The Japanese did not attack again after dusk, and Takata's brigade withdrew from the battle at night, and the fighting between China and Japan came to an end on June 24.

Brigade commander Tokutaro Sakai presided over a tactical review meeting in the evening, and although Sakai thought that he had made a lot of preparations for this attack, at the end of the day, Sakai found that there were still many problems, and if he did not make painful rectifications, let alone capture Anqing, he was afraid that he would be wiped out by the opponent.

First of all, there was one of the main and most important reasons for the failure of the attack, and that was the lack of troops. Two months ago, when the former Lieutenant General of the 13th Division, Lieutenant General Ogisu, left his post and Inaba Sho, Sakai was present at the time, and talking about the Battle of Meiguang, Inaba believed that the main reason for the failure of the offensive was the lack of troops, and that it would take 50,000 troops to attack a strong position like the 107th Division.

Although Sakai didn't interject, he was obviously unimpressed, thinking that this was an excuse for Lieutenant General Ogisu's defeat, but after the attack on the 24th, Sakai found that this was a matter of experience.

The experience that was exchanged for blood, Ogisu Libing got it, and he Sakai Tokutaro also got it, but the price was a bit big.

Just attacking the opponent's outer positions, the strength is not enough, he is a major general division commander, and the reserves at hand are only 2 squadrons! What can 2 squadrons do? Nothing can be done!

Sakai did not echo or refute the bitter complaints of the commanders of the various brigades on the front line, but just said lightly: "I will make suggestions to His Excellency the division commander to replenish the troops." ”

After speaking, he turned his head to the Fifth Field Heavy Artillery Brigade Uchiyama Eitaro and said coldly: "Uchiyama-kun, in today's attack, our army's heavy artillery fire has never suppressed the enemy. ”

After Sakai finished speaking, the rest of the infantry commanders also glared angrily at Uchiyama, and the wing commander Nakano Hidemitsu stood up angrily, "Today's heavy artillery brigade has not provided enough support to our army at all, and the opponent has more than a dozen mountain artillery, but the artillery can be fired all afternoon, and the work will be finished in the evening!" Your Excellency, Commander of the Uchiyama Brigade, what are your 70 heavy guns for! ”

For this accusation, Uchiyama and his subordinates were extremely disgusted, the Sakai detachment was a wing commander who stepped out, and an artillery wing commander of the Uchiyama brigade stood up and retorted: "Nakano Daisa, your accusation is extremely rude, my invincible fifth heavy artillery brigade has always performed well since its formation, and has repeatedly been praised, which has been approved by the sixth general Yanjun, and today it is your infantry who did not capture the ...... of the Shina."

After the wing commander finished arguing, when he came to the rank of group commander, the infantry accused the heavy artillery of being idle and passive; The heavy artillery accused the infantry of ineffective attacks and insufficient communications, and the room was filled with all sorts of saliva.

The two sides are needle-to-needle, do not give in to each other, the fierce confrontation, the fierceness of the words, its strength far exceeds the attack on the squadron during the day, if the artillery has this kind of angry bonus, or the infantry has this kind of roaring aura, maybe today can capture the opponent's position!

Captain Takada Yyo slapped the table, and the force was extremely strong, and the teacups on the seats of others rang out in protest. He said to a heavy artillery captain who was talking about joy just now: "Incompetent! Impotent! You heavy artillery is synonymous with incompetence! I, Takata, have never seen such incompetent heavy artillery! ”

The captain of the heavy artillery brigade, Shimizu Zhishan, did not show weakness, and the hand that slapped on the table first was not lost to the opponent, and several of the teacups that were shaken just now were scared to the ground, "Shameless! Shameless! You infantrymen are a symbol of shamelessness! I, Shimizu Zhishan, have never seen such a shameless friendly soldier! ”

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Regardless of whether or not there is a review of the problem at today's tactical review meeting, there has been a significant increase in quarrel skills, the Sakai detachment, and the Uchiyama brigade! Everyone also showed off their style quite a bit.

Takada Nakasa's diction is very concise, combined with the high volume, giving the opponent a strong sense of oppression; And the captain of the heavy artillery brigade spoke extremely fast, scolding people like machine gun fire, this kind of lightning speed is simply impossible for ordinary people to resist! Shimizu Shaozuo next to him is good at using gestures, rich body language and subdued tone to give the barren Japanese scolding super vitality.

Captain Honda, a staff officer of the military headquarters, was extremely speechless when he saw such a lively and spectacular scene.

He really wanted to suggest that the two armies did not need to attack Anqing, and simply fought a battle here, the two armies were of equal rank and about the same number of people......

"Smack", Honda Eimitsu slammed a teacup to the ground, and the room fell silent.

"Commander Gangcun asked me to come down to observe the battle situation on the front line and report on it, I would like to ask, is the content of today's meeting submitted? If the commander knew that your main energy was here, I don't know how to feel! ”

Don't look at Honda Eimitsu is just a captain, but he represents Okamura Ninji, and besides, he was born in Lu University, and an officer like Takada who was born in a non-commissioned officer school did not dare to refute it at all.

