The first thing that caught Fang Xianjue's eyes was a hilly and mountainous area created by artificial piles of loess!
"These mountains are all piled up based on the topographic survey results outside Hengyang Nancheng. Due to the limitations of the terrain, the width may not be enough, but the height is the same." Tang Dao pointed to these mountain fortifications and said.
Fang Xianjue's eyes at this time were staring at these mountains that had been cut into nearly 90-degree cliffs, his eyes full of horror.
Of course, the side of these hills facing the attacking side has become a cliff, so if people at the foot of the hill want to go up, they can only set up ladders or stack human ladders to climb up. This is very troublesome, but in fact, this is just the smallest fortification in this mountain.
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On the top of the cliff, there are trenches and communication trenches extending in all directions, connecting all the trenches to form a main mountain defense position!
At the hub of the trench, there is a 1.8-meter-deep foxhole, and there is a simple bullet-proof hole next to the hole. Judging from the 1-meter thick soil layer in the bullet-proof hole, it should be no problem to defend against 75mm mountain artillery.
"Sir, this is to prevent the Japanese army from becoming angry and concentrating artillery fire on our main mountain position. It is used by a small number of observation posts and the officers and soldiers who stay on the front line to block the attack." Facing Fang Xianjue's puzzled gaze, Tang
Dao explained.
"Our regiment has specially tested this type of individual bullet shelter with live ammunition from various types of artillery. If a wooden board is used as the top and a wood as thick as a human leg is used as the beam, it can prevent the 75mm mountain gun from bombarding the top.
Of course, if we have time, we can also build an underground fortification with reinforced concrete and fill it with a 1.5-meter-thick soil layer, so that we can defend against the 105 howitzer and the 150 heavy artillery."
After detouring to the back of the mountain, Fang Xianjue realized why Tang Dao had only left artillery-proof fortifications for the observation posts on the main position.
It turned out that Tang Dao hid the main force behind several mountains.
On the mountainside behind several mountains, there are tunnel fortifications hidden underground. The main troops are hidden in them. They can replenish troops on the reverse slope of the hillside toward the main front position at any time according to the needs of the war situation. The movement is secretive and rapid, and the position
The enemy on the other side cannot be seen at all.
The most important thing is that this reverse slope tunnel has enough protection to minimize the Japanese artillery and air threats.
Excellent at both offense and defense, this refers to this type of mountain fortification!
"The person who can design such mountain fortifications is really amazing. Fang must have learned from it. There are so many talents in your group, which is enviable." The top students who graduated from the third phase of Huangpu could only sincerely admire at this time.
According to his rough calculation just now, if an infantry battalion is placed on such a mountainous area, he will need at least two infantry regiments plus an artillery battalion to capture this position. Even the attack and defense ratio of 5 to 1 feels a bit suspenseful.
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Tang Dao smiled slightly, pointed to the front of the mountain and said, "There are still fortifications there. Chief Fang will go take a look and give some advice."
As we approached the bottom of the cliff and the saddle between the hills, we came into view of a trench that was 5 meters wide and 5 meters deep. There was also a layer of water in the trench that was as deep as the calf.
"Go and line up the water so that the officer can see it more clearly." Tang Dao waved his hand towards Shi Dakuan.
As the soldiers opened the drainage valve, the layout at the bottom of the trench was gradually revealed, and Fang Xiangjue took a breath of cold air.
There are wooden boards laid flat under the deep trench. The wooden boards are studded with steel nails nailed to the sky. Although they are covered with mud, Fang Xianjue believes that if anyone steps on this, those sturdy little feet will definitely be pierced.
It is said that the cowhide boots equipped by the Japanese army are not good, and even a pair of iron leather boots are not good.
On the battlefield, once your feet are injured and unable to walk, the outcome can be imagined.
In addition to this "insidious" arrangement, the outer walls on both sides of the deep trench are made slightly different. The side facing the enemy is slightly tilted outward to facilitate the human body to slide down, while the side facing the defender is made upright at 90 degrees.
