Chapter 231: Boiled Duck

Not to mention how Ouyang Yun said at the private banquet that the merchant wolf was the first bird to buy the four northern islands of Japan that did not have a word, and moved his eyes to the front line of Xiaojiang Town.

Last night, the 10th Division and the 2nd Fujian Guard Division stopped the attack and withdrew to Cangnan City, and the besieged devils got a chance to breathe, and then, something unexpected happened to Jiang Guangnai, Liu Yuqing, Matsui Shigen and others. In order to compete for the tools to cross the river for a glimmer of life, the Japanese army actually had internal strife. Except for those who fled the position without authorization, the remaining more than 9,000 devils were actually divided into three parts according to their camp.

The devils of the Japanese army stranded on the west bank of the Ao River, the highest rank was the commander of the three major general brigades. They are Major General Seiichi Aoki, commander of the 18th Infantry Brigade under the 9th Division, Major General Masayoshi Inoue, commander of the 36th Infantry Brigade under the 6th Division, and Major General Yuhei Otani, commander of the 5th Independent Tank Brigade directly under the Front Army. Among the three major general brigade commanders, the 18th Infantry Brigade of Aoki Seiichi suffered the fewest casualties, and the 9th Division had the largest number of troops in the army, so he naturally asked for the supreme command of the West Bank forces. Originally, there was nothing wrong with Aoki Seiichi doing this. The officers and soldiers of the 6th Division led by Inoue Masayoshi were only more than 1,000 people, and although he later collected more than 1,000 defeated troops one after another, it was still too thin compared to Aoki's troops. Moreover, because the devils unanimously believed that they had fallen to this point because they were dragged down by the 6th Division, they all rejected Inoue, so they didn't look at Inoue as a major general, but they had almost no right to speak. As for Otani, his descendants were only one tank and two armored vehicles, and the reason why he was able to stand on his own was that the other units of the Front Army stranded on the West Bank were leaderless and could only be attached to him. Inoue and Otani were far inferior to Aoki in terms of strength combined, and it seemed logical for Aoki to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Japanese forces on the west bank. However, because there was a fight when they were fighting for the beams, door panels and other tools to cross the river, and Aoki indiscriminately favored the 9th Division after receiving the report from his subordinates, and did not give Inoue and Ohtani face at all, so the contradiction inevitably arose. More than 100 devils were killed and injured in a three-way battle, and it is unrealistic to stay in one nest again. The 6th Division, the 9th Division, and the troops of the Front Army parted ways, forming three camps, regardless of those devils who broke through in other directions without authorization. The three Japanese troops each occupied a section of the river embankment, built defensive positions, and built simple means of crossing the river such as rafts, and the west bank of the Ao River was lively all night.

All the measures of the Japanese army were under the supervision of the scouts of the Cadet Corps. The Japanese army was so noisy, which made Liu Yuqing and Pang Deya use a lot of brains. At about four o'clock in the morning, under their command, the combined troops of the 10th Division and the 2nd Fujian Guard Division drove out of Cangnan and killed Xiaojiang Town again. Half an hour later, Wang Hai's 1st Air Division also dispatched again, and was the first to rush to the battlefield in the dawn of dawn.

After the siege and annihilation battle last night, Liu Yuqing and Pang Deya communicated with Wang Hai, and they were not worried about the Japanese army escaping at night. Because the Ao River at night is a moat, if the Japanese army wants to fire flares to illuminate and forcibly cross the river with rudimentary tools, then as long as the artillery is dispatched to strike, it is enough to make the devil unable to eat and walk around. They were worried that the Japanese army would have reinforcements from the Ningbo area. Because of the existence of the Ao River, the devils on the west bank are boiled ducks, and there is absolutely no reason to let them go, but how can they be eaten completely as soon as possible to avoid having more dreams at night? After discussing on the phone, the three assigned combat missions and handed over the task of interception to the guerrilla units of the 1st Air Division and Tian Wenfeng.

In order to better complete the interception mission and completely smash the Japanese army's escape attempt, Wang Hai organized all the fighters and pilots who could fly, and then made up a three-wave attack sequence - six to eight white-sided dolphins in each wave, plus three or four other fighters. They will cooperate with Tian Wenfeng's guerrillas and be responsible for intercepting the devil reinforcements and attacking the devils who forcibly crossed the river.

The guerrillas led by Tian Wenfeng were ambushed during a sneak attack on Rui'an Ximen, and the loss of a guerrilla column was a heavy blow to the morale of the Southern Fujian Scholar Army, and also made Liu Yuqing and others become more and more cautious. They lowered their expectations of the guerrilla forces, and the role of the 1st Air Force Division became relatively important.

It was expected that the devils would start to cross the river after dawn, and sure enough, the east dawned, and the devils began to forcibly cross the river. The First Air Division appeared in the sky over the Ao River in time, and then, something surprised Wang Hai appeared. It is not surprising that the Japanese army crossed the river in three sections. However, the section of the river crossing chosen by one of them was actually close to the sea, which was beyond his expectations.

