Jingjiang.

The officers and men of the Baoshan Regiment were intensively building the river fortifications.

When he crossed the river in the morning, Yue Weihan had already observed the topography along the coast, because the Yangtze River had already entered the dry season in winter, and there were beaches of considerable width on both sides of the river, and in addition to the heavy rain in the past few days, the river beaches had become mudflats, and if the army wanted to quickly go ashore and launch an attack formation, it was necessary to first seize the Jingjiang wharf.

Of course, the Yue army can also choose to detour upstream and downstream of the Jiangbei wharf, but that will take time, at least today is definitely too late, and with the usual arrogance of the Yue army, unless the frontal attack on the Jingjiang wharf fails, they will never be willing to go near and far and detour the Jiangbei wharf upstream and downstream.

It was precisely on the basis of this judgment that Yue Weihan's river defense was rolled out with the Jingjiang wharf as the center.

Chi Chengfeng's 2nd Battalion and Niu Dagen's 3rd Battalion have respectively occupied two small hills in front of the opposite protrusion on the side of the dock, and the two battalions of nearly 1,000 people are pouting their butts desperately digging trenches and foxholes, and two heavy machine gun bunkers have also been dug on the top of the mountain, and the four Makqin heavy machine guns of the original 668th Regiment Heavy Machine Gun Company have been deployed in place.

If it was a sunny day, Yue Weihan would definitely not deploy the river defense fortifications like this.

Because putting troops and heavy machine guns on the top of the hill is not a live target for the aviation and artillery of the army? But now it is cloudy and foggy, and the military planes cannot take off normally, and the troops on the opposite side have just arrived after a long and rapid march, and the heavy equipment has definitely not come up, and it is remarkable that there are only a few small-caliber mortars, which cannot pose a threat.

As for the three battalions of the original 668 regiment, one was placed in the middle of two hills, and the other two were placed on the sides.

Cao Xinglong's 1st Battalion and Hua Hanlin's Guard Company were left to act as reserves.

Yue Weihan's intention was obvious, that is, with Chi Chengfeng's 2nd Battalion and Niu Dagen's 3rd Battalion as the two axes, he would fight a field battle with the 36th Wing of the Yue Army on the opposite side, and wait until the Yue Army ran out of sharpness, and then dispatch the guard company and the 1st Battalion to crush it and crush the 36th Wing of the Yue Army in one fell swoop.

The reason why Yue Weihan chose to fight a field battle with the Yue army on the banks of the Chen Bing River, instead of letting the Yue army enter the city to fight street battles, was that the Yue army's aviation and heavy artillery could not participate in the battle.

In addition, Yue Weihan also had another intention, that is, to restore the confidence of the thousands of defeated soldiers under his command through this battle!

Yue Weihan wanted to make the more than 3,000 defeated soldiers who had just joined the Baoshan Regiment understand that [***] is not muddy and paper-paste, and the army is not a heavenly general, as long as the tactics are appropriate, as long as [***] dare to die and dare to fight, even the most elite field wing of the Yue Army can also be defeated.

In order to achieve this heavy intention, Yue Weihan was even mentally prepared for the worst, even if he lost one or two main battalions because of this, even if the strength of the Baoshan Regiment was reduced by more than half, it would be at a loss!

More than 3,000 defeated soldiers and more than 1,000 elite soldiers let Yue Weihan choose, and he would not hesitate to choose the latter!

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the fog on the river became lighter and lighter, the clouds in the sky became thinner and thinner, and the rain that had been raining for three consecutive days finally stopped.

"Big root, come here." Yue Weihan hurriedly beckoned Niu Dagen to come to him.

Although Niu Dagen was the commander of the 3rd Battalion, he was temporarily relieved of command by Yue Weihan, and the 3rd Battalion was temporarily commanded by Wang Qing, the deputy commander of the battalion, while Niu Dagen returned to his old profession - artillery.

"Do you see the army on the other side of the river?" Yue Weihan said, "Can you him?" ”

Niu Dagen stretched out his thumb and compared, shook his head again and again, and said: "No, the distance is too far, it is already out of range, unless you put the cannon on the dock, you can't hit the other side of the river." ”

"Put the gun carriage on the dock?" Yue Weihan shook his head again and again and said, "No, this is not good, the little devil's grenadier is so powerful, it can't be a target on the gun carriage dock?" ”

"Then there's nothing I can do." Niu Dagen scratched his head and said helplessly.

