Chapter 301 I Will Micromanage Xue Boling

September 17, 1941, Dayunshan area of ​​the Boling Line.

"Shoot!"

Accompanied by a roar, the sound of Hanyang and Czech guns resounded through the mountains and forests, and the Japanese infantrymen at the front of the team were shot and fell to the ground without even a chance to react.

Grenades and mortars followed closely behind, the former flew from all directions, striving to maximize the casualties. The latter specifically hit the counterattack troops just organized by the grassroots officers, making the Japanese army completely a lamb to be slaughtered.

This was a perfect ambush. The preserved soldiers from the Ninth War Zone once again took advantage of the terrain to kill more than 20 Japanese.

Looking at the dusty warriors of the country around him, the commander of the Sixth Division, Kanda Masatane, took a deep breath. He only felt a burning anger in his heart.

"Baga! What are you chasing for? Are you all pigs without memory?"

"Everyone stop advancing! All levels of troops immediately count the losses! Damn Republic of China rats, if you have the guts, get out of the mountains. You are a group of preserved fruits, why are you pretending to be the Eighth Route Army!"

"As a man, you actually attacked us from behind. Why don't you fight us head-on with real swords and guns! Are all the soldiers under Xue Boling like insects like you?"

It is obvious that this is not the first time that the Sixth Division has been ambushed.

After several setbacks, the Japanese lieutenant general has lost some of his rationality and even said crazy words to let the other side give up the advantageous terrain.

The fury of their own division commander made all the staff tremble. No one dared to report the casualties, for fear that they would be forced to fight because of something inappropriate.

Considering the safety of the troops, the chief of staff of the Sixth Division, Ishimaru Jinpachi, stepped forward alone helplessly.

"Kanda-kun, you don't have to blame yourself for the defeat. We are in this situation now, all because of those damn secret agencies!"

"The intelligence we have is wrong. There are more than two enemy regiments in this mountain area. From my experience, at least tens of thousands of people have exchanged fire with us recently."

"Let's go quickly, the warriors can't stay here for too long. This is the enemy's guerrilla zone, and no one knows when those damn guerrillas will launch a new round of attacks."

"The war is imminent, and we must preserve our strength."

It seems that the advice of the Japanese major general has worked. Kanda Masatane rubbed his old face hard, and then he drew his general's sword and ordered to continue moving forward.

The Dayun Mountain area north of the Xinqiang River is a high-quality guerrilla battlefield behind enemy lines that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Although the altitude here is not very high, it is steep and densely forested. People who don't understand the terrain can easily get lost.

In addition, there are secret passages in the mountains leading to the front-line positions of the Ninth War Zone, and even crossing the mountains can directly reach the occupied area controlled by the 11th Army of the Japanese Army.

If the devils want to attack Tanzhou in a large-scale, they must clear out the guerrillas deployed by Xue Boling in the mountains before the battle officially begins.

Otherwise, the preserved fruit troops will have the opportunity to take advantage of the chaos to break into the empty rear of the Japanese army and directly ambush, destroy roads and bridges, and cut off the food supply.

As the commander of the battle, Anami Korechika will naturally not leave such an important strategic area alone.

Only by eliminating the hidden dangers on the flank can the plan to attack Tanzhou continue. After all, he doesn't want to experience the feeling of a fire in the backyard.

After repeated consideration, the old devil chose the Sixth Division with the strongest combat effectiveness and fighting will from the three Type A divisions.

In everyone's expectation, Kanda Masatane only needs three days to end the battle. After all, there are no troops in Central China that are opponents of the Type A divisions.

Guerrillas? That's not a trivial matter.

Who would have thought that on the first day of entering the mountain, the soldiers of the Ninth War Zone gave the devils a vivid teaching lesson. They seemed to have transformed into the Eighth Route Army, leading the enemy by the nose from beginning to end.

The terrain of Dayun Mountain is complex and the roads are rugged, and the width of the battlefield is very limited. When attacking, the Sixth Division can only advance slowly in squadrons.

Considering that the Japanese army has an overall advantage in firepower, Guosu's guerrilla team, with the regular army coming to support, constantly raids and flanks at the battalion and company level, specifically attacking infantry that is out of touch with the artillery.

Moreover, the small forces of the Ninth War Zone neither love to fight nor covet merit, and fully implement the twelve-character guerrilla policy learned from the master: when the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy stays, we harass; when the enemy is tired, we attack.

Every time we kill a wave of enemies, we run away immediately, giving the devils no chance to fight back.

If the enemy is determined to pursue deeply, then lead them to the vicinity of their own firepower points and fortifications.