"Captain Honda, what do you think of today's battle?" It was the brigade commander Tokutaro Sakai who turned the topic back.

Honda had lost his temper just now, and now he quickly made up for his politeness, and he bowed to Sakai and Uchiyama, and then said:

"I think the big reason for the lack of attack today was a tactical problem."

"Oh? What is Honda-kun's opinion? "Uchiyama Eitaro hurry down the slope and get off the donkey, he will find Honda Glory after the meeting in a while, and his speech today is quite inhumane to outsiders...

"It's the use of smoke * bombs, I suggest that in the future, try not to use smoke * bombs in the attack on the 107th Division!"

He continued:

"Smoke * bombs are not a conventional tactic, and our army's "Infantry Drill Code" does not have relevant content, but it is very effective in the China battlefield. Once our army uses smoke * bombs, many times the soldiers of the branch think that they are releasing poison gas, and many of the soldiers of the branch are strong men who are temporarily pulled up, and they have not undergone strict pre-war training, and in the face of our army that attacks from all directions on the smoke-filled battlefield, they often collapse in the first battle. Positions that might take a whole day to breach in conventional tactics can take only half an hour with smoke* bomb tactics! Such an excellent performance has turned this kind of side-of-the-road tactics into a regular tactic. ”

Honda then talks about the limitations of this tactic.

“… However, the shortcomings of the smoke * bomb tactics are also very obvious, our army found in the use that the stronger the opponent, the worse the effect of the smoke * bomb, and an opponent like Xu Ming, the advantages of the smoke * bomb are almost completely lost, and the shortcomings are all exposed. ”

"In the environment of smoke and shells, it is extremely difficult for the attacking side to communicate and coordinate, and the well-trained opponent is different, like the first squadron in the day several group counterattacks, each time the infantry is outflanked in front and back, left and right, artillery and heavy machine guns either suppress our firepower, or block the main road. The 107th Division has completely measured all the firing data, and it is less plagued by smoke shells, and its suppressive fire and all kinds of artillery fire are extremely accurate. The opponent's group counterattack is accurate one by one, often encircling a small squad or even a squadron of our troops. ”

A word woke up the people in the door, and all the officers present here were officers who had been on the battlefield for a long time, and they immediately understood the tactical mistakes of today's attack.

Sakai nodded heavily, "Captain Honda's words are very reasonable, from now on, the use of smoke * bombs in our army's offensive is restricted. ”

Tokutaro Sakai's head shows that Xu Ming forced the opponent's attack method to change, and only later generations will know how rare this change is for the Chinese.

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"Well done!"

"You're good too!"

Xu Ming patted the shoulders of the soldiers in front of him one by one, and hung the medals on their chests.

Inside the bunker, the soldiers still seem to have traces of the fierce battles of the day, there was a platoon here in the morning, and it is still a platoon, but it has changed two-thirds of its new faces.

A third of the old faces remained, some with dusty faces mixed with sweat and blood; Some of them still have the smell of gunsmoke on their bodies, and their military uniforms are in tatters.

But no matter who they are, they all have a look of self-confidence and perseverance, and this self-confidence and perseverance are obtained from continuous victories, and they have never been defeated since the War of Resistance Against Japan, and victory after victory has given them great courage.

Xu Ming confidently looked at a soldier, a young man about 20 years old, his hair was burnt, and even half of his eyebrows were left.

"How old are you?"

"Reporter, 21, Serpent."

Xu Ming also patted him on the shoulder, saw that his collar was crooked, walked behind him and carefully helped him tidy it up.

Xu Ming joked with him, "I didn't expect there to be a one-eyebrow hero here, don't worry, the matter of marrying a wife is on me." ”

Everyone laughed, and the one-eyed hero also smiled innocently.

Xu Ming shook hands with all the soldiers one by one, and then walked out of the bunker.

This is exactly what Xu Ming is encouraging the morale of the troops, and after each battle, he has to take various methods to boost morale, sometimes visiting the wounded, sometimes going out for the body laying ceremony, and most often, going to the front line today.

It wasn't until midnight that Xu Ming finished visiting the position on the front line of the Moon Mountain, and after having dinner with the soldiers on the front line, he left the position.

But he couldn't rest, the Japanese army held a tactical review meeting, and the same was true for the 107th Division, but the conference room was full of victorious smiles, and if the other two Tokutaro Sakai and Uchiyama saw such a joyful scene, they didn't know how to feel.

"In today's battle, we were able to hold all positions, thanks to the courage and skill of the front-line officers and men and the resolute attack of the commanders, and the facts have shown that the Japanese army is bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and we must not blindly fail to rush out of the fight with them, but must seize the fighters and encircle and annihilate them at the right time..." Xu Ming first made a theoretical analysis.

The General Staff Office provided a set of data, including the firing data of each firepower point in the battle and the display of battle results, which were analyzed digitally and then targeted and rectified in deployment.

The Logistics Service reported on the delivery of food and ammunition for the day.

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Feng Shengfa and Wang Yaowu, who were attending the meeting as observers, glanced at it, their eyes were full of admiration, they finally knew why the 107th Division had been victorious, and today's battle and the evening meeting had fully shown this.