Bright Sword Military System

Chen Songyong saw through Naosaburo Okabe's thoughts at a glance. He pointed to the mountains on the west side of the Chifeng defense line on the map and said: "I guess...the Japanese are likely to seek to detour from the mountainous areas. The North China Front has several mountain divisions. They attack from the front. If we can’t fight at sea, we want to fight in the mountains!”

Wang Xuexin nodded in agreement.

In fact, Wang Xuexin was deeply surprised that the Japanese did not think of fighting in the mountains until now. North China should have done this long ago.

The reason is that although the terrain of mountainous dense forests is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is extremely difficult to blockade it.

If you want to blockade the plain area, you only need to build a trench, or send a small force to occupy the commanding heights and implement the blockade with firepower.

But in mountainous areas, even if troops are sent to occupy the commanding heights, the enemy may pass under the nose of the troops without knowing it due to dense forests and bushes.

This happened often when the Eighth Route Army fought guerrilla warfare with the Japanese. It is said that once the Eighth Route Army's crossing route was only a few meters away from the Japanese post, and thousands of people from an independent regiment moved through the darkness little by little.

Similarly, this may also happen to the Eighth Route Army now.

Now the roles are reversed. It is the Eighth Route Army that implements the blockade and the enemy attacks.

But it doesn’t seem strange that the Japanese have not considered this until now... For a long time, the Eighth Route Army has been fighting the Japanese in the jungle, and the Japanese have tried to avoid it as much as possible, so subconsciously they have never wanted to enter the mountains. Now they have no choice but to consider it. Interspersed with mountainous areas.

Zhang Zongping immediately suggested: "We should deploy in the mountainous area immediately... use helicopters!"

This suggestion is good. Helicopters are very suitable for deploying troops in mountainous areas and can do it in a short time, but the tactics are not suitable.

Wang Xuexin stared at the map and shook his head: "The width of Nuruer Tiger Mountain in the Chifeng area is at least a few hundred kilometers. If we want to deploy troops in this area to block the Japs from crossing, I'm afraid even hundreds of thousands of troops will not be enough!"

Then Wang Xuexin added: "A blockade is necessary, but we cannot hope that deploying in mountainous areas can block the Japanese. My goal should be to block the Japanese's path at key locations, such as a mountain pass, so that the Japanese cannot stop." Not going over mountains and ridges will make it more difficult for them to penetrate!”

Chen Songyong and Zhang Zongping nodded in unison.

They all came from guerrilla warfare in mountainous areas. How could they not understand this truth?

But the final problem is still not solved because...

"The Japanese also have helicopters!" Chen Songyong said: "They have used them before, although they are not many and not as advanced as our army. But the helicopters can still transport supplies to their troops!"

Wang Xuexin immediately recalled that the Japanese used helicopters to rappel troops during the attack on Niangziguan.

Although this helicopter unit has been almost wiped out by the Eighth Route Army and only one survived, it does not mean that they will not continue to produce and reorganize the helicopter brigade.

This means that even if the Eighth Route Army blocks or even attacks key positions and harasses its supply lines along the way, it is still possible for the Japanese army to make a circuitous route through the mountainous areas.

Now the problem is more difficult.

Is the Eighth Route Army going to transfer back the main force from the north that is attacking the Japanese Kwantung Army?

Not only would this frequently mobilize troops, it would also give the Kwantung Army a chance to breathe. More importantly, the mountainous terrain to the south was not suitable for mechanized troops to fight.

While several people were struggling with this matter, Wang Xuexin said, "Why can't we counterattack?"

"Counterattack?" Chen Songyong frowned when he heard this: "Commander, most of our troops stationed on the Chifeng defense line are militiamen who have been mobilized not long ago. They can be used for defense, but there may be problems with the offense. Got it!"

"One day you have to learn to attack!" Wang Xuexin said: "When you are a soldier fighting, you can't always stay in the trenches and defend!"

Chen and Zhang were speechless, because things were indeed as Wang Xuexin said. It would not be a problem to continue to defend like this. The battlefield is a cruel place, and it will not be merciful to you just because you don't know how to do it.

"What's more!" Wang Xuexin added: "We can use defense as offense!"

"Defense as offense?"

Chen and Zhang couldn't understand. Isn't it still "defense" to use defense as offense?

It's just that they didn't expect that what Wang Xuexin said this time about using defense as offense was truly "defense as offense."

Wang Xuexin pointed at the Chifeng defense line and said: "This defense line is indeed very dangerous at present. It is too close to Chifeng, our army's strategic location. Once the enemy breaks through, our army will be divided into two. Although our army is in The Northeast has captured enough supplies and the arsenal can produce weapons and equipment on its own, but things like missiles and artillery detection radars still have to be transported up from Taiyuan. This reality requires that we also move the defense line southward!"

Chen and Zhang had no objections.

This line of defense should have been pushed south long ago, preferably to the front line of the Great Wall.

In this way, the Japanese's North China Front army can be blocked south of the Great Wall to ensure the security of the Northeast, and a large number of troops can be saved to reinforce the north. The Eighth Route Army does not need to fight on two fronts so hard.

It's just that the Eighth Route Army has been busy fighting on the northern front and the quality of the troops on the southern front is not high, so this has been delayed until now.

Wang Xuexin continued: "Now, the Japs plan to attack the rear of our defense line from the mountainous areas. If our defense line is still on the Chifeng line, we will inevitably be attacked by the Japs from both sides. But if our defense line is pushed southward, the Japs will continue to attack If the direction changes, will the Japs’ intersecting troops be unable to intersect to the correct position?”

Chen and Zhang nodded again in agreement.

After the Japs' troops enter the mountainous area, they cannot come out in a day or two, and their communications will even be affected... The Eighth Route Army can completely do this through signal interference. As long as it knows where the Japs are probably in, and then sends out Signal jamming aircraft can take turns flying over that area day and night.

Therefore, it is possible that the Japanese troops were interspersed without even knowing that the Eighth Route Army was advancing.

When the intersecting troops come out of the mountainous area and attack... holy shit, where is the promised defense line?How come it became the rear area of ​​the Eighth Route Army?Attacked from both sides, I was directly surrounded by the Eighth Route Army!

However, Chen Songyong still cast doubtful eyes on Wang Xuexin.

The focus is on how Wang Xuexin used his militia troops to defeat the much higher-quality Japanese from the front and push the defense line south.

What does Wang Xuexin's "replacing offense with defense" mean and how to operate it!

Wang Xuexin seemed to have seen through Chen Songyong's psychology. He pointed at the position of HLD and asked: "Have you forgotten that we have a navy?"

Chen and Zhang looked at each other:

"That's right! The Japanese tried to use the army and navy to break through our defense line. Why can't our army use the navy?"

"With the cooperation of the navy, what if the army is a militia with low quality?"