Maybe Ouyang Yun didn't realize it himself, but as a bystander, Li Hansoul saw this very clearly. Indeed, Ouyang Yun was too concerned about battle damage. It is said that the artillery of the cadet army, especially the self-propelled artillery of as many as one brigade, is a weapon of mass destruction that can be relied on, and if used properly, it can completely play a decisive role. It's a pity that Ouyang Yun was too precious that he was ahead of the artillery units of the same era, so in the battle of Zhenjiang, when the Japanese fighters were raging, he didn't dare to take them out immediately. In fact, if the artillery of the Cadet Corps had carried out a suppressive shelling of the Tiangu detachment from the beginning, the outcome of the battle would have definitely been rewritten.

I have to admit that Ouyang Yun has a very fatal flaw in some of his qualities as a qualified soldier, the so-called Ci is not in charge of the army, and in this regard, he is much worse than Li Hansoul.

Li Hansoul is better able to grasp the opportunity than Ouyang Yun in battle, especially in the mobilization and cooperation of large troops. On the one hand, it was true that the Japanese fighters had complete air supremacy, and on the other hand, he knew that the biggest enemy that the Fifth Division would face was not the Tiangu detachment. The real enemy of the 5th Division was Kunisaki and the 18th Division.

The battle around Li Ling, before the arrival of the 60th Division, was not too fierce. After the success of the Tenya detachment breaking through, it did not run away, and began to rest behind the main force of the Kunisaki detachment.

After nearly ten hours of continuous fighting and marching, these devil soldiers were exhausted one by one, and many of them collapsed on the ground as soon as they were given the order to rest, like a puddle of mud.

The offensive and defensive sides have changed temporarily, and now it is the Japanese army attacking, and the defensive has become the 5th Division.

Around Liling, Liling was the only high ground, and after the 5th Division had built strong fortifications here with the strength of two regiments, it had now become the primary target of the Japanese army. Wave after wave of Japanese troops stopped their bayonets to attack, the two sides launched a repeated tug-of-war on the dirt slope southeast of Li Ling, after the 60th Division arrived, the battle lasted for two and a half hours, and the two sides left about 1,000 corpses on the position, and in other directions, the 5th Division and the Kunisaki Detachment were also mobilizing their respective troops, gradually forming a contact surface centered on Li Ling, about 10 kilometers long.

When Ouyang Yun saw Li Hansoul, the latter was holding a book and reading it, as if he was not on the battlefield but in his back garden, which made Ouyang Yun feel quite embarrassed, and said in his heart: Look, this is the demeanor of a general, how can it be like himself......

"Commander!" When Li Hansoul saw him, he immediately dropped the book, stood up and saluted.

"Commander Li, how is the battle going now? I brought 60 divisions to support you. ”

"On the enemy side, the Tiangu detachment and the Kunisaki detachment have already converged and are storming the Liling Heights occupied by our troops. The 18th Division is still about two hours away from us, and according to the information sent back by the Wolf's Tooth Reconnaissance Team, the troops of the 18th Division are divided into two routes, one way directly to here, and the other way along Huangzhen and Zhangjiawei in the southwest direction. The five divisions and three brigades, the 14th brigade are guarding Liling, there is still a regimental reserve, the 13th and 15th brigades also have the artillery regiment, the chariot regiment, and the engineer battalion directly under it, except for the two regiments that are holding on to the fortifications around Liling, the rest of the troops are here. Commander, my original idea was to launch a full-scale attack as soon as it gets dark, to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese at one time, and then march to Guodaigou, where I would try to fight an ambush for the 18th Division. Now that the 60th Division has also arrived, it is somewhat conservative to carry out this combat plan with the strength of two divisions. Commander, now give the order! ”

Ouyang Yun glanced at everyone and said, "I think the battle plan you just said, I think it is still necessary to implement it. But the time can be advanced a little earlier - the second wave of Japanese fighters has just flown away, and the current situation is favorable for our army. With the arrival of reinforcements from the 60th Division, the Japanese army must have already known the way, and next, the Kunisaki and Tiangu detachments will definitely shrink the defensive line moderately, and of course, they may also target a place to storm in order to firmly drag our army. The 18th Division should be speeding up its march at this time, they may arrive at the battlefield earlier, you haven't used the tank unit and artillery unit before, well, now it's their turn to perform. The Japanese army did not pay much attention to the construction of fortifications, and this was an opportunity for us. As he spoke, Liu Zheliang had already taken out the battle map in a timely manner and handed him a two-color pen. Ouyang Yun pointed to a place called Xiuzhen next to Li Ling, and then said: "Have you noticed, the Xiushui River next to Xiuzhen, this river is no less than a strong defense line when it is used. Xiuzhen is about 30 kilometers away from here, if the armored troops are dispatched, they can tear through the Japanese defense line in 40 minutes at most and successfully arrive, and with a regiment of infantry, they can establish a defensive line with their backs to the Xiushui River, so as to create the illusion that our army wants to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army, at this time, if nothing else, the Japanese army will definitely retreat in the southeast direction, in order to obtain the 18th Division in the lower reaches of the Xiushui River. On the way here, I have already sent a regiment to occupy the only Xiaxiu Bridge there, and at that time, our army can divide the strength of two regiments to pursue the tail, and the rest of the troops, except for one brigade to go to Guodaigou to see if there is a chance to ambush one part of the 18th Division, and all the rest will approach the armored troops, and then cross the river from the Shangxiu Bridge to fight the encirclement and annihilation of the other part of the 18th Division......"

