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    This time Yang Zhen didn't guess everything right. He only saw the steady side of Tao Jingfei, who was once the director of the political department of the first-class main division of the Anti-Japanese League.  [.Com text] However, they ignored Tao Jingfei, who was also a soldier. He was also competitive and unwilling to admit defeat.

    As the political commissar, Tao Jingfei agreed with Du Kaishan, the brigade commander, to go south without orders. Half of it was instigated by Du Kaishan, but there was also the factor that he was really unwilling to do so.  Tao Jingfei felt very depressed when he thought that this old fellow, Toji Anjing, had slipped away from his eyes twice.

    To be honest, letting the same opponent slip away from you twice is not a good feeling.  He has a stable personality on the surface, but that's just the surface.  In fact, for Tao Jingfei, who is equally competitive at heart, this incident even feels like a shame.

    It was precisely this kind of competitiveness in his bones that made him listen to Du Kaishan's instigation and wait until the southward march had begun or even started before reporting to Yang Zhen.  However, although the two men acted without orders, it was precisely because of their appearance that they saved the independent brigade adapted from the three independent regiments led by Chai Shirong from final collapse.

    Although Chai Shirong was known for his bravery and combat skills in the former Second Route Army, he had never had the experience of independent command in a head-on battle.  The three independent regiments temporarily deployed by his subordinates, who had been serving as reserves, themselves had no experience in participating in similar wars or even fighting.

    After Shozaburo Katayama encountered a regiment in Fuguitun and suffered a bloody head injury and casualties in two squadrons, he decisively changed the target.  After a tentative attack, his target for a breakthrough was the position west of Xihetun commanded by Chai Shirong and occupied by three independent regiments originally assigned to the 1st Brigade.  He keenly sensed that this was probably a soft persimmon.

    Under the urging of Yasui Toji, Major General Katayama Shozaburo, who was eager to move north to rescue the main force of the division, launched a series of waves of attacks as soon as he came up.  Although Chai Shirong, who was in charge of the command, made great efforts, he lacked experience in frontal combat and only knew how to strictly follow the deployment in the military region crash course textbook. Although he adopted the large depth, small front, and trapezoidal shape that Yang Zhen's headquarters used to defend.  means of defense.  But he was still beaten so that he was distracted and confused.

    And his rookies who were new to the battlefield also performed no better than their acting brigade commander.  Although under the pressure of the veterans and the almost crazy attack of Major General Katayama Shozaburo, the last line of defense did not collapse.  However, in just half a day, three blocking positions were breached in succession, and even the main position was once broken into by a Japanese squadron.

    ¡°If Ma Chunsheng hadn¡¯t realized that the situation was not going well, he would have gathered all the company and platoon-level officers, squad leaders, and veterans from the three independent regiments who had participated in the Battle of Qunce Mountain together to personally lead the counterattack.  They used bayonets, submachine guns, and grenades to squeeze out the Japanese squadron.

    And he personally shot on the spot more than a dozen soldiers and even two platoon leaders who had fled the battle, stabilizing the already shaky position with one hand.  I'm afraid Chai Shirong's entire defense line will collapse.

    After this battle, Yang Zhen decisively canceled the original idea of ????organizing these three independent regiments plus several county brigades into a two-regiment independent brigade.  All of them were disbanded, and the troops were organized into the three main brigades that were exhausted.

    Facts have proved that a unit that lacks combat experience, even if its officers above the squad are veterans who have experienced war, are still unable to compare with those old units that have truly experienced war.

    The arrival of Du Kaishan and Tao Jingfei, not to mention Chai Shirong, at least made Ma Chunsheng, who had been running around to become a firefighter and almost paralyzed from exhaustion, breathed a sigh of relief.  It cannot be said that Chai Shirong lacks courage, nor can it be said that Chai Shirong does not try his best.  But lacking experience in fighting this kind of battle, he really couldn't care less about his head than his feet.

    And the state of the troops under his command, who were also fighting such a big battle for the first time, and even seeing blood for the first time, made Ma Chunsheng, who was used to being in the main force, really uncomfortable.  Although many of these people are not lacking in bloodiness, they also do not lack in proper training after completing the full training.

    But when it comes to the battle, he behaves strangely, even panicked, and all the things he learned on the training ground are forgotten.  Almost all tactical moves were deformed, and there were even deserters.  Ma Chunsheng once again realized that having an army with only officers above the squad level were veterans of the war, while all the soldiers below were recruits. Going to the battlefield with basically no veterans was tantamount to letting them die.  In fact, Wang Guangyu placed the defense lines of three independent regiments on the west side of the entire battlefield, with the west line of the swamp behind them, but he never thought of letting them go on the battlefield.  Its intention is more to let these recruits who have never been on the battlefield watch the battle and learn what the battlefield is as soon as possible.  In the end, I didn¡¯t expect Katayama Shozaburo to be on the front line of Fuguitun.After hitting the wall, he actually turned to the west, trying to walk through the swamp.

