"I'm going first!" After Wu Keren said this, he stood up and dressed up, pinned a glorious bullet to the waistband of his trousers, counted the bullets on his body, and then walked forward with several staff officers and guards from the division headquarters.

He looked up, only to see that the sky in the southeast suddenly flashed like a lightning bolt with an obscure light, and the next moment, about four or five kilometers away from him, a fire mixed with thick smoke rose up, and then, a "boom" explosion came - he immediately stood still, his heart was beating uncontrollably, and he said: "Could it be that Ouyang Yun really led the army to help?" But where did he get so many artillery? ”

A staff officer was stunned to see that the Japanese position was completely covered by mushroom clouds one after another, and he woke up after a while, and exclaimed: "Military seat, it's our reinforcements, right?" It's our reinforcements! ”

"Yes, it's our reinforcements! Commander Ouyang has come to our rescue! Wu Keren said, not noticing that tears had already flowed into his eyes.

"Brothers! We are saved! "It's reinforcements!" "Our artillery, our artillery! It must have been Commander Ouyang who brought someone to save us! ”……

On the defensive position on the edge of Da'an South Village, first the officers and soldiers of the 117th Division, and then the officers and soldiers of the 103rd Division, all shouted excitedly, and the once suppressed mood was completely released, and the scene was like a person who was about to die of thirst across the desert suddenly saw a clear lake. The guns in their hands also seemed to feel the excitement of their masters, and they spat out flames to their heart's content, and they easily beat down this wave of Japanese attack.

If it was said that the rapid fire of Qian Guangming's tank unit for three minutes in a row was a beacon in the darkness to the officers and men of the 117th Division and the 103rd Division, then what was brought to the 6th Division blocking them was a sudden and strong earthquake.

If Qian Guangming wanted to lead nearly 100 tanks to launch a surprise attack on the Japanese army, someone had to help him clear out the patrol detachments and sentry posts scattered by the Japanese army behind the large force. And the big knife regiment led by Xiao Yat is a special soldier, and the priority task that needs to be completed is this one. The Broadsword Regiment is worthy of being the most elite unit of the Cadet Army, although it is carrying out extremely dangerous tasks, but because of its fierce combat effectiveness and extremely outstanding personal ability, it has lost only 19 people and seriously injured 11 so far. The Broadsword Regiment dispatched a total of four squadrons with the army this time, divided into two battalion-level formations. And now with Xiao Yi, the new regiment commander, is a battalion under the command of Xiao Changwu, with a total of nearly 100 people in one and a half squadrons. Among them, Xiao Yi personally selected sixty soldiers with certain Japanese skills to disguise themselves as devil soldiers, directly bypassing the offensive route of the main force and inserting diagonally into the depth of the Japanese army; Others, led by Xiao Changwu, ran ahead of the attacking troops, clearing the tank units of small Japanese forces that might have exposed their tracks.

As a traverser, Ouyang Yun's luck has always had a tendency to go against the sky. I don't know if the road has something to do with this, obviously there are Japanese planes in the field of vision of the soldiers from time to time, but the strange thing is that those devil pilots were stunned and failed to discover the movement of the garrison in advance, until Qian Guangming gave an order, nearly a hundred tanks opened fire at the same time, and at this time, those Japanese fighters had not many bombs left, among them, the heavy bombs that could deal with the heavy armor of the Jiguang type were exhausted.

Three-minute rapid fire, with a minimum of five rounds per tank, including the 105 mm Jiguang LIII heavy tank. This tank was developed at the Dingzhou base of the Cadet Research and Development Institute, and was specially designed to deal with fortified targets such as envisioned heavily armored tanks and armored trains and even city gates, and its power can be seen. And because the stabilizer of the new armor-piercing shell has not yet been successfully developed, it is equipped with ordinary artillery shells, which may not be able to deal with heavily armored targets, but they are not good for attacking infantry.

Hundreds of shells rained down on the Japanese positions at the same time, instantly completely tearing apart the defensive line that the Japanese had hastily constructed.

Gu Shoufu was personally directing the battle at the front line at this time, and when the cannon sounded, he was resting on an ammunition box with his left foot, holding a telescope with both hands, and was observing the defense line of the 117th Division, which was only a few steps away. In the telescope, the disorganized defending position made the old devil feel that victory was so close to him, and he was grinning and sneering, secretly thinking that the battle would be resolved in half an hour at most, when suddenly the earth-shattering explosion sounded in a patch made him almost jump in shock - "What's the matter?" Where**?! He turned around and asked subconsciously, and then saw that the place about a kilometer away from him was completely shrouded in fireworks, and he couldn't help but shudder, dropped the binoculars and grabbed the collar of a staff officer next to him, and shouted: "Hurry up and call Major General Ushijima and ask what's going on?" Pushing the staff officer away with both hands, he turned around with a gloomy face, looked in the direction of the attack of the 9th Division and the 18th Division, and saw that everything was normal on both sides, and his face became even more ugly.

If it was the rescue force of the Shina people, then why did they choose to break through from their own side? Judging from the scale of the artillery, the number of reinforcements of this branch is extremely large, and if you want to stop them, you must pay a great price - Gu Shoufu, who has not suffered much losses and has always been proud of it, is extremely depressed.

Major General Ushijima's full name is Mitsuru Ushijima, and he is the brigade commander of the 36th Brigade under the 8th Division. The 36th Brigade took charge of the first round of offensive missions, fought hard for several hours, and after losing nearly two men and horses, was arranged by Gu Shoufu to rest and recuperate. And the place where the artillery fire raged was the assembly place of the 36th Brigade.

