The Nanchang counterattack began on April 21 and ended on May 9, 1939. The battle lasted more than half a month and ended with the defeat of the [***] team. Although the squadron failed to recapture Nanchang in the counteroffensive, its military and political influence had a positive side. The Nanchang counterattack showed that although the Yue army occupied the three towns of Wuhan, it failed to force the national political axe to submit, nor did it destroy the main force of the Chinese [***] team, let alone destroy the will of the Chinese army and people to resist the war. The squadron not only continued to resist the war, but also began to carry out a campaign-wide counteroffensive, which was a new development since the "77" incident. The spirit of the Chinese officers and men who are not afraid of sacrifice and fighting to the death also embodies the high will to resist the Japanese war and inspires and encourages the people of the whole country who are fighting a bloody war of resistance.

The battle in Nanchang came to an end for the time being, and the battle between the enemy and us was attacking and defending each other, showing a stalemate, and each was adjusting its strength and defensive line deployment, and a larger-scale battle was about to begin.

After Xiao Xiong learned the news of the end of the Nanchang counterattack, he was full of regrets. However, after more than half a month of fighting, his team has also developed, and the number of personnel has exceeded 400. After the training of the battle, the combat effectiveness of the team is stronger, especially since each unit has formed its own characteristics. Today, he is most pleased with the work of the Hunter Sniper Team and the Intelligence Group.

The Li Minghua brothers' hunter sniper team has now expanded to more than 100 people, with a total of three squads, each with more than 30 people. And these team members are basically the sharpshooters of the original Orion or [***] troops, all of whom have superb marksmanship and extraordinary skills. And the hunters also brought their own hunting dogs, so that they are more like tigers, they are very familiar with the terrain around Jiujiang, the streets and alleys in the city, docks and stations, restaurants, restaurants, green buildings, smoke houses, the mountains of Lushan can be said to be well understood, after training and combat tests, now everyone can read the ability to complete the task of sniping the enemy. Now they are stationed in Maoshantou, Shilipu, Miaozhipu, etc., these places are located along the road from Lushan to Jiujiang, they are Xiao Xiong's housekeepers, is his lifeline. In this counterattack, the Hunters sniped a total of dozens of devils, including Kameda Daisa, and it was a sharp knife that stabbed the devil's heart. It is not an exaggeration to say that everyone in this team is a machine gun. Therefore, it is indeed Xiao Xiong's baby.

The work of Li Ran and Bai Yu's intelligence team can also be described as ingenious and unique. In addition to expanding the three existing intelligence stations, they also applied to their superiors that four mine-laying guerrilla stations should be retained for use by the Einsatzgruppen, and in addition to the two radios distributed by the General Headquarters this time, there are now nine radio stations in Jiujiang and its surrounding areas, forming a very broad and powerful intelligence network, which has greatly facilitated the operations of the Einsatzgruppen. The intelligence group also took advantage of the opportunity for the devils to form a puppet regime and planted a lot of spies inside the enemy, making the Einsatzgruppen look like they had clairvoyance and ears.

In fact, in addition to the Hunter Team, the Water Guerrilla Team, the Jiangxin Guerrilla Team, and the Intelligence Group, Xiao Xiong's Northern Jiangxi Anti-Enemy Special Brigade, the other six squads all had their own mission priorities. According to the special situation of the battle behind enemy lines, Xiao Xiong readjusted the six squads of the first and second brigades, and the first squad mainly carried out the task of bombing, focusing on the task of cooperating with the mine-laying guerrillas to try to disrupt and block the enemy's water transportation lines along the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake; The task of the second squad is to carry out activities to sabotage railway transportation on the Nanxun railway line and wait for opportunities to seize the enemy's strategic materials; The mission goal of the third team is to attack the devils stationed on Lushan Mountain, find fighters and cooperate with the hunter team to snipe the important people of the devils. The fourth squad is a reconnaissance team, which disguises themselves as people of all walks of life and cooperates with the Intelligence Unit to collect and transmit intelligence. The fifth squad is a guerrilla squad, which is specially responsible for operating in the city and on the road leading to Jiujiang, attacking the road transportation of devils. The sixth squad is the distribution team, which is responsible for the logistics and material support of each unit, such as vehicles, boats and ammunition required for the operation, as well as food and shelter. Each squad has a different number of people. In just a few months, Xiao Xiong's team has been reborn and renewed. They fought on their own and frequently launched attacks on the enemy, and the results were quite fruitful, and they won a lot.

