Just when the New Fourth Army and the Wumu Army were rapidly recovering in Jiangbei, General Toshiroku Hata, who withdrew from Yancheng's 20th Independent Mixed Brigade, the 6th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Independent Mixed Brigades, plus the 22nd Division stationed in Shanghai, a total of two divisions and 4 independent mixed brigades were preparing to launch an attack on the Wumu Army base in southern Jiangsu, with Sawada Shigeru, commander of the 13th Army of the Devils, as the commander-in-chief. The 6th and 10th Independent Mixed Brigades of the Devils were stationed along the Yangtze River in the periphery of Nanjing, the 20th Independent Mixed Brigade was stationed in Wuhu, the 11th Independent Mixed Brigade took advantage of the lack of troops in Jiangbei of the Wumu Army to recapture Taizhou, and the 12th Independent Mixed Brigade was stationed in Jiaxing.

On Tuesday, the dog got a report in Xishan, and realized that the devil was going to attack Wu Mujun again, so he hurriedly convened a staff meeting. After Zhao Dahu was notified, he ordered He Laifu to act as the deputy commander-in-chief of the joint command and rush back to Xishan by himself.

At the staff meeting, the troops and equipment in the southern Jiangsu base area and the surrounding areas were first calculated, including one infantry column, one special forces column, and one joint logistics column of the field army, with more than 37,000 people; The garrison has a joint logistics command group, an air defense command center and an air defense brigade, the Baohua Mountain and River Defense Brigade, the Taihu Lake Defense Brigade, 12 garrison battalions, more than 12,000 people, and more than 25,000 militiamen. 3 guerrilla columns of the guerrilla army, with more than 30,000 people; more than 2,900 people from the Wumu Military Academy and Teaching Brigade; In terms of weaponry, the field army is well-equipped, equipped with heavy equipment and a large number of automatic weapons, and the guerrilla columns are equipped with different equipment, but they also have sufficient firepower to support them; except for the professional garrison brigades, the garrison army is a garrison battalion and militia that does not have heavy firepower, and a large number of veterans with combat experience in the Wumu Military Academy and the teaching brigade also lack heavy equipment.

On Tuesday, Gou discussed with Zhao Dahu, Xiang Qingyun, Zeng Qi, Shi Jilun, and others and decided to take out the Browning automatic rifles and Browning light machine guns of American-made German ammunition purchased abroad, as well as the weapons and equipment at the bottom of the artillery reserve isobaric box, to equip the troops: the Wumu Military Academy, the teaching brigade, and the garrison battalion were all equipped with American-made Browning automatic rifles and light machine guns, and the rest of the equipment was distributed to the guerrilla columns; The militia uniformly replaced all kinds of miscellaneous firearms with Japanese weapons such as 38 rifles and 96 light machine guns; Sniper rifles were distributed to battalion-level units of front-line troops, and artillery reserves such as Type 92 infantry guns and various mortars were distributed to the Wumu Military Academy and Teaching Brigade.

Then, the staff committee began to agree on the deployment of troops: Jing Yukun's Third Infantry Column of the Field Army was stationed on the north side of Xishan and was responsible for receiving all fronts in the southern Jiangsu base area; Ke Hua's special forces column's heavy artillery brigade, armored brigade, cavalry brigade, and special operations brigade are stationed in Jintan and are responsible for fire support on all fronts, while the sailor brigade and the Taihu Lake Defense Brigade are stationed on the west bank of Taihu Lake to wait for transfer; Each garrison unit performs its own duties and waits for transfers; The guerrilla columns south of the Yangtze River were ready for battle.

After deploying the garrison, Zhao Dahu proposed that he could not wait for the devils to attack, but should strike first, eliminate the devils' vital forces, disrupt the deployment of the devils' troops, and at least test the devils' combat intentions.

Zeng Qi disagreed, believing that the Wu Mu army had suffered heavy losses in Jiangbei and could no longer consume its strength, and the Wu Mu army would be greatly injured.

Xiang Qingyun supported Zhao Dahu, believing that no matter whether it was offensive or defensive, as long as the war started, it would be the same damage, and besides, the devil was a tired division that had just withdrawn and had not yet finished resting, so it was more advantageous to take the initiative to attack. In private, Xiang Qingyun still wanted to save some face for Zhao Dahu, who lost in Jiangbei.

