Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 1101 Take care!

With the arrival of the two officers who finished the mobilization meeting there, except for the two division commanders of the 12th Division and the 101st Division who were unable to arrive, the main personnel of the frontline headquarters of the East Jin counterattack were basically present.

It took less than a minute for the main tone of this episode, which was about facing the Japanese army to gather heavy troops to rebel against the Jindong army, to completely set the tone.

It is still the point of view expressed by Tang Dao and Master Liu before, no matter from a strategic or tactical perspective, in this battle, 7.5 Chinese soldiers cannot retreat!There is no way to retreat!

If you can't retreat, you can only fight!
After the 12th Division and the 101st Division received the order from the frontline headquarters to fight to the death, they both sent telegrams 30 minutes later.

Obviously, they did not follow blindly, and they all went through a certain ideological struggle and even immediately held a short meeting with the main members of each division.

Those two did not live up to history's evaluation of them, they made a great choice!

In this world, when faced with the choice of life and death, most people will choose the former. Only the most heroic and fearless people with certain ideals will make choices that violate human nature.

These people are undoubtedly the best group of people in China during this period.

Fortunately, in China's thousands of years of history, there has never been a shortage of such outstanding people. This may be one of the reasons why Chinese civilization has survived for thousands of years!
The one-hour meeting at the back of the frontline headquarters was about how to fight. Except for Tang Dao, a young man in his early 20s, who was not a veteran who had been in the army for 20 years?

But Tang Dao is young and young, and he has experienced many battlefields that many veterans of 20 years have never encountered. Battle of the Jedi.

Therefore, in view of Tang Dao's experience in this area, in the end, 90.00% of the question of how to deploy the defense line in this mountain defense battle was based on Tang Dao's opinion.

Tang Dao's mountain defense battle may not have the experience of these veterans, but Tang Dao has a vision that has surpassed this era for nearly a hundred years. In the tactical "database" in his mind, there are these seniors who used their lives and The success or failure of the battlefield experience in exchange for blood.

For example, in the three-year fierce battle that the Chinese army fought against a powerful enemy on the northern ice sheet, they used the mountains to fight one after another blocking battles, tunnel battles, interspersed battles, and sabotage battles that stunned the younger generations!

Every battle that took place on Songgu Peak, Five Sacred Mountains, Changjin Lake, Cheorwon, and Hwacheon's familiar place names is enough to be selected for the classic battle teaching of the top military academies.

The suggestion given by Tang Dao was exactly the mode of the Huachuan Blocking War, which was known as one of the most classic two blocking battles on the ice field.

It is said in history that "there is Cheorwon in the west and Huachuan in the east"!
It was also the victory of the blocking battle known as "you can only win but not lose, the American cowboys are the closest to defeating China", which basically laid the foundation for the final equal share of the Battle of the Ice Field.

If this battle is defeated, not only will an elite infantry division that is heavily surrounded be eaten by American cowboys, but the connection between the Eastern Front and the Central and Western Fronts will also be cut off, and a 10-strong army of a corps that is actively withdrawing northward will also be outflanked by the Mi Army. .

Tang Dao will always remember how impassioned he was when he listened to the white-haired professor explain this classic blocking battle in the military academy, so that tears filled his eyes!
Tang Dao, who was still studying in the military academy at that time, was still very young, and he was almost completely immersed in the amazing tactical cases of his predecessors. He died in the 13-day blocking battle.

Since then, he is the only boy under three years old left in the family!

No matter how wonderful the tactics are, if there is not enough resolute sacrifice, it will not be realized.That war was fought by China with the lives of 40 Chinese soldiers.

Now, the lives of 7.5 Chinese soldiers are placed in this vast mountain in eastern Jin. If the Japanese want it, come and take it!
First of all, the big aspect, the Japanese army will come from three directions, so they will attack in three directions!

On the frontal battlefield from east to west, except for a few mountain roads that are only passable, the only way for the army to enter the majestic Taihang is Niangziguan!
But if you want to attack Niangziguan, in addition to the front, Paluling is the place to defend!
Then there will be an extremely critical line of defense at these two places. It is estimated that the incoming enemy will not be less than a complete division. Commander Zhao of the 17th Division has the heart to fight again, so the 17th Division will defend the distance. Close to the area around the 8-kilometer fululing.

104师的李师长终究是没抢过唐刀，实在是当唐刀彻底摆出他四行团高达12门山炮、12门150重迫，24门机关炮、24挺12.7毫米高射机枪的炮兵和防空实力后，不管是104师还是17师又或是921师皆只能膛乎其后。

It is conceivable that the Japanese army will definitely use aircraft and heavy artillery to bomb and shell the main position of Niangziguan day and night!Except for the Four Elements Regiment, no one really has the strength to say that they will definitely be able to hold this line of defense that is vital to the entire army.

