Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1293

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There is a saying, "Don't fight an unprepared battle."

Wang Xuexin also wants to fight a prepared battle, but the time waits for no one.

This is the situation in front of me, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and there will be no store after passing this village.

Originally, Wang Xuexin had no plan to attack Yanmen Pass at all, because attacking Yanmen Pass was so difficult for the Eighth Route Army at that time that Wang Xuexin dared not even think about it.

The terrain of Shanxi is mainly a piece of open space surrounded by mountains from east to west, that is, Taihang Mountain and Luliang Mountain.

But the open space in the middle is not entirely a plain. The most special one is near Yanmen Pass, where Yanmen Mountain, Mantou Mountain, Hengshan Mountain, and Caoduo Mountain are intertwined and connected like a barrier across the central part of Shanxi. In the middle of the basin, there is only a gap about three kilometers wide in Yanmen Pass, and there is only a winding road passing through the pass city.

Its geographical importance is self-evident. As long as this pass is won, the Eighth Route Army can at least save tens of thousands of troops to confront the devils in the south.

But it was precisely because of this that it was difficult for the Eighth Route Army to take down Yanmen Pass:
The troops of the Devils' two divisions built a line of defense in the north of Yanmen Pass with their backs and advantageous geographical location. Any troops attacking Yanmen Pass would be under the attack of the Devils' artillery fire and troops.

But it would be different if the devils had plans to attack the Eighth Route Army.

Because if the devils plan this way and plan to use the attack on Longxi Airport to expand the results and launch a full-scale counterattack, they will inevitably move the main force away from the Yanmen Pass defense line and advance [-] kilometers north.

Only in this way can the devils launch a counterattack against the Eighth Route Army with the fastest and most violent offensive and thus obtain the greatest results.

Otherwise, if the mechanized troops go deep into the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army and raid the Longxi Airport while the main force is [-] kilometers away, there will likely be an offensive fault and give the Eighth Route Army a chance to repel the devils step by step.

So Yanmen Pass has become the devil's weakness: a choke point that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but there are not many troops stationed there.
Wang Xuexin didn't even get enough information... Although the intelligence system of the Eighth Route Army is powerful, it is delayed due to the lack of communication equipment.

Then Wang Xuexin still thinks the risk is worth taking, even if he has to lose the entire airborne force!

After Wang Shuheng heard about it, he was also stunned by Wang Xuexin's bold plan. He said: "Commander, the battle is not a problem, it's just... can this fight be successful?"

"What do you think is the difficulty?" Wang Xuexin asked.

Wang Shuheng thought for a while, and then replied: "It is not a big problem to capture Yanmen Pass, but it is easy to attack the city and difficult to defend the city!"

Wang Xuexin secretly praised him, he deserved to be the battalion commander of the main force regiment, and he could see the key to this battle at a glance.

Although the Yanmen Pass guards have a brigade of devils... the previous information was that there was a brigade, but now it is estimated that there is no such brigade in the north.

But no matter how many troops there are, as long as the Eighth Route Army's airborne troops can successfully parachute to the vicinity of Yanmen Pass, with the Eighth Route Army's burst rifles and rocket launchers and the fact that it is unprepared, it will not be difficult to win Yanmen Pass.

The difficulty is that the airborne troops have to hold Yanmen Pass and wait for the main force.

It is conceivable that if Yanmen Pass is taken by the Eighth Route Army, the ghosts of the two divisions will be sealed in the north of Yanmen Pass and cannot return... If they want to return, they can only discard their equipment and return from the mountain road, just like the previous encirclement and suppression in Luliang Mountain war.

At this time, the devil will definitely try his best to get through the Yanmen Pass.

Therefore, what Yanmenguan had to face was the full-scale attack of devils from the north and the south.

Compared with this, the difficulty of airborne in the dark, the difficulty of gathering troops to form combat effectiveness, and the difficulty of attacking Yanmen Pass are nothing.

Wang Shuheng said worriedly: "Commander, the Yanmen Pass has been in disrepair for a long time, and many city walls have collapsed, and some sections of the city walls don't even exist anymore. It is not true to say that it is the first pass in the world. An airborne regiment of our army wants to defend it... "

What Wang Shuheng said is correct, the number one level in the world is indeed somewhat inaccurate.

However, this is not because the city walls have been in disrepair for a long time, but because there is a huge difference between cold weapons and hot weapons.

In cold weapon warfare, as long as the city wall is high enough and thick enough, in principle, the enemy is difficult to break through or requires several times the number of troops to pay huge casualties to break through.

Among them, "pass" is the most difficult to break through.

Because the buildings that can be called "passes" are all surrounded by sky-high mountains or rivers, lakes and seas as barriers, and a pass city is stuck on the gap to block it.

This determines that it is difficult or even impossible for the enemy to go around the rear of the pass to surround it, while the defenders can continuously send reinforcements and supplies to the pass from the rear.

To put it simply, a city can be besieged, at worst, after a few years of siege, there will always be times when ammunition and food will run out.

Guan, however, cannot be surrounded, and its military strength and provisions are almost endless.

Therefore, in the period of cold weapon warfare, Yanmen Pass, the "No. [-] pass in the world", is well-deserved.

But fighting with hot weapons...you only need one artillery piece outside the city, and the shells hit the city in pieces, like plowing the field, going back and forth several times, or bombing it for a few days and nights, stationed in the gate The defenders in the city are almost exhausted.

Therefore, Yanmenguan has no obvious advantages for the airborne regiment. If it can have a Maginot line of defense like Gaul, it will be almost the same.

Of course Wang Xuexin understood this truth, and he replied: "So we can't stay in the pass city after we capture Yanmen Pass!"

"Can't you stay in the pass?" Hearing this, Wang Shuheng couldn't help but be taken aback, thinking, what's the point of taking Yanmen Pass?
But in the next second, Wang Shuheng immediately understood: "Should we deploy the main force on the high ground on both sides?"

Wang Xuexin nodded, and said: "Only a small number of troops will be deployed in Guancheng, and the main force will seize the high ground and build artillery holes to defend it. Your task...is to cut off the traffic of the devils, not to guard Yanmen Pass!"

Wang Xuexin's thinking is very clear, it is impossible and meaningless to hold Yanmen Pass.

What Wang Xuexin didn't say was that actually cutting off the devils' traffic didn't make much sense.

Because the devil's equipment does not have much temptation for the current Eighth Route Army.

tank?

Isn't the "Sherman" of the Eighth Route Army better than the Devil Bean tank?

car?

The Eighth Route Army has been able to produce its own engines, and if they are seized, it will save some trouble and steel.

Side three rounds?
Since the Eighth Route Army was able to produce half-track vehicles, the demand for three-wheeled vehicles has also been greatly reduced.

What's more, when the devils discarded these equipment, they would probably blow them up. All the Eighth Route Army could get was some scrap iron.

What Wang Xuexin wanted was for the airborne troops to plant a few nails on the high ground on both sides of Yanmen Pass, so that when the main force arrived, they could easily take down Yanmen Pass and hold it.

(End of this chapter)