Looking at the somewhat expressionless Wang Jun, Lin Feng knew that although he did not show it, he must have a lot of love for this battalion commander in his heart. This battalion commander Li has strong adaptability and fast reaction speed, which can be said to be outstanding. According to the expectations in the division, he looks a lot like Hai Jingqing when he was the battalion commander.
Wang Jun is Hai Jingqing's old superior, and he respects and relies heavily on Hai Jingqing, an old subordinate. Although he didn't say anything about Hai Jingqing's sacrifice, Lin Feng could tell that he had always been loving his general in his heart. Although he didn't say it out loud, he must have a fondness for this battalion commander who had the shadow of his old subordinate and favorite general.
It's not a bad idea to even say that Aiwujiwu is loved. Although Lin Feng doesn't agree with Wang Jun's idea very much. He thinks that Li He is indeed a good prospect, but it's better to be trained in the deputy team stage before being promoted, which will be more beneficial to his future. Better, laying a solid foundation first is more appropriate for cultivating a cadre than trying to grow the seedlings.
No. 1 has said more than once that cadres at the regiment level are in a very critical position as a link between the past and the next, and are a starting point for mastering the experience of overall management. The regiment commander can only be regarded as a mid-level commander in the army, but he is A critical step in the growth of grassroots commanders.
Especially in the current situation where the degree of integration of the army is getting higher and higher, as the most basic level of the combined force, the regiment-level combat force has very high requirements for the military level of its cadres, not only infantry tactics, artillery, armored forces, and even aviation. The use of tactics requires a certain degree of mastery and understanding.
The headquarters attaches great importance to the training of regiment-level cadres, even above the cadres at the column and division levels. It can be said that it is the most important level. The assessment of regiment-level military cadres is even harsh. Li He was the battalion commander. He did indeed perform well in his position. Even if he did not perform as well as today, his first battalion was still the sharp knife battalion of the entire 18th Division.
The roar of the soldiers' leaders has always been excellent in the division assessment. The battalion-level tactical contract drills are famous in the entire military region. Even the three battalions known as the first regiment in the world of the Anti-Japanese Alliance are in the headquarters. In the battalion-level confrontation drills organized by the organization, he has been defeated by them, but he can be a good battalion commander, but it is not certain whether he can do well in the position of regimental commander.
In particular, regiment-level commanders have very high requirements for synthetic command capabilities. It is hard to say whether Li He can shoulder this responsibility, so Lin Feng still thinks that he should be given the position of deputy regiment first, and it is more appropriate to make a transition. It will also be good for his future growth.
Moreover, recommendations to superiors need to be studied and approved by the division party committee. However, his opinions as a military officer will definitely be considered by superiors. This guy's performance is indeed quite outstanding. It can be said that it even exceeds imagination. If he really If you have this ability, this can be considered a rare opportunity.
Lin Feng knew that Wang Jun was actually not slow in his movements. He had already started adjusting his deployment in advance before his superiors issued orders. But this guy moved faster than the division commander. As soon as the order was given here in the division, the battle had already begun on his side. The division commander who is informal and not rigid naturally likes such proactive military cadres. Not to mention the division commander, such a cadre would be the same if he were the chief of staff.
It's just that Wang Jun, who is not on the front line and has to consider the overall situation, naturally moves a beat slower than Li He who is on the front line, because every decision he makes must be based on grasping the overall situation, and he also has the support of the troops below. Only by reporting detailed enemy information can we begin to adjust our deployment.
He is the commander of a division, and he must not make any hasty decisions. Every decision must be considered from the overall situation. To deal with the threat of Japanese paratroopers, he must consider how to deal with these new troops in the shortest possible time with the current strength of the city. If the enemy situation appears, and his movements are slower than below, then it can only be said that the accusation is in the wrong direction.
In fact, Wang Jun's actions were already very fast. Before the reinforcements mobilized by Chen Hanzhang arrived, facing the new enemy situation, as the actual commander of the Tongliao siege, Wang Jun, who had already moved his command post into the city, did not simply Instead of waiting for the arrival of reinforcements, they adjusted their deployment according to the actual situation.
Faced with the new Japanese reinforcements, Wang Jun ordered all the ministries that had broken into the city. In addition to leaving some troops to contain the enemy in front of him so that they would never be able to break through and get closer to each other, each ministry must deploy at least one reinforced platoon. troops to carry out clearing, suppression and encirclement of the surrounding Japanese paratroopers.
When deploying the clearing and suppression mission, Wang Jun only had one sentence: no matter what the situation, the Japanese paratroopers must not be allowed to gather together, and except for the original Japanese paratroopers who had already merged with the remnants of the enemy, the remaining Japanese paratroopers must not be allowed to fight with the remnants of the enemy. Convergence, but Li He, who is on the front line, only needs to move one beat faster.
After the reinforcements mobilized by Chen Hanzhang arrived, Wang Jun dispatched a company from each department to organize the squad and platoon, and cooperated with the troops already in the city to continue the clearing. After all the troops were engaged in front-line operations, Chen Hanzhang gave him a simple order, that is, he did not need to The Japanese troops outside the city only need to deal with the enemies inside the city as quickly as possible and be prepared for the extremely likely follow-up paratrooper echelon of the Japanese army.
In order to grasp the situation first-hand, Wang Jun even broke the Anti-Japanese Alliance custom of not interfering with subordinate commands and directly grasped the company level through the walkie-talkie. However, although he directly contacted the company level through the walkie-talkie, Wang Jun only After grasping the situation, he still handed over the task of adjusting tactics to the battalion-level commander in the city.
