Du Zifu's voice fell, and Lin Feng did not continue to hesitate: "Okay, just do what the political commissar says." The political commissar and I agreed to your request, but if we don't do well, we will settle accounts after the fall. If you can't take the Qingfeng shop on time, I don't want your head, but military law is ruthless. You go back and prepare it right away, and the flamethrowers and explosives you want will be sent to you right away. ”

Since the division commander and political commissar had already spat out, Li He, who was relieved, did not continue to delay at the division headquarters. Immediately return to their regimental headquarters and begin deployment and preparation. However, after receiving the task, Li He did not rush to attack immediately. Instead, he took a few of his battalion commanders and carefully looked at the entire Qingfeng shop perimeter before formulating a detailed battle plan.

He did not continue to use the north and south ends of the Pinghan Road, which were also the three blockade ditches built by the Japanese army around Qingfengdian, and the only two passages as his breakthroughs. These two directions are the routes of the Pinghan Railway through Qingfengdian, and they are also the only two passages on the three blockade ditches on the periphery of Qingfengdian.

The troops that launched the attack in advance divided these two openings, although they were relatively narrow, but the front of the attack was relatively smooth. It is also the only passage that can be used for tanks to pass through the entire Qingfeng store, and it is chosen as a breakthrough. Adopt the tactics of attacking north and south under the cover of tanks, and try to capture Qingfengdian in the shortest possible time.

However, the assault operations in these two directions were intercepted by the intensive crossfire of the Japanese army and a large number of cleverly conceived bunkers, and many raids paid a lot of price, but the progress was quite limited. However, although the brother troops failed to break into the town, they also destroyed most of the Japanese fortifications that had been exposed at these two breaches.

But Li He didn't choose these two, and at the moment it can be said that in the entire Qingfeng store, the Japanese army's firepower and fortifications are the weakest in the periphery. Instead, the attack focused on the entire Qingfengdian battlefield, the east side of the dense bunker that had been exposed on the periphery of the Japanese army.

On the basis of the previous attacks of the brother forces, plus their own observations. Li He found that the density of the dark forts built by the Japanese army was very distinctive. On the entire Qingfengdian battlefield, the Japanese army set up the direction of the highest density of hidden forts, not because they wanted to ensure the passage of the Pinghan Railway, but deliberately retained the north and south directions of the passage.

The focus of its entire fortification group is in both the east and the west. Moreover, compared with facing the west direction of Taihang Mountain, the east side faces the direction of its own deep Jizhong Plain, but it is more. Although there are only three core fortifications in this direction, the number of plum-shaped positions is quite large, and the number of hidden forts is especially large.

Obviously, the Japanese army took into account the combat habits of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which is good at interspersing with roundabouts. Believing that the safest place was also the easiest to be attacked by the anti-coalition roundabout forces, more bunkers were built to the east. In order to prevent the interspersed troops of the Anti-United Nations, they will give themselves a knife from behind.

However, although there are the largest number of dark castle groups in this direction, Li He still chose this direction of attack. The reason is simple, after the successive failures of the brother troops, coupled with the fact that the Japanese army had three blockade ditches, limited the movement of troops, especially tanks.

He thought that his next attack should still be based on tanks, and the Japanese army, which was trying to take Qingfeng Store as soon as possible, would focus on the defense of the two directions in the north and south. Because there are only two directions, north and south, the passage is preserved because of the passage of the railway line. It is only in these two directions that the tank can quickly break through.

At the same time, although the fraternal forces failed in several surprise attacks, they were unable to make decisive progress. But in this direction, most of the fortifications of the Japanese army were destroyed. I am afraid that the forces deployed by the Japanese army in these two directions have also suffered considerable losses. In the case that it is no longer possible to rebuild similar fortifications, it is necessary to hasten to repair the original fortifications and construct temporary field fortifications. The Japanese army, which had no strong fortifications to rely on, would certainly focus its defense on the north and south.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Li He still came to the opposite way. Even if all your tactical attempts are exposed, you have to fight a time gap. Even if the time difference is only half an hour, before the arrival of Japanese reinforcements, it will be enough to create time for yourself to break through the perimeter and find the Japanese communication trenches.

And after choosing the focus of the attack, he hit the idea on several trenches dug by the Japanese army. Li He thinks why do you have to break through these blockade ditches from the ground little by little before you can launch an attack? It is entirely possible to use the means of continuous blasting to blow up the soil layer between the Japanese blockade ditch and the communication trench to open up the offensive route for the troops.

The last blockade ditch was only more than ten meters away from the Japanese army's outer positions. Even some of the Japanese fortifications and bunkers were on the edge of the last blockade ditch. Judging from the fact that the Japanese troops had moved largely without showing their heads during the previous battles, they must have built at least semi-underground communication trenches between the various core fortifications, including the town.

As long as a communication trench was opened and taken, even if it penetrated a company deep into the Japanese position, the battle would be easy to fight. And even if they can't use these communication trenches because the Japanese army preemptively blocked them, they can at least block the connection between the internal and external lines of the Japanese army. Prevent the Japanese from drawing troops from other directions to reinforce the defenders to the east.

