When the Japanese 3rd and 5th Divisions were vying to be the first to cross the Yalu River and start a war with the enemy, the soldiers of the Korean Division, which was composed of Koreans and commanded by the Japanese, followed the 3rd Division across the Yalu River and officially entered the territory of the Qing Kingdom.

As the supreme commander of this battle, the commander of the Second Army, Obaogong, is staying in Sinuiju at the moment, not because he does not want to cross the river with the troops, but because the current situation does not allow him to cross the river.

The soldiers from the 8th Wing of the 4th Division were reluctant to cross the river at this moment, and their reasons were also very irresistible, the troops had just arrived in Korea from the mainland, and they had traveled all the way here, and the soldiers were tired and needed time to recuperate.

Therefore, the 8th Wing requested a temporary rest and guarded the crossing point to ensure the safety of the logistics supply routes of the 3rd, 5th and 3rd Korean divisions.

The reason for the artillery wing is even more ridiculous, they feel that the other side has a lot of heavy firepower, and it is impossible to protect the safety of the logistics supply line by relying only on the infantry of the eighth wing, so the artillery wing should stay and work with the eighth wing to maintain the safety of the logistics line.

The commander of the 4th Division, Xiao Chuan, was once again very aware of the virtues of his troops, so this time he did not follow these two wings at all, but chose to stay in Pyongyang and command the remaining three wings to maintain law and order in Korea.

"There are no enemy troops here, so this line is very safe, no one needs to maintain it, and our logistics troops are still able to deliver supplies to the front-line troops." Obao Gong said unceremoniously.

Although he could directly order these two wings to fight on the front line, this kind of order did not seem to be very reliable for the Fourth Division.

But just let the troops of these two wings stay in the rear, and Obao Gong was very reluctant.

Because although the Fourth Division is the most advanced in the entire Japanese army, the most advanced weapons and the most powerful firepower unit, there is no one, but the only one.

With such good equipment and such powerful firepower, the soldiers of this army are very troublesome.

As early as the Russo-Japanese War, the 4th Division was given high hopes to inflict heavy losses on the Russian army. But the final result surprised everyone, the Fourth Division not only did not bring heavy losses to the Russian army, but gave themselves a resounding name, the Eighth Wing, which was not afraid of defeat.

That's right, the 4th Division, which had high hopes, did not win a single victory on the battlefield, and even in terms of desire to fight, the 4th Division was the weakest.

This fourth division, which has the most elite equipment, is laughingly called the most division. However, the soldiers of the 4th Division were not ashamed of this, but felt that what they had done was not wrong.

"But Your Excellency Commander, the troops really need to rest and recuperate, and many soldiers are not accustomed to the situation, if you rush to the front line, I am afraid it will affect your combat deployment." said the Wing Commander of the Eighth Wing.

As the wing leader of the Eighth Wing, Xiao Youjichuan is actually very helpless, he can't force his soldiers, and he can't change their consciousness, because this is caused by the habit of playing small and their living environment.

Although he also wants to lead his troops to the front line to fight bravely, and then receive meritorious service awards, but the soldiers below don't want to do this, what can he do? Could it be that a man carried the banner of the Eighth Wing to the front line?

Obviously, this is an unreliable choice. And as the co-captain of the Eighth Wing, Xiao Youjichuan did not take the benefits of the soldiers, so at this critical time, he could only follow the wishes of the soldiers.

"I know you need to rest, but the empire can't afford to wait for you now, so you must cross the river immediately, but I allow you to follow behind the Third Division, and you don't have to go to the front line for the time being." O'Bogong eventually relented.

What is the matter if you transfer two wings over and don't go to the front line? And for these two wings, he didn't dare to force them, lest he lose his armor before he could beat these people, and mistake his own big thing.

Therefore, Obaogong's decision was to deceive these two wings across the river first, and then let them go forward little by little, and finally push them to the front line.

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"Commander, yesterday morning the Japanese crossed the river from Linjiang and Jiuliancheng." Outside Shengjing City, inside the Han Army Headquarters, the soldiers in charge of reconnaissance and monitoring hurriedly ran back to report.

Wang Sirui looked at the simple map, according to the time when the Japanese crossed the river, I was afraid that the two armies would collide in three days at the latest.

"Keep watching, pay attention to everything the Japanese are doing along the way." Wang Sirui continued to command.

"Yes, Captain." The soldier answered, and quickly ran out of the headquarters.

"Inform Master Wang and ask him to postpone the payment of Gengzi indemnity on the grounds that the Japanese invaded Shengjing. In addition, he summoned the Japanese Chincha on behalf of the imperial court to protest against the Japanese army's unauthorized crossing of the border, and ordered the Japanese army to withdraw from the border immediately. Immediately afterwards, Wang Sirui continued to command.

