.On the 11:00 p.m. on October 15, the New Eighteenth Army Headquarters outside Wucheng City.

Cheng Jiaji, Lieutenant General Huang and others have finished their talks and are discussing the next military action.

"There are three passes in the west, north and south of Wucheng. Except for the Nanguan that is lost again, the other two passes have been firmly in the hands of our army. Fierce battles have been fierce for several days. Although our side has suffered heavy casualties, the losses of the Japanese army are not as small as that. According to the military staff, the Japanese army guarding Wucheng currently has at most 5,000 soldiers who can fight, and this number includes the wounded people who can only participate in pure defensive operations. It can be said that the Japanese army in Wucheng has basically been crippled by our army. Wucheng is already surrounded by all sides of our army.

Next, it is only a matter of time to break the city. However, there is a situation. Please pay special attention to the last line of defense that the Japanese army in Wucheng relied on, the city wall. It was built in the early Ming Dynasty and has been reinforced many times since then. The degree of its strength cannot be ignored." Colonel Qiu said it is not exaggerated. Wucheng was originally a military city on the edge of Taihu Lake. The history of its military base can be traced back to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. This is a place where military strategists have such a long history, and the city walls will be tall and thick, which is reasonable.

"Haoran, let's talk about it first, how should Wucheng fight?" Lt. General Huang looked at Cheng Jiaji eagerly and said.

Cheng Jiaji was also planning this matter. Let the troops go to the city without any casualties? That was a stupid method and the last step. It would be better not to leave unless it was absolutely necessary. First dig the civil engineering under the city wall, then install explosives to explode the city wall? This trick is indeed a good method for the strong city. Throughout history, I don’t know how many "unbreakable" cities have been knocked down. But the problem is that the soil in Wucheng is quite special and it is not suitable for this trick. The main reason is that the soil is too thin, and water comes out before it is dug deep, and the tunnel cannot be dug deep. This trick can’t be used.

The most terrible thing is that this Wucheng is still an ancient building. Since the battle of the Land Temple, Cheng Jiaji encountered the Japanese army hiding in a thick wall and resisted stubbornly. This is also a fault for the ancestors of China who knew nothing about the knowledge of taking kickbacks. They built construction projects ranging from small houses to large cities to strong. If this Wucheng was built by those construction teams in the 21st century who specially built shoddy engineering projects, it would be great if they could just throw a large area of ​​them!

Maybe Cheng Jiaji hasn't fought such a large-scale siege! He has been doing all his brains, but he hasn't figured out any feasible tricks.

"Then we will take back Nanguan tonight, let's talk about the rest tomorrow!" Seeing Cheng Jiaji's thoughtful look, Lieutenant General Huang refused to answer for a long time, knowing that he had no good idea, he made a decision with a little disappointment.

Nanguan threw it from Xiang Zhongyuan. With his personality, others could get involved. Sure enough, the specific arrangements were made. Nanguan still fought against the troops in the Central Plains. The other troops were just their own frontal feint attacks and cooperated with... The mission of the New 100th Division is no exception.

On the way back to the east division headquarters of the city, Cheng Jiaji made arrangements for whom he would perform the feint attack mission.

The early morning attack is enough to let Xing Yusheng command, and he and the troops who retreated from Duchang can take the opportunity to rest." The reason why Cheng Jiaji gave this task to Xing Yusheng was because there was a need to rest in the orders of the regiments of Wucheng, and the other hand, considering Xing Yusheng's character, this man is calm in his military use. Although his command style is sometimes a bit too conservative, he can command this unrestrained feint attack to perform, which is the best candidate. If Wen Songyuan is replaced, then this feint attack will definitely be a strong attack in the end. This has nothing to do with command ability, it is entirely caused by everyone's different personality. It would be better to kill Wen Songyuan if he had no gaps.

Cheng Jiaji has been the commander of the army for more than a year, and he has learned some of the ability to dispatch troops. Before he woke up, Xing Yusheng had completed the feint attack task at a relatively small price, and Xiang Zhongyuan also captured Nanguan for the second time as he wished.

Early in the morning of the 16th, Cheng Jiaji was blocked in the bed by Lieutenant General Huang who came to him.

"Haoran, the war zone has sent a telegram. We asked us to continue to attack Wucheng, but at the end of the telegram, we reminded our troops not to be too hasty. You said that the war zone chief is doing what the war zone chief is doing." No wonder Lieutenant General Huang was so resentful. The head of the army received such an vague and ambiguous order, and he was already very well-educated.

