Umezu Yoshijiro summed up the gains and losses of the confrontation with the Cadet Army, and finally concluded that when the Cadet Army came with a force, it was definitely unwise to run head-on. At this point, the best choice is to adopt what Sun Tzu said in the Art of War, and wait for his three drums to rest before launching a counterattack. In this way, it is possible to turn defeat into victory and beat the student army. Regardless of whether Umezu Mijiro's suggestion was correct or not, Shunroku Hata adopted it, so Okamura Ninji's telegram was consciously ignored by him. He didn't call back at all, but just said to the communications staff officer on duty that day: "We will definitely annihilate the northbound corps of the Cadet Army, but not now." ”

Okamura Ningji's plan is that once the General Headquarters sends enough troops to involve the Anqing Academy, then he will be able to attack Madang without any scruples. And as long as Madang is taken, the Anqing Xuebing Army will become a turtle in the urn, and there is only one result: being annihilated. The relationship between Okamura Ninji and Shunroku Hata was relatively bad, and he didn't want to whisper and ask the Dispatch Army Headquarters to support his Madang strategy. He guessed Shunroku Hata from the perspective of his own thinking, thinking that it was impossible for Shunroku Hata to see the direction of the war clearly and clearly, so after calling Shunroku Hata, he was not worried that he would not send troops to support Anqing, and instead single-mindedly laid out the strategy of Madang.

The movements of the Hukou Xuebing Army are indeed very suspicious, and those soldiers and horses are constantly wandering around the Hukou frontline positions, which is really too much like a trick to cover up. The Cadet Army was very strict in guarding against the infiltration of reconnaissance and intelligence personnel, which gave the illusion that there were no three hundred taels of silver in Nakajima Village. Therefore, even if the three waves of reconnaissance teams sent out before failed to survive a single devil, Nakajima Kemura still continued to send troops, and then, after killing nearly a hundred devil elites, he finally obtained the true information of Hukou. The strength of the defenders of Hukou was a division earlier, but now, there is only one brigade left. As for the crowd that kept appearing on the front-line positions, it was an illusion created by the officers and men of the brigade who kept coming in and out.

After learning about Hukou's detailed troop deployment from the blood-stained scout, Nakajima was not annoyed and angry because he was deceived, on the contrary, he said with a smile: "The people of China are really cunning and cunning!" Pass on my order, except for the military police brigade to stay in Jiujiang, the other officers and soldiers of all sequences should prepare for battle. Warriors under His Majesty the Emperor, use your invincible courage to bury the Cadets! ”

Nakajima Kenmura was resourceful, so he was nicknamed "The Fox of Nagashima", and he himself was very conceited about his military talents. Nakajima is good at grasping details and especially likes to outwit to win, so in his opinion, it is interesting to have a stronger opponent. If your opponent is too mediocre, how can you show that you are different?

Madang Fortress, located in the No. 3 bunker more than 200 meters in front of the left side of the No. 1 battery, Ouyang Yun was doing battle deduction with the staff officers of the corps staff on the sand table at this time. When the troops crossing the river successfully landed, and then began to destroy the Japanese troops along the way under the leadership of the chariot troops, and the Japanese troops who defended Dawangmiao began to encircle and annihilate the war, while the Japanese troops in Huangmei, Jiujiang and Wangjiang remained silent, Ouyang Yun concluded that Okamura Ningji was tempted by horses. The main force of the Xuebing Army sneaked up on Anqing, and there were only more than two divisions left in Pengze, which was really an irresistible temptation for Okamura Ningji, and next, the 2nd Army would definitely concentrate on attacking Madang.

Suddenly, Huang Hua ran in from the next room, he held a telegram in his hand, and said loudly: "Commander-in-chief, the comrade who is lurking in Wangjiang Fox Pupil has sent a telegram that the 11th Division of the Japanese Army has begun to assemble. ”

Ouyang Yun nodded, then glanced at He Zhengchuan and Chen Shichang, and said: "If I am Okamura Ningji, then the sooner the attack is launched, the better, pass on my orders, front-line combat troops, stop civil engineering operations, and prepare for battle!" ”

Madang Fortress has been under construction since the outbreak of the All-Out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and now it has formed a considerable scale, originally, the fortress has a special defense force, but it was used as cannon fodder after the 74th Army took over, and at present, it has existed in name only. Therefore, in the next defensive battle, the main focus can only be the student army. Those who stayed in Madang in the student army should study three divisions and one division. The chariot units of the Third Division have already been withdrawn, and now even if the troops directly under the corps are added, there are only seven regiments of infantry. The infantry of these seven regiments will have to defend the three-kilometer-long Yangtze River defense line around Madang Fortress, which can be described as quite tense in terms of the distribution of troops. The tradition of the Cadet Corps, whether defensive or offensive, is to carry out civil engineering work to the maximum extent necessary to obtain strong fortifications and bunkers. After Ouyang Yun took over the defense of Madang Fortress, he immediately began to organize manpower to strengthen civil engineering operations on the basis of the original fortifications. Now, under the non-stop operation of the officers and men of the Third Division for two days and two nights, in addition to the blockhouses, tunnels, and batteries that had been built before, Madang Fortress has two more minefields and three batteries. And in Hujia Village, about five kilometers from Madang, there are about five regiments of artillery hidden. Although Ouyang Yun likes to take risks when fighting, those are all measures of last resort when he is forced to do so. For example, this time, on the surface, it seems that the Xuebing Army defends Madang Fortress with the strength of a division, but if you count the artillery of the five regiments, let alone hold Madang for a month, as long as the ammunition can keep up, there is no problem in holding Madang for half a year.

