Chapter 187 The plan to encircle and wipe out the cavalry of the Qing army!
"General Tang, the main combat mission of your unit now is to drive away the Japanese troops surrounding the enemy's headquarters within five miles. The division's artillery will provide necessary support, and large groups of Japanese troops will be dealt with by the artillery.
"After Cao Ruohai waited for Tang Hanfu's cavalry to arrive, he quickly arranged combat missions for him.
Even though there were only two thousand cavalry, they had a great impact on the battle situation. Due to the presence of explosive ammunition, it was difficult for large groups of Qing troops to move within two or three miles of the camp. What was troublesome was that their team of about ten people would attack from time to time.
They came to the camp to harass me.
With two thousand cavalry, it will be difficult for the Qing army's cavalry to break into the division's defense area. In this way, Cao Ruohai's two cavalry regiments can only undertake the task of assault operations. At the same time, due to the expansion of the defensive area, the division
The resistance to the ministry's support to other regions is also much smaller.
"Your Majesty, General!" Tang Hanfu agreed happily to this combat mission. He surrounded the main camp area to block the attack. It didn't look like cannon fodder at all. Tang Hanfu naturally had no objection. His cavalry was the best at doing this!
With the arrival of Tang Hanfu's cavalry, the defensive pressure faced by the new army was relieved a lot. In the next few days, Cao Ruohai's tactics became more proactive, and he began to dispatch the infantry and cavalry on hand to actively support some tight camps.
.With crazy pressure, the Qing army's full-scale offensive was effectively contained.
On the tenth day of the first lunar month, the tight war situation had basically been alleviated, but Cao Ruohai had a new idea. He could no longer bear the tone that the Qing army had been taking the initiative on the battlefield.
It is clear that the Qing army's combat power is not as good as our own, but they are still suppressed by them. They can fight when they want, and retreat when they want. This is a useless battle.
"Everyone, our army is currently facing the enemy in various local battlefields. However, from the overall situation, they still have the initiative. I want to change the situation of this battle. Do you have any good ideas?" said the general.
The generals, the division staff and relevant personnel convened, and Cao Ruohai held a military meeting to see if they could come up with a better plan to change this passive situation of being beaten.
"Commander, if we want to change the situation of the battle, I believe that the most urgent thing at the moment is whether we can annihilate a portion of the enemy. Even if we encircle and annihilate an army of one to two thousand people, the situation of the battle will change. Otherwise it will just be a lively fight and have nothing to do with the situation of the battle.
Dayi." Ren Shuangyou, the leader of the assault regiment, first expressed his thoughts.
Cao Ruohai listened to Ren Shuangyou's suggestion and said: "Attack one enemy unit? I have the same idea, but most of the captive troops are cavalry, so it is not easy to surround one unit. Today's military meeting is just for everyone to brainstorm ideas.
Come up with a way to defeat the enemy in one piece."
How does the infantry surround the cavalry? One is Li Zicheng's peasant army's style of play, using hundreds of thousands of troops to surround thousands of official cavalry. Or relying on the city's geographical location to extensively restrict the mobility of the cavalry, and then using infantry groups to hit the enemy cavalry hard. In addition to
With these two methods, it is really difficult to think of other methods.
Everyone looked at the combat map and was at a loss. The grasslands outside the pass were all open and there was no way to find favorable terrain to surround the enemy.
While everyone was thinking hard, an old man with a white beard stroked his beard and said, "I have a way to surround the soldiers and prevent them from escaping for a short time."
When Cao Ruohai heard this, he quickly turned his attention to the speaker. Isn't this Mr. Song who is good at maneuvering guns? Don't tell me, he really might have a way. "Mr. Song, please tell me your way."
Seeing Cao Ruohai's humbly asking, Song Yingxing hurriedly said: "This method will fall on these newly shipped iron wires."
Iron wire? Isn't this thing newly made in the factory area and brought here to strengthen the defense of the camp? How to use it to surround the enemy? Everyone was a little confused.
Looking at everyone's puzzled looks, Song Yingxing continued: "Look, everyone, this is the defense area of two brigades of our army. If we build a defense line of about ten miles of iron wire between the two defense areas, and then the two brigades go to
If we come over here, wouldn't it create a three-sided encirclement situation? Then concentrate our cavalry to attack from the bottom, so that the captives can't escape."
"Pull up an iron wire defense line. Can it stop the prisoners? Can they get out of it?" A staff officer asked about the loophole he thought of.
Without waiting for Song Yingxing's answer, Cao Ruohai asked eagerly: "Mr. Song, how many manpower will it take to pull up a ten-mile iron wire defense line? How long will it take?"
"With proper preparation and an engineering regiment, we can basically do it within an hour."
"This method is feasible! Mr. Song, you can start preparations after the meeting. I will assign you an engineering regiment and a cavalry regiment to do this."
Cao Ruohai suddenly had a tactical idea after listening to Song Yingxing's suggestion. The staff said that the Qing army could get out of the iron wire defense line. What does it matter? As long as their horses can't get out, things are very promising. After all, they fought several battles.
As a general, Cao Ruohai quickly figured out how to fight this battle.
When the war begins, you can first let the cavalry regiment cover the engineering regiment and start to build an iron wire defense line in the combat area. The Qing army should not be able to react for a while. After the iron wire defense line is almost stretched, order the two regiments to move closer to this area. Wait
By the time they reacted, there was only one opening left in the encirclement.
Cao Ruohai is still capable of blocking a hole, because he still has three thousand cavalry on hand. In other words, this plan is very successful, but this plan can only be used once. By the second time,
As soon as the Qing army saw the barbed wire fence being pulled, they would definitely flee as soon as possible.
To realize this plan, the cooperation between the two camps and the cavalry is crucial. They must reach the combat position before the Qing army reacts, otherwise all efforts will be wasted.
"Mr. Song, your side is the key to this battle. Whatever you need to cooperate with me, I will do my best to satisfy you."
"There is nothing else needed. The main thing is that there are two thousand wooden stakes missing. There are few trees outside the entrance, and the wooden stakes are difficult to find."
"This matter will be solved in the future, so I will ask the customs officials to try their best to transport two thousand wooden stakes within three days."
On the thirteenth day of the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Liu Yuanbin urgently mobilized and prepared two thousand wooden stakes and transported them to the battlefield. After these wooden stakes arrived, the New Army's encirclement and annihilation plan against the Qing army was officially launched.
Before the wooden piles arrived, Song Yingxing had already led the people from the engineering corps to practice the process of quickly assembling the iron wire defense line. As soon as the wooden piles arrived, the formal implementation would begin early tomorrow morning.
Using barbed wire on the sports battlefield is a use that Zhu Youjian never thought of when he asked people to do this thing. The process of making wire is not complicated and is similar to the principle of a plate press. First press out the thin wire, and then two
Just wrap three of them together and inlaid with iron caltrops. The original purpose of this thing was to slow down the cavalry from charging into the formation. Unexpectedly, because of Song Yingxing's suggestion, this thing was put into actual combat for the first time, in order to encircle and annihilate the enemy's cavalry.