At this time, Xu Rui did not know that his backyard was on fire. [Read full text]
Xu Rui usually doesn't drink. He only smokes once in a while when he needs to use his brain. But tonight, Xu Rui made an exception. Tonight, Xu Rui just drank two full cigarettes with Xiang Tianhu. The big tea vat of low-quality soju made his tanned face look a little red, like Guan Gong.
Yan Yuhui filled Xiang Tianhu and Xu Rui's tea jars with wine again.
Xiang Tianhu then ordered Tiegang to ask the cooks in the cooking team to prepare two dishes for drinking. He also specially ordered Tiegang to prepare two cans of beef ribs that were seized in Hai'an last time.
While waiting for the food, Xu Rui walked to the north wall of the war room pretending to be casual and looked up at the map on the wall.
Xiang Tianhu and Yan Yuhui also walked over. Xiang Tianhu said casually: Did I see any tricks
After saying this, Xiang Tianhu wanted to slap himself in the face, because his words were clearly contemptuous. In fact, he was despising the other party for not being able to understand the battle map. But the problem is, Xu Rui is not Those bastards with mud-legged backgrounds, how could he not be able to read a map
Yan Yuhui next to him was also a little worried, worried that Xu Rui would have a seizure on the spot.
But Xu Rui seemed not to have heard Xiang Tianhu's words, and said thoughtfully: "Brother Xiang, judging from the combat map, your department's situation is not very good."
Seeing that Xu Rui was not angry, Yan Yuhui breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiang Tianhu sighed and said: "It's not just not very good, it's simply terrible."
After finishing, Xiang Tianhu pointed at the map again and said: "Look, brother, this protruding part of the Japs is like a nail driven into the middle of the 540th Regiment on the left and the 541st Regiment on the right. What's more terrible, this Japs occupied It is still on a high ground, so every move of our unit is under the surveillance of the Japanese. The Japanese have also set up an artillery position on this high ground. No matter whether our unit moves troops or transports military supplies to the front line, it will be attacked by the Japanese. The artillery fire blockade makes it really uncomfortable to move."
Leng Tiefeng had been silent since he followed Xu Rui into the 180th Division's headquarters, but at this time he finally couldn't help it and asked: "Why don't we send heavy troops to garrison such an important commanding height in advance? "
"This..." Xiang Tianhu showed a hint of embarrassment on his face. In fact, Yan Yuhui also reminded him at the beginning, asking him to send at least one battalion to guard this high ground. However, Xiang Tianhu did not pay attention to it and only sent one. The company held on, but the Japanese only made a surprise attack and the high ground was lost.
Yan Yuhui glanced at Leng Tiefeng and asked Xu Rui: "Brother Xu, who is this..."
Xu Rui introduced with a smile: "Brother Xiang, Brother Yan, this is my brigade deputy, Leng Tiefeng. He is a top student who returned from studying abroad at the U.S. Western Military Academy. He was originally the battalion commander of the Eight-Country Bank Tax Police Corps. Song He was seriously injured in the Battle of Shanghai and separated from his original troops, but was rescued by the temporary 79th Division passing by."
Leng Tiefeng stood upright and saluted Tianhu, Yan and Hui.
Xiang Tianhu and Yan Yuhui returned the military salute, and then looked at each other with complicated expressions.
Although it was their first meeting, both of them could see that Leng Tiefeng was anything but simple. He was not only a talented person who had returned from the U.S. Military Academy Western Military Academy, but he could also see the predicament of their 180th Division at a glance from the map. He also participated in the brutal Battle of Songhu, which shows that he is not a staff officer who can only talk on paper.
However, it is really sad that such a talent ended up in the hands of the police.
Xu Rui saw the disappointment in the eyes of Xiang Tianhu and Yan Yuhui. He had been helpless to deal with the loss of these two people, and he would not give up Leng Tiefeng.
What's more, Leng Tiefeng is not an item, just give it away.
Xu Rui then said: "Actually, Brother Xiang, the situation of your 180th Division is not that bad."
"The situation of our 180th Division is not that bad?" Xiang Tianhu was stunned for a moment and asked urgently, "Brother, did you really see something, or are you just trying to comfort me?"
Xu Rui laughed loudly and said: "Brother Xiangtian is a man of heaven and earth. He can be used as a blanket even if the sky falls, so why do I need my brother to comfort me?"
"So what kind of skills have you really seen?" Xiang Tianhu said anxiously, "Quickly."
"Actually, it's nothing." Xu Rui waved his hand and continued lightly, "Wouldn't it be enough to take back the high ground and pull out the Japs' protrusions?"
"Gah?"
"That's it?"
Xiang Tianhu and Yan Yuhui looked at each other.
Reclaim the high ground? Pull out the devil's protrusion
It's quite light, as if you can kill hundreds of Japs and recapture the high ground with just a touch of your lips. But the problem is, this can't be achieved by drawing an attack arrow or a line on the map. If you really put your troops into the attack, you have to use your lives to fill it!
In fact, the 180th Division also tried to retake the high ground, more than once or twice.
In fact, a large part of the casualties of the 180th Division fell under this high ground!
