With the warm hospitality of Liu Jianhua's remnants, all the officers and men of the Dragon Tooth Task Force, who had traveled for more than a month, had a fairly sumptuous dinner, and then fell asleep and began to recover their exhausted body and energy.

After Qiao Youhua and Liu Jianhua discussed the battle map, he also went to rest, although he was the king of soldiers, but after all, he was also flesh and blood, and he also needed to rest.

At the same time, Wuhu City, the temporary joint command of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army with the 1st Kunisaki Detachment.

Lieutenant General Sadao Ushijima, commander of the 18th Division, was playing against Major General Noboru Kunizaki, the commander of the Kunisaki detachment.

Ushijima Sadao said with a son: "The latest telegram order from the Front Army Headquarters, our department is going to Hangzhou, and the roundabout task will depend on Kunizaki-kun to complete it alone, Hangzhou, the Zhang Fakui Department still has considerable strength, and the 114th Division is difficult to support alone!" ”

Kunizaki Noboru also fell and said: "The elite of the Central Army of China was almost wiped out in the first battle in Shanghai, and the retreat was extremely chaotic, and the losses were amazing, and now it is vulnerable, and it is only a matter of time before the imperial army captures Nanjing, but this rain is a bit out of place!" ”

Nakajima Sadao nodded and said: "That's right, this rain will have a great impact on the pursuit of the imperial army, especially our mechanized heavy troops, the speed of movement will be greatly reduced, and it will also give the people of China a rare respite, but these are not important, I heard that the Shigeto detachment has already fought Suzhou, as long as Zhenjiang is captured, it will cross the Yangtze River eastward,

Attack Yangzhou, and then go north to the north of the river to encircle Pukou and cut off the Jinpu railway, as long as you can capture Pukou and cut off the last retreat of the Nanjing defenders, then the entire city of Nanjing will become a turtle in an urn, and victory is just around the corner! ”

Kunizaki said: "I have ordered the 3rd Brigade of the 11th Infantry Wing to capture Lishui County, and immediately attack Dangtu County, and then wait for the 11th Infantry Wing and the 21st Infantry Wing to converge after the main force, cross the Yangtze River from Dangtu to the north and go straight to Pukou."

It is expected that tomorrow afternoon, the third brigade will be able to arrive at Dangtu, and the current Zhina army has long been frightened and will collapse at the touch of a button, and Dangtu should have become an empty city. ”

"Yo Xi, Kunisaki Jun Chengzhu is in his chest, then I wish Your Excellency a victory and the first battle to capture Nanjing!" Sadao Nakajima.

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In the afternoon, the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the 11th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army suddenly approached the city, although the rout in the city tried their best to resist, but they were outnumbered, and after several hours of fierce fighting, the whole army was annihilated.

The Japanese army captured the county seat, and more than 1,000 Japanese troops were in the county town for the purpose of searching for Chinese soldiers, looting and looting young women and people's property in the city.

The people in the city immediately stabbed them with bayonets and stabbed them to death, and the city was full of mourning and howling.

In the dark night, I don't know how many young girls were ruined and killed, and the whole county was like experiencing a nightmare, after dawn, the beast Japanese army left dozens of wounded soldiers behind the troops, and the main force poured out of the nest, according to the instructions of Kunizaki Deng, and rushed to Dangtu County, dozens of miles away.

Qiao Youhua and all the dragon tooth warriors slept peacefully, and at five o'clock in the morning, Qiao Youhua got up in good spirits, at this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and Liu Jianhua strode in in a military uniform.

greeted him: "Brother Qiao, how did you sleep last night?" ”

"Very good, the spirit is refreshed, now you can have a good fight with the little devils!" Qiao Youhua said with a smile.

"Xiao Wuzi just came to report that Lishui County was broken by devils last night, and after dawn, this group of devils left Lishui, and the target was Dangtu County." Liu Jianhua said.

"What? How many devils are there? Qiao Youhua asked with a grim face.

"A full infantry brigade with thousands of troops, this will be able to have a happy battle with the little devil as you wish." Liu Jianhua said.

"An infantry brigade, it seems that this little devil Kunisaki is arrogant and ruthless." Qiao Youhua said thoughtfully.

"It's not that the devil is arrogant, but that our army in the entire Jiangnan region has been defeated like a mountain, and the troops with the strength of the First World War have been concentrated in Nanjing, and in the area west of Taihu Lake, there is no formed regular army stationed at all, and the Japanese army is like a bamboo, but now the troops of the Kunisaki detachment are also scattered in the vast area west of Taihu Lake.

