Yue Weihan was comparing the Jinsui Army with the Central Army in his mind, and there was news about the Central Army over there.
"General." Chief of Staff Liu Yi came back and said solemnly, "The Central Army has also been dispatched. Tang Huaiyuan's Third Army and Samurai Min's Ninety-eighth Army have left the Taiyue Mountain defense area and are heading towards Pingyao and Qi.
The county is approaching!”
"Third Army, Ninety-Eighth Army!?" Yue Weihan turned sharply and walked back to the simulated sand table.
A major staff officer nearby quickly found the Taiyue Mountains from the sand table. The Taiyue Mountains run northeast-southwest, with Taihang Mountains in the east, Zhongtiao Mountains in the south, Wangwu Mountains in the southeast, and Luliang Mountains in the northwest.
To the north is the Jinzhong Basin, with Pingyao, Qixian, Taigu, Taiyuan and other important towns in Jinzhong within easy reach.
Liu Yi took the command pole from the staff, pointed to the sand table and said: "This is Mianshan, and this is Shigu Mountain. Tang Huaiyuan's Third Army and Samurai Min's Ninety-eighth Army have been operating here. The two armies are separated by Pingyao.
Less than a hundred miles away, and only more than two hundred miles away from Taiyuan, it can be called two sharp knives piercing the Japanese war zone in Shanxi!"
Before he finished speaking, another communications staff member hurriedly came in to report: "General, the Third Army is reporting an urgent war situation."
Yue Weihan stared at the simulation sand table closely, took the square ruler from the hands of the combat staff, and said without looking back: "Read it."
The communications staff officer unfolded the telegram and read: "Thirty-ninth Group Army: Following the military order of the Second War Zone Commander, our unit left the Taiyue Mountains yesterday and is now launching an attack on Pingyao, an important town in central Jinzhong. We will be able to cut off Fenyang to
The highway in Taiyuan will not allow the Japanese troops stationed in Fenyang to form the 16th Brigade and return to support Taiyuan, the Third Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and Tang Huaiyuan."
"What!?" Yue Weihan frowned when he heard this and said, "You actually started attacking?"
"Isn't this child's play?" Liu Yi also changed his face and said, "In broad daylight, the Japs' air force can bomb ground targets unscrupulously. The Third Army chose to attack during the day. This is not a short-term attack."
Are they the leader of the enemy? Why don't they wait until night before attacking?"
"Send a report to Commander Tang of the Third Army immediately!" Yue Weihan suddenly turned around and said, "It is recommended that the Third Army quickly retreat and hide after destroying the road, and never launch a strong attack on Pingyao during the day!"
"Yes." The communications staff member snapped to attention, turned around and walked away.
Pingyao Ancient City.
General Tang Huaiyuan, surrounded by more than a dozen officers, climbed a hill south of Pingyao City.
Standing on the mountain and looking down, you can have a panoramic view of the entire ancient city of Pingyao. Pingyao Ancient City is an important town in central Shanxi and directly protects the south gate of Taiyuan. However, the Japanese army only stationed an infantry squadron here, and there was also a battalion of puppet troops.
, the Japanese and puppet troops were only over 600 people at full strength.
However, Fenyang is only 80 miles away from Pingyao, and there are roads connecting it.
Once Pingyao is attacked, the 16th Brigade of the Japanese Army stationed in Fenyang can quickly rush in for reinforcements. Its motorized infantry squadron and cavalry brigade can reach Pingyao within two hours. In addition, the Japanese army
The Army Air Corps stationed in Taiyuan and Shimen can also arrive in half an hour to assist in the battle.
However, Tang Huaiyuan is still very confident that he can win Pingyao.
Although the Third Army lacks the heavy weapons to attack fortresses, it has more than 20,000 soldiers. With so many loyal and brave soldiers, even a spit from one person can drown the more than 100 Japanese soldiers in Pingyao City!
Through the telescope, Tang Huaiyuan saw that the two regiments responsible for the main attack had spread out in the east and south directions of Pingyao City. The only 80 mortar battalion of the Third Army had also established an artillery position outside the south gate of Pingyao.
However, the 16th Brigade of Japanese troops stationed in Fenyang was only halfway there, more than fifty miles away from Pingyao.
Tang Huaiyuan put down his telescope and was about to order an attack when a communications staff officer suddenly ran to the top of the mountain.
"Military seat." The communications staff member stood at attention and handed the message in his hand to Tang Huaiyuan, "Group Thirty-Nine has an urgent message!"
The chief of staff next to him took the telegram and hurriedly read it. His face suddenly changed slightly and he said: "Military seat, Yue Weihan suggests that we quickly destroy the Pingfen Highway, then hide and wait until nightfall before launching an attack on Pingyao."
"What a child!" Tang Huaiyuan said disapprovingly, "After nightfall, the main force of the 16th Brigade of the Japanese troops stationed in Fenyang has already arrived in Pingyao. How can we defeat them with the strength of my army?
Even the Ninety-Eighth Army, with the addition of samurai Min, is also unable to break through the fortified city guarded by a mixed brigade of the Japanese army!"
After saying this, Tang Huaiyuan said to the flag soldiers beside him: "Sign the flag and start attacking the city!"
"Yes!" The flagman stood at attention with a snap, then turned around and ran to the front edge of the hill, waving flags toward the bottom of the mountain.
Niangziguan, Headquarters of the Thirty-ninth Group Army.
Yue Weihan strode into the communications room and asked Liu Xindao directly: "How will the Third Army respond?"