    At this time, Wang Guangyu, whose feet were tightly entangled by the troops whose tails had been cut off by the Japanese army, and who also had to consider other directions to prevent Katayama Shozaburo from making a breakthrough, was extremely worried, but could not spare any reinforcements.  West Line.

    If Du Kaishan hadn¡¯t arrived in time, Chai Shirong on the western front of the entire battlefield would have been able to hold on for a few hours at most.  Wang Guangyu, who had even written the report telegram to Yang Zhen, breathed a sigh of relief after learning that Du Kaishan arrived.

    After Du Kaishan arrived, he immediately took over Chai Shirong's command.  Tao Jingfei and Ma Chunsheng, who finally breathed a sigh of relief, immediately reorganized the skirmishers from the three independent regiments of the first three lines of defense, which had been smashed by the Japanese army, and seize the time to integrate them into the third brigade, which was currently short of troops.  The remaining people took the time to reorganize.

    But after taking the position, Du Kaishan did not put all the troops on hand into it.  He placed only one battalion of troops on the main position and contracted the entire defense line according to the terrain.  In addition to the main position, he could only leave a covering position that formed an angle with the main position.  And some secondary positions in his eyes were all abandoned by him.

    Looking at Du Kaishan's actions, although he was deprived of command rights, he was exhausted physically and mentally by the almost one-sided battle situation in just a few hours of fighting. At this time, the heavy burden was handed over, but his heart was filled with tears.  Chai Shirong took a long breath and said with obvious confusion: "Lao Du, according to our tactical tutorial, troops cannot be evenly distributed in defensive battles, leaving only a blocking line. To form a multi-layered ladder-shaped defense line, we must  There are left and right covers, and the points lead the way.¡±

    "But you only left the main position and the covering position on the right wing, and abandoned all the other positions. Doesn't this violate the requirements of the teaching materials drawn up by the commander himself? Only one line of defense is left. Once the Japanese army breaks through, our army will  The entire front will collapse. The Japanese army's path to the north will be opened. And why don't you take back all the defense lines that were lost before and form a large-depth defense?"

    Hearing Chai Shirong¡¯s question, Du Kaishan, who was holding a telescope to observe the enemy¡¯s situation, was quite dumbfounded.  Is this guy endorsing this?  Doesn¡¯t he know that these regulations are dead and people are alive?  On the battlefield, it is important to be flexible and maneuverable according to the development of the situation, and you must not rigidly execute the orders of your superiors.  Let alone fight rigidly according to textbooks.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? of a man like him, and his strength is not evenly spread on one line, but what difference does it make if it is spread equally among three lines of defense?  Not even a reserve team is left on hand, and there is no mobile force. They can only hand over the initiative on the battlefield step by step.  And if the initiative is lost, failure in the battle means that it is not far away.

    It's just that Chai Shirong's identity made Du Kaishan reluctant, so he could only patiently explain: "Deputy Chief of Staff Chai, we gave up some unnecessary cover positions, judging from the terrain. Although the main defensive position you chose  There are some flaws in the construction, but the location selection is good.¡±

    "There is a large swamp to the west of here, and to the east is a group of entrenched Fuguitun front lines. If the Japanese army does not want to enter the rotten mud pond, they can only break through you. Because behind you is the only passable swamp on both sides of the Alingda River.  The road. Therefore, as long as the main position is contained, the only way for the Japanese army to go north is contained."

    "Unless they want to gnaw on Yituan's hard bones, they can only try their best to get through you. If Yituan can make a breakthrough, they don't have to take the risk of entering a muddy pond and choose the direction of their attack on you.  Here it is.¡±

    "But it is true that this is the key point of the entire Western Front defense, but without depth we cannot deploy more troops here. Concentrating too many troops on one point can only send snacks to the Japanese artillery shells. According to the entire principle  The area of ????the position is that one battalion is the largest force. As for why I don't counterattack to regain the lost defense line, it is because there is no need. "

    "I only have one regiment of troops, except leaving one battalion to take over your defensive position. The rest cannot be consumed in unnecessary tactical counterattacks, because they will be used for counterattacks across the board. And from the terrain point of view,  It's enough for us to just hold this main position. I think even though my battalion doesn't have many troops, it should still be able to hold it here for a night."

