Chapter 284: One hundred thousand troops surrounded Taiyuan?
"So you agreed to their battle plan?"
After hearing the brigade commander's reasons, the general picked up the tea on the table and drank it all, then continued speaking.
"Since you believe that the four of them are absolutely sure to take Ping'an County without causing great losses to the troops, then tell me, how do they plan to take Ping'an County?
Not to mention Ping'an County, even if their four regiments can capture the Zhangzhuang stronghold without suffering heavy losses, I will give them credit for the achievement.
Lao Chen, don't try to fool me with this battle plan. Tell me what you think. "
"Boss, strictly speaking, it's not the four of them who are absolutely sure, but Qin Yangming and Li Yunlong who are absolutely sure.
I bet that neither Kong Jie nor Ding Wei are clear about the specific battle plan.
Only Li Yunlong and Qin Yangming knew the real battle plan.
To be honest, the Vanguard Regiment, the Independent Regiment, and the New First Regiment are indeed very powerful, but they are not strong enough to easily capture Ping'an County.
It is true that the Vanguard Regiment’s artillery fire is sharp, and the soldiers under its command are also very strong, especially the gunner of the Vanguard Regiment named Li Erhu.
If Xiao Qin was not unwilling to let go, and Li Erhu was not unwilling to leave the Vanguard Regiment, then with Li Erhu's ability, he would have no problem serving as the commander of the military district's heavy artillery regiment!
Even so, with the capabilities of these four regiments, it is indeed very difficult to capture Ping'an County... So I am also wondering how Qin Yangming and Li Yunlong will capture Ping'an County...
If it were me, and I were to launch an attack on Ping'an County with four regiments, I would choose to send a new regiment to the Xiaocaozhuang stronghold and capture it first.
Then let the New 1st Regiment be responsible for blocking the Japanese reinforcements coming from Taiyuan, Taigu and other areas
Among the four regiments, the combat effectiveness of the New 1st Regiment and the Independent Regiment is similar, while the combat effectiveness of the New 2nd Regiment is the weakest.
Then the vanguard regiment has the strongest combat effectiveness, the most artillery, and is the most suitable for attacking tough targets.
The Independent Regiment has the second most artillery among the four regiments, so the Independent Regiment is the second most suitable team for attacking tough targets.
Therefore, it is most appropriate to send the New 1st Regiment to capture the Xiaocaozhuang stronghold, and then use the Xiaocaozhuang stronghold as the center to block the Japanese troops supporting Ping'an County from Taigu, Taiyuan, Jinzhong and other places. "
Listening to the boss's questioning, Brigade Commander Chen immediately stood up and began to write and draw on the map with a pencil, doing map homework, talking about his own plans, and then using his own battle plan to reverse-engineer Li Yunlong's battle plan.
In a sense, Brigade Commander Chen is also a commander who likes to use unexpected tactics.
It was even more bizarre and clever than Li Yunlong's trick, and it was totally out of the ordinary.
Therefore, it is possible to reverse-infer Li Yunlong's combat plan based on the brigade commander's own combat plan.
The boss listened to what Brigade Commander Chen said, and when he saw Brigade Commander Chen start to talk about his battle plan, he also stood up and began to look at Brigade Commander Chen's plan.
During these two days, the boss also deduced the battle plan of Li Yunlong and others, but no matter how the boss deduced, he could not come up with a battle plan that could capture Ping'an County with four regiments while also incurring a relatively low loss.
(The boss didn’t expect Qin Yangming and his men to have chemical bombs, nor did he think that Qin Yangming and Li Yunlong were planning to use chemical weapons. He also couldn’t think of the two variables, Murakuchi Saburo and Kiyozumi Muichi, so it was naturally impossible to deduce the real battle plan of Li Yunlong and Qin Yangming)
Therefore, the boss could not understand why Brigade Commander Chen agreed to Li Yunlong and his men's attack on Ping'an County.
Although the boss tried his best to adopt risky methods to fight, he still could not figure it out.
Now Brigade Commander Chen began to talk about his battle plan. The boss thought that Brigade Commander Chen was also a commander who liked to use unexpected tactics, so he also wanted to see how Brigade Commander Chen did it.
"Boss, you see, I have two attack plans here, but both of them require the New 1st Regiment to go to Xiaocaozhuang to carry out the blocking mission.
Let me talk about the first set first.
The first combat plan was for Ding Wei to lead the New 1st Regiment to the Xiaocaozhuang stronghold. They would not attack the Xiaocaozhuang stronghold first, and all the troops would hide on the spot.
