Since the Japanese army was reorganized, its aviation was endlessly involved in the battle. In order to avoid the occurrence of an oolong incident of accidentally bombing one's own people, the Japanese planes participating in the war were basically fighter planes, using machine guns or machine guns to attack the ground.

It is precisely because of the existence of this form of Japanese aircraft that the degree of danger near the front line is greatly increased, because if you are not careful, once you are targeted by a certain Japanese plane, there is only one possibility, or you blow up that Japanese plane, or you are broken into pieces by dense machine gun bullets. Although Ouyang Yun had used sniper infantry to shoot down Japanese planes in Renqiu, it was a very distant thing, and his gun had already been surrendered. Therefore, although Fang Shuhong has also heard of this legend, he will definitely not believe it.

It can be said that Ouyang Yun is waiting for Fang Shuhong here, and he is in great danger. Just where he and Fang Shuhong met, they could clearly see those Japanese planes raging at low altitude.

Fang Shuhong sternly reprimanded Liu Kui precisely because of this.

Of course, Ouyang Yun had his reasons for taking risks. This reason is naturally not the high-sounding so-called "you haven't crossed the river yet, how can I go first" that he said first. He did this just to get Fang Shuhong's full support.

That's right, Fang Shuhong didn't dare to disobey his orders because of the young marshal's advice. However, not disobeying orders does not mean that you will do your best. The Northeast Army and the Cadet Army are two existences of different systems, and in the Northeast Army, if Fang Shuhong wants to maintain or improve his current status, then the soldiers in his hands must not be lost. This is a big constraint on Ouyang Yun's plan. Because of this battle, Ouyang Yun is bound to condense the 114th Division, the 26th Division, and the 3rd Division into a fist, and it is a fist full of temptation for the little devil. Such a fist, both to attract the enemy and be able to hurt the enemy, then sacrifice is definitely inevitable, and even if one is not good, it is possible for the whole army to be exhausted. In this way, if it really comes to that time, will Fang Shuhong still obey Ouyang Yun's orders as he does now?

Hard.

Ouyang Yun fully explained the current predicament and his own plans, this kind of honesty, whether he can impress Fang Shuhong is one thing, at least, he can let the other party have a bottom in his heart, and he will not misunderstand his next command.

"Division Commander Fang, now that the Japanese army is strong, it is very difficult to win. And for the time being, as long as our army gets out of trouble safely, as long as it can bring back the vast majority of its brothers, it will be victorious. China's land is more than 10 million square kilometers, and we still have strategic space and time, and little Japan wants to destroy us in three months, wishful thinking. I believe that as long as your and our three armies work together with all their might, it is not impossible to defeat the morale of the Japanese army in Nanjing. After the last, Ouyang Yun said.

As an old man of the Northeast Army, Fang Shuhong has rich experience in actual combat, and there is no shortage of tactical theory, when Ouyang Yun said the last words, he was thinking silently, and replied firmly at this time: "Commander, you let go of the command, our Northeast Army has already done a bad job, this time it is just to take this opportunity to wash away the shame of the past, please believe that our 114th Division and the officers and soldiers of the 117th Division must only be the commander of the horse." ”

Ouyang Yun nodded, shook his hand, and said, "Then we will keep in touch at any time, now, just follow the first step." ”

"Yes!" Fang Shuhong saluted Ouyang Yun.

At the ferry wharf at the mouth of the Yangtze River in Wuhu City, Zhang Meixin, commander of the 10th Division, finally waited for the first sequence of vanguard troops surrounded by a group of officers and guards directly under the division, but what surprised him was that there were no senior officers he knew among the bustling troops who were carried by the special train ferry. The first sequence has the 121st Division, the 5th Xue Division, and the 145th Division of the Sichuan Army, and none of the three division commanders plus the commander-in-chief of the sequence, Li Hansoul, appeared. In the middle of the troops, there was a group of people who seemed to be at the brigade level and above, and when this group of people approached, he found that there was a lieutenant general inside, and that was an officer at the level of a division commander like him, but why did this person look so vivid?

In this unit, there is already a regiment that has been drawn out in the past, and the quality of the officers and men of this regiment is not easy for Zhang Meixin to evaluate in person, but he muttered in his heart: Is it the 121st Division? Otherwise, how could the quality of this soldier seem so uneven? There is also a problem with the equipment, how can there be such a thing as an old sleeve? There is also a problem with that Makqin, the barrels are rusty, can it be fired?

Not only Zhang Meixin, but also those who had a little vision of the 10th Division saw the problems of this army. And all these doubts will be solved after the lieutenant general and division commander reported to his home.

The division commander turned out to know Zhang Meixin, got off the car from afar, walked over, and saluted when he was still four or five meters away from Zhang Meixin: "Guo Yulin, deputy commander of the Second Army of the Mixed Soldier Army and commander of the new First Division, has seen Division Commander Zhang. ”

Zhang Meixin hurriedly returned the salute, and then he was surprised: What kind of establishment is this mixed formation of the new first division of the Second Army? Newly formed? Reinforcements from the base camp? No, if it's reinforcements, they'll have to pass through us, huh? Could it be from Zhenjiang? But there is a devil of a division in the Zhenjiang area. It's a bit abnormal, but there's no problem with the password or something, and as a deputy commander, why doesn't he have any impression of the name Guo Yulin? Zhang Meixin was puzzled, Guo Yulin stepped forward and handed him a letter written by Li Hansoul himself.