    "Although the previous independent regiments fought this, well, this was not very good, but it also consumed a certain amount of Japanese troops. I am afraid that the little devils will not be able to show their previous arrogance. That kind of pig-like attack may be  There will still be some, but the intensity will definitely not be too great.

    "Although I only deployed one battalion of troops at the front, I almost concentrated a regiment of light and heavy machine guns and a 90mm mortar company. Some of them are enough to deal with the Japs' charge. If I can use firepower to kill the opponent  , why use ??Go to Tim?  Moreover, even if we cannot concentrate our troops, we still need to concentrate our firepower.  "

    Having said this, Du Kaishan hesitated for a moment and then said: "On the battlefield, we must flexibly use tactics to kill opponents according to changes in the situation, instead of passively copying things in books. Books are dead, but people are alive.  . Especially in this kind of head-to-head battle, the flexible use of tactics is extremely important. If we fight hard, the quality of our soldiers is too different from that of the little devils."

    Although Du Kaishan¡¯s words were very tactful, they still made Chai Shirong blush.  He knew that this was a big loss for him.  The previous battle under his command was not only not very good, it could be said to be extremely bad.  The strength of three regiments, nearly 10,000 men, relies on established positions.

    Under the charge of the Japanese army, in just half a day, or even less than half a day, they were rushed to pieces, and three lines of defense were lost one after another.  If Ma Chunsheng, who was accompanying him, had not made a prompt decision and mobilized almost all the squad leaders and backbones, plus some company and platoon cadres, to fight back desperately, even the main position where he is now might have been lost.

    Looking at Chai Shirong with a red face, Du Kaishan sighed.  If we talk about guerrilla warfare, especially guerrilla warfare in mountains and jungles, the former commander of the Anti-Japanese Army in front of us is definitely everyone. Even his own political commissar Tao Jingfei is probably far behind.  It is not unreasonable for the commander-in-chief to hand over the fifth army he created to him after assuming the post of commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army.

    ¡°But in this kind of head-on battle with the Japanese army, where there are planes above and heavy artillery below, he is a complete rookie.  He only joined the main force of the military region after the Battle of Guanzuizi Mountain. He was soon transferred to the division commander and had never experienced a main battlefield.  Chai Shirong, who had only taken a crash course in the military area for a few days, had almost no experience in this kind of war.

    With Wang Guangyu, Liu Changshun, Du Kaishan, Wang Xiaoming, Tao Jingfei and others who had experienced a series of battles such as Qunce Mountain twice, the subsequent Xingshan Fortress, the surprise attack on Jiamusi, Guanmenzuizi Mountain, and the first stage of this battle.  Compared with brigade commanders and political commissars who have been tested in battles, he has almost no experience in frontal combat.

    With a rookie commander and a group of new recruits who had never experienced the test of war, it is not surprising that the battle turned out like this.  Relying only on a few company and platoon squad leaders, no matter how heroic they fight, they cannot command the entire unit to fight in a unified manner.

    The old army is the old army, and the effect of Dinghai Shenzhen is now reflected.  With just one battalion, they accomplished something that no previous regiment could do.  Not only did it withstand the successive attacks of the Japanese army, it was even able to launch some small-scale tactical counterattacks from time to time.

    Du Kaishan took over the command of Chai Shirong, and replaced the rookies of the Independent Regiment with his veterans, who made up the majority of the troops. In addition, the attack front was not really wide, allowing Major General Katayama Shozaburo, who had already seen hope, to encounter another obstacle.  His head was badly bruised and he even lost half of his front teeth.  The hopes that I once had were quickly shattered again after hitting the wall again and again.

    The dense machine gun firepower that emerged from the opponent's position was like a hedgehog, and the raindrops of mortar shells that came over made Major General Katayama Shozaburo, who was eager to break through, like a tiger biting a hedgehog, with nowhere to bite.  We can only bite the bullet and launch strong attacks from the front again and again.

    But as time passed by little by little, the intensity of the Japanese army's attacks, which suffered increasing casualties, decreased each time.  When the dawn sun once again enveloped the battlefield, except for a small number of diversionary attacks, the Japanese army, which was not iron-clad, finally stopped their almost night-long, seemingly useless attacks.

    Another reason why Major General Katayama Shozaburo stopped the attack was that his boss, Lieutenant General Ani Toji, had lost contact for half a day and one night.  The loss of contact with the division headquarters gave Major General Katayama Shozaburo a strong sense of foreboding: "This time, the once invincible Second Division was defeated. The defeat was complete, even the division  Lost everything."

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