After the Osaka native Shunichiro Hashimoto and his men completed the landing, they did not attack in depth according to the established plan, but began to dig trenches on the spot. Seeing that the soldiers of the Hashimoto Brigade were building fortifications on the beach with a clear eye, and the officers and soldiers of the other two brigades were spreading out on the sea near the coastline with their respective landing craft, Arima was puzzled at first, and then finally couldn't suppress the curiosity in his heart, and humbly asked the brigade commander Honda Inahui, who was rationed by the Osaka Division around him, for advice: "Honda-kun, may I ask what the officers and soldiers of your unit are doing?" ”

What kind of virtue his subordinates have, Honda Daohui naturally knows it, his old face blushed slightly, and then said in a thoughtful manner: "They should be preparing for the next attack." ”

"Huh?" Arima was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly shouted: "Preparations before the attack? But what do they do with fortifications? ”

"I guess it's to strengthen the beachhead. Youma Jun, we have all seen the attack methods of the Shina people before, there is no solid landing position, if the Shina people carry out a counterattack, why should they stand on it? ”

"Before you attack, you're worried about the counterattack of the Zhinamen?!" Arima was almost choked by Honda's words, he forced himself to suppress the anger in his heart, and said as low as possible: "But in this case, our previous aggressive attack will be in vain." Honda-kun, with all due respect, when your ministry does a good job of defense, I'm afraid that the people of China will also be prepared, and in that case, your offensive command will encounter greater resistance. ”

"Well, I think it's always good to be prepared."

"Prepared? But we are the attacking side, and if the Chinese really fight back like they did last time, I will hit them with naval guns so that they can't raise their heads. Moreover, we still have aviation to provide fire support......" Arima said, the more he talked, the more annoyed he felt, and finally he couldn't help but scold: "Hachige, is this a war?" This, this is child's play. Honda-kun, please immediately order your troops to attack, otherwise, if you delay the commander's major affairs, all the responsibility will be borne by you! ”

His subordinates are so uncompetitive, and Honda is actually very helpless, but the entire division is like this, and he is a brigade commander who is powerless to change anything. Hearing that Arima was threatening, he was not happy, and changed his previous gentleness, he looked at Arima coldly and said: "Your Excellency, you have never been in the army, so you don't understand the methods and methods of our army, I don't blame you." But if you want to command our Army in the same way that you command the Marines, it won't work. I confess that as subjects of His Majesty the Emperor, we have an obligation to dedicate ourselves to the country, but if dedication does not change anything, I think it would be foolish to do so......"

Before Honda finished speaking, Arima jumped three feet high in annoyance, he waited for Honda to shout: "Bage, who are you scolding stupid?" ”

Honda did not show weakness and said coldly: "Isn't it stupid to wantonly carry out indiscriminate shelling without regard for the lives of soldiers?" ”

"Eight grids, Honda Daohui, you bastard, Lao Tzu wants to duel with you!"

"The duel is a duel, but please wait until this battle is over. Hmph, I don't want to lose the commander of the remaining fleet because of a miss, and eventually lead to the failure of the pseudo-attack plan. I can't afford to take this responsibility! ”

…… Honda's sharp-toothed and irascible Arima is not an opponent at all, and if it weren't for the timely separation of the two of their men, it would not be impossible for the two officers of the rank of major general to fight on the spot.

Zhang Dali and the others had no way of knowing about the bitter verbal exchange between the two commanders of the combined fleet left behind in the navy and land, and he was not in the mood to take care of such a matter now. At this time, Zhang Dali and his subordinates were completely confused by the behavior of Hashimoto.

"What are you doing?" The officers of the 502nd Regiment and several Cadet Corps officers of the 38th Brigade couldn't help but discuss curiously when they watched the little devils busy on the beach.

Zhang Dali said intently: "Could it be that the little devil really wants to land in Wanning?" They are building fortifications so vigorously as if they are going to fight a protracted war! ”

The others thought about it reasonably, and one by one they couldn't help but become cautious. Zhang Dali looked at it for a while, and then ran to the staff room to call Shan Renxiong to express his doubts. The more he thought about it, the more wrong he became, and after waiting for about five minutes, seeing that the Japanese army was delaying the attack, he immediately ran to the staff office to call Shan Xiong and report the incident.

The bombing of Dongshanling just now by the Japanese aircraft made Shan Renxiong worry a lot, and now when he heard about such a situation, he couldn't help but be puzzled, he asked Brother Lai to call him, and analyzed this phenomenon with Zhang Dali on the phone. He first said: "The actions of the Japanese army are very suspicious, if they are not tricky, then there is only one possibility, and the diversion of the fleet is just a decoy." No, the Diversion Fleet has always maintained a distance of 100 kilometers from the coastline, and sailing at this distance cannot be detected by the naked eye alone. Could it be that the little devil already knows about the existence of the Dahuajiao radar station? ”

The existence of the Dahuajiao radar station in Wuzhishan is a top secret, and only officers above the brigade commander level know about it in the Fifth Army, so the possibility of this secret being leaked is extremely low. And from the analysis of the previous actions of the Japanese army, they should not know about this matter.

The three of them discussed and discussed without a conclusion, and after the end, Shan Renxiong decided to respond to all changes with the same, he said: "The little devil is really using Wanning as a breakthrough, and we are not afraid, we now have nearly 20,000 troops in the southeast of Qiong, plus the Self-Defense Forces are armed, there is absolutely no problem with sniping for a week." At that time, the troops of Qiongnan were also able to rush over. Vigorously, tell the brothers that as long as the status quo is maintained......"

Their confusion did not last long, because at about half past ten, the armament of the combined fleet diversion fleet finally began to appear in the southwest of Qiongnan.

The first to go on the offensive were about 50 warplanes.

The fact that the reconnaissance plane had detected a large number of fleeing civilians did not make Yamamoto 56 think otherwise, on the contrary, because it was found that the local Chinese had already fled during the air raid in Manning, he believed that this phenomenon was a good indication of the emptiness of the Scholar Army in the defense of southwest Qiong.

The 50 fighters were divided into three formations and pounced on Ledong, Dongfang City, and Changjiang respectively, and the next moment, the three cities were engulfed in the continuous explosion smoke. Amid the terrible sound of air raid sirens, the fleeing crowd immediately lost order, which made the evacuation work more difficult.

Seeing a large number of civilians falling under the fire of the devil's machine guns, including some old people and children, Chang Geng couldn't stand it. He said to Yang Chuntai, commander of the 13th Division: "The commander-in-chief said that our student army is a soldier of the people, and now it is time for us to fulfill this duty. ”

In the original battle plan, these air defense units were to be left to encircle and annihilate the Japanese landing force before they were put into combat sniper planes, Yang Chuntai was worried that this would scare away the Japanese army, but Chang Geng said: "It is good to really scare them away, then how many fewer civilians will have to die." Now the situation is clear, and the main direction of the Japanese army is southwest of Qiong. Our counterattack will only make the little devil even more excited! Let's do it! ”

The order was conveyed, and soon, a total of three regiments of air defense units were thrown into the counterattack. And as Chang Geng expected, the appearance of the air defense unit of the Cadet Army did not frighten the little devils, but aroused the great interest of Tsukahara 243.

The first wave of fighters had not yet returned, and the second and third waves of fighters took off one after another, and soon, the sky in the area southwest of Qiong centered on the Changjiang River was covered by dense Japanese fighters.