Chapter 92 fight according to risk

What relieved Hishita a little was that the situation of the other two alliances was not too bad. The attack target of the 120th Regiment of the Japanese Army was the entrance of the cave.Dongkou controls the main road leading to Jiangkou and even the Zhijiang military highway. Its strategic importance is self-evident. As early as during the Hunan-Guangxi Battle, the Chinese army built a deep and three-dimensional fortification here. The 2nd Battalion of the 170th Regiment of the 57th Division of the 14th Army was in charge of defense. The mountain at the entrance of the cave is abrupt and steep, and it is closely connected with the surrounding mountains.The main position was built from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, built up layer by layer like shelves, with gun racks and deer villages in the middle.In front of the main position, there is an open paddy field, covered by a dense firepower net, the Japanese army is often trapped in the middle of the paddy field and cannot stretch.

Relying on the solid main position, the Second Battalion repelled more than a dozen Japanese attacks.The paddy fields in front of the positions were filled with corpses of Japanese soldiers, bloody and bloody, and the fields were completely red. The 120th Wing could not attack from the front, so they wanted to make a detour, but the main position at the entrance of the cave was connected from north to south, and there was no favorable detour route at all. In the end, it was the fog in the mountains at night that helped the Japanese army.Using the fog as a barrier, they organized death squads to climb up the steep rocks and carry out sneak attacks on the defenders' positions, and the key passes at the entrance of the cave were lost.

After crossing the entrance, the main force of the 116th Division composed of the 120th Regiment and the 133rd Regiment of the Japanese army had rushed under the main peak in the middle section of Xuefeng Mountain, posing a threat to Zhijiang. I was relieved. The main force of the Japanese army on the central road was the 116th Division, and the main force on the southern road was the 58th Brigade.The 58th Brigade is not a new independent mixed brigade. It belongs to the 68th Division and has strong combat effectiveness. The 58th Division of the 74th Chinese Army is responsible for defending against the enemy on the South Road.According to Qiu Weida's deployment, they can adopt a flexible and maneuverable style of play, prepare a few more positions, and move the camera after each position achieves the intended purpose, instead of blindly fighting for consumption.

Therefore, the 58th Division organized several defensive positions. Its main task was to search for the enemy, closely monitor the movement of the Japanese army, and use fortifications to conduct appropriate blocking to delay the Japanese army's actions. When the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army attacked Xinning, the two companies defending the city stopped stalemate with the enemy until the afternoon, but immediately withdrew to Wugang where the main force of the division was located. Although the Japanese army's on-the-spot reconnaissance work before the war was very meticulous, what can be corrected on the map is mainly limited to the section between Shaoyang and Xuefeng Mountain.The Xuefeng mountain area is regarded as an important defensive area by the Chinese army, and it is difficult for spies to enter. The Japanese army has not been able to accurately understand the terrain of the Xuefeng mountain area, so that some arrival locations are only about four kilometers apart on the map, but the actual distance is not. There are multiple errors.

After the capture of Xinning, the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army stayed there for two days in order to reconnoite the situation in the mountainous area and adjust the deployment accordingly.They plan to continue to occupy Wuyang and Wugang in order to open a detour to the southeast of the Zhijiang River, and at the same time support the 116th Division on the middle road. There were more than 3,000 Japanese troops besieging Wuyang, but at that time there was only one company of the 58th Division in the city.Facing an enemy 20 times stronger than itself, the defenders who had no time to evacuate fought according to danger, repelled the enemy's eight attacks, and killed hundreds of Japanese soldiers.After fighting hard for three days and nights, they were all outnumbered and died for their country.

The 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army immediately pointed the attack at Wugang.Wugang is where the main force of the 58th Division of the Chinese side is located. After the Japanese army launched an offensive, they implemented Qiu Weida's offensive and defensive tactics, leaving only a part of their troops to hold on to the city to contain the enemy. After judging that the enemy in front of us had an attempt to commit crimes in the West, the 74th Army Command ordered the 58th Division Staff Office to conduct an investigation of important military geographies at the southern foot of Xuefeng Mountain for reference during the war.The degree of completeness of the staff command organization of the 74th Army was second to none in the domestic army. At that time, the title of chief of staff was revoked in other military-level ministries, and only the colonel and staff were retained. Only the divisions of the 74th Army still had Chief of staff, and there are four chiefs of the first, second, third, and fourth staff sections.The staff office of the division itself is also very large. There are more than 20 officers below the colonel and director. In addition to the salary increase of the staff, all these staff members also enjoy the additional treatment of the military chief officer.

Led by the chief of staff of the division, the staff of the 58th Division assembled the regiments, deputy battalion commanders and some officers with tactical training, and with an infantry platoon as guard, they surveyed the southern foot of Xuefeng Mountain for about a week.Through surveys, they revised the one-fifty-thousandth military map, and made detailed records of key passes, passages, commanding heights, and special features.In the meantime, bubble holes have attracted everyone's special attention.