Due to their busy work, early the next morning, Mr. Zhou and Ye Ting insisted on leaving, and after Bai Fei failed to keep them, he packed and gave them all the weapons and equipment seized from the Japanese army, and in addition, he also gave them 1,000 penicillins, which he specially sent from Hainan a few days ago, and planned to keep them for his own use, a total of more than 2,000 pieces.

Seeing this, Ye Ting and Mr. Zhou thanked them again, and after the two sides said goodbye, Bai Fei sent them out of the city.

Looking at Ye Ting and Mr. Zhou and his party who were far away, Bai Fei was also full of emotion in his heart, and after standing for a long time, he turned around and went back.

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In the next two days, the Japanese army on Poyang Lake never made any major movements, and even the Japanese troops on the front line of Xiushui also reduced their artillery harassment of the national army on the south bank.

Sure enough, two days later, the news came, first a Japanese army of about 2,000 people landed on Bijia Mountain near Zuoli Town, north of Duchang, and then a naval formation composed of several Japanese gunboats, sea sweeping teams, and destroyers from Xingzi was also discovered on Poyang Lake, sailing mightily towards the lake near Wucheng and Duchang.

It turned out that since Bai Fei sent a special combat team to recover Duchang that day, the commander of the 101st Division stationed in Xingzi, Saito Yauta, was shocked when he received the news, but when he learned that it was Bai Fei and his gendarmerie regiment that attacked Duchang, Saito Yahuta was not good and felt uneasy. As the number one henchman of the Japanese army in China, now that Bai Fei is notorious, Saito was too confused to dare to slack off, and hurriedly forwarded the news to the commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, Okamura Ninji.

After Okamura Ninji received the telegram, he also had a headache, so he consulted with his staff officer. After understanding the situation, the chief of staff of the 11th Army, Yoshimoto Sadachi, groaned and said cautiously: "If the news is true, then it seems that our attack plan this time has to be slightly adjusted..."

Okamura Ninji was a little unhappy when he heard the words of the chief of staff.

Yoshimoto Sadachi explained: "Duchang is close to Wucheng, separated by a water from Wucheng, and the water surface is narrow. Just by looking at the fact that they captured Duchang as soon as they came, it can be seen that their purpose was to blockade the water surface of Poyang Lake and prevent our ships from moving south along the lake. If we are to follow the strategy we have previously discussed, and use naval ships to transport troops to the vast waters south of Poyang Lake in the eastern battlefield, then we will have to send troops to retake Duchang. However, if this is the case, we will have to send heavy troops, but then the forces of the offensive on the Western Front will be reduced accordingly..."

Okamura Ninji remembered the amazing combat effectiveness of Bai Fei and his regiment directly under the gendarmerie, nodded silently, he thought about it again and said, "No matter what, the formulated offensive strategy cannot be changed casually. Moreover, the purpose of our current offensive is not only to occupy Nanchang, but also to repair the water front line, and the Chinese government army has arranged more than 100,000 troops here, and if it can be severely damaged or eliminated, the military strength of the Chinese government will be further weakened, and only in this way can the strategic purpose of the base camp plan be more conveniently achieved. ”

Sadachi Yoshimoto: "Your Excellency the Commander means... Are we going to abandon Duchang? ”

Okamura Ningji had another headache, thought for a while and said: "Our focus is on the western front, tell Saito Yauta that the main task remains the same, and at the same time transfer the marines attached to the 116th Division to the unified command of the 101st Division, let him act at the opportunity, and don't affect the overall situation because of Duchang..."

What does Sadachi Yoshimoto mean when he says that he acts at the opportunistic? Although he had doubts in his heart, he did not say anything in the end, and only passed the order to the 101st Division in accordance with the original words.

Let's say that after the commander of the 101st Division, Saito Yahuta, who was stationed in Xingzi, received the telegram sent back by the military headquarters, he was also puzzled and confused, and he couldn't figure out what this telegram meant.

The chief of staff of the 101st Division, Kunitake Sanchio, said on the side: "Your Excellency, Division Commander, since Commander Okamura transferred the marines of the 116th Division to our command, it seems that he means that he wants us to recover Duchang. ”

Saito Yahu was puzzled: "In that case, why didn't you tell it clearly, but after the telegram, you said that 'you can't affect the overall situation because of Duchang'?" ”

Guowu Sanqianxiong said: "Now that the war is imminent, the offensive tasks and strategies of the entire 11th Army have been clear and cannot be changed, I am afraid that His Excellency the commander is afraid of affecting the development of the war situation, otherwise the 106th Division is nearby, if you want reinforcements to be nearby, why send the 116th Division of Marines from Hukou and other places to help in the war?" Besides, didn't Your Excellency the Commander say in the telegram that we should act at the right of opportunity, this is to give us the right to make a decision on the spot, and Duchang is lost in our hands, and if we do not take it back, the water surface of Poyang Lake will be blocked by the Chinese army again, and our next mission will also be affected. ”

Saito Yauta nodded, finally making up his mind. So he immediately called the marines who were far away at the mouth of the lake to rush along the lake to the vicinity of Xingzi and landed in the waters of Zuoli Town, north of Duchang. At the same time, with the 103rd Wing as the main force, about 9 field artillery pieces were put together, and about 2,000 people from the 6th Independent Engineer Wing were formed into a detachment, with a Nakasa named Murai Izunichi as the detachment leader, called the "Murai Detachment".

After the reorganization of the Murai detachment was completed, with the cooperation of Keijiro Ogaga, commander of the 1st Base Unit of the T Combat Unit of the Navy's Chinese Fleet, the Captain of the Advance Guard Squadron, Yoshiji Shimauchi, was dispatched to command the main ships of the Hira, Nimi, and Hitaka, together with the 2nd and 3rd gunboat fleets and the 1st Sea Sweeping Squadron, to form a huge navy including the main ship, gunboats, destroyers, gunboats, and guerrilla boats, and to carry all the personnel of the Murai detachment to the Wucheng and Duchang areas.

When Bai Fei received the news, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately telegraphed Wang Weiguo on the other side, ordering him to take charge of all the defenses of Wucheng and be ready to fight at any time. At the same time, because he was worried that Duchang's defense force was too weak, he also transferred a battalion of the regiment directly under him, as well as a small amount of artillery.

In this way, Wucheng still has the second battalion, the third battalion and most of the artillery battalions of the regiment directly under it, plus a regiment of Zhang Zunguang, and the defense force is sufficient.

Of course, there are still some local armed forces of Tao Jiaqing of the Second Regiment of Jiangxi Security in Duchang, although Tao Jiaqing has been continuously expanding his troops recently since he obtained a large amount of equipment and materials given by Bai Fei, and the number has reached nearly 1,000 in just a few days, but these people have just enlisted in the army, where can they have combat effectiveness.

After the mobilization of the army was completed, Bai Fei immediately made a deployment, ordering Li Hu to lead the special combat team to stay in Duchang, and lead everyone, including the troops just formed by Tao Jiaqing, to guard against the possible landing operation of the Japanese army on the beachhead near Duchang City, and to tightly block the waterway of Poyang Lake. He himself took the first battalion of the regiment and some of the soldiers of the artillery battalion out of the city to the north, preparing to intercept the Japanese troops who had landed near the town of Zuoli.

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