The 33rd Division of the 3rd Division of Sakurai Province 3 on the North Road ignored the demands of the 34th Division, and regardless of the life or death of the two friendly troops on the Middle Road and the South Road, they retreated to Fengxin Anyi in one go.

The Japanese army's combat thinking is not unified, there is no commander in command, and it is indeed rare to fight and retreat if you want to fight, which also gives the opportunity of the central ** to vacate the troops on the north road to deal with the Japanese army on the middle and south roads.

When the 34th Division on the middle road was still fighting Xishan, the independent mixed 20th Brigade on the south road was already about to reach the Fengcheng and Qingjiang (Zhangshu) areas.

The 74th Army ordered the 51st Division to immediately set out from Sixi and go to Quangang Town on the north bank of the Gan River to intercept the 20th Brigade of the Japanese Army and prevent them from crossing the Gan River to the south of Shanggao.

In order to quickly reach Quangang, the 51st Division used the automobile brigade of the transportation battalion.

In the past, the 51st Division did not have automobiles, but the artillery units had mule-drawn artillery, and the transport units had mule-drawn carts and rickshaws.

But the road from Quangang to Sixi was also broken and messed up, but fortunately, the local villagers and engineering troops helped to fight for several days and nights in advance to fill in a barely feasible road.

The three battalions of the three dogs and their 152nd regiment took advantage of the darkness of the night to arrive at Quangang in less than two hours, and immediately after getting off the car, under the leadership of the local guerrillas, they seized the position on the line from Maoshan to Gaoshan.

The position of the three battalions moved forward, sandwiched between the high mountains and the north bank of the Ganjiang River, and held the bridgehead (place name) to prevent the Japanese army from crossing the river and moving north.

The three battalions and eight companies were in the front, the front of the annular trench, the seven and nine companies were on the left and right, the protection flanks were behind, the battalion headquarters and the machine guns were connected together, occupying the highest hill, and heavy machine guns and mortars were also set up in the positions behind the side of the hill.

Behind the third battalion is the first battalion and the regimental headquarters, between the high mountain and the Mantou Mountain, and then the second battalion is Maoshan, which belongs to the reserve of the whole regiment.

The second battalion also has a task, that is, to protect the artillery battalion of the division headquarters, with the transportation of automobiles, the divisional artillery battalion quickly came to the front line with artillery this time, and now Maoshan is used as an artillery position, which is protected by the second battalion of the 152nd regiment.

The brothers of the third battalion took advantage of the darkness of the night to start a race against time on the original position of this line, which belonged to the Ganjiang River Erosion Plain, without any mountains and rivers, and most of them were hills except for flat land.

Now it is only possible to make a fuss and fortifications around the hills, which are full of loess and laterite, and the soil is soft, which is convenient for the construction of rampant trenches.

However, there were some positions dug by other troops here, which are now being remodeled and reinforced.

Several circular trenches around the hills, there were semi-foxholes every few steps as rifle firing positions, and light machine-gun emplacements every few meters as squad machine-gun firing positions.

There are communication trenches in the middle of the circular trenches, and some exits are built on the left and right, and there are steps with trapezoidal mud and stone devices, which are considered waterproof, and the drainage ditches at the bottom are paved with wooden or stone slabs.

At the junction of the trenches between the companies and the companies, two small pits built of mud and stone were opened, the large pit in the front was used for urinating and urinating, and the small pit in the back was used to store drinking water.

At night, four posts are placed, one each on the front and one on the left and right, and two officers and men at each post take turns on duty. Anti-aircraft machine guns and other anti-aircraft firepower networks were set up at various commanding heights, forcing Japanese planes not to dare to strafe and drop bombs at low altitudes.

The rudiments of these positions are there, and the transformation is much faster, but the bunkers are generally done, and the three dogs took a look, and the bunkers of the company headquarters were only covered with soil three or four meters later, and they could not withstand the bombardment of the Japanese heavy artillery and aerial bombs.

The cover of such a burrow or bunker must be at least six meters, and there must be a mixture of wood and sandbags in the middle to withstand the bombardment of the artillery.

Everyone went around collecting wooden planks and used them as bunkers, as well as wooden chests, which were filled with dirt and compacted and covered on top of the bunkers to become a layer of cover.

Then there are wood, sandbags, etc., and the top is camouflaged with turf or transplanted vegetables, which used to be on the side of Shanggao Sixi, due to the long time of stationing, the vegetables on each bunker can be used to supply the daily needs of the company's cooking team.

Sangou took a few company commanders, and in addition to the bunkers and trenches, he also selected a few places as reserve positions, but this position did not need to be dug by manpower first, just made some fake bunkers and trenches on it.

In order to make it more similar, I also found some straw to tie into a straw man, put on a hat, and lie down in a shallow trench, mainly to attract the bombardment of Japanese planes and artillery.

Sure enough, two days later, on March 17, the forward troops of the 20th Brigade Regiment of the Japanese Army on the South Road arrived as scheduled and arrived at Fengcheng on the south bank of the Gan River.

As reconnaissance cavalry, dozens of Japanese troops began to reconnoiter the situation on the north shore in this area.

When the outposts of the 3rd Battalion saw this, they immediately notified all the troops to enter the bunkers, leaving only the observation posts to hide in the foxholes to continue their observation.

Less than half a day later, Japanese planes flew in and bombed, constantly diving and dropping bombs at those false positions, and also dropped some bombs on the real positions, but not as many as the false positions.

However, before the Japanese infantry came up, the anti-aircraft machine guns on the various heights did not fire at the Japanese planes, and there was no need to consume the Japanese army prematurely for the time being.

After the Japanese planes returned, everyone came out and saw that the false positions had been "dug" one by one, and before the enemy's artillery arrived, everyone also repaired in the false positions, digging the reserve positions more and more similar.

After the arrival of the main force of the Japanese army the next day, a busy scene began on the south bank, and in the binoculars of the three dogs, the Japanese army was seen collecting ships everywhere, plus the rubber boats and assault boats they brought themselves, all prepared on the south bank.

Seeing this, the Japanese army was determined to cross the river here and go north, and the commander of the 152nd regiment, Liu, told the whole regiment that not a single shot should be fired indiscriminately, so as not to arouse the vigilance of the enemy.

However, the Japanese army had already detected it on the plane, and in the hills of the line from Maoshan to Gaoshan on the north bank, there was a position in the middle of the world.

After the bombing in the morning, I didn't find any overreaction from the **, just repaired it, it seems that the ** is just a normal guard of the ferry force.

If it was just an ordinary defender, then the Japanese 20th Brigade would be much more relieved, but when preparing the ships, they still set up infantry guns and heavy machine guns on both sides of the ferry, ready to block the fire of the north bank.

Seeing that the north shore saw that they were preparing ships on the water surface of the ferry, they did not dare to shoot, it is estimated that this is a very ordinary garrison, there is no need to be afraid, and the Japanese army is even more bold and wanton.

By March, it was already spring, the spring water was overflowing, the water level of the Gan River had risen a lot, it was the time when the ships were good to go, and the Japanese army was busy preparing, and the third battalion also began to prepare for it.

"The firepower is moved forward, and the troops are rear-positioned."

Sangou called the company commander of the eighth company at the front, fighting this kind of positional warfare, or a condescending bridgehead defense battle, Sangou had fought with the seventh company before, and had his own set of methods.