"Alright, let's go down." Yue Weihan didn't have a good breath, "Take care of your artillery company, and be on call at any time." ”

"Yes." Niu Dagen stood up and saluted, then turned around and hurriedly went down, for Niu Dagen, the battalion commander of the infantry battalion is really not as strong as the commander of the artillery company, how can the handjob be enjoyable, right?

Cao Xinglong didn't know when he leaned over, and said worriedly: "Tuanzuo, this river fog will disperse, and now our every move is under the monitoring of the little devils on the other side, do you think the little devils will stop crossing the river and wait for the follow-up heavy equipment to arrive before launching an attack?" ”

"No, it won't." Yue Weihan's tone was very determined.

"Why are you so sure?" Cao Xinglong said in surprise.

"It's very simple, because on the opposite side is the 36th Wing of the 9th Division of the Yue Army!" Yue Weihan said, "This is the most elite field infantry wing of the Yue army, in terms of sneak attack, tracking or special operations, the field infantry wing of the little devil is indeed not very good, but if the two armies are put together to fight positional warfare, no one can really be stronger than them." ”

Cao Xinglong couldn't help but nod when he heard this, the combat effectiveness of those field divisions and regiments of the army was indeed very strong.

Yue Weihan said again: "Although our Baoshan Battalion has fought several battles with the 36th Wing before, and won all of them, it was either a night battle or guarding the warehouse, or simply playing a game of cats and rats, so the 36th Wing will be repeatedly lame, but it really has to be put on the two armies to fight a positional battle, with the strength of our Baoshan Battalion at that time, it is not enough for the 36th Wing to plug the gaps." ”

Yue Weihan still has this self-knowledge, he is not a reckless man who does not know the height of the sky.

But then again, with the current strength of the Baoshan Regiment, coupled with the fact that the 36th Wing on the other side is a tired division, and there is no heavy firepower, and it is a cross-river attack, the victory or defeat of this battle can be said to be two things.

"Besides, do you think it's possible for the 36th Wing to abandon the offensive because of the lack of heavy artillery support?" Yue Weihan paused, and then said, "This 36th Wing is also an old enemy with our Baoshan Regiment, and the Wing Captain and the entire command headquarters were killed by one of us in the Sixing Warehouse, and we put it together again in the Jiufeng Mountains of Song County, they are afraid that they will be riveted to find a place back, how can they easily let go of such an opportunity?" ”

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On the other side of the river, Nakagawa Osa was also looking through a telescope to see the situation on the north bank.

It really made Yue Weihan right, seeing the Zhina army rushing to repair the river defense on the other side of the river, Zhongchuan Dazuo suddenly showed a sneer of disdain on his face, this high-achieving student who graduated from the Imperial Land University almost superstitiously believed that the imperial army was absolutely invincible in the world in positional warfare, and the Zhina army on the other side dared to put on a posture to fight positional warfare, which was absolutely self-defeating.

A second lieutenant officer saw that the Zhina army on the opposite bank was already rushing to repair the river defense, and couldn't help but step forward and persuade: "Your Excellency, the Zhina army on the other side has been prepared, and the river defense fortifications have also taken shape, should we postpone the attack?" Wait for the arrival of the Honda chief and the subsequent artillery brigade before launching an attack? ”

The artillery brigade of the 36th Wing has six Type 92 infantry guns and four battle defense guns.

With these ten guns, it was enough to plow the fortifications on the other side of the river, and when the time came, the infantry would have suffered much less resistance if they attacked again.

"No need, this is a good opportunity for us to annihilate the Zhina army on the other side in one fell swoop, if we wait for the artillery squadron to come up, I am afraid that it will be dark, and the imperial army will not be able to cross the river to attack as soon as it gets dark, and the Zhina army on the opposite bank will definitely escape at night, and then we will have to catch up with them again, I am afraid that it will take a lot of twists and turns, and we will have no time."

Nakagawa did not hesitate to veto this suggestion, in fact he really had no choice.

The Commander of the Front, General Matsui Ishone, was almost at the limit of his patience, and if he could not solve the enemy on the other side of the river and capture the cunning Shina fox before dark today, then Nakagawa Osa would be sent to a court-martial, or he would be ready to apologize for his seppuku, and of course, that idiot from Takahashi would accompany him on his way.

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