Okamura Ninji didn't care whether his air force could win or not at this time, he wanted to push it over with ground forces, he didn't dare to suffer casualties, as long as Hu Bin's troops could be annihilated here, then the situation in the whole of Southeast Asia would be clear, and they, 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, and Japan and Germany are now discussing plans to attack the Soviet Union, but they will not be able to fight for a while and a half, and Hitler will not attack the Soviet Union in the winter, he will attack the Soviet Union, and they will not attack until after April next year, when the weather is slightly warmer.

Therefore, now for Okamura Ninji, he still has time, and he can still get casualties!

At this time, on Meng Yang's side, Zhang Zhen, the commander of the 56th Army, was in the headquarters at this time, and the whole atmosphere was quite depressing, Zhang Zhen was very irritable, so he came to the outside of the headquarters.

At this time, outside, it was all his position, his position was mainly to hold the passage to Nauzhi, the entire defense line was built on the mountain, the main heights were positions, and the trees in front of the position were all cut down by the soldiers and used to repair fortifications!

"Junza, I feel as if something bad is about to happen, the atmosphere is not right!" A senior staff officer of the military department came to Zhang Zhen and said.

"It's going to be fought, it's tonight, is there any news from the reconnaissance force in front of us?" Zhang Zhen asked.

"There is no news yet, no troops of the devils have been found, but according to the information we knew before, 20 miles away from our side, 2 divisions of the devils have arrived, and now they are building simple fortifications over there, most of them are infantry!" The senior staff officer spoke.

"Well, Made, it's either tonight or tomorrow during the day, tell our commanders at all levels, when you rest at night, be vigilant, I'm worried that the devils will come to attack at night!" Zhang Zhen said.

"Yes!" The senior staff officer heard Zhang Zhen's words and immediately returned to the headquarters.

And Zhang Zhen stood outside for a while, sighed, turned around and returned to the headquarters, on the position, the soldiers of the 56th Army were still reinforcing the fortifications at this time, they only arrived here 3 days ago, although the bomb shelter and trenches were repaired, but the soldiers still wanted to strengthen the trenches.

In the war, no soldier will be lazy not to repair the fortifications, especially the veterans, they all know that strong fortifications can save lives, although when repairing the fortifications, the soldiers should still scold when they should scold, but when they should be repaired, they still have to repair, and they are repaired very seriously, and some recruits do not repair well, and they will attract the scolding of veterans.

"Get a cigarette!" At this point, a company commander walked up to several veterans, motioned for them to take a break, and pulled out a cigarette.

These people are all squad leaders in the company, and this company commander has just come from China, graduated from the military academy, and has never fought before, but just before they left the company, a battalion commander told them not to look down on those veterans, to believe those veterans, their combat experience is quite rich, the only thing that has not been promoted is that the culture is not enough!

"King Xie is the company commander! Company commander, you baby, what kind of soldier are you running here, isn't your mother distressed? A squad leader took the cigarette and looked at the young company commander and said.

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

"Hehe, the rise and fall of the country is not the responsibility of the husband!" The company commander said with a smile.

"Don't be crepe, Company Commander Wang, when the fight starts, be careful, do you know how many company commanders we have experienced?" Another veteran asked, looking at the company commander.

Before Company Commander Wang asked, a squad leader next to him said with a smile: "11, from the time we went abroad to fight, it seems that 11 company commanders have gone up, 2 of them have successfully gone up, the remaining 9, 3 are lying in the hospital, and 6 have died!" ”

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

"Company Commander Wang, as the company commander, is going to lead the team to charge, but this time we are defensive, and it is unlikely that we will charge, but we must also be careful!" A squad leader looked at him with a cigarette in his mouth and said.

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

"Company commander, company commander, you are here, a telegram came from the division headquarters just now, asking us to be vigilant when we rest at night, the devils may come to sneak attack at night!" At this point, a second lieutenant ran over and said.

"Platoon Commander Li!" The veterans said.

"What are you doing?" The second lieutenant who came over, that is, Platoon Commander Li, looked at the veterans and asked.

