Chapter 38: Blood and Fire Cage City (1)
To be fair, because he was about to reach the city of Nanchang, the underestimation of the enemy was generally filled with the low-level officers and soldiers of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army. It did not affect the judgment of Lieutenant General Matsuura Junjiu, the highest commander of the unit who had suffered losses on the Nanxun line. When facing Nanchang, which could only be defeated by taking it, he still suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and ordered all the troops under his division to advance towards Nanchang City in the posture of attacking the city. Under the strict order of Lieutenant General Matsuura, the officers and soldiers of various departments of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army put away their arrogant mentality and rushed into Nanchang City in several ways under the cover of the chariots.
Upstairs of Jinxian Gate.
"Military throne, the Japanese are still very careful. They are really worthy of being beaten troops. They are very alert. They are afraid that we will defend the city walls!" Cheng Jiaji pointed out outside the city and was pushing towards here. The Japanese troops who were looking forward and looked back and said to Lieutenant General Huang who was standing side by side with him on the side of the city tower.
"They would never think that we would not guard this city wall that is six or seven meters wide. Only you Haoran has the courage to propose this kind of fighting style." Lt. General Huang happily praised his beloved general. To be honest, the more he looked at Cheng Jiaji, the more he liked Cheng Jiaji. If Cheng Jiaji had not had three wives and concubines, General Huang might really give his beautiful sister-in-law to Cheng Jiaji and be a brother-in-law with Cheng Jiaji.
"Martial Commander, I have to submit my combat plan. Didn't you still have to be sure to make it accurate?" Cheng Jiaji calmly praised his immediate superior. "Martial Commander, gang, bury the explosives, the two commanders should cross the river first! It's too dangerous here." Just when Lieutenant General Huang wanted to return to Cheng Jiaji's words, Shi Jin, the commander of the First Engineer's 18th Army, came up to the city tower to urge him. This was the third time he had asked the two commanders to leave in half an hour. Obviously, two main persons in charge of the Nanchang Defense War were staying in his territory, which made the engineer commander who graduated from the Civil Engineering Department of Soochow University in his early years a little uncomfortable.
While waving his hand to signal him to leave, Lieutenant General Huang said to Cheng Jiaji. "Haoran, the Japanese are about to fire. It's also difficult for you and I to stay here and the people in the ground. Besides, we are all staying in Jiangbei and are not easy to command. Let's go!"
When Cheng Jiaji was pulled back to the temporary 18th Army headquarters on the south bank of the Ganjiang River by Lieutenant General Huang, the vanguards of the Japanese 106th Division had occupied Jinxian, Huimin and other city gates under the cover of artillery fire.
"The regiment, do you think it can be detonated? If the Japanese discovered what we did under the wall under the city gate building after a long time, they would be blind." The major who spoke in Hunan with a strong accent was Zhang Hanzhi, the commander of the third battalion of the 1st Engineer Regiment. He personally organized people to fill the ground into the wall under the city wall.
Wait a minute, can't you see? The Japanese on the city gate tower are increasing every minute and every second. We have invested such a large amount of money. We have to pay more money when watching the first broadcast of the Chinese website. Besides, Zheng Mazi is not in a hurry, so why are we in a hurry?" Shi Jin watched the Japanese army crowded around the city tower like bees gathering and roaring ants. While rejecting Zhang Hanzhi's request to detonate the explosives buried under Jinxian's gate.
When Zhang Hanzhi saw that the commander of the 2nd Engineer Regiment mentioned Zheng Mazi, the commander of the 2nd Engineer Regiment, he knew that it was useless to persuade him. He was not involved in this matter. The officers and soldiers of the 1st Engineer Regiment knew that the commander of the 1st Engineer Regiment was a mortal enemy of Zheng Mazi, the commander of the 2nd Regiment who was born in the rank of a rank but was overwhelmed by him in the engineering business. These two people, one thought that the other was a white-faced scholar who was useless. The other thought that the other was rude, had no military demeanor, and had no military demeanor. They were incompatible with each other, and they were all competing for digging a trap, let alone this time.
Coincidentally, at this time, Ichikawa Yo-Zao Nakazuo, the captain of the 145th Regiment of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army, was also using a telescope to carefully observe any movement in the depths of Nanchang City at Jinxian Gate.
Kawakao Yuzusao only returned to the team last month to re-take the 145th Regiment. In the battle of Zhang Gushan, the 145th Regiment was defeated by the Chinese army and was defeated. Ichikawa Yuzusao Yuzusao was also shot on the back and almost lost his life. He lay in the 11th Army General Hospital in Wuhan for more than four to recover his life.
Because it was Zhang Gushan's defeat in the battle that the entire division collapsed, so Ichikawa Yosuo Nakasa returned to the army with a stronger aspiration of shame than others. It was precisely because of this strong revenge that since the beginning of the Nanchang strategy, he led his wing that had just filled 80% of the troops and rushed to the forefront of the entire division. Also because he had tasted the pain of the Chinese army, in specific combat, Ichikawa Yosuo Nakasasa was the most cautious wing commander of the entire division. Now, after the 145th Regiment took down Jinxianmen today, in order to prevent the Chinese army from cheating, he immediately went up the city tower to observe the movement ahead. He did not know that it was his extra prudence that made him die in vain. If he entered the city quickly, he might be able to jump to his life.
At this moment, Nanchang City was extremely quiet under the slightest view of Yosuo Ichikawa, just like a ripe apple, waiting for someone to pick it. The whole Jiangbei was immersed in a dead silence, and only some gray-yellow figures on the south bank of the Ganjiang River were flashing. Judging from this situation, in the eyes of Yosuo Ichikawa, it was clear that the Chinese army had already run away.
