A scene in the command headquarters made Liu Jiahua completely reacquaint himself with Sun Yumin.

I used to just think that if one person ascended to heaven and Sun Yumin was promoted to the commander, there would naturally be a group of "little ghosts" who would follow. This kind of promotion by virtue of interpersonal relationships, he has always looked down on it. But after a period of time, he changed his opinion, and in several major battles in Jining, Sun Yumin's subordinates impressed him one by one. Combined with today's scene, Liu Jiahua really began to worship this uncle.

Although the matter has been explained clearly, and Huang Baisheng has not been punished, he knows very well in his heart that because of his stupidity, he lost three brothers in vain. Even if everyone is not to blame, their conscience will not be happy.

Although the mole incident has come to an end, it has indeed sounded a wake-up call for Sun Yumin, no matter what Zhang Xiaohu's purpose is, and whether he finds him or not, it is no longer the most important thing.

The devil's vanguard pathfinder has arrived nearby, and the large army will follow. With this line of defense in front of you, it is impossible to defend against the murderous Japanese invaders.

The most important thing in front of us is to quickly find a place and rearrange the defense line, if you wait until the devil comes before moving, basically all the thousands of soldiers of the 120th regiment will have to be thrown here.

Although he is no longer obliged to care about the life and death of these thousands of people, as a person with a conscience, he will not see death without help.

"Commander Liu, you now send a reconnaissance team, go ten kilometers forward, let the soldiers on your position take turns to rest, the battle has not yet been fought, and their spirit has been almost exhausted."

"Okay, uncle." Liu Jiahua was embarrassed by what he said, and he really can't blame him, this is the first time that he has truly commanded the troops to fight independently.

The place where the 120th regiment is stationed is called Xujia Village, with the wide Yangtze River on the right and the Chihu Lake with hundreds of acres of water on the left.

The reason why Zhang Xiaohu chose this place is because Xujia Village is just stuck in the middle of two waters, and the land width between them is no more than two kilometers.

Xujia Village about 10 kilometers behind the place called Chengzi Town, is a big town on the riverside, there is a rare hill in the middle of the two places, although only one or two hundred meters high, but it is a natural barrier, it is rare that this hill is a cliff by the river, the land end is also very steep, as if it is suddenly burst out on the flat ground. What's even more rare is that this hill happens to be stuck on the main road by the river, if you can hold this hill, you will definitely be able to complete the task that Zhang Xiaohu said about holding on for three days and three nights.

Sun Yumin did not explain to Liu Wenzhi and Liu Jiahua, who accompanied him to see the terrain, that this hill was actually a natural anticline position, and the naval guns on the river could not hit any point on it at all.

Liu Jiahua didn't understand why Sun Yumin would fancy such a place, in his consciousness, if the position was set up on this mountain, as long as it was surrounded, there was only a dead end, and there was no other way than jumping into the river.

Although he had this thought, he didn't say it, and out of extreme trust in Sun Yumin, he immediately pulled over the two battalions that had been withdrawn to rest, and began to dig trenches according to Sun Yumin's wishes.

Although Liu Jiahua was not good at commanding battles, he was accompanied by Sun Yumin, who were all "old monsters", and the battalion commanders of these brigades and regiments were all sent to the company-level units of the 120th Regiment.

With such overkill, can the line of defense laid out be perfect?

From defensive depth, to medium to heavy fire points, to individual pits, almost every position on the position was specific to an individual, not to mention an unexpected position prepared for the more than 20 82mm mortars in the regiment.

When everything was ready on the mountain, it was already the morning of the next day, Liu Jiahua looked at the group of complaining and tired soldiers who were responsible for arranging the position, and suddenly became angry in his heart, and scolded on the spot: "If you are tired, you will die or live, are you still a man?" "Actually, what he wants to say is that if you sweat a little more now, you will shed less blood in wartime. But neither he nor Sun Yumin, who are not good at words, have spoken this truth, perhaps they think that practice is always the best way to test the truth.

The two battalions that remained on the defense line of Xujiacun also withdrew to the mountains, and Sun Yumin originally planned to bury all the trenches on the previous position with explosives, but after observing and asking Liu Jiahua's troops about the amount of ammunition they carried, he gave up this idea. In the end, it is not the 20th Division when he was in charge, all the supply and supply depend on Zhang Xiaohu, who was allocated by Sun Tongxuan, where is the arrogance to let the troops below waste ammunition like before. Backfilling would only increase the fatigue of the troops, and diverting water from the Yangtze River or Chihu Lake to flood the trenches would have no effect, and this hard-working position had now become a burden, which embarrassed Sun Yumin.

