"Report that the 103rd Division has arrived at the 671st Regiment Defense Zone. Commander Wang asked if the 103rd Division has entered our defense zone."

Just when the Dragon Boat Festival was calling someone, soldiers came to report that the 103rd Division had arrived.

Dragon Boat Festival thanked the Party and the country for not forgetting themselves, but actually sent reinforcements at this most critical moment.

Of course, the chief officials of the Third War Zone were not all for a good meal. How could the intelligence department not know about the Japanese army?

The chairman had already noticed the Japanese's wolf ambitions. They wanted to cross the Jiangyin Fortress and cross the river and cut off the retreat of Nanjing City.

Therefore, Jiangyin Fortress must be guarded.

So, just as the Japanese army dispatched their troops to Jiangyin overnight, the 103rd Division also began to move towards Jiangyin and finally arrived at the defense area of ​​the 671st Regiment before the war began.

This was undoubtedly an unexpected surprise for Dragon Boat Festival. He was worried that because of his small military force, he could only be beaten passively, and the 103rd Division had arrived.

However, this army is not very optimistic about Dragon Boat Festival.

The 103rd Division is affiliated with the Guizhou Army. Although the Guizhou Army is an important force among the warlords in the southwest. However, since Guizhou is a barren and weak province with a weak economic foundation, it has two prominent characteristics: dependence and predatory nature.

The so-called dependence means that in its form and development process, Guizhou warlords often rely on major forces such as Yunnan warlords.

The so-called predatory nature refers to the fact that the Guizhou Army often pointed its finger at relatively wealthy areas such as Sichuan and Hunan during its external development.

So it is in line with the saying that the poorer the more you fight, the poorer you fight, which directly led to the Guizhou Army's weapons and equipment being very backward, even worse than that of the Sichuan Army.

Moreover, the internal conflicts of the Guizhou Army were also very sharp and were divided into two factions: old and new.

The old faction was headed by Liu Xianshi, and his cousin Liu Xianqian was also an important leader of the Guizhou warlords.

Liu Xianshi's father Liu Guanli was appreciated by the Qing court for organizing the reunion and suppressing (叶玉容) uprising. He was successively awarded guerrillas and magistrates. Later, he was promoted to the prefect for his merits and was rewarded with flower feathers, controlling an armed force, becoming a domineering force in Panju Xingyi.

His former subordinates were all great gentry, and the magistrate of Xingyi did not dare to do anything without consulting. He decided on all matters of local affairs in one sentence, and the Liu family became a small local court.

The new faction was led by Wang Wenhua, and its main backbone were young intellectuals who joined the army or entered politics before and after the Xinhai Revolution. They were relatively young and were easily accepted by new ideas. They advocated adapting to the world trend and refreshing Guizhou politics.

Therefore, the two factions are completely different in terms of concepts. Especially after the Civil 8 Incident, the contradiction between the old and new factions in the Xingyi Clan became more acute. The relationship between Liu Xianshi and Wang Wenhua and his uncles reached a point where they were incompatible.

At that time, Wang Wenhua led the Guizhou Army to occupy Sichuan and Chongqing as the commander-in-chief of the Guizhou Army, and Zhao Youxin, Gu Pinzhen and other troops occupied Chengdu and other places.

In August 1920, Xiong Kewu joined forces with Liu Cunhou and various units of the Sichuan Army to expel the Yunnan-Guizhou army into Sichuan, and the Battle of Jingchuan (also known as the Battle of Sichuan-Yun-Guizhou).

On August 6, the Sichuan Army attacked Chengdu and after two months of fierce fighting, the Yunnan Army drove out of Sichuan. In early October, the Sichuan Army divided into three routes to directly attack the Guizhou Army stationed in Chongqing and launched a siege in Chongqing.

On October 15, Liu Bocheng's troops of Sichuan Army were the first to break the city and killed the first brigade commander of the Guizhou Army. The commander-in-chief of the Guizhou Army, Wang Wenhua, carried the huge sum of money he had obtained from blackmail, fled to Shanghai by ship. The remnants of the Guizhou Army were led by Lu Tao as the acting commander-in-chief and fled to Guizhou. (So it can be seen that Wang Wenhua is not a good bird)

Because the Guizhou Army lost the Sichuan War, Wang Wenhua knew that there was no other way out, so he decided that the Guizhou Army would all return to Guizhou and overthrow the Liu Xianshi regime in the name of "clearing the monarch". This is the very famous Civil 9 Incident in history.