Before Ouyang Yun's intention to fight was finished, Li Hansoul raised his head from the map and looked at him, a little surprised, and said, "Commander, what if the Kunizaki detachment doesn't retreat?" ”

"Then let's really have a siege and annihilation battle! The key to this battle is to care about the artillery preparation before the start, and we must fight accurately and ruthlessly, and try to destroy the Japanese army's will to resist. ”

Ye Zhao looked at Ouyang Yun, then at Li Hansoul, and said: "It sounds very tempting, but the risk to be taken is also very big, our army is only two divisions, purely from the comparison of troops, it is not enough to encircle and annihilate any Japanese army-what I am worried about is that if the Japanese army desperately moves closer to Xiaxiu Bridge, will the troops in charge of the broken bridge be able to resist it?" ”

Ouyang Yun said: "It depends on whether our artillery can take the lead in defeating the Japanese artillery - at Xiaxiu Bridge, I not only sent a regiment, but also sent all the sappers over, who will be responsible for building a minefield, and in addition, I equip them with enough machine guns." If the Japanese lack enough artillery, it will be difficult for them to tear through this line of defense, and if the Japanese have enough artillery, we will have to abandon this plan and withdraw all our troops towards Dayangzhong Island. ”

Li Hansoul asked a question that he was most concerned about: "Commander, which regiment of the 60th Division is there at Xiaxiu Bridge?" ”

"Wang Changyun's 604th Regiment."

Li Hansoul's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said: "Wang Changyun, I know that if he leads people to defend, our army's chances of victory will be greatly increased." I agree with this combat plan! After speaking, he looked at Ye Zhao and the others.

Ye Zhao and the others saw that he was in favor, so naturally it was not easy to object, so they spoke out in agreement.

Ouyang Yun looked at the time, glanced at everyone again, and said, "Everyone, it's nine thirteen o'clock, and at nine forty-five o'clock, we will start the operation on time, Senior Commander Lin and Senior Commander Ye, hurry up and assemble the team." Remember, your political director is mobilizing before the war, our opponents are fierce, and the fighters must be mentally prepared. ”

"Yes!"

As Ouyang Yun expected, after Naojiro Amaya and Noboru Kunizaki learned the news of the reinforcement of Li Ling from the 60th Division from the call from the headquarters, they immediately changed their previous arrogant style, and subconsciously gathered their troops towards Li Ling, and at the same time sent a telegram to Sadao Ushijima, asking him to speed up the march, "so as to prevent the people of China from breaking away from the battle and retreating to Zhenjiang." "Naojiro Amaya and the Gakubing Army have fought several battles and have a certain understanding of their combat methods, and after learning the news, he immediately drove all the remnants of the soldiers who were still resting and asked them to quickly dig fortifications to deal with the possible counterattack.

Naojiro Amaya's actions undoubtedly bought a certain amount of time for delaying the fall of the Tenya detachment. However, at about 9:45, when he was having lunch in advance, he suddenly heard the dense ** sound, and the little devil immediately realized that something was wrong - from the intensity of the cannon sound, he could judge that the number of artillery on the opposite side was definitely more than a hundred. More than 100 artillery pieces were fired at the same time, and it is conceivable that a large-scale attack will follow.

"Quickly answer the call from Major General Kunisaki," he shouted to the adjutant as he dropped his lunch box, silently saying to Amaterasu: God, please bless the artillery units of the Kunisaki detachment not to wipe out the whole army in the first round of strikes!

Amid a deafening explosion, the phone was connected. However, Noboru Kunisaki's luck was obviously not as good as that of Amatani, and the first round of artillery fire of the Cadet Army actually hit the headquarters of the Kunisaki detachment, and Noboru Kunisaki, an old devil, didn't even have a chance to scream, and was immediately torn to pieces by artillery fire. Therefore, apart from the violent explosion that Tiangu heard at the beginning, there was no other useful information in his ears.

At the same time, on a towering tree about three kilometers away from the headquarters of the Kunisaki detachment, Xiao Yi was holding a walkie-talkie and grinning at Ding Yi beside him: "Brother artillery did a good job, one shot, hehe!" I hope that the devil general Kunisaki is right in there, then we will have a great achievement. ”

The infiltration of the Wolf Tooth Squad is omnipresent, and they are not only responsible for reconnoitring the enemy, but also guiding the artillery units to orient themselves. Among the ten squads of the third squadron of the Broadsword Regiment of the Wolf Tooth Special Operations Brigade, the most exaggerated is the squad led by Xiao Yi. They unknowingly appeared near the headquarters of the Kunisaki detachment, and in this way, the luck of the little devil of Kunisaki was naturally carried to the extreme - the nest was discovered by others, and they could still be pleased.

It was precisely because of the wolf's tooth squad that predicted the location of the enemy troops, so Naojiro Amaya's prayers did not work, and the artillery unit of the Kunisaki detachment was completely wiped out in the first round of artillery fire, and some of the artillery was blown up to ashes because they stayed next to the ammunition box, and they passively became missing after the war.