In less than four months after the end of the Nanchang Campaign, the international situation has undergone tremendous changes.

At the end of July 1938, the Chinese army attacked the Soviet Union, but suffered defeat, and they took the initiative to make peace with the Soviet Union. However, the radicals in the country were not reconciled, and Emperor Hirohito, in order to appease the belligerent army generals, promised that they could provoke the Soviets again.

In mid-May 1939, the Kwantung Army, with the cavalry wing as the main force, repelled the Mongol army near Nomenkan on the Sino-Mongolian border. In retaliation, the Kwantung Army launched a massive attack on Tamursk in Mongolia on June 27. On July 1, the Kwantung Army threw the 23rd Division into a large-scale attack. In the early days of the campaign, the army repeatedly succeeded and progressed smoothly. In late August, Zhukov commanded the Soviet mechanized troops to counterattack on all fronts, encircling and annihilating the 23rd Division of the Chinese Army. Two wing commanders of the army burned the military flag and committed suicide. The Soviets annihilated a total of 11,000 soldiers. The battle ended in a crushing defeat for the Japanese army. From then on, until August 8, 1945, when the Soviet Union declared war on the Soviet Union, the Chinese army never dared to provoke the Soviet Union again. The focus of the operation was shifted to the Chinese battlefield.

No sooner had the battle of Nomenkan ended, and then something more important was happening in Europe.

At 4:45 a.m. on September 1, 1939, the German [***] team launched a lightning attack on Poland. Sixty-two German divisions, 2,800 tanks, 2,000 aircraft, and 6,000 artillery pieces carried out a centripetal breakthrough on Poland from the northeast and southwest. The "fifth column" lurking in Poland also took action, seizing radio stations and taking control of the military command organs. Poland was in chaos.

28 On the 28th, Warsaw fell. In the face of German action, Britain was forced to declare war on Germany on September 3. The outbreak of World War II was marked by the outbreak of war in the European theater. China became one of the important battlefields of World War II. The world pattern has changed dramatically, and the clouds of war have loomed over the world.

At this time, in order to concentrate its forces on the Western Front to fight the German army, the Soviet Union reached an armistice agreement in Moscow and Ben on September 15. The Eastern Front of the USSR was thus lifted from the threat.

Chiang Kai-shek closely followed the development of international events, at first happy and then sad. What made him feel sad was that the stimulation of the Nomenkan War on the Yue army and the outbreak of the war in Europe not only did not contain the Yue army, but instead increased the pressure on the Chinese [***] team to resist the war and deepened the cruelty of the Sino-Japanese war. He was deeply disappointed.

On the Nanxun line, since the devils occupied Nanchang, in October, they immediately repaired the railway bridges of Saihu Lake and De'an, which were blown up by [***], and repaired the Yangliujin railway bridge and Tujiabu railway bridge on the river, so that the whole line of the railway was restored to traffic in a very short time. The army also used ferries to connect with the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line, which greatly enhanced the mobile surname of the army's operations.

In order to crack down on the Yuekou and defend Changsha and the southwest, the headquarters ordered Xiao Xiong's anti-enemy special forces in northern Jiangxi to take immediate action to attack the Nanxun Railway and related highways, as well as the waterways of the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake, disrupt the movement of the devils, and delay the enemy's movement in the southwest direction.

After receiving the order, Xiao Xiong immediately convened an operational meeting attended by officers above the squad leader, and after reading out the order from the headquarters, he said:

"Through the Nanxun Railway, Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway and other transportation lines, the devils are mobilizing heavy troops in the direction of Changsha, preparing to attack our southwest rear area to the west. In order to cooperate with the defensive operations supporting the 3rd and 9th Theaters, our Einsatzgruppen must immediately mobilize all of them and attack the enemy at all costs, so as to prepare for the frontal battle. ”

He glanced at everyone, cleared his throat and said:

"I order, all teams immediately participate in the battle, mobile and flexible fighting, there is only one target to attack, that is, the devil's transportation line. The Intelligence Group concentrated all its efforts to extensively collect information on the movement of personnel and materials of the devils, and reported to me at any time. The fourth squad cooperates with your operations; In addition to cooperating with the mine-laying guerrillas, the water guerrillas and the Jiangxin guerrillas should take the initiative to carry out operations, targeting the enemy's docks, warehouses along the river, and transport fleets. The Fourth Squad will cooperate with your operations; The three groups of the Hunter Brigade cooperated with the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th Squads to carry out activities on the Nanxun Line, the Nanjiu and Jiurui Highways, and Lushan, with the goal of paralyzing or destroying the enemy's lines of communication, sniping and killing the enemy's important figures, and slowing down the enemy's actions in the southwestern theater. Squad 6 is responsible for all operational rationing and logistics. Got it? ”

"Understood!"