After reading this letter, Zhang Meixin finally understood everything before and after, and his face suddenly became gloomy.

This force turned out to be composed of baggage and logistics personnel under the Nanjing Garrison Command, and they came to Wuhu to replace them. And Guo Yulin, the deputy commander of the mixed Second Army and the commander of the new 1st Division, was originally just a major staff officer under Li Hanxun, but this time he was entrusted with a heavy task, and the only force that could fight was actually only a regiment that Li Hansoul transferred to him from the Fifth Division.

Li Hansoul rewrote the letter, asking him to complete the handover as soon as he received the letter, and then lead his troops to Hexian, during which he must make effective use of the opportunity of the mixed Second Army to go up and hide the whereabouts of the troops.

As a stronghold on the south bank of the Yangtze River that can directly lead to Fujian and Guangdong, Wuhu's importance to the student army is self-evident. Because of the existence of the Huainan Railway, because there are large ferries for carrying train carriages to cross the river, it is very convenient for the troops to cross the river, and if it was not for the purpose of carrying out the order of the Military Commission, the garrison Pukou was transferred to garrison Nanjing, in order to cover the retreat of the main force, Ouyang Yun could even choose to go directly from Zhenjiang to Wuhu.

It is precisely because he is well aware of the importance of Wuhu to the student army that after Zhang Meixin led the 10th Division to occupy Wuhu, he personally practiced what he preached, and on the basis of Wuhu's original industrial defense, it only took one week to add three minefields, four fortresses, and seven trenches, and in addition, he also dug an air-raid shelter of considerable scale.

Since the first battle of Jiangyin Fortress, the 10th Division has not caught any major battles, although the corresponding battle damage is also very small, but for the soldiers who want to make contributions, this is not a good thing. Hearing that several other divisions were fighting with the little devils in Nanjing, from the division commander Zhang Meixin to the ordinary soldiers, they all held their breath in their hearts and wanted to show their might in the next battle. However, when the sword was sharpened and the enemy came, such an order came. It's no wonder he's in a bad mood.

Guo Yulin saw Zhang Meixin's change of expression in his eyes, and smiled bitterly in his heart - this scene was what he expected on the road.

Li Hansoul's letter didn't mention anything else, because when he wrote this letter, he hadn't received an exact reply from Ouyang Yun. The reason why it was arranged in advance was only because no matter whether Ouyang Yuntong agreed or not, these people were going to Wuhu, and there was not much difference between a few days earlier and a few days later.

Zhang Meixin shifted his gaze, swept over the troops in front of him one by one, and said to Guo Yulin for a long time: "Commander Guo, since this is the case, let's complete the handover as soon as possible." Chief of Staff, give the defense map to Commander Guo. ”

Liu Degang, chief of staff of the 10th Division, stepped forward, opened the briefcase on his body, took out a drawing and handed it to Guo Yulin, and said: "Commander Guo, Wuhu is very important, please be sure to defend it." The 16th Division of the Japanese Army is only more than 30 kilometers away from here, and it will arrive this evening at the latest. ”

"Yes. Division Commander Zhang, Chief of Staff Liu, ladies and gentlemen, then I will take my leave first. Please rest assured, Guo Yulin will not let the little devil's plot succeed if he has a breath. ”

Several people saluted each other, and then divided into two directions and marched towards Wuhu City.

Zhang Meixin and the others wanted to hurry back to the city to gather troops, while Guo Yulin wanted to go to the southern suburbs immediately to familiarize himself with the battlefield.

When the order to withdraw from Wuhu and march towards Hexian County came, most of the officers and men were quite puzzled. At present, the situation of both the enemy and us has become clear, and although there is also a threat from a Japanese army in the direction of Hexian, it is blocked by the Yangtze River, and it may not be able to fight. And here in Wuhu, the 16th Division is close at hand, and a vicious battle is inevitable. It is no wonder that the officers and men of the 10th Division were originally ready to do a big job, but now they have been ordered to abandon the positions they have worked so hard to manage, cross the river and move into Hexian.

The efficiency of learning from the 10th Division is still very high, and the new 1st Division of the 2nd Army has just crossed the river, and they have already gathered at the Wuhu ferry and are waiting to cross the river. At the ferry, seeing that there was still a steady stream of troops on the other side of the river, Zhang Meixin's tense face relaxed.

Li Hansoul did not mention a clear combat mission in the telegram and letter, but with Zhang Meixin's ability, he was able to guess something behind it. Replacing the main force with a logistics force, and operating in secret, must be planning a big battle, or even encirclement and annihilation. However, with a unit like the New First Division, whose combat effectiveness is obviously uneven, can it hold Wuhu? And once Wuhu is lost, at least the student army will fall into an extremely passive situation. From this point of view, Zhang Meixin was very worried about whether this move by the headquarters would be counterproductive. And after seeing the scale of the entire mixed army, he was relieved. The combat effectiveness of the Second Mixed Army is already predictable and not strong, but if it has a numerical advantage, it shouldn't be a problem to hold Wuhu, right? At this moment, he can only think like this.