After Du Zifu finished speaking, Lin Feng did not hesitate any longer: "Okay, just do as the political commissar said. The political commissar and I agree to your request, but if we don't win well, we will settle the score later. If we can't win Qingfeng Store on time, I don't want you.
Head, but military law is ruthless. Go back and prepare immediately. The flamethrower and explosives you want will be sent to you immediately."
Now that the division commander and political commissar had spoken out, Li He, who breathed a sigh of relief, did not continue to delay at the division headquarters. He immediately returned to his regiment headquarters and began deployment and preparation. However, after accepting the task, Li He was not in a hurry.
He launched an attack. Instead, he took several of his battalion commanders and carefully looked around the entire perimeter of Qingfeng Store before formulating a detailed battle plan.
He did not continue to use the north and south ends of Pinghan Road chosen by his brothers. There were also three blockade ditches built by the Japanese army around Qingfengdian. The only two channels were used as his breakthrough point. These two directions were the Pinghan-Han Railway passing through Qingfengdian.
The route is also the only two passages on the three blocked ditches outside Qingfeng Store.
The troops that launched the attack in advance chose these two openings, which although relatively narrow, had a relatively smooth frontal attack. They were also the only passages outside the entire Qingfeng Store that could be used for tanks to pass through. They chose these two openings as breakthrough points under the cover of tanks.
The North-South attack tactics tried to capture Qingfengdian in the shortest possible time.
However, the assault operations in these two directions were under the intensive cross-fire of the Japanese army and intercepted by a large number of cleverly designed bunkers. The multiple assaults paid a high price, but the progress was quite limited. However, although the brother troops
They failed to break into the town, but they also destroyed most of the Japanese fortifications that had been exposed at the two breaches.
But Li He did not choose these two. At present, it can be said that the Japanese army's firepower and fortification deployment are the weakest among the entire Qingfeng Store perimeter. Instead, he focused his attack on the entire Qingfeng Store battlefield. The Japanese perimeter has been exposed.
The east side with the densest concentration of bunkers.
Based on the previous attacks by the brothers' troops and his own observations, Li He found that the density of bunkers built by the Japanese army was very distinctive. On the entire Qingfengdian battlefield, the Japanese army set up the direction with the highest density of bunkers, not because they wanted to ensure
The Pinghan-Hankou Railway passes through, but the north and south directions of the passage are deliberately preserved.
The key deployment of the entire fortification group is in the east and west. Compared with the direction facing the west of the Taihang Mountains, the east direction facing the deep Jizhong Plain has more. In this direction, there are only three core fortifications.
, but there are a lot of quincunx-shaped positions, and there are especially many bunkers.
Obviously, the Japanese army took into account the Anti-Alliance's combat habits of being good at roundabouts. They believed that the safest places were also the easiest to be attacked by the Anti-Alliance roundabout troops, so they built more bunker groups in the east to prevent the Anti-Alliance.
The troops penetrated and stabbed oneself from behind.
However, although there are the largest number of bunker groups in this direction, Li He still chose this direction as his main attack. The reason is very simple. After the consecutive attacks by the brothers failed, and the Japanese army's three blockade trenches restricted the movement of the troops, especially the tanks.
movement.
The Japanese army believed that their next attack should be based on tanks. In order to capture Qingfengdian as soon as possible, the Japanese army would focus its defense on the north and south directions. Because there are only two directions, the north and south directions, because of the passage of the railway line.
The passage is preserved. Only these two directions can allow tanks to quickly break in.
At the same time, although the brotherly forces failed many assaults and failed to make decisive progress, most of the Japanese fortification groups in this direction were destroyed. The Japanese troops deployed in these two directions may also have suffered considerable losses. Already,
Unable to rebuild similar fortifications, they can only seize the time to repair the original fortifications and build temporary field fortifications. The Japanese army, which no longer has a group of solid fortifications to rely on, will definitely focus its defense forces on the north and south.
Therefore, after careful consideration, Li He decided to do the opposite. Even if all his tactical intentions were exposed, he still had to make a time difference. Even if the time difference was only half an hour, he would create a breakthrough perimeter for himself before the Japanese reinforcements arrived.
, it was enough time to find the Japanese communication trenches.
And after selecting the focus of the attack, he focused on several trenches dug by the Japanese army. Li He thought why it was necessary to break through these blockade trenches bit by bit from the ground before launching an attack? Continuous blasting could be used
The method was to blast open the soil layer between the Japanese blockade ditch and the communication trench, opening an offensive route for the troops.
The last blockade ditch is only more than ten meters away from the Japanese outer positions. Even some of the Japanese army's fortifications and bunkers are right on the edge of the last blockade ditch. From the previous battles between the brothers, the Japanese army basically did not mobilize.
Judging from the outcrops, they must have built at least semi-underground communication trenches between various core fortifications, including with the town.
As long as you open and capture a communication trench, even if you penetrate the Japanese army's position one company deep, the battle will be easy to fight. And even if you cannot use these communication trenches because the Japanese army blocked it first, you can at least block the gap between the Japanese army's internal and external lines.
To prevent the Japanese army from deploying troops from other directions to reinforce the defenders in the east.
