"Commander, this is also the main reason why I have not been able to make up my mind, but I have a preparation in my heart, that is, if the devils occupy the position and stay on the position and do not leave, I plan to take back the Niushou Mountain position even if the independent brigade is exhausted."
"We are very familiar with the terrain of the Niushou Mountain position, so we can say that we know everything well, and we can do something next to the position before evacuating the position, so that the devils will have to spend a lot of brains to occupy the position after they come in, and then we will see whether the devils will ambush or recapture the position."
Zhou Wu said the bottom line of his plan.
"Okay, I'll go back and talk to Yu Shiming, let him cooperate with your actions, and in addition, your independent brigade must also do a good job of secrecy work, so as not to leak the news and ruin the big thing."
The commander said.
"Yes, then I'll act according to this plan, and I'll arrange it later."
Zhou Wu said.
The army commander soon went back, and Zhou Wu asked his officers to go back first and prepare well, he might have to leave the Independent Brigade for a while, and the specific command was temporarily represented by Ding Ning.
The officers under his command looked so haggard when they saw the brigade, and in addition to the great pain of losing so many relatives, it was also necessary to leave the independent brigade and go to other places to relax, although the war was urgent now, but there was still a chief of staff here, there should be no big problem.
Ding Ning didn't believe that Zhou Wu would leave the Independent Brigade at this time to relax, he waited for those officers to leave, and said: "Brigade seat, you really want to go to other places to relax, how do I think this thing is not true With your usual style, you will not leave the Independent Brigade at such a time, although you are very sad about the loss of your relatives, but you choose to escape, it doesn't seem to be your style, others believe it or not, anyway, I don't believe it." ” "Lao Ding, you're right, I left the Independent Brigade to go to the field to relax, in fact, I just want to give the devils a false impression, so that our Independent Brigade can withdraw from the Niushou Mountain position, lure the devils to occupy the position, and trick them into the ambush circle we preset in Niushou Mountain, and gather and annihilate them in the division and encirclement.
Lao Ding, you have to work hard in the past two days, because I am retiring, and the drama in front of and behind the stage depends on you to sing.
Zhou Wu explained.
"I said, it turns out that you have adopted the method of the fat man giving up the position and luring the enemy deep to eliminate the devils, this method is good, but it is estimated that you will have to bear the infamy of escaping for a few days, but compared to being able to kill more devils, what are these infamy" Lao Ding suddenly realized.
"Yes, when our independent brigade succeeds in luring the enemy and destroying the devils, that is when I clear my name."
Zhou Wu said.
"Okay, don't worry, as long as you can lure the devils on the opposite side into Niushou Mountain, as for how to arrange the ambush circle, I will arrange it immediately, as long as the devils still want to attack Nanjing City, they can't get around Niushou Mountain."
"As long as we act like it, the devil will definitely come to occupy the position, but we have to tell the brothers who are pretending to defend the frontal position, don't give up the position after resisting twice, this is too fake, the devil will be suspicious, I think the fat man's group is more good at this, it is better to let them take on the task of feint to defend the position, what do you think" Ding Ning has already begun to deploy.
"Okay, wait a minute, you will personally explain to the fat man, let him pay attention not to act too fake, and ask the brothers who are defending the position to save their strength, not to fight hard with the devil, now everything is easy to say, but there are too few soldiers who can fight, especially those veterans who have experienced a hundred battles, it is more expensive than gold."
Zhou Wu said.
The next day, Nanjing's major newspapers published the news that Zhou Wu, commander of the Independent Brigade of the 79th Army, who was stationed at the Niushou Mountain position at the southeastern gate of Nanjing, could not stand the stimulus because his family had been killed, so he resigned and went to other places to relax.
For a time, rumors spread in the city of Nanjing, all saying that even the commander of the independent brigade, who had always fought bravely and never escaped from Shanghai to Nanjing, had also fled, and it seemed that Nanjing's defensive situation was not optimistic, and some newspapers even scolded Zhou Wu for being a traitor, and his relatives were not cold, so he ignored the safety of Niushou Mountain and the independent brigade, and as a major general of the national army, he did not throw his head on the battlefield and spill his blood, but chose to escape, which is really a shame for the soldiers.
