Chapter 733 Bloody Ganjiang (6)

Just when Zeng Jiachu led the Fifth Division to fight bloodily in front of the Japanese fortifications east of Nanchang City, the main forces of the 237th Regiment and the 26th Division of the 79th Division crossed the Fuhe River at Egang.

The Fifth Division crossed the river on the night of the 3rd and launched an attack on Nanchang on the 4th. However, due to the ravages of the Japanese air force, the troops could not cross the river during the day and could only rely on ferries to cross the river at night. Moreover, it is not only to cross the Fu River, the Fu River is easy to do, and the pontoon bridge that was blown up by the Japanese army is connected, and the troops themselves do not have heavy artillery, combat vehicles and other equipment, and they can pass quickly. However, the tributaries of the Fu River west of the Fu River have no pontoon bridges, and can only be ferried by boat. In this way, the number of troops put into the battlefield is limited. This is the asymmetry of the battle between the Chinese and Japanese armies. If the squadron has air supremacy, has enough engineering troops, builds a few more pontoon bridges, and crosses the river together with the 26th Division, the 5th Pre-5th Division, and the 237th Regiment of the 79th Division and kills Nanchang City together, the battle situation may change. Now that it had become a standard refueling tactic, the Japanese defending the city could have repelled the 5th Division first, and then faced the 26th Division.

At this time, our army has actually missed the opportunity to capture Nanchang, and has also lost the significance of the urgent need to attack. But as a soldier, it is a duty to obey orders. Shangfeng did not give the order to stop the attack, and the sword mountain and the sea of fire in front of him had to be pounced up.

After the 78th Brigade of the first group of river-crossing troops crossed the tributaries of the Fuhe River, Doutou encountered the resistance of the Japanese search and alert troops.

Wang Kejun, the commander of the 78th Brigade, is a native of Yuechi, Guang'an, Sichuan, and is a typical martial arts background, which turned out to be Yang Sen's troops. Later, Wang Kejun's immediate boss Guo Rudong, that is, the cousin of the famous Guo Rugui, separated from Yang Sen and threw himself into the arms of the central government, Wang Kejun became the Central Army, and he also studied in the sixth higher education class of the Central Military Academy.

Wang Kejun's goal is Nanchang City, how can the xiǎo devil block the way?

Wang Kejun, a good one, gathered the machine guns of the whole brigade together, took the lead with a cǐng Czech light machine gun, and beat the Japanese army a little. Dense bullets were poured on the Japanese positions, hitting the devil so hard that he couldn't raise his head at all. As soon as the brothers saw that they had suppressed the Japanese firepower, they rushed straight over the net, and the grenades were quickly thrown into the head of the xiǎo devil. It was night, and the xiǎo devil couldn't figure out how many troops the squadron had, so he retreated backwards.

Wang Kejun put away the machine gun and laughed: "Xiǎo devils are also a kind of bully who is afraid of the hard!" ”

After repelling the infantry brigade blocked by the devils, Wang Kejun led the 78th Brigade to rush all the way, crossed the Yao Lake, and went straight to the old airfield of the Japanese army.

The devil's airport was attacked once a few days ago by Duan Langru with the brothers of the 79th Division, and finally the 101st Division repelled the squadron, and the airport resumed use.

At 5:15 a.m., Wang Kejun led the 78th Brigade to the old airport.

Looking at the Japanese planes on the apron of the airport, Wang Kejun was overjoyed and ordered the troops to break through the positions of the Japanese guards in several ways, smash the airport, and blow up the Japanese planes that were bombing.

As soon as the Japanese airfield guard saw the squadron attacking in a big way, they desperately resisted while asking for help from the 101st Division in the city. The combat alarm was also sounded on the airfield, and the pilots rushed to the tarmac, and soon the motor sounded on the airfield, and the Japanese plane was ready to take off urgently.

As soon as Wang Kejun saw that the Japanese plane was about to slip away, he was anxious and ordered the trumpet to be sounded, and the whole brigade, from the brigade commander, everyone went into battle, rushed into the airfield, and blew up the enemy plane.

After all, the number of guards was limited, and the troops were scattered in the positions around the airport, and the firepower of each position was thin, and it was suddenly attacked without warning, and it was taken by surprise. What's more, the 101st Division of the Japanese Army itself is a fourth-rate unit, and the soldiers are all reservists in their thirties, and they are the first in the number of people who spoil the common people, but there is a gap between the will to fight and the garrison division, and there is no comparison with the permanent division. Seeing that the squadron was about to break through the position, it had to retreat while fighting, and the position was broken through by the 78th Brigade.

By the time the 78th Brigade stormed the airfield, most of the Japanese planes had already taken off, and only three Japanese planes had not had time to take off.

When Wang Kejun saw the capture of the Japanese airfield, he immediately sent the 155th Regiment to capture the bus terminal, and the rest of the troops hurried to build fortifications and prepare to deal with the devils to counterattack.