"Except for leaving a squadron of soldiers to guard the city gate, the rest of the troops quickly advanced towards the Ganjiang River. I will stand on the Tengwang Pavilion in an hour." After confirming that the Chinese army had no ambush on the north bank of the Ganjiang River, Ichikawa Yoshizuo issued an order to rush to the Ganjiang River.
But he and many officers and soldiers of the corps he commanded would never be able to drink Ma Ganjiang and use military boots to trample on the famous building that is known as the first floor of the Xijiang River.
Just as Ichikawa Yoshi Nakasa was about to go down the city tower, a sudden shock from the earth made the entire Jinxianmen Gate Tower tremble. This was caused by Shi Jin's electric handle that detonated the explosive at the right time, and the huge shock wave generated by the explosion of thousands of kilograms when it was detonated.
Out of the instinctive reaction of the animals to the coming of danger, Ichikawa Yosao Nakasa, who was holding the city gates, said subconsciously, "Take it off." He had no chance to say the second sentence. After a loud bang, the entire Jinxianmen Gate Tower suddenly disappeared. Nakasa himself was also bombed without a trace. Thousands of Japanese officers and soldiers near the city tower were either killed or injured. The shock waves generated by the explosion even overturned more than a dozen Japanese chariots of Type 89 that had just passed through Jinxianmen. Among the killed Japanese troops, except for a small number of Japanese officers and soldiers who were cheering for victory on the city tower died directly from the explosion. Most of the Japanese soldiers were injured by rocks flying in the sky after the explosion. For a time, within a few hundred meters inside Jinxianmen, there were wailing Japanese soldiers everywhere.
Just a few seconds after the explosion at Jinxianmen, the explosives downstairs of Huiminmenmen were also detonated by Zheng Zhongtian, the commander of the Second Engineer Regiment. Another loud bang, the Japanese 147th Regiment, which was pouring into Nanchang City from Huiminmenmen, was also severely damaged. It was precisely because of the rapid advance into the city. The 147th Regiment was far less casualties than the 145th Regiment. However, while the explosions of these two towers caused nearly 2,000 Japanese casualties, they also caused General Junji Matsuura to be the 147th Regiment.
I was sober and realized that the Battle of Nanchang had just begun. To determine who wins and who loses, everything was still uncertain. When the Jinxianmen explosion occurred, Lieutenant General Junjiro Matsuura was also preparing to enter the city from here. A small piece of gravel collapsed from the Jinxianmen Gate Tower was falling from the sky after flying hundreds of meters of land, hitting the forehead of the Lieutenant General who was maintaining the closest contact with the earth. The sharp stone immediately left an eternal memorial on the head of the Lieutenant General.
Covering the wound on his head that was bleeding from his blood. The furious General Junji Matsuura stood up from the ground and pulled out the command knife from his waist and whispered: "Everyone attacked the Ganjiang River."
On the roof of the brigade of the 97th Independent Brigade in a small alley in Nanchang City, Xiang Zhongyuan was monitoring the every move of the Japanese army who had entered Nanchang City with his new deputy Yang Zhen. In this battle, the Sichuan Army of the 97th Independent Brigade, the 18th Army, was robbing the task of taking the lead from Lieutenant General Huang with his usual passion. Xiang Zhongyuan was also appointed as the commander-in-chief of the 18th Army, the first echelon of the 18th Army, composed of the officers and soldiers of the 97th Independent Brigade, was responsible for commanding all the troops left on the south bank of the Ganjiang River.
"According to the current speed of the Japanese, we will soon be in trouble with our first line of defense. I'd better go ahead and take a look." Yang Zhen, who is a veteran, is one of the few officers in the Sichuan Army who has been studying abroad. This colonel, who was only 24 years old but has been in the army for ten years, is also the youngest eagle among the Sichuan Army recognized by various factions of the Sichuan Army.
"You go, but you have to bring more people." Xiang Zhongyuan knew this young officer who had grown up too well and knew that he could not stop him. Instead of letting him sneak up on the hotline, it would be better to let him take more people with him openly. You must know that when the princes in Sichuan were fighting in a big battle, Xiang Zhongyuan was the elder Yang Zhen, and he knew him very well.
Before Yang Zhen arrived at the front line, the 147th Japanese Army Regiment, under the command of the corps captain Otani Yuichi, had already entered into a battalion that was temporarily transferred to the Central Plains to the unified command of the 100th Division.
The battalion commander of this battalion is Mapi. Three months ago, he was a famous thorn in Nanchang City.
Mapi is not named Ma, and his real name is not even a good person. He can't even mention it. He only has several large white spots on his body since he was born, so he got the nickname. Mapi is an orphan and a gangster. He and his brother No. 200 or 300 are known as the most vicious and most life-threatening gangster in Nanchang City. Not to mention that the patrol officers on the street dare not provoke them, even the rich bosses are afraid that they will be the poor boys who will not take their lives for their lives.
Mapi was doing a great job as a gangster and was already thinking about how to occupy several industries like other bosses as a small treasure. The Japanese were coming, and before the Japanese came, Chinese soldiers entered Nanchang first and took over everything. Mapi was at the gun of a company's army, and in order not to implicate his brothers, he went to the security headquarters to attend the Hongmen banquet with a mentality of leaving no return. At that time, they thought that like the cities in Xiajiang, the security headquarters would shoot a group of loud gangsters in the city before the war started. When Mapi returned to the nest the next day, Mapi returned to his nest in a lieutenant uniform, the brothers were stunned.
Chapter completed!