In order to achieve the offensive effect and save valuable ammunition, Zhou Wu asked his brothers to buy all the firecrackers in all the villages outside Huai'an City, and put them in the white leather iron barrel to "kick and crackle" a chaotic sound, which shocked the Miyamoto boy in Huai'an City and hurriedly ordered the little devil guarding the city to go outside the city to tentatively contact and reconnoiter which team came to besiege the city Soon, Miyamoto received a reconnaissance report: "The siege of Huai'an City is a team of the Independent Brigade of the New Fourth Army, which has a lot of people, about three or four thousand people, and is now thinking of attacking the fortifications south of Huai'an City."
When Miyamoto heard this, he became angry: "Why is this independent brigade again, I fought with them in Hudong Town last time, and I didn't tell a winner, why did they come to the door again?"
Zhou Wu led thousands of men and horses of the independent brigade to attack him under the city of Huai'an, which touched Miyamoto's arrogant self-esteem, and he ignored the requirements of the Devil's Dispatch Army Headquarters to pay attention to the situation in the direction of Yancheng at any time, and decided to send the entire Huai'an brigade to fight with Zhou Wu outside the city and fight it.
The chief of staff of the devil next to Miyamoto hurriedly reminded him: "Your Excellency the brigade commander, don't be impulsive, Zhou Wu of the New Fourth Army came to Huai'an this time, he must have a plan, we can't be fooled by him, or according to the intention of the dispatch army headquarters in Huai'an City, pay attention to the situation in the direction of Yancheng, besides, Huai'an City is firmly defended, and the New Fourth Army does not have heavy siege facilities, it is estimated that it will not be able to be attacked for a while, why should we be in a hurry and catch Zhou Wu's way" The chief of staff of this devil analyzed very correctly, he thought that Zhou Wu and they could not run from the Tianchang base in the south to Huai'an City for no reason, there must be a purpose, now that the Imperial Army brigade has captured a group of American officers, is it that their New Fourth Army is here for this, if this is the case, then it will be even more impossible to go out of the city to pursue the New Fourth Army team, once the New Fourth Army is transferred away from the mountain, there is a problem in the direction of Yancheng, then it will be too late to reinforce.
According to the situation analyzed by the chief of staff of this devil, Miyamoto should listen to his opinion and stand still in Huai'an City, but Miyamoto's kid is very good at fighting, almost in many battles with the Kuomintang army and the New Fourth Army, there are few defeats, and he has won the praise of the above, but he is very arrogant, always thinks that he is smarter than others, sometimes he knows that other people's opinions are more correct than him, he does not admit it, this is the case, he still knows in his heart that Zhou Wu's siege of Huai'an City must have other plans, But he really couldn't stand that his old nest dared to be attacked by those dirt buns of the New Fourth Army, plus the last battle with Zhou Wu's independent brigade in Hudong Town, and there was no winner or loser, Miyamoto felt that he had lost face, and he was determined to go out of the city to compete with Zhou Wu again, to see who was powerful around Huai'an, if his old nest Huai'an City was captured by Zhou Wu's independent brigade this time, then he could still mix in the military circles in the future Although the chief of staff of the devil has a certain influence, but after all, he can't resist Miyamoto, the brigade commander, there is no way, seeing Miyamoto's attitude of going out of the city to meet Zhou Wuxin's Fourth Army so resolutely, the chief of staff of the devil retreated and asked Miyamoto to draw out a brigade of troops as a mobile reserve, in case of a situation in the direction of Yancheng, you can also use this left devil brigade to rush to reinforcements, so that there will not be no troops to send at that time.
Miyamoto thought for a while, and felt that he had a total of more than 7,000 devils under his command, in addition to leaving a brigade to guard Huai'an City, and then sent a brigade of devils, and there were less than 6,000 troops on hand, according to reconnaissance intelligence, the New Fourth Army Zhou Wubu who came to attack the city was only three or four thousand, with the imperial army's consistent combat effectiveness, it was completely able to deal with the siege team of the independent brigade, in the case of a lot less than the New Fourth Army, Miyamoto had never suffered a loss, and now there are more people than them, if they can't fight again, it will be too much to say, Thinking of this, Miyamoto made up his mind and ordered the devil troops, in addition to leaving a brigade to guard Huai'an City with Noda's military police, and a devil brigade led by Captain Kawashima quickly left Huai'an City, heading east through Pingqiao to reinforce the Imperial Marines in the direction of Yancheng, to ensure that those captured American officers could be escorted onto the ship smoothly and sent to the mainland of Japan.
Yancheng is far away from Huai'an, and Miyamoto asked the Kawashima brigade to go out of the city to the east first, so as to deliberately confuse Zhou Wu, creating a false impression that his entire brigade is about to be dispatched to the east, to see what specific reflection Zhou Wu has, according to the actual situation, all the main forces of the devil brigade were dispatched to attack the Zhou Wu Independent Brigade of the New Fourth Army, dividing them into two, cutting them into two sections, and encircling and annihilating them The news of the Miyamoto brigade going out of the city Zhou Wu quickly learned here, according to the scout report, a group of unknown number of devils out of the east gate of Huai'an City towards the direction of Pingqiao, it seems that they are going to the northeast of Yancheng, Zhou Wu heard this situation, his heart is very entangled, this Miyamoto regardless of Huai'an City was besieged by the independent brigade, but instead sent the main force towards the east gate, it is difficult for him to not be afraid that we will capture his lair Zhou Wu was a little hesitant at this time, he really couldn't judge what this Miyamoto was going to do, and then a minute passed, Zhou Wu was anxious, and hurriedly ordered his subordinate communication soldiers to immediately call Lao Ding Ning by radio, wanting to discuss with him what this Miyamoto's true intentions were But the signal soldier tried to call for a while, and reported to Zhou Wu: "Brigade seat, call is different, the chief of staff they estimate that the radio has been turned off now" When Zhou Wu heard this, his head "buzzed" a lot louder, and now at this time, there is only one situation that can be explained by Ding Ning and their turn off the radio, that is, Ding Ning and their action team have already encountered a little devil at this time, otherwise it would be impossible for Ding Ning to turn off the radio.
