Yang Zhen did not put the tactical coordination drill and the infantry artillery coordination training together, but carried them out separately. In the first two days, the infantry conducted battalion and regimental tactical drills, while the artillery conducted live-fire training. On the third day, it was the real infantry artillery cooperative training.

It is said that recruits are afraid of artillery, and veterans are afraid of machine guns. In order to train the troops, on the first day of the artillery firing with live ammunition, Yang Zhen specially built a trench under the hill that was used as the artillery range, and there were anti-artillery holes in it. All the participants, including themselves, were hidden in the trenches. When the live firing began, all the cadres and soldiers experienced the feeling of all kinds of different shells, and even a few shells that ran into a group smashed on their heads.

37 rapid-fire guns, 70 mm mortars, 90 mm mortars, 70 mm infantry guns, 75 mm mountain artillery. When all kinds of shells landed on their heads, they were shocked, except for those who had been treated as prisoners of war by the Japanese army on the battlefield, the rest of the soldiers, both new and old, were severely shocked. After the sound of artillery fell, many people relied on the support of others to get out of the anti-artillery hole.

Yang Zhen shocked them not only with these cannonballs that fell on their heads, but also with more shocking things to come. In order to avoid the fear of machine guns, he led his troops to experience the fear of a shell exploding in their heads. During the night training of the artillery, a creeping training ground was set up on the ground with barbed wire brought from the Japanese warehouse.

All people, both new and veterans, had to crawl under this barbed wire fence, which was 30 meters long and 20 meters wide, and was no more than half a meter high above the ground. And on their heads, there were several heavy machine guns that breathed tongues of fire. All of these heavy machine guns were live ammunition. In this training project, Yang Zhen personally copied the knife and served as a machine gunner.

In fact, for those recruits who have only been in the army for a month and have been in the army for even a shorter period of time, they can be described as cruel. But Guo Bingxun knew that Yang Zhen was forced to do this. The time was too short, and these recruits were simply not adequately trained.

The situation on the battlefield can change rapidly, even if it is a little small. Once these recruits arrived on the battlefield, they were frightened by the dense rain of bullets and bullets of the Japanese army. Being cruel to them now means that they are more likely to survive on the battlefield. At the very least, these recruits don't think their legs are forever faster than bullets and cannonballs, and they scurry around like a headless fly.

When the training plan was first developed, almost everyone objected, believing that it was a joke on the lives of the soldiers. The commander-in-chief, in particular, was even more resolute in his opposition. In the first subject, the artillery used was all brand new, and even if a shell was crooked and landed in the trench, I am afraid that there would be a lot of casualties.

In the second subject, as long as one fighter could not stand the fright and stood up, he would be beaten into honeycomb coal by a dense rain of bullets. In the eyes of the commander-in-chief, this training was purely a joke on the lives of the fighters. Even if you have to use this method, you can use empty shells. Without empty ammunition, this kind of training can be completely stopped and replaced by other means.

But with Guo Bingxun's support, Yang Zhen still insisted on his opinion. In his words, I would rather the soldiers die on the training ground than on the battlefield and bring more casualties because of their situation.

If there is an accident on the training ground, it can be remedied, and it may be one person or several people who die. But when it really comes to the battlefield, one person's negligence will endanger dozens, or even hundreds, and even lead to the defeat of the entire battle. None of the remedies can be remedied.

And Guo Bingxun supported Yang Zhen's idea because he had participated in the Battle of Niangziguan and the Battle of Xuzhou, and he had a deep understanding of the integration of air and ground in the Japanese army, with planes on top and heavy artillery on the firepower. I also know the power and lethality of Japanese artillery fire.

I have even seen with my own eyes that some units were not defeated, but were brutally blown up by the Japanese army's ground-to-air firepower. In particular, some miscellaneous armies with inferior equipment and insufficient training suffered the greatest casualties under the attack of ground-air firepower.

Most of the battle-hardened veterans survived. And most of the real losses are those who are new to the battlefield. Only after passing the necessary tests will they be able to survive on the battlefield. At Guo Bingxun's insistence, Yang Zhen's training plan was still implemented.

In fact, for tactical training, Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun are extremely dissatisfied. Not to mention the battalion and regiment operations, it is the most basic squad and platoon tactical coordination, which makes the two feel very angry. All the battalion cadres, including the three regiment commanders, were criticized almost once.

When attacking, the skirmish line is always too dense, especially when recruits tend to pile up. And when defending, the firepower is not well configured. When ambush tactics were employed, discipline was extremely lax. The veterans are okay, the recruits always make noises, and some even get up at will without asking for instructions.

