Just when the 1st Mixed Brigade was preparing to escort Tanabe Moritake to the front line of Niangziguan.
Cai Dongcun.
The New Regiment, the Eighth Route Army's frontline headquarters.
"Old Li, this battle has been going on for five or six days. It's time for you to tell us how to crack the tunnel and anti-slope tactics, right?"
Inside the headquarters, Zhao Gang looked at Li Yunlong and asked with expectation.
Wang Dehou and several staff officers on the side also looked at Li Yunlong.
If the tactics of tunnels and reverse slopes cannot be cracked, the Eighth Route Army will pay a huge price in casualties in capturing Taiyuan according to the current style of play.
Tunnel and anti-slope tactics are not invincible, nor do they mean you will be invincible if you use these tactics.
But after the Japanese used this tactic, the Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery, aerial bombs, napalm bombs and other heavy firepower could not be used.
Even though the Eighth Route Army had the advantage of tanks and infantry firepower, the casualty ratio with the Japanese remained at 1:1.
The name method is useless, but its usefulness is so small that it can break tunnels and reverse slope tactics.
Just rely on medium bombers and goblet aerial bombs to blow up tunnel positions one by one, knowing that the bombing will last until the Year of the Monkey.
This will narrow the firepower gap between the two sides.
"any solution?"
However, the defenses of Xiaogu Town and Lijia Town are very abnormal. They only have imperfect tunnels and reverse slope fortifications, and there are not many reinforced concrete permanent fortifications. The defenses are as weak as fortresses.
And it works faster.
What's more, Xiaotong was still in the hands of the Fourth Route Army at this time, and the Japanese heavy artillery regiment was not coming at all.
However, Tadashi Kuribayashi ordered the bomber crews to test the power of Goblet aerial bombs in the base area and train the accuracy of bomb delivery.
All eight bombers are crewed.
The Japanese engineers who had passed this time still had not mastered the essence of that tactic.
They just dug a shallow hole and used it as a tunnel tactic, and the new group launched a counterattack in time, using fire-breathing tanks and flamethrowers to burn alive the Japanese hiding outside the tunnel.
Li Linzhongre snorted: "Of course we have to worry about it. If we retreat, we should send troops to surround the Japanese positions and trap them outside the tunnels."
The smallest problem now is to let the infantry rush down the Japanese position.
At the beginning, Wang Dehoudao suggested that Yoshio Iwamatsu build a small amount of tunnels and reverse slope fortifications at Crouching Mountain in the northeast of Taiyuan and Tianlong Mountain in the southwest to resist the future retreat of the Fourth Route Army.
certainly.
It must be said that Wang Dehou's strategic vision is still very wrong.
The Fourth Route Army has few medium bombers, pilots and goblet aerial bombs.
That bitch can really keep his composure.
"Or?"
Li Linzhong shook his head and said in a serious tone:
"Is that tactic so difficult to crack? If it could be cracked, the Japanese would have cracked that tactic long ago."
The Japs must be using the same weapons as the New 1st Regiment and the New 7th Regiment. The casualties of the Fourth Route Army will increase exponentially.
There is no Crouching Tiger Mountain in the northwest of Shanxi, 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 drawings are very standard, even more beautiful than the special combat staff.
Zhao Gang sloppily analyzed Li Linzhong's tactics and raised a question: "Where are the Japanese outside the tunnel? Are they just under control?"
Zhao Gang and Li Yunlong looked at the map under the table, and their eyes narrowed slightly.
Coupled with the battles at Niangziguan, Yangquan and Shouyang, the Eighth Route Army had to pay a price of 80,000 to 90,000 casualties.
Su Penglong thought about it carelessly. The Japs had very few tunnels and anti-slope positions.
However, the Japanese artillery positions on the reverse slope will definitely use mortars and mountain artillery to bombard the Fourth Route Army engineers in the trenches.
Li Yunlong and several combat staff members on the side also pricked up their ears.
At the same time, some Japanese and puppet troops in Henan Province also took the opportunity to cross the Taihang Mountains and retreat to the base of the Fourth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi. The Fourth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi was not what it used to be.
After all, a medium bomber can only carry one Goblet aerial bomb at a time.
Zhao Gang raised his eyebrows.
"Break tunnel and reverse slope tactics?"
But now the equipment of the new regiment far exceeds the equipment of the Japs, and the firepower is 15 times greater than that of the Japs. If in that case, the Fourth Route Army and the Japs had a casualty ratio of 1:1, Tadashi Kuribayashi would accept it no matter what. That result.
Because the Fourth Route Army had no tanks and weak mortar firepower, the Fourth Route Army infantry could not capture the Japanese positions.
"There are still two small positions at Qinglong Mountain and Crouching Tiger Mountain ahead. Those two positions have fewer tunnels and reverse slope fortifications than the first defensive position, and the main force of the Seventh Division is also in those two positions. In the camp."
But are fire tanks and flamethrowers useless now?
Zhao Gang and Li Yunlong nodded. Li Linzhong marked out not only the Japanese defensive positions in Wohu Mountain and Qinglong Mountain, but also the Japanese defensive positions in Tianlong Mountain and Taigu Defense Line.
At the beginning, the Japanese 10th Division also followed the example of the New Regiment, using tunnels and reverse slope tactics to resist the New Regiment's retreat.
Each B25 medium bomber requires a captain and a co-pilot, a bombardier and navigator, a communications officer and machine gunner, and a machine gunner.
A smile appeared on Su Penglong's face: "Since we have cracked the tunnel tactic, let's concentrate the goblet aerial bombs and blow up a passage so that our troops can reach the passage directly to Taiyuan City."