As the second phase of the Boling Line, the entire Dayun Mountain is full of various defensive fortifications. If it weren't for the Sixth Division's strong offensive capabilities, the Ninth Theater would even have the confidence to fight positional warfare.

After nearly ten days of tug-of-war, the entire Sixth Division was exhausted physically and mentally. Even though a regiment of soldiers had been lost, the devils didn't even touch the guerrillas.

Just as Kanda Masatane and Ishimaru Jinpachi were preparing to set off, footsteps suddenly came from behind them.

"Lieutenant General Kanda! Major General Ishimaru! New orders from the headquarters!"

"Commander Anami Korechika asked our Sixth Division to return immediately, and after a short rest, they would immediately participate in the next river crossing operation."

"In the telegram, the commander also specifically reminded us of one thing! He asked us to retreat alternately with the 40th Division to prevent Xue Boling from sending reinforcements to Dayun Mountain to block it."

"Well, okay!"

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September 17, Japanese Eleventh Army Headquarters.

Although the internal troubles in Dayun Mountain have not been dealt with yet, their supply lines can still be cut off at any time. However, the fighting in the mountainous area has postponed the original battle time by a week, and the troops will completely lose the opportunity if they wait any longer.

The difficult mountain battle made Anan Weiji more determined in his strategy.

The terrain in Tanzhou is very complex, and it is definitely a typical case of being easy to defend but difficult to attack.

It relies on the Xiangjiang River and Dongting Lake on the left, Mufu Mountain and Lianyun Mountain on the right, and has four rivers, Xinqiang River, Miluo River, Laodao River and Liuyang River, as natural defense lines.

Previously, Okamura Neiji insisted on having several divisions fight together in Mufu Mountain and Lianyun Mountain, which ultimately led to the entire battle ending in failure.

The best way is to abandon the complex mountainous areas and head towards Tanzhou from the flatter hilly areas.

"Give me the order!"

As soon as these words came out, the Japs in the war conference room immediately put down what they were doing, and everyone focused their attention on their commander.

"Call to the 4th Division and the 26th Brigade to attack southward from Xinkaitang! The 3rd Division is ordered to attack southward from the Wujiang Bridge area!"

"The Sixth Division, the 14th Independent Mixed Brigade, and the 62nd Independent Infantry Brigade attack southward from Xitang! The 40th Division and the 35th Division attack southward from Baiyangtian!"

"The 63rd Independent Infantry Brigade, together with a mountain artillery squadron and a Marine Corps, will take a boat from Yueyang tonight to land in the Qingshan area on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, outflanking the retreat route of the Ninth Theater!"

The above-mentioned combat instructions may seem complicated, but to put it bluntly, they can be summed up in one sentence, that is, the five divisions will attack south with all their strength and rush directly to Tanzhou.

Judging from the map, Anan Weiji actually deployed nearly 150,000 troops in an area of ​​just 20 kilometers.

Leaving aside the artillery, just three A-type divisions plus one B-type and C-type divisions are not a powerful enemy that can be resisted in a single battle zone.

After all the staff members left, Chief of Staff Isamu Kinoshita and Deputy Chief of Staff Futami Akizaburo both looked solemn.

"Your Excellency, Commander, the spy network we arranged in the 9th Theater of the Republic of China has been destroyed. It is very likely that Xue Boling has seen through our intentions."

"Look at this battle, is it better to take a long-term view?"

After hearing what his subordinates said, Anan Weiji showed a puzzled expression.

One day ago, he had received intelligence intercepted from the 74th Preserved Fruit Army. Why was the spy suddenly caught?

Now that five divisions are in place, if the Eleventh Army retreats, it will definitely become the laughing stock of the entire dispatched army. After thinking for a moment, he gritted his teeth and made the final decision:

"The plan remains unchanged. The entire army will launch an attack at four o'clock tomorrow morning!"

"The battle strength is 150,000 vs. 120,000! The advantage is mine!"

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September 17, 1941, Ninth Theater Command.

"Brother Boling, this Anan Weiji really did something behind the scenes."

"If you hadn't asked the Chairman to ask Boss Dai to personally verify the intelligence, we might have been blinded by the false information released by the enemy."

"The two divisions of the Eleventh Army in Dayun Mountain were turned around by our guerrillas and the Fourth Army!"

Hearing the words of his chief of staff, Xue Boling nodded slightly with a smile on his face, but the pride he had in the past was long gone.

Among Guo Preserved's theater commanders, his record and strength are definitely among the best.

Before this battle, he had already won the Wanjialing victory and the first Tanzhou battle. Both his personal reputation and regional prestige were about to reach their peak.

But the successive victories of the North China Eighth Route Army sounded the alarm to the top management of Preserved Fruit. If we don't show some results, I'm afraid people's hearts will completely shift towards the "friendly forces".

