Chapter 191: Decision
9.191 Determination
"Running long distances at night, drilling ravines and walking hundreds of miles of mountain roads, and rushing to the lake before the devil who had already left a few hours ago, this hammer business is not easy to do......"
Hearing Huang Haoran say these words with his back to him, Fan Jie realized that his commander had already made up his mind to fight with Honma Masaharu in the mountains near Dushan Town. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"If the general seat really wants to fight, then we must use the basic forces of our 25th Army! This interspersed operation is equivalent to a knife in the throat of the 27th Division, and Honma Masaharu will definitely play with us by the lake! Such a vicious battle cannot be withstood by ordinary troops! ”
As Huang Haoran's chief of staff, although Fan Jie still couldn't understand the reason for Huang Haoran's decision, he immediately adjusted his mentality, put his perspective in the same position as Huang Haoran, and began to plan for Huang Haoran how to win this battle.
This is exactly what Huang Haoran admires most about Fan Jie! There has never been a shortage of smart people with "ideas" in the command level of the Chinese military, but there is an extreme lack of down-to-earth doers like Fan Jie.
Since the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which meeting of the Military Commission to formulate operational plans has not been noisy? Those generals with gold stars on their collars thought that they were the reincarnation of Zhuge and that no one was convinced, and they always fought with their own people before they thought about how to deal with the Japanese on the battlefield!
In this way, in the mutual abuse and accusations of these officials, all the precious time that the Chinese army could have used to deal with the situation was wasted!
In fact, the position of the Military Commission in the Wuhan government is similar to that of Fan Jie's position in the 25th Group Army, but it is just a body that makes suggestions, and it should not compete with the highest authorities and the commanders of various theaters for the power to make decisions!
Especially in the midst of a scorching war, this restlessness of the Military Commission is particularly deadly! Not to mention far away, let's take the two battles in which Huang Haoran encircled and annihilated the 6th Division and Xue Yue encircled and annihilated the 106th Division, the Wuhan Military Commission never gave up wanting to intervene in the middle from beginning to end, if it were not for the encounter with Huang Haoran, who has always been tough and assertive, and Xue Yue, a Guangdong "tiger boy" who has never had a good impression of the Military Commission, just those various orders of the Military Commission that change day by day, will divide at least half of the energy of the front-line commanders! That would be tantamount to indirectly helping the Japanese!
Compared with the chaotic Military Commission, within Huang Haoran's small group, this division of labor is very clear. Huang Haoran, as commander, was only responsible for putting forward ideas and making decisions, and the specific operational arrangements and implementation were handed over to Fan Jie, who was chief of staff, to arrange, and then issued to all units for implementation. This hierarchical structure not only ensures that Huang's command system does not fall into the quagmire of ideological disunity, which is why Huang's troops always make the right moves before the orders of the Military Commission arrive.
Huang Haoran felt that in some things, those officials and men in Wuhan should really learn from below! Although he knew that it was impossible for those people to do so......
"How is Qian Guoliang's 99th Division and Li Yuhe's 139th Division resting and recuperating? Come to think of it, I have to pick one of these two troops......"
Huang Haoran's answer shows that he fully agrees with Fan Jie's judgment, and walking through the mountains without alarming the 27th Division, which means that the troops undertaking interspersed combat missions cannot take the avenue. Because those places were now occupied by the 27th Division, Huang Haoran's troops were bound to engage in an exchange of fire with the Japanese army as soon as they appeared. This is very likely to expose Huang Haoran's combat intentions.
Although Masaharu Honma has not yet become a frightened bird, it is not much worse. At present, the retreat in the direction of Susong has been broken, and Li Pinxian's army in the north is approaching the south step by step, and the establishment of a water supply line on Longgan Lake has become the last straw for the 27th Division! Masaharu Honma will never let the "lifeline" of the 27th Division be threatened! As long as this large-scale interspersed operation carried out by Huang Haoran is exposed, Masaharu Honma will definitely immediately deduce that Huang Haoran's troops are heading for Longgan Lake behind him, and may be desperate to shrink all the forces of the 27th Division to the mountainous area by the lake, tightly connected with the lakeshore! In that case, there would be no room for interspersed operations at all, and Huang Haoran's troops could only return to the old road of frontal assault.
Since the troops could not take the main road, they had to take the mountain path, which meant that they had to abandon heavy artillery and trucks in favor of mules, horses and manpower to transport weapons and equipment. In this way, the firepower of the troops will inevitably be greatly affected, and it will be very difficult to encounter a tough attack in the early stage of interspersed operations.
And after occupying the shore of the lake, the troops interspersed in place still have to meet the crazy counterattack of the 27th Division, and there is no heavy weapons in a defensive battle, which will also suffer a lot!
With so many restrictions and so many objective factors, this battle is destined to be difficult to fight! If Huang Haoran wants to have more chances of winning, he can only make a fuss about the troops that are responsible for interspersed tasks.
It seems that apart from the two ace divisions he started, there is really no other choice!
"The 99th Division is good at attacking, and the 139th Division is good at defending, this battle is to attack first and then defend, but the most critical thing is to intersperse the offensive stage at the beginning, or let Commander Shen's troops go, right?"
Fan Jie knew that these two divisions were Huang Haoran's heart, and Huang Haoran would not be happy if the loss of any one was great, so he was strong enough to weigh a bowl of water, and what he said was also very objective.
However, after all, the 99th Division was Huang Haoran's starting capital, and the army commander Shen Yuanlong was Huang Haoran's brother, so Fan Jie still did not speak full, but left Huang Haoran room to decide.
How could Huang Haoran not know Fan Jie's thoughts, the corner of his mouth moved, as if he wanted to laugh, but in the end he didn't laugh, just said in a deep voice: "Just let the 99th Division go, although these two divisions have casualties in the battle with the 6th Division, the 99th Division is a large unit with 6 regiments after all, with a thick foundation and a fast recovery!" Tell Shen Lao Er to let Qian Guoliang take 4 regiments to attack, and the troops directly under him will stay and move forward lightly! ”
Fan Jie nodded, and then added a few words: "Wang Shankui, do you want to say it in advance?" His troops are holding their back, and if the task falls on the 99th Division, I am afraid that it will hurt the morale of the 100th Army......"
"It's good! The attacking troops must also be equipped with a group of good guides who are familiar with the situation around Dushan Town, which is also a necessary element for the success of this interspersed operation! Let Shen Yuanlong and Wang Shankui both think of a way, without a guide, we can't win this battle! I'll give them half an hour, and whoever finds the guide first will be on the job! (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )