Within the Xuebing Army system, Xu Zhi’s First Guerrilla Division was the first to discover Japanese fighter planes.
Since the heavy losses in the landing battle yesterday, Suzuki Chunsong has never launched a large-scale attack. The two sides have formed a confrontation across Xiushui in the Nanjin Kiln area. By this morning, Xu Zhi was discussing military affairs with Fan Yongcai and Shi Hua. , a student soldier came in and reported that a large number of Japanese fighter planes had appeared in the northeast. Xu Zhi naturally thought that the enemy planes were aimed at him, and immediately rushed out of the headquarters and ordered the entire army to enter the air-raid shelter to hide.
However, this wave of about thirty fighter planes did not stay over Nanjin Yao, but flew past them to the southwest. If used properly, more than thirty fighter planes can change the outcome of a medium-sized battle. With a negative ending, Xu Zhi did not dare to be careless and immediately reported to Chu Tiange. Chu Tiange immediately thought of Lion Gate. However, he only received the report that the Japanese plane had appeared in the sky northwest of Lion Gate. ,
This wave of fighters was the result of Neji Okamura asking for help from Shunroku Hata. Then Shunroku Hata asked Tokugawa Yoshitoshi's First Aviation Regiment to reinforce the first wave of aviation of the 33rd Division.
At about 3:30 this morning, when the 33rd Division was pretending to attack Lion Gate, Okamura Neiji was woken up by Yoshimoto Sadiji, "Your Excellency, wake up, there is very important information."
Okamura narrowed his eyes for less than a quarter of an hour. After hearing this, he immediately opened his eyes and sat up and asked: "What is the important information?"
Gibbon: "The sequence of the Nanchang China Army has been obtained." Gibbon looked a little ugly when he said this.
Okamura noticed it and asked: "Yoshimoto, what happened."
Gibbon sighed and said: "Sir, I really didn't expect that our opponent is actually a guerrilla army."
"What..." Okamura's expression immediately changed, and then he cursed angrily and without grace: "Suzuki Harumatsu, stupid donkey, Amanawa Jutaro, idiots, can't they even defeat a mere Chinese guerrilla?" No one in the 11th Army knows better than Okamura what kind of force "guerrillas" are. Okamura once described the guerrillas as "clowns", and the reason why he showed such disdain for the guerrillas was because He once easily wiped out a guerrilla column of the Chongqing government in Anhui. In his opinion, it is too easy to deal with the "guerrillas" who only dare to sneak around. As long as the firepower of the regular troops and the quality of the soldiers are fully utilized, If we adopt a strategy of steady progress and do not give them the opportunity to "sneak and sneak", then it will be impossible for the "guerrillas" to make any more troubles.
There are the 17th Division and the 33rd Division. Although one division has been reestablished recently and the other belongs to the B Division, in any case, they all belong to the regular army of the Empire of Japan. Among them, the 17th Division is even more important. The Army's Standing A Division was one of these two troops, which were armed to the teeth. One of them was actually blocked on the north bank of Xiushui, making it difficult to advance; the other was blocked on the west side of a small mountain ridge with an altitude of only 500 meters. ,,And their opponents turned out to be guerrillas who couldn't even shoot a gun. This was a huge blow to Okamura.
Neither Okamura nor Yoshimoto had ever dealt with the Xuebing Army guerrillas, so it was natural for them to confuse the Chu Tiange Department with other guerrillas they had encountered. If they knew about the Xuebing Army guerrillas, Except for not being equipped with heavy weapons such as cannons and tanks, all other weapons are complete. At this moment, there should be another more exciting expression.
"Your Excellency, I had a discussion with Commander Hata Shunroku. Commander Hata Jun feels that we must seize the time to capture Nanchang and then mobilize the 33rd Division. He is very worried that the Xuebing Army will leave Guangdong and actively enter the Jiangxi battlefield. If that happens, the situation of the 33rd Division will be very dangerous. Your Excellency, the Chinese are using guerrillas to snipe our troops into the Nanchang area from two directions in the northeast. Don't you think their behavior is very suspicious? Nanchang area Surrounded by water on three sides, the terrain is extremely favorable for the Xuebing army to move north. I feel that the Chinese people use guerrillas to snipe our army regardless of casualties. There must be an ulterior military secret hidden behind it. Your Excellency, the Chinese people rely on their ability to cultivate water. Our army's troops heading south in both directions from the northeast were almost blocked. We simply did this. We first helped the 33rd Division to break through the Lion Gate, and then asked the division to bypass Nanchang from the northwest and directly attack the enemies of Nanjin Kiln. .”
The Japanese army wanted to encircle the Xuebing Army from all sides. There were three directions on land: west, north and east. The west was the most difficult, and there was also the east and north. Because behind them were occupied areas, the Japanese army could easily obtain supplies and there was no need to worry. Being counter-surrounded, they can launch attacks unscrupulously, but it is different in the west. The Japanese army must first open up the situation in the Ganzhou area, and then cut into southeastern Hunan and eastern Guangxi from the Ganzhou area, even if the Chinese Xue Yue's Ninth Theater does not intercept , once the Gui Army in Guangxi makes an attack, the Japanese army will 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 Tokyo base camp and the dispatched army headquarters commanded by Shunroku Hata. The worrying thing is that the one responsible for the war in the west is Okamura Neji's 11th Army, and Okamura and Hata Shunroku are extremely at odds.
Okamura and Yoshimoto didn't know that even if Okamura didn't take the initiative to bow his head and apologize to Shunroku Hata last night, the latter would lower his posture and take the initiative to seek peace. Now Okamura bows his head first, which earned Shunroku Hata's enthusiastic response, so later, Not only did the reporter immediately agree to let Tokugawa Yoshitoshi's First Air Corps fully support the 11th Army and obey Okamura's dispatch, but he also exchanged views with Yoshimoto via telegram on the current war situation in the Nanchang area.
Yoshimoto's strategy was derived from his communication with Shunroku Hata. Of course, considering Okamura's ability to accept it, he did not state this clearly.
Okamura has always been worried that the Xuebing Army will take the initiative. Now after listening to Yoshimoto's words, he feels more and more that he should rather believe that he has it or not. At the same time, he also feels that the first step is to get the 33rd Division out of danger and change from passive to active. It was the top priority, so he immediately agreed to Yoshimoto's suggestion and formed a new combat plan. In this combat plan, because of the addition of the First Air Corps, Okamura's resources were much richer. ,
He sent a telegram to the headquarters of the First Air Corps, got in touch with Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, and after confirming the command authority, he began to mobilize troops and generals. I called Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, hoping that he could send a certain number of aviation troops to give the 33rd Division the strongest support.
Then, there was this scene that Xu Zhi, Feng Lanshan, Liu Zheliang and others saw,
A regiment of Japanese aviation troops, led by a regimental commander named Nagakora Goto, rushed to the Lion Gate battlefield, which immediately changed the level of the Lion Gate battle.