Chapter 572: Magical Troops
The Japanese army did not take any action throughout the night, except for the roar of a few planes appeared over Jiujiang from time to time, and even the Japanese troops in Mahuiling stopped attacking, it seems that the Japanese army is waiting for a moment, maybe the next second, or maybe early in the morning, the Japanese army will suddenly launch a full-scale attack, and it must be a sharp blow.
And Jiang Haoran is also waiting for this moment, once the Japanese army begins to attack, it is also the time for them to start acting, the tunnel is already full of loaded guns and ammunition of the New Fourth Army, just waiting for the Japanese army to start moving, they will go straight behind the enemy as quickly as possible, fortunately, Jiang Haoran has the foresight to clear out the people in the tunnel, otherwise even if this tunnel is wide enough, it will not be possible for a force of tens of thousands of people to pass through quickly.
For Zhao Zhi, Jiang Haoran also made arrangements, and had already sent a detachment of forty-eight people from the Snow Wolf Special Combat Team, who would replace Zhao Zhi, arrange minefields along the way, stop the enemy for a while, and then drive the car back to Jiujiang quickly before the signal to retreat was launched, and it was only a few dozen miles from Mahuiling to Jiujiang, and the car would not take long.
It was not until seven o'clock the next morning that the Japanese attack finally began, and the naval guns on the Yangtze River began to exert their power, and the shells were smashed into the city as if they did not need money, and then the dense planes also sailed to the sky over Jiujiang, but it seemed that something was wrong in the city, and they spread their wings and flew away without firing a bullet.
At this time, Jiujiang City was already an empty city from above, and the New Fourth Army had taken refuge in tunnels and bunkers, while the expanded Snow Wolf Special Combat Team had already used the construction of the city and anti-artillery holes to hide, and the Japanese planes probably did not see the troops in the city and left without finding the target.
The so-called expanded Snow Wolf Special Combat Team was actually an embarrassing situation in which Jiang Haoran considered that the area to be defended was too large for more than 100 people, in case the attack on Poyang Lake did not go well, and the Japanese troops in the city advanced too fast, and the Hui Zhi troops were blocked in the tunnels and could not get out, and could not enter, so he temporarily transferred more than 1,000 people from the first detachment of the New Fourth Army, and each member of the Snow Wolf Special Combat Team led more than 10 people to entangle with the enemy in the city and try to win as much time as possible for the troops who grabbed the beach.
Soon after the plane left the sky over Jiujiang, the Japanese navy also stopped the artillery attack, and the marines on the Yangtze River and the Japanese troops of the Modified Wing of the Fifth Division in the direction of Poyang Lake quickly advanced towards Jiujiang from two directions.
In the end, the Motorized Wing of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army was the elite unit of the permanent division, and at least it maintained an offensive formation, and the marines coming ashore from the Yangtze River were simply scattered, and the land of Ulala poured into the city.
Speaking of the Japanese marines, it is necessary to explain the situation of this unit, because the reason why Jiang Haoran and the New Fourth Army were able to break through smoothly was largely due to this miraculous force, and moreover, in future battles, this unit will also appear frequently.
Because the Japanese Navy was influenced by the idea of a decisive battle with the fleet, it did not attach great importance to the rearmament of the ground forces, and the equipment of the accompanying Marine Corps was not as good as that of the Army. The training of Japanese naval soldiers in land warfare was initially carried out by the recruit training center, and the level of training was about the same as that of the army's squadron instructor Cheng Dรน, and after serving on the ship or on the shore, most of them used the time between the preparation day and the boat training day to carry out land combat training, and the use of small-caliber guns was regarded as a part of artillery education in the Japanese Navy. The training of non-commissioned officers and cadres of the Marine Corps was entrusted to the Navy's Tateyama Artillery School, which can be said to be the base camp of the Japanese Marine Corps.
The Marine Corps does not have the same division as the Army, and the division of infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineering, and baggage divisions can only be regarded as a second-rate infantry unit because the Marine Corps itself is a temporary and specially organized unit.
As for the personal equipment of individual soldiers, the Marine Corps still uses the old Type 35 naval guns, which are still modified from the Type 30 infantry guns after the Russo-Japanese War, and the army is basically only allocated to the rear training units. In other aspects, because the Marine Corps does not need to consider long, long-distance marching movements, the individual load is much more light than that of the Army.
In terms of amphibious warfare technology, the Japanese Marine Corps was still largely stuck at the level of the British Navy during World War I, and its hardware equipment was even inferior to that of the Japanese Army, while the Japanese Army's ship engineers at that time already possessed new equipment such as the Shenzhou Maru, which was much more efficient than the Navy in landing warfare. In terms of operations, most of the marines in the early stage of the war were engaged in capturing small islands in the Pacific Ocean, in the middle stage, they were engaged in the garrison of bases and battlefield management, and in the later stage, they were engaged in the arduous battle of island hunting with the US military. The success of the Marine Corps in the early stage of the war was not so much due to its own ability as it was due to the enemy's poor preparation, and the actions of the mid-to-late period gradually became static, and compared with the high-mobility heavy division of the US Marine Corps, the level was one era behind, in short, the Japanese Marine Corps was not the elite unit we imagined.
