For the next month, Lu Hai and the others were training recruits, and in this month's time, the situation has changed dramatically!

At this time, Hong Kong was also directly attacked by the Japanese army, and Changsha failed to defeat two consecutive battles, and the top commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army hurriedly planned to start the third Changsha operation in order to snatch the war with the Japanese army in Hong Kong!

To this end, the Japanese army gathered 30 brigades, the main force of about 60,000 people, and cooperated with the rest of the troops about 300,000 Japanese troops to prepare to attack Changsha again!

At this time, Changsha fought two major battles in succession, especially the Xinqiang River on the periphery of Changsha, the Liuyang River. There is hardly a single intact house in the area of the Laodao River www.biquge.info in the area of the Pen & Fun & Pavilion, especially those positions that have been bombarded by artillery fire are full of craters and a mess!

What I have to say here is that the popular sentiment of Sanxiang is helpful to our army.

From the beginning of the first Battle of Changsha, the people of Sanxiang out of patriotic enthusiasm, in order to cover the battle of our army and delay the Japanese offensive, after the heavy rain, the people took the initiative to break the surrounding roads, and filled the rice fields with water, almost turning the periphery of Changsha into a country.

There was a quagmire everywhere, and the Japanese army's heavy artillery tanks naturally struggled to move forward, which greatly delayed the Japanese offensive, and the Japanese offensive without heavy artillery was exhausted, and finally returned in vain, which was inseparable from the support of the people of Sanxiang.

Xue Yue also sensed that the Japanese attack was coming, and in the same way, General Xue Yue summed up the first two battles for several days, and finally summed up a new set of tactics!

Heavenly Furnace Tactics!

Those who know the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression must know that General Xue Yue's marching formations are all anti-eight-character formations, what is the anti-eight-character formation, that is, the deployment of each army is focused on the two wings, leaving a relatively weak army in front, fighting and retreating, and when the Japanese army is attacking fiercely, the frontal defense troops retreat to both sides to preserve the vitality!

In this way, the Japanese army was gradually induced to go deeper, and then the Japanese army was divided from both sides, and then this big eight characters shrank up to form a huge encirclement, and the Japanese army that penetrated deep into it was surrounded and annihilated by using superior forces!

The terrain requirements for encirclement and annihilation are relatively high, and it is natural to be careful to select the Japanese attack troops in order to be able to lure them in.

After some careful consideration, General Xue Yue immediately chose the place where the Japanese army was encircled and annihilated the place where the Japanese army wanted to fight for the most!

Changsha!

It can be said that this is a rather bold and adventurous idea, Changsha is the main target of the Japanese army this time, and it will definitely gather elite forces to attack forcibly, once the troops stationed in Changsha are unable to tie up the Japanese army, Changsha will fall, and the Japanese attacking troops will drive straight into the collapse of the entire defense line.

Therefore, it is necessary to be very cautious in selecting a force that can only hold Changsha, considering the superiority and firepower of each unit, General Xue Yue finally decided to let the Tenth Army garrison Changsha after thinking for a long time!

The commander of the Tenth Army was Li Yutang, and the two subordinate division commanders were Zhu Yue and Fang Xianjue, and the Tenth Army was indeed good at defensive operations, and in 1939, it was awarded the honorary title of "Taishan Army" for its courage in fighting near the Nanxun Railway.

Not only that, but the equipment of the two armies assisted by the Soviet Union was first reequipped by Xue Yue for the 10th Army and the 74th Army.

In this way, the 10th Army had a considerable number of Bobosha submachine guns and turntable machine guns, plus its own machine guns, the firepower of the 10th Army was already very strong, and with these firepower, the 10th Army's chances of winning in Changsha increased by a few points.

Someone once asked me if the 60th Army had not defended southern Yunnan, would the 60th Army be used to defend the Third Battle of Changsha, after all, the combat effectiveness of the 60th Army was second to none at that time.

The answer is actually no, the combat effectiveness of the 60th Army is not the Central Army, how can this batch of Soviet weapons be handed over to the motley army?

The current 58th Army and the New Third Army did not have the 60th Army, so the number of the First Army was revoked and it was transferred, after which the 58th Army moved with the 20th Army, and the New Third Army moved with the 79th Army.

Xue Yue and others also issued a combat mission, their combat mission was to block the Japanese army in the front for three days, and then move to the two flanks, and wait for the main force of the Japanese army to enter Changsha after outflanking the Japanese army in a roundabout way, blocking the Japanese army's retreat for encirclement and annihilation!

Everyone knows that the retreating Japanese army is often more ferocious, Xue Yue handed over this task to the 20th Army and the 58th Army, which is also due to the combat effectiveness of the 58th Army and the tenacious consideration of the Sichuan Army.

After the order was issued, the 58th Army also made corresponding deployments, and the recruits trained before had been supplemented to each department, and similarly, Lu Daoyuan also specially expanded Lu Hai and them into three capture teams of more than 100 people, led by Lu Hai, led by Zhao Jianying, and led by Hai Zhizhi.

Lu Hai took Li Fan, Zhao Jianying took Yang Decai, and Hai Zhizhi took Mu Yuanliang, their combat mission was to be directly under the direct command of Lu Daoyuan, responsible for peripheral search and battlefield guidance, basically following the practice of the previous 60th Army!