"I am in charge of the operation of the Nanxun line; The senior deputy commander was in charge of the battle on the Yangtze River; Captain Jiang Feng is responsible for the operations on the front line of the South Kowloon Highway; Captain Zhang Shan is in charge of operations in the Lushan area. Chief of Staff Xiong Qiang is in charge of intelligence and logistics. Please take your own responsibilities, perform your duties, and follow the command in all actions! When called, it can fight, and it can win. Have you had the confidence? ”

"Yes!"

"We will first listen to the briefing of the firing group on the activities of this section of the devil, and then the operational units will draw up an action plan and immediately carry out the operation."

On September 4, the headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army was established in Nanjing, and Senior General Nishio Toshizo was appointed commander-in-chief, and Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki was appointed chief of the general staff.

Okamura assembled the equivalent of one and a half divisions in northern Jiangxi, commanded by the commander of the 106th Division, Ryotaro Nakai, and prepared to attack Takayasu. In southern Hubei, he ordered the 33rd Division of Gansu Shigetaro to assemble near Tongcheng and prepare to attack in the direction of Hunan.

China's 9th Theater of Operations faced a big war. The Central Military Commission appointed Xue Yue as acting commander of the theater and concurrently chairman of the Hunan Provincial Political Axe.

The Battle of Changsha was about to begin, and Xue Yue deployed four corps and a guerrilla column in the areas west of Gao'an, Fengxin, and Jing'an in central Jiangxi; deploy the Wang Lingji Group Army in the area west of Wuning; ordered the Janssen Army to defend Zhajin and conduct guerrilla attacks in the vicinity of Xianning, Chongyang and Puqi; The 15th Army, which was also commander-in-chief of Xue Yue, was deployed to defend Xinqiang, Yingtian, and Liuyang in northern Hunan, as well as the Jiuling and Zhajin areas.

The Battle of Changsha began on the Eastern Front. On September 14, the Nakai Division and the Saito Yahei Taishi Regiment outflanked and attacked the 184th Division of the Luhan 60th Army stationed in Huibu from the vicinity of Fengxin, Jiangxi, and at the same time launched a diversionary attack on the positions of Song Kentang's Army and Sun Du's 58th Army. Four days later, the Nakai Division stormed the positions of the Wang Lingji Group Army.

When the Changsha campaign began in full swing, the army in Jiujiang, which was located in the rear of the battle line, mobilized strategic materials from all over the world at night and stepped up transportation to the front line to ensure the supply of materials to the front line. On the docks, in the warehouses, on the railways and on the roads, there is a busy scene. In the headquarters of the Lushan devils, the lights are bright, people come and go, telegrams are ringing non-stop, all kinds of battlefield news are constantly coming from the front line, and new combat orders are constantly being sent to the front-line troops from here.

At night, the No. 3 pier in Jiujiang was as bright as day, and a barge from Anqing was loaded with grain and fuel. This is the material distributed to the 106th Division of the Yue Army, which is attacking Gao'an, and is ready to be sent to the front line tomorrow. Otherwise, the armored units of the 106th Division had to stop the attack, because they were running out of fuel and were waiting for this batch of supplies.

The 106th Division was the same unit that was almost wiped out by Xue Yue's troops at Wanjialing. Since the former commander of the 106th Division, Junrokuro Matsuura, was sniped, the army let Ryotaro Nakai take over as the commander of the division. After taking over, it was just in time for the Battle of Changsha. Ryotaro Nakai was anxious to capture Koan and win a big battle to justify the newly reconstituted army and boost the morale of the soldiers. Therefore, after the start of the Battle of Changsha, he ordered the troops to begin a rampant attack on our defenders of Gao'an. But the attack did not go well, and his armored troops were about to run out of fuel, so he had no choice but to stop the attack and wait for supplies from Jiujiang.

