Before winter comes, if they don't talk about the capture of Tonghua, let's not talk about the wintering of their large army! The Airborne Forces on the riverside do not have cotton clothes for the winter!

Once frostbitten, causing non-combat attrition is a very unnecessary loss! Moreover, with the country's existing capacity, it is fully capable of guaranteeing cotton clothing for tens of thousands of people.

When winter comes, the little devil is the secondary enemy, and the severe cold of winter is the enemy that the soldiers have to face all the time.

Du Yuming seemed to have expected this, so he asked Huang Changsheng to give them airdrop supplies as much as possible, if the battle to attack Tonghua really took two months, the soldiers would inevitably experience a severe cold. Spend the winter in an icy field.

Similarly, Cun Qi's side also took this issue into account, the severe cold was not only a test for Du Yuming, but also a huge difficulty for the attacking troops.

Once God snows and the road is blocked by snow, logistics will certainly not be as smooth as it is now! And in cold weather, the fighters fight in thick cotton clothes, which affects the reaction speed of the fighters, and it is not a good choice to fight in winter.

Therefore, after realizing this serious problem, Cun Qi immediately organized the officers to discuss the plan of attacking Tonghua.

However, attacking Tonghua is not a simple matter, the Japanese army deployed troops to build the entire Tonghua into an impregnable wall, if Tonghua is not surrounded, the Japanese army will have a steady stream of troops to support Tonghua.

"My suggestion is to storm strongly, now that we have mechanized troops and heavy artillery coverage, even if the Japanese army pours the entire Tonghua with molten iron once, we will be able to destroy them!"

Heavy artillery is the waist pole of the infantry, and with heavy artillery there is no city that they cannot capture.

"Do you have any good advice?"

Storming is certainly an option, but it's definitely not the wisest choice! No matter how powerful their firepower is, the assault is the most casualty of all the options, and if there is a better choice, Cunqi will definitely not choose to assault.

"If we don't eat up the Japanese forces outside the city, the strong attack on Tonghua is likely to fail!"

A military commander analyzed the superiority of both the enemy and us, and then came to a conclusion that the final result of the assault was five or five points, and whether or not he could break into the city was another story.

"Old Song, then do you have any good suggestions?"

As a force that opens up the way behind enemy lines, they are the troops that want to charge against the enemy's artillery! Along the way, they captured the Japanese defense line, and more than ninety percent of them were stormed.

"I don't have any good advice, I just don't think it's a good idea! Tonghua is not as strong as the Japanese defense lines that we attacked before, those defense lines are composed of strongholds that have been abandoned by the Japanese army, and the degree of solidity is just the degree that one * can blow up. ”

Of course, the words are a bit exaggerated, but compared with the defense line of the Japanese army and the defense of Tonghua, it is really a tofu scum project, and it cannot be compared in terms of troops.

The most important thing is that those defensive lines of the Japanese army are arranged in the field, there is no danger to defend, they have armored troops to cover, and the attack will naturally go smoothly!

Tonghua City has strong city walls, and the streets in the city are crisscrossed, especially some small alleys where trucks can't even enter, so the role of armored troops is limited, and relying on soldiers alone to charge, there will inevitably be great casualties.

"Brother Fan, you once told us that street battles and beach landing battles are the biggest casualties on the battlefield, and we can't use artillery to blow up all the houses in Tonghua, right?"

Of course, Lao Song's distress is not those houses, they can't sacrifice their own soldiers and blow up the people in the city because of a battle, what is the difference between this approach and the little devils!

"Lao Song is right, the casualties of the assault are bound to be not small, but if we really have no other way, the assault is also our last choice!"

Cun Qi also knew very well that they had to complete the task, in order to recover more national land, eliminate the little devils, and sacrifice a Tonghua City? Compared with a complete country, the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians seems to be more worthwhile.

But they still have better options until a final decision is made, so today they are all sitting here, and they will definitely be able to find a better solution.

"I have an idea!" Another commander raised his hand.

"Say!"

"Encircle the point and send reinforcements! We first concentrated our forces to pull out all the strongholds and turrets of the Japanese army outside Tonghua City, and then encroached on the Japanese positions outside Tonghua City step by step, striving to wipe out the two Japanese brigades guarding outside the city, and then surround Tonghua City! ”

"Keep talking!" Cun Qi said.

