Chapter 60 nothing can be assumed

The Chief of the Ninth War Zone attaches great importance to the staff group organized by the Seventy-Fourth Army.Zhao Zili, Director of the Staff Department of the Minister's Ministry, personally introduced the battle and winning experience. An American reporter once asked Zhao Zili a question, saying how the battle was exactly the same as your battle plan. Your plan was not printed after the war, right? Zhao Zili immediately asked back: "If it was printed after a war, can it still be called a 'battle plan'?" The reporter kept shaking his head suspiciously: "Why is it such a coincidence? Myth, myth!" Zhao Zili said that it was not a myth, but a reality, and that's exactly how we fought.

Zhao Zili did not cheat. The reason for the victory in the third battle is complicated or not. It is that he did not do it or did not do it well in the second Changsha battle. Honestly conduct command in accordance with the spirit of "retreat decisive battle" and "strive for the outside line". As the absolute protagonist this time, the Tenth Army had also participated in the second Changsha Battle before, but it was defeated earlier than the Seventy-Fourth Army, and the enemies were still the same as before. different. I believe that the members of the staff group will definitely have a special feeling when they hear this: If time and space can be converted, and the 74th Army is moved to the position of the 10th Army in this battle, what will happen?It is very likely that the Seventy-Fourth Army will create a glory like the Battle of Shanggao, but nothing can be assumed.

Compared with the command and deployment in the theater, the staff group is more interested in the actual combat situation of each unit, which is the key content they want to investigate.There are two main battlefields to investigate, one is Yingzhu Mountain and Fulinpu positions.Fighting here is still the 20th Army, which performed well in the Second Changsha Battle, and their tactics are still flanking, tailing, and blocking the Japanese army. According to reports, the specific method of play is as follows: when the Japanese army retreated along the main road, the 20th Army would shoot on the mountain.Annoyed by the shots, the Japanese sent a force up the hill, and the Twentieth Army fell back.To put it bluntly, it is a semi-sporty tactic of picking up cheap and not hard capping.

Obviously, this tactic did not suit the appetite of the 74th Army.There is a "Grave of Japanese Bandits" in Fulinpu, which was inscribed by Wu Yizhi, Xue Yue's chief of staff.Everyone looked at each other and laughed: You beat people when they are not prepared, and you run away when others come to beat you. Just fighting like this can wipe out thousands of enemies? It is true to say that the Twentieth Army carried out an appropriate resistance within its own capabilities, but it is too much to say that they wiped out more than 10,000 enemies.Later, it was revealed that the so-called "Japanese Bandit Mass Grave" was a grave built by digging out the corpses of Japanese soldiers who had been buried in various places, and then buried them together. corpse.

Judging from the military quality and weaponry of both the enemy and our own during the Anti-Japanese War, it is absolutely impossible to wipe out more than 10,000 enemies without elite troops five or six times more powerful to pounce on them.According to this standard, the Seventy-Fourth Army had already created a miracle in the Battle of Shanggao, and it was impossible to repeat the miracle repeatedly. The Seventy-Fourth Army has always fought big and tough battles, and they don't know how to fight small battles. The tactics of the Twentieth Army can't be used or learned.What really attracted the attention of the staff group was the second position, the defensive position of the Tenth Army in Changsha City.

The Tenth Army has many similarities with the Seventy-Fourth Army. The officers above the regiment commander of this army are all outstanding in the fourth and fifth phases of Whampoa. They not only possess certain military theoretical qualities, but also have rich practical experience.The officers below the regiment are either trained cadets or veterans who have experienced many battles.The combat style of the soldiers is also very fierce, daring and good at using grenade combat and hand-to-hand combat. The 190th Division to which they belong is known as the "Loyal and Brave Division". The word "Loyal and Brave" is embroidered on the sleeves of the soldiers. Song Zheyuan's Broadsword Team is on par.

Others such as strict training and iron-like military discipline, the Tenth Army is also comparable to the Seventy-Fourth Army.If anyone can compete with the Seventy-Fourth Army for the top spot among the super-powerful corps of the Chinese army, the Tenth Army must be among them. Accompanied by officers of the Tenth Army, the staff group visited the positions in the city.The battle has ended, and the battlefield has been cleaned long ago. However, the traces of fortifications destroyed by the Japanese army have not been completely repaired, and some walls are riddled with bullet marks.The staff members were all experts, and they heard that although the Tenth Army's introduction was exaggerated, judging from the bullet marks and the degree of damage to the fortifications, the defensive battle was indeed very difficult, and the Tenth Army did its best.

The Seventy-Fourth Army is also known for being good at defense, but in the past, it mainly participated in field defensive warfare. There is not much successful experience in urban defense warfare, and whether the defensive warfare can be fought well depends largely on whether the defensive positions are constructed. Reasonable and thoughtful. The Tenth Army built a solid machine gun bunker at the intersection in the center of the street, which communicated with the houses through the traffic trench.Other than that, the rest are guarded by houses.There are shooting holes at the foot of the walls of each house, and bunkers are dug out and covered with quilts in the house, so that the fortifications converted from the houses can cover the ground-to-air artillery fire, and the people inside can reduce the risk of being injured by shrapnel. , even if the house is blown down, not only is the bunker unobstructed, but it also increases the thickness of the bunker.

This fortification construction method of the Tenth Army was not its first creation. The Chinese army had practiced it as early as the Battle of Taierzhuang, and the Tenth Army only pushed it to the extreme on the basis of another successful application. Making full use of all surrounding terrain and features is undoubtedly the highest level of defensive warfare.The staff group was deeply impressed by the experience of the Tenth Army defending Changsha. They knew that as long as the strength of their troops could be fully recovered, one day these experiences would be of use.