Xu Rui said: "The 59th Army helped us a lot at the beginning, and now the 59th Army is supporting alone on the north bank of the Huai River, and there is a danger of being eaten by devils at any time, so we have to help no matter what." 【】”

"I'm against it." Wan Chongshan said, "Our independent brigade has received great favor from the 59th Army, which is indeed true, I also personally told the iron battalion commander at the beginning that our independent brigade will definitely be grateful, but we have later given them a whole wing of Japanese equipment and equipment, and we no longer owe them." ”

"It's not a question of owing or not." Xu Rui frowned and said, "It's a question of whether it should be or not." ”

"Of course they should help them." Wan Chongshan said, "However, even if you have to help, Captain, there are other ways and means to help them, there is no need to fight a positional battle with the devils, and there is no need to attract the devils' heavy troops to Dameishan, we can attack the devils' transportation and supply lines." ”

Leng Fengfeng also persuaded: "Lao Xu, you have to think about it, positional warfare is not as good as ambush warfare, ambush warfare is unprepared, the devil has ten points of combat effectiveness, and he can only play three or four points, but if he fights a positional war, it is a dignified confrontation between the two armies, and the devil has ten points of combat effectiveness, and he can play ten points." ”

Xu Rui said: "What, you all think that in a positional war, we are not devil opponents?" ”

Wan Chongshan, Leng Tiefeng, and Li Hai's reactions made Xu Rui feel a little surprised, isn't it just a positional battle, as for being afraid of this? The little devil is not a heavenly soldier, but also two shoulders and a head, who is afraid of whom? What's more, their independent brigade has been training hard for three months, but now they are not vegetarians.

However, Wan Chongshan's reaction also made Xu Rui more determined to fight a positional battle.

After a series of vicious battles in Wuxi, Baoxing, Nantong and Hai'an Town, coupled with the hard training in Damei Mountain in the previous three months, the transformation of the independent brigade was basically completed, Xu Rui did not dare to say that this was already a tiger and wolf army, but at least, he had dared to fight with it in the face of devils.

However, the officers of this unit seem to be a little less confident.

Also, whether in Wuxi, Baoxing, or Nantong, or even Qixinghu, the tactics adopted by the remnants of the provisional 79th Division have always been ambush warfare, except for local blockades, they have never fought a dignified positional battle with the little devils, so like Wan Chongshan and Leng Tiefeng, they have inertial thinking, thinking that the independent brigade can only fight ambushes, and if they fight positional warfare, the independent brigade is still a little insufficient.

Wan Chongshan said without thinking: "Captain, from personal feelings, I am as difficult to accept as you, but objectively speaking, there is indeed a big gap between our combat effectiveness and the little devil, unless the strength of the army occupies an absolute advantage, otherwise we will definitely lose in a positional battle with the little devil." ”

Xu Rui turned his gaze to Li Hai and Heipi and asked, "What about you?" ”

Lehi and Heipi snorted without saying a word, in fact, they acquiesced to Wan Chongshan's point of view.

Xu Rui finally turned his gaze to Leng Tiefeng and asked, "Old soldier, do you think so too?" ”

Leng Tiefeng said: "I don't think that the combat effectiveness of our independent brigade is worse than that of the little devils, but at this stage, we really shouldn't fight positional warfare with devils." ”

Xu Rui insisted on going his own way: "However, I have to fight this battle!" ”

"What does that mean? What's the point of fighting this positional war? Leng Tiefeng frowned more and more.

"There is only one meaning." Xu Rui looked at the endless plain ahead, and said leisurely, "Through this positional battle, I want you to understand that the little devil is not a heavenly soldier, and we Chinese are not eggy soft eggs, as long as the tactics are correct, the soldiers dare to fight to the death, and fight a positional battle, we can still win, and it is a big victory." ”

After a pause, Xu Rui said again: "I want to help our independent brigade establish a psychological advantage over devils through this positional battle with devils, and we must use the blood of little devils to prove that even if it is a dignified confrontation, our independent brigade will also take the devils down!" From now on, I want the officers and soldiers of the Independent Brigade to come to the devil when they see it, and from now on, I want to make the little devil weak when he sees us! ”

"Establish a psychological advantage?" Leng Tiefeng was dumbfounded, so that the little devil was weak and weak-hearted when he saw us?

Over there, Lehi, Heipi, and Wan Chongshan also looked at each other, shouldn't the captain be talking nonsense?

However, Xu Rui knew what he was talking about, as a traverser, Xu Rui knew the importance of psychological advantage, sometimes this thing was more important than the most advanced weapon!

