But the commander believed that Wang Xuexin's advantage may be that he never went to a military academy.
"After attending a military academy, your thoughts will be solidified, and your defense methods will be easily guessed by the enemy!" The leader said: "There are many Japanese commanders who study military theory, and they are more experienced than us. No matter which country we learn from
Tactics are easy for them to see through! On the contrary, Comrade Wang Xuexin has unconventional and eclectic ideas, which are different from the tactical ideas of various countries, but they are extremely practical, which makes it difficult for the Japanese to deal with them!"
The chief of staff praised this and said: "I think so too. What about anti-slope tactics, three-by-three tactics, tank battles and even air battles? This guy is like a genius. He can learn everything without a teacher and win the battle."
To him, it's as common as drinking and eating, and he can even teach Yingjiang and Mao Xiong how to fight... He doesn't know that any one of these things would be enough to shock the military and political circles!"
If Wang Xuexin were here to hear this, he would probably secretly feel ashamed. These are not "self-taught". They are all based on military theories that have been finalized or proven to be correct in the future.
As a result, Wang Xuexin was put on the shelf to organize the defense of Yuncheng.
The chief of staff didn't want to let Wang Xuexin go just yet, so he asked: "How are you doing? Do you have any ideas on the defense of Yuncheng?"
"I haven't thought about it yet!" Wang Xuexin was a little nervous, fearing that if he said something wrong, he would die in one encounter.
The chief had had many contacts with Wang Xuexin and knew Wang Xuexin's personality, so he changed his mode and furrowed his brows to pretend to be difficult: "I think the main difficulty in Yuncheng's defense lies in the artillery! We can use the enemy's tanks.
Tanks and mines can be used to solve the problem, as well as rocket launchers, which are all powerful weapons for fighting tanks. We can also partially solve the problem of enemy aircraft after we have Wanxian Airport. But the enemy’s artillery..."
Wang Xuexin agreed with the chief’s statement.
The Chief of Staff is right, regular combat involves systems.
Systematic combat means that shortcomings cannot be used, otherwise it will become a weakness like the "shortcomings principle" and bring down the entire system.
Although the Eighth Route Army has insufficient tanks, it does have anti-tank weapons such as rocket launchers.
Although the Eighth Route Army's aircraft were not as good as the Japanese in terms of quality and quantity, their focus was on defense, and they only defended the narrow corridor in Yuncheng. Coupled with Wang Xuexin's wave tail-biting tactics, they ensured that limited air supremacy was not a big problem.
But in terms of artillery... the Eighth Route Army has almost no artillery. What it does have is only 50 small artillery pieces. Short-range artillery such as ghost artillery has a pitifully small range. It is true that a batch of artillery was seized from the Japanese in Yuncheng before, but the shells
If you can't produce it yourself, you'll lose one shot every time you fire it. It can't be compared with the Japanese's long-range artillery.
The chief of staff immediately understood the chief's intention, and sighed after the chief's topic: "The chief is right, we have analyzed a situation. If the Japanese want to fight a war of attrition with us, they will probably rely on neither tanks nor aircraft.
, the focus is probably on artillery!”
Wang Xuexin nodded in agreement.
This was not just because the Japanese knew that artillery was the Eighth Route Army's shortcoming, but also because the Eighth Route Army was defending Yuncheng.
The characteristic of Yuncheng is that it is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
But this is easy to defend and difficult to attack only for ground attacks...Tanks are used for ground attacks. Of course, the Japanese will not be stupid enough to use tanks to fight a war of attrition. The cost of bombing by fighter planes is high. Only artillery is not only cheap but also easy to overcome.
The group of bunkers on the outskirts of Yuncheng were bombarded with indiscriminate bombardments on the facilities inside the city.
This caused almost no loss to the Japanese. If there was any loss, it was the cost of the shells.
But the Eighth Route Army is different...
Yuncheng is home to hundreds of thousands of people. These people are the foundation for the Eighth Route Army's defense and development. If they knew that the Japs would bomb Yuncheng for a long time and the Eighth Route Army was powerless, those who had the ability would probably flee Yuncheng. After all, no one wanted it.
I spent the whole day in fear of being bombed in the city, and maybe one day I would be sent away by a shell.
"Buying artillery from Yingjiang is definitely not possible!" The leader sang a double act with the chief of staff: "China's external highway is blocked. Even if we have money, Yingjiang's artillery cannot be transported in!"
"No, no, definitely not!" The chief of staff shook his head like a rattle: "Even if the artillery can be transported in, the artillery shells cannot be transported in! The artillery shells are the key point, and that is what requires a lot of transportation capacity!"
The leader waved his hand and said: "Then, what about using aircraft to suppress them? Can't our aircraft launch rockets? Blast their artillery positions into the sky!"
"Chief!" the chief of staff said: "It takes time to dispatch planes. It takes at least ten minutes to get from Wanxian Airport to Yuncheng. After the Japanese radar saw our military planes taking off, they had already ordered the artillery to change positions. It would only be a waste.
Our rockets!"
The leader said "Oh" and nodded: "So, only artillery can deal with it?"
The chief of staff nodded slightly: "The characteristic of artillery is its fast response. If it is hidden in the artillery position, our troops will know their position as soon as the enemy fires, and then they can shoot back the shells within a few minutes! Only then can it be possible to defeat the enemy.
Knock out the artillery..."
"Don't we have rocket launchers?" The leader added, "Fight them with rocket launchers!"
"Chief!" the chief of staff replied: "The range of the rocket launcher is insufficient. The enemy's long-range artillery can easily reach more than ten kilometers or even dozens of kilometers. We can't reach it!"
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The chief and chief of staff spoke to each other.
Wang Xuexin did not believe that the chief and chief of staff would discuss these issues at this time. They already knew it.
However, Wang Xuexin was still successfully aroused by them to solve the problem... Wang Xuexin was like this. If the chief of staff asked: "Comrade Wang Xuexin, what do you think?".
Then Wang Xuexin's mind was completely blank and he had no idea.
But if instead of asking questions, Wang Xuexin would quickly fall into deep thought if he asked questions one by one.
This is indeed a problem that Yuncheng will face, and it seems impossible to solve.
Because artillery is something that cannot be manufactured, especially long-range artillery. It is technically difficult, especially the barrel with high chamber pressure. Without a certain industrial foundation and technology, it is impossible to make it. If you can barely make it, it will explode at every turn.
Just like the Japanese cannot build tank guns in modern times and can only rely on importing them from Hans.
Then, there is a problem in Yuncheng's defense: the Japanese artillery can hit Yuncheng, but Yuncheng has no artillery to fight back, suppress, or counterattack.