Chapter 75: Three Ways of Siege and Four Ways of Defense
"As you have said, the Japanese army is coming fiercely this time and must capture Changsha. However, Changsha City is the gateway to southwest China. If Changsha is lost, Hengyang will not be able to be saved. The Japanese army can enter our rear area from Hunan and directly capture Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan.
His ambition is well known to everyone!!! This battle is not only the top priority of Changsha's defense, but also the top priority of our entire China's anti-Japanese battlefield! If you win, the country will survive, if you lose - it will fall apart.
, life is in ruins!!! Do you understand this!!!" Xue Yue held a long command pole and pointed out various key points on the large military map.
"It's clear -" the generals said in unison. As soldiers, none of them have any bloody spirit. After listening to Xue Yue's words, they naturally understood the stakes. Xue Yue continued: "But God bless my Chinese nation.
On the eve of the war, we actually captured the strategic offensive plan for the Changsha battle. As the generals said, the Japanese army had advanced weapons, but its tactics were really rigid. In this attack, the Japanese commander-in-chief Anami Yoshiki followed the strategic policy of Okamura Neji.
We will launch a frontal fierce attack on Changsha City and outflank the tactics of two wings. Therefore, the three places in northern Hunan, Nanchang in Jiangxi and southern Hunan will become the main battlefields. In northern Hunan, we have the Xinqiang River, Laodao River, Miluo River and Liuyang River.
By establishing a line of defense, we can rely on our geographical advantages to fight against the Japanese army step by step. In Nanchang, I have ordered General Luo Zhuoying to lead the 32nd Army and the 74th Army to garrison Nanchang. After effectively killing the Japanese army in Nanchang, I will withdraw to Gao'an and use the mountains and other
The terrain advantage is a constant struggle. Do you have anything to add?"
"I have -" Song Yuanming stood up and said, "If the Japanese army wants to take Changsha, they must first take Nanchang, and then join forces with the Japanese army in northern Hunan to defeat our defenses in one fell swoop. What I want to ask is, with our flesh and blood, can we
Effectively prevent the Japanese mechanized heavy troops from advancing?"
"This..." Song Yuanming's sharp hit made the generals present dumbfounded. Yes, it is impossible for humans to fight against machines. Xue Yue glanced around and saw that no one said anything, and saw Song Yuanming again.
With a strange expression on his face, he immediately understood that this guy probably had a plan for a long time and was just trying to support his troops: "Captain Song, tell me what you think."
"Yes, Commander Xue." Song Yuanming walked to the military map, "First of all, Hunan is an area of mountains, ravines, and dense water networks. This is an advantage. The Xinqiang River, Laodao River, Miluo River, and Liuyang River interact with each other.
With a distance of two to three hundred miles, we can flood the roads, plow them into fields, turn the roads between the four lines of defense into a swamp, and at the same time blow up all the bridges between the four lines of defense."
"Huayuankou——" a general who participated in the Battle of Xuzhou exclaimed, but quickly stopped talking. As we all know, Chiang Kai-shek blew up Huayuankou to form a yellow flood zone to block the Japanese army from attacking Wuhan, and released false news
It was said that Japanese planes blew up Huayuankou. This was the top secret within the national army, and everyone kept it a secret.
"This is not Huayuankou, and Changsha will not be Xuzhou!" Song Yuanming's words were resounding. "The Japanese mechanized troops emphasize fast blitzkrieg and powerful attack capabilities. We turned the road into mud, and these armored vehicles lay down.
, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army will also be greatly reduced! At the same time, while defending, I do not recommend digging deep trenches and fighting positional warfare. Instead, we should change the initiative to passive, take the initiative to attack, fight on all sides, and focus on attacking the Japanese army’s logistics supplies and arms supplies.
A large number of landmines and roadblocks were laid along the path that the Japanese army must pass through, and soldiers with good marksmanship were sent to attack Japanese commanders and targets with heavy firepower."
"I have never heard of your tactics. If you don't dig trenches, how can you compete with the Japanese who are armed to the teeth?" A general retorted. Song Yuanming was talking about the battles of later generations of special forces against heavy armored armies.
Fa, it’s normal that they haven’t heard of it.
"So what if they dug trenches? Would the Japanese army be stupid enough to send their infantry to fight you for your position? In which of their attacks did they not use planes and tanks to attack your position, bombard it indiscriminately, and then send another
The infantry is here to harvest the wheat!!!" Song Yuanming said angrily. He had had enough of this kind of positional warfare in Nanjing. Seeing his comrades being killed alive by artillery shells in the ditch, the feeling in his heart was really...
It hurts like a knife!!!
"But...but there are no trenches, and the brothers don't even have a place to hide."
"As long as the disguise is done well, the hiding place goes without saying. If you really feel that you will feel at ease if you have trenches to stand in, then you can hide most of the team in the trenches and send out capable teams to consume on the way.
The effective strength of the Japanese army." Song Yuanming really felt a headache when talking about guerrilla special operations with these generals who had somewhat fixed ideas.
"If you have any other suggestions, please share them together." Xue Yue said simply.
"Also, I don't think we need to put all our troops in a frontal fight with the Japanese. We can divide our troops. One side is responsible for defense, and the other side can cut off the Japanese's retreat and destroy their supply of food and ammunition.
.Then the Japanese army that attacks frontally will be in a situation of shortage of supplies. The artillery shells will be fired one less, the bullets will be fired one less, the people will be killed one less, and these sons of bitches will be dragged to death.
!!!”
"Well, I will consider your suggestion as appropriate." Xue Yue said, and Song Yuanming was slightly relieved after hearing this. He had just heard the quarrel between these generals outside the conference room door before, and felt that this was a war to defend the motherland.
If he did not contribute, he would feel uneasy. After speaking freely, he realized the bad thing. If Xue Yue fought this battle as he said, then the Changsha Defense War would become the first army-scale battle in the history of China's Anti-Japanese War.
Special operations, this history has changed a lot.
At the end of the meeting, Xue Yue summarized a series of measures against the enemy based on the suggestions of all parties, and at the same time deployed troops and generals to station various group armies on various defense lines. Naturally, the "Thousand Miles of Zeguo" suggestion of Song, Yuan and Ming was adopted.
This suggestion was also made to him by Peng Zhonghua, director of the Eighth Route Army's Xiangtan Office. Using water to trap the army was the best strategy.
Song Yuanming also received his mission and rushed to Nanchang to join forces with General Luo Zhuoying who was stationed there to jointly defend Jiangxi from the Japanese attack. Of course Song Yuanming knew which Japanese army attacked Jiangxi. They were the ones who escaped from the Battle of Wanjialing.
The Japanese 106th Division and Saeda Detachment have a total strength of one and a half divisions. In fact, to be honest, if Song Yuanming had to choose the battlefield himself, he would rather choose Xiangbei. The one attacking there is the Japanese Sixth Division - Nanjing Massacre
The main force! Commander Inaba Shiro!!! If Song Yuanming were to face the Sixth Division directly, I believe that with the marksmanship of him and his men, they would kill Inaba Shiro and the division chief Hisao (Nanjing Massacre planner) with one shot
Chapter completed!