cpa300_4; At this time, Xu Rui did not know that his backyard was on fire.
Xu Rui usually doesn't drink. He only smokes once in a while when he needs to use his brain. But tonight, Xu Rui made an exception. Tonight Xu Rui just drank two full cigarettes with Xiang Tianhu.
The big tea vat of low-quality soju made his tanned face look a little red, like Guan Gong.
Yan Yuhui filled Xiang Tianhu and Xu Rui's tea jars with wine again.
Xiang Tianhu then ordered Tiegang to ask the cooks in the cooking team to prepare two side dishes for drinking. He also specially ordered Tiegang to prepare two cans of beef that were seized in Hai'an last time.
While waiting for the food, Xu Rui walked to the north wall of the war room pretending to be casual and looked up at the map on the wall.
Xiang Tianhu and Yan Yuhui also walked over. Xiang Tianhu said casually: Did I see any tricks?
After saying this, Xiang Tianhu wanted to slap himself in the face, because his words were clearly contemptuous. In fact, he was despising the other party for not being able to understand the battle map. But the problem is, Xu Rui is not
Those big bosses with mud-legged backgrounds, how could he not be able to read a map?
Yan Yuhui next to him was also a little worried, worried that Xu Rui would have a seizure on the spot.
But Xu Rui seemed not to have heard Xiang Tianhu's words, and said thoughtfully: "Brother Xiang, judging from the combat map, your department's situation is not very good."
Seeing that Xu Rui was not angry, Yan Yuhui breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiang Tianhu sighed and said: "It's not just not very good, it's simply extremely bad."
After finishing speaking, Xiang Tianhu pointed at the map again and said: "Look, brother, this protruding part of the little devil is like a nail driven into the middle of my left wing 540th Regiment and my right wing 541st Regiment. What's more terrible, this devil's protrusion is like a nail.
It still occupies a high ground, so every move of our unit is under the surveillance of the Japs. The Japs also set up an artillery position on this high ground. No matter whether our unit deploys troops or transports military supplies to the front line, it will be attacked.
When the enemy's artillery fire blockades us, it's really uncomfortable to even move."
Leng Tiefeng had been silent since he followed Xu Rui into the 180th Division headquarters, but at this time he finally couldn't help it and asked: "Why don't you send heavy troops to garrison such an important commanding height in advance?"
"This..." Xiang Tianhu showed a hint of embarrassment. In fact, Yan Yuhui also reminded him at the beginning, asking him to send at least one battalion to guard this high ground. However, Xiang Tianhu did not pay attention to it and only sent out
One company held the position, but the Japanese only made a surprise attack and the high ground was lost.
Yan Yuhui glanced at Leng Tiefeng and asked Xu Rui: "Brother Xu, who is this..."
Xu Rui introduced with a smile: "Brother Xiang, Brother Yan, this is my brigade deputy, Leng Tiefeng. He is a top student who returned from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He was originally the battalion commander of the Eight-Country Bank Tax Police Corps. Song
He was seriously injured in the Battle of Shanghai and separated from his original troops, but was rescued by the temporary 79th Division passing by."
Leng Tiefeng stood up straight and saluted Tianhu, Yan and Hui.
Xiang Tianhu and Yan Yuhui returned the military salute, and then looked at each other with complicated expressions.
Although it was their first meeting, both of them could see that Leng Tiefeng was anything but simple. Not only was he a talented person who had returned from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, but he could also see the predicament of their 180th Division at a glance from the map.
He also participated in the brutal Battle of Songhu, which shows that he is not a staff officer who can only talk on paper.
However, it is really disappointing that such a talent finally fell into his hands.
Xu Rui saw the disappointment in the eyes of Xiang Tianhu and Yan Yuhui. He had been helpless in dealing with the loss of these two people, and he would not give up Leng Tiefeng.
What's more, Leng Tiefeng is not an item, he can be given away as soon as he is given.
Xu Rui then said: "Actually, Brother Xiang, the situation of your 180th Division is not that bad."
"The situation of our 180th Division is not that bad?" Xiang Tianhu was stunned for a moment and asked urgently, "Brother, did you really see something, or are you just trying to comfort me?"
Xu Rui laughed loudly and said: "Brother Xiangtian is a man who stands upright to the sky. If the sky falls, he can be used as a blanket. Why do I need my little brother to comfort me?"
"So what kind of secret have you really seen?" Xiang Tianhu said anxiously, "Tell me quickly."
"Actually, it's nothing." Xu Rui waved his hand and continued lightly, "Wouldn't it be enough to take back the high ground and pull out the Japs' protrusions?"
"Gah?"
"That's it?"
Xiang Tianhu and Yan Yuhui looked at each other.
Retake the high ground? Remove the enemy's protrusion?
It sounds easy, as if you can kill hundreds of little Japs and recapture the high ground with just a touch of lip service. But the problem is, this cannot be achieved by drawing an attack arrow or a line on the map.
Then you have to put in real troops to attack, and you have to fill it with human lives!
In fact, the 180th Division also tried to retake the high ground, more than once or twice.
In fact, a large part of the casualties of the 180th Division fell under this high ground!
