At this time, Yoshimoto Sadachi had already made a detour back to Jiujiang City. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At the beginning, Yoshimoto Sadachi received a telegram from the navy, saying that the marines who came from Madang Fortress to reinforce had recaptured Jiujiang, Yoshimoto Sadachi still didn't believe it, how could it be, the marines who came to help were only half a brigade of troops, while the Sichuan army across Jiujiang had nearly 2,000 people, and Xu Rui was present.

Even though Xu Rui is now seriously injured and unable to participate in the battle in person, he can still use his superb command attainments to give great help to the Sichuan army, so it is difficult for Yoshimoto Sadachi to believe emotionally that the Marine Corps has only about 500 people, and actually defeated a regiment of the Sichuan Army commanded by Xu Rui!

Could it be that the gap between the combat effectiveness of the army and the navy is really like this?

Xu Rui, who has repeatedly defeated the army with outnumbered attacks, has been defeated by the navy in the case of fighting more and less, Baga, doesn't this mean that the combat effectiveness of the Marine Corps is far stronger than that of the army?

This, Sadaichi Yoshimoto doesn't believe in any way!

In view of this, Yoshimoto Sadachi was absolutely unconvinced at first, believing that it was the Navy bragging.

Yoshimoto Sadachi thought that the Marines had occupied a small area near the North City Gate at most, and then in order to invite merit, they were exaggerated, and they had already occupied the entire Jiujiang City, and these bastards of the Navy had always messed up, and in the Battle of Songhu that year, the Marines were obviously beaten into dogs by the Nationalist Army, but in the end, they dared to say that they were the biggest heroes!

However, when the second telegram from the navy came, asking them to immediately divide their forces to strengthen the defense of Jiujiang, Yoshimoto Sadaichi knew that the navy was not exaggerating, let alone lying, but had really occupied Jiujiang.

The remaining three infantry brigades, Yoshimoto Sadachi, were handed over to the commander of the Tokuan gendarmerie under the command of the commander.

After a two-hour march, Yoshimoto and an infantry brigade led by Yoshimoto finally rushed back to Jiujiang.

Then, Yoshimoto Sadachi understood what was going on with the Marines retaking Jiujiang, and after knowing the truth, Yoshimoto Sadachi was happy but also a little sad.

Fortunately, after Jiujiang City returned to the hands of the imperial army, the next battle was much easier, and what made Yoshimoto Sadachi feel sad was that the reason why Jiujiang was able to recapture it was actually thanks to the already broken Commander Okamura, if it were not for the policy implemented by Commander Okamura, the citizens of Jiujiang would not have expelled the Sichuan army from the city.

It's just that what makes Yoshimoto Sadaichi angry is that the Marines messed up the situation.

The Imperial Army could have received help from the citizens of Jiujiang, but now, it is impossible.

The group of fools of the Marine Corps actually robbed and **** women after entering the city, just because of their impulsiveness, but they destroyed the civilized image that Commander Okamura had earned for the imperial army with great difficulty, so when Yoshimoto Sadachi entered the city, the citizens of Jiujiang no longer flocked to the streets to welcome, but hid in their homes and looked at them with frightened eyes.

"Idiots, rubbish, a bunch of brainless rice buckets!" As soon as Yoshimoto found the captain of the Marine Corps, he scolded him, "Don't you know that you will only push the citizens of Jiujiang to the national army, and will only increase the difficulty of the imperial army guarding Jiujiang?" You can't think with your ass until you give the order? ”

I never thought that the captain of the Marine Corps was not a bird Yoshimoto Sadaichi at all, although this guy was just a small young man, and his military rank was three ranks behind Yoshimoto Sadachi, and Yoshimoto Sadaichi was still a general, and there was a huge gap between the two, but the captain of the Marine Corps did not take Yoshimoto Sadachi in his eyes at all.

Although this young man named Tsuchiya Sora Xiang did not speak ill of him, he did not soft or hard to push back: "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, please forgive me for speaking bluntly, how the battle should be fought, it seems that there is no need for your army to teach us, after all, facts speak louder than words, and the cities lost by your army are recaptured by our navy for you." ”

"You?!" Yoshimoto was furious, but he couldn't do it.

In the final analysis, the army and navy belong to different systems, and no matter how wrong this guy is, it will not be his turn to teach Yoshimoto Sadachi a lesson, and immediately put up a sentence I will accuse you to your commander, and then left angrily, and then Yoshimoto Sadachi unceremoniously drove the marines back to the dock and let his troops take over the defense of Jiujiang.

Because Jiujiang has been sacked, there are no important targets in the city that need to be protected, so Yoshimoto Sadachi deployed the four infantry squadrons in his hands to the four gates of Jiujiang, and he himself also personally sat at the west gate of Jiujiang to guard against the Sichuan army counterattacking at night, although this possibility is very small, but Yoshimoto Sadachi still did not take it lightly.

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When it gets dark, you can't continue to work.

After about half an hour, more than 20 Sichuan soldiers carried more than a dozen buckets of food like swill, and threw them in front of the shack, and more than 1,000 puppet prisoners of war who were already hungry immediately rushed over.

In order to play as many tricks as possible, Xu Rui did not let go of the puppet army prisoners of war.

If Xu Rui really released the puppet prisoners of war like this, it would harm them, and he was really an idiot to be a little devil?

