Chapter 216: Iron and Bone
In his opinion, Tadajun's move was purely a joke about the lives of the imperial army, and even gambled with the fate of the entire empire to gamble his life, because only when Tada Jun succeeded in occupying Nanchang and annihilating Jiang Haoran's troops, it was possible to redeem his series of defeats, win his life in the military court, and even preserve his political position. Kinoshita Yong absolutely can't allow him, a general who only has one day left in military power, to ruin his own future.
If the people of China are allowed to capture De'an, and then connect Wuning into a line, the troops can continue to rush through the defense line of Guò to help Jiujiang, even if the people of China have no intention of taking Wuhan, they themselves are forcing the people of China to take Wuhan, Wuhan is lost, Nanchang can not be taken is meaningless, the three divisions of the imperial army are completely encircled by the enemy, and there is no food and grass and no rescue. Therefore, when persuasion failed, Kinoshita quickly reported the situation truthfully to the six generals of Nanjing, and asked him to make a personal decision.
After a careful sand table exercise, Shunroku Habata agreed with Kinoshita's views and immediately relieved Tada Jun of his military power, and Kinoshita was temporarily replaced as commander of the 11th Army, and at the same time told him that Okamura Ninji would be airborne in Wuhan tomorrow morning. In view of the fact that De'an's troops were not enough and the loss was inevitable, the naval ships were ordered not to send any more troops to support, and to ensure that Wuning was not lost. As for De'an, wait for the arrival of the 6th Division tomorrow and then retake it. The 101st and 104th Divisions stepped up their attacks on Nanchang, striving to capture Nanchang before dark and annihilate Jiang Haoran's troops. All the planes in Central China will immediately take to the air and rush to various battlefields that are in urgent need of reinforcements.
After listening to these arrangements, Tada Jun's face suddenly turned like ashes, and while worrying about his fate, he did not forget to bare his teeth at Kinoshita, angrily scolding Kinoshita Yong not only misled him, but also brought immeasurable losses to the imperial army, but at this time, he had become a toothless tiger, Kinoshita Yong didn't even say a word to him, and waved his hand directly, signaling the soldiers to take Tada Jun down.
Several soldiers couldn't help but say, set up the thunderous Tada Jun and left, at this time no one took him seriously anymore, everyone in the command lowered their heads, as if they didn't see this qiē, only his son-in-law Chi Xuejian plucked up the courage to ask Kinoshita for instructions, hoping to comfort Tada Jun. After getting Kinoshita's acquiescence, Chi Xuejian hurriedly went out and walked to the door of the headquarters, but touched his pocket, then threw out an empty cigarette case, and went directly out of the Wuhan camp, apparently to buy cigarettes.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, a telegram about the deployment of the Japanese army passed through Chi Xuejian, Green Arrow, Chi Liuqi and then Zhuang Fuguo, and finally reached Jiang Haoran's hand, Jiang Haoran's face suddenly showed a wicked smile, and then sent a secret telegram to Zhuang Yingying.
In more than three hours, the Nanchang defenders repelled five attacks by the Japanese army, and the devil seemed to be really anxious, almost half an hour to organize an attack, and not counting death at all, at the beginning there was also a main attack, assist, hit the back of the west and south are the main attack, fortunately, the soldiers did not have the slightest cowardice to the enemy's madness, but fought more and more tenacious.
Li Zhihua, the brigade commander on the south city wall, was blown off by a devil's shell and broke a left arm up to elbow, and was carried back to the hospital by the soldiers.
As long as the chief treats them as people, as brothers, shoulder to shoulder with them, and blood against the enemy back to back, they will fight hard for this. Among them, less than half of them can read and write, I'm afraid, what kind of national righteousness? What patriotic feelings? They may know a little about it, but this does not affect their iron-clad bones, in the face of the enemies who destroy their homes, bully their parents, and insult their sisters, their blood is angry, their eyes are torn, they fight bravely to kill the enemy, all they have left in their eyes is, kill! Kill! Kill!
By five o'clock, the officers and men of the Nanshan Independent Army had repelled two more enemy attacks. And at this time, Jiang Haoran also received news from Zhuang Fuguo that the New Fourth Army had successfully taken De'an and Jiujiang. Two hours ago, the Japanese Sixth Division rushed to De'an and Wuning in two ways, and it is expected that they will be able to reach Wuning in the second half of the night, and the De'an Road is more than 100 kilometers long, and it will not be until tomorrow morning at the earliest. At the same time, Jiang Haoran told him that Gao'an's attack was not smooth, the enemy not only laid heavy troops and heavy artillery in Gao'an, but also from the afternoon, the devil's planes frequently appeared in the sky above **, carrying out indiscriminate bombardment against them, Xu Biao's heavy artillery brigade and the 75th Division suffered heavy casualties, but the heavy artillery brigade's cars had returned, and the brothers of the 3rd Division of the Nanshan Independent Army were quickly transported to the front of Gao'an, and it was expected that a general attack on Gao'an would be launched in the evening.
The battle situation took a shocking reversal, Jiang Haoran was immediately overjoyed, and immediately told all the Nanchang defenders the good news through the walkie-talkie, and told them that as long as they held tonight, they could jump out of the enemy's encirclement tomorrow.
Because the seventh enemy attack had just been repulsed, the sound of gunfire was temporarily stopped. As soon as the news came out, the whole Nanchang was cheering, and Jiang Haoran even heard their laughter in the air-raid shelter. He was also in a good mood, and while the devil was resting, he decided to go to the city wall to have a look. This time, Leng Rushuang and the Mei sisters did not object, Leng Rushuang hurriedly brought a steel helmet and put it on him, and Mei Xin also put a tweed coat on Jiang Haoran's body. Forget about wearing this steel helmet, this military coat Jiang Haoran refuses to wear it, and it's not cold, it's like shaking his majesty when he wears it, not to mention that with this body, he looks like a big official, don't let the devil snipe with a shot, the majesty is not shaken, but it has become a ghost under the gun, and this joke is big. Several women were immediately amused by Jiang Haoran, isn't it just for a piece of clothing? As for the whole to die or live?
At this moment, there was a loud noise at the door, as if there was a woman shouting for the commander.
Leng Rushuang and the Mei sisters immediately looked at Jiang Haoran nervously, the expression on their faces was extremely unnatural, and even with a cold chill, the meaning was obvious, this was to suspect Jiang Haoran where to provoke the grass family to kill the door. made Jiang Haoran grin unconsciously, and immediately said that it was none of his business, he was stared at by them even when he went to the toilet, and it was absolutely impossible to provoke any woman, not to mention that in addition to the three female soldiers in Nanchang City, where could there be other women for him to provoke?