Chapter 851 Four Support Points
The Fifth Detachment of the 120th Division assigned to the Honorary Second Division and the four county brigades assigned to the Honorary Second Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region are all local units, and they are very short of weapons and ammunition, and their troops also lack regular combat training, and these units are all used to fight guerrilla troops.
After these troops joined the Wutai County Defense Force sequence, Sun Weiguo immediately asked Zhao Lin, the chief of the quartermaster section, to distribute weapons and ammunition to them.
Now these more than 4,000 troops have been replenished with weapons and ammunition, but letting them fight positional warfare is naturally embarrassing for them.
Sun Weiguo is a mature commander, and he knows what kind of troops should be deployed where.
This time, Sun Weiguo took into account the usefulness of these more than 4,000 troops.
Shen Wei and Zhao Lerong are still a little worried about Sun Weiguo's key defense tactics, and they feel that there will definitely be gaps in the key defense towns.
Sun Weiguo came to the map with a baton, pointed to the map of Wutai County, and began to introduce the key defense deployment plan in detail.
According to Sun Weiguo's plan, the troops of the Honorary Second Division need to change their previous combat tactics this time, and the specific deployment is as follows:
1. Qin Xianliang's honorary first regiment mainly defended the southern part of Wutai County, and its main force was assembled in the area of Gaohongkou Township.
2. Zhong Jian's Honor 2nd Regiment mainly defended the northern part of Wutai County, and its main force was assembled in the area of Doucun Town.
3. Fang Chaoqun's nameless regiment mainly defended the western part of Wutai County, and its main force was assembled in the area of Yangbai Township.
4. Liang Weifeng's special service battalion, Kangfei's anti-artillery battalion, Ye Jiangkai's supplementary battalion, and Jia Leiping's reconnaissance battalion were under the command of Sun Ziyuan, deputy chief of staff of the division headquarters, and mainly defended the eastern part of Wutai County, and their main forces were assembled in the area of Jingangku Township.
5. Liang Zerui's Honorary Sixth Regiment was deployed on Wutai Mountain in the northwest of Wutai County, and the Honorary Sixth Regiment set up an artillery position in Wutai Mountain.
6. The divisional combat engineer battalion is under the command of the Honorary Fourth Regiment, the Honorary Fourth Regiment is on standby in the suburbs of Wutai County and serves as a mobile unit, and the divisional guard battalion is the reserve of the whole division.
Sun Weiguo completely abandoned the first-line defense this time, and he gathered the main forces of each department at one point and stuck to each point, so as to attack the Japanese troops.
The three infantry regiments of the Honorary Second Division and the four combat battalions directly under the division headquarters were deployed by Sun Weiguo in the four directions of Wutai County, and these four directions would be established by these troops.
These fortified points will become the support points for the defensive operations of Wutai County, as long as these four support points are not conquered by the Japanese army, even if the little devils all run to Wutai County, they will not be able to completely capture them.
And Liang Zerui's artillery regiment was deployed on Wutai Mountain, which was the back road left by Sun Weiguo to the whole division, and once the departments could not support it, Wutai Mountain would become the last position of the Honorary Second Division.
Sun Weiguo said his deployment, Shen Wei and Zhao Lerong glanced at each other, they hesitated for a moment, and then nodded and agreed.
They have trust in Sun Weiguo, and they know that the tactics adopted by Sun Weiguo must have been well thought out.
Of course, Sun Weiguo only provided an overall plan, and the specific arrangements and deployments of various ministries need to be perfected by Zhao Lerong.
Under the leadership of Zhao Lerong, the staff officers of the operations section of the division headquarters began to get busy, and then one after another orders began to be issued to all departments through the division headquarters.
The troops of the Honorable 2nd Division began to move to various locations, and after the officers and men entered the garrison area, they immediately began to build fortifications.
Wutai County is the core area of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and the anti-Japanese sentiment of the people here is high.
Especially after learning that the troops of the Honorary Second Division were stationed in Wutai County, many people took out food at home.
When the officers and soldiers built the fortifications, many people took the initiative to participate in it, and even some people took the initiative to contribute all the timber at home.
The sun began to rise in the east before you knew it, and the night passed quickly, and it was dawn in the blink of an eye.
On the road from Yuanping County to Wutai County, a large number of Japanese troops were moving quickly towards the front.
The troops of the Honorary Second Division were completely annihilated into the 2nd Brigade and regimental units, and the commander of the Major General Brigade was killed, and the North China Front was extremely angry at the news.
After Ishihara readjusted the deployment of the Japanese army, Terauchi Shouichi ordered all units to immediately begin operations.
The 1st Division of the Japanese Army from Yuanping County was the main force of this attack, and the commander of the 1st Division, Naosaburo Okabe, had previously served as the chief of staff of the North China Front for more than a year, and he also directly became the commander-in-chief of the front, and Naosaburo Okabe was responsible for directly commanding the attack on Wutai County, the 1st Division, the 26th Division, the 109th Division, the 114th Division, and the independent garrison.
The First Division is a permanent division with two infantry brigades under its jurisdiction, and the troops directly under the command of the First Division include four wings of engineers, cavalry, baggage, and artillery, plus the division headquarters and two brigade headquarters non-combatants, the first division has more than 28,000 people, and the seventh wing of the independent field heavy artillery is to strengthen the operation of the first division, and the strength of the first division exceeds 30,000 at present.
The troops of the First Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region have been ordered to block the troops of the First Division in Yuanping County, and this unit is subordinate to the Second Army Subdivision of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and is numbered as the Sixth Brigade, the First Guerrilla Squadron, and the Second Guerrilla Squadron of the Second Army Subdivision, and this unit has more than 2,000 people.
"Da Da Da!" The vanguard of the 1st Division of the Japanese Army in Yuanping County was still marching on the road, but the sound of heavy machine guns began to sound on the hill in front.
A Type 92 heavy machine gun began to shoot, and the three devil soldiers in the front were caught off guard and directly smashed into a sieve.
However, the Japanese army reacted very quickly, and the devil soldiers immediately began to disperse and hide, and the second lieutenant squad leader quickly looked towards the mountain with a telescope.
Three crooked light machine guns and three grenadiers were quickly erected, but they did not fire.
"At the nine o'clock position, it's the Type 92 heavy machine gun, the infantry squad suppresses the cover, and the grenadier squad advances to kill them!" The second lieutenant squad leader immediately gave the order.
"Bang bang." As the second lieutenant's squad leader's order began to be given, three crooked-handled light machine guns immediately began to fire.
Bullets were fired at the heavy machine gun, and before the heavy machine gun shooter could dodge, he began to be hit by the bullets.
The fire on the hill was suppressed, and the grenadier of the devil soldiers immediately carried the grenadier and quickly advanced to the front.
The deputy shooter of the Eighth Route Army on the mountain immediately came to the heavy machine gun, and he wanted to control the heavy machine gun and continue firing.
But before he could start shooting, a bullet hit him in the head accurately.
"Move quickly, we've been discovered." A platoon commander of the Eighth Route Army shouted.
As soon as his words fell, several soldiers tried to move their bodies to lift their heavy machine guns to transfer, but the miniature grenades fired by the Japanese grenadiers had already begun to hit.
A grenade exploded directly next to the heavy machine gun, killing three soldiers on the spot, and the platoon commander was also injured.
"Don't come here." The platoon commander, who fell to the ground, saw that the soldiers in the distance wanted to run over, and he hurriedly shouted.
As his voice fell, two grenades were fired again by the Devil Soldier grenadiers.