Just when the mixed 1st Brigade was preparing to escort Tanabe Moritake to the front line of Niangzi Pass.

Cai Dong Village.

The new 1st Regiment, the front headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

"Lao Li, this battle has been fought for five or six days, it's time for you kid to tell us, how to crack the pit and anticline tactics, right?"

In the headquarters, Zhao Gang looked at Li Yunlong and asked with anticipation.

Wang Dehou and several staff officers on the side also looked at Li Yunlong.

If the tunnel and anti-slope tactics cannot be cracked, according to the current way of play, the Eighth Route Army will pay a huge price for casualties when it captures Taiyuan.

The pit and anticline tactics are not invincible, and it does not mean that they are invincible when they are used.

But after the devil used this tactic, the heavy firepower of the Eighth Route Army, such as heavy artillery, aerial bombs, and napalm, could not be brought into play.

Even if the Eighth Route Army had the advantage of tank and infantry firepower, the casualty ratio with the devils remained 1:1.

The name is useless, but the use is so small, small enough to crack the pit and anticline tactics.

Relying only on medium-sized bombers and low-blet aerial bombs, one tunnel after another, is to know that they will be bombed until the year of the monkey.

In order to close the gap in firepower between the two sides.

"What's the solution?"

Yes, the defense of Xiaogu Town and Lijia Town is very perverted, there are only no perfect tunnels and anti-slope fortifications, and there are few reinforced concrete permanent fortifications, and the defense is as weak as a fortress.

And the effect is relatively fast.

What's more, at this time, Xiaotong was still outside the hands of the Fourth Route Army, and the devil's heavy artillery wing came over at all.

However, Kuribayashi ordered the bomber crews to test the power of the low-flying bombs and train the accuracy of the bombs in the base area.

The crews of all 8 bombers were fully staffed.

It's the devil sapper who has passed this time, and he hasn't mastered the essence of that tactic.

Just digging a shallow pit is used as a tunnel tactic, and the new regiment launched a counterattack in time, and then used Spitfire tanks and flamethrowers to burn the devils hiding outside the tunnel alive.

Kuribayashi Zhongre snorted: "Of course, it is necessary to take care of it, whether it is too much or a retreat, but to send troops to surround the positions of those devils and trap them all outside the tunnel." ”

The smallest problem now is to get the infantry to rush down the positions of the devils.

At the beginning, Wang Dehou did not suggest that Iwamatsu Yoshio build a small number of tunnels and anticline fortifications at Wohu Mountain in the northeast of Taiyuan and Tianlong Mountain in the southwest to resist the retreat of the Fourth Route Army in the future.

Of course.

It must be said that Wang De's kind strategic vision is still very wrong.

The Fourth Route Army had fewer medium bombers, pilots and low-the-cup aerial bombs.

That dog thing, it can really hold its breath.

"Or is it?"

Kuribayashi Zhong shook his head and said in a calm tone:

"Is that tactic so bad to crack, if you can crack that tactic, the devil would have cracked that tactic a long time ago."

It is certain that the devils use the same weapons as the new 1st Regiment and the New 7th Regiment, and the casualties of these Fourth Route Army will increase exponentially.

There is no Crouching Tiger Mountain in the northwest of Jin, and there is no Crouching Tiger Mountain in the north of Taiyuan City.

"Actually, your tactics are very complicated."

Judging from the technique, the various arrows and defenses are very muddy, and the drawing is very standard, and it is more beautiful than that of special combat staff officers.

Zhao Gang sloppily analyzed Li Linzhong's tactics and asked a question: "What about the devils outside the tunnel?" Just managed? ”

Zhao Gang and Li Yunlong looked at the map under the table, and their eyes were slightly condensed.

Coupled with the battles of Niangziguan, Yangquan and Shouyang, the Eighth Route Army had to pay the price of 80,000 or 90,000 casualties.

Su Penglong thought about it sloppily, and there were very few devils' pits and anticline positions.

But the artillery positions on the anti-slope of the devils will definitely use mortars and mountain artillery to shell the sappers of the Fourth Route Army in the trenches.

Li Yunlong and several combat staff officers on the side also pricked up their ears.

At the same time, a part of the devil puppet army in Henan Province also took the opportunity to cross the Taihang Mountain and retreat to attack the base of the Fourth Route Army in the southeast of Jin.

After all, a medium bomber can carry only 1 low-cup aerial bomb at a time.

Zhao Gang raised his eyebrows.

"Cracking tunnels and anti-slope tactics?"

But now the equipment of the new regiment far exceeds the equipment of the devils, and the firepower exceeds that of the devils by 15 times.

Because the Fourth Route Army had no tanks and weak mortar firepower, the infantry of the Fourth Route Army could not capture the positions of the devils.

"There are no two small positions in Qinglong Mountain and Wohu Mountain in front, and the tunnels and anticline fortifications in those two positions are much less than the first defensive position, and the main force of the Seventh Division is also in those two positions."

But now Spitfire tanks and flamethrowers are useless?

Zhao Gang and Li Yunlong nodded, Li Linzhong only marked the defensive positions of the devils in Wohu Mountain and Qinglong Mountain, and also marked the defensive positions of the devils in Tianlong Mountain and Taigu Defense Line.

At the beginning, the Japanese 10th Division also followed the example of the new regiment, using tunnel and anti-slope tactics to resist the retreat of the new regiment.

Each B25 medium bomber requires 1 captain and 1 co-pilot, 1 bombardier-navigator, 1 communicator--gunner, and 1 machine gunner.

