Hearing Wang Xiaoming point the finger at himself, Li Mingrui took the lead with a wry smile and said: "Commander Wang, my direct reconnaissance brigade only has a few people. Although the battles of Hutou and Hormozin were victorious, the casualties reached Nearly half. You also know how difficult it is to select our small number of people. It is not as easy to replenish as ordinary troops. If they are all exhausted, there will be no way to replenish them in a short time."
"Besides, the Japanese army in Hutou Fortress was alone and trapped in the siege. The 11th Division and the 29th Division each detached part of the main force, leaving only a thousand soldiers and many people. Coupled with the solidity of Hutou Fortress Not bad, but its scale is much smaller than the Dongning Fortress. Although it has five hills, its main position only covers three hills."
"We adopted the tactic of not occupying its surface fortifications, but infiltrating it in a small area through multiple channels. We first captured the entrances to each fortress and the connecting sections of its various fortification groups, and then used the tactics of covering up the development of the interior to seize the hills one by one. They also used anti-aircraft machine guns and machine guns to block their reinforcement routes. It took nearly half a month of hard work to capture the Tiger Head Fortress Group.
"As for the Hormozin Fortress and the Fabila Fortress Group, one has a column and a main force group to cooperate, and adopts a front-to-back attack tactic. The other has just started to be built, and it is just to rescue the workers. But now this Dongning In the fortress group, not counting the so-called border guards of the Japanese army, there are only two regular regiments."
"The few people I have on hand, no matter how powerful they are, can't be just three heads and six arms. Judging from the current strength of the reconnaissance brigade, we can only provide artillery guidance or deal with one of the fortification groups. If the reconnaissance brigade is the main force, I am afraid that the reconnaissance brigade will Even if the entire brigade is filled in, the entire fortress group cannot be scooped out."
After Li Mingrui finished speaking, Xia Boxun, who had never put down his telescope, turned his head and said: "Two commanders, judging from the Japanese fortifications that are only exposed on the surface, the bullet resistance level of the main fortification groups here is at least about one ton. We originally The few super bombs produced have already consumed their embers after completing the bombing of the Changshan position to be dropped on Lumingtai. There are no large-yield bombs, and ordinary bombs of fifty, one hundred kilograms, or even five hundred kilograms are not even close. It doesn’t even count.”
After Xia Boxun and Li Mingrui finished speaking, the scene of this impromptu combat meeting seemed somewhat deserted. After a long silence, Du Kaishan took off his hat and threw it on the map. He looked at several old comrades and said, "What should we do? Yes. Should we try to find out first, or should we report the actual situation to the headquarters and let No. 1 find a solution?"
Hearing this, Huang Yuqing shook his head: "Lao Du, we haven't started fighting here yet, so we asked for help from the headquarters. Does it show that we are incompetent or something? I wonder if this means attacking its outer positions first and completely tearing apart its defensive zone. After breaking up, then adopt siege tactics on several of its position groups?"
"We have now captured various munitions warehouses of the Japanese army on the Daduchuan front line. The military warehouses used by the Japanese army for the Dongning Fortress Group were either captured by us or blown up or burned by them. Now the entire Dongning Fortress Groups of Japanese troops faced a shortage of food."
"Without the support of food and water, I don't think they can survive for a long time. Instead of fighting head-on, it is better to surround them first and force them to come out for a decisive battle. As long as we can force them out of the fortress group, we will fight in the next field battle." There is nothing to worry about. Even with artillery fire and aerial bombardment, we can annihilate them on the ground."
Regarding the siege tactics proposed by Huang Yuqing, Du Kaishan shook his head and said: "Old Huang, I'm afraid the siege tactics won't have much effect on this Dongning fortress group. This is the largest fortress group built by the entire Japanese army on the Manchurian-Soviet border. Not only were a large number of warehouses built on the outside, but a considerable amount of food and ammunition were also stored inside each fortress."
"Through interrogation of prisoners of war, we now know that the Japanese army has stored enough food for half a year in each fortress group, as well as a large amount of ammunition. Although the number of artillery shells is not too many, it is still about three bases. Inside each fortress , some have separate water sources, and some have large reservoirs. Besieging them will have no effect at all in a short period of time."
"If we simply adopt siege tactics, these Japanese soldiers will not starve to death even if they do not come out for a year. And we cannot involve the two main columns in this place. Not only will the headquarters not allow or agree, but we will also We can’t afford to waste this time and energy.”
"For us now, except that we can choose to attack from the rear where its firepower is relatively weak, we don't even know the structure and direction of the Dongning fortress group. In this battle, if we fight hard, we will not be able to do it at all. It's so easy to chew bones. And it's so far away from the Manchurian-Soviet border that we can't hit the Soviet Union on the other side. Grandma, the current situation is really disturbing. We are now facing a whole-body It's a hedgehog with thorns. If you want to eat it, you don't know where to eat it."
Wang Xiaoming heard this and said: "Old Du, Lao Huang is right. We have not started fighting yet, but it is a bit too much to ask for support from the headquarters. I suggest we fight first and concentrate our forces to clear out the small surrounding areas first." The fortification group. In other words, we first knock out the Yama Palace and the covering fire points on the front line of Miaogou."
"Mainly the relatively isolated 409 Highlands, Beitian Mountain, the small fortress group along the Demaru Mountain line, as well as the Triangle Mountain, the commanding heights of the entire Dongning fortress group, and the relatively isolated Madashan Fortress. Then we will concentrate our troops and firepower to attack them. Xunshan, Shenghongshan and Chaorishan are three fortress groups that mainly support each other."
