.On the afternoon of October 14, Wuhan, the 11th Japanese Army headquarters.

The atmosphere here is a bit unusual. Although the air pressure in the Eleventh Army headquarters has never been higher these days, it is too stuffy now. In this building where stars are shining on weekdays, you can only see some low-level assistants in the General Staff. In the telecommunications room, you can hurry in and out like a headless rope. Not only can you not see a general walking in the corridor, but even the colonels with real power run there, giving people the illusion that the Eleventh Army is in a period of power vacuum.

Did these soul figures of the Eleventh Army really disappear collectively? Of course not, they were in this building, but their condition was not very normal at this moment. From noon, the commander Lieutenant General Guangang Village locked himself in the office, and no one was allowed to enter. Major General Aoki, who had been promoted to chief of staff, and his deputy and opponent deputy chief of staff, Major General Miyazaki, had a fight in the morning, and they simply went from fighting to gesture with his hands. At this time, the fight was in full swing. Don't get me wrong about these two people pushing the sand table in the sand table room.

The initiator of all this was Cheng Jiaji, who was thousands of miles away.

The new round of troubles of the commanders of the 11th Army of the Japanese army originated from the early morning of this morning, the main force of the New 18th Army launched an attack on Wucheng. Judging from the current combat process, the Japanese side judged that the Chinese army invested at least more than 12 regiments on the front line, otherwise the 7,000 Japanese troops stationed in Wucheng would not have lost one-third of the peripheral positions within half a day. Judging from the attack intensity shown by the Chinese army, it is easy to conclude that the New 18th Army, under the pressure of the high-level, decided to pull out Wucheng, the nail nailed on the west bank of Poyang Lake. The main force of the Chinese army in Wuning area was "restless" and linked to the breaking out of the New 18th Army, which had been broken for almost a month, broke, and broke into the nest, which seemed to be more instructive to the Chinese army's efforts this time.

The news reached the 11th Army. Gangcun and others were not very worried about the safety of Wucheng in the short term. Wucheng was not very strong in the mainland. Wucheng was defensively strong, and the city walls were tall and strong, not to mention five divisions. Even the Chinese army with ten divisions could not defeat Wucheng within three days. Within three days, whether in the direction of Changdu or De'an, they could be replenished. By then, these two directions could send troops to attack the Chinese army in a dilemma under Wucheng. Not to mention whether they could win a great victory. At least it is expected to protect Wucheng. That being said, for the sake of security, at noon, the 11th Army Command still sent a telegram to Changdu, who was across the lake from Wucheng. From then on, some troops were drawn to support Wucheng. However, given the Japanese army in Chaodu

After repeated transfers, the garrison troops were already quite empty. A reinforcement corps from Hukou to the 9th Division of the Chamdo region will not arrive in Chamdo tomorrow afternoon. In order to ensure that the Chamdo defenders can still maintain a certain combat effectiveness during this period, the 11th Army commander transferred from Chamdo to Wucheng this time was very different from the previous times. The previous few times transferred from Chamdo were all Japanese. This time, except for a squadron of Japanese troops, most of them were Manchurian puppet troops with strong loyalty and combat effectiveness than the puppet army. In order to fill the possible loopholes that may appear in Chamdo, which is in a semi-vacuum state, Gangcun also personally called the Navy to strengthen its water guarding force against Chamdo. After making these emergency arrangements, at least on the surface, the generals of the 11th Army could not see any flaws in that aspect that the Chinese army could drill.

What puzzled the leaders of the 11th Army was why Cheng Jiaji chose such a fighting style that seemed to be a desperate war of attrition. If another Chinese general adopted such a fighting style, the generals under his subordinates in Gangcun didn't have to think about it. After just two or three days, they waved the army to crush the 40,000 to 50,000 Chinese troops trapped under the city. But the opponent was Cheng Jiaji, who had repeatedly dealt heavy blows to the Japanese army since Taierzhuang and had not yet suffered a defeat. The situation was over.

All are different. The decision-making level of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army has always had a sharp and deep division in tactical strategies, which is a semi-public among the top leaders of the Japanese Army. However, in terms of attitude towards Cheng Jiaji, the 11th Army is unprecedented, that is, pay attention, and pay attention. The body of Lieutenant General Junji Matsuura is still humiliated in the grave built by the Chinese in Nanchang City. With this lesson alone, no general in the entire Japanese Army dares to underestimate Cheng Jiaji.

Time passed minute by minute, and it was not until six o'clock in the afternoon that the Lieutenant General of Gangcun walked out of his office and walked into the sand table room that was still in the middle of a "fighting battle".

