After Zhou Yinghua and Xiao Yueguang left, Li Hong took over the command of the original 113th Brigade of the 337th Division.

Li Hong studied the map in the headquarters for a while, then walked out of the headquarters and began to survey the terrain of the villages and towns around Xiaobengbu Town.

With such a long stretch along the Huai River, it is indeed not an easy task to hold the Japanese 113th Division crossing the river.

The ancients were right in the art of war, the best defense is to attack.

Blindly only knowing defense, that is, waiting for the enemy to attack you, defending against devils in the Huai River, to put it bluntly, is purely a defense war that consumes troops.

The security regiment troops are elite, and Li Hong will not be stupid enough to let his troops fight a war of attrition all the time.

Li Hong's idea was that if he caught the fighters and killed the main force of the devils, he could greatly defeat the Japanese army and block the enemy's attack.

With a telescope in his hand, he sometimes stood on a commanding height, sometimes walked along the north bank of the Huai River, thinking about how to use the terrain for defense.

After several hours of reconnaissance, he gave the order to redeploy and rearm.

The main defensive line of the security regiment is near the town of Bengbu on the north bank of the Huai River, and the defensive line is three kilometers long.

After deploying the troops, Li Hong ordered the soldiers to strengthen the fortifications on the defensive line on the original 337 Brigade and the devil's position.

With a solid defensive position, it is not a problem to guard the little devil to cross the river, and next, he should consider how to kill the little devil the most and consume the enemy's troops, and delay the enemy's crossing of the Huai River to the greatest extent.

After thinking about it for more than ten minutes, Li Hong decided to arrange two more lines of defense on the north bank of the Huai River to hinder the enemy's advance.

"Herald!"

"Here!"

A herald answered loudly from the side.

"Pass on my order, the sappers dig several two-meter-wide canals along the first line of defense along the Huai River in Bengbu Town, dig more mud pits, and then order the officers and men of each battalion and company to place mines on the second line ......of defense, and pay attention to marking the mines on the ground, so as not to injure friendly soldiers by mistake."

The main purpose of the first line of defense is to delay the enemy, and the second line of defense is to kill and hinder the enemy.

Li Hong considered almost all the issues that should be considered in advance, if a little devil crossed the Huai River at night and crossed the first line of defense, as soon as the mines of the second line of defense sounded, the soldiers on the defensive position could be vigilant in advance and prepare for battle.

He patrolled several kilometers of defensive lines, carefully surveying every position, and urging the various units to quickly build fortifications.

……

Night gradually fell, and the banks of the Huai River fell into darkness.

10 kilometers from the south bank of the Huai River, the Japanese 113th Division, the 26th Brigade, the headquarters of the Sagawa Wing.

A dozen devil officers were sitting at the wing headquarters, and they were holding a military meeting.

The 113th Division of the Japanese Army is a first-class combat unit, with 26 brigades and 103 brigades under its jurisdiction, and belongs to the Central China Dispatch Front.

During the day today, a brigade of the Sagawa Wing stationed in Bengbu Town was completely annihilated, which made the wing commander Taro Sagawa very angry.

Bengbu Town is a must for the Chinese defenders and devils, and Bengbu Town was recaptured by the Chinese army, and Sagawa Taro will certainly not give up.

In order to recapture Bengbu Town, the Sagawa Wing has been requisitioning and dispatching boats to cross the river during the day and preparing for the river crossing operation in advance.

Sagawa Taro looked angry, sat down at the conference table, and asked the intelligence officer: "Which army is besieging the defending troops of our Bengbu Town during the day?" ”

The devil intelligence officer reported: "Report to Your Excellency, Wing Commander, the siege of Bengbu Town is a central army unit, and the subordinates have not found the specific number and information of this unit for the time being. ”

"Yaga!"

Sagawa Taro scolded, and said angrily: "Your intelligence department is all waste, and the big war is coming, and you can't even figure out the information of the Shina troops fighting with us." ”

The devil intelligence officer lowered his head and let the co-captain reprimand.

Instead, Sagawa Taro asked the officers of the command in a loud voice: "How are the preparations of all the departments to cross the Huai River tonight?" ”

The commander of the Japanese army, who was in charge of tonight's river-crossing operation, was the first to reply: "Report to Your Excellency, Wing Commander, that all the river-crossing combat units have been assembled. ”

At this time, a young man stood up and reported: "Report to Your Excellency, the brigade logistics department has mobilized 20 small boats. ”

After this Shao Zuo finished speaking, another devil Shao Zuo reported again: "Report to the Wing Commander, our department has been ordered to requisition and transfer river crossing tools in the villages and towns on the south bank of the Huai River, and seize 37 large and small boats from the civilians of China. ”

"Yo Xi, order all departments to prepare and cross the Huai River tonight!"

Taro Sagawa slammed his fist on the conference table, expressing his strong determination to recapture the defense line of Bengbu Town.

"Ha Yi !!"

The devil officers nodded their heads, and then they left the headquarters......

After receiving the order, the combat units of the devils crossing the river immediately launched an operation, carrying rowboats and boats, and quickly advanced to the south bank of the Huai River.

As the time went by, it quickly reached nine o'clock in the evening.

"Boom la la ......"

There was a crashing sound of waves crashing on the rushing river.

The first and third brigades of the devils, carrying various means of crossing the river, gathered at the ferry on the south bank of the Huai River under the cover of darkness.

"Put down the boat, the first brigade quickly cross the river, hurry up!"

Under the order of the devil commander, the first group of little devils pushed those boats into the river, and the rest of the devil soldiers boarded the boats one after another.

Dozens of boats slowly rowed on the river, and some devil soldiers rowed towards the north bank of the Huai River with their oars.

Half an hour later, all the devil soldiers of the first brigade went ashore, and the enemy quietly touched the front and flank of the defense line of Bengbu Town.

The 3rd Brigade did not cross the river together, but remained at the south bank ferry and stood by, and as soon as the 1st Brigade in front succeeded in occupying part of the position, the 3rd Brigade in the rear would immediately come up with reinforcements.

The terrain along the river on the north bank is relatively flat, and if the two groups of devils attack together, the number of black people is not conducive to the attack at all, and there may be many little devils who die in stray bullets in the battle.

After a while, the first group of devils slowly moved to less than 100 meters from the river bank.

Because the sky was dark after all, and the visual conditions were not good, it was difficult to detect some of the pits on the riverbank, and suddenly, more than a dozen little devils walking in front of them suddenly fell into the pit dug by the sappers of the security regiment.

"There is a pit, save me, save me......"

These unlucky devils are eagerly shouting for other devil soldiers to come to the rescue.

"Hurry up and get them up."

The devil commander lowered his voice and ordered the soldiers next to him to save people.

A group of devils cautiously walked forward, and before they could get close to the devils who were stuck in the mud pit, these little devils who had gone to rescue them also fell into the surrounding puddles and pits.

"Baga, the cunning Chinese defenders......"

The devil commander couldn't help but curse angrily when he saw his subordinates sinking into the mud puddle one by one.

These mud pits are all more than 1.5 meters deep and covered with muddy silt.

The little devils are all small short legs, many of them are less than 1.5 meters tall, and once the devils fall, they will sink deeper and deeper, and even be submerged and covered to death below.

(End of chapter)