Chapter 170 Offensive

Outside Luzon City, Zhang Dingguo was holding a combat meeting in Zhang Dingguo's semi-underground bunker command center.

At this time, the Korean Lingfang was explaining the combat plan of the Manila siege based on his notebook: []

"Everyone, the purpose of this battle of siege of Manila is to siege Manila until the end of the occupation of this castle. This castle has a Spanish name called Santiago Castle. We can ignore it, but we still call it Manila. Our army sieges Manila for at least one month. During the siege, the only direction that the Japanese army can evacuate is the Pasi River. If the Japanese army evacuates from the Pasi River to the sea, we will not stop it. Our purpose is to finally occupy Manila. If the Japanese army gives up Manila, our occupation of Manila will be the lowest price. In this battle, our army will not pursue annihilation of the Japanese army, but only seek to occupy Luzon."

Han Lingfang's thick notebook was densely filled with small characters written with a dot-water pen. While reading the notebook, Han Lingfang explained, which made some generals who only knew how to fight were very novel. Zhuge Liang in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was considered a literati commander, but he was very smart and didn't have to read books and notes at all. He shook the goose feather fan and made a trick. This person was a bit funny, holding a book and reading the book. Well, he was a scholar. Since even the king was relying on it, let's just listen to him.

Zhang Dingguo's subordinates had limited school studies and had a little blind admiration for scholars. Of course, not everyone was willing to listen to the foolings of scholars. Gao Wengui asked a question:

"We cannot cut off the Pasi River and the estuary. The Japanese army enters and leaves the water freely. What if the Japanese army does not withdraw but enters the Pasi River through the sea to reinforce the Age of the Birthday Prince - it is the Age of the Birthday Prince Castle? What should I do?"

Cough, cough! Raw, it’s still familiar! Well, the Raw Prince is just the Raw Prince. This place is a bit unfamiliar with these bandits, and it’s not bad to say that it’s Raw Prince. However, the question raised by Gao Wengui is indeed a problem with a higher difficulty coefficient, involving water and land coordination. Well, it’s hard for him to think of it. Han Lingfang had the urge to ask him if he had read military books such as "The Art of War". Of course, Han Lingfang could not do this, so he had to answer:

"We cannot stop the Japanese army from the waters. If the Japanese reinforcements are supported, our army will also reinforce accordingly. At the same time, our navy will also be dispatched to the camera. If the Japanese army withdraws, we will not stop it. But if the Japanese reinforcements are the elders castle, the navy's brothers will cooperate with us to block the reinforcements. General Gao raised this issue well, this is a problem of water and land coordination tactics."

Han Lingfang was not only responsible for explaining, but also for answering questions. After Gao Wengui heard this, it seemed to make sense, so he stopped talking.

The Korean ruling continued to explain:

"Everyone, in addition to the possibility of reinforcement of the Prince's Castle in the living place, the Japanese army can also land from our rear and attack our army. Therefore, it is not enough for us to dig a trench in the front, and we have to dig a trench behind us."

This time, another general Dou Minwang was confused. While he was confused, he was still a little angry and questioned angrily:

"Isn't this trapping yourself? The battle has not been fought yet, like a turtle, thrusting his hands and feet, so what else can I fight!"

"Yes, isn't this the way to shrink the head turtle!"

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Faced with the stack of doubts, Staff Han was calm and flipped his notes, turned to a page, pointed to this page, and said:

"Please be quiet. Don't misunderstand this method of digging trenches in front and behind. This is not what I thought of. This is a successful tactic for General Caesar, a famous general in the Roman Empire, to defeat the enemy."

Someone immediately muttered below:

"What kind of Mule and Horse Empire is this named? Is it so humble. Are you willing to be a cow or a horse?"

Han Lingfang felt a little bit like vomiting blood, but he still had to continue to lose his book bag:

"Speaking of this, this happened more than 1,700 years ago. Caesar led 40,000 Roman troops to attack the castle of Alesia. At that time, there were 80,000 Gauls in the city of Alesia, and hundreds of thousands of Gauls reinforcements combined. Caesar then dug a wide and deep trench in the direction of the siege, and built a wall. Then he also dug a trench on the outer side and built a wall. One trench was to surround the castle, and the other was to counter-encircle. The 40,000 Roman soldiers and horses relied on these two trenches to adopt the tactics of each defeat, and finally defeated hundreds of thousands of Gauls in one fell swoop. Now our army besieged this castle of the birth prince. I think our army's combat power cannot be greatly improved for a while, but when it comes to digging trenches, it is probably impossible for anyone to lose. General Zhang, I also know that I am talking about it on paper. Is this plan feasible? It has to be decided by General Zhang."

