Because there were too many puppet troops who pretended to surrender, one regiment had more than 2,000 people, and the Eighth Route Army's Long March Regiment only had more than 2,000 people in this area.
It would be fine if they were in other places. Zhao Liangzhi asked himself whether he could control these puppet troops if he was prepared.
But here is the front line. There are Japanese soldiers in the front and a group of puppet troops who are pretending to surrender. Once these puppet troops are forced to jump over the wall and attack the Long March regiment from both inside and outside, they will not be able to survive.
However, of course Zhao Liangzhi would not rest assured about putting the puppet troops on the second line. If they were released, they would go deep into the hinterland, and it would be difficult to catch them again.
Therefore, Zhao Liangzhi detained Zhang Qiming on the pretext of understanding the enemy's situation, and immediately asked the correspondent to report to his superiors and request reinforcements.
The information quickly reached Wang Xuexin.
When Wang Xuexin read the telegram, he couldn't help but exclaimed: "Is there still such a thing?"
Chen Songyong said: "Commander, I estimate that the Japanese are going to launch a full-scale counterattack against our army, so they used this method to open a breakthrough in our army's defense line!"
Wang Xuexin looked at the map and pondered for a while, then judged: "No, the Japanese are not counterattacking across the board! Counterattacking across the board doesn't mean much to them!"
A full-front counterattack does not make much sense, because the air supremacy is in the hands of the Eighth Route Army. If we advance across the entire front, the Japanese will not be able to gain anything no matter how hard they fight.
Wang Xuexin believed that the Japanese spent so much effort and sacrificed so much casualties to allow a regiment of puppet troops to sneak into the Eighth Route Army's defense line. Their purpose was certainly not as simple as opening a gap in the defense line or defeating the Eighth Route Army troops in front.
If this is their purpose, they should launch an offensive plan now, because the puppet troops have successfully sneaked into the defense line, and the safety of the Long March Regiment is already on their minds.
So why don't they take action?
Wang Xuexin thought about it for a while and decided that there was only one possibility, which was to wait until dark.
Why wait until dark?
The Japanese would prefer to fight the Eighth Route Army during the day, but now they want to launch an attack at night?
There is only one possibility, fearing the Eighth Route Army's air supremacy.
Besides artillery, those who are afraid of air supremacy are mechanized troops.
If a gap is opened at the position of the Long March Regiment and then mechanized troops are inserted...
Wang Xuexin's eyes moved back along the Long March regiment's position, and soon he saw Longxi Airport about fifty kilometers behind. Then Wang Xuexin understood.
"Their target is Longxi Airport!" Wang Xuexin said: "Or, it can also be said to be a full-scale counterattack!"
Although Wang Xuexin didn't explain it clearly, Chen Songyong knew what he meant as soon as he heard it.
Longxi Airport is an airport that serves as a link between the Steel Factory Airport and Datong Airport.
The distance between it and the upper and lower airports happens to be more than 200 kilometers to about 300 kilometers, which is at the edge of the "La 5" combat radius.
If the Eighth Route Army had this airport, then the "La-5", whether taking off from Datong Airport or the Steel Factory Airport, could use Longxi Airport as a temporary airport, refuel and then go to the front line for combat.
Needless to say what would happen if this airport was taken away by the Japanese and cut off from the middle, and air defense troops were deployed to squeeze the "zero war" in...
"La 5" will always be on the verge of danger due to range issues, fighting the Japanese in a "zero battle".
Even if the "La 5" can return in time every time and then go into battle again, frequent round trips in the air and then flying to Longxi Airport to fight with Japanese fighter jets will in itself be a huge loss to the "La 5" engine.
As a result, the Eighth Route Army's air supremacy on the Datong line would be split in two by the Japanese and they would be unable to reinforce each other.
Then, the Japanese would use the reversal of air supremacy brought by Longxi Airport to launch a full-scale counterattack against the Eighth Route Army.
"What a vicious plan!" Chen Songyong couldn't help but sweat secretly.
The older generation of revolutionaries would always use words such as "vicious" and "insidious" to describe the enemy's battle plans. Wang Xuexin thought this was normal, because he believed that it was normal to use various strategies on the battlefield, as long as poison gas was not used
The bomb did not violate the convention. Intrigue within the range is the norm on the battlefield. It would be strange if it did not happen.
The key is to be able to see through the enemy's tactics and then counterattack accordingly.
Wang Xuexin stared at the map for a while and then asked: "Has the frontline responded?"
"The enemy has not been alerted yet!" Chen Songyong replied: "What Zhao Liangzhi means is to wait for the reinforcements to arrive and then kill them all. At this time, our army already has a regiment and another battalion to reinforce the Long March regiment from two directions!"
The Eighth Route Army still has sufficient strength on the Datong front, and it is not difficult to mobilize a regiment and a battalion.
It is not difficult to imagine that after these two supporting troops arrive, coupled with Zhao Liangzhi's Long March Regiment, they will suddenly take action when the enemy is unprepared. They will most likely clear out the puppet troops who have mixed into the defense line and block the enemy's attack.
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However, Wang Xuexin made a different choice at this time.
"No!" Wang Xuexin said: "Order the reinforcements to stop advancing, and at the same time..."
Wang Xuexin hesitated for a moment and then said: "At the same time, order Zhao Liangzhi to follow normal operations and put the puppet troops on the second line for training!"
"Captain..." Chen Songyong was shocked when he heard this.
If a regiment of puppet troops were mixed with the Long March regiment on the front line, it would be fine. At most, the Long March regiment would suffer some casualties, and the second line would immediately organize a defense and be able to block it.
But if these puppet troops are placed on the second line, they will go deep into the hinterland to form a double attack on the Eighth Route Army's defense line. It is very likely that the Eighth Route Army's defense line will be penetrated in one move.
This is determined by the shallow defense depth of the Eighth Route Army. It is only fifty kilometers from the Long March Regiment to Longxi Airport. The Eighth Route Army has three layers of defense on the front line of ten kilometers... If a puppet army regiment is placed on the second layer
Between the third floor and the third floor, it goes without saying how dangerous this is.
But Wang Xuexin still insisted on doing so.
"Let them in!" Wang Xuexin ordered: "Be prepared before it gets dark, avoid the enemy's sharp edges, and pay attention to defending Longxi Airport. You can lay a large number of mines in front of the airport or on the road!"
Chen Songyong understood immediately: "Captain, are you trying to make Japanese dumplings?"
But Chen Songyong soon realized that he had underestimated Wang Xuexin.
Wang Xuexin stared at Yanmen Pass on the map and said: "Bring back the C47, all of them! Let the airborne troops prepare!"
Chen Songyong was so surprised when he heard this that he could stuff an apple in his mouth.
The airborne troops have only been training for more than a month and have never parachuted from an airplane.