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

"Okay, I know, I'm on duty at night and arrange the guards!" Company Commander Wang spoke.

"There is no need to arrange troops, it is estimated that the fight will be able to start before 10 o'clock!" One of the veterans said.

"Why?" Company Commander Wang heard this, looked at the veteran in surprise and asked.

"Intuition, damn it, I always feel wrong today, at the beginning, I thought it would be in the afternoon, but it turned out that the fuck didn't come, I guess 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, or before dawn, our air force will be able to come and bomb, I guess it will be the first half of the night! The veteran said, smoking a cigarette.

"I guess so, Made, I thought I was the only one who felt this way, and I always felt that what I was doing today was wrong!" Another veteran also said.

"Pay attention to safety, arrange your soldiers, wait for a fight to start, take care of them, don't shoot indiscriminately and don't run around!" Platoon Commander Li spoke.

"Yes!" The veterans nodded.

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

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

"Well, I have been born and died with them several times, company commander, after the fight, you must be careful, pay attention to the enemy's machine guns and cannons, rifle bullets, listen to the sound, and your intuition, don't raise your head too high, shoot at night, and change the place after a few shots, especially after you kill a few devils in a row, you must change them, otherwise the devils will be able to kill you immediately!" The platoon commander looked at Company Commander Wang and said.

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

"No, I'm just a rough man! These veterans know, and 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 a platoon commander, why haven't you been promoted?" Company Commander Wang looked at Platoon Commander Li curiously and asked.

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

"Oh, Made!" Company Commander Wang heard it, nodded, and then scolded.

"Company commander, believe those veterans, they know what to do, you just came over, don't command indiscriminately, indiscriminately commanding will kill the brothers! In general, they were able to take their brothers of their class to solve, especially when it came to defense, they had no problem! Platoon Commander Li looked at Company Commander Wang and said.

"I know!" Company Commander Wang nodded and said.

Soon, they arrived in the bomb shelter, which was not only the bomb shelter, but also the company headquarters, and their dormitory. It was already dark, and they didn't want to light the lamp now, so they folded their clothes and lay down on the grass on the ground, and rested.

And it was about 9 o'clock when a communications officer from the battalion headquarters came.

"3rd Company Commander, 3rd Company Commander!" When the messenger got into the trench on this side, he shouted.

"Here, what's wrong?" When Company Commander Wang heard that he was shouting to himself, he went to the entrance of the cave.

"Let your troops pay attention, our front-line reconnaissance unit has discovered that the devils are moving towards us, and they may have to fight at night to wake up your soldiers!" The communications man shouted.

"Got it!" Company Commander Wang nodded.

"Tamad, I'll just say it's tonight!" A squad leader in the distance said.

"Brethren, wake up, check your equipment and get your ammunition ready!" Wang Lian shouted loudly.

At this time, the soldiers who were still in the bomb shelter, holding their guns, began to fumble around, unloaded the magazines, touched the bullets in the magazines with their hands, made sure that the bullets in the magazines were full, loaded the bullets, and then checked their spare magazines and ammunition bags and the grenades hanging on their chests to make sure that there were no problems, and they sat silently in the bomb shelter.

"Smack!" A soldier lit a match, then lit a cigarette in his mouth and smoked it in the dugout.

Slowly, more soldiers lit cigarettes, no one spoke, just sat quietly, no one knew what the other people were thinking, and even they themselves didn't know what they should be thinking, thinking about their families? Thinking of a wife? Maybe there is, but this is something that I think about every day, and many people don't want to think about it now.

"Da Da Da!" On the hill in the distance, there was the sound of gunfire, and the soldiers in the trenches immediately poked their heads out and looked at the opposite hill.

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

"Squad leader, the devil is here?" A young soldier asked, as he reached the next position.

"Go back, what are you doing here?" The squad leader immediately scolded the soldier with a dark face.

"Huh? Oh! The young soldier didn't understand it very much, but he listened to his squad leader and returned to the bomb shelter.

And the old soldier still looked at the opposite hill, although it was dark, but the old soldier's eyes widened, as if he could penetrate the obstruction of the night. (To be continued.) )