The general person in charge of the Jurong base is still Tang Yisheng, and when the telegram from the Longzhou Command was sent to Tang Yisheng, Tang Yisheng was discussing with Jonas about increasing the output of the arsenal. The situation of Jurong's arsenal was not as bad as that of Longzhou, and Tang Yisheng sent many scouts into the big cities of Shanghai and Suzhou, and got some metal materials and chemical raw materials through relations, so the production of the arsenal could be maintained normally.

It is not a problem for the independent regiment to be expanded into an independent brigade on the order of Wang Haitao, but the equipment of new recruits has hollowed out the old foundation of the arsenal. In order to ensure the expansion of the military factory and the training in peacetime, it is certain that the military factory will increase its products, but Jonas also made it clear that it is no problem to increase production, but Tang Yisheng must ensure the supply of various raw materials.

While the two were discussing, a telegram from Longzhou arrived. Tang Yisheng was a little surprised that Longzhou would suddenly send a report to himself, but he couldn't sit still anymore after reading the telegram at a glance, and hurriedly went to Huang Guizhong after saying hello to Jonas. Huang Guizhong's independent brigade was expanded to six regiments, and the number of people reached 24,500 people, and the Jurong base naturally couldn't accommodate so many people, so Huang Guizhong found a valley in the mountains behind him and used it as a military camp.

When Tang Yisheng hurried to the barracks, Huang Guizhong was watching the drills of his subordinates, and when he saw Tang Yisheng hurrying over, he hurriedly greeted him in surprise. Tang Yisheng hurried to the mountain road, and said to Huang Guizhong with some gasp: "Old Huang, the Longzhou Headquarters is in an emergency, Commander Wang ordered your department to sneak in the direction of Jiangxi Zhangshu immediately, and wait for instructions on the spot after arriving. As he spoke, he handed the telegram to Huang Guizhong.

Huang Guizhong read the telegram and said to the guards around him: "Order the whole brigade to assemble urgently, and all regiment commanders go to the brigade headquarters for a meeting." After telling the order, he said to Tang Yisheng: "Director Tang, Longzhou is sending an urgent telegram now, it must be that Commander Wang is in trouble and needs us to send troops to help, you can also attend the meeting, let's determine the troops to send troops." ”

Tang Yisheng was not polite, and Huang Guizhong walked towards the brigade headquarters together. When Huang Guizhong and Tang Yisheng arrived at the conference room of the brigade headquarters, there were still two regiment commanders who had not arrived, and those who had already arrived were whispering about what had happened. As soon as Huang Guizhong and Tang Yisheng sat down on the chairs, Wang Lili, the deputy brigade commander and commander of the first regiment, leaned over and asked in a low voice: "Director Tang, brigade seat, what is there to ask everyone to come over for a meeting?"

Before Tang Yisheng could speak, Huang Guizhong glared and reprimanded: "What's the hurry? I'll tell you soon." At this time, the two regiment commanders also arrived in a hurry, and Huang Guizhong saw that everyone had arrived, so he asked Tang Yisheng to speak first. This was a military meeting, and although Tang Yisheng was the chief manager, it was not easy to snatch Huang Guizhong's throne, so he resigned. Huang Guizhong saw that Tang Yisheng refused to speak first, so he could only say it himself.

Huang Guizhong stood up, and the six regiment commanders under him all fell silent, and twelve eyes were fixed on him. Huang Guizhong glanced around and then said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the reason for holding this emergency meeting today is that I have just received an urgent telegram from the headquarters of the Longzhou Group Army, and Commander Wang ordered our department to immediately set off for Zhangshu County, Jiangxi Province, and wait by after rushing to Zhangshu County.

