One hundred and ninety-eighth chapters fight against each other
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. Infected by this, many Japanese soldiers trembled all over and felt a huge sense of panic in their hearts. "What happened to the Chinese artillery before?" Where is it hidden?" The staff officers of the 11th Army Headquarters and the 17th Division Division Headquarters were thinking hard. They searched hard around the map, but could not come up with a convincing answer.
The bombardment lasted for about ten minutes. On the east bank, Connor said to Ouyang Yun: "If we don't stop, aren't we afraid of retaliation from the Japanese air force?"
Jiang Huangyong: "Don't you want to see 'missiles'? Without artillery to attract the Japanese aviation force, how can we use 'missiles'?"
"'Missile', do you really want to use 'missile'?"
A quarter of an hour into the bombardment, on the west bank, Yoshimoto Sadji suddenly yelled at Okamura: "That's not right."
Okamura was stunned,
Gibbon: "Your Excellency, we must evacuate immediately. Such a large-scale shelling will cause us to suffer disaster."
Okamura came to his senses, and just as he was about to say something, a communications staff officer rushed out of the temporary tent and shouted to him: "Your Excellency, good news, Commander Tokugawa has called. He has already released two regiments. The fighter jets of an aviation wing will be able to arrive on the battlefield in half an hour at the latest. Lord Tokugawa asked us to find out the location of the China artillery no matter what, and it is best to be able to hold it back and prevent it from leaving the battlefield."
Okamura stood up and looked up at the sky in the northeast. Suddenly, he shouted loudly: "Send the order, all troops will immediately launch an attack on Nanchang. Yoshimoto, you immediately telegraph Yokoyama Isamu and ask him to dispatch chariot troops and immediately move along China. The flight trajectory of the artillery shells chased him, telling him to ignore the entanglement of the Nanchang defenders. As long as he could find and bite the Chinese artillery, it would be a great achievement. He ordered the 11th Division and the 112th Division to let them give up. Yu Qian, the 11th Division directly attacked Kangshan Township, and then must control Meixi, Xinsheng, Ruihong, and Dongyuan within half an hour; the 112th Division took Heshan and Zhongling, directly attacked Jinxian County, and eight Ge, I don’t believe it, the Chinese artillery can go up to the sky and into the earth.”
"Hai."
"By the way, call Totoshi Tokugawa and ask him to send a sufficient number of reconnaissance planes to the direction of Yingtan to closely monitor the enemy in Shangrao, Yingtan."
"Hai."
Okamura Neiji seemed to be a different person in an instant, and he was extremely decisive in killing. Yoshimoto Sadji and others were infected and their morale was greatly boosted. Their emotions infected the soldiers around them. Soon, the soldiers of the troops directly under the 11th Army Headquarters Morale was boosted,
Artillery is the king of infantry warfare. This round of artillery attack by the Xuebing Army was too fierce. Okamura Neiji deduced from the density of artillery fire that its size was at least about one division. What does the artillery of one division mean? , not only means that the Xuebing Army must defend Nanchang to the death, but it also at least shows that the main force of the Xuebing Army is near Nanchang.
There is sufficient basis for Okamura's inference. It is true that artillery is powerful, but it also has inherent weaknesses. That is, compared with other infantry units, its defense power is extremely low and it cannot be approached by the enemy. Ouyang Yun dares to attack an enemy. The division's artillery is placed in front of the imperial army, so at least one division must be prepared to provide cover, and coupled with the frontal defense troops that have already appeared, the student army will have at least three divisions in the Nanchang area, Okamura thought so As I thought about it, I became more and more convinced that my decision just now was right.
While Yoshimoto was busy delivering orders to various ministries, Okamura looked at the brigade of officers and soldiers who began to assemble and walked towards Ganjiang River, and thought to himself: "Maybe Ouyang Yun is in Nanchang City, so there are three regiments of fighters. Providing support from the air is an excellent opportunity to defeat Ouyang Yun and shatter his undefeated myth."
The shelling over there had not stopped, but the Japanese troops on the west bank launched another attack. Ouyang Yun saw densely packed Japs appearing on the bank of Ganjiang River, and rushing toward the east bank under the cover of several tanks. He smiled coldly and thought to himself Said: "Okamura is putting out bait, okay, so what if I just eat it."
About two kilometers away from the east bank defenses of the Nanchang section held by the Third Xuexi Division, more than fifty armored vehicles suddenly rushed onto the river embankment. The next moment they all swooped onto the river surface, and then headed eastward like lightning. Go to the shore,
Xiang Zhengyong, the brigade commander of the 9th Xue Brigade and the chief of staff of the 2nd Division, immediately reported the situation to Bai Liusu and said: "Master, the little devil is not trying to take a detour to outflank our retreat, right?"
Bai Liusu had just issued the No. 3 combat order to the entire army. Hearing this, he picked up the telescope and looked at it, and said: "It doesn't look like it. Look, there is not a single infantryman. But to be on the safe side, I asked Deputy Commander Xu to send Li Menglong's troops to sniper Just give it a try."
The Third Xue Division, like the Second Xue Division, is organized with one vehicle and two steps. However, the difference from the Second Division is that the tank regiment of the Third Xue Division is equipped with the Jiguang medium tank "Yangzi Alligator".
Xiang Zhengyong responded and immediately asked the communications staff to call Xu Feng and convey the order to him.
The Japanese army launched a full-scale offensive. The 11th Army directly had one regiment of tanks and nearly two regiments of infantry. The remaining 17th Division had nearly two regiments of infantry and half a regiment of tanks. The army, a regiment of cavalry and a number of logistics troops launched an attack on Nanchang from the river about six kilometers wide, immediately forcing out all the hidden strength of the Eighth Learning Division. In the presence of hundreds of middle and low-level officers Under his command, a military truck that was half buried in the ground, an armored vehicle, and a tank were stripped of their camouflage. Then, groups of cadets jumped off the military trucks, and they moved around. After taking action, he ran towards the river a few hundred meters away and quickly built a defense line.
The drivers and logistics personnel of the military vehicles began to work on the mechanical conditions, adding water and fuel to the vehicles. In about ten minutes, the tank regiment lurking in Hufang Township completed the warm-up. Under the command of regiment leader Li Menglong, Hengshan Yong led the tank troops to attack, and at the same time, Fei Lengtie's tank rumbled out of the hiding hole, and began to play the role of a tow truck, dragging the military trucks.
Okamura, Yoshimoto and others saw this scene through the telescope and couldn't help but be stunned.
"This is how the Chinese hide their tank troops," said Gibbon,
"The Chinese are actually hiding under our noses," Okamura whispered to himself, his eyelids suddenly jumped wildly, and he had an intuition in his heart that he might have jumped into the trap Ouyang Yun dug for him. "Yoshimoto, how long has the aviation force been out?" He asked Yoshimoto Sadji. At this moment, in his mind, the aviation force sent by Tokugawa Yoshitoshi had become the savior, and it was the 11th Army's Western Route Army that could get out of the current difficulties. The only hope for the bureau,
"A quarter of an hour has passed. It will take another quarter of an hour to reach the battlefield."
Okamura nodded: "A quarter of an hour, that shouldn't be a problem."
A quarter of an hour was only 900 seconds. Okamura glanced at his six-kilometer-long battle line and felt a little more confident. He didn't believe that Ouyang Yun could give a force of this size within 900 seconds. Severe damage, and as long as you survive these 900 seconds, then the dominance of the battlefield will be on your side.