Once the Japanese army breaks through the Niangzi Pass, the hinterland of the Taihang Mountain will be opened, and the Japanese army can penetrate the other two lines of defense. It will really be like ants carrying bread-eating off pieces.

As a result, the defense line of more than ten kilometers in the Niangziguan area was handed over to the Four Elements Regiment and the 17th Division!
From the south to the east, the 18th Division of the Japanese Army was staring at them, and there was even a part of the 20th Division and even a part of the 108th Division. With the five infantry regiments of the 921st Division alone, it was obviously extremely difficult to deploy a defense line of more than 20 kilometers.

Therefore, Master Li, who hadn't snatched Tang Dao at Niangziguan, decided to defend this line of defense with Division 921.

But this road is also not very optimistic. The strength of the Japanese army is not yet clear at this time, but it is estimated that it will not be less than 3, or even more.

"I'm afraid I'm going to make a fuss, and at most it's a tactic of throwing nails. If the Japanese want to break through my defense, they have to swallow nails one by one." Master Li gritted his back molars, and the veins on his forehead popped. He expressed his determination almost with a ferocious face.

The "Starfall Tactic" was taught to him by Tang Dao and was used in the last battle in the southeast of Shanxi. It took six days to completely polish the spirit of the Second Mixed Brigade, in order to finally destroy the Second Mixed Brigade. A solid foundation has been laid.

However, his own casualties are also extremely painful!

After that battle, there were only half of the nearly eight infantry companies left. If the timeline was longer, he didn't know whether the troops could continue.

"This time! Don't fight them for life. If you really can't hold on, you can retreat and wait until night to counterattack. Don't forget, Mr. Li, you also have mountain cannons and shells in your hands now! We are afraid of the devil's shells, why, the devil is not afraid of our shells?" Tang Dao laughed.

"Hey! What's your plan, boy, don't hide it, hurry up and listen to it!" Master Li immediately became interested.

That's not because of blind optimism about Tang Dao, but because it contains the unique Chinese wisdom of "advancing through retreat".

What Tang Dao said is "lose the position and then counterattack to regain it" is a typical way of fighting on the ice field. It is not terrible to lose the position on the surface of the mountain. Every night, it is regained by counterattack. During the night battle, the US cowboys have almost no support. The ability to defend the position well, if you don't run, you will either be killed by the artillery fire organized by the Chinese, or you will be killed by an unknown number of counterattack forces based on the infantry squad.

So much so that in the end the American army did not dare to station too many troops on the high ground they just seized to preserve their strength, but this caused a bad result, the fewer troops, the easier it is to lose!The offensive was reorganized the next day, and a new round of attrition continued.

Fighting in the mountains, do not seize the high ground, you attack a chicken!
Of course, this was caused by the disparity in equipment between the two sides at the time. During the day, the firepower of the American cowboys was too fierce. The 150-pound aerial bombs were thrown away as if they were free of money, and the [-]-caliber howitzers did not stop during the day.

The only way for the Chinese army to adopt such a 'advance by retreat' measure is to prevent soldiers from being completely exposed to heavy firepower.

The firepower of the Japanese is nothing compared to the American cowboys!But it is much more ferocious than the Chinese army. This combat mode can also be used for reference.

Although the heavy firepower of the 104th Division and the 921st Division is still not as good as that of the Japanese army, the 104th Division currently has 8 mountain cannons, which can be regarded as a mountain cannon battalion. Millimeter anti-aircraft guns; the 6 Division's expedition this time, the 82th Group Army allocated a reinforced artillery battalion with 7 mountain guns for them. Not to mention, the 37 brigade also had a Liao-made 921 heavy mortar battalion equipped with Tang Dao , plus a bunch of Oerlikon 16mm machine guns that were eliminated by the Four-row Regiment, and concentrated fire on a few hills, the Japanese will also be blown up and cry!
Of course, Tang Dao doesn't need to go into too much detail. Veterans like Lao Li, Master Liu, and Brigadier Cheng, who have much more battlefield experience than Tang Dao, can immediately make inferences and adjust according to the situation on the battlefield.

As long as the line of defense is not completely breached, and the Japanese army is not allowed to form an interspersed and divided encirclement, it is not terrible to occupy one, two, or even ten highlands. If you grab it back, it will not work well. Here is Brigadier Cheng, who invented the genius tunnel tactics. , and play any other new tricks, it is beyond what Tang Dao can predict.

