Chapter 1835 Ye Tian's Plan

To be honest, 51 Type 92 heavy machine guns fired at the same time, and continued to fire continuously. The scene was really big.

Moreover, for most of the anti-Japanese armed forces, there was no capital to operate like this.

The reason is very simple. Almost all the anti-Japanese armed forces, in addition to the serious lack of cannons, are also in urgent need of heavy machine guns.

Even if there is not much shortage of heavy machine guns, almost all the anti-Japanese armed forces are reluctant to waste bullets like this.

However, for the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, there is no confusion about the lack of weapons and equipment.

In fact, if it were not for the purpose of creating the illusion that there is indeed an anti-Japanese armed force called the Heroic National Salvation Army, Ye Tian would not mind using the German-made 88mm anti-aircraft gun directly.

In addition, use the MG34 general-purpose machine gun or the MP36 submachine gun.

Ye Tian knows that these weapons are the labels of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army.

Once these weapons and equipment are used, even if they do not admit it, the devils and traitors will know that the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army has moved here.

In this case, the hundreds of thousands of Japanese and puppet troops still wandering around in the unknown mountains and forests will withdraw from there, thus threatening other anti-Japanese armed forces.

In particular, the anti-Japanese armed forces participating in the Battle of Xuzhou will definitely be under great pressure.

Yes, to be honest, the combat effectiveness of one Japanese soldier can completely match that of five Chinese soldiers.

Once these hundreds of thousands of Japanese and puppet troops are free, they can definitely confront the millions of Chinese troops head-on.

In fact, according to Ye Tian’s understanding, the Chinese troops participating in the Battle of Xuzhou are less than 600,000.

On the other hand, the Japanese soldiers are only about 240,000.

In this large-scale battle that lasted for five months, under the strategic deployment of the Chinese Supreme Command and the god-like use of General Li Zongren, nearly one million Chinese soldiers worked together to win the hearts of the Chinese army.

In the battle on the southern front of the Huaihe River, in order to prevent the devils coming from the south from joining the devils in the north, the soldiers fully demonstrated their fearless spirit of not fearing sacrifice and firmly defended the northern bank of the Huaihe River from beginning to end.

In the battle on the eastern front, the Chinese soldiers defeated the Japanese-puppet coalition forces in Linyi area.

On the western route, through the heroic fighting of the soldiers, a group of devils were successfully stopped in Jiaxiang area.

In this way, the plan of the devils from all directions to meet in Taierzhuang was completely shattered.

Most importantly, in the battle of Taierzhuang, the Chinese soldiers of the Fifth War Zone worked together and fought an extremely beautiful battle.

In the end, the isolated Seya Detachment was severely damaged.

There was no way. In order to prevent the annihilation of the entire army, the remnants of the Seya Detachment had to flee for their lives.

Upon learning the news of the victory in Taierzhuang, China was shocked for a while.

In fact, even the international community looked up to China.

It is regrettable that the victory of the Taierzhuang Victory made the Chinese Supreme Command misjudge the situation.

In addition to being carried away by their own success, the Chinese Supreme Command ignored the fact that the Japanese had too many heavy weapons and planned to have a final battle with the Japanese.

Soon, the battlefield situation made the Chinese Supreme Command cool down immediately.

To be precise, in fact, when the Battle of Xuzhou was in the late stage, China was very passive.

Seeing that it was becoming more and more passive, there was no way, and the Chinese Supreme Command had to issue a retreat order.

On the other hand, the Japanese were unhappy when they found that the Chinese troops began to retreat.

Without any hesitation, all the Japanese troops began to chase and kill.

According to the Japanese's idea, this chase should follow the late stage of the Battle of Shanghai.

In the late stage of the Battle of Shanghai, to be precise, when the Chinese troops evacuated to Nanjing, the loss of troops far exceeded that in the Battle of Shanghai.

On the Chinese side, in order to prevent similar tragedies from happening again, China naturally had to make careful preparations.

After careful consideration, in May 1938, in the Lanfeng area, China's 12 divisions turned around and took the initiative to launch an offensive war.

At that time, the target of the Chinese troops' siege was Kenji Doihara's 14th Division.

It must be said that the 14th Division is a Class A division.

The most important thing is that the 14th Division is equipped with artillery that far exceeds the standard.

Naturally, before the Battle of Lanfeng began, China was actively going to fail.

An ordinary Japanese Class A division has a strength of 20,000 to 30,000.

If China wants to confront a Class A division head-on, it must dispatch at least 200,000 troops.

In a word, in the era of hot weapons, facing the enemy's powerful artillery advantage, the advantage of human waves has no practical significance.

After the tragic defeat in the Battle of Lanfeng, in order to avoid the tragedy of annihilation of the entire army and to delay the pursuit of the 14th Division, China had to dig up the Huayuankou dike of the Yellow River.

Although many Chinese people were drowned, the main force successfully escaped the pursuit of the 14th Division.

After a long trek in the muddy area, the 14th Division finally left the Yellow River flood area.

Then, together with other Japanese troops, the 14th Division joined the Battle of Wuhan.

In other words, the Battle of Lanfeng kicked off the prelude to the Battle of Wuhan.

In fact, many scholars believe that the Battle of Lanfeng was a branch battle of the Battle of Xuzhou.

In the Battle of Xuzhou, although China failed at the tactical level, it achieved great success strategically.

In this large-scale battle, to be precise, in the early stage of the Battle of Xuzhou, China killed and wounded nearly 30,000 Japanese soldiers at the cost of more than 60,000 casualties.

In addition to killing and wounding so many Japanese soldiers, China also delayed the pace of the Japanese attack, winning time and space for the deployment of the Wuhan Battle.

Most importantly, the morale of the Chinese army and the people was greatly encouraged.

In fact, even the international community has become more sympathetic and appreciative of China.

In particular, Russia and Germany have repeatedly increased their support for China.

In fact, these are not the main points.

The main point is that after the Battle of Xuzhou, the Chinese Supreme Command finally calmed down and planned to scientifically implement the theory of protracted war by General Jiang Baili, the first military god of China.

Before the Battle of Xuzhou, although the Chinese army participated in countless large and small battles, most of them were simple positional defense battles.

Although defensive battles can have geographical advantages, the Japanese troops have too many heavy weapons, such as artillery, tanks, and aircraft, so most of the Chinese troops are very passive.

Moreover, every time they fought, many soldiers were killed or wounded.

In a word, it can be described as repeated defeats.

What is admirable is that although they always failed, the Chinese Supreme Command was not discouraged and played the game of repeated defeats!

Combining the lessons of the final failure of the Battle of Xuzhou and absorbing the successful experience of the early stage of the Battle of Xuzhou, the Chinese Supreme Command issued an order to all levels of troops.

Change the passive defense strategy to an active defense strategy.

Specifically, it is to organically combine the defensive position of positional warfare, the offensive of mobile warfare, and especially the flexible tactics of guerrilla warfare.

Part of the troops held their positions to attract and consume the Japanese and puppet coalition forces.

Another part of the troops carried out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, destroyed railway lines, attacked various small and medium-sized strongholds, etc., so as to force the devils and prevent them from freeing their hands and feet, so as to fully attack various national-controlled areas.

The third part of the troops cruised on the flanks of various devil troops and took the opportunity to launch an active attack!