The devil Shaozo hurriedly bowed his head and responded: "Hai! Just as he was about to turn around and leave, Okamura Ninji stretched out his hand to stop him: "Slow down, tell the forward troops that you must beware of the artillery attack of the Shina people." ”

"Hay." The devil Shaozuo bowed his head again and answered, and hurriedly turned around and took the order to leave.

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To the north of Jinghai County, in a wilderness less than ten kilometers from Tianjin, the devils built their first line of defense in the area south of Tianjin along a small river that was not very wide.

Ma Biao's Second Infantry Division, after recovering Jinghai, waved its division north non-stop, invincible all the way, until it was blocked by the devil's defense line.

Like Liu Jianhua's tank armored brigade, the attack of the 2nd Division was also dealt a powerful blow by the enemy's naval and air force firepower, and suffered heavy losses.

Therefore, after also receiving Qiao Youhua's telegraphic instructions, they also stopped the attack, but the second division was originally an infantry division, and they did not need to wait for the arrival of the follow-up troops before they could start earthwork.

The officers and men of the whole division, except for the tank armored regiment and individual alert troops, under the command and leadership of the division commander Ma Biao and the deputy division commander Zhou Dasheng, went all out to start digging trenches, but a river in front of the devil's defense line blocked the way they dug in.

"Division commander, with this river in the way, I am afraid it will be difficult for us to implement the geotechnical excavation plan smoothly." After the deputy division commander Zhou Dasheng returned from the front line, he said to the division commander Ma Biao.

Ma Biao said: "I know this, you just continue to dig to attract the attention of the Japanese army, and when it gets dark, I will personally lead an elite army to detour from the upper reaches of this river, attack the Japanese position at night, seize a foothold on the other side of the river, and then advance to the enemy's defense depth according to the commander's earthwork plan." ”

In fact, Ma Biao understood that his side mainly played the role of an assist, and the real main attack would be on the commander's side, where there were several brigades directly under the column and the first and fourth divisions, with strong troops and strong strength.

However, Ma Biao did not want to be willing to fall behind, and still wanted to do his best to lead his troops to achieve as many victories as possible, so that the entire Tianjin battlefield would develop in a direction favorable to our side.

Also as a traverser, a super soldier king with advanced historical knowledge and other consciousness advantages, Ma Biao has enough ability to formulate appropriate tactics to attack according to local conditions.

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Japanese naval artillery groups and land- and sea-based aviation units were again dispatched, launching air and artillery strikes on the tank armored brigade, the 1st Division, and the 4th Division, respectively.

Under the blow of the devil's powerful artillery fire and aerial firepower, the earthwork operations of the two dragon tooth column troops were forced to be interrupted for a while, and in the end, Qiao Youhua came up with a way to continuously fire signal flares into the sky to block the sight of the Japanese air fighters, plus the follow-up 4th Division, the 1st Division Air Defense Regiment, and the tank regiment arrived one after another.

After strengthening the ground air defense forces, they finally forced back the enemy's most threatening air fighters, and then, all units took advantage of the gap in the shelling of the devil's naval artillery group to repair and strengthen the existing trench fortifications in a short time, and continued to dig new trenches.

The devil was anxious, and urgently summoned the ship's artillery fire group to carry out intensive artillery bombardment on several communication trenches dug by the dragon's tooth column.

In order to avoid excessive casualties, Qiao Youhua retreated most of the officers and soldiers to a safe place, leaving only a small number of officers and soldiers to stick to those communication trenches to prevent them from being captured and destroyed by the devils.

And prepare that when the enemy's artillery observers and aerial vision are blocked after nightfall, and it is impossible to accurately locate their own excavation troops, they will continue to excavate, advance to the enemy's position in one fell swoop, and wait for the opportunity to launch a fierce attack.

After nightfall, on the side of the Second Division, the logistics troops, in accordance with Ma Biao's order, prepared a batch of river-crossing equipment for the night attack troops, including various small wooden boats, rafts, rafts tied with door panels, etc.

Due to the combined bombardment of Japanese fighters and naval guns during the day, the 2nd Division's excavation was relatively slow, and a river blocked their advance.

Ma Biao's roundabout plan for a night attack became even more essential.

When night fell, and the heavens and the earth became invisible, Ma Biao handed over the command of the frontal troops to Zhou Dasheng, the deputy division commander, and personally led a reinforced battalion drawn from the first regiment and quietly left the frontal position.

Carrying a large number of river-crossing equipment, he moved more than ten miles to the northwest, and under the response of the sharp soldiers, he began to secretly cross the river on the bank of a remote river that was not guarded by the Japanese army.

The banks of the river here are overgrown with aquatic weeds and reeds and weeds, coupled with the dark night, which provides them with good cover, Ma Biao waved his hand, and hundreds of soldiers carried dozens of wooden boats, bamboo rafts and rafts into the water.

More than 1,000 officers and soldiers of Longya then boarded the raft in batches, and it took about an hour to finally cross the river with men and equipment and enter the opposite bank.

Ma Biao, dressed in military uniform, took the lead in front of the team with a submachine gun in his hand, stopped to look at the map, and then led more than 1,000 soldiers to go straight to the direction of the Japanese position.

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Wuqing Town, the temporary former enemy headquarters of the Dragon's Tooth Column.

Li Yunlong, Jiang Haidong, Liu Yidao and others had already led most of the main forces of the 1st and 4th Divisions respectively, and rushed to the front line one after another, and joined Qiao Youhua, Liu Jianhua and others.

For a while, senior generals gathered in the command post, Qiao Youhua stood at the head of the conference table wearing an army lieutenant general's uniform, his eyes swept around the subordinates on the left and right, and said: "The Battle of Pingjin has reached the most critical moment until now, we must take advantage of the new defeat of the Japanese army as soon as possible, and take Tianjin in one go when the foothold in Tianjin is not stable, and uproot all the strongholds of the devils in the Guannai!"

Now I announce that the 4th Division will take the lead in the main attack, and that after the end of the meeting, it will launch an attack overnight. The units directly under the 1st Division and Column were retained as reserves and were responsible for providing fire support. ”

After speaking, Qiao Youhua asked Li Yunlong, deputy commander of the 4th Division: "Deputy Commander Li, are there any difficulties?" If you have anything, say it now, and I'll try to solve it for you. ”

Li Yunlong straightened up and said: "Commander, I don't have any difficulties, please rest assured, our department will definitely go all out to complete the combat mission assigned to us by the chief!" ”

"Very well, I'll wait for your good news." Qiao Youhua nodded with satisfaction, and instructed again: "During the day, the devils have the strong support of aircraft and naval artillery firepower, which poses a great threat to us, and we cannot successfully carry out the offensive at night, and the night has become the best time for us to attack, although the power of our army's artillery will be weakened, but relatively speaking, it is still beneficial to us, I hope you will give full play to the fine traditions of our army, not afraid of life and death, move forward bravely, and break through the first outer defense line of the Japanese army in one go, and drive the overall situation of the campaign to Tianjin!" ”

PS: I'm very sorry, I took my wife and children out to play for a few days during the National Day holiday, and I had a good rest, this book has been written for more than a year, and I am really tired, and I rarely have time to spend with my family on weekdays, so I gave myself a few days off. Now that I'm back, Saburo is back to normal updates, and I sincerely apologize to everyone, and I hope you can understand. The next chapter is updated, which should be around twelve o'clock.