War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 480: If it’s meat, it must rot in the pot!

"report!"

"Independent Regiment Yang Chengwu..."

"Xu Chaoyang, 129th Regiment, 385th Brigade, 217th Division..."

"Report to the commander!"

Shaanxi, Jingyang County, Yunyang Town, the headquarters of the 115th Division.

There is also a joke here. It is about the comparison made by netizens in Xu Chaoyang's era using Shaanxi and England. The total area of ​​Shaanxi Province is 20.6 square kilometers, while the area of ​​Great Britain is indeed 20.9 square kilometers. The two places are almost the same in area and very similar in shape, and the population is concentrated in the south. To the north of Shaanxi is the Loess Plateau, and to the north of England are the Scottish Highlands. England's main resources are coal, oil, and natural gas, and coincidentally, so are Shaanxi. England's famous buildings include the Big Ben and the Tower of London, while Shaanxi has the clock tower and the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. And the celebrity in the two places... is the same person, Jason Statham Guoda!

Look at that thing...there's nothing wrong with it.

After Yang Chengwu led Xu Chaoyang into the house, Xu Chaoyang felt uneasy. This room was full of generals!
The commander of the 115th Division was not thin at this time, and his cheeks were still plump. His eyebrows were very special, short and thick. He stared at the map with his head down, and finally drew a connecting line on the map with a pencil, and then raised his head.

"Xu Chaoyang!" The commander's voice was still very cheerful at this time, completely different from the character played by the actor in "The Decisive Battle": "Welcome!"

He took the initiative to walk up to Xu Chaoyang and said, "Our army is in urgent need of talents like you!"

He took Xu Chaoyang's hand, walked to the map step by step and said: "In order to borrow you, I have to issue a military order of 'winning the first battle' at the military meeting, otherwise your division commander will not let you go..." After saying this, Xu Chaoyang immediately heard that in the eyes of the commander of the 115th Division, his own division commander also had absolute authority!

Hahahahaha...

Everyone in the room laughed at the same time.

"Come, let me introduce you. This is our deputy division commander and political commissar."

Even at the political commissar in front of him, Xu Chaoyang didn't dare to look up!
"This is our director of the Political Training Department."

"This is our deputy director of the Political Training Department and the head of the Propaganda Department..."

If we count based on their merits on the Heavenly Ranking, if this group of people lived to the time of Xu Chaoyang, he wouldn't even be qualified to stand guard at the door!
The worst one here is only a lieutenant general on the Heavenly Ranking!

Xu Chaoyang looked at this group of people with respect in his heart, but the division commander did not give him any chance to greet them. Instead, he pointed at the map in front of him and said, "Time is running out. Chaoyang, you have rich experience in fighting the enemy. You have to help us check whether our division's strategic deployment is reasonable and whether there are any loopholes in dealing with the enemy's attack."

Xu Chaoyang's impression of this teacher can be summed up in two words - capable.

He was very enthusiastic, but there was not a word of nonsense in his words;

He was very sincere and treated you as his own as soon as he entered the room. He directly placed the strategic deployment of the 115th Division in front of Xu Chaoyang.

This map is of the Baiyatai area in Lingqiu, Shanxi. The defense line starts from Xiaozhai, Qiaogou, and Guangou to Xiaohanling in the east. The second defense line is constructed by Baiyatai and Dahanling. The entire defense map even lists the configuration of light and heavy machine guns and other weapons, and also notes why it is arranged in this way due to the terrain. Although the map is densely drawn, it can still allow people who understand military maps to see the entire division at a glance. There are even possible routes for the Japanese invaders to advance...

Seeing this, Xu Chaoyang remembered another joke. A general of our army who was highly respected by the commander of the 115th Division and praised as a "god-like warrior" was shopping with his wife. When he stood at the door of a coffee shop, he said, "This is good."

