After Cai Renjie finished the battle process of seizing Luodian, Feng Shengfa and Zhang Jingming's face turned dark in an instant, and He Lingxiao was even more angry. A main regiment besieged a small infantry squadron of Japan, causing more than 600 casualties. In the end, more than 100 Japanese troops broke through. What kind of battle was this?

"Where is Tong Yapu?" He Lingxiao roared angrily, "Where is he?"

If Tong Yapu was in front of him, He Lingxiao might not be able to control himself and shoot him. If the Japanese army guarded the bridge, you would not have sent a small team to circumnavigate, and you would have to charge from the front one by one? Until one battalion was fighting, you could not turn this corner in the end. What a stubborn mind?

Cai Renjie stumbled: "Battor Tong was injured and has not woken up yet."

"Hmph, it's really time for him to be injured." He Lingxiao's anger was not gone, but Feng Shengfa waved his hand to stop him and said, "Now is not the time to hold him accountable. In this battle of Luodian, the 344th Regiment did not fight well, but it doesn't matter if he doesn't fight well. It's important to carefully summarize the experience, learn from it, and innovate the tactics."

Speaking of this, Feng Shengfa subconsciously looked back at Xu Shijiu.

As early as when the 88th Division attacked Hongkou, Feng Shengfa had discovered that although the grassroots officers of the Central Army were more brave, they had serious lack of ability to change their minds. In actual combat, they usually only knew to rush and beat hard, and even if they hit their heads and blood, they would not turn back. As a result, the results were often limited, and their own casualties were very large.

Of course, the middle and senior officers of the Central Army performed even worse.

No wonder some Western military officers made fun of the fact that the National Army had first-class soldiers, but only second-rate officers, third-rate generals and inequality supreme commanders.

Strictly speaking, we can't blame the officers of the Central Army, because their former opponents were either the Beiyang Army or the miscellaneous army of local warlords. They had limited combat power and weak fighting will. Under normal circumstances, the Central Army basically resolved the battle with just one rush and fierce attack. Over time, this trend was developed.

Now the opponent has been replaced by a Japanese army with firm will and well-equipped equipment, but the style of the Central Army cannot be changed at once.

During the Battle of Shanghai, the Central Army went up to the army, division commanders went down to the company, and platoon commanders, and still used the tactics of fighting the Beiyang Army or local warlords in the past. For example, Huang Wei, a nerdy division commander, actually took the lead as the suicide squad leader, and led the charge. For example, Hu Zongnan, the commander of the First Army, was almost fighting for tens of thousands of troops, and he was still fighting against the enemy in broad daylight.

Not to mention Bai Chongxi, a famous general of the Guangxi clan who is known as "Little Zhuge", actually made the Gui army ace, the 30,000 veterans of the Seventh Army, known as the steel army, lined up and shouted slogans to charge in groups. As a result, the Japanese army was defeated in just one day. Almost all tens of thousands of veterans died in battle, and six brigade commanders alone died!

It cannot be said that this kind of fierce fighting style is not good, but they encountered a wrong opponent at the wrong time and in the wrong place, and ended up suffering a great loss.

It was not until the Battle of Shanghai that the Central Army was fully familiar with the style and tactics of the Japanese army that grassroots officers gradually began to change their style, and the majority of senior generals also developed tactical command capabilities in the cruel battle. Unfortunately, at that time, there were no more veterans left in the Central Army for them to squander.

During the Battle of Shanghai, more than a dozen German-armed divisions could compete with five Japanese permanent divisions in the open terrain. However, when the Battle of Xuzhou and Wuhan, dozens of national divisions were extremely difficult to siege a second-class division of the Japanese army.

Feng Shengfa was one of the few clear-headed generals, and he had seen that there were great problems with the style of the Central Army.

