.On February 25, 1939, the 11th Army of the Japanese army mobilized its former 6th Division, the 9th Division, the 101th Division, and the newly strengthened 18th Division to forcibly attack our Ninth War Zone from the front and operated more than two Wuning, Yongxiu and Wucheng defense lines.

The largest attack by the Japanese army since the Battle of Wuhan was launched by the 11th Army. From a tactical perspective, the Japanese army attacked the Chinese army's controlled areas and took the initiative to attack. However, strategically, the reason why the Japanese army was determined to win against Nanchang City was a helpless move. In the past few months, the Chinese army's third, fifth and ninth war zones have been sending troops to Wuhan for tentative attacks. Although China knew that its current strength was not enough to capture the Yanma Yangtze River in the three towns of Wuhan, which had heavy Japanese troops deployed heavily, every military operation was a brief attempt, but the tenth Japanese army stationed in a vast area centered on Wuhan

The first army felt that it was already being controlled everywhere and was in a difficult situation. The top leaders of the Japanese army generally believed that if this continued, the three towns in Wuhan would not be protected sooner or later. In addition, the Japanese army invaded other countries' territory after all, and if this last stalemate continued, there would be harmless but no benefit. Only by quickly capturing a strategic important place in front of Wuhan can we reopen the situation and turn to the attack on the Chinese battlefield. In terms of where to choose the goal of strategic breakthrough, the Japanese side, from the Tokyo Base Camp to the 11th Army, had no differences in the divisions and units under the 11th Army. They all chose to take Nanchang and use the central breakthrough to disrupt the Chinese army's position, so as to obtain the Japanese side's wishful thinking of resolving the Chinese incident.

In order to defend Nanchang, China from the Chongqing Military Commission to the Ninth War Zone, it has spared no effort to make preparations for a decisive conference battle near Nanchang.

In the first week of the war, the Chinese army relied on favorable terrain and solid fortifications to make the Japanese progress very slow. The Chinese army also set up an ambush in Wucheng, and fought a gang of the 116th Division of the Japanese army and an infantry brigade of the puppet Manchukuo Army from Duchang to behind, and drove down Poyang Lake in one fell swoop. Wucheng's battle was clean and neat and shattered the Japanese army's fantasy of using surprise troops to sneak attack the Chinese army's defense line, shaking the Chinese army's defensive will.

Because the 11th Army could not capture the Chinese military's defense line for a long time, the Tokyo Base Camp's dissatisfaction with the 11th Army began to heat up sharply. At the base camp, the Japanese Central China dispatched troops were ordered to withdraw another brigade-level ground detachment to support the 11th Army's Nanchang strategy site. At the same time, the base camp's staff headquarters could not calm down. On March 2, Colonel Seiichi Aoki, the Deputy Minister of the Operations Department of the General Staff Headquarters, went to Lieutenant General Shenchigang Village and urged him to fight firmly below to quickly decide the established policy of the headquarters...

Gangcun was forced to withdraw the 27th Division from its reserve forces in advance to join the battle. At this point, the Japanese army invested more than 100,000 troops on the front line. In this way, the nine armies that were responsible for the defense tasks of Wuning, Yongxiu and Wucheng were a little overwhelmed.

On March 4, after suffering major casualties, the 27th Division of the Japanese army conquered Wuning City and rushed to the bottom of Wuning City. In this battle, a regiment guarding Qiaoxi from the 20th Army was killed, from the commander to the soldiers of 1,321 soldiers.

Faced with the aggressive offensive of the Japanese army, the acting commander in the Ninth War Zone who was very popular in the Wanjialing battle, had a good idea. When some defense lines were about to be torn apart by the Japanese army, he kept them as reserves before. The three tigers of the Seventy-Four, Eighteen, and Tenth Army who had not participated in the battle were released from cages. They worked together with the nine armies on the front line to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army at the same time. The twelve armies of the Chinese army had more than 200,000 troops to fight back with all their strength. For a time, the Chinese army's counterattack was very powerful and thunderous. Forced the Japanese army to suspend offensive military operations and turn all troops into a defensive position. Waiting for another move.

