Rise From Eight Hundred

Faced with the kindness of this lieutenant general, Tang Dao was grateful and could only shout in his heart that he was amazing.

There was kindness, of course, but this person also calculated him.

Once this order was issued, as long as Tang Dao accepted it, he and the Four Camps would be tied to the 43rd Army.

Tang Dao was originally from the Sichuan Army, and he had an inseparable connection with the Sichuan Army. After this incident, it would be strange if the Central Army bosses did not squeeze him out of the Central System.

Of course, Tang Dao also knew that this kind of calculation was also human nature.

Although everyone is nominally united to fight the Japanese, the current situation of various factions and mountains in the army has been formed over a long period of time. Not to mention that it cannot be eradicated in the short term, even if he is given another ten or twenty years, there is no way to eliminate this stubborn disease.

If an army wants to have only one voice, it must have a unified belief. At present, only the army in the north can do this in China.

The 43rd Army was already extremely weak, so it naturally needed excellent soldiers like Tang Dao and Sixingying, especially since Tang Dao himself came from the 152nd Regiment. Uncle Guo, or Uncle Fox, would not let him go.

In other words, even if Tang Dao and Sixingying could escape from Songjiang again, from now on, wherever they went, they would have the label of General Guo of the 43rd Army on their foreheads.

Obviously, the lieutenant general who had issued the military order was also observing Tang Dao's reaction. Seeing that Tang Dao's expression did not change, he showed a satisfied look on his face and pointed to the hand-drawn fortification map of Tang Dao: "Deputy Director Tang, please continue. The 67th Army Headquarters sent a telegram to our department three hours ago. They have already set off to Songjiang and will arrive in Songjiang before nightfall. In order to save time, our 43rd Army will join the Songjiang Security Group to build Songjiang's defense first."

"Why spend huge manpower and material resources to dig trenches between the air-raid shelters and the city wall fortifications? One reason is naturally to To prevent our infantry from being attacked by Japanese artillery and Japanese aircraft before entering the fortifications;

Secondly, when the Japanese army conquers and enters the city, our army still has a second line of trenches to resist them;

My plan is not only to dig a communication trench between the air-raid shelter and the city wall fortifications, but also to dig trenches connecting the various fortifications in the city with the headquarters as the center of the circle, and to set up defenses layer by layer, with every street and every house as a position, until the Japanese kill all our troops. "

Tang Dao took a pencil and drew several circles around the center of the city, which made the generals' eyes twitch.

No wonder Tang Dao led more than a hundred people and a beaten infantry regiment to resist!

This guy is really a ruthless person.

He is ruthless to the enemy and even more ruthless to himself.

Let's put aside the defense outside the city. The defense inside the city is like several concentric circles with different radii, with houses and streets selected by various units as points, and then connected by traffic trenches. If the Japanese army does not attack the city, it will be fine. Once they attack, they will peel off the Chinese positions layer by layer like peeling an onion.

This move is a combination of street fighting and positional warfare, which is a very genius design.

These experienced generals can imagine that any army that wants to break through this position will pay a heavy price.

But being ruthless to the enemy is not the most important thing.

The key is that Tang Dao is even more ruthless to his own people. In his fortification construction and firepower point design, he did not leave any retreat for the more than 30,000 people who were present and had not yet arrived.

That's completely, pull the carriages and horses and do it. Want to completely occupy Songjiang? Okay, then kill all of our tens of thousands of people.

Didn't we agree to defend for three days and nights from the time the Japanese army attacked? Why did we turn ourselves into a decisive battle and a fight to the death right from the start?

The generals of the 43rd Army were fine. They had fought a bloody battle in Dachang Town and crawled out of the pile of dead bodies. It was not the first time that they came up to fight to the death with bare arms and kitchen knives to show their attitude. But Wang Gongyu was not so good. His originally fair face turned pale.

He didn't leave, not because he wanted to fight the Japanese, but because his superiors had ordered him to. Those who disobey orders during wartime will die!

Judging from his many years of experience as an official, if he disobeyed orders at this critical moment, let alone he was just a major general, even if he was a general, the theater command would probably have to sacrifice his head.