At first, he didn't believe that Zhou Wu would suddenly leave the Independent Brigade and go to other places to relax, but later, according to their insider report in the Nanjing Ministry of National Defense, Chief Tang of the Nanjing Garrison Headquarters was furious and was posting lists around Nanjing to arrest Zhou Wu and looking for him all over the world.
This devil leader named Taro Watanabe was a little convinced, but he still suspected that this was a bitter ploy by Zhou Wuyan, the purpose of which was to trick them into being fooled and attack Niushou Mountain.
Two things happened later that caused Watanabe to change his original opinion, the first was that according to reliable information from the front, the independent brigade had been transferred to the line of Gwanghwamon, where it was building sandbag fortifications and preparing for a defensive battle against the city wall.
As for the question of the authenticity of the information, it was obtained from the field investigation of friendly people who had served the empire for a long time, and combined with the analysis of other Japanese intelligence officers in the city of Nanjing, this should be reliable information.
The second thing is that the headquarters of the Japanese Empire recently issued an order for them to march to Nanjing as soon as possible and occupy it in the shortest possible time, and also forwarded an edict from the emperor asking the Japanese army to send troops in Shanghai to conquer Nanjing as soon as possible.
The Supreme Commander of the Dispatch Army, Matsui, issued a death order to all divisions under his command to capture Nanking by mid-December, otherwise the commanders of the divisions would be severely punished.
These two pieces of information made Watanabe, who had always been cautious, a little unable to sit still, and if he didn't occupy Mt.
Niushou, which was no longer garrisoned by an independent brigade, he was afraid that Matsui would have to kill him.
Although Niu Shoushan was replaced with troops from the 79th Division of the 11th Army, this 11th Division was not to be worried, which Watanabe was still quite confident about.
After some consideration, Watanabe decided to send a squadron of troops to the edge of the position to see what the defensive forces were doing before considering taking action.
So a squadron of about two or three hundred devils sneaked towards the frontal position of Niushou Mountain that the fat man held onto, and the fat man had already received instructions from Ding Ning and Zhou Wu, and the more than 400 brothers stationed in the position had all changed into military uniforms of the 11th Division, and were waiting for the arrival of the devils on the position.
In order to play this big drama well, the fat man asked the brothers to pay attention to the artillery fire of the devils, and all the personnel hid in the anti-artillery holes when the devils shelled, and when the shelling was heard, they immediately returned to their positions and prepared for battle in the shortest possible time.
These jobs are a piece of cake for these veterans who have been through a hundred battles, and they have prepared enough ammunition and dry food this time, ready to fight the devils in Niushou Mountain.
The fat man carefully observed the movements of the little devils with a telescope in Niushou Mountain, this time the devils came a little differently than usual, there was no artillery preparation, and those little devils were all sneaked up with cats on their waists.
The fat man ordered the brothers on the position not to rush to fire first, and then fight when the devil who touched it was close, the little devil had no artillery preparation, and he definitely wanted to come to sneak attack or test the position, since the devil wanted to test, then let's make a show for them.
Most of them are members of the special service battalion, and the fat man originally wanted to use a group of brothers to take on this task of holding the position and luring the enemy into the depths.
Unexpectedly, because the battalion commander Zhai Daping was killed, only one Dabao was left to run back, and he lost an arm, covered in wounds, and is still recuperating on the stretcher of the health company, they really can't swallow this bad breath.
Under the leadership of the deputy battalion commander surnamed Chen, he asked the fat man to fight, asking to participate in the task of holding the position, the fat man thought about it, these brothers were emotional, because their old battalion commander and a dozen brothers were killed by the devil's plane, they all wanted to go to the front line to kill the devil, if they could guide their hatred, it should be good for holding the position, as long as they could withdraw in time. t1706231537: