Cao Xinglong said again: "Regiment leader, does the infantry company at the forefront also need to be divided into three?"
"No." Yue Weihan shook his head decisively and said, "The strength of a company is already at the lower limit. If we divide it into three and put a platoon of troops at the forefront, we are asking for death. With the infantry and artillery coordination and combat effectiveness of the Kunozaki detachment, we are asking for death."
, we can easily seize our forward position with one charge, and then it will be too late to say anything."
Cao Xinglong said: "Then how will this company lay out its defenses?"
"This is another key point I want to talk about, echelon layout!" Yue Weihan said, "The defenses of the three infantry platoons must be built in a ring and spread out vertically, so that after the first line of defense is lost, the second line of defense can still be relied on.
If the second line of defense fails, there will be a third line of defense to rely on, but there is no need to worry about the two wings, and there is no need to keep a reserve team."
"Let's talk about the defense arrangements of the other two companies." Yue Weihan added, "The company responsible for protecting the two wings must be divided into three, with a platoon on each side. The fortifications must also be built in a ring, and at least two front and rear lines must be built.
, it is best to build three lanes, and the remaining platoon will serve as a reserve team to provide support whenever there is danger. Also, the company responsible for the general reserve cannot be idle. It also needs to build in-depth defense fortifications, especially anti-artillery fortifications.
There is a reason why Yue Weihan placed special emphasis on artillery defense fortifications.
Since the Jiangpu area is covered with plains and there are not even woods, the artillery observers of the Little Devils do not even need to raise a hot air balloon to calibrate and shoot at Zhu Yuan.
Being densely packed, it is easy to attract artillery attacks. If the artillery defenses are not repaired, the enemy can defeat your reserve force with a single bombardment, and then the reserve force will become ready to run away.
"The battalion-level defense layout is roughly like this." Yue Weihan said, "Now let's talk about the defense layout of the entire regiment."
"After replenishment, our regiment now has five infantry battalions, one guard company and one artillery battalion. First, one battalion must be left to guard Pukou in case the little devils send a small group of troops to detour and sneak attack. The remaining four battalions must be set aside
One serves as the general reserve force, and the other three battalions are deployed front and back along the road in echelon layout."
Li Yulin, the deputy of the regiment, said: "Regiment, this is a plain terrain. We have several main battalions on the road. If the Japs don't fight with us, what if we take a detour and go directly to Pukou?"
"Don't worry about this." Yue Weihan said, "The Japs' infantry can easily penetrate, but their heavy equipment and baggage teams cannot penetrate. If there is no heavy equipment and baggage teams to follow up, the Japs' intersecting troops will be rootless after all.
As long as we don't panic, they won't be able to cause any trouble."
At the moment, the deputy battalion commanders of several regiments nodded repeatedly. Yue Weihan's words were true. If a unit lacks heavy equipment, it lacks the ability to attack difficulties. If there is no supply team to follow up, it will not have the ability to continue fighting. Such a little devil
Even if the troops are behind us, what's there to be afraid of?
The Baoshan Regiment now has enough food and ammunition. The dozens of trucks of supplies intercepted are enough to support the Baoshan Regiment for more than half a month. In addition, they are fighting on their own land, so they can always get some support from the people, even if the little devils intersperse the troops.
It's no use cutting off your own supply lines.
Yue Weihan finally emphasized: "Listen carefully, the defenses of each battalion must be built strictly in accordance with the layout and construction standards I just mentioned. No one is allowed to muddle through, let alone cut corners, especially the anti-gun holes.
Reinforcement must be carried out as much as possible, and anyone who disobeys the order...will be shot!"
"Yes!" The deputy battalion commanders of the regiment quickly stood up to attention and responded in unison.
"I've finished what I said." Yue Weihan breathed a sigh of relief and added, "As for which battalion will guard Pukou, which battalion will advance forward, and which battalion will serve as the general reserve, you draw lots to decide."
After that, Yue Weihan piled up the two regiment deputy officers and four battalion commanders who were looking at each other, and walked away.
"Team leader, where is my artillery camp?" Seeing that Yue Weihan never mentioned the artillery camp, Niu Dagen couldn't help but become anxious.
"You can make up your own mind about the artillery camp." Regarding the position layout of the artillery camp, Yue Weihan really had nothing to say. Although Niu Dagen is a bit silly and has never been to a military school to learn advanced artillery theory, he has a naive streak.
Jin is willing to work hard to study the things that interest him, so he has summed up a unique set of practical experience in artillery operations.
Yue Weihan strode to Captain Liu Xin and said, "Captain Liu Xin, has the radio station been set up?"
Liu Xin, who was debugging the signal, quickly stood up when he heard this, puffed out his chest and said: "I'm reporting to the group, the radio station has been set up."
"Okay, immediately send a clear message to all radio stations that can receive our signal." Yue Weihan looked at the endless flow of the Yangtze River not far away, his face sinking, "All the people in the Nanjing Garrison Theater, all the folks in Nanjing, all of China
All compatriots and overseas Chinese: By order of the commission, all the officers and soldiers of the Baoshan Regiment will defend Jiangpu Town to the death, and all the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Garrison Theater will also defend Nanjing to the death until all the 700,000 fellow villagers in Nanjing are safely evacuated!"
Liu Xin, who had already experienced Yue Weihan's temper many times, did not dare to hesitate and immediately sent the message he dictated in clear code. In a short time, whether it was the Japanese military radio station, the National Army radio station, or the radio station within a few hundred miles of Nanjing,
The neutral radio stations in various concessions in Shanghai all received this notice from Yue Weihan and the Baoshan Regiment at the same time.
