Chapter 100 Blood-stained Mountains and Rivers 2
Itamoto Masaemon, Hirose Shousuke, Matsuki Zhiliang, Xiyi and others all put down their glasses and stood before the newly remade Chengde sand table. Almost everyone's eyes fell on the three support points of Majiagou side ridge, tiger ditch and monk crown peak.
At the beginning of Ningji Okamura, he did not understand the specific actual situation, and he was not in a hurry to express his views and opinions. Moreover, Ningci Okamura was very clear that all of these division commanders and brigade commanders were all famous figures of Lu University in those years. Pride and conceit made them less used to accepting those at the same or lower level as themselves. Opinion, Ningci Okamura is the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, not the combat chief of staff of the following divisions, so he wants to play a suitable role, not only to play a leading role, but also not to appear too much to be perfect.
Banbenzheng Youweimen frowned and turned around the sand table for two laps. After pointing a baton at half of Chengde's urban area, he said, "If I were to defend Chengde, I would definitely defend the whole urban area and use the favorable terrain on all sides to defend it. Even if the surrounding area is broken through, I can still use the city wall to defend, and finally retreat. There will be a street battle in the city!"
Ningly Okamura nodded and said, "It's true. If I came to defend, I'm afraid I wouldn't defend half of the city like this? In this way, although the triangular defense is very stable, it lacks strategic depth, and the effect may be very good in a short time. However, if our army attacks it, once it breaks through, it will shake the whole line, and in such a small range, our army's artillery advantages will be fully reflected.
Banbenzheng Youweimen pointed to the side ridge of Majiagou and said, "Compared with Tiger Gully, the terrain here is easier to defend and difficult to attack, so the main force of [***] must not be here, so I thought that our army should concentrate its forces to attack one of the three support points of Chengde City Defense, break through one point to shock the whole line of the enemy, and then comprehensively Initiate a general attack to anniperate the stubborn enemy.
Xiyi took a look at Banben Zhengyouweimen and said, "The terrain of Seng Guanfeng is too dangerous. I'm afraid that our army's casualties are unbearable, but now my army has sufficient artillery support, so I think Seng Guanfeng is the real weakness, and if I take Seng Guanfeng, I can still condescendingly suppress the tiger ditch line and block the enemy. Military reinforcements.
Ningji Okamura looked at Xiyiyi and then at Banben Zhengyouweimen. He didn't expect that the two of them would immediately tit-for-tat as soon as they came up? After a moment of hesitation, he smiled and said, "I think what the two division commanders said has its own reason. How about this? The 6th Division joined the attack of the side ridge of Majiagou. The 10th Division attacked the side ridge of Majiagou from the left wing, and the 8th Division joined the direction of Seng Guanfeng to cooperate with the 14th Division. The first wing of the Heavy Artillery Brigade was assigned to the The 6th Division, the 2nd Wing is assigned to the 8th Division. The 16th Division is deployed along the front line of Lijiazhuang and Fengzhuang to prevent the enemy reinforcements. The reading force is mixed into the 33rd Brigade is located on the front line of the Huya cross to ensure the safety of the flank of the siege force. The reading force is mixed into the 14th Brigade as the general reserve team, and the attack will begin at dawn!"
Banben Zhengyouweimen and Xiyi also realized that this was the deputy chief of staff accommodating himself, and the end of the joke turned into an unscrupulous order. Everyone hurriedly answered yes. After all, in front of them was the deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army who attacked the commander-in-chief of the enemy.
After the breakup of the unique combat meeting, the brigade commanders happily took away the sake and dried squid, beef jerky, etc. brought by Ningji Okamura. Their expressions were like participating in a dinner. From time to time, some people talked about the approachable deputy chief of staff. Your Excellency.
Ningtsu Okamura, standing in front of the sand table, is holding an ordinary military-sized aluminum water cup at this moment. From the slightly trembling water cup, you can find that the smile on Okamura Ningci's face is gone at this moment, and it is replaced by a ferocious face!
Looking at the sand table in front of him, recalling the unruly attitude of Banben Zhengyouweimen and Xiyi, Okamura Ningci took a deep breath. These division commanders did not pay attention to themselves at all. They did not use the name of the former enemy's commander-in-chief to convene a military meeting, and took out sake to ease the atmosphere. The purpose was It is to give face to these veterans of the army. If Ningci Okamura becomes the Minister of the Army, he will definitely let these old guys who are waiting to die return to their hometown for retirement at the first time!
Obviously, he should concentrate his forces to attack the ridge position on the side of Chengde Majiagou and seek a breakthrough. As a result, he was forced to split the heavy artillery brigade into two parts. The firepower of the artillery was concentrated, causing huge casualties to the enemy and shaking the enemy's determination and fighting will.
If the attack fails? An idea flashed in Okamura's mind that even he was shocked. How could it be? Four divisions attack a small city defended by Chinese divisions? Ningji Okamura slowly put down the water glass and measured the sand table with a wooden ruler with reference to the map. The accuracy was satisfactory, but even if such a sand table was in the examination of Lu University, it could only be barely passed.
Ningchi Okamura repeatedly measured the attack positions of Chengde on three sides, and immediately took a cool air. Previously, he also thought that Chengde, which was besieged by two divisions, would be broken at most two days. The result of the battle was that the 10th Division and the 14th Division suffered heavy casualties, and a brigade commander was killed. Now it seems that Zhang Xuewu, the Chinese garrison The defense arranged by the department is still quite a set. It seems that it is stupid or even irrational to give up the three-point defense in half of the urban area. In fact, it is equivalent to reducing one aspect of being attacked, and no matter which support point to attack, in addition to the main attacking troops, the left and right wings will be hit by oblique fire from the flanks. The Chinese garrison artillery group in the city can adjust the direction and secretly shoot at all the positions they set a ruler at any time, but because the capacity of the battlefield is very limited, even if the troops of a wing are launched at a time, there is only one squadron in the real fierce exchange of fire in the Chinese defenders' positions. Question mark
Ningci Okamura can be said to be more and more afraid. Among the three support points, the Monk Guanfeng battlefield is the narrowest. The strength of one squadron can barely expand, and the Tiger Gully position is the widest, which can roughly accommodate the strength of the next brigade. However, at today's meeting, the two division commanders, Matsuki Nao and Hirose Shousuke, except In addition to listening to the sighs and bitterness, almost nothing useful was said! What on earth do these two guys want to do?
Ningji Okamura suddenly realized that since the Russian War, the Imperial Army has maintained the establishment of 17 standing divisions. Among the army, there are only a few of them who can get close to the division commander. Basically, they have to transfer to reserve and retire from the position of division commander. It seems to be lucky to dare not pass this battle of Rehe. Did the division commanders who participated in the war see the so-called dawn? The military even had a voice that could only expand the war endlessly!
Compared with Yasuji Okamura, he believes that the endless expansion of the war is an extremely stupid act. China's great depth is very unfavorable to the strategy of quick combat, and once the fragile national strength falls into the ocean of China's battlefield, the consequences will be very serious. That will directly affect the overall strategic deployment of the Japanese empire, which can only be eaten by China and cannot be swallowed by whales!
In Okamura's view, real strategists should not only know when to start a war, but also be able to grasp how to end the war while absorbing the greatest benefits.