As the saying goes, raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use them for a while. Commander Wang is calling to mobilize our department now, and it must be useful to our department. As soldiers, it is our duty to obey orders, so I decided to send troops immediately. However, we can't all six regiments be dispatched, and the base must still be guarded by troops. I decided that this time I would personally lead four regiments to the expedition, leaving two regiments under the full command of Director Tang Yisheng. The fifth and sixth regiments have the most recruits and a slightly weaker combat effectiveness, so I will leave two of you regiments to guard the base, and the other four regiments will set off with me, do you have any opinions?"

After a while, Huang Guizhong saw that no one was silent, so he ordered his subordinates to bring a map and study the route of the troops with several regiment commanders. The independent brigade has no heavy artillery and no armored troops, so it can be said that they are light infantry, but their equipment is not bad, the new weapons produced by the arsenal have equipped the whole brigade, and although each regiment has no artillery, there are quite a few mortars, even more than the regimental troops under Wang Haitao.

The officers and men of the Independent Brigade have been training in the mountains and jungles all day long, and they have all trained their two iron legs, and it is not difficult to walk between the mountains and the jungle as if they were flying, and it is not difficult to walk 200 miles of mountain roads in one day. Although the telegram from the headquarters did not stipulate the time of arrival, Huang Guizhong also understood that the earlier the arrival, the better.

There are two roads to Zhangshu County, one is to go to Chizhou through Nanling County in southern Anhui, then cross the Yangtze River to Jiujiang City, and finally go to Zhangshu County through Nanchang. Although this road is a lot closer, it is also a national army defense area and a Japanese-occupied area along the way, and the Japanese army from Jiujiang to Nanchang is even more tightly defended, and the possibility of his own team of more than 10,000 people walking this road is extremely low, so Huang Guizhong decisively gave up this road.

The other road is through Xuancheng, Jing County, Qimen in southern Anhui to Jingdezhen, and then through Leping County and Yingtan County in Jiangxi Province to Zhangshu. This road is far away, but from Jurong to Jingdezhen is a mountainous area, the road Huang Guizhong is very familiar with them, can ensure that they will not be discovered, after Jingdezhen into the Japanese-occupied area, a large area is not an important defense area, the Japanese army is weak, pay more attention will not be discovered.

Huang Guizhong chose the route from Jingdezhen to Zhangshu on the spot, and then dispersed, and everyone went back to prepare separately, and set off as soon as it was dark. At the same time, the fifth regiment was stationed at the base with Tang Yisheng, and the sixth regiment stayed in the barracks. Soon the whole camp was moved, although there were no heavy weapons that were difficult to carry, but in addition to weapons and ammunition, each person had to carry twenty days' worth of dry food and the items needed to survive in the wilderness, and these portions were not light, the average weight of each person was about 30 kilograms.

At the same time as the independent brigade set off, Wang Haitao also led the troops to set off from the left, and unlike the independent brigade, the 211th Division, heavy artillery regiment, and armored regiment led by Wang Haitao were huge, and the chariots were rolling. Before leaving, Wang Haitao had already called Bai Chongxi, telling him that his troops were going to the Jiangxi front line to fight the Japanese army, and asked the national army troops on the road not to be nervous and give convenience.

Rescue soldiers are like fighting fires, and there is no obstruction along the way, Wang Haitao arrived in Hengyang in only six days. At the gate of Hengyang City, not only Yao Yuanbao was waiting for Wang Haitao, but even Wang Weikuan was also waiting for him. Although this brigade was established and trained within a few days, the Chinese Communists learned that Wang Haitao's 210th Division was besieged by the Japanese army in Zhangshu County, Jiangxi, and ordered Wang Weikuan to lead the independent brigade to help Wang Haitao rescue the 210th Division.

As soon as he met with Yao Yuanbao and Wang Weikuan, Wang Haitao ignored the cold noise and immediately asked why Yao Yuanbao's 210th Division was besieged and what the current situation was, how many troops were there in the Japanese army, and what troops were there. Yao Yuanbao first invited Wang Haitao and Tang Longzai to sit down in the office of the original headquarters with a bitter face, and then reported the situation to Wang Haitao 1510.

