Chapter 3: Defending Nanjing (13)
The single male group grabbed their tongues all the way to Zhenjiang City, objectively speaking, they can't be blamed for causing such a situation. The supreme commander of the Japanese Amateri detachment was Major General Shinjiro Amaya, commander of the 10th Infantry Brigade. After he led his troops to capture Zhenjiang, he originally completely connived at his subordinates to burn and loot to boost morale, but after receiving information from the devils of the squadron who went to Dagang to seize the dock, he immediately reduced his army, and at the same time stationed an infantry brigade with an armored wing at the east gate facing Changzhou to deal with an attack that might come from the direction of Changzhou. The Japanese army was frightened by the tank units of the Cadet Corps in North China, and on the one hand, the devils began to strengthen the research and development of combat vehicles, and at the same time began to face up to the power of the Jiguang tanks.
The Japanese armored troops set up an iron bucket array outside the east city gate, and the single male they could not find the opportunity to penetrate, so they had no choice but to advance all the way, so they broke into the Jinshan Temple by mistake.
The single male selects several wolf tooth warriors to perform this mission, and Huang Furong's global sensing ability is the strongest. And as he guessed, outside the east gate, the attack of the Cadet Army had indeed begun.
The first shot was fired by the vanguard led by Liu Kui, a regiment composed of Ouyang Yun's guard regiment and the reconnaissance unit of the Third Division.
What the single male didn't know was that just after they infiltrated Zhenjiang City, the headquarters of the Tiangu detachment sent a reconnaissance unit led by a cavalry squadron to the eastโand the two sides met unexpectedly about fifteen kilometers away from Zhenjiang. In terms of the Cadet Army, all the officers and men of Liu Kui's mixed regiment marched mechanized, and among them, he himself rode in an armored car.
The marching speed of both sides was very fast, and the reconnaissance post running in front only noticed the shadow of the opponent's reconnaissance post, and the troops behind had already followed.
The reconnaissance post of the Cadet Corps rode a three-wheeled motorcycle, and the Japanese troops naturally rode horses. As soon as the two sides looked at each other, the three motorcycles on the side of the Cadet Army immediately met them, while the Japanese army turned their horses around and ran.
"The little devil of the dog day wants to run! him! The person who said this was Zhang Farong, the squad leader of the reconnaissance post of the Cadet Army. Their motorcycle was at the front, and Zhang Farong personally controlled a general-purpose machine gun. He yelled so loudly, and the trigger was already pulled in his hand. There were a total of five people at the reconnaissance post of the Japanese army, and the devil soldier who ran in the front turned the horse's head, and even the men and horses were hit, and in the neighing of the horses, the men and horses pushed the gold mountain and fell into the dust like a jade pillar. The devil soldiers behind heard the reminder of the devil at the head, and the clever two immediately tightened the reins, pulled the front hooves of the mount and jumped high, and then turned around and ran away as soon as the horse's head was turned. There were also two people who were a little sluggish, and there was no doubt that they became the ghosts of Zhang Farong's guns.
"Chase!" As soon as the fight started, he killed the three devils, Zhang Farong was a little high-spirited, shouting for the driver to speed up and catch up!
In the sound of "hmm", three motorcycles chased ahead.
The sound of the gunshot was the signal, and Liu Kui, who was behind him, heard the gunshots and immediately ordered the troops to speed up, and at the same time asked people to hurry back to report to the commander: The devil has been found.
After Ouyang Yun received the report, he immediately discussed the division of troops with Li Hansoul. They had just received a briefing from the committee that there were already Japanese troops in Yixing and that the city of Wuxi was in danger. In this case, they had to consider a possible situation, if the headquarters of the Japanese Shanghai Dispatch Army learned of the strong resistance of the Tiangu detachment, whether it would increase its troops in Zhenjiang. If the rest of the Japanese army had captured Changzhou along the road in the next few days, the Cadet Army would have been encircled. Combining various factors, he, Li Hansoul and others deduced and felt that dividing the army in Danyang was a necessary choice. In this way, even if Changzhou and Jurong are occupied, then the Xuebing Army will be able to calmly retreat to Dayangzhong Island because it has enough strategic depth. There is another reason, once Danyang can be occupied, then it is possible to encircle and annihilate the Tiangu detachment without reinforcements from the Japanese army. After careful consideration, Ouyang Yun decided to personally lead the 3rd and 60th Divisions to attack Zhenjiang, while Li Hansoul led the 5th Division to march into Danyang.
When Ouyang Yun led a large army to meet Liu Kui's vanguard group, it was only about three kilometers away from the east gate of Zhenjiang. Because this position had already entered the range of the artillery of the Tiangu detachment, the first thing Liu Kui and they did when they stopped was to carry out civil engineering operations.
In the hastily dug trench, Ouyang Yun raised his binoculars and looked at the Japanese position, and found a Japanese tank that was much larger than Quirrell, and couldn't help frowning secretly. What he feared most still happened, of course, this is what he once hoped for - to make the Japanese army stronger than that time and space, so as to give the Americans a certain amount of hardship in the later Pacific War. However, after all this really happened as expected, he began to wonder if his decision was really the right one. With China's current strength, can it still withstand the powerful Japanese army? At that time, the Battle of Guangsonghu was fought for more than three months, thus shattering the Japanese army's arrogant idea of "destroying China in three months". Now, the Battle of Songhu has become the Battle of Nanjing, and the battle has only lasted about ten days, and many places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have fallen, and more places are frequently in emergency.
