Under their fierce attack, most of the Japanese defenses were destroyed by their artillery, countless aerial bombs, and a large number of incendiary bombs.
This made the Eighth Route Army's frontal attack much easier.
However, compared to the first line of defense, the Japanese second line of defense is obviously more difficult to conquer.
This is close to the core defense area of ??the Japanese army in Jinzhou City. They originally built a large number of permanent defense fortifications here. Later, the development of the war made the fortifications built by the Japanese army here become denser and stronger. .
They built an airtight defense line almost along the southwest direction of Jinzhou City.
These lines of defense consist of a large number of tunnels, trenches, countless machine gun bunkers, bunkers, and countless barbed wire fences.
The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army paid a heavy price when attacking these Japanese fronts.
They also tried digging trenches to keep approaching the Japanese positions, but this method did not work here.
Because the Japanese army was on the second line of defense, there were already many highlands.
Although many of these so-called highlands are slopes of soil piled up when they were digging tunnels.
But these breakthroughs, which are only more than ten meters high, can build a large number of fortifications and machine gun fire points.
This allowed the Japanese army to shoot from a high position. Even if the Eighth Route Army soldiers below dug trenches and pushed forward little by little, they could not avoid the enemy's machine gun fire in front.
Therefore, although the Eighth Route Army's offensive was fierce, the distance it advanced was not as long as before.
Boss He and Xia Yang discussed it and both knew that the Japanese army¡¯s defense on the second line of defense was much tighter than the first line of defense.
It is indeed very difficult to break through the second line of defense set up by the Japanese army in just one or two days.
Therefore, Mr. He asked the New 1st Regiment and the New 2nd Regiment to slow down the pace of attack and not think about achieving success overnight.
Ding Wei and Kong Jie are not fools. They can also see that compared with the first line of defense that Li Yunlong attacked, they are now the hard nut.
If you want to chew off these hard bones in a short time, you are afraid that both of their teeth will be knocked out.
Therefore, after receiving He Long's order, both of them executed it well.
However, neither the Eighth Route Army nor Xia Yang expected that the fierce attack by the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment during the day would panic Meijiro Xiangzu.
He thought that the enemy still planned to attack their defensive positions within one day.
Therefore, he prepared for the worst. What if the enemy could advance directly to the bottom of the city wall of Jinzhou City in about three days?
Based on this, he sent a telegram urging Ping Tian to speed up. They could no longer sustain it for too long.
Ping Zhenya, who originally planned to log in early the next morning, planned to log in early after seeing this information.
And this time will be about three hours earlier than they previously scheduled.
In Tianjin¡¯s port, the soldiers stationed here have completed their assembly.
Originally, about 5,000 soldiers were stationed here, and a very tight defense line was built here.
Even if they were bombarded by Japanese naval artillery, they would not have to worry about any danger while hiding in the fortifications.
As for the artillery they arranged inside, they can directly engage in bombardment with the enemy's fleet.
However, during the recent period, the number of troops stationed here has been decreasing day by day.
There were originally more than 5,000 troops, but now there are only two companies left. The total number of more than 250 people is only equivalent to the strength of a Japanese squadron.
They just got an order, an order that sounded a little strange.
¡°The enemy may land at the port in the middle of the night.
You can hold on for a while and then retreat when the opportunity arises. "
This order made the two company commanders very strange.
However, since the order has been given, they can only obey.
One of the company commanders asked one more question.
What is the so-called opportunity to retreat?
If you resist for a period of time, how long will it take?
These commands are very vague, giving them a sense of ambiguity.
In military commandIn terms of command, such an order is actually very taboo.
After all, on the battlefield, if the instructions are not conveyed accurately enough, it may lead to more casualties among soldiers, or even the entire battle situation developing in another direction, leading to final failure.
On the other side of the phone, their team leader explained it very simply and crudely.
The so-called resistance for a period of time means that they have to fire two shots to see what they do. They can't just retreat when the little devil touches them.
The so-called retreat at the right time means that they should not think that when they see the Japs coming, they will resist to the end and play with their lives against the Japs.
The time to retreat was when the Japs opened fire on them, and they quickly left in trucks.
As for the staff inside the port, they have completed their evacuation ahead of schedule.
They don¡¯t need to worry about this.
With all kinds of questions, the two company commanders gathered their soldiers.
¡°The regiment leader has spoken, we may have a landing exercise later in the night.
But, it¡¯s not us who log in, it¡¯s someone else who logs in.
The content of our exercise is not to really block their landing, but to fire two shots at will when they land, and then retreat as quickly as possible.
According to the requirements of the exercise, we need to complete the retreat without causing any casualties to any soldier.
The main test and exercise of this exercise is whether we can retain our complete organization when we retreat. "
One of the company commanders cleared his throat and said.
In fact, he mainly felt that the order issued by the regiment commander could be told to commanders like them, but it was not suitable to be told to the soldiers.
After all, in the eyes of the soldiers, there is no difference between such an order and running away.
According to the style of these soldiers of the Fourth Army, they will definitely choose to fight to the death with the little Japanese army here.
And the more little devils come, the more excited they may be.
If fighting breaks out, they may not even listen to the commander¡¯s orders.
Out of this consideration, they decided to tell a lie to the soldiers.
In this way, when they retreat, the soldiers will be more cooperative. In order to prove their courage to defend the country to the death, they will not disobey their superiors' orders and return to their positions to continue fighting with the little Japanese to the end. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com