Just like a trap for catching shrimps and crabs, it is easy to get in and difficult to get out.
Standing at the bottom of the trench where there were no nails, looking up at the top of the 5-meter-high trench, Fang Xianjue, a veteran soldier, could not help but feel a chill in his heart. If he had fallen into such a situation on the battlefield,
In desperate situation, there are sharp steel nails covered by water under your feet. I don’t know where they are but they will pierce your feet. If you want to get out, you can’t get out. What should you do?
Following the pointing of Tang Dao's finger, a bitter smile appeared on the face of the experienced tiger general. Good guy, Tang Dao doesn't leave any way for people to survive at all!
It turns out that there are actually bunkers set up at the ends and corners of the deep trenches. Two-thirds of them are embedded in the cliff, and one-third extends into the trench. They are surrounded by steel plates, logs, stones and reinforced concrete, and the outer layer is
Covered with loess, it is hidden and solid.
Four machine guns were placed on each side of the bunker toward the firing ports of the trench, with all the muzzles pointing into the deep trench.
Japanese soldiers basically cannot see the bunker before entering the deep trench, but as soon as they enter, they will be shot by machine guns in the shooting holes on both sides of the bunker.
With such strong fortifications, even the 70mm infantry artillery is difficult to destroy, let alone the grenades and hand grenades carried by the infantry.
To put it bluntly, if you encounter this thing in a deep trench, you will have no choice but to wait for death.
Following Tang Dao, he walked into this firepower bunker that was built with great effort. The interior was much larger than Fang Xianjue had imagined. The bunker was equipped with a shooting room, an ammunition room, a shelter room, and an upward tunnel leading directly to the main mountain on the mountain.
Position, this passage can ensure the replenishment of all food, water, ammunition and other materials in the bunker, and can also transport troops and transport soldiers to the rear.
"This kind of bunker is well made, but I'm afraid I don't have the time!" Fang Xianjue sighed after finishing the tour of the bunker.
"Although this configuration is time-consuming and labor-intensive, it allows the soldiers in the bunker to fight in the bunker with peace of mind, without worrying that they are disposable consumables. When fighting the enemy, their morale can continue to be high," Tang Dao said.
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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "And as long as there are engineering design drawings and enough raw materials, the engineering troops only need to construct according to the drawings, and an engineering platoon can build such a bunker in just two days. I am four
The whole regiment has 5,000 people, but I have been an engineering corps for a year. As long as I am given enough materials, it does not take ten days and a half to build a bunker like this. Give me only one week, and I can build it all over the south of the city."
"Haha! Okay, what I've been waiting for is what you said, Commander Tang. The Japanese army is attacking. There are deep trenches in the mountains south of the city, and the bunker complex will be left to your Si Xing Regiment. The 10th Division will be prepared from the division commander Ge Youcai on down.
Everyone is at your disposal. You, Tuan Tang, and General Ge can carry the big bag." Fang Xianjue laughed loudly.
The sharper Tang Dao's fortifications are, the greater the damage to the Japanese army will be. He is even confident that if an infantry regiment owns this fortification, even if the Japanese infantry brigade attacks, they will be beaten to death.
Fang Xianjue even felt impatient, hoping that the Japanese would fight Hengyang as he and Tang Dao had imagined.
Yes, perhaps even this tiger general himself did not realize how much the impact of his close friend who died in the battle of Changde last year had on him, so much so that he would rather devastate the Hunan Province in war than fight the Japanese army to the death to save his close friend.
Revenge, collect blood debt from the Japanese for the three dolls left behind by his best friend.
Fang Xian was by no means a saint. He also had selfish motives. He was extremely eager to use a battle to prove to General Xue, who was deliberately trying to drive him away from the 10th Army, that his judgment of the battle situation was correct, and that General Xue was wrong.
Ridiculous.
