Rui Mouguo stood in his headquarters, watching the smoke rising from the dense forest in the distance through the carefully prepared large magnification viewing glasses. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The landing of the other party was expected by him, and the shelling of the other side was also expected by him, but what happened next made him a little overwhelmed.

First of all, beyond his expectations, it was the Ming Imperial Air Force temporarily stationed on Luzon Island. The performance of these planes was so eye-catching that he was very surprised.

Dive bombers have sunk more than a dozen large enemy troop carriers and pushed back opposing battleships. Such a strong record put the enemy's landing force in a bitter battle.

Then, unexpectedly, it was the Navy. Chu He, in a disadvantaged situation, actually divided his troops to attack the landing force in Ceylon, which further shared the pressure on the defenders on Luzon.

Under the cover of warships, the current troops of Rui Mouguo have the momentum of annihilating the opponent's landing force on the beachhead.

The battlefield, at least the battlefield in the landing field, is developing in the direction of benefiting the Ming Empire. This made Rui Mouguo feel at ease and grateful at the same time.

Even if he guessed, he guessed a little, Chu He's current situation. Although he didn't know that Chu He had died in battle, he knew that Chu He's way of fighting was choosing to use himself as bait.

There are old generals like this, if they can't hold Luzon, it will be a shame to the world. With a sigh in his heart, Rui Mouguo continued to look at the smoke in the distance.

What was supposed to be a brutal battle for the beachhead has now turned into a massacre of Ceylonese soldiers. The soldiers of the Ming Empire opened fire from all sides, and the Ceylonese soldiers fell one by one.

The expected abandonment of the beach did not even appear, the other party was trapped on the beach, and even the vigilance and interference position prepared by Rui Mouguo for him has not been completely breached.

You know, those positions were simple fortifications, and they had been ravaged by the enemy's naval guns for a long time. Rui Mouguo even wondered what it would be like once the other party collided with his real defensive position.

The core fortifications of the Ming Empire, located three to four kilometers from the coastline, began to increase the number of defenses and went completely underground.

At least one-third of the line of defense was reinforced with reinforced concrete, and one-tenth of the line was connected by tunnels.

These tunnels were eventually connected and retreated back to the area of the main fortress. There are hidden artillery batteries and machine-gun defensive positions with dogs, plus treacherous mines and various obstacles, and the attackers will definitely be tortured to death.

What made Rui Mouguo depressed was that the appetizers he prepared were almost full for the other party...... But the dinner he carefully planned, the other party hasn't even seen it!

"The first line of defense, hasn't it been completely lost yet?" Looking at the black smoke in the distance in the huge eyepiece in the hidden observation post of the defensive fortress built against the mountain, Rui Mouguo asked.

"Your Excellency, Yes. As of now, about one-fifth of the first-line defensive positions are still in our hands, and the second-line defensive positions are being contested. An operational staff officer reported.

Just now, the second-line defensive position was fiercely attacked by the opponent, I don't know if it was a return to the light, in short, the other side came up with a rather ferocious offensive momentum.

"The Navy doesn't know how long it can hold out, and it doesn't make sense for us to waste too many forces on the beachhead." Rui Mouguo said.

The reason why they did not dare to devote too many forces to driving the Ceylonese attacking forces on the beachhead into the sea was because the navy could collapse at any time.

If the opponent's battleship is killed during the battle for the beachhead, rewriting the balance of power at sea, then the forces he invests will be used as cannon fodder in front of the opponent's big ships and giant guns.

Even if you know that if you put in a counterattack, you can make the opponent fight with their back to the coast and lose a lot of living forces. But Rui Mouguo still didn't dare to really bet on the future of Luzon.

He didn't have many troops in his hands, and although his losses were not large now, a failed counterattack could cost him tens of thousands of soldiers.

"Let the soldiers on the first line of defense withdraw! If you lose contact, give up ......" After weighing it again and again, Rui Mouguo decided not to take any risks.

Because in his opinion, the success of the counterattack was only the elimination of some of the landing soldiers, and this did not affect the victory of the battle for Luzon.

If the fleet of the Ming Empire failed, he saved his strength without counterattacking; If the Ming Empire's fleet was lucky enough to win, he wouldn't have to worry about the enemy infantry on the beach.

Therefore, for the sake of prudence, Rui Mouguo chose the safest plan: "Give up the front-line defensive position, there is no need to entangle there." ”

The retreat would cost him a lot of soldiers in the first-line defensive positions that he had lost contact with, at least in the hundreds. But he was able to save the lives of hundreds of others and get them into the second-line positions to strengthen the defenses there.

"Yes!" The officer who gave the order stood up and saluted, then grabbed the phone in front of him and informed some of the defensive positions on Luzon that were at the forefront.

Soon, the Ceylonese defenders sensed that their own casualties seemed to be waning. They cautiously entered the woodland, and then occupied the defensive positions that had been abandoned by the soldiers of the Ming Empire.

After learning the news of the retreat of the soldiers of the Ming Empire, the soldiers of Ceylon began to launch a fierce attack on the second-line positions, they had had enough of the torture and killing on the beachhead, and fully understood the meaning of attacking if they wanted to save their lives.

These Ceylonese soldiers were bombed in the water, strafed on the beach, and machine-gunned by the jungle, and now the most important thing they wanted was to go inland to the island and escape all kinds of attacks from the soldiers of the Ming Empire.

Finally, most of their soldiers entered the jungle and began to advance into the deep area. But after less than a kilometer, they regretted their decision.

On the second line of defense, the Ming Empire was more fully prepared, with the interference of treacherous thunder, the sharpshooters hidden in the corners, and the suppression from artillery.

A short stretch of jungle road made the defenders of the Ming Empire play tricks and heights, and finally turned into a new cemetery for Ceylon soldiers.

The battle continued here, and the soldiers of Ceylon continued to endure massive casualties, leaning against all sorts of tree trunks and stones, praying for the early return of their battleship.

Their prayers seem to have some effect, because in the British commander Balek? Under the leadership of Admiral Lem, the coalition fleet was not far from the landing site.