Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 324 Elastic Defense

Discussions quickly started in the conference room.

Some people said: "What are you afraid of? When the devils come, they will fight. After so many years of fighting, there is no time when the soldiers come to flood the water and soil, and they will kill them when they see the trick!"

Someone said: "It's better to retreat into the mountains and take a defensive position. The devils have concentrated too many troops this time, so we can't head-on!"

Others said: "The big deal is to go to the mountains to fight guerrillas like before. The devils are useless. Once they arrive in the mountains, their supplies will not be able to keep up. They will stay for a long time!"

……

You can say anything, and many people are still arguing for their own ideas.

Ding Wei has an overall view and is farsighted. When he was fighting devils in the TV series, he predicted that there would be a war with Chongqing sooner or later. After liberation, he boldly predicted that the neighboring countries might become enemies because of interests.

At this time, Ding Wei thought for a while, then got up and said: "Chief, Chief of Staff, comrades. I think that the current situation is no longer suitable for us to retreat to the mountains to fight guerrillas, so I think we must first eliminate this idea! "

"Oh!" the Chief asked, "Tell me why!"

"Chief!" Ding Wei explained: "We used to be able to enter the mountains to fight guerrillas, but the common people at the foot of the mountains gave us food overtly and secretly! Otherwise, there would be no food and no houses in the mountains, and we would starve to death? But not now. The same thing, the devils implement the three-light policy to create a no-man's land, and then block it with bunkers and isolation ditches. If we go into the mountains to fight guerrillas, although we can still deal with the devils militarily as usual, if the devils continue to implement The Sanguang policy has made our base area smaller and smaller, how can we solve the food problem?"

After hearing this, everyone stopped talking.

Wang Xuexin knew that what Ding Wei said was right, and this was the main reason why the Eighth Route Army dropped 41 people in 10.

The chief nodded in agreement, which was actually what he thought.

Today is different from the past, the current situation is different from the past, and the methods that worked before may not work now.

What's more, at this time, the Eighth Route Army has shown signs of development in military industry, tactics, and agriculture. Going into the mountains to fight guerrillas means traveling lightly. In order to bring more food, it is necessary to blow up machines that cannot be taken away. Will the Eighth Route Army go back to the zero point of poverty and emptiness if it is necessary to give up a large area of ​​cultivated land?

Thinking of this, the chief naturally turned his attention to Zhang Wanhe.

Zhang Wanhe replied in a muffled voice: "Chief, don't look at me. I've made up my mind to stay with those machines. Anyway, my old bones can't move anymore!"

The chief of staff smiled and said: "Old Zhang, what about a strategic shift? Lujiagou is only a few kilometers away from the flank, and there is no reverse slope fortifications to cover it, and the location is known by the enemy. The transfer is more secure!"

That's what the chief of staff said.

Although Lujiagou was not far from the front line before, the front was blocked by layers of reverse-slope fortifications, and the devils could not attack so quickly, and they had time to move if they couldn't hold on.

The situation is different now. If the Jinsui Army on the flank withdraws, it will only take a few hours for the Devils tanks to drive to Lujiagou, and transfer is necessary.

Zhang Wanhe replied: "It's okay to transfer, but those machines must be taken away without leaving behind. We changed these properties with great difficulty, and I said that we can't leave them behind!"

"No problem!" The chief nodded and said: "We will mobilize all the cars tonight, as well as mule carts and horse carts. If we can't use our shoulders and wheelbarrows, we must carry these machines away! These are our capital to fight the enemy. , don’t throw it away so easily!”

Kong Jie had some thoughts at this moment: "But chief, the problem is that the line of defense is more than 200 kilometers long, we must be able to defend it! If we can't prevent the devils from coming in, no matter where the arsenal moves, it will not be safe!"

That's what it says.

There are so many machines in the arsenal, including many generators converted from automobile engines, lathes, bullet production lines, etc., the goal of moving around must be big.

At the same time, their size and weight also determine that it is impossible to carry them for guerrilla warfare.

Therefore, if the flanks cannot be defended and the devils drive straight in, no matter how the arsenal is moved, it will become the target of the enemy.

This time Ding Wei was silent.

Although he knew that he couldn't retreat this time, he still didn't know how to defend the two hundred kilometers long line of defense.

"The main reason is the lack of troops!" The chief of staff sighed: "We put all the main force of 15 on the front and reverse slopes. In this situation, we can only draw 20 troops to the flanks for emergency defense. But... ..."

Needless to say next.

These 20 troops are troops with relatively poor equipment and relatively weak combat effectiveness, that is, those troops that will hand over bullets to the main force to attack during the Hundred Regiments Battle. There are only single digits, and many of them were urgently equipped because of the recent increase in the output of bullet production lines.

But even so, 20 people are defending a line of defense more than 200 kilometers long... there is only one soldier per meter on average, and there are no fortifications or facilities. This weak force can almost be said to be broken in one stab.

When everyone was frowning, Wang Xuexin got up and said: "Chief, I think we can try elastic defense!"

The chief's eyes lit up when he saw Xiao Dongbei talking, thinking, this is another new tactic.

So I happily asked: "Tell me, what is elastic defense?"

"It's like this!" Wang Xuexin explained: "If we use traditional defense one by one, we must disperse our forces, and the result is that the defense in every place is weak. But if we reverse the roles and let the enemy guard us attack……"

Kong Jie expressed his puzzlement: "Little Northeast, what are you talking about taking the initiative to attack? I'm afraid this is inappropriate! With the firepower of the little devil, if we take over the fortifications of the Jin army, how many people will we need to defeat the little devil?" ?”

This remark immediately resonated with many cadres.

Although it is true that attacking instead of defending can concentrate forces, the devils, as the defensive side, often occupy more geographical advantages and wait for work at leisure, which will have an even greater advantage over the Eighth Route Army.

"No!" Wang Xuexin replied: "I'm not talking about attacking the Jin army's defense zone, but letting the open devils in on the flanks of our army!"

"Isn't that the same thing?" Li Yunlong asked back: "Little Northeast, don't give me advice, how can you give the enemy the ground before the battle begins?"

"Regimental Commander!" Wang Xuexin replied: "This must be different! If we voluntarily give up the position, we can make some arrangements, right? For example, laying explosives in key positions, hiding our troops in tunnels, or Dig the tunnel and bury the telephone wires, and when we want to counterattack, won’t we have a clear picture of the enemy’s deployment, and then we will cooperate with the inside and outside?”

(End of this chapter)