"I see this, Lao Du, let us divide the work. Your three columns will attack from north to south, from the Palace of Hell in the north of Suiyang to the south. First capture the 409 Highlands and the North Tianshan and Dewan Mountain fortresses. In addition to using a force to block the Sanchakou and block the Japanese reinforcements, my second column attacked directly from the center of Mada Mountain and the connected Triangle Mountain."
"In this way, we can first cut off its wings, that is, the peripheral covering fire, and isolate its main permanent fortification group. We will first scoop out the small fortifications and then finalize them with a hammer. Of course, the Japanese army will not sit back and watch us reduce their peripheral fortifications bit by bit. Once they are cleared, troops will inevitably be dispatched to fight back. We just took advantage of this opportunity and tried our best to eliminate them in the field."
"And as long as we scoop up the 409 Highlands and Mada Mountain, we will not only control the commanding heights of the entire Dongning fortress group, but also drive a wedge inside it. At the same time, Lao Ma will command its heavy artillery group and attack the various Japanese fortress groups. The joints were blocked by fire. Lao Xia's aviation must control the movement of Japanese troops on the surface."
Having said this, Wang Xiaoming paused and said: "I know that the general fortifications of the Japanese fortresses can protect against direct hits from 300mm heavy artillery, but the communication lines between their various fortresses cannot withstand direct hits from large-caliber artillery. I want to use the 122 rocket launchers and the 155 heavy artillery regiment allocated by the headquarters to form a firepower network to cooperate with the aviation force to block the Japanese communication lines on the surface."
"Lao Ma commanded the 240mm cannon group and the 300mm fortress artillery group, and directly bombarded the joints of the Japanese army's various hilltops. The heavy artillery fortifications and main bunkers on the top of Guizi Mountain can prevent the 300mm artillery shells from hitting, but I think Their underground transportation lines are not that strong."
"There is also aviation. Although we no longer have heavy bombs, we cannot directly and effectively destroy the Japanese fortification groups. But we can use new incendiary bombs to cut off the Japanese army's external activities between the various fortification groups. But before the attack, the old Xia, please send a plane over, and Lao Du and I will take a closer look at the structure of the entire fortress group from high altitude."
At this point, Wang Xiaoming looked at Li Mingrui and said: "Old Li, your direct reconnaissance brigade still needs to infiltrate. But don't do it directly. There are several main tasks. The first is to identify the Japanese ground firepower points as much as possible before the attack. The distribution of Japanese minefields and their approximate firepower points.”
"In addition, we need to rescue the workers trapped inside and cut off the power supply to each fortification group, and we must blow up their water sources. People can survive for seven days without food, but they cannot survive even three days without water. And there are Try your best to blow up their external vents after Lao Du and I take action."
"We adopted the tactic of attacking from the outside and pressing in from the inside. We used the main force to attack the surrounding fortifications and several commanding heights, forcing the Japanese army to come out to fight for it. At the same time, Lao Xia's aviation force used internal penetration to blow up the water sources that they depended on for survival. I don’t think the Japanese would put all their ammunition depots in fortifications. They also have to consider what happens to the ammunition after it explodes. They must have secret military depots between various fortification groups, but we don’t know about it now.”
"After Lao Li's direct reconnaissance brigade infiltrates, they must also find ways to find their secret warehouses. If there is a chance, try every means to blow them up. This is Lao Li's strength. You can attack the Tiger Head Fortress Group alone. With the battle examples and the experience of cooperating with the First Column to scoop out the Hormozin Fortress Group, I think there shouldn’t be any big problems.”
After Du Kaishan heard Wang Xiaoming's plan, he pondered for a moment and said with admiration: "Old Wang, you are better than me. Have you ever thought about these things? You have eaten a lot of similar fortifications than me. People still know it clearly. If it’s okay, just follow your plan and try it for a few days.”
"However, Lao Wang, your troops are inexperienced in a tough battle like this. We will not fight for the time being today, and each department will seize the time to familiarize itself with the terrain. I will transfer you a regiment, four staff officers and twelve people who have participated in the capture of Miaoling. Battalion commander of Lumingtai Fortress Group."
"We don't have any experience in attacking these bastard shells. It's either the cannonball pile or the human pile. We don't have that much money to scoop up the cannonball pile. We can't do that stupid thing to scoop up the human pile. So we must make more preparations. , It’s absolutely not possible to fight head-on. Let’s take a day off, exchange experiences, and wait until tomorrow to start.”
"Anyway, the 12th Japanese Division and the entire Dongning Fortress Group have now been cut off from the Japanese army in Hunchun, so we are not afraid of them escaping. However, all artillery positions at night, especially the heavy artillery position in Lao Ma, must be well guarded. .This place is almost hollowed out by the devils. Only the devils know how far they have built the internal fortifications. Let’s not let people come out of the ground or the mountains in the middle of the night and touch the night snails.”
"I once suffered a big loss when I attacked the Suifenhe fortress group. In the middle of the night, a little Jaap came out of the ground and knocked out half of my artillery battalion and an automobile company. If the security troops hadn't reacted quickly, I would have been killed. If it's not good, even my headquarters will be taken away."
"Grandma, no one thought that the Japs would come out from a place seven or eight miles away from their main fortifications. Later, it was found out that one of their underground passages was right under our feet. When we were building artillery positions and supply points, , Use pliers to explore the ground carefully. If it doesn’t work, use explosives to knock the mountain and shake the tiger."