"Commander, how to fight?!" He Zhengchuan, the commander of the Third Division, stood beside Ouyang Yun and asked after he put down the binoculars.
"Haven't they come back yet?" Ouyang Yun didn't answer him, but asked Liu Zheliang instead.
Liu Zheliang shook his head.
Ouyang Yun: "Wait and see, let the troops seize the time to carry out civil engineering operations." The Japanese army was already on guard to prevent them from counter-charging! โ
Ouyang Yun's original plan was to start fighting immediately. However, after seeing that the Japanese had a new type of tank and assumed a defensive posture, he realized that he could not rush it. The Japanese army, which has always preferred to attack, has now gone against the so-called spirit of bushido and adopted passive defense, apparently because of the presence of armored units in the cadet army - did they think of a way to deal with Jiguang-type chariots by putting up this iron bucket formation? If it were me, what would I do? Thinking like this, Ouyang Yun remembered that in the information sent back by the fox pupil, he mentioned the danger of the Japanese army's heavy artillery unit many times, and immediately understood the wonder of this iron bucket array.
"Commander, is this attitude of the Japanese a little strange? Their tanks should all be here, right? If we attack in a different direction, won't their arrangement be in vain? He Zhengchuan said.
Ouyang Yun said: "It's not good to say that. If I were the commander of the Japanese army, I would have concentrated all my forces at the East Gate. The Japanese army occupied Zhenjiang only to attack Nanjing, that is, Zhenjiang was dispensable for them, do you understand what I mean? โ
He Zhengchuan suddenly realized and said, "It seems that our opponent is very shrewd. In this way, if our army only wants to recover Zhenjiang, then they can choose whether to fight or retreat, and if we want to eat them, we have to start fighting from here. โ
"Yes. Wait, we must find out the strength of the Japanese artillery in the city," Ouyang Yun said: "I hope Lao Shan can handle it." "If the number of heavy artillery of the Japanese army is limited, then the armored troops of one or two regiments of the three divisions can be attacked by force; But if the Japanese army had enough heavy artillery, then they had to think of other ways. Because if you attack by force, the gains will definitely outweigh the losses.
Just when Ouyang Yun missed the single male so much, they had already changed into Japanese military uniforms and blended into a group of "fully loaded" devil soldiers.
Originally, they could have gotten these military uniforms earlier, but their group was relatively tall, and the ghost soldiers were generally shorter, so in order not to be seen flaws in their clothing, they were stunned to fight in three places, and then they got their clothes together.
"Assemble, assemble! The people of China are coming! As the assembly whistle sounded, the devil soldiers in Zhenjiang City began to run towards the assembly point of their respective troops, which also gave them the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.
followed a dozen devils to a courtyard about 800 meters away from the east gate - there was a large team headquarters, and the single male did not go in, but found an opportunity to sneak to the back of the courtyard. Then, the others watched the wind and watched, and the single male and Ding Yi, who were the best in light and climbing skills, climbed over the courtyard wall and entered the back garden of the courtyard. The two men hurried through the garden to the back of the house in front of the garden. The two of them peeked into each room one to the left and right, and after a few minutes, Ding Yi saw several devil officers disassembling and sorting out a telegraph in a room on the right, and he immediately beckoned to the single man.
The single tomcat ran over to the back door of the hall where he had entered the house, when suddenly the door opened. He was startled and quickly stood against the wall.
A devil officer with the rank of junior lieutenant walked out, stood up the stone steps at the door, and then began to pee.
The single male sighed in his heart, rolled his eyes, made a gesture towards Ding Yi, and then lowered his head and squatted down, making some noise at the same time.
"Who?" The devil immediately looked over, saw the appearance of a single male, and thought that he was making a big one, and couldn't help but laugh and said: "Yo Xi-" "Yo Xi" just exited, Ding Yi waved his hand one by one, a weak and invisible white light flashed, and the devil Shao Zuo immediately fell to the left.
Solo male and Ding Yi have cooperated for many years, and they have long had a tacit understanding, almost at the same time as the devil Shaozuo spoke, he had already stood up and leaned forward, just catching the other party's soft body. By the way, he directly slashed the other party's neck and put him down, and at the same time quickly glanced into the hall, but did not see a figure, so he quickly covered the door and ran towards Ding Yi again.
Ding Yi's time calculation was very accurate, almost when the single male ran to his side, he slammed his left hand on the window, and then waved his right hand, and the three devil officers in the room were just shocked by the sound and turned their heads to look, and the next moment they all fell to the ground softly.
Ding climbed the window with both hands, and the person had already jumped in. And when the single man straightened up and stretched out his hands, he had already picked up the telegraph and its accessories and threw them over.
The telegraph machine was a little heavy, and the reason why Ding Yi did this was because the shouts of the ghost soldiers had already sounded outside the house, and he asked what was wrong with the people in the house. After running the telegraph to the solo male, he pulled out a smoke bomb in his right hand, opened it and threw it on the ground, and then the whole person flew towards the window.
"Let's go!" The single male let out a low shout, picked up the telegraph and ran.
The two of them ran directly to the back door this time, and when they got there, the single male kicked the door open, and then the two of them ran out, and at this time, the little devil finally realized that something was wrong - the "ping pong" gunshots rang out, but the bullets could only hit the wall or the open space outside the back door.
The operation to steal the telegraph turned out to be surprisingly smooth. And if it weren't for the telegraph machine, I thought that with the ability of a single person to take charge of their squad, they could kill all the devil officers in the headquarters of this brigade.