Du Kaishan pointed to the mountains outside the headquarters and shook his head, ignoring Ye Chao's somewhat incredulous face beside him, and continued: "The Japanese artillery positions are very cleverly deployed, and our artillery can't suppress their artillery groups. However, the Japanese artillery, which controlled the commanding heights, could easily smash the shells on the ridge line and the anti-slope position that had become a positive slope. ”

"After the loss of the position on the positive slope, the mountain howitzer on the commanding heights was used to conceal the field artillery in the fortification group in depth. Blockade our troops near the ridge line and cut off the connection between the attacking units of the first and second lines of our army. With the use of infantry artillery and mortar groups, we suppressed our troops who controlled the positive slope. The troops who forced our troops to attack could only enter the anticline as soon as possible. ”

"However, it was deployed behind the anti-slope plane, and the cross-machine gun fire on the main Japanese position, as well as infantry guns, mortars, and even small-caliber direct-aim fire, just covered our attacking troops. That is to say, once our attacking troops enter their anti-slope positions, they will take the initiative to jump into their fire net. ”

"At this time, our artillery fire could not reach the enemy troops on the antislope, and at most we could suppress the Japanese troops in the second defense. The most important thing is that the little devil made a desperate effort to move the artillery up the mountain, not to mention. The artillery on the commanding heights of the perimeter is deployed in semi-underground fortifications or in the dead corners of our artillery, and our artillery groups are simply unable to suppress them. ”

"Damn, this tactic of combining positive and negative slopes is a habitual defensive tactic of our army in mountain defensive warfare. The little devil has now learned this hand, and now he can use it against us. Moreover, judging from the construction of fortifications that have been discovered so far, they also consciously adopted this tactic and took the initiative to give up the idea of competing with our army in various positive positions. ”

"Their 92 infantry guns can be used as mortars when necessary. In addition to the large number of mortars, and the mountain artillery and howitzers deployed in depth to form a firepower network, it is difficult for our army to gain a foothold even if it occupies a positive inclined position. Mortars cannot be used to knock out their anti-slope fortifications. ”

"At the same time, the 60 guns carried by the front-line attack troops themselves are limited, and it is difficult for most of their anti-slope fortification groups to play a role. The focus of the construction of the fortifications by these little devils is on the anticline position. The fortifications on the positive slope are mainly trenches. ”

"Once the positive slope is lost, the garrison retreats to the anti-slope position. After our attacking troops were cut off by enemy artillery fire, the method of attacking in small formations was adopted. In this way, even if our army seizes the positive slope and ridge line, it will be difficult for it to gain a foothold in the enemy's position. ”

"Its artillery has set a scale for the entire battlefield, and a variety of artillery groups are formed to suppress the forward and reverse slopes respectively according to their different performance. Our mortar group can't go up, and it won't stand up if it goes up. The blockade of the ridge fire made it difficult for us to take direct aim at the fire, and it was difficult to knock out the anticline fortifications they had painstakingly built. ”

"This Hongo Yoshio's hand is to let our troops be consumed in this mountainous area, forcing us to use reserves in advance, so as to create a favorable condition for his next battle plan. Because our reserves are limited, it is impossible to fill all the vacancies in the surrounding battlefields. ”

"Offensive operations are different from defensive operations because they have to ensure that the attacking troops have sufficient attack power. When the casualties of the attacking troops reached a certain proportion, they had to be withdrawn to rest and recuperate. If the casualties are too high, we just don't want to use the reserves, it's unlikely. Yoshio Hongo's hometown is still fighting hard here, and it is estimated that what he is waiting for us to use the reserves. ”

When Du Kaishan's words fell, Ye Chao was slightly stunned, and then immediately reacted and said: "Your judgment is that the little devils are adopting this tactic right now, just to drag us down and fatigue, force us to use reserves in advance, create an emptiness in the deployment of troops behind us, and then create a chance for them to break through?" ”

"You mean Yoshio Hongo, who was ready to look for an opportunity to retreat as early as when they withdrew to the line from Zhonggu to Chaihe Fort? Commander Du, this is unlikely. If Yoshio Hongo did this, wouldn't he expose all the flanks of the Shimizu rules on the left wing? ”

Du Kaishan picked up the red and blue pencils, drew a triangle on the map with a few strokes, and said: "You kid is a dead brain, why do you think that the Japanese army will only fight hard and will not see the situation and slip away?" It is no longer the time of a few years ago, when the Japanese army had absolute superiority. If the fight hurts, it will naturally be a lesson. ”

"In the past, no matter how much we fought the Japanese army, it was like stabbing a hornet's nest, and the surrounding Japanese troops would desperately reinforce it. But time has passed, and the little devil has long lost that confidence. Now we have an absolute advantage, they know that. ”

"It's true that if Yoshio Hongo withdraws, the entire side and rear of the Shimizu Rules west of the Naka-Naga Railway will be exposed, but it depends on when. If we had not severed the connection between the 44th Army and its so-called 30th Army, he would not dare to retreat easily. ”

"But now that we have cut off the connection between the two armies of the Kwantung Army along the Zhongchang Railway, he will naturally not continue to defend here. Because for the Kwantung Army, if the 44th Army is still saved at the moment, then the 30th Army has no more value to rescue. ”

