Devil's Army

At 12 noon that day, the Japanese army changed its landing location and launched a second attack on the Jiujiang city area.

The landing site was at the mouth of the Longkai River. The Japanese army fired a large number of smoke bombs at the beach positions.

Three Japanese kayaks rushed onto the beachhead, and more than 100 Japanese soldiers landed and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Chinese defenders.

After more than two hours of fierce fighting, the 463th Regiment of the 925rd Brigade of the government army wiped out most of the Japanese troops that had landed. A small number of Japanese troops retreated in kayaks. The second attack by the Japanese army failed again.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese army changed the landing site again. They forcibly landed on the west bank of Longkai River (now the area of ​​Jiujiang Foreign Trade Terminal) and successfully occupied the Jiujiang Old Railway Station.

Subsequently, the 90th Division of the government army organized a counterattack, but suffered heavy casualties under the fierce bombing of Japanese naval guns and aircraft, and the counterattack failed.

At that time, the 90th Division's defense line stretched from Yinjia Lake in Gutang to the old railway station, and Yinjia Lake was the main attack direction of the Japanese army.

The commander of the 90th Division, Ou Zhen, was facing a two-pronged attack by the Japanese army. He was short of troops and could not take care of both ends.

殷家湖是第90师与第11师的交界处。第90师隶属第4军，第11师隶属第18军。

The Japanese army seized the defensive loophole between the two divisions and successfully landed at Yinjia Lake soon, consolidated the beach position, and advanced deep into the enemy territory.

With the loss of the west bank of the Longkai River, the 90th Division had to fight on two fronts.

The commander of the first regiment soon learned about the situation of the 90th Division from the commander of the regiment, Wang Qiming. However, he only had more than 1000 people left and could not change the situation. He could only temporarily guarantee the safety of Dehua County and its surrounding areas.

As the Japanese Hata Detachment completed its preparations, Japanese planes and artillery began to bomb the officers and soldiers of the 90th Division on one side of the old railway bridge.

The officers and soldiers of the 90th Division relied on the fortifications at the bridgehead of the old railway bridge to block the Japanese troops who attempted to cross the bridge.

Japanese soldiers were shot one after another and fell into the Longkai River.

The Japanese aircraft increased their bombing intensity, the artillery also increased the intensity of the bombing, and also deployed landing craft to force their way across the Longkai River.

The officers and soldiers of the 90th Division were defeated and began to retreat.

A part of the Japanese Army's Hata Detachment successfully landed at the Yangyou Field (now Jipo Oil Depot), crossed the Baishui Lake and launched an attack on the 90th Division.

The 90th Division was attacked from multiple fronts and began to retreat towards Shilipu.

Commander General Okamura Yasuji ordered the Hata Detachment to advance from Shilipu via Lianhua to Saiyang.

Zhang Fakui, commander of the Second Front Army of China, did not want to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Jiujiang. He believed that the water network around Jiujiang was dense and the Japanese warships could drive straight in and be difficult to resist. He advocated the establishment of a second line of defense outside Jiujiang to block and consume the Japanese army's manpower layer by layer.

However, Jiujiang was an important gateway to Wuhan, and the Nanjing leaders ordered that Jiujiang be strictly guarded, so Zhang Fakui had to deploy heavy troops along the Jiujiang line.

In the end, the Japanese reinforcements continued to increase, the Chinese defenders were much worse equipped than the Japanese, and suffered heavy casualties from the fierce bombing by the Japanese navy and air force, making it difficult to organize an effective resistance.

Commander Zhang Fakui then ordered his troops to abandon Jiujiang and retreat to the outskirts of Jiujiang City.

The battle of Jiujiang city, which was heavily defended, lasted only three days from the battle of Gutang to its complete occupation by the Japanese army. Except for the heavy casualties of the defenders of Gutang, the other defenders of the Second Front Army of China withdrew from Jiujiang city intact with few casualties. This can only be said to be a major failure of Commander Zhang Fakui in the war against Japan.

A few days after the Jiujiang battle ended, the Nanjing leaders removed Zhang Fakui from his post as commander of the Second Front Army for his poor performance in the war of resistance and handed him over to Yu Hanmou.

The outskirts of Jiujiang were under the command of General Xue Yue, commander of the Ninth War Zone, known as the Little Tiger.

At the same time, Gu Jiaqi, commander of the 70th Division of the 128th Army of the government army, was afraid of the enemy and retreated without a fight, without reinforcing the 90th Division in Yinjia Lake. After the war, the 128th Division was disbanded by the leaders of the Nanjing government, and Gu Jiaqi was also dismissed and investigated.

At the same time, after Commander Okamura Yasuji occupied Jiujiang, he tacitly allowed his troops to implement the inhumane Three Alls Policy in Jiujiang City.

More than half of the houses in the once prosperous Jiujiang City were destroyed, and most of the shops were closed. The Japanese army looted all the people's property. The population of Jiujiang City also dropped sharply from 8.5 to more than 2. And it took a long time to recover after the war.

After the 29th Army of the 64th Corps of China retreated to both sides of Lushan Mountain, they used the dangerous terrain of Lushan Mountain to block the Japanese army layer by layer.

At that time, the commander of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army had been replaced by Junrokuro Matsuura. After the previous attack on Dehua County was blocked, he reorganized a larger-scale attack, but was blocked in the Huanglaomen area.

At that time, soldiers from the 723st and rd Regiments, with the support of the st Regiment's artillery deployed on Daiyun Mountain, used the already built fortifications to tenaciously block the attack of the Japanese th Division.

Although the Japanese planes bombed fiercely and his artillery provided continuous support, his infantry still failed to cross the defense line in the Huanglaomen area.

At this time, the Japanese army had already advanced into Jiujiang from several other directions, so Junroku Matsuura gave up the plan to attack Jiujiang from Pengze County via Dehua County.