In order to grasp the training time in the last few days, Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun aimed at the problems that arose in the tactical coordination training, and the training volume was huge. During these few days in Liangzihe, almost all people can only rest for three to four hours a day. The rest of the time is all training, training, and training. Even if you have little free time, you have to learn all kinds of disciplines and rules. Because Yang Zhen knew that there was not much time left for him.

The efficiency of the little devil is still extremely high. On the fourth day when Yang Zhen led his troops to Liangzihe to carry out various tactical training, the Japanese army, which had already arrived in the Jiamusi area to prepare for the liquidation of Tangyuan and Luobei, had already begun to move.

In fact, on the second day after Yang Zhen arrived at the Liangzi River, with the sound of guns and cannons here, some unidentified people appeared around the troops, dressed as mountain goods, hunters, and even land clearers.

For these strangers who appeared around him, Yang Zhen strictly ordered the reconnaissance battalion to serve as a guard, and arrested them all without the slightest politeness. After interrogation, except for two of these people, who were local hunters and wanted to take advantage of the spring to go into the mountains to get some furs for money to survive the spring famine, the rest were all disguised Japanese puppet spies.

For these Japanese puppet spies, especially the puppet Manchurian spy Yang Zhen, there is no softness. Once verified, they were shot on the spot. The entire Liangzihe area was impenetrable by Yang Zhen, and of the dozens of spies sent by the Japanese puppet army in this direction, almost none of them ran back to report the news.

Yang Zhen didn't care about whether the Liangzihe training ground would be exposed. What he cares about is that the internal intelligence of the troops must not be exposed. In particular, weapons and equipment, the number of people, etc., must not be leaked for the time being. Once these things are leaked, it is easy to turn the eyes of the Japanese army to the secret warehouses on the front line of Qunce Mountain.

Sure enough, after receiving the news that the Japanese puppet spies sent to the Ryoko River area were missing, Sasaki had a premonition that this opponent might be hiding in the Yubara Ryoko River area, one of the old bases of the former Anti-Japanese Alliance Third Route Army. When the news came that one of the agents sent there had not returned, Sasaki was certain that his opponent must be hiding in the Ryoko River area.

The reason why Sasaki Toichi dared to be so sure was not only that a large number of spies disappeared there, but also because it was the base of the former Anti-Japanese Federation. For these anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements, it can be regarded as a stable area. After confirming this news, Sasaki did not hesitate to mobilize all the troops that Kenkichi Ueda had mobilized for him, and the troops rushed towards the Ryoko River area in three directions.

All the way, the 24th Infantry Wing of the 12th Division is the backbone, with a squadron of mountain artillery and a mortar squadron, as well as a forest police brigade of Tangyuan County of the puppet Manchurians, and an infantry regiment of the puppet Manchurian army. Under the unified command of the 24th Wing Commander Takeda Shou Dasa, they went straight to the Liangzi River area along the Taiping River.

All the way, the two brigades of the 43rd Wing of the 11th Division, which had just completed the clearance of Yilan, were the backbone, and they were accompanied by a mortar squadron, a Yilan Forest Police Brigade, and an infantry regiment of the puppet Manchurian Army, under the unified command of the 43rd Wing Commander Takao Murata Osa. Starting from the current station of Yilan, along the line of Tangwang, Xianglan and Haoliang River, it will make a roundabout way to the Liangzi River area.

At the same time, the two brigades of the 8th Division were used as the backbone, and the two battalions of the Luobei County Forest Police Brigade and the puppet Manchurian Army were attached to the command of the 17th Wing Commander Kawada Takeshisa. The border area between Tangyuan and Luobei was strictly sealed off to prevent this anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements from flowing into Luobei. At the same time, the division attacked and advanced from Heli to the southwest with the strength of a brigade. And he himself personally sat on the front line of Taipingchuan to command the overall situation.

Although the Japanese army was divided into three routes, under the monitoring of the monitoring network mainly composed of special service battalions deployed by Yang Zhen, one of its actions had already been discovered by Yang Zhen. Although he still couldn't figure out the specific action route of the Japanese army for a while, Yang Zhen knew that the ultimate goal of these Japanese puppet troops would be the Liangzihe area.

Although the three Japanese troops were all equipped with puppet Manchu military police, judging from the reports sent back by the reconnaissance battalion, these puppet Manchu military police were more likely to be responsible for logistics supply and blockade tasks, rather than directly participating in the clearance. For the first hit, it made Yang Zhen hesitate.