When the 60th Army retreated, because some heavy artillery could not be withdrawn, these equipment were left to the 58th Army to enhance firepower, so Lu Daoyuan and Sun Du decided to follow the tactics of the 60th Army and determine the position of the Japanese army through reconnaissance and search for precision strikes.

In the past few days, all the troops are preparing, and there is a sense of urgency and gunpowder around Changsha in the future, and what Lu Hai also found is that not only the 58th Army, but also the rest of the armies have also greatly strengthened their combat confidence, which is also the confidence that the Japanese army was repelled only in the first two times, and there is finally hope for victory, and even many soldiers feel that this battle is already a must-win!

A day later, after some pre-war mobilization, the 58th Army went to the defensive position, Xinqiang River!

On the side is the 20th Army, that is, the Sichuan Army, and the strength of the two armies is to hold the Xinqiang River for three days, and then move to both sides and let the Japanese army in.

On December 23rd, on a hillside opposite the Xinqiang River, there were several camouflage positions, and Lu Hai and his team were lying here to map and search for information!

Because it had just been pulled out, it was natural to survey the firing points in this area, and in the same way, it was necessary to find out whether the number of the Japanese army was not.

"How? Are they all marked"? Lu Hai asked.

"Mark it out"!

"Have you figured out the number of the devil on the other side"? Li Fan asked.

"I figured it out, did you see that military flag, it's the beasts of the devil's sixth division"!

"Good! These grandsons have crashed into our arms, and this time they must repay the blood debt!" Li Fan also gritted his teeth.

"Battalion commander, why are you so angry when you hear that the devil on the other side is the Sixth Division?" A recruit asked.

"You are a recruit, you don't know, this sixth division is also called Kumamoto Division, it is one of the first divisions of the Japanese army, not only that, but they also have a name, do you know what it is called"? Lu Hai asked.

"What"? The recruit wondered.

"Butcher Division"! Lu Haitie said with a blushing face.

"The Kumamoto Division began to land in Qingdao, but whenever they capture a place, they will start a massacre, killing and injuring countless innocent civilians, and it is also the Nanjing Massacre that year, the most powerful and murderous troops, the same group of brutes all the way to Jian and Ying captive, mutilating countless innocent female compatriots in our country, even 8-year-old girls and 80-year-old ladies do not let go, what do you say they are not butcher divisions"? Lu Hai asked.

"Beat these brutes hard"! The recruit said.

Lu Hai nodded and said: "I haven't been able to meet it before, but now that I have bumped into it, I definitely want to make them look good!"

"By the way, has the river been deeply probed"?

"After the survey, it is now the dry season, and the depth of the river is only 1.4 meters, but it is enough to slow down the Japanese attack"!

"But what I'm worried about is that the Japanese army bypassed our defense line and built pontoon bridges to sneak in, and apart from this road, there will be no favorable terrain for us, once the Japanese cross the river, it will inevitably cause great pressure on our army, and their artillery is very likely to carry out covering bombing against us, and even there may be planes"! Li Fan said.

"If you were a Japanese soldier and you were going to attack here, where would you put your artillery"? Lu Hai frowned and thought about it and said.

Li Fan began to investigate carefully, and it was only after dark that they crossed the river again and returned to their positions, at this time the 58th Army had already built two lines of defense for more than 10 kilometers, and there were still some permanent machine-gun fortresses on the other side of the river. These forts have survived two battles of Changsha, which shows their solidity!

The periphery of the position is sharpened bamboo poles, so as to set up a separation zone, and to delay the Japanese offensive, the position has also been rushed to work for days, digging anti-artillery holes.

After returning to his headquarters, Lu Hai thought for a while and said, "You said that if we bury explosives and gravel and iron pieces on the river beach, what will be the effect of the little devil rushing over and detonating it?"

"And across the river, it is not easy for the little devils' tanks to come over, and they will inevitably drive their tanks to the other side of the river to bombard us, what do you say if we choose the best Japanese artillery position on these river beaches and plant explosives"?

Li Fan slapped his face and smiled, this method is good, it will definitely catch these devils off guard! ”

Lu Hai nodded, picked up the firepower deployment map drawn during the day and rushed directly to the division headquarters, Lu Daoyuan's division headquarters was only five hundred meters away from the forward position, and the two of them came to the division headquarters ten minutes later!

"Report"!

"Come in"! Lu Daoyuan said.

"Division commander, this is the Japanese firepower belt we marked, and the red dot is the most likely place for the Japanese army to deploy artillery"!

"Well, with all this, you will be able to command artillery for precision strikes"!

"Commander, I have another suggestion"!

"You say"!

"I think we can plant explosives on the river beach at the front of the position, cover them with gravel and broken iron sheets, and once the Israeli army crosses the river, detonating them will not only kill and injure a large number of Japanese troops but also counterattack, and similarly, we have also marked the defense line where the Japanese army is most likely to park tanks and combat vehicles, and we decided to plant explosives in these positions as well, so that if the Japanese army comes, they can be caught off guard"!

Lu Daoyuan nodded and said: "This method is good, I will notify them, let them speed up the deployment, you are tired for a day and go down to rest, it is not surprising that the Japanese army will attack in the next day or two"! Lu Daoyuan said.

"We are not too tired, and we are familiar with the terrain on the opposite side, only where the explosives should be deployed, in order to enhance the lethality, we also want to ask the division commander to borrow a few shells to ensure that the Japanese tanks will be blown into scrap metal!" (To be continued.) )