The Japanese army had more firepower in the back, and the fraternal units suffered a lot in this regard. However, the key to the defeat of the fraternal forces was that they were unable to form a situation of internal and external attack. After opening the gap, it only slammed towards the gap, ignoring the cooperation in other directions.

At the same time, the troops that rushed in were also too concentrated in the use of troops. It was not able to completely disperse, and the squad and platoon were used as a system to adopt infiltration attacks. So that the Japanese army built those inverted firepower points, can calmly sneak attack the assault troops from behind.

If you can penetrate part of your forces, you can enter the depth of the Japanese position. Dare to disrupt the establishment with point-to-point attacks. And with the tactics of internal and external cooperation, it is no problem to open at least one or two gaps. As long as it can penetrate into the rear of the Japanese army, is there any problem?

After selecting the key direction of the attack, Li He immediately began to arrange. He opened the reinforced engineer battalion in the division, and equipped each infantry company of the assault battalion with a platoon, except for keeping a company in the back to open a passage for the tanks. At the same time, half of the explosives on hand were handed over to the commander of the main attack battalion.

As for the tanks attached to the superiors, according to the current situation, they will obviously not be used until the end of the battle on the periphery, at least until the passage is opened. Therefore, Li He did not transfer the tank unit that was strengthened to him at the first time. He divided the tank units left behind by his superiors into three parts, and reinforced the strength of one infantry company with two tank companies each.

In both the north and south directions, the range of Japanese anti-tank artillery fire, except for bluffing. The direct fire of the tank guns was used to cooperate with the artillery to cover the town. Once the eastern front was opened, the main attention of the Japanese army was drawn to the past. These two tank companies, with the cooperation of the infantry, immediately and quickly attacked the Japanese army in depth in the town.

After the deployment, Li He placed his command post in the first blockade ditch of the Japanese army, that is, the assembly place of the second echelon, which was less than 100 meters away from the core position of the Japanese army. It can even be said that it is in a position that can be easily reached by Japanese mortars.

Putting his command post under the noses of the Japanese army was not because he was bold, but because he developed this habit when he was a company commander. In wartime he must be with his brothers, and his command post must be in a place where the soldiers can see as soon as they turn around. At the same time, putting the command post as far forward as possible will also help him grasp the development of the battle situation at the first time.

Despite his habit, Lin Feng, as his division commander, has criticized him many times. Tell him clearly that he is now the head of a group. You should be responsible for a group of people and be responsible for the tasks you have undertaken. Once there is any accident as the regiment commander, it will be irresponsible to the entire unit.

But neither the severe criticism of the division commander nor the bitter words of his own political commissar made him get rid of this habit. The more critical the battle, the higher his command post generally became. In his words, I want my brothers to see me as soon as they turn around, and see their regimental commander standing with them all the time.

However, he did not completely ignore everything, but divided his regimental command post into two parts. He himself came forward with a light command post, and the commissar with the deputy regiment commander was behind him, keeping a distance of two hundred meters. In the event of a mistake on their part, the political commissar and the deputy head of the regiment can take over the command without interruption of command.

However, in order not to interfere with this battle, Li He repeatedly asked himself to formulate a battle plan, and he also used his head to vouch for it. However, Li He was still very calm, and did not urge his subordinates to move, but did not give the order to attack until all the troops were in place.

Li Heneng was able to calm down, and on the opposite side of him, his opponent, the commander of the 6th Wing of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, Nakahata Goichisa, was naturally not good at stubble. For the importance of Qingfeng Dian on the current Baoding battlefield, he is naturally quite clear. Although he repelled many attacks by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, he also knew that Qingfeng Dian was the enemy's inevitable place.

And after the enemy on the opposite side was repulsed many times, the rare tranquility on the battlefield made his heart hang all of a sudden. He knew that this calm must be the opponent's readjustment of deployment, and it was the last trace of calm before a storm. Their next attack will either not be launched, or if it does, it will fall apart.

Therefore, this Nakahata Godai is also based on his own casualties and the damage to the previous fortifications. Constantly adjust the deployment of troops and firepower to prepare for this storm. As for the loss of the first blockade ditch, this was something he expected. He didn't have any hope that he would be able to hold all three blockade ditches. His focus is on the third and final blockade ditch.

Nakahata Goichi was well aware that the enemy had a large number of tanks to fight together, and the tactics of infantry and tank coordination were extremely proficient. Once they invade the town of Qingfengdian, use the armor protection of the tank to go on a rampage. Then the possibility of keeping the Qingfeng store is very small.

If you want to hold on as long as you can, then staying outside the town is your only option. Under the condition that the depth ensured sufficient firepower, in terms of firepower and troop allocation, he still placed the main forces on the outlying positions of the town, especially the various field fortifications within the last blockade ditch.

Maximize the damage to the enemy's infantry and destroy the enemy's infantry and tank coordination tactics. In order to wait until the necessary time to shrink, put the enemy tanks in, and take advantage of the narrow terrain in the town to deal with the enemy tanks one by one. If you don't destroy the enemy's infantry and let its tanks and infantry break through to the inner line at the same time, then there will be no other way to wait for you than to destroy your entire army.