"The purpose of telling you about the enemy's weapons and equipment is to prevent you from being careless and treating them as a miscellaneous army that has been ravaged before, instead of making you stare with your eyes wide open and become timid before fighting!"
"Although their weapons and equipment are better than ours, no matter whether they are fighting the Japanese or the Chinese army, at the beginning we were competing to see whose equipment was better!"
"No matter how good their weapons and equipment are, their bodies are not bulletproof. A bullet can still kill them!"
"If you still behave like this when we get to the battlefield, why not tell me directly now, and I'll fight you if you dare!"
After seeing everyone's reaction, Li Qiufan spoke again and scolded everyone. Everyone felt a little ashamed after this call.
"I have one last question for you, do you dare to fight?"
Li Qiufan glanced at everyone, and then asked them angrily.
"dare!"
Upon hearing Li Qiufan's inquiry, Erhu and others shouted loudly and looked at him with firm eyes.
"Deploy combat missions next!"
"I have said before that our best blocking locations are at Huangcaoling and the front line of Gozhan Ridge."
"The enemy must go from here if they want to enter the Gaima Plateau, and there are only three climbing routes, namely Huangcaoling to the west, Gaodashan in the middle, and Gozhan Ridge to the east."
"The line from Huangcaoling to Gaodashan is stationed by the First Army. This will be the main battlefield for fighting the enemy."
"Especially the line between Yantai Peak and Caofangling on the south side of Huangcaoling. Erhu, you sent two regiments to pin it down. You also sent a regiment to a highland to the north of Yantai Peak. Three regiments went up the mountain. The road forms a pincer attack!"
"The other two divisions are deployed at the main peak of Huangcaoling and the front line of Gaoda Mountain to guard the two passes respectively!"
"Old Li, your mountain division has dispatched a brigade to the Changjin Lake area in the rear as the general reserve team, and the other two brigades are responsible for garrisoning at the Battle Ridge!"
After hearing everyone's responses, Li Qiufan immediately arranged combat tasks and deployed the First Army and the Mountain Division respectively.
The Mountain Division has about 20,000 troops. Li Qiufan divided it into three brigades, and each brigade has two regiments. In other words, one brigade has about 7,000 troops.
About 14,000 men were more than enough to garrison the Battle Ridge, and in fact, so many people were not needed.
As for why so many people were arranged to go to Zhanling, Li Qiufan had other ideas.
"Lao Ma, your armored division has to take care of the artillery support of three positions this time, so you must arrange it properly!"
"In addition, arrange the tank battalion and the two battalions of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment in the Huangcaoling position. I will be of great use then!"
After arranging the infantry, Li Qiufan turned to look at Lao Ma and deployed the armored division.
"Don't worry, Commander, when has my old horse ever been confused during a war?"
After hearing Li Qiufan's words, Lao Ma nodded and said.
"Do all units know their missions? If there is no doubt, they will set off immediately and rush to the predetermined location for deployment!"
Li Qiufan finally asked everyone, and when they saw that they had no objections, he gave the order to set off.
Then the troops began to rush towards Huangcaoling and entered the predetermined position before the enemy arrived. At the same time, the battle on the western front began.
Not long after the battle on the western front started, the enemy troops on the eastern front were about to arrive near Huangcaoling. The first to bear the brunt was the Capital Division of the First Army of the Southern Dynasty.
Although the battle on the western front had already begun at this time, the enemy had not yet determined whether the volunteers participating in the battle were volunteers, so the enemy on the eastern front did not expect an ambush in Huangcaoling.
The Capital Division of the Southern Dynasty had about 7,000 troops. After arriving at Huangcaoling, they rushed in and headed towards the main peak of Huangcaoling along the east side of Yantai Peak.
After learning that a division from the Southern Dynasty had entered Huangcaoling, Li Qiufan immediately issued an order to attack.
As Li Qiufan's order was issued, the two regiments stationed at Yantai Peak and the high ground on the north side of Yantai Peak opened fire immediately.
The Capital Division of the Southern Dynasty was caught off guard by this sudden attack and hurriedly began to organize a counterattack.
Although there were only two regiments attacking them, the total strength of the First Army was 30,000.
Li Qiufan abolished the brigade-level organization of all the corps-level units in the First Corps, and the division-level units were divided into regiments. Therefore, a regiment of the First Army had about 3,000 people.
The strength of the two regiments was almost the same as that of the Capital Division of the Southern Dynasty. Coupled with the beautiful weapons and equipment they were equipped with, the Capital Division of the Southern Dynasty thought it was ambushed by beautiful Chinese troops.
Under the fire suppression of the two regiments at Yantai Peak and the northern highlands, the Nanchao Capital Division was unable to organize an effective counterattack at all, and could only ask for help from the Third Division not far behind.
After receiving the request for reinforcements from the Capital Division, the Third Division immediately reported the situation to the 10th Army of the Beautiful Country behind them, and then marched quickly to the direction of Yantai Peak for reinforcements.
After receiving the information provided by the Third Division, the Beautiful Tenth Army called for air support and bombed Yantai Peak and the high ground to its north.
Naturally, Li Qiufan had already made preparations and deployed two anti-aircraft artillery battalions nearby, waiting for the arrival of the beautiful country's plane.
As the Third Division arrived for support, the Capital Division withdrew from Yantai Peak, only to leave behind more than two thousand corpses.
"Inform the anti-aircraft artillery positions to prepare. Enemy planes will be coming soon!"
After seeing the Southern Dynasty troops withdrawing, Li Qiufan immediately asked the correspondent to remind him of the anti-aircraft artillery position.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for a buzzing sound to be heard in the distance. As the sound got closer and closer, more than a dozen aircraft suddenly appeared in everyone's sight.
At this time, the enemy still did not think that the ambushes in Huangcaoling were volunteers, and only thought that they were the main force of the Northern Dynasty.
And they didn't even think that the other side would have anti-aircraft weapons, so more than a dozen aircraft flew at low altitudes without any scruples.
When they were about to reach Yantai Peak, more than a dozen planes began to dive in preparation for bombing.
Before they could fly over the Yantai Peak position, the two anti-aircraft artillery battalions that had been waiting for a long time opened fire, directly forming a cross-fire network against more than a dozen enemy aircraft.
The pilot of the beautiful country was almost frightened out of his wits by the sudden bombardment, and he hurriedly started to increase the flying altitude.
Although their response was quite fast, five aircraft were shot down, and several more aircraft were damaged to varying degrees.
The Southern Korean troops and the 10th Army of the Beautiful Country, who were expecting the explosion, were also dumbfounded. They never expected that the other side would have anti-aircraft weapons.
"The fun has just begun!"
After seeing that he had shot down five enemy aircraft, Li Qiufan put down the telescope in his hand and said with a smile.
