At around 12:45 p.m., if you listen carefully, you can hear the roar of the plane. Although the Japanese pilots deliberately tried to hide their tracks, in the middle of the night, the sound of the plane's motor was so loud, and besides, it was difficult for them to figure out the exact direction, so this deliberate behavior could only play the role of covering their ears and stealing the bell.

In fact, the sound of the plane's engine was the signal for the Japanese to launch a night attack. And while the soldiers of the Cadet Army were making all kinds of arrangements, the devils of the Tiangu detachment were not idle, and the devils of its two brigades had long thought that they were quietly lurking about a thousand meters away from the position of the Cadet Army.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this operation is signaled by the sound of the aircraft engine, as long as you hear the sound of the engine, start immediately!" These were the exact words of Naojiro Amaya when he gave the order.

So, Ouyang Yun didn't wait long before he heard the explosion - of course, it was not the explosion caused by the plane bombing, but the explosion caused by the little devil stepping on the mine.

As soon as the explosion sounded, a burst of gunfire rang out from the position of the Cadet Corps. Among them, although there is no shortage of guns fired by wolf-tooth warriors, most of them are firecrackers.

As soon as the gunshots rang out, the Japanese army no longer hid their whereabouts, and the flares rose into the air one after another, illuminating the four fields when they landed.

About ten minutes after the flares were lifted into the air, the Japanese planes began to roar towards the Cadet Corps position.

After Ouyang Yun heard the first explosion, he began to calculate the time, and said at this time: "I hope that these rabbit cubs of the wolf teeth have sharp legs and feet, otherwise, it will be too difficult to escape with this density of bombardment." ”

In the deciphered Japanese telegrams, there was no specific number of Japanese planes that carried out bombing missions. It turned out that Ouyang Yun didn't think it would be too much, after all, with the current level of technical skills, the safety of long-distance night combat could not be guaranteed. Basically, out of the ten fighters, no more than five can return safely in the end, and the rest depends on the pilot's character as to whether they are directly crashed or forced to land by luck. However, he obviously underestimated the determination of the Japanese army to extinguish his own army, because when he counted carefully, he was finally surprised to find that the number of attack planes involved in the bombing mission reached a staggering 36, and half of them were new fighters.

Japanese fighters entered the battlefield in three waves, twelve in each round. After the first round of bombardment, the gunfire on the position of the Cadet Army became sparse - some firecrackers were of limited length and had already been set off, and the gunfire at this time was actually the devils of the two Japanese brigades amusing themselves. After the first round of bombardment, the Japanese launched a charge, ignoring the threat of mines, and finally broke through the defense line of the Cadet Corps and entered the trenches with a full sacrifice of three or four hundred men. At this time, it was obvious that the Japanese army had finally discovered those scarecrows, and in the lens of the telescope, Ouyang Yun happily found that the two devil officers led by them looked hesitant and unhindered, obviously, they realized that they had made a plan. Their task was only to direct the fighters to bomb, destroy the infantry positions of the Cadet Corps at a time, and then find their artillery positions. But now in this situation, they don't know what to do for a while. Of course, Ouyang Yun would not make them feel embarrassed, and just after the gunfire here gradually stopped, the original artillery position sounded loudly - and at this time, the second wave of Japanese fighters arrived. This time, the Japanese infantry was not used to guide them, and this wave of Japanese planes went straight to the pseudo-artillery position and bombed it fiercely.

"Eight grids, we've been fooled!" At this time, the devil who occupied the position of the Scholar Army finally woke up and knew what to do, and the two captains summed it up and decided to retreat immediately. However, since you have come in through the minefield, you will have to pay the price if you want to leave.

At the right time, Ouyang Yun asked Ge Yun to fly to the troops to generate electricity, so that they could start their actions immediately. So, two brigades of the 3rd Division plus the 60th Division launched an attack on the Japanese army at the same time. The two brigades of the 3rd Division were divided into two routes, one brigade directly attacked the Japanese stronghold in the city, and the other brigade quickly penetrated to the east gate, and their combat intention was to cut off the connection between the Japanese troops who went out and the headquarters of their detachments.

As soon as the guns rang out from both sides of the southwest, Naojiro Amaya's heart was shocked, and he immediately realized that he had been calculated. At this time, how much he hoped to be able to get support from the air, however, the student army was very tricky, as soon as he came up, he broke into his close zone under the speed advantage of armored vehicles and tanks, and quickly entered a state of entanglement with the side, which directly made the third wave of Japanese planes arrive, hovering over the battlefield for half an hour and not daring to drop bombs casually, and finally hastily dropped all the bombs on the periphery of the battlefield and left in a hurry.

The departure of the Japanese machine made the brothers of the Cadet Army cheer. "Ha Luha, the little devil is exhausted!" "Brothers! In one go, he annihilated the dogs of the Tiangu detachment and avenged the fathers and villagers of Zhenjiang! ”…… Amid the shouts one after another, the soldiers of the Cadet Corps, guided by flares, quickly occupied the outlying positions of the Japanese army, and then began to storm its central defense line.

