It was already night at the Dazhou Fort, but the Japanese on the opposite side never made any further move. Zhang Dali was puzzled and couldn't help but began to suspect that these Japanese were there just to attract their attention, so that they could contain their own strength for the Japanese army in Qiongnannan. , Based on this understanding, Zhang Dali did not panic anymore. Although the Japanese army's move could involve his own troops, they were also implicated by their own troops. Zhang Dali's command style was different from that of a single hero. Ouyang Yun had many things in common. After figuring out this link, he arranged his duties and then took the lead and fell asleep.
Unlike Zhang Dali who was calm, his opponent Arima Masabumi was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot at the moment. After repeated negotiations with Honda Inae to no avail, he couldn't bear it and moved his headquarters to the "Ryuxiang" "Go, but this can't solve the problem. This battle has to continue. He paced back and forth in the captain's room of the "Ryuxiang", taking off his military cap and scratching his head from time to time. After a few hours, he actually The originally thick hair turned into the forest after the wildfire.
The Wanning area actually fell into a long standoff. After the Japanese invaders gained a foothold, they actually stood still. This unconventional combat method made Ouyang Yun very strange. "What are these Japanese soldiers doing?" He couldn't think of the result. , and then after reading Huang Ye’s copy of the decoded enemy telegram, he couldn’t help laughing.
Handing the message to Chen Shichang, he said with a smile on his face: "Grandma, I didn't expect my luck to be so good this time."
This was a bit baffling. Chen Shichang looked confused when he heard it, thinking that he could tell something from deciphering the enemy's telegram. Then, after reading the telegram, he found that the most valuable information in it was the detection of the establishment of the Japanese Marine Corps in Wanning. , he couldn't help but curiously asked: "Commander-in-Chief, what's so good about luck?"
Ouyang Yun had an uncontrollable smile on his face. He pointed to the four words "Osaka Division" and said, "Have you heard of the Osaka Division? This division has a nickname, it's called the 'First Wimpy Division'" ', Hehe, you are lucky to learn from the Five Armies this time."
"'The first useless division'." Chen Shichang was surprised,
Ouyang Yun continued to laugh. He thought of all the legends about the Osaka Division that he had read on the Internet in that time and space. The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. He said: "I was a little worried at first, but now I have to give some advice to the solo hero. , if executed well, maybe we can win this battle at a relatively small cost, well, let the brothers eat in advance, and set off immediately after eating, we will go to Qiongzhong."
Because the Dongshanling headquarters was bombed and he thought the target was exposed, Chen Shichang once actively persuaded Ouyang Yun to go to Qiongzhong. However, now that the fighting in Qiongdongnan has stopped, he feels that it is safer to stay here, so he tactfully expressed his opposition.
The objection was naturally ineffective. After Ouyang Yun called Shan Renxiong, the team started to set off.
At this time, the Changjiang offensive and defensive battle was coming to an end.
After the main force of a regiment of the Japanese army arrived on the battlefield, under Guo Yucheng's strict order, the surviving officers and soldiers of the Changjiang Self-Defense Force escorted hundreds of old, weak, women and children and evacuated Changjiang. At this time, there was only one regular cadet soldier left in the battalion. The platoon, and the battlefield commander also changed from the battalion commander to a deputy company commander. The deputy company commander was standing in front of Guo Yucheng. He saluted Guo Yucheng with some difficulty with his injured right hand and said in a deep voice: "Director Guo, please don't worry. As long as one of us is here, the little devil will never even think about setting foot in Changjiang."
Guo Yucheng saluted all the soldiers left behind, then patted the deputy company commander's left shoulder hard and said: "Brothers, take care."
Outside the west gate of Changjiang, Tomikawa Ishii was complaining to Komuro's immediate superior, Colonel Hiromura Kazuo, about his misdeeds: "Sir, Major Komuro is really outrageous. Our troops are fighting bloody battles with the Chinese here, but what are they doing? , they talked a lot about outflanking and blocking the Chinese people’s retreat, but after such a long time, they never appeared on the battlefield..."
The Komuro Brigade is worthy of being called the "No. 1 useless division in the world". At the beginning, they thought that Changjiang's defense force was weak, so they followed the Ishii Brigade and showed great arrogance. However, as soon as the two sides started fighting, they immediately It happened that the Self-Defense Forces outside the city were defeated by the Japanese aviation force. At the request of his subordinates, Komuro proposed to Ishii that he should outflank the north gate of Changjiang to block the retreat route of the Chinese Army.
The defensive power shown in Changjiang City at the beginning was not very strong. A battalion of regular troops was not deployed all at once. In Ishii's eyes, it would naturally be defeated in seconds.
Regardless of whether Ishii Cheng admits it or not, although Komuro has almost no merits, in terms of judging danger, he is far better than Ishii.