If we want to fully assemble, it will take a certain amount of time, not to mention that the heavy rain that began last night will cause great difficulties to the march of the various armies of the devils, which is beneficial to us.

Otherwise, the devils who came to attack Dangtu might not be a brigade, but a wing. Liu Jianhua said.

"Of course, for the commander of the Japanese army, it is even a bit overkill for a brigade to capture the last small county town under the current general trend."

Qiao Youhua turned around and walked to the battle map and said, "Brother Liu, come with me." ”

Liu Jianhua hurriedly walked over and asked, "Brother Qiao, what do you think?" ”

Qiao Youhua smiled and said, "It's nothing, since the little devils are so rampant, then let's give them a big gift." ”

"What gift?" Liu Jianhua asked puzzled.

"Of course... Annihilate them all! I think a fully staffed elite infantry brigade should be enough to make that old devil Kunisaki Noboru feel painful, right? Qiao Youhua said with a smile.

Liu Jianhua was obviously stunned, if he hadn't seen Qiao Youhua's smile as if he had a strong murderous intent, he would definitely think that Qiao Youhua was joking.

"You said you want to wipe out more than 1,000 devils? That's an infantry brigade, how many of us are there? I have more than 200 remnants of soldiers, and I think there are only more than 400 of your men, although they are all cavalry, but they are more than 1,000 Japanese troops, and in my opinion, if you want to block their attack, you need at least one regiment of troops.

To annihilate them completely, you must have the strength of one division, and you must have the most elite Central Army. ”

Liu Jianhua said that these words are well-founded, because the combat effectiveness of small Japan, the battle of Tongguò and Shanghai has been vividly displayed, not to mention anything else, let's just say that at the beginning, the Nationalist Government mobilized the 88th, 87th, and 36th Central Army, the three most elite aces of the Central Army, to besiege the Japanese 3,000 marines stationed in Shanghai.

The strength was almost ten to one, or even more, but it was impossible to break through the last position of the Japanese army, annihilating it completely, and finally dragged the reinforcements of the 3rd, 9th and 11th divisions of the Japanese army to land in a big way, losing the only fighter plane.

Although the devil was assisted by some naval warships, it was enough to prove the combat effectiveness of the little devil, and it is said that in the Battle of Xinkou, which had just ended in defeat, the commander of the 5th Division of the Japanese North China Front Army, Itagaki Seishiro, relied on most of the divisions to defeat hundreds of thousands of troops of the Central Army of the Jin Sui Army in Shanxi one after another.

And this Kunisaki detachment itself is the 9th Brigade from the Fifth Division, such a prestigious and most elite ace unit of the Japanese army, but Qiao Youhua has to encircle and annihilate almost twice as many enemy troops as himself with less than 1,000 troops.

This can't but be said, it's really crazy, so crazy that Liu Jianhua is not optimistic about it at all, or doesn't believe that they can do it and create such a miracle.

In Liu Jianhua's view, as long as he can hold Dangtu County, killing and injuring the Japanese army as much as possible is the biggest victory.

Qiao Youhua took a moment to say: "Brother Liu, have you forgotten my victory in the defense of Zheng Village?" At that time, I only had these 400 dragon tooth soldiers in my hands, and I still annihilated more than 2,000 Japanese troops, not to mention, there are more than 200 veterans of the bloody battle under your command. ”

"However, this 9th Brigade is from the Fifth Division, which is different from the remaining troops of the Japanese army in North China, and is a real field ace elite unit." Liu Jianhua said.

"Trump? Elite? Hmph, Lao Tzu is playing the trump card, and destroying is the elite, Brother Liu, you just give a happy word, do you dare to fight with me? Qiao Youhua asked with a cold snort.

Infected by Qiao Youhua's resolute attitude, Liu Jianhua gritted his teeth and slapped the table and said: "Since Brother Qiao, you have said so, then what else do I have to say, I and more than two hundred brothers under my command are looking forward to you, it's a big deal to fight with the little devil and break the net, and end up together!" Horizontal and vertical are one death, people are dead, and they will not die for thousands of years, I did it! ”

"Okay, that's what you're waiting for!" Qiao Youhua said happily: "Guards, immediately go and notify the captains of the squadrons to come to the meeting." ”

Outside the door, a guard suddenly answered, turned and ran to lead the way and leave.