Chapter 184: Mountains Call Mountains
After nightfall, starting at eight o'clock, Zuo Yusheng began to call "Dashan" every five minutes: "'Mountain' calls 'Dashan', and 'Shanling' calls 'Dashan'......"
At half past eight, Maili finally responded: "'Mountain' received, 'Mountain' received, 'Mountain', please report the location, over."
Zuo Yusheng called Ouyang Yun and his party. After confirming that the Combined Fleet had sailed out of Taiwan waters and began to return to the Nagasaki Naval Base, Ouyang Yun's fears that the old devil Yamamoto would kill the horse pistol finally disappeared, and he immediately began to deal with the Osaka Division. The plan was drawn up a long time ago, but the difference was that because of the withdrawal of the Combined Fleet, there was no need to continue many links in the middle. Ouyang Yun took more than 200 elites selected from the Niangzi Yunwei Regiment and the Guangzhou Garrison and the Unity Brigade to take a step forward and set off towards Changjiang City, while behind them, Chen Shichang, who was worried about their safety, followed from a distance with the elite soldiers who were also from these three units to prevent accidents.
At about eight o'clock, not long after the darkness fell, the camps of the Japanese army were still a busy scene. Simply putting aside the combat ability, the Osaka Division, as a first-class division, is still commendable in other aspects. Influenced by the habits of businessmen that they have witnessed since childhood, it is true that they are more clever, more timid and afraid of death than the devils of other troops, but because businessmen were a despised ethnic group in Japanese society at that time and even before, the officers and men of the Osaka Division, who came from relatively humble backgrounds, were absolutely not bad at enduring hardships and standing hard work. And this ability is reflected in the military, creating the Osaka Division's well-known engineer level.
With the withdrawal of the Combined Fleet, even though the Osaka Division, from the division commander to the ordinary soldiers, had the concept of "common prosperity" of peaceful coexistence in their hearts, considering the nature of the war, and the fact that they were afraid of all the units of the Imperial Army, they had to consider how to save their lives from the perspective of reality after losing the Marines. Under such circumstances, for the first time, they responded to the call of the division commander Shigeru Sawada so enthusiastically and began to build fortifications on a large scale. As a result, in the eyes of the scouts of the Cadet Army, one after another unformed turtle shells began to stand along the Nanchang River in Qiongxi. Of course, this will increase the difficulty of the Cadet Army's attack, but on the other hand, it will make this operation planned by Ouyang Yun twice the result with half the effort.
It was dark, and almost all the devil patrols shrank into the camp, and several reconnaissance teams responsible for opening the way fanned out a distance of about a thousand meters on the path of the mixed team led by Ouyang Yun, and they were stunned that they did not find a patrol team of little devils. The road was almost unimpeded, and half an hour later, Ouyang Yun and his party met Bian Jingdao and the three of them. After listening to Bian Jingdao's report, he learned that Li Senran and Sawada Chunshan had entered Changjiang safely, and that there had been no abnormal signal from the members of the Unity Brigade lurking in Changjiang City so far, so Ouyang Yun decided to act according to the original plan.
Bian Jingdao made a special mention of the ragged devils and the sniper rifle in the hand of the man named Fujino. And he expressed his speculation, he suspected that there were other devil forces in the Osaka Division, and this force would hinder this operation.
In this regard, Ouyang Yun disagreed. He said lightly to Bian Jingdao: "Look at our team members, whether male or female, which one is not the master who can be one of ten?" Hmph, don't say that our opponent is just a bunch of traders, the so-called 'elite of the imperial army', with our two hundred people, we can definitely kill one in and out of Changjiang City. ”
The commander-in-chief was full of confidence, and this plan was formulated by him personally, Bian Jingdao thought about it seriously, and felt that his words were indeed very reasonable, so he didn't take it too seriously.
Regardless of the combat effectiveness of the Osaka Division, Shigeru Sawada, a high-achieving student who graduated from the Japanese Army Military Academy, has a decent command ability and is even very distinctive. Although the construction of the fortifications of the Osaka Division had only just begun, the overall defensive layout that was beginning to take shape was able to highlight its military attainments. As soon as the connoisseur stretched out his hand, he knew if there was any, although because of the quality of the troops, these defensive arrangements did not hinder Ouyang Yun's plan, but after gaining insight into his overall defense plan, Ouyang Yun still secretly gave Sawada Shigeru a thumbs up, and said in his heart: He is worthy of being a senior general from the official to the deputy chief of staff of the Japanese military department, and Sawada still has goods in his stomach. It's a pity that the Osaka division is too uncompetitive.
Around Changjiang, Sawada Shigeru decomposed the defense in detail to the level of a brigade. To the southeast, there was a brigade each in Jishi and Yaying, and at the east gate, a brigade was also stationed; To the northeast, there is one brigade each in the Kapok Reservoir and Jiuqi Village, and one brigade at the North Gate; In the southwest and northwest directions, the two lines are staggered with a total of one brigade.
Sawada Shigeru deployed most of his troops on the periphery of Changjiang, especially in the northwest and southwest directions, and it was precisely because he fully considered the characteristics of the Osaka Division and wanted to hold the retreat route to the death in order to wait for possible reinforcements, thus leaving a path of hope in the hearts of the officers and men of the Osaka Division. In this case, even if the Cadet Army launched an attack now, the Osaka Division would not collapse at the touch of a button. Of course, with Ouyang Yun's understanding, Sawada Shigeru is better than nothing. Hainan is no more than Guangdong and Fujian, and its special geographical location determines that even if the Japanese army really has reinforcements, the speed of arrival will not be too fast. After all, the sea route was much more difficult to travel than the land route, and besides, the Osaka Division had just received frequent successes, and they needed a process to get the base camp to slowly accept their notion of failure. If Sawada Shigeru asks for help from the base camp now, it will backfire. Of course, the nature of the Osaka Division determines that they will definitely take this step in the end, and this is one of the reasons why Ouyang Yun is in a hurry to solve the Osaka Division.
Before passing through the Japanese garrison in Yaying Village, Ouyang Yun asked Chen Shichang to lead the main force to lurk and stand guard by the pond in Jishi, and then led the officers and soldiers of the headquarters to change into the devil military uniforms they carried, and pulled Seiichiro Kuroda to the front of the team, and then marched towards Yaying Village with a big grin.
Today's encounter is undoubtedly a nightmare for Seiichiro Kuroda. As the head of the newly established affairs department of the division and regiment, he was preparing to show his skills with a large amount of supplies, however, the head of "Lang Yun" and his subordinates, who had a friendly face yesterday, suddenly changed their faces. As a result, more than 300 devils, including Kuroda, were disarmed by more than 200 students in a daze before they could even complete the action of raising their guns.
Kuroda didn't have the consciousness of being a prisoner at first, and he shouted, "Lang Yuntouren, what do you mean by this? Do you treat your friends like this? ”
Ouyang Yun naturally ignored him, and when the real Lang Yuntou respectfully walked in front of Ouyang Yun, and saluted a military salute that was very unsatisfactory in Kuroda's opinion, and called out his true identity, Kuroda was dumbfounded.