Of course, Zhang Dingguo had already discussed with the Han Lingfang's plan. This method of deep trenches and high trenches was used by Li Zicheng, Zhu Xianzhen, and the Qing army defeated the Ming army in the Battle of Songjin. Of course, it was an effective tactic. It is rare to dig trenches in front and back. Since the Mule and Horse Man was successful in front, his combat power was not top in the Ming Dynasty. The Japanese army had sharp guns and cannons, and there was no big chance of winning in the battle. He had already agreed with the Korean Lingfang's plan. The Korean Lingfang said that this plan was copied from Caesar, and plagiarism was nothing. It would be good if he didn't steal his mule and horse.

So, at the order of Zhang Dingguo, the army further dug up the earth, deepened and strengthened the fortifications in the front, and dug up the fortifications behind. With two trenches in front and back, deep trenches and high bases, it can make up for the disadvantages of guns and cannons, and the power of grenades will greatly increase due to the role of these two trenches.

Zhang Dingguo still admired this Korean staff officer quite well. Although Han Lingfang had to read notes in everything, he seemed to have everything in his notes. Well, it seemed to be more practical than "The Art of War".

Of course, the fortress built by the Japanese outside the castle of the Birthplace Princess must be taken down. For this reason, the Korean ruling side followed the map and also listed three tactics - saturated shelling, strong attack and earthwork operations. However, the Korean ruling side had no practical experience, so how to choose was completely left to Zhang Dingguo.

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Most of Zhang Dingguo's subordinates were originally farmers, and they might lack other skills, but they were no longer professional in digging. In the front, three thousand people were deepening and widening the trench, and in the back, five thousand people were also digging the trench.

While digging out special earthworks, the attack on the outer fortresses is also underway.

Gu Liantao was standing on the artillery position at this time and was implementing the first set of saturated artillery tactics. In other words, Gu Liantao had to command Zhang Dingguo's artillery to directly use artillery fire to kill a fortress. For these rookies who had only been touching the new rocket launcher for more than ten days, Gu Liantao shook his head, but there was no way. Zhang Dingguo wanted to see whether the first set of tactics worked. If a few can kill a fortress, then use a cannon. If this set of tactics was fast and good, wouldn't it be easy to save yourself!

The shelling choice is to attack the largest fortress on the periphery. It is purely nonsense to ask these rookie gunners to calculate the distance and adjust the shooting elements.

There was no way, Gu Liantao could only teach these new artillery soldiers how to aim and adjust. It can also be said that they had taken charge of the design operations of the first few guns. After calibrating the three guns, the artillery soldiers began to do the same.

"Boom, Boom", after firing ten guns, only one gun was hit by the side, and the fortress was not damaged at all. Since it was a curved shot, the landing point of the rocket launcher could not be so accurate, and the landing point was a probability range. Therefore, Gu Liantao believed that this was mainly because the firepower coverage was not dense enough. Therefore, he had to use two four-piece rocket launchers, and after three rounds of fire, he finally destroyed the fortress.

Zhang Dingguo finally understood what a saturation shelling tactic is. Good guy, he killed a fortress and spent 34 rockets in one go. Not to mention that the entire army was only 400 rockets, even if there were 800, it would not be possible to hit. This kind of rocket that cost 400 taels of silver was really ineffective. A small fortress consumed almost 10% of rockets. This tactic was so fucking that it could not be hit at all.

So, Dou Min looked at Zhang Dingguo and asked for a strong attack, that is, to implement the second set of tactics.

Soldiers crawled forward and touched a bunker. Dozens of rifles behind fired to suppress fire. Under Huang Yingfei's guidance, this set of close-up blasting tactics was underway. However, the firepower of the Japanese counterfeit machine guns in the bunker was obviously not comparable to that of Zhang Ding's troops. The soldiers crawling forward were constantly hit and died halfway. It is impossible not to say that Zhang Xianzhong's bandits were also very brave. The remaining soldiers continued to advance. The soldiers who attacked from time to time would throw grenades and rush hard to narrow the distance with the bunker. Unfortunately, crossfire was shot in other bunkers at this time, and the soldiers who rushed forward were hit by crossfire, and the attack was frustrated.

The attack was organized and the soldiers continued. Although the bloody lessons made the subsequent soldiers crawling forward more professionally, they were still shot after they were not able to hit the bombs. A large number of corpses were piled up in front of the bunker, but the attack still did not improve at all.

Huang Yingfei looked depressed, and it seemed that this tactic was a bit unsatisfactory. Almost a hundred people died in front of a bunker. Such a cost of casualties made Zhang Dingguo unable to bear the will of his heart and continue to order the attack.

If the first set of tactics and the second set of tactics are not good, then we can only use the local work method. Therefore, all successful tactics are finally summarized after paying the price of bleeding.

The so-called earthwork is just digging earth. The soldiers only need to constantly dig holes, dig out a winding tunnel, reach the bunker, and then approach the bunker, and use a rocket launcher to solve the problem. Even with a grenade, it can threaten the bunker.

Although this tactic is a little slower, it really works, with less casualties and no rockets consumed. Killing two or three bunkers a day, such an erosion attack is constantly squeezing the Japanese's defensive space.
Chapter completed!