Then the engineers dug blocking positions at the blocking locations that had been selected long ago.
With the combat effectiveness of the New 1st Regiment, and the fact that the Xiaocaozhuang area has complex terrain, sparse population, and many crisscrossing rivers.
At that time, we will only need to block several main roads, destroy roads and bridges, and lay mines on the roads.
With the combat effectiveness of the New 1st Regiment, it would be no problem for it to stop an entire regiment of the Japanese devils.
Even if there were two regiments of Japanese troops coming over, the New 1st Regiment's combat effectiveness and material reserves could hold them off for at least four days.
If a brigade comes and they assume that the New 1st Regiment will be completely wiped out, and use positional warfare to block the enemy, the New 1st Regiment can hold out for at least three days.
If the New 1st Regiment adopted the tactic of exchanging space for time and took advantage of the vast area near the Xiaocaozhuang stronghold, it would be able to lead the Japanese to circle around and block them layer by layer.
Then the new regiment will be able to hold the attack longer.
At the same time, the New 1st Regiment could also send out a small force to contact local forces in Shuiquan and other places to help blow up the railway.
Prevent the Japanese from using railways to transport troops, so that they cannot directly send troops by train from Taiyuan and Jinzhong areas to Shuiquan or Luyang areas.
Then support was provided to Ping'an County from Luyang and Shuiquan.
Then the Vanguard Regiment, the Independent Regiment, and the New Second Regiment, among which the Vanguard Regiment was ready to attack, and the Independent Regiment took the lead in launching the bridge crossing battle, and quickly captured the Japanese's artillery towers at various ferry bridges along the Dongzhang River... If the Japanese were desperate, they would blow up all the bridges.
Then the New Second Regiment will be responsible for building the pontoon bridge.
At the same time, all the mules and horses of the three regiments, as well as the mules, horses, donkeys and carts in the entire Fu'an County were gathered together and handed over to the vanguard regiment.
After the Independent Regiment captured the Japanese strongholds and artillery towers set up along the Dongzhang River, the Vanguard Regiment spared no effort to transport all heavy weapons and troops to the outskirts of the Zhangzhuang stronghold as quickly as possible.
Then the independent regiment was responsible for blocking the Japanese troops coming out from the direction of Ping'an County and preventing the troops in Ping'an County from supporting the Zhangzhuang stronghold.
Then, the vanguard group needs to take down the entire Zhangzhuang stronghold within five hours.
While the Vanguard Regiment was taking down the Zhangzhuang stronghold, the New Second Regiment joined up with the Independent Regiment at the fastest speed.
If Ping'an County sent troops to support Zhangzhuang, then the New Second Regiment would go around and, together with the Independent Regiment, ambush the reinforcements sent by the Japanese from Ping'an County to the Zhangzhuang stronghold and wipe out all the troops leaving the city.
We must never allow the Japanese soldiers and puppet troops to retreat back to Ping'an County again, and we must weaken the Japanese defense forces in the county seat of Ping'an County as much as possible.
After eliminating the Japanese reinforcements coming out of Ping'an County, the Independent Regiment and the Vanguard Regiment quickly rushed to the outskirts of Ping'an County. If there was an opportunity, they would directly launch an attack on Ping'an County.
The New Second Regiment took the lead in bypassing Ping'an County and blocking the Japanese reinforcements coming from Shuiquan and Luyang.
The resistance would take at least ten hours. At the same time, after the Vanguard Regiment captured the Zhangzhuang stronghold, it would send all the artillery to the Independent Regiment as quickly as possible and hand it over to the Independent Regiment for use in siege operations.
Afterwards, the Vanguard Regiment had to march quickly and reach the ambush site of the New Second Regiment within five hours, and together with the New Second Regiment, block the Japanese reinforcements coming from Luyang and Shuiquan.
The Japanese troops in Luyang and Shuiquan were basically only the 11th Brigade of the Japanese, and it was difficult to mobilize the other troops.
If the Japanese really dare to continue mobilizing other troops, we will directly join forces with the Wutaishan Military Region. We will attack Ping'an County, and the Wutaishan Military Region will send troops south to take Shuiquan and Luyang.
By then, as long as the Vanguard Regiment and the New Second Regiment can hold back the Japanese troops that have come out, they will be unable to take care of both the front and rear ends.
Then the Shangdang Military Region and the Taiyue Military Region marched north to launch an attack on Taigu and Jinzhong, and Luliang sent troops to launch an attack in the direction of Taiyuan.
Please ask the Yi Zhong Military Region to stop the Japanese troops in the Yi Province area.
