At this time, Xu Rui didn't know that his backyard was on fire. [Full text reading]

Xu Rui usually doesn't drink alcohol, and he only smokes one occasionally when he needs to use his brain, but tonight, Xu Rui made an exception, tonight Xu Rui accompanied Xiang Tianhu to drink the inferior soju of the two tea jars, and his tanned face looked a little red, like Guan Gong.

Yan and Hui poured wine into Xiang Tianhu and Xu Rui's teapot again.

Xiang Tianhu also instructed Tiegang to let the man in the cooking class go to prepare two small dishes with wine, and also deliberately jingled Tiegang to bring the canned beef R seized in Hai'an last time.

While waiting for the food, Xu Rui pretended to be casual and walked to the north wall of the war room and looked up at the map on the wall.

Xiang Tianhu and Yan Hehui also followed, and Xiang Tianhu said casually: Have you ever seen what is famous?

After saying this, Xiang Tianhu couldn't wait to slap himself in the mouth, because his words were clearly with contempt inside, but he was actually despising the other party's inability to understand the combat map, but the problem is, Xu Rui is not one of those clay-legged ** bosses, he can't read the map?

Yan Youhui next to him was also a little worried, worried that Xu Rui would have a seizure on the spot.

But Xu Rui didn't seem to hear Xiang Tianhu's words, and muttered: "Brother Xiang, judging from the battle map, the situation of your department is not very good. ”

Seeing that Xu Rui was not angry, Yan Hehui breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiang Tianhu sighed and said, "It's not very good, it's just extremely bad." ”

After speaking, Xiang Tianhu pointed to the map again and said: "Brother, you see, this protrusion of the little devil is like a nail into the middle of the 540th Regiment on my left flank and the 541st Regiment on the right flank, and what's even worse is that this devil still occupies a high ground, so every move of our department is under the supervision of the devil, and the little devil also made an artillery position on this high ground. ”

Leng Tiefeng hadn't made a sound since he followed Xu Rui into the division headquarters of the 180th Division, but at this time, he finally couldn't help it and asked, "Such an important commanding height, why don't you send heavy troops to garrison it in advance?" ”

"This ......" After showing a touch of embarrassment on Xiang Tianhu's face, in fact, Yan Youhui also reminded him at the beginning and asked him to send at least one battalion to guard this high ground, but Xiang Tianhu did not pay attention to it, and only sent a company to defend it, but the devil was just a surprise attack, and the high ground was lost.

Yan Youhui glanced at Leng Tiefeng and asked Xu Rui, "Brother Xu, this is ......?"

Xu Rui introduced with a smile: "Brother Xiang, Brother Yan, this is my brigade deputy, Leng Tiefeng, he is a high-achieving student who returned from studying abroad at West Point Military Academy in the United States, originally served as a battalion commander in the Tax Police Corps of the Bank of Eight Nations, was seriously injured in the Battle of Songhu, separated from the original troops, and happened to be rescued by the provisional 79th Division passing by. ”

Leng Tiefeng stood upright and saluted towards Tianhu, Yan and Hui.

Xiang Tianhu and Yan Hehui returned the military salute, and then glanced at each other with complicated expressions.

Although it was the first time they met, both of them could see that Leng Tiefeng was by no means simple, he was not only a great talent who returned from his advanced studies at West Point in the United States, but also could see the predicament of their 180th Division at a glance from the map, and he had also participated in the brutal Battle of Songhu, which shows that he is not a staff officer who can only talk on paper.

However, such a talent finally fell into the hands of **, which really makes people sigh.

Xu Rui saw the frustration in Xiang Tianhu and Yan Hehui's eyes, he couldn't help the loss of the two of them, he wouldn't give Leng Tiefeng to others.

What's more, Leng Tiefeng is not an item, he will send it when he says it.

At that moment, Xu Rui said again: "Actually, Brother Xiang, the situation of your 180th Division is not so bad. ”

"The situation of our 180th Division is not so bad?" Xiang Tianhu was stunned for a moment, and asked urgently, "Brother, do you really see what is coming, or is it just to comfort me?" ”

Xu Rui laughed and said: "Brother Xiang Tian is a man who stands up to the sky, and he can be covered when the sky falls, so why do you need a little brother to comfort him?" ”

"So what do you really see?" Xiang Tianhu hurriedly said, "Tell me quickly." ”

"Actually, it's nothing." Xu Rui waved his hand, and then said lightly, "Wouldn't it be okay to recapture the high ground and pull out the protrusion of the devil?" ”

"Gah?"

"That's it?"

Xiang Tianhu and Yan and Hui looked at each other.

Retake the Heights? Pull out the protrusion of the devil?

It's light, as if you can kill those hundreds of little devils and recapture the high ground with a touch of your mouth, but the problem is that this is not something that can be achieved by drawing an attack arrow or a line on the map, you have to really invest troops to attack, and you have to fill it with human lives!

In fact, the 180th Division also tried to recapture the heights, and more than once or twice.

In fact, a large part of the casualties of the 180th Division fell on this high ground!

