The old town of Limin Town is a county town rebuilt in the ninth year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty (1496). It has a history of more than 500 years. It covers an area of ​​about two square kilometers, and then the earthen walls were rebuilt brick walls. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the city walls were repaired many times. There is a moat outside the city wall and a moat outside, with a circumference of five kilometers, a height of about seven meters, and four dikes, which are natural blocking positions.

If described in detail, the moat is not a coherent besieged river, but consists of four independent small lakes. The moat is also four parts, and only the four city gates from east, west, south and north are opposite the embankment. In this way, the moat can also be understood as an outer city wall, and the pass is an outer city gate.

Guo Jiqiao held up a telescope and stood around the city, looking around, dust on the moat embankment was flying on the field, and countless people were helping the army build fortifications and bunkers. The city walls under his feet were also jingling, and migrant workers were chiseling shooting holes.

Guo Jiqiao has arrived here one day. Based on the principle of caution, he did not put forward any constructive opinions when he was not very familiar with the situation. At the same time, he did not make any major changes to the combat plan that Yang Tianfeng and others had already drafted.

Of course, if the opinions are completely consistent, it is not like this. For example, Yang Tianfeng did not attack cities and land as Guo Jiqiao and Wei Lihuang thought, but instead concentrated his troops to deal with the Japanese counterattack. It should be noted that at that time, the National Army and the Japanese army were still very accustomed to using terrain targets as a sign of victory. The entire eastern Henan Japanese army lost the ability to take the initiative to attack, and they were very sure to attack and occupy them.

For example, Yang Tianfeng only ordered the Tong Detachment and its guerrilla troops, as well as contact the New Fourth Army and the Dabie Mountain Gui Army to harass the Jinpu Line, and restrained the number and time of the Japanese troops in Xuzhou, but did not order the Longhai Railway in Xiaoxian, Yongcheng and Dangshan sections.

The obvious purpose of doing this is to let the Japanese army come in, and do not want the Japanese army to point the finger at the Yongcheng base due to the interruption of the railway. This may be a bit selfish and will cause casualties and losses to friendly troops. Guo Jiqiao has some opinions on this in his heart.

But overall, Guo Jiqiao believes that Yang Tianfeng's plan is also feasible. There is a definition of first move in playing Go, and first move is divided into "first first" and "last first". Yang Tianfeng's choice of "last first" seems to temporarily fall behind, but there are follow-up methods. If it is "last first", it means to attack the county town occupied by the weak enemy first, and then be busy mobilizing troops to compete with the enemy from the east.

As for the specific combat tactics, Guo Jiqiao must admit that Yang Tianfeng's playing style is very cunning, advanced, and very confident.

Yiyu City defended, and although there were many troops, Guo Jiqiao believed that few people would have such courage and confidence, although this was just a means to lure the Japanese army into division.

The fortification bunker built on the moat embankment also made Guo Jiqiao very impressed. The flat side became a steep slope, and the trenches were dug into trenches, and a concave shape was dug out of the trenches to become a single-person bunker. In this way, even if the shells fell into the trenches, the effect of shrapnel was minimized. The bunkers of heavy machine guns and war defense artillery were dug deeper and more solid. The top was covered with disassembled rails and covered with thick soil. The back slope of the dam also built a tunnel cave.

Especially the four most important dike entrances, not only were the fortifications similar to the steward walls made of earth, but the troops and weapons on both sides of the dike were also dense and sharp, and the crossfire formed was terrifying.

This time, Yang Tianfeng took out twenty Japanese-killing chainsaws, which could be used to supply ammunition chains and heavy machine guns with triangle brackets, and was determined to let the Japanese taste the "Hitler chainsaw".

The production of the arsenal, the capture of successive victories, and the ammunition and medicine resources brought by Guo Jiqiao, there is no problem in supporting a war.

The casualties of continuous combat were not small, mainly the first cavalry division, the 14th cavalry brigade, and the two detachments of the third column were drawn from the fourth detachment, and were almost fully loaded. However, in terms of weapons and equipment, the 1st cavalry division, the 14th cavalry brigade, and even the 81st division of He Cuizhi who came later were all greatly improved due to the capture and the continuous supply of Yang Tianfeng.

The three national troops built by Czech Republic alone have added more than 300, grenade launchers, shotguns, crooked handles and grenade launchers, as well as old guns in the army, all of which have been updated in large numbers.

Another reason why Guo Jiqiao was cautious and optimistic was that the troops that experienced the bloody battle in Huaiyang were very high. Not only the officers and soldiers of the Third Column, the First Cavalry Division, the 14th Cavalry Brigade, and even the 81st Division were not tired of war and afraid of war. The senior officers of each unit were also full of desire for battle and confidence in victory. Although Ma Biao, He Cuizhi, and Zhang Zhankui did not obey Yang Tianfeng, they would obey as long as Yang Tianfeng made sense.

Guo Jiqiao was helpless in this regard, and even understood the thoughts of Ma Biao, Zhang Zhankui and others. Taking the 14th Solo Cavalry Brigade as an example, it inherited the shortcomings of the poor equipment of the Northwest Army. Before receiving Yang Tianfeng's weapons assistance, the entire brigade was equipped with only four mortars and six heavy machines, and the rest were all horse stance grabs, grenades and big knives.

During the Zhoukou defense battle in October 1938, Zhang Zhankui had to mobilize all earth guns and cannons from villages and towns a hundred miles south of Zhoukou, collecting a large number of rake teeth, plow surfaces and iron sand, and gathering gunners and gunpowders from each village and town to make up for the lack of firepower.

Now, in addition to the original equipment, the 14th Cavalry Brigade has already had twenty 60 mortars, 30 Czech machine guns, and some grenade launchers, shotguns and a batch of captured Japanese weapons.

The improvement of weapons and equipment is one aspect. The courage and good fighting skills of the Third Column and the courage to take on the main points are also an important reason. Who doesn’t want to have a reliable comrade in the army, and who doesn’t want to make achievements and gain the reputation of heroes of the War of Resistance?

In the telescope's vision, Yang Tianfeng appeared. He was patrolling and inspecting the city embankment with Zhang Zhankui, the Lieutenant General of the 14th Brigade. While talking, the two kept pointing at the surrounding terrain, which seemed very harmonious.

The two brigades of Guo's detachment, the 27th Regiment of the 14th Cavs and the machine gun company and mortar company directly under the brigade headquarters, plus some artillery specially added by Yang Tianfeng, had a total strength of nearly 4,000. The two brigades of the 14th Cavs and the special agents and mortar company directly under the brigade headquarters. The brigade teams are responsible for supporting, harassing, and attacking inside and outside the camera, and are the two brigade teams and the special agent companies directly under the brigade headquarters.
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