The staff officer soon came to report and offered Mitsuru Ushijima's exact words. Ushijima was also confused, and he didn't know exactly which army he was attacking. However, because of the distance problem, he did see the size of the attacking force, saying that there were no less than two divisions, and it was not conventional artillery that fired just now, but tank clusters.

"Tank clusters?" Hearing this term, the corners of Gu Shoufu's eyes couldn't help jumping. The Battle of Nanjing has been fought until now, and he knows too well the meaning of this term. He jerked up straight, his eyes wide and he looked towards the assembly area of the 36th Brigade. The distance was a little far, and there were trees and fields in the middle, and he didn't see the tank cluster in Ushijima's mouth, but from the dense gunfire, he immediately judged that Ushijima did not lie about the military situation.

"Is it Ouyang Yun's descendant army? The Cadet Army, it was the Cadet Army who killed it! However, isn't the main force of the student army in Wuhu and Dangtu? There are only two divisions in Jiangpu, and besides, didn't they go to Chuxian? There is no mention in the intelligence that they still have tanks of this size,......" Gu Shoufu secretly thought, all kinds of information in his mind were intertwined, making it difficult for him to choose, and he was a little confused for a while.

"Your Excellency—" Several devils around him saw that he was suddenly distracted, and someone immediately reminded him cautiously.

He suddenly came to his senses, waved his fist, strode towards a temporary telephone point not far away, and said in a deep voice: "Yuchuan, immediately go to the commander of the Sakai Brigade and tell him that in twenty minutes, I will see our army's battle flag planted in the opposite village." ”

"Hello!"

There was still some distance from the makeshift telephone point, and he shouted loudly to the communications soldier next to him, "Pick me up the commander of the Ushijima brigade." Soon, he copied the phone in his hand, and what came out of the phone was Ushijima Mitsuru's voice: "I see the battle flag of the Shina people, it's the tank division of the Cadet Army......"

"Tank division?"

"Yes."

Gu Shoufu's face was completely gloomy. Tank divisions, and tank divisions composed of heavy armored tanks, in this plain area, when there are no professional strike weapons in the headquarters, and the distance is so close, even if they want to use special attack tactics, they do not have time to organize preparations - once they are allowed to add up their speed, it will no longer be able to contain it. The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he roared: "Ushijima-kun, no matter what method you use, you must hold on for an hour, and after an hour, I will allow you to withdraw from the battle!" ”

Ushijima didn't dare to disobey, and subconsciously shouted, "Hai! ”

Gu Shoufu took the phone, thought about it, and asked for the 9th Division and the 18th Division. When Yoshizu Ryosuke learned the news, his first reaction was silence, and after Gu Shoufu introduced the situation and explained his deployment, he continued to be silent for two minutes before he spoke: "The tanks of the Cadet Army have fierce firepower and heavy armor, and they cannot be destroyed by non-heavy artillery and heavy bombs. The timing of the air sortie was not well controlled, and it took at least an hour to fly to the battlefield again. Nevertheless, we must destroy this tank unit, and only in this way can we seize the initiative and then have the possibility of carrying out the next combat operation. Ouyang Yun is the great enemy of the empire, this is a rare opportunity to annihilate it, and he must not let it go, once he is allowed to return to Guangdong, it will be a fish into the sea, which will greatly affect the strategy of the base camp. Gu Shoujun, now is not the time to be sympathetic to your subordinates, please organize a death squad. The people in the encirclement can be let go for the time being. ”

Yoshizu Ryosuke had suffered a big loss from the Scholar Army, and he was very jealous of Ouyang Yun, but the more this was the case, the more eager he was to be able to finish the battle and kill Ouyang Yun on the battlefield in Nanjing. When Gu Shoufu heard him say that he wanted to let go of the enemy in the encirclement first, he hesitated a little, and finally replied that he would discuss it with Ushijima Sadao before making a decision.

Ushijima Sadao had suffered a big loss from the Jimitsu-type tank, and when he heard that a tank division had been brought in, and that there was no less than 20,000 people in the main force of the Cadet Army, he immediately agreed with Tani Shofu's suggestion, believing that the current countermeasure should be to quickly annihilate the encircled enemy, and then temporarily retreat, and wait for the aviation to solve the Cadet Army tank division before making other plans.

Gu Shoufu received the support of Sadao Ushijima and was about to do what he had planned, but he received a telegram from Tsukada Tsukashi, asking him to follow Yoshiju Ryosuke's plan and make sure that Ouyang Yun and the main force of the Xuebing Army were completely annihilated in Wujiang.

It turned out that as soon as Yoshizu Ryosuke and Tani Toshio finished the call, they immediately telegraphed Tsukada according to their own ideas and asked him to send aviation troops to support them as quickly as possible. Tsukada was not familiar with the battlefield situation, and Yoshizu Ryosuke did not know whether Lu Dao was intentional or unintentional, and there was no threat from the tank division of the Special Academy Army, so he naturally won the approval of Tsukada Attack. Yoshizu Ryosuke also vaguely pointed out in the telegram that the commanders of the three divisions had different opinions on how to deal with the incoming enemy forces, which affected the overall combat effectiveness. Tsukada was aware of this problem, so he sent a telegram to each of the three division commanders, directly recognizing Yoshizu Ryosuke's position as the former commander-in-chief of the enemy.