The Komuro Battalion did not want to fight at all, but the Ishii Battalion was eager to gain more military exploits. The two sides hit it off with what they needed, so the Ishii Battalion took charge of frontal offensive operations, while the Komuro Battalion was responsible for outflanking.
At the beginning, because fighter planes provided fire cover from the air, the defenders' firepower was completely suppressed. Therefore, the Ishii brigade's attack went very smoothly. Only a dozen people died before taking the outer position. As the distance between the two sides narrowed, , for fear of causing accidental damage, the Japanese fighter planes flew away from the Changjiang battlefield one after another, and the Changjiang city head and the city were already a sea of fire. The Japanese soldiers of Ishii's brigade had high morale. Under the command of Ishii, one by one The Japanese squadron rushed towards the south gate, and behind them was the main force of the Ishii brigade slowly following.
Ishii walked at the back, surrounded by his adjutants and staff. He held the command knife tightly in his left hand and pointed towards Changjiang Castle with his right hand. He thought over and over in his mind the draft of the telegram he would report to Sawada Shigeru later, and finally thought it would be more courageous to write this: Changjiang, our Ishii brigade took it,
Ishii obviously misjudged the situation, or he was not familiar with the combat methods of the Xuebing Army. When the vanguard squadron was still more than thirty meters away from the south gate, more than a hundred gun barrels poked out from the burning fireworks at the city head. Come on, and then with a loud shout of "beat", the unique gunfire of the anti-bacterial general-purpose machine gun rang out, and the Japanese who were rushing at the front fell down in large pieces.
Only then did the battle officially begin.
Masae, who Ishii originally thought could be taken care of in minutes, suddenly burst out with huge energy. Even though the Japanese air force continued to provide fire support, the firepower at the top of the city showed no sign of weakening due to the continuous addition of self-defense team members.
As the vanguard squadron was almost completely wiped out, and the main force was suppressed about two hundred meters away from the city gate, Ishii finally understood why the Komuro brigade, which had been extremely cowardly during the landing, suddenly became brave, because they They are not really carrying out the so-called outflanking blockade at all. They are escaping from the battle.
While listening to Ishii's confession, Hiromura Kazuo carefully counted the remaining troops of Ishii's brigade. When he found that more than half of Ishii's brigade had been lost, he first comforted Ishii and said that Komuro's brigade would be punished. Then, He asked Ishii to lead the team down to rest, and then called his four captains together.
As soon as Ishii and his men retreated, a captain named Kimuraya asked Hongcun: "Sir, why did you let them go down? Do you want our people to fight on their behalf?"
Hongcun glared at him and said nothing. After several other captains arrived, he said: "Gentlemen, I am very happy that I don't have to go to the infirmary after receiving the combat mission this time. Thank you." , he actually bowed to everyone solemnly, and the reaction of several captains was that they laughed dumbly at first, and then quickly avoided or bowed in return,
There is a source for Hongcun's words. When the Osaka Division was still on the inland battlefield in China, it once received a combat mission. The troops here had not yet set off. The situation came and the infirmaries of each regiment were overcrowded. The Japanese who came to see a doctor and asked for a sick leave note almost broke through the door of the infirmary. Hongcun had just been transferred there at that time. When he saw this, he personally sat in the infirmary, hoping to use his official power to make those guys who were pretending to be sick retreat. , however, there was still an endless stream of patients, and in the end, the departure date of the troops was postponed for three days. When they arrived at the battlefield three days later, the battle was over.
It was only after this incident that Hongcun finally saw the true face of the Osaka Division, and his great ambitions turned into bitterness.
Hongcun waved his hands, waited for them to look at him, and then said: "You have also seen the situation on the battlefield. The Ishii brigade has lost more than half of its troops, and according to the intelligence we have in advance, the Chinese garrison in Changjiang is only one regiment. In other words, there are not many Chinese defenders in Changjiang City now. This is our opportunity. Now that we have arrived at the battlefield, let's fight a good battle and show it to those who laugh at us. Pass on my order, when the troops attack, they must shout more slogans of "hand over guns and don't kill" and "China-Japan goodwill"... Kimura and Changjiang are the first large Chinese cities we attack, and the troops will continue to attack Marching in depth, if the Marines are finished, will you be able to charge at the forefront in the more brutal battles to come?"
Hongcun's words were very sincere. I don't know if they were moved by his sincerity. Several captains discussed the situation seriously and all felt that this was indeed a good opportunity for them to clean up "the most useless division in the world". , As a result, they showed unprecedented sincerity and unity, and unanimously stated that they would resolutely implement the orders of the commander.
The student soldiers who stayed behind in Changjiang City had long been aware of their mortality. Under the command of the deputy company commander named Huang Jiaqing, they collected all the unused bullets of their fallen comrades and shared with each other what was left of them. Cigarettes, quietly waiting for the final moment to arrive,