Tangshan Town, the 56th Regiment Headquarters of the Japanese Army.

"Your Excellency, Captain, I am reporting to Your Excellency, Captain! The Third Battalion is being attacked by the absolute main force of the China Army, please support! Please support!" Ono Shiichiro, the staff officer on duty, ran to the Captain's Ferry after receiving the distress telegram from the Third Battalion.

People around him reported that his younger brother Shisaburo Ono served in the Third Battalion, and no one knew about his urgency at this time.

As a member of the young group of the Japanese army, Watanabe is also very young, he is only 39 years old!

Different from the officials of the Tongtong faction, most of the members of the Huangdao faction and the Young Zhuang faction are young officers from the middle and lower levels of the field troops, and only some are senior officials from the base camp. Even after 1936, the Tongtong faction has been completely crushed at the top.

Although the Imperial Dao Faction and the Young Zhuang Faction were eliminated, the Young Zhuang Faction and the Imperial Dao Faction still accounted for the majority of the strength in the field troops.

Watanabe had a very sound sleep tonight, but the request for help from the Third Battalion made him wake up immediately because he heard the words "absolute main force".

The absolute main force? It proves that there must be at least one division of the Chinese army's elite troops to break through here!

If this division breaks through and escapes from here, it will most likely pose a huge threat to the flanks and rear of the main force of the 18th Division stationed in Wuhu, so he feels that the bud must be nipped in the cradle.

So the thin Watanabei immediately climbed down from the hammock and said: "Order the First Battalion to immediately support the Third Battalion! In addition, report this battle report to the Division Commander immediately!"

"Hai!" After receiving the instructions from the wing leader, Shiichiro Ono, the staff officer on duty, immediately ran to the phone and picked up the phone: "Moxi Moxi, this is the wing headquarters. Get me to the first brigade headquarters immediately.

phone number!"

The staff officer on duty chose to execute the reinforcement order first. The reason was that Shiichiro Ono wanted to save his younger brother. After this period of fighting, he also knew that these elite Chinese Central Army troops were not the Northeast Army and Northwest Army with extremely poor equipment.

The motley army can be compared.

Since Nagano Makoto, the captain of the Third Battalion, can send this telegram, it means that the situation of the Third Battalion must be critical at this time. If other pursuit forces cannot catch up, that is a matter of the overall situation. How to save the Third Battalion is the first priority.

Task!

The troops that have already invaded Nanjing City include the Sixth Division, the Ninth Division, and the main force of the Thirteenth Division. The main force of the Sixteenth Division is also on the Wulong Mountain front line. Shiichiro Ono knows that for

For the main force of the nearly 100,000-strong Japanese army, a mere Chinese elite division was nothing, but for the third group, it was a disaster.

After the call was connected, Ono Shiichiro immediately said to the other end of the phone: "Moxi Moxi, I am Ono Shiichiro, the combat staff of the wing headquarters. After receiving the order from the wing captain, the first brigade headquarters immediately rushed to support Chunhua.

The third brigade of the town!”

"Hai!" The person on the other end of the phone responded and then hung up the phone.

After finishing this important matter, Shiichiro Ono ran to the communication radio station and asked the communication soldiers to immediately report the battle report from the third brigade to the division headquarters...

Zhang Tianhai, who was far away in Chunhua Town, didn't know that his series of breakout operations had already begun to trigger a chain reaction. He was like that little butterfly trying to flap its wings in Babylon, but he didn't expect that he was about to flap its wings.

Start a storm!

Wuhu.

It took the main force of the 18th Division three full days to capture this city. After capturing this city, the 18th Division could rely on the city of Wuhu as an opportunity to block reinforcements from the Chinese army.

It was precisely because Wuhu was so important in the Battle of Nanjing that Ushijima Sadao set up the division headquarters outside the city. Although Wuhu had been smashed to pieces by the Japanese artillery fire, it was still better than those bunkers in the wild.

There’s no place for that, right?

