Chapter 100 Blood stains mountains and rivers (2)

Masaemon, Hirose Shousuke, Matsuki Naoki, Nishiyi and others all put down their wine glasses and stood before the newly remade Chengde sand table. Almost everyone's eyes were on the three support points: Majiagou side ridge, Tigergou, and Monkguanfeng.

When Okamura Yasuji first arrived at the forefront, he did not understand the specific actual situation and was not in a hurry to express his opinions and opinions. Moreover, Okamura Yasuji was very clear that these division commanders and brigade commanders were all the storied figures of the Lu University back then. The pride and conceit made them not very accustomed to accepting opinions from those at the same level or at the lower level as him. Okamura Yasuji was the chief of staff of the Kanto Army, not the combat staff director of the division below, so he had to play a suitable role, which not only played a dominant position, but could not seem too compromise.

Masaemon Omoto frowned and turned around the sand table for two rounds, then pointed at half of Chengde's city with a baton and said, "If I were to defend Chengde, I would definitely defend the entire city and use favorable terrain on all sides to defend. Even if the surrounding area is broken, I can still use the city walls to defend, and finally retreat into the city for street fighting!"

Okamura Yanji nodded and said, "It is true. If I came to defend, I wouldn't have defended half of the city like this. Although the triangular defense is very stable, it lacks strategic depth. The effect may be very good in a short period of time. However, if our army attacks a little, once it breaks through, it will be shaken across the line. And within such a small range, our army's artillery advantage will be fully reflected."

Masaemon Ochimoto pointed to the side ridge of Majiagou and said, "The terrain here is easier to defend and difficult to attack than Tigergou, so the main force of the Chinese army must not be here. So I thought our army should concentrate its forces to attack Chengde City Defense and one of the three support points, break through and shake the entire enemy line, and then launch a comprehensive general attack and annihilate the stubborn enemy."

Nishiyi glanced at Masaemon Omoto and said, "The terrain of Monk Guanfeng is too dangerous, and our army is likely to be unbearable for casualties. However, now our army has sufficient artillery fire support, so I think Monk Guanfeng is the real weakness, and if you take down Monk Guanfeng, you can suppress the Tiger Gully line from a high place and block the enemy's reinforcements."

Okamura Yasuji looked at Nishiyi and then looked at the Masaemon of Kanban. He didn't expect that the two men would immediately face each other as soon as they came up. He hesitated and smiled slightly, "I think what the two division commanders said had their own reasons. How about this? The 6th Division joined the attack of Majiagou side ridge. The 10th Division attacked Majiagou side ridge from the left wing. The 8th Division joined the direction of Sengguanfeng to cooperate with the 14th Division. The first brigade of the Heavy Artillery Brigade was assigned to the 6th Division, the second brigade was assigned to the 8th Division, and the 16th Division was assigned to the 8th Division along Lijiazhuang and Fengzhuang to deploy defenses and block enemy reinforcements. The 33rd Independent Mixed Brigade was located at the Huya Pass to ensure the safety of the siege troops' flanks. The 14th Independent Mixed Brigade was the general reserve team and the attack began at dawn tomorrow!"

Masaemon of the Onemoto, Nishiyi and others also realized that this was the deputy chief of staff who was accommodated by them, and the joke finally turned into an order that would be unstoppable. Everyone quickly stood attentively and replied, after all, what they saw was the deputy chief of staff of the Kanto Army's commander-in-chief of the enemy in the Ate Front.

After the unique combat meeting, the brigade commanders happily took away the sake, dried squid, beef jerky and so on brought by Okamura. Their expressions were as if they were attending a dinner, and people were talking about the approachable Deputy Chief of Staff from time to time.

Standing in front of the sand table, Okamura Nishiji was holding an ordinary military-specification aluminum water cup. From the slightly trembling water cup, you can see that the smile on Okamura Nishiji's face was gone at this moment, replaced by a ferocious face!

Looking at the sand table in front of him, recalling the rebellious attitudes of Masaemon Okamoto and Nishiyiichi, Okamura Yasuji took a deep breath. The commanders of the division did not take him seriously at all. They had not held a military meeting in the name of the commander-in-chief of the front enemy, and took out sake to ease the atmosphere. The purpose was to give these veterans of the army a face. If Okamura Nagaji became the Minister of the Army, he would definitely let these old guys who were scattered and waited to die back to their hometown to retire!

It was obvious that the troops should be concentrated to attack the side ridge position of Majiagou, Chengde, and seeking a breakthrough, but he was forced to split the heavy artillery brigade into two parts. The artillery firepower was concentrated, causing huge casualties to the enemy and shaking the enemy's determination to stay and fighting will.

If the attack fails? Okamura Neji's mind flashed with a thought that even he was shocked. How could it be? Four divisions attacked a small town where the Chinese division defended? Okamura Neji slowly put down his water cup and measured the sand table with a wooden ruler according to the map. The accuracy was quite satisfactory, but even such a sand table could only be considered to be barely passed in the examination of the Mainland University.

Okamura Yanji repeatedly measured the attack positions on Chengde on three sides, and immediately gasped. He had thought that Chengde, who was besieged by the 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 also killed. Now it seems that the defenses arranged by the Chinese defender Zhang Xuewu are quite good. It seems that giving up half of the city to defend three points is very stupid or even irrational, but in fact it is equivalent to reducing the attack.

On the one hand, no matter which support point the attack is, except for the main attacking troops, the left and right wings will be hit by oblique firepower from the flanks. The Chinese defender artillery group located in the city can adjust the direction at any time and shoot at all positions where they set the scale. However, because the battlefield capacity is very limited, even if one unit of troops is invested at one time to launch an attack, there is only one squadron that is really facing the fierce firefighting of the Chinese defender positions?

Okamura Yanji became more and more afraid of the more he looked at it. Among the three support points, the battlefield of Monk Guanfeng was the narrowest. The force of a squadron could barely be expanded. The position of Tiger Gully was the widest, which could roughly accommodate the next brigade's troops. However, at today's meeting, the two division commanders, Naoki Matsuki and Shousuke Hirose, said almost nothing else useful except for the disobedient sighs and complaining! What do these two guys want to do?

Okamura Yasuji suddenly realized that since the Russo-Japanese War, the Imperial Army has maintained the establishment of seventeen permanent divisions. There are only a handful of those in the army who can get close to the division commander. They basically have to transfer to the reserve service as the division commander. They dare not cross the Battle of Reha, which seems to have seen the so-called dawn for these division commanders who are fortunate to participate in the war. There is even a voice that can only expand the war endlessly!

Compared with Okamura Yasuji, it is extremely stupid to expand the war endlessly. China's depth is very unfavorable to the strategy of quick battle and decision-making. Moreover, with Japan's fragile national strength, once Japan's fragile national strength falls into the vast ocean of the Chinese battlefield, the consequences will be very serious, which will directly affect the overall strategic deployment of the Japanese Empire. It can only erode China but not swallow it!
Chapter completed!