After a brief conversation, the deputy minister closed his mouth and said nothing. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Yang Jicai didn't speak, but carefully looked at the current battle situation report on the Tieyuan frontline. Although the Junkers 52 transport plane did not fly fast, the road had an end after all.

As for the deputy minister's words, he listened and understood. This deputy director of the cadre department is telling himself almost bluntly that he went to the Cheorwon battlefield not to pick peaches, but to be a firefighter. It's just that being a firefighter doesn't matter to Yang Jicai, but how to break the previous deadlock after being in place, you have to think about it. The tactics of the Japanese army in the entire Cheorwon battlefield have changed drastically, and it is a battle situation that is not easy to deal with.

Just after Yang Jicai's head kept thinking in place, how to make tactical adjustments to the current stalemate. Relying on its excellent airstrip take-off and landing capabilities, the plane landed directly on a field airfield more than 20 kilometers away from Cheorwon, which had been temporarily converted from an improvised road.

When Yang Jicai got off the plane, he was stunned to find that Du Kaishan was waiting for him in person at the airport. After meeting, Du Kaishan was not ambiguous, directly dragged him into his jeep, and gave him a report on the current battle situation on the way. As for convening a meeting of the cadres of the whole division to announce Yang Jicai's transfer order. Because the commanders and political commissars of the two main attack regiments were at the forefront, this meeting could not be held.

The deputy minister of the cadre department saw this situation and did it simply. After directly announcing the orders of his superiors to Du Kaishan and the political commissar and chief of staff of the 17th Division who remained at the division headquarters, he directly took the plane back to Harbin. Even the invitation of the political commissar of the 17th Division to stay for dinner refused with a smile.

Since arriving in the East Curtain Lane, he has seen the 17th Division headquarters, and the mood of the upper and lower levels is not high. Knowing that a new division commander was sacrificed, the front line was again in a stalemate. The political commissar in front of him, who is probably also anxious, has the heart to eat with him. He just smiled and said that this meal was a drink, and when the Seventeenth Division returned triumphantly, he would come over to disturb it.

However, after the taste of sitting on the cold bench last year, Du Kaishan has matured a lot. Coupled with the interest of this deputy minister of cadres, he also has a good appetite. Therefore, when the deputy director of the cadre department proposed to say goodbye, he still specially sent the director of the political department of the 17th Division to see him off.

Although Du Kaishan's rank is higher than that of the head and political commissar of the cadre department, and his rank is not under the control of the cadre department. However, after all, the cadre department is in charge of cadres at and above the division level of the whole army, and if one day they want to poach a certain person, they still have to deal with these people. It's better to deal with each other now than to burn incense then. So this time, Du Kaishan is very upright and has done a favor.

For Du Kaishan, now that the order has been announced, it is equivalent to Yang Jicai's official arrival. After all the explanations were given, Du Kaishan was not ambiguous, and directly asked Yang Jicai what he thought now, or what was the solution to the problem.

After Ma Chunsheng's sacrifice, Du Kaishan personally took over the past two days, and he felt that Lao Ma's previous report was still a little good news but not bad news. In this battle, the Japanese army in the direction of Cheorwon not only changed the original defensive tactics, but also completely changed the entire defensive tactics.

The Japanese army turned the entire mountainous area north of Cheorwon, every hill, every high ground, and even a larger dirt slope into a position. At the same time, the ridge trend is used as a connecting line to connect these points. With the main peak of the defense area as the core fortification, each defense area has been turned into a super large fortress.

Of course, it is impossible for the Japanese army to deploy enough troops on every hill. If that's the case, let's not talk about the direction of Jinhua, just the direction of Tieyuan, they can't fill in a single division. However, the Japanese army adopted a combination of points and lines, and only one squad or even only one combat group was deployed on each hill or high ground.

But at the commanding heights, the corresponding reserves were maintained. No matter which point the attacking force chooses, it is as if it is entering a nest of ants. As soon as the troops were deployed, they had to be suppressed by enemy fire, both on the front and on the flanks. The Japanese defense forces were fighting for every inch of land under the cover of fire at various points around the perimeter and at the commanding heights behind them.

When the defenders were about to fight and the attacking troops were also suffering casualties or fatigue, the enemy reserves deployed on various commanding heights immediately launched a counterattack from a high position. And there are not many troops engaged in counterattacks, often only half a squad. But just this half of the team is also extremely uncomfortable.

Mountain attack operations are limited by the terrain, and the number of points is too large. In fact, there are not even many times when a company can dispatch troops at each point, and the two sides often fight in platoons. Your attacking force faced stubborn resistance from the Japanese and could not have suffered any casualties.

By the time you have not yet gained a foothold in taking the high ground and replenishing the casualties, the Japanese counterattack force has already been killed. Although the number of troops is small, it often makes the rest of your troops difficult to parry, and may even be exhausted by the Japanese counterattack. And once these Japanese counterattack forces recaptured the high ground, they switched to defense on the spot, and the cycle began again.

Even if they are temporarily unable to regain the lost heights, the Japanese will only control them with fire during the day, and suppress the follow-up troops with deep artillery fire, and wait until the night to defend the troops, because the follow-up troops cannot come up, and they themselves have suffered too many casualties in the continuous battles during the day, and they are weakened by their artillery fire, and they are turning to counterattack on the whole line.

