Chapter 781 Change the comprehensive defense to the key defense
The commander's face turned gloomy again!
The chief of staff was absolutely right. Although he tried his best to overestimate the garrison, he still underestimated it in the end!
Especially in the face of their endless combat methods, the military commander felt very powerless and could almost be said to be defenseless!
And after this battle, the strength of the garrison will definitely be further improved!
If all the opponents of the military commander were ranked in order, the status of the garrison would definitely be on a higher level than before.
Turn your attention back to the sand table!
The Imperial Army has lost this battle. As the commander, what I need to do is to stop the losses, find a way to organize the garrison to continue to grow and develop, and wait until the independent mixed brigade is in place before sending troops to attack the garrison!
After thinking for a few minutes, he decided to change the tactics currently being implemented by the imperial army!
The general blockade is useful for the ordinary Eighth Route Army, but it is useless for the garrison!
They are equipped with a large number of siege artillery and sufficient ammunition. Regardless of the turrets or bunkers, they are like paper in front of them!
Unless a three-dimensional and deep defense line is established, infantry and artillery coordinate to defend!
But this requires too many troops and a lot of heavy weapons!
The Imperial Army does not lack heavy weapons, but it lacks soldiers. Otherwise, the Imperial Army would not have been formed in large numbers to assist the Imperial Army in defending local areas and free up the main force of the Imperial Army for frontal combat!
Thinking of this, the army commander made a decisive decision: "We will not build a new blockade!"
The chief of staff's eyes immediately widened, and he asked with a look of disbelief: "Sir, without a blockade, wouldn't the Eighth Route Army be able to enter our occupied areas at will and attack us, as if they were in uninhabited territory?"
The commander snorted coldly and replied: "Come whenever you want and leave whenever you want. It's not that easy!"
"Everyone has experienced the battles of these two nights, and the battle process is also clear! If we continue to build a defense line as before, then the troops we deployed on the blockade will be like a sheep in a tiger's mouth, giving the garrison a vain victory!"
"Do you want to see the Imperial Army lose thousands of people in two nights?"
The chief of staff was speechless!
The assault capability of the garrison was fully demonstrated in these two nights, and it was no less than the elite of the imperial army!
Ordinary blockades really can't stop them!
But if a blockade is not established, then allowing the Eighth Route Army to enter and exit the area occupied by the Imperial Army will be like entering an uninhabited land!
The chief of staff also couldn’t imagine this scene!
So there was a look of hesitation on his face!
Want to talk but don't know what to say?
I want to refute it, but I rack my brains and can’t think of a reason to refute it!
The army commander promptly explained: "Don't worry, everyone, what I said about not building a blockade does not mean that the garrison can freely enter and exit our occupied area!"
"After two days of fighting, the offensive troops of the garrison were indeed overwhelming, but facing our large strongholds and county towns, they still had no choice, or they could not take them down in a short time, and the battle lasted until dawn, or there were too many casualties!"
"In order to avoid our air strikes, the garrison can only fight at night!"
"Whether it's an offensive or defensive battle or a positional battle, as long as we can hold on until dawn, we will be the final winner!"
"Judging from the performance of the garrison's counterattack this time, they can defeat us. Their equipment advantages, especially heavy weapons, give them a great advantage!"
"The other thing is to catch them by surprise and attack them unprepared!"
"Especially in the two ambush battles, we were deceived through false information, and the troops were suddenly dispatched to attack us without any precautions!"
"So as long as we solve these two points, the garrison will not be able to do anything to us!"
"My idea is to establish several large strongholds at the junction between us and the garrison's base area, concentrate all the scattered troops there, and then strengthen a sufficient number of heavy weapons to rely on these strongholds to block the momentum of the garrison's outward expansion!"
The chief of staff immediately turned his attention to the sand table and answered after looking at it for two full minutes!
"Sir, two reinforced squadrons will strengthen a certain number of mountain artillery and heavy mortars, and paired with twice the number of Imperial Army troops for coordinated defense, we will definitely be able to defend a stronghold impregnably!"
"Even if the defense regiment gathers a large number of troops to attack, this troop configuration is enough for them to persist for one night, and it can cause heavy damage to the defense regiment's attacking troops!"
"However, a large stronghold is stationed with two reinforced squadrons. According to this standard, our troops on the temporary defense line are only enough to build four large strongholds!"
"If all the troops who took the initiative to retreat during the day yesterday returned, we could build two more!"
"But the defense team's appetite is too big, they just swallowed them up!"
"Five strongholds defend a blockade of nearly 100 kilometers, which is equivalent to 20 kilometers between each stronghold!"
"Is this distance too wide? The garrison can definitely pass through these defense loopholes quietly and enter our occupied area!"
The commander's expression remained unchanged and he continued: "I'm still looking forward to them coming in!"
"Five large strongholds separate us from the garrison base!"
"In addition to the standard equipment you mentioned just now, Chief of Staff, I also need to strengthen each stronghold with a tank unit, a car transport team, and a certain number of cavalry!"
"After the Eighth Route Army enters our occupied area, it will inevitably launch an attack on the Imperial Army!"
"We have also given up all the small strongholds and artillery towers in the occupied area, concentrated our forces to defend all medium and large strongholds, important towns, and traffic arteries, and changed all-round defense to key defense to ensure that each stronghold can hold out for two times after being attacked by the garrison.
More than hours!”
"If the garrison regiment dares to attack these strongholds, the nearby large strongholds will quickly send troops, using cars to travel, rush to the battlefield, block the garrison regiment's back road, attack from both front and rear, and kill them!"
"As long as they dare to enter the area occupied by the imperial army, we will keep them here. They can come in but cannot get out!"
"In addition, the reconnaissance force and the intelligence department must also work closely together to prevent the inaction like before."
"I said that for a reason!"
"Especially the night before yesterday, we made a wrong decision that led to the disastrous defeat of the Imperial Army. The key problem is that we got wrong information and then made wrong judgments!"
"I don't want the same thing to happen again!"
"After two days of fighting, the strength of the garrison has been exposed!"
"I ask them, from now on, to keep an eye on these troops at all costs. All military movements of more than one company must be reported, and then arrange for people to keep an eye on them!"
"Although there are only five strongholds left in the blockade, the Imperial Army's intelligence personnel and reconnaissance troops must be densely deployed. Once a garrison regiment passes through, they will immediately report to nearby strongholds and keep an eye on them!"
"Then arrange the troops in a unified manner to encircle and annihilate them!"
"As I said just now, I want them to come in and not get out!"
