Day afternoon. The sun is strong. The temperature is very high. Add to that the gambling dust that obscures the sky and the sun. Suppresses people to the point that they can barely breathe.

This is the Gaiping front line on the western front of the Liaodong Peninsula, where a fierce battle is unfolding. The attacker was the West Road Column of the Chinese National Defense Forces. The defenders were the elite units of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

The battle began at dawn today, and almost half a day has passed since the battle has been carried out, as the attackers have not yet carried out a general offensive. The current situation of the battle is still in a state of stalemate, which makes many officers and soldiers on the attacking side feel somewhat depressed. Coupled with the hot weather, it was even more breathless.

As the supreme commander of the attacking armored corps, Gao Runxian is now very helpless, the former enemy command has not issued the general attack order for a long time, and he, the commander of the armored corps, can only sit in the command post of the front-line position, watching the staff officers have lunch, and because most of his armored troops have been transferred, this also makes him very depressed.

Although his long military career has made him develop an emotionally introverted personality, it is only the surface. As the supreme commander of the armored forces, the most intolerable thing for the ministry is that someone is dictating to the tactics of his armored troops, and in this case, his emotions can no longer be restrained.

Once the general attack began, he would command the armored assault force to drive straight in, go around a big circle from the upper reaches of the West River, go around to the far-reaching rear of the defending Japanese army, and implement a bold tactical outflank, strive to flank the infantry troops coming from the front, eat the Japanese army in one fell swoop, fight a beautiful battle of annihilation, and let the infantry buns see what is the king of the battlefield, not artillery, but armored troops!

However, until two hours after the battle began, the former enemy command never ordered the armored troops to assault, on the contrary, when the battle was almost noon, Wu Luzhen, the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, sent a staff officer to convey a written order to Gao Runxuan. In the order, Wu Luzhen not only vetoed the tactical attempt of the armored troops to outflank them in a far-reaching roundabout, but also dismantled part of the armored troops and transferred them into the infantry attack detachment, which served as a mobile fire fortress and provided fire cover for the infantry assault.

Gao Runjiao was very annoyed by this, but after all, it was an order from his superiors, and he didn't dare to disobey it.

The reason for this situation is not only that Wu Luzhen is too conservative in the use of troops, but more importantly, that the support firepower of the infantry assault unit is seriously lacking.

Now the eastern front of the Liaodong battlefield is in urgent need of reinforcements, in order to annihilate the reinforcements of the Japanese 6th Army that ascended from the direction of Dagushan, the General Staff had to adjust the troop allocation, and transferred a large number of armored troops and air force units from the western front to the eastern front to reinforce the eastern column of Zhoudaowang. However, the firepower of the Japanese positions was still very fierce, and in desperation, Wu Luzhen could only draw tanks and armored vehicles from the independent armored unit of the Ministry of Prison. Engaged in the battle for position, and once these armored forces were transferred to the infantry assault detachment, Gao Runxian's original plan of far-reaching tactical outflanking could not be implemented.

In the final analysis, the plan did not change quickly, and the former enemy's commander-in-chief gave an order, and the Ministry of Runjiao almost became the commander of the light pole, and now he can only deploy more than 20 tanks and more than 50 armored vehicles, relying on this little force, it is completely impossible to carry out a far-reaching roundabout.

Sitting in the command post of the front-line position, Gao Runjiao smoked cigarettes one after another, he was not convinced, why could Bai Lang implement far-reaching and roundabout attack tactics, but he could not implement this attack tactics? He insisted that Wu Luzhen's military quality may be stronger than that of Zhou Daowang, the commander of the Eastern Front, but this does not mean that he is more receptive to new tactics than Zhou Daowang, on the contrary, Zhou Daowang's busy man is more able to follow the advice of his staff officers and firmly believes in the president's military talents.

Originally, Gao Runyan was still full of confidence and wanted to compete with Bai Lang, the commander of the Eastern Front Armored Corps. But now it seems that his plan is about to fail. If he had known this, he might as well go to the Eastern Front first, or simply follow the reinforcements that came out the day before yesterday to the Eastern Front.

"Phew! Phew".

He was so engrossed in his thoughts that he didn't react until he finished smoking the cigarette and burned his lips. Hurriedly put the cigarette butt on the ground, stepped on it with his foot, then raised his hand, touched his scalded lips, and was looking for a kettle everywhere, but heard the shouts of several officers from the lookout of the command post.

"Another breakthrough position!"

"Not bad, not bad! Armored vehicles should be used in this way

Hearing these words, Bu Runjiao added fuel to the fire, jumped up, jumped to the lookout in a few steps, pushed away an officer, grabbed the high-powered binoculars, and looked at the front-line position several miles away.

This is a high ground located northeast of the city of Gaiping. From a high vantage point, you can see the valley of the West River, and the Japanese army's front-line position is located in front of the valley, with the West River as its back, and it is this position that the Chinese 6th Army assault force is attacking.

In this hurry, the position was filled with gunsmoke and the sound of gunfire was incessant, even with high-powered telescopes. It was also difficult to see the details, but a few vague huge black shadows in the smoke could still be distinguished, that is, the tanks and armored vehicles that were originally under the direct command of Bu Yunjing, and they were assisting the infantry assault detachment to seize the Japanese army's front-line positions.

