Chapter 732 Bloody Ganjiang (4)

Chiang Kai-shek was also paying attention to the Nanchang battle at this time.

After Shangguan Yunxiang's telegram requesting Duan Langru's execution arrived, Chiang Kai-shek was extremely angry, when did Duan Langru become afraid of the enemy and cowardly? In the Battle of Lushan, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general after he was awarded a first-class meritorious service, and his future is very good, why would he destroy his future?

If it was left in peacetime, Chiang Kai-shek would not only not sanction Duan Langru, but would also send a telegram to reprimand Shangguan Yunxiang. Just kidding, graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy and the Army University, and is a lieutenant general, did you shoot Shangguan Yunxiang if he wanted to? If you don't want the 79th Division, can you sequence the third theater of operations!

However, the situation is different now, and the main reason why the Nanchang battle is not going well is that some troops blindly preserve their strength, perfunctory and perfunctory orders, and delay the entire campaign.

Like the First Army, let them launch a diversionary attack on the Japanese 106th Division in the vicinity of Fengxin, Anyi, and Jing'an, attract the attention of the Japanese army and cut off Jiāo. As long as they attack a little more fiercely, play a little tricks, and stumble the 1st and 19th Army, the task will be accomplished. This group of bastards actually dug a position outside Fengxin City to confront the Japanese army, saying that they were counterattacked by the Japanese squadron and brigade size and needed to consolidate their positions. As a result, Fengxin was still in the hands of the Japanese army, resulting in the main force of the 19th Army being blocked by the enemy's 106th Division, and it could not form a flanking attack on Nanchang with the 32nd Group Army.

There was also the 30th Group Army, and the Military Commission knew that they only had two armies and four newly formed divisions, but when the Japanese captured Nanchang, they only dented their positions in one piece, and compared with the 19th Group Army, the Eighth Army and the 73rd Army of Fan Songfu, the commander-in-chief of the guerrillas on the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi border, suffered relatively losses. Therefore, considering that the 8th Army and the 73rd Army, which had suffered heavy losses, had to maintain the defensive line after being transferred out of northern Jiangxi for reorganization, the Military Commission gave them instructions to capture Wuning and cut off the Jiāo line behind the enemy line in De'an. Wuning was garrisoned by only one wing of the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army, and a group army could not be attacked. Niang Xipi, it's not that she can't attack it, it's that she didn't attack it seriously at all. Even cutting off the Jiāo Pass behind enemy lines in De'an, something that a company and a battalion of the Eighth Route Army dared to do, and the third was that the group army could not do it well, and the Japanese army was still relying on the Jiāo Pass Line to mobilize troops.

The attack arrangement of the 32nd Group Army, the main force of the Nanchang counteroffensive operation, was very flexible. With the 79th Division, the 5th Division, and the 102nd Division forming the Nanchang siege force, the 79th Division, which has the strongest combat strength in the whole group army, is the main force of the attacking army. The 102nd Division served as the reserve of the attacking army and was responsible for building pontoon bridges over the Fuhe River and various tributaries on the outskirts of Nanchang. The group army, with the 26th Division as the general reserve, advanced towards Fuhe with the 79th Division. The 16th Division and the 10th Pre-10th Division attacked from south to north between the Fuhe and Ganjiang rivers, cutting off the strongholds built by the Japanese army along the highway and cutting off the railway road Jiāo. The 40th Division was controlled as a reserve and stationed at the Fuhe position.

After the start of the counteroffensive Nanchang campaign, it was very crucial to put the main force of the Japanese 101st Division into the city of Nanchang. What is strange is that He Ping, the commander of the 16th Division, who was in charge of cutting off the Nanxun Line and the Xiangtang Highway, violated the order to bypass the Shabutan stronghold, and went so far as to unfold the whole division, ignoring the order to cut off the Nanxun Line and the Xiangtang Highway, and opening up the Shabutan Offensive Battle. Niang Xipi, a main division attacked a stronghold held by a Japanese brigade, and after a few days of fighting, the Japanese stronghold was still there. Luo Zhuoying and Xue Yue ordered him several times not to fight Shabutan, he couldn't do it, he had to fight! Niang Xipi! Where is this attack, it is clearly to preserve strength and passively avoid war! Niang Xipi!

A good game of chess, it's because of the stinky chess basket with distracting thoughts in the heart that is completely smashed!