"If the Japanese army knows that Tonghua City is in danger, it will inevitably arrange troops to support Tonghua, at this time we only need to eliminate the reinforcements of the Japanese army, and don't care about the Japanese troops in the city! As long as the Japanese reinforcements are eliminated twice, the Japanese army will definitely not easily send reinforcements to support Tonghua City, and then all our troops can concentrate on attacking the city! ”

Now their troops have armored units, there are heavy artillery units, which is advantageous for field operations! Since this is the case, they will take the initiative in their own hands, lead the little devils to go to the field first, consume the living force of the Japanese army, and finally carry out siege battles, as long as the Japanese army no longer sends reinforcements, they do not have to worry, there will be a steady stream of Japanese troops in Tonghua City.

"It's a good plan, but it's ...... We have two considerations, the first is that with our current capabilities, if we want to fight the Japanese reinforcements, we must have enough troops, at least one army, and second, the time for us to conquer Tonghua City, if the time is delayed for a long time, it is not what we plan to want! "A military commander came up with his own ideas.

"Don't worry about the need for troop support, I'll mention it to Commander-in-Chief Hu! The only thing I'm worried about now is whether it's too late to catch up, if we encircle Tonghua for too long, we can hold it, and the Japanese army can hold it, but I'm worried about whether the airborne troops can hold it out! ”

Winter will soon come, and the airborne troops will have to be supplied without supplies, and there will be no place to protect themselves from the cold, and they will be the most difficult side.

"If we act quickly, with two armies plus armored troops under the cover of artillery fire, we can completely sweep out the Japanese troops outside Tonghua City within three days!"

The Japanese troops outside the city are not afraid, what they are most worried about is the reinforcements of the Japanese army and the strength of a division of the Japanese army in the city!

"When cleaning up the outlying positions of the Japanese army outside Tonghua City, we must arrange two troops to ambush the Japanese reinforcements from Ji and Liao in these two directions.

"There's not much for us to ambush!" Cun Qi looked at the map, they were attacking all the way, and the places for them to clear were long and narrow, so there were not many places to choose to set up ambushes.

"We can set up the ambush place in the Japanese army's defense area, when Brother Fan was in Taihang Mountain, he took us to fight such a battle, at that time I was still a platoon commander, and set up an ambush in the Japanese army's defense area, the little devil would never have imagined!"

The ambush is a surprise, setting up an ambush in the enemy's defense area, the little devils can't even think of it, and the little devils in their defense area are more likely to relax their vigilance, and the success of the ambush is very high.

"Yes, yes, but ...... The ambush must not be too far away, otherwise you will not be able to attack for a long time, and you will be surrounded by the Japanese army! ”

If their troops lose their combat effectiveness, everything they have done before will be wasted, and it is likely that they will have to put the airborne troops in, so that their sins will be great.

"Naturally, the vicinity should also be within the range of our artillery, as long as we find that the ambush mission is impossible, let the artillery cover, and then retreat!"

They have to think of a complete countermeasure, they can take advantage, but they can't let the Japanese take advantage of them! Otherwise, it is better not to take the risk, but also to ensure that the road they open up is absolutely safe.

"Okay, do you have any objections to this approach?"

Although this method is a bit risky, but the operability is more reliable than the method of strong attack, so Cun Qi immediately made a decision, if everyone has no opinion, they will follow this method to formulate a combat plan!

As the battle plan was decided, all the troops began to move! Hu Guoshan promised to send an army and a division to support them.

It can be seen that Hu Guoshan still has a lot of private work hidden around him, otherwise where would he go to squeeze out so many troops to support Cun Qi, it seems that Hu Guoshan's old temper has not changed at all, even if he is the commander-in-chief of a military region, some things still like to hide.

But this time Hu Guoshan was really generous enough, at a critical moment, he dared to take out so many troops to support Cunqi, obviously he was also ready to fight a tough battle in Tonghua, and strive to be able to recover Tonghua and get in touch with the airborne troops at one time.

However, when they had some thoughts about Tonghua, the Japanese commander-in-chief finally began to realize that their situation was getting worse and worse, especially after the failure of the attack on Ma Wanzhong, the Japanese commander-in-chief felt that he was unlucky.

The failure of the two attacks made him gradually understand the intentions of the Chinese army! If they don't hurry up and act, I'm afraid the Chinese army will firmly tighten their pockets, and they may never be able to do without this puppet Manchukuo again!

The commander-in-chief of the Japanese army also urgently convened a military meeting, but this military meeting was an internal military meeting, and only a few people knew the content, and these people were all his cronies, and then he explained the situation on the battlefield to his cronies.

Blocking the frontal attack of the Chinese army is no longer their first priority, but where to go has become their primary concern.