Anti-Japanese War: When I get promoted, the system will explode with soldiers

In the next 48 hours, the 2nd Artillery Division quickly arrived in Pujiang without any concealment, and even held a small military parade around the railway station, which gave the people of Pujiang a great enjoyment.

In the past, when foreign marines came, they would also hold parades at the dock. However, compared with our 72nd Army, it seems that those foreign marines did not have such advanced equipment, especially the number of vehicles.

After seeing this small military parade, the Japanese spies scattered in Pujiang all turned pale and ran back to report that the artillery strength of the 72nd Army would be greatly improved in a short period of time.

In addition, among the artillery transported by train, Japanese spies also discovered the deadly 203mm heavy artillery.

It was no longer a secret that Li Shaoyi wanted to use artillery to clear the minefield. After the meeting that day, commanders at all levels issued orders to their subordinates, asking them to investigate the minefields in front of them clearly, and mark on the map which areas needed special attention and which areas only needed a simple sweep.

It took more than ten hours to draw everything on the map and submit it to the Pujiang War Zone Command.

So this is not a secret to the Japanese. After the 2nd Artillery Division arrives, Li Shaoyi's attack may come again, and they will not have much time left. Landmines can indeed buy you time, but not much time.

炮兵二师是早上8:30抵达，浦江的10:30左右就已经分散到各炮兵阵地上，等到中午12:30的时候，随着李绍义一声令下清理雷区的工作开始了。

The first to appear on the scene was not the 2nd Artillery Division that had just arrived in Pujiang, but 67 heavy bombers that took off from Jinling, carrying nearly 400 tons of bombs, which set off a sea of ​​fire in the Pujiang minefield.

The Japanese dispatched 75 fighter planes to intercept, while the 72nd Army and the Central Air Force dispatched 115 aircraft to strangle the 75 Japanese fighter planes. Despite their superiority in both quantity and quality, only 15 Japanese planes escaped the battlefield, and the rest were all destroyed.

The 72nd Army lost 9 fighter jets and the Central Air Force lost 20 fighter jets.

With 29 fighters, 60 Japanese fighters were destroyed. This was a good result for the Central Air Force, but the 72nd Army felt ashamed of this result.

At 3:00 p.m., the planes returned to Nanjing to reload bombs and bombed the Japanese positions again.

Because the Japanese Air Force suffered a loss at around 12 o'clock, 170 fighter jets were dispatched directly this time.

This also includes 65 naval aviation aircraft.

The Pujiang War Zone Command dispatched 175 fighter jets, and the two sides fought over Pujiang for nearly 40 minutes. In the end, 55 Japanese aircraft were lost and 22 aircraft belonging to the Pujiang War Zone were lost.

Japan lost nearly 120 aircraft throughout the day.

Li Shaoyi's army lost 51 aircraft.

About 2700 Japanese ground troops were killed or wounded.

Our engineers also took advantage of the chaos to conduct inspections in the destroyed minefields. According to their assessment, it was not suitable for the army to launch an attack.

That night, the Japanese army believed that the air force would not continue bombing, so a large number of Japanese engineers began to lay mines. However, when they entered the minefield, our two artillery divisions began to pour ammunition on the positions, and more than 1000 Japanese engineers donated their heads.

The Pujiang Expeditionary Force finally understood why Li Shaoyi did not allow the artillery division to participate in the attack during the day. It turned out that the artillery division rested during the day and only bombarded designated locations at night to make up for the lack of aircraft bombing.

When they learned that more than 1000 Japanese engineers were killed in the bombing that night, all the positions in Longguo shouted with joy. There was cheering all night long, which made the Japanese soldiers so angry that they wanted to vomit blood.

At dawn the next day, the Japanese had not yet prepared breakfast when more than 70 heavy bombers came again with 400 tons of bombs. When we conducted exploration last night, we found that at least 40% of the mines were still there. In this case, we will continue to bomb the ground.

When this round of planes had just left, the Japanese were about to come out of the air-raid shelter, but they found another group of planes flying in from the north.

Li Shaoyi had already asked the General Staff to make preparations. It would be best if the planes from Jinling and the island city could fly in an interlaced manner so that there would not be any idle time on the Japanese positions. The planes from the island city would take a long time to go back and forth, so the planes from Jinling would have to take off and land multiple times.

The Japanese who had just emerged hadn't figured out what was going on yet. A large number of bombs were dropped from the sky again. Looking from the sky, there was hardly a single good piece of land on the ground. It was estimated that all the rats in the area had been blown to death. I wonder where all the Japanese soldiers had hidden themselves.

The Japanese soldiers of the Pujiang Expeditionary Force had learned the brutality of the battlefield. Previously, they had always believed victory was within their grasp, but after today's bombing, they realized just how vast the gap between the two sides truly was. If the battle continued like this, what would it matter even if a dozen more divisions arrived? Could they possibly escape?

General Matsui was also rapidly changing a series of combat plans. The previous combat plans were no longer useful, so the Pujiang Expeditionary Force had to formulate a new combat plan.

As Li Shaoyi continued to increase his military strength, he had to land in multiple places along the coast of Longguo and implement a multi-point development strategy. If he continued to pile up troops in Pujiang, he would not be able to get through Luodian alone.

What's more, according to the current bombing level, the minefield may not be able to hold on for 48 hours at most. At that time, the various armies will launch another counterattack, and the Japanese army will occupy even less land. Not to mention increasing the local troops to continue the attack, even if they can hold the current position, it will be difficult.

Therefore, the troops coming from Japan must find a new battlefield elsewhere.

Let the 72nd Army and the various Pujiang troops split up!

We cannot allow them to unite as one fist, but must let them disperse their superior forces to various parts of Pujiang. Only in this way can the Japanese army have hope of winning.

The Japanese army also formulated another combat plan, which was to immediately order their men to hide when encountering the 72nd Army.

Concentrate all your forces to first eliminate the armies of the other warlords in Pujiang, and then eliminate the army of the 72nd Army...