Late at night, the autumn wind gusts on the surface of the Yangtze River in autumn, and the river water beats the embankment, constantly making a "whooshing" sound. Several fishing boats were fishing on the river not far from the devil's fleet and docks. On the docks, workers are loading and unloading supplies. They carried the ship's grain and other food to the dock, and rolled oil drums full of oil from the ship to the dock.

The dock was heavily guarded, and there were many devils with guns standing on the barge, and they also set up a few machine guns on the bow and cockpit to watch the river and the dock vigilantly.

Suddenly, a worker pushing an oil drum somehow slipped to the ground, only to see the oil drum rolling out of control quickly towards the river. Seeing this, the other workers ran to stop the oil drums. But the rolling oil drum was too difficult to control, and with a "plop", I saw the oil drum fall into the river.

Several workers hurriedly jumped into the icy river water and grabbed the oil drums, and the people on them threw down the ropes, and they tied the oil drums. Everyone worked together to finally pull the oil drum up.

All the devils were attracted by this sudden accident, and the devils on the barge also craned their necks to look this way.

At this moment, several figures quietly descended from the fishing boat not far away, but after a while, they dived into the water and disappeared. When I saw them again, they were close to the barge. It turned out that it was the members of the water guerrillas and the Jiangxin guerrillas who came. Led by Wang Yantai, they rowed fishing boats to the river near the wharf, waiting for an opportunity to blow up the devil's transport boat.

The team members on the fishing boat took advantage of the devil's attention to be deliberately caused by the team members who were disguised as workers on the shore to cause an accident, salvage oil drums, and attract the attention of the devils. They placed explosives in the middle of the ship's oil drums, lit the fuse, and quietly dived back to the fishing boat. The fishing boat rowed away quickly.

When the team members on the pier saw the fishing boat rowing away, they immediately hurried to the outside of the pier by drinking water or relieving their hands.

At this moment, only a loud noise was heard, and a dazzling fire shot into the night sky. The gasoline drums on the barge exploded, and the drums exploded like bombshells. Some flew into the air and exploded in the air, and the night sky of the pier was very beautiful. The oil drums that blew up around ignited the oil drums and ammunition piled up on the docks, and more and bigger explosions began. The explosion of the entire No. 3 pier lasted for more than ten minutes. When the explosion stopped, the materials and personnel on the pier No. 3 and the pier were gone, and some of the ships docked on the pier were blown up without a trace, and some continued to burn. The barge carrying the supplies was dead in the explosion.

Just as Pier 3 was bombed, a train full of supplies and devils left Jiujiang Station. Just as the train left the platform and was about to accelerate, several figures jumped up from both sides of the locomotive in the darkness. Before the devils in the car could react, the dagger had already pierced their chests. The person who came was Xiao Xiong's special team.

They threw the devil's body out of the locomotive, and the team drove the train on. The train drove faster and faster, and when they were approaching Cyberjaya Lake, Xiao Xiong and the others quickly added a few shovels of coal to the hearth of the train, and then immediately jumped off the train.

The train rushed forward at a galloping speed, getting faster and faster. When all the cars entered the lake, there was a loud "boom", the locomotive first derailed, and then the huge car clattered and collided, and the whole train rushed off the tracks and rolled into the lake below the roadbed. Before the devils in the car could figure out what was going on, some were hit and killed on the spot, some were drowned in the lake and choked to death, and the uninjured devils climbed up from the water and shot at the dark night sky non-stop. The shores of Cyberjaya Lake seem to have been transformed into Shura Field. When the devils came to answer from Shahe Station, they were shocked by the miserable scene in front of them.

In the dark night, a convoy of devils consisting of more than a dozen cars, escorted by an armored car, drove out of the No. 1 pier in Jiujiang. The devil's convoy was the 33rd Division of Gansu Jutaro who was transporting supplies to the front line in Tongcheng, Hubei. The convoy marched on the Jiurui Highway. Shortly after leaving the dock, only a "boom" was heard, and the armored car and several cars that were walking in front were blown over by mines buried on the road. The truck filled with explosives was immediately destroyed. The huge explosion of ammunition on the car also affected several cars following closely behind, and the entire convoy was destroyed in an instant. When the devil's reinforcements arrived, they saw the car still crackling and burning.

One night, the entire Jiujiang City heard a huge explosion and saw the light of a fire soaring into the sky.

The next day, Ryotaro Nakai, who was anxiously waiting on the front line of Gaoan, was ordered to postpone the attack and continue to wait.