At this time, Okamura Yasuji completely ignored whether his air force could win or not. He wanted to push it with ground troops, and he dared not suffer any casualties. As long as Hu Bin's troops were wiped out here, the situation in the entire Southeast Asia would be clear, and Japan would be able to completely control Southeast Asia and put pressure on China's southwest and northwest borders. ⊙

At the same time, more Southeast Asian troops can be transferred to the Americas or the Soviet Union. Japan and Germany are now negotiating plans to attack the Soviet Union. However, they will not be able to fight for the time being. Hitler will not attack the Soviet Union in winter. He wants to attack the Soviet Union, and they will not attack until after April next year.

Therefore, for Okamura Yasuji, he still has time and he can still suffer casualties!

At this time, on Meng Yang's side, Zhang Zhen, the commander of the 56th Army, was in the command center at this time. The whole atmosphere was quite depressing. Zhang Zhen was very upset and came outside the command center.

At this time, outside, all his positions were his positions. His positions were mainly to guard the passage to Naozhi. The entire defense line was built along the mountain, and the main high ground was the positions. Moreover, the trees in the two kilometers in front of the positions were cut down by the soldiers to repair defensive fortifications!

"Military, I feel like something bad is going to happen. The atmosphere is wrong!" A senior military adviser came to Zhang Zhen and said.

"I'm going to fight, that is, tonight, is there any news coming from the reconnaissance troops in front of us?" Zhang Zhen asked.

"There is no news yet, and no Japanese troops were found. However, according to the information we knew before, two divisions of the Japanese arrived 20 miles away from us. Now they are building simple fortifications there, most of which are infantry!" said the senior staff officer.

"Well, Made, either tonight or tomorrow during the day, tell us commanders at all levels to be vigilant when resting at night. I am worried that the Japanese will come to attack at night!" Zhang Zhen said.

"Yes!" The senior staff officer immediately returned to the command center when he heard Zhang Zhen's words.

Zhang Zhen stood outside for a while, sighed, turned around and returned to the command center. On the position, the soldiers of the 56th Army were still strengthening the fortifications. They only arrived here three days ago. Although the air raid shelter and trenches were repaired, the soldiers still wanted to strengthen the trenches.

In war, no soldier would be too lazy to repair fortifications, especially veterans. They all know that strong fortifications can save lives. Although soldiers still scold when they should be cursed when they should be repaired, they still need to repair when they should be repaired, and they are very serious. Some new recruits do not repair well and will even be scolded by veterans.

"Come on a cigarette!" At this time, a company commander walked to the side of the veterans, signaled them to take a break, and took out the cigarette.

These people are all squad leaders in the company. This company commander has just come from China and graduated from the military school. He has never fought before. However, before they left the company, the battalion commander told them not to look down on those veterans. Believe them. Their combat experience is quite rich. The only thing they have not advanced is that they lack culture!

"Company Commander Xie Wang! Company Commander, you kid, why are you here to be a soldier? Don't your mother feel sorry for you?" A squad leader took the cigarette and said to the young company commander.

The 56th Army was all adapted from the Sichuan Army. It was Liu Xiang's troops before, but now it has been sent here to fight.

"Hehe, every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the country!" the company commander said with a smile.

"Don't be polite, Company Commander Wang, be careful when fighting. Do you know how many company commanders we have experienced?" Another veteran asked as he looked at the company commander.

Before Company Commander Wang asked, a squad leader next to him said with a smile: "There are 11 people. From the time we went abroad to now, there are 11 companies, and 2 of them have successfully gone up. The remaining 9, 3 are lying in the hospital, and 6 are sacrificed!"

"Ah?" Company Commander Wang was a little surprised when he heard him say this.

"Company Commander Wang, as the company commander, you have to lead the team to charge. However, this time we are defending, and the possibility of charging is not high, but you must be careful!" A squad leader said with a cigarette in his mouth and looked at him.

"I know, thank you!" Company Commander Wang said with a smile.

"Company Commander, Company Commander, you are here. The division headquarters just now sent a telegram and asked us to be vigilant when we rest at night. The Japanese might come to sneak attack at night!" At this time, a lieutenant ran over and said.

"Platform Commander Li!" said the veterans.

"What are you doing?" The second lieutenant who came over, platoon leader Li, asked as he looked at the veterans.

"Talk to the company commander!" a veteran said with a smile.

"Okay, I know, I'll be on duty tonight and arrange the guards!" Company Commander Wang said.

