The words were divided into two ends, the captain of the Japanese Sixth Division in Anqing military police Takashi Kodera had been leading people to wait outside the city for almost two hours, almost immediately after receiving the telegram from the Third Fleet of the Navy, Takashi Kotera personally led the military police stationed in Anqing and the puppet army to open up a guidance position outside the city. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Takashi Kodera chose an open field in the north of the castle and had the puppet army light the smoke with soaked artemisia grass so that the bombers flying from high altitude could spot the ground target and drop Commander Itagaki in the right place, however, Takashi Kotera's efforts ultimately fell through when it suddenly rained.

"Captain, put it on." The orderly brought a poncho.

Koji Guishi pushed away the orderly, how could he still be in the mood to wear a poncho.

Skydiving is already very dangerous, and skydiving in rainy weather is even more dangerous! Especially now that there is a heavy fog on the Yangtze River, it makes Kodera Takashi even more worried, if Commander Itagaki lands on the river, it will very likely cause unpredictable serious consequences, after all, the river defense fleet is not in Anqing now.

After thinking about it, Koji Guishi turned around and shouted, "Go and call Liu Degui to me." ”

Liu Degui was the captain of the plainclothes team of the puppet army stationed in Anqing, and he was soon called over.

"Taisang?" Although Liu Degui is the captain of plainclothes, he is more well-behaved than a dog in front of Koji Guishi, nodding his head and saying with a smile on his face, "Are you looking for me?" ”

Takashi Kodera nodded and said, "You go find a dozen boats right away." ”

"Looking for a boat?" Two black lines immediately appeared on Liu Degui's head, "More than a dozen?" ”

In the first three years, it was easy to find people with three legs, but it was really difficult to find boats, and even small sampans were nowhere to be found, because in the defense of Nanjing a year ago, the Nationalist Army searched all the large and small boats on both sides of the Yangtze River, and all of them were scuttled in the river, and even the small fishing boats of the fishermen who made a living from fishing were not spared.

However, the national army's scorched-earth anti-Japanese war strategy still had some effect, at least, the Japanese army could not transport supplies by recruiting civilian ships along the Yangtze River, but had to rely on the gunboats and barges of the river defense fleet, so it was really difficult to find ships now, and it was even more difficult to find ships on both sides of the Yangtze River from Nanjing to Jiujiang.

Liu Degui was a plainclothes captain, and he couldn't find more than a dozen boats at once.

Seeing that Liu Degui didn't agree, Koji Guishi's face immediately sank: "What? ”

Liu Degui was shocked and hurriedly said: "Taisang, I know that Han Jian has dozens of fishing boats, which were captured by the garrison brigade from the guerrillas when he went to Chaohu Lake to sweep the water guerrillas last time. ”

Han Jian is the brigade commander of the Anqing Garrison Brigade, and he has never dealt with Liu Degui, so he sold it easily.

"Yo Si." Xiaoji Guishi was too lazy to take care of the dirty affairs within the Chinese, so he immediately readily agreed, and authorized Liu Degui to go to Han Jian's garrison brigade to requisition ships, and Liu Degui took Xiaoji Guishi's order proudly and went to the garrison brigade station to find trouble with Han Jian.

Let's not talk about the filth of the two dog traitors, and then talk about the history of Kotera Guishi, after waiting for about half an hour, there was a sudden roar of car engines on the road ahead.

Immediately afterwards, a huge convoy came out of the vast rain and fog, only to see six side three-wheeled motorcycles at the head, followed by two large trucks, then an armored car, then two large trucks, and finally about two squadrons of devil infantry running to follow, it was really a big battle.

As soon as he saw this battle, Takashi Koji immediately knew that it was the division commander who had arrived.

Itagaki Seishiro was about to be airborne in Anqing, and this news was told to Kotera Takashi by the commander of the Sixth Division, Okabe Naosaburo, who after receiving the telegram, informed Kotera Takashi, the captain of the military police stationed in Anqing, that he took the guard troops and went straight to Anqing from Chaohu.

As soon as Okabe got out of the car, he asked, "Kotera-san, hasn't Your Excellency the Commander arrived yet?" ”

Okabe Naosaburo is the twenty-seventh student of Lu University, one year earlier than Itagaki Seishiro, but now, he wants to call Itagaki Seishiro in turn Your Excellency, to say that there is no resistance in his heart, it is false, but at the same time, Okabe Naosaburo also has expectations for Itagaki Seishiro, so Okabe Naosaburo's mood is very complicated.

"Hello." Kodera Guishi said at the head of the head, "The commander of the division, His Excellency the commander has not yet landed. ”

Naosaburo Okabe looked up at the dark sky overhead, a look of worry crossed his brow.

Takashi Kodera, Takeshi Anda, the chief of staff of the Sixth Division, who came with Okabe Naosaburo, and the dozen or so staff officers who came with Okabe Naosaburo were all worried that something would happen to Itagaki Seishiro.

After waiting for almost ten minutes, a sharp-eyed devil soldier suddenly shouted: "Look, Your Excellency the Commander has landed safely!" ”

"Huh?"

"Nani?"

"Did you land safely?"

Okabe Naosaburo, Takeshi Adachi, Takashi Kodera and others looked up one after another, and sure enough, they saw a figure piercing out of the vast rain and fog in the sky, and then a huge parachute suspended in mid-air.

