285 Battle of Nanchang

285 Battle of Nanchang (Part 1)

The Haichen is wandering in Poyang Lake, and the bloody flag is displayed in the wind.

Li wanted to stand on the bridge, looking at it, and his thoughts were flying.

"In the leading troops of the Guards, Yangxin and Ruichang were liberated one after another, and the troops advanced south. The 46th Army of Sun Chuanfang along Nanxun gave up De'an and fled south in a hurry. At this time, the 42nd Division of the New 4th Army Field Corps, which reached the east of Zhangshu, echoed the southward troops of the Guards, forming a posture of attacking the enemy in Nanchang. The enemy troops stationed in Nanchang pretended to be posture on the surface and boasted about "holding" Nanchang. In fact, they were frightened and began to retreat to the west bank of the Ganjiang River and the east bank along the Ganjiang River. Li Chun, the pseudo-provincial governor of Jiangxi Province, had just broken through the defense of the Nanxun line in our army, and fled to Ganzhou. When the enemy fled, they stormed and robbed Nanchang crazily. ..." The housekeeper's little sister turned over the notepad and chatt.

At this time, Li's thoughts flew, and he didn't know how much he heard.

"... The 37th Division is the vanguard division of the New 4th Army. After receiving the order to march on the corps on the 16th, it advanced lightly. Despite the heavy rain, it jumped more than 300 miles in two days and nights and forced into the Fuhe River on the 19th.

On the same day, the 38th and 39th Divisions of the New 4th Army crossed the Fu River in the Li family and advanced north of Fengcheng. The 42nd Division launched an attack on the enemy of Zhangshu. The 41st Division entered Gongcun, about five miles east of the tugboat port, and defeated the two battalions of the 17th Division and the leading troops of the 46th Army. The enemy saw that the south escape road was blocked and rushed back to Nanchang that night.

On the 20th, our new 4th Army has occupied Zhangshu and prepared to cross the Ganjiang River in the west on the north-south line of Zhangshu.

Two divisions of the enemy's forty-sixth Army, 186 and seventh, returned to Nanchang, in an attempt to seize the city of Xiebu in the southeast of Nanchang and on the bank of the Fu River. Stop me from attacking Nanchang. ......”

Marais, the commander of the 5th Marine Corps, inspected the Xiebu Ferry after noon, and then returned to the regimental headquarters in the temporary command building in the town to call the battalion commander for a meeting.

In the airport building, a group of reporters from Hukou, a group of reporters from Wuhan and some relevant personnel of the army gathered. When they saw Ma Lai and others, they gathered around to ask this and that.

The regimental headquarters is located under the building, and the room is also occupied by reporters, so that the battalion commanders and company commanders who come to the meeting can't get in.

At 3:30 p.m., Malay was angry and drove the reporters out, and the meeting began.

In the conference room, vegetable oil was burning in the lantern. Under the light, Marais said, "Comrades, our Marine Corps is going to start the first river crossing. The planning time is very short, and the preparation time is limited. At the same time, there is no time for you to be surprised and shake your head."

After saying the opening remarks, Cao Ge, the intelligence director, reported that there were many unknown places, and some prisoners said that there was a minefield in front of Xie Bu.

Then the combat director, Park Luoxiu, introduced the plan:

--Huo Dun's reconnaissance company first sent a swimming squad to cross the river, making sure that there was no enemy, the main force of the company crossed the river with a kayak, and then ensured the highlands of 125, 95 and 51;

--The 3rd Battalion crossed the river at 4 a.m. on the 20th and crossed the reconnaissance company to Nanchang;

――The 2nd Battalion departed two hours later than the 3rd Battalion, and the 1st Battalion is a reserve team;

- The 1st Mountain Artillery Battalion, the 1st Company and other troops used 50 tons of boat bridges to cross the river.

"So much, it's very simple." Pu Luoxiu concluded like this. Then wait for everyone's questions.

Indeed, the enemy's judgment and combat plan are very rough, and the Marine Corps is equivalent to carrying out operations without intelligence and plan. However, no one questioned.

Marais and Scouting Company Chief Horton boarded a mound with a view of the ferry for observation.

"In this way, it is impossible to confirm the enemy's trace of the other side and its right at Hill 125." Malai said. Organize an advance team.

"Okay, this requires the best swimming skills. Who wants to sign up and swim with me? Huo Dun asked.

"I'll go..."

10 soldiers and two naval reserve officers signed up.

Luo Weifeng, a military attache sent by Li Dashuai, said, "I hope to cross the river with the group..."

"No way!" Malai refused without any explanation, because it was too dangerous for the 'Minister of the Imperial'.

"Well... Please take a look at this." Luo Weifeng took out a card from his pocket, which was a battlefield inspection license issued by Marshal Li.

"No way! Officer Luo, there is a difference between the permit and the order. As the local commander, I ask you to stay in the reserve. Malai has the right to make a temporary decision that "will be outside, and the king's order will not be accepted", so he said no, but no.

Malai arranged Luo Weifeng and ordered Horton to start action after dusk.

First, the other side was shelled. I saw that the fire was ignited and the crossing of the river began. It was just past 8 p.m.

Dark clouds covered the moon, the sky was dark, and some homes could be seen against the fire on the other side.

