The so-called reverse slope refers to the side of the hillside facing away from the enemy and facing us in mountain offensive and defensive battles. This is a term in military topography and plays an important role in military affairs.
The use of anti-slope generally refers to the use of the enemy's artillery blind spots on the anti-slope. Direct-aimed artillery fire is a decoration for the anti-slope. There are many blind spots for the shells that hit the anti-slope, such as: constructing excavated shooting holes under the large rocks on the anti-slope.
Fortifications, garrison holes, and covered trenches basically prevent personnel from being exposed to the open air.
As a result, the damage done by enemy aircraft and enemy artillery fire was much reduced.
Another use of the anti-slope position is to prevent the enemy from taking the rear route to encircle you. For example, if there are two mountains one behind the other, in the past the enemy used artillery fire to suppress the front mountain so that you could not move. Even if you could not retreat, there was nothing you could do.
To support the back mountain, he will concentrate his forces to occupy the back mountain and cut off your back road. The people in the front mountain will basically die, the position cannot be defended, and the people are basically dead.
But if you build a defensive position on the reverse slope of the front mountain, and you want to do this, first of all, your artillery fire or aircraft will not be able to suppress the people in the front mountain. Our main position is facing the back mountain. If you attack the back mountain, OK, take it.
Your back is completely exposed to the muzzle of my front mountain gun. This is called shooting backwards.
Of course, the anti-slope position is not impeccable. The key lies in the control of the ridge. With the top of the mountain as a fixed point, the outline of the top of the mountain that can be seen from both sides is called the ridge.
Whoever occupies the ridge has the initiative. If the enemy occupies the ridge, he can modify his mortars and knock out your firepower points one by one, leaving you with no power to fight back. He can even adjust his mortars.
A few direct-aimed artillery guns will come up, a large-caliber machine gun will seal you in the bunker to cover his flamethrowers, and the demolition crew will come up to kill you.
The famous Battle of the Five Sacred Mountains and the tunnel defensive battle on Shangganling are actually classic anti-slope defensive battles. Our army directs anti-slope artillery fire support through several observation posts set up on the ridge and quickly mobilizes troops to enter the ridge.
Line defense.
The American army also successfully attacked the anti-slope position. When our army's edge was lost, they pounced on it with all their strength at an extremely fast speed, leaving our army with no time to warn and deploy troops to occupy the position, and were directly blocked in the tunnel.
, because the entrance to the tunnel is so narrow that the troops cannot be deployed, two guns can seal your entire company in the tunnel. Even if the tunnel has a few turns and a few more openings, they can't eat you for a while, but they can still kill you.
Therefore, the control of the ridgeline is the focus of competition between the two armies in anti-slope operations, and it is also an important battlefield for the commanders of both sides to battle their wits and courage.
During the heavy artillery attack and aircraft bombing before the enemy attacks, the defenders only place a small number of observation posts hidden in strong and concealed fortifications on the ridge. When the enemy stops the bombardment and sends infantry to attack, the observation posts will notify our artillery to carry out the attack.
Strike, while our troops hidden on the reverse slope quickly entered the ridge defensive position through the communication trenches and through-hole tunnels to block the enemy.
Even if the enemy does not hesitate to use heavy firepower to support him, we can temporarily give up the surface position on the top of the mountain, and wait until the enemy's artillery and aircraft are of no use at night, and launch a night attack from the reverse slope with a strong reserve force.
Attack and regain control of the ridge.
In short, the Battle of Shangganling is simply a textbook offensive and defensive battle of anti-slope positions. It tells us that the most important principle is how important it is to build anti-slope positions in mountain defensive battles.
The Great Wall War of Resistance that Zhou Wen knew was actually a typical mountain offensive and defensive war. The Chinese army relied on various dangerous passes of the Great Wall to defend from a high position. It was only because the strategic thinking was too conservative and the tactics were backward that it led to the final defeat.
So he had already had the officers and soldiers of the second detachment of the mercenary regiment conduct soil work training for several months. Later, he also vigorously promoted this kind of tactics and training in Zhao Changshu's model brigade. He wanted to use the knowledge and tactics brought by later generations.
, making the little Japs pay a painful and huge price in the Great Wall War of Resistance.
Now the time has come to the beginning of December 1932, and the training of the Model Brigade is coming to an end.
For the more than 9,000 officers and soldiers of the Model Brigade, the commander-in-chief has spent a lot of money. Not only did he meet all Zhou Wen's original requirements for weapons and equipment, but he also purchased helmets and gas masks from Germany through Zhou Wen's relationship, basically with the mercenaries.
The preparations of the second unit of the regiment are similar. It can be said that the model brigade is the first fully-organized unit in China equipped with German-style steel helmets, and it is also the most well-equipped unit.
You must know that the Central Army's German Arms Division is still in the early stages of preparation. Not to mention the helmets, even the weapons are still made in Hanyang, which is incomparable with the Model Brigade.
Today is a test of the recent training of the model brigade. The first and second regiments of the model brigade conducted an offensive and defensive confrontation drill in Xifangshan. The focus is not on the final attack and defense, but on testing the troop assembly speed, transportation capabilities, and armed marching in the early stages of the battle.
and the coordination of various arms.
This is only the first stage of the exercise. The second stage of the exercise is for the two regiments to join forces to attack the Xiaodongshan anti-slope position defended by the second detachment of the mercenary regiment. These future friendly forces should be allowed to truly experience what counterattack is.
Inclined attack and defense, so that this tactic can be better used.
Now Zhou Wen has obtained the military map of the north from the commander, but there is no detailed map of the front line of the Great Wall.
Therefore, after this exercise, he planned to take people to the Lengkou area of the Great Wall for an on-the-spot investigation. He wanted to draw a terrain map as detailed as possible, and then plan the upcoming battle based on the terrain of Lengkou. This is the goal of the time traveler.
Advantage, and Zhou Wen wants to infinitely amplify this advantage, while giving a devastating blow to the enemy, while also minimizing the losses of the mercenary regiment and model brigade.
You must know that in history, the 139th Division of the 32nd Army that defended Lengkou only had three regiments and more than 5,000 people. Although the soldiers were not afraid of powerful enemies and fought bravely, due to the small number of troops and crude weapons, they spent 4,000
After the sacrifice of others, they had to retreat.
Zhou Wen, on the other hand, wanted to keep his cool while also reducing his own casualties. In addition to the Model Brigade being more powerful and more numerous than the 139th Division, the most critical factor was the anti-slope tactics.
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In the evening, the exercise was over. Zhao Changshu, commander of the model brigade, wearing a woolen coat and riding a big white horse, rushed to Zhou Wen's headquarters in Xiaodong Mountain.
As soon as he came in, he shouted loudly: "Hey, junior fellow student, this reverse slope fortification really opened my eyes, Lao Zhao. I have deduced it on the map many times before, and I understand the principle, but after applying it in practice, I discovered that there is another
There is a mystery, do you know the result of today's exercise?"
Zhou Wen now has all kinds of communication equipment, how could he not know the results of the exercise, but he would not spoil the senior's interest, so he asked wisely: "What was the result?"