"Brother Peimin, what's hard to understand? Isn't the war zone just trying to surround some and help!" Cheng Jiaji had to react so quickly, but he had to lose all his fault in the 21st century. In the 21st century, he had watched too many main-themed war movies since he was a child, which made him so sensitive to this trick.

"Brother Peimin, how many Japanese are there in De'an direction?" Since they wanted to use Wucheng as bait to fish, and count the fishing rods near Wucheng, only De'an's large Japanese army was qualified.

When Cheng Jiaji learned that the De'an direction had gathered nearly two Japanese divisions, he had always been "eating" the Japanese, and he couldn't help but admire the great appetite of the commander-in-chief of the war zone.

Nanchang, the operation room of the Ninth War Zone Progress Command Post.

"Is there any news about the Japanese army in De'an?" The commander-in-chief of the war zone who seemed to be in a quiet mind asked impatiently as soon as he saw Major General Guo walk in.

The war zone commander and officer were really "concerned" about the two divisions in the direction of De'an. This is the third time today. The war zone commander and officer were not talking about it. He also planned to set up a large net of seven armies between De'an and Wucheng to realize his "good intention" that was enough to make those who are caring... He also pointed to the highest record of annihilation of a division that he had set in Wanjialing to annihilate the Japanese army. Bo Gong, the Japanese army in De'an showed no sign of going south." Major General Guo still failed to bring good news to the war zone commander and officer.

Wuhan, the headquarters of the 11th Japanese Army.

The General Gangcun is facing a difficult decision at this moment. Should he bet on the troops stationed in De'an and do everything to solve the danger of Wucheng? Or should he withdraw thousands of people from Wucheng be the combat target? The former means that the troops attacking from De'an are very likely to hit the Chinese army head-on and have already set up a trap. The latter, although the risk is much smaller than the former, not only should he give up Wucheng, a bridgehead that finally established it, but no one dares to guarantee whether these thousands of Japanese troops can emerge. After all, they are surrounded by 40,000 Chinese troops with great combat power.

"The Sanada Detachment, which has been "recovered" the 9th Division of Duchang, has crossed the lake and rushed straight to Wucheng. Receive the defenders' breakthrough. The navy asked the navy to transfer warships and a large number of ships from the Yangtze River to assist the 9th Division in completing the mission. The command of Saito's troops to attack the lakeside with all their strength when the 9th Division launches an attack. The troops of De'an can make preparations before the strike and try to drag the action." After thinking about it again and again, Gangcun finally decided to give up Wucheng, which was hard-earned. The defenders were withdrawn from the waterway to Duchang. As for letting the Japanese troops stationed in De'an act as if they were to send troops, it was to confuse the Chinese army's sight of the Ninth War Zone, so that the Japanese army's operations in Wucheng were more sudden.

On the morning of October 17, the 199th Regiment at the east dock of Wucheng City was injured in the battle of Duchang. When they retreated to Wucheng, the entire regiment was less than 1,200. Cheng Jiaji promptly allocated 1,000 "civilians" to the regiment for two months of military training. At least, the 199th Regiment soldiers were close to full status. However, if the combat effectiveness of this army was restored to its former state, it would have to be several months. At present, the use of troops in the New 100th Division and the entire Fourth Cluster was not too tense. The orders given by the war zone were to attack fiercely instead of taking it within a time limit. The attack strength of each army became very restrained. Like the situation where the entire army was pressing against each other at the night before, it had not happened again in the past two days.

The war was not very tense. Cheng Jiaji placed the regiment with the strongest defensive power on the lakeside as a garrison force around the wharf. In Cheng Jiaji's opinion, this arrangement can not only play to the 199th Regiment, but also let Ma Siyuan's troops take this opportunity to rest, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

"Brother Chu Shan, you miss your sister-in-law." The little lieutenant colonel who was speaking was Qi Ling, deputy commander of the 199th Regiment, and also a classmate of the same period in Ma Siyuan Military Academy.

Ma Siyuan, who was immersed in the beautiful scenery of the sunrise and the sky in the east lake, could not do so immediately to respond to his friend's teasing. He greedily sucked in a few breaths of fresh air, and then said: "Zhentong, you furry child, then you know what a woman is!"

This sentence Qi Ling was very lethal, which made him silent.

Although Ma Siyuan regretted that his joke was a little heavier, he did not comfort Qi Ling immediately. Ma Siyuan knew his "love-loving" classmate who had a special liking, and he would recover after a while. Now, saying more can easily hurt his self-esteem. The two of them walked silently along the lakeside. Gradually, Qi Ling's mood improved a little, and they talked and laughed. This scene made the two regain some of their feelings when they were taking a leisurely walk on the Xuanwu Lake when they were students, and their mood became more and more comfortable.

