Since the Battle of Songhu, Feng Ye has not had a defensive position or offensive combat mission for the first time, and now he has finally returned to his own work in the battalion directly under his brigade, in addition to training recruits every day, he patrols around the barracks in Lehua and does his guard work.

After the Japanese army occupied Hukou, except for a part of the Japanese army that continued to attack Sanlizhen and the Luoding Ridge belt, the rest of the Japanese army was exhausted and rested at Hukou, and at this time the 18th Army withdrew from Hukou and the 64th Army retreated to Jiujiang; On the 22nd, the Japanese army continued to set out and advance to Jiujiang, an important town of the next river defense. In the early morning of the 23rd, the Japanese army repeated its old trick, sneaked into Poyang Lake in the rain, and finally successfully landed at the position of the 11th Pre-11th Division south of Gutang. For some reason, the defenders had landed at 12 o'clock, and it was not until four o'clock that they reported that they were calling for reinforcements, and the 128th Division of Gujiaqi that came to help was adapted from the natives of Xiangxi. After stabilizing the landing field, the 106th Division advanced in depth under the cover of naval guns, and cooperated with the frontal attacking Botian detachment to encircle Jiujiang.

Seeing that the overall situation was unfavorable, Zhang Fakui ordered the 2nd Corps to move forward, abandon Jiujiang, and retreat to the area of Jinguanqiao, a second-line position, to defend.

In order to stabilize the military morale of the Wuhan Battle, the Military Commission tried Xue Weiying, the former commander of the 167th Division, who was the number one responsible person for the loss of Madang and the fall of Pengze, and on August 15, the military court executed Xue Weiying in Wuhan by military law on the charge of "fearing the enemy like a tiger and delaying the fighter plane."

At the same time, in order to motivate the officers and soldiers on the front line to fight bravely, Wang Yan, the commander of the 33rd Brigade, who had made outstanding achievements in the First Battle of Hukou and Pengze, was promoted to the commander of the 118th Division.

In this way, the position of commander of the 33rd brigade was vacated; Of course, there was no shortage of candidates in the 11th Division who were qualified to be promoted to brigade commander.

On August 16, Yin Zuogan, commander of the 62nd Regiment of the 31st Brigade, was promoted to the commander of the 33rd Brigade because of the accumulation of combat achievements; The division headquarters appointed Luo Xianda, a graduate of the 6th Artillery Department of the Sha Branch of the Central Military Academy, as the commander of the 62nd Regiment.

In this big adjustment of the pie, Feng Ye once again missed the promotion, not only because of his lack of qualifications, but more importantly, the commander of the 11th Division was unwilling to recommend him to other miscellaneous units as a regiment-level commander, in their opinion, a regiment commander of a miscellaneous unit was not as effective as a battalion commander of the 11th Division.

Jiujiang has fallen, since the 31st Brigade was stationed in Lehua, the residents of Lehua Town finally felt the breath of war, and the town suddenly became depressed.

"Kill, kill, kill......"

Outside the brigade headquarters, the two hundred soldiers of the security regiment in place are undergoing intense training, and one hundred veterans have to perform guard duties, and only a few old company platoon commanders are asked to take turns to train these people, but fortunately, the security regiment is much better than the peasants who have just put down their hoes, at least they know how to shoot, and they know that they should absolutely obey the orders of the commander at this time, and learn a little more about saving life on the battlefield.

After the attack on Jiujiang, the Japanese troops on the south bank were divided into two routes, and the 106th Division of Songpu attacked De'an along the Nanxun Road. The Potian detachment and the Marines continued their march west along the river with naval ships to attack the next point, Ruichang; On August 11, it successfully forced a landing at the port northeast of Ruichang, and broke the counterattack of the 12th Army of the defender Sun Tongxuan and attacked Ruichang. The 3rd Army, reinforced by the 32nd Regiment of Townenburg, fought hard. In late August, the 9th Division also arrived at Ruichang under the escort of ships, and the 6th Brigade of the Forward Regiment landed all the way to Liyu Mountain, Bijia Mountain and other important places, and captured Ruichang on August 24.

