Hearing the complaints of his officers, Yamanashi Hanzo's face twitched. I think he himself was a die-hard supporter of the Triple Non-Aggression Pact! Moreover, he is also a staunch supporter of the national policy of going south, and he also supports the reduction of army spending to strengthen the navy. Now it's better to lift a stone and shoot yourself in the foot, right? The number of cannons in his hands is already much less than that of his opponent, the caliber is also a circle smaller, and even the firing range is a lot shorter! How is this battle going to be fought? Is it really to fill the 100,000 imperial army soldiers into the sea of fire of the Chinese?

"What is the level of training of the artillery in China? Can it be compared with the artillery of the Imperial Army? Hanzo Yamanashi thought for a moment and asked.

Now the Japanese army top brass has long known that the standard of training for Chinese infantry is exactly the same as that of Japanese infantry, even if they don't have much bushido spirit, Yamanashi Hanzo does not dare to be arrogant to the point of thinking that one Japanese infantry can fight several Chinese infantry! According to the calculations of the General Staff Headquarters of the Japanese Army, the ratio of the combat effectiveness of the infantry between Japan and China is about 2. However, the main combat mode of the Japanese army is not the white soldiers charging to fight the bayonets, but the coordination of artillery and foot, if their artillery is dumb, no matter how elite the infantry is, it is just a pile of cannon fodder!

"The artillery of China was trained by French and American instructors, but it still cannot be compared with the artillery of the Imperial Army." Kensuke Nagasaka, the commander of the 2nd Division, who was born as an artilleryman, explained to Hanzo Yamanashi with a frown. "Their problem is the lack of artillery observers...... The artillery observers of the Imperial Army were attached to the brigade, and their artillery observers were at most assigned to the regiment, and it was strictly forbidden to go near the front line. However, their air force was stronger than that of the Imperial Army. Therefore, in the daytime when the weather conditions are good, you can use the guò artillery observation balloon to instruct the artillery group to shoot, which is still very powerful. ”

Yamanashi Hanzo nodded, he also knew that ordinary artillery could be trained. But artillery observers are not just looking for illiterate people to train them. Because the basic skill of artillery observers is mathematics, they need to do mathematical problems on the battlefield! You can't do this job without a certain amount of math skills. Moreover, even if you have a considerable level of mathematics, you don't necessarily have the physical qualities to become an artillery observer, and the artillery observer has to carry a lot of deadly heavy observation tools all over the battlefield, and the nerd with thin bones can't do it.

Therefore, the artillery observers in the squadron have become a rare species and need to be well protected. As a result of the fact that artillery observers did not dare to enter the front line, the reaction speed and firing accuracy of the Chinese artillery were naturally greatly reduced. However, their air superiority can make up for this weakness in a certain way. So in daytime artillery battles, Japanese artillery was always at a disadvantage. But in the evening, the advantage undoubtedly returned to the side of the Japanese. to deal with the squadron. It is the best tactics of the Japanese army, night attack! Use the artillery and infantry coordination at night, plus the white-knuckle battle that the Japanese army is most proud of, to defeat the opposite squadron! As long as you can cross the Ussuri River, surround the Tiger Head Fortress. The main force of the ** squadron in Manchuria will be attracted to it by "the fastest chapter update". In this way, it will be possible to create a surprise attack by the First Army!

"The only way to come is to fight the night attack." Hanzo Yamanashi turned around, sat cross-legged at the bottom of the trench, and beckoned several commanders of the army headquarters and division commanders to sit down together. A group of high-ranking generals of the Japanese Second Army actually held a combat meeting in the trenches at the front! If one of these shells falls right down, then the joy will be great.

Several division commanders all thought like this, but no one wanted to show cowardice in front of His Excellency the commander, so they had to bite the bullet and start discussing the military situation.

"Not only should you hit at night, but you should also consider the weather for the next day, the weather forecast says it will rain all day on July 2. It would be better to start the offensive on the night of July. ”

"The artillery should also be strengthened, now there are only four understaffed artillery wings. Counting the artillery of the infantry wing, there are only 4 cannons in total, and there is not enough heavy artillery to suppress the Tiger Head Fortress! ”

"The deployment of artillery should also be adjusted, all artillery should be deployed in advance, and it should be in place the day before, that is, on the night of June 0."

