"It seems like the Japs don't want to fight a defensive battle anymore," Chen Cheng said, looking at the map. "Those three legions of the Japs are running all the way. They have no defensive posture at all. It seems they are the one who wants to attack."
"attack!"
A brigade commander said, "They want to attack with so much firepower, don't they have a fever?"
"We can't be careless," Chen Cheng said, looking at his commander. "After all, the Japs have an army of 300,000, and these 300,000 are still armed, so we must not take it lightly and must respond with all our strength. Since the Japs don't want to defend themselves, If we fight, then we will take the initiative to defend. We have fought many offensive battles, and we also want to try a defensive battle."
"We use the Yamamoto River as a defensive position to prevent the Japanese army of 300,000 from crossing the river. I took a look and found that there are only these five river sections suitable for crossing the river. Therefore, each brigade is responsible for defending one area, and we wait for work. Let’s fight a positional defense battle with the Japs. As the defensive side, let’s see how the Japs fight!”
"clear."
The five combined brigade commanders learned about the locations of their defenses and quickly gathered their troops and rushed to the corresponding locations to build fortifications.
The Yamamoto River is 279 kilometers long and spans most of Shikoku Kyushu Island. Therefore, if the Japs want to attack the main force of the 13th Group Army from the flank, they must cross the Yamamoto River Basin.
In addition to being 279 kilometers long, the Yamamoto River Basin is also more than 100 meters wide, with only five places in shallow streams. If a kid wants to pass through the Yamamoto River Basin, he must go to these five places, otherwise he can only build a bridge to cross the 100-meter-wide river. The Yamamoto River Basin was more than ten meters deep, and Chen Cheng also sent scouts to keep an eye on the little Japanese's eastward direction. If the little Japanese really chose to go to the deep water area, then he would not mind flooding a hundred thousand Japanese.
No. 1 River Basin, this is the area defended by the 1st Combined Brigade. The commander of the 1st Combined Brigade is named Wang Dabiao. He used to be the deputy of the 133 Infantry Army Commander Li Yunfei. Now he has been mobilized to the 131 Infantry Army as a brigade commander.
The First Combined Brigade has a full strength of 8,000 soldiers. In addition, there is a heavy artillery regiment and a rocket artillery battalion for fire support. It is also limited to one missile support and one aviation support. So although this There were only eight thousand soldiers, but Wang Dabiao was full of confidence. Even if the Japanese came with an army of one hundred thousand, he could still stop them.
They began to dig defense fortifications seventy meters away from the watershed. To be honest, the defense fortifications they dug were very simple. They were trenches and bunkers made of sandbags. However, this was enough in Wang Dabiao's opinion. As long as they could defend against small The Japanese artillery is enough, because all the Japanese flying teams have been destroyed and there are no fighter planes in the country, so they have absolute air supremacy.
One day later, all the trenches had been excavated. Wang Dabiao also inspected it. Although his brigade was the main offensive force all the way to the city and the stronghold, and they had not done any civil excavation work for a long time, the civil work was still completed very well. He was very impressed. satisfy.
"brigadier."
The reconnaissance company commander came to Wang Dabiao and said, "We have found out that the Japanese who came to our No. 1 Ferry have a legion, exactly 100,000 troops."
"Hahaha, good time!"
Wang Dabiao gritted his teeth and said with a smile, "If a brigade of troops can block an army of Japanese soldiers, no matter what the commander says, he will treat us to a drink, hahaha."
"That's not the case."
The commander of the reconnaissance company said with a smile, "Our commander has collected a lot of bottles of Beizhou Laojiao, and I'm craving for this right now."
"A good fight will require your wine."
Wang Dabiao shouted to the brothers behind him, "Cheer up and fight well for me. If this battle is fought well, I will be rewarded by the army commander. If you don't fight well, go back to me."
After saying that, Wang Dabiao came to the rocket artillery battalion and the heavy artillery regiment position. Although he looked very relaxed on the surface, he was still under a lot of pressure. It was no joke to fight with a brigade of troops against a Japanese army of 100,000. He must plan carefully.
"Brigadier Wang!"
The commander of the heavy artillery regiment and the commander of the rocket artillery battalion saw Wang Dabiao coming and immediately stepped forward to salute, because they were both colonels, but Wang Dabiao was a brigadier general, two ranks higher than them, and Wang Dabiao was also the highest commander on the front line, so Both of them will salute when they see each other.
"Um."
Wang Dabiao nodded and said, "Just now, the reconnaissance company commander sent news that the Japanese who came to attack our No. 1 ferry had a legion, that is, an army of 100,000 people. This is our first time, with a brigade of troops fighting against an army of 100,000 people. The pressure is Nothing is too small, so I need the full support of my two brothers.”
"When Brigadier Wang said this, he was out of touch. We belong to the same camp, and our heavy artillery regiment will always obey Brigadier Wang's orders."
"The same goes for our rocket artillery battalion."
"That's a good relationship," Wang Dabiao said with a smile, "My plan is this. When the Japanese saw that we had resisting troops here, they would definitely investigate the number of our troops. So when they knew that we only had 8,000 people, They will definitely take it lightly and use artillery to clear the way, so when the time comes, the heavy artillery regiment will need to kill the Japanese artillery shells first, and then..."
Wang Dabiao explained his battle plan, and at the same time, the commander of the Japanese First Army also learned that there was a brigade of Daxia troops at Tuben Ferry, with 8,000 people.
"well!"
Hearing that there are only 8,000 people, the Great Xia Kingdom is getting more and more conceited. They actually want to use 8,000 people to stop my 100,000 army. They really think they are gods.
"Send me an artillery brigade and bomb the Daxia troops. I will make a brigade of troops completely wiped out under the ravages of artillery fire."
"Hiyi!"
The artillery brigade commander nodded and responded, "I will make the Daxia troops pay the price with blood."
After finishing speaking, the commander of the Japanese artillery brigade began to arrange the artillery positions. 48 150mm howitzers and 24 120mm cannons were all in place.
"Shoot me!"
Following the order from the commander of the Japanese artillery brigade, 72 artillery shells burst out instantly and began to attack the 1st Combined Brigade camp. At this time, the soldiers of the 1st Combined Brigade had already hid in the air-raid shelter. This air-raid shelter prevented the Japanese artillery from still No problem.
"Damn it!"
Wang Dabiao spit out a mouthful of mud and hid in the air-raid shelter and shouted, "The feeling of being bombed is really unpleasant. No wonder the Japanese cry for father and mother every time they are bombed, as if their father is dead."
"fire!"
Then, the second round of Japanese artillery bombardment appeared, but behind the First Combined Brigade, the soldiers of the heavy artillery regiment began to measure the location of the Japanese artillery position, and they calculated it in just three strokes, five divided by two.
