When the Nanchang section of the Ganjiang River was completely shrouded by the artillery fire of the Xuebing Army, and the explosions were earth-shattering and continuous, Hengshan Yong looked back from the turret of the armored vehicle he was riding on, and couldn't help but feel terrified. To the northeast, hundreds of fighter planes
They were roaring towards the place where the artillery fire was rising. They should be able to capture the Chinese artillery in five minutes at most. Unfortunately, it was a little late. If they could have been ten minutes earlier, then... Yokoyama thought,
Issued an order for the entire army to continue marching south, waiting for the results of the air raid to be announced.
In Jinshanzui Township, 12 kilometers northwest of Yugan County, a regiment of infantrymen from the vanguard of the 112th Division were riding in military trucks and running towards Heshan Township under the cover of an armored vehicle brigade. The vanguard was about five kilometers away.
In the rear, the main force of the division led by Yamada Joji himself, under the patrol escort of the 112th Cavalry Regiment, with an armored vehicle brigade as the vanguard and a tank brigade as the rear, accompanied by two infantry regiments and several logistical equipment units, escorted
The 112th Mountain Artillery Regiment followed aggressively.
After the Battle of Madang, the 11th Division, the 106th Division and the 112th Division, which suffered heavy losses from the Xuebing Army in this battle, were reorganized and all became 33 formations. Among them, except for the 11th Division and the 112th Division,
The 17th Division has strengthened the allocation of tanks and artillery in addition to the 33rd establishment. The total strength of the division has basically remained unchanged. The strength of the 106th Division and the 112th Division has been reduced by a quarter, and the total strength has been reduced by a quarter.
, but there are more tank troops, and because they did not suffer any losses in the previous Battle of Changsha and the ongoing Battle of Nanchang, the 106th Division and the 112th Division have the most uniform strength among the four divisions.
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The nearly 15,000 troops of the 11th Division and the nearly 17,000 troops of the 112th Division drove all the way from Pengze. Naturally, it was impossible to hide it from the eyes of the local Hutong agents. Almost every
In two hours, Qian Guangming in Yugan County and Jiang Tiezhang lurking in Jingdezhen will receive reports from Agent Hutong. As the 112th Division enters Yugan County, the scouts from the Ninth Division will learn
Starting to fall far away, the movements of the Japanese troops were naturally impossible to hide, and Qian Guangming had a firm grasp on them.
The front team of the 112th Division had just arrived at Jinshanzui Township. Qian Guangming received the report in Yugan and was immediately moved. After the 9th Xue Division arrived in Yugan, Qian Guangming left Chen Shaobing's 25th Xue Brigade behind.
After arriving at Yugan, he placed Zhang Cheng's 26th Learning Brigade in the ancient port ten kilometers east of Yugan, and Gu Bing's 27th Learning Brigade in Daxi twelve kilometers south of Yugan.
This arrangement was originally expected that once the Japanese army attacked Yugan, they could rely on the maneuverability of the tank troops to counter-encircle the Japs. However, now, because the 112th Division clearly planned to bypass Yugan and attack in a surprise attack.
Xian County's posture made him want to take the initiative.
The war telegram was sent to Ouyang Yun. At this time, Ouyang Yun was concentrating on the approaching enemy planes. He thought about it for a moment and said to You Xiaolian: "Tell Commander Qian to calm down before they attack."
opportunity.”
Fifteen minutes after the bombardment, the fighter group of the First Air Corps, which Okamura Neiji and Yoshimoto Sadji had placed high hopes on, finally flew to the battlefield. However, at this time, because the troops directly under the 11th Army Headquarters and the 17th Division had already suffered casualties.
Halfway through, Okamura and Yoshimoto looked sad, unable to feel the joy of catching the heavy artillery unit of the cadet army at all.
The shelling continued, and the soldiers' screams shook Okamura's eardrums. The old Japanese was frightened and angry. He looked up at his own fighter planes diving towards the enemy's artillery position, and said bitterly: "Ouyang Yun is really cruel. , Okay, just exchange, I want to see what he can do to fight me after losing the heavy artillery unit."
The commanders of this wave of the First Air Corps are Tokugawa Kenji and Goto Nagakora. Among them, Goto Nagakora is responsible for commanding the bombers of two wings for air raid missions, while Tokugawa Kenji is responsible for commanding the fighters of one wing. provide protection,
As a captain, Tokugawa Kenshi was not qualified to command a wing of fighter jets. However, because he was the younger brother of Tokugawa Kenzo and the only remaining nephew of Yoshitoshi Tokugawa in the First Air Corps, he was treated as a captain. When offered to avenge his brother, Tokugawa Yoshitoshi could not refuse, so he could only use his privileges to make him the commander of this wave of gap cluster fighter wings.
Under the command of Tokugawa Kenji, a group of 12 Type 99B fighter jets roared over the "escape" formation of the Third Academy Division, leaving traces of twenty-four strafing along the way. Several military trucks were hit by enemy planes. Explosion, nearly a hundred students were hit by bullets. At the same time, the tank troops of the third division launched a counterattack. The ninth school brigade of the third division was equipped with a battalion of anti-aircraft tanks. These tanks became the main force of air defense. An enemy plane was hit by an anti-aircraft machine gun and exploded in a mailbox. It was blown to pieces in an instant.