This thing is like writing a novel. Articles are natural, and you can get them by chance. Wonderful sentences or chapters and paragraphs are rarely conceived in advance, they are all written and written.

It's the same on the battlefield. No general has ever said that I've thought about fighting like this for a long time, but the enemy won't fight as you think, will they?That's when you come and fight, because of a commander's flash of inspiration, or even because of a unit or a soldier's amazing battle, a wonderful tactic is inadvertently completed.

In addition to these two lines of defense, another important line of defense is of course the Jindong rear wing.

The distance between the 12th Division and the 101st Division is currently no more than 10 kilometers, and it happens to be only 15 kilometers away from the rear wing. In addition, the strength of the enemy who came before is unknown, but it is most likely a part of the Fifth Division.

Commander Liu's original intention was to use one of the divisions as a counterweight, and draw the other division as a reserve team, which can provide support to the other three lines of defense.

This kind of thinking is perfectly normal. In any battle, the commander will leave a reserve team, which can not only supplement the troops that have suffered heavy losses on the front line, but also rotate the troops that have stayed on the front line for too long.

The battlefield is in a state of high tension, not to mention the fighting time during the day, even at night, in order to prevent the enemy from sneaking at night, even if there are sentries, the officers and soldiers on the battlefield can't wait to turn a blind eye when they sleep. Stress is difficult for ordinary people to understand.

No one knows how many days this battle will last. Soldiers are human but not iron. Changing soldiers to rest, even eating a hot meal and sleeping soundly, is also a way to maintain continuous combat effectiveness.

But Tang Dao objected!

If it is part of the Fifth Division, I am afraid that it will be very difficult to resist with one infantry division and four infantry regiments with [-] people. Instead of waiting for them to suffer heavy losses and then dispatching a reserve team to replace them, it is better to put them on the defense line from the beginning On the other hand, at least firepower points and various fortifications can be deployed in advance.

The reason why Tang Dao finally persuaded Mr. Liu was that since the Fifth Division entered the Chinese battlefield, except for the First Battle of Taierzhuang, which was used by the fifth theater to lure the enemy into deep and then gather heavy troops to surround and kill nearly [-] people, the rest of the battlefield has not been defeated. , from their division commander Itagaki Shiro to a small second-class soldier, their nostrils are all upturned, and they are very arrogant.

They are very likely to choose to use an infantry wing and artillery to confront the Chinese army on the defense line, and then use another to go around the enemy's rear to search for fighters.

The Jindong rear wing defense line not only needs to be wide enough, but also needs to be deep enough, which requires enough troops to complete the deployment.

Two infantry divisions with more than 2 people can complete this important task.

The Japanese army is aggressive and its strength must exceed that of the Jindong army, so it is necessary to gather the strength of the whole army and give them a head-on blow first!
As for the reserve team, the division, brigade, and regiment commanders of each defense line will formulate their own plans according to the battlefield situation.

In the end, Master Liu and the Chief of Staff both agreed to Tang Dao's plan!

Next, the front-line headquarters will send power to each division headquarters, inform the front-line headquarters staff of the decision, specify the defense area of ​​each division, and then each division will allocate highlands to the brigades, regiments, battalions, and companies under its command, and designate highland labels to the front line Headquarters records.

At the same time, the front-line headquarters also sent a report to the general headquarters located in the rear to report their decision. The staff members of the communication company became the busiest group of people at this time, and radio waves continued to be sent out from this humble small mountain village.

More than 7.5 soldiers from the five divisions and one regiment in Eastern Shanxi acted quickly, occupying high ground according to the areas planned by the front-line headquarters and divisions, brigades, regiments, and battalions, frantically building fortifications, setting up firepower points, and digging tunnels.

Yes, digging reverse-slope tunnels was originally a must for the Sixing Regiment's mountain warfare. Later, it was learned by Brigadier Cheng "stealing the teacher", and then passed on to the 17th and 104th divisions. The 101st and 12th divisions of the electric order must invest manpower and material resources to try to build these tunnels that can avoid the Japanese heavy artillery and aerial bombs.

Even if the kind of deep underground tunnel cannot be built due to time constraints, the deeper trench behind the ridge will be fine!

The anti-slope tunnel that has gone through countless actual battles is the most suitable tactic to reduce shelling casualties, none of them!

The time left by the Japanese army for everyone may have been less than two days!