"The breakthrough site should be chosen to the north of the Tiger Head Fortress, where the defenses are relatively lax, and there is a large wooded area where the artillery and assault boats that have been mobilized in advance can be hidden."

The Japanese officers of this period were not very clever in strategic matters, but their tactical level was not low! In the end, these people are all elites from young military academies, army non-commissioned officers, and army universities, and many of them also have experience studying in Europe. Under the rambling of this rather professional army officer, the general battle plan was finalized.

The time of the attack was chosen at the evening of July 92, and the main attack site was selected from Xiaomuhe to Lijiadian, about 25 kilometers north of the Hutou Fortress, according to the previous fire reconnaissance, the garrison of the ** squadron in that area was quite weak, and there was probably only one regiment of defenders, and it was also far away from the Hutou Fortress, and could not get the support of the fortress artillery. The main attacking unit was the Japanese Second Division, which had been bombarded on the front line of Xin'an for more than 20 days.

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The headquarters of the First Group Army of the Chinese National Defense Forces had also been established in the Tiger Head Fortress at this time. However, what made Lieutenant General Xu Tingyao, commander-in-chief of the First Group Army, a little depressed, was that the troops under his command had been reduced from the original 5 corps plus a fortress brigade and 5 independent artillery regiments to an infantry corps, 2 fortress brigades and an independent heavy artillery regiment, as well as several security regiments in Heilongjiang Province. There are more than 65,000 people in total, but they have to guard a front more than 400 kilometers long, and the troops are really stretched. "And the Japanese army opposite him clearly showed signs of a large increase in troops, and the air force reconnaissance report showed that every day there were large groups of Japanese marching columns from the north and south directions to the vicinity of Xin'antu. The troops who ventured to cross the river to reconnoiter also ascertained the numbers of six Japanese army divisions, including the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 16th, 19th, and 20th divisions! Xu Tingyao and Li Zongren, commander of the Eighth Army, have already reached a consensus that the Japanese army is very likely to launch a campaign to forcibly cross the Ussuri River in the near future! But they could not be sure where the main attack of the Japanese army would be. Therefore, it was only possible to shrink the forces around the Tiger Head Fortress as much as possible, and start to build ring fortifications around the Tiger Head Fortress. It was obvious that he had given up his intention to defend the long Ussuri River defense line and was ready to fight an offensive and defensive battle around the Tiger Head Fortress. But on the positions that are ready to be abandoned. They still deployed a small force to act as a suspicious soldier, but now they use one army with the number of three armies, but they can't let the small Japanese on the other side of the river see the flaws.

Xu Tingyao took his chief of staff, Gu Zhutong, to walk in the position of the 71st Regiment of the 24th Division, which was originally deployed on the defensive line along the Ussuri River, and had fought several times with the Japanese troops in front of him, so he knew the opponent's situation better. So Xu Tingyao and Gu Zhutong came to listen to what the front-line officers and soldiers who had fought with the Japanese infantry had to say about their opponents.

"Hey! It's just a big living person with two arms and a head, and he rolls all over the ground after being shot...... They are more powerful with bayonets, but they can't do it with firepower. There are no submachine guns in the infantry squad, and bayonets are not as good as submachine guns in close combat! ”

"However, their night attack was quite powerful, and on the 2nd, a small group of ghosts quietly crossed the river at night. Touching into the position we were guarding in a row, we silently ended up with 6 brothers! It was our platoon commander's sharp eyes that the situation was not right, and the two sides were playing white knives in the trenches, and the lights were blind. It's all yellow-colored uniforms. I didn't dare to break through with a submachine gun, so I had to fight with a bayonet...... In the end, it took reinforcements from the company to wipe them out! In this battle, 5 of our men were hung up, 6 were seriously wounded, and one of them died! If my little ghost wants to attack, it must be at night! ”

