The battle of beach-grabbing and landing was too difficult for a country like Japan, which had absolutely no air force, air supremacy, and no anti-aircraft weapons and naval strength, and the Japanese defense line deployed along the coastline of Fukuoka and Miyazaki could not withstand the shelling and bombing of the Chinese Navy's naval guns and air force bomber groups.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the forward troops of the 45th Division arrived at the periphery of Fukuoka Castle, and the Japanese army deployed in Fukuoka was the 22nd Division, and there were more than 2,000 remnants of the 21st Division that retreated from the coastal defense line in the morning, adding up to a total strength of about 20,000 people, while the 45th Division of the Chinese Army had 25,000 people.

On the way to the city of Fukuoka, there were constantly Chinese troops passing by, some in trucks, many armored vehicles were crowded with soldiers, and some were "piled" with five or six on the side three wheels.

The division headquarters of the 45th Division and the guard battalion accompanied him, and the division commander Zhu Peide sat on an off-road jeep thinking about things, the ruggedness of the road made the jeep keep shaking, and a jeep caught up behind, and an officer in the passenger seat waved his hand to this side, and the driver pulled over after seeing it, and the two jeeps stopped on the side of the road.

An officer with a Wen Jiàn clip got out of the jeep at the back, and the officer walked to the front jeep and saluted Zhu Peide Lizheng in the car: "Division, Liu Huabin, the commander of the third regiment, has called, the third regiment and the first battalion of armored vehicles have arrived on the periphery of Fukuoka, and according to reconnaissance, the Japanese army has deployed three lines of defense on the periphery of Fukuoka. According to information from Fukuoka Castle by our intelligence officers, the Japanese army was stationed there with the 22nd Division, as well as 2,000 men who had fled from the coastal defenses. Their total strength in Fukuoka is about 20,000! ”

After listening to the report, Zhu Peide raised his hand and looked at his watch, and after a little thought, he said, "Give Liu Huabin an order." The 3rd Regiment and the 1st Panzer Battalion took a short break before attacking, and I hope to break through the Japanese perimeter and drive the Japanese back into the city before dark! ”

At this time, it was three o'clock in the afternoon, and now it has entered the deep autumn season, and it will be dark at about half past six in the evening, which means that Zhu Peide gave the third regiment and the first battalion of armored vehicles less than three hours, and in three hours took the three lines of defense deployed by the Japanese army outside Fukuoka City.

"Yes, Master!" The officer saluted and turned to leave, and the jeep restarted and headed towards Fukuoka. It's just that speed doesn't need to be mentioned.

Outside Fukuoka Castle.

Liu Huabin, commander of the 3rd Regiment of the 45th Division, moved the regimental headquarters directly to a distance of five kilometers from the forward defensive position of the Japanese army, where at a distance, if the Japanese army had large-caliber heavy artillery in the city, the shells could hit here, and most of the troops of the 3rd Regiment were scattered on the left and right sides at the same distance from the Japanese position.

As a general rule, the attacking troops, no matter how tight the time, the conditions, and the rudimentary ones, must dig offensive trenches to facilitate the attack and avoid the defender's artillery fire and aerial bombardment. If the enemy launches a counterattack, the attacking unit can use the offensive trench to defend, and if the attack does not dig the offensive trench, wait for the enemy to launch a defensive counterattack. There is a high probability that it will be defeated directly.

However, the 3rd Regiment of the 45th Division did not dig any offensive trenches, because there was no need to compare the military equipment, heavy firepower, and sea and air power of the Chinese army and the current Japanese army. There is no comparison between the Japanese army at all, it is no exaggeration to say. The Japanese did not have any chance to launch a counteroffensive, and the Japanese did not have the air power to bomb the attacking Chinese troops.

Although there is no more air and sea power. But the Japanese still have artillery units, just in Fukuoka City, the Japanese army's 22nd Division has a heavy artillery brigade, but this heavy artillery brigade does not dare to open artillery at will, because once it fires, it is easy to expose its position, in the case of losing air supremacy, it is easy to be bombed by the Chinese Air Force, this heavy artillery brigade can only be used at the most critical time.

After the arrival of the personnel of each company, the regiment headquarters issued an order to each company to arrange for the alert troops to rest for half an hour, prepare for half an hour, and launch an attack an hour later, to break through the three lines of defense outside the Japanese army before dark, and the battalion commanders of each company rushed to the regiment headquarters for a meeting to obtain a report on the enemy situation investigated by the reconnaissance company, and the deputy company commanders of each company organized a meeting of the squad and platoon commanders below to deploy combat missions.

Twenty minutes later, the commanders of all companies and battalions who had gone to the regiment headquarters for a meeting all returned, bringing back the combat missions of each company and battalion and the enemy's deployment situation; after the company commanders returned to the company headquarters, the deputy company commanders were organizing the squad and platoon commanders to mobilize them, and the company commanders immediately conveyed to the squad and platoon commanders the combat mission orders issued by their superiors, and informed them of the enemy's deployment situation, and then assigned the overall tasks to each squad and platoon.

