Having said this, Lin Zhiqiang put down the telescope in his hand, pointed at the flank position of Daijiadian and said to the Third Regiment Commander beside him: "You must pay attention to your flank position. The Japanese's general attack tactics usually adopt a frontal approach.
A tactic that combines assault and flank breakthrough. When the frontal breakthrough is blocked, use more attacks from both wings. So you must be more careful on your flanks."
"You have to personally master the two heavy machine guns I deployed on the anti-slope position there and the two crooked machine guns on the right side of the ridge. As long as the Japanese army does not break through our flank positions, these machine guns must not be used.
.Once the Japs break through the flank, these two heavy machine guns and the two crooked guns will form a cross fire to block the gap created by the Japs."
"And you must pay attention to shifting your heavy machine gun positions. The Japanese artillery is not given for free. The artillery is a thieves. These two heavy machine guns used to cover the flanks, don't let the Japanese artillery take them. Also.
Yes, you must not put too many troops in the main position. Even if the flanks are breached, your main position must not be chaotic and must be stabilized."
While Lin Zhiqiang was explaining the defense tasks to the third regiment commander, he kept marking something on the map with the red and blue pencil in his hand. His movements were quite fast, and he had basically completed the explanation here, and was working on the map in hand.
Basically everything is completed.
After putting down the red and blue pencils in his hands, Lin Zhiqiang raised his telescope and carefully observed the Japanese and puppet army's offensive formation. He looked at the watch on his wrist and said to the commander of the third regiment and the political commissar beside him: "You are here.
After holding the position at 6 p.m., we immediately reduced our troops and retreated westward directly to the west bank of the Dahuang River."
"At that time, I will organize artillery fire to cover you. At that time, the sunset is the strongest, and the sight of the Japanese artillery observation post is blocked. After six o'clock, the sky gradually becomes dark, and the Japanese may not dare to pursue. But still
Don't be careless, these Japanese and puppet troops are not necessarily afraid of close combat and night fighting."
"When you retreat, you can't be eager to fight, nor can you retreat in a swarm. You must adopt the tactic of alternating cover, and you must leave behind the troops to cover. But it is two o'clock in the afternoon, and there are still four hours until six o'clock in the evening.
.In other words, within these four hours, you must persevere no matter what."
"Remember that you must not put too many troops on one position. Frontal defense and side fire cover must form a whole. The allocation of firepower must be heavy at the front and light at the rear, and the distribution of troops must be light at the front and heavy at the rear.
The most important thing is that you must have a certain reserve team in your hands. When using the reserve team, you must have a good rhythm."
"Although the Japanese and puppet troops dispatched a certain number of tanks and armored vehicles, the terrain here is relatively narrow and the mountains are relatively steep. Tanks and armored vehicles cannot go up the mountain and can only be used as fixed firepower points at most. The Japanese tanks are all light.
Tanks. Most of them are equipped with machine guns, which pose a certain threat to you but not much."
"But be careful not to be careless. Let the Japanese tanks knock out all your machine guns from a long distance. The Anti-Japanese Alliance once suffered a great loss in this regard. Also, due to terrain restrictions, the Japanese and puppets
The army's offensive will not involve too many troops at one time. But again, we must pay attention to their small-scale roundabout actions on the flanks."
"Also, before the designated time, we must withstand the Japanese offensive at all costs. You are all veterans and have a certain understanding of the Japanese attack tactics. But the more this happens, the more careful you must be.
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"The most important thing is not to worry about the ammunition, use firepower as much as possible to kill your enemy. I will replenish the ammunition for you as much as you consume. But if you kill all the people for me, I will have no place to give it to you.
Go and make up for it. You are absolutely not allowed to fight hand-to-hand combat or fight with a bayonet."
"Don't say that the little devils have a military advantage now. Even if we don't have a military advantage, we are no match for them in hand-to-hand combat. It's not worth sacrificing a few lives in exchange for one of theirs. Don't be petty, at the critical moment
You must know the trade-offs. Every soldier is important now."
"Don't leave those directional mines left. Since the safety of that thing has been unscrewed, it must be used. Once a directional mine is used, it is equipped with a heavy machine gun. I will leave you with an engineer squad, but
Don't use them on the battlefield. The engineer squad I left for you is to lay a minefield behind you to cover your retreat."
The leader of the Third Regiment listened attentively to Lin Zhiqiang's instructions. The political commissar of the Third Regiment over there, although he had not spoken, took a pen and wrote down Lin Zhiqiang's instructions one by one. Both of them were very attentive.
There was no longer any sign of disapproval of the chief of staff's words before the last battle.
But after Lin Zhiqiang finished speaking, the commander of the third regiment scratched his head and said: "Chief of Staff, there is one thing that I still don't understand. We also have artillery, why don't we organize artillery counterattacks? Even if we provide some fire support to the front, it can be a big blow.
It will greatly reduce their pressure. We can't have the infantry struggling to support them in the front, and the artillery just watch from the back."