Zhou Wu thought for a long time, and was about to make the decision to lead the team to the Dongping Bridge in Huai'an City to block the Miyamoto Brigade, when suddenly the brigade communication corps handed over an urgent telegram, Chen Guofu's first brigade had now rushed to Xujiaqiao, less than ten miles west of Huai'an City, and exchanged fire with the Wang puppet army there, Chen Guofu asked Zhou Wu where they were now In addition, Chen Guofu also informed Zhou Wu that several other brigades of the division headquarters had all arrived at a place of more than ten miles around Huai'an City in accordance with the division commander's pre-arrangement, and that there were no New Fourth Army troops in the east, and that the New Fourth Army troops had appeared in three directions of Huai'an City.
After Zhou Wu received this urgent call from Chen Guofu, he had the bottom in his heart, and felt that he still couldn't rashly follow those little devils who went to the east of the city to catch up, and the two or three hundred brothers who had fat men over there were resisting, and they would have to fight like this for some hours, don't be in a hurry to move first, continue to feint and attack Huai'an City, and see what Miyamoto will do next Zhou Wu ordered his brothers to intensify the siege of the city, so the sound of firecrackers in the white iron barrel "kicking and crackling" was even more cheerful, and the brothers of the first regiment and three battalions of the main attack on the south gate had already assaulted the moat, and the devils who stayed at the south gate hurriedly ran back to report to Miyamoto: "Your Excellency the brigade commander, about four or five hundred people of the New Fourth Army have broken through the fortifications of my south gate and attacked the moat, and there is only one squadron of our imperial army troops in the direction of the south gate, I am afraid that we will not be able to withstand such a fierce attack by the New Fourth Army."
Miyamoto was a little unable to sit still at this time, originally he wanted to test Zhou Wu for some hours, but he didn't expect Zhou Wu to turn a blind eye to the Kawashima brigade he sent out to reinforce Yancheng, and he didn't react at all, and he felt more and more that Zhou Wu was going to play this time, fortunately, his brigade and regiment were still in Huai'an City, otherwise they would all be sent to Yancheng, then this old nest Huai'an could still be saved Thinking of this, Miyamoto glared fiercely at the chief of staff who suggested that he devote all his strength to support Yancheng, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates: "Sasaki Wing and Okamoto Wing attacked from the East Gate to outflank the siege troops of the New Fourth Army, the brigade artillery brigade supported the two wings to attack the flank of the New Fourth Army, and the Yamamoto Wing was personally led by me to attack the right flank of the New Fourth Army at the West Gate, and the Kawashima Brigade and the Noda Military Police held the gates of Huai'an City to strictly prevent the New Fourth Army from taking the opportunity to attack the city, and all the Imperial Alliance troops followed me to attack the flank of the New Fourth Army at the West Gate, Our Imperial Army and the Imperial Allied Army have a combined strength of more than 10,000 troops, and it is not a piece of cake to deal with the three or four thousand independent brigades of the New Fourth Army that are besieging the city and have no heavy weapons.
Miyamoto was still full of confidence at this time, and he was also very sure of winning with a one-to-one force against Zhou Wu's independent brigade, and the reason why Miyamoto had such confidence came from his training of the weapons and soldiers equipped with his brigades, and he thought that there was absolutely no problem for those little devils under his command to deal with two or three Zhou Wu's New Fourth Army soldiers.
What's more, now the number of devils on his side has surpassed Zhou Wu a lot, Miyamoto is already imagining the scene of annihilating Zhou Wu's independent brigade troops attacking the city with a group of officers when reviewing the prisoners of the New Fourth Army, if this time he can kill this number one anti-Japanese armed independent brigade that has been endangering the empire in the northern region of Jiangsu, Central and Anhui north of the Yangtze River, then his Miyamoto will be famous, and maybe he can take the opportunity to be promoted, leave Huai'an, and go to Nanjing to take up a post.
Zhou Wu's scouts hurriedly came back and reported: "Brigade seat, a large number of little devils in the city hurriedly rushed towards the east gate, there are quite a few people, there are two wings of people, and there is a devil's artillery behind, more than 20 large and small mountain cannons, look at the devil's imposing appearance, are they rushing towards Yancheng?"
When Zhou Wu heard this, he hurriedly said to the scout: "Go and reconnoiter carefully, once you find that the devil turns out of the city or something else, immediately use this signal gun to contact urgently, the red signal flare means that the devil is going in the direction of Yancheng, and the green signal flare means that the devil is turning, then we will start to resist a large number of little devils who pounce." t1706231537: