Devil's Army

In August, General Xue Yue actively sought opportunities to annihilate the Japanese army's effective forces.

The Japanese 106th Division moved northward along the Nanxun Railway, attempting to join forces with Japanese troops moving northward along the Yangtze River.

Xue Yue commanded the 25th Army and the 66th Army of the st Corps of the th Army to build fortifications in Lushan, Xingzi and other places along the Nanxun Line to resist layer by layer. He also created the "anti-figure eight scissors position" to delay the Japanese attack.

The Japanese 106th Division fought fiercely for a long time but failed to break through the layers of resistance of Xue Yue's First Corps. His strategic attempt to advance northward along the Nanxun Line was constrained by Xue Yue's "anti-eight-character scissors-shaped position" and progress was quite slow.

In order to turn the tide of the war, Commander Okamura Yasuji decided to attack Nanchang City from Nanxun, where the government army's defense was relatively weak, via Dehua County via Ruiwu Road.

Xue Yue noticed Okamura Yasuji's intention and quickly dispatched troops from Dexing Road, Nanxun Road and Ruiwu Road. The 723st Regiment of Dehua County and the 106rd Regiment fully cooperated and prepared to encircle and annihilate the isolated Japanese th Division on the spot.

The Japanese 106th Division was stubbornly blocked by the 723st and 75rd Regiments when it was marching to Huanglaomen in Dehua County. It was blocked twice and was fiercely bombarded by four mm mountain guns of the st Regiment for the third time. It had to bypass the outskirts of Dehua County and march towards Nanchang.

At the end of September, the 9th Division of the Japanese Army took a detour and arrived at Wanjialing in the west of Dehua County, but was blocked by the 106th Army and the 4st Division of the government army and was unable to move forward.

The Japanese 106th Division launched several consecutive attacks but failed to break through the Wanjialing position and instead retreated from Zhanggushan.

At this time, Division Commander Junrokuro Matsuura discovered that the exit of Zhanggushan had been firmly blocked by the 74th Division of the 58th Army.

Japanese planes flew over to support, trying to blast a bloody path to cover the retreat of the 106th Division. However, Wanjialing is a high mountain with dense forests, and it is impossible to find the bombing target in the air.

When Division Commander Junrokuro Matsuura saw that Wanjialing and Zhanggushan were unable to break out, he realized that they were surrounded and quickly sent a telegram to Commander General Okamura Yasuji for help.

Commander General Okamura Yasuji urgently dispatched the 101st Division and the 27th Division to come to the rescue.

The 723st Regiment and the 101rd Regiment of the st Anti-Japanese Army fought desperately in Dehua County and blocked the advance of part of the st Division of the Japanese Army.

江西保安团第3团和第11团在泸山方向挡住了日军101师团101联队4000多人三个多月，有力地支援了万家岭战斗。

The 139th and 187th Divisions blocked the attack of the Japanese 101st Division at the Xingzi Pass.

吴奇伟的新13师和第91师包围了日军101师团第149联队。激战半个来月，全歼了149联队，给日军101联队以沉重的打击。

日军27师团方面，政府军32军l41师，142师和62师各一部在白水街，麒麟峰一线阻挡瑞武线日军27师团东援。

The 18th Division of the 60th Army and the 27th Division of the Japanese Army fought repeatedly on the front battlefield of Qilin Peak.

The new 13th and 14th divisions of the Sichuan Army fought a fierce battle with the 27th Division of the Japanese Army in the direction of Qilin Peak in Dehua County. The position was occupied by the Japanese army several times, but was captured by the Sichuan Army every time.

In early October, a part of the Japanese 10th Division finally occupied Ruoxi and then sent troops to rescue the 27th Division. However, they were blocked by the Nanjing government troops and the plan failed.

The Japanese 27th Division fought with multiple units of the Nanjing government army for 17 days but failed to break through the Chinese army's blocking positions.

On October 10, Xue Yue ordered his troops to launch a general offensive. The 7th Army and the 4th Army of the government army launched a fierce attack on the Japanese troops in Wanjialing, Zhanggushan and other positions.

After several days of fierce fighting, Xue Bing's 106st Corps of the 111th War Zone almost wiped out the 136th, 147th and th Regiments of the th Division of the Japanese Army.

At that time, the headquarters of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army was located in Leimingguliu.

In the early morning of October 10, the Japanese army fired a large number of flares to confuse the Nanjing government troops, making Xue Yue's First Corps mistakenly believe that the Japanese 10th Division was trying to break out.

The commander of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army, Junrokuro Matsuura, disguised himself as a soldier and successfully escaped with the command officers and more than 200 guards.

When Junrokuro Matsuura fled to Ganmu Pass, he met the Suzuki Detachment who came to rescue him and finally managed to escape.

The Wanjialing Campaign successfully wiped out four Japanese regiments and more than 300 people, which greatly inspired the confidence of the army and civilians in the anti-Japanese war.

Guo Moruo called the Battle of Wanjialing, the Battle of Taierzhuang and the Battle of Pingxingguan the three most successful battles in the Anti-Japanese War.

After the Battle of Wanjialing, Junroku Matsuura was transferred back to Japan and became a military counselor of Japan. After the war, he was arrested as a Class B war criminal and sentenced to ten years in prison by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

The First Regiment of the First Anti-Japanese Army stationed in Dehua County had been actively attacking and harassing the Japanese army before participating in the Wanjialing Battle. However, one time, the command center was destroyed by the "Japanese Army".