What's more, compared with a certain commander named Peng, his achievements seem to be somewhat inadequate.

The serious Xue Boling should not be underestimated. He first asked his chairman to dispatch military commanders to collect intelligence on the Japanese army, and then he saw through the enemy's conspiracy like a cocoon.

Before attacking Dayun Mountain, Anan Weiji specially sent spies to release a large amount of false information, trying to convince the senior officials of the Ninth War Zone that they had separated three divisions to participate in the southward advance plan.

If it was Xue Boling who underestimated the enemy, it is very likely that he would send the defenders in the Xinqiang River area to strengthen the defense of Dayun Mountain, causing the first line of defense to quickly collapse.

But now he not only won the first game, but also made full use of the tactics he learned along the way.

"Send me an order to have the guerrillas withdraw into the mountains and continue to deal with the enemy. Once the battle begins, immediately cut into the hinterland of the Japanese!"

"Inform the Fourth Army and ask them to withdraw from Dayun Mountain as soon as possible and return to the south of Xinqiang River to rest as soon as possible. The enemy may launch a general attack at any time, so let them be ready for battle."

"Secretly notify the commanders of the 10th Army and the 74th Army to come see me. I have important matters to explain to them. This matter must not be spread to the ears of the fifth person. I am not sure whether there are still people in the war zone. There are spies."

After issuing orders one by one, Xue Boling walked into the military map beside the wall.

Anami Weiji's tactics seem to be very fierce. Gathering the troops together is likely to defeat his own arrangement head-on. However, this kind of combat has obvious loopholes.

If you want to systematically annihilate the enemy's main force, you should coordinate multiple forces in a large area to encircle them.

According to military common sense, the diameter of the encirclement of the first level of the annihilation army cannot be less than 70 kilometers, and multiple encirclements must be implemented.

For example, in Operation Barbarossa, the German three armored forces and motorized forces used the pincer attack most often. They would advance at least 150 kilometers on the flank each time before they began to make dumplings.

Only with such an exaggerated move can tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of bear troops be annihilated in one battle.

On the other hand, the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, with five divisions squeezed in an area of ​​20 kilometers, had no possibility of any roundabout encirclement.

Hunan is not France, and the Xiangjiang River is not the Ardennes Forest. The sickle plan has no possibility of being reproduced on the battlefield of the Republic of China.

The opponent's troops have tanks and a large number of artillery, and the breakthrough and soft attack values ​​must be very strong, which can definitely cause heavy casualties in a short period of time, and even break through one or two river bank defense lines in one go.

But it is also easy for the party to retreat, and it is impossible to annihilate all the living forces.

In a sense, Anami Korechika's tactics were completely restrained by Xue Boling's eight-character pocket formation and Tianlu formation.

The principle of the former is very simple. When the Japanese army concentrates its superior forces to attack, the troops at all levels of the Ninth War Zone will avoid the sharp edge and deploy at most a part of the troops on the front to delay the Japanese army's advance.

At the same time, the main forces of the war zone are divided into two wings and spread out like an eight-character formation, like an open big pocket.

Waiting for the Japanese army to fully enter the huge pocket formation, the troops on the two wings will shrink quickly, maneuver and divide to eat the enemy.

The latter is an upgraded version of the former, that is, a circular formation like a sky furnace is formed at the end of the eight-character pocket.

If the enemy goes deep into the battle formation, we will encircle and cover the furnace cover from the outside, and divide the inside of the sky furnace in a mesh. No matter how hard the enemy's bones are, we have to cremate him forcibly!

When the enemy's attack depth is shallow and the encirclement situation is not sufficient, use the eight-character pocket formation.

Once the enemy can cross the Liuyang River to invade Tanzhou, street fighting can be carried out to use the sky furnace tactics.

After making sure that there was no problem with his deployment, Xue Boling said to the chief of staff beside him:

"The core of our tactics this time is very simple, that is, retreat to the decisive battle and take the outer wing. Except for the troops I arranged on the front battlefield, no one is allowed to hold the line without reason!"

"If you save the land and lose the people, both the land and the people will be lost! If you save the people and lose the land, both the land and the people will be saved! The people of Hunan are still waiting for the news of our triumph! Let them see the backbone of us Chinese!"

As the title says, there is only this chapter in the second battle of Tanzhou, which is equivalent to me playing it from a God's perspective.

Mainly considering that the pressure from the devils is too great, if I don't go on the field myself, I may not be able to defend it.

In the outline, three major battles will be carried out at the same time.

Each battle affects each other more or less, after all, the battlefields are not too far away, and the enemy is the same force.

There will be another chapter in the evening, which may be 3,000 words. But it may be very late, so it is recommended to read it after waking up.