Among the three Japanese armies, the middle route Japanese army was the most powerful, even if it did not count the puppet Manchu army that was attached to the battle, the Japanese army alone had enough infantry wing. The relatively weak strength was the Japanese army on the northern route, although there were two infantry brigades, but only one was dispatched. However, it could be supported by another infantry brigade of the Japanese army stationed in Heli at any time.

Although the strength of the troops at hand at hand alone has an absolute advantage in dealing with the Japanese army along the way, this advantage in strength is offset by the difference in combat effectiveness. Yang Zhen is very clear about this.

Yang Zhen knew in his heart that after suffering a big loss from the Fourth Division, Sasaki Toiichi would not mobilize the troops of the Fourth Division to participate in the liquidation anyway. Don't look at the fact that the Fourth Division is stationed in the Jiamusi area, but in order to succeed in clearing and suppressing, it will no longer be like the last time when it lost troops and lost generals, but it returned in vain, and the elite troops of the Japanese army will definitely be mobilized.

At this time, his own troops had not even completed the most basic training, and their combat effectiveness was at an absolute disadvantage compared with these field divisions and regiments of the Japanese army. If it is said that when attacking from the secret camp of Lao Heidingzi, the combat effectiveness of his own troops can be 1:3 with the Japanese army, then now it cannot be stopped by sliding to 1:10.

Yang Zhen knew that if he wanted to reopen the situation in the Xiajiang area, this battle must be fought. But how to fight made Yang Zhen a little headache. You know, this is not a brigade of Japanese troops, the three Japanese troops together, there is more than one brigade.

Looking at Yang Zhen, who was contemplating the map, Guo Bingxun also frowned. Not counting the puppet Manchurian army, what does it mean to have nearly 10,000 Japanese troops with only seven infantry brigades? Even if an army faces the most elite Central Army of the National Army on the main battlefield in Guannai, it will not necessarily fall behind. In the face of the poorly equipped Sichuan army from which he was born, if the tactics are used properly, it is even possible to defeat an army.

And Guo Bingxun can be sure that when the Japanese army goes to war, it will definitely send planes to support. Not far away, the Japanese army has an airfield in Jiamusi. And it is also very easy to transfer planes from Mudanjiang.

Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun were silent for a long time before Guo Bingxun proposed: "Commander, I think we should fight the enemy on the north road first." The enemy on the northern route had only one Japanese brigade, and its strength was relatively thin. If we concentrate our superior forces and firepower and defeat the Japanese army on this road first, the whole battle situation will suddenly become clear. At least we can avoid the dilemma of being attacked on three fronts. ”

Regarding Guo Bingxun's construction, Yang Zhen shook his head and said: "We will fight the enemy on the north road first, then the Japanese army on the middle road will definitely go all out to rescue." The Japanese army in the middle is full of a wing of troops, how many troops do we send to block it? The strength of a regiment? How many troops do we have to deal with the enemy on the northern route? And the enemy on the southern road, do you send a blocking force? ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen took the red and blue pencils, and after roughly marking the marching routes of the two Japanese troops on the map, he pointed to the map and said: "Lao Guo, the enemy on the north road is a real Japanese army integrated brigade, according to our current combat effectiveness, even if we concentrate a regiment, we can't clean and completely solve a Japanese army brigade in a short period of time." ”

And the reason why Sasaki Toichi dared to put only one infantry brigade on the north road was probably because he saw that the Japanese army on the north route and the Japanese army on the middle route, no matter how the marching route was formulated, the distance would not be too far. Once the Japanese army on the north route is ambushed, as long as they resist for more than three hours, the Japanese army in the center can quickly outflank them to the north. Coupled with a Japanese brigade in Tsurugichi, Sasaki Toichi can form an encirclement of us in a short time. ”

"In such a short distance, it is difficult for the strength of one of our regiments to stop a wing of the Japanese army for more than three hours. If you can't figure it out, the Japanese army on the North Road, the Japanese brigade that attacked alone, was the bait that Sasaki Zhiichi deliberately gave us to lure us into the bait. Because he knew very well that it was impossible to achieve complete secrecy for such a large military operation. It is not difficult for us to find out how many troops the Japanese army has on the three routes. ”

After saying that, Yang Zhen turned his gaze to the two brigades of the Japanese army on the southern route that set off from Yilan County on the southern route, and kept sliding his fingers on the map. After pondering for a long time, he said to Guo Bingxun: "Old Guo, I think that if we want to fight, we will fight this Japanese army on the southern road." ”

"Lao Guo, you see that most of the marching routes of the Japanese army on the South Road are mountainous, and they are far away from the Japanese army on the Middle Road. Although there are a large number of troops, it is difficult to fully deploy them due to the limitations of the terrain. The mountains here are not the mountains of Acheng. ”

