After a brief conversation, the deputy minister shut his mouth and said nothing. Yang Jicai did not speak either, but carefully read the current battle situation report on the Cheorwon front line. Although the Junkers 52 transport plane was flying at a high speed
It's not fast, but this road has an end after all.
As for the deputy minister's words, he listened and understood. The deputy minister of the cadre department was telling himself almost bluntly that he went to Cheorwon battlefield not to pick peaches, but to put out fires.
Team members. It doesn't matter to Yang Jicai that he is just a firefighter, but he needs to think carefully about how to break the previous deadlock after he is in place. The Japanese army's tactics have changed drastically on the Cheorwon battlefield, and it is a battle situation that is not easy to deal with.
Just when Yang Jicai was constantly thinking about how to make tactical adjustments to the current stalemate, the aircraft had already landed directly at a distance of 20 kilometers from Cheorwon with its excellent simple airport take-off and landing capabilities.
For more than 10 kilometers, a section of a simple road was temporarily converted into a field airport.
When Yang Jicai got off the plane, he was shocked to find that Du Kaishan was actually waiting for him at the airport. After meeting, Du Kaishan did not hesitate and dragged him directly into his jeep. On the way, he explained the current war situation to him.
Report. As for convening a division-wide cadre meeting to announce Yang Jicai's transfer order, this meeting could not be held because the leaders and political commissars of the two main attack groups were at the forefront.
When the deputy director of the cadre department saw this situation, he simply announced the order from his superiors to Du Kaishan and the political commissar and chief of staff of the 17th Division who stayed behind at the division headquarters, and then took the plane back to Harbin.
Even the invitation from the political commissar of the 17th Division to stay for dinner was rejected with a smile.
After arriving at Higashimaku-ri, he noticed that the mood in the 17th Division was low. He knew that a new division commander had been sacrificed and that the front line was in a stalemate. The political commissar in front of him was probably also worried.
He wanted to have dinner with him, so he just smiled and talked about the meal and waited for the 17th Division to return in triumph. He would come over to disturb them.
However, after sitting on the bench last year, Du Kaishan has matured a lot. In addition, the deputy minister of the cadre department is very knowledgeable, which makes him very suitable. So when the deputy minister of the cadre department said goodbye,
The director of the Political Department of the 17th Division was specially sent to see him off.
Although Du Kaishan's rank is higher than the ministers and political commissars of the Cadre Department, and his level is not under the control of the Cadre Department. After all, the Cadre Department is in charge of cadres above the division level in the entire army. If someone needs to be poached one day, he still has to do it.
It is much better to deal with these people now than to burn incense later. So this time Du Kaishan was very wise and made a smooth favor.
For Du Kaishan, now that the order has been announced, it is equivalent to Yang Jicai's official arrival. After everything that should be explained, Du Kaishan did not hesitate and directly asked Yang Jicai what he thought or what he had in mind.
Ways to solve problems.
After Ma Chunsheng's death, Du Kaishan personally took over the task for two days. Only then did he feel that Lao Ma's previous report still reported good news but not bad news. In this battle, the Japanese troops in the direction of Tieyuan not only changed their original defensive tactics.
It's so simple, but it has completely changed the entire defensive tactics.
The Japanese army turned the entire mountainous area north of Cheorwon into positions, turning every hilltop, every highland, and even larger slopes into positions. At the same time, the ridges were used as connecting lines to connect these points.
.With the main peak of the defense zone as the core fortification, each defense zone has been turned into a super fortress.
Of course, it is impossible for the Japanese army to deploy enough troops on every hilltop. If that were the case, let alone the direction of Jinhua, they would not be able to fill a division in the Cheorwon direction alone. However, the Japanese army adopted a combination of points and lines to use points.
Leading the line, only one squad, or even one combat team, was deployed on every hilltop or high ground.
However, corresponding reserves are maintained at each commanding height. No matter which point the attacking troops choose, it is like entering an ant's nest. As soon as the troops are deployed, they will encounter enemy fire suppression whether from the front or the side.
The Japanese defense forces fought for every inch of ground under the cover of firepower from various points around them and from the commanding heights behind them.
When the defenders are about to be wiped out and the attacking troops suffer casualties or become exhausted, the enemy reserves deployed at various commanding heights immediately launch a counterattack from a commanding height. Moreover, there are not many troops involved in the counterattack, often only half of them.
A small team. But just half of the team makes people feel like they have a lump in their throats.
Mountain offensive operations are subject to terrain restrictions, and there are too many points. In fact, there are not even many times when each point can dispatch a company of troops. The two sides often fight in platoons. Your attacking troops face the Japanese army.
It is impossible to resist tenaciously without casualties.
By the time you take over the high ground and have yet to gain a foothold and replenish your casualties, the Japanese counterattack forces have already arrived. Although the number of troops is not large, it is often difficult for your remaining troops to parry, and may even be defeated by the Japanese counterattack forces.
Fight everything. Once these Japanese counterattack troops recapture the high ground, they will switch to defense on the spot, and the cycle will begin again.
Even if the lost high ground cannot be regained for the time being, the Japanese army will only use fire control during the day and suppress the follow-up troops with deep artillery fire. They will wait until the night to defend the troops because the follow-up troops cannot come up and they themselves suffered too many casualties in the continuous operations during the day.
Weakened by its artillery fire, they turned to counterattack across the board.
