In the early morning of the second day, after half an hour of artillery bombardment, the Japanese launched another attack, and unlike yesterday, this time the Japanese did not launch a large-scale charge, but used close pressing.

At a distance of 1,000 meters from the position of the squadron, the Japanese began to dig a tunnel, which was then extended forward.

After Xu Ming received the news, he was taken aback.

This method may seem stupid and slow, but it is not the case! In modern offensive and defensive operations, most of the casualties of the attacking side are on the way to the charge, and close work can minimize the distance of the charge. If the devil does this, the threat to our army is very great!

At the impromptu tactical meeting, Xu Ming and his subordinates were at a loss.

"How's the effect of the shelling?" Xie Jinyuan asked.

"It's useless, the devil is hiding in the trench, it's hard to get it." Liu Ziyuan didn't answer, Chen Huizhi said it for him.

Whether the defenders are mortars or mountain artillery, they all take curve aiming and shooting and range killing, and the devils blow up on the flat ground, but after the Japanese troops are close to the operation, unless the shells can fall directly into the Japanese trenches, there is no way to attack them.

The defenders had just attacked with Surothong small guns (20mm machine guns), which were more effective than mountain guns and mortars, and the Japanese army immediately took countermeasures, and the devils built anti-artillery trenches at intervals in the tunnel, and built barricades with logs and sandbags.

Now the small cannon is not easy to use, even if you are lucky enough to shoot into the trenches of the Japanese army, you can only kill and injure a few devils at most.

In the past, the defenders hid in tunnels and bunkers, but now the Japanese army has come to draw pictures of cats and tigers, I have to say that this trick is very effective, and in half a day, the devils have dug nearly 100 meters on the front line.

Yesterday the Japanese army charged quickly, but the defeat was faster, and today, although the Japanese army only advanced 100 meters, it was a real 100 meters, and it was achieved with very few casualties, and at this speed, the Japanese army was able to penetrate the offensive fortifications in front of the positions in two days.

Seeing that everyone had no idea, Xu Ming sighed and said helplessly: "There is no other way, the staff office is ready to mobilize, and make preparations for grenadier work and white-knuckle warfare!" ”

Leaving the conference room, Xu Ming lowered his head and walked around the open space of the headquarters, imagining that he was Tokutaro Sakai, who would do this in this situation, what was he most afraid of.

After turning around, I didn't come up with a countermeasure, and I turned around again, but I still didn't come up with any tricks. The guards followed from a distance, for fear of disturbing their division commander's thinking.

Unconsciously walking away from the scope of the headquarters, Xu Ming looked up and arrived at the archives of the division headquarters.

It is said that it is an archive room, but it is actually a wooden house, which contains various archives before and after the establishment of the 107th Division.

On the shelves are neatly placed "Personnel Register", "Detailed Reports of Battles", "Minutes of Meetings", "Telegrams"...

Seeing a map drawn by a student just now, from Dalong Mountain in the northwest to Baizi Mountain in the southwest, each mountain, village, and road has a very detailed description, Xu Ming took a closer look at it, and carefully looked at the location of each Japanese army.

Another place is called Yuantan Pu, marked with red letters, this is a very important place, was a very famous post station, set up from the Yuan Dynasty, from here you can divide the road to the east to Qianshan, you can also go south to Anqing.

There are 150 miles in a straight line distance from Tongcheng to Anqing, and it is actually more than 200 miles.

Is there a way to attack, to be precise, is there a guts to attack. How sure is it to leave the fortified established positions and attack the heavily defended positions of the Japanese army? Now Xu Ming is not one person who feeds the whole family and is not hungry, he has more than 10,000 people and horses, and one of his own decisions is related to the life and death of countless people!

Rao is Xu Ming is very bold, and he can't make up his mind at this time.

Read on.

He picked up a copy of the "Diary of the Battle", which recorded all kinds of things in the 107th Division's operations, starting from the Wuhu raid and ending with the Battle of Mawo.

The records in it are very detailed, not only the course of the battle, but also the deployment and combat response of the enemy and the enemy are also quite described. Xu Ming finished reading it from the beginning, and felt that he had returned to the scenes of fierce battles at the beginning, which he Xu Ming personally commanded and experienced, and every record was a battle process.

The Wuhu raid, the first battle of Mingguang, the second battle of Mingguang, and the battle of Mawo, Xu Ming carefully watched it from beginning to end and sorted out his thinking again.

All four battles were victorious, and all of them had one thing in common, that is, Xu Ming took the absolute initiative.

Whether the war can be won or not, the initiative is extremely crucial, and when one side realizes it step by step according to its own deployment, victory is just around the corner. In other words, when you passively respond to the tactics implemented by the enemy, defeat is at hand!

Now the Japanese army is already carrying out close forces operations in their way, but there is nothing they can do. After the close work is over, the time and place of the attack will be chosen by the opponent!

It must not be responded passively according to the pace of the Japanese army, and with a "snap", Xu Ming closed the file.

