????????If it were in the past, after hearing the news, the "corrupt general" would have been eager to open a few bottles of wine to celebrate... and let the Japanese attack the Eighth Route Army. He would be happy to watch the fun from behind.
????????But the situation is different now.
The current situation is that the Japanese are attacking the stubborn army with all their strength and the stubborn army is retreating steadily. This determines that the stubborn army needs to unite with the Eighth Route Army from a strategic direction to deal with the outside world.
What's more, apart from the prominent terrain, a large part of the reason why Xi'an was able to hold Xi'an was that there was an Eighth Route Army in Shanxi... Once the Japanese attacked Xi'an, their flanks and rear would be immediately exposed to the Eighth Route Army's front.
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??????????Although the "corrupt general" was greedy and ignorant, he still understood this point, so he didn't think much about it and immediately informed the Eighth Route Army of the information he had obtained.
???????Wang Xuexin was in a dilemma after knowing this situation.
He was not worried about the enemy's penetration of troops. Although the enemy probably used a division of troops to penetrate from Xi'an, this would indeed bring some trouble to the Eighth Route Army.
????????But at this time, the Eighth Route Army was no longer what it used to be, especially in the direction of Yuncheng, there was a mechanized unit of the Hundred Regiments.
Wang Xuexin believes that the war in the direction of Yuncheng does not need to worry about him at all, and the headquarters can easily resolve it.
?????????Wang Xuexin was right... To be precise, Wang Xuexin and the chief thought of getting together.
The leader looked at the direction of a Japanese division on the map and said, "Our mechanized troops are ready for use!"
The chief of staff was a little strange: "Chief, our mechanized troops only have one regiment, but the Japanese have one division. Is this comparison of forces..."
The leader shook his head: "Chief of Staff, this is not how the mechanized troops are used. The mechanized troops are cavalry. Their important mobility is not to fight head-on with the enemy!"
The chief of staff immediately understood: "What the chief means is to attack the enemy's military supply line?"
The leader nodded and said: "Immediately strengthen the firepower of the Hundred Battle Group. It is best... to equip them with some of those repeating rifles!"
"A batch of them have been equipped!" the chief of staff replied: "But not many, the whole regiment is only equipped with two hundred!"
????????The repeating rifles will be given priority to the three regiments in the direction of Daqingshan, and only after there are remaining, they will be equipped with the Hundred Battle Group.
"Enough!" the leader said: "Order the Hundred Battle Group, these two hundred repeating rifles cannot be used dispersedly, but should be concentrated and equipped into one battalion!"
The chief of staff did not expect this. He was stunned for a moment and said, "I'll go and ask!"
After a while, the chief of staff came back. He said with some surprise: "This is what the Hundred Battle Group does. Repeating rifles are concentrated in one battalion!"
????????The chief laughed "haha": "This Li Changfu is not bad! He is quite impressive!"
????????The chief of staff couldn't help but asked in confusion: "Chief, is there anything special about this centralized equipment?"
The chief explained: "Chief of Staff, think about it, if a war breaks out and requires a force with full firepower to fight and retreat quickly, if repeating rifles are dispersed among the troops,
Can it be done?”
????????The chief of staff said "Oh" and understood.
????????The reason is simple.
????????If the equipment is dispersed, for example, the average number of equipment for each company of the whole regiment, it seems that the firepower of each company has been improved, but the improvement is very limited, and it can explode in a battle.
The upper limit of strength is just this average.
What's more important is that the entire regiment will be in supply chaos...Each company will need two types of rifle bullets.
????????But if the equipment is concentrated, it will be completely different.
????????First of all, the problem of supply chaos basically does not exist. Even if there is, it is only a small amount, and it is concentrated in one battalion... Even if the repeating rifle is equipped, the bolt-action rifle has not been eliminated, and a small number of bolt-action rifles have been eliminated.
rifle for use as a sniper unit.
????????Secondly, the upper limit of combat power has reached a new height. It is no longer an average but a maximum.
????????When commanding operations, different tasks can be assigned to different battalions. For example, bolt-action rifle battalions are deployed on mountains to fight defensive battles and delay wars... The range and accuracy of bolt-action rifles
Can play a role in highland warfare.
A battalion equipped with repeating rifles can carry out surprise attacks on enemy targets... That's a battalion equipped with repeating rifles. It has almost no opponents in close combat, not to mention that the target is the enemy's logistics troops.
???????Finally, the leader gave the order: "Let the Hundred Battle Group be ready for battle. We will first put the enemy inside to lure the enemy deeper, and then let the Japanese understand: it is easier to get in than to get out of this place."
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"Yes!" The chief of staff immediately issued the order.
The specific deployment of troops and command of operations are all under the command of the headquarters. Of course, guerrillas are used to harass the Japanese in the highlands along the way.
It is conceivable that under the commander's tactics of combining foreign and domestic forces, the division that the Japanese invaded would find itself stuck in a quagmire and unable to move forward.
Wang Xuexin felt embarrassed: What if the Japanese focused their attack on Yuncheng and stood still in Daqingshan?
???????This can be said to be a good thing or a bad thing.
???????? Call it a good thing... If Okamura Neiji has such a side-to-back combat plan, it means that the main force of the Japanese is concentrated in Yuncheng instead of Daqingshan, which is more beneficial to the Eighth Route Army's penetration operations.
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Wang Xuexin believed that the Japanese never dreamed that the Eighth Route Army would launch a counterattack at this time, and even planned to counterattack all the way to the northeast.
????????? Call it a bad thing. If the Japanese are so inactive, then will the Eighth Route Army also be inactive?
???????Desperately launching an attack first?
?????????Or take the initiative to launch an offensive?
????????? doesn't seem appropriate, because fighting like this won't have the suddenness of a battle. The Japanese will just wait and work in the defense line. They can see the mechanized troops of the Eighth Route Army coming up from afar. They can defend at the same time.
Troops were deployed to pursue and intercept the mechanized troops of the Eighth Route Army.
Therefore, Wang Xuexin believed that the Japanese should still take the initiative to launch an attack.
???????But how can we make the Japanese change their battle plan?
In other words, the reason why the Japs did not attack in the direction of Daqingshan was probably because they did not have enough troops... Without enough troops, is it possible for the Japs to take the initiative to launch an attack?
????????Is it necessary to take the initiative to attack?
After thinking for a while, Wang Xuexin asked Chen Songyong: "In the last battle, we raided the Japanese 'Ren Cao Gao Huo' base and seized a batch of launchers. Are they still there?"
"Yes!" Chen Songyong replied without thinking: "Originally we wanted to melt the iron and use it for production, but I think we may not be able to use it in the future, so let them save it.
It’s on fire!”
????????Chen Songyong was thinking that the "Gaohuo" might be moved to the direction of Daqingshan in the future, and then these launchers would be put to use.
????????Wang Xuexin said "hmm" and said: "Put them near the Daqingshan Iron and Steel Plant..."