This section of the river called Lion's Mouth seems to be extremely wide and difficult to cross with many whirlpools, but in fact it is the most convenient place to cross the entire Ao River section. Why does this happen? It turned out that as early as the early summer of last year, Xu Yong, the former magistrate of Cangnan County, had set up plum blossom pile barriers with pine and boulders in order to prevent Japanese ships from entering the harbor from here.

The troops who were forced to cross the river from here were troops directly under the Front Army led by Yuto Otani. At first, Otani did not realize the benefits of crossing the river from now on. In yesterday's battle, many devils and war horses were killed or drowned in the river, and after going straight downstream, some were stuck by plum blossom piles, and became floating corpses. These devils and war horses were soaked overnight, and their corpses were swollen and looked particularly hideous, but in the eyes of Otani Xiongbing, they were so amiable. He didn't realize at first that it was the plum blossom piles that were causing trouble, and thought that "the corpse is stranded, and the water here must be very shallow", but when he received a report from his subordinates that he was told that the floating corpse was blocked by some hidden piles made of pine wood and boulders, he was overjoyed, and immediately invested more manpower to let them try to use these hidden piles to build a pontoon bridge.

Wang Hai condescendingly saw many devils lying on the beams of the house or the simple raft made of wooden planks to go up and down the river to clean up those floating corpses, one by one frightened, he said to himself: "The dog knows that he is afraid!" Then, seeing that the devil behind him began to try to fix the plank to the plum blossom stake, he smiled coldly and said that then wait until you have built the pontoon bridge before bombing. The order was given to take the lead in attacking the two river crossing points located upstream, and then the calculated firing parameters were sent to the ground forces to direct them to carry out accurate artillery strikes.

There was still only one battalion of the 2nd Special Artillery Brigade that took part in the battle, but the number of rockets carried was several times higher than yesterday. The cannon rumbled, and one fireball after another screamed and smashed on the defensive positions that the Japanese army had spent several hours building, and the explosions rang out one after another, and the mushroom cloud instantly shrouded the sky over the Japanese position, and five minutes later, the three defensive positions that more than 10,000 devils had worked so hard to build were razed to the ground. Then, no matter how much Aoki Seiichi and Inoue Masayoshi and Otani Yubei cheered and cheered, the Japanese army was defeated like a mountain, and a panicked rout occurred.

"Eight squares! Hold on! Hold on, everyone still has a way to live, if you continue like this, you don't know how to die! Inoue Masayoshi shouted at the devil who fled past him, but received no response. The devils of the 6th Division had long been bombarded by the artillery of the Cadet Army, and now they were taken by the momentum of the "thunderbolt fire", and they completely lost their temper.

"Your Excellency, withdraw!" Inoue's adjutant shouted at him. He and several staff officers held on to a wooden beam about five meters long to prevent it from being snatched by others.

"Run!" Inoue didn't know what to think of, and suddenly burst into tears. After saying this, he suddenly drew his command knife, and before the adjutant could react, he stabbed it in the abdomen and slashed it fiercely. Convulsed and falling to the ground, he said to the adjutant who was shouting "Your Excellency" with a frightened face, "Cut off my head and bring it home-" Before he finished speaking, his head tilted and froze still.

"Your Excellency!" The adjutant knelt on the ground and screamed, then wiped his tears fiercely, pulled out his saber and closed his eyes, and was about to chop it down with a knife - there was a loud "boom", and a mushroom cloud enveloped him and Inoue and the others, and in the end, he still failed to complete Inoue's entrustment.

The Japanese army was really frightened by the artillery bombardment of the cadet army. The devils who are accustomed to bullying the Chinese army with artillery fire are also not good under the artillery fire, and the dignity of the so-called imperial army is no different from the plaster flag torn apart by artillery fire under the destruction of the artillery fire of the student army. Aoki Seiichi and Otani Yubei were still brandishing their command knives at first, but soon, they lost the courage to continue fighting, and they were put on a simple raft by their subordinates and began their journey to death.

For the cadets of the 10th Division and the 2nd Fujian Guard Division, the battle in the second year of junior high school was much simpler than in the first year of junior high school. Liu Yuqing, Pang Deya, and Wang Hai imagined that the Japanese army's dying struggle and crazy counterattack did not happen. Under the cover of artillery fire, the cadets lined up in a skirmish line and rushed towards the three river crossings, and what they saw the most was actually the back of the devil.

Wang Hai originally thought that they would not have much success in this battle. However, the fact is that at the end of the battle, the river on the west bank of the Ao River was full of devil heads, and seven or eight out of ten of them were completely dying and struggling in the water.

The fierce battle lasted for six hours, from early morning to afternoon. At about ten o'clock in the morning, Matsui Ishine received a report from Otani Yubing, hearing that the stranded troops on the west bank had been defeated in a vulnerable attack, and the old devil sighed heavily, and did not dare to wait for the good news from Qiane Ichiro any longer, and ordered a retreat. As soon as they withdrew, Tian Wenfeng's guerrilla troops had no worries and threw themselves into the sniper war against the devils who crossed the river, completely blocking the way for these devils to flee eastward.