Huang Jie continued: ", precisely because he knew that the situation around him was not good, Jiang hoped that there would be no trouble here, and would rather not achieve great results than ruin our unit. There must be no major damage. As long as there are no problems with our tax police headquarters, no one can do anything to Jiang. Even the deputy commander-in-chief Zhang Xueliang does not dare to make any changes. We must be careful and cautious."
Because the Tax Police Corps was not established with Chiang Kai-shek's funds, he had to go through Song Ziwen to truly command the Tax Police Corps. Although he gave the Tax Police Corps the designations of three brigades and bought some people's hearts, However, the officers and soldiers of the Tax Police Corps still did not respect him as much as the officers and soldiers of the Central Army, especially senior generals such as Huang Jie and He Shaozhou who did not respect him too much.
They don't have so many scruples when speaking. They don't always address themselves as principals like Chen Cheng and Hu Zongnan. They are also much more casual when thinking about problems. They mostly consider the interests of the tax police corps and Song Ziwen. Whether benefits can be obtained, rather than considering Jiang Jieshi's interests.
This is also an important reason why they came to Sichuan in a hurry after walking for so long.
Now that Guo Zhuocheng's troops have set up an upright formation in front of them, they are naturally very happy and hope to fight in this way. They really don't want to follow the Red Army into the ravines or run over the mountains and plains with the Red Army. In that case, their heavy weapons would not be able to function at all, and their trucks would not be able to replenish fuel in time.
Of course they didn¡¯t know that the reason why Guo Zhuocheng did this was to ¡°satisfy¡± their wishes, which was to let Huang Jie and the others fight with peace of mind.
Huang Jie, He Shaozhou and others, who were kept in the dark and laughed and scolded the Communists for using their own shortcomings to compete with the tax police corps, had a serious discussion. And after careful consultations with the German government officials. They unanimously decided to use Longjiagou as the main battlefield for the decisive battle between the two sides!
They ordered the troops in front to stop advancing. Build fortifications on the spot, while ordering the troops behind to speed up their march immediately and bring up more heavy weapons.
According to the instructions of the head of the group Huang Jie: the tax police group is here to fight the communists and bandits!
Both sides of the battle now believe that this situation is most beneficial to them. Whoever is ultimately beneficial can only wait until the battle occurs.
The reason why Guo Zhuocheng asked Chen Peng to choose Longjiagou as the main battleground with the Tax Police Corps was not only to show his chivalry, nor to give the Tax Police Corps a fair chance to fight, but to have His purpose:
The first purpose is to let Mr. Lin and Mr. Peng who came with him see infantry and artillery coordination and what carpet bombing is. Understand what barrage advancement is. Not only do you need to experience the tremendous power of artillery, but you also need to think about how to survive such heavy artillery fire. Prepare for future world wars. You must know that in Guo Zhuocheng's plan, in the future the Red Army will not only defeat Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army, not only the Japanese devils, but also the Soviet army, the British and American armies. We can't wait until the Chinese ** team fights with the foreign ** team to find out that the enemy's artillery fire is so fierce and fierce. We can't wait until then. Not only the officers and soldiers below will turn pale in panic, but even the senior officers will be helpless.
At the current stage, the only ones that can carry out fierce artillery fire are the tax police corps, not even the Central Army. They are just a little stronger than Gui Jun. Of course it is much stronger than the Red Army, but the Red Army is a beggar army. Compared with the military equipment of Western countries, even the militia reserves are inferior, and their artillery fire cannot be compared at all.
The second purpose is to try to attract more troops from the Tax Police Corps. Only this kind of confrontation can give the Tax Police Corps a better hope and make their commander think that as long as they add more troops, With a little more firepower, they can succeed and defeat the Red Army, which is short of guns and ammunition. Conducting positional warfare here is equivalent to building a dam in the river, and then collecting all the water from upstream to collect more water.
If Guo Zhuocheng continues to use sneak attacks, guerrilla warfare or even special forces operations, and eats a piece of them here and a piece of them on the way to the tax police headquarters, they will be frightened so that they dare not go deeper, and the troops behind will be I won't assemble too early, and I'll probably retreat if the situation isn't right.
Even if they don¡¯t want to retreat, their masters, especially Song Ziwen, will eagerly ask them to retreat. Even Jiang Jingshi would order them to retreat if the situation was not right. Because Chiang Kai-shek is now besieged on all sides and does not dare to risk losing this heavy army. Knowing that there is no hope of regaining Sichuan, he may order the tax police headquarters to retreat to Hubei and prevent the Red Army from entering Sichuan. It would be nice if Chuan Sha came out. In this case, he can still be president for a few more years and force the warlords to obey his orders. Once this heavy army dies, it will be a trivial matter whether the warlord obeys his orders. Whether he can keep the president's throne, or even himselfIt¡¯s hard to tell with my head.
