At dusk, Junrokuro Matsuura stood on the hillside with his saber in his hand, looking at the loose and crumbling troops in front of him.

This is the 147th Wing of his division, a completely defeated army. The soldiers walking on the road were listless, and some of the soldiers, who had lost their steel helmets, were displayed in front of Matsuura with a confused and desperate face.

Some of the wounded soldiers were supported and struggled to move along the road step by step.

Two soldiers carried a corpse to Junrokuro Matsuura, who was their co-commander Yoshio Sonoda, who lifted the white cloth covering Kijima's head, revealing a pale, painful and distorted face, and a bullet hit Sonoda's chest, causing massive bleeding that caused air bubbles in his lungs to be blocked and finally suffocated to death.

Behind the 147th Wing is the 123rd Wing, which also looks like a miserable defeat. Two days ago, when Kijima gave a speech, there were more than 3,000 soldiers under him, lined up in a large area of black pressure, and now the 123rd Wing can walk less than 500 people, half of the strength of the brigade.

The Songpu Division is over, this division with a full strength of 24,400 and an actual strength of 21,900 people, after three days of hard fighting, there are only less than 3,000 combat troops left, plus the troops left behind in the rear, the total number is less than 7,000 people, and the rest are either lying on the cold ground here or lying in the field hospital in the rear.

No matter how perfect the replenishment mechanism of the Japanese army is, the 106th Division, which has been wounded, will probably not be able to recover without a year and a half of rest.

At the beginning, Junrokuro Matsuura boasted that he could take Jiujiang in three days, and now it has become a laughing stock.

"Commander Gangcun, tomorrow I ask for the main attack on the Mopanshan position, please be sure to give me a chance." Ryosuke Yoshizumi, commander of the 9th Division, stood up and bowed slightly in pleading.

Okamura Ninji shook his head and said, "The 9th Division is an elite unit of the Imperial Army, and it must be placed in the most critical place, the Battle of Jiujiang has just begun, and it is not yet time to use it." ”

Yoshizumi Ryosuke had no choice but to sit down.

Okamura Ninji turned his gaze to Masaki Ito, "Tomorrow's attack on Mopan Mountain, can the 101st Division be responsible?" ”

Ito stood up, no expression on his face, and said, "It's a great honor, I will never let down the trust of Commander Gangmura!" ”

After the tactical review meeting, it was already 11 o'clock in the evening, and Okamura Ninji was in the headquarters of the unit, still not sleepy.

"Your Excellency, Commander, are you worried about tomorrow's battle?" It was his good friend, the head of the Operations Division, Miyazaki Monday, who walked in.

Hearing this, Gangcun smiled bitterly, "Don't worry, what is there to worry about for a battle that does not report hope." ”

Miyazaki was stunned, "Could it be that Commander Okamura thinks that tomorrow's attack by the Ito Division is destined to fail to make progress." ”

Okamura Ninji didn't answer for a while, and gave Miyazaki a cup of tea, and said half-loudly: "For an enemy with strong fighting determination and strong fortifications, it is difficult to break through in a short time. ”

Okamura Ninji really had the potential to be a god, and on October 3, the 101st Division, which was mainly attacking Mopan Mountain, was defeated.

The beginning was relatively smooth, although there was no heavy artillery cover, but the Ito Division still took the defenders' 3 hills in one fell swoop, and then the Japanese concentrated their forces, along the "rout" of the squadron, and developed at full speed to the main position of Mopan Mountain.

But at this time, the situation suddenly changed, the squadron suddenly killed from both wings, and surrounded the two infantry brigades and an engineer squadron that rushed in, and the artillery also blocked the reinforcements and retreat routes of the Japanese army, and after more than 1 hour of fierce fighting, all the Japanese troops who were surrounded were annihilated, and the commander of the 149th Wing, Tatsuhiko Tsuda, was killed.

The 101st Brigade made the same mistake again at Mopan Mountain after the enemy advanced lightly from Miaozhi Town, but this time the consequences were extremely serious, and two infantry brigades and one wing headquarters were wiped out by the whole organization.

Subsequently, the first squadron took advantage of the victory to pursue and counterattack the 101st Division, and the Japanese army, which had just been hit by the head, did not adjust for a while, and lost successive battles, not only the three hills were taken back by the opponent, but even the starting position of the attack was lost, I really don't know who is attacking and who is defending.

