed out of the city gate with bayonets and screams, and began a white-knives decisive battle with the 153 Brigade troops approaching the city gate.

Zhang Lingfu swept over with a shuttle, knocked the three little devils to the ground, jumped forward, jumped in front of a little devil who was fighting with his orderlies with bayonets, picked up the submachine gun and smashed it on the steel helmet of the goods, and smashed the little devil's head down.

Throwing away the submachine gun, Zhang Lingfu bent down to pick up the devil's 38 rifle, and before he could stand up straight, he felt the wind in his lower back, and hurriedly pounced forward, threw himself to the ground, dodged the sneak attack of the devil, turned his head and looked, the two little devils smiled fiercely, and pounced on him with bayonets.

If you can't get up on the ground, you won't have a chance to fight back, and you have to die here. Zhang Lingfu was in a hurry and hurriedly called his orderly.

The orderly soldier was stabbing against a little devil, and when he heard Zhang Lingfu shouting, he turned his head and saw that the brigade commander was forced to lie on the ground by the little devil, and he had no power to fight back. As soon as the orderly soldier gave the order, he whistled at the big wolf dog, and as soon as the wolf dog heard the order, he jumped up and bit the devil who stabbed the orderly. The little devil's leg was weak in pain, and the bayonet was pointed at the ground. The orderly did not hesitate and directly threw the bayonet into the belly of the little devil. It may be that the force is too great to pull out the bayonet. The orderly simply didn't pull it out, pointed at Zhang Lingfu with his hand, and with another whistle, the wolf dog went straight to the two little devils who were assassinating Zhang Lingfu, and bit the leg of one of the devils.

By the time the orderly picked up the devil's rifle and rushed up, the wolf dog had already bitten the leg of the other little devil, and Zhang Lingfu had already stood up, waving his rifle and killing the devil.

Seeing that the little devil was more and more ferocious, and our army did not have an advantage in fighting bayonets, Zhang Lingfu hurriedly jumped to his feet and shouted: "Brothers, shoot quickly, the little devil has no bullets in the gun!" ”

Zhang Lingfu shouted, the brothers woke up, stupid, what kind of bayonet are you fighting with the little devil! The guy in his hand set himself on fire, and the bullet slammed and beckoned to the little devil.

In this way, the little devil could not support it anymore and began to rout. Zhang Lingfu led the brothers to take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and rushed into Gao'an City.

After a few days of fighting, he finally attacked Gao'an City, and the troops outside the city were cheering. Wang Yaowu ordered all the trumpeters to blow the trumpet together, and JΔ« encouraged the troops to rush forward and kill all the little devils in Gao'an City!

The tick-tock charge reverberated over Gao'an, and the officers and men of the 51st Division braved the enemy's artillery fire, went forward one after another, and swooped down on Gao'an City at the cost of their lives.

If this battle is postponed for a period of time, after the 74th Army is equipped with American-style equipment, it will not have to be so hard and tragic to fight the small Gao'an City. The current 74th Army is said to be the most elite, but in fact, the artillery fire is far from the Japanese army, and it can only rely on the loyalty and sacrifice of the soldiers in exchange for victory.

After Zhang Lingfu entered Gao'an City, the follow-up troops followed and soon started a street battle with the little devil. When the 51st Division poured into the city, the Japanese defense line of Gao'an City collapsed.

Major General Yoshio Kudo, the commander of the 102nd Brigade, saw that the castle was broken and the counterattack was ineffective, and a large number of troops entered the city, and he no longer dared to fight, so he immediately ordered Furukawa Kozo Osa and Fukui Kotaro Osa to gather their troops, alternately cover, and withdraw from Koan Castle.

Zhang Lingfu killed the rise, where would the little devil retreat calmly, and commanded the 153 Brigade to pursue.

When chasing to the north of the city, an accident appeared, and I don't know which dog's little devil machine gunner aimed at Zhang Lingfu, and a shuttle bullet hit, Zhang Lingfu fell to the ground.

When the orderlies and a few guards carried Zhang Lingfu to safety, it became clear that the devil's machine gun bullet hit the brigade commander's right knee, and the blood stained the kΓΉzi through.

Zhang Lingfu ordered the health soldiers to bandage it simply, and asked the guards to carry the stretcher, and he wanted to sit on the stretcher to pursue the devil. As a result, the medical soldier reported that he had to be transferred to a rear hospital for treatment, otherwise he would probably have to saw his legs.

When Zhang Lingfu heard this, he had to agree to go to the rear hospital.

The orderly held the wolf dog and reported with a sad face: "Brigade commander, your leg is broken, and the dog's leg is also broken. ”

Zhang Lingfu was so angry that he couldn't cry or laugh, and scolded the orderly: "You dog, how can you talk? ”

The orderly continued to report with his face tilted: "Brigade commander, I am telling the truth. Don't you often say that you are only allowed to tell the truth and not to tell lies? The truth is that you're just like a dog, you have short legs. ”

Zhang Lingfu endured the pain, grabbed a steel helmet and threw it at the orderly.

After smashing it, Zhang Lingfu called the deputy brigade commander and explained that he should take good care of this orderly, he was one of the 223 people who survived on Zhang Gushan, and today he saved Lao Tzu's life.

Watching Zhang Lingfu's stretcher retreat backwards, the orderly still touched his head that was a little dizzy from being smashed by the steel helmet, and muttered to himself: "The brigade commander is really strange, obviously he and the dog's legs were broken, and he didn't let me say it." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he received a popping chestnut on the door of his head.

The orderly turned his head and shouted, "What did you do with that dog?" ”

I heard the deputy brigade commander laugh and say, "It's you who beat you." Why don't you clean up the battlefield yet? It was too late, and the other brothers had gone to rob the spoils. ”

The orderly snorted and ran away.

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