The earth-shattering explosion from five kilometers away shook the ground under the feet of the Japanese troops on the west bank of the Ganjiang River in the Nanchang section. Where did the artillery of the Chinese people hide before? The staff officers of the 11th Army Headquarters and the 17th Division Division were struggling to think, and they searched hard around the map, but they could not come up with a convincing answer.

The shelling lasted about ten minutes, and on the east bank, Connor said to Ouyang Yun: "Don't stop yet, aren't you afraid of the retaliation of the Japanese air force?" ”

Jiang Huangyong: "Don't you want to see 'Missile'?" Without artillery to attract the Japanese aviation, how can we use 'missiles'? ”

"'Missile', do you really want to use 'missile'?"

A quarter of an hour into the shelling, on the west bank, Yoshimoto Sadaji suddenly yelled at Okamura: "No! ”

Okamura was stunned.

Gibbon: "Your Excellency, we must evacuate quickly!" An artillery bombardment of this magnitude will wipe us out! ”

Okamura came to his senses, and was about to say something, when a communications staff officer rushed out of the makeshift tent and shouted at him: "Your Excellency, good news, Commander Tokugawa has called, he has released two wings of air force and one wing of fighters, and they will be able to reach the battlefield in half an hour at the latest. His Excellency Tokugawa asked us to find out the location of the Shina artillery anyway, and it was best to be able to hold it back and not let it leave the battlefield! ”

Okamura stood up and looked up at the sky to the northeast, and suddenly, he shouted: "Pass the order, all troops will immediately attack Nanchang." Yoshimoto, you immediately telegraph to Isamu Yokoyama and ask him to dispatch the chariot unit and immediately pursue it along the trajectory of the shells of the Shina artillery! Tell him not to pay attention to the entanglement of the Nanchang defenders, as long as he can find and bite the artillery of the Zhina, then he will have done a great job. Order the 11th Division, the 112th Division, let them abandon Yugan, the 11th Division directly attack Kangshan Township, and then be sure to control Meixi, Xinsheng, Ruihong, and Dongyuan within half an hour; The 112th Division went to Heshan and Zhongling, and directly attacked Jinxian County! Eight grids, I don't believe it, the artillery of the people of China can go to the sky and the earth! ”

"Hello!"

"By the way, call Tokugawa Yoshitoshi and ask him to send a sufficient number of reconnaissance planes in the direction of Yingtan to closely monitor the enemy in Yingtan!"

"Hello!"

Okamura Ninji seemed to have changed a person in an instant, and the killing was extremely decisive, and the morale of Yoshimoto Sadaji and others was greatly boosted, and their emotions infected the soldiers around them, and soon, the morale of the troops directly under the military headquarters of the 11th Army was boosted.

Artillery is the king of infantry warfare, and this round of artillery attacks by the Cadet Army is too fierce, and Okamura Ninji deduced from the density of artillery fire that its size is at least about one division. A division of artillery, what does this mean? It not only means that the Scholar Army will defend Nanchang to the death, but also at least shows that the main force of the Scholar Army is near Nanchang.

Okamura's inference is well founded. It is true that artillery is strong, but it also has a congenital weakness, that is, compared to other infantry units, the defense is extremely low, and it must not be close to the enemy. Ouyang Yun dared to put a division of artillery on the front of the imperial army, then at least one division must be prepared to provide cover, and with the frontal defense troops that have already appeared, in the Nanchang area, there will be at least three divisions of the Cadet Army-Okamura thought so in his heart, and became more and more convinced that his decision just now was right.

When Yoshimoto was busy giving orders to the various departments, Okamura looked at the officers and soldiers of the brigade who began to assemble and walked towards the Ganjiang River, and thought to himself: "Perhaps, Ouyang Yun is in Nanchang City!" Then, with three wings of fighters providing support from the air, this is an excellent opportunity to defeat Ouyang Yun and shatter his undefeated myth! ”

The shelling on that side had not stopped, but the Japanese on the west bank attacked again. Ouyang Yun saw that dense devils appeared on the bank of the Gan River, and rushed towards the east bank under the cover of several chariots, he smiled coldly and secretly wondered, "Okamura is putting bait?" Well, what if Lao Tzu just eats it? ”

On the opposite bank, about 2,000 kilometers away from the fortifications on the east bank of the Nanchang section guarded by the 3rd Division, more than 50 armored vehicles suddenly rushed onto the embankment, and the next moment they all swooped up onto the river, and then drove towards the east bank at a lightning speed.

Xiang Zhengyong, the brigade commander of the Ninth Brigade and the chief of staff of the Second Division, immediately reported the situation to Bai Tassel and said, "Division, the little devil doesn't want to take a detour to outflank our back road, right?!" ”

Bai Tassel had just given the No. 3 combat order to the whole army before, and when he heard this, he picked up the binoculars and looked at it, and said, "No, you see, there is not a single infantryman." But for the sake of safety, let Deputy Division Commander Xu send Li Menglong's department to snipe. ”

The third division, like the second division, is a one-car and two-step formation, and the difference with the second division is that the tank regiment of the third division is equipped with the Jiguang medium tank "Yangtze Alligator".

Xiang Zhengyong responded, and immediately asked the communications staff officer to call Xu Feng and convey this order to him.

The Japanese launched an all-out offensive, with one company of chariot units directly under the 11th Army and nearly two companies of infantry; The remaining infantry of the 17th Division, half a company of chariot troops, and a company of cavalry, plus a number of logistics troops, launched an attack on Nanchang from the river about six kilometers wide, and immediately forced out all the hidden strength of the Eighth Division. Under the command of hundreds of middle- and low-ranking officers, a borrowed military card that was half-buried in the ground, as well as the camouflage on the body of the armored car and tank, was removed, and then, one after another, the cadets jumped off the military card, and after moving their hands and feet, they ran towards the river a few hundred meters away, and quickly built a defensive line.

The drivers of the military vehicles and the logistics personnel began to be busy with the mechanical conditions, filling the vehicles with water and refueling. In about ten minutes, the tank regiment lurking in Hufang Township completed the warm-up, and under the command of the regiment commander Li Menglong, it attacked the chariot unit led by Yokoyama Yong. At the same time, Fei Lengtie's chariot rumbled out of the pit and began to play the role of a tractor, dragging the military cards.

Okamura, Yoshimoto, and others saw this scene through binoculars and couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

"That's how the people hid their chariot troops?" Yoshimoto said.

"The people of China are actually hiding under our noses?!" Okamura whispered to himself, his eyelids suddenly jumping wildly. He had a gut feeling in his heart that maybe he had jumped into the trap that Ouyang Yun had dug for him. "Yoshimoto, how long has it been since the aviation unit came out?" He asked Sadaji Yoshimoto. At this moment, in his heart, the aviation unit sent by Tokugawa Yoshitoshi has become a savior, and it is the only hope that the 11th Army's Western Route Army can get out of the current predicament.

"It's been a quarter of an hour, and it's estimated that another quarter of an hour will be on the battlefield."

Okamura nodded: "A quarter of an hour, that should be no problem!" ”

A quarter of an hour, only 900 seconds, Okamura glanced at the six-thousand-meter-long front spread out by his side, and his mood was a little more reassured - with his own troops of this size, he didn't believe that Ouyang Yun could inflict heavy damage in 900 seconds. And as long as you survive these 900 seconds, then next, the battlefield dominance is on your side!