Two days later, when the Japanese army received reinforcements from a division (106th Division) and was about to attack the Chinese army's positions again. Under the cover of the 20th and 70th armies behind the palace, the ten main armies of the Ninth War Zone had withdrawn from their positions and turned to Xiushui during the two days when the Japanese army adjusted their deployment. The commander-in-chief of the Ninth War Zone played with this hand, causing the Japanese army's army to lose all its entire line.

Hearing that the main force of the 9th War Zone of China had disappeared without a trace. While the commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, Kamura Yasuji, was disappointed, and he also realized that he had no chance to decide the world in one battle. It is almost impossible to capture the 200,000 main force of the 9th War Zone of China. The main purpose of the Japanese army in this Nanchang strategy was two, one was to annihilate the vitality of the Chinese army in combat. The other was to capture Nanchang and change the strategic disadvantage. Gangcun had realized that he had eaten the 9th War Zone of China in the field.

The main force had no hope, so he focused his next battle on capturing Nanchang. Not to mention the irreplaceable position that Nanchang has in its strategic direction, Gangcun still has a few little jiujiu who is not easy to explain when attacking Nanchang... That is, based on the strong sense of defense of the Chinese army, the Ninth War Zone must not abandon Nanchang. As long as the ten troops who have jumped to the outside line come to rescue the Nanchang defenders, he will still have the opportunity to severely damage or even encircle and annihilate the heavy army group of the Chinese army, laying a solid foundation for the following wars.

Based on this kind of combat guiding ideology, the Gangcun generals occupied the main forces of the 11th Japanese army in the front-line towns of Wuning, Yongxiu and Wucheng, and the main forces remained in place to support various strategic directions (at this time, the Third War Zone had been ordered by the Chongqing Military Commission to use more than two armies to force Hukou with more than two armies.), the 101st Division and the 106th Division headed straight to Nanchang.

During the debate within the command of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army about using those troops to attack Nanchang, Gangcun finally supported the motion of his favorite disciple Colonel Miyazaki. He decided to attack the 101st Division and the 106th Division, two troops that had been defeated on the Nanxun line, and the 101st Division, which was almost wiped out in the Wanjialing battle, was responsible for the combat sequence of direct attack on Nanchang.

After deciding the main attack force, Gangcun also adopted the suggestion of Junroro Matsuura, the 101 Division, to deploy all the Japanese 11th Army's large-caliber artillery and nearly 200 tanks to the main attack. Among the two divisions, Gangcun focused on strengthening the equipment of the 101th Division's ground combat vehicles, so that one division of the 101th Division had 135 tanks, and most of them were the Type 89 medium-sized chariots with the best performance at that time.

Gangcun's combat intention was very clear. It was to use these two divisions, which were actually semi-aerial, to use the power of the chariots to forcibly tear the Chinese army's defenses to achieve the goal of quickly reaching the city of Nanchang and forcing the main force of China's Ninth War Zone to actively seek the Japanese army for war.

In the history of the time and space where Cheng Jiaji came from, Gangcun's beautiful and beautiful life once caught the Chinese army off guard and lost Nanchang, a place that must be fought for by military strategists within just five or six days. But this time, can Gangcun get what it wants?

While the Japanese army sent two divisions to advance to Nanchang, China's next combat operations were also being planned in the Ninth War Zone Progress Command Station that had been transferred to Xiushui.

"I asked that little guy to predict again. The old Japanese devil in Gangcun is indeed playing this trick." He said this as a general who was about forty years old, as if he was an intact tiger spirit. This person was the acting commander-in-chief of the Ninth War Zone and the hero of Wanjialing.

"I think this fist that stretched out from the crotch of the trousers in Gang Village is going to hit the iron plate! But one thing I just don't understand is that Cheng Jiaji, a playboy who causes trouble, can have such a accurate strategic vision and tactical sense. It really makes us such a dignified military academy students feel ashamed!" Major General Guo, who was a little depressed in excitement, was a famous talent in the army. In planning a large-scale battle, he can be called the first among the senior leaders of the Nine War Zone. He is also the military talent that the commander of the war zone most admires.

"I don't care whether he is a demon or a ghost, he is a Chinese with a straight back. You can convey my order. Let the planes at Nanchang Airport be prepared. As long as the troops guarding the water river are summoned, all the planes take off and blow the Japanese tanks to the bottom of the river." The acting commander of the war zone did not think about whether Cheng Jiaji was born a genius. As a soldier who has been in the army for 30 years, he only cared about the results on the battlefield.

