Heyuan County.

Headquarters of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army.

Motoharu Okada, commander of the 33rd Brigade, and Saburo Miura, commander of the 8th Brigade, were called from the front for a meeting.

Operational conference room.

The commander-in-chief of the front, Moritake Tanabe, the commander of the 10th Division, Jiro Ishikawa, the chief of staff of the 10th Division, and the commanders of two brigades attended the meeting.

As for the captains of the wings, they did not come to the meeting, because once the new regiment launched a counteroffensive during the meeting, the Japanese army would be in a situation where the dragons were left without a leader and fought on their own.

Jiro Ishikawa glanced at Motoji Okada and Saburo Miura, and said in a deep voice:

"According to the analysis of the division headquarters, in the next few days, the new regiment will launch a full-scale counteroffensive against our 10th division!"

Motoji Okada and Saburo Miura glanced at each other when they heard this, and they both saw a touch of solemnity in each other's eyes.

The mentality of the two has undergone earth-shaking changes in the attack on the new regiment in the past ten days.

From the arrogance at the beginning, to the new regiment as an opponent at the same level as the 10th Division, to the current solemn face.

Major General Motoharu Okada, commander of the 33rd Brigade, looked at the position of Lijiazhen, which had not been attacked for a long time, and even sighed: It is easy to shake the mountain, but it is difficult to shake the new group.

"That couldn't be better!" Okada Motoji was shocked, and his eyes were shining, "Our 10th Division may not be able to capture the position of the new regiment, but if it is a defensive battle, it will definitely make Li Yunlong feel what it means to be desperate." ”

With the same firepower, of course, the attacker will suffer some losses, and the defenders will have some advantages.

Although the firepower of the 8th New Regiment was superior, it was inferior in strength compared to the 10th Division.

For example, the baggage wing and the engineer wing will also be put into battle when necessary, and their combat effectiveness is no worse than that of the infantry wing of the second-line division.

This back and forth was offset, and in the eyes of Major General Motoharu Okada, the 10th Division was evenly matched with the new regiment.

If you want to defeat the 10th Division, the new regiment doesn't have that strength.

Miura Saburo also said in a confident tone: "Okada-kun is right, the reason why we can't attack the position of the new regiment of the Eighth Route for a long time is mainly because we can't crack the tunnel and anticline tactics of the Eighth Road, if we defend the different positions, the positional advantage of the new regiment will be gone, and the firepower of our 10th Division and the quality of individual soldiers will be brought into play, and we will definitely be able to give the new regiment a head-on blow when the time comes!" ”

The major general of the 8th Brigade had to admire Li Yunlong a little at this time.

Although he is an enemy, he can't help but admire Saburo Miura's admiration for Li Yunlong.

According to intelligence, Li Yunlong has never attended a military school, not even a decent school, and is completely a peasant born with mud legs.

But it is such a little-known little person who has such a high tactical command ability, and has also invented difficult to crack the pit and anti-slope tactics.

Tunnel and anticline tactics first appeared in the battle of Baozi Mountain, and a battalion of the new regiment withstood the attack of most of the 3rd brigade.

Now the new regiment once again used tunnel and anti-slope tactics to resist the attack of the 10th Division.

"Yo Xi!"

The division commander Jiro Ishikawa saw that Motoji Okada and Saburo Miura were very confident, and nodded with satisfaction.

Motoji Okada suddenly said worriedly: "The new regiment has tanks and large-caliber heavy artillery, and the locust army can still resist one or two, if the eighth route calls for air support, our 10th Division may not be able to stop the attack of the new regiment." ”

When Saburo Miura heard this, the expression on his face became more and more solemn.

When the Eighth Route Army was airdropped yesterday, the dive attack of five fighters alone caused him to lose more than 200 people.

And that's just the lethality of 5 fighters, if it's a bomber, how lethal is that?

However, the 108th Artillery Wing was completely annihilated under a bombardment by enemy planes, and Saburo Miura did not want the 8th Brigade to be completely annihilated by the Eighth Route.

Therefore, when the new regiment received the airdrop again during the day today, Saburo Miura strictly ordered the attack.

Once the aid channels behind Li Yunlong are annoyed and dozens of bombers are dispatched, the 8th Brigade will probably be finished.

At present, the North China Front has no air force, and the anti-aircraft firepower of the 10th Division is not strong, so once the enemy planes are dispatched, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist.

Therefore, Miura Saburo was most worried about the bomber air support called by the Eighth Route Army.

Of course, the most hateful thing is that the planes of the North China Front have been lost, and the aerial bombs prepared for this sweeping operation can only be put in warehouses to eat ashes.

How good would it be if those aerial bombs could fall on the head of the Eighth Route Army?

"Okada-kun, don't worry."

Moritake Tanabe, who has not spoken, said:

"According to the analysis of the General Staff, Li Yunlong can only call for airdrops in a short period of time, but cannot call for air support."

"That's right!" Jiro Ishikawa nodded in agreement, "With Li Yunlong's character, if he could call in the bomber group, he would have launched a counterattack against our 10th Division a long time ago, and he would never wait until now." ”

Saburo Miura and Motoji Okada nodded.

This time the devils guessed accurately.

The time CD for Li Yunlong to call for airdrop support is three months, which means that if he calls for air support three times today, he will not be able to call air support again until three months later.

Li Yunlong led his troops to kill a total of 4 Japanese major generals and obtained 4 opportunities to call for air support.

At present, air support has been called three times, and the results have been very large, each time almost a wing of the Japanese army has been killed, and the time for the next call for air support is more than two months later.

Saburo Miura looked at Jiro Ishikawa and said, "Division Commander, I suggest that we also use tunnel and anti-slope tactics to resist the attack of the new regiment. ”

"The new regiment is armed with heavy guns of 150 mm caliber and even tanks."

"Even if anti-artillery holes are dug in the trenches, with those civil fortifications, it is likely that they will not be able to withstand the heavy artillery and tanks of the Eighth Road."

"Miura-kun, be confident." Jiro Ishikawa said, "If you remove it, the civil fortifications will definitely not be able to stop the heavy artillery and tanks of the Eighth Road." ”

"When you first arrived at the division headquarters, I gave an order to the engineer wing, ordering the engineer wing to build tunnels and anti-slope fortifications in various defensive positions."

"This time, we want to return the favor to ourselves!"

A few days ago, the regimental headquarters of the 10th Division, which was the attacking side, only expected the new regiment to return to break through, and did not expect that the new regiment would counterattack.

I didn't expect the devils on this floor, when building a position, the sappers just built an ordinary civil defense position.

In fact, during the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, the US army also tried tunnel defense tactics to fight our army, but they did not learn the essence and were beaten badly.

Japan is a nation that is good at learning and ambitious, and has sent people to China to study since the Tang Dynasty.

There is no shame in defeating the enemy with the enemy's tactics, and it is not a shame to defeat the enemy if he cannot win it.

Miura Saburo bowed his head and said: "Your Excellency the division commander is wise, I admire it!" ”

"Our defense is divided into two lines of defense."

Jiro Ishikawa pointed to the map on the table and said, Saburo Miura and Motoji Okada, then stood up and looked at the map.