"Ba Ge, it doesn't matter what those infantry are doing, artillery, artillery." Okamura Neji saw this scene and shouted excitedly,
I don’t know if they heard his shouts, but the remaining eleven fighters of that group did not get too entangled with the Third Xue Division. After passing them, they flew towards the artillery position of the Eighth Xue Division, and the remaining The fighters of the two brigades and the two wings did not lower their altitude and assumed a fighting posture.
Okamura breathed a sigh of relief and shouted: "That's it, destroy the enemy's artillery first."
A Type 99B fighter flew almost close to Ouyang Yun's command vehicle and flew towards the artillery position of the Eighth Learning Division. Connor inside couldn't help but lower his head and said: "Oh my God, what are the Japanese doing?"
Ouyang Yun: "Let's do some reconnaissance."
The artillery units of the three brigades of the Eighth Learning Division were spread out very widely. From a bird's-eye view, the artillery positions formed were about one thousand meters long and five to six hundred meters wide. Many Japanese pilots were stunned when they first saw this scene. Surprised and delighted: "Hey, dear, what a large-scale artillery formation, Xixi."
When the eleven enemy planes approached the artillery position of the Eighth Division, they immediately pulled away from the left and right for fear of flying into the dense artillery fire. When they pulled away, one of the Japanese caught a glimpse of the student standing next to the enemy artillery truck below. The soldier's calm eyes made him startled, thinking: The Chinese people are very calm, oh, are they already mentally prepared to be bombed?
After the eleven fighters, Tokugawa Kenji took the fighters of the other two groups to separate to the left and right, leaving behind the menacing bomber cluster of 73 bombers of various types.
Goto Nagakora piloted a Type 97 Land Bomber and was the first one. Because he had just witnessed the tragedy in the Nanchang section of the Ganjiang River, an evil fire was burning in his heart at this time. In fact, it was not just him, but all the Japanese. The pilots all had a raging anger burning in their hearts,
The Nanchang section of the Ganjiang River can be described as hell at this time. Thousands of Japanese soldiers fell in a pool of blood, many of them missing arms and legs, and the miserable screams of the injured gathered together. , just hearing it will give you heart palpitations,
"Gentlemen, let the Chinese bear the wrath of our Imperial Japanese Army." Goto shouted in a hissing voice. Regardless of whether the bombardier behind him heard it, he pushed the lever, lowered the nose of the aircraft, and took the lead in attacking the artillery of the Eighth Division. The position swooped down,
As soon as the Japanese bomber cluster started to dive, Ouyang Yun ordered "stop", then opened the door and walked out.
You Xiaolian and Liu Kui immediately followed. Connor hesitated for a moment and also followed.
The commander-in-chief's command vehicle set an example, and other military trucks and tanks stopped one after another. Bai Liusu in the rear gave the order to stop almost at the same time. Then, a very strange scene appeared. The cadet troops were running wildly just now. Suddenly they all stopped, and they actually took a wait-and-see attitude, as if the artillery three kilometers away was not their own.
Tokugawa Kenshi, who turned the fighter plane around, saw this scene, and his eyes couldn't help but shrink. He suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but press the nose of the plane and dive down again.
The unusual behavior of the Xuebing Army aroused Tokugawa Kensi's vigilance, and he suddenly thought of the military trucks accompanying the Xuebing Army's artillery trucks. The vast number of military trucks were spread wider than the artillery array. The military trucks on the carriages The tall cylinders were so weird that Tokugawa couldn't help but have a bad premonition in his heart, "No, those things are definitely weird." Observing those cylinders again, he found them more and more unusual. Tokugawa Just as he was thinking this, seventy-three bombers dived right in front of him.
Seventy-three bombers lined up in a strict formation and roared down. This was a severe psychological test for the artillerymen of the 8th Xuedi Division who were facing them. Although they knew that they had mysterious weapons to target them, they had never seen anything like this before. The trainees who have excellent weapons performance, but they really don’t dare to entrust their safety to the brothers of the Special Warfare Section.
Qian Guangming's command vehicle was located on the left wing of the artillery formation. Compared with his subordinates facing the enemy aircraft, he felt less pressure. However, when he thought that his gunner was a piece of bait at the moment, he didn't know it. He was also extremely nervous about whether the fishhook wearing this fragrant bait was sharp, and he did not even dare to face the sight of enemy planes dropping bombs.
Qian Guangming was already nervous enough, but Huang Hua, the top commander of the Special Warfare Section, was definitely more nervous than him. His right hand holding the microphone was already covered in sweat, and his forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat. Zhu, he gritted his teeth and resisted the urge to shout "launch" immediately. He squinted his eyes and tried his best to use his brain to calculate the distance between the enemy aircraft group and the optimal airspace.
In the sky, seeing that they were about to fly over the enemy's artillery array, Goto Nagakora also saw the strangeness of those military cards. His reaction was exactly the same as Tokugawa's. Feeling a hint of danger, he exclaimed: "Eight squares , what is that?" Two thoughts were fighting in his mind, one was to continue the bombing, and the other was to temporarily pull away and figure out the situation. However, it was soaring more than a hundred meters every second, how could he change his decision? , gritting his teeth fiercely, Goto shouted to the bombardier behind him: "Get ready to drop the bomb."