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"Master Wang, there is something you can arrange." Xu Ming returned to the command post and said to Wang Yaowu.

"Qianli, what's the matter, what else is polite between us."

"Please take over the command of the front line of Jixian Pass from tonight."

"That Qianli, you want..."Wang Yaowu was taken aback, I command the troops, what are you going to do!

"I'm going to lead the army to take the initiative, and the defense here will be left to me." Xu Ming looked at Wang Yaowu's eyes and said firmly.

Wang Yaowu was stunned, in such a strong fortification, why don't you stay honest and take the initiative to attack? But when he saw Xu Ming's expression, he knew that Xu Ming's personality knew that Xu Ming had made up his mind.

"Qianli, don't worry, Jixian Pass will never be lost." Wang Yaowu didn't say anything else, and expressed his attitude categorically.

Wang Yaowu's 51st Division, with the exception of some artillery, had already completed the assembly in the predetermined area east of Anqing, and on the night of June 25, most of this division went to Jixian Pass as a reserve for the defenders of the Yuexing Mountain front.

And Xu Ming, on this moonlit night, led more than 5,000 selected elites, relying on the cover of the night, quietly left the position.

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It is the rainy season in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and although there are a few sunny days in the past few days, the heavy rain some time ago still makes the mountain road extremely difficult to walk, let alone rush at night. If it was light infantry, it was fine, and some heavy machine gunners not only had to carry ammunition and 7 days of dry rations, but also had to carry additional steel helmets and clothing for the Japanese army.

The most tired are the mountain artillerymen, some take turns carrying the gun carriage, some several people carry the gun barrel together, passing through the mountains, and the common help of the side barely guarantees the speed of advance, and the rest of the soldiers help carry the shells.

These mountain guns are not Bofors mountain guns, they are the Japanese army's 41-year mountain guns, 8 were captured in the Battle of Mawo, plus 3 captured by Mingguang in World War II, a total of an artillery battalion was formed. The four-year-old mountain gun weighed relatively lightly, only more than 500 kilograms, and could be broken down into small parts, which could be carried by horses and even infantry. However, on the mountain road, no matter how light the mountain artillery movement is, it is very difficult.

The leaders were Qin Husheng and Zhang Zhijiang, who are now part of the 107th Division, and they were the ones who mapped the terrain in the first place.

"Shizuo, in front of you is Huangniugang, and then turn a hill, and you will arrive at Liujialing." Qin Husheng left here for less than 1 month, and he remembers the terrain very clearly.

"Are you tired?" Xu Ming looked at these student troops, after a forced march in the middle of the night, the soldiers all showed tiredness, these students not long ago, they actually survived one by one.

"Not tired." Qin Husheng was stubborn and authentic.

"Really? There is no need to tell lies in front of me. ”

"I'm really not tired, Master, I have a great feeling."

"Hey, walking still comes out of the feeling, it's great, and the students of Ontario University are really different." Xu Ming joked.

The people next to him all laughed, and Qin Husheng saw that Xu Ming didn't believe it, and explained:

"Shizuo, the route here is determined by us personally, and now we can lead the troops on this road, this is where we feel 'great'." After saying this, Qin Husheng's face showed a divine color.

Xu Ming patted him on the shoulder, "Well said, the sons and daughters of China must have such a sense of honor, and after the victory in this battle, your deeds will be recorded in history." ”

Several of the students cheered as they landed, and their heavy footsteps became lighter.

These students had just joined the army, and they had not yet formed a strict concept of military class, and when they saw Xu Ming speaking kindly, they talked very casually.

"Master, you said we were tired, but you yourself were walking on two legs."

Xu Ming smiled, "I, the division commander, don't use two legs to walk, can I walk on four legs?" ”

Zhang Zhijiang was almost laughed at, "Master, you are too humorous, I mean that our 107th Division has a good atmosphere, the officers and soldiers are equal, and the finances are also open, I heard that other troops are not like this, and some brothers are from other troops, saying that it is very dark." ”

"The facts are a bit exaggerated, and now in the Chinese army, no commander dares to treat the soldiers badly." Xu Ming retorted, of course he knew that what Zhang Zhijiang said was right, but Xu Ming was now an upper-level person, and he couldn't show the dark side of the army when he spoke, and these bad evaluations of other armies would circulate and leave sequelae.

Xu Ming saw that they were skeptical, and said: "Our Chinese army treats soldiers differently, the Northwest Army treats soldiers as brothers, Han Fuqu used to go to the barracks in the middle of the night to tell stories to soldiers, and Feng Yuxiang plucked out the ears of soldiers... Commander Wang Yaowu, whom you have come into contact with, regards the soldiers as his patrons, and there is a saying in our Diyuming Company, 'The customer is God.' 'Commander Wang is a soldier..."

After all, this group of student soldiers was naïve, and they were amused by Xu Ming to burst into laughter, and before they knew it, the sky was bright.

"Master, Liu Jialing has arrived." Qin Husheng reminded.

"Okay, the order will go down, the troops will rest immediately, and the spy company will strengthen its vigilance!"