When Cai Renjie probably finished talking about the battle process of capturing Luodian, Feng Shengfa and Zhang Jingming's faces darkened in an instant, and He Lingxiao even blew up his lungs, a main force regiment besieged an infantry squadron in Little Japan, and suffered more than 600 casualties, Zuihou even let more than 100 Japanese troops break through, what kind of battle is this?

"Where's Tong Yafu?" He Lingxiao roared angrily, "Where is he? ”

If Tong Yafu was in front of him, He Lingxiao would really be unable to control and shoot him, the Japanese army held the bridgehead, you wouldn't have sent a small team to outflank the past, you had to charge from the front one by one? Until a battalion was exhausted, Zuihou couldn't turn this corner, what a brain?

Cai Renjie snorted: "Camp Commander Tong was injured and hasn't woken up yet." ”

"Hmph, it's time for him to get hurt." He Lingxiao's anger did not subside, but Feng Shengfa waved his hand to stop him, and said, "Now is not the time to pursue responsibility, the battle of Luodian, the 344th Regiment did not fight well, but it doesn't matter if it is not fought well, the important thing is to seriously sum up experience, learn lessons from it, and then innovate tactics." ”

Speaking of this, Feng Shengfa subconsciously glanced back at Xu Shijiu.

As early as when the 88th Division attacked Hongkou, Feng Shengfa had already discovered that although the grassroots officers of the Central Army were more than brave, they were seriously lacking in their ability to change, and in actual combat, they usually only knew how to blindly rush and fight, even if they hit their heads and bleed, they would not look back, and the results were often very limited, but their own casualties were very large.

Of course, the middle and high-ranking officers of the Central Army behaved even more poorly.

It is no wonder that some Western military attaches joke that the national army has first-class soldiers, but only second-rate officers, third-rate generals, and non-first-rate commanders.

Strictly speaking, the officers of the Central Army cannot be blamed for this, because their previous opponents were either the Beiyang Army or the motley army of local warlords, and their combat effectiveness was limited, and their will to fight was even weaker.

Now the opponent has been replaced by the strong-willed and well-equipped Japanese army, but the style of the Central Army cannot be changed at once.

In the Battle of Songhu, the Central Army still used the same tactics as it used to fight the Beiyang Army or local warlords, such as Huang Wei, a nerdy division commander, who personally served as the captain of the death team to lead the charge, and for example, Hu Zongnan, the commander of the First Army, was almost exhausted by tens of thousands of men and horses in an army, and he was still fighting a counterattack in broad daylight.

Not to mention Bai Chongxi, a famous general of the Gui family with the reputation of "Little Zhuge ", he actually let the 30,000 veterans of the Seventh Army, the ace of the Gui Army and known as the steel army, line up and shout slogans to charge in clusters, but the Japanese army was defeated in just one day, and almost all of the tens of thousands of veterans who dared to die were killed, and the brigade commander alone died six!

It cannot be said that this style of striking and rushing is not good, but they met the wrong opponent at the wrong time and in the wrong place, and as a result, they suffered a big loss.

It was not until the end of the Battle of Songhu that the Central Army was completely familiar with the style and tactics of the Japanese army, and the grassroots officers gradually began to change their style, and the majority of senior generals also exercised their tactical command ability in the brutal general battle, but unfortunately, at that time, the Central Army had not many veterans left for them to squander.

During the Battle of Songhu, more than a dozen German divisions were able to compete with the five permanent divisions of the Japanese army in open terrain, but when the battles of Xuzhou and Wuhan were fought, dozens of divisions of the Nationalist Army besieged a second-class division of the Japanese army with great difficulty.

Feng Shengfa was one of the few clear-headed generals, and he had already seen that there was a big problem with the style of the Central Army.

On the contrary, it is the independent 19th Brigade from the old 19th Route Army, the tactical use is flexible, and the actual combat performance is remarkable, if the 19th Brigade is the main attack on Luodian, supplemented by one or two main battalions, then the result will definitely not be as tragic as now, and the Japanese army will definitely not be able to break through from Luodian.

As soon as Feng Shengfa finished speaking, Zhang Jingming echoed: "What the master said is right, it should be summarized well. ”

He Lingxiao and Wu Jiguang's two brigade commanders also responded to the peace, which can be regarded as a loss of Sangyu and a harvest of the east, the 344th regiment fought ineffectively in Luodian and suffered heavy casualties, although it is embarrassing, but this battle also hit the arrogance of Zhang Jingming and others, and indirectly helped Feng Shengfa integrate the army's heart, which can be regarded as an unexpected gain.

Not long after, the 348th regiment came back with the news that the Japanese reinforcements had withdrawn, which was also expected, the remnants of the Japanese army stationed in Luodian had broken through, and there was no need for the reinforcements to continue to attack, the Japanese army had absolute artillery superiority and sea and air superiority during the day, so it would not be stupid enough to fight the national army at night.

Feng Shengfa immediately ordered the 344th Regiment and the 348th Regiment to build fortifications on the spot and transfer to defense, and especially reminded Cai Renjie and Zhou Lixing that the depth of the fortifications should be increased!

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Almost at the same time, he Zhiying II also held a tactical review meeting at the wing headquarters.

In the past three days, the 44th Infantry Wing has suffered successive defeats in Wudoujing, Gujiazhai, and Luodian Town, with nearly 2,000 casualties.

It is said that the Japanese are dull and brainless, and the Japanese army's tactics are rigid, but in fact, it is a big mistake, the Japanese are actually very good at learning, and the Japanese officers are also very good at summing up experience and then innovating tactics.

