Before leaving, Xia Yuan told them that this time they went, there would be death and no life.

Then more than 30 people left, leaving only more than 80 people. Xia Yuan also kept his promise, and these people who left were each issued a 38-type gun, received five oceans, and thirty rounds of ammunition.

Those who are willing to stay are willing to follow Xia Yuan to fight hard.

They all knew in their hearts that maybe they would not be able to come back alive if they went this time, and everyone was ready to sacrifice at any time.

Wang Yaowu readily agreed to Xia Yuan's request, and then took him to the headquarters, where there was a very simple sand table model, which clearly marked the defense lines of the various units of the current 51st Division.

The sand table model is planted with the flags of the enemy and our troops, and the flag unit number of the national army is clear, but the unit number of the Japanese army, some flags do not have the unit number, and it seems that the information about the number of the Japanese army is missing.

On the Songhu battlefield, there are large and small mansions near Luodian, all of which are named after the surname and the house.

There are several Lijiazhai alone, Shen's house, Zhu's house, Tian's house, etc., such a house is different from the village, most of the villages built up are made of mud, and the house uses a relatively solid brick structure wall, which can resist several small-caliber grenadier bombardments, but it is not good to resist mortars with larger calibers.

But it's better than nothing.

"The center of gravity of the Japanese attack is the alley, and they want to carry out street fighting in the house, which is very unfavorable to us."

Wang Yaowu used a stick to light a housing area directly in front of the 51st Division: "This is the center of gravity of the Japanese army's attack, the street fighting is cruel, there is interference for the enemy, but there is also interference for us, the enemy can use the house as a cover, set up grenadiers, after they determine the location of our machine gun fire point, they will use grenadiers to strike at our machine gun fire point, ordinary four grenadier shells, can blow up our machine gun fire point, the Japanese attack in the past few days, said fierce, not violent, said not ranked, It was also quite violent, and they used a way of insects eating leaves, eating away at our positions little by little. ”

Xia Yuan listened carefully, his eyes paused on the sand table, and he nodded again while thinking.

Wang Yaowu is worthy of a generation of famous generals, and in just a few days of fighting, he has a very thorough understanding of the Japanese army's offensive methods.

Is the plains conducive to war? Yes, it is good for the national army, good for the Japanese army.

What is beneficial to the national army is that there are few bunkers on the plains, and in the plain positional warfare, the Japanese army is coordinated with infantry artillery, or with infantry and tan, and can withstand the artillery fire of the Japanese devils, wait until the Japanese devils are close to the position, let the soldiers carry out a round of short-distance rapid fire, and then load the bayonets and fight with the Japanese army.

In this way, it is possible to greatly reduce the shortcomings of weapons and equipment, firepower.

What was beneficial to the Japanese army was that the Japanese army was able to give full play to the advantages of infantry and artillery coordination and infantry and tank coordination, and the machine gun fire point of the national army was completely under the control of the anti-aircraft guns.

But there must be a premise, that is, the Japanese army has enough troops and enough firepower.

The Battle of Songhu lasted for more than a month, and the strength of the Japanese army in the Songhu battlefield did not increase, and the strength of the two divisions was still the strength of the two divisions. The Japanese army in Luodian was the 11th Division, the Japanese army in Wusongkou was the 3rd Division, and the Japanese reinforcements were still on the way.

In these days of fighting, the casualties of the Japanese army were not small, and the war on the plains was beneficial to the national army, but not to the Japanese army.

Therefore, the focus of the Japanese army's offensive was on the defense area, attacking the large forces of the national army with small units, with the help of the cover of the ruins, close to the forward positions of the national army, hitting the positions of the national army with grenadiers, and the firing points, in the way of insects eating leaves, encroaching on the positions of the national army little by little.

The quality of the individual soldiers of the national army is not as good as that of the Japanese army, the combat capability is not as good as the Japanese army, and the weapons and equipment are not as good as the Japanese army, and the effect of this move is very remarkable; under such a slow attack of the Japanese army, the positions of the national army are being lost little by little, and at the same time, it has also caused huge casualties to the troops of the national army, while the casualties of the Japanese troops are very small.

This gave the commander of the national army a great headache, and he was completely unable to defeat the Japanese squad with company-level troops, and the casualties were increasing day by day, and the position was gradually encroached upon.