Liu Xin stood up and sighed softly: "General Tang Huaiyuan has ordered an attack."
"What!?" Liu Yi was extremely angry when he heard this, "This Tang Huaiyuan is so stubborn?"
Yue Weihan was also in a heavy heart. He was no stranger to Yue Weihan in Huaiyuan of the Tang Dynasty. He was a great man of his generation. He graduated from the Yunnan Military Academy when he was young and was in the same class as Mr. Zhu. He joined the army and participated in the Revolution of 1911 and the war against Yuan Huguo. He accumulated merit as a platoon leader.
He was promoted to Army Commander and when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, he was already the Lieutenant General of the Third Army.
Historically, General Tang Huaiyuan led all the soldiers of the Third Army to participate in the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain. In the fierce fighting for three months, most of the soldiers of the Third Army were killed and wounded, and they ran out of ammunition. General Tang Huaiyuan committed suicide by drinking ammunition. Before committing suicide, he wrote a popular poem.
, two of the sentences are extremely heroic: After fighting for the blood of one hundred thousand heads, Qianlong's power must be turned back!
No matter from which aspect, General Tang Huaiyuan can be called a model soldier!
However, General Tang Huaiyuan was only a model soldier, not a model commander!
General Tang Huaiyuan, who graduated from the Yunnan Jiangwu Hall, is still an old soldier at heart. His understanding of war is still above the level of the Beiyang warlords' melee period. He lacks sufficient understanding of quasi-modern armies such as the German and Japanese armies, and he lacks even more knowledge.
Effective tactics and experience to deal with such armies.
The so-called third-rate command refers to senior generals like General Tang Huaiyuan!
A large number of senior generals of the Communist Party, represented by General Tang Huaiyuan, are all heroes. They fought out of the smoke of the Revolution of 1911 and the Northern Expedition. They have long been accustomed to life and death, and almost none of them is afraid of death. As a
Veterans, or as a junior military officer, they are definitely the best in the world!
However, it is really difficult for them to serve as the senior commanders of an army of officers.
Because the current opponent of the Japanese Army is not the backward Beiyang government and the Beiyang army, but the Japanese army that has already completed the industrial revolution and has already completed the quasi-modernization! To defeat the quasi-modern Japanese army, in addition to
To have a team of brave non-commissioned officers, in addition to having sophisticated equipment, they must also have a group of new commanders.
"Call again!" Yue Weihan was silent for a moment and then said, "In my own name, I ask Commander Tang to give up the attack!"
Although Yue Weihan knew that the possibility of General Tang Huaiyuan accepting the advice was almost zero, he still wanted to try because it was related to the lives of tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers. As soldiers, it was their duty to die for the country and the nation.
Duty, but the lives of soldiers are the lives of the people, and their sacrifices must be valuable.
As a general, as a senior commander, Yue Weihan must not watch the heroic Japanese soldiers make unnecessary sacrifices for wrong tactics. Even if the sacrifices are not soldiers of the 39th Group Army, Yue Weihan cannot
We must do everything possible and every effort to save their lives!
Pingyao South Gate.
The *** company commander jumped out of the trench and shouted angrily: "Brothers, fight with the little devil!"
"What a bastard, I can't do this!" the *** platoon leader threw off his military cap and followed him with his arms in his arms.
"You little devil, get in front of me!" The tall soldier stepped out of the trench, took out two pieces of ocean from his pocket, threw them far back, and shouted loudly, "**
*, you keep these two pieces of ocean, remember to go home and marry your relatives, and renew the incense of our Lao Niu family, I’m going to take the first step!”
"Thud, tug, tug, tug, tug..." The roar of the Type 92 heavy machine gun rang out fiercely from the top of the city.
The Japanese soldiers who were charging forward violently fell down like weeds blown by the wind. The Japanese company commander who was charging at the front was armed with more than a dozen guns, and his whole chest had been beaten into a sieve, but he was holding it up.
Reluctant to swallow, he ran forward two more steps and finally threw a grenade onto the city wall.
"Boom!" A mass of explosions suddenly rose from the top of the city, and two Japanese soldiers screamed and fell from the top of the city.
"Little devil, the grenade tastes good, ho ho ho!" the *** company commander twitched, grinning ferociously, and immediately felt a violent spin, and fell to the ground suddenly.
Third Army Provisional Headquarters.
The chief of staff reported to General Tang Huaiyuan with a heavy expression: "The attacks in the east and south directions of the army seat were not smooth, and they could not even break through the trench fortifications outside the city. Although the Japanese army in Pingyao City was thin in strength, it had extremely powerful firepower.
So fast and fierce, so far, the two main regiments have suffered more than half casualties!"
"Trash, they are all fucking trash!" General Tang Huaiyuan said angrily, "Go, let me withdraw the 48th Regiment, let the guard regiment go up, and tell Deng Guanglong that the south gate of Pingyao must be broken open within half an hour!"
"Yes." The adjutant stood at attention and immediately took the order and left.
Just as the adjutant left, another communications officer hurriedly came in to report: "Army, Commander-in-Chief Yue of the 39th Group Army sent an urgent message in his own name, asking the army to give up the attack!"
"How unreasonable!" Two black lines suddenly appeared between General Tang Huaiyuan's brows, and he said angrily, "When I carried a gun to participate in the Revolution of 1911, Yue Weihan was still in his mother's belly. How should we fight this battle? It's not his turn.
He, a young junior like me, came to teach me and pass on my orders. The 9th Division, the 11th Division, and the 12th Division are all under pressure to capture Pingyao before dark!"