Chiang Kai-shek was eager to arrest Gao Yinhuai, the acting commander-in-chief of the First Group Army, and shoot him, but now the situation is special, and Long Yun, the commander of the Yunnan Army, covered Wang Jīngwei's escape to Hanoi. It seems that xiǎo can't bear to be a big plan, and for the First Army, it has to be dealt with with by xiǎo's heart, and the main thing is consolation.

Chiang Kai-shek thought that Liu Yimin said that April 27 was the time node, and that he had to withdraw his troops if he could not recapture Nanchang after April 27, he hesitated in his heart, seeing that the battle was not going well, and he was afraid that there would not be much success if he continued to fight.

At this time, Shangguan Yunxiang's telegram requesting Duan Langru to be shot arrived. After thinking for a while, Chiang Kai-shek thought that he should agree to Shangguan Yunxiang's request to shoot Duan Langru, a descendant of Huangpu, and make an example of him, so that he might be able to boost the morale of all troops and take Nanchang in one go.

How would poor Duan Langru know that the headmaster he was loyal to decided to sacrifice him in the blink of an eye?

Duan Langru, commander of the 79th Division, lied about the military situation and delayed the fighter plane, and immediately corrected the law before the army. The 16th Division was ineffective in combat, and it should be punished for its crimes. and ordered the commander-in-chief to go to the front to supervise the battle. If the fighting is ineffective, all armies should be jointly responsible for conquering Nanchang by 5 May. ”

The war on the front line in Nanchang is back up!

Chiang Kai-shek ordered Duan Langru to be shot, which greatly shocked the troops participating in the battle.

Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater of Operations, ordered Duan Langru to be shot in front of the army, and ordered Shangguan Yunxiang to immediately rush to the front line to take command and attack Nanchang again.

After Shangguan Yunxiang rushed to the front line, he ordered Deputy Commander Zhang of the 79th Division to command the troops, make meritorious contributions, and storm Nanchang.

Shangguan Yunxiang knew that it was impossible for the 16th Division to complete the task of cutting off the Nanxun Road, and in order to punish He Ping and the 16th Division, he transferred the 10th Division and the 304th Regiment of the 102nd Division to He Ping's command, and still ordered him to storm Shatanbu.

On May 2, in view of the heavy casualties of the 79th Division and the fatigue of the long battle, the division commander Duan Langru was killed by Shangguan Yunxiang again, and the army was discouraged, Shangguan Yunxiang adjusted the deployment and ordered the 26th Division to garrison the task, and the commander of the 29th Army, Chen Anbao, commanded the 26th Division, the 5th Pre-5th Division and the 237th Regiment of the 79th Division to attack Nanchang head-on again.

He Ping, the commander of the 16th Division, was so frightened that he didn't dare to perfunctory anymore. He knew that if he didn't perform well, he might have to follow in the footsteps of Duan Langru. The difference is that if Duan Lang is a dead ghost in the temple, there will be people who will cry out for him after the war. If He Ping is shot, I am afraid that everyone will say that he deserves it.

He Ping was determined to intercept the Japanese reinforcements with the 46th Regiment, and the 47th Regiment and the 48th Regiment attacked head-on.

Machine guns are ringing, rifles are ringing. The 47th Regiment and the 48th Regiment, which were responsible for the main attack, shouted one bō after another, and launched one charge after another towards the Japanese positions at Shatanbu. The replenished Japanese troops calmly met the enemy, light and heavy machine guns formed a net of fire, rifles carried out jīng quasi-shè attacks, and the front of the position was densely covered with the corpses of ** soldiers.

He Ping watched that the attacks were repelled by the Japanese army again and again, and he was jumping like thunder, and the news came that the 10th Wing Reserve Division had stopped because of the Japanese flank attack, and he was so angry that he picked up a pistol and went to the position of the 46th Regiment responsible for intercepting the Japanese reinforcements. After the fight, He Ping shouted murderously: "Your mother, if you can't intercept the Japanese reinforcements, the chairman wants Lao Tzu's life, Lao Tzu wants your life!" ”

Unfortunately, it was too late at this time, the task of cutting off the Nanxun Road had failed, and the Japanese reinforcements and supplies had entered Nanchang, and the 101st Division was able to divide its troops to consolidate the outskirts of the city and counterattack with the main force. He Ping is destined to suffer the consequences.

At this time, Xue Yue's 102nd Division of Bai Huizhang, who was reorganized under the pretext of pursuing the Red Army into Guizhou, seized the opportunity of He Ping's 16th Division to fight fiercely with the Japanese army, and made a decisive attack, and actually regained Xiangtang, and then conquered Shixia Street.