The Japanese army had more firepower, and the brothers' troops suffered a lot in this regard. But the key to the failure of the brothers' troops was that they failed to form a situation of internal and external attacks. After opening the gap, they only rushed towards the gap,
But coordination in other directions was ignored.
At the same time, the troops that rushed in were too concentrated in the use of their forces. They could not be completely dispersed. They used squads and platoons as the organization and adopted penetrating attacks. This allowed those firepower points built by the Japanese army to be used calmly and calmly.
of assault troops from behind.
If you can infiltrate part of the troops and penetrate deep into the Japanese army's positions. Dare to disrupt the organization and attack point-to-point. And adopt internal and external cooperation tactics, there will be no problem in opening at least one or two gaps. As long as you can penetrate into the rear of the Japanese army, then
Any more questions?
After selecting the key direction of the attack, Li He immediately began to make arrangements. He opened the reinforced engineer battalion in the division, and in addition to retaining one company behind to open a channel for the tanks, he equipped each infantry company of the assault battalion with
A platoon also handed over half of the explosives on hand to the main attack battalion commander.
As for the tanks assigned to his superiors, according to the current situation, it is obvious that they will not be used until the peripheral battle is over, or at least until the passage is opened. Therefore, Li He did not immediately transfer the reinforcements to his tank troops. He left his superiors to
The tank force that came down was divided into three parts, with two tank companies each reinforcing an infantry company.
In the north and south directions, the Japanese army's anti-tank artillery fire range was beyond the range. In addition to bluffing, they used the direct firepower of the tank guns and cooperated with the artillery to implement fire coverage in the town. Once the fire started in the east, the Japanese army's main attention was attracted.
These two tank companies, in cooperation with the infantry, immediately and quickly attacked the Japanese troops in the town.
After the deployment, Li He placed his command post in the first Japanese blockade ditch captured by the brothers' troops, which was the gathering place for the second echelon, and it was less than a hundred meters away from the Japanese outer core position.
m. It can even be said that it is in a position where the Japanese mortars can easily reach it.
Putting his command post under the nose of the Japanese army was not because he was bold, but because he had developed this habit when he was a company commander. During the war, he must be with his brothers.
The command post must be in a place where the soldiers can see it as soon as they turn around. At the same time, placing the command post as far forward as possible will also help him grasp the development of the battle situation at the first time.
Despite his habit, Lin Feng, his division commander, has criticized him many times and clearly told him that he is now the leader of a regiment and should be responsible for the people of the regiment and the tasks he has undertaken.
If something unexpected happens to him as the regiment leader, he will be irresponsible to the entire unit.
But neither the division commander's severe criticism nor the political commissar's sincere words made him change this habit. The more critical the battle, the closer his command post is to the front. In his words, I want to let him get rid of this habit.
As soon as the brothers turned around, they saw me and saw their leader standing with them all the time.
However, he did not completely ignore everything, but divided his regiment command post into two parts. He brought a light command post to the front, while the political commissar and the deputy regiment commander were behind him, maintaining a distance of 200 meters.
distance. Once they make a mistake, the political commissar and deputy commander can take over the command, so that there will be no interruption in command.
However, in order to avoid interference in this battle, Li He repeatedly asked himself to formulate a battle plan, and even used his own head to guarantee it. However, Li He was still very calm and did not urge his subordinates to take action. Instead, he waited until all troops
After the movement was in place, the order to attack was given.
Li He could keep his composure, and opposite him, his opponent, Captain Nakahata Mamoru, captain of the Sixth Regiment of the Japanese Third Division, was naturally not a good person either. He was naturally quite concerned about the importance of Qingfeng Store in the current Baoding battlefield.
Although he had repelled many attacks by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, he also knew that Qingfeng Store was a place where the enemy was bound to capture.
After the enemy army on the opposite side was repelled multiple times, the rare tranquility on the battlefield suddenly made his heart skip a beat. He knew that this calm meant that the opponent must be re-adjusting their deployment, and it was a storm.
The last trace of calm before the attack. Either their next attack will not be launched, or once it is launched, the world will collapse.
Therefore, Senior Colonel Nakahata Mamoru was also constantly adjusting the deployment of troops and firepower based on his own casualties and the damage to previous fortifications to prepare for this storm. As for the loss of the first blockade ditch, it was after he
It was something that was expected. He had no hope of being able to hold all three blockade trenches. His focus was on the third and final blockade trench.
Colonel Nakahata Mamoru knew very well that the enemy had a large number of tanks fighting together, and the tactics of infantry-tank coordination were extremely proficient. Once they invaded the town of Qingfengdian and used the armor protection of the tanks to rampage, then he would be defending Qingfengdian.
The possibility is slim.
If he wanted to hold on for as long as possible, then defending the enemy outside the town was his only choice. With sufficient firepower guaranteed in depth, he still put the main force in the deployment of firepower and troops.
In the outer positions of the town, especially the various field fortifications within the last blockade trench.
Maximize the damage to the enemy's infantry and destroy the enemy's infantry-tank coordination tactics. In order to wait until the necessary contraction, the enemy's tanks can be brought in, and the narrow terrain in the town can be used to eliminate the enemy's tanks one by one. Do not fight.
If you drop the enemy's infantry and allow its tanks and infantry to break into the inner line at the same time, then there will be no other way to wait for you except the destruction of your entire army.