After all, it is a big deal, so Xu Rui doesn't want too many people to know this secret, so far, the people who know this secret are limited to Gou Ligui and the two henchmen of Xiao Liu and Xiao Qi.

After dinner, the Sichuan army left two sentries behind, and then withdrew.

In the dead of night, Gou Ligui asked Xiao Liu and Xiao Qi to wake up all the puppet prisoners of war in more than a dozen shacks, and then called all the officers above the company commander over, held a small meeting, and announced in public that they would escape from prison.

Hearing Gou Ligui say that he wanted to escape from prison, he immediately cheered up as soon as he became a confidant officer.

I have to say that Gou Ligui's prestige in the Jiujiang Garrison Brigade of the puppet army is still quite high, otherwise, the old devil Okamura Ningji would not have appointed him as the brigade commander.

After discussing it, the action began.

Xiao Liu and Xiao Qi, who knew the inside story, took the initiative to "dry" the two Sichuan army sentries standing guard, and then, while the Sichuan army was asleep, the puppet army prisoners of war opened the armory and grabbed a lot of weapons from the armory, and then coincidentally, their actions were discovered by a Sichuan army who peed at night.

Next, there is a scuffle of ping-pong.

The two sides fought quite lively, but the outcome of the battle is only known to God.

Anyway, in the end, the puppet army garrison brigade couldn't stand it, and Gou Ligui ordered a retreat.

The puppet army garrison brigade retreated to the west gate of Jiujiang while fighting, while the Sichuan army pursued while fighting.

The devils stationed at the west gate of Jiujiang were quickly alarmed, and Yoshimoto Sadachi rushed to the city gate tower as soon as possible.

"Mizutani-san, what's the situation?" Yoshimoto Sadachi asked, while taking the poncho from the orderly's hand and putting it on, just now because of the suddenness of the incident, he didn't have time to put on the poncho and rushed out of the headquarters, only a moment, let the autumn rain become a soup chicken, Yoshimoto Sadachi did not dare to be careless, this autumn rain, is not a joke.

The squadron leader of the 4th Infantry Squadron, Tetsuya Mizutani, suddenly reported: "Chief of Staff, about fifteen minutes ago, gunshots suddenly rang out in the direction of the station, and it seemed that two armies were exchanging fire, and the exchange of fire lasted for about ten minutes, and then it began to extend towards this side, and now it is about five or six hundred meters away from the city gate. ”

Yoshimoto opened his eyes wide and looked out hard, but because it was dark, he couldn't see anything clearly.

At that moment, Yoshimoto Sadachi asked again, "Do you know which two armies are fighting each other?" Could it be the Imperial Army? ”

"The humble post also suspects that it is Gou Sang's Imperial Association Army Garrison Brigade." Tetsuya Mizutani replied, "After the Sichuan army conquered Jiujiang, they executed all the captured imperial warriors, but the captured imperial army was not executed at all, but was only used as coolies to help the Sichuan army transport supplies and build fortifications. ”

Yoshimoto Sadachi held the binoculars to observe, frowned and said, "Is it really Gou Sang's Imperial Army?" ”

Tetsuya Mizutani said in a deep voice: "Chief of Staff, judging from the crossfire, it should be Gou Sang's Imperial Association Army Garrison Brigade that is retreating in the direction of Jiujiang, otherwise, send a team to respond?" ”

"Don't act rashly." Yoshimoto shook his head resolutely, and said, "Xu Rui is too cunning, I don't know if this is just a scene directed by him, if we rashly send troops to respond, we may fall into his calculations, so the imperial army must not act rashly, especially not out of the city to respond!" Let's wait and see what happens. ”

"Hello." Tetsuya Mizutani paused, then turned his head and shouted, "Order, all infantry squads, heavy machine gun squads, and independent field artillery squads are ready for battle!" ”

The five heralds quickly separated and left separately, conveying the order to the three infantry squads, one heavy machine gun squad, and one independent field artillery squad to which the Mizutani squadron belonged.

There are also quite light and heavy machine guns, which have also been erected.

Light mortars and infantry guns were also erected.

At this time, the gunfire in front of him was getting closer and closer, and after another moment, a vague figure could already be seen clearly.

"Flashlight!" Tetsuya Mizutani gave an order, and more than a dozen bright flashlights shone forward, and due to the interruption of power supply, the Japanese army could not use high-power searchlights, so they could only use flashlights for lighting.

More than a dozen flashlights were used intensively, barely illuminating the scene fifty meters ahead.

With the concentrated lighting of the flashlight, Yoshimoto Sadachi saw that the black-pressed routs were swarming towards the west gate of Jiujiang, Yoshimoto Sadachi was afraid that this was the Sichuan army, and quickly ordered the Mizutani squadron to fire a warning shot, and after hearing the gunshots, those routs stopped, and no longer dared to approach the city gate, but ahead, the exchange of fire continued.

After another moment, a man who looked like an officer ran over and shouted, "Taijun, it's me, I'm Gou Ligui!" ”

"Gou Sang is you? Is it really you? Yoshimoto Zhen was overjoyed when he heard this, at this time, the figure had already run less than twenty meters away from the city gate, and more than a dozen flashlights were also concentrated on him, so Yoshimoto Zhen saw it very clearly, this person was indeed the brigade commander of the Jiujiang Garrison Brigade of the Imperial Cooperative Army, Gou Ligui! (To be continued.) )