When Commander Deng of the 83rd Army received the news, an extremely ugly expression suddenly appeared on his face. Although the Japanese who attacked their defense line were not all the Japanese 13th Division, they still had more than 10,000 troops.
They fought very hard, and the Japanese heavy weapons took turns to bomb, and after the bombing was over, they rushed forward as if they were desperate for their lives. Although everyone knows the Japanese's three-step plan, they just can't stand it. Do you think it's irritating or not?
The equipment of half the Japanese brigade is indeed very tempting. Even the main force of the national army has to fight to the death in the face of so much equipment. Wen San only asked him to hold on for three more hours. This deal was a good deal no matter how you looked at it.
"Move all the weapons and ammunition to the defense line. I won't be able to survive until today!" Commander Deng thought for a few minutes and decided to give it a try.
Not for anything else, just for the equipment of half of the Japs Brigade. Even if you pay a certain price, it will be worth it.
The most important thing about the temperament of an army is the commander of the army. As the saying goes, if a soldier is raging, a general will be raging in a nest.
When the chief officer is full of energy, he can easily infect his combat troops.
Commander Deng became determined, and the morale of the front-line combat troops also changed. Before, they thought of fighting and leaving without fighting to the death against the Japanese, so they were helpless when they started fighting.
Now the commander of the army issued a death order that they must hold on for another three hours, and he also replenished them with weapons and ammunition, as well as some rations.
The soldiers' previous mentality was quickly reversed. They have a lot of troops. No matter how ferocious the enemy is, can they not withstand it for three hours?
"Tell Wen San that I will decide on the Japanese equipment for half of his brigade!" Commander Deng became so proud that he asked the combat staff to pass the news back.
After receiving this news, Wen San felt a little calmer. He didn't want the 83rd Army to guard for three hours. He was satisfied with two hours.
"I plan to launch an attack at three o'clock in the afternoon. Even if the Japanese planes come to support, they can only support once at most. If you want to come a second time, you have to wait until tomorrow morning." Wen San decided to launch the attack in advance.
If the general attack was launched at night according to the original plan, it would probably be too late.
It's late winter now, and it gets dark relatively early.
The battle started at three o'clock, and it would take a while before the Japanese would call for air support. No matter where the Japanese plane took off from, it should be after four o'clock when it arrived on the battlefield.
They drop a circle of bombs and fire a few rounds with machine guns, and they should basically be leaving. Otherwise, they won't be able to get back because they don't have enough fuel. After the Japanese planes returned, it was impossible to take off again. The planes at that time did not have all-weather combat capabilities. If the weather was slightly worse, they might not dare to take off.
"Okay, three o'clock is three o'clock. The soldiers have rested for a few hours anyway, and they have enough energy to launch an attack at three o'clock." Commander Ye immediately agreed to Wen San's plan.
The longer the delay, the more worried he became.
"Certain changes must be made in the use of artillery. The artillery firepower of your two divisions should be concentrated in one place as much as possible, and my artillery battalion also occupies two important points. The three-party firepower output can cover the enemy's established All lines of defense."
The Japs of the two brigades were really not idle. They dug several trenches and were heavily guarded in all directions. This is the rhythm of preparing to fight them to the end.
What's more, the Japanese plane also resupplied them midway, so the Japanese were not worried at all. If they hadn't had some ideas, the two Japs brigade leaders, Yamaguchi and Ono, would have wanted to go to war directly.
In order to increase the speed of chasing the independent regiment, these two brigades basically did not have heavy firepower. The strongest artillery is the Type 92 infantry gun.
Big guns such as mountain artillery, field artillery, and cannon were all left in the hands of the Nakajima Japanese brigade.
Wen San had figured out the position of the Japanese artillery squadron and gave all the relevant coordinates to Zheng Xiaoyu. Once their artillery fires, they will give priority to these places.
The shooting distance of mountain artillery and field artillery is much farther than that of Type 92 infantry artillery. What's more, Zheng Xiaoyu now has a few more cannons in his hands, and the cannon shells are quite sufficient.
They finally had the opportunity to experience the feeling of beating the Japanese with bare hands and making the Japanese stare blankly.
Wen San also used the same tactics as the Japanese. Before the war started, he walked through various artillery pieces before talking about them. In addition to the Japanese artillery positions, the defense lines they built were also important cleaning targets. If these trenches are not destroyed and the troops attack them, casualties will increase greatly.
After the artillery shells are cleaned, it is time for all units to attack with all their strength.
There is no so-called main attack direction this time. To be precise, all directions are main attacks. Commander Ye has two divisions, plus Wen San's two regiments, and the total strength is close to 20,000.
This piece of land can fully deploy 20,000 troops, with battalions and companies as combat units, and push forward with all their strength towards the center. As long as the Japanese can't stop them, they can only retreat to the central area.
The larger the compressed area, the lower the enemy's combat effectiveness will be, and the possibility of eventual annihilation will greatly increase.
Wen San was prepared to use all his strength as soon as he took action. It would be best if all the troops were involved with the Japanese. In this way, even if the Japanese planes come over, they will not dare to drop bombs unless they want to blow up the national army and the Japanese soldiers together.
This was Wen San's conspiracy, relying on superior troops to overwhelm him openly.
He placed his three main battalions at different angles, supplemented by battalions from the 159th Division and the 160th Division in the middle.
This combination of high and low can maintain continuous and stable firepower output in every direction. If there are Japanese soldiers who are stubbornly resisting, Wen San's troops will fight hard and quickly defeat the enemy's firepower.
At the same time, Wen San's three independent companies also formed three extremely sharp knives in different directions.
Liu Dazhu's cavalry company, Pangdun's reconnaissance company and Zhou Zhengbiao's supervising team. Although the strength of these three companies is not large, their combat capabilities are much stronger than that of the main battalion.
The mission given to them by Wen San was divided into two parts. In the first half, they followed the large army and charged. Later, once the Japs begin to rout and the organization is disrupted, they can bypass the large troops and rush directly into the core area of the Japs.
Wen San was using them as a special operations force. When the Japs were in chaos, they would rush in and kill the Japs' senior commanders.
With the strength of these three companies, they are capable of doing it. In this process, there will definitely be casualties, but in order to achieve the battle plan of quickly annihilating the two Japs brigades, he had to invest his strongest troops in it.
It is impossible to complete his battle plan without disrupting the enemy's position.
If the Japanese 13th Division really waits for them to come closer, it will be too late.