Ouyang Cheng also believed that the troops of the Jiangnan Wumu Army, who were waiting for work, took the initiative to attack the tired division of the devils who had not yet gained a firm foothold, so as to gain the initiative, eliminate the devils' vital forces, and weaken or even disintegrate the devils' attacks on the base areas was the best policy.

Both sides are sharpening their knives and preparing to fight to the death.

Lu Ao sent information that Shanghai secretly stationed a cavalry brigade of the devil, with two chariot wings and a cavalry wing.

So Tuesday Dog made up his mind that he couldn't wait for the devil to take a breath and attack, and took the initiative!

Under the personal command of Wang Yilang, the Su-Anhui guerrilla column first launched an attack on the 20th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Devils in Wuhu.

The current commander of the Suzhou-Anhui guerrilla column is Liu Zhenjiang, which has three guerrilla brigades, one firepower brigade, and a special service battalion, a police battalion, and an engineer battalion, totaling more than 9,000 people, and more than 10,000 militia and other local armed forces.

After dark, the Su-Anhui guerrilla column launched a simultaneous attack on 29 strongholds of the devils around Wuhu. The grenadiers began to shell with a large number of stunned bombs, and most of the devils were destroyed when they hurriedly counterattacked, and they were quickly taken down, capturing more than 190 devils alive and occupying the forward position of attacking Wuhu.

The devil reinforced the stronghold overnight and launched a counterattack. Relying on the strong turrets and fortifications of each stronghold, the Wu Mu army set up all kinds of messy artillery on the roof of the turret, and the heavy machine guns in the turret, forming a powerful firepower network to launch a slaughtering blockade against the reinforced devil light infantry.

In addition to the original Type 96 light machine guns and Qiguang submachine guns, the Soviet-Anhui Column was newly equipped with hundreds of Browning light machine guns and automatic rifles, and launched a magnificent charge together.

In less than a day, the devils on the outskirts of Wuhu were forced into several large strongholds inside and outside the city. After all, the Wumu army was small in number, and the war was at a stalemate.

At night, the reinforcements of the Su-Anhui column rushed to ---- Langxi and Gaochun garrison camps, leading a large number of militia of more than 4,000 people to participate in the battle.

Wang Yilang ordered the garrison battalion and militia that had just arrived to cooperate with the first part of the Su-Anhui column to attack Wuhu City, and the other main forces to attack the stronghold outside the Devil City.

The steel pots and wheelbarrows that had been prepared long ago covered the soldiers of the Wumu Army and rushed to the devil's stronghold. The devil artillery who retreated into the city provided fire support to the outside of the city, causing a lot of damage to the Wu Mu army, so the troops besieging the city outside the city lit straw and released billowing smoke, obscuring the sight of the devil artillery.

Unable to count on artillery support, the devils outside the city could only rely on brigade-level infantry artillery to fire at the Wu Mu Army's miscellaneous but absolutely powerful artillery fire.

Seeing that the troops were divided by the Wumu army, the devils in the city actually despicably drove a large number of civilians out of the city, covering the troops in the city to rush out for reinforcements.

Wu Mujun was caught off guard, didn't know how to respond, and was broken into the position by the devil.

Wang Yilang had to report that the devils in Wuhu were so despicable that he had no choice but to order the troops to retreat.

The devil was accustomed to eating mouths, and every time he escorted a large number of civilians to counterattack, forcing the Wumu army to retreat one after another, and retreated straight to the surrounding strongholds occupied by the Wumu army.

Due to the continuous dispersion of the devil's front, civilian casualties, falling behind, fleeing and other losses are increasing, and the number of civilians used for cover is getting smaller and smaller, so Wang Yilang issued an offensive order again, and the troops were divided into several detachments, avoiding the front of the devils, flanking the devils behind the civilians, and eliminating the devils in the movement.

On the Wuhu side, because of the shameless tactics of the devils, the two sides fell into a tug-of-war between you and me. The devils with insufficient light firepower still suffered a lot of losses in the sports war, and civilians were constantly rescued by the Wu Mu army and turned into the stretcher team of the Wu Mu army, carrying the wounded to the rear, and the devils did not have such good luck.

Although the Soviet-Anhui column had a slight upper hand in the engagement, the battle could not end in a short time. And the devil troops in Nanjing began to reinforce. Transported by the devil ships, they soon landed in Wuhu Harbor and quickly entered the battle.

