Since coming to this world, this is the rare time that Tu Mengben has suffered. The first time he was when Zhang Xueliang chose to evacuate from the Northeast in September 18th. Tu Mengben faced a huge choice at that time.

Either follow Zhang Xueliang, or take huge risks to resist the Japanese army on their own. If you follow Zhang Xueliang, this is undoubtedly the easiest way.

Because in history, General Zhang Xueliang had to be forced to go abroad, the power of the entire Northeast Army would be vacant. Tu Mengben had the opportunity to directly control the entire Northeast Army, which was more confident than directly using the Fourth Legion in his hands to face the Japanese army.

But Xiao Tu did not do this. He chose to reorganize his Fourth Legion and engage in his own war. At that time, he left the Northeast Army.

At the same time, he was also at the last point in his friendship with Zhang Xueliang. If he had failed at that time, at least he would not have involved Zhang Xueliang. The Northeast Army would have been able to become the foundation for Zhang Xueliang to establish himself.

The second dilemma was the issue of whether the National Defense Force entered the pass after the incident broke out in Fujian. The situation inside the pass was obviously no longer possible, but Chiang Zhongzheng still sternly refused the National Defense Force to enter the pass.

At that time, the tiger slaughtered faced two choices, regardless of entering the pass. This may lead to worse situations, and may also lead to a comprehensive anti-Japanese war and increase one's reputation.

Tuhu did not choose to enter the pass directly, but instead started a new war in North Korea. On the one hand, Japan had to mobilize troops to support North Korea and stop the invasion.

On the other hand, it will not completely rigidly make the relationship between the National Defense Forces and the Nanjing Government.

Now, the tigers were slaughtering again. The losses of the Fifth Army were shocking. This led to Yan Chenghan of the Second Legion having to force them to withdraw and repair them.

The entire Fifth Army was almost defeated, and two-thirds of the casualties were paid, and more than half of the regiment commanders took over the front line of positions at the cost of death.

I can't guarantee that if the Sixth Army was allowed to attack, how much would the loss be? Admittedly, the National Defense Forces are now very urgent.

The Japanese are increasing their actions in Southeast Asia, and even the Myanmar intelligence department has reported on the activities of the Japanese in the local area. I believe that Japan will make major moves in Myanmar, Vietnam and other places soon.

The Southwest Military Region was established for this purpose, to prevent where the Japanese attacked. The South China Military Region was to prevent the Japanese army from landing in the South China Region and assist the East China Military Region in regaining Zhejiang.

"Tell Ren Wenbin, I will give him three days to take down the second-tier position." After a long silence, he slaughtered the tiger in a suffocating atmosphere: "At the same time, the loss must be less than 10,000 people!"

Everyone lamented. This is simply an impossible task. The second-tier position is much harder to fight than the first-tier position, and the Japanese army prepared more perfectly there.

On the front line position, the National Defense Forces have lost two-thirds of the army's strength. But now the commander-in-chief has asked to capture a more difficult second-tier position. The loss must not exceed 10,000 people. This is simply a difficult task!

"Does the Japanese have made no progress?" Looking at the faces of everyone, Tshu Tiger said in a low voice: "War is a test of a country and a nation as a whole. It will question our wisdom, our perseverance, our determination and our patience!"

"If we can't pass the test, then this country and this nation will eventually be doomed!" Tu Menghu took a deep breath and said, "The Japanese will seek change in war. Can we remain unchanged?! What I am doing now is to question Ren Wenbin and even the entire Second Legion: Do you have the wisdom to command war!"

"If it cannot be done, they should be able to withdraw. I don't want those soldiers who fight for their country to be buried in the battlefield because of their stupidity!"

That being said, forcing the Sixth Army to do so was obviously too embarrassing them.

"Commander-in-Chief, are you too demanding?!" Su Zongzhe obviously wanted to plead for the Sixth Army, which is the direct unit of the National Defense Forces. The Sixth Army was there since the Fourth Army started slaughtering tigers and even earlier.

Along the way, the Sixth Army made a lot of contributions to the National Defense Forces and the coalition government. If it was pulled back just because of a forced order to slaughter the tiger, it would undoubtedly be a huge blow to their morale.

Tu Menghu did not immediately answer Su Zongzhe's words. He drove all the staff out and asked his adjutant to take the guards to guard the house, and then said to Su Zongzhe.

"Uncle Qi Liu, it's not that I'm not humane, but now I'm very worried about the situation of our National Welfare Force." Tu Menghu sighed and said, "We may have been going too smoothly for a long time. What caused the soldiers below to grow their eyes to the top of their heads!"

"This trend is not only in the Second Legion, but even our entire National Defense Forces have this problem. I have been thinking about it for a long time, why does such a problem occur?!"

"The Japanese all know that they constantly improve their tactics, which poses a threat to us in North Korea and Shanghai. But why don't our officers and our generals know how to do this?! Are they too lazy, or are they really stupid?!"

Su Zongzhe stopped talking, and he knew that the slaughter of the tiger was the truth. This is the situation now. There is a trend of unenviable progress across the National Defense Forces.