The general’s wife thought her husband had finally come to his senses and started to understand romance, so she wanted to take her out for a cup of coffee…but the general casually said, “If I put four machine guns on the roof here, I can control the entire street…” Xu Chaoyang couldn’t imagine what the general’s wife’s expression was at that time…However, as a soldier, he knew deeply that this was not an occupational disease, but a general’s talent!

People like them, when they see a mountain, know where to defend, how to deploy light and heavy firepower, and how to capture the mountain. They are different from ordinary people. Ordinary people see a mountain as a mountain, nothing more.

在这份地图上，344旅687团守小寨及其东南地区、343旅686团守桥沟、343旅685团守关沟、小寒岭、大寒岭一线。

At that time, our army was configured as a Type B division. However, the number of personnel in the 115th Division, which was the ace division at the time, was that of a Type A division.

At that time, the 115th Division had two brigades under its command, and each brigade had two regiments under its command. However, with this configuration, the number of personnel exceeded the standard by .

But even with this configuration, the KMT army still didn't trust our army. They still arranged the 33th Independent Brigade of the rd Army near Pingxingguan, and we didn't know who they were defending against...

"I have no objection." Xu Chaoyang really couldn't find any fault with such a detailed defense map. The only thing he could say was: "My 217th Regiment is willing to borrow two Oerlikons from the 115th Division's defense line to prevent air raids, and station them at Laoye Temple as a fulcrum to advance forward, split up the Japanese invaders who may invade, and divert them into our defense positions."

Is the location of the Laoye Temple important?

So important!

If the 115th Division was defending a curve, then the location of the Laoye Temple was the most forward position in the curve, located on the periphery of the entire defense line and close to the Japanese invaders' advance route.

But the reason why Xu Chaoyang said this was not entirely because of his military talent, but more based on his understanding of history, he was the one who benefited from the fruits of others' labor.

In the Pingxingguan Victory, the division commander originally planned to garrison troops at the Laoye Temple. They placed a battalion there to intercept the Japanese reinforcements, which led to the glorious victory of the Pingxingguan Victory.

The problem is, the division commander didn't plan to say this to Xu Chaoyang, not because of confidentiality issues, but because it was not appropriate to second the 217th Regiment to help and throw them to the front line before the battle started... In the division commander's opinion, he didn't want to let the hundreds of people from the 217th Regiment go to the battlefield. He just wanted Xu Chaoyang to play the role of a staff officer or consultant. It's impossible for the two division commanders to meet after the battle and tell each other how much loss the other's troops suffered in this battle, right?
Those are the people that the organization is going to use as the teaching team. They are very valuable!

Xu Chaoyang took the initiative to propose to station at Laoye Temple because the results of the battle at Pingxingguan were not enough!

What equipment does his 217th Regiment have?
Yes, the IG217 shells, French guns and various types of guns of the 18th Regiment were exhausted, and the arsenal was not set up, but Xu Chaoyang did not care about the nearly Japanese soldiers who were killed in the Pingxingguan Victory.

But he still had 3,000 Northeast Army troops in his hands, as well as the Type 92 infantry guns brought back from the Battle of Songhu!

Why don't we keep these guys... and let them give birth to offspring?
Then shouldn't we keep an eye on the big ones?

What Xu Chaoyang cares about are the health centers and field warehouses in Guangou and Xingzhuang!
According to the war reports that Xu Chaoyang had seen, the clinic had five doctors with rich surgical experience and a large number of medicines. In the field warehouse, the Japanese invaders had prepared winter clothes, quilts and other supplies long ago because they did not know how long the battle would last. They had just arrived!

However, in real history, these two locations were destroyed by Yang Dezhi's regiment and Li Tianyou's regiment in their westward advance after the victory at Pingxingguan... destroyed... quilts and cotton clothes, those things will catch fire, there is no way to save you...

Is that possible?

Xu Chaoyang decided to advance westwards and directly capture these two places after the Pingxingguan Battle. Why do you have medical care, medicine, cotton-padded clothes, and delicious food and drinks in China?

Now, I have taken a fancy to this thing, and what I take a fancy to must be mine!
If it's meat, it must rot in the pot!
(End of this chapter)