Moreover, in the history of wars in ancient and modern China and foreign countries, there are also many such examples, such as the Later Jin, that is, the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

If you want to talk about equipment, the Houjin soldiers in the Nurhachi period are not worse than the Ming army, if you want to talk about combat effectiveness, not to mention the most elite Guanning Iron Cavalry, even the Ming army on the nine sides is not worse than the Houjin army, but since Salhu, the Houjin army has established a strong self-confidence in the Ming army, and since then it has won many battles and has not been defeated!

On the other hand, the Ming army lost all confidence in the battle of Salhu, and since then the more they fight, the more they have lost confidence, and in the end, they almost ran away when they saw the Houjin army.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the strength of the Later Jin Army in the face of the Ming Army was not at all a reflection of normal combat power, but more of a psychological advantage that the Later Jin Army had accumulated on the battlefield again and again.

To give another example, the Chinese men's football team has never won the South Korean men's football team in an international competition for more than 30 years, which is not at all a reflection of the strength of the two teams, but because the Korean men's football team has established a strong psychological advantage over the Chinese men's football team.

Xu Rui didn't want to think about this issue so early.

But by chance, since he has rushed a piece, Xu Rui doesn't mind solving this stalk now.

If Xu Rui wants to build the Independent Brigade into a trump card unit that dares to fight tough battles and can fight tough battles, he must let this unit accept the iron-blooded baptism of positional warfare, and only by defeating the devils in a dignified positional battle can the Independent Brigade truly establish a psychological advantage in the face of devils.

What's more, there is an advantage to fighting a positional war with the devil now.

That is, the devil in Puxian County has not yet learned his Xu Rui's power, so it is inevitable to underestimate the enemy.

Once the reputation of the independent brigade is heard in the future, and the devil knows that he Xu Rui is in command, he will definitely be more careful in the future, and it will be much more difficult to fight a positional battle with the devil at that time.

Xu Rui said: "You don't need to say more, I have to fight this battle." ”

"Okay." Seeing that Xu Rui had already made up his mind, Leng Tiefeng could only choose to obey, and said: "However, the problem now is that there is only less than fifty miles from the county seat of Puxian County to Meizhen, and the devil can arrive in three hours at most, so in such a little time, I'm afraid it's too late to build fortifications, right?" ”

"You can fix as much as you can." Xu Rui said, "To fight positional warfare, fortifications are of course also important, but determination, confidence and courage are even more important.......

Xu Rui said that he was smooth, and he almost even said it to resist US aggression and aid Korea.

What Xu Rui wants to say is that when he resisted US aggression and aided Korea, a regiment of the Volunteer Army adhered to the Shangganling position, and under the indiscriminate bombardment of the joint ****, even the elevation of the top of the mountain was reduced by two meters, and any fortifications were bombed into slag, but in the end, the Volunteer Army also persevered with its tenacious will?

Therefore, in a positional war, fortifications are never decisive, and it is always willpower that determines the outcome of the battle! Of course, it would be nice if the strong fortifications could be repaired beforehand.

However, in this time and space, even the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has not ended, so naturally there will be no War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.

Leng Tiefeng was very confused when he heard this, and asked, "Resist US Aggression and Aid?" Lao Xu, what are you talking about? ”

"Nothing." Xu Rui said casually, "I'm talking about a military strategist in Western history. ”

"A military strategist in Western history?" Leng Tiefeng said, "Why haven't I heard of this person?" ”

"It's wrong, it's not a military strategist, it's a small lord in the history of the Germanic people, it's not famous, and it's reasonable that you don't know, but this person said a sentence, he said that it is never the formation that determines the outcome of the war, but confidence, determination and courage, and I agree with this sentence very much."

Xu Rui took a lot of words, and finally got the lie back.

Today, Xu Rui finally believed a sentence, if you tell a lie, you have to make up a hundred lies, to round up the previous lie, just now he almost said bald.

Leng Tiefeng said: "I admit that what you said has some truth, but it's better to have fortifications than no fortifications, right?" ”

"Of course." Xu Rui said, "So, hurry up and take someone to repair the fortifications, this time in the positional battle with the devils, your first squadron is the first echelon." After finishing speaking, Xu Rui turned back to Wanzhongshan and said, "The second squadron is the second echelon, the third squadron is the third echelon, the fourth squadron and the fifth squadron are the reserves, and the machine gun squad is responsible for fire support." ”

Leng Tiefeng and the others hurriedly led the troops to the march, preparing to find a place to repair the fortifications.

Out of Meizhen, until Pucheng is basically a plain area, Leng Tiefeng walked forward with the first squadron for almost two kilometers before finally finding a small river with a width of less than ten meters, winter has just passed, and the rainy season has not yet arrived, so the small river has dried up, but even if it is a dry river, it can still provide a certain barrier.

Leng Tiefeng immediately ordered the first squadron to rely on the river to deploy defenses.