Wang Lianhao looked at the combat map in front of him, nodded and responded: "There is indeed something, so we must not underestimate the enemy this time, the other party can use such a short time to capture such a large territory of our Huaxia Continent, there must be his superiority, blindly belittling the enemy will not make us strong, knowing oneself and knowing the other can not be defeated in a hundred battles, now, go and call me all the generals above the regiment commander, I want to hold a combat meeting." ”

"Okay Brother Hao~ No, I should say obey, Commander!"

Wang Lianhao now controls more than 50,000 people under his hands, isn't it the strength of a group army?

After a while, the generals above the regiment commander gathered in Wang Lianhao's combat command room, everyone sat and stood, crowded a room, but no one made a loud noise, it seems that they have been trained to be very well-behaved during this time, including those guys who used to be bandits.

"Everyone, our work is coming, we have just received the information, the enemy has mobilized at least three main forces to besiege Luoyang from the east, west, south and north, and what we have to do is not Gu Cheng surrender, but take the initiative to attack, I decided to take the enemy's first army of Yoshimoto who tried to cross the Yellow River and annihilate it along the Yellow River."

Wang Lianhao's "snap" slapped on the Yellow River part of the map, indicating the next direction and focus of this war.

The Japanese army's Yoshimoto First Army was one of the main forces responsible for crossing the Yellow River south to attack Luoyang.

They consisted of the 55th Regiment of Major General Chiyo Motomura and five infantry brigades of the 69th Infantry Division stationed in Yuncheng, and the three infantry brigades of Major General Kosae Kazuaki, which were independently mixed into the 3rd Brigade Regiment, and the two brigades were unified under the command of Lieutenant General Tadaji Miura, commander of the 69th Division.

In order to increase the strength of Yoshimoto's First Army, the North China Front also transferred three integrated infantry brigades led by the commander of the 13th Wing and Shinnosei Osaku Kamioka from the 29th Division of Datong, and two days later transferred the 9th Independent Infantry Brigade under the command of Ye Changde, commander of the 63rd Division, so that the number of Yoshimoto's First Army instantly swelled to 65,000.

The enemy's 1st Gibbon Army sent eight infantry battalions as the vanguard of the attack on Luoyang, and decided to launch a river-crossing attack in the early morning of 23 May.

In order to ensure the secrecy of troop movements, Gibbon stipulated that all troops preparing to fight south of the Yellow River must operate at night, only wired telephones were allowed to make contact, and the use of any radio products was absolutely forbidden before the start of operations.

It seems that this Yoshimoto has realized the insecurity of the radio station, and simply abandoned his martial arts, although this has made the communication between their troops a little sluggish and lagging, but it can ensure that it will not be monitored by anyone who cares.

However, he probably didn't expect that the news of their siege of Luoyang had already been revealed and was grasped by the defenders, and now this little caution could only delay their downfall a little.

In order to enable his First Army to cross the Yellow River smoothly, Gibbon also had the engineers train in other places in advance to cross the river, and even sent reconnaissance planes to conduct several aerial reconnaissance on both sides of the Yellow River at the crossing site.

The first point of the river crossing route he determined was in Chengguan Town, on the bank of the Yellow River in Hengqu County; The second point is the river embankment village upstream of Chengguan Town; The third point is the upstream of Hedi Village, east of Pinglu County and Caojiachuan to Nangou.

Moreover, Yoshimoto also ordered in advance that as soon as the soldiers at any of these three river crossing points set foot on the opposite bank, they should immediately occupy the mountain roads, village bridges, and Yinghao Station.

Finally, at four o'clock in the morning on May 23, several infantry brigades involved in the crossing of the river had all gathered from their respective garrisons to the three crossings.

The river they chose to cross is the mountainous area south of the Hengqu, where the river is about 500 meters wide, and the water is about 350 meters wide during the season, and the flow rate is about 3.5 meters per second, and the flow speed is even faster in the narrow section.

All preparations were in place, and the Japanese troops at the three river crossing points were ordered to cross the river at the same time.

The pioneer death squads with their heads wrapped in white straps and shirtless bodies biting long knives and grenades tied to their waists, the first to row ferries connected by hemp ropes, desperately trying to reach the opposite shore.

Since it was still early in the morning, the fog above the river was filled, and the rushing sound of the river well concealed the sound of the oars of the river crossers slapping on the river, which made a natural cover for this group of Japanese troops.