Like the division headquarters of the 13th Division, the division headquarters of the 18th Division was also temporarily set up in a tent. However, the division commander, Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadao, was not sleeping at this time. He had just wanted to

Even though I was sleeping, I was refreshed by the telegram sent by Lieutenant General Ogisu Tatehei, the commander of the 13th Division.

A regiment of his 18th Division is stationed in the direction of Tangshan Town in Chunhua Town. Although this regiment is relatively complete in terms of organization, there is only one regiment after all, and it is stationed scattered. Once it is surrounded, it will be eaten by the enemy.

The loss may be huge.

No, Ushijima Sadao is standing in front of the huge military map of Nanjing, studying the war trends.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the current situation of our army in the direction of Nanjing can be said to be excellent. Yesterday during the day, our army had broken through Zijin Mountain, Yuhuatai and other places. Now the Sixth Division and the Tenth Division have entered the city.

The Third Division and the Ninth Division are still deployed along the line from Zijin Mountain to Chengdun. The Sixteenth Division is also launching a fierce attack on the Wulong Mountain Fortress controlled by the China Army. I believe that tomorrow morning, our army will be able to control Nanjing across the board.

It's over." Yamamoto, chief of staff of the 18th Division, held a baton and once again summarized the battle situation to the division commander Ushijima Sadao.

After all, the commander of the Ushidao Division has been focusing on the Wuhu direction for the past two days. He is also aware of the movements in the Nanjing direction, but he has not studied it carefully.

"Yamamoto-kun, according to your analysis, how large a force will this breakout China Army be?" Ushijima Sadao looked at Yamamoto and asked.

Yamamoto thought for a while and said: "Your Excellency, Division Commander, according to the information we have learned, most of Chiang Kai-shek's troops fighting in Nanjing used divisions as combat units. Wow, there are also several units of the Israeli army.

level as a command unit. Therefore, the breakout force is most likely to use division level as a combat unit to break through. However, considering that the China Army suffered a lot of casualties in the Battle of Nanjing, in short, this force is unlikely to be more than one division.

.At most it’s like this in a brigade.”

"Souga, wow, wow, we should strengthen the defense of Chunhua Town. We can ask the 56th Regiment to send an additional brigade to Chunhua Town. In this way, we can ensure that when the China Army breaks through, it will be absolutely guaranteed.

Chunhua Town is safe." Ushijima Sadao said with a serious face, obviously, this was his decision.

Just as Ushijima Sadao finished speaking, a staff officer on duty ran over, stood at attention and saluted: "Your Excellency, the commander of the division, Captain Watanabe Iya of the 56th Regiment is reporting an urgent battle, stationed in Chunhua Town.

The troops are being attacked by the absolute main force of the China Army, and the defenders have suffered heavy casualties! Makoto Nagano, the commander of the third battalion of the regiment, has sent a battle report to the regiment that the entire jade will be shattered. In addition, the 56th regiment has sent additional troops

A brigade has gone to support Chunhua Town!"

After hearing the news, Ushijima Sadao and Yamamoto immediately looked at each other, and they could see the shock in each other's eyes.

"Absolutely the main force, then the strength of this army must be more than one division. No, we absolutely cannot let this China army escape from the encirclement!" Ushijima Sadao muttered to himself, but he made a decision: "Order,

The entire 56th Regiment immediately rushed to reinforce the defenders of Chunhua Town. At the same time, the commander of the 13th Division, Lieutenant General Ogisu Tatehei, was notified of the situation and asked him to immediately send troops to attack China.

The army is pursuing the pursuit. Also, report this situation to the front army headquarters immediately!"

"Hai!" All the officers in the headquarters of the 18th Division responded in unison.

Following Ushijima Sadao's order, the coordinated operations of the 18th Division and the 13th Division have gradually begun. Although the 18th Division has only one under-strength regiment in the direction of Chunhua Town,

But there are still more than 2,400 people, right? Even if Chunhua Town is lost and the entire Third Brigade is shattered, there are still more than a thousand people, right?

Again, don’t use bean bags as solid food...

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PS: The update is here, the update is finally on time. Wow~
Chapter completed!