During the war, soldiers always cherished the tranquility that unexpectedly came in the gap between war. In addition to the two chiefs and deputy commanders, many officers and soldiers of the 199th Regiment, also ran to the lake to spend this rare leisure time. No one would have thought that a huge Japanese fleet was pressing towards their positions not far away. The tranquility on the lakeside could not last much time, and the artillery fire ejected from the Japanese warships would immediately turn into a world of blood and fire.

In Wucheng City, the 01st Division of the Japanese military strategist.

"Tanakakun, it's almost eight o'clock. Why haven't the support troops arrived yet? I'll send electricity to urge me again?" Saito was so anxious that he didn't even care about his face.

In just one or two nights, the Saito Division commander's hair turned whiter again. Although the Chinese army did not fully attack the city, the high-intensity and short-term assault fighting method that seized opportunities from time to time really made the defenders a little tired. At the same time, many Japanese troops were killed and injured. From an absolute number, in the battle between the two nights, the Japanese army lost not much troops, only more than four or five hundred. However, the Japanese army, who were trapped in the lonely city and the fewer troops were fighting, could withstand this consumption. Lieutenant General Saito and his staff had privately estimated that if they continued to fight like this, they would only take another two or three days, and the Japanese army would be unable to maintain the existing front line. The city was about to break down, and Lieutenant General Saito was more nervous about the only reinforcement.

"Your Excellency the Division Commander, there are thirteen minutes left before eight o'clock." I think the chief of staff of the division was waiting for it every second.

At around 8 a.m., a huge Japanese fleet appeared on the lake near the dock with the cooperation of watercraft on the water and planes in the sky.

"What? On the lake outside the dock, three Japanese destroyers and more than twenty large gunboats were found!" Cheng Jiaji felt a little scared when he received a call from the 199th Regiment. He had seen many Japanese planes buzzing like flies on his head every day, and it was the first time he encountered the Japanese fleet.

"The division seat, the dock should be a Japanese squadron. The 199th Regiment alone would not be able to withstand it! When the Japanese fleet arrived, the Japanese army in the city must act, and the troops outside the east gate had to be strengthened." Qian Shen had observed the German fleet exercises in Germany. How terrifying the power of the naval guns was, he was undoubtedly the New 100th Division and even the New 18th Army.

"Appointment, the 365th Regiment will be dispatched outside the east gate, and will be in the middle to support the 199th Regiment guarding the wharf and the 200th Regiment responsible for attacking the east gate. I will go to the military headquarters in person!" After saying this, Cheng Jiaji went straight away. Because he was eager to leave, Cheng Jiaji hit a staff officer who came in from outside the door when he went out.

Twenty minutes later, the New Eighteenth Army.

The rumbling cannon sound from the direction of the dock made the beds and chairs of the military headquarters several miles away tremble.

This extraordinary movement created a tense atmosphere, like a huge rock, pressing against the hearts of the commanders of the New Eighteenth Army.

"Military throne, deputy throne, I think I can only attack for the moment. The Japanese have enough money to get the planes and warships together. Judging from this posture, they are probably trying to take out the Japanese army of Wucheng from the lake." In desperation, although Colonel Qiu's words were not very thorough, the two officials present understood what he meant and agreed with him. Now, there is no other way except to resist the attack from the other three sides to enter the city. Otherwise, they can only watch Saito, the duck that was about to be cooked, fly out.

"Haoran, what do you think?" Lieutenant General Huang knew in his heart that if the plan was implemented according to this plan, the New 100 Division, which was deployed in the shore of the East Lake, would be the first to be the first to be affected. It is better to ask Cheng Jiaji for advice first. "Military captain, it is imperative to attack Wucheng. The vocational department is located in Dongcheng, and the responsibility of blocking on both sides is unavoidable. Please rest assured that the New 100 Division will not allow the Japanese army to meet. However, I have a few suggestions to ask the military captain to take some advice. Since the Japanese army in De'an has not moved for a long time, can the war zone be invited to transfer a division of a division from the 70th Army and be under our command? With this reserve, our troops will be much more sure of annihilation of Saito Division. Also, it is best to let the war zone activate some heavy artillery. I still said that the troops may not last long with their flesh and blood to resist steel."

"Deputy Chief of Staff Qiu, immediately telegraph the two things that Deputy Chief Cheng said to the War Zone Chief Office." Lieutenant General Huang was not unclear. Cheng Jiaji said these two things should have been considered comprehensively in the war zone. It was a bit of offending the superior to the war zone. But at this moment when he was in a hurry, he didn't care about so much.

The hand of fate once again pushed Cheng Jiaji and his new 100th division to the forefront.
Chapter completed!