Although He Ping responded passively in the early stage and delayed the plan, it was not easy for him to become the commander of the 16th Division. The 16th Division was the 16th Division of Zhang Liang Jixiang that Liu Yimin destroyed in the first battle after the crossing, and it was originally the establishment of the Three Brigades and Nine Regiments. Later, after Liu Yimin asked He Jianjiao to ransom people and release Zhang Liangji, the commander of the 16th Hunan Division, and other officers, in order to preserve his strength, He Jian immediately transferred local security forces and military academy students, plus the prisoners he ransomed from Liu Yimin, quickly restored the establishment and pulled him to Hunan for training. After the fall of He Jian, the Hunan army was all centralized, and the 16th Hunan Division was organized into the 16th Division. Zhang Liangji was transferred to the Military Senate as a senator, and a few days ago, that is, on April 24, he was promoted to deputy commander of the 18th Army. After the Nanyue Military Conference, the 16th Division was reorganized into a three-regiment division.

As soon as He Ping saw that the Japanese army was reinforcing Xiangtang, he seized the opportunity to storm and pressed all the troops up. This time, he saw the success, and actually attacked Shatan Port.

He Ping shouted: "Chief of Staff, report to Commander-in-Chief Yunxiang that our division has captured Shatanbu!" ”

After shouting, He Ping sat on the ground and cried, crying and shouting: "It's not that I, He Ping, perfunctorily refuse to carry out the order, it's that I'm afraid that after cutting off the Xiangtang Highway and the Nanxun Line, the 16th Division will become a key target of the Japanese army, and the brothers will all die!" ”

If the 16th Division could indeed carry out its mission to cut off the Japanese army's Jiāo line, it would certainly be attacked by the 101st Division with all its might, but it could also achieve the dual goal of interrupting the supply of the Japanese army and dispersing the 101st Division's forces defending the city. If he did not cut off the Japanese army's Jiāo line, the marines of a brigade of the Japanese army went from Jiujiang to Poyang Lake by water, and calmly joined the Nanchang battle. No, before He Ping's crying ended, the Japanese reinforcements arrived, and the 16th Division was driven out of Shatan Port again.

He Ping's eyes were dark, but the Japanese reinforcements had arrived, and it was impossible for him to capture Shatanbu.

At noon on May 2, Zhang Gongdu by the Xiushui River, the Japanese squadron leader guarding the ferry had eaten and led the wolf dog to stand by the pontoon bridge and carefully check the sentry's posture.

This Gongdu was an auxiliary ferry port for the Japanese army to attack Nanchang in the south, and a squadron was stationed to defend it.

At this time, a squadron of ** rushed out of the mountain road and pounced on the ferry. Suddenly, the quiet crossing resounded with the sound of gunfire, grenade explosions, and shouts of killing.

The sneak attack on Zhang Gongdu was carried out by two companies of the vanguard battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 78th Division of the 78th Army of the National Revolutionary Army. It turned out that Xue Yue, the acting commander of the Ninth Theater of Operations, knew that the combat strength of the Sichuan Army was not enough to attack the fortifications head-on, and that the 30th Group Army also had to take care of its own defense, and Chiang Kai-shek's order for the 30th Army to attack Wuning City, which was garrisoned by a wing of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, was impossible to fulfill, so he sent a telegram to Wang Lingji, asking him to "really cut off the Jiāo communication between Nanchang and De'an, and contain the enemy in Wuning." This means that there is no need to storm Wuning, and the main task is to cut off Jiāo and contain the Sixth Division. After receiving the operational order to counterattack Nanchang, Wang Lingji, commander-in-chief of the 30th Group Army, used the 72nd Army to attack the 23rd Wing of the 6th Division in front of Wuning, and the 78th Army to carry out the task of cutting off the Jiāo line between De'an and Nanchang behind enemy lines.

The 78th Army crossed De'an with the new 16th Division and advanced behind enemy lines. Unfortunately, the new 16th Division was blocked by the Japanese army and made no progress.

Wang Lingji, who fought in the Sichuan warlord hún war, is old, and usually laughs, but he is actually a personal jīng. Let him attack Wuning, he will definitely think of delaying, but let him go around behind the enemy to cut off Jiāotong, he is willing to do this, and he is also good at it. To put it bluntly, isn't this the same as the Red Army? Therefore, after receiving the report that the new 16th Division had made no progress, Wang Lingji scolded a group of melon babies at that time, and let the donkeys kick the ball in their brains. Why did it have to pass through the Japanese lines? The whole division found a mountain road for Lao Tzu, and Rao Mountain Road passed through the Japanese defense line to the back of the Xiǎo devil's ass.