Sending battalion-level units up, street fighting was already quite cruel, and the Japanese mortars could be better played, causing huge casualties to the troops with artillery bombardment, and then they had to use even greater casualties to drive the Japanese devils away. Although they held their positions, the casualties were greater than the casualties of the company to block the Japanese army, and they could not withstand such attrition at all.

The company was no match for the Japanese squad, and although the battalion could fight it, it suffered huge casualties. In this way, they are again in a stalemate.

"The combat level of the ghost is the first time I have encountered it in the army for many years, you can lead a platoon of soldiers, touch the position of the Japanese devils, and cause such a large number of casualties to the Japanese devils, then you can take a company and resist the attack of the Japanese army."

Wang Yaowu put down his stick and said: "Commander Chen told us that the position is lost, the family and the country have fallen, and if we take a step back, we will be the sinners of the country, Brother Xia, I will give you the greatest support, what is lacking, I will give you." ”

Xia Yuan took a deep breath and said, "My task is to look at this housing area? ”

"Hmm." Wang Yaowu nodded and said: "This area is the center of gravity of the attack of the 22nd Wing of the Japanese Army, mostly in small units, at present there is only one company of our army holding on to this position, early in the morning, the Japanese army began to attack, so far, I have sent two companies of troops to increase, but the position is still facing loss, the situation of each street is complicated, we can't compete with the Japanese army, the result of repeated battles is that a lot of people have died, and the position has been lost." ”

As for the battle situation on the front line, all the commanders of the 51st Division have fallen into silence, and they have to send troops to fight all the time.

Not to mention how aggrieved it is.

"Soldiers are not a problem, as long as they can stop the Japanese army from advancing."

Wang Yaowu's requirements were not high, after understanding the facts, he found that the Japanese army's offensive mode was similar to Shangganling, and the volunteer army adopted a similar tactic of adding oil, however, Shangganling was limited by the firepower of the US army, the scope of Shangganling was too small, and sending more soldiers would only increase casualties, so they could only increase the number of people in each tunnel with the squad platoon company as a unit.

The operations used by the Japanese army were similar to the tactics of adding oil, but after careful consideration, they were able to figure out that the Japanese army knew that the quality of the individual soldiers of the national army was far inferior to theirs, and it was completely able to streamline its forces and deal with the national army with a small force, so that the casualties were reduced and the casualties could be greater to the national army.

He thought of what Lei Gong, the instructor of the Seventh Interspersed Company, said, "The Seventh Company exchanged its own large casualties for small casualties of our army." ”

This is the tactic used by the Japanese army.

After understanding the tactics of the Japanese army, Xia Yuan began to think about how to deal with the attack of the Japanese army in this mode.

"Do you have any ideas?"

Xia Yuan stared at the sand table model and said, "I have ideas, but I don't know if it's feasible or not." ”

"What's the idea, tell me about it?"

After Adjutant Sun came back, he not only told him that Xia Yuan's combat ability, strong individual skills, and in terms of the overall situation, he also had a unique vision, rich combat experience, and rich command experience.

Wang Yaowu also knew this, and it can be seen from the documents given by his superiors that it was recorded in the documents that a small group of troops named 'Ghost' attacked the Japanese positions at night, not only breaking through the Japanese fire blockade in a very short period of time, but also quickly resolving the battle and withdrawing from the position before the arrival of Japanese reinforcements.

There are also small units in the rear to respond, and at the same time, when they retreat, some soldiers will be left along the way to cover, watch, layer by layer, layer by layer.

In a short period of time, there may not be much observation, but since this ghost force appeared on the battlefield, the surrounding troops will quickly send scouts to contact it every time they hear the sound of gunfire, however, the other party has not explained much about the origin, but their attack mode has already been figured out by them.

It can be seen that Xia Yuan is a talent who leads troops to fight.

After Wang Yaowu heard that Xia Yuan had an idea, he was very interested.

Xia Yuan pondered for a moment and said: "The Japanese army's offensive mode is simple, and its purpose is also very simple, that is, to exchange the smallest casualties for our greater casualties, when our casualties are getting bigger and bigger, their goal will be achieved, a house, a street, will gradually be captured by them, and the large troops in their rear will follow up to stabilize these positions that have been beaten down, we want to counterattack, there are large troops in their rear watching, rushing over, then they fall into their scheme again." ”

Wang Yaowu nodded deeply and said: "You are right, I ordered a battalion of the 301st Regiment to counterattack the Japanese troops occupying the position, and we paid huge casualties, and we did not defeat it. ”

Adjutant Sun added on the side: "We bombarded with mortars, which also caused a lot of casualties to the Japanese troops, but the mortar shells were not enough to support the shelling for a longer time." ”

Shells are also a huge problem.

