In the western suburbs of Dongguan, the Third Division of the First Army is intensively building fortifications, which is the only way from Humen to Huizhou, and if the Japanese army wants to attack Huizhou, it must pass through here.

The terrain of Pingchuan can only rely on trench fortifications, and the platoon commander of the third company and the first platoon of the first regiment of the second division, Le Fei, and the deputy platoon commander Dong Dashan, are looking around to check the construction of the position. After more than half a month of renovation, this position has become a continuous defense system with trenches and barbed wire, and the fortifications are basically perfect. However, it was not the fortifications that worried Le Fei, but the recruits in the platoon.

The situation of the Second Division is quite good, the proportion of recruits is only 50 percent, the proportion of recruits in the Third Division of the First Army can account for 60 percent, and the situation of the Second Army and the Third Army is even worse, with recruits accounting for 90 percent! According to the company commander, the Japanese soldiers were not as easy to fight as the Manchu soldiers, they were equipped with more artillery, their tactics were more flexible, and the quality of their soldiers was higher. I heard that those Japanese soldiers were all fearless of death, and they said that it was the spirit of bushido.

"Lao Le, whatever bushido and bullshit emperor he is, my wife will teach them a good lesson!" Dong Dashan seemed to know what Le Fei was worried about, and patted the light machine gun in front of the machine gunner next to him and said loudly. Dong Dashan regards the machine gun as his life, and people who are familiar with him joke that Lao Dong, you just marry the machine gun as a daughter-in-law, but I didn't expect Dong Dashan to call the machine gun his wife after that.

Le Fei put away his frowning brows and nodded to Dong Dashan gratefully, he was negligent, his worries would infect those recruits, this is not the attitude that a platoon commander should have.

"Lao Dong, what do you say this is He Guangsha, that kid is doing? Didn't he participate in such a big battle and stay in the military academy to study? ”

"How do I know? I heard that after coming out of the military academy, he became a company commander directly, much older than our officers, and He Guangsha is a cultural person. Lao Le, I advise you to also sign up for military school, if you want to mix in the army, it is a must, otherwise you won't be able to go far! ”

"I signed up a long time ago, and the company commander said that it was about to be approved, isn't this just in time for the war! The little Japanese devils don't know the height of the sky, Lao Tzu wants to teach them a hard lesson and go to the military academy in the future, and when the time comes, he will also blow when he sees He Guangsha. Le Fei helped a soldier adjust his posture of raising a gun, and said with a laugh.

Huizhou General Staff, here are all genetic people, the only ordinary person Wu Yue was also transferred to assist in the logistics organization work, Lu Liang can vent his inner excitement willfully, and he doesn't have to worry about others watching jokes, and he doesn't have to worry about emotions being transmitted to others.

"Since the landing site of the Japanese army has been confirmed, it will be carried out according to the plan! Let the brigade stationed in Humen Town retreat with a little resistance and fight within the range of Japanese naval guns, Lao Tzu is not so stupid! Have the ordinary people near Humen been evacuated? ”

"The people at the landing site have all been moved, and not a single grain of grain has been left, but continuing to penetrate deep into the inland areas, the workload of moving forward is too great, and the time is too short, and we can only hope that our army and their battle can attract the attention of the Japanese soldiers, so that they will not have the energy to plunder."

Lu Liang nodded, this is also a matter of no choice, and it is also the price that must be paid for letting the Japanese army in and fighting. "Transfer the First Division of the Third Army over there, and we will form a huge encirclement in Humen!"

According to the plan, the Second Division of the First Army set up a sniper position in Dongguan to block the Japanese army's road to Huizhou, the heavy industry base in Huizhou was Japan's first target, so the First Army, which had relatively strong combat effectiveness, was placed here; The sniper unit leading to Guangzhou was the 1st Division of the 2nd Army, which was to converge with the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division withdrawn from Humen, and set up a sniper position at Zhangmu Town; The 2nd Division of the 2nd Army set up a sniper position in Qishi Town, south of Humen, with the aim of blocking the Japanese army's road south to bypass Dongguan. The 1st and 3rd Divisions of the 1st Army were to be used as counterattack forces in Guangzhou, the 3rd Division of the 2nd Army and the 1st Division of the 3rd Army were to be used as counterattack troops in Huizhou, the 3rd Division of the 3rd Army was set up in Chaozhou as a unit to snipe the 10th Town of the Fujian New Army, and the 2nd Division of the 3rd Army was scattered in other areas of Guangdong to prevent internal chaos and Manchu attacks from other provinces.

"Lao Dong, you take a squad to the company headquarters, and the company commander sends an instructor to take people to the regiment headquarters to collect ammunition!" Today is April 14, 1902, and it is estimated that the Japanese army has arrived at Canton Bay and will soon land, and the Second Division of the First Army has begun to enter a state of emergency combat readiness, and the order is to replenish three bases of ammunition again -- it is better not to run out of ammunition when the battle is fierce.

