As soon as the artillery stopped, the officers and men of the national army in the main battlefield area quickly reinforced the outpost through the communication trenches, and quickly blocked the enemy's offensive, and a tragic positional battle was officially staged.

Jiang Haoran put down the binoculars, pointed ahead, and said, "Chief of Staff, what is the name of the battalion commander in front?" ”

This really stopped Huang Jie, the expeditionary force has more than 100,000 horses, which is equivalent to a war zone in China, and if he, the chief of staff, says that a regiment commander may barely be able to do it, and he will basically stop eating at the battalion commander level, and it is not easy to answer Jiang Haoran.

Mei Xiang was still smart, and immediately opened the folder in his hand, opened the battlefield configuration table, which had the names of commanders at all levels, and replied crisply after a hurried browsing: "Lieutenant Colonel Battalion Commander Tian Long, graduated from Yunnan Jiangwutang Infantry Division, experienced the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Xuzhou, and received many awards. ”

In order to let Jiang Haoran understand the commanders at all levels on the battlefield, Mei Xiang and Mei Xin, the two secretaries, usually put a small card under the commander's name on the configuration table, so she can accurately tell their basic situation.

"Okay, this Tian Long fought well, if he can survive, give him a regiment commander." Jiang Haoran ignored Huang Jie's embarrassment at all, and said with a big grin.

Huang Jie hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Okay, his performance just now is really good, a grassroots officer like this should be promoted." However, there is a question I don't understand, this enemy artillery fire is so fierce, and we have such a cutting-edge helicopter gunship in our hands, it is easy to surprise the Japanese artillery positions, why not destroy them? ”

Jiang Haoran glanced at Huang Jie, and coaxed: "A small artillery position is not in my eyes, what I want is the entire 38th Division!" ”

"Ah??????h Huang Jie was suddenly petrified, and looked at Jiang Haoran in disbelief with his mouth open, although the battle plan was made by him and Jiang Haoran with the staff team, but in the whole plan, there was only to defend against the enemy, he really didn't know that Jiang Haoran had the ambition to swallow the 38th division of the Japanese army, and he didn't know why Jiang Haoran could swallow a division of the enemy, you must know that the three divisions of the entire 75th Army only had more than 24,000 people, and the establishment of the three B divisions was not enough, and one and a half divisions were used to guard against other dangerous positions in the river valley, On this main battlefield in the low-lying valley of the river valley, there are only one and a half divisions of less than 12,000 people, and with these 12,000 people, can they swallow a division of the Japanese army? What's more, Jiang Haoran also said that the enemy's divisions and regiments are all strengthened, so the strength is at least more than 30,000, and they may also be equipped with armored wings, which is even more incredible.

Of course, they also have a tank regiment and fifty helicopters, but with these they don't have the ability to eat a division of 30,000 troops?

In fact, in Jiang Haoran's plan, there was really the idea of annexing the 38th Division of the Japanese Army, but he didn't want to put too much pressure on the generals below, and at the same time, he was really afraid of scaring them, and even last night another 70 armed helicopters flew into the nearby jungle, and he didn't tell everyone, he didn't want to see these generals pin all their hopes on armed helicopters and tanks, and if the Japanese army came in without scruples, it was necessary for the Japanese army to see the Chinese army's will to resist to the death and the despair of the powerless follow-up. And this battlefield is a big pocket, a big pocket that can hold the 38th Division of the Japanese Army, which is also the fundamental reason why Jiang Haoran wants to expand the depth of the battlefield to more than 10,000 meters.

On a mountainside on the other side of the Hukang River Valley, Lieutenant General Shinichi Tanaka, commander of the 38th Division of the Japanese Army, and Major General Nishimura Toshiwin, chief of staff, were also watching the positional battle in front of them.

Speaking of Tanaka Shinichi, he is also Jiang Haoran's old opponent, in the Battle of the 331 Base, he was the division commander of the 104th Division, and he was also a senior general of the Japanese army who had suffered enough from Jiang Haoran.

The battle below was already in full swing, and a wing of the imperial army had rushed up to Heti and engaged in a desperate struggle with the national army, and the sound of gunfire, artillery, and killing cries filled the sky over the entire Hukang River Valley.

The chief of staff, Major General Nishimura Toshiwin, withdrew his gaze from the binoculars, looked at Tanaka Shinichi and asked: "Tanaka-kun, the resistance of the expeditionary force is very tenacious, and the wooden bridge built by the sappers is almost completed. ”

Tanaka Shinichi glanced at Nishimura Riwin, pointed to the bottom of the river valley, and said with a wry smile: "Nishimura-kun, what do you think this terrain looks like?" ”

Although Nishimura Liwen was puzzled, he still turned his eyes to the battlefield again, the river valley is located in a low-lying area, when the rainy season comes, the mountain flood roars, and the flood is bound to pour into it from here, and the continuous erosion of this area for many years makes this area form Zeguo, it is now the dry season, the flood recedes, forming a vast plain area, with two hills in the middle, one left and one right to form the second opening.

"Like an upside-down gourd." Nishimura Levin replied affirmatively.

"Yes, like an upside-down gourd, you look at Jiang Haoran's battlefield layout."

"Battlefield layout?" Nishimura Levin repeated, turning his gaze back again, the terrain surrounded by mountains allowed the commanders of both armies to directly observe the overall situation of the battlefield, as if two chess players were facing each other on a chessboard.

Nishimura Lewin looked at it for a long time and said, "It's nothing special, it's just that the trenches are built like ant nests, which is quite complicated, but I don't think this can resist the pace of the imperial army's attack." ”

"Humph!" Tanaka Shinichi sneered and said, "Nishimura-kun, you underestimate Jiang Haoran too much, this is very dangerous, just take the trench in front of you, this is the German army's Elastic defense system', the whole battlefield is divided into four areas, we are fighting the second zone, behind the second zone is a two-kilometer buffer zone, if I guess correctly, there are their artillery positions in the middle of the two mountains, once we break through this line of defense, the distance of two thousand meters will become a nightmare for the imperial army, break through this buffer zone before entering the third area, in an ancient Chinese saying to describe the situation of the imperial army at this time: 'one blow, then decline, three and exhaustion,' the imperial army broke through the three areas of the expeditionary force, It is already a tired division, but the main force and elite of the expeditionary force are waiting for the imperial army in this area, and the trenches shaped like an ant's nest are enough to make the imperial army dizzy, but the expeditionary force is comfortable and relaxed in it, using favorable terrain, prefabricated cross-fire points, and superior forces, to carry out another round of strangulation of the imperial army, but this is not the most powerful, the most powerful is still in the fourth district on the bottom of the gourd. ”