Now, the brothers of the Sichuan army who came out of the mountains by mountain road became tigers descending from the mountains and pounced on the stunned Japanese soldiers.

If there is a positional battle, where will the Sichuan army of two companies be the opponent of the Japanese army in one squadron. But this is not a positional war, it is a sneak attack. Without the raging poisonous gas of Japanese aircraft, artillery and tanks, all the soldiers of the Sichuan army were tigers, the grenades were thrown accurately, the guns were also accurate, and even the shouting voices became majestic and majestic, full of jīng spirit.

The panicked Japanese army had no time to react, and was killed and wounded under the blows of the Sichuan army. In the end, the Japanese squadron leader unexpectedly launched the pig assault tactic again, leading the remnants of the xiǎo devils to rush up with a rifle with a bayonet, to compete with the Sichuan army in the stabbing technique.

The brothers of the Sichuan army, who had been drilling in the mountains for a few days, were hungry and tired, and where were they in the mood to compete with the xiǎo devils, and they were anxious to finish destroying the devils so that they could eat a full meal, sleep comfortably, and when they saw the devils pounce on them, they all greeted them with bullets and grenades.

The battle did not last long, and after the Sichuan brothers had eliminated the devils, they happily lit torches, set fire to the Japanese pontoon bridges and ferries, and had a hot meal in the Japanese stronghold, and then reported the results to the regiment headquarters and division headquarters.

No one could have imagined that this example of guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines aroused the great interest of Chiang Kai-shek and Xue Yue. Because the Eighth Route Army is the best at guerrilla sneak attacks behind enemy lines, the casualties of the troops are large, and the first has always been a regular offensive and defensive war. This xiǎo battle illustrates that large forces can also advance guerrilla attacks behind enemy lines. Chiang Kai-shek no longer scolded the 30th Group Army for its ineffective attack on Wuning, and sent a telegram to Wang Lingji, instructing in detail the principles of operation: "Check the enemy's tactics against us, and practice encirclement and detour, so that our army will retreat due to the threat of the flank. In the future, countermeasures should be to use the tactic of detouring to drill into the enemy, and do not retreat with friendly forces in the name of connection. In addition, our army is often ignorant of the true meaning of obedience, and relies on orders in everything to dare to act, and it is not even more important to delay fighters, all of which lack the ability to act arbitrarily. ”

Xue Yue issued a decree commending the new 16th Division, awarding bonuses, and demanding that Wang Lingji completely destroy the highways, bridges, telephones, and telegraphs within 20 kilometers of the north and south banks of the Xiushui River. The 72nd Army, another army of the 30th Group Army, saw that the 78th Army was rewarded for cutting wires and burning pontoon bridges, and also began to cut roads and wires around Wuning. In this way, it really played a role in destroying the Japanese army's Jiāo communication.

In the guerrilla area of the Eighth Route Army in North China, I don't know how many times a day this kind of thing will happen. If the main force of the Eighth Route Army came to fight Nanchang, the first thing they would do was this kind of thing, turning the xiǎo devil into a blind man and a blind horse. **This is the first taste of sweetness, so I was surprised and rewarded step by step.

Chen Anbao was born in 1891 in Mayuan Village, Hengjie Township, Huangyan County, Zhejiang, at the age of 48, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a short beard on his mouth. If you take off your military uniform and walk down the street, many people will think that he is a kind uncle next door.

After receiving Shangguan Yunxiang's order for him to command the 26th Division, the 5th Division, and the 237th Regiment of the 79th Division to attack Nanchang head-on again and conquer it on the 5th, Chen Anbao was so anxious that he led his staff to Egang to command before all the troops were mobilized.

In Egang, Chen Anbao met Zeng Jiachu, the commander of the Fifth Division.

The Fifth Division was adapted from the Jiangxi security team, and it was a strong force carefully cultivated by Jiangxi Provincial Chairman Xiong Shihui, and it was also familiar with the hills, lakes and marshes in northern Jiangxi. When the Japanese army captured Nanchang, the Fifth Division was guarding the water surface of the Poyang Lake area and the key points in the rear of Nanchang, and was not in the frontal position of Xiushui, so there was no loss.