In the face of the continuous reinforcements of the devils, Wang Yilang ordered the troops not to retreat but to advance, to launch a non-stop counterattack, not afraid of disrupting the system, boldly interspersed, infiltrated, and melee, and the more chaotic the better.

It turned out that the devil used civilians as shields to disperse the Wumu army troops on the periphery of Wuhu, and the smoke used to block the sight of the devil's artillery gradually dissipated, and the artillery power of the devil's artillery wing gradually appeared, and the advantage of the Wumu army's strong melee firepower would be offset, so Wang Yilang ordered the troops to fight and entangle with the devil's melee battle, limit the devil's artillery fire advantage, give full play to the melee advantage of the Wumu army's machine guns and submachine guns, and at the same time rapid-fire guns, anti-aircraft guns and other direct-fire artillery to fire the firepower of the devil's attack troops, Wang Yilang also arranged infantry artillery, The mortars approached the devil's fire position at the head of the city, and launched javelin thunder and meteor thunder to attack the devil's artillery position at the same time.

In the melee, a raging fire broke out in Wuhu Port, which was the masterpiece of the Wumu Army's special operations brigade. The special operations brigade only sent one company, and staged a fire to the devils to burn the forage field.

At the same time, a special operations battalion of the special operations brigade infiltrated the city of Nanjing and began to sabotage as it pleased: cutting wires when they saw it, setting fire to materials when they saw it, changing road signs when they saw them, killing them when they saw that there were few devils, planting mines and throwing grenades at the devil's organs and barracks, and jumping over the ridge and fleeing when they saw the devil's brigade, and gunfire was everywhere in the city of Nanjing......

The Baohua Mountain and River Defense Brigade sent a part of the light anti-aircraft guns to launch artillery guerrilla warfare against the devil garrisons on the outskirts of Nanjing, and Wu Zhen sent a cavalry to attack and harass the periphery of Nanjing.

Sawada Shigeru didn't know whether the Wumu Army's attack on Nanjing was true or not, so the two independent mixed brigades that had just arrived in Nanjing did not dare to move lightly, and the 20th independent mixed brigade in Wuhu was already too busy to take care of itself, and in order to get rid of the passive situation, Sawada Shigeru had to launch an attack plan in advance.

The cavalry brigade transferred from the Kwantung Army set out from Taicang and attacked along the front line of Changshu, Zhangjiagang, Jiangyin, and Changzhou on the south bank of the Yangtze River; The 22nd Division was divided into three routes, starting from Songjiang, Qingpu and Kunshan, and attacking Changzhou through Suzhou and the north end of Yangcheng Lake; After the two troops eliminated and defeated the enemy along the way, they completed the first phase of the operation after arriving in Changzhou; The second phase of the battle plan was to use the cavalry brigade from Changzhou as the vanguard, covering the 22nd Division to attack the Wumu Army command center Xishan along the three passages between Taihu Lake, Juhu Lake, Changdang Lake and Maoshan Lake, and at the same time, the 6th and 10th independent mixed brigades on the Nanjing side attacked Maoshan and Baohua Mountain respectively to contain the reinforcements of other units of the Wumu Army; The third phase of the battle plan was to wait for the base area of the Wumu Army in southern Jiangsu to fall into a stalemate, and the 12th Independent Mixed Brigade in Jiaxing would take the opportunity to attack Wuxing and attack the Wumu Army's lair from the south of Xishan.

Sawada Shigeru's battle plan can be described as impeccable, but Wu Mujun is not the master waiting to be beaten, and the next various changes made Sawada Shigeru dumbfounded.

The first to set off was the 22nd Division, which had already been prepared, and they attacked and advanced along three predetermined routes with great vigour, except for many roads and bridges that were bombed and flooded, they hardly encountered decent resistance, especially Yangcheng Lake, the guerrilla base of the Wumu Army, and not a single Wumu Army saw it, so they had to harm the local people, because they were in a hurry and could not enjoy themselves.

Because the cavalry brigade had just arrived, the troops needed to understand and adapt to the environment, replenish supplies, and prepare and familiarize themselves with the battle plan, so they set off late, but the mechanized troops would not arrive in Changzhou later than the 22nd Division. It's just wishful thinking on the part of devils.