According to the agreement between the two sides, Wang Sirui needs to pay the first 30 million Gengzi indemnity to 11 countries before the end of July.

At present, there is still more than half a month before the end of July, and I originally thought that the Japanese would definitely launch an attack after receiving the first reparations, but what I did not expect was that the Japanese could not sit still in the end.

Wang Sirui's actions had an effect, he succeeded in angering the Japanese and making them make a very irrational choice.

"Lao Ma, send your troops out, and find out for me how many troops the Japanese have and how many heavy weapons they are equipped with, and it is best to get their numbers." Wang Sirui continued to command.

"Yes!" Ma Sanru answered, and then went to order his reconnaissance battalion to go and find out the news.

"Commander, the Japanese are menacing this time, we have too many recruits, I'm afraid it's not good to meet them." Cao Kun, commander of the 20th Division, worried.

Originally, Wang Sirui didn't plan to promote Cao Kun so quickly, after all, he was just a regiment commander before, and he had no experience as a brigade commander. However, due to the reorganization of the troops, Wang Sirui needed to insert a nail under the original Yuan Shikai.

And Cao Kun, who only has Yuan Shikai as his backer, has undoubtedly become the best choice. Yuan Shikai is down, Cao Kun will not be able to move an inch in the army with his current position, at this time Wang Sirui is giving him some benefits, and it is easy to take Cao Kun for his own use.

Facts have proved that Wang Sirui's decision is correct, although it is not said that Cao Kun is loyal to Wang Sirui, but at least 60 percent of his loyalty is still no problem.

"Our army is waiting for work, and there are strong fortifications, and the troops are occupied, the time, the place, the people, we all occupy it, as long as these people in the command do not make stupid moves, it is still no problem to hold this line of defense. As for the recruits, don't they become veterans after this battle? It's always going to take this step. Wang Sirui responded with a smile.

He prepared a huge line of defense for the Japanese, and although he had no experience in deploying such a line of defense himself, in later times at the military academy, professors talked about the benefits of such a line of defense.

Although Wang Sirui entered the military academy as a low-level officer, and there was no need for the military academy to tell him about the arrangement of troops for large-scale battles, but in some cases, grassroots officers must also know why their superiors arranged troops in this way, so the professors even took a lot of cases from the Second World War to explain.

There are a total of five lines of defense prepared by Wang Sirui for the Japanese, in fact, to put it bluntly, there is nothing in the defense line, there is no barbed wire in front, because of the lack of materials, and the troops are in a hurry, there is no time and energy to bring so many barbed wire.

In front of the first line of position, there is a huge minefield, of course, these are improvised mines, and the lethality is very limited.

There were not too many troops planned to be deployed on the first line, Wang Sirui only placed a regiment there, and after a slight resistance, he would withdraw to the second line of defense.

When the Japanese break through the first line of defense, they will know that it takes a lot of courage to break through this line of defense.

In the end, if the Japanese broke through the third line of defense, then if nothing else, the Japanese who rushed into the line of defense at this time should have been surrounded by them.

Of course, everything was carried out under the premise of Wang Sirui's plan, in fact, there were too many new soldiers in the army, and Wang Sirui did not plan to surround the Japanese army.

On the 14th of July, a dark cloud came over the sky, accompanied by a small easterly wind, which made the Han soldiers hiding in the trenches waiting for the Japanese very uncomfortable.

Fighting against the wind is always more difficult than fighting against the wind.

A division, a brigade, a regiment, a battalion, a company, this number is everywhere in the forefront of the whole army, but at this moment, it has to bear a huge pressure that ordinary people can't imagine.

They were sent to the first line, the most important section of the line. This section of defense is only about 100 meters away, and there are more than 150 soldiers deployed, with an average defense range of about 75 centimeters per person, it seems that the defensive pressure is not great, but in fact, everyone knows very well that once the war starts, this will be the first place to be attacked.

This was a forward position, where they needed to deploy a lot of firepower to lure the enemy to attack from the front and prevent the positions on both sides from being discovered by the Japanese.

"Company commander, I'...... I'm afraid of ......" The pillar looked at his company commander with a slight tremble, and a layer of mist gradually appeared in his eyes.

"Nothing to be afraid of? Everyone has two shoulders and one head, just follow the training. The company commander patted the pillar on the shoulder, then took out the steamed bun in the pillar's pocket and stuffed it into the pillar's mouth: "Hurry up and eat, if you don't want to go hungry to fight the devil." ”

After comforting the pillar, the company commander half-squatted in the trench and shouted loudly to the surroundings: "Everyone hurry up and fill your stomach, don't go hungry and go below to reincarnate." ”

'Whoosh~~~'

'Boom......' (To be continued.) )