Soon, the two infantry brigades that crossed the south bank of the Yellow River from Chengguan Town successfully arrived at the shore and began to move in the direction they had agreed upon, and signaled "safety" to their companions behind them.

The Japanese troops in the rear saw the safety signal, so they put down the ferries one by one and rowed towards the other side of the river.

The team of 25,000 men crossed the river from three crossing points, but just as the Japanese army was halfway crossing, the haze and mist ahead suddenly brightened, and the dazzling light lit up from all directions, gathering into a huge beam of light, shining on their forward death squad.

This is the trick that the Dragon Chamber of Commerce is used to, strong light suppression.

In fact, the ambushes lying around had already discovered the Japanese death squads, but they chose to lie dormant and did not attack at the first time, but strictly followed Wang Lianhao's orders, waiting for one-third of the enemy to cross the river, one-third was crossing the river, and one-third was preparing to cross the river to launch an attack.

When those bright light beams shook the eyes of the surrounding Japanese troops, the dense gunfire and artillery also rang out at the same time.

Wang Linhao ambushed two brigades here, and the commanders were all outstanding generals who came from the Longxing Military Academy and fought guerrilla warfare for a long time in North China and East China.

Under their command, the soldiers fought bravely, like an arm and a finger, and soon the vanguard of the Japanese army who had crossed the river was scattered, and there was nowhere to escape.

Many Japanese troops fell into the Yellow River due to crowding, and those who were crossing the river undoubtedly became live targets on the water.

"In the past! Rush over! Can't go back! We can't go back! There are so many of us that as long as we force our way across the Yellow River, the enemy will not be able to compete with us! ”

The Japanese front commander believed that his 25,000 men were enough to crush the enemy forces lying in ambush on the opposite bank, but the reality was not as he imagined.

Perhaps in the past, they had always had a numerical advantage when they fought with the Longxing private army, but this time the situation was reversed, Wang Lianhao's subordinates were full of talents, the supply of troops was sufficient, and one by one they were like wolves and tigers, waiting for work, only the ambush team on the shore had more than 5,000 people, with the help of powerful firepower, the Japanese army's one-third of the landed pioneer death squad really became a dare to "die" team, but their death was worthless, useless, annihilated like a moth to a fire, stubble by stubble from a living person to a corpse.

"Eight grid tooth road, transfer all the field artillery for me and bombard the opposite bank!"

Gibbon was furious and ordered a third of the army, which had not yet crossed the river, to set up field guns on the shore and bombard them in the opposite direction.

But at that moment, the gunfire rang out again, and this time it was from behind them.

That's right, Wang Lianhao wanted to annihilate the enemy army along the Yellow River, and this coast included both the south and north banks.

After intercepting this information from the enemy in advance, he sent a brigade stationed on the north bank of the Yellow River, which was very deep, and launched an attack from behind the enemy at this moment, like a sharp knife piercing the heart of the Japanese army!

The field artillerymen had not even had time to load the shells into the barrels when they were caught off guard by a sudden attack from behind them.

At a certain moment, the heavy ammunition of the wooden box used by the artillery to store the shells exploded in place a small mushroom cloud, and Gibbon was thrown away by this tremendous impact, flew into the air more than five meters high, and fell heavily to the ground.

At this moment, the voice in his ears was buzzing, and everyone seemed to be talking from a distance of 108,000 miles, and his vision was blurred, and the smoke covered the sky above him, and the mud and sand that had been blown up with him fell into his mouth and nose.

Yoshimoto struggled to get up and continue to command his army, but he tried several times without success, and when he finally managed to prop up his upper body and look down, he realized that his two legs had detached from his knees, and the explosion had blown his lower body into a blur of flesh and blood, how could he stand up?

"Ah——! Ah——!h ”

Yoshimoto let out a terrible roar, and the soldiers around him spotted their commander and tried to drag him to a place where no one was there for emergency treatment.

But at this moment, there was a sudden loud buzz and whistle in the sky, and more than a dozen planes pierced through the clouds and quickly swooped towards them, dropping bombs one after another.

"Boom~!"

The bombs landed on the shore and in the middle of the Yellow River, throwing all the Japanese soldiers sitting in the ferries into the river, leaving no room for resistance.

This is also the reason why Wang Lianhao chose to eat the wave of enemies who forcibly crossed the Yellow River first, this kind of terrain is too suitable for siege and killing.