However, the reality is cruel. The level of the Japs' soil work is beyond imagination. In less than three days of occupying the high ground, they built a complete chain of fortifications on the high ground. In addition to three main trenches inside and outside,
Traffic trenches, foxholes, heavy machine gun emplacements, side fire points, light and dark bunkers, everything is there.
Five days later, the Japanese even dug underground communication trenches and mobilized troops directly from underground.
In the last attack, the 180th Division directly invested a regiment of troops and launched a general offensive. As a result, it easily broke through the Japanese's first line of defense, and then broke through the Japanese's second line of defense. Just as the main regiment of the 180th Division was preparing to make persistent efforts
After breaking through the three lines of defense of the Japanese, a large number of Japanese suddenly appeared behind them.
In the end, facing the Japanese attack from both sides, the main group that launched the attack only withdrew less than half of it. From then on, Xiang Tianhu no longer had the heart to recapture the high ground.
"Brother." Xiang Tianhu patted Xu Rui's shoulder and said earnestly, "It's easier said than done. Don't look at the small number of Japs in this protruding area, just one brigade, and the height of this highland is not high.
It's only over fifty meters high at best, but it's really hard to resist the little devil's earthwork work. If we attack by force, we have little chance of winning."
Xu Rui laughed when he heard this, and told Tianhu that the chance of winning by force was not high. It was just trying to make a fool of himself. The chance of winning by force on this high ground was not only low, but there was no chance of winning at all!
Xu Rui knows the little devil's construction work better than anyone else.
It is only the second year since the Sino-Japanese war broke out. The Japanese army is still in the offensive stage and there is not much time to fight defensive wars. Therefore, the power of the Japanese army's civil work is not yet known, but Xu Rui is a time traveler.
He had systematically studied the War of Resistance Against Japan, so he knew better than anyone else how powerful the Japanese's land work was.
In the seventh year of the Anti-Japanese War, little Japan was already in decline, but in Songshan on the Yunnan-Myanmar border, the little Japanese allowed the whole world to see their soil work.
The Japs of less than one regiment were like more than two thousand groundhogs, digging and digging day and night on the Songshan position. In the end, almost the entire mountain was hollowed out, forming a huge ant nest fortress. With this fortress
, the Japanese used less than one regiment of troops to withstand a full frontal attack of 150,000 people.
Not only withstanding a frontal attack of 150,000 men, but after more than three months of hard fighting, the Japanese also caused more than 7,000 casualties and countless injuries. The battle loss ratio between the Chinese and Japanese armies reached an astonishing 5:1.
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If you only look at the pure battle loss ratio, 5:1 does not seem very surprising. In the first two years of the Anti-Japanese War, large-scale battles with greater battle loss ratios than this were common. For example, the battle loss ratio in the Battle of Songhu reached 10:1
, like the Battle of Nanjing, there is no way to say the battle loss ratio between the Chinese and Japanese armies. To say it is 30:1 is to flatter one’s face.
But there is a fundamental difference between the Songshan Battle and the large-scale battles in the first two years of the Anti-Japanese War.
The difference is that the large-scale battles in the first two years of the Anti-Japanese War had neither air superiority nor firepower superiority, and were completely passive. However, the Songshan Battle not only had absolutely superior artillery, but also the Flying Tigers came to help in the sky. It was completely
They took the initiative, but this time it was the Japanese who were passively beaten!
But even so, the Japanese army still achieved an astonishing battle loss ratio of 5:1.
The reason why the Japanese were able to survive three months of fierce attacks on Songshan Mountain and kill more than 7,000 people was because of their excellent soil work ability.
Therefore, Xu Rui knew better than anyone else how powerful the Japanese's earthwork operations were. It was a fool's dream for the 180th Division to retake the high ground with a forceful attack. Even if Xu Rui transferred his independent brigade to focus on the attack, it would still be impossible.
At that moment, Xu Rui said again: "Brother Xiang, a forceful attack is definitely not possible. We have already seen the Japs' soil work during the Battle of Songhu. Therefore, if we want to regain the high ground and remove the Japs' protrusions,
You still have to outsmart yourself.”
"Outwit?" Xiang Tianhu was stunned for a moment and subconsciously asked, "How to outwit?"
"Behead!" Xu Rui pointed at the center of the high ground with his finger and said in a deep voice, "The younger brother will lead a small team to sneak into the high ground and go straight to the little devil's command center. When I take away the devil's command center, I will come again.
With Battalion Commander Tie's cavalry battalion as the vanguard, supplemented by at least one regiment of troops, attacking from the front, it shouldn't be a big problem to capture the position."
"What, beheading?" Xiang Tianhu and Yan Yuhui looked at each other, somewhat suspecting that there was something wrong with their ears.
It's not that Xiang Tianhu and Yan Yuhui couldn't understand the military term beheading. In fact, as soon as Xu Rui explained the whole plan, they immediately understood what beheading was about. In fact, it was to destroy the Japanese headquarters. However, Xu Rui's battle plan
But it was beyond their imagination, making them unable to keep up with the rhythm of their thinking.
For example, if there is an old farmer who has been riding a bullock cart all his life to go to the market, and you suddenly run over and say to him, "Uncle, let's go to the market by helicopter today, the old farmer will definitely be confused."