Hearing the doubts of the third regiment commander, Lin Zhiqiang shook his head and said: "Apart from mortars and rapid-fire cannons, the only ones we have that have a relatively large range are one mountain cannon battery and four mountain cannons. Judging from the current intensity of the enemy's shelling
, there is at least one artillery brigade with more than ten artillery pieces. With the tactical training of the Japanese artillery, once we fire the artillery here, our position can be locked over there."
"In a few minutes, the Japanese's counterattack will wipe out our artillery. Before the critical moment is reached, we have lost the most important firepower. When it is needed most, there will be no artillery cover.
, I am afraid that it will be difficult for us to withstand the offensive of the Japanese and puppet troops, so now is not the time to use these artillery. When it is time to use them, I will use them."
After saying these words, Lin Zhiqiang returned to the back to deploy the next battle. When he was about to leave, he remembered something and turned around and said: "The phone lines between you and the front line must be smooth. Don't be too old.
Pointing at the correspondent, the Japanese artillery fire is so fierce and the offensive is so fierce, how many correspondents do you have enough to consume?"
"Also, your radio station must keep in touch with the brigade headquarters and report any situation in a timely manner. Your regiment headquarters should also pay more attention to safety. Don't let the Japanese infiltrate and take over your regiment headquarters.
Also, the command positions of you and the political commissar should be separated. Even if one is knocked out, the command can be guaranteed to be uninterrupted."
After explaining this, Lin Zhiqiang, who was about to return to the command post to deploy follow-up operations, looked at the time on his wrist, then raised his head and looked at the serious-looking commander of the third regiment and the political commissar in front of him, as well as the forward positions in front of which were undergoing fierce battles.
, hesitated for a moment before saying: "Compared to the enemy in front of you, the strength of these three companies on hand is too small. It is late at night and there are many wolves, so you must be more careful here."
Hearing Lin Zhiqiang's final and cautious explanation, the leader and political commissar of the third regiment nodded slightly and said in unison: "Chief of Staff, please rest assured that we will definitely stick to your request for four hours. You should also be more careful.
If the Japanese and puppet troops are unable to achieve a breakthrough here, we are worried that they will find another breakthrough."
"You deployed the remaining troops in the second-line position. There are too few troops around you now. If the Japanese and puppet troops use small units to penetrate and bypass our defense line, the brigade headquarters will be in danger. I wonder if it can be done from the second-line position.
Withdraw a company and use it to guard the brigade headquarters?"
Regarding the worries of the third regiment commander, Lin Zhiqiang smiled and shook his head and said: "That's no need. As long as the brigade commander and political commissar find an opportunity to fight behind their backs, the Japanese will probably not have the heart to sneak attack on me.
As long as you are careful, it will be fine. Don't place the command post too far forward, and the radio antenna must be well hidden. Don't expose the location of the command post just because you are not careful."
After finishing speaking, Lin Zhiqiang took the reins of his horse from the guard without any hesitation, got on his horse, and galloped towards the brigade headquarters with the only two guards around him. The battle of Daijiadian was just the beginning of the entire battle.
At the beginning, there were many things that needed to be done, and he couldn't just stay in one position.
Currently, there are only two companies of troops on the Daijiadian frontline blocking position. With such a small number of troops, even if there are simple fortifications to rely on, if the difference in strength is too great, can they hold on to the four companies according to their own requirements?
As a child, he didn't have much confidence in his heart.
In fact, in this battle, Lin Zhiqiang had no better way because of the huge disparity in strength. The only choice he could make was to adopt mobile defense tactics to delay as many Japanese and puppet offensives as possible.
Buy time for follow-up troop reinforcements.
Now that the battle has begun, the headquarters will definitely mobilize troops to quickly reinforce the north of the paddock. In the southeast of the paddock, there is a multi-brigade force in Longhua and Ningcheng. As long as you can buy enough time for the headquarters to gather troops
, with the commander's ability, this battle is likely to completely solve the problem in Jehol. But the key lies in whether he can buy more time for the headquarters.
Riding on a horse, he skillfully manipulated his batch of Japanese war horses that the commander gave to him before setting off from Jidong. The 129th Division captured the Japanese war horses during the anti-mopping battle in the Taihang Mountains. After running out of the range of the Japanese artillery, Lin Zhiqiang turned around.
He raised his binoculars and looked at the front line of Daijiadian, which was still covered by artillery fire, but felt a little strange in his heart as to why the anti-coalition response troops hadn't arrived yet.
From West Ujimqin Banner to Paddock, there is the so-called National Defense Readiness Highway built by the Kwantung Army. Although the road condition is a little bad, there has been no rain in the entire Western Manchuria area recently. The response troops are all mechanized troops, and there are no large vehicles along the way.
The enemy's situation. The small group of Japanese and puppet troops were not their opponents at all, and could not bring them too much trouble.
But what happened that prevented them from reaching the paddock even after three days? Could it be that the Japanese and puppet troops in Chahar were dispatched? Unless it was the main force of the Japanese and puppet troops in Duolun.
Otherwise, judging from the strength of the Japanese and puppet troops along the way, there is really no one who can cause them much trouble.