But he didn't want to die! After blocking the Japanese army for three days and nights, there was still hope. But this new deputy director Tang cut off this hope himself.

"You are such a fool, you dare to say that. You put the whole army in a desperate situation. Those who know you think you are using the trick of burning your boats and cutting off your retreat. Those who don't know you think you are commissioned by someone to lead the 67th Army into a trap! I don't think your battle plan will pass the test of Commander Wu." Lieutenant General Guo glanced at Wang Gongyu, who was pale, and pointed at Tang Dao and scolded him with a smile.

"However, as the saying goes, you can survive only when you are in danger. If you don't do this, everyone will only think that they can leave after resisting for three days and nights, and naturally they will have the idea of ​​fearing death. Then this battle will be much more difficult to fight." Without waiting for Tang Dao to explain, Lieutenant General Guo changed the subject again, slightly tilted his body, cast his eyes on the generals, and asked in a low voice: "Everyone, do you agree or not?"

The words were not very clear, but the meaning was clear. Including Wang Gongyu, whose face was pale, all the major generals could only nod their heads repeatedly.

"Okay, since we all have the determination to die for our country, I will take over for Commander Wu and use Deputy Director Tang's for the time being. From now on, the entire army, except for the necessary reconnaissance of the terrain outside the city and the guard personnel, will focus on the construction of the four city walls and fortifications inside Songjiang City, and strive to complete the fortifications before the arrival of the Japanese army." Lieutenant General Guo made the final decision.

The reason why there are fortifications on the city wall is that Tang Dao also designed many firing points on the city wall.

If the personnel lie on the fortifications on the battlements of the city wall and shoot, they will be easily attacked by the Japanese mountain artillery, infantry artillery and grenade launchers. Therefore, Tang Dao intends to dig out "shooting holes" in the four- or five-meter-thick city wall, just like the Sihang Warehouse.

Of course, the city wall is different from the concrete wall. The so-called "shooting hole" should actually be called a "bunker" buried inside the city wall.

That is, civil engineering work is carried out from the back of the city wall, with sufficiently tough wood as support, and a space that can accommodate 5 to 6 people is dug out in a certain section of the city wall. The space is still half a meter away from the penetration of the city wall, and then a shooting hole of about one square meter is dug out.

Then, ten millimeter thick steel plates, logs and sandbags are added inside the shooting hole. With such a strong defense, it can withstand even if it encounters a frontal bombardment of 75-meter field artillery, unless the Japanese army uses larger caliber cannons or uses aerial bombs to blow down the entire section of the city wall.

There will be six to eight such bunkers on each of the four walls, and it is undoubtedly extremely difficult to connect such bunkers inside the walls. So the simplest way is to use the external traffic trenches to ensure the safety of material and personnel transportation to a certain extent.

The advantage of this is that at least two infantry guns or rapid-fire guns can be guaranteed on each section of the wall to attack the Japanese army attacking from the front.

This tactical concept is actually not new. It is almost the same as the one used by the defenders in the Sihang Warehouse. It just uses a solid shell to block first. If you want to attack, you have to find a way to peel off this shell first.

That is, the number of Japanese troops to be faced now is larger and the firepower is stronger, but the strategic depth in Songjiang City is also greater. The most commonly used mortars of the Chinese army are hidden in the well-built solid fortifications, and they can also attack any Japanese troops within a range of 2,000 meters.

However, it is simple to draw on paper, but it is not necessarily easy to operate in practice. It not only requires time and people, but also tools and materials.

Songjiang now has about 2,000 people from the Songjiang Security Corps, 600 people from the 43rd Army, 100 people from the Fourth Camp, and nearly 3,000 young and strong people, totaling less than 6,000 people.

With this amount of manpower, it is a pipe dream to complete the various trenches in the city that are 1.5 meters wide, 1.5 meters deep, and at least 20 kilometers long in just 24 hours, not to mention the various firepower points planned by Tang Dao?

Even the shrewd Lieutenant General Guo is looking at the planning drawings drawn by Tang Dao with a frown on his face, and he is at a loss.