The 78th Brigade was indeed caught off guard by the devils, because during the day, Zeng Jiachu led the Fifth Division to storm for a while, pressing all the xiǎo devils outside the city into the city, and was finally repelled by the xiǎo devils. The devil thought that the squadron was going to fight in the east direction of the city, but he didn't expect that the 78th Brigade turned to the airport and the station and opened fire.

By the time the 78th Brigade captured the bus terminal, it was already dawn. Lieutenant General Yahei Saito, commander of the 101st Division, was furious after receiving the report of the loss of the airfield and the bus terminal, and immediately ordered the chief of staff, Kunimu Michio Osa, to command the 101st Wing, the main force of the division, and the reinforced marines to meet the squadron and make sure to completely annihilate the squadron attacking the city.

The Japanese army not only had a wing of field artillery, but also infantry artillery and speed guns in each wing and brigade, and a grenadier canister in the squadron and xiǎo team, and their firepower was much stronger than that of the 78th Brigade. In addition, the Japanese bomber squadron rushed to reinforce it, and for a time, the airfield, the bus terminal and even the positions of the 5th Pre-5th Division in the east direction were subjected to frenzied shelling and bombardment. Immediately afterwards, the Japanese infantry, guided by tanks and armored vehicles, began a large-scale counterattack, focusing on the airfield and railway station captured by the 78th Brigade.

Wang Kejun's task was to attack Nanchang City, so he sent a report to Liu Yuqing, the commander of the 26th Division, asking for urgent reinforcements, and at the same time commanded the troops to fight to the death and not retreat, and used his blood to resist the counterattack of the Japanese army.

Chen Anbao and Liu Yuqing led the Wang Regiment of the 79th Division, that is, the 237th Regiment and the 76th Brigade of the 26th Division Zhou Zhiqun, to reach the tributary west of the Fuhe River in the middle of the night on 4 May. When Wang Kejun asked for reinforcements, Chen Anguo and the others were still far from the battlefield.

The Japanese planes were frantically dropping bombs and sweeping shè, the artillery was shelling frantically, and the only reassuring thing was that the wind was not in the right direction, and the xiǎo devils could not cast poison gas. However, the 76th Brigade could not bear it, and if it did not retreat, let alone occupy Nanchang City, I am afraid that all the brothers would have to die here. Wang Kejun had to order the troops to retreat and move in the direction of Liantang.

After the retreat of the 78th Brigade, the Japanese turned to the 5th Division of Zeng Jiachu.

Zeng Jiachu led the Fifth Division to fight with the enemy from May 4 to the present, and the eyes of the soldiers who were looking forward to reinforcements were almost blind. When the 78th Brigade started, Zeng Jiachu commanded the troops to attack the Japanese fortifications again, hoping to break through the devil's defense line and rush into Nanchang City.

The main reason for this is that the Fifth Division was a native of Nanchang, and it is too familiar with the rivers and lakes, ditches, forks, mountains and hills here, and is very good at using the terrain to conceal itself. By the time the Xiǎo devil reinforcements came up, the Fifth Division had already lost its trace. Now that the Pre-Fifth Division is making a comeback, the Xiǎo devil is not polite, relying on the city fortifications to confront the Pre-Fifth Division, and the Japanese planes are also circling back and forth, frantically bombing and sweeping shè.

I hated it in my heart! This battle was really fucking wretched, and there was no good coordination and cohesion between the various units from beginning to end. When the 79th Division attacked the Nanchang station and airport, its own plainclothes regiment opened fire in the city, how passive the xiǎo devils were. As a result, there were no reinforcements behind the 79th Division, and they were simply driven out by the xiǎo devils. It is still the case now, after a day of fighting, the 78th Brigade arrived, and the reinforcements behind the 78th Brigade are still dozens of miles away, so I am afraid that they will arrive at night. The most angry is the troops west of the Ganjiang River, the First Group Army and the 74th Army, the three-way army, and they can't attack the Ganjiang River! Such a big campaign, hundreds of thousands of troops, even the oxen do not pull the donkey! In the end, he shot Duan Langru, who was the first to attack Nanchang City, and sent a dead ghost to the Nanyue Martyrs' Shrine, which had not yet been completed. Fuck it!

Zeng Jiachu didn't have time to think about it anymore, because the gunfire at the airport and the bus terminal shifted south, and needless to say, the 78th Brigade had to retreat after throwing the remains of the brothers on the ground.

Not long after, the Japanese field artillery wing turned to the Fifth Division, and when the shells fell, Zeng Jiachu knew that the Japanese army had begun to counterattack him. Strictly order all troops to shrink, establish a defensive line, and resolutely repel the counterattack of the xiǎo devils.

From May 4 to the present, the casualties of the Fifth Division have not been lost. However, Zeng Jiachu was confident that although his brothers were from the security corps, they had undergone strict training, and they were fighting to defend their hometown, and it was no problem to repel the attacks of the xiǎo devils.

Zeng Jiachu underestimated the determination of the Japanese army.

The hot air balloon had already risen high, and on it sat Japanese artillery observers, constantly reporting data and guiding the artillery to carry out a precise attack on the Fifth Division.

