After hearing the negative news about the entire vanguard force, Takeo Nishino, the commander of the 3rd Division, jumped up from his seat.
"Your Excellency General, our vanguard encountered three enemy regiments outside the concession..."
The combat staff introduced the situation at that time in detail, and Nishino Takeo became more and more depressed the more he listened.
This is a disadvantage for starting a war.
The Third Division is not the most powerful among the army battle sequences in the entire Dongdi Kingdom, but in the last war, they annihilated a hundred thousand Daqian Empire troops, and now they are so helpless. Is it useful in China?
To suppress the captive army?
"Don't worry, General. It should be that our army was arrogant and underestimated the enemy, and then fell into the enemy's heavy siege. They dispatched three regiments at once. As far as I know, one regiment of the suppressing army has more than 6,000 people, and there are 10,000 people in total. Eight thousand people are waiting for more than two thousand of us."
The speaker was Major General Kikuchi, commander of the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Division.
After hearing this, everyone else in the room nodded, as if they agreed with Major General Kikuchi's statement.
It is understandable that a force of one to nine failed, but was the failure too fast? More than 2,000 people could not hold out for two hours. How on earth was this battle fought?
"Major General Kikuchi, you immediately lead all the troops of the first brigade to fight for me from the west. You must clear all obstacles on the road for our advance."
The most powerful force under Takeo Nishino is Major General Kikuchi's First Brigade. Excluding the Inoue Brigade, the entire brigade has nearly 9,000 people.
One brigade can definitely deal with the three regiments of the suppressing army.
During the last battle, Major General Kikuchi was still a regiment captain. With only an infantry regiment of more than 2,000 people, he defeated nearly 30,000 people in the Dakan Empire.
This time, we will definitely not disappoint everyone in the Third Division.
"Ha Yi! Your Excellency, Division Commander, please rest assured. Your humble position will definitely live up to expectations, and there will be good news before dark."
Major General Kikuchi is a major general in the entire Dongdi Army and one of the few people who has studied in the West. His first brigade can be registered in the entire Dongdi Kingdom and is considered an elite.
If the Inoue Brigade met other Dagan Kingdom troops, they would most likely be able to show off their power, but unfortunately they encountered the Suppression Army and did not allow these people to show their full potential. Now everyone is dead and the team is dead. .
At the beginning of the war, Major General Kikuchi lost a reorganized infantry brigade, which made him very embarrassed. Fortunately, Commander Shi gave him the main offensive task and was able to gain some face for the First Brigade.
"Order the Third Regiment and the Fourth Regiment to advance alternately, and be sure to capture the western suburbs of Haicheng before dark. The First Artillery Brigade will provide fire support, and the Second Regiment and the First Regiment will be responsible for cover."
When he mentioned the First Regiment, Major General Kikuchi felt a pain in his heart.
It turns out that this guy is the captain of the 1st Regiment, and the Inoue Brigade is also the backbone of the 1st Regiment. Now the entire army was wiped out in the first wave of attacks, so the 1st Regiment, as the absolute main force, can only be responsible for covering. Already.
"Report to the captain, the first brigade of Dongdi Kingdom has come forward, with about 10,000 people and equipped with artillery."
Ma Qiang was watching the situation on the front line in the command room. The sound of artillery shells exploding could be heard outside. Of course, they did not hit their barracks. They only hit the open area in the middle, leaving a few craters.
"This kind of guy dares to come to the battlefield and embarrass himself. I immediately ordered our artillery observers to search for their artillery positions. When I found them, I immediately brought him to me."
I was nervous when there was no fighting, but I no longer had such thoughts after the fighting started, especially the brothers under Ma Qiang.
In their eyes at this moment, what can the field divisions of Dongdi country do? They are not just carrying one head on two shoulders. Under the guns of our men, two thousand innocent souls have lined up to be reincarnated.
After Ma Qiang finished speaking, he took a look through the binoculars. Sure enough, Dongdi's army came up in a fan shape. It looked like they were well-trained in normal times. Tens of thousands of people acted collectively, and it turned out to be so orderly. Sure enough, it was
The elite of Dongdi Kingdom.
"Let the brothers below prepare for me. If we can swallow this elite, we will also be elites in the future."
Ma Qiao said enthusiastically, if the two infantry brigades had not been eliminated, I am afraid he would not have dared to say this, but after knowing the combat effectiveness of Dongdi Kingdom, no matter how Dongdi Kingdom's tactics changed, hard power could not help
changing.
"The artillerymen came up to me and bombarded the positions of the suppressing troops."
Major General Kikuchi personally moved the command post to the forward position. He believed that the last failure was due to the lack of artillery cover.
The Dongdi Army still uses relatively backward front-loading artillery, and it uses spherical shells.
Although blooming artillery shells have been developed, the explosive power is not very great, at most only one-third of that of the suppressing army. Moreover, their rate of fire is not fast enough, and their range is only half of that of the suppressing army.
But even so, relying on their artillery to risk their lives, they actually hit the cannonballs on the suppressing army's position.
"The artillery is in charge of what to eat. If you don't get rid of Dongdi's artillery for me quickly, are you waiting for them to harvest the lives of our brothers?"
When Ma Qiang saw this situation, he immediately slammed the table. The round of shelling in Dongdi just now caused hundreds of casualties to our side.
Before the correspondent went out to convey the order, the artillery on our side had already begun to call in a large number of artillery shells, which instantly pressed on Dongdi's marching queue.
"Tell me the artillerymen to take care of Dongdi's artillery positions first, and don't rush to attack their main army."
Ma Qiang saw that the landing point of the artillery shell was still far away from the artillery position of Dongdi State.
It's no wonder. Although we have experienced the last battle, our artillery is still relatively new, so under such circumstances, it is inevitable that there will be some panic.
During the second round of shelling, the target was already near the Dongdi artillery position, and it seemed that adjustments had been made.
"If the two captains of the regiment lead the attack in person, I don't believe that the position of the suppressing army is a dragon's pool and a tiger's den?"
The first wave of exploratory attacks was beaten back. Captain Kikuchi saw very clearly that his army left more than two hundred corpses and did not occupy an inch of the suppressing army's position, so he ordered his regiment commander to personally
Lead troops to attack.
In the eyes of the generals of Dongdi Kingdom, there is no position that cannot be defeated as long as one dares to risk one's life.