A Dream of Jinling Chapter 317 Solving the Cow (30)

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The pencil swiped on the notebook, and it was a battle-shaped picture compiled by the latest intelligence. Naturally, in the center was the 24th Army, which was besieging Duluth. The city of Duluth and the defenders in the city have been firmly trapped, but the enemy is familiar with the terrain and has no low will to fight, and stubbornly resists in the face of the siege of the Liberation Army. There was no self-collapse.

On the other hand, the 24th Army adopted the tactics of total encirclement when besieging an enemy with the same strength as itself. And outside this thin encirclement, from the west, north, and southeast, several U.S. Army armies are swooping in with different ideas. Behind the American Union Army, which came from the west and from the north, was the Liberation Army that pursued them. Further south of the Liberation Army to the south, the U.S. Army was gathering forces and was ready to move.

Qi Rui held a pen in his left hand and drew these basic contents in his notebook. After marking the corresponding time on the position of the enemy and our troops, Qi Rui stopped his pen, put the notebook more than a meter away from him, and leaned back on the chair to look at the shape.

The army commander Zheng Minglun was walking in from outside at this time, and saw Qi Rui's left hand tapping his head with a pencil, and then looked at the graphics on the notebook. Zheng Minglun couldn't help but laugh and said: "Chief of Staff, your left hand is not good enough, why do you always show off like this?" ”

After hearing this criticism, Qi Rui immediately had the thought of refuting it in his heart...... This picture is not for you to see. If you think about it, of course you can't say it. And Qi Rui actually suspected that Zheng Minglun was actually a little jealous in his heart, because when he was fourteen or fifteen years old, he found out that his father Wei Ze could write beautiful words with both hands, and Qi Rui certainly admired it in his heart. But after trying to write with his left hand, he found that he couldn't handle left-handed writing at all, which made Qi Rui full of jealousy of his father Wei Ze. People's hearts are like this, when they see that others can do things that they can't do, of course a sour anger comes out.

This little psychoanalysis of the army commander was quickly expelled from Qi Rui's mind, and he stood up and said, "Army commander, our army is in good shape. The shape of our 24th Army is particularly good. ”

Qi Rui had been frowning unconsciously all day for the past two days, and now he suddenly said such optimistic words confidently. Judging from his expression, it is natural to tell whether Zheng Minglun has a little jealousy in his heart, but it can definitely be judged that Zheng Minglun is very surprised.

Of course, Qi Rui didn't have the idea of selling Guanzi, he took the very badly drawn picture and spread it in front of the army commander, and pointed to the map with a pencil in his left hand. "I've always felt that things are not quite right, and now I feel that I am confusing the combat efficiency of the troops with the efficiency of the march. So either they feel that the combat efficiency is high, or they feel that the marching efficiency is low. After these feelings were thrown away, our army was now in a situation of encirclement and reinforcements. As long as we can continue to put strong pressure on the enemy in Duluth with a small number of troops, we will place a new part of the defensive position to ensure that our positions are not under unexpected pressure. Then you can make full use of the mobility of our army to inflict heavy blows on the enemy. ”

Zheng Minglun listened calmly, and after continuing to look at the very bad picture, he raised his head and looked at Qi Rui. "You, to the point!"

"I think the point is that we're not defensively thorough enough, and we're not attacking thoroughly enough. Once the battle plan is not thorough enough, there will naturally be problems in its implementation. If we had been able to bring the barbed wire project into the first place, we would have done it a long time ago. Qi Rui told the army commander Zheng Minglun his views on the practical part.

"Humph!" Zheng Minglun sneered after hearing this, "As the chief of staff, do you have the ability to do a good job in the pre-war work of the whole army?" Do you have the ability to deal with the situation in battle? We are a new unit, and if we fail to do that, there will naturally be all kinds of problems. ”

"Yes." Qi Rui very much agrees with the commander's criticism. He had always felt that he couldn't fulfill the duties he had known for a long time, and now Qi Rui could finally sense what the problem was. As for the new motorized infantry, he had no way of determining the combat effectiveness of each unit, let alone the individual units. So at the beginning of the battle, all Qi Rui could rely on was the battle plan he formulated, and all he could rely on was the news obtained from the front line.

Zheng Minglun looked at Qi Rui with a look of genuine understanding, but he couldn't help but look at this young man carefully. To be honest, some people in Tongguò knew that Qi Rui was likely to be the eldest son of Wei Zedudu, but this perception did not make Zheng Minglun really look up to Qi Rui. Those who are veterans who are born and die, they can tolerate nepotism, but what they can't tolerate is that the nepotism of other people's families is an incompetent person. Qi Rui's status as the crown prince not only did not lower Zheng Minglun's standard for Qi Rui, but because Qi Rui's father was too good, Zheng Minglun's standard was raised by several grades.

Qi Rui, like his father Wei Ze, dared to be born and die on the front line, which can be regarded as meeting Zheng Minglun's most basic assessment criteria. And Qi Rui quickly climbed to the position of chief of staff of the army, if it is purely a military chief of staff, it cannot be said that he has fallen below the qualified line, but it is really quite far from an excellent chief of staff.