"These days, we have fought several times, I participated in the three-day battles on the 20th, 22nd, and 22nd, and they all started to attack at about 4 o'clock in the morning, first suppressing them with artillery, and then our infantry rowed small boats across the river. Lay down their forward positions and withdraw. Each time, I could tie up three or five captives and come back, all of them for the cannon to stun ...... Lively little ghosts

You can't catch it. Even the wounded soldiers can't do it, as long as there is still a breath, these ghost soldiers will not be captured, and if they don't do it, they will pull grenades and die with us! On the 20th, our platoon commander was blown off his leg with a grenade by a wounded soldier with a ghost, and he is still lying in the hospital! It is estimated that the second half of the generation can only use a wheelchair. ”

Listening to the discussions of these front-line soldiers, Xu Tingyao and Gu Zhu Tongxin had some bottoms. The strict training and a lot of military spending in the past few years have not been wasted in vain, and the gap between the individual combat strength of the Wehrmacht and the Japanese soldiers is no longer too obvious! If it is a daytime fight, with strong firepower, the Wehrmacht has a clear upper hand. So if the Japanese oni want to attack, they will definitely attack at night!

On the way back to the headquarters after leaving the position of the 7th Regiment, Xu Tingyao said to Gu Zhutong: "Mo San, the general attack of the Japanese army must be at night!" We'll have to be careful, it's just not sure when they're going to do it. ”

Gu Zhutong smiled and said: "I don't know when they will do it, but we know when we will do it...... If the Suifen River starts, the Japanese ghosts of Shin'an Land will definitely not do it, so the most dangerous thing is the first few days of July. After getting through it, the world will be peaceful. ”

Xu Tingyao turned his head at the junior who graduated from the sixth phase of Baoding, frowned slightly, and said sternly: "What are you talking about?" It's good to fight this battle! We are under a lot of pressure here, and it is easy to make a breakthrough on the other side of Suifenhe! This Tiger Head Fortress and our Eighth Army are hooks, and only when they are hooked into the flesh of the imp can they be secure! ”

"Commander, I see!" Gu Zhu is the same as Zhengse. "Then in the next few days, let's let the troops be on guard every night."

Xu Tingyao nodded and sighed softly. "I just don't know where the imp will do it, the defense line is too long, and the troops are too small, it's really hard to do."

"Commander, I estimate that the location of the little Japanese move will not be too close to the Tiger Head Fortress, and it should be out of range of the Type 00002 cannon in the Tiger Head Fortress...... Most likely 20 kilometers north of Tiger Head Fortress. That's our weak point, and the Japanese must already know it. Gu Zhutong paused for a moment and reminded in a low voice: "Why don't we secretly move the two 7-inch cannons and two 55mm cannons, and at the same time strengthen the defensive forces in the north......

"Good! Send a division to strengthen the defense of the northern front, Mo III. Whose troops can be sent? ”

"You can send Shen Yizhi's 2nd Division."

……

Just when the two sides on the Manchurian battlefield in the Far East were dispatching troops, each with its own wishful thinking, preparing for an unprecedented decisive battle. In a refugee camp fenced with barbed wire outside Shenyang, the situation of North Koreans suddenly improved. Ford trucks with IDF license plates and mule-drawn flatbed trucks lined up on the makeshift road outside the camp. Truckloads of rice, white flour, cloth and medicine were brought in. This has been unthinkable for the past two years!

These North Korean refugees are almost the lowest and most miserable people in the entire Northeast, and this refugee camp is almost a prison cage, guarded by officers and soldiers of China's local security forces on all sides. It is only possible to do some extremely hard physical labor under the organization of a company with a special background (controlled by the Iron and Blood Comrades Association), and the remuneration is only one-fifth of that of the Chinese workers who do the same work! It's brutal exploitation, and all the trade unions here in the Northeast are deaf to what happened to them...... This also speaks volumes about the hypocritical nature of the revisionist H-color trade unions.

And just when these North Korean refugees thought that they were going to live this hellish life on earth for the rest of their lives, China and Japan did so without warning. actually started fighting, and now the value of these North Koreans seems to have begun to rise. Especially after the visit of the two mysterious guests, a large number of daily necessities began to be distributed "free" to the Korean people who were hungry and cold.