On the contrary, the Independent 19th Brigade, which was born in the 19th Route Army, has flexible tactics and remarkable practical performance. If the 19th Brigade is responsible for the main attack on Luodian and supplemented with one or two main battalions, the result will definitely not be as tragic as it is now, and the Japanese army will definitely not break through Luodian.

As soon as Feng Shengfa finished speaking, Zhang Jingming echoed: "What the master said is right, we should summarize it carefully."

The two brigade commanders He Lingxiao and Wu Jiguang also responded repeatedly, which was a pity. It was a pity that the 344th Regiment failed to fight in Luodian, and the heavy casualties were indeed regrettable, but this battle also hit Zhang Jingming and others' arrogance, and indirectly helped Feng Shengfa integrate the morale of the army, which was also an unexpected gain.

Not long after, the 348th Regiment sent back news that the Japanese reinforcements had withdrawn, which was also expected. The remnants of the Japanese army stationed in Luodian had already broken through, so there was no need for the reinforcements to continue attacking. The Japanese army had absolute artillery advantages and sea and air advantages during the day, so they would not be so stupid as to fight the national army to the death at night.

Feng Shengfa immediately ordered the 344th Regiment and the 348th Regiment to build fortifications on the spot and switch to defense. He also specially reminded Cai Renjie and Zhou Lixing that the depth of the fortifications should be increased!

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Almost at the same time, He Zhiying II also held a tactical review meeting at the wing headquarters.

In the past three days, the 44th Infantry Regiment in Wudoujing, Gujiazhai and Luodian Town have suffered consecutive losses, with nearly 2,000 casualties. Although the commander of the condemnation army, Matsui Ishione, also gave verbal commendations, and the division commander of the division, Sobu Yamamori, also supplemented the 44th Infantry Regiment, He Zhiying Er knew that he should indeed review carefully and summarize his experience.

It is said that the Japanese are dull and stubborn, and the Japanese army's tactics are rigid. In fact, it is a big mistake. The Japanese are actually very good at learning, and Japanese officers are also very good at summarizing experience and then innovating tactics.

Deputy Captain Kinoshita Hideyoshi first put forward his own opinions and said: "In Wudoujing and the West Front Bridge, the Imperial Army was ambushed by the Chinese army twice in a row, which shows that the Chinese army is already very familiar with the fishing tactics of the team leader. Therefore, it is already very dangerous to continue to place a small number of troops on the front line to lure the Chinese army to take the initiative."

Kazuki Kazuki also agreed with this. Although the Yoshino Squadron guarding Luodian was lucky enough to break through the siege, it was mainly because the Chinese army was not good at tactics. If there was another time, the Japanese army might not be able to escape unscathed. If fishing was not done by then, the Chinese army might eat the bait.

Losing an infantry squadron is nothing, but if you lose an infantry squadron every night, you can lose an infantry brigade in four days, an infantry gang in twelve days, and a division in one and a half months. In just three months, the 3rd Division and 11th Division that landed in Shanghai will no longer exist.

This is absolutely unbearable for the Great Japanese Empire.

At this moment, Kazuki nodded and said, "Kishita Sang is right. The Chinese army on the opposite side is becoming more cunning and more difficult to deal with. The fishing tactics are already difficult to work. Placing a small number of troops on the front is tantamount to sending sheep into the tiger's mouth. Starting today, the wing's tactics should be reformed and the frontier's garrison forces should be appropriately strengthened."

Kinishi Hideyoshi said again: "Captain of the regiment, in the past three days, a sign of the Chinese army has become more and more obvious, that is, they have strengthened their night attacks. If I am not wrong, the attacks of the Chinese army will be more at night in the future, and they will shrink to defend during the day. Will the imperial army need to launch targeted night battles?"

"No, this is not necessary." He Zhiying Er had a different view on this, saying, "The Imperial Army has an absolute advantage in artillery and naval aviation, and only during the day can the advantages of artillery and naval aviation be maximized. Therefore, the night battle against the Chinese army can be said to be a flaw and avoid strength, and the military strategists do not take it."