At the same time, he divided the command in the city into two, and handed over the task of encircling and annihilating the remaining enemies to Tang Yong, the commander of the 53rd Regiment who had entered the city at this moment, while he personally directed the elimination of the Japanese paratroopers scattered throughout the city. For Wang Jun, taking command beyond the company level is not something he, as a division commander, should do.
Compared with the battle to encircle and annihilate the remaining enemies, he was more concerned about clearing out the Japanese paratroopers. According to the collection of the front troops, there were only about 150 Japanese paratroopers who had joined the remaining enemies in the city, and most of the remaining paratroopers were Because of the airborne reasons, they are scattered in various locations in the city.
This is the best time to carry out a clearing campaign. If you miss this opportunity, once the Japanese paratroopers enter the enemy's control area, no matter how powerful these paratroopers are, they will delay their ability to resolve the battle. Therefore, it is necessary to gather the Japanese paratroopers before Before, take advantage of the scattered opportunities in front of them as quickly as possible to eliminate them as quickly as possible.
In fact, Wang Jun hopes that these airborne Japanese paratroopers will join up with the huddled and stubborn Japanese defenders, and focus on annihilation and disperse them. For Wang Jun, the former option is obviously easier, but he also knows that this is basically is unlikely.
The Japanese paratroopers' airdrops are almost all over the city. No matter how fast the Japanese army moves, they can't all join up with the remaining enemies before their own troops can react. In this way, their own troops in the city can be directly disorganized and disbanded, leaving the enemy behind. He calmly completed the assembly and rejoined the defenders right under his nose, so what was the use of such a force?
However, for the operation to clear out the Japanese paratroopers in the city, the most difficult thing was not the resistance of the Japanese paratroopers. It was the gathering of these Japanese paratroopers scattered throughout the city with the common people. During the clearing, the common people were often used as hostages by the Japanese paratroopers who were trapped and fighting each other. things happen.
In order to reduce civilian casualties as much as possible during the battle and to deal with the scattered Japanese paratroopers everywhere as quickly as possible, Wang Jun could only adjust his deployment at the risk of being taken advantage of by the Japanese army and transferred some troops from the reinforcements. , replaced the first company of the division's reconnaissance battalion and the reconnaissance company of the 54th regiment that had entered the city.
At the same time, the division's sniper platoon was disrupted, and each squadron was equipped with a sniper as much as possible. At the same time, each unit was required to deploy a group of sharpshooters during the clearing, specifically to shoot those Japanese paratroopers who used the common people as shields. They also adopted the method of dividing the already controlled areas in the city into their respective combat areas in the form of companies, compressing them on all sides to disperse and disperse, and the troops participating in the clearing were eliminated one by one in squads or even combat groups.
If residents are taken hostage, snipers, reconnaissance company sniper squads, and combat company sharpshooters will be used as the backbone to implement precision strike tactics to avoid civilian casualties as much as possible. The area of Tongliao City is not large. Wang Jun believes that as long as If tactics are used properly, the Japanese paratroopers entering the city can be eliminated within a short period of time.
As for the battle to encircle and annihilate the remaining enemy forces, since the Japanese army has been trapped in several disconnected strongholds, and it has been found that these remaining strongholds, except for the one in the northeast, are too close to residential areas , the remaining few remaining strongholds are separated from the residential areas by main roads.
Faced with the situation he was currently facing, Wang Jun did not hesitate to mobilize several mountain field guns into the city to participate in the battle. He even mobilized two 155mm heavy howitzers into the city. The Puppet Manchu County Government and Dong In the two strongholds of Tailong Shaoguo, there were no ordinary people except officials from the Puppet Manchu County Government and County Police Station who fled into the Japanese military camp.
Especially the Japanese stronghold of Dongtailong Shaoguo is currently the only stronghold of the Japanese army in the entire west of the city. The fierce fighting in the second half of last night, coupled with the fierce fighting this morning, almost all the Japanese troops in the west of the city have been compressed here. Now, except for the original In addition to the more than 200 Japanese troops, there are now fifty or sixty Japanese paratroopers mixed in, bringing the strength to almost more than 300 people.
Although the Japanese army here not only converted the Dongtailong Shaoguo into a fortification, but also renovated the surrounding houses accordingly, the Dongtailong Shaoguo, which has a brewery, is the main position of the remaining Japanese troops in the west of the city, and there are The last artillery position of the Japanese army, as long as the Japanese troops here are dealt with first, the small group of Japanese troops surrounding them as flank cover will not be a thing to be afraid of.
There is also the Puppet Manchukuo County Government and the Puppet Manchukuo County Police Station across the street. The combined strength of the Japanese troops in the two places, together with the Japanese Puppet Manchukuo police who retreated here, is about 200 people, plus the combined forces There are more than fifty paratroopers. Without the use of artillery, the troops taking this place will suffer huge casualties.
In particular, the so-called Puppet Manchukuo County Government, which was built after the founding of the People's Republic of China, is a two-story reinforced concrete structure. Not only is it extremely solid, it also deploys a large number of machine guns and peaceful artillery. Only the light and heavy machine guns that have been identified so far are at least Around twenty.
Moreover, the Puppet Manchu County Police Department and Procuratorate's Office adjacent to it formed a crossfire, controlling and blocking the surrounding main streets. A force attack would not only cause considerable casualties, but also waste a lot of time. The most responsible Japanese army could No matter whether the people around you live or die, their peaceful machine gunfire and artillery fire poses too great a threat to the surrounding residential areas.
For such a stronghold, there is no need for heavy artillery to directly connect the Japanese troops inside and wipe them out together. How long will it take? I am a little too underestimated of the Japanese troops in front of me. If I deal with the Japanese troops in these two places first, I will be free to deal with them faster. The remaining small groups of Japanese troops in the city, as well as those damn Japanese paratroopers who appeared when they least should have appeared,