Every shell that came in the face could stop all the attacking troops of the 44th Division. {We don't write novels, we're just online text porters-△, the blocking of a small position makes the whole division feel like a big enemy.} Always within the range of the naval guns behind him, the action is grinding. The Ninth Division, which was overwhelmed over there, had already penetrated deep into the enemy's depth. But the troops who participated in the war on their side were less than a kilometer away from the starting point.

However, although the 44th Division was a little too slow to do so, it had an obvious advantage. That is, although when the landing was carried out, the losses were indeed very large because of the relationship between the echelons and the focus of the anti-coalition firepower. However, after actually engaging in front-line operations, the overall casualties suffered by the Ninth Division can be said to be quite small compared with those of the Ninth Division.

Although the troops participating in the battle of the Ninth Division also adopted the tactics of fighting steadily and holding together under the advice of Lieutenant General Yuan Shou. However, in the face of the continuous resistance of the Anti-United Nations, the offensive has never stopped. However, the 44th Division retreated at the touch of a button, and waited for the enemy to retreat on its own initiative after the flank was broken through by the 9th Division.

Although the furious Lieutenant General Hara Shou repeatedly gave orders to die, the entire 44th Division could not attack faster. On the contrary, the Ninth Division, which was subordinate, was pushed to the front to take the lead. I crawled cautiously and slowly in the back. That's right, in terms of the speed at which the 44th Division is moving, even the turtles climb faster than them.

Although Lieutenant General Yuan Shou sent senior operational staff officers of his own division and regiment to personally rush to the front line of the 44th Division to supervise the battle in the face of the intensive firepower of the Anti-United Nations, it was of no use. The various units of the 44th Division participating in the battle could not attack faster. The entire 3,000-strong force hid behind the 1,000-strong troops of the Ninth Division.

In desperation, Lieutenant General Hara Mamoru could only send a telegram to Lieutenant General Yoshio last month, asking him to urge the commander of the 44th Division, Lieutenant General Sekihara 6, and the 44th Division headquarters to go ashore and command his own troops as much as possible. Otherwise, allowing the 44th Division to continue to climb like this will delay major events and affect all follow-up actions of the entire army.

As for this 44th Division, it is better to let their division commanders command themselves on the ship. He, the commander of the Ninth Division, was really exhausted and helpless in the face of this gang of rogue Osaka traders. If he could, he'd rather throw the guys back on the ship and stand by than use them again.

Lieutenant General Yuan Shou couldn't figure out what this base camp was thinking. For such an important military operation, you can send a force with some face. But there are so many divisions and regiments that don't choose, so you have to choose these vendors. Even if this 44th Division is used, it would be good to replace the 48th Division in Jiaodong.

Although the 48th Division was not the original 48th Division, the original 48th Division had already been wiped out in the defensive battle of Tianjin some time ago. When the 48th Division was formed, it was the 66th Division according to the operational number set in the base camp.

But after learning that the 48th Division, the main division of the Taiwan Army, was completely wiped out in the Tianjin battlefield. Senior General Toshiyoshi Ando, commander of the Taiwan Army, resolutely demanded that the base camp be reorganized into the 48th Division. Senior General Toshiyoshi Ando's attitude is very clear: The 48th Division, which is organized on the basis of the Taiwan garrison, and the two Taiwan wings under it are the symbols of the Taiwan Army.

The 48th Division was completely annihilated in the North China battlefield, which was not conducive to the empire's rule over Taiwan. He demanded that the base camp treat the 48th Division, just as the standing divisions that had fallen in Manchuria, and reorganize it as much as possible in order to restore the military symbol of the Fù Empire in Taiwan.

This Admiral Toshiyoshi Ando is quite well-connected inside the base camp. I don't know what he said about the base camp, but the base camp actually agreed with this ridiculous opinion. It's just that this base camp promised to be promised, but it was so simple to form a division.

Under the circumstance that the troops and equipment were not yet ready, the base camp simply changed the number of the 66th Division, which had just been formed by the 46th Brigade as an independent mixed brigade, to the 48th Division. Anyway, this 66th Division is also going to be transferred to the Taiwan Army, and it is not a big deal to change the number.

As a result, Lieutenant General Kazuo Kitagawa, the commander of the 66th Division, who had just taken office, inexplicably became the new commander of the 48th Division. The 249th Wing, 304th Wing, and 305th Wing, which originally belonged to them, were changed to the 1st and 2nd Infantry Wings of Taiwan, as well as the 47th Wing.

It's just that the 48th Mountain Artillery Wing, to which the 48th Division originally belonged, was really unable to reorganize because of a lack of equipment. Originally, the mountain artillery wing of the 48th Division belonged to the 48th Division, but the number became the mortar team of the 48th Division. The mountain artillery, which was originally equipped, turned into a mortar.

As a result, under the tense situation of the war in North China, as soon as the newly formed 48th Division was completed, before General Ando Toshiyoshi could laugh, it was transferred to the North China battlefield and put into the Shandong Peninsula to fight. As a result, General Toshiyoshi Ando, who worked hard to calculate, ended up in nothing.

However, in the eyes of Lieutenant General Yuan Shou, although the base camp of this matter was absurd, this newly released 48th Division could not be compared with the original 66th Division in terms of heavy weapons. is much stronger than the 44th Division's group of soft-footed crab-like Osaka merchants, at least they won't be so uncompetitive after being put into front-line combat.

