On the first day of the battle, although the 3rd Division suffered heavy losses, it was clearly worth it. They inflicted nearly twice as much damage on the Japanese with their own killing. Although most of them are the credit of the artillery units, it is undeniable that it is precisely because the infantry brothers desperately suppressed the Japanese army in the area centered on the East Gate Tower that the artillery unit's artillery bombardment played a double effect with half the effort. If it weren't for the ancient city wall of Zhenjiang that provided a strong enough foundation for the Japanese army to resist most of the artillery fire, the casualties of the Japanese army would have been even heavier.

At the front-line command post of the Xuebing Army, when the casualty figures came up, everyone including Ouyang Yun immediately became extremely sad. This is different from the air defense forces being burned by napalm, this is a real offensive and defensive battle! Moreover, the weapons and equipment of the side, the combat quality and the will of the other side are not inferior to the little devils, how can they cause such large casualties? This is the first day, if the Japanese army on the opposite side is not a detachment, but a division, Ouyang Yun must doubt whether half of the more than 40,000 people he brought out will eventually have to sleep here.

"No, we have to find a way! We are not the Central Army, and we don't have so many troops, so we are sorry for the fathers and villagers in Fujian, Guangdong, and Jicha, and we are sorry for all the front-line officers and soldiers. The Japanese army is not good at night battles, maybe they can try a large-scale night raid battle......" Ouyang Yun pondered for a long time, and finally said to He Zhengzhen and the others.

After the Japanese defense line was tightened, the solo male squad lost its usefulness, and just after nightfall, they returned. During the day, although they did not participate in it, they witnessed it with their own eyes. Shan Renxiong said: "Commander, the quality of the little devil's individual soldiers is not bad, and the static marksmanship is very accurate." The ancient city wall of Zhenjiang is relatively thick, which provides a good cover for the Japanese army, and it is not cost-effective to attack it like this. I think we should send an elite sniper team to carry out a special operation against the Japanese army - if time permits, the Japanese will definitely not be able to bear it for the next three or five days, after all, our troops are far superior to theirs, and with the assistance of artillery, they will not dare to attack at will. ”

Shan Xiong's suggestion was undoubtedly very targeted, Ouyang Yun adopted it, and said: "Tomorrow's daytime battle, let's take Lao Dan's tactics as the criterion." Each unit selects those with accurate marksmanship in battalions, forms sniper groups, and takes turns in two shifts, so that we will turn the entire Zhenjiang into a battlefield. Lao Dan, your tactics are good at anything, but if you really want to solve the Tiangu detachment, it will definitely take a long time. So, I think, the night raid should be done in the same way. Don't forget, once dawn, the Japanese army will definitely summon fighters to participate in the battle, and at that time, our army will not be a matter of blindly attacking, but to prevent the Japanese counterattack. ”

The night attack time is set at three o'clock in the morning, which is the time when the human body is most tired, and if it is in a state of sleep, it is deep sleep. In order not to attract the attention of the Japanese army, several staff officers added that they hoped to launch a feint attack at about ten o'clock to paralyze the Japanese army.

After the decision was made, the troops began to return to their positions and began to eat in order. In the front-line command headquarters, Ouyang Yun had just picked up the lunch box and had not yet started, when suddenly Ge Yunfei, the staff officer on duty and the leader of the telegraph team, hurriedly ran over, shouted a report, and then handed over a freshly deciphered Japanese telegram to him.

Originally, the work of the telegraph department of the Cadet Army was only responsible for external and internal telecommunications liaison, but after arriving in Guangdong, because conditions permitted, mainly because the Cadet Research and Development Institute developed the equipment for detecting telecommunication signals, it began to try to decipher the telegrams of other parties. And this decipherment work is undoubtedly the biggest gain of the telegraph team since they started this work.

The telegram was sent to the Tengu detachment by the Japanese Shanghai Dispatch Army Command, and the content was that the headquarters agreed to Naojiro Amaya's suggestion and decided to use the carrier-based attack planes of the Third Fleet to cooperate with the actions of the Tenya detachment and launch a night attack on the academy at 1 a.m. tonight.

After reading the telegram, Ouyang Yun sweated profusely, and then stopped eating, and immediately convened a meeting of several main cadres of the headquarters. At that time, the others had just begun to eat, and they came without saying a word when they were summoned.

When everyone arrived, Ouyang Yun asked Liu Zheliang to close the door and let Liu Kui personally lead someone to be in charge of guarding, and then handed over the telegram to everyone to circulate.

Just as Ouyang Yungang behaved when he saw this telegram, after reading the telegram, Shan Renxiong and the others all became extremely serious. Among them, He Zhengchuan even sweated profusely, and at this time he said while wiping his sweat: "It's so dangerous! Fortunately, this telegram was detected, otherwise it would ......" Speaking of this, he remembered the consequences of being succeeded by the Japanese army, and he couldn't help but be a little afraid, and he couldn't talk anymore.

