Time back two hours, Nanjing, garrison theater headquarters.

Tang Shengzhi, Chen Cheng, Luo Zhuoying, Liu Xing and others were woken up from their sleep by the staff officers left behind.

After listening to the staff officer's report, Tang Shengzhi sighed with excitement: "Accident, it's really amazing!" The Independent Brigade actually ambushed and killed Prince Hatohiko Asakanomiya, who killed the Japanese army? ”

"Yes!" Chen Cheng also said with emotion: "If you don't hear it with your own ears, you can't believe it!" ”

"Zhu Ziming and Zhou Weiguo are so powerful, they have brought us too many surprises!" Luo Zhuoying said with admiration.

"Immediately publish this news in the newspaper and spread it to all the soldiers and civilians in Nanjing, so as to boost the determination and morale of our army and people to resist the war." Tang Shengzhi immediately made a decisive decision to maximize the good impact of the miracle created by the Independent Brigade.

Chen Cheng did not object, after all, this great victory of the Independent Brigade was indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to inspire people.

Subsequently, Tang Shengzhi said to Chen Cheng again: "Brother Cixiu, Zhu Ziming and Zhou Weiguo have repeatedly made war exploits, how should we reward them?" ”

"Now Zhu Ziming and Zhou Weiguo are already major generals and deputy brigade commanders, and we have no right to promote them anymore, how to reward them, or report to the committee, please decide on it!" Chen Cheng sighed and suggested.

"Well, Brother Cixiu is reasonable, just do it!" Tang Shengzhi nodded approvingly.

Immediately, the news that the Independent Brigade had killed the Japanese lieutenant general, Prince Hatohiko of Asakanomiya, quickly spread in Nanjing and other places.

And because Xu Wen's news was sent in a clear-code message, in addition to the Nanjing Garrison Command, all other theaters and units that received this news were all received by all other theaters and units equipped with radio stations.

Under the leadership of the Nationalist Government headed by Chairman Chiang, a more influential public opinion propaganda is brewing.

After Chairman Jiang learned of the news, he originally wanted to promote Xu Wen to lieutenant general, but He Yingqin and other party-state bigwigs persuaded him.

The reason is very simple, Zhu Ziming was born as a bandit, he has neither received an orthodox military education, nor is he born in Huangpu, in less than a month, if he is promoted from a white body to a lieutenant general and brigade commander, it will cause other ** generals to be dissatisfied.

After comprehensive consideration, Chairman Jiang still adopted the suggestions of He Yingqin and others, and rewarded Xu Wen, Zhou Weiguo, and Chen Zhenglun with 300,000 oceans as encouragement.

At the same time, the order was to electrify the heroic deeds of the independent brigade to the whole army and use it for propaganda.

The Central Unification Committee, the Military Command, and other departments are also preparing large-scale propaganda to kill and publicize the heroic deeds of the Independent Brigade on the front line in large and medium-sized cities across the country, so as to inspire people and encourage the people to support the government's resistance against Japan.

Leave that aside for the time being, let's get down to business.

Xu Wen and Zhou Weiguo came with an armored force of more than 500 tanks and armored vehicles and 4,000 people, originally wanting to go out of the city along the east and west streets in the city, take the west gate, and then detour through the north gate and east gate, and return to the rear of the 6th Division of the Japanese army, choose the opportunity to launch a surprise attack, and then defeat it.

However, seeing that it was already dawn, Xu Wen found that the 6th Division showed no signs of continuing its offensive towards Wuxi, so he judged that Gu Shoufu should still be waiting for reinforcements.

So Xu Wen said to Zhou Weiguo: "Weiguo, it seems that the little devil's reinforcements have not yet arrived, since this is the case, then we don't need to be afraid, I think we can directly attack the Japanese army from the front and defeat them in one fell swoop!" ”

Zhou Weiguo nodded and said: "I think it is okay, we now have more than three hundred tanks and armored vehicles, plus more than two hundred Humvee military vehicles equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns, and a steel torrent composed of more than five hundred vehicles."

It's enough to crush a division of the Japanese army! ”

"However, there are a large number of fortifications we have dug outside the south gate and the east gate, and there are trenches all over the place, which is not conducive to the assault of our mechanized troops!

I suggest that we first go out of the city through the north gate, first detour to the east gate, defeat the Japanese army outside the east gate, and then assault the rear of the Japanese army outside the south gate, so that we will definitely be able to defeat the 6th Division in one fell swoop! ”

Xu Wen nodded happily: "Well, just do what you say about Weiguo." ”

Therefore, the two ordered the troops to turn around and head north at the central street of the city, go out of the city from the north gate, and make a detour to the rear of the Japanese army at the east gate.

In addition to the fierce firepower, the tank armored forces are also highly mobile!

Soon, Xu Wen commanded the Tiger tank, guiding 500 tank fighting vehicles to appear in the rear of the Japanese army outside the east gate in a roundabout way.

The Japanese troops at the East Gate at that time were mainly the 6th Brigade of the 11th Division, with a total of more than 6,000 people in two wings.

It was morning, and Tokutaro Itai, the commander of the 11th Brigade at the time, was eating breakfast at the brigade headquarters without realizing that danger was approaching.

The first to notice the anomaly was a Japanese scout named Kotaro Tengen, who was lurking in the woods north of the brigade headquarters.

And it just so happened that Tengen Kotaro was a little upset at the time, so he put the 38 rifle that was taller than himself on a big tree next to him, and squatted in the grass behind the tree to make it easier.

At this moment, Tengen Kotaro suddenly heard a strange roar, he poked his head out curiously from behind the big tree, and followed the sound to see a huge steel beast, almost taller than his own height, rushing towards him.

Some trees and grasses along the way were crushed under the tracks by it and broke one after another.

Tengen Kotaro was so taken aback that he didn't even bother to lift his pants, hurriedly stood up and quickly picked up his rifle, raised his gun and aimed at the behemoth and pulled the trigger.

Xu Wen was sitting in the Tiger tank, directing the troops to advance forward at full speed, when suddenly a gunshot rang out from the front.

Immediately after that, a bullet hit the frontal armor of his Tiger tank, bursting out with a spark and a crisp voice: "Bang! ”

Xu Wen immediately asked the commander: "What's the situation, where to shoot?" ”

Because of the suddenness of the incident, Tengen Kotaro hid behind a large tree again, surrounded by wild grass and bushes that were more than one person tall to provide excellent cover.

Therefore, the commander of Xu Wen's tank did not find the source of the attack, so he replied while observing: "I don't know, it should be in the area of twelve o'clock in front of the front." ”

Xu Wen looked at it, and saw that there were bushes in front of him, and there were a few big trees around, and immediately said: "Don't look for it, bombard me with tank guns and howitzers!" And the on-board machine gun, also fire and strafe at me!

Covered by firepower, don't be afraid to kill him! ”

There was only one shot just now, indicating that there was only one attacker, and it should be a devil's guard post or something.

In this case, the independent brigade does not need to find out his precise location, it only needs to exert the power of its own firepower and carry out a covering strike.

There is no way, the current independent brigade is simply too rich!