1890 King of Southeast Asia

On the afternoon of January 24, Shanghai.

"The bombing was very successful, and the Japanese army was in chaos."

"The landing troops of the 3rd Light Infantry Division have occupied the dock, and the 2nd Light Infantry Division is stepping up the landing."

"The Air Force reported that the Japanese army showed signs of shrinking, and we think they want to retreat." Huang Zhengfang smiled lightly.

The tactic of forced landing made him feel heavy. As long as the air force bombing did not solve the Japanese artillery positions, regardless of whether the landing was successful, the casualties would not go down.

The Yangtze River Basin in late January was still very cold. If you fell into the cold river with clothes on, you would not drown in it, but you would get cramps in a few minutes, and you would get hypothermia in ten minutes, and die within half an hour.

In the battle, ships would definitely not be allowed to slowly salvage people from the river.

"Speed ​​up the landing and encircle and annihilate the 8th Division as soon as possible." Zheng Lei just nodded calmly.

All this was within his expectations.

For most people, airplanes are relatively new.

Especially in a poor country like Japan, most of the lower-level soldiers are illiterate, and there are all kinds of monsters in Japanese traditional culture. It is normal to be afraid when suddenly seeing an airplane.

And this airplane can also drop bombs, which can easily kill a large number of lives, but the Japanese soldiers' shooting at it has no effect.

That kind of powerlessness can easily develop into panic, and then evolve into fear, causing the organizational ability to collapse.

In extreme fear, people will only act on instinct.

That is, when encountering danger, they instinctively escape from danger.

"The Air Force hopes to continue bombing, and they still have eleven planes to use." Huang Zhengfang heard the request of the bomber brigade.

"Eleven? Did one of them break down? Did it come back?" Zheng Lei asked.

The outstanding advantage of this type of bomber is that it is strong and durable, and the Japanese army does not have suitable anti-aircraft weapons. He can only think of mechanical failure.

However, just in case, he still asked, if the Japanese army has anti-aircraft weapons, then it will be re-evaluated.

"It's not a malfunction. It seems that it was affected by the explosion when attacking a stronghold." Although it was difficult to understand, Huang Zhengfang still told it verbatim.

As far as he knew, bombers were flying hundreds of meters high when performing missions. He didn't understand how they were affected.

"Agree that the Air Force will continue to fight. The next task of the Air Force is to support Changle Town to hold on and tie up the pocket."

"Three divisions fight against one of them, and there is air force support. It will not look good if we delay any longer."

"Order, end the battle within 48 hours." Zheng Lei nodded and knocked on the table.

The port has been controlled by the 3rd Light Infantry Division, and the only difficulty of this war has been solved.

There is still a division of the Japanese army in Beiyang and a town waiting nearby, and the 7th Division of the Japanese army is waiting in the distance. If they move slower and let them react, the outcome of this battle will be uncertain.

It is not that you can win by being stronger in combat effectiveness. The combat effectiveness of the Nanhua Army is strong, but it is built on a perfect firepower system, and the firepower system relies on the logistics system.

The construction of the military-level logistics system is not perfect, and it is necessary to praise the river transportation. If it enters a strategic passive position, it is hard to say what changes will occur.

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On the morning of January 25, Changle Town.

"Really, there is no honest Japanese." Hou Dehui held a beautiful mutton-fat jade wine glass in his hand.

He reluctantly put the wine glass into the box. This is a set, which also has a wine pot.

"Grape wine luminous cup, this is the so-called luminous cup, right?" The chief of staff sighed on the side.

After a whole day of torture, or a whole day of beating without reason, those who can produce something can eat, and those who can't produce anything will be beaten again. Reporting others is also considered to have produced something.

In this way, more than 200 various precious toys were collected in a day and a half.

"This thing is from the former Ming Dynasty. The market value must be tens of thousands, right? It's really true that the rich are drunk and stinking, and there are frozen bones on the road." Looking at these treasures, Hou Dehui thought of the ragged laborers in Shanghai.

He didn't hate the rich, but he didn't understand why some people could be so rich that they couldn't understand, and some people could be so poor that they couldn't understand.

As human beings, they lived on the same land. But because of wealth, they were divided into two classes, and they couldn't understand each other's lives.

"Maybe, this society is wrong?" Hou Dehui murmured to himself.

"What?" The chief of staff was registering one by one, and didn't hear Hou Dehui's words clearly.

"Nothing." Hou Dehui shook his head and threw away all the distracting thoughts.

"Captain, chief of staff, the enemy is coming." Li Yan hurried into the room.

"I'll go and see, you deal with these things first." Hou Dehui stood up immediately after hearing this.

"Okay!" The chief of staff hesitated and nodded.

...

Outside Changle Town was a regiment of the 16th Brigade, they were leading the way north to open up an escape route.

"What?! Isn't this town behind us?" Yokoyama Masafusa looked at the flag of the 1st Light Infantry Division in the direction of the town in surprise.