Major General Shozaburo Sato, the commander of the 101st Brigade, was ordered to retire forcibly because of a series of command errors, which was the second Japanese general to be dismissed since Lieutenant General Shigeichi Habata of the Hatada detachment in the Battle of Nanxun.

Mopan Mountain, the headquarters of the 26th Army, at 11 o'clock at night, the electric lights in the command room are still on.

Xu Ming picked up a military map and compared it with the "Battle Details" of each unit in the past four days, speculating on the situation of the Japanese army and the offensive method that the Japanese army adjusted after suffering losses.

The 106th Division should have been beaten down, and the 101st Division was also severely repaired today, in history, these two divisions were killed by Xue Yue on the Nanxun Line, and this time and space still did not escape bad luck, Xu Ming only used a little trick, and the 101st Division rushed in with a roar, and was beaten up.

This kind of ad hoc division is not bad in terms of fighting will and individual skills, but its mentality and team cooperation are far inferior to the 6th and 9th divisions of the Japanese army.

And what about the 9th Division? This division was the least casualty in the Japanese army, so why didn't Okamura Ninji use it all the time? I'm afraid it should be used in key places at critical moments, when is the critical time? What's the key place?

So what about the 27th Division, this division is adapted from the brigade of the original Chinese garrison army, it is the first three-unit division of the Japanese army, the performance in the Battle of Pingjin is quite average, the division commander Honma Masaharu has studied in Europe and the United States, tactical thinking and combat methods are greatly influenced by Germany and France, and attaches great importance to the mutual response of firepower and the cooperation between different arms, like the two days of long live assault, the 27th Division will never fight, if Honma Masaharu is responsible for the main attack, their own defensive strategy must be changed...

One by one, the symbols were drawn at random, each representing a meaning that only Xu Ming knew, and he would imagine himself as Okamura Ninji, and then imagine himself as Yoshizumi Ryosuke or Honma Masaharu.

"Eight Tooth Road!" Xu Ming couldn't help but curse in Japanese, and after scolding, he looked up and looked outside, and there was already a white light, and it was dawn.

October 4, the fifth day of the Battle of Jiujiang.

The Japanese 27th Division and the 101st Division continued to attack in two directions in the southeast and southeast.

The Japanese began to build fortifications every time they occupied a place, and the 27th Division even used armored vehicles to carry building materials, turning each occupied place into a small fortress.

The observers kept coming to report that the attacking Japanese troops, each carrying a sapper shovel, began to dig trenches about 1 km away from the forward position of the squadron.

Judging from the scale, the Japanese army used quite a lot of troops, from the Zhangshuling on both sides of the southwest railway line to the sand beach on the east side of the Jiujiang River, and the defense line of more than 20 kilometers was full of Japanese troops building fortifications.

Xu Ming looked along the artillery team mirror and could not see the heads of the Japanese soldiers, only a spade of dirt being thrown out of the trench.

"Commander, just now I organized a small unit with the battalion as a unit, and tried to counterattack, but it was unsuccessful, behind the trench building troops of the devils, there is a hidden main force, and there are even chariot troops." Xie Jinyuan, who was with Xu Ming, said.

"What about the snipers?"

"The effect is not good, 1,000 meters away, not within the effective range of the sniper."

This trench attack method is not a rare product, speaking of which the Japanese army is still the pioneer of this method of warfare, during the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army used it a lot when besieging Arthur, it seems that the devil is putting on a posture of protracted war?

The biggest drawback of this method of warfare is that it is time-consuming, with a length of more than 20 kilometers, it is not difficult to build a variety of other bunkers in front and behind the traffic trenches, stragglers, and other bunkers, and also to construct under the noses of the squadron.

However, the benefits are also obvious, once completed, the assembly of Japanese troops, transportation is greatly easier. In fact, the Japanese army should have done this from the beginning, but Okamura Ninji and several division commanders and below thought that with the aftermath of Dean's victory, Jiujiang might be able to strike a blow down, and they were unwilling to use this time-consuming and labor-intensive method of warfare.

"The main seat? The devils must not be allowed to succeed, our army must take action! Xie Jinyuan reminded beside him.

Xu Ming nodded, he didn't speak, he was thinking, how to deal with this kind of tactic?

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