Moreover, the Japanese army relied on a large number of field fortifications built before the war, and formed a fairly solid fortified area around the entire Kangbao. And relying on the favorable terrain in the territory, a multi-echelon defense system has been formed. Its various firing points were completely constructed in accordance with the territory of the white flag.

Even because the scope of defense is much smaller, the density of the firepower points is even higher than that of the 26th Division, which was in the defensive position on the front at the beginning. The most important thing is that the terrain here is mainly hilly, and the terrain is relatively complex. More defensive, not offensive.

In addition, the equipment and combat effectiveness of this independent mixed ninth brigade are even better than those of the ordinary C division, so Wang Minggui attaches great importance to it. For this reinforced regiment, a number of capable troops were transferred by all means, and at the same time, a part of the artillery was increased as much as possible.

It's just that Wang Minggui didn't expect that even after the Ninth Mixed Brigade was transferred from the two infantry brigades, the remaining firepower would be larger than he had judged, and its total strength would still remain at more than 5,000 people. Artillery fire, too, was not weakened too much.

Although Wang Minggui tried his best to increase the allocation of troops and firepower for this reinforced regiment. However, in the face of such an attack by a group of field fortifications, it was under the condition that the enemy had a slight advantage in strength. The strength of a reinforced regiment will not be enough in any case. What's more, in terms of artillery firepower, Yang Jicai is still inferior to the Japanese army in front of him.

Faced with such a fire-hedgehog-like Japanese army fortified area, after Yang Jicai only launched two tentative attacks, he knew that he was receiving a drudgery, and he was facing a hard bone. How to fight this battle, even if Yang Jicai has more ideas, there is no rice to cook.

This was not the ambush battle that was fought in the territory of the Keshiketeng Banner at the beginning, but a hard-fought face-to-face battle. The opponent was not a puppet Mongolian army, but a serious Japanese field unit. Can the Japanese army be transferred thousands of miles from Shanxi to Central China, and how can this independent mixed brigade that participated in the Changsha offensive be a fish belly?

It is not the battle at the Aru Korqin Banner that it was now. At that time, he was on the defensive, and the 7th Division was on the offensive. They occupied a favorable terrain, and the Japanese were attacking from the back. The most important thing is that the firepower in his hands now is not comparable to the heavy artillery that concentrated nearly half of the whole army at the beginning.

At present, Yang Jicai is at a disadvantage in terms of strength, with a huge difference in artillery firepower and a lack of tank cover. In the face of such a strong fortified area like a fire hedgehog, how can this battle be fought? I'm afraid that even if the king of heaven is here, he will stare at it the same.

Although the number of tanks in the frontal attack force on the Western Front was not small, Liu Changshun did not equip him with even a tank company. Not even an armored car. If he wanted to attack, Yang Jicai could only rely on simple infantry. Putting down the telescope in his hand, Yang Jicai scratched his head quite a bit.

Judging from the two tentative attacks, it is clear that the Japanese artillery divided the entire perimeter outside Kangbao City. Telephone lines have been laid in all forward positions. If there is an attack in any direction, its artillery fire does not need to be aimed at all, and it can be suppressed in a short time.

Moreover, the Japanese army's combat style has changed drastically this time, and it has changed its habit of taking the initiative to attack. No matter how the Anti-Japanese Federation tried, it was resolute not to break away from the fortification group and come out to fight back. Even if the anti-Japanese coalition in front of it has invested more troops in the attack, it is not as large as it is now. But no matter how Yang Jicai tempted, he just didn't come out.

In other words, the Japanese army here put on such a posture that Yang Jicai wanted to lure them out, and there was no chance to break away from the fortified position for field battles. In other words, although he was inferior in strength and firepower, the only way for him to solve the problem was to attack.

I don't know that after Okamura Ninji arrived at the front line of Kangbo in this independent mixed 9th Brigade, he once specially ordered the brigade commander, Major General Ikegami Kenyoshi, that once Kangbao was attacked, no matter how many enemy troops came, even if it was a battalion or even a company, it would never be allowed to break away from the fortification group for pursuit operations.

No matter how many enemy troops come, as long as he can hold Kangbao, it will be a great achievement. But if he breaks away from the Kangbao fortified area, even if he defeats a division of the enemy, he will be guilty of such a dead order Yang Jicai. was at a loss by such a situation in front of him.

After several failed attempts to lure the Japanese army out of the fortified area to fight, Yang Jicai, who had no choice but to adjust his tactics. After rushing to Chaying Temple, in addition to bluffing and luring the Japanese troops in Kangbao to expose the firepower points as much as possible, he led all the cadres above the platoon level to do nothing, and observed the terrain and the deployment of the Japanese firepower points.

Considering that it was not suitable for the combat unit to do this kind of work, Yang Jicai gritted his teeth and took out a reconnaissance company, which was specially used to test the enemy's firepower configuration and deployment. When an afternoon passed, Yang Jicai became more and more frightened the more he watched. The Japanese army's firepower deployment exceeded his original judgment by at least one-third. In this case, how will this battle be fought?