The third purpose of Guo Zhuocheng's doing this is to fulfill the second purpose. That is, after attracting more tax police regiment troops to Longjiagou, the Second Division, which had already set off quietly, would cut off their retreat, then surround and capture them.
You must know that the Tax Police Corps is currently the most qualified army in China. Especially in terms of cultural level, artillery knowledge, engineer knowledge and vehicle driving, it has advantages that other armies cannot match. If you can catch them in your own hands, And transformed into the Red Army, he would have made a huge profit. It was equivalent to Song Ziwen paying for him to train tens of thousands of troops, but they were trained by regular German officers.
This means that Guo Zhuocheng will use upright tactics to defeat them, leaving them speechless and letting them know from the bottom of their hearts that the Red Army did not win by sneak attacks through crooked means (although victory in a sneak attack is also a victory and deserves respect) , but this kind of frontal crushing can shock their hearts even more. Only when they admire the Red Army from the bottom of their hearts will they be able to convert more easily.
Mr. Peng and Mr. Lin are both good people. Naturally, they soon understood that Guo Zhuocheng was worried about whether Guo Zhuocheng's troops could achieve their goals. They must know that the opponent had an army of 30,000, and Guo Zhuocheng was invested in it. There was only one division on the frontal battlefield. The disparity in military strength is too great.
However, they did not stop Guo Zhuocheng's command, nor did they even make any suggestions. They just watched him command from the side and listened to him giving orders to the front line.
Now what the first division of the directly affiliated column needs is to build fortifications and artillery positions. The tax police headquarters opposite naturally understood that they were also rapidly building fortifications and artillery positions.
The two sides built the fortifications in a tacit understanding. Neither of them sent troops to infiltrate the other side or conduct sneak attacks. They both guarded the open space in the middle and did not enter. They only worked hard on their own sites. The construction started in the afternoon and lasted until late at night. , continue repairing after late at night.
Because they all know that in the face of a large army of tens of thousands of people, sending a small number of troops to conduct a sneak attack will only result in more losses than the gain. It will not affect the other party at all. Instead, it will cause the other party to also conduct a sneak attack, causing losses to their own side.
But it is said that both sides of this battle are gentlemen's battles. If you want more civilization, you will be as civilized as you want, and as many gentlemen as you want, there will be as many gentlemen as possible.
Under the protection of the night and the guards, Mr. Peng and Mr. Lin took several officers to the front line to watch the fortifications built by the soldiers. After watching it, they couldn't help but secretly sighed: This fortification is really too strong and the cost is too high. is this necessary?
In their view, since Guo Zhuocheng and the others are mainly focused on offense, they only need to build some shallow military pits so that the soldiers can have a place to avoid bullets before charging. How can there be such a construction method?
Not only were deep and wide trenches dug, but pits were also built layer by layer with thick steel plates and large logs. Especially those pits where soldiers are stored, there are at least three layers of thick steel plates and three layers of large wood, one layer for each yard, and a thick layer of sand is laid on top.
Is this necessary? Unless heavy artillery hits directly, this kind of fortification is absolutely impossible to destroy. It's firm, but it's really not necessary, right? How much material is wasted, how much time and energy is wasted.
Because the Red Army has few weapons and ammunition, it has always attached great importance to the soil work before the battle. Even so, in the eyes of Mr. Peng, Mr. Lin and others, Guo Zhuocheng's troops did this a bit too much. If it weren't for Guo Zhuocheng's The troops have achieved countless great results, but they really want to say that the officers and soldiers of these troops are too timid and are acting like cowards.
Of course, some people also doubted how Guo Zhuocheng's troops obtained so many steel plates, and the pieces were so thick and heavy, how many people were needed to transport them. Someone said very smartly: "No wonder their army not only has more engineers and soldiers, but also more logistics personnel, which are more than combat troops. Even the Central Military Commission does not equip its troops in this way, right?"
The Red Army can be described as a beggar army. There are no engineering soldiers at all, and there are no specialized logistics troops. There are only some logistics cadres, because the troops have nothing to carry. Only after winning battles and capturing things, can they have things. For transportation, at this time, either the troops carried the captured things themselves, or they recruited civilians to help on the spot.
But Guo Zhuocheng's troops not only have many engineers, but also a huge logistics force. For example, the troops led by Peng Zhufeng are logistics troops. Although they are equipped with better weapons than the main force of the Red Army, their duty is to provide combat troops Transport supplies and use as a reserve team when necessary.
After looking at the steel plates and wood used in the fortifications, they realized that the Red Army simply couldn't fight this kind of battle.
¡°Seeing these ¡°luxurious¡± and ¡°extravagant¡± fortifications was enough to shock Mr. Peng and Mr. Lin, but when they saw the ¡°luxurious¡± artillery positions behind them,Everyone was even more shocked.
"Why are there so many artillery fires?" They were all stunned.
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