The Japanese army built a large number of artillery defense holes and troop garrison holes at various points and main positions. Even the artillery fire blockade can only temporarily affect the Japanese army's counterattack. However, it is difficult to cause excessive damage to the Japanese army's counterattack troops.
.The Japanese army even built military garrison caves a few hundred meters away from those points, where the counterattack troops were scheduled to hide.
If you want to ignore both wings and attack the commanding heights in the area, the firepower around the enemy will either cut off your retreat or launch a firepower attack from the flanks, causing the attacking troops to be attacked from both sides and even face a dilemma. Most of them
casualties all occurred under such circumstances.
However, although the Japanese army changed their tactics, they did not just defend passively. In addition to continuous tactical counterattacks at night, some highlands that were really difficult to defend were given up after a certain amount of damage to the anti-alliance attacking troops.
Firepower to control.
Faced with this situation, even Du Kaishan couldn't help but cursed: "You're an immortal." Although Ma Chunsheng had continuously reported the battle situation before, Du Kaishan could not only focus on the battlefield of Tiewuan for a long time.
.Only when he temporarily took over the command did he understand why Lao Ma was so anxious.
Judging from the current progress of the war, even if the initial goal is achieved, it will not be possible for a month. If we take Cheolwon completely and push the front line to Yeoncheon, we don't know how long it will take to wait until the year of the monkey. When did the little devil change his position?
During defensive operations, he always had a hard-fighting temperament, which led him to such a trick.
Du Kaishan is not the kind of person who doesn't care about the front line. He placed his headquarters not far from Cheorwon, which means that he attaches great importance to this battle. But as the commander of the North Korean cluster, his
It is impossible to focus on only one battlefield. The most important thing is that he is not the kind of commander who constantly gives instructions to subordinate commanders and specific commands.
Yang Zhen has repeatedly emphasized that senior commanders should know what they should do when they get to the battlefield. Don't always leapfrog the command and think that they have grasped everything comprehensively. In fact, their thoughts are not used in the right place. As Yang Zhen single-handedly led
Du Kaishan has done a good job as a cadre. The most important thing is that he himself is not the kind of person who likes to waste time on details.
As a senior commander, he only looks to the direct commander for problems on the battlefield. Therefore, although he was not very satisfied with Ma Chunsheng's progress before, he was still relatively hands-off. He focused more on the armored forces.
, advancing towards the Yeoncheon line.
And Ma Chunsheng is not the kind of person who complains at every turn. No matter what difficulties he encounters, he grits his teeth and perseveres. It was not until Ma Chunsheng died in the past few days and he temporarily took over the command that he finally figured out the overall tactics of the Japanese army.
But he was somewhat helpless against the Japanese tactics.
However, regarding Du Kaishan's urgency, Yang Jicai scratched his head and said with a bitter smile: "Commander Du, I understand your thoughts. But I have just arrived and my butt is not yet hot, so you have to let me think about it carefully. In this way, in two days
I will give you an answer within a few days. However, I have one request, which is to stop large-scale attacks on the entire front line from Cheeyuan to Jinhua for the past two days."
After Yang Jicai finished speaking, the headquarters of the 17th Division, which had been somewhat noisy, suddenly fell silent. Everyone was looking at the young deputy commander. Yang Jicai pretended not to notice the suspicious glances from around him and just looked at him lightly.
Said: "Commander Du, I have to go to the forward position to take a look, so that I can truly control the overall situation."
"And when I say pause the attack, I don't mean to stop all attacks. If the current situation does not change in a short time and continues to be maintained, it won't be long before the Seventeenth Division is exhausted. Even if it is fought hard, this
The troops will also be severely damaged. What I mean is to change the current all-front attack method and change the attack to the front east of Cheorwon."
"At the same time, stop the company-level attack scale and change it to squad-level harassment attack. Let me settle down and have a good feel for the Japanese spider web tactics, and then consider how to adjust the tactics. And temporarily stop the full-line attack, we can also use it
At this time, adjust and enrich the organization of the troops."
"And our casualties are not light, but according to my understanding of the battle situation, the Japanese army's casualties are probably not light. I estimate that if the fight continues like this, they will not be able to support it. We have to adjust our tactics and organization, even if the Japanese army does not adjust
Tactics, but they also adjust their organization. I am not afraid of the Japanese army adjusting, I am afraid that they will not adjust. The tighter they tighten, the greater our chances will be."
Having said this, Yang Jicai looked at Du Kaishan and said: "Commander Du, since you asked me to take over the front-line command of the Tieyuan battlefield, you must give me these two days. There are some things that I don't see with my own eyes. I just listen to what others say.
, I can’t make such a hasty decision. As for the reason, I don’t think I, a junior like me, need to explain it.”
After listening to Yang Jicai's words, Du Kaishan hesitated for a long time before finally making up his mind: "Okay, I'll give you these two days. But you kid, remember, the Tieyuan battlefield is just a piece of red-hot charcoal, you kid
No matter what method you use, you have to swallow it even if you bite the bullet."
"On the surface, the Cheorwon battlefield seems to be just a local battle, and it can even be said that it is not even a scale of battle. But no matter what the headquarters' next intention is for the Korean battlefield, Cheorwon must be taken down, and this blockage must be cleared.
.I am transferring you to the 17th Division at this time to let you carry heavy burdens, not to pick peaches."