More than 100 tanks and more than 30 armored vehicles of the Devil Cavalry Brigade marched along the south bank of the Yangtze River toward Changzhou. Along the way, there are many large and small rivers flowing into the Yangtze River, which cannot stop the movement of tanks, but the mines in the small rivers can blow up the tanks, and these mines that were originally used to blow up warships are not a problem to blow up the tanks; It doesn't matter, the Imperial Japanese Army has sappers responsible for demining, not to mention that the mines in shallow water are very obvious, and there is no difficulty in demining; However, the stealthy snipers of the Wu Mu Army can eliminate these sappers, and there are also armor-piercing flying mines waiting for the tanks; Of course, the cavalry brigades of the Imperial Japanese Army would have cavalry and conduct searches in advance, but the grass, potholes, concealed fortifications, and concealed bunkers were full of Wumu troops, and the cavalry could not give full play to their advantages in the muddy water network area, but lost a lot of soldiers and horses, and the attack on the tanks did not decrease at all. In order to intercept the devil's cavalry brigade, Li Jiakui even gave up the base area, if he couldn't stop the devil from attacking the base area in southern Jiangsu, he would have no face to see people!

The devils of the cavalry brigade found that the enemy was on the left side, that is, the upper reaches of the river, so the cavalry and tanks attacked south. The Wu Mu army, which was hidden in front of the devil, no longer had to hide, and fired pieces of armor-piercing flying mines at the tank head-on, and then pounced on the tank with anti-tank grenades. The devil cavalry swooped left and right, but more than 40 tanks were still blown up, and the loss of less than half of the combat vehicles was lost.

However, the devils also quickly adjusted the marching plan, first using cavalry to deploy on the front of the marching route to search for and expel the ambush of the Wumu army, and then the tanks also used machine guns to strengthen the cover on the left side.

The officers and men of the Soviet-Shanghai guerrilla column fought very smoothly, and the devil cavalry drove them to retreat farther upstream of the river, and whenever they had the opportunity, these soldiers drifted down the small river and infiltrated the tank group again to attack.

For a whole day, the Devil Cavalry Brigade had not yet reached Changshu, and had already lost most of its tanks, and the tank soldiers suffered even greater casualties, and only found more than 50 corpses of Wumu soldiers, and each Wumu Army corpse was exchanged for 1 tank and 2-3 tank soldiers on average. What is even more enjoyable is that the Suzhou-Shanghai guerrilla column delayed the Devil's Cavalry Brigade and brought disaster to the Devil's 22nd Division, which arrived in Changzhou first.

After the 22nd Division of the Devils arrived in Changzhou, they immediately built fortifications and waited for the arrival of the cavalry brigade. Although they still have to continue to attack, it is a good habit of devils to repair fortifications first when they arrive at the station.

Without waiting for the devils to repair the fortifications, the special forces column of the Wu Mu Army had already attacked. More than a dozen tanks, armored vehicles, and dozens of trucks carrying anti-aircraft guns launched an unorganized fire attack, and the Danyang garrison battalion, the garrison troops withdrawn from Changzhou, and the militia immediately followed the cavalry brigade and were ready to attack at any time.

Then, the heavy artillery brigade that followed after formed an artillery position and spread out fire coverage. The devil did not expect that Wu Mujun would attack him with such fierce firepower, and suddenly had a despair that he had never felt before, and the troops retreated without being able to form an army, and at the same time called the air force to give tactical guidance.

But when the devil's plane arrived, the tanks, anti-aircraft guns, cavalry, and infantry of the Wu Mu army had already entered the devil's group, and the devil also stabilized his mind and began to resist stubbornly.

Wu Mujun's artillery released thick smoke early, and at the same time set up hundreds of mirrors with large pot lids to reflect the sun's rays, disturbing the devil pilot's line of sight.

The defeat was like a mountain, and the devils could not withstand a series of non-stop attacks by the Wu Mu army, such as artillery fire, bullets, cart rolling, and horse trampling, resulting in an unprecedented rout. The so-called is "no matter how high the martial arts are, I am afraid of kitchen knives, and no matter how good my marksmanship is, it is better to sweep".

Zhao Dahu ordered the troops to catch up with them in one go, and strive to stew the Devil Cavalry Brigade with a spoonful.

Shigeru Sawada, learning of the ineffective fighting at the front, ordered the 22nd Division to quickly retreat and disengage from the Takemu Army

Touch, and the cavalry brigade between the southeast of Wuxi and Changshu to build a defensive line to defend the periphery of Shanghai.

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