Fortunately, despite the unusually slow movement of the 44th Division, Major General Shinki Ogata was quite generous. After knowing the current situation of the front-line battle situation and the ineffective actions of the 44th Division, the Special Marine Corps and all the landing internal fireboat wings were generously handed over to the command of Vice Admiral Yuan Shou.

It's just that this Yokosuka Joint Special Marine Corps belongs, and a Marine Corps equivalent to a brigade of the Army is only a strength of more than 1,000 people, and it can't replace the 44th Division, which still has more than 5,000 troops at the moment, even if a wing has not yet had time to land. For Lieutenant General Haramori, at best, it's better than nothing.

Lieutenant General Yuan's counterattack, because of the friction of the 44th Division, formed a situation of fast in the north and slow in the south. However, the faster the attack force on the northern front progressed, the more Lieutenant General Yuan Shou felt that something was not normal in his heart. If any army were to carry out an anti-landing operation, it would not have deployed only one regiment of troops in front of such a large defensive zone.

Moreover, the enemy army deployed so many artillery on the front line of Qikou and so many mines in the deep water area off the coast of Qikou. It was impossible to deploy only one regiment of infantry on the beachhead for such a large trap for the Empire's landing operation. The enemy army is not stupid, do you think that relying only on artillery can prevent the landing operation of the Empire?

The most crucial thing is that after Lieutenant General Hara Shou launched an attack inland, it was no longer possible to provide fire support to the landing force by relying only on the range of the naval guns. At the same time, all the remaining supplies, equipment, and personnel have been sent ashore, and as the tide has begun to recede, the naval ships have begun to retreat one after another because there is no longer a need to continue to anchor in Bohai Bay, or that they can no longer provide fire support.

While losing naval artillery fire support, it provided a protective umbrella for the Japanese landing force, and took over the disabled fleet to carry out in-depth fire support. After a day's air battle, there were few aviation units left at the moment, and after they withdrew from the battlefield because of the nightfall, the uneasiness in Lieutenant General Haramori's heart became stronger and stronger.

Although after the loss of almost all the landing ships, and most of the landing craft, only a third of the remaining forces that had not yet landed finally climbed ashore. However, although he received some reinforcements, after getting out of the cover of the naval guns, the strong feeling of uneasiness in the heart of Vice Admiral Hara Shou did not disappear with the fall of night, but became stronger and stronger.

Before the landing operation was carried out, the North China Front sent information that the enemy's two armored divisions had not yet appeared on any battlefield. The North China Front mobilized a network of intelligence, but it was not able to find out where such a large armored force of the enemy army was lurking.

This made everyone from Okamura Ninji to Lieutenant General Hara Mamoru feel uneasy. Everyone is a high-ranking officer, and they all know in their hearts, what kind of enemy army is the most terrible? Even the enemy army that you know is near the battlefield, but you can't find it is the most terrifying.

The location of the first line of Qikou is almost a flat river, except for a few depressions, there is not even a large area of highland. This kind of terrain is the most suitable for tank combat, and this common sense is understood even by a squad leader. And under this kind of terrain, the enemy army has never shown its face, and the tank cluster is like a thorn in the heart of the original lieutenant general.

Even though the 9th Division was equipped with a large number of bazookas, the enemy's armored clusters that had not yet appeared still made the nerves of the former lieutenant general always in an extremely tense state. That's two armoured divisions, hundreds of tanks, and a lot of armoured vehicles. If this completely overwhelms the Qikou line, how should he and those weak 44th Divisions deal with it?

The attacking force will develop in depth and sooner or later will have to break out of the cover range of the naval guns. Most of his own artillery was thrown into the sea, and the number of remaining artillery in his hands was insufficient, and the 44th Division was ineffective. Once it encounters the impact of a large number of enemy tank clusters, he is already a half-crippled Ninth Division, and only God knows how long he can hold out.

After the northern attack force with the 7th Wing as the backbone arrived at the front line of Tiger Wolf Village, Lieutenant General Yuan Shou ordered to stop the attack and build fortifications on the spot to prepare for defense. Lieutenant General Hara Shou repeatedly exhorted the attack cluster on the northern front, especially to be prepared for anti-tank warfare. Prepare to meet the onslaught of a large cluster of enemy tanks.

At the same time, he sent a series of telegrams to Lieutenant General Sekihara No. 6, commander of the 44th Division, who had finally landed, and demanded that the 44th Division take advantage of the gap when the anti-coalition artillery fire had finally stopped, and under the cover of night, it must reach its designated position and form an overall posture of alternate cover with the troops on the northern front.

The troops of the northern front were now too intrusive and the attack was too smooth, which made him really a little uneasy. So as soon as it got dark, he ordered all the attack clusters on the northern front to stop and standby. After waiting for the sky to brighten, he was already arriving for air support, and then decided on the next move according to the situation.

Although the order was issued, the commander of the 7th Wing, who was in charge of the operation on the northern front, Asahi Shiro Osa, also strictly followed his orders. Although this night, the first line of Tiger Wolf Village was unusually calm, and nothing happened. But it was the tranquility of this night, but it was the hardest night that Lieutenant General Haramoru had ever spent with a growing sense of uneasiness in his heart.

It wasn't until it was already dark that the reinforced Special Marines arrived at Sun Zhengzhuang and deployed to the flanks of the Seventh Wing to act as cover. The headquarters of the 44th Division, which was slow to swallow, finally rushed to the front line of Sanhuzhuang under the personal supervision of Lieutenant General Sekihara No. 6, who finally came ashore. Lieutenant General Yuan Shou hung his heart all night, and finally fell a little.