The generals all have a consensus that if the attack time is to be set in October, the attack day should be sooner rather than later. In this case, the first Sunday in October, which is October 4th, will be the best day.
choose.
"In the early morning of October 4th," Tang Yunsheng said, "Generally speaking, the early morning is the best time to launch an attack. We should also set the attack time in the early morning of the 4th. At present, it seems that between three and five o'clock in the morning
, will be the best choice. The specific points will be decided a few days before the adjacent attack, based on the weather at the time, the enemy's defense situation and other factors."
The generals nodded. Xiang Xiaoqiang leaned slightly to the left and right, and said to Tang Yunsheng:
"Tang Gong, gentlemen, in view of the top secret nature of the specific attack time, I propose that from today until the moment of the attack, no matter what our phone calls, telegrams, or paper documents, there should be no words like 'October 4th' or 'three in the morning'.
Words like '0', four o'clock in the morning'. I suggest using two code names to express these two times."
Tang Yunsheng nodded, looked at everyone, and then at Zhang Zhaoxian:
"What do you think, Mr. Ming?"
Zhang Zhao nodded and said with a smile:
"What Tingzhi said is very important...Does Tingzhi have any good suggestions?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang glanced at the crowd and said with a smile:
"Students don't have any good suggestions...but we can consider using specific abbreviations of internationally used military terms, that is, d-day, and h-hour."
He paused and continued:
"D-day is the abbreviation of 'Operation Start Scheduled Day' in English. Similarly, h-hour stands for 'Operation Start Scheduled Time'. D-3 is the three days before the attack. h+2 is the start of the attack.
The next two hours. This is both convenient and confidential. We don’t even need to know what day d is and what time h is, we can still use these two code names in the telegram documents.”
Zhang Zhao looked at the crowd first and said with a smile:
"What do you think?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang said that this is an "international common military terminology abbreviation", but in fact it is just a terminology commonly used in the British and American armies. The most famous D-Day was June 6, 1944, when the Allied forces landed in Normandy. But at this time, "D-Day"
"" and "h hour" are still relatively unknown terms, even in the military community. From this point of view, the confidentiality function is better.
A few generals here thought, why do we Chinese use foreign terminology? In fact, the Ming Dynasty and Britain have been on good terms for so many years, and even the English military terminology has been "used". Others think it's nothing. Besides, now
Everyone knows that after the fortress exercise, Xiang Xiaoqiang has become the "favorite disciple" of the two chiefs of staff. As long as there are no big problems with Xiang Xiaoqiang's proposal, no one will object.
"Okay," Zhang Zhao nodded and smiled, "Then it's settled. From now on, we will use d day and h hour for attack time."
Tang Yunsheng continued:
"This is the battle plan that has been formulated as of today. Of course, this is not the final plan. It will need to be adjusted according to various situations in the next month or so. Basically it is like this -"
He came to the map stand, pulled out a full map of Jianghuai to North China, picked up the indicator stick, drew two circles on it, and said:
"It has been initially decided that a total of 155 army divisions will participate in the battle against the Qing Dynasty, with a strength of 2.3 million people. This includes the People's Guard division consisting of 5 armored divisions and 6 mechanized divisions, 44 motorized infantry divisions and 100 ordinary infantry divisions.
Army divisions composed of infantry divisions. It can be said that these 155 divisions are the most elite part of our Ming Dynasty ground forces. This time they are concentrated and used all in an effort to achieve the greatest results in the shortest time.
"These 155 divisions are organized into two army groups: the left army group and the right army group. The right army group consists of 90 divisions, including 3 armored divisions, 4 mechanized divisions and 25 motorized divisions.
The left army group consists of 65 divisions, including 2 armored divisions, 2 mechanized divisions and 19 motorized divisions.
"It can be seen from the force ratio that the right army group will be the main offensive wing. It will start from the eastern section of the Yangtze River defense line. The offensive front will be: Tongling in the west and Zhenjiang in the east. The offensive width is about 240 kilometers.
, on average each division is responsible for
The offensive width is 2.6 kilometers. The left army group will attack from the middle section of the Yangtze River defense line. The offensive front is: Xiangfan in the west and Wuhan line in the east. The offensive width is about 300 kilometers. The average offensive width of each division is about 4.6
kilometer.
"Between the Right Army Group and the Left Army Group is the Dabie Mountain, which is about 200 kilometers long. The Dabie Mountain is also part of our Yangtze River defense line, but it has been converted into a mountain defense line. Because the Dabie Mountain is in our hands, it is an important barrier for our defense line.
Therefore, the left army group does not need to cross the Yangtze River like the right army group does, but directly attacks from the land.
"The largest force of the Qing army is mainly placed in three places. The first is on the north side of the Yangtze River defense line, the second is in the Beijing-Tianjin area, and the third is in the north, on the Russian-Qing border. The primary task of our two army groups is to
On D-day, we broke through and then attacked the north of the Yangtze River defense line.
This part of the Qing army on the side will intersperse, divide, and encircle it, and annihilate it in a relatively short period of time. Once this step is successful, there will be no more people on the thousands of kilometers of great plains from the Jianghuai area to the Beijing-Tianjin area.
The Qing army formed a military advantage over us.
"The fastest way for the Qing army to reinforce is to use trains to transport troops south from the Jinpu Line. Our dive bombers will conduct concentrated bombing on the Jinpu Line, slowing down their troop deployment speed and minimizing the role of the railway in transporting troops.
.During this period, our right group
The army group will advance northward at the fastest speed, trying to advance to Xuzhou before the heavy reinforcements of the Qing army from Beijing and Tianjin arrive. It is expected to come into contact with the Qing army near Xuzhou and start the Battle of Xuzhou. This advance distance is about 280 kilometers.
It is expected to be completed within 20 days.
"The first phase mission of the right army group is: cross the Yangtze River, quickly advance 40-50 kilometers north, and then continue to advance north with the strength of 60 divisions, while the remaining 30 divisions turn to the west to attack, and the left
The army group formed a pincer offensive to encircle the Qing army between the two army groups, that is, the Qing army north of the Dabie Mountain defense line.
“The first phase mission of the Left Army Group is to cross the land defense line, advance 150 kilometers north in about 10-15 days, capture Nanyang, Zhumadian, and Xuchang, and then start battles in Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, and Luoyang.
This also serves the second phase of the mission of the left army group - to clear Guanzhong and open the door to Shanxi and Shaanxi."