"Didi ......"

Jiaoqiao Lehua, the headquarters of the 11th Division, and the communications corps are receiving telegrams, and every day, a large number of telegrams will be accepted here, in addition to the normal messages between the headquarters of the 11th Division and the military headquarters of the 18th Army, they will also receive a large number of telegrams from the theater, including various war briefings.

"Chief of Staff, emergency telegram in the war zone, emergency telegram in the military department!"

The director of the communications office broke into the division headquarters with two urgent telegrams and reported to Peng Zhancun, chief of staff.

"Huh? Dean has fallen? ”

Chief of Staff Peng Zhancun took the telegram suspiciously and read it hurriedly.

"De'an is not so easy to take, on the Nanxun line, in addition to the ace 74th Army guarding there, there is also Chief Xue Yue's First Corps, the ability of the 106th Division is not something we haven't seen, without the support of other devils, Chief Xue will make these devils suffer."

Peng Shan raised his head and shook his head, as if he was not worried at all about the devils capturing the front line of De'an and Yongxiu and rushing towards him.

In fact, this is indeed the case, even if the First Corps can't hold De'an and Yongxiu, at least there is time to warn.

"Division commander, Ruichang is lost, look at it."

Peng Zhancun hurriedly read the two telegrams and handed them to Peng Shan.

"Order the 31st Brigade and the 33rd Brigade to carry all the combat materials, immediately put them on their backs, and be sure to meet at Yongxiu and the division headquarters before 12 o'clock at noon tomorrow."

"Chief of Staff, call back to the military headquarters and the theater, the headquarters of the 11th Division will definitely rush to the front line of Ruichang as soon as possible to launch an attack."

Peng Shan's palms were clenched together, he didn't expect that there was no problem with De'an, but there was a problem with Ruichang, it seems that the 12th Army is really not good, and even the Potan detachment of the devil can't beat it.

"Yes!"

The communications officer replied loudly, and hurried back to the telecommunications room; As for Peng Zhancun, he had already begun to make phone calls and ordered all the troops directly under the division headquarters to assemble and prepare to rush to Yongxiu.

"Didi ......"

Lehua, brigade headquarters, Mei Chunhua was rarely idle, let the cooking squad make a few side dishes, and leisurely enjoyed a battlefield lunch with the chief of staff.

"Brigade commander, the two regiment commanders can praise Feng Yi's selection! Now in two places, they have completed the construction of the fortifications, and the trenches alone have been repaired five ways, and then it is finally a little easier, and they only need to repair the underground bunkers to become ......"

The chief of staff smiled and talked as he ate; In fact, the positions of the 31st Brigade were completed three days earlier, and the main regiments of the main regiments, which are now stationed in two places, have instead become their main work with poorly trained recruits.

Why not say much? Because each regiment was only assigned more than 500 recruits, and they were so diluted that each company was not divided into many people, and the veterans were enough to carry them hand in hand.

"That kid, I didn't see it, and he can still enter the eyes of your chief of staff?"

Mei Chunhua asked with a smile.

"Bold and careful, willing to run, willing to seek verification, is a good material for being a combat staff officer, if you are willing to give up the brigade commander, I will transfer him over as an operational staff officer."

The chief of staff took the opportunity to express his plan, good seedlings, especially officers who have studied in military academies, have actual combat experience, and are able to do staff affairs, are really too few, and to put it mildly, in the eyes of the chief of staff, Feng Ye may take the road of staff officer and will rise faster.

"Don't think about it, if it weren't for the division commander's pressure, I'm afraid he would have been transferred to other units as a regiment commander, the squadron lost too many officers on the battlefield, and he couldn't have been a staff officer."

Mei Chunhua shook his head, Feng Ye is not only the seedling he values, but also the training goal of the division commander Peng Shan, he can't decide where Feng Yi will go now, everything depends on how the teacher plans to use it.