At this moment, the morale and fighting spirit of more than 8,000 Wuxi soldiers, including the independent battalion, were all stimulated by Xu Wen's words before he set off.

Everyone was enthusiastic and rushed forward with high morale, especially when Xu Wen overtook them with tanks and armored vehicles and rushed to the front, everyone's morale was greatly encouraged and rose to the top.

In the previous battles, they had all seen the power of this armored unit under Xu Wen, so as long as this group of armored troops was there, they would have absolute confidence to defeat the enemy and kill all the devils they encountered.

As mentioned earlier, the brigade commander of the 30th Brigade of the 16th Division, Toichi Sasaki, was left on the Navy transport ship to recuperate and rest because of illness, and before the troops of the 16th Division landed at Baimaokou one after another.

After the death of Nakajima Imago and Chief of Staff Mitsuo Nakazawa, the commander of the entire 16th Division at the brigade level was only Major General Kusaba Tatsumi, the commander of the 19th Brigade.

The order that Kuaba Tatsumi had received before was issued by the Shanghai Dispatch Army Headquarters after Nakajima and others were killed in the attack, and asked him to take the 19th Brigade and the 16th Artillery Wing and the Baggage Wing directly under the division to Wuxi as soon as possible to join the two wings of the 30th Brigade.

Therefore, Kuaba Chenji did not know that the 33rd and 38th Infantry Wings at this time had been completely wiped out by Xu Wen and Zhou Weiguo.

He still led the 19th Brigade along the highway and marched normally to the south of Wuxi.

Kusaba Tatsumi believes that there will definitely be no fighting on the Wuxi front tonight, and as long as he rushes to Wuxi with the main force before dawn to join up with the main force of the 30th Brigade and take over the command of the entire division, everything will not be a big problem.

Because in his opinion, as long as the imperial army did not take the initiative to attack, the Chinese defenders in Wuxi would definitely not dare to make any moves.

It is true that this is true in previous battles, if there is no Xu Wen's appearance, the national army will generally adopt this passive defensive strategy, passive defense, it is simply impossible, and it does not dare to take the initiative to attack.

It's just that Caochang Chenji couldn't have dreamed of it, because of Xu Wen's facilitation, the defenders of Wuxi not only attacked at night on all fronts, but also wiped out the two main wings of the 30th Brigade.

As the supreme commander of the 19th Brigade, this is still the case, not to mention the ordinary soldiers below.

Therefore, the two infantry wings of the 19th Brigade were not at all defenseless when they encountered the Wuxi counterattack troops led by Xu Wen and Zhou Weiguo.

In the final analysis, the devil still failed to pay attention to this small force led by Xu Wen, and it was a serious underestimate of the enemy in a state of strategic overall victory!

Like the 30th Brigade, the 19th Brigade is also a pure infantry brigade, and the two wings under its jurisdiction are all infantry, and the degree of mechanization is not high.

Only a small number of side three-wheeled motorcycles and trucks were used to transport heavy weapons such as artillery and supplies.

In an unguarded situation, he ran into the tank armored force commanded by Xu Wen, and the result can be imagined.

Attacked by Xu Wen's tanks and armored vehicles, the devils of the Ninth Infantry Wing, who were at the forefront, suddenly fell down in pieces like harvested wheat and leeks.

The battle at the front began, and the news quickly alarmed the brigade commander, Major General Tatsumi Kusaba, who was traveling with the troops in a truck behind.

The old devil hurriedly jumped out of the co-pilot of the truck, pulled out his gun, squatted next to the right front wheel of the truck very vigilantly, and shouted to the staff officer who ran over in a hurry: "Ono-kun, what's the situation ahead?" ”

The devil staff officer named Ono was obviously frightened by the sudden attack and explosion in front of him, and even the cat running and crawling ran to the grass field Tatsuji and squatted down, and said in panic: "It seems that the Ninth Wing has been attacked, right?" ”

"Send someone over right now to see what's going on!" Kusaba Tatsumi ordered in a deep voice.

However, before the soldiers they sent rushed over, there were countless Japanese soldiers in front of them, and they turned around and fled back in a hurry.

Who else could escape from the front, except for the soldiers of the Ninth Wing? Therefore, when he saw this scene, the old devil Kusaba Tatsumi was shocked and angry, and stood up suddenly and scolded: "Eight Geya Road? What's going on? Who told them to retreat? ”

How did Kuaba Tatsuji know that his Ninth Wing had been completely routed after being violently killed by the independent battalion led by Xu Wen and thousands of Wuxi defenders.

Playing a key role in this was naturally the tank armored unit commanded by Xu Wen, five No. 4 tanks, one armored car, and ten Humvee military vehicles equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns, forming an invincible and powerful assault group.

With ferocious and dense firepower, it almost inflicted a devastating blow on the 9th Infantry Wing.

On the way to the encounter, the devils of the 9th Wing were like being slaughtered without shelter and support.

Rows and rows fell under Xu Wen's dense assault fire, and the commander of the 9th Wing, Katagiri Goro Osa, although he tried his best to stop the shouting, could not prevent his soldiers from escaping at all.

In desperation, Katagiri had no choice but to take a small number of henchmen and retreat backwards with the rout.

Under the crushing assault of Xu Wen's armored force, the devil was almost crushed at the touch of a button, which greatly encouraged the thousands of Wuxi defenders who followed behind the independent battalion, and their morale was greatly boosted, and they roared loudly and angrily, scrambling forward to continue to rush forward.

Xu Wen naturally would not give up such a good fighter, and immediately commanded all tanks and armored vehicles, and armed military vehicles took advantage of the situation to cover up.

The soldiers sat on tanks and armored vehicles, manipulating artillery, vehicle-mounted machine guns, and anti-aircraft machine guns firing wildly, constantly harvesting human heads, and the blood of the Japanese soldiers who were killed directly was like a river, and the corpses were all over the field.

Moments later, Katagiri Goro Osa fled to the truck of the brigade commander, Major General Kusaba Tatsumi, surrounded by the rout, and he and his men were stopped by the soldiers under Kusaba Tatsumi's command.

At this time, Kusaba Tatsumi didn't know what was going on, so he was naturally unwilling to fail like this, so as the brigade commander, he directly commanded the 20th Infantry Wing, which followed up, and ordered them to deploy on the spot, forming a blockade line, and no one was allowed to continue to retreat.

Some of the devils who were frightened by Xu Wen's powerful assault firepower tried to forcibly retreat, but were shot on the spot by Kusaba Tatsuki's order.

In the chaos, the captain of the Ninth Wing, Katagiri Goro, was terrified and found Kusaba Tatsuki, but before he could speak, Kusaba Tatsumi who found him preemptively reprimanded: "Yaga! Katagiri-kun look at your subordinates, the face of the Imperial soldiers has been disgraced by you! ”

Katagiri Goro was ashamed, but said anxiously: "General, you don't know, the incoming Shina Army is an armored force, and the firepower is very fierce, and we can't resist it at all!" ”