Although this proof was extremely cruel and required countless soldiers to sacrifice their blood and lives!
But, isn’t war coming if you don’t want it?
Obviously not. The flames of war always require lives as firewood and the number of casualties as rain before they can gradually be extinguished.
This is an era where the will of a small number of people is dictated by the will of a small number of people. Most of them can only drift with the tide. Even the brave generals like Fang Xianjue and Tang Dao can only try their best to maintain their mettle in such strong winds and waves.
Some of them had a glimmer of consciousness, clenching the gun in their hands, trying to break through the turbulent waves that were constantly devouring their lives, and see the day when they would finally be calm.
"At this time, we have the support of Liuzhou Airport behind us, and air superiority can be guaranteed. The Japanese army is at great risk in operating during the day, so using dark nights to carry out sneak attacks will become the Japanese army's main combat method. Such broken walls and deep trenches can be seen clearly in the daytime.
But at night, the line of sight is limited. It is one thing to observe during the day, but it is another thing to react when you are close at hand." Tang Dao took Fang Xianjue to see all the mountain defense positions and firepower deployment.
Finally, give your final concluding remarks.
At this time, Fang Xianjue's mind had already imagined a scene after the real battlefield.
The positional firepower configuration developed by the Four Lines Regiment is basically based on the principle of "concealment first". Whether it is the entire main position or a deep trench, all light and heavy machine guns will fire sideways. Direct fire is strictly prohibited, forming cross fire with each other.
The nets were used to cover each other to prevent the Japanese army from discovering the perforations and using infantry artillery to remove the fire points.
This also reflects Tang Dao's defensive firepower strategy, which is not to focus on "blocking", but to let the Japanese troops in and fight with the cooperation of carefully designed field fortifications.
It is to control the entire attack line of the Japanese army in the firepower network composed of the defender's light and heavy weapons. When the Japanese army began to charge, under the direct firepower composed of infantry rifles and submachine guns, they could only crawl forward and luckily passed this section.
When the Japanese troops in the firepower network reached the 90-degree cliff, they had to attack upward by setting up ladders or stacking arhats. At this time, they would be greeted by machine gun fire and overwhelming grenade cluster bombardment from across the cliff.
When being beaten by light and heavy machine guns and grenades, the Japanese soldiers could only find bunkers everywhere to temporarily escape in order to survive. At this time, they would roll into the trench without thinking. The Japanese thought that as long as they entered the trench, the defenders would be defeated.
If you can't see them or hit them, you're safe, but you don't know that you'll die faster once you get into a trench.
The six centimeter-long steel nails at the bottom of the trench will make them want to die. The eight machine guns in the bunkers on both sides of the trench will fire at the same time to form a whip that will knock down the Japanese troops like dominoes!
But for the Japanese troops who have already attacked this place, they will be oppressed and driven by machine guns, grenades and mortars from the main position above, and they will be strafed by machine guns below. What is the dilemma? Choose one?
For an adult with enough thinking, they don't want to choose any of them, but they have no choice. The most common way is to face the difficulties and become a dead man from above or below.
This kind of broken wall and deep trench are like a well-designed killing machine. It is attacking every step and killing every step. Any tactical skills are useless in the face of this kind of fortifications and firepower configuration.
Unless the Japanese used artillery to level the mountain and kill all the defenders on the mountain, then there would be a possibility of charging up.
Fang Xianjue's mind already showed the image of the corpses of Japanese soldiers attacking the mountainous area south of Hengyang City.
"Wonderful! The people who designed these deep defensive trenches are really geniuses. Can I meet them?" Fang Xianjue stood on the broken wall, his heart filled with excitement.
"Except for me, the chief officers of the regiment have all gone out to purchase supplies in the past few days. The Japanese are coming. Can't we make some preparations in advance?" Tang Dao said with a slight smile.
He couldn't tell the man in front of him that these trench designs were made by none other than the man in front of him, his chief of staff and the engineer battalion commander.