However, Qi Rui's attitude now is likely to be the delusion of a self-righteous young man, but it is also possible that he really understands. Zheng Minglun looked at Qi Rui and was a little unsure of which type Qi Rui belonged to. After all, motorized infantry is a new branch of troops, not to mention that Qi Rui, a hairy boy who is less than 30 years old, feels uncertain when commanding operations, and veterans like Zheng Minglun also feel that it is very difficult to accurately understand the combat level of the troops.

Looking at Qi Rui's bright eyes, Zheng Minglun suddenly gave up his intention to make a clear judgment. He said to Qi Rui: "Chief of Staff Qi, I want to commend the third battalion of the first division, the second regiment, especially the current deputy battalion commander of the third battalion, Wei Jianjun. He led the troops to dare to fight and rush, and the deputy commander of the third battalion also died, and he was officially appointed as the deputy battalion commander. ”

When it comes to this unit, the first thing Qi Rui thinks of is the regiment commander Hu Xingzhi. The army commander Zheng Minglun didn't mention anything related to Hu Xingzhi at all, which made Qi Rui feel a little weird. Since the battle of the third battalion was so highly praised by the army commander Zheng Minglun, it made Qi Rui feel a little strange that the regiment commander was not evaluated at all.

"Yes!" Qi Rui chose an attitude of not saying much.

Army Commander Zheng Minglun continued: "In addition, you also go to the troops more. I went to the front line for a walk, and it was the third battalion commander who also proposed that all units should quickly modify the general strip of the cooking squad and use it to arrange barbed wire. I think we motorized infantry should have this kind of tool, and there is no shortage of space in the car for these things. ”

"Yes! I'll arrange it right away! Although Qi Rui didn't know what Zheng Minglun saw, the relationship between Tongtiao and barbed wire was not difficult to associate. However, he was even more worried about Hu Xingzhi, if the army commander was satisfied with Hu Xingzhi, he would say "This regiment commander's soldiers are good".

"Shall I inform the whole army immediately about the modification of the general strip?" Qi Rui still takes his responsibilities as his first priority.

"I've already spoken to the division commanders, and they should have started to carry it out. It's what you said about encircling the point to send reinforcements, let's talk about it. Zheng Minglun sat down in a chair as he spoke.

"The enemy doesn't know about our army's mobility and reconnaissance capabilities, so let's give full play to our army's mobility capabilities and give these guys a head-on attack in the area they feel is safe. They had pursuers behind them, and as long as they were attacked head-on, they probably did not have the courage to continue the attack. At that time, the follow-up troops will catch up, and those Yankees will not have to worry about us anymore. Qi Rui is very confident in this.

"But we are really short on troops." In the military education that Zheng Minglun received, the basic concept of "ten rules of encirclement" is that in actual battles, it is necessary to have three times the number of troops in order to carry out a full-scale encirclement war. The 24th Army only has 30,000 troops, and letting 30,000 troops surround and count nearly 100,000 troops is indeed beyond the previous concept of war.

"The motorized infantry is powerful because the forces that can be thrown to the front line in a war are overwhelming against the enemy. The result of my reflection over the past few days is that we have tried to blame the use of motorized infantry and have not brought out the full power of such a force. Speed can help us face problems quickly, but speed alone can't solve problems. If we had agreed to have the water troops of Lake Superior cooperate with us, we would have seized the crossing with heavy forces as soon as we reached Duluth, and began to lay up positions with barbed wire as support points. Now, we've divided and surrounded the enemy. At least once we have completely captured the docks, we will have a steady stream of reinforcements from the troops on the north bank of Superior Hu. The reason why we are fighting like this now is because the troops can't believe that we can do this regardless of the situation. Qi Rui said in the end, his eyes were almost lit up.

Zheng Minglun smiled slightly, "Even if we can really do it all over again, will we be able to take the port?" ”

"That is a test of our 24th Army's ability to attack fortified positions. If you can't take the port with one heart, can you take it half-heartedly like now? Qi Rui was not as relaxed as Zheng Minglun, he answered very seriously.

Looking at the ruthlessness of a young soldier on the face of the young chief of staff, Zheng Minglun put away his smile. This is not because Zheng Minglun thinks that Qi Rui can or can't do it, Zheng Minglun thinks that there is nothing that Qi Qi can do in the war, don't fantasize. What Zheng Minglun must face up to is the attitude of Chief of Staff Qi Rui, young people can only grow up after they have suffered enough and have enough reflection. Those who are good will of course do more than others, and in the same way, they will have more failures than others. Impulse, reflection, and persistence are the common characteristics of these outstanding people.

Undoubtedly, Qi Rui is showing these qualities. So Zheng Minglun said: "Chief of Staff Qi, since you think so, then prepare to hold a meeting with division-level cadres and regiment-level cadres to let them understand and accept your ideas." ”

Zheng Minglun thought that this order would make Qi Rui feel embarrassed, but he didn't expect Qi Rui to just nod slightly and respond seriously: "Yes!" ”