Huo Dun and his adjutant, a total of 14 people in the swimming class took off their clothes and put them in bags. They put them on two rubber boats with guns and ammunition, wearing only shorts. The night wind blew and it was really chilly.

Zhu Dashan is a naval intelligence officer. He carries a tape recorder with him and is also put into a waterproof bag.

After they reached the bank of the river and surveyed the current, Huo Dun instructed: "Keep a 45-degree angle with the direction of the current, don't make a sound, use breaststroke!" Do you understand?"

Then they went into the water together. The water was cooler than expected, and two or three people made a silent sound.

Huo Dun said to the walker, "Swimming begins." Finally, go into the water.

At the end of the walkie-talkie, Luo Zhongguan, who was on standby in Xie Bu, led the three platoons of the main force of the company and one platoon of the 1st Engineering Battalion to cross the river with 9 speedboats.

At 8: 48 p.m., in about 35 minutes, they quietly swam across the Fu River and reached the other side.

It was very quiet around, and a few dogs barked in the distance.

Suddenly, a few meters ahead, it was found that two farmers in short long overalls were looking at them. Huo Dun, who was still trembling ashore, was shocked. He quickly ordered to catch them. The soldiers in shorts quickly picked up their guns to restrain them. After inquiring, they knew that they had escaped from Nanchang.

Huo Dun was relieved. Then he sent four people to scout 125 Heights, and then used the walker to cross the river to inform: "The crossing of the river is completed, and there is no trace of the enemy."

After ten o'clock in the evening, four soldiers scouting Hill 125 sent a report, and there were no enemy soldiers at Hill 125.

Hodun decided to transport the rest of the reconnaissance company across the river with a landing craft immediately. He reported, "The marines have landed and control the situation well!"

Zhu Dashan, who is recording the action with a tape recorder, feels excited. This is making history! And he is recording all this on tape.

At dawn on the 21st, the avant-garde 110th Regiment of the 37th Division, braved a downpour, successfully crossed the Fuhe River from the foothold occupied by the 5th Marine Regiment, 30 miles southeast of Nanchang.

The Nanchang pseudo-county government and the pseudo-security regiment surrendered to the National Revolutionary Army.

Chen Ergou, the head of the pseudo-security regiment, is happy to provide all the information he knows about the Beiyang Army. At present, a division of the Beiyang Army stationed there is less than 500 people and has no combat effectiveness. Their defense line no longer exists, the regiments have lost contact with the division, and many soldiers have deserted. He said that about 75% of the soldiers were recruited locally in Jiangxi, and the rations had been reduced to half of the original. There were no mountain cannons, only a few old earth cannons and mortars.

At the same time, Marshal Li came to the front line to inspect again. Just like last time, it's the same as the brigade.

Marshal Li is very happy.

Now he is sitting in a jeep, holding a huge cigar in his and studying the map.

Their destination is a war camp near Nanchang. When they passed through the first village, people were welcoming the National Revolutionary Army. They shouted:

"Hail, Marshal Li!"

"H Long live the righteousness of the three people!"

But when Marshal Li and the others saw the prisoners, the boys threw stones at him, and the adults shouted to kill them.

"Chal, we can't move forward any further."

"Why?" Li wanted to look up at the direction of Nanchang, where there was a rumble of gunfire. He was about to watch the battle.

"... Our army continued to advance towards Nanchang. When the 3rd Battalion of the 110th Regiment of the 37th Division advanced more than five miles. When it had just arrived at Nan'nchong and Bei'anchong at 7 a.m. this morning, there were more than 10,000 people from the enemy's 187th Division and the 177th Division retreating in Nanchang. On the rugged hills, there were three roads from Wangcun, Yucun, In the direction of Chencun, he launched a crazy attack on the battalion, trying to take advantage of my unstable foothold, pressure me to retreat to the east bank of the Fuhe River, and cover the retreat of the main enemy's main group in Nanchang..."

Li Xiang waved his hand impatiently, pointed to the roaring battlefield, and burst out two words from his mouth: "Forward!"

Several rows of scattered lines slowly emerged from the smoke and slowly advanced. A high-high blood flag floated proudly in the wind.

In the face of the sudden serious situation, the fighters of the third battalion were fearless and bravely engaged in the battle.

Da Da Da, a long shuttle of bullets flew around. With several figures rushing to the front splashed blood in the flying fire snakes, the attacking National Revolutionary Army troops lay on the ground. And began to organize firepower to suppress the positions of the Beiyang Army.

For a moment, bullets from both sides flew around in the sky, hitting the ground with dust and smoke. The gnashing of teeth of the revolutionary soldiers kept firing platoon guns directly at the yellow and gray Beiyang Front in the trenches. The most cheerful thing was the heavy machine guns and light machine guns that were responsible for giving fire support to the company and platoon troops.

Both sides are competing for strong buildings. Several groups of enemy soldiers have climbed onto the roof and shot at the third battalion with more than a dozen heavy machine guns. At the same time, the enemy's mountain cannons and mortars also bombarded Xiebu City and Fuhe Ferry crazily.

In fact, after a night of fierce battle, the whole front has long been very chaotic in the bloody haze, and the positions of the enemy and our teams are intertwined.