So when the Dragon Boat Festival heard that the 103rd Division came to rush for assistance, I was happy and a little worried.

I am happy because I have reinforcements, and I am worried because I am here the 103rd Division of the Guizhou Army.

However, the 103rd Division was still remarkable in the Battle of Songhu to the Battle of Nanjing. Not to mention that it was very brave, but at least it ran away without seeing the Japanese.

And if you remember correctly the Dragon Boat Festival, the 103rd Division should have six or seven thousand people after the Battle of Songhu.

This is due to the fact that the 103rd Division was ordered to cover the 26th Sichuan Army Division that blocked the Japanese army in Dayang Town during the Battle of Shanghai.

But no one expected that when the 103rd Division arrived, the 26th Division of the Sichuan Army had been defeated, and the 103rd Division lost its combat significance and was transferred to the Xicheng Line.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of this division, at least in terms of personnel, has a great advantage over other divisions.

"Well, you go and order the 103rd Division immediately, let them stand on time and wait for my orders. In addition, if you ask their division commanders to come to see me, you should be quicker."

"yes!"

The Dragon Boat Festival ordered the soldiers to run away.

At this time, Commander Huo said: "Special commissioner, since the 103rd Division has arrived, why don't you let them enter the defense zone? If the 103rd Division guards Jiangyin Fortress with us, then as long as there is enough ammunition, we will have no problem holding it for half a month."

The Dragon Boat Festival did not look up at all, but continued to look at its own map and said, "You have made things simple and ammunition sufficient? Do you know that most of our shells are imported? Even if you want to replenish supplies, there is no one in Nanjing. So we only have one purpose in combat. Put a piece of cake in the Jiangyin Fortress, let these Japanese rush up like lifeless, and then we will take the opportunity to kill them. Don't worry about the gains and losses of a city and a place, we must be people-oriented."

"Reported that the Japanese plane has arrived at the Jiangyin Fortress, less than two kilometers away from the Jiangyin Fortress."

At this moment, another soldier came to report.

"Let the anti-aircraft artillery be prepared, give the Japanese a warning first and make their flight formations mess. The more they mess, the more powerful they are against us."

"yes!"

The Dragon Boat Festival orders, and the soldier ran down to pass the order.

But I didn't expect that the man had just left, another communications soldier ran in and reported: "Report, the Japanese artillery positions on the other side of the river are ready,..."

"Don't bother me with this kind of thing. Don't let me issue the same order for the second time. The Japanese artillery fired when they are ready. Why don't you understand?"

The Dragon Boat Festival scolded him, and the correspondent quickly responded, and then ran down to pass the order.

At this time, Dragon Boat Festival ordered again: "Old Huo and find me a hundred sets of Japanese military uniforms."

Commander Huo said in confusion: "Commissioner, what do you want the Japanese uniform to do? Do you still want to get into the enemy camp on the battlefield?"

Dragon Boat Festival smiled and said, "You are right, I just want to get into the enemy camp."

Boom! Boom, Boom!...

At this moment, the sound of cannons came. It turned out that it was Xiaoshan, and the forts in Xishan had already begun to attack the Japanese artillery positions.

The Japanese army thought that their artillery positions were built very secretly, but they did not know that when the Japanese army appeared on the river bank, soldiers from the 112th Division had noticed them.

After the report, Dragon Boat Festival attached great importance to it and ordered Commander Huo to clearly understand the position of the Japanese artillery position.

So at this time, the Japanese artillery was just ready and before the artillery had been fired, the heavy artillery bombed by Xiaoshan and Xishan, and the people were overturned by the heavy artillery, causing heavy casualties.

The entire Japanese army sequence was stunned at once, and all artillery positions were destroyed almost instantly. There was no reason to explain except that the Chinese had obtained accurate information first.
Chapter completed!