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Sun Liren was particularly worried that the devils would not come to attack the Shandong base area, but instead transferred the main force to the west and attacked the Lanfeng defense line of the Nationalist Army along the Longhai Railway to the west, so that the more than 100,000 Nationalist troops there would not be able to stop the main force of the Japanese Central China Front, which had an absolute superiority in numbers, and Luoyang, the hometown of the 15th Group Army, would be directly threatened by that time. When the time comes, the 15th Group Army will not be saved, nor will it be if it is not, and if it is saved, it will be almost impossible to resist the absolute superiority of the Japanese army and the tanks and armored vehicles that are much more numerous than their own side in the plain terrain, which is equivalent to sending them to the devils for annihilation, and if they do not go, it will be even more difficult to withstand them by relying on the local troops and militias left behind

If Sun Liren could take the southern defensive line, the Japanese army, which could only temporarily dig improvised fortifications, would have to maintain at least 500,000 troops in the Xuzhou area to be sure to resist the main force of the 15th Group Army to the south, and the number of troops that could be drawn out to attack the west would naturally be limited; On the contrary, once the southern front is seized by the Japanese army, they only need 300,000 or even less troops to block the all-out attack of the 15th Group Army, and then they can draw at least 500,000 troops to the west, and the Central Plains border area will be dangerous!

Therefore, Sun Liren did not have the joy of winning the first battle at all, but immediately ordered the assault troops to advance south at full speed with a serious face, the goal was to cut through all the two lines of defense of the devils, and while the follow-up troops were divided into a part to follow the assault arrows, the remaining commanders and fighters should immediately deploy to both ends of the captured enemy positions quickly, so as to clear the remnants of the enemy as soon as possible. The meaning of this order is actually "It is best to be able to take both lines of defense, and no matter how bad it is, at least one line of defense must be maintained." Because as long as there is one line of defense in hand, although the situation is grim, it is not completely impossible, and if the two lines of defense are all taken back by the devils, the 15 th Group Army will inevitably fall into an extremely dangerous situation, and the main force will be forced to retreat to the mountains. The Shandong base area and the western Henan base area in his hometown will not be spared, and the losses in the Central Plains border area will be even more difficult to estimate, and even the situation of the national war of resistance will take a sharp turn for the worse

This order fully reflects that Sun Liren is not only brave, but also has a "stable" side, as a general with more than 30,000 troops. When you go to war, you can't just think about how to fight when it's going well. For all kinds of adverse situations, it is also necessary to plan in advance

Although most of the remaining Japanese troops on the position had broken down in morale and were basically unable to put up a strong resistance, the battle was as suspenseless as a whirlwind. However, the infantry squad platoon tactics of the new 38th Division still dazzled Chen Mingren's eyes. In addition to the usual machine-gun fire suppression, the odd gadget, known as the bazooka, has a maximum range of 1,500 meters, and the air-burst steel ball bullets it fires are a heavy blow to the stubborn enemy who tries to take advantage of the position to cover. But what was even more eye-popping to Chen Mingren was that the so-called "assault rifle" could obtain sustained firepower that was almost not inferior to that of a light machine gun by changing magazines with one hand, and was suppressed by the powerful firepower provided by two assault rifles, one light machine gun and one rocket launcher in one squad. It was enough to make a full squad of more than 30 Japanese troops unable to fight back at all, and the new 38th Division eliminated the remnants of the devils on the position almost without casualties

In the meantime, there were also devils who pretended to surrender and wanted to die with the soldiers of the new 38th Division, but the 15th Group Army now has a solution to this, and the soldiers directly pointed guns at the newly captured devils, asking them to disarm their former comrades and rush them together to put them under the monitoring of machine guns. As for those who pretend to be dead and shoot black guns, this is due to the tradition that has long been formed by the 15 th Group Army -- "every corpse must be shot again." It's even more death

There is even a squad with continuous suppressive shooting, how terrifying must the consumption of this bullet be? Chen Mingren couldn't help but raise objections to the behavior of the new 38th Division, but Sun Liren told him, "This is only the privilege of the arrow troops, and not every unit of our group army does this." In fact, only our new 38th Division, because it has enough cars, can carry a large amount of ammunition that is enough to support this type of fighting. ”。 Chen Mingren's doubts disappeared after hearing this, but he did not know that what Sun Liren said was not true, and that when fighting on the outside line, it was because of the lack of logistics and transportation capabilities. It is true that only Sun Liren's new 38th Division can dump ammunition in such luxury, but if it is an internal battle or the place of engagement is not far from the base area or railway. With the staggering output of more than 800 million rounds of ammunition in the Central Plains Border Region in 1938 (the total output of other border regions also exceeded 100 million rounds, adding up to about 1 billion rounds), Hu Weidong has always ranked first in terms of the importance of various ammunition production. The 15th Army was completely free to fight, at least in terms of bullets. Of course, even so, if his subordinates wasted ammunition meaninglessly, they would also be criticized and even punished by Hu Weidong

The seizure of the original Japanese position was very smooth, but just as the assault force was rapidly advancing towards the defense line of the original national army, a reconnaissance plane of the North China Air Corps sent back a bad news. ”

Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the First Japanese Mecha Army, has been carefully studying the fighting style of the 15th Army during the period when he was refrigerated, and his military ability has also unconsciously jumped to a new level after countless reflections and deductions. It is impossible to wait until people put their guns on their heads before reacting, "After the 'Eight Miscellaneous Snakes' learned that the Chinese army in the Fifth War Zone had suffered a great defeat, whether it was to seize a defensive position to block the main force of the imperial army from going north to Shandong, or to obtain an advance base to Xuzhou in the south, in short, he would definitely send troops south to attack the 100,000 imperial troops in Lunan, and he would never let him succeed."

However, Yoshio Shinozuka did not expect that the 15th Group Army would actually form a "mechanized" reorganization division, and its combat effectiveness would be so strong that it would defeat the main force of the Japanese army in Lunan that had just won a major victory, so that he lost his original position. But the First Mecha Army didn't come too late, at least they arrived on the battlefield before Sun Liren's goal was fully achieved

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