Therefore, according to the operational principles of the people's army, during the War of Resistance against Japan, only the enemy's aircraft, or at least the second wave of aircraft (the number of the first batch of reinforcements is determined according to the level of the troops requesting help, and the second wave is determined according to the number of enemy troops, the first time may be less, the second wave will definitely be enough to inflict heavy damage on the attacking troops. Under this premise, even with the strong strength of the Red Eighth Army, it may not be possible to completely defeat a devil unit, especially on the plains where it is difficult to hide

In addition, the 12th Division was not famous in later generations, and the 4th Division was the legendary "Osaka Wo Bag Waste Division", although the rumors may be exaggerated, but the strength of the 4th Division ranked low among the 17 permanent divisions of the Japanese army, but there should not be much doubt, everyone knows the truth of "persimmon picks soft pinch", and now it is rare that two devil divisions whose strength is not too strong in Hu Weidong's eyes are sent to the door, and he naturally does not want to let it go.

The fighter plane was fleeting, and the central government soon sent a telegram back to agree to the Red 15th Army to launch this campaign, and the great man also gave very targeted instructions, he made a rough estimate according to the casualty report of the Red 15th Army after advancing into North China, pointing out that the Red 15th Army had an absolute advantage in every battle before, and now the cumulative casualty ratio with the Japanese army has reached 4:5 (that is, the Red Army can kill and wound 5 devils for every 4 casualties), even if the Red 15th Army really has the advantages mentioned by Hu Weidong in the telegram, If they had to go head-to-head with a permanent division of the Japanese army, which was far more powerful than any previous enemy, the casualties would have been greater than that of the enemy. At present, the Red 15 th Army, plus the troops directly under the corps headquarters, has only more than 60,000 commanders and fighters who can still fight (the Red 15 th Army has about 30,000 wounded and sick soldiers, and more than 10,000 non-combat soldiers such as telegraph operators, engineers, automobile soldiers, and maintenance technicians accompanying the army). It was also necessary to allocate a lot of manpower to take care of the sick and wounded and to keep prisoners of war. In fact, the army is not abundant. If the Red 15th Army wanted to eat a fat man in one bite and force itself to encircle and annihilate the enemy's division, it would probably become the war of attrition that the great man opposed the most, and even if it succeeded in defeating the enemy in the end, it would be difficult to avoid the heavy price of most of the casualties. And if it is to disperse the forces and start a war with two Japanese divisions at the same time, it will be even more taboo for soldiers

It is precisely because of this concern that the great man demanded that the Red 15th Army must give full play to its tradition of being good at interspersing and infiltrating. Trying to divide the enemy into small units at the brigade level, wings, or even brigades and annihilate them one by one, the greater the local superiority of the Red 15 th Army, the smaller the casualties will be, and this is what military experts have been advocating since ancient times to "concentrate superior forces." Defeat the enemy individually. ”。 However, the great man also said in the telegram that he did not know the situation at the front line, and that the specific decision on how to fight was still up to Hu Weidong and the other three, but this major principle must be clear, and we must not make the big mistake of dispersing our troops and fighting a war of attrition with the enemy.

And by this time, Yoshio Shinozuka had already escaped the pursuit of the armored brigade of the Red Army. And just before the tank tank tank bottomed out, it ran into the vanguard of the 12th Division, the 46th Infantry Wing. For the "disgrace of the empire" Major General Yoshio Shinozuka, the devil officers and soldiers of the vanguard of the 12th Division could not help but sneer, but due to the strict hierarchy of Japanese society, they did not dare to make some substantive acts. Therefore, although Yoshio Shinozuka, the commander of the brigade of Major General Shinozuka, was ashamed and indignant, he still returned to "Xinjing" (Changchun) as he wished to report to the headquarters of the Kwantung Army

Although the devil officers and soldiers of the 46th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army sneered at Yoshio Shinozuka. But no matter how much the brigade commander drags his feet, after all, the strength of the 1st Brigade is there. The fact that the enemy was able to defeat the 1st Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade so quickly showed that it was strong and powerful, and it was definitely not something that a devil of their own wing could fight against, so this Japanese wing immediately stopped advancing after taking Fengtai, which was not far away; and sent someone to inform the large army to come and meet as soon as possible...,

Considering that Fengtai City was small and difficult to defend, the wing commander of this devil's wing asked people to build a continuous ring fortification outside the city, and scavenged food, water and other necessary materials from Fengtai City as much as possible, preparing to resist the attack of the Red 15th Army.

Although the 12th Division brought hundreds of artillery pieces, including 72 heavy guns, the Kwantung Army headquarters allocated almost all the cars that could be collected to them, and the artillery was all towed by cars, so the marching speed was not slow at all, and the large army was only less than two days away from Fengtai at this time. After receiving a distress telegram from the 46th Infantry Wing, Lieutenant General Kishishige Shimizu, commander of the division, immediately ordered the main force to speed up the journey. However, this order disappointed the thousands of Saga soldiers of the 12th Division, who were notorious even in Japan, saying that "grass does not grow where Saga samurai walked" (this proverb is used in Japanese to describe people who are full of evil, and the annotation on Baidu is incorrect). In the past, because of the duty of garrison in Manchuria, even if they did evil, they could not enjoy themselves (in the relatively stable Japanese-occupied areas, the Japanese military police had a relatively strict grasp of military discipline. When I came to Chinese mainland this time, I thought I had a great opportunity to do what I wanted, but in the end, I always rushed to rush and rush again, which inevitably made these villains resentful. Under their influence, the morale of the Fukuoka soldiers and Nagasaki soldiers also declined somewhat, and Shimizu Kishige hurriedly promised that as long as the enemy was defeated, the officers and soldiers would be given ten days of "free time".

The 12th Division's march speed was accelerated, but the speed of the Red 15th Army was even faster, and after the reconnaissance plane transmitted back the information that Fengtai was occupied and occupied by the Japanese army, Hu Weidong, despite the fatigue of the troops who had just experienced a bloody battle, immediately led the main force of the Red 15th Army to kill back along the old road, hoping to take the opportunity to annihilate the 46th Wing of the Japanese Army, which was separated from the brigade, and at the same time buy time for the personnel who were still repairing or disassembling the trophies behind them.

Although it was mentioned in the investigation report, Hu Weidong couldn't help frowning slightly after seeing with his own eyes the continuous circular fortifications where the devils had begun to take shape, but now the Red 15th Army is no longer the time when it first entered North China, and there are enough artillery and shells in hand, even if it is a circular fortification, it can be breached, especially the 8 270mm super-heavy mortars that have not been used before are particularly suitable for this important task because of their curved trajectory and great power. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )