This battle was of great importance, but fortunately it gave them time to react, so they didn't have to rush into battle to fight with the Japanese.

Zhang Yunfei led the New Ninth Regiment and two guerrillas to the planned blocking location.

They chose to set up defenses along the line from Beiya to Cuijiagou in the southern part of Mengguan. This place was the only place for the Japanese to go north, and then they entered the relatively gentle basin plain.

This is normal. The terrain of the airport is required, and it is not just a piece of flat land. Even if it is a field airport, it is not established casually.

With the Japanese's rigor, all factors were taken into consideration when selecting the site. In fact, later countries seem to have built an international airport at almost the same place, which fully illustrates the superior airspace conditions here.

This Yunfei has nothing to do with it, but this relatively gentle basin and plain will bring certain troubles for them to set up an ambush.

If you fight the Japanese in an open area, you really have no chance of winning, so you can only choose the last mountainous area as a blocking position.

The Eighth Route Army's organizational and coordination capabilities are still very strong. When Zhang Yunfei arrived here, local comrades such as the Mengguan County Brigade had also arrived.

Zhang Yunfei welcomed their arrival very much. Having them assist him in transporting the wounded would also solve their worries.

As for the matter of contacting the local authorities, Qian Deming was left to handle it. Zhang Yunfei took Ren Xiaofeng, Tiedan and others to seize the time to observe and understand the entire battlefield terrain.

Now I like to discuss military affairs with Ren Xiaofeng more and more. I have to say that he is definitely a practical cadre. Like most people of this era, he grew up illiterate and became an ordinary soldier on the battlefield. He also participated in the Central Plains War.

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The turning point in his life was that after joining the Red Army, our party's army still attached great importance to the cultural education of soldiers. He also clearly knew his own weaknesses and was quite motivated, always looking for opportunities to continue learning.

But it is not easy for an illiterate adult to learn all kinds of knowledge from scratch without any foundation, and he did not excel in the early stage. It was not until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War that he became a company commander, and he was still a guerrilla.

A general company commander of an independent regiment.

To be honest, his company commander did not do a great job more because of his qualifications, but gold will one day transform and shine. He is good at learning and summarizing, and he has grown and transformed rapidly in the past few years.

He is now relaxed about his own affairs, handling things with ease, and is confident and calm. Even compared to a few years ago, he is completely different from the other person.

Well, of course, it was mainly related to the fact that he was in a trough at that time. This was actually not surprising. They had been fighting warlords before, and suddenly they encountered a tough enemy like the Japanese. They couldn't adapt to it for a while and were a little confused.

Now that everyone has gained experience in fighting the Japanese, they already have a complete set of systematic tactics and tactics, and they are much more calm. After so many years of experience, they have been constantly summarizing and accumulating, and it is not surprising at all.

Zhang Yunfei and Ren Xiaofeng raised their telescopes again and again to observe the surrounding terrain, and conducted on-site surveys along the surrounding mountain roads.

The entire group of them had actually crawled through the surrounding terrain where they were setting up defenses. The Japs were a resource-poor country, and once the battle started, the Japs would definitely do their best to come to their aid.

Although it is impossible to transfer all the troops of a regiment without hesitation, it is still easy to surpass a brigade.

Therefore, the pressure they face is not light. Their only advantage is to understand the terrain in advance. Naturally, the more familiar they are, the better. They must make the most of their terrain advantages.

After running back and forth for most of the day, everyone sat on a flat rock to rest for a while. Zhang Yunfei picked up the topographic map drawn by Ren Xiaofeng and looked at it carefully one by one.

Drawing and other pre-war preparations were originally the job of Ding Tiedan, the deputy chief of staff who acted as chief of staff.

However, Zhang Yunfei discovered that Ren Xiaofeng was better at this than Tie Dan. He had used Tie Dan as a full-time reconnaissance personnel many times before, so Tie Dan's surveying and mapping ability was pretty good, but compared with Ren Xiaofeng, he was really scumbag.

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Zhang Yunfei can be sure that due to his age, Ren Xiaofeng is definitely not the type of scholar who can just memorize things after reading them once, but he is very serious about everything and is good at summarizing.

The most feared thing about anything is seriousness. In this aspect, most people are not as good as him. No success is without reason.

Zhang Yunfei carefully looked at the topographic map for more than an hour, comparing it with the previous field survey in his mind. He generally had a concrete three-dimensional impression of the surrounding terrain, and then he raised his head, picked up the water bottle and took a sip.

Moisturizing his thirsty and slightly hairy throat, he said: "Old Ren, I took a closer look at the surrounding environment. Except for the northwest, the terrain in other directions is very beneficial to our defense."

Having said this, Zhang Yunfei covered the kettle and put it aside. He clicked on the topographic map mapped by Ren Xiaofeng in the northwest direction and said: "Here is a loophole in the surrounding area. This ridge looks very steep, but there is a ridge halfway up the mountain.

Road, of course, this path is covered by weeds, so it’s hard to see if you don’t look carefully.”

"And this ridge is connected to where we are now. In other words, if you go up the ridge from the northwest, you can get here directly without walking over the cliff. Of course, you will definitely need to take more detours. I made an estimate

, if we came from the northwest ridge, we would have walked more than twenty miles."

"Of course, if you count from our place, it is a round trip, and it will take more than fifty miles just to kill. Although this place is equally difficult to travel, it is still easy to settle down. Maybe heavy equipment cannot pass, but pure light troops can carry

Light machine guns and rifles can still get through."

This battle is not about fighting the Japanese to the death. The main purpose is to hold back the Japanese reinforcements on the narrow mountain road they chose.

Such a dangerous terrain is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and because the terrain is narrow, even if the Japanese have a large force, they cannot fully deploy it and cannot use their force to their advantage.

Spreading out on both sides, there are steep mountains. It is almost impossible for the Japanese to climb over the mountains. As for taking a detour, it is even more impossible. Time does not allow. The fastest way is to defeat the blocking force of their own.

But to be honest, once the Japanese reinforcements are blocked, they have to think of other methods, and according to the Japanese habits, they like to divide their troops and attack sideways, and they prefer to attack together from the left, so the relatively flat terrain in the northwest corner is specially prepared for the little Japanese.

Zhang Yunfei was scratching his head. He finally found such a place, but he didn't expect such a loophole.

If he fought a regular offensive and defensive battle with the Japanese, it would be difficult for his New Ninth Regiment to withstand the Japanese's four-hour attack. He could only try to take advantage of the terrain.

But there is such a loophole. Compared with having to divide the troops to defend. If you defend one place, you are not sure that you can really stop the Japanese. If you defend two places, it is not as simple as doubling the difficulty.
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