If we handle it well, we might be able to surround Taiyuan.
The 358th Regiment of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army had gained a great advantage last time. In order to strengthen the force on the front line, Yan Laoxi sent a lot of weapons, equipment and personnel supplies to Chu Yunfei.
The 358th Regiment of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army now has 5,000 soldiers. I heard that Yan Laoxi is planning to upgrade the 358th Regiment to a division.
When the time comes and we surround Taiyuan, I don't believe that Yan Laoxi will not want to have a piece of the pie.
By then, with the more than 5,000 people of the 358th Regiment of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, plus the weapons and equipment and other Shanxi-Suiyuan Army forces around Taiyuan, a total of 10,000 people could be mobilized.
If we add in the puppet troops who received orders from Yan Laoxi, surrendered to the Japanese, and used the Japanese's money and guns to support their troops.
If we add up all these forces, we can form a force of about 20,000 people... If Yan Laoxi wants to get a piece of the pie, then the command of these 20,000-strong force must be handed over to our Eighth Route Army.
Our four major military regions of Shangdang, Taiyue, Luliang and Northwest Shanxi can gather at least 80,000 main forces.
Hehe, if an army of one hundred thousand soldiers surrounded Taiyuan... then a Ping'an County would not be so important.
If we are lucky, our Eighth Route Army can capture Taiyuan.
If we were just a little bit short of that, we wouldn’t be able to take Taiyuan, Taigu, Jinzhong and other areas.
But our Eighth Route Army was also able to seize the opportunity to completely wipe out the Japanese 11th Brigade.
Destroy another Japanese brigade, and at the same time capture Shuiquan and Luyang, directly cutting off the Japanese railway line.
By then, as long as we can hold Shuiquan, Luyang, and the Wutaishan Military Region can send troops to attack Datong, the whole of Shanxi will become a big pot.
The Japanese First Army is the meat in this big pot!
Even if we are unlucky, we can still take Ping'an County... and we can also gain a lot in other areas.
By then, our Eighth Route Army will rest for another month and use up all the gains made in the battle, and then we can launch another attack.
The above goals can still be achieved by then.
After all, we won a great victory in Shiquan last time, wiped out an entire brigade of the Japanese invaders, and took back Shangdang from the Japanese invaders. Such a large piece of territory really stimulated my principal.
In order to save face, my principal directly ordered the troops in Yichang to fight the Japanese to the death, determined to achieve a greater victory.
So now Shancheng has started to send reinforcements to Yichang. Coupled with the fact that we wiped out an entire brigade of the Japanese last time, the morale of the Japanese has suffered a considerable blow.
Troops from other areas also cooperated vigorously and destroyed many of the Japanese's transportation lines.
As a result, the Japanese troops in Yichang were also greatly affected.
It can be said that we have supported the battle in Yichang.
In short, under such a situation, the Shancheng troops, which had already shown signs of defeat in Yichang, turned the situation around under the influence of various circumstances and turned the original defeat into a draw.
In order to restore the morale of the troops, the Japanese will also spare no effort to win the Battle of Yichang.
In order to save face, Shancheng could not allow the Battle of Yichang to fail.
Therefore, there can be no tie between the two sides, and there must be a winner.
Now on the front battlefield, both sides have turned their attention to the Battle of Yichang.
Our Eighth Route Army is located behind enemy lines, so we can seize the opportunity to launch a large-scale attack on the Japanese's rear troops and completely disrupt their deployment.
Disrupt the Japanese rear and prevent them from providing large-scale and effective support to the front-line troops on the front battlefield.
At the same time, the Japanese mobilized a large number of troops to Yichang to participate in frontal combat.
The rear is short of troops, and our Eighth Route Army can also take this opportunity to develop rapidly...
I think that after the Battle of Yichang is completely over, our Eighth Route Army will have become a behemoth.
By that time, even if the Japanese start to target our Eighth Route Army, our Eighth Route Army will have the ability and strength to compete with the Japanese.
However, the prerequisite for all this is that the Japanese really dare to carry out large-scale troop mobilization and withdraw those garrison troops.
But this old devil, Yoshio Shinozuka, should not be so confused. It is not worth mobilizing so many troops for a safe county.
It would be good if we could send the 11th Brigade from Shuiquan, and then draw several regiments and some puppet troops from Taigu, Jinzhong, Taiyuan and other areas to support Ping'an County.
It is impossible to mobilize so many troops to support Ping'an County.
Although Ping'an County is important, it is not so important that the Japanese would take such a big risk to support them.
What would be the point of saving Ping'an County?"
(End of this chapter)
