Chen Songyong thought that Wang Xuexinhui would immediately order troops to attack the steel plant. After all, only by capturing the steel plant airport could we prepare for the "La 5" air superiority operation.
But Wang Xuexin did not do this.
Wang Xuexin ordered: "Continue to lurk as planned!"
Chen Songyong was quite surprised by this order. When the correspondent went to deliver the order, he said anxiously: "Captain, the Japanese will bomb our airport before dawn. If our army continues to plan, it will not launch the attack on the steel plant until dawn."
Attack...is the time too tight?"
Chen Songyong made plans based on Wang Xuexin's strategic goals.
If you want to use "La 5" to seize air superiority over the steel plant and use the steel plant airport as a temporary airport, then you need at least one hour of preparation time, right?
And this hour is quite tense, because the Eighth Route Army will completely occupy the steel plant within this hour and make the steel plant airport capable of taking off and landing fighter planes... In case the airport runway is blown into several holes, or there are several bombed vehicles parked at the airport.
Exploded cars, planes, etc., these things have to be cleaned up, right?
There are also fuel supplies, ammunition depots, etc., and ground crews must be prepared.
In addition, the security around the steel plant must be ensured, otherwise the enemy may threaten the security of the airport as long as a few mortars are hiding nearby.
All of this must be completed within an hour, which is already a long time.
There was nothing wrong with Wang Xuexin's original plan: the attack on the steel plant would begin before dawn, and "La 5" would be dispatched an hour later to provide air cover.
But now, the Japanese will bomb Liyuan Airport before dawn, which means that the "La 5" must take off before dawn.
Therefore, the fighter planes taking off and attacking the steel plant became synchronized... If the steel plant cannot be captured by then, "pull 5" means that there is no place to land.
Unexpectedly, Wang Xuexin said easily: "Isn't the airborne time of 'La 5' one hour and twenty minutes? As long as we capture the steel plant within this time, there will be no problem!"
Chen Songyong wanted to say something, but thought about it and swallowed it back.
Wang Xuexin was taking risks by doing this, risking his precious "La 5" fighter jets and pilots.
Chen Songyong knew that the time given to the First and Second Battalions to capture the steel plant would never be one hour and twenty minutes.
Because one hour and twenty minutes is the limit of "pull 5" stable speed.
Among them, as long as the "La 5" is entangled with enemy aircraft at high speed, the fuel may be reduced to about one hour.
And one hour is still the time it takes for these fighters to run out of fuel and fall from the sky.
What's more, the Eighth Route Army plans to dispatch 60 "La 5s" this time... If 60 "La 5s" are lined up in the air waiting to land, there will only be one airport, and the landing time will be longer.
In other words, the first and second battalions must be ready within one hour at the latest so that the airport can take off and land fighters.
Sure enough, Wang Xuexin's order to the first and second battalions was: "The battle will be resolved in fifty minutes. Are you confident?"
The one responsible for attacking the steel plant was a main regiment of the Eighth Route Army. This regiment was called the Long March Regiment because of its extraordinary achievements during the Long March.
Zhao Liangzhi, the leader of the Long March, was stunned when he received this order and complained to the political commissar: "Fifty minutes? Does he think this is a dinner treat?"
The political commissar looked at the telegram and said: "Fifty minutes is a bit tight, but this is an order. No matter what difficulties we have, we should find ways to overcome them!"
"Political commissar!" Zhao Liangzhi said in embarrassment: "This is not because I am blaming others, but because the Japs in the steel plant have two brigades, and we only have this few troops...one regiment has strengthened two additional battalions. If this is put aside before, can it be done?
It was still a problem even after the battle. Now it requires fifty minutes to resolve the battle..."
The political commissar was silent for a while and then said: "Don't the two reinforced battalions have repeating rifles?"
"Even if we had repeating rifles, we wouldn't be so good!" Zhao Liangzhi said: "I just thought that with repeating rifles, it would be possible for our troops to capture the steel factory! But I estimate that it will take at least a few hours!"
It's no wonder that Zhao Liangzhi thinks so. He probably mistook the repeating rifle as a submachine gun.
Although Zhao Liangzhi was the commander-in-chief of this battle, he actually didn't know much about repeating rifles. After all, repeating rifles were still a military secret for the Eighth Route Army. At this time, no troops who were not cooperating with the independent regiment knew about this thing.
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This is something Wang Xuexin neglected.
Because Zhao Liangzhi didn't know much about repeating rifles, he underestimated the combat effectiveness of the two battalions, resulting in misjudgments in command.
But this oversight actually doesn't matter much.
Because the Long March Regiment is ostensibly commanded and is the main force in this battle, but the main force has always been the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Independent Regiment.
The Long March Regiment only played a coordinating role during this period, and its soldiers only followed the first and second battalions to occupy and reinforce them.
Because Zhao Liangzhi was not confident in occupying the steel plant in fifty minutes, he replied in the telegram: "Commander Wang, it may be difficult to occupy the steel plant in fifty minutes!"
Wang Xuexin is very confident about this.
Because he knows that the AK47 is all about explosive power, and it is also the firepower of an automatic rifle that crushes a bolt-action rifle.
If the battlefield is in the wilderness, a bolt-action rifle may have an advantage in range.
But the battlefield is in a steel factory...the only advantage of the bolt-action rifle is that its range is gone.
So what did the Japanese use to fight the first and second battalions?
The Long March Group did not understand the power of this kind of cross-era equipment, so giving this cautious answer can be said to be a kind of responsibility.
Otherwise, he would pretend to be fat, and answer firmly regardless of the actual situation: "I promise to complete the task!"
It's easy to say this, but if you really fail to complete the mission during the fight, it will not only be a matter of being punished, but it may also mess up the entire battle plan.
Wang Xuexin didn't say much, he just replied: "No problem, your troops will only need to follow the first battalion and the second battalion!"
Wang Xuexin thought his words were normal and did not mean to blame or insult the leader of the Long March.
But when Zhao Liangzhi saw the telegram, it was different...
Damn it, you must be looked down upon!
We have only one regiment, and it is the main regiment, and we still have to fight behind two battalions?
What the hell is this?!
Zhao Liangzhi had never been looked down upon like this since he became a soldier. He punched the table hard, then hung his armed belt on his waist, gritted his teeth and ordered to the guard: "Let's go!
Take the steel factory in fifty minutes, and you can’t exceed it for even one minute! I’ll have to rush in without my life!”
According to Zhao Liangzhi's idea, if he wanted to capture the steel plant within fifty minutes, the only way to do it was to charge in desperately.
What he didn't expect was that this battle would be completely different, and even overturn all his previous battle experience.