Facing the lieutenant general's kindness, Tang Dao was grateful and could only shout in his heart that it was awesome.
Although he has great love, this person can be considered a plot against him.
Once this order is issued, as long as Tang Dao accepts it, he and the Sixing Battalion will be tied to this small broken boat of the 43rd Army.
Tang Dao himself was originally from the Sichuan Army, and had constant contact with the Sichuan Army. After such an incident, it would be strange for the Central Army bosses not to exclude him from the Central Department.
Of course, Tang Dao also knows that this kind of calculation is also human nature.
Although everyone is nominally working together to fight the Japanese, the current situation of various factions and hilltops in the military has been formed for a long time. Not to mention that it cannot be eradicated in a short period of time, even if it is given another ten or twenty years
, there is no way to eliminate this stubborn disease.
If an army wants to have only one voice, it must have a unified belief. In China, only the army in the north can do this.
The 43rd Army is extremely weak, so it naturally needs excellent soldiers like Tang Dao and Si Xingying. Especially Tang Dao himself is from the 152nd Regiment. For Uncle Guo and Uncle Fox, they cannot be let go.
In other words, even if Tang Dao and Si Xingying can escape from Songjiang again, from now on, wherever they go, they will have the label of Commander Guo of the 43rd Army on their foreheads.
Apparently, the lieutenant general who had issued the military order was also observing Tang Dao's reaction. Seeing that Tang Dao's expression remained unchanged, with a look of satisfaction on his face, he pointed at the fortification map drawn by Tang Dao: "Deputy Director Tang, please continue, the 67th Army
The military headquarters has already sent a message to our troops three hours ago. They have already set off for Songjiang and will arrive in Songjiang before nightfall. In order to save time, our 43rd Army has joined forces with the Songjiang Security Group to build Songjiang defense first."
“Why it is necessary to spend huge manpower and material resources to dig trenches between the air raid shelters and the city wall fortifications? It is naturally to prevent our infantry from being attacked by Japanese artillery and Japanese aircraft before entering the fortifications;
Secondly, when the Japanese army conquered the city, our army still had a second line of trenches to resist it;
My plan is not only to dig communication trenches between the air raid shelters and the city wall fortifications, but also to dig trenches connecting various fortification points in the city with the headquarters as the center, to fortify layers of defenses, and to use every street and every house as a position until the Japanese
Kill all our troops."
Tang Dao took a pencil and drew several circles around the center of the city, which made the generals twitch in their eyes.
No wonder Tang Dao brought more than a hundred men and a beaten infantry regiment to resist!
This guy is really a ruthless person.
Be ruthless to your enemies and even more ruthless to yourself.
Let’s leave aside the defense outside the city. The defense inside the city is like several concentric circles with different radii, with the houses and streets selected by each department as points, and then connected by communication trenches. The Japanese army will not attack the city. Once we attack, we must peel off the Chinese positions layer by layer like an onion.
This move is a fusion of street fighting and positional warfare. It is a very genius design.
These experienced generals can imagine that any army that wants to break this position will pay a heavy price.
But being ruthless to the enemy is not the most important thing.
The key is that Tang Dao is even more ruthless towards his own people. His fortification construction and firepower point design did not leave any escape route for the more than 30,000 people present and not yet present at all.
Then it’s just like, just pull out the chariots and horses and want to completely occupy Songjiang? OK, then kill all the tens of thousands of us.
Didn’t we agree that we should stay on guard for three days and nights from the time the Japanese army attacked? How could we set ourselves up for a decisive battle and fight to the death as soon as the Japanese army attacked?
Fortunately, the generals of the 43rd Army had crawled out from among the dead after a bloody battle in Dachang Town. This was not the first time they came up bare-chested and carried kitchen knives to show their attitude in a deadly battle, but the prince Yu Ke's condition was not good, and her face, which was already fair, suddenly turned pale.
If he doesn't leave, it's not because he wants to fight the Japanese so much, but because there are orders on the mountain. Anyone who disobeys the orders during the battle will die!
Judging from his many years of experience as an official, if he disobeys orders at this juncture, let alone a major general, even if he is a general, the theater headquarters will probably sacrifice his head to the flag.
