Chapter 1006 The brigade commander also has to engage in defense in depth
The deputy chief of staff continued to remind.
"But brigade commander, the range of heavy artillery is too far. If it is mounted five or six kilometers away, the artillery shells can be easily fired into Laiyuan City. But we don't have artillery that can shoot such a distance at all. How can we eliminate this threat?"
The brigade leader thought about it, and a smile appeared on his lips.
Pointing at the city defense map, he began to give orders: "You immediately draw four guard regiments and four infantry squadrons from the garrison in the city, leave the city immediately, and establish a defense line three kilometers outside the city."
"One regiment of the Imperial Army and one infantry squadron of the Imperial Army defend one direction."
"The range of our mountain field artillery and mortars can reach three kilometers. The defense line outside the city is three kilometers away from Laiyuan City, which adds up to six kilometers. Unless the garrison regiment deploys heavy artillery within the range of our mountain field artillery, otherwise it will
It cannot threaten the security of Laiyuan City."
The worried look on the deputy chief of staff's face did not ease, and he continued to ask: "What about our troops deployed outside the city?"
"Heavy artillery can't hit Laiyuan City, but it can hit them from a long distance. And when the artillery fires, they don't even have a chance to fight back."
The brigade leader responded confidently: "The solution is simple."
"We built several more lines of defense outside the city. The lines of defense were one hundred meters apart to form a depth of defense. The troops were divided to defend each line of defense, instead of being concentrated on one line of defense as before."
"If the garrison attacks us, even if they deploy heavy artillery, they can only attack one line of defense a day."
"What the garrison outside the city needs to do is to use these lines of defense to engage in melee with the offensive troops of the garrison, and engage them in close combat to render the heavy artillery useless."
"There are more than four thousand Imperial Army troops and one thousand Imperial troops. Even if three Imperial Army troops cost the life of one Eighth Route Army in the melee, these five thousand people can still consume more than two thousand troops of the garrison."
"How many people do they have in total? Without more than two thousand people, do you think they still have the strength to continue attacking Laiyuan City?"
"There is no need for them to attack then. I will directly lead the remaining garrison in Laiyuan City to fight out. I will fight them decisively when they are at their weakest and kill them."
The brigade leader's defense regiment is very familiar with this strategy and has just used it.
Facing the attack of a main Japanese division, in order to weaken the threat of Japanese aircraft and heavy artillery, the garrison prepared four defensive positions with a depth of more than two kilometers. It not only blocked the Japanese for two days, but also used the depth of defense to consume four to five thousand of them.
people.
The brigade commander repeated his old tricks in front of the garrison, and the result was definitely not much better.
The advantages of base area operations were well demonstrated in this battle.
The common people and the guerrillas are all the eyes and ears of the garrison.
As soon as the Japanese and puppet troops started taking action, the news reached the headquarters of the garrison regiment.
"Commander, why don't you start attacking now, before the little devils' defenses are built in depth, and catch them off guard?" Hong Linfeng suggested with an eager look on his face.
Li Hao did not deny: "The current attack can indeed catch the Japanese and puppet troops by surprise, but it will also bring about another problem."
"Without a defensive position, will the Japanese and puppet troops retreat directly and return to Laiyuan City after being attacked?"
"Definitely!" Hong Linfeng replied with a frown.
The key to the garrison taking over Laiyuan City is whether it can eliminate part of the Japanese and puppet troops outside the city and weaken the strength of the defending troops.
If these Japanese and puppet troops are driven back to Laiyuan City and continue to huddle in their turtle shells, then the attack will not only be meaningless, but it will be counterproductive.
As a result, the proposal was rejected before discussion began.
"We will attack after the Japanese and puppet troops have built up deep defenses." Li Hao suddenly said.
This answer was something Hong Linfeng had never thought of.
The garrison used this defensive depth to not only block the Japanese joint air-ground attack, but also killed a large number of Japanese and puppet troops in the battle.
The offensive that the garrison is about to launch will definitely not be comparable to the Japanese army's joint air and ground attack.
Even the Japanese can't do anything with this kind of defensive depth. If they lose their troops and generals in front of it, can the garrison regiment do it?
A big question mark flashed in Hong Linfeng's mind!
Moreover, the combat policy of this battle was set from the beginning: use heavy artillery on a large scale to reduce the casualties of troops on the battlefield.
After the Japanese and puppet troops' defenses are built in depth, the two armies will definitely fight together during the attack, and the heavy artillery will be ineffective.
Correspondingly, the casualties of the attacking troops will also increase greatly.
What the garrison is most lacking right now is veterans, and if one dies, there will be one missing, so the troops must never be allowed to suffer large-scale casualties in battle.
In this case, the regiment leader's decision is undoubtedly in conflict with the combat policy formulated from the beginning...
Thinking of this, Hong Linfeng's brows were already twisted into a big "Sichuan" sign, and then he was ready to speak out his worries.
But Li Hao didn't give him a chance to speak and ordered directly.
"Chief of Staff, there are two things you need to do now."
"One is to find the pistols in the regiment headquarters' inventory and the pistols we seized from the Japanese during this period, whether they are Mauser pistols, box guns, or bastard boxes,"
"The second battalion, the third battalion, the special agent battalion, the independent battalion, draw out a main company, and each soldier is equipped with a pistol and fifty rounds of matching pistol bullets. If the number is not enough, it will be sent from the regiment headquarters, logistics agency, air defense battalion, and heavy artillery battalion.
Tune in."
"In addition, I also have a request for this main company: no soldiers with night blindness in the entire company from the company commander on down. If so, they will be transferred directly to other infantry companies."
"The second thing: order the arsenal to take out all the gunpowder in stock and work overtime to produce mine cannon shells and propellant."
"All the extra gasoline barrels in the logistics department are processed into thunder cannons. The more, the better."
By the end of the sentence, Li Hao had a sneer on his lips.
"The little devil will definitely continue to miscalculate this time."
"Metal combat and hand-to-hand combat can indeed offset the threat of heavy artillery and cause a lot of damage to the attacking troops."
"But it's not like you can just pull out a random army and fight."
"Without strong combat effectiveness and strong will to fight, no matter how good the battle plan is, it will not be implemented."
"If the Japanese army sends out only their own people, or most of them are their own people, I will still be wary of three points. I would rather not fight this battle, but also control the casualties of the troops."
"But the ones they sent were all Imperial Army troops, and only a few of them were their own people."
"Although these puppet troops have good combat effectiveness, they will definitely not fight for us for the sake of the Japanese. They do not have such a strong will to fight, and there are not many puppet soldiers who sincerely want to be traitors and sacrifice their lives for the Japanese."
"As long as the Japanese and puppet troops on the first line of defense suffer heavy casualties or are completely wiped out by us, the morale of the other Japanese and puppet troops will definitely be in chaos. Then our opportunity will come."