After leaving the reception hall, Zhang Jian held a banquet for Wang Yongan and other officers, and after everyone sat down, Zhang Jian raised his glass and was about to speak, when suddenly Li Yao came up and said: "The Japanese army has landed, the 17th Division of the Japanese Army has landed in Dongyu Town on the east bank of Nantong, the 16th Division of the Japanese Army has landed in Xining Town, and the 16th Garrison Regiment and the 19th Supplementary Regiment of our garrison have been ordered to withdraw. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Everyone got up one after another, they did not expect that the Japanese revenge would come so soon, and on the fifth day of the battle of Langshan Port, the Japanese army launched another attack, and this time the main force of the attack was not the Japanese temporary troops, but the elite and neat 16th and 17th Divisions.

The 16th Division was organized and trained in Kyoto, Japan, known as the Kyoto Division, which participated in the Russo-Japanese War and was Japan's first-class division. The division's performance in the early stage was not obvious, but during World War II, the division participated in the Nanjing Massacre, and two junior officers of the division, Tian Ye Yi and Mukai Toshiaki, agreed in Nanjing to see who would kill a hundred Chinese with a knife first, known as the 100 beheading incident. The 16th Division committed serious crimes against humanity in Nanjing, and successively defeated the Kuomintang and Communist armies on the Chinese battlefield, and later transferred to the Pacific Theater, occupied the Philippines, and stationed troops in the Philippines. In the Battle of Leyte, the 16th Division was finally annihilated by MacArthur's American forces.

The 17th Division was established in the Russo-Japanese War, but when it was officially formed, the Russo-Japanese War had ended, so it was faced with the embarrassing situation of being disbanded just after its establishment, and then with the support of Katsura Taro, the 17th and 18th Divisions were stationed in Korea to suppress the Korean uprising, and they were always fighting against the Korean anti-Japanese guerrillas. The 17th Division did not participate in any major battles except for the Battle of Wuhan. Because the 17th Division was abolished in 1925 and was not restored until 1938, the Japanese side was not one of the 17 Division A divisions in Japan. (The 17 divisions of the Japanese army were the 1st Division to the 16th Division and the Guards Division, and the divisions after the 17th were all Division B.) ）

Zhang Jian's face showed a confident look, and he said: "We have completely annihilated two Japanese troops, and I believe that our army will destroy these two Japanese armies!" I believe that the whole of Jiangbei is united, and there is no enemy that cannot be defeated. The civil officials applauded one after another, excited and proud of the self-confidence of the governor of Jiangbei, but the generals showed bitterness and applauded. Zhang Jian then continued to encourage everyone a few words, and then discussed the placement of wounded soldiers, Wang Yongan left Li Yao to be responsible for the follow-up of the placement of wounded soldiers, and then took the staff and a group of generals back to the military headquarters operations conference room to hold a second meeting.

Different from the atmosphere in the conference room of the Jiangbei Governor's Palace, the military headquarters operations conference room at this time was gloomy, and everyone did not have a smile on their faces, and they all looked at Wang Yongan. Wang Yongan sighed and smoked a cigarette rarely, he doesn't smoke much or drink much, but once he smokes and drinks, something tricky happens.

"Alas...... How is the Left Army preparing? Wang Yongan raised his head and asked.

Feng Heng, chief of the General Staff, smiled wryly, picked up his notebook and said bitterly: "The left army is all ready, but there is not enough ammunition and ammunition. "The so-called Left Army is the army under the command of the Left Marshal Fang Xianwu.

Fifteen days earlier, Fang Xianwu had already returned to Yangzhou with his troops from the front and began to lay out defensive plans for the second wave of the attack on the Japanese army. As the General Staff had predicted, the Japanese army chose to land on the east coast of Nantong after the defeat at Langshan Port.

However, in fact, the east coast of Jiangsu Province is not suitable for large-scale landing, and there are many shallow reefs here, which is not conducive to the approach of large warships. However, there are two reasons why the Japanese army chose to land here, the first is the problem of time, it will take at least five days to land from the Yellow Sea to the Yangtze River and then to Langshan Port. And Yusaku Uehara and Katsura Taro don't have this time at all, and under the pressure of Saionji Gongwang and Yamamoto Gonbei, they can only choose to take the risk and let go; Another reason is that although there are many sediment undercurrents in the troughs and the reefs are hidden, this place is not conducive to defense, except for heavy artillery and other difficult to carry off the ship, the Japanese army landed here without other troubles.

Fang Xianwu did not fail to set up positions on the east bank, but the soldiers of the Japanese 16th and 17th Divisions were obviously much more elite than the Taiwan Wing and the Chinese Wing, and after three hours, the garrison had to take the initiative to abandon the shore position.

The left army of Fangxian's five divisions had a total of 110,000 troops, namely the fourth, fifth, eighth, third and ninth divisions of the Jiangbei Army. Among them, the 3rd Division and the 9th Division were originally the Right Army, but they were arranged by Li Shirui as reserve troops in the decisive battle, and their strength was not damaged, so as soon as the Battle of Langshan Port ended, Wang Yongan was transferred to the Jiangbei Left Army. In addition, there are three parts of the second-line troops, the first part is the local garrison regiment mainly composed of police, Xiangyong and Minfu, namely the 12th Garrison Regiment, the 14th Garrison Regiment, the 16th Garrison Regiment, the 19th Garrison Regiment, and the 20th Garrison Regiment, the total number of five garrison regiments is more than 5,000 people, and the equipment is old and the combat effectiveness is low, and some armies have only more than 100 guns in the whole regiment, so they can only be used as logistics troops;

The second part consisted of eight supplementary regiments, totaling more than 10,000 men, all of whom were recruits who had only received three months of training, so they were still unable to enter the battle at the first time;

The third part is the volunteer army from all over the country, which is divided into six battalions, namely, the first battalion in the north (mainly supported by officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Army), the second battalion in the north (mainly the Northeast Army led by Zhang Zuoxiang), the Shanghai Youth Battalion (mainly led by Chen Qimei and some young and patriotic young students in Shanghai), the first battalion in the south (mainly the revolutionary youth in the south), the second battalion in the south (mainly the revolutionary youth in Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places), and the youth combat battalion (mainly overseas Chinese youth and patriotic students).

Among the six volunteer battalions, the second battalion in the north has the largest number, and Zhang Zuolin's henchman Zhang Zuoxiang secretly led more than 1,000 Northeast Army to break away from the Xuzhou battlefield and secretly joined the volunteer army that resisted the Japanese army. On the one hand, Zhang Zuolin wanted to repair the relationship with Wang Yongan's Jiangbei department, and on the other hand, he knew that he would have to face the Japanese in the future, so he wanted to take the opportunity to test the Japanese and see the gap between the Northeast Beard and the Japanese Army. Although the first battalion in the north is not the largest in number, its combat effectiveness is the strongest among the six battalions, and the leading officer is Sun Chuanfang, a young officer of the Beiyang Army. The leading officer of the first battalion in the south was Jiang Zhongzheng, the famous principal of the later generations, and the commander of the second battalion in the south was Liu Xiang, a famous warlord in later generations. The leading officers of the youth combat battalion were Wang Yongan's most proud student Xia Ming and 400 volunteers who returned from St. Lucas to support the anti-Japanese resistance.