Fortunately, Zhou Shanjun gave him an idea, there are Nanzhu growing everywhere in the south, and he asked people to cut a lot of bamboo, cut them into sharp heads one by one, and bury them in the trenches, and the front and rear trenches immediately turned into two giant trap pits. He put the remaining branches over the trenches and covered them with a layer of mud, pretending to be like the same thing. Just pay a little attention to it, and you will find that the new soil and the soil before and after it are completely different colors.

Of course, Sun Yumin knew that this was a flaw, but he had no time to rearrange it, and there was no better way to give the notorious Botian detachment a big dismount, so he had to use the dead horse as a live horse doctor.

The little girl was bored, she kept following Sun Yumin, and when she saw the newly arranged disguise, she thought it was very funny, ran up, and jumped over the trench, but the trench was too wide, and her running distance was not enough, so she fell to the opposite bank.

jumped over, but when she landed, the soles of her feet slipped and she sat on the ground, so painful that she didn't sit up for a long time, and kept muttering: "Niang Xipi, why are you so unlucky in the past two days." Ever since she heard this mantra in Lao Jiang's office, she has also taken these three words as her own mantra.

Sun Yumin was inspired by this fall, he didn't go to help the little girl sitting on the ground, and said to Liu Jiahua, do everything you can to wet both sides, the wetter the better.

Although this will not be very useful, as long as the devils can be held back for a while, the casualties of the 120th regiment will be a little less.

After hastily arranging the original position, Sun Yumin asked Liu Jiahua to prepare a little weapon, and he wanted to go into battle in person to try the idea in his head.

Sun Yumin only needed two Czech-style and three Chinese formal ones, and also asked for a 20-ring mirror box, four grenades, and several bullets for everyone. The people only brought Li Tiedan, Zhou Shanjun, Dong Wenbin and half-devils, and the little girl wanted to follow her, but Sun Yumin refused with a black face, he didn't want to be distracted to take care of this aunt at a critical moment.

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Although Takahashi Liang was kicked hard in the lower body, he escaped death because of this and picked up a life, which can be regarded as a great luck in misfortune.

When he fled to the gate of Jiujiang City in embarrassment, he didn't realize or notice that his crotch was already wet. I guess he didn't know if it was because of the injury, or if he was too frightened to be so unbearable.

He returned to his residence with the help of the soldiers, and after changing into a military uniform, he took out a notebook from a drawer and hurried to the headquarters of the detachment in the city.

Shigeichi Harata had already heard about his embarrassment, and was about to ask him to come over to inquire about the whole story, when he learned that he was coming and went out to greet him personally.

Ryo Takahashi, who was slanting the katana and holding a notebook in his hand, bowed to Hatada, and said, "Your Excellency General, can the first battle of Ruichang be postponed and the battle again?" ”

"It can't be!" Hatashige didn't even ask the reason, he directly refused his request, and the rampage of nearly a month has burst out all his arrogance, just like Seya Kai, the belief in his heart is completely that the Imperial Army is invincible, and he is invincible.

"Your Excellency General, if the defenders of Ruichang are a difficult bone to bite now, and our troops may not be able to bite it, can we suspend the attack?"

"Takahashi-kun, your courage won't be lost in fear just because of this reconnaissance failure! You are not worthy to be a samurai of His Majesty the Emperor, and you are not worthy to be a wing captain of the Imperial Army! Harata Shigeichi glared at the subordinate who had already advised him twice in a row to suspend the attack.

"Your Excellency General, please calm your anger, let me finish speaking, and it will not be too late for you to reprimand your subordinates!" Takahashi did not show any grievances and shame because he was scolded, but looked directly at Shigeichi Habata and said this paragraph.

"I'd like to hear what scared our Takahashi so much that he didn't dare to move."

"Your Excellency, General, do you remember this man?" Takahashi opened a notepad in his hand, on which he sketched a portrait of a character with a pencil.

Shigeichi Hawada took the notepad and carefully studied the less delicate sketch. This sketch is a bust of a human figure, and the most striking thing is that this person is wearing a national military cap, and the blue sky and white sun cockade on the top of the hat is as striking as the scar on the left side of the face.

