The new army in Jinan was assembled and set out in an orderly manner. Compared with this, life was not so easy to be trapped in Jiaodong. The division commander Mitsumon Kamio saw that the big breakthrough was fruitless, so he ordered the division to defend on the spot. He spent a lot of effort to dig another trench in the encirclement of the Central ** team, intending to rely on this as a support and wait for the opportunity.

Now, the 15th Division still has about 7,000 troops, which means that the entire division has lost almost 60%. Fortunately, while digging the trenches and defending on the spot, the Chinese team surrounding them only harassed and did not launch a substantial large-scale attack, which prevented the losses of the 15th Division from further expanding. But even so, Kanwei Hiromon was still worried and hid in the trenches. A simple "command center" that was temporarily dug out and used several broken wooden boards as a cover-up. He listened to his subordinates' reports with a gloomy face.

"Since the landing war yesterday, our 15th Division has suffered 10,321 casualties and 1,751 missing people, of which the number of casualties in the landing war was 8,693 missing people, the beachhead garrisons and the wounded were..."

"Enough!" Listening to the numbers that broke out from the subordinate's mouth, Mitsuko Kamio's face looked even worse than I was dead. He leaned on the command knife and asked, "Tell me, how many of us still have now?"

The Grand Officer swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and reported in a low voice: "Your Excellency, there are 6,975 people in the division headquarters of the 15th Division, including 372 minor injuries and 56 serious injuries."

"Baga!"

The Grandpa was shocked and secretly looked at it. Kanou Mitsuko just waved his command knife and slashed the air and became angry. He did not scold him. He was sweating profusely and then he felt relieved.

After cursing a few loudly, Kamio Hiroshi sat down powerlessly, waved to the Grandpa, and continued to ask about the ammunition and food situation. When one terrible data after another broke out from the Grandpa's mouth, Kamio Hiroshi found that his 15th Division was in a difficult situation than he had imagined before. After the landing and ambushing battles, the entire division had only a few heavy weapons. Heavy artillery, mountain cannons and other artillery were gone, and because they were surrounded by the Central ** team, they also lost their logistics supplies. The 15th Division did not have much ammunition, and even the most important food was facing a shortage. According to calculations, it could only supply the entire division for about five days. If you save a little, it would be only a week at most.

In other words, at most, if the 15th Division cannot escape from the encirclement or receive rescue within this time, even if the entire division has the strong support of the Bushido spirit, without food and drink, the bravest warrior can only starve to his bones and let the opponents mercy.

"Your Excellency, the eighth-generation commander will definitely rescue us. Have you forgotten that we have an army of divisions. As long as the subsequent troops land, they will open up the connection between the two sides and have the support of soldiers, ammunition and food. These Chinese people are not our opponents at all."

Seeing that the god-tail Guangchen looked gloomy, the adjutant comforted him.

"Yes!" After hearing this, Mitsumon Kamio suddenly felt his spirit. Yes, his 15th Division did suffer air loss and was in trouble, but the initiative of the entire battle situation was still in the hands of the Japanese. The huge second fleet was on the sea of ​​Qing Island, and there was also a multi-division army that would land immediately. Once the support from the rear was obtained, the difficulties in front of him would no longer be difficult. With the force and strength of the Great Japanese Emperors, they would definitely eliminate these damn Chinese teams. By then, he would have to humiliated his opponents to see.

Thinking of this, Kamio Koji's depression was wiped out and he became energetic. Next, he ordered all departments to strictly guard the positions and asked the soldiers not to attack but to defend firmly, waiting for rescue to arrive. In addition, regarding the lack of ammunition and food, Kamio Koji also made a series of arrangements. Everything is mainly about saving in the current situation, and it must last for more than a week.

Perhaps it was because Kamio Mitsuko had forgotten it, or perhaps it was because he deliberately did not think about the huge losses he suffered during the landing war. In order to send the 15th Division to the landing site, the losses suffered by the Second Fleet were unprecedentedly huge, and of course it also included the 15th Division itself. Kamio Mitsuko did not want to consider or did not have time to consider whether the subsequent troops would suffer such great losses. Now he was just thinking about how to persevere until the arrival of rescue. As for the others, he naturally forgot it.

Just as Kamio Mitsumon shrank like a turtle and waited for rescue, Yachi Ryuro's second fleet was struggling with landing on how to rescue.

During the previous login or sneak attack, the Eighth-Day Liulang was a bit of rice that could not be taken, and even sent the entire 15th Division into the Chinese encirclement. Now the situation of the 15th Division cannot be ignored. However, if we want to save the 15th Division, the Eighth-Day Liulang was worried that he would send his transport fleet to the artillery fire of the Qingdao Fortress for vacancies. This was a dilemma. When he received the report that the second batch of login was ready, the Eighth-Day Liulang did not issue a command to log in, but walked back and forth in the bridge, thinking about it.