The tactics are not complicated, first, tanks and vehicles come out of the corpse position. Braving the rain of bullets and artillery fire of the Japanese army, they went to the Japanese position. In the past. Run over the barbed wire, then break through the first trench or trench defended by the Japanese, after that, turn the head of the car and drive parallel to the trench or trench. While driving, they fired at the first and second lines of Japanese trenches with machine gun fire or tank gun fire from tanks and armored vehicles, suppressing the fire of the two Japanese trenches and covering the infantry behind them. After the infantry rushed up and occupied the first line of positions, the tanks and armored vehicles turned their heads again and rushed towards the second line of Japanese trenches.

This tactic is called "alternate cover." "It is one of the offensive tactics of the armored forces in close coordination with the infantry units, which is very effective against positions lacking anti-tank weapons, but the attack is slow. It is not atmospheric enough to quickly cut off the supply lines of the enemy's rear, and in the opinion of the department, this tactic is "too facety" and if the enemy forces plant high-power mines on the top of the formation, it is also a threat to the combat equipment of the armored forces.

However, at the moment, this "alternate cover" tactic seems to be very effective, and the Japanese defenders apparently have no experience in dealing with this tactic, and there are no high-powered mines planted on the positions. The Chinese offensive forces are progressing very well. The armored forces also did not suffer too exaggerated losses, and the staff officers obviously admired Wu Luzhen's tactical arrangements very much.

But Bu Runou didn't see it that way, he still thought that Wu Luzhen's tactical use was too conservative, and if he was replaced to fight positional warfare. Then, he will never choose the current way of attack, he will directly order the armored forces to break through in the middle, and then sweep to the two flanks, completely disrupting the deployment of the Japanese army. Then he went straight to the Japanese headquarters in the city of Gaiping.

"This style of play, I don't know if it's going to be played until the Year of the Monkey. In case the Japanese army saw that the situation was not good and turned around and retreated south, it would not be able to completely annihilate it under the city of Gaiping. ”

While observing the situation on the battlefield with a high-powered telescope, the staff officers standing next to him knew that he was angry, and they did not go to confront him.

Stood in front of the lookout. Bu Runjing muttered alone for a while, seeing that no one paid attention to him. I was even more angry in my heart, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt guilty. I couldn't help but sigh.

Before he could finish his sigh, he heard someone shouting behind him.

"Brigade Commander, what are you sighing for? Do you think that the troops are not fighting well enough now? ”

No need to look back. Gao Runxian also knew that it was Jiang Fangzhen who came over, since the battle began, this chief of staff had been wandering around, and he had been to this command post several times.

Zou Runjiao turned around and glanced at Jiang Fangzhen. Then he shook his head and said, "If you want me to fight." It's never going to be this way of playing.

"You, the one who is bent on recovering you" far-reaching and roundabout. In fact, there is nothing wrong with Commander Wu's current style of play, he is seeking stability, you are seeking, and what you ask is different. This action naturally has Jiang Bei. ”

Jiang Fangzhen smiled, sat down on an ammunition box next to the lookout, took out a delicate copper cigarette case from the pocket of his military uniform, opened it and handed it to Bu Runxian.

Bu Runyan took a paper cigarette from the copper cigarette case, took out a match and lit it. Then he threw the matchbox to Jiang Fangzhen, who was looking at him.

"Where is Commander Wu now? Still not in front of you? I'd like to talk to him again. Zou Runyan asked.

Jiang Fangzhen shook his head and said, "It's been almost five hours since I left the headquarters, where is Commander Wu now, to be honest, I don't know, why don't you shake the phone and ask?" ”

Hearing Jiang Fangzhen say this, the staff officers who were eating in the command post all raised their heads. Looking at the Ministry of Prison, everyone had strange faces. But Gao Runyi rolled his eyes, and the staff officers immediately pressed their heads down and continued to hold their lunch.

"Commander Wu said, I will shake the phone again, and the staff officer will ignore it."

The ministry hesitated for a moment. In the end, I decided to tell the truth.

Jiang Fangzhen picked up a cigarette, put it in front of his nose and smelled it, then sighed and said, "This is the person you are." Temper stinking and questioning the orders of your boss is not something an officer should do, and your temper has to be changed. When you were talking to Commander Wu on the phone just now, you threatened to send a telegram to the presidential palace, which is not authentic. If it were me, I would have ordered the staff officer not to answer your calls. Don't think that it's great that your armored corps is under the direct command of the commander's hall, as the saying goes. The county officials are not as good as the current management, since you are now under the West Road Column system, then, Commander Wu is your immediate boss, questioning the orders of the boss, this is a taboo in the army, even if the president knows. It's also going to criticize you

Hearing this, the Ministry of Prison understood that Jiang Fangzhen obviously knew about the quarrel he had with Wu Luzhen just now, and now he came over to enlighten him.

"Brother Baili, you don't have to talk to me about anything else, just say something fair, is it my far-reaching and roundabout tactics, or is it the current one. Good snail tactics? Which tactic is more conducive to the total annihilation of the Japanese army? Ministry Runphthalein asked.

"Snail tactics? Do you know the tactics? ”

Jiang Fangzhen glanced at Gao Runjiao, he now basically grasped the thoughts of this armored commander, this person just refused to admit that others were better than him.

The best way to deal with this kind of person is to leave him aside and kill his prestige and arrogance.