The next day after the order of the division of troops in Gangcun, early on March 8, the 101th Division of the Japanese army could not cross the Xiushui River.

Under the care of the ferry of the 101th Division of the Japanese Army, under the care of the 9th War Zone Command, the Japanese army would use infantry to cover the tanks to force the crossing of the 20th Army of the Chinese Army. They immediately sent a direct report to Nanchang to ask the Air Force to dispatch all fighter jets to carry out air strikes on the Japanese army. After hearing the news, they followed the orders of the 9th War Zone to park all the planes that could fly at the Nanchang Airport, and all the fuel was added.

Under the bombing of 53 unprecedented large aircraft groups of the Chinese Air Force, the troops of the 101st Division, which were waiting by the river and had reached the center of the river, and the troops and the tanks they deployed suffered extremely heavy losses. In this large-scale bombing of the Japanese army by China, the Japanese army admitted that there were more than 2,000 casualties and more than 30 tanks were blown up. The Chinese side recognized that the losses of the Japanese army were as high as more than 5,000 infantry soldiers and more than 60 tanks were destroyed. The truth of history is sometimes buried in dust forever, but one is a fact that the Japanese side could not deny. After that, the 101st Division of the Japanese army was transferred back to Ningwu by Lieutenant General Gangcun, and replaced it with a 9th Division with a detachment strengthened force.

Xiaohekou, this unknown small ferry has become famous all over the world. In the memoirs series of old Japanese soldiers after the war, there was a book that specifically talked about what happened here, called Blood Fire Practice.

Gangcun, who was desperate, had already noticed whether the Chinese army had seen through its tactical intentions, but at this time, Gangcun, who knew that the Japanese army had no way out, had to fight hard. He concentrated all the combat aircraft in his hands and large-caliber artillery to cover the two divisions of the Japanese army forcibly crossing Xiushui River.

Under the crazy attack of tens of thousands of Japanese troops at all costs, the 20th, 70th and 49th troops guarding Xiushuihe River defense were very casualties. After completing the scheduled combat mission of Yuxiushuihe on the front line of the Ninth War Zone to block the enemy for two days, the Chinese troops of these three armies quietly withdrew from the defense line that left thousands of their brothers forever on the night of March 10th, and retreated towards Yongxiu.

The 9th and 106th Division of the Japanese army advanced violently and repeatedly defeated the Chinese army's blockade. On March 13, Lehua, which was only 30 kilometers away from Nanchang City Huan, moved here and fought fiercely here for 16.

Fighting such a desperate battle without any skills is the thing Xia Weimin, who has always had great experience in how to preserve his strength. This time, the chief of the war zone threatened with military law, otherwise he would not have fought this battle. Anyway, the Japanese army must have Nanchang, and the 18th Army must also be exhausted in Nanchang and the Japanese army. Why did he have to be here just to act more seriously and keep his capital with him? Now, less than half a day after the war started, the casualties of the 16th Army had reached 3,000. If it weren't for the fortifications of Lehua, the Japanese army's chariot could not fully exert their power, the 10th Army would have collapsed long ago. By the dusk, one of the Japanese 106th Division had broken through the left wing defense line of the 16th Army, and Xia Weimin, who was unable to fight, could no longer withstand it.

"Xiao Liuzi, I'll quit as soon as it gets dark. You guys have no problem!"

When Cheng Jiaji received a call from Xia Weimin, he was in the most combat meeting before the war with Lieutenant General Huang and others on the south bank of the Ganjiang River. After asking Lieutenant General Huang for instructions, he said to his elder brother-in-law: "Brother-in-law, you can retreat after dusk. We are all ready."

After the 16th Army jumped to the outside line at night, the vanguard of the Japanese 106th Division advanced to the outskirts of Nanchang at 10:00 am on March 14th.

At this point, the first phase of the Nanchang Battle was officially brought down. The Japanese army spent a heavy price and finally captured Nanchang City for twenty days. Seeing the city walls of Nanchang City, the officers and soldiers of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army were ecstatic and thought that like Wuchang and Xuzhou, Nanchang was already an empty city, so they were waiting for them to pick it up.
Chapter completed!