On the Humen side of Guangzhou Bay, nearly ten battleships flying the flag of the Japanese Navy approached the coast to cover the landing of army soldiers on transport ships, and no enemy fortifications were found at the planned landing site, and not even a single cannon was seen on the Humen battery! This made the naval gunners who were holding back their strength and preparing to exert their might very helpless, and there was no atmosphere of war at all!

The lack of experience in landing operations, the lack of small boats for landing purposes, is not a problem here. According to the information sent back by the advance reconnaissance team that landed first, the closest enemy to the coast was also a few kilometers away in the town of Humen, where the naval guns could hit, but the accuracy was not high, and the navy did not want to waste precious shells and barrels. And the intelligence showed that no artillery was found in the enemy positions in Humen Town, and the landing ground was not shelled, everything was so perfect!

Standing on solid ground, the commander of the 2nd Division of the 1st Army, Lieutenant General Nishikanjiro, looked at the slow landing force and couldn't help frowning. The reason for the slow landing was that not only the infantry disembarked from the transport ships, but also more than 50 artillery pieces of the artillery wing, artillery of the artillery brigades belonging to the brigades, ammunition and supplies, and so on. Before setting out, considering that the water network in Guangdong was dense, which was not conducive to the play of cavalry, only the horses of the baggage brigade were brought in, but this was not a small amount.

In April, the rain in Guangdong began to gradually increase, and the landing began at 7 o'clock in the morning, and now it is 9 o'clock, and the landing of the 2nd Division has not yet been completed, and there are still 3rd and 4th divisions ready to land. The sky is starting to be cloudy, and if it rains, the landfall will inevitably slow down. Fortunately, the landing force was not attacked, and in fact, Lieutenant General Nishikanjiro wished that he would have encountered the enemy right now -- the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Division, which had landed earlier, had already landed and was organizing fortifications deep into the landing site.

At ten o'clock in the morning of April 14, 1902, the Second Division of the First Army of the Japanese Army had all landed.

On the sniper position on the outskirts of Humen Town, Lu Ming, commander of the Third Brigade, was holding a telescope and looking into the distance, the sky was gray, and sporadic light rain had begun to fall. Such weather was a good thing for the Zhenguo army, who waited for their work, and the Japanese offensive would become more difficult.

"Report to the brigade commander, the reconnaissance detachment sent back the news that the second brigade of the second division of the first army of the Japanese army is heading towards Humen, and it is currently three kilometers away from the sniper position. More and more soldiers were gathering on the Japanese landing ground, and there were signs of departure one after another. The scouts came to report, and Lu Ming took the reconnaissance report, which clearly stated the number of Japanese troops, the number of artillery and the speed of the march.

"Send this information back to the General Staff." Lu Ming handed the information to the confidential officer, and then asked, "Is the retreating truck ready?" "According to the plan, the 3rd Brigade will retreat after only a little resistance, and after reaching Zhangmu Town, it will join up with the 1st Division. So the retreating vehicles must be ready, otherwise they will be bitten by the Japanese army, and who knows what these recruits will be like in the field? Frontal battles are not terrible, what is feared is that the retreat will turn into a rout.

"Report to the brigade commander, the General Staff has prepared sufficient trucks for us, and now all of them have arrived in Humen Town and are parked in temporary warehouses." A staff officer said.

Lu Ming is a genetic person, and he is a high-level genetic person, with strong autonomy, although he has no dissatisfaction with the orders from above, but a brigade of more than 5,000 people, there is not a single artillery, not even a mortar, which still makes him a little aggrieved. Who made him carry out the order to lure the enemy! According to the plan, all heavy machine guns and most light machine guns were also not allowed to fire.

"Guangdong is really a rich land, Ximu-kun, you see, there are cement roads in such a remote place as Humen, which is unthinkable in Japan! Have you ever studied in Germany and seen such a road network there? Major General Sasaki, commander of the 2nd Brigade on horseback, asked.

Nishiki Daisa, chief of staff of the Second Brigade, had just returned from studying in Germany last year, and he was extremely envious of Germany's big industry, and for this reason he resolutely supported the decision of the upper echelons to attack Guangdong. In his view, a country's industrial strength and steel output are all the country's strength, and Japan's current steel output ranks only 14th in the world, and hundreds of thousands of tons of steel cannot meet the country's needs. "Major General Sasaki, the German railways are criss-crossed and have convenient transportation, but it seems that there are not so many cement roads, you must know that the cement and steel required to build such roads are not a small amount, even Germany cannot support them."

"Soga, in this way, Guangdong does have a huge heavy industry base to support large-scale highway construction, and we must seize those factories!"

While speaking, the second brigade had arrived at the sniper position of the Zhenguo Army in Humen, and without hesitation, the Japanese soldiers began to set up artillery positions under the order, and the eighteen field guns of the artillery brigade were quickly erected, and the baggage soldiers transported the shells over. A large group of soldiers was also ready to launch the first attack, testing the fire of the enemy positions.

"Your Excellency, Major General, please see, the sniper position set up by the Zhenguo Army outside Humen Town is not small, roughly estimated to be more than 2,000 meters long and more than 200 meters wide in depth, such a position can accommodate more than 3,000 people to enter, and I estimate that there will be a large number of reserve soldiers behind the position."

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