The death of Yoshihashi Ryosuke made the already frightened 9th Division headquarters staff panic. Everyone had their own opinions, and the headquarters was in chaos.
Xiao Yi had gathered all the team members together at this moment. They disguised themselves as a group of Japanese soldiers and approached the temporary headquarters of the 9th Division without leaving a trace. They were originally going to Yoshizhu Liangsuke, but when they saw Yoshizhu Liang After seeing Fu's body, Xiao Yi was surprised and immediately had a better idea.
"Brothers, this is a great opportunity, hurry up and get this news out. Hey, if we take the opportunity to announce it to Isho and Akiyama Yoshiyun, the 9th Division will be finished."
The mission assigned to them by Ouyang Yun was very general and did not seem to have too specific targets. However, Xiao Yi knew that whether it was to assassinate senior Japanese officials or traitors, the purpose was to break through with large forces and reduce the threat after the breakout.
Under his assignment, everyone divided into two teams with a tacit understanding. One team went to look for Akiyama Yoshiyun, and the other team went to look for Isho Nobu. Along the way, they took the opportunity to let out the news of Yoshihashi Ryosuke's death.
Among the three divisions, the 9th Division had the experience of the Battle of Gwanghwamun, and its morale was already low when it learned that the incoming Chinese army included cadet troops. Now it was first heard that the division commander had committed suicide. , the team collapsed immediately. Even Xiao Yi did not expect this scene. He originally thought that killing Jing Shuxuan and Akiyama Yoshiyun could completely plunge the 9th Division into chaos. Who knew what these two people would do to each other? The army's control was so poor that a true "rumor" would directly obliterate the existence of these two people.
Before Xiao Yi and the others found these two people, the Japanese army's already shaky right-wing defense line began to collapse.
There is still He Zhengjiang as a single hero. Liu Yuqing grasped this change keenly. Jiangsu Baoan Division 1 and Xue 3rd Division. The officers and soldiers of the 26th Division suddenly had high morale and broke through the 9th Division like a torrent. Then not only did it successfully join forces with the besieged 103rd Division and 117th Division, but it also drove the collapsed 9th Division like sheep into the center line of the 6th Division's defense.
Hisao Tani, who was sitting on the center line, was already in a state of disarray by the tank division. He was like a tinker, moving troops here and there to make up for it. Just because the pressure on the tank division to regroup was greatly reduced, he suddenly found that the right wing was defeated like a mountain. In one fell swoop, he disrupted the order of the headquarters. He was shocked and called the staff officer responsible for liaison with the 9th Division and asked: "What's going on with the 9th Division? What are the hillbillies in Mie County doing?"
The staff officer had just received a telegram from a staff officer of the 9th Division. Just as he was about to read it, Hisao Tani called him over. He handed the telegram directly to him and said: "Commander, 9th Division Please take a look at the telegram just sent."
Hisao Tani glanced at it, and his squinted eyes immediately widened, and he cursed: "Eight grids." Three times five divided by two, he tore the telegram to pieces. No wonder the 9th Division was defeated. It turned out that it was triple The country bumpkin in the county actually committed suicide. Remembering that it was because he had obtained temporary command that the situation became so passive, he felt the hatred in his heart. He gritted his teeth and said: "Yoshizhu Ryosuke, a coward who would have died sooner rather than later, unexpectedly At this critical moment, Ba Ge, retreat quickly."
"Division commander, where should we retreat? There are enemies everywhere."
"Ba Ge, go to the 18th Division. Only by fighting with them can we stand out from the encirclement. Once the bastards from the 9th Division rush up, we won't be able to retreat even if we want to."
"Hai."
"withdraw."
The news of Yoshizhu Ryosuke's death soon reached Ouyang Yun's ears. At this moment, Shan Renxiong and Liu Yuqing and other front-line commanders had already glimpsed the fighting opportunities from the chaos presented by the 9th Division. , Ouyang Yun was notifying the whole army of the news. They had already commanded the troops to attack fiercely, and they defeated the 9th Division in one fell swoop, and squeezed these Japanese who had no fighting spirit into the 6th Division in one fell swoop. divisional front,
Although the 9th Division was defeated, there were still thousands of Japanese soldiers. The 6th Division and the 18th Division combined had tens of thousands of troops. At this stage of the confrontation, the garrison's battle losses were far greater than those of the Japanese army. It was easy, but it was impossible to capture these Japs. Ouyang Yun made a prompt decision and ordered the troops on the right and center lines to join forces. Taking advantage of the opportunity of chasing the 9th Division's defeated troops, Ouyang Yun opened the passage to the center line in one fell swoop. At the same time, he ordered Li Hanhun, who was in charge of the left line, delayed the attack speed so that the two Japanese troops could have time to retreat to the 18th Division's line.
Ouyang Yun did this based on the overall situation and wanted to end the battle as soon as possible so as to gain time to retreat calmly before the next wave of air strikes. However, his idea was not fully implemented, and the direct line of the Xuebing Army was determined. However, the Northeast Army, especially the officers and soldiers of the 114th Division, a considerable number of middle and low-level officers went out of their way to kill because of old and new grudges, and actually followed the 9th Division to retreat. , has been included in the main lineup of the 6th Division,
Since the suicide of Yoshizhu Ryosuke, the outcome of this battle has been decided. Before the war began, Liu Kui was worried about Ouyang Yun's safety. All the members of the guard regiment, as well as the army's first-level staff officers and other officers, closely guarded Ouyang Yun. He refused to let even a fly in. At this time, when he saw that the battle situation had become one-sided, and the officers and soldiers of all the troops after the bloody battle showed a spirit of tiger and wolf, he was a little moved and asked Ouyang Yun. It is suggested that we take this opportunity to train our brothers, and send them out in company units, so that they can participate in the work of cleaning the battlefield of the 60th Division and the 121st Division, which can also increase a certain amount of battlefield experience.