The Japanese army built a large number of anti-artillery holes and cantonment holes at various points and main positions. Even the artillery blockade could only temporarily affect the counterattack of the Japanese army. But it was difficult to inflict excessive damage on the troops of the Japanese army who launched a counterattack. Even the Japanese army directly built the cantonment cave to a few hundred meters from those points, and the intended counterattack troops hid there.

If you want to ignore the flanks, go straight to the commanding heights in the attack area. The fire around the enemy either cuts off your rear path or carries out fire attacks from the flanks, causing the attacking troops to suffer from the enemy on their backs and even face a dilemma. Most of the casualties were caused in this situation.

However, although the Japanese army changed its tactics, it was not blindly passive. In addition to the constant tactical counterattacks at night, some of the heights that are really difficult to defend are. After a certain amount of damage with the anti-coalition attack force, they immediately gave up and only controlled it with firepower.

Faced with this situation, Rao is Du Kaishan couldn't help but open his mouth and scolded: "He is an immortal." Although Ma Chunsheng had been constantly reporting the battle situation before, it was impossible for Du Kaishan to only stare at the battlefield of Tieyuan for a long time. It wasn't until he temporarily took over the command that he knew why Lao Ma was in such a hurry.

Judging from the current progress of the war, even if the most preliminary goal is achieved, it will not be possible to get down in a month. If all of them take Cheorwon and push the front line to the line of Lianchuan, I don't know if it will be until the Year of the Monkey. When did the little devil change his character of fighting hard and hard when he was fighting defensively, he made such a move.

Du Kaishan is not the kind of person who doesn't care about the front line, and he put the headquarters in the same place not far from Tieyuan, which means that he attaches great importance to this battle. But as the commander of the North Korean cluster, his energy cannot be focused on only one battlefield. The most important thing is that he is not the kind of commander who is constantly directing to subordinate commanders and giving specific commands.

Senior commanders, whom Yang Zhen has repeatedly emphasized, must know what they should do when they are on the battlefield. Don't go beyond the command at every turn, thinking that you have grasped it comprehensively, but in fact your mind is not used in the right place. As a cadre brought out by Yang Zhen, Du Kaishan still did a good job at this point. The most important thing is himself, and he is not the kind of person who likes to spend time on details.

As a senior commander, he only looked for direct commanders for problems on the battlefield. So before, although he was not very satisfied with Ma Chunsheng's progress, he was still relatively let go. His attention was more focused on the advance of the armored forces to the line of Lianchuan.

And Ma Chunsheng is not the kind of character who complains at every turn. No matter what difficulties there are, they will grit their teeth and persevere. It was not until Ma Chunsheng died in the past few days that he temporarily took over the command and finally figured out the overall tactics of the Japanese army. But he was somewhat helpless against the tactics of the Japanese army.

However, for Du Kaishan's urgency, Yang Jicai scratched his head and said with a wry smile: "Commander Du, I understand your thoughts. But I'm just in place, and my ass hasn't been heated yet, so you'll have to let me think about it. In this way, I will give you an answer in two days. However, I have a request, that is, from Cheorwon to the Jinhua line, stop the large-scale offensive on all fronts in the past two days. ”

After Yang Jicai finished speaking, the headquarters of the 17th Division, which was somewhat noisy, suddenly fell silent, and everyone was looking at the young deputy division commander. Yang Jicai didn't see the suspicious gazes around him, but said lightly: "Commander Du, I have to go to the front line to have a look, so that I can really control the overall situation." ”

"And when I say pause attacks, I don't mean stop all attacks. If the current situation does not change in a short period of time and continues to be maintained, it will not be long before the 17th Division will have to fight out. Even if it is hard to fight, this army will be greatly damaged. What I mean by this is to change the current way of attacking on all fronts, and to change the attack to the front east of Cheorwon. ”

"At the same time, the scale of the attack at the company level was stopped, and the attack was changed to a platoon-level harassment attack. Let me settle down for a moment, and after touching the cobweb tactics of the Japanese army, I am thinking about how to adjust the tactics. Moreover, by temporarily stopping attacks on all fronts, we can also take advantage of this time to adjust and enrich the strength of our troops. ”

"And our casualties are not light, but according to my understanding of the battle situation, the casualties of the Japanese army are probably not light. I guess they can't support it anymore if they continue to fight like this. We have to adjust our tactics and establishment, and even if the Japanese army does not adjust its tactics, they will adjust its establishment. I'm not afraid that the Japanese army will adjust, but I'm afraid that they won't adjust. The tighter they close, the better our chances. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Jicai looked at Du Kaishan and said, "Commander Du, since you let me take over the front-line command of the Tieyuan battlefield, then you have to give me these two days." There are some things that I don't see with my own eyes, and I can't make up my mind so hastily just by listening to others. As for the reason, I don't think I need to say it. ”

After listening to Yang Jicai's words, Du Kaishan hesitated for a long time before finally making up his mind: "Okay, I'll give you the time for these two days." But you kid remember to me that the Tieyuan battlefield is a piece of red-hot coal, and you kid has to swallow it for me no matter what method you use, even if you bite the bullet. ”

"On the surface, the Cheorwon battlefield looks like a local battle, and it can even be said that it is not even a battle on a large scale. But no matter what the headquarters' intentions are for the Korean battlefield next, Cheorwon must be taken down, and this obstruction must be cleared. I transferred you to the 17th Division at this time, so that you can carry the burden, not to let you pick peaches. ”