Time was pressing, and Chen Anguo didn't talk to Zeng Jiachu too much, so he asked the staff officers to spread out the map, squatted down, and directly gestured with his hands: "Commander Zeng, you quickly assemble and break into Nanchang from Yaohu Lake through the Red Mén Bridge." After crossing the river, he avoided the strong fortified stronghold of the Japanese army in front of him, and made an assault on Nanchang City, and grabbed a pontoon bridge to facilitate the follow-up troops. Remember, in any case, it is necessary to break into Nanchang on the 5th of this month. I led the 26th Division to cross the river as soon as possible. After crossing the river, the troops were divided into two routes, of which the 78th Brigade crossed the Yaohu stronghold and went straight to the Nanchang airfield, and the military headquarters and the 26th Division moved with the 76th Brigade and the 237th Regiment to attack Nanchang from the front. ”

Zeng Jiachu concurrently served as the commander of the Poyang Lake garrison, and the Japanese occupation of Nanchang was to occupy his defense area, and he was very active in counterattacking Nanchang. During the first attack on Nanchang, the plainclothes regiment of the Fifth Division successfully entered the city of Nanchang, set fire to the city, assaulted the Japanese barracks, and beat the devils to pieces. Unfortunately, the 79th Division had no heavy artillery and could not break through the fortifications of Nanchang City, and was driven out of the city by the Japanese counterattack.

After listening to Chen Anbao's order, Zeng Chuchu "snapped" and saluted: "Please rest assured that Commander Chen will complete the task." ”

Chen Anguo stood up and returned the salute, looked at Zeng Jiachu with both eyes, and said in a calm voice: "Commander Zeng, attack Nanchang in one fell swoop. Tell the brethren that if you don't succeed, you will succeed, and I wish you success! ”

Zeng Jiachu said thank you to Commander Chen, turned around and went to assemble the team.

On the night of May 3, Zeng Jiachu led the Fifth Division to cross the Fu River.

After crossing the river, Zeng Jiachu commanded the troops to rush from the east of Nanchang to Nanchang City through Yao Lake.

The focus of the Japanese defense was to the south and southeast of Nanchang, and due east there were only Japanese troops out of the city to search for alert troops. The Fifth Division is a new force, and with this all-round launch, the xiǎo devils will not be able to bear it.

Zeng Jiachu rose to the occasion, and even the headquarters was no longer set up, so he ordered the division headquarters guard unit to serve as the supervising team, led by himself, and followed behind the troops to supervise the attack.

At this time, a squadron of bombers of the Chinese Air Force, which had taken off from Chengdu, flew to Nanchang and began to bomb Japanese positions. It's a pity that the air-ground coordination is not good, if the bombers come late for a while, it would be nice to be able to open the way for the Fifth Division. By the time the Fifth Division had reached the barbed wire fence of the Nanchang fortifications, the bombers of the Chinese Air Force had already dropped their bombs and returned home.

As soon as they saw that the Fifth Division had attacked the fortifications, the Japanese troops defending the city were in a hurry, and they kept calling for aviation to come to support, and they used the fortifications to carry out firepower, and the artillery fire also carried out interception and artillery bombardment, so that the Fifth Division was blocked in front of the fortifications.

Chen Anbao and Zeng Jiachu did not know that at this time, our army had lost the opportunity to capture Nanchang. The Japanese army in Nanchang City has been reinforced, and the strength has reached 15,000 people. With the 5th and 26th Divisions without heavy artillery, it would have been impossible to capture Nanchang in any case.

Seeing that the Japanese were under heavy firepower, Zeng ordered all the light and heavy machine guns to be concentrated to cover the charge.

The Charger remembered, and the brethren pounced on the Japanese fortifications with their guns in hand. Closer, closer, as long as you can get to the barbed wire, you can blow up the barbed wire with a grenade and rush into Nanchang City.

The Japanese bombers arrived, and the five bomber squadrons took turns to fight, and you bombed me and I appeared, desperately dropping bombs and sweeping shè above the charge team of the Fifth Division.

As soon as the plane arrived, the Xiǎo devils guarding the fortifications became crazy, screaming, and the machine guns fired more happily, weaving a dense network of firepower, and the brothers of the Fifth Division were knocked to the ground without stopping.

Blood was bubbling outside the city of Nanchang.

Looking at the brothers who had fallen in front of the enemy's fortifications, Zeng Jiachu's eyes were red, and he scolded, "Dog day, Lao Tzu fought for you", and rushed forward with a pistol, wanting to personally lead the charge of the team.

The chief of staff hurriedly grabbed him: "Division, the devil's firepower is too fierce." We don't have artillery, and the barbed wire of the xiǎo devils alone is blocking us. Give the order to stop the attack, the brethren can't be a target for the devil! ”

Zeng had to give the order to suspend the attack and wait for reinforcements.

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