Changle Town was defended by a battalion of the 15th Brigade. After losing the division commander and the division command system, the two sides were not fully connected.

Just now, the scout told him that Changle Town was captured by the enemy, but he still didn't believe it.

Here was the wealth they had worked so hard to rob, the wealth was so outrageous.

"Masaka?!!" Thinking of these wealth being robbed by the enemy, Yokoyama Masafusa was stunned.

"Attack! Kill these damn, despicable thieves, I will kill them all!" Yokoyama Masafusa drew out his command knife, pointed in the direction of the town, and jumped up and down and shouted.

"Hey!" Captain Higashino Keigo immediately received the instructions from his superior, nodded and went to gather his troops.

"The artillery squadron will provide you with fire support. You must solve this enemy and take back our treasures before the brigade commander arrives!" Yokoyama Masafusa pulled Higashino Keigo over with red eyes.

"Hey!" Higashino Keigo was stunned and slightly regretful.

Especially after looking at the three silent captains behind him, he felt that he might not be rigorous enough.

People put a troop here, they must want to cut off the retreat of the 8th Division, this troop will not be that weak.

The brigade headquarters is only two hours away from them, and the casualties of capturing a small town of unknown depth in two hours will definitely not be small.

If he fails to take it down, he will be miserable, and he may be ordered to commit seppuku to apologize.

"Warriors of the Higashino Battalion! Our spoils, the spoils we got from Taizhou, were stolen by despicable thieves."

"This is a treasure that belongs to the empire and the warriors of the empire. Kill those despicable thieves. The Higashino Battalion must take the responsibility of killing these thieves!"

"First Squadron, attack with all your strength and test the enemy's firepower." Higashino Keigo said to his squadron leader.

"Hey!" The squadron leader agreed and realized that the order was wrong.

What does it mean to attack with all your strength to test the enemy's firepower? Are they going to attack or test the enemy's firepower?

Is it necessary to attack with all your strength to test the enemy's firepower? If you attack with all your strength without knowing anything, wouldn't that be a death sentence?

'Am I cannon fodder? 'The squadron leader suddenly had this thought in his mind.

"The first squadron, detour from the left farmland direction, the second and third squads, attack from the front, according to intelligence, the enemy has machine guns, and each squadron should try to disperse the attack." The squadron leader could only quickly arrange the tasks.

Everyone knows the fate of the Qiwei Regiment. A regiment lost half of its men, and half of the remaining half were wounded, leaving only a quarter of them combat-ready.

The most striking thing about this battle was that Nanhua, like the Russians, abandoned the spirit of warriors and equipped itself with a large number of machine guns.

Boom!

The four 75mm field guns and four 37mm field guns of the regiment's artillery squadron began to fire at Changle Town.

The artillery squads of the infantry battalion also began to move, with two 75mm mountain guns in one artillery squad, and six 75mm mountain guns in three artillery squads.

A total of ten 75mm guns and four 37mm guns.

These firepowers are already greatly exceeded for a small town, especially a small town in the south of the Yangtze River.

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"Bah! Ahem..." Hou Dehui patted the dirt on his head and spit.

"Let the artillery fight back. We can't let them fire without scruples like this." Hou Dehui shook his head and said to the messenger.

Changle Town is too small, and it is difficult for the soldiers to deploy. If they continue to bombard, there will be heavy casualties.

"It's really a matter of time. Order Li Yan to keep an eye on the prisoners. We won't have much energy to take care of them when the fight starts. If there is any movement, kill them all!" Hou Dehui took out a telescope.

In the telescope, the size of the Hengshan Regiment gradually emerged. The specific organization was unknown, but Hou Dehui could guarantee that the enemy had more people and more guns than himself.

He was stuck on the escape route of the Eighth Division, and the enemy's strength would only increase. Any bit of strength here must be used carefully, and there would not be so many people wasted on prisoners.

Boom!

The sound of artillery firing came from the rear. It was the 76mm field artillery temporarily allocated to the Third Regiment that fired.

"Good!" Hou Dehui saw a significantly larger explosion in the telescope. After the explosion, the enemy's artillery fire was reduced a lot in an instant.

"Next, it's up to us. Pass it on. Without orders, each company is only allowed to use one-third of its firepower at most." When the artillery fire from his side stopped, Hou Dehui knew that the next step would be a battle between infantrymen.

With the enemy's artillery watching, their artillery would not fire easily, let alone fire continuously.

In this way, the advantage is on his side.

Tut tu tu...

Boom bang bang...

...

"Captain, we have tried our best." The squadron leader looked at the troops with more than half of their casualties and said to Keigo Higashino with a sad face.

Bang! Bang!

"Baka!" Keigo Higashino slapped the squadron leader twice in anger.

"Hey!" The squadron leader dared not speak, and nodded in response.

"Go away!"

"Hey!"

"Second squadron, third squadron, prepare to attack!"

"Tell the commander of the regiment that we need artillery support to knock out the enemy's machine guns..."

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