It turned out that the day after Wang Haitao left Hengyang, the 210th Division and the 463rd Brigade, which had completed their supply, began to advance towards Jiangxi, and the reconnaissance regiment also sent a reconnaissance group to act with the 210th Division. On the way from Hengyang to Ji'an, there were no large Japanese troops, and only some puppet troops and small Japanese troops were stationed in a few counties.

These days, the troops of the puppet army naturally couldn't stop the menacing 210 Division, and the main force of the 210 Division only took three days to attack Ji'an City. In Ji'an, the 210th Division finally encountered the resistance of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army had an infantry brigade and two regiments of puppet troops stationed in the city. Tang Hongming did not take these Japanese puppet troops in the city seriously, and launched a strong attack on Ji'an City as soon as he arrived in the city.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese and puppet armies in Ji'an City were very tenacious, and the 210th Division attacked for three days, and it took nearly 1,000 casualties to take Ji'an City. The tragic battle made Tang Hongming furious, and as soon as he captured Ji'an City, he went directly to Nanchang without resting. When the troops arrived in Xiajiang County, the reconnaissance group found that a large group of Japanese troops were rushing to Nanchang in the direction of Fuzhou, and the number was the 22nd Division of the Japanese Army.

At that time, Yao Yuanbao reported the situation to Division Commander Tang Hongming, but Division Commander Tang didn't care, he thought that a division of the Japanese army could not stop his troops. So the whole army continued north. When the troops marched only 50 kilometers from Zhangshu County, a sudden torrential rain fell. The road near the Ganjiang River was also destroyed by the Japanese army, and the feet of the troops were muddy, and even the chariots were extremely difficult to walk, and the cars and carriages could not move forward.

Tang Hongming was about to order the troops to camp on the spot, but he did not expect that the troops of two divisions of the Japanese army would be killed at once from Yongtai Town, which was not far from the front, and Lijiang Town, which was far from the flank. When the 210th Division found out, not only was the Japanese infantry only three kilometers away from the troops, but the troops were also attacked by the Japanese large-caliber artillery. At this time, Tang Hongming realized that he had been ambushed by the Japanese army.

Fortunately, the 210th Division and the 463rd Brigade were both journeys of a hundred battles, although they suffered losses under the sudden attack of the Japanese army, Tang Hongming did not panic in the face of danger, instructed the troops to use chariots to open the way, and the whole army attacked lightly, rushing north to fight a bloody road. After the troops finally broke through the frontal interception, Tang Hongming found that the heavy artillery regiment behind did not stand out. So Tang Hongming ordered the 461st Brigade and the 463rd Brigade to attack north to seize Zhangshu County, and he led the armored regiment and the 460th Brigade to rescue the heavy artillery regiment.

By the time the 460th Brigade reached the besieged Heavy Artillery Regiment, the escort battalion of the Heavy Artillery Regiment had already suffered all casualties, while the artillery of the Heavy Artillery Regiment was still firing at the Japanese and was ready to bomb and die for the country. Under the full cover of the 460th Brigade and the Armored Regiment, although the Heavy Artillery Regiment stood out from the heavy regiment, it lost half of its own losses. Fortunately, the 461st Brigade and the 463rd Brigade took Zhangshu County lightly, and Tang Hongming led his troops to retreat into Zhangshu County.

The Japanese army first surrounded the Zhangshu County regiments with three divisions, and then transferred two mixed brigades from Nanchang to join the besieging team. Fortunately, the Japanese army did not desperately attack the city in the past few days, and the 20th Division was able to reorganize and wait for rescue after taking a breath. In the process of Yao Yuanbao's narration, Wang Haitao's brows furrowed more and more tightly the more he listened, and when Yao Yuanbao finished speaking, Wang Haitao slapped his palm on the chair handle angrily, and scolded with a deep face like water: "This Tang Hongming is simply a bastard!