The news that nearly 10 Japanese troops would be encircled completely stimulated all the troops participating in the war, from the colonel to the second-class soldier, all participated in the vigorous construction of fortifications.

After receiving the news, the officers and soldiers of the Four Elements Regiment, who were sweating profusely, couldn't help secretly congratulating themselves on their pretty good habits, which gave them at least four hours more time.

The officers and soldiers of the 921st Division over there also began to rejoice at the wisdom of their chiefs. They picked up a lot of railways in front of them. Not to mention taking away the rails, the heads of the regiments and battalions also let them take a lot of hard work. 'The sleepers are walking, each of them weighs tens or even hundreds of catties, and chopping firewood is tiring, but many people secretly complain that the chiefs don't care about life and death below.

It's good now, don't think there is no shortage of trees on Taihang Mountain, but then you have to cut it now, right?Besides, not all wood is suitable for fortifications. Some wood is too soft, and the bullets will go through as soon as they are hit.

The sleepers that are placed on the gravel as a buffer for the train are different. The sleepers need to be flexible and elastic enough. They are generally made of pine wood, and they have been treated with anti-corrosion. The semi-submerged fortification of the anti-infantry artillery can be completed in a short time.

After the war, many military history commentators even preferred to ignore the wonderful tactics of the 921 Division in the forced defense of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but also focused on its carrying capacity. Over 1000 sleepers and nearly 20 tons of steel rails were predicted in advance.

It seems that the 921st Division had foreseen the difficulties that this counterattack would encounter in advance, and turned more than 1 people, more than 200 war horses, and more than 800 pack horses into a large "supply team".

It was this batch of important materials that allowed them to build an 2-kilometer-long steel defense line in the mountains in two days, with as many as 18 underground tunnels and 130 semi-sunken bunkers, which at least made thousands of Chinese officers and soldiers Avoid dying from artillery fire and Japanese bombing!

Of course, that's all for later!
After attending this important military meeting, Tang Dao didn't even eat dinner, so he took Niu Er and others who had been waiting outside the small courtyard to bid farewell to several officers.

Everyone in the Four Elements Regiment was still waiting eagerly for him to return. Although Lei Xiong and Ye Chenghuan should have completed the deployment of each battalion and each company, he, the chief officer, had to think again based on the terrain and geography.

After all, he is the one who knows the personalities of the battalion, company, and platoon leaders of the Four Elements Regiment best. Lei Xiong, who has always been loose and careless, doesn't pay attention to these.

Several officers also knew that Tang Dao was eager to return to the team, so they didn't force him to stay. Although they were all very busy, they still sent Tang Dao out of the courtyard together.

Tang Dao rode on his horse, just about to pinch the horse's belly to urge the horse to go.

"Brother Tang, wait!" Following the shout, Brigadier Cheng, who had disappeared for a while, hurried over from the other side of the village.

"I knew you were going to leave in a hurry. Fortunately, I asked the cooking team to prepare meat sandwiches for you in advance!" Walking closer, Brigadier Cheng smiled.

There were a few soldiers carrying baskets behind them, and the baskets were filled with steaming steamed buns, which were said to be Roujiamo, but it was not as delicate as later generations of Roujiamo, the meat was not only fat and thin, but also chopped into pieces Roumo is a piece of fat meat sandwiched in a steamed bun.

But in this kind of wartime, it is already a rare delicacy!

"You don't need to dismount, I'll get it for you right away, isn't it getting dark?" Brigadier Cheng hurriedly stopped Tang Dao and others when they saw that they were about to dismount.

With a wave of his hand, several soldiers took three of them for each of them, stuffed them into their clothes and it was over. If they wanted to eat, they just took them out and gnawed.

The elites of the Four Elements Regiment, who cut a bloody path out of an army of millions and didn't wash their faces or brush their teeth for half a month, don't pay so much attention!

Brigadier Cheng, who handed out meat sandwiches to the officers and soldiers of the Four Elements Regiment, was busy all the time, not like a general, but like a big brother who wanted to send off his brothers on a long journey.

It's just a farewell, I don't know if we can see each other again!

So, don't say goodbye!

"Brother Cheng, I'm leaving, take care!" Tang Dao's nose soured slightly, and he sat on his horse and gave a military salute to Brigadier Cheng!
"Sir, take care!" Niu Er and others all raised their hands in salute!
With Tang Dao's 'drive', the hooves of more than [-] war horses resounded through the valley like thunder!

"Brother, take care!" Brigadier Cheng returned the salute and waved goodbye to the horse team that had already rushed forward.

At this time, the sun is about to set, and the sky is full of red clouds!

(End of this chapter)