"Your Excellency, I have a suggestion." Just when Yayoi Rokuro was undecided and hesitant, the Chief of Staff, Suzuki Kantaro, who had been waiting by the side, spoke up on his own initiative.

"explain!"

"Your Excellency, according to the situation of the last landing operation, our side suffered mostly large transport ships, while small and medium-sized transport ships did not suffer much loss. Even the sunken frigates would not be sunk so easily by the Chinese people if they were not for protecting the transport ships."

"Huh!" Yayoi Rokuro's eyes lit up and he looked up and looked at Suzuki Kantaro, signaling him to continue talking.

"Please look, Your Excellency." Suzuki Kantaro quickly walked to the sea chart hanging on the wall, picked up the baton placed aside and pointed at the Jiaozhou sea area: "The waters of Jiaozhou Bay are small in size and are not suitable for large ships or fleets from a geographical point of view, especially the Qing*dao Fortress has a fortress gun group that is no less powerful than our main ship gun. If we continue to follow the last landing operation method, we will suffer another loss."

Yachi Rokuro nodded, expressing his agreement with Suzuki Kantaro's analysis.

After taking the baton and gesturing back and forth on the chart, Suzuki Kantaro pulled out a virtual route: "Your Excellency, it can be judged that large-scale landings must be carried out only when the Qingshima Fortress is taken down, or completely suppressing the fortress guns, but this possibility is slim. If the Qingshima Fortress is controlled or completely suppressed by us, the dilemma of the siege of the 15th Division will be solved immediately. Selecting another landing location can avoid the above problems, but the 15th Division cannot wait for so long, so we must continue to log in at the original landing site, but the next landing battle must not be the same as last time, but should be repeatedly logged in with small and high-speed landing ships to succeed."

"Yashi!" Yayoi Rokuro touched the mustache on his lips thoughtfully. He thought that Suzuki's suggestion sounded good, but would the situation really be the same as what he analyzed? What if he used a small and fast transport ship would also suffer losses?

After thinking about it carefully, Yashida Rokuro felt that no matter what the result was, Suzuki's suggestion was worth a try. Suzuki's Kantaro said it was right. The 15th Division must be rescued and the Qingshima Fortress must be taken. Under this premise, even if you suffer another loss, the Second Fleet must be done.

After making up his mind, Yadai Rokuro asked Suzuki to be responsible for the trial of the subsequent landing plan. He tried it first according to his idea. If it didn't work, it would not be too late to find a way. At dusk that day, the Japanese Second Fleet suddenly began to launch artillery attacks on the Qingshima Fortress. At the same time, two fast transport ships carrying 500 soldiers and supplies started a subsequent landing battle from the left wing of the main fleet. When the ship branch entered Jiaozhou Bay with the highest speed S Quxing, the artillery fire in the Qingshima Fortress blockade bay suddenly sounded. Standing on the bridge of the flagship, Yadai Rokuro, who was holding a telescope to observe the battle situation, found that although the Chinese artillery fire was fierce, the actual hit rate was not high at all. In addition to the few near-lost bullets caused some trouble to the fast transport ship, Yadai Rokuro was very happy to see that his two transport ships had not taken much time to cross the fortress artillery blockade and rushed inside.

"Suzuki, thank you so much for your hard work." After the news that the transport ship finally arrived at the beach safely came, Yachi Rokuro completely relieved. He actually came forward to greet Suzuki Kantaro who had returned to the bridge, and a relaxed smile appeared on his face.

"Your Excellency, this is what I should do as the chief of staff." Suzuki Kantaro, who returned to the bridge, was not at all beautiful when facing the praise of Yayoi Rokuro, but on the contrary, he was very modest. This made Yayoi Rokuro even more satisfied with his chief of staff. He immediately promised Suzuki Kantaro that he would definitely ask for credit for him after the war, but also handed over the command of the landing battle to Suzuki Kantaro, who was fully responsible for the matter.

"Hi! Please rest assured, you must ensure that all the troops land safely and rescue the 15th Division."

"No! Not only do we need to rescue the 15th Division, but we also have to cut off their retreat and trap the entire Qingdao Fortress, and then let these Chinese people know the consequences of angering our Imperial Japanese Navy!" Yayoi Rokuro's hand, wearing white gloves, clenched his fists in the air and then waved it heavily, and the smile on his face became so ferocious.
Chapter completed!