"What, the Japanese army was not completely wiped out, and hundreds of people ran away. I said, Ji Liancai, what are you doing? The brigade gave you such an important task, and you actually fired the Japanese army..." Zhu Yaming, the commander of the 382nd Regiment, cursed on the phone. ◎,

As long as the Japanese army are let go and the war is won, it is not a big contribution.

"Team, we were beaten to death later..." Ji Liancai's eager defense came from the other end of the phone.

"I don't care. You can't do it if you don't wipe out the Japanese! "

"Zhu Yaming, what are you rude?"

"Host, why are you here? I'm not talking to that guy Ji Liancai? You sit down first, the guard, so you don't have the eyesight, pour tea for the Huost."

"I am a voyage. I knew that you kid knew the news and wanted to curse me, so I came to take a look." Luo Yufeng walked into the temporary headquarters of the 382nd Regiment. He knew the virtues of his subordinates best.

"Isn't this a little bit sooner or later? Ji Liancai is a coward in the battle. You said that you have such a good opportunity, why did you let the little Japanese go?" Zhu Yaming said with a look of regret.

"You kid, you are still behaved when you get a bargain. That's a 500 elite Japanese army. How many people in your third battalion can you eat?" Luo Yufeng cursed with a smile. He really thought that after winning several battles, his tail was rising to the sky.

"Isn't there any reconnaissance battalion directly under the brigade headquarters?"

"The reconnaissance battalion was a fierce battle. They just fought with the Japanese army at the dock. It was already very good that the battle could be like this. Both the Chief of Staff and I were very satisfied." Luo Yufeng cursed.

"Hehe..." Zhu Yaming smiled embarrassedly, feeling a little embarrassed.

"Give me a call!"

"Yes!" Zhu Yaming respectfully handed the phone up.

"Is it Ji Liancai, the commander of the Third Battalion?"

“Yes, traveler!”

"In the battle of Tangjiagou, you fought very well and attacked decisively and in a timely manner. You used a battalion of troops to stop the forces of nearly two squadrons of the Japanese army, eliminated most of them, and killed the Japanese commander. This is very good."

"Host, don't say that. If it weren't for Lao Cao this time, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to defend my position." Ji Lian didn't dare to take all the credit on him, as that would be too unkind.

Then the Japanese captain was killed by the sharpshooter from the reconnaissance battalion.

"Well. Not bad. This battle was fought very well and cooperated well. Chief Leng called and I would like to reward you."

"Really?"

"I'm like kidding?"

"Thank you, Chief Leng. Thank you, the brigade!" An excited voice came from the other end of the phone. The grassroots cadres of the 38th Brigade were all from the second regiment. Although Leng Feng's rank was just a temporary experience, the officers and soldiers of the troop reverence for Leng Feng was increasing day by day.

"Okay, the Japanese army probably won't attack from you for the time being. Let Cao Xingyang lead the team back. You can lay mines on the Japanese landing ground, but they have been exposed anyway."

"Ji Lian only understood!"

"Your Second Regiment is good. Chief Leng took a telegram from Pukou to praise you, but don't be so proud. There are still some fighting in this battle." Luo Yufeng put down the phone and said to the leader Zhu Yaming.

"Please rest assured, we promise not to be proud!"

"I promise not to be proud. Look at your face, I'm smiling. Okay, I won't drink tea. Let's go back first."

Leng Feng was very happy to learn that the New 38th Brigade defeated the Japanese conspiracy to attack and land in Tangjiagou. Once the Japanese army grabs a forward position, the army will continue to land continuously and will be difficult to defend Yuxikou.

However, the subsequent battle will be even more cruel. Because after such a fight, the Japanese army will definitely not make the mistake of underestimating the enemy again.

Sure enough, not long after, Leng Feng received a report on the battle from Yuxi Town. Six Japanese planes flew over Yuxikou and bombed at air raids and dropped at least forty aviation bombs.

The entire Yuxikou was bathed in the light of fire, and there were countless losses to civilians and property.

At the same time, under the cover of Japanese bombing, the Japanese army launched another landing operation. The two battalions of the 381st Regiment defended the dock position and killed 200 people in just one hour.

The Japanese army also paid more than 300 casualties.

This time, Niujima Man saw clearly that it was not a security team fighting them on the shore, but a blue-gray ****. What made him even more angry was that his opponents were actually Japanese weapons in the same color.

How could Niushima Man forget such a familiar tactic?

Independent New 38th Brigade!

How could they appear here? It is completely impossible. Niujimaman was almost hysterical. If he knew that the New 38th Brigade was at Yuxikou, he would not have fought like that.

In addition to a reinforcement squadron who was deceived to get ashore for the first time, in half a day, his troops suffered a thousand casualties.

Damn intelligence agency, he now wants to catch the intelligence personnel who were investigating Yuxikou and chop them into meat paste, and throw them into the Yangtze River to feed the fish.

The battle continued until evening. Seeing that it was getting dark, the Japanese army could not break through the dock position at all. Niudaoman had to order a retreat, and thousands of Japanese troops could only return to Wuhu first.

The Niudao troops encountered a major setback at Yuxikou. The news quickly spread throughout the Central China Front Army. Some people suspected and were worried. They didn't like Niudaoman's arrogant personality. Seeing that he suffered a failure, they naturally felt indignant on the surface and gloated behind their backs. But some people also knew the reason for Niudaoman's failure.

They couldn't laugh at all, such as Hata Shunji, the two division commanders of the 3rd and 9th Divisions, as well as the immediate boss of Mitsukoshi Naoshima, and the commander of the 6th Division, Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro.