Deputy Wing Commander Kinoshita Hideyoshi first put forward his own opinions, saying: "At Wudoujing and the Western Front Bridge, the Imperial Army was ambushed by the Shina Army twice in a row, which shows that the Shina Army is already very familiar with the fishing tactics of the Wing Commander, so it is already very dangerous to continue to place a small number of troops on the front line to lure the Shina Army to take the initiative. ”

He Zhiyingji also deeply believed that although the Yoshino squadron guarding Luodian was able to break through by luck this time, it was mainly because of the improper tactics of the Chinese army, if there was a next time, the Japanese army might not be able to retreat with its whole body, and at that time the fishing would not succeed, but it might be eaten by the Chinese army.

The loss of an infantry squadron is nothing, but if you lose an infantry squadron every night, you can lose an infantry brigade in four days, an infantry wing in 12 days, a division and a regiment in a month and a half, and in just three months, the 3rd and 11th divisions that landed in Shanghai will cease to exist.

This was something that the Great Japanese Empire categorically could not afford.

At that moment, he nodded and said: "Kinoshita-san is right, the Chinese army on the opposite side is becoming more cunning and difficult to deal with, and the fishing tactics are already difficult to work, and placing a small number of troops on the front line is tantamount to sending sheep into the tiger's mouth. ”

Kinoshita Hideyoshi said again: "Captain, in the past three days, a sign of the Shina Army is becoming more and more obvious, that is, they have strengthened their night attacks, if I am not mistaken, in the future, the attacks of the Shina Army will be more chosen at night, and during the day they will retreat to the defense, does the Imperial Army need to launch a targeted night battle?" ”

"No, that's not necessary." He Zhiying II had a different opinion on this, and said, "The Imperial Army has absolute superiority in artillery and naval aviation, and only during the day can the advantages of artillery and naval aviation be brought into full play, so a-for-tat night battle with the Chinese army can be described as playing up the shortcomings and avoiding the strengths, and the soldiers do not take it." ”

Although Kinoshita Hideyoshi did not agree, he did not continue to refute.

Soon, the eastern sky revealed the white of the fish's belly.

Immediately, the naval artillery group of the Japanese Navy's 3rd Fleet, the 11th Mountain Artillery Wing of the 11th Division, the 10th Heavy Artillery Wing directly under the Shanghai Dispatch Army, the 4th Independent Heavy Mortar Group, and the Kisarazu Air Force and Kakaya Air Force of the Japanese Navy launched an overwhelming bombardment of Luodian.

Fortunately, this time Zhou Lixing and Cai Renjie did not take it lightly, but followed Feng Shengfa's orders to increase the depth of the position, the 348th Regiment and the 344th Regiment The depth of the position was more than two kilometers in radius, even as the entire defensive support of the town, the 344th Regiment only placed one platoon.

The main force of the 58th Division was placed on the defensive line with a width of more than five kilometers by Feng Shengfa, its left flank was next to the right flank of Li Shusen's 67th Division, and the right flank was seamlessly connected with Wang Yaowu's 51st Division. Feng Shengfa inevitably explained on the phone.

The advantage of expanding the depth of the defense was obvious, and that was that the Japanese artillery fire was greatly diluted.

The power of small Japan's large-caliber naval guns is great, and a single cannon can hit a large pit with a diameter of several tens of meters, as long as it is within the range of the big pit, no matter people or animals, it is absolutely dead or alive; The lethality of small Japan's heavy bombs is even more terrifying, 250 kg or even 500 kg of bombs are smashed down, and they are a large piece when they explode!

However, the lethality of small Japan's large-caliber naval guns and heavy bombs is large, but the number is limited, like the 8-inch main gun of the Izumo heavy cruiser, there are only 100 rounds of ammunition in reserve, like 500-kilogram bombs, each aircraft can basically only carry one bomb, how many heavy cruisers does little Japan have, and how many bombers can it dispatch?

In the final analysis, little Japan is just a poor country with extremely scarce resources, and nine out of ten of its strategic resources such as steel and rubber have to rely on overseas imports, and they cannot afford to squander, so every time they throw artillery shells on the head of the national army, they will only kill 10,000 or 20,000 rounds, of which only 2,000 or 3,000 rounds of large-caliber artillery shells and heavy aerial bombs will be struck.

When 20,000 shells are spread out within a radius of several kilometers, the intensity is not so terrible, at least it cannot be compared with the fact that the US military often threw hundreds of thousands of shells on a small hill with a radius of more than 100 meters in the Korean War.

Everyone is also Chinese, the same descendants of Yan and Huang, although the times are different, they can bear hardships and stand hard work, but they are the same, when it comes to not being afraid of death, the national army at this time may not be worse than the volunteer army more than ten years later.

The Japanese army's large-scale bombardment lasted for two hours, and the entire position of the 58th Division, as well as the position of the friendly and neighboring 51st Division at Gu's house, was blown up.

In his ears, there were also the wails and moans of the wounded soldiers, which were extremely miserable.

However, the soldiers of the Nationalist Army who died for the rest of their lives were not intimidated by the Japanese artillery fire, when a group of Japanese soldiers appeared at the front of the position under the guidance of the tank, the veterans of the Nationalist Army sat up from the trenches one after another, raised their guns and shot at the Japanese army, and when the Japanese army was close, they decisively put on their bayonets and counter-charged, and the veterans held bundles of grenades to blow up the tanks, and one died in front of them, and the latter immediately went on top, and then died, and then went on and on, endlessly......

After a whole day of fierce fighting, the 58th and 51st divisions lost more than 2,000 people and were wounded, which can be said to be a river of blood, but the bloody nature of the 74th Army is like this.