Takashi Kodera hurriedly led someone to pull the man up, but who else would come if it wasn't Seishiro Itagaki ?

"Your Excellency, Commander!" Okabe Naosaburo and Takeshi Anda and other attachés also came over, and they all stepped forward to salute Itagaki Seisburo and salute itabe, and Okabe Naosaburo was just that, and the chief of staff of the Sixth Division, Anda Takeshi, and several operational staff officers of the General Staff looked at Itagaki Seishiro's eyes were extremely hot.

Obviously, this adventurous parachute jump made Itagaki Seishiro's reputation as "the courage of the army" even louder.

Itagaki Seishiro also saw undisguised admiration in the eyes of young officers such as Takeshi Anda, and he couldn't help but feel a little fluttering in his heart, in the Imperial Army world, he Itagaki Seishiro was also the first general to complete a high-altitude skydive, and this alone was enough to make his name forever in the annals of history.

It's just that in front of Naosaburo Okabe, a senior, Seishiro Itagaki didn't put on a show.

"Okabe-san, I've been waiting for you for a long time." Seishiro Itagaki nodded slightly, and bowed slightly to young officers such as Takeshi Adachi and Takashi Kodera again.

The next group of people went straight to the car and went straight to the headquarters of the Anqing Gendarmerie.

When he arrived at the headquarters of the Anqing Gendarmerie, Seishiro Itagaki didn't take care of resting, so he directly asked Naosaburo Okabe to report to him the latest battle situation of the Eleventh Army and the Wuhan battlefield.

It took about half an hour for Okabe Naosaburo to finally finish the battle of Wuhan, including the progress of the Second Army at the northern foot of the Dabie Mountain, including the preparations of the divisions and regiments under the Eleventh Army, including the situation in Jiujiang.

After explaining the general situation of the Wuhan battlefield, Okabe Naosaburo said: "Your Excellency Commander, the northern and southern fronts of the Wuhan battlefield are probably such a situation, the current battlefield on the northern front is not bad, but the situation on the southern front battlefield is already very grim, the 27th Division, which is responsible for the security of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces and ensures the smooth flow of the Hunan and Jiangxi roads, is being attacked by the full force of the Xue Yue Division of the National Army, although the current situation has not deteriorated, but ......"

The Chief of Staff of the Sixth Division, An Da Wuzhi, immediately continued: "However, due to the loss of Jiujiang, the military supplies hoarded at Jiujiang Station are under serious threat, and once this batch of military supplies is destroyed or even intercepted by the Zhina Army, then the 27th Division will immediately be in a predicament, and the battle situation on the Hunan and Jiangxi Highway is very likely to take a sharp turn." ”

Okabe Naosaburo said again: "If the Hunan and Jiangxi highways are finally cut off by Xue Yue's department, then the 3rd and 101st Divisions of the Hunan Battlefield will fall into the encirclement of the Zhina Army, and the situation suffered by the 9th and 13th Divisions in Huainan is very likely to be repeated in the Hunan Battlefield, and this time the distance is farther, and the situation is even more dangerous!" ”

Itagaki Seishiro said: "In other words, Jiujiang is the key to this battle? ”

"Hello! So to speak. Okabe Naosaburo paused heavily, then raised his head, and stared at Itagaki Seishiro for a moment, in the face of such a grim situation, Okabe Naosaburo really wanted to see how Itagaki Seishiro, the new commander who was pinned on by His Majesty the Emperor and the base camp, would break the situation?

Takeshi Anda and several young staff officers of the 6th Division also cheered up.

Before Itagaki Seishiro parachuted into Anqing, more than a dozen operational staff officers of the Sixth Division's General Staff had actually conducted more than a dozen war games in a row in an attempt to solve the crisis after the loss of Jiujiang, but unfortunately, these dozen or so war games ended in failure.

That is, Naosaburo Okabe and the chief of staff of the 6th Division were helpless about it.

It is precisely because of this that the operational staff officers of Okabe Naosaburo, Takeshi Adachi, and the Sixth Division are so eager to know how Seishiro Itagaki will break the situation? Or to put it another way, they are very eager to know if Seishiro Itagaki, a powerful general known as the "courage of the army", has a way to break the game?

"Yo Si." Itagaki Seishiro stared at the map, his brows tightened, but his tone was nonchalant, "It seems that Xu Rui really gave me a problem, if Jiujiang is not recaptured, the entire battlefield on the south bank of the Yangtze River will be a dead end, but if heavy troops are invested to besiege Jiujiang, it will inevitably affect the course of the battle of Wuhan, what a dilemma." ”

Hearing Seishiro Itagaki say this, Takeshi Anda and several combat staff officers were inevitably a little disappointed.

Could it be that the "courage of the army", which His Majesty the Emperor and the base camp had high hopes for, was helpless?

Okabe Naosaburo was both a little disappointed and a little gloating, and said in a deep voice: "Your Excellency Commander, please forgive me for saying that with the current situation, it is a little too optimistic to consider the battle of Wuhan, and for the sake of today, it is better to ensure the smooth flow of the Hunan and Jiangxi highways and ensure the safety of the Third Division and the 101st Division. (To be continued.) )