"Aoki Jun, are your arguments going to be a result?" said the Lieutenant General of Gangmura tiredly. It seems that he had not gained anything while thinking alone. In fact, this cannot be blamed on Gangmura. The Japanese army has always respected attacks, attacks, and attacks again in tactical guiding ideology. Since the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese army has basically not set off its stance to fight division-scale defensive wars, let alone passive comprehensive strategic defense. Japanese generals, including Gangmura, are used to attack philosophy, and have suddenly become the attacking party, and it is reasonable to feel uncomfortable.

"Your Excellency Commander, I have a hypothesis." However, Major General Aoki, who has a relatively conservative tactical thinking, has transformed this thinking more successfully.

"If the Chinese army suddenly attacked Duchang with all his might, with Duchang's current military strength, it would be very likely to be captured. There are only two problems. He wanted to attack Duchang, at least two or three divisions, so that he could take Duchang in a short period of time. I can't think of how Cheng Jiaji could use to get a ship that could carry so many troops without us savvy. Besides, Wucheng was fighting so fiercely, he had two more divisions from there to attack Duchang." Aoki continued to talk about his views and doubts. He did not doubt whether Cheng Jiaji had the courage, but just believed that the Chinese army could not get enough ships under the eyes of the Japanese army.

"Duchang!" Aoki's words really reminded Gangcun, asking him to reexamine the place he had been overlooking.

"General, Wu Cheng is in a hurry again. The Chinese army's offensive is unprecedentedly fierce, and its vanguard assault troops have reached the city gate."

The news from Wucheng brought back the balance that had already fallen to Duchang in General Gangcun's heart.

"Duchang! Wucheng!" Gangcun, which hesitated in both directions, finally issued a series of orders that he would regret for the rest of his life.

"Order the Duchang defenders to be fully alert. Order the strengthening corps of the 9th Division will march overnight and must arrive in Duchang before 9:00 tomorrow morning. From now on, the Air Force will conduct uninterrupted round-trip reconnaissance in the Duchang area."

In fact, objectively speaking, Gangcun also attached great importance to the direction of Duchang. After all, due to the lack of military strength, before Cheng Jiaji clearly launched an attack on Changdu, he could not withdraw the troops of Wucheng, which was fighting fiercely and was already very tight, to Changdu. If Wucheng is lost, the 11th Army will lose a stronghold with important strategic value, and its impact on the entire battle situation cannot be underestimated.

If he insists on saying that there are miscalculations in Gang Village, he can only accuse him of not being able to detect in time that serious corruption has occurred within the defenders of Duchang, so that hundreds of well-equipped Chinese troops should quietly enter Duchang City. But this responsibility is to be punished by the high-ranking military commander of Gang Village, which is a bit reluctant to look at.

On October 14th, at 6:00 pm, an unknown small port on the shore of Poyang Lake, ten miles away from Wucheng.

It was dusk. If it were on weekdays, the lakes that were fishing on the lake would have returned to the port one by one. But now it is very lively, with endless large ships and small Shanban everywhere. Behind the sailboats, there are also rafts made of fir trees. Some of the rafts are already full of soldiers with live ammunition, and more rafts are busy getting on the shore. Just look at the majestic momentum of the army waiting to go on the war, no matter who can think of what these soldiers are going to do.

"I'll take the first batch of bosses by myself." Wen Songyuan was trying hard to persuade his boss not to take risks in person.

"I am the boss and the division commander! That's it." Cheng Jiaji was not sure about the risks of fighting through the lake. In order not to disturb the eyes and ears of the Japanese army, he did not requisition civilian ships in the lake area in advance, which greatly restricted the size of the troops that could fight through the lake. Although Cheng Jiaji had a good relationship with several water bandits, he could second their ships in a short time, the number of ships in the hands of these lake bandits was very limited. Even if he secretly collected dozens of motorized ships from the lake near Nanchang in the name of transporting military supplies and used the buoyancy that had long been transported to the front line on the grounds of building fortifications.

The raft made of huge fir boards, the transport capacity of this fleet that can only reach the scale of two and a half regiments at one time. This means that if you want to move the troops and supplies of the New 100 Division away from the lake, the fleet will have to run three times. Anyone with minimum knowledge of amphibious combat knows that having soldiers but no ships on landing is equal to having no soldiers. If the first echelon of the New 100 Division cannot take Duchang City before the reinforcements of the Japanese army's half regiment arrive, the fate of waiting for the first echelon will be wiped out. How can Cheng Jiaji feel at ease to let Wen Songyuan command such a highly adventurous action?

After sending Wen Songyuan away, Cheng Jiaji looked at the scene of thousands of sails flowing in front of him, and said to himself in his heart, Lao Qian! It depends on you. At least you have to pick off the Japanese patrol boat in the port first, otherwise if you meet thirty or forty ships on the lake, it will be a big fun.
Chapter completed!