In the student army system, the first to discover Japanese fighters was Xu Zhi's first guerrilla division.

Since yesterday's landing, Suzuki has not launched a large-scale attack. The two sides formed a confrontation across the Xiushui in the area of Nanjin Yao, and this morning, Xu Zhi was discussing the military situation with Fan Yongcai and Shi Hua, and some students came in to report that a large number of Japanese fighters had appeared in the northeast. Xu Zhi naturally thought that the enemy plane was coming at him, so he immediately rushed out of the headquarters and ordered the whole army to enter the air-raid shelter to hide.

However, this wave of about 30 fighters did not stop in the sky over Nanjin Yao, but flew past them to the southwest. More than thirty fighters, if used properly, can change the outcome of a medium-sized battle, Xu Zhi did not dare to be careless, and immediately reported to Chu Tiange. Chu Tiange immediately thought of the Lion Gate, however, he had just received a report that the Japanese machine had appeared in the sky northwest of the Lion Gate.

This wave of fighters was the first wave of air forces that Okamura Ninji asked Shunroku Hata for help, and then Shunroku Hata asked Tokugawa Yoshitoshi's 1st Air Regiment to reinforce the 1st Air Force of the 33rd Division.

At about half past three o'clock this morning, when the 33rd Division feinted to attack the Lion Gate, Okamura Ninji was woken up by Yoshimoto Sadaji. "Your Excellency, wake up, very important information!"

Okamura squinted for less than a quarter of an hour, and when he heard this, he immediately opened his eyes and sat up, and asked, "Important information?" Which aspect? ”

Yoshimoto: "The sequence of the Nanchang China Army has been obtained!" Gibbon's face was a little ugly when he said this.

Okamura noticed and asked, "Yoshimoto, what's going on?" ”

Yoshimoto sighed and said, "Your Excellency, I really didn't expect that our opponent would actually be a guerrilla army!" ”

"What?!" Okamura's face immediately changed, and then he scolded indignantly: "Suzuki Harunmatsu! Stupid donkey! Shigetaro Kansaki! A sucker! Can't they even win against the guerrillas of the mere chinas? "The nature of the "guerrillas" was a force that no one in the 11th Army knew better than Okamura. Okamura once described the guerrillas as "clowns who jumped off the beams", and the reason why he showed such disdain for the guerrillas was because he had easily exterminated a guerrilla column of the Chongqing government in Anhui. In his view, it is too simple to deal with the "guerrillas" who only dare to steal chickens and touch dogs; as long as they give full play to the firepower of the regular troops, adopt the strategy of steady advance, and do not give them the opportunity to "steal chickens and touch dogs," then it will be impossible for the "guerrillas" to make any more moths!

The 17th Division and the 33rd Division, although one was rebuilt not long ago, and the other belonged to the B Division, but in any case, they belonged to the regular army of the Japanese Empire, and among them, the 17th Division was a standing division of the Imperial Army. It was these two troops armed to the teeth, one of which was actually blocked on the north bank of Xiushui and difficult to enter; The other was blocked to the west of a small mountain ridge no more than 500 meters above sea level—and their opponent was a guerrilla force that could not even shoot a gun, which was too great a blow to Okamura.

Neither Okamura nor Yoshimoto had ever dealt with the guerrillas of the Scholar Army, so it was natural to confuse the Chutian Song Department with the other guerrilla forces they had encountered. If they knew that the Daoist Soldier Army guerrillas were not equipped with heavy weapons such as cannons and chariots, they would have had a more exciting expression at this moment.

"Your Excellency, I have communicated with Commander Shun Hata 6, and Commander Jun Hata feels that we must seize Nanchang as soon as possible, and then take over the 33rd Division. He was very worried that the Xuebing Army would take the initiative to enter the Jiangxi battlefield in Guangdong--if that really happened, the situation of the 33rd Division would be dangerous--Your Excellency, the people of China used guerrillas to snipe our army into the Nanchang area in two directions in the northeast, don't you think their behavior is very suspicious? The Nanchang area is surrounded by water on three sides, and the terrain is extremely favorable for the Cadet Army to go north, and I think that the Chinese people used guerrillas to snipe our army regardless of casualties, and there must be an ulterior military secret hidden behind it! Your Excellency, the people of China have taken advantage of the danger of repairing the water to intercept the troops of our army in the northeast and south, and we will simply do so. First help the 33rd Division to break through the Lion Gate, and then let the division bypass Nanchang from the northwest and directly attack the enemy at Nanjin Kiln——"

The Japanese army wanted to encircle the student army on all sides, and the three directions of the west, north, and east by land, and the west was the most difficult. The east and the north, because the back are occupied areas, the Japanese army can easily get supplies, and there is no need to worry about being counter-encircled, so they can launch an attack with impunity. It's not the same in the west. The Japanese army first had to open up the situation in the Ganzhou area, and then cut into the southeast of Hunan and the eastern part of Guangxi from the Ganzhou area; even if the Chinese side did not intercept Xue Yue's Ninth Theater, once the Gui army in Guangxi attacked, the Japanese army would be in danger of being surrounded by the Xuebing Army and the Gui Army at any time. Therefore, how to open up the situation in the west has now become the most worrying thing for the Tokyo base camp and the headquarters of the dispatch army under the command of Shunroku Hatata. However, it was Okamura Ninji's 11th Army that was in charge of the war in the west, but Okamura and Shunroku Hata were extremely unfriendly.

Okamura and Yoshimoto don't know what to do, even if Okamura didn't take the initiative to bow his head and apologize to Shun Hata Rokudo last night, the latter would lower his posture and take the initiative to make peace. Now Okamura bowed his head first, which was exchanged for an enthusiastic response from Shunroku Hatata. As a result, the latter not only immediately agreed to let Tokugawa Yoshitoshi's 1st Air Regiment fully support the 11th Army and obey Okamura's dispatch, but also exchanged views with Yoshimoto via telegram on the current battle situation in the Nanchang area.

Yoshimoto's strategy was derived after he communicated with Shunroku Hatata. Of course, given Okamura's receptivity, he didn't say that.

Okamura had always been worried that the Cadet Army would take the initiative to attack, but now listening to Yoshimoto's words, he felt more and more that he should rather believe in what he had than what he didn't, and at the same time, he also felt that it was the most important thing to get the 33rd Division out of danger first and change from passive to active, so he immediately agreed to Yoshimoto's suggestion and formed a new operational plan. And in this operational plan, because of the addition of the First Air Regiment, Okamura's resources are much richer.

He sent a telegram to the headquarters of the First Air Regiment, got in touch with Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, and after confirming the command, he began to dispatch troops, and while sending a telegram to Tataro Gan, asking him to continue the attack on the Lion Gate, he also sent a telegram to Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, hoping that he could send a certain number of aviation troops to give the 33rd Division the most powerful support.

Then, there was this scene that Xu Zhi, Feng Lanshan, Liu Zheliang and others saw - a wing of devil aviation rushed to the Lion Gate battlefield under the leadership of a wing captain named Goto Nagaku, and immediately changed the level of the Lion Gate Battle.