"No need to arrange troops, I guess I can fight before 10 o'clock!" said one of the veterans.

"Why?" Company Commander Wang asked in surprise when he heard this.

"Intuition, damn, I always feel wrong today. At the beginning, I thought I would come here in the afternoon, but my mother didn't come, probably it was evening.

Now our air force is very powerful. If they want to fight, they must leave enough time for their troops to attack. Before dawn, our air force will be able to come and bomb. I guess it was the first midnight!" The veteran said, smoking.

"I guess so, Mad, I thought I had this feeling, and I always felt that nothing was right today!" another veteran said.

"Be careful, arrange your soldiers, fight later, take care of them, don't shoot or run around!" Platoon Commander Li said.

"I know!" the veterans nodded.

"Okay, company commander, let's go back!" Platoon Commander Li said to Company Commander Wang.

Company Commander Wang nodded, not far away, Company Commander Wang looked at Platoon Commander Li and said, "They respect you very much!"

"Well, I have been through life and death with them several times. Company Commander, after fighting, please be careful, pay attention to the enemy's machine guns, cannons, rifles and bullets, listen to sounds, and your intuition. Don't raise your head too high. Fire at night, and change the place after a few shots. Especially after you kill several Japanese in a row, you must change it, otherwise the Japanese will kill you immediately!" The platoon leader looked at Company Commander Wang and said.

"Thank you!" Company Commander Wang heard this and said to Platoon Commander Li with a smile.

"No, I'm just a rough man! These veterans know, but those who don't know are almost dead!" Platoon Commander Li said with a smile.

"Since you have fought so many battles, why are you still the platoon leader? Why haven't you been promoted?" Company Commander Wang looked at Platoon Leader Li curiously and asked.

"I am the platoon leader I just mentioned. I was the squad leader like them before. In the last battle, our platoon leader was all sacrificed, the company commander died, and the deputy company commander died!" Platoon Commander Li looked at Company Commander Wang with a wry smile and said.

"Oh, Mad!" Company Commander Wang nodded, and then cursed.

"Company Commander, I believe those veterans know how to do it. You just came here, don't command randomly. Command randomly will kill the brothers! In ordinary battles, they can take their brothers to solve them, especially when defending, they have no problems!" Platoon Commander Li looked at Company Commander Wang and said.

"I know!" Corps Wang nodded and said.

Soon, they arrived at the air raid shelter, which was the air raid shelter, the company, and their dormitory. It was already dark, and they didn't want to light the lights now, so they lie on the grass shop on the ground with their clothes and rested.

It was almost 9 o'clock, and a correspondent soldier from the battalion came over.

"Company Commander of the 3rd Company, Company Commander of the 3rd Company!" The communication soldier shouted when he arrived in the trench here.

"What's wrong here?" Company Commander Wang heard that he was calling him and arrived at the entrance of the cave.

"Let your troops be careful. Our front-line reconnaissance troops discovered that the Japanese were moving towards us. They might fight to wake up your soldiers at night!" the correspondent soldier shouted.

"I understand!" Company Commander Wang nodded.

"Hemad, I'll say it's tonight!" said a squad leader in the distance.

"Brothers, wake up, check your equipment and prepare your ammunition!" Captain Wang shouted loudly.

At this time, the soldiers who were still in the air raid shelter, took their guns and began to grop, removed the magazine, touched the bullets inside the magazine with their hands, and after confirming that the bullets inside were full, loaded the bullets, and then checked their spare magazines, the bullets inside the ammunition bags, and the grenades hanging on their chests to ensure that there was no problem. They sat silently in the air raid shelter.

"Bang!" A soldier lit a match, then lit the cigarette in his mouth, and sucked it in the air raid shelter.

Slowly, more soldiers lit the cigarettes, no one spoke, just sat quietly, no one knew what other people were thinking, and they didn’t even know what they should think, missing their family members and their wives? Maybe there is, but this is something I think about every day, and now many people don’t think about it anymore.

"Da da da da!" Gunshots came from the hill in the distance, and the soldiers in the trench immediately poked their heads out to look at the hill opposite.

"It's our scouts, reminding us! Now it's time for them to retreat!" said a veteran.

"Squad leader, are the Japanese coming?" A young soldier asked when he arrived at the next seat.

"Get back, why are you coming out?" The squad leader immediately cursed at the soldier with a dark face.

"Ah? Oh!" The young soldier didn't understand very much, but he still returned to the air raid shelter after listening to his squad leader.
Chapter completed!