Especially Miaohua, who has always been the number one master in the mercenary group, now has a senior brother Zhao Xiaojin who is not weaker than him as a sparring opponent, and he is not only good at martial arts, accurate with guns, but also proficient in medical skills. It will also make Miaohua's always aloof and arrogant mentality restrained.
An hour later, under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and based on the distance and number of enemy torches, Li Hu's team quickly investigated the enemy's situation. More than a thousand Japanese troops, with horses and artillery, were properly organized into a brigade. ,
"found it!"
Li Hu was certain that this was the prey that the mercenary group had been waiting for for a long time.
The next thing was simple. Li Hu used the intercom to notify the other nearest groups. After 2 minutes, through the relay call, all the groups began to gather in this direction, and then moved back at high speed, with the purpose of using the intercom in the mountains. The extreme call distance of 15 kilometers forms call nodes one by one.
This time, the 5 teams took away 5 communicators, and one was left at the headquarters. If each communicator is arranged vertically 12-15 kilometers apart, the communication distance can reach 60 kilometers, and Dushan is far away from Lengkou. It’s only over 50 kilometers. It can be said that once the Japanese troops are discovered by the investigation team, the advance detachment headquarters will know the movements of the Japanese troops at all times.
An hour later, Gao Xiaoshan, who was on duty at the headquarters, heard Ergazi’s hurried conversation and gasping voice coming from the intercom: “Report... Found the Japanese, a reorganized brigade, marching from Dushan to Lengkou. Avenue, specific quantities and weapons configuration will be reported later."
After receiving the news, the advance detachment immediately mobilized, and officers at all levels began to order soldiers to check various weapons and equipment. The logistics team immediately lit a fire to cook, striving to allow the soldiers to have another hot meal before the battle.
In the headquarters, Zhou Wen, Chen Wanli, Gao Xiaoshan, Miaohua and other senior officers gathered around a well-made sand table to study the enemy's situation.
If someone who is familiar with the terrain of this area sees this sand table, they will definitely be full of praise for such an accurate and exquisite sand table. Every mountain top and every path within a 50-kilometer radius of Lengkou is presented very realistically.
Who made the sand table?
No one believed it, but this sandbox was actually created by a mentally retarded young man.
This boy is of course Wang Xiaohu, who has developed a pair of dexterous hands by playing in the mud since he was a child.
As early as Zhou Wen came back from Lengkou to survey the terrain, he asked Xu Dacheng to go to Lishi to assist Xiaohu in making a combat sandbox with the survey and detailed maps of both the enemy and ourselves.
For Xiaohu, this was a fun game. Xu Dacheng marked the distance and height with reference to the map, and Xiaohu made mountains and roads with mud. It took a whole day, and the two of them made a large mountain and a small one. Two sandboxes.
The large sand table was left at the Model Brigade Headquarters, and this smaller sand table was brought here by Zhou Wen.
At this time, Chen Wanli confidently pointed to a trail on the sand table and said: "The Japanese army has only two official roads to choose from from Dushan, one leads to Xifengkou and the other leads to Lengkou. Now according to the investigation team News kept coming that this Japanese army was heading straight for Lengkou, and they were taking the official route, which shows that the Japanese army had no idea that our army was ready to attack."
"Although this road is an official road, it has experienced many years of warlord fighting and lack of maintenance. It is now in dilapidated condition. Not to mention trucks, even carriages have poor passability. And it is snowy now, so even if the Japanese army is marching in a hurry, It can't be very fast. Based on their current speed, it will be possible to reach Lengkou by the afternoon."
"If I were the Japanese army, after nearly ten hours of rapid march, I would have to rest and deploy before launching an attack, and this place must be convenient for hiding and sheltered from the wind."
He pointed at two places on the sand table and said: "Outside Lengkou Pass, only our current small village and Wazikou meet this condition, and Wazikou is the place where the Japanese army must pass, so I conclude that the Japanese army will reach Wazikou. We will rest and eat for a period of time after entering Zikou, and our ambush circle will be deployed at Wazikou."
Zhou Wen had no objection to Chen Wanli's deployment. He had discussed it many times with the officers before, and some people also suggested that they could ambush the Japanese army on the last stretch of their march. At that time, the Japanese army had walked dozens of kilometers of mountain roads in the snow. When people and horses were exhausted, it was a good time to ambush. .
However, the results of many deductions by Zhou Wen and Chen Wanli found it difficult to completely annihilate the enemy.
We must know that the Japanese army has more than 1,000 people, and the advance detachment only has more than 1,000 people. To conduct a simultaneous attack on the Japanese army's two-kilometer-long formation will inevitably lead to the deployment of the advance detachment's troops across a width of two kilometers, and the forces will be dispersed. The result is that the firepower is also dispersed. It is not difficult to defeat the enemy, but the difficulty of total annihilation increases.
According to the consistent tactical thinking of the mercenary group, the more concentrated the troops and the denser the firepower, the more fatal the blow to the enemy. Ferocious fire strikes can not only eliminate a large number of the enemy's effective forces in a short period of time, but can also deal a heavy blow to the enemy's morale and psychology, destroying and weakening their will to resist.
Although the Japanese army has always been strong and their will has always been firm, as long as they are human beings, they will still waver and despair when faced with ferocious firepower and overwhelming artillery attacks that make people lose hope.
The wavering of confidence and inner despair will lead to abnormal behavior. His usual accurate marksmanship is gone, his mind is no longer as clear as usual, he acts impulsively out of despair, and trembles and panics out of fear. Such an enemy is no longer a threat.
Therefore, launching an attack when the Japanese army is concentrating on resting is the best choice. After all, what Zhou Wen needs is a hearty battle of annihilation.
He just wanted to give the Japanese army a blow in the head when they easily captured Rehe and when their arrogance was at its most fierce, and kill the Japanese arrogant momentum with a perfect battle of annihilation. Once the news of victory reaches the rear, it will surely cheer up the people who were anxious and disappointed due to the loss of Jehol, and will increase the confidence of the senior officials of the Peking Branch of the Military Commission and other anti-Japanese troops.
Zhou Wen didn't interrupt at this time. After the big tactical framework was determined, he completely obeyed Chen Wanli's deployment and dispatch. After all, after participating in the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, the officers of the second detachment, including Meng Yuting and Chen Wanli, have matured rapidly, and they have a deep and clear understanding of the tactics and combat capabilities of the first detachment.
Now the enemy is overt and we are covert. Fighting an ambush battle where the enemy is unwary is not difficult for them officers at all. On the contrary, their specific tactical deployment is not as thorough as theirs.