Strictly speaking, this force appeared only once in the Chinese theater, and that was the Battle of Songhu, when they were the first to enter Shanghai as a landing force. Because of Jiang Haoran's appearance, they appeared in Jiujiang again, but what was waiting for them was not necessarily lucky.
The Japanese marines, dressed in dark blue wool ship suits, poured into the city from the north gate, and began to look around with their three-five naval guns, passing through several alleys without even seeing a single figure, and immediately relaxed their vigilance, and laughed and cursed, and many soldiers even hung their guns on their shoulders.
Suddenly, from an alley out of a troop, the head of the man Gao Ma Da wearing a camouflage uniform, with an AK47 in his hand swept out, the continuous bullets immediately cut down several Japanese soldiers, followed by two New Fourth Army officers and soldiers, holding Czech light machine guns in their hands, standing on the street in a majestic face of the Japanese army is a wild sweep, hiding in the streets and alleys, houses, shops of all kinds of firearms are fired at the same time, the unsuspecting Japanese army suddenly fell a piece, waiting for the Japanese army to react, When they began to look for favorable terrain to fight back, the men quickly disappeared, leaving only a yellow-orange bullet casing on the street, and not a single figure could be seen.
A commander of the Japanese army raised the southern 14-type pistol in his hand, and ordered the Japanese army to pursue forward, but suddenly a "bang" of gunshots, I don't know where to shoot a bullet, directly in the forehead of the Japanese soldier Shaozuo left a hole the size of a bird's egg, the dead Japanese army fell on the street, no one even dared to step forward, the Japanese soldiers who were just about to advance hurriedly retreated, but behind them was a series of explosions.
The TNT time bomb of the Snow Wolf Special Operations Team is not comfortable, it is small and powerful, and yesterday's airborne landing has greatly replenished their ammunition, which will be used unceremoniously to greet the little Japanese devils who come from afar.
When the Japanese army trembled and searched the place where the Snow Wolf Special Combat Team and the New Fourth Army had just appeared and hidden, they could no longer see a human figure and advance again, and the scene just now was immediately repeated behind them.
The Snow Wolf Special Combat Team personally trained by Jiang Haoran is definitely the king of street battles in this era, and it is also equipped with advanced walkie-talkies, and the cooperation between the various teams is simply impeccable, which suddenly makes the little devils who poured into the city suffer a lot.
The gunshots here just rang out, far away on a mass grave on the edge of the Poyang Lake ferry, a tombstone suddenly moved strangely sideways, revealing a one-meter-wide hole in a moment, and then, a head wearing a New Fourth Army hat drilled out, looked back and forth, left and right, quickly jumped out of it, pulled out a mirror box from his waist, and looked around vigilantly, behind him there were constantly New Fourth Army soldiers out of the hole, and the entire worship platform in front of the tomb was removed, and the hole had more than doubled than it began, The soldiers of the New Fourth Army poured out like a blowout, and quickly hid everywhere.
The mass grave is a barren hillside, a few crooked neck miscellaneous trees grow in the pile of rocks, it is late autumn, everywhere has withered half-human height weeds, a desolate scene, and it is precisely because of the barrenness here that the Japanese army did not notice here.
In fact, less than a kilometer to the east from here is the Poyang Lake Ferry, and on the hillside you can clearly see the Japanese naval guns moored in the middle of Poyang Lake, and on both sides of the pontoon bridge, you can also see Japanese soldiers in dark blue Maori naval uniforms walking back and forth on the ships, and they have become leisurely and relaxed, smoking and farting.
Climb a small hillside to the west, Jiujiang City is in sight, although it is located in the mountainous area, but in front of it is a wide rice field, at this time the rice has been harvested, the rice field is a straw handle that has not had time to be stacked, but they are all stepped on by the Japanese army in the rice field, at this time the Japanese army has entered the city, and the gunfire in the city can be heard faintly. However, near the city wall, there is still a grass-green tent, Japanese soldiers patrolling everywhere, and on the road from the ferry to the city, a large number of Japanese soldiers can be seen carrying supplies to the tent on their shoulders.
Although the pontoon bridge has been erected, but the Japanese car still can not cross the lake, all the supplies can only be moved by the soldiers, obviously, that piece of tent is the temporary warehouse of the Japanese army, probably the battle in front is too smooth, did not encounter too much resistance, the Japanese army also estimated that the New Fourth Army did not have heavy artillery, so it dared to transport materials to this open field.