The shells fell one by one, and Zeng Jiachu clearly saw in the binoculars that a brother had just picked up his machine gun and fired a shuttle, and his head was cut off by the shrapnel of the Japanese army, and he rolled on the position.

As soon as the shelling stopped, the tanks and armored vehicles of the Xiǎo devils guided the infantry to attack. This time, the Japanese army was ruthless and poured out, the marines were in the east, and the 101st Brigade was divided into two routes, one from west to east, and the other was a frontal assault. The Japanese planes were even more unscrupulous in hovering over the sinking bottom of the Fifth Division, dropping bombs and sweeping wherever there was resistance from the squadron.

Although Zeng Jiachu kept sending signal troops to send orders to all units to resolutely resist, the position was still broken through by the xiǎo devils. Seeing that if it was delayed any longer, the whole division would be dumplings by the Japanese army, Zeng Jiachu looked at Nanchang City and sighed, and ordered the troops to shrink quickly, and Jiāo took cover and retreated to the line of Yaohu Lake.

Although the losses of the 5th Division and the 78th Brigade were heavy, they arrived in Nanchang after all, and they retreated calmly. The follow-up troops led by Chen Anguo and Liu Yuqing did not have such luck, and tragedy occurred in the following battle.

At 11 o'clock on the morning of the 5th, after Chen Anbao and Liu Yuqing led the follow-up troops to cross the tributaries of the Fuhe River, they immediately ordered the troops to run and advance from the winding track between the enemy's strongholds, preparing to advance from the west of the railway to Nanchang Tǐng.

At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the 5th, the troops arrived at Shawozhang Village by road and railway, and the vanguard Zhou Regiment was attacked by the enemy, and was soon stuck by the enemy on the highlands northwest of Tongshumiao. At the same time, the communications companies behind the corps and division headquarters, the Baggage Platoon and the Wang and Xie regiments were also cut off by the enemy at Gaofang, and the situation suddenly became grim.

At this time, not to mention the contact between Zeng Jiachu's Fifth Division and Wang Kejun's 78th Brigade, even the Xie Regiment of the 76th Brigade and the 237th Regiment of the 79th Division could not be contacted, and only the gunfire was heard all around.

Chen Anbao judged that it should not be the main force of the Japanese army that attacked the Zhou regiment, so he immediately made a decision and ordered the Zhou regiment to quickly defeat the enemy in front, support the 237th Regiment and the 153rd Regiment Xie Regiment in the battle, restore the contact between the troops, and defeat the enemy in Gaofang together.

At 4:30 a.m., because the various strongholds of the enemy were well fortified, the two mountain artillery companies under the command of the 29th Army still did not know where they were, and the 237th Regiment of the 26th Division and the 79th Division had no heavy artillery and no means of attacking the enemy's strongholds, resulting in no progress in the battle in front and behind, and the troops and the enemy were stuck in the Xiazhuang, Wuzhuang, and Shawozhang villages at the northern end of Gaofang, and the line of Shanli Yao and Longli Zhang in the northwest highlands.

This location is no more than 10 miles away from Liantang in the north, and about 20 miles away from Xiangtang in the south, and they are all in a straight line. However, at this time, the level of communication was too poor, and Chen Anbao had a strict order to capture Nanchang on May 5, so Chen Anguo did not order the troops to turn around and go south, to join up with the troops of the 16th and 102nd divisions on the front line of Xiangtang, and to flank the Japanese troops near Xiangtang, but continued to order the troops to move closer to each other, establish contact, and attack Nanchang after repelling the Japanese army.

If Chen Anbao had been able to order the troops to retreat at this time, there would have been no later tragedy. However, Chen Anbao was bent on attacking Nanchang City and completing the task given by Chairman Jiāo, and he did not know that the Japanese army in Nanchang City had reached 15,000 people, and it was impossible to attack it. I don't know that because the First Group Army only had Lu Daoyuan's new 11th Division advancing bravely in front of Fengxin, Jing'an, and Anyi, the main force ignored the orders of commanders at all levels, did not move forward, and dug up to defend itself when it encountered the enemy, thus losing all the honor won by the Dian Army in the Battle of Xuzhou. He Ping of the 16th Division attacked Shatanbu wholeheartedly, and these two troops who undertook the task of cutting off the Nanxun line have not even reached the edge of the Nanxun line! Although the 30th Group Army sent a force to attack the Japanese auxiliary ferry in Zhanggongdu, the main force did not cut off the Japanese Jiāo pass between De'an and Nanchang. In this way, tens of thousands of Japanese troops in the Nanchang area could move freely on the inner line and concentrate their forces in any direction. Chen Anguo also thought that our army had mobilized four group armies plus one ace 74th Army, and that the Japanese army must be passively defensive, and who would know that the Japanese 101st Division, after repelling the 5th Division and the 78th Brigade, would do its best to counterattack the follow-up troops led by Chen Anbao, and the situation was already very dangerous.

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