After Liu Xin finished sending the telegram, Yue Weihan suddenly asked: "Captain Liu Xin, don't you have anything to ask?"
Liu Xin's beautiful big eyes immediately glanced over with vigilance, and at the same time she pressed her crimson lips tightly.
Yue Weihan couldn't help but smile. It seems that Miss Liu Xin has a long memory. I'm afraid it won't be so easy to tease her in the future. Then he sighed and said: "Liu Xin, you don't hate me, do you?"
A hint of confusion appeared on Liu Xin's pretty face, but she resisted asking questions.
Yue Weihan sighed again and said: "In the battle of Jiangpu, the whole Baoshan regiment is likely to be wiped out. I'm afraid you and I will not be spared either. Forget it for a man like me, but you, a petite little girl, can't even manage a man."
You have not tasted anything, and you are about to leave this world in a hurry, which makes people sigh with regret."
The soldiers in the communications class immediately suppressed their blushes, but they refused to laugh.
Liu Xin was even more embarrassed, angry and anxious. She spat at Yue Weihan and quickly twisted her waist and ran away.
Watching Liu Xin's beautiful figure disappear from his sight, Yue Weihan's eyes suddenly softened, and he whispered to himself: "Ask yourself, why am I willing to do this? I have no choice but to take this desperate measure.
To put it mildly, this means burning the boat down, but to put it harshly, it means killing yourself!"
This is true, Yue Weihan's move is indeed cutting himself off!
Once this telegram, which looks like an edict, is made public by the media of neutral countries in Shanghai, its influence will be unimaginable! Due to the previous efforts of the central media to advocate and publicize, Yue Weihan and all the officers and soldiers of the Baoshan Regiment have already become
Even the overseas Chinese in the United States, who are far away across the ocean, are paying attention to the safety of the Baoshan Regiment and Yue Weihan!
At this critical moment, no one in China would doubt Commander Yue's message.
Therefore, once this message is sent, there will be no room for redemption. No matter how unwilling Chairman Chiang Kai-shek is, he will never dare to rashly order the Baoshan Regiment and the National Army in Nanjing to retreat, because doing so will not only cause serious
It will dampen the determination of the entire Chinese nation to resist Japan, and will give him a reputation as a weak will to resist Japan!
However, the real destructive power of this notice to the people is far more than that, and Yue Weihan's real intention is definitely not here!
Yue Weihan's real intention is to push the senior national army generals on the other side of the river into a desperate situation, to cut off their retreat, and to force them to lead their troops to fight brutal street battles with the Japanese army. Once this message is made public, how will the city of Nanjing be saved?
Hundreds of thousands of refugees will immediately become the focus of public opinion. At this time, who will dare to abandon the troops and escape?
Once Yue Weihan's intention succeeds, hundreds of thousands of elite national troops on the other side of the river are expected to enter the Chinese Martyrs' Shrine!
Whether these troops are the teaching corps, the 71st Army expanded from the 87th Division, or the 72nd Army expanded from the 88th Division, or even Xu Yuanquan's 2nd Army, they are all the ace troops directly affiliated to Chairman Chiang Kai-shek. It is conceivable that Nanjing Guards
After the war, Chairman Chiang will hate Yue Weihan so much.
At least Yue Weihan himself could not imagine why Chairman Chiang would forgive him.
However, Yue Weihan has no regrets. If he were given a choice again, he would still release the message without hesitation. This was not because he was eager to surrender to the Communist Party, so he had to first renounce himself from Chairman Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Army.
Yue Weihan did this entirely for the sake of the overall interests of the entire nation's anti-Japanese war!
The reason is very simple. Once the senior generals of the national army in Nanjing cannot withstand Chairman Chiang's military order to retreat and lose their determination to resist desperately, then the tragedy of the officers and soldiers fighting to cross the river will repeat itself in history. Many senior generals have
After boarding the ship and crossing the river, as many as 100,000 officers and soldiers would lose the courage to resist, instead throw down their weapons, take off their military uniforms and sneak into the refugee camps, eventually triggering a large-scale manhunt and massacre by the Japanese army. Then the tragedy of the Nanjing Massacre
It's still unavoidable.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the other side of the river are dead. Why should they be made prisoners and die in a cowardly manner?
The same thing is death, why not let them fight to the death with the little devils, and then become martyrs who will be remembered forever?
The names of hundreds of thousands of soldiers who were massacred as prisoners of war will only be engraved on the Memorial Wall for the Victims of the Massacre. But if they died with the Japanese invaders as soldiers, the names of hundreds of thousands of soldiers will forever be engraved on the Memorial Wall of Heroes and Martyrs.
On the monument, he will forever be remembered and admired by future generations.
What's more, hundreds of thousands of national army warriors relied on the ruins of Nanjing City to resist desperately and launched the most brutal street battles with the Japs. How many elite Japanese troops were consumed? After the Nanjing Defense War ended, the Japanese Central China Front used several of them to attack Nanjing.
How many veterans are left in the permanent division?
Without these veterans, it is unclear whether the Japanese army can quickly recover and launch the Battle of Xuzhou.
Even if the Japanese base camp reluctantly launches the Battle of Xuzhou regardless of the cost, the result of the battle will be difficult to satisfy. As for whether the Battle of Wuhan is still possible, it is even harder to say. After all, although Japan has a lot of reserve troops, it is not in active service.
The remaining veterans, that is, the 300,000 to 400,000 old soldiers in the 17 permanent divisions, have exhausted these 300,000 to 400,000 old devils, and the combat effectiveness of the young devils will be drastically reduced by several levels.