"Brother Tycoon. The things you want have already been delivered, but what about millions, and millions of dollars to buy your 300 lives is considered sky-high, right? Are you ready? ”

It was a beautiful woman in black who spoke, wearing a high-slit Chinese cheongsam with a well-cut fit. It is Chang Ruiqing's little wife Zhao Sanmei. Sitting next to her. There is also a lieutenant general of the Chinese National Defense Forces, Ren Yijiang, director of the Military Intelligence Bureau. The two of them came to the North Korean refugee camp with this batch of supplies, and now they are sitting in the only decent room in the refugee camp.

Sitting across from them were three leading figures of the Korean independence movement, Ji Dae-tycoon, Kim Sa-jin and Syngman Rhee. However, Zhao Sanmei only knew Chi Daheng, so she regarded him as the object of the transaction. also flattered this Korean rebel who was born in Japan, and he can be regarded as embarking on this lady's route!

"Third sister...... The Third Lady. "Chi Tycoon is full of smiles, he doesn't look like a tycoon at all, but he looks like a well-behaved little brother." Three hundred dead men have been chosen. All of them have a blood feud with Japanese ghosts! I promise nothing bad, it's just that this mission ......"

"Of course, this mission is life-and-death! How. Reluctant? Zhao Sanmei smiled and groaned, and she didn't take 00 lives seriously.

Ji Tycoon shook his head stiffly. "How can it be, they can dedicate themselves to the cause of Korean independence, they all died well, they died well!"

"Hmm." Zhao Sanmei smiled noncommittally and turned her head to Ren Yijiang. Ren Yijiang said: "The meaning of the commission is that the leader of North Korea in the future will be General Chi Daheng." "He was the other two leaders of the Korean independence movement." Do you have any comments? ”

"No opinion, no opinion...... We are all rooting for General Chi! ”

"That's good, that's good." Zhao Sanmei said with a smile. "In addition to those 00 dead soldiers, you can also start organizing the army, at most a month," "The Wehrmacht will be able to enter North Korea, and the North Korean army will follow in at that time." ”

The three North Koreans had irrepressible expressions of joy on each other's faces. Zhao Sanmei continued: "Brother Tycoon, your three hundred dead soldiers always have a leader, right?" Can you call me and Brother Yichen to see each other? ”

"No problem, he's just waiting outside." Chi Tycoon raised his voice and shouted. "Cui Yongjian, is Cui Yongjian here?"

"In!" Someone outside answered in Chinese, and then someone pushed the door and walked into the conference room. The person who came was a young North Korean with a tall body and a face about the same black as Zhao Sanmei.

"Cui Yongjianjun?" Ren Yijiang is this young man. With a straight face, he asked, "Do you know what kind of task you will take on this time?" ”

"Know! It's a mortal mission! Cui Yongjian replied loudly. But there was no trace of fear in his tone.

Ren Yijiang nodded. "Very good, not afraid of death, is a good man! Is there anyone else in the house? ”

"My mother is still here, and I have a pair of younger siblings."

"Okay, we'll take care of it for you." Ren Yijiang said coldly. "We will take care of the families of all the North Korean fighters who participated in this operation!"

Cui Yongjian was slightly stunned, he knew that the other party was holding his family hostage. Still, he focused his head. "Thank you."

Zhao Sanmei said to Cui Yongjian with a smile: "Brother Cui, let's tell you clearly." This mission is not a mortal mission...... There is a good chance of survival, but before you do it, your people will need to lurk in Japan for a few days, and these days will be the most afraid of traitors. Do you understand? ”

Cui Yongjian shook his head slightly. "General Chi told me that my mission this time is to die, so I am ready to die!"

Zhao Sanmei giggled. "In that case, then go home and explain what happened, and then go with your brethren."

Cui Yongjianchi, the tycoon, saw that the other party nodded, so he snapped upright, saluted a few people in the room, and then turned around and left. (To be continued.) )