"Zhu Ziming !!" Matsui Shigen gritted his teeth and repeated Xu Wen's name on the side, Huo Ran turned around, looked at the battle map not far away, and ordered in a deep voice: "Order the 6th Division to march to Wuxi immediately!" At all costs, it is necessary to break through the Wuxi defense line and eliminate this independent brigade.

Tell Gu Shoufu that it is best to capture Zhu Ziming alive, and I will cut off his head with my own hands to pay tribute to the spirits of Fujita and Nakajima, the two generals, and tens of thousands of imperial soldiers in the sky. ”

"Hay!" Tsukada attacked violently and immediately took the order.

Neither Matsui Ishine nor Tsukada Attack cared if a single Sixth Division would be able to capture Wuxi and eliminate the Independent Brigade.

Because they have absolute trust in this division of Gu Shoufu! Besides, there is the 3rd Division, the 9th and 11th Divisions in the back, and the main forces can support at any time, so they are very relieved.

In fact, after Gu Shoufu knew all about Nakajima's current department and the defeat of Xu Wen, he didn't particularly pay attention to the newly formed independent brigade.

Because as the commander of the 6th Division, he has absolute confidence in his troops.

His 6th Division is one of the seven permanent divisions of the Japanese Army, a division regiment, a real elite, an ace among aces.

In terms of soldiers and equipment, they are better than Nakajima's Sixth Division, and their combat effectiveness is naturally much stronger.

The entire division is now in a state of full strength, with more than 30,000 people, as well as strong fire support from the Navy and Air Force!

Not to mention that there is only one army in Wuxi, Xu Wen and Zhou Weiguo, even if there are 100,000 troops, Gu Shoufu is not afraid of a head-on duel, and the successive victories on the battlefield of invasion of China have made all the Japanese troops, including Gu Shoufu, arrogant to the limit.

The fiasco of the 16th Division was not enough to make them timid, let alone admonished.

Because in the eyes of arrogant high-ranking generals like Tani Shofu, Nakajima Imasayo's command ability cannot be compared with his own.

Moreover, the 16th Division's disastrous defeat was caused by a series of objective reasons.

Gu Shoufu believed that these conditions would not happen to his 6th Division, and naturally he would not give the Independent Brigade any opportunity to take advantage of it.

Therefore, after receiving Matsui Shigen's telegram order, this old devil immediately ordered all the troops of the 6th Division to be dispatched, and more than 30,000 troops marched along the Beijing-Shanghai Highway towards Wuxi.

Before the 6th Division arrived in Wuxi, dozens of carrier-based fighters and bombers belonging to the 3rd and 4th fleets of the Devil's Navy arrived first.

An unprecedented wanton bombardment was carried out inside and outside the city of Wuxi, causing considerable casualties to the independent brigade that was being reorganized.

At the critical moment, Xu Wen ordered his henchmen to drive the ten Humvee military vehicles equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns out of the concealed body, and the ten anti-aircraft machine guns fired at the same time to form a dense anti-aircraft fire network, which scared away the devil's plane.

After repelling the enemy's air attack, Xu Wen immediately said to Zhou Weiguo and the others: "Everyone report how many people they still have under their own commands, let's summarize them and see how many troops our independent brigade has now." ”

Although the battle to defeat the 16th Division last night ended with a complete victory for the Independent Brigade, the continuous offensive pursuit throughout the night also caused a lot of casualties to all the participating units.

After the statistics of Zhou Weiguo and others, it was finally determined that the current independent brigade, including the henchmen brought by Xu Wen from Qingfeng Village, has a total of about 6,000 people.

In last night's battle, the defenders of Wuxi lost more than 2,000 troops, and it was normal to think about it, you must know that they defeated a division of the Japanese army, and they could destroy tens of thousands of enemies with 2,000 casualties, which was already a miracle on the anti-Japanese battlefield at that time.

In order to facilitate command and improve combat effectiveness, Xu Wen reorganized the independent brigade into three Type B infantry regiments, an artillery battalion, a tank battalion, and a communications company.

Zhou Weiguo and Chen Zhenglun were appointed as deputy brigade commander and chief of staff, Li Wu was appointed commander of the tank battalion, Sun Fugui was appointed commander of the communications company, and Wu Yongqiang was appointed commander of the artillery battalion.

As for the commanders of the three infantry regiments, they were Chen Tianxiang of Hunan, Zhang Yulin of Guangxi, and Li Dakui, who was born in the Sichuan Army, and most of the deputy regiment commanders were their henchmen and adjutants.

Among these 6,000 people, Xu Wen and Chen Zhenglun's men had tanks and armored vehicles, so although they rushed to the front, the casualties were the smallest, and there were more than 180 people.

The independent battalion led by Zhou Weiguo also has more than 200 people, plus about 400 people.

In order to facilitate his command, Xu Wen organized all these 400 people into two battalions and one company directly under the brigade headquarters, that is, a tank battalion, an artillery battalion, and a communications company.

Among them, the tank battalion was divided into 150 people, the artillery battalion 158 people, and the communications company more than 100 people.

In addition, Xu Wen transferred a group of experienced veterans from other units to supplement the three directly subordinate troops.

The tank battalion and the artillery battalion each had 300 men, the communications company had 200 men, and the three directly subordinate units together had 800 men.

The remaining 5,000 people were organized into the 1st Regiment of the Independent Brigade, the 2nd Regiment of the Independent Brigade, and the 3rd Regiment of the Independent Brigade, with 1,700 to 1,800 men in each regiment.

After completing the reorganization, Xu Wen ordered Sun Fugui to prepare the above information into a telegram and report it to the garrison theater headquarters in Nanjing, which was approved at the first time.

After completing the reorganization, the system finally issued a long-lost prompt: "Ding Dong, it was detected that the 16th Division had retreated from Baimaokou, and the host was judged to have completed the task, congratulations on obtaining 200,000 exchange points reward, and the current host exchange points are 210,000." ”

"Great!" The independent brigade has just been formed, and it is precisely the time when it needs to be equipped with American and German-style equipment on a large scale, especially the tank battalion and artillery battalion, and the number of weapons and equipment is seriously insufficient.

Xu Wen was awake here, Chen Zhenglun, who was already the chief of staff of the Independent Brigade, suddenly walked in from outside with a hurried face, saluted Xu Wen and said: "Brigade seat, the unit has been reorganized, and the weapons and equipment have been allocated in place, and we have captured a lot of equipment from the Japanese this time, rifles, light and heavy machine guns and ammunition are sufficient."

But the artillery of the artillery battalion is not enough, because the artillery of the devil artillery wing was destroyed by our troops in the battle last night, so we have to find a way to get some artillery! ”

happened to be on the side, Zhou Weiguo, who calculated the combat strength of the entire independent brigade, also answered: "Although the little devil's Japanese-style equipment is good, it is still a little worse than the German style of the ** elite equipment, why don't we jointly ask the commander's department for German-style equipment?"

It's really not good, let's exchange the captured Japanese-style equipment. ”

Xu Wen smiled and waved his hand: "Two brothers, you don't have to worry about weapons and equipment, let's change to the most advanced German and American equipment today!" As for these captured Japanese-style weapons, notify other friendly troops to come and get them casually, and they will all be given away for free! ”