This reason is not sufficient. Liu Kui's real idea is to get every brother under his command to be stained with blood and kill a bunch of Japanese. Ouyang Yun looked at the situation around him and found that the casualties in each department were quite large. The field hospital Due to the shortage of manpower, the work of gathering the wounded was already stretched thin, and the Japanese wounded scattered in various places on the battlefield threatened the safety of these caregivers and doctors at all times. Therefore, not only did Liu Kui agree with Liu Kui's suggestion, but he also ordered, including Everyone, including himself, immediately joined in the work of cleaning the battlefield.
Ouyang Yun really wanted to do something to help the field hospital, but Liu Kui, Liu Zheliang and others were willing to let him risk his life. In the end, his actions only made the soldiers more enthusiastic about fighting. That’s all,
Lin Baiyin and Wang Xu led their respective troops at the back. They originally thought that it would inevitably be a hard battle in the end, but they did not expect that the battle would eventually go in such a direction. These two men entered the battlefield last with their troops and saw Ouyang Yun was doing the job of cleaning the battlefield under the guard of a group of direct descendants of the student army. From time to time, he found one or two wounded people, and quickly took out the first aid kit to give first aid, or called the military doctor to come and check; of course, their main task was to collect guns and destroy The Japs who were injured or unconscious for some reason, from time to time had their heads chopped off with machetes, or the Japs tried to shoot, but were eventually beaten into a hornet's nest by the dense rain of bullets. Their eyes couldn't help but flicker. When I got up, I was thinking: After this battle, this young man has really become a very important warlord.
According to Ouyang Yun's original intention, even if the brothers who died in the battle could not be taken away, they should be buried together in order to give an explanation to the martyrs' families in the future, but reality did not allow him to do this.
The Wujiang Battle was divided into three battles. Among them, the last battle lasted the shortest time, but it was also the battle with the greatest losses for both warring parties.
At the beginning of the battle, the strength of both sides was almost the same, both around 50,000. When all the garrison troops left the battlefield, the three Japanese army regiments began to reorganize their ranks. As for the garrison army, there were only less than 40,000 troops left out of 50,000, while the Japanese army had only 40,000 troops left. About 30,000 people, and a general at the level of division commander was also lost.
After taking over the defense of Nanjing, he ordered the Nanjing Airport to be completely blown up. However, Shanghai is too close to Nanjing. With the current average speed of Japanese aircraft, a round trip only takes an hour. The warring parties are out of contact. After that, the Japanese army did not withdraw. There was a huge enemy force watching next to them. The Japanese aircraft would soon return to the battlefield. Ouyang Yun could only give up this plan and choose to evacuate quickly.
After Ouyang Yun discussed with Li Hanhun, Wu Keren and others, the 40,000 troops were divided into two groups. Among them, two divisions of the Northeast Army and two divisions of the Central Department joined together to prepare to bypass Chu County. Go directly to Bengbu; the troops under the Xuebing Army, as well as the Jiangsu Security Division 1, and the two Sichuan Army Divisions joined together and headed for Hefei.
The Sichuan Army came to Nanjing on the order of the Military Commission. Because of this name, Liu Yuqing and Rao Guohua initially wanted to follow Wu Keren and others to Bengbu and then transfer to Xuzhou to comply with the latest transfer order of the Military Commission. However, under Ouyang Yun After learning the news that Liu Xiang was dead, the two of them accepted the invitation and decided to go to Fujian and Guangdong to rest first.
Ouyang Yun originally wanted to take the Xuzhou route, which was decided before the Wujiang Battle. However, a telegram from the Military Commission made him give up this idea.
The telegram contained an order personally issued by Chiang Kai-shek, requiring the Xue Bing Army to immediately go to Xuzhou to be dispatched by Li Zongren in order to prepare for the upcoming Battle of Xuzhou.
This telegram came in such a timely manner that Ouyang Yun and Li Hanhun and other senior officers of the student army had to be more vigilant. In the days after the Nanjing Battle, Ouyang Yun once sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek for help in the name of the Nanjing Garrison Army Headquarters. , said it was a telegram asking for help, but his request was actually very simple. He just hoped that the lagging troops of the Central Army could slow down their retreat and wait for his own troops to go up and complete the handover. However, he sent three telegrams in succession, but they were all like mud and water, and the garrison army The towns on the way back were handed over to the Japanese by the Central Army one by one. This directly led to him having to evacuate Nanjing in advance and sending out the 10th Xuexi Division in advance to clear the retreat. He thought that the two sides had lost contact, but unexpectedly , we have just escaped from the siege of the Japs here, and new orders have arrived. So, the one who has arrived in Hankou is actually paying attention to the battle situation in Nanjing all the time, and has the ability to obtain first-hand intelligence. But, why did he do it before? He also pretended to be unconcerned with the matter, and it's not difficult to guess his intentions.
Just at this time, the Japanese aircraft fleet that had returned to Shanghai Airport to refuel and bombed them caught up with them. Ouyang Yun made a decisive decision, ignored the order, separated from Wu Keren and others, and marched into Hefei.