In other words, the entire National Defense Forces' combat troops seemed to be in a state of fatigue and laziness. Not many people were concerned about tactical innovation.

Perhaps it is really as the commander-in-chief said, the National Defense Forces have been fighting too smoothly. The consequence of being too smooth is that people will have inertial thinking and think that their old methods are always useful in combat.

But they did not notice that their enemies were progressing, and the progress was extremely obvious. For example, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses on the front line and finally retreated.

Then their artillery was hit by a fatal blow, so the National Wehrmacht could see the changes in Japan. They began to learn to disguise the artillery, and they began to send the artillery into the fortifications and set it on fire.

This is just the bicycle blitzkrieg war carried out by the Japanese army on the Southeast Asian battlefield on the Chinese battlefield, the Pearl Harbor sneak attack war carried out in the Pacific Ocean, etc. These are all manifestations of their tactical innovation.

If the National Defense Forces are still relying on their old capital and still being proud of themselves, then they will suffer a great loss on the battlefield in the future!

"Uncle Qi Liu, it's not that I'm cruel. But they're so lazy now!" Tu Menghu said with a little regret: "I always want to wake them up. If this continues, there will only be more soldiers who will die in this stupidity and laziness!"

Su Zongzhe was silent for a long time, but he stopped persuading him.

The Sixth Army, which received the telegram, was indignant, which was simply a threat! The Fifth Army suffered two-thirds of the casualties on the front line. You let the Sixth Army take down the more dangerous and harder second-tier positions with only 10,000 casualties.

It was also limited to only three days. Isn’t this forcing the Sixth Army to bow its head? If it weren’t for the slaughter of tigers in the National Wehrmacht, especially the Second Corps, the people below would have cursed.

"What's wrong?! Feeling wronged?! Feeling embarrassed you?!" Yan Chenghan brought people to the Sixth Army. As the commander of the army, the telegram he received was naturally different from the commanders below.

Su Zongzhe told Yan Chenghan in detail about the concerns of the commander-in-chief. At this time, Yan Chenghan realized that it seemed that the Japanese army had been changing their combat tactics.

But the National Defense Forces seemed to have fought over and over again, and there was no big change in tactics except for some new weapons. Perhaps these tactics once made the National Defense Forces enter glory.

But if you do not develop your tactical strategies in a timely manner based on the battle situation on a fiercely competitive battlefield, you will suffer from extremely serious casualties.

Once a son makes a mistake, the result will probably be the fall of the entire battlefield. Thinking of this, Yan Chenghan suddenly broke out in a cold sweat! He began to understand the worries of his commander-in-chief.

"If you want me to say it, it's not difficult at all!" Yan Chenghan shouted at Ren Wenbin and others in this frontier command center: "It's hard to fight. How could we fight when we fought the Soviet Union?! What did we have at that time? There wasn't even a tank!"

"But we still won. We were forcing the Soviets to bow their heads in Fengtian and obediently returned the Middle East Road to us." Yan Chenghan looked at these generals and said, "But now?! It has been so many years since we have passed, and our tactical arrangements have not changed at all!"

"You, including me! You still look at today's battlefield with those old tactical thinking, but what is the result? The result is that we can see the Japanese changing little by little! They are constantly adjusting their tactics based on the battlefield, constantly posing a greater threat to us!"

Ren Wenbin and others are not stupid. None of them can become senior generals of the National Defense Forces today are stupid. However, many of them are bound by constant victory and inertial thinking.

Therefore, they did not react for a while, and once they were reminded, they were shocked! The situation was indeed becoming more and more critical. Last year, the Japanese army in Tianjin could not withstand the strong attack of the National Defense Force.

He was beaten by the National Defense Forces and was forced to withdraw to Shandong. Even in the end, even their front commander was forced to commit suicide. The entire North China Front Army was almost wiped out.

But only a year has passed, and the Japanese army can cause huge damage to the National Defense Force on the front line. Even the National Defense Force's stronger heavy artillery, aircraft bombing and tank impact are difficult to break through the Japanese army's positions.

It was not until the huge casualties that the place was occupied. It has to be said that the Japanese army's learning and improvement ability was indeed strong. It had reached this level in just one year.

So what if they continue?! There is no doubt that they will become stronger and stronger, and if the National Defense Forces do not change their tactical policies, they will undoubtedly fall into a disadvantage in this kind of competition.

"Commander, what you are saying!" Ren Wenbin was silent for a while before standing up and speaking in a deep voice: "We are indeed proud, and we are indeed careless! We did not expect that our opponents would make progress."

Seeing Ren Wenbin simply admitting his mistakes, Yan Chenghan nodded with satisfaction. His tone slowed down a little, and said to these teachers.

"The Commander-in-Chief did put a great pressure on our Second Legion this time, but this is also the driving force of our Second Legion! What unit is our Second Legion?! It is the unit led by the Commander-in-Chief!"

Yan Chenghan said, everyone couldn't help but shine. This was the most proud thing about the Second Legion. The predecessor of the Second Legion almost participated in the battle commanded by all the commander-in-chief.

Many troops even participated in these battles were enough to become famous, but the Second Legion participated in most of them. This became the proud capital of the Second Legion.