It's so familiar, Shigeichi Harata felt it at first sight. Where has this person been seen, he fell into a recollection for a while, and just as Takahashi wanted to remind him, he said three words: "Sun Yumin." ”

He still clearly remembers that when attending a pre-war conference in Shanghai, the commander of the Central China Front, Shunroku Hata personally held a portrait and said to a group of senior officers: "This person is a serious problem for the Imperial Army, and he has fought against many elite divisions and regiments, and has brought shame on many troops. What is even more shameful is that he actually took away the wing flag of the 63rd Wing, which cast an indelible stain on the invincible Imperial Army flag. In this attack on Wuhan, the Chinese army will definitely send this person, and if anyone here can take his life, he will immediately enjoy the supreme glory. ”

"Did you really touch him?" Shigeichi Hauda closed the memories and asked himself.

Takahashi Liang thought he was asking him, and hurriedly replied: "Your Excellency General, although he is wearing the clothes of ordinary people, I am sure that this person is Sun Yumin." ”

"Who?" Shigeichi Harata felt strange, he didn't know what Takahashi was talking about.

"That's right, Your Excellency. I took the elite detachment to the front to reconnoitre, but when I was about to approach the position of the Chinese army, I ran into him dressed as a civilian. Takahashi pointed to the portrait on the notepad, "He is not alone, but also with an ugly woman and a young man. I don't know how he found out who we were, but I was knocked unconscious by the first one when I started my hand, and woke up to find that all the people I had taken with me were corpses on the ground. ”

Shigeichi Harata was stunned by his words and asked, "Just the three of them?" ”

Takahashi nodded.

"Three people killed nearly twenty of our warriors?"

"Yes, Your Excellency."

Shigeichi Harata didn't ask anything more, he fell into deep thought, and after a long while, he shouted again, "Someone." ”

When he met Takahashi, there were only two of them in the room, and now he needed a secretary to help him take notes.

"命令、すべて部隊原地警守、以前キャンセル攻撃命令." (Order, all troops are on standout, the previous order to attack is canceled.) ）

"畑に俊六Commander に電気、請求戦術指導." (Call Commander Shunroku Hata for tactical guidance.) ）

Shigeichi Harata was not a rash man, he developed a cautious personality from the time he was a second lieutenant. Although the recent successive battles, and even the capture of the city without a single shot, aroused the arrogance in his bones, reason still made him make the right choice in the end. This order to stop the offensive just gave Sun Yumin time to arrange the defensive line, and also laid the groundwork for his own defeat.

Hata Junroku had already received information from the special high school that the 12th Army of China, which had been resting in Luoyang, had been ordered to transfer its defenses and had been stationed in Ruichang, including Sun Yumin's 20th Division. So when he received the message from Shigeichi Hata, he was not surprised at all, but showed a weird smile: "Sun San, this time I want you to see what a real army is." ”

He immediately sent a telegram to the navy assigned to the Central China Front and the Third Fleet of Kawakoshiro, ordering them to assist the Hatian detachment to advance to Ruichang along the Yangtze River.

Originally, the Japanese navy was worried that the Japanese army would repeat the scene of the Wusongkou shipwreck and the Nanjing shipwreck blocking the bombs, so that the entire fleet was trapped in the inland river for a month or two and could not get out, so after capturing Jiujiang, it returned to Nanjing, but before it had gone far, it received a call from Shunroku Hata, and at all costs, assisted Hatada Shigeichi to take Ruichang.

Although Kagawa Koshiro was reluctant, he did not dare to disobey the order, so he had to return with more than ten small warships to prepare to assist the army in attacking Ruichang.

And Hakata Shigeichi was also excited after receiving the reply, he had the assistance of naval guns, which could make many things that were difficult to do easier, and the return of the navy after capturing Jiujiang made him annoyed for several days, and now he has lost it and regained it, how can he not be confident.

As soon as the navy ships arrived, they even rested for only one morning, and at the urging of Shigeichi Hawada, they slowly moved in the direction of Wuhan.

On the ground, nearly 10,000 horses and horses of the Hatian detachment also began to march in the direction of Ruichang, in order to appease the already timid Takahashi Liang, Hakuda himself followed the second infantry wing in the first group, he couldn't wait to meet the scarface known as the "god of war" of the national army!