The squad and platoon commanders who received the combat mission quickly returned to their units, and Xu Zhisong returned to his squad to rest and gathered the soldiers who had been resting for more than half an hour: "Come here, come here, the combat mission has been sent down, come here!" ”

At this time, the mountain artillery battalion of the regimental headquarters and the heavy mortar batteries of each battalion had already begun to shell the Japanese positions on the opposite side, and the friction sounds of shells of various calibers penetrating the air were not the same, and the explosions were also of different sizes. As the sound of artillery became more and more intensive, there was more and more smoke on the Japanese position, because it was close to the sea, some sea breeze blew, and the smoke quickly dissipated, and the Japanese position after a few minutes was very different from before, the mounds and sandbags in front of the trenches had been blown up a lot, and there was a lot of soil on the position that was scorched by the high temperature of the explosion.

The soldiers didn't react to the sound of the cannon after hearing the shouts of the squad leader, and they all got up and walked to Xu Zhisong with their rifles and squatted down, Xu Zhisong squatted on the ground and looked at the soldiers drawing a simple terrain on the ground with their hands and said: "The 22nd Division of the Japanese Army is deployed in front, their total strength is about 20,000 people, of course, they can't deploy all their forces in the first line of defense, and the Japanese army position 50 meters wide on the opposite side is garrisoned by a Japanese infantry squad, The combat target of our platoon is the Japanese defense line 50 meters wide in front of the Japanese army, from our current position to the opposite Japanese position, we have to pass two kilometers, most of which are open land, we first have to pass through a large rice field, now it is late autumn, the rice field has been dry, there is no water, you can pass guò; A six-meter-wide canal, there is a wooden bridge on the canal, but only two people can cross at a time, the reconnaissance force did not find the Japanese army on the other side of the bridge, after all, it is only a few meters wide, and it is useless to arrange the troops to defend, but it is necessary to pay attention to whether there is an enemy shadow hiding in the dark, so when crossing the bridge, you should pay special attention to it, after crossing the small wooden bridge, there is a pond in front of you, a four-meter-wide dirt road in the middle, and the ponds on both sides, very wide, but not long, after the guò pond is a dry field, about 400 meters in depth, At the end of the 400 meters is the position of the first line of defense of the Japanese army, and there are no permanent fortifications such as pillboxes on the Japanese position, only trenches."

"And the platoon commander arranged our squad on the left flank, first of all, to explain that in the process of impact, there was no armored vehicle in front of the road, because there was a canal several meters wide, and the armored vehicles could not cross, and we had to wait for the engineer troops to build some strong and thick bridges on the canal for the armored vehicles to pass through the guò, so that the armored vehicles could pass through the guò, and we could only get the support of the armored vehicles, and the order from above was not to wait for the armored vehicles, and the troops must launch an attack as quickly as possible to seize the Japanese positions, In the process of attacking, it is necessary to find the weak point of the defense of the Japanese position, and then use the squad as the combat unit to carry out the offensive tactics of breaking through the surface and attacking at multiple points at the same time! ”

"The impact attack and movement route of our squad is the line I just said, on the left flank of our platoon, the second squad is in the middle, and the first squad is on the right flank, the distance between us and the second platoon cannot exceed 10 meters, and we cannot move to the offensive line of the first platoon, and the distance between us and the platoon of friendly and neighboring squads must cooperate with each other, and the distance between the front and rear cannot exceed 20 meters!"

"During the shock attack, the platoon machine gun squad and mortar squad will provide fire support to us, so we cannot get too close to the friendly squad platoon, so as not to block the range of machine gun fire."

"When passing through the passage between the wooden bridge and the pond, you can't rush forward in a swarm, you have to work in groups of two, one in front of the other, and the distance between the two people must reach more than five meters, and the group that passes through the guò first immediately guards on the left and right sides, and then the group that passes through the guò in turn."

"Finally, if I am killed, without the retreat order issued from above, the impact attack cannot be stopped, the battle is commanded by the deputy squad leader, if the deputy squad leader is also killed, the battle is commanded by the person with the highest rank, if the rank is the same, by the oldest person, I have to say so much, do you understand?"

The fighters got up and promised: "Understood! ”

"Okay, the shelling may take a while to stop, now everyone get ready, check the equipment, don't drop the chain at a critical time!"

There were still a few minutes before the end of the shelling, and according to the operational tactics of infantry and artillery coordination, after the time was up, the order to attack was issued from above, and at this time, the soldiers had just finished checking the equipment and found no problems.

Xu Zhisong, the squad leader, picked up his rifle and loaded the bullet, and shouted: "Everyone pay attention, the distance between the front and back is ten meters, follow me in one (two) way!" With that, he walked forward with his rifle in hand.

It was two kilometers from the Japanese position, and there was no need to spread your legs and rush forward now, it would be very exhausting. The 1 (2) road formation is usually used when the enemy is far away, the terrain is relatively hidden, the threat of enemy fire is not great, or the road is narrow. The squad leader is in front, and the other teams advance in turn according to the distance specified by the squad leader. (To be continued......)