Quartermasters can also fight the devils

The commander of the 11th Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Anami Korechika, decided that after the capture of Jianchang, the main force of the 11th Japanese Army could be used in the attack on the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway. Therefore, on the night when the Japanese Iwanaga Detachment captured Yujiang County, the commander of the 11th Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Anami Korechika, issued an order.

The Japanese 34th Division was ordered to depart from the vicinity of Fuzhou (Linchuan) and be transferred again to the Zhejiang-Jiangxi railway line to attack the Chinese army on the front and support the attack of the Japanese 13th Army in Zhejiang Province. The commander of the 34th Division, Lieutenant General Wang Iwanaga, was ordered to lead the Iwanaga Detachment to return the original structure of the 34th Division. At the same time, the Japanese 3rd Division was ordered to rest for two days after occupying Jianchang, and then assemble near Jinxi to prepare for an attack on Yingtan.

After receiving the order from Lieutenant General Anami Korechika, commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Wang Iwanaga, commander of the 34th Division of the Japanese Army, immediately ordered the Iwanaga Detachment to set out from Yujiang County and attack towards Yingtan, and ordered the 61st Independent Infantry Battalion assigned to the 34th Division of the Japanese Army to launch an attack from Jinxi towards Yingtan.

After making these deployments, the commander of the 34th Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Wang Iwanaga, led the other troops of the 34th Division from Linchuan and attacked between Yingtan and Guixi.

At this time, the attacking forces of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army had successively captured Changshan, Jiangshan, Yushan and Shangrao. The Chinese government's military strength in the middle section of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway was very empty. The Chinese government's Third War Zone Command could only transfer the 19th Division of the 100th Army to Shaxi and Qianshan for defense. This resulted in the only forces defending the Yingtan area being the headquarters of the 100th Army and the combat forces of the 147th Division.

Lieutenant General Wang Iwanaga, commander of the 34th Division of the Japanese Army, commanded the troops of the 34th Division of the Japanese Army and launched an attack on Yingtan in different directions with the close cooperation of the 29th Independent Flying Team. At the same time, the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army also rushed to the battlefield and joined the attack on Yingtan.

The 100th Army Headquarters and the 147th Division of the Chinese Government's Third War Zone, which were responsible for the defense of Yingtan, were beaten dizzy by the joint attack of two Japanese divisions of infantry, artillery and aircraft, and the casualties were extremely heavy.

Under the fierce attack of the infantry and a large number of artillery of the two Japanese divisions, the defensive positions of the various units of the 147th Division were almost flattened. Under the attack of the superior forces of the Japanese Army, the various units of the 147th Division could only defend as best they could. With the impact of the Japanese infantry and the serious casualties of the officers and soldiers of the various units of the 147th Division and the continuous pressure of the Japanese offensive, the various units of the 147th Division gradually lost control and fell into complete chaos under the attack of the Japanese Army.

The 34th and 3rd Divisions of the Japanese Army took only one day to completely defeat the 147th Division of the Third War Zone of the Chinese Government in Yingtan. Under the fierce attack of various Japanese divisions, the 147th Division completely collapsed on the morning of the next day. The headquarters of the 100th Army first retreated to Wenfang, southeast of Guixi, where it began to accommodate the officers and soldiers of the 147th Division who were defeated by the Japanese Army. The Japanese Army also successfully occupied Yingtan on the same day.

As the battles on the east and west fronts of the Japanese 13th Army and the Japanese 11th Army progressed smoothly, the Japanese headquarters also sent a telegram to the China Expeditionary Army Headquarters, instructing the commander of the China Expeditionary Army, Lieutenant General Hata Shunroku, to implement the combat plan for the entire Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway east of Hongcheng based on the actual situation on the battlefield.

After receiving instructions from the Japanese military headquarters, Lieutenant General Hata Shunroku, commander of the China Expeditionary Army, carefully studied the current situation on the battlefield and ordered the Japanese 13th Army and the Japanese 11th Army. The attacking forces temporarily rested in place to restore the physical strength and energy of the officers and soldiers. Then on June 30, the Japanese 13th Army and the Japanese 11th Army jointly started the action to implement the combat plan to open up the Zhejiang-Jiangxi railway line.

At this point, the Japanese military headquarters' original plan for the Japanese 13th Army to be responsible for the main attack and the Japanese 11th Army to cooperate and coordinate in Zhejiang Province officially developed into the "Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign" in which the Japanese 13th Army and the Japanese 11th Army advanced from the east and west to attack the Chinese government's Third War Zone troops and open up the Zhejiang-Jiangxi railway line.

After receiving the order telegram from Lieutenant General Hata Shunroku, commander of the China Expeditionary Army, Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru, commander of the 13th Japanese Army, ordered the 22nd Division of the Japanese Army to attack Hengfeng, cooperate with the offensive forces of the 11th Japanese Army to open up the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway Line, annihilate the remaining Chinese troops along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway, and destroy the facilities built by the Chinese army along the way.

The commander of the Japanese 11th Army, Lieutenant General Anami Korechika, ordered the Japanese 34th Division, which had previously performed very well, to complete the combat mission assigned by the commander of the China Expeditionary Army, Lieutenant General Hata Shunroku.

On the morning of June 30, the attacking force of the 22nd Division of the 13th Japanese Army began to attack westward along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway Line from Shangrao. At the same time, the 34th Division of the 11th Japanese Army, which was responsible for attacking eastward, led by the division commander Lieutenant General Iwanaga Wang, started from near Guixi and began to attack eastward along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway Line.

The attacking forces of the two Japanese divisions were advancing along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi railway line. However, the Third War Zone and the Ninth War Zone of the Chinese government did not arrange heavy defenses in the middle section of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi railway line, which meant that the attacking forces of the two Japanese divisions encountered only some slight resistance in their respective attacks.

The attacking forces of the 1nd and th Divisions of the Japanese Army did not encounter any stubborn resistance along the way, so their progress was quite fast. On the second day after the attack began, that is, on the morning of July , the attacking forces of the two divisions of the Japanese Army successfully met in Hengfeng, which also marked that the Japanese Army had completed the combat mission of opening up the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway Line.

Seeing that the combat mission was completed so easily, the attacking forces of the two divisions of the Japanese army plundered on both sides of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi railway line for four days. Then, the attacking forces of the two divisions withdrew from Hengfeng at the same time and returned to Shangrao and Guixi respectively.

In fact, in mid-June, the Third War Zone Command of the Chinese government received an order from the Military Commission. In the telegram, the Military Commission ordered the Third War Zone of the Chinese government to take advantage of the opportunity that the offensive forces of the Japanese 13th Army had penetrated deep into the battlefield and the troops were dispersed, and actively organize a counterattack to annihilate the offensive forces of the Japanese Army.

As the Military Commission issued the counterattack order, Commander-in-Chief Gu of the Third War Zone of the Chinese government also issued a counterattack order. However, this counterattack had little effect.