1180. Weapon superiority is the first to win, and human heart is the last
Although the three battalions of Sangou and Liu Guangyu's 152nd Regiment have no extra soldiers to refuel, the 51st Division has, and the field supplement regiment left in Li Tianxia's hands has not moved.
Division Commander Li also very much agrees with the tactics of refueling after catching the Japanese army in close combat, and now even if the 51st Division is one of the best infantry divisions in the country, there is still a certain gap compared with the Japanese army.
Besides, the troops are getting more and more elite as they fight, and of course, the premise is that they must be supplemented even if they dodge battles, and the troops that avoid battles will not be able to grow elite troops.
As a senior officer at the division level and above, this is very clear, to put it mildly, anyway, they don't need to go to the front line of the battlefield, and the sacrifice of some soldiers on the front line is just a cold number of casualties for them.
Of course, in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were still division commanders and even commanders-in-chief of group armies who died, but that was also a low-probability event, as long as they kept a good distance from the large army to assist in mutual defense, it was difficult to die at the division commander level.
However, compared with many division commanders who are messing around or have little hope, Li Tianxia still has pursuits and ideals, and after he seeks his own politics in his position and becomes a division commander, he naturally wants to continue to be promoted to army commander and commander.
Besides, for every Chinese soldier and every officer, as long as they are Chinese, there is no one who does not hate the Japanese army to the core, and it is estimated that those pseudo-soldiers are also deep in their hearts, but they dare not show it.
In view of these, on the one hand, Li Tianxia wanted military merits to be promoted, and on the other hand, he hated the Japanese army to the core, so he naturally paid great attention to this fight against the Japanese army.
As a capable commander, Li Tianxia understood very well what Shanggao meant to the Chinese army and to him at this time.
Shanggao is lost, his division commander is estimated to be unable to keep it, and the 51st Division is estimated to collapse, so now he would rather sacrifice some more soldiers on the front line to keep Shanggao's last line of defense, Jingshan.
In fact, it is very worthwhile to sacrifice some more soldiers in the front, and their sacrifice will inevitably bring about a huge consumption of Japanese troops, and at the same time, they can also save Jingshan and Shanggao, and even save the lives of most of the officers and soldiers of the 51st Division.
Whether it is an officer or a gambler, they will analyze the pros and cons from the probability, to weigh the pros and cons, as a war, sacrifice is an unavoidable thing, so make these sacrifices worthwhile, meaningful, and more cost-effective.
Therefore, Li Tianxia, who considered the problem from the height of the division level, saw several regiments fighting the Japanese army in close quarters on the front line of Jingshan at this moment, and immediately became excited, and finally waited for this moment again.
The field supplement regiment was divided into three teams, three infantry battalions, and each of them was thrown into the front line of the three regiments.
It seems that the gambler has reached the most critical time to gamble, and all the chips in his hand are out, if Lao Tzu loses today, he will lose them all, and if he wins, he will win a few years of money.
The war is like a game, and I am willing to gamble and lose.
However, as Division Commander Li, he can see and even calculate that this time, he will definitely win, because the Japanese army really has no reserves.
Most of the wins and losses on the battlefield are decided by the last five minutes, and it is often the strong reserves that determine the last five minutes.
The 34th Division of the Japanese Army mainly attacked the line of Jingshan Pass, and only the 216th Wing was a wing, which was only a dilapidated wing, and it was already a wing that was close to running out of ammunition and food.
The 51st Division, with the strong support of tens of thousands of villagers in the mountains and mountains in the rear, wanted people, food, weapons and ammunition, and weapons and ammunition, which were endless, and could never be killed.
This is why the army must strictly enforce military discipline and must not undermine the feelings of the army and the people, and with the support of the common people, why worry about not being able to defeat a powerful enemy.
Now in the mid-mountain position of Jingshan Pass, the soldiers of the third battalion have slowly suppressed the second brigade of the Japanese army, and the scene has slowly turned around, and the Japanese army has already fled sporadically.
This phenomenon like dominoes is about to appear, and the three dogs on the top of the mountain clench their fists tightly, wishing that they would also rush down with a big knife now, slash and kill the enemy, and kill the devil earlier.
However, in the Japanese army's troops, many of the ordinary laws and phenomena of war did not exist, and even if there were sporadic routs, the large army was still strong, and it was only temporarily at a disadvantage.
For such stubborn and perverted devils, unless they are all killed, it will be difficult for them to rout and escape on a large scale.
But it was very difficult for the third battalion to kill so many devils, and it had to pay a lot of money or even the entire army to be disabled.
This is not what Sangou is willing to see, and he would rather fight off the devil first than consume himself too much.
Although the tactic of fighting for the devil's life is good, once it damages its own core interests, as a commander, he is still reluctant to implement it.
This is also human nature, no one wants to play all at once, even if they can win the battle, this is qualitatively different from passively preserving strength.
Most of the troops that preserve their strength are grinding foreign workers and fighting a slippery head battle from the very beginning, and if they do not make any effort to work, they will rush when it is advantageous, if it is not profitable, they will not move, and if it is harmful, they will flee.
For this kind of troops, Sangou has always scoffed and looked down on it, if it is in a miscellaneous army with a difficult life, it can be understood.
But for an elite like the 74th Army, which has relatively sufficient weapons and ammunition, it is simply intolerable that such troops will appear.
You must know that the elite troops of the 74th Army and other major forces were fed with the strength of the whole country, as well as the blood and sweat of the people of the whole country.
Now that the country is so broken, so difficult, and so difficult, it is simply a crime and unforgivable to desperately squeeze out a little blood to feed them, and to grind foreign workers to work without making efforts.
Therefore, when Sangou was the battalion commander, the first thing he did was to say this to the soldiers of the whole battalion, as the defender of the country, he couldn't defend his family and the country, and he had to squander the blood and sweat of the people, and still have the face to live in this world?
Therefore, as long as the three battalions participate in the battle, the officers and men all do their best, and sometimes the officers have to stop it, such an army is the real army and the army of the common people.
The county's 120,000 people and 30,000 young men were all dispatched to transport food, ammunition and wounded to the soldiers on the front line.
This is the advantage, this is the advantage that the Japanese army, which is so strong that it has aircraft, artillery and tanks, cannot be compared, the advantage of weapons can only win for a while, and the advantage of the people's hearts can win in the end.
These advantages are now slowly turning into victory, and the 51st Division, which has strong support, dares to let go of its hands and feet, and dares to release all the last reserves in its hands to make a final duel with the Japanese army.
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