However, the reality is cruel, the level of the little devil's earthwork is beyond imagination, and in less than three days of occupying the high ground, they have built a complete chain of fortifications on the high ground, in addition to the three main trenches inside and outside, what communication trenches, skirmish trenches, heavy machine gun positions, side S fire points, light and dark bunkers, there is simply everything.

Five days later, the devils even dug through underground communication trenches and transferred troops directly from underground.

In the last attack, the 180th Division directly invested the strength of a regiment and launched a general attack, and the result was that it easily broke through the first line of defense of the devils, and then broke through the second line of defense of the devils, just as the main regiment of the 180th Division was ready to make persistent efforts to break through the three lines of defense of the devils, but a large number of devils suddenly appeared behind them.

In the end, in the face of the devil's two-sided attack, the main force that was put into the attack only withdrew less than half, and since then, Xiang Tianhu has no heart to recapture the high ground.

"Dude." Xiang Tianhu patted Xu Rui on the shoulder, and said earnestly, "It's easier said than done, don't look at the devils in this salient don't have many troops, it's just a brigade, and the height of this highland is not high, at best, it's more than fifty meters high, but the little devil's dirt work, it's really not good to be unconvinced, and the chance of winning is not good." ”

Xu Rui smiled when he heard this, and said to Tianhu that the chance of winning by attacking is not good, it is simply a swollen face and a fat man, and attacking this high ground is not only a small chance of winning, but there is no chance of winning at all!

The little devil's earthwork, Xu Rui knows better than anyone else.

It is only the second year of the full-scale outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army is still in the offensive stage, and there are not many times when it needs to fight defensive wars, so the strength of the Japanese army's earthwork is not known, but Xu Rui is a traverser, he has systematically studied the War of Resistance against Japan, so he knows better than anyone how powerful the devil's earthwork is.

In the seventh year of the Anti-Japanese War, little Japan was already in decline, but in Songshan on the border of Yunnan and Burma, the little devils let the world see their land work.

The devils of less than one unit, like more than two thousand marmots, dug and dug on the Songshan position day and night, and finally almost hollowed out the entire mountain, forming a huge ant-nest fortress, with this fortress, the devil only used less than one wing of troops to withstand the frontal attack of the entire 150,000 ****.

Withstanding the frontal attack of 150,000 **** is not counted, after more than three months of hard fighting, the devil also caused more than 7,000 **** casualties, and countless wounded, and the battle loss ratio of the Chinese and Japanese armies reached an astonishing 5:1.

If you only look at the simple battle loss ratio, 5:1 doesn't seem to be very surprising, in the first two years of the Anti-Japanese War, it is not uncommon to see large-scale battles with a larger battle loss ratio than this, such as the battle loss ratio of the Battle of Songhu reached 10:1, like the Battle of Nanjing, the battle loss ratio of the Chinese and Japanese armies is not at all way to say, saying that it is 30:1 is to put gold on the **** face.

However, there is a fundamental difference between the Battle of Songshan and the large-scale battles of the first two years of the Anti-Japanese War.

This difference is that in the large-scale battles in the first two years of the Anti-Japanese War, **** had neither air superiority nor firepower superiority, and was completely in a passive situation, however, the Battle of Songshan **** not only had an absolute superiority in artillery, but also the Flying Tigers came to help in the sky.

But even so, the Japanese army still played an astonishing 5:1 battle loss ratio.

And the reason why the devils were able to withstand the onslaught of **** for three months in Songshan and kill and injure more than 7,000 **** relied on their excellent soil work ability.

Therefore, Xu Rui knows better than anyone how powerful the devil's earthwork is, and if the 180th Division wants to recapture the high ground by strong attack, it is simply a fool's dream, even if Xu Rui transfers his independent brigade to the main attack, it will not work either.

At that moment, Xu Rui said again: "Brother Xiang, it is definitely not possible to attack strongly, the little devil's earthwork work, we have already seen it in the Battle of Songhu, so if you want to recapture the high ground and pull out the salient of the devil, you have to outwit it." ”

"Outwitted?" Xiang Tianhu was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously asked, "How is it a way to outwit?" ”

"Beheaded!" Xu Rui pointed to the center of the high ground with his finger, and said in a deep voice, "The younger brother will lead a small team to sneak into the high ground and go directly to the command center of the little devil, and when I finish off the devil's command, the old brother will take the cavalry battalion of the iron battalion commander as the forerunner, supplemented by at least one regiment of troops, and attack from the front, it should not be a big problem to take the position." ”

"What, decapitation?" Xiang Tianhu and Yan and Hui looked at each other, somewhat suspicious that something was wrong with their ears.

It's not that Xiang Tianhu and Yan Hehui can't understand the military term of beheading, in fact, as soon as Xu Rui said the whole plan, they immediately understood what the beheading was all about, in fact, it was to destroy the devil command, but Xu Rui's battle plan was beyond the imagination of the two, making them a little unable to keep up with the rhythm of thinking.

For example, there is an old farmer who has been riding an ox cart all his life to catch the market, and you suddenly run over and tell him, "Uncle, let's go to the market by helicopter today, the old farmer will definitely be confused."