He Zhengchuan was the front-line commander of this defensive battle, and he immediately picked up the phone and called the front-line troops to convey the commander-in-chief's order. Then, after talking to Ouyang Yun, he hurriedly went to the front line from the underground passage with more than a dozen guards.

In the deduction just now, how to deal with the shelling from the river was unanimously considered by Ouyang Yun and the staff officers to be the top priority of this defensive battle. During the defensive battle of Jiangyin Fortress, the Xuebing Army once used strange soldiers to plot against the Japanese Third Fleet, and burned the Third Fleet to cripples with fire. The defensive situation of Madang Fortress is better than that of Jiangyin Fortress, but the same strategy cannot be effective again, and there is no support from the surface fleet, so the threat of the Japanese fleet to the Xuebing Army is far greater than the last Jiangyin Fortress defensive battle. If the defenders are unable to effectively contain the huge artillery bombardment from the river, then even if they can hold Madang as scheduled, they will inevitably pay a heavy price.

Chen Shichang once proposed that the air force be dispatched to bomb it, but considering that the Taiwan Corps was now being encircled and suppressed by the superior Japanese army, and it was difficult to survive, and it was really inseparable from the support of the air force, Ouyang Yun vetoed this proposal. However, the existence of the Yangtze River Fleet had indeed affected the course of the defensive battle, and after careful consideration, he proposed a strategy to use self-propelled artillery and choose the right time to carry out a sneak attack on the Yangtze River Fleet. The second is to give full play to the condition that the mines and torpedoes of Madang Fortress are sufficient, and use the method of man-controlled torpedoes to counter the Japanese ships to the greatest extent.

Continuing the previous topic, after Ouyang Yun and Chen Shichang discussed it, they felt that the last method should be able to play a miraculous effect at night, so Chen Shichang began to come forward to select officers and soldiers with good water characteristics in the third division and the guard unit directly under the army to form a torpedo combat group.

Chen Shichang took the order and left, Ouyang Yun was continuing to lie on the sand table and observe, Huang Hua appeared again, and the telegram he brought this time was sent by Ye Zhao. Jiujiang's 106th Division took the lead in attacking Hukou and seemed to have deployed all its forces at the outset. In the direction of Hukou, although Ye Zhao led the army to take over and immediately increased the construction of fortifications, but before that, the local defenders felt that there were Jiujiang in front of them, and it was impossible for the Japanese army to attack from here, so they almost did not repair any fortifications, so in the face of such a large-scale offensive by the Japanese army, Ye Zhao immediately felt the pressure. He sent this telegram asking for instructions on whether it was possible to transfer a regiment from Duchang back to Hukou to strengthen the defense.

Ouyang Yun asked the 12th Division to make a feint at Hukou to confuse the Japanese army, on the one hand, he wanted to confuse the Japanese army by trying to cover up, but on the other hand, he also wanted to see if he could steal a trick and fool the 106th Division, so that it would not dare to act rashly. Facts have proved that the commander of the 106th Division, Nakajima Jingcun, is not so easy to fool, although he was once confused, but from the fact that he is now resolutely investing heavy troops in Hukou, he not only realized the importance of Hukou to Madang Fortress, but also wanted to take Hukou in one go, so as to threaten Madang Fortress from the side, so as to completely change the course of the Madang Battle.

"Pass my order and let Master Ye decide the situation himself. For the 12th Division, I have only one request, before the Madang Fortress falls, they must defend Hukou and Duchang to the death, and never let go of a devil. ”

Huang Hua replied loudly and trotted out. Ouyang Yun turned his head and looked in the direction of the mouth of the lake on the sand table, and his brows couldn't help frowning slightly. There is no doubt that the premature fall of Jiujiang has enriched the Japanese army's Madang strategy, and if Okamura Ninji focuses his attack on Hukou, first going down to Hukou and then besieging Madang, then - this is a terrible assumption, since the Battle of Hankow, Madang Fortress has been known for being easy to defend and difficult to attack, but this is a premise, that is, when the Japanese choose to attack head-on. If there is any flaw in the fortress, then the land, facing the west in the direction of the mouth of the lake, is its weakness. Thinking that the 112th Division of the Japanese Army was on the opposite side of Jiujiang in Huangmei, and the Botian Detachment was even more nowhere to be seen, Ouyang Yun felt the uncertainty of the defensive battle of Madang for the first time.