"Whether it is the Kwantung Army or his Lieutenant General Hongo Yoshio, this truth is very clear. I estimate that at this time, I am afraid that the Kwantung Army has already issued an order to break through to these two armies. The 30th Army is doing its best, but the 44th Army, which is still alive at the moment, I am afraid that the Kwantung Army still wants to rescue it. ”

"And this Yoshio Hongo in front of us, I feel that this guy didn't intend to stick to the front line from the beginning. His initial plan should still depend on the battle situation. If the front line can hold us off, that's the best. If we can't delay our offensive, we will take advantage of the situation and withdraw to the second-line position. ”

"Take advantage of the terrain here and the fortifications built to delay and consume a certain amount of our strength, and then either retreat west to Fushun, or retreat south to the area west of Shenyang. However, he did not expect that the attack of our army would begin, and in a short period of time the Japanese defense areas on both flanks of the medium-long railway were opened. ”

"The most important thing is that this guy didn't expect the Thirty Army to collapse so quickly. Although he was not slow to shrink his forces, our troops penetrated and encircled through the two flanks, preemptively blocked their route to the south, and seized Shenyang to cut off their last retreat route. ”

"At the same time, this guy didn't expect that we were moving relatively fast and besieging it in its second-line defense system. But the situation is changing, and this guy is not slow to adjust. He knew that as long as the 30th Army west of the Zhongchang Railway was still holding out, it would be impossible for our army to concentrate all its efforts on dealing with him. ”

"That's why he used his second-line defense system to build a special type of fortification group to fight a war of attrition with our army as much as possible, weaken our troops and assault force as much as possible, and force us to use reserves in advance to create a suitable opportunity for them to break through."

"This Hongo Yoshio is very cunning, he knows that he will retreat without fighting, not to mention that the Kwantung Army can't explain it, even the Japanese army base camp can't spare him. Therefore, he fought a war of attrition with our army on the line from Zhonggu to Chaihe Fort, which can be regarded as an explanation to the Japanese base camp and the Kwantung Army. ”

"And this guy is very adaptable, and after finding that the back road was all cut off by our army, he patiently used the terrain to weaken the strength of our army, while adjusting the plan to find an opportunity to break through again. Because he knows very well that without weakening our army to a certain extent, they will not be able to run away even if they break out of our encirclement. ”

"The reason is simple: in this mountainous terrain with no roads, it is impossible for them to retreat together. Once they disperse and retreat, under the pursuit of our troops and the outflanking of the two flanks, how much they can withdraw, then I am afraid God knows. If we don't wear us down to a certain level, they will die faster if we chase them. ”

"If he hadn't taken these things into account, then he wouldn't have built all the focus of his fortifications on anticline positions before the war. And from the beginning of the battle to the present, the focus of the competition with our army has been placed on the position of the anticline. Such a tactic that defies common sense, and can even be said to be the opposite. ”

"The combat system in which the positive and negative slopes cooperate with each other and rely on each other is a tactic that our army is accustomed to using in mountain defense operations. This guy not only copied our tactics, but even went to extremes. Even the ridge line part has been abandoned, and the tactics of combining the positive and negative slope with the depth and forward slope firepower system have been used to consume our vital forces little by little. ”

"As long as our army uses reserves, they will definitely choose a direction to break through. In a situation where the battle situation west of the Zhongchang Railway has been eroded, its flanks have been seriously threatened, and it is somewhat tight, they are now preparing to break through. ”

"It seems that this Hongo Yoshio has studied our tactics very thoroughly. I said how they could have easily abandoned the entire front-line defense when they only lost a few strongholds. It turned out that the core part of the entire defense line of the 44th Army was in the triangular area of Shengjiatun, Guojiagou, and Gushan Village. ”

"And this triangular core area, Songshan Fort, Yingchengzi, Zhangjiabaozi, and Jinchang outside, are just a few support points on its periphery. As for the line from Zhonggu to Chenjiatun in the west, which is centered on the mountains around Majiazhai, it is just that this core area spreads a barrier to the west, or a fortified area that disperses the strength of our army. ”

"Of course, if you want, it can also be said that they have an entire defense line, another triangular defense system. These two defense systems cooperate with each other. Its main artillery was in the center, and the focus of the battle was on the anticline position that their second line of fire could control. ”

"If we continue to fight like this, our casualties will get bigger and bigger. Majiazhai is west of Chenjiatun, the core area of the overall defense of the Japanese army. Shuangtailing was the core of the Japanese defense system and an important support point on the left flank. Taking these two points is equivalent to scoring a nail in the east and west lines of Chenjiatun and the core part of the Japanese army. ”

"When the time comes, we can use these two points as a support point to leverage the overall defense system of the Japanese army. I don't believe that this little devil's defense system is an iron walnut that can't be smashed or chewed. If the Soviet-made 160-millimeter heavy mortar regiment at headquarters had been in my hands, I would have smashed open their tortoise shells long ago. ”

"Although that thing is heavier than a German-made howitzer, it is really powerful in this mountainous area. The most important thing is that the ballistics of that thing is good, and hitting this kind of anticline position is definitely a sharp weapon for attack. The 120-millimeter mortar in our hands is still a little insufficient. ”

"The focus of the defense with troops is on the anticline position, and this kind of tactic of our own is to shadow me, and it is really thanks to them that they came up with it. Grandma's, this Hongo Yoshio is much smarter than his colleague, the Shimizu rules west of the Zhongchang Railway. This seems to be a trick that has both worlds, but he also came up with it. ”