To be honest, Niujima Mitsuhiro's failure was not very responsible, his command and his tactics were not wrong, and someone else might not be better than him.

His failure was due to intelligence.

Inaba Shiro and the intelligence departments of the 6th Division are responsible for this. First, Inaba Shiro easily believed the news that Liu Hongyu took the initiative to surrender, but the opponent easily tricked a soldier from the reinforcement squadron to the shore. Second, the intelligence departments did not detect the intelligence that the Chinese Army's New 38th Brigade had actually arrived at Yuxikou in Jiangbei. As for how they did it, they were even more helpless and had no clue.

Could it be that it was flying from the sky?

If there was no natural danger of the Yangtze River, it would be possible, but the Yangtze River waters from Hukou to Wuhu were under the control of the Japanese Navy.

If the New 38th Brigade detours north, it will not be able to get there within three days, and air transport will be even more unrealistic. The empire cannot do it, and China, which is so poor that it can't even help the planes.

The only explanation is that the New 38th Brigade crossed the river from their defense zone north, but how did they do it? There were thousands of people without any movement. It was incredible.

Of course, some people refuted Niudaoman, believing that the Chinese army at Yuxikou on the other side was definitely not the Independent New 38th Brigade that had fought with the 6th Division in Xuancheng, but another elite unit, and perhaps even the elite Seventh Army under Li Deling, Guangxi.

Because the Japanese intelligence department had discovered that Wuhan was preparing to transfer Liao Lei's 21st Group, which belonged to the Third War Zone, to the Fifth War Zone, to the Fifth War Zone.

The 21st Army is an elite force of the Guangxi Guangxi Guizhou Army, so the elite Chinese army that appeared at Yuxikou is entirely possible that it is this unit from Guangxi.

This judgment was quickly recognized within the Japanese army, believing that this was in line with common sense. Even Shiro Inaba, the commander of the 6th Division, recognized this judgment and wrote a report to submit it to Shinro Hata from Nanjing.

However, Ushima Manta was very opposed to this judgment. He determined that his opponent was the Independent New 38th Brigade that he had fought with him, and he insisted that he would not admit his mistake.

But Niujima Man could not say that so many people were. If the Sixth Division quietly let an elite Chinese army go away in its own defense zone, how dereliction of duty would it be?

Can Shiro Inaba believe Ushima Mitsuki’s judgment?

If he believed in Niujima, he would be charged with a crime of not investigating or dereliction of duty. An elite Chinese army quietly passed through the territory he controlled. Since he did not notice it at all, it was simply a collaboration with the enemy.

However, Shiro Inaba made Shiro Hata feel a little bad premonition. The fifth war zone in Wuhan, especially the southern line of the Tinpu Road, is not good news.

We have to quickly deal with the "Honor First Division" of the Chinese Army in Pukou. Otherwise, the 13th Division will be in danger.

Deputy Chief of Staff of Muto Akira, who had just arrived in Yangzhou, was still breathing evenly, and received a telegram from Shunroku Hata. He asked him to organize troops to advance westward immediately, squeeze the living space of the Honorary First Division, and he would never give the other party any chance to take advantage of it.

At this time, a unit mainly composed of the 101st Regiment of the 101st Brigade of the 101st Division had entered Yangzhou, and the commander was Colonel Kuroro Iizuka.

Muto Akira immediately pulled out two infantry brigades, a cavalry squadron and a mountain cannon squadron from the Akagi Brigade, and handed them over to Colonel Iizuka Kiyogoro to form a mixed detachment. The total strength was about 4,000 people, and they set out from Yangzhou and rushed to Uraguchi.

At the same time, Chuxian and Dingyuan also had the trend of increasing Japanese troops, while the attack power of the Japanese troops in Bengbu, Fengyang, Linhuai Pass and Mingguang lines decreased significantly.

A large amount of intelligence was summarized one after another at the Honorary First Division Command.

Leng Feng visited the wounded in Jiangpu Town, and took time to go to Tangquan Town, the Gun Repair Office of the Honorary First Division and the Temporary Bullet Reloading Factory.

Leng Feng spent a lot of money to entrust the military commander to purchase machines in Shanghai, mainly some second-hand or even three-bedroom beds in Germany, but also had bullet production lines.

Then he bribed the British to help cover up and transported it to Nanjing. In fact, as long as the machines arrive in Nanjing, regardless of whether the Japanese discovered them or not, these machines will eventually fall into his hands.

But it is not easy to buy these things, and it is not easy to learn to use them. It requires technicians, engineers, and skilled workers.

None of these came out of thin air, so the establishment of the gun repair institute and the bullet factory was very slow. If Leng Feng had not secretly collected some talents who knew this while waiting for the machine, it would have been difficult to even reinstall the bullets.

As the head of a gun repair office and a bullet factory, Lao Ning's hair has become much whiter these days. Every day, he not only has to take technicians, but also teach workers and solve technical problems.

Later, he was equipped with a few young workers who knew how to use machinery to help him and lead him, which also reduced Lao Ning's workload and slowly liberated from the heavy work.

In addition to the gun repair office and ammunition factory, there are also ammunition factories. Naturally, Lao Ning cannot be held responsible for this factory. Zhou Xue is responsible for the ammunition factory. Isn’t he an engineer and blasting expert?

Working with ammunition is also considered a chemical industry, and it is also her side job. This is relatively simple. Apprenticeships in firecracker shops or pharmacy apprenticeships, as long as you can calculate and be bold and careful, you can do this job, and you need to pay attention to safety.

This is just a small workshop with a small output, and it is enough to keep up with the ammunition production of the bullet factory. There is no high requirement at this stage, and you have to eat it bite by bite.

(To be continued.)
Chapter completed!