"All along the road are the mountainous areas of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, with dense primeval forests and almost no roads. The movement of the Japanese army on this route is bound to be slow, and the distance between the Japanese army and the Japanese army in the center will be widened more and more. As long as we concentrate most of our forces, use the terrain to set up ambushes, and defeat the Japanese army on this road first, we will be able to seize the initiative. ”

"In this way, we only use a reconnaissance battalion to monitor the Japanese troops on the northern route. At the same time, the 2nd Regiment, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, took advantage of the terrain and began to adopt tactics of resisting the Japanese troops in the middle from the Taipingchuan line. Stop it in the stone field ditch to the cloud head of the ditch. ”

"Because if the Japanese army on the middle road goes south to rescue the Japanese army on the south road, it is necessary to take the line from Shichanggou to Yuntouzizi. Unless they return to Jiamusi and divert to the county seat of Yubara. Otherwise, it is all mountainous, and the mountains are high and dense, and even if the Japanese army has a wing, it will be difficult to use it. We only need to use the terrain to fight each other, not to fight to the death. ”

"And we set up a battlefield north of the Tangwang River and south of Yuntou Lizi, and set up an ambush circle for the Japanese troops on the southern route. Using the absolute superiority of concentrating all artillery fire and one main regiment and two battalions, the Japanese army on the southern route was defeated as quickly as possible. ”

"After the defeat of the Japanese army on the southern route, we did not have to rush north, but carried out a large-scale blasting of the Suijia railway. It gave the Japanese army the false impression that our army was trying to march to the southwest and join the Third Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. As soon as the main force of the Japanese army in the middle road is attracted to us and moves south, we will immediately move north quickly to try to defeat the Japanese army on the north route. ”

Yang Zhen said as Guo Bingxun quickly displayed Yang Zhen's battle intent on the map. After completing the homework on the map, Guo Bingxun looked at Yang Zhen's combat ideas, and was silent for a long time and said: "The key to this battle is not how to fight the Japanese army on the southern route, but to block reinforcements. ”

"As long as we can hold back the main force of the Japanese army in the center, according to the existing strength and firepower we have, use the preset ambush position, and add the suddenness of the tactics, even if we can't completely annihilate this Japanese army, at least we can defeat him. As long as this Japanese army is defeated, the eyes of the main forces of the Japanese army in the middle will inevitably be attracted to the southern front, and then the whole game of chess for us will be alive. ”

"But this aid requires a competent man. That is, it makes the Japanese army feel that we are desperately covering something, but it cannot bring large casualties to the troops. That is, to hold back the footsteps of the Japanese army, and not to let them feel anything before the southern road starts. ”

"If possible, draw their target as far north as possible. For example, a small group of troops was used to carry out harassing attacks on the Japanese troops on the North Road. It is better to let them regard our harassing troops as our main force, and give them the illusion that we are trying to encircle and annihilate the Japanese troops on the northern route. As long as you can grasp the time difference, I don't think it will be a difficult task. This will better ensure that the battle on our southern front is completed smoothly. ”

"So, Commander, I see that I will command this blocking force. Don't use Liu Changshun's second regiment, I'll take one regiment. I took a battalion, a company of the reconnaissance battalion, and an artillery company attached to the regiment to harass the Japanese troops on the northern route. I can still do a good job of bluffing. ”

Wang Guangyu led two battalions and a mortar company belonging to the second regiment to block the Japanese army in the center. Although Wang Guangyu has little combat experience in the large corps, he has rich experience in guerrilla warfare. When necessary, he can send some of the old backbones to lead them by the nose and walk around the mountains and forests. ”

"The only thing I am worried about is that once the Japanese army finds out that it is blocked, will it divide its troops to encircle the blocking force or the false main force on the northern road? The strength of the Japanese army in the middle is too strong, and the strength of a wing can be divided in any way. ”

Regarding Guo Bingxun's adjustment of the battle plan, Yang Zhen gave a thumbs up and said: "You still think about it comprehensively, false and false, and attack from all sides, so that the Japanese army can't touch our true intentions." Okay, just do it your way. ”

"Don't be afraid of the division of the Japanese army, once the Japanese army divides the troops, it will create a more powerful fighter for us. We have a sufficient number of radio stations on hand, and the means of communication are convenient and fast. If the main force of the Japanese army is divided, after completing the attack on the Japanese army on the southern route, I will command the main force to advance rapidly northward. Strive to eat a part of the Japanese army and completely break its clean-up plan. ”