And this deep trench in front of the broken wall will have a name in the future, called ‘Fangxian Jue trench’!
Yokoyama Isamu's 100,000-strong 11th Army suffered a bloody blow in front of this killing machine.
It has been recorded in time and space that before approaching the urban area of HY, the Japanese army suffered a staggering loss of more than 40,000 people in the battle for the suburbs alone. This number included the fallen Japanese 68th Division Commander Sakuma Naka.
General, the crippled 68th Division Chief of Staff Colonel Harada Sadao, and the killed brigade commander Major General Shima Genkichi.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Okay! There is no one else but you, Captain Tang, who can take precautions for a rainy day." Fang Xianjue nodded.
"Now tell me what the 10th Army is going to do now. If it is necessary to make some position arrangements on the outskirts of Hengyang City in advance, I can arrange for the 3rd Division and the Reserve 10th Division to be deployed first. But there is nothing I can do inside the city now, so
After all, it is Mayor Zhao’s territory. Although he is a good friend of mine, he is also under Commander Xue. If there is a big move in Hengyang City, it will be difficult for him to explain to Commander Xue who has promised that there will be no major war in Hunan Province."
"My opinion is exactly opposite to Chief Fang's." Tang Dao shook his head.
"At this time, there must be Japanese informants inside and outside Hengyang City. If the 10th Army builds key fortifications in the south of the city now, the Japanese army will have enough time to adjust their deployment. It is not too late to wait until the Japanese army's combat intentions are completely exposed.
But in Hengyang City, there is no delay. If building fortifications on the ground is not possible, then we should start underground first.
For example, starting from the headquarters of the 3rd Division of the 10th Army in Hengyang City, from now on, underground passages will be secretly dug to ensure that even if all ground telephone lines are blown up, communications troops can still reach various positions through the tunnels.
, and can even transport troops to occupied positions through tunnels.
In short, when it comes to street fighting, these underground passages extending in all directions will be of great help to my defenders."
"You got the inspiration from the tunnel warfare in southern Hebei, right? I heard that in southern Hebei, your Four Troops led the people to hollow out the entire village's underground and beat the Japanese until they were stunned." Fang Xian.
Absolute way.
"Hey! Chief Fang was wrong. It's not the entire village's underground, but all the underground. By the time our Fourth Corps was ordered to leave North China, 80% of the villages in southern Hebei had tunnels that communicated with each other. The soldiers and civilians could use them at any time.
Transfer. Just the excavated loess was used to create hundreds of artificial hills. We hollowed them out and made many shooting holes in them, so that we could conduct long-distance shooting at the Japanese troops running through the wilderness from a high position.
Shoot from a distance." Tang Dao chuckled.
Fang Xianjue took a deep breath and gave Tang Dao a sincere thumbs up.
No wonder this man suggested that he dig tunnels in Hengyang City, which almost hollowed out the entire underground area of southern Hebei Province.
It’s no wonder that the Japanese North China Front Army, which had nearly 300,000 troops, was unable to defeat the Four Elements Regiment in the Taihang Mountains. It was also defeated by the Four Elements Regiment in the plain area of southern Hebei.
Tang Dao is a monkey that runs away after scratching people in the mountains, and a fox that burrows into the ground after one bite in the plains. Who can guard against such a good person?
With such a strong general and strong military support, no matter how many people Hengshan Yong brings, I will still have his mouth full of teeth broken.
In the evening when the sky was filled with sunset, the Lieutenant General Counselor, who was about to become famous all over the world, suddenly felt extremely confident.
However, perhaps even he himself did not expect that Yong Hengshan, who had not long since regained the throne as commander of the 11th Army, was also staring at Tanzhou and Hengyang at this time.
The eyes of this Japanese Army Lieutenant General, who is known for his tenacity, are also full of determination.
Everyone has the chance to make a comeback after failure, but he, the reinstated army commander, does not have the opportunity. He must succeed in the first battle!