However, the reality is cruel. The level of the Japanese's soil work is beyond imagination. In less than three days of occupying the high ground, they built a complete chain of fortifications on the high ground. In addition to the three main trenches inside and outside, what else? Traffic trenches, foxholes, heavy machine gun positions, side fire, light and dark bunkers, everything is available.
Five days later, the Japanese even dug underground communication trenches and mobilized troops directly from underground.
In the last attack, the 180th Division directly invested a regiment of troops and launched a general offensive. As a result, it easily broke through the Japanese's first line of defense, and then broke through the Japanese's second line of defense. Just as the main regiment of the 180th Division was preparing to make persistent efforts After breaking through the three lines of defense of the Japanese, a large number of Japanese suddenly appeared behind them.
In the end, facing the Japanese attack from both sides, the main group that launched the attack only withdrew less than half of it. From then on, Xiang Tianhu no longer had the heart to recapture the high ground.
"Brother." Xiang Tianhu patted Xu Rui's shoulder and said earnestly, "It's easier than it is to travel. Don't look at the small number of Japs in this protruding part, just one brigade. The height of this highland is not high at best. It's only over fifty meters high, but the Japs are doing earthwork work. It's really hard to resist. Attacking by force has little chance of winning."
Xu Rui laughed when he heard this. He said that the chance of success in attacking Tianhu was not high. It was basically just trying to make a fool of himself. The chance of winning in attacking this high ground was not only low, but there was no chance of winning at all!
Xu Rui knows the Japanese's soil work better than anyone else.
It is only the second year since the Sino-Japanese war broke out. The Japanese army is still in the offensive stage and there is not much time to fight defensive wars. Therefore, the power of the Japanese army's civil work is not yet known, but Xu Rui is a time traveler. He had systematically studied the War of Resistance Against Japan, so he knew better than anyone else how powerful the Japanese's land work was.
In the seventh year of the Anti-Japanese War, Japan was already in decline, but in Songshan on the Yunnan-Myanmar border, the Japs let the whole world see their soil work.
The Japs of less than one regiment were like more than two thousand groundhogs, digging and digging day and night on the Songshan position. In the end, almost the entire mountain was hollowed out, forming a huge ant nest fortress. With this fortress , the Japanese used less than one regiment of troops to conduct a frontal attack with a total of 150,000 ****.
Not counting the frontal attack involving 150,000 soldiers, after more than three months of hard fighting, the Japanese also caused more than 7,000 casualties and countless injuries. The Chinese and Japanese armies suffered battle losses. The ratio reaches an astonishing 5:1.
If you only look at the pure battle loss ratio, 5:1 does not seem very surprising. In the first two years of the Anti-Japanese War, large-scale battles with greater battle loss ratios than this were common. For example, the battle loss ratio in the Battle of Songhu reached 10:1. , like the Battle of Nanjing, the battle loss ratio between the Chinese and Japanese armies was simply impossible. It was 0:1, which was all to put gold on the face of ****.
But there is a fundamental difference between the Songshan Battle and the large-scale battles in the first two years of the Anti-Japanese War.
The difference is that in the large-scale battles in the first two years of the Anti-Japanese War, China had neither air superiority nor firepower superiority, and was completely passive and vulnerable. However, in the Songshan Battle, China not only had an absolute advantage in artillery, but also had more weapons in the sky. The Flying Tigers came to help. The Japanese Army took the initiative, but this time it was the Japanese who were passively beaten!
But even so, the Japanese army still achieved an astonishing 5:1 battle loss ratio.
The reason why the Japs were able to endure three months of fierce attacks in Songshan and kill more than 7,000 soldiers was due to their excellent soil work ability.
Therefore, Xu Rui knows better than anyone else how powerful the Japanese's earthwork operations are. It is simply a fool's dream for the 180th Division to retake the high ground with a strong attack. Even if Xu Rui transfers his independent brigade to focus on the attack, it will not work.
At that moment, Xu Rui said again: "Brother Xiang, a force attack will definitely not work. We have already witnessed the Japs' earthworks during the Battle of Songhu. Therefore, if we want to regain the high ground and remove the Japs' protrusions, we must also Gotta outwit it.”
"Outwit?" Xiang Tianhu was stunned for a moment and asked subconsciously, "How to outwit?"
"Behead!" Xu Rui pointed to the center of the highland and said in a deep voice, "My brother will lead a detachment to sneak into the highland and go straight to the Japs' command center. When I take over the Japs' command center, I will use Battalion Commander Iron With the cavalry battalion as the vanguard and supplemented by at least one regiment of troops, attacking from the front, it shouldn't be a big problem to capture the position."
"What, beheading?" Xiang Tianhu and Yan Yuhui looked at each other, somewhat suspecting that there was something wrong with their ears.
It’s not that Xiang Tianhu and Yan Yuhui couldn’t understand the military term beheading. In fact, they immediately understood what beheading was about as soon as Xu Rui’s plan was completed. In fact, it was to destroy the Japanese headquarters. However, Xu Rui’s battle plan was It was beyond their imagination and made them unable to keep up with the rhythm of their thinking.
For example, if there is an old farmer who has been riding a bullock cart all his life to go to the market, and you suddenly run over to him and say, "Master, let's go to the market by helicopter today," the old farmer will definitely be confused.