But he didn’t want to die! After holding off the Japanese army for three days and nights, there was still hope. Fortunately, the deputy director of Xin Ketang cut off this hope himself.
"You melon boy, you are really brave. You put the whole army to death when you came up. I know, I thought you were using the method of burning cauldron and sinking the boat to cut off your own retreat. I don't know, I thought you were... I have been entrusted by some people to lead the entire 67th Army into the pit! I don’t think Commander Wu can handle this battle plan of yours.” Lieutenant General Guo glanced at Wang Gongyu, who looked pale, and said, He pointed at Tang Dao and cursed with a smile.
"However, as the saying goes, you will live after death. If this is not the case, everyone will only think about resisting for three days and nights before leaving. Naturally, they will have the fear of death, and then this battle will be much more difficult to fight. ." Before Tang Dao could explain, Lieutenant General Guo changed the topic again, turned his body slightly, cast his eyes on the generals, and asked in a low voice: "Everyone, do you think it is true or not?"
The words were not very clear, but the meaning was very clear. All the major generals, including the pale-faced Wang Gongyu, could only nod their heads.
"Okay, since we are all determined to serve the country to the death, I will take the lead for Commander Wu. For the time being, we will use Deputy Director Tang to construct and design the fortifications. From now on, the entire army will eliminate the necessary reconnaissance and security personnel outside the city and go all out.
The four city walls and the fortifications in Songjiang City are being constructed, and we strive to complete the construction of the fortifications before the Japanese army comes." Lieutenant General Guo made the final decision.
The reason why there are city wall fortifications is naturally because Tang Dao also designed many firepower points on the city wall.
If the personnel lie on the fortifications at the crenellations of the city wall and shoot, they will be easily attacked by the Japanese mountain artillery, infantry artillery and grenade launchers. Therefore, Tang Dao intends to take out the four to five meter thick city wall like the Sihang Warehouse.
'shooting hole'.
Of course, a city wall is different from a concrete wall. The so-called ‘shooting hole’ should actually be called a ‘bunker’ buried inside the city wall.
It is to carry out civil engineering work from behind the city wall, use strong enough wood as support, dig out a space that can accommodate 5 to 6 people in a certain section of the city wall, the space is still half a meter away from penetrating the city wall, and then dig out a space about one meter.
square meters of shooting holes.
Then, ten millimeter thick steel plates, logs and sandbags were added inside the shooting hole. With this level of defense, it could withstand even a frontal bombardment from a 75-meter field gun, unless the Japanese army used larger caliber cannons or aerial bombs.
Blow down the entire city wall.
There will be six to eight such bunker designs on each of the four city walls. It is undoubtedly extremely difficult to connect such bunkers inside the city walls. So the simplest method, external traffic trenches, can be used to a certain extent.
to ensure the safety of transportation of materials and personnel.
The advantage of this is that at least two infantry cannons or rapid-fire cannons can be installed on each section of the city wall to attack the Japanese troops attacking from the front.
This tactical concept is actually not new. It is almost the same as the one used by the defenders in Sihang Warehouse. However, it is to use a strong shell to block first. If you want to attack, you must first find a way to peel off this shell.
That is to say, the Japanese troops they have to face now are more numerous and have stronger firepower, but the strategic depth in Songjiang City is also greater. The mortars most commonly used by the Chinese army are hidden in well-built solid fortifications and can still target a range of 2,000 meters.
Any Japanese troops within formed a strike.
It’s just that drawing on paper is very simple, but actually doing it is not necessarily easy. It requires not only time and people, but also tools and materials.
At present, Songjiang already has about 2,000 manpower from the Songjiang Security Group, 600 people from the 43rd Army, 100 people from the Sixing Battalion, and almost 3,000 people recruited by Qingzhuang, totaling less than 6,000 people.
It is already a dream to complete the various trenches that crisscross the city in just 24 hours, with a width of 1.5 meters and a depth of 1.5 meters, and a length of at least 20 kilometers.
Various firepower points planned?
Even the wily Lieutenant General Guo was looking at the planning drawings drawn by Tang Dao with frowning and at a loss what to do.