They looked at Xia Yuan, wanting to know how Xia Yuan dealt with the Japanese army.

Xia Yuan's eyes moved slightly, and he said: "There is basically no way to crack this method of the Japanese army, unless our individual soldier quality, combat ability, weapons and equipment keep up, there may still be a certain opportunity." ”

"It's impossible." A prefect said.

"Yes, since there is no way to crack it, then learn this way of the Japanese army, and we will also use the squad and platoon as a unit to deal with the Japanese army."

"Learn about the Japanese army!?"

Xia Yuan's idea, they didn't think about it, but to learn from the Japanese army, then they must have the same conditions as the Japanese army, otherwise, if they fight over, they will also give the Japanese army a head.

"This method is not advisable, we have tried, but the result is only more casualties, our soldiers are no match for the Japanese army." said the chief of staff.

Wang Yaowu stretched out his hand to stop everyone from talking and said, "Go on." ”

He knew that Xia Yuan must still have something to hide.

"We don't have a hard fight with the Japanese devils, this housing area is so big, the Japanese army attacks with small forces, how many houses and how many streets can he attack, if they attack a little, then I will lead people to bypass the direction of the opponent's attack and come to its flank to harass them, if he chases him, I will lead people to retreat immediately and continue to go around."

Xia Yuan said: "The Japanese army has so many troops, we go around him like this, and he can't do anything about us, if they disperse their forces and occupy houses and streets, then I will concentrate my forces and break through a little, division commander, the Japanese army will attack us, and the initiative will be in our hands." ”

This idea has a bit of a guerrilla flavor, and it is also Xia Yuan's experience summed up based on the guerrilla fight.

Compared with the Japanese army, the national army is too far behind, and if it is still as rigid as before in terms of tactics, then there is basically no hope of victory in this battle.

The combat plan that Xia Yuan thought of, if it is more flexible, is likely to solve the current problems faced by the national army, and once there is a problem with coordination, it will still face the previous problems.

Next, the details of the operation were discussed, and guerrilla warfare could be summed up in sixteen words.

The enemy advances and we retreat, the enemy is stationed and disturbs us, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I pursue.

Applicable to the current combat environment.

"The Japanese attacked with small forces and could not control the entire front, and we also dispatched with small forces to contain the enemy with guerrilla tactics, so that the enemy wanted to occupy the position, and the time wasted can be imagined, enough for us to drag on until the evening."

Xia Yuan's plan was very simple, that is, to delay, drag the Japanese army to capture the position, and drag the time until the evening, and the Japanese army would stop attacking.

First of all, he had to explain the core essence of the battle plan to the commanders of the 51st Division, especially Wang Yaowu, when he heard Xia Yuan's train of thought, he only felt that a door was slowly opening in front of him.

Xia Yuan's thinking made Wang Yaowu feel very surprised, and he said happily: "What we want is this effect, if it can be practical, then it can be extended to the whole army, and the Japanese army will attack with a small force, then we will have a countermeasure." ”

Next, it's time to put it into practice.

Xia Yuan will take his newly formed company into the housing area and fight against the Japanese squad.

"Next, I'll leave it to you, and I'll give you artillery support."

"The artillery support will not be replenished, and the Japanese army will send a squad, there is no need." Xia Yuan waved his hand, turned around and left the division headquarters, he was going back to prepare.

"Xia Yuan is really a general, if he uses it well, he can have an unexpected effect in battle." Wang Yaowu sighed with emotion, "Such a talent should stay in the 51st Division, Lao Sun, you have done a good job." ”

Adjutant Sun said with a smile: "Thanks to the fact that I set off early this morning, not long after I passed, the 56th, 58th, and 11th divisions all came, and it seems that they are all for this matter." ”

"I heard that our commander also asked the 67th Division to pass over." said the chief of staff.

"The Japanese army launched an attack on the position of the 67th Division early yesterday morning, and Lao Li did not seize the opportunity, but where Xia Yuan went, as long as it was beneficial to us."

Wang Yaowu put his hands behind his back and said, "Next, we are waiting for the good news to come back from the front." ”

After thinking about it for a while, he couldn't sit still.

"I'm going to the position of the 301st Regiment!"