The old town of Limin Town is the county seat rebuilt in the ninth year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty (1496), and has a history of more than 500 years. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info covers an area of about two square kilometers, and later the earthen wall was converted into a brick wall; In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the city wall was repaired many times. There is a moat outside the city wall, and there is a moat outside, the circumference is five kilometers, the embankment is about seven meters high, there are four embankment mouths, it is a natural blocking position.

If described in detail, the moat is not a continuous walled river, but is made up of four separate small lakes. The moat is also four parts, only the east, west, north and south four city gates are facing the direction of the embankment is the main road and the pass of the embankment. If you look at it this way, you can also understand the moat as the outer city wall, and the pass as the outer city gate.

Guo Jiqiao held a telescope and stood at the head of the city to look around, the dust on the moat, and hundreds of people were helping the army build fortifications and bunkers. The walls at your feet also clanged, and migrant workers were digging shooting holes.

It has been a day since Guo Jiqiao arrived here, and in line with the principle of prudence, he did not put forward any constructive suggestions when he was not very familiar with the situation. At the same time, he did not make any major changes to the battle plan that Yang Tianfeng and the others had already drawn up.

Of course, to say that there is complete unanimity of opinion, this is not the case. For example, Yang Tianfeng did not attack the city and plunder the land as Guo Jiqiao and Wei Lihuang thought, but concentrated his forces to deal with the counterattack of the Japanese army. You must know that at that time, the National X Army and the Japanese army were still very accustomed to using terrain targets as a sign of victory. The entire Japanese army in eastern Henan lost the ability to take the initiative to attack, and places such as Ningling, Qixian, and Suixian were very sure to attack and occupy them.

For another example, Yang Tianfeng only ordered the Tong detachment and its subordinate guerrilla troops, as well as liaising with the New Fourth Army and the Dabie Mountain Gui Army to attack and harass the Jinpu line and contain the number and time of the Japanese army in Xuzhou, but he did not order to break the Longhai Railway in the Xiaoxian, Yongcheng, and Dangshan sections.

The obvious purpose of this was to let the Japanese troops in, and they did not want the Japanese army to target the Yongcheng base area because of the interruption of the railway. This may be a bit selfish, and it will cause casualties and losses on friendly troops, and it is normal for Guo Jiqiao to have some opinions about this in his heart.

But overall, Guo Jiqiao believes that Yang Tianfeng's plan is also feasible. There is a definition of the first move in the game of Go, and the first move is divided into "first in and after" and "in the middle first", and the "latter in the first" chosen by Yang Tianfeng seems to have temporarily fallen behind the latter on the surface, but there are follow-up means. If it is "the middle first, then the second", it is to attack the county town where the weak enemy is strong, and then busy transferring troops to compete with the enemy coming from the east.

As for the specific combat tactics, Guo Jiqiao has to admit that Yang Tianfeng's style of play is very cunning, very advanced, and very confident.

Relying on Yucheng to hold on, although there are a lot of troops, Guo Jiqiao believes that few people will have such courage and self-confidence, although this is only a means to induce the Japanese army to divide the troops.

And the fortified bunker built on the moat also made Guo Jiqiao very impressed. The flat side becomes a steep slope, and the ditch is dug on the dam into a trench, and the trench is dug out of a concave shape to become a single bunker. In this way, even if the shell falls into the trench, the effect of shrapnel is minimized. The bunkers for heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft guns were dug deeper and stronger, covered with dismantled steel rails and covered with thick layers of earth. The anticline of the embankment also constructs a Tibetan cave.

In particular, the four most important embankment crossings were not only made of earth to make fortifications similar to the manipulation wall, but the troops and weapons on both sides of the embankment were also dense and sharp, forming a terrifying crossfire.

This time, Yang Tianfeng took out 20 slaughtering chainsaws, heavy machine guns with triangular brackets that could be fed with bullet chains, and was determined to let the devils have a good taste of "Hitler's chainsaws."

The production of the arsenal, the capture of consecutive victories, and the ammunition materials brought by Guo Jiqiao, there is no problem in supporting a big war.

The casualties in the continuous battles were not small, mainly the 1st Cavalry Division and the 14th Cavalry Brigade, while the two detachments of the 3rd Column were supplemented by the 4th Detachment, and they were almost fully manned. However, in terms of weapons and equipment, the 1st Cavalry Division, the 14th Cavalry Brigade, and even He Cuizhi's 81st Division, which arrived later, have all improved a lot because of the capture and Yang Tianfeng's continuous supply.

The Czechs alone have increased the number of units of the three national armies by more than 300, and grenade launchers, shotguns, crooked handles and grenadiers, as well as old guns in the troops, have been largely replaced.

Another reason why Guo Jiqiao remained cautiously optimistic was that he saw that the morale of the troops who had experienced the bloody battle in Huaiyang was very high, and not only the officers and men of the Third Column, but also the 1st Cavalry Division, the 14th Cavalry Brigade, and even the 81st Division did not feel war-weary or war-fearful. The senior officers of the various units were also full of the desire to fight and the confidence of victory, and although Ma Biao, He Cuizhi, and Zhang Zhankui did not obey Yang Tianfeng's words, as long as Yang Tianfeng was reasonable, they would obey.

In this regard, Guo Jiqiao was helpless, and even understood the thoughts of Ma Biao, Zhang Zhankui and others. Taking the 14th Cavalry Brigade as an example, it inherited the shortcomings of the Northwest Army's poor equipment, and before receiving Yang Tianfeng's weapons assistance, the whole brigade was only equipped with four mortars, six heavy machines, and the rest were all horse and foot robbers, grenades, and broadswords.

In the battle to defend Zhoukou in October 1938, Zhang Zhankui had no choice but to mobilize all the earthen guns and artillery, raise a large number of rake teeth, plough surfaces, and iron sand from the villages and towns 100 miles south of Zhoukou, and concentrate gunners and gunpowder men from various villages and towns to make up for the lack of firepower.

At present, in addition to its original equipment, the 14th Cavalry Brigade has 20 60 mortars, 30 Czech-made machine guns, some grenade launchers, shotguns, and a batch of captured Japanese-style weapons.

On the one hand, the improvement of weapons and equipment is also an important reason for the courage and good fighting of the three columns and the courage to take the lead. Who doesn't want to have a reliable comrade-in-arms, who doesn't want to make contributions and win the reputation of a hero of the Anti-Japanese War?

In the field of vision of the telescope, Yang Tianfeng's figure appeared, and he was inspecting the moat with Zhang Zhankui, the lieutenant general of the 14th Cavalry Brigade. While talking, the two kept pointing out the surrounding terrain and terrain, and they seemed to be very harmonious.

Defending Yucheng (Limin Town) will be the two brigades of the Guo detachment, the 27th Regiment of the 14th Cavalry Brigade, the machine gun company and the mortar company directly under the brigade headquarters, plus some artillery specially increased by Yang Tianfeng, with a total strength of nearly 4,000. Outside the city, the two regiments of the 14th Cavalry Brigade and the special service company and cadet company directly under the brigade headquarters were responsible for planning and harassing and attacking inside and out.

With such a large number of troops threatening, the Japanese army wanted to cross Yucheng to attack Shangqiu, and it was difficult to guarantee the safety of the flank and rear; To besiege Yucheng first, the main force to attack Shangqiu, 1,800 people want to besiege the city and have great difficulties, and even have the danger of being defeated and destroyed; Focusing on besieging Yucheng, clearing the obstacles first, Yang Tianfeng's goal of containing and consuming the enemy has also been achieved, and he can also change the battlefield and launch a military operation of "central flowering" around Yucheng. (To be continued.) )