Although Kinoshita Hideyoshi didn't agree, she did not continue to refute it.

Soon, the fish belly white appeared in the eastern sky.

Then the naval gun group of the 3rd Fleet of the Japanese Navy, the 11th Mountain Artillery Regiment belonging to the 11th Division, the 10th Heavy Artillery Regiment directly under the sect, the 4th Independent Heavy Mortars Battalion, and the Japanese Navy's Kitakatsu Air Force, the Kasuya Air Force launched a rush of bombings on Luodian.

Fortunately, this time, Cai Renjie did not take it lightly, but followed Feng Shengfa's order to increase the depth of the position. The 348th Regiment and the 344th Regiment arranged the position depth exceeds two kilometers in a radius. Even in the town area that serves as the entire defense support, the 344th Regiment only had one row.

The main force of the 58th Division was placed on the defense line that was more than five kilometers wide by Feng Shengfa. Its left wing was opposite to Li Shusen's right wing of the 67th Division, and the right wing was seamlessly connected with Wang Yaowu's 51st Division. Two supplementary regiments acting as the reserve fortifications were built to the east of Jiading City. Luo Zhuoying, the commander of the 18th Army, also called specially to ask Feng Shengfa whether he planned to give up the defense line of Shi Xianggong Temple? Feng Shengfa could not help but explain on the phone.

The advantage of expanding the depth of defense is obvious, that is, the Japanese artillery fire was greatly diluted.

The power of the small Japanese large-caliber naval gun is great, and it can shoot a large pit with a diameter of dozens of meters with one shot. As long as it is within the range of the large pit, no matter humans and animals, it will definitely be alive. The lethality of the small Japanese heavy bomb is even more terrifying. The 250 kilogram or even 500 kilogram bomb is smashed, and it will be a large area when it is blown up!

However, the lethality of small Japanese large-caliber naval guns and heavy aircraft bombs is very large, but the number is limited. For example, the 8-inch main gun of the Izumo heavy cruiser has only one hundred rounds of ammunition. For example, the 500-kilogram class bombs, each order can only carry one round. How many heavy cruisers does the small Japanese have and how many bombers can they launch?

After all, Japan is just a poor country with extremely scarce resources. Ninety-nine percent of strategic resources such as steel and rubber rely on overseas imports and cannot withstand squandering. Therefore, every time the shells thrown on the head of the national army are killed by only 10,000 or 20,000, of which there are only 2,000 large-caliber artillery shells and heavy aviation bombs.

The intensity of 20,000 shells spread over a few kilometers in a radius was not so terrible. At least it was incomparable to the later American troops throwing more than 100,000 shells on a hill with a radius of about 100 meters in the Korean War. With that intensity, the volunteers persisted, and the national army could naturally persist at this time.

We are both Chinese and descendants of Yan and Huang. Although the times are different, we are able to endure hardships but are the same. When it comes to not being afraid of death, the national army may not perform worse than the volunteer army more than ten years later.

The large-scale bombing of the Japanese army lasted for two hours. The entire 58th Division's position, together with the position of the 51st Division in Gu Jiazhai, was blown upwards. The fortifications repaired last night were basically plowed all over, and the smoke of guns was dissipated. The positions were full of burning fires, scattered gun parts, and the broken limbs of the fallen soldiers.

The ears were filled with the wailing moans from the injured soldiers, and the tragic moans were extremely miserable.

However, the soldiers of the National Army who had survived the death to death were not frightened by the Japanese artillery fire. When teams of Japanese soldiers appeared at the forefront of the position under the guidance of tanks, veterans of the National Army sat up from the trenches and raised guns to shoot at the Japanese army. When the Japanese army got closer, they decisively used bayonets and counterattacked. There was also veterans holding bundles of grenades to blow up the tanks. One died in front and immediately pushed up the back, dead again, and then forward and continue, endlessly...
Chapter completed!