After Osaka native Shunichi Hashimoto and his men completed the landing, they did not attack in depth according to the planned plan. Instead, they began to dig trenches on the spot. They watched the soldiers of Hashimoto's brigade build fortifications on the beach in a orderly manner. The officers and soldiers of the other two brigades followed their respective landing craft and spread out in formation on the sea near the coastline. Arima looked puzzled at first, and then finally couldn't restrain his curiosity and humbly asked the brigade assigned by the Osaka Division next to him. Nagamoto Inae asked: "Honda-kun, may I ask what your officers and soldiers are doing."
Honda Inae naturally knew the virtues of his subordinates. His old face blushed slightly, and then he said seriously: "They should be preparing for the next attack."
"Yeah." Arima was stunned for a moment, and suddenly shouted: "Preparations before the attack, but what are they doing fortifications?"
"It should be to consolidate the beachhead, Arima-kun. We have seen the Chinese people's attack methods before. There is no stable landing position. If the Chinese people launch a counterattack, how can they gain a foothold?"
"We are worried about the Chinese counterattack before we attack." Arima almost choked at Honda's words. He suppressed the anger in his heart and tried to lower his voice and said: "But if this happens, we will be so fierce before. "The attack will be in vain, Mr. Honda, with all due respect, by the time your department has completed the defense work, I am afraid that the Chinese people will have already prepared their defenses. In that case, your offensive command will encounter greater resistance."
"Well, I think it's always good to be prepared."
"Be prepared, but we are the attacking party. If the Chinese really launch a counterattack like last time, I will use naval guns to beat them until they can't lift their heads. Moreover, we also have aviation to provide fire support..." Arima As he spoke, he became more and more angry, and finally couldn't help but cursed: "Ba Ge, is this a war? This, this is simply child's play. Mr. Honda, please immediately order your troops to attack, otherwise, if it is delayed, Commander, if something serious happens, you will bear all the responsibilities."
Honda was actually helpless when his subordinates were so unsatisfied, but the same was true for the entire division. He, a brigade commander, could not change anything. Hearing that Arima was threatening, he was not happy. He changed from his previous gentleness, He looked at Arima coldly and said: "Your Excellency, you have never been in the army, so you don't understand our army's combat methods. I don't blame you for this, but if you want to command our army the way you command the Marine Corps, This won't work. I admit that as His Majesty's subjects, we have the obligation to sacrifice ourselves for our country, but if dedication can't change anything, I think this behavior is stupid..."
Before Honda finished speaking, Arima became so angry that he jumped three feet into the air. He waited for Honda to shout: "Ba Ge, who are you calling stupid?"
Honda showed no signs of weakness and said coldly: "Disregarding the lives of soldiers and carrying out indiscriminate bombardment wantonly, isn't this kind of behavior stupid?"
"Ba Ge, Honda Inahui, you bastard, I want to duel with you."
"It's a duel, but please wait until this battle is over. Hmm, I don't want to cause the remaining fleet to lose its commander because of a mistake, which will ultimately lead to the failure of the fake attack plan. I can't bear this responsibility."
...Honda is sharp-tongued, and the hot-tempered Arima is no match for him. If their subordinates had not separated them in time, it would not have been impossible for the two major general-level officers to fight on the spot.
Zhang Dali and others had no way of knowing about the bad words between the two commanders of the Fleet Sea and the United Fleet, and he was not in the mood to meddle in such nosy matters now. At this time, Zhang Dali and his men, I was completely confused by Hashimoto’s behavior,
"What are the little devils doing?" Several cadet army officers from the 502nd Regiment and the 38th Academy Brigade looked at the little devils busy on the beach and couldn't help but discuss curiously.
Zhang Dali said attentively: "Do the Japs really want to land in Wanning? They have built defenses so vigorously, as if they are going to fight a protracted war."
The others thought about it rationally, and all of them couldn't help but look cautious. Zhang Dali looked at it for a while, then ran to the staff room to call Shan Renxiong and expressed his doubts. The more he thought about it, the more wrong he was, and he waited for another five days. After about 20 minutes, seeing that the Japanese army was still refusing to launch an attack, he immediately ran to the staff room to call Shan Renxiong and reported the matter.
The Japanese bombing of Dongshan Ridge just now made Shan Renxiong worried. Now that he heard about such a situation, he couldn't help but become confused. He asked Kuang Lai brother to be called over and analyzed the situation with Zhang Dali on the phone. When he saw the phenomenon, he first said: "The behavior of the Japanese army is very suspicious. If they are not trying to be mysterious, then there is only one possibility. The shunt fleet is just a decoy. No, the shunt fleet has always maintained a distance of a hundred kilometers away from the coastline. Navigating at this distance, we cannot detect it with the naked eye alone. Could it be that the little devils already know the existence of the Dahuajiao radar station."
The existence of Wuzhishan and Dahuajiao radar stations is top secret. Only officers above the brigade commander of the Fifth Army know about it. Therefore, the possibility of this secret being leaked is extremely low. Moreover, based on the analysis of the Japanese army’s previous actions, they should not know it yet. this matter,
The three people discussed and discussed without coming to a conclusion. Finally, Shan Renxiong decided to remain unchanged in response to all changes. He said: "We are not afraid of the little devils even if they really use Wanning as a breakthrough point. We now have nearly 20,000 troops in Qiongdongnan. Well, with the Self-Defense Forces armed, there is absolutely no problem in sniping for a week. By then, Qiongnan's troops will be able to come over. Dali, tell the brothers, just maintain the status quo..."
The confusion of the single hero did not last long, because at around 10:30, the armed forces of the combined fleet's squadron finally began to appear southwest of Qiong.
The first to attack were about 50 fighter planes.
The intelligence that the reconnaissance plane detected a large number of Chinese civilians fleeing did not give Yamamoto Isoroku any other ideas. On the contrary, because he found that all the local Chinese people had fled during the air raid in Wanning, he believed that this phenomenon just meant that the Chinese people were fleeing. The empty defenses of the army in Qiongnan,
50 fighter planes were divided into three formations and rushed towards Ledong, Dongfang City and Changjiang respectively. The next moment, these three cities were engulfed by the continuous explosion smoke. Amidst the shrill air defense sirens, the fleeing crowd immediately lost their order, which makes evacuation more difficult,
Seeing a large number of civilians falling under Japanese machine gun fire, including some old people and children, Chang Geng couldn't stand it anymore. He said to Yang Chuntai, the commander of the 13th Xuexi Division: "The Commander-in-Chief said that our Xuexi Army is an army of the people's children. Now, it is It's time for us to fulfill this duty, pass my order, and the air defense forces from all places can freely fight back."
In the original combat plan, these air defense units were to wait until they surrounded and annihilated the Japanese landing troops before going into battle to snipe the Japanese aircraft. Yang Chuntai was worried that this would scare away the Japanese troops, but Chang Geng said: "If you can really scare them away, then you will have to die less." Common people, the situation is now clear. The Japanese army’s main attack direction is Qiongxi Southwest. Our counterattack will only make the little devils more excited. Let’s execute it.”
The order was passed on, and soon, a total of three regiments of air defense troops launched a counterattack. As Chang Geng expected, the appearance of the Xuebing Army's air defense troops not only did not scare the little devils, but instead caused Tsukahara's two, four and three poles to great interest,
The first wave of fighter planes had not returned yet, but the second wave and the third wave of fighter planes took off one after another. Soon, the sky in the area centered on Changjiang River in southwest Qiong was covered by dense Japanese fighter planes.