Nowadays, wars are demanding more and more from the individual abilities of soldiers. In fact, since the advent of firearms, the situation of relying on numerical superiority to win a battle is a thing of the past. How important is an all-round soldier to a team? Looking at the battle of Zhenjiang, we can get a clear answer. It was precisely because the single male leader of the group telegraphed every step of the Tiangu detachment's actions to the Cadet Army Headquarters in a timely manner, so Ouyang Yun and Li Hansoul were able to make various arrangements in a targeted manner, so as to almost wipe out the Tiangu detachment.

The battle was divided into three steps in total and lasted four days.

The day before is the first stage.

After Ouyang Yun received the telegram sent back by Solo Xiong, and after finding out the strength of the Tiangu detachment, he ordered the troops to carry out civil engineering operations in a big way in the field of vision of the Japanese reconnaissance troops, and put on a posture of fighting positional warfare. On the one hand, the telegram ordered a single man to find out the location of the Japanese artillery positions, and at the same time integrate all the artillery units of the two divisions, striving to destroy the enemy's artillery units in one round.

About three hours later, Shan Zhixiong sent another telegram informing him that the Japanese artillery unit was about three kilometers north of the east gate of Zhenjiang. About a quarter of an hour after his telegram was sent, just when the Japanese army detected the radio signal of the single male and their radio and sent a squadron of devils to encircle and suppress, Ouyang Yun gave an order, and the artillery units of the two divisions and nearly two brigades of the Xuebing Army launched their might together, and suddenly, nearly 100 shells whistled towards the Japanese artillery position.

However, it was said that since the commander of the Tenya detachment, Naojiro Amaya, learned that the soldiers of the Cadet Army were pressing, this once arrogant devil immediately became cautious. While frequently mobilizing troops and beginning to assume a defensive posture in light of the operational characteristics of the cadet corps, he also telegraphed to the headquarters of the Shanghai Dispatch Army to request air force support. He believes that in the absence of ground weapons and firepower superiority, it is tantamount to self-destruction to try to defeat the Cadet Army, which is almost two and a half times the number of his own, with the men and horses of his headquarters. Therefore, the dispatch of aviation units to bomb and destroy the armored units of the Cadet Corps with heavy bombs was an indispensable link in achieving victory in the war. At the same time, he sent a telegram to the Kunisaki detachment, which was subordinate to the Fifth Division, which was marching towards Jurong, claiming that it had encountered sniping from the superior student army, and asked the Kunisaki detachment to abandon the attack on Jurong and instead march towards Danyang, hoping to inflict heavy losses on the student army after the two sides met.

For middle-aged officers in the Japanese army, defeating the student army and even capturing Ouyang Yun alive were the things they were most passionate about. After the Battle of Jiangyin, this sentiment was even higher, and even many Japanese commanders demanded that they abandon the Nanjing Raider first and annihilate the Xuebing Army, the largest hostile force in the empire.

If it is said that the commander-in-chief of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, Matsui Shigen, did not take the student army seriously at first, after the battle of Jiangyin, the old devil can be said to hate this warlord Chinese army to the core, and he has the mind to eat Ouyang Yun. Therefore, after receiving Naojiro Amaya's telegram asking for help, the old devil did not dare to be careless at all, and immediately ordered the two air groups under his command, asking them to temporarily abandon the original bombing plan and turn to fully support the Amatani detachment. At the same time, the Kunisaki detachment and the 18th Division of Ushijima Sadao who was in Hangzhou Bay were also ordered to march towards Zhenjiang, in order to solve the problem of the student army once and for all, and at least leave all the mixed troops that went north to make its vitality seriously damaged.

Matsui Ishine still underestimated the strength of the Cadet Army. Among them, the most insufficient estimate is the determination of the cadet army to fight and the sharpness of its artillery.

Compared with the heavy artillery used by the Japanese army, the howitzers of the Cadet Corps with a diameter of more than 150 mm have a larger diameter, so they have a longer firing range. This is not the most critical, what makes the Japanese most defenseless is the terrifying movement speed of the self-propelled artillery of the Cadet Army - in fact, as long as Ouyang Yun is willing, it is entirely possible for the artillery unit of the Cadet Corps to change places with one shot.

After getting in touch with the dispatch army headquarters, Naojiro Amaya made arrangements wholeheartedly, wanting to entangle the student army in Zhenjiang. For this reason, he even made a record, once the student army wants to break away from the battle and cross the river, then he will order the troops to attack at all costs - nearly a hundred cannons fired in unison, and the sound was so loud that anyone who had experienced it personally would have a deep impression. At that time, Tian Gu was in the command headquarters worried about the small army of the single hero.

This force may be small, but the damage caused is enormous. Because, they were able to come and go freely in Zhenjiang City, and even entered the team headquarters of a brigade and snatched a radio station. Once they were informed of the deployment situation and sent a telegram to the Cadet Corps Command, the Tiangu Detachment would fall into an extremely passive situation.

The rumbling sound of cannon proves that Naojiro Amaya's judgment is accurate. And a few minutes later, what shocked him was that the target of the Cadet Army's attack this time turned out to be his own artillery position.