The Tiangu detachment originally had more than 5,000 people, but in the first battle during the day, it lost nearly 1,000 people and more than 700 were wounded. In order to guide the air force to carry out precision bombing, Naojiro Amaya sent two more brigades, and now there are only more than 1,500 people left behind in Zhenjiang City. However, more than 1,500 people were taking turns to rest because they were responsible for the defensive task in the first half of the night, and as a result, they were caught off guard and failed to organize an effective defense for half an hour.

The heaviest fighting took place outside the East Gate.

The Eighth Brigade of the Third Division, which was responsible for sniping at the two brigades of devils, was under great pressure from the very beginning. Because of the speed, they did not have time to build fortifications, and in order to deal with the possible attacks from the front and rear, Fu Qiulin, the commander of the Eighth Brigade, had to leave a regiment to keep an eye on the side of the city, and as a result, under the fierce impact of about 2,000 devils from the two brigades, its defense line was once in danger. However, it was precisely because of the fierce attack of the Japanese army that the two sides were staggered and pulled extremely close, so the devil air force did not dare to drop bombs on their positions, which can be regarded as a blessing in disguise.

When the battle was at its worst, the 23rd Regiment, which was responsible for building the first line of defense, fought in less than ten minutes. This made the head of the regiment and Changshan so anxious that they turned on the walkie-talkie and yelled at Qiulin: "Brigade seat, no!" The devils are attacking too hard, and my three battalions are almost finished......! ”

At that time, the Japanese troops in the city had completed their assembly, and abandoned the original defense area, and began to break through to the east gate, obviously, Naojiro Amaya had sensed that something was wrong, and made the most correct choice, wanting to unite the troops first. And in this way, the pressure on the 22nd regiment, which was burdened with the delay, can be imagined. Fu Qiulin had already pressed up with his guard platoon and the personnel directly under the brigade headquarters at this time, and when he heard He Changshan's shout, he said viciously: "Changshan, are you still a man?!" It's not just your group that's struggling right now, I'll tell you! Wang Baolin has already sacrificed! Well, as long as you're alive, don't call Lao Tzu poor! ”

Fu Qiulin was obviously anxious, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to say this kind of obvious logical error - because if He Changshan died, then he would never be able to speak.

Wang Baolin was the commander of the 22nd Regiment, because the Japanese army rushed too fiercely, and there were tanks to open the way, so the defense line that the 22nd Regiment had worked so hard to build was torn apart before it could even hold out for five minutes. In the most critical situation, Wang Baolin rushed forward with his own guards and personnel directly under the regiment with cluster grenades, and determined his life by destroying a tank.

Ouyang Yun had taken into account the possible flanking attack of the Eighth Brigade when he formulated this plan, but what he didn't expect was that Naojiro Amaya would execute it so resolutely that he didn't even take away the loot he had captured; And the ancient city wall of Zhenjiang will once again become the "enemy" of the student army, when the earth-shattering explosion sounded, and the entire East Gate City Tower was blasted and collapsed, he knew that it was unrealistic to completely annihilate the Tiangu detachment tonight.

"Hurry up and send a telegram to Fu Qiulin and order the Eighth Brigade to withdraw from the battle. At the same time, let him guide the coordinates of the artillery unit, and give me a hard beating with artillery! ”

When the Eighth Brigade received the order, the three regiments were all disabled. Among them, the 22nd Regiment suffered the heaviest casualties, including the regiment commander Wang Baolin, and more than 500 soldiers of the regiment fell forever on the ground in front of the east gate of Zhenjiang in order to block the advance of the Japanese tanks. On the contrary, the 60th Division, which was responsible for the offensive on the Western Front, and the Xueqi Brigade on the Southern Front, combined with less than 100 casualties, of course, they inflicted much less casualties on the Tiangu Detachment, only annihilating a squadron-sized devil. And the greatest credit in this battle is still the artillery unit, although the intensive artillery attack came a little late, but it still inflicted heavy losses on the Tiangu detachment, and more than 1,000 devils were killed by shells.

The battle was over at four o'clock in the morning. Although the Tiangu detachment lost almost half of its troops, it finally managed to break out of the encirclement of the Scholar Army, and for the young Ouyang Yun and all the soldiers of the Scholar Army, this battle will be remembered by them forever as a painful lesson. What they remember together should be the ferocity of the Japanese army.

It turns out that the Japanese are not as vulnerable as in the red movies they watched when they were children, and it turns out that there are also generals who are familiar with the art of war among the little devils. Take this Naojiro Amatani as an example, it is precisely because of his excellent command that the Cadet Army will have such heavy casualties when the number and equipment are superior-this is also Ouyang Yun's biggest gain in this battle.