After thinking about it for a long time, Yang Jicai decided to stop the attack during the day. All of them took a night offensive, first opened a point, attracted all the attention of the Japanese army to their side with a point and area, and then used their infantry firepower advantage to grind with the Japanese army around Kangbao City little by little.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, after Yang Jicai hastily ate two mouthfuls of dry food, he convened an operational meeting of cadres above the company level. He laid out a sketch of the entire defensive posture of the Japanese army drawn during the day: "The Japanese army on the front line of Kangbao takes Kangbao City as the core, and the entire defense line is in a triangular shape and a situation of great depth. ”

"Take Kangbao to Jiapusi Highway and Kangbao to Baochang Highway as the bottom. With the temporary highways and communication trenches in the defense area as the skeleton and the residential areas as the support points, its artillery positions are mainly concentrated in Kangbaocheng and Shatouzhuang. The Abugai temple where we are now located is right at the top corner of this triangle. ”

"Its firing points are generally a three-layer structure of upper, middle and lower layers, and the firing boundaries of all fortifications completely cross each other. Its artillery marked all the defensive areas with a ruler and carefully calculated. Once our army launches an attack, as long as a breakthrough point is opened, its artillery fire will block the breakthrough as soon as it attacks in depth. ”

"Judging from the daytime probing, the focus of the Japanese firepower was mainly deployed on the front, as well as in the direction to the northwest. Because the northeast side is a line from the Yellow Flag Mountain to the Hounao Mountain, it is a vertical and horizontal mountain. It was also the defense area of the Japanese army in southern Chanan, and they still focused all their attention on the northwest direction connected with the Japanese defense line of the Germans. ”

"What is now in front of us is that the Japanese army has the advantage in strength and firepower, and has built a large number of field fortifications and fortified areas. In this case, we will definitely suffer a big loss if we fight hard. In this way, let's touch his night screw tonight, and use the cover of night to have a good time with them. ”

"In fact, this deployment posture of the Japanese army is of course to rely on the eastern mountainous areas and the Japanese army in southern Chanan, and put the main defensive posture in the northwest. But the defensive formation they put on is difficult to take care of on both sides. Because such a defensive posture is under the premise of establishing an overall defense with the Japanese army in the east and the German army in the west. ”

"Now Guyuan on the eastern front, in addition to Guyuan County, the peripheral key points such as Gaoshan Fort, Changyuan Fort, and Pingding Fort have been captured by the main force of the advancing army. In other words, the current Guyuan county has been surrounded. Especially after the Gaoshan Fort, Houertai, and Baimiaotan lines west of Guyuan County were captured by the First Advance Army, his entire defensive posture on the Western Front had actually been disrupted. ”

"On the Eastern Front, although the Japanese army in Huade still has a wing, it has to defend the two strategic points of Shangdu and Shangyi, as well as the material supply line of the entire Chazhong battlefield, and I estimate that at this time, Gu Dong will not be able to take care of the west. Otherwise, Ichiro Nanata would not have mobilized troops from this independent mixed ninth brigade and put them into front-line operations. ”

"The problem now is that the overall defensive posture of the Japanese army on both the east and west sides has been disrupted. But the Japanese army in Kangbao is now shrinking in the fortified area with Kangbao City as the core, how can this battle be fought? Attack, our troops and firepower are not superior, so we can only use our brains and compare our IQ with the little devils. ”

"I think so, today's tentative attack, we are all launched from the eastern mountains. The Japanese army will definitely focus on the eastern front at night and in the next operation. Because compared with the direction of Guyuan on the eastern front, the area around Huade on the western front is still calm after all, and there has been no hostile situation. If we choose to attack in this direction, we will be in a situation where the Japanese army is flanked from the east and west. Ordinary commanders will never choose this direction as the main direction of attack. ”

"But I'm going to do the opposite, and I'm going to make a gamble with them. The Japanese army that gambled on Germany has now been unable to draw troops to cooperate with the Japanese defense on the front line of Kangbao. Bluffing on the east, the real offensive was www.biquge.info chosen on the western front, cutting cross-cutting along the junction of the two Japanese troops. ”

"I have decided to concentrate on the right flank the forces of the 2nd Battalion of the 51st Regiment in a bluff, under the cover of two platoons of a cannon company, a rocket artillery company, and a heavy mortar company in our hands. Adopt a multi-pronged assault approach and launch an attack from the northeast. Along the way, it was not to really make a breakthrough, but to attract the attention of the Japanese army. But remember that the two points of the small second shed and the Mongolian camp must be taken down. As for Hou Nao Mountain behind you, don't worry about him. ”

"The forces of your attack must be formed as companies. The weapons in the regiment should be coordinated with each other, and each attack platoon should be guaranteed to have at least one recoilless gun or bazooka. And your battalion has 12 mm machine guns, all of which are to be equipped with the company. But remember, you must keep at least one reinforced platoon in your battalion. ”

"On the central line, the second reconnaissance company was used, and the third reconnaissance company was based on platoons, and the tactics of infiltrating from the left and right flanks of Abugai Temple were used to infiltrate the Japanese position. I don't need you to seize the positions of the Japanese army, your task is to blast the Japanese army's communication trenches and destroy their wired communication lines. ”

"Find the front-line command of the Japanese army and destroy it. The goal of your mission is to command the Japanese army at least at the squadron level. If you can defeat the command structure of the Japanese army at the brigade level and defeat one, I will make a great contribution to you. In a word, it is to completely paralyze the command level of the frontal Japanese army. Let them not be able to understand our reality and reality. ”

"In this direction, I do not send a unified command structure, and I do not have any operational plans. A few of your company commanders will look at it, and where it is easy to fight, you will start from there. As long as you remember these points of explanation, you can fight as you want, and don't have any scruples. In a word, I only look at the results and don't ask about the process. ”

"On the left flank, with the 3rd Battalion of the 51st Regiment as the backbone, the 1st Reconnaissance Company, the 1st Battalion and 2nd Company, and the 1st Platoon of Cannons directly under the 17th Division, launched simultaneous attacks from the three directions of Zhangyoufang, Da 4 Duan, and Qinjia Battalion in the northwest. Your task is to strike as deep as possible against the Japanese while maintaining a line. But there is one thing you should pay attention to, one is to pay attention to the coordination of the two wings, and the other is not to cross the line of Gaojiaying, Tongjiaying, and Shatouzhuang. ”