Seeing that Jiang Haoran said it so desperately, anyone who has a little eyesight, even if he has any different opinions, he doesn't dare to say anything anymore, and if he continues to say it, he will become the kind of person who "disturbs the morale of the army" in Jiang Haoran's mouth.

But it is not impossible for everyone to understand Jiang Haoran's suffering, an army composed entirely of new recruits, without good basic cadres, can not quickly form combat effectiveness.

Of course, it is not necessarily that the basic cadres of the First Army of the Youth Army will not be able to do it, after all, they have basically come out of the battlefield or military academies, and the chairman of the committee has also devoted his heart and soul to this unit and placed high hopes on it, so it is natural that he will organize elite soldiers to serve as grassroots cadres in the future, but the crux of the problem lies in whether they can understand Jiang Haoran's fighting spirit and combat intentions.

Jiang Haoran's command ability has nothing to say, but if the troops can't carry out orders well, no matter how perfect the command ability is, it will be greatly reduced, especially in the current World War that is related to life and death. ”

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The next morning, at about 9 o'clock, on the east bank of the Nu River, the joint headquarters of the new 3rd and 5th divisions of the 40th Group Army.

Outside, guns and artillery rumbled, the radio and telephone rang non-stop in the command headquarters, and the staff officers and generals shuttled back and forth, all with serious expressions and hurried steps.

Su Peng, the lieutenant general of the new Third Division, was leading a group of staff officers around a huge combat sand table to analyze the battle situation.

Their offensive was carried out almost simultaneously with the expeditionary force, and the day before yesterday afternoon, the troops launched an attack on the entire line of the Japanese army on the east bank of the Nu River; under the powerful firepower provided by hundreds of heavy artillery pieces and dozens of helicopters, yesterday afternoon, they had already torn apart the Japanese defense line on the west bank, and last night the troops of the two divisions all crossed the river, and the troops of the two divisions launched an attack on the enemy's Songshan defense line starting early this morning.

Songshan's strategic position is very important, it guards the traffic choke point from western Yunnan to the east bank of the Nu River, and after crossing the Nu River via the Huitong Bridge, the Yunnan-Burma Highway hovers more than 40 kilometers between the cliffs of the mountain. It is close to the Nujiang Huitong Bridge, facing the deep valley in front, connecting the big slope at the back, the mountains on the left and right, abruptly on the west bank of the Nujiang River, shaped like a natural bridgehead, choking the Yunnan-Burma Highway to rush and the Nujiang River to the north of the Heidu River 40 miles of the river. Basically, it can be said that Songshan holds the initiative of the entire western Yunnan offensive force, which can be attacked and defended, and also forms a horn trend with Tengchong and Longling, echoing each other.

Songshan is not controlled, the Yunnan-Burma highway is not open, not to mention the troops advancing to northern Burma, even the 71st Army and the First Group Army that counterattacked Longling and Tengchong will be greatly restricted, and the first thing to bear the brunt of is the difficulty of logistics and transportation, and after a long time, they will face the dilemma of shortage of materials, even if they occupy Tengchong and Longling, it will be difficult to hold on, and it is entirely possible to gain and lose.

"Fuck it, this devil is evil." Liu Dakun, the commander of the New Fifth Division, strode into the headquarters with a body of smoke and dust, and began to shout while people were still at the door, and his voice was so loud that he immediately became the focus of everyone in the headquarters.

Su Peng put down the command pole in his hand, walked up quickly, and said hurriedly: "Liu Da stick, what's the matter, how is the little devil an evil method?" ”

Liu Dakun took off his military hat and threw it on the table, picked up the teacup on the table and poured the whole cup of tea into his mouth, wiped his mouth, and said angrily: "Damn, my two regiments touched the Rolling Dragon Slope position from the left and right flanks, and they were almost on the mountainside, and there was no movement on the little devil's position, I fucking thought that the little devils had run away, but just approaching the front line of the devils, the little devils seemed to come out of the ground, and then the bullets poured down, and from the cracks in the stones and the bushes, countless firepower points suddenly appeared, That guy swept it all the way, and he didn't have the power to fight back at all, and beat my two forward battalions to less than half, and the most aggrieved thing was that he didn't even see a single hair of the little devil. ”

"What? According to what you say, could it be that the little devil has hollowed out the Rolling Dragon Slope, and all the firepower is underground? Su Peng exclaimed.

"I think this is the case, looking at this situation, it seems to be similar to the defense line of our 331 base, the little devil is not sure that he found inspiration from our 331 base, and has already run Songshan into an underground fortress group." Liu Dakun said hatefully.

They didn't know that when Jiang Haoran built the 331 base, he still found inspiration from Songshan, in other words, it was not the little devil who learned from Jiang Haoran, but Jiang Haoran who learned from the little devil.

Historically, after the Japanese army was stationed on the west bank of the Nu River, Songshan was used as a three-in-one strategic goal of the garrison center, offensive base and defensive support point, and began to build positions. After the defeat in the Pacific War, Japanese military strategists foresaw the role of Songshan as an important support point for the defense system of western Yunnan and northern Burma, and highlighted it as the first place, so they planned to build Songshan into a permanent defensive fortress. The 15th Army of the Burmese Front ordered the 56th Division to send an engineer wing, and forcibly recruited more than 1,670 civilians from western Yunnan, Burma, India and other places in China to work day and night.

After the fortifications were completed, in order to keep them completely confidential, the Japanese army secretly injected all the captured people to death in the name of vaccination, and buried them with cremation and burial, covering up all this seamlessly.

The fortifications were mainly defensive, and the position in the belly of Matsuyama was strengthened and expanded. By May 1944, on the eve of the expeditionary force's counteroffensive, the quasi-fortress-type fortress defense position system in the Songshan area was completed, and 7 stronghold groups were formed in Rolling Longpo, Dayakou, Songshan, Xiaosongshan, Dazhai, Huangjiashuijing, Loess Slope and Malutang, each of which was centered on several of the strongest mother forts, surrounded by several sub-forts, with a total of more than 40 sub-forts, and the fortresses were flanked by each other.

The fortifications of Matsuyama Fortress are extremely complex inside, and its fortress is a bunker, which is generally constructed in three layers, which is roughly equivalent to being buried in a mountain with three floors. The upper level was used for shooting, the middle level was used as a shelter or ammunition and grain storehouse, and the lower level was dug into an inclined tunnel to connect all the forts, and there were also a large number of cantonment holes, so that soldiers could quickly reach various forward positions.

The fortress was covered with a large number of logs, arranged in rows, with four or five layers, on which several layers of steel plates 30 mm thick were covered, covering the soil layer of almost a meter.

The fort is surrounded by large gasoline barrels filled with sand and gravel, arranged in three layers, with several layers of steel plates between the barrels, and the outer layer of the barrels is covered with a layer of soil, so that the fortifications are so strong that even if the 150-mm howitzer is directly hit by a 500-pound aerial bomb, it is not even possible to move it, and even the inside does not feel any huge shock. Between the three floors of the fortress, two or three layers of logs are paved, and even if the upper layer collapses, it will not be affected.

At the same time, the perimeter of the fort was covered with cobweb-like communication trenches to connect the main positions, and even the infantry guns could be moved. The side walls of the communication trenches are also heavily hewn into cavernous shelters and connected with a large number of foxholes. Some of the bases are equipped with two or three iron wire nets, with a depth of 4 meters.

With the completion of the fortress position group, the entire Songshan is also nearly hollowed out, like a large ant nest, the underground transportation network extends in all directions, electric lights, water supply. Because of its good camouflage, it is not easy to detect or destroy whether it is in the air or on land.