"Are we afraid of difficulties?! Damn, I'm afraid of it!" Yan Chenghan laughed heroically and said, "If the position is easily defeated, how can we demonstrate the strength of our second legion's trump card?!"

When Ren Wenbin and others heard this, they couldn't help but lift their chests up. The people from the Second Legion were more arrogant than other legions when they walked out.

It is because they have strong record of bottoming out, and they have the qualifications to be proud and hold their heads high. We have fought the Russians. From the Battle of Jinan, September 18th to North Korea and the current battlefield of Guannei, the Second Legion has repeatedly grabbed the Japanese to practice swords.

"I believe you!" Yan Chenghan looked at these energetic men and said, "It is the same treatment as the Fifth Army. I will lend you the artillery of the Legion first! After capturing the position, I will ask you for me to the command center!"

"yes!!"

Yan Chenghan did not issue too many instructions. He believed that Ren Wenbin on the battlefield and on the front line would know the situation on the battlefield better than himself. The Sixth Army's own staff will study the combat orders. It is more practical than Yan Chenghan, a person who is not on the front line.

That night, the entire Sixth Army's division commander and the staff of the General Staff were all squatting in the command center behind the front line. The tunnel was extremely stuffy, and there was even a faint smell of blood.

There is no doubt that there must be many deaths when this tunnel was captured by the Fifth Army. It is not surprising that the Japanese blood and flesh were also trampled on the feet of these generals.

But no one cares about this. Everyone is now making a fuss in this tunnel. In order to ensure that they can take down this position under the premise of losses of ten thousand people, everyone is crazy about their brains.

The Japanese had extremely tight garrisons, with no dead corners, and the cannon shooting holes, allowing them to attack everyone trying to rush to the position from any point.

This gave the Sixth Army a headache, and it was certain to occupy the position and charge. However, it was basically impossible to rush up with a position arrangement of less than 10,000 people with losses.

The night attack has been tried many times. After the Japanese army suffered losses from the night attack on the front line, the number of light and dark posts increased significantly. The soldiers of the Sixth Army's reconnaissance attempted to approach the Japanese position several times, but were driven down.

The Japanese army was obviously scared by the night attack of the National Defense Force. As long as there was a slight storm, they would directly shoot wildly at the suspicious areas. Sometimes they would even use artillery.

"Damn it! This is even more turtle shell than a turtle shell. How can I fight?!" Liao Bin, the commander of the 16th Division, pulled open his collar and looked at the sand table viciously and said, "It's really not easy for us to fight it down!"

"Who said no?" Jiao Hua, the commander of the 17th Division, said with a frown: "This is all a turtle shell. If the cannon cannot be shot in, the person cannot rush, how can he fight?!"

After discussing for half a night, the entire Sixth Army did not come up with a feasible plan. Several tactics proposed were rejected.

Obviously, it is unlikely to attack this position. If you want to attack it with a strong force, you will definitely be an idiot. Maybe the entire Sixth Army will be exhausted and you may not be able to take down this position.

"There are guns that are far away, and machine guns, grenade launchers and those explosive bombs are close. Grandma's! Even tanks are hard to rush over. How can we rush?!" Ren Wenbin was not a good temper at first, and the constant problems caused him to have a split headache.

"This is not the most troublesome thing. The most troublesome thing is that the Japanese army connects the bunker groups inside." Xue Wen, chief of staff of the Sixth Army, said with a calm face: "Let's fight, even if some firepower points are blown up, they can replenish them in time."

"Even if we blow up several at once, it will only take a dozen minutes to connect them. Moreover, these firepower points are intertwined and the high and low combinations are excellent. Even if we clean up some, it will be difficult to directly break."

Everyone was silent, and Ren Wenbin stared at the sand table and gritted his teeth. Judging from the current situation, there seemed to be no way to avoid the strong attack.

The Sixth Army was having a headache, and Shinji Hata was not much better. The positions on the second line were not attacked, but the losses were definitely not small. The National Defense Forces continued to use artillery fire, grenade launchers, etc. to launch strikes on the positions.

Especially they have many sharpshooters, which posed a great threat to the position. If the two garrison divisions had not bitten on the position tightly, the position might have been broken long ago.

In this timely manner, at least one multi-corps troops have been lost on the position. More than ten artillery pieces and more than thirty heavy machine guns have been destroyed.

The division commander of the second-line position urgently sent people to seek weapon support. The weapons consume more ammunition than weapons, and the ammunition consumed in the second-line position in one day was astronomical.

As such, Shinji Hata would probably be exhausted if he could last for half a month at most. This is not the lost weapons.

The National Defense Force's powerful attack power made Hata Shunruo frightened. He now understood why Suichi Deanuchi was defeated miserably. It was because the combat power of this unit was too strong.

But in order to keep the position alive, Hata Shunrok could only transport the reserved weapons and ammunition to the second-line position.

"I'm going to ask for the base camp. Our troops are now fighting the Chinese troops in Shanghai. However, there is insufficient military equipment and ammunition consumption is huge. Moreover, the Chinese troops have air support, which poses a great threat to our troops..."
Chapter completed!