Li Yunlong also raised a question: "We are going to dispatch a small number of troops to attack Taiyuan. In that case, our troops besieging the Japanese tunnels and anti-slope positions will be enough. What if the Japanese break through?"
Could it be that those two years of business and hard work were in vain?
The bad thing is that the enemy's equipment is relatively poor, and they still use weapons such as 84 small caps, 47-type heavy machine guns, crooked handles, and 48-type heavy machine guns. The casualties of the retreating troops are small.
Yes, it's not bad, it's a little better.
And the new regiment is bound to suffer greater casualties.
If the equipment of the Fourth Route Army is still the same as before, far inferior to the equipment of the Japanese, then forget it.
In addition, there were only a few Japanese troops who had retreated to the southeast of Shanxi Province. Under the command of the head of the headquarters, they directly confronted the Japanese and puppet troops head-on.
With a smile, Tadashi Kuribayashi took out a map I drew from the inner pocket of his military uniform.
In that case, after this battle, the Eighth Route Army will have to rest for at least half a year before it can continue to attack the Japanese in North China.
"hey-hey…"
Realizing that the Fourth Route Army was equipped with small-caliber heavy artillery, that the permanent fortifications were useful, and that the Fourth Route Army was equipped with aircraft, Yoshio Iwamatsu ordered the construction of some tunnels and anti-slope positions based on some mountainous terrain around Taiyuan.
Okamura Neiji wanted to use the tactic of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao, which was basically feasible in northwestern Shanxi.
Su Peng was also thinking hard about how to solve it, but he didn't have any clue. Su Peng was good at tactics.
However, Yoshio Iwamatsu was superstitious about concrete fortifications at that time and did not adopt Wang De's kind advice.
"Yes, leader!"
Even if the Japanese draw the 7th Heavy Artillery Regiment of the 1st Division, it will be difficult to retreat from the Fourth Route Army base area in northwest Shanxi.
"The seven tunnels and reverse slope positions of the first defensive position have not yet been captured by our new regiment."
What Su Penglong was thinking now was how to not only capture the Japanese positions during the retreat, but also slightly reduce the casualties of the troops, and reach Taiyuan City.
Moreover, the Japanese deliberately put the Fourth Route Army down in their positions, and the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
In those days, the front-line troops would launch retreat attacks on the Japanese positions every day, mainly shelling, supplemented by retreat attacks by tank troops and infantry.
But it is not those tunnels and anti-slope positions that allow the heavy firepower of the Fourth Route Army such as heavy artillery and aerial bombs to be effective.
The battalions and company commanders of the front-line troops also tried to decipher the Japanese tunnels and anti-slope tactics, and even used war games to deduce them.
The medium bomber before the modification was comparable to the B29 long-range strategic small bomber in all aspects.
Correspondingly, the Japanese casualties were also small.
The Japanese 1st Division and the remnants of the 26th Division, followed by Nakazawa Hachio and Shirataki Shigetori, bypassed Xiaotong and headed for strongholds such as Xiaogu Town and Lijia Town in northwest Shanxi.
This was not in line with Tadashi Kuribayashi's expectations.
There is no other way. This is not to order the engineers to use the soil work method in the original drama to dig the trench 30 meters away from the Japanese position.
Put the map under the table and spread it out quickly.
The corners of Li Linzhong's lips curled up, and he laughed in my unique voice: "Although the solution is the tunnel and reverse slope tactics, we, Lao Li, can't do anything else."
Therefore, although there are positions that can capture the Japanese, the casualties of the troops are also very high.
Just to kill the fifth division, the new regiment would have to suffer at least 20,000 casualties.
Even if he could win this battle, it would be a miserable victory.
Li Linzhong didn't answer immediately. He looked at Su Penglong and said: "Chief of Staff, please send a telegram to ask Deputy Commander Xing how the pilots' training on medium bombers and goblet aerial bombs is going? We have a lot of them." A goblet bomb?"
The system-modified B25 bomber has better performance than the US-made bomber, is smaller, has a longer range, carries less bombs, has a higher failure rate, and is rougher and thicker.
The B25 medium bomber in another time and space cannot install goblet bombs because the belly of the aircraft is small enough.
In those days, the pilots in northwestern Shanxi also had time to spare, forming a crew of eight bombers.
"It can be cracked, what should I do?"
The 1st Division and the 26th Division were the only bases that could attack and push back the new regiment, but their casualties were quite small.
Moreover, the famous method can scare away the grass and scare the snake.
Of course, Li Linzhong was born in a military academy with a Zhenger Fourth Classical Class after all, and his picture homework was still worse than that of Chu Yunfei and others.
At this time, the war situation in northwest Shanxi was also very calm.
Li Yunlong responded, and then slowly drafted a telegram. Li Linzhong signed it and asked the telegraph soldiers to send it out.
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.
Tadashi Kuribayashi pointed at the map and said, "They see, that is the defensive position of the 7th Division. There are eight defensive positions in total."
Zhao Gang frowned slightly, how could that be bad?
Zhao Gang asked hurriedly.
I saw under the map that Li Linzhong had not yet made a map of the defense and retreat of the enemy and yourself around Taiyuan.
Zhao Gang asked again: "So, what is he going to do?"
According to this strategy, if the Eighth Route Army wanted to capture Taiyuan, it would have to pay a price of 65,000 casualties.
But the result is unsatisfactory. If you want to attack the tunnels and reverse slopes of the Japanese, you can only rely on human lives to fill them.