Ouyang Yun launched this artillery bombardment, leaving no room at all - whether it was for the Japanese army or for the student army itself, if this saturation attack continued, there would be only one result, either the Japanese artillery unit would be completely annihilated, or the artillery unit of the student army would suffer huge losses in the counterattack of the Japanese army. Of course, no matter which way you look at it, the Cadet Corps has a much greater chance of winning - first, they have the exact location of the Japanese artillery positions, and secondly, the quantity and quality of the Japanese artillery are far inferior to the Cadet Corps.

Fifteen minutes of saturation shelling completely destroyed the Japanese artillery positions. Of course, the destruction of the Japanese artillery was not without effect, that is, it gave Tenya the opportunity to withdraw the armored forces to Jinshan.

Naojiro Amaya deserves to be a general who can stand alone, and when he heard the intensity of the artillery fire of the Cadet Army, he immediately realized that the artillery unit on his side must be helpless. And if nothing else, it will definitely be the armored forces that will suffer such a devastating blow. The Cadet Army uses all its artillery to carry out this saturation strike, so the next step can be expected, and it will definitely be a full-scale attack.

"Ouyang Yun is a master? Did he realize that I was going to ask for air support? That's why you want to do it quickly? In the current situation, there is no need for our army to take the initiative to attack-" Tiangu thought so, and a wry smile could not help but appear on his face-although he thought so, he actually knew that in the absence of heavy artillery fire support, what was the risk of wanting to take the initiative to attack and send him to death? You must know that the Scholar Army is not other national army units, they have more powerful armored units.

On the position of the Scholar Army at the east gate of Zhenjiang, Ouyang Yun observed the position of the Japanese armored troops with a telescope, and saw that the Japanese army began to retreat, and he was slightly unhappy.

He Zhengqi put down the binoculars and said to him: "Commander, it seems that our opponent is not a mediocre talent!" ”

Ouyang Yun put down the binoculars and said: "It's a difficult opponent, Zheliang, let the staff officer on duty send a telegram to Commander Li Hanxun, ask them to speed up the march, and tell him that they must beware of the Japanese army that may come down from Zhejiang." In addition, let them build the fortifications more firmly - whether we can eat the Tiangu detachment depends on whether they can withstand the attack from both sides. ”

The activity of the single male squad in Zhenjiang City is the finishing touch of this battle, and it is precisely because of this extra pair of eyes that the Cadet Army has now completely grasped the initiative. After successfully destroying the artillery unit of the Tiangu detachment, if it was just to drive it out of Zhenjiang, no matter what others thought, at least Ouyang Yun would feel aggrieved - just like a game of chess, the layout was so perfect, but there was a big colander in the middle and the end, this should naturally not be a mistake that a master should make.

The sound of artillery stopped, and Ouyang Yun gave an order, He Zhengchuan roared, and all the officers and soldiers of the Third Division rushed out of the trenches and rushed towards Zhenjiang City under the cover of the armored troops.

Suddenly, a ball of fire suddenly flashed on the chassis of the Jiguang tank that rushed to the front - with a "boom", the tank was immediately paralyzed.

"Anti-tank mines!" Ouyang Yun blurted out, then picked up the walkie-talkie and gave an order to He Zheng, let the armored troops stop for a while to use as a battery, and let the infantry attack.

The officers and men of the 3rd Division rushed towards the east gate, and soon, the duel between the infantry of the two sides began centered on the east gate gatehouse.

"The Japanese army is very well prepared! Even anti-tank mines were brought! Ouyang Yun thought about it like this, and a worried look appeared on his face. At that time, this scene was simply impossible - even during the entire Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army did not seem to have laid such mines on the Chinese battlefield, but what is going on now? Do butterflies really flap their wings? This hurricane is so violent!

The Cadet Corps, supported by artillery and tank guns, had an overwhelming advantage from beginning to end. Of course, the Tiangu detachment is not a fish belly unit, and regardless of its equipment, the military quality of its soldiers is quite high. It is obvious that although most of the weapons of the Japanese army are the kind of 38 covers that pull the bolt with one shot, the damage to the cadet army is extremely large. Within about 200 meters of the East Gate Gate, the 3rd Division of the 3rd Division fell down a regiment of officers and men, half of whom were wounded through the attack, although there were very few people killed on the spot, but the trouble caused to the 3rd Division was quite great. It was in order to save the first batch of wounded comrades-in-arms that the successive soldiers fell on that line one after another, and even later, a company commander who saw the strangeness stopped the actions of his comrades, stood up with a limp leg, and swept towards the Japanese position with Weiqing-style, and then was beaten into a sieve by the bullets of the 38 big cover, and fell down extremely heroically.

On the first day of the battle, more than 800 students were killed, but very few were wounded, only about 50. The reason for this was precisely because this company commander had a bad head, that those wounded officers and men, even if they had only suffered a slight flesh wound, followed his example and stood up and launched a decisive charge at the enemy's position, and as a result, the vast majority of them fell in that death area. The first day of fighting was particularly fierce.