Ouyang Yun glanced at everyone and said, "It seems that tonight's night attack battle is going to turn into a counter-night attack battle." When I asked Tetsura to inform you just now, I thought carefully about it, and it was impossible for the Japanese army to send fighter planes to bomb at night, and it was impossible for them to act alone from the ground forces. There must be some signal of communication between the Tenya detachment and the Japanese aircraft formation - this is our chance. ”

He Zhengshen saw that his eyes were blazing and seemed to be in a high mood, so he asked playfully, "Commander, do you have any ideas?" ”

Ouyang Yun smiled: "It's not a good idea, but it's quite tempting - that's what I think......" He lowered his voice and told everyone in detail about his thoughts. As everyone listened, their eyes gradually brightened. After he finished speaking, the single male clapped his hands and said, "High!" It's a bit difficult, but it's still very possible. I don't think that's enough, we should be like this......" His voice was lowered.

It was soon ten o'clock in the evening. At this time, the temporary headquarters of the Tiangu detachment in the east gate of Zhenjiang City was brightly lit, and Naojiro Tiangu was sitting in front of the combat map, his eyes condensed on the black circle in Zhenjiang, and muttered to himself: "Hope, this is the last battle of our army in Zhenjiang......" Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a rumbling ** sound, and couldn't help but listen intently, and a few minutes later, with the explosion of the shell, a smile appeared on his face. At this time, the telephone on the table behind him rang, and he picked it up, only to hear a slightly excited voice on the phone: "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, as you expected, the people of China have indeed launched a night attack. ”

The call came from the commander of the next wing, whose mission was to serve as the guard of the entire detachment in case of a night attack by the Cadet Corps.

In Tiangu, the Xuebing Army will definitely launch a night attack tonight, after all, the people of China have always believed that the Imperial Army is not good at night fighting. Of course, tonight will certainly be an exception. He could even predict that the ground crews on several aircraft carriers of the Third Fleet were busy at this time, loading the attack planes with bombs and filling up the fuel. When these fighters come to the sky over Zhenjiang, Ha Luha, it will be the end of the student army. He thought so beautifully, and he wasn't at all worried about the night raid that was taking place. He smiled and said, "Zhilu, Futian-kun, hold your position, as long as you repel this attack of the Zhina, the victory will definitely belong to us!" ”

"Hello!" Fukuda shouted loudly on the other end of the phone, and put down the phone with the same smile.

As Naojiro Amaya had predicted, the night raid of the Cadet Army did not last long. In the night raid battle, the focus is on the word "attack", and once the other party is prepared, it is not the work of a wise man to blindly attack. Ouyang Yun was naturally not a fool, so what he could predict was that once the scene that had been prepared for the battle was undoubtedly revealed under the illumination of the flares, the Scholar Army would definitely accept it when it was good.

And almost at the same time, Ouyang Yun looked at the officers and soldiers of a regiment that launched a feint attack and slowly retreated while laying mines, and thought: Now, this little devil in Tiangu should be much more at ease, right? "Tetsura, let's go, let's see how the brothers of the Engineer Regiment are doing. Shi Chang, you put your hands and feet sharp, and the less important documents are burned directly, and the important ones are picked. As he spoke, he walked out of the headquarters with Liu Zheliang and Liu Kui and a few guard soldiers towards the front line trenches.

Near the east gate of Zhenjiang, the fire lit by artillery fire was still burning, but the sound of gunfire and shouting of killing had stopped. And in the trenches of the Cadet Army, one after another troops were retreating in an orderly manner. In their place were thousands of scarecrows and a handful of wolf-toothed warriors, and beside these scarecrows were kerosene drums with firecrackers. On the artillery position, in addition to these scarecrows and soldiers of the guard regiment, there were dozens of wooden cannons just made by the engineering regiment, and near the "flame suppressors" of these cannons, kerosene drums with firecrackers were also hung. At that time, when the Japanese army launched an attack, the task of the remaining wolf-tooth soldiers and the soldiers of the guard regiment was to light these firecrackers at the right time.

When they first set off, Jiang Shuren and others expressed serious puzzlement about Ouyang Yun's request to carry such a large number of firecrackers and kerosene drums. However, when these two items officially came in handy today, everyone couldn't help but secretly give Ouyang Yun a thumbs up - the commander-in-chief's move was too high!

At eleven o'clock, the full transfer of troops began. Among them, the 3rd Division of Xue3 was transferred to the south gate of Zhenjiang with the strength of two brigades, and another brigade covered all the artillery units and moved to the Dagang area. The 60th Division did not catch the battle during the day, and the officers and soldiers were very emotional, and at the request of the division, Ouyang Yun handed over the task of outflanking them behind the scenes.

At about half past twelve, the troops were in place one after another, and after Ouyang Yun received telegrams from the troops confirming their positions, he stood on a dirt bag about five kilometers away from the original position and began to wait quietly-