Su Penglong's face showed a hint of amusement: "Since we have cracked the tunnel tactics, we will concentrate the low-flying cup bombs and blow up a passage, so that our troops can go directly to the passage on Taiyuan City." ”

Li Yunlong also raised a question: "We have to send a small part of our troops to attack Taiyuan, in that case, our troops to besiege the devil's tunnel and anticline position are enough, what if the devil breaks through?" ”

Have these two years of business and hard work been in vain?

The bad thing is that the devil's equipment is relatively poor, and they still use weapons such as the 84 small cover, the 47-type heavy machine gun, the crooked handle, and the 48-type heavy machine gun, and the casualties of the retreating troops are small.

Yes, it's not bad, it's a lot.

And the new regiment is bound to suffer heavy casualties.

If the equipment of the Fourth Route Army is still the same, far like the equipment of a devil, then forget it.

In addition, there are few devils who retreat to attack the southeast of Jin, and under the command of the head of the headquarters, they are directly tough with the devil puppet army.

With a smile, Kuribayashi took out a map that I had drawn myself from the inside pocket of his uniform.

In that case, after this battle, the Eighth Route Army would have to rest and replenish for at least half a year before it could continue to attack the devils in North China.

"Hey, hey..."

Sensing that the Fourth Route Army was equipped with small-caliber heavy artillery and that the permanent fortifications were useful, and that the Fourth Route Army was equipped with aircraft, Iwamatsu Yoshio ordered the construction of some tunnels and anticline positions relying on some mountainous terrain around Taiyuan.

Okamura Ningji wanted to play the tactic of encircling Wei to save Zhao, and it would work in the northwest of Jin.

Su Peng is also thinking hard about how to crack it, but he has no clue, tactics are what Su Peng is good at.

Yes, at that time, Iwamatsu Yoshio was superstitious about concrete fortifications, and did he not adopt Wang De's suggestion.

"Yes, Captain!"

Even if the devils brought in the heavy artillery of the 7th Wing of the 1st Division, it would be difficult to retreat into the base area of the Fourth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi.

"The seven tunnels and anticline positions of the first defensive position have not yet been captured by our new regiment."

Now Su Penglong is thinking about how to attack the position of the devil in the retreat, and reduce the casualties of the troops in a small way, and go straight to Taiyuan City.

Moreover, the devil deliberately put the Fourth Route Army down its position, and the two sides fought hand-to-hand battles.

In those days, the front-line troops would launch a retreat to the devil's position every day, mainly by artillery bombardment, supplemented by tank troops and infantry retreats.

But it was not those tunnels and anticline positions that made the heavy firepower such as heavy artillery and aerial bombs of the Fourth Route Army play a role.

The battalion and company commanders of the front-line troops also tried to crack the devil's tunnels and anti-slope tactics, and even used war games to deduce.

The medium bomber before the redeployment was comparable to the B29 long-range strategic small bomber in all aspects.

Correspondingly, the casualties of the devils are also small.

The remnants of the 1st and 26th Divisions of the Devils, following in the footsteps of Hachio Nakazawa and Shigeta Shigetoku, bypassed the strongholds of Xiaogu Town and Lijia Town in the northwest of Xiaotong towards Jin.

This did not meet Kuribayashi's expectations.

There is no way yet, this is not to order the sappers to use the earthwork method in the original play to dig the trench 30 meters away from the devil's position.

Place the map under the table and spread it out quickly.

The corners of Li Linzhong's mouth curled, and he smiled in my special voice: "Although it is the pit and anticline tactics that have been cracked, our Lao Li has no other way." ”

So although there are positions that can attack the devils, the casualties of the troops are also very large.

Just by killing the Fifth Division, the new regiment would have to suffer at least 20,000 casualties.

Even if this battle can be won, it will be a pyrrhic victory.

Li Lin Zhong did not answer, looked at Su Penglong and said: "Chief of Staff, send a telegram to ask Deputy Regiment Commander Xing, how is the training of the pilots for medium bombers and low-the-cup aerial bombs?" We don't have a lot of low-heave bombs? ”

The B25 bomber, which has been retired, has better performance than the American-made bomber, with a smaller size, a longer range, a lower bomb load, a higher failure rate, and a thicker skin.

The B25 medium bomber in another time and space has a low-cup bomb because the belly is small enough.

In those days, the pilots of the northwest of Jin were also idle, forming 8 bomber crews.

"It's crackable, what should I do?"

The 1st and 26th Divisions were the only base areas that could capture the new regiment, but the casualties were quite small.

And the name is to scare the snake.

Of course, after all, Li Linzhong was born in the Zheng'er Fourth Classics Military Academy, and his homework was still worse than Chu Yunfei's subordinates.

At this time, the battle situation in the northwest of Jin was also very calm.

Li Yunlong responded, and slowly drafted a telegram, and Li Linzhong signed it and asked the telegraph soldier to send it.

Before the Fourth Route Army retreated to Taiyuan for the first time, the old devil knew that sooner or later, the Fourth Route Army would retreat to Taiyuan again.

I saw Kuribayashi Zhong pointing to the map and saying, "Look, that's the defensive position of the Seventh Division, a total of eight defensive positions. ”

Zhao Gang frowned slightly, how can that be bad?

Zhao Gang hurriedly asked.

I saw that under the map, Li Linzhong had not done a bad job around Taiyuan, and the situation map of the enemy's defense and retreat.

Zhao Gang asked again, "So, what is he going to do?" ”

According to this style of play, the Eighth Route Army wanted to capture Taiyuan, and had to pay the price of 65,000 casualties.

But the result is as good as possible, if you want to attack the devil's tunnels and anticline, you can only rely on human lives to fill them.