Chapter 163: Tooth extraction tactics

"As what Captain Zhang said..." I pointed to Tieyuan's location on the map and said to Commander Zheng and others: "The comrades of the 63rd Army received the order from the boss to hold on to the Tieyuan area for fifteen to twenty days. Even if they fight all the 63rd Army, they will be willing to do so. So at this time, the comrades of the 63rd Army should be in the Tieyuan area!"

"Did you hear it clearly?" Commander Zheng frowned and asked, "This is not a trivial matter, and Commander Zhang has been having a fever and talking nonsense. Is this information accurate? This is related to the life and death of our entire division!"

"This information should be reliable!" Captain Pang looked at the map for a while, nodded with certainty and said: "Teiwon and Jinhua, Pingkang form the iron triangle. It is the only place for the Seoul-Pingyang Railway and the intersection of several important highways. Here, the peaks stand and the mountains are continuous. It is an important strategic traffic hub in central North Korea. From the perspective of geographical location and topographic characteristics, it is very suitable for our army to fight a blocking war! So I think this information is credible."

"I think so too!" Wu Chengde also added from the side: "After more than a month of combat, our army has been exhausted from food and bombs, and it is extremely tired, and we are not in a hurry to build any fortifications. Behind the Iron Yuan, there is a large plain. Once the US army breaks the Iron Yuan, the mechanized troops of the US army can march straight in. This will not only cause a large number of casualties to our army, but also the US army can enter the Pyongyang Plain and approach the city of Pyongyang. Pyongyang will fall into the hands of the enemy again!"

"Well!" Commander Zheng was shocked when he heard this: "If Pyongyang falls into the hands of the enemy again, it will be quite unfavorable to our army in politics, and it will also greatly damage the confidence and morale of the Volunteer Army and the People's Army. No wonder the boss has to give a death order, even if he fights all the 63rd Army, he will have to defend Tieyuan!"

I was stunned by the analysis of Captain Pang and others. It was from modern information that I learned that the boss ordered the 63rd Army to defend Tieyuan to the death, but I never thought about why I wanted to defend Tieyuan. After hearing what they said, I suddenly realized that there are so many things to defend Tieyuan. Whether in terms of politics or military, Tieyuan is a must-defense for our army, and it is not in vain that the 63rd Army has more than 20,000 heroic souls buried here.

"Have Captain Zhang talked about what tactical tactics did the comrades of the 63rd Army use to defend themselves?" Captain Pang asked again. At this time, they had already believed in the 63rd Army in Tieyuan.

"It seems..." I hesitated intentionally, scratched my head and said, "I didn't hear it clearly. It seemed that there was a tactic of tooth extraction. I was a little surprised. This battle and tooth extraction..."

"Tactic extraction tactic!" Captain Pang and others said at the same time.

"Yes, yes, yes...this is this tactic!" I laughed secretly in my heart. It was much more convenient to say it in this way than I said it just now. I just said it and was questioned and suspicious. Now I said half of the words and asked them to guess, but they didn't doubt it half of them.

"However, what is the 'tooth extraction tactic'?" I really don't know this time. Although I know that the soldiers of the 63rd Army used this tactic to block the 13th day of the US Eighth Group, I have never studied what this tactic is. Now I am curious about what this tactic is called the 'tooth extraction' tactic, which can use light weapons to block the attack of the US military with a large amount of modern equipment.

"Thanks to you!" Captain Pang explained: "Your first batch of troops entering North Korea fought a few beautiful battles, which has accumulated a lot of valuable experience in fighting the US military. Before entering North Korea, we summarized a characteristic of the US military's combat methods, that is, on the land battlefield, their main combat forces will never expose their flanks and rears to their opponents during the advancement."

"Well! That's right!" Thinking of the situation when fighting the US military in the previous few battles, I remembered that once the flanks and rear of the US military were exposed, they always retreated at the first time. This was how the US military retreat was formed in the first and second battles. This was determined by their excessive reliance on logistics and supply tactics! Their modern equipment is all made of steel and machines. Once the logistics is threatened, their cars, tanks, and cannons will soon turn into a pile of scrap iron.

"According to this characteristic of the US military, some people have proposed the 'tooth extraction tactic'." Captain Pang continued: "This tactic is to break the entire army into hundreds of small tactical units, sticking to hundreds of carefully selected tactical points. The troops and firepower configured in each tactical point must turn this point into a sharp tooth. If the Americans want to pull out one of our teeth, they will bite some flesh and blood by the nearby teeth. And once a tooth is broken, the soldiers who are forced to retreat will re-establish the establishment. When the regiment is broken, they will be reduced into a battalion, the battalion is reduced into a company, and then they will become another sharp tooth in the rear..."

"Oh, so that's how it is!" I couldn't help but sigh in my heart when I heard this.

After fighting for so long, I will still know some basic military knowledge. I know very well that this tactic is not available in ordinary troops, because such a defense method will turn every key point into a place where troops are scattered. The more tactical key points of defense, the more scattered the troops will be; the more scattered the troops will be, the more difficult it will be to command unifiedly; the more difficult it will be to command unifiedly, the more grassroots soldiers need to be consciously and self-disciplinedly on the battlefield.

Just imagine, if the army's forces are spread across hundreds of tactical key points, Ren Jun is a god with three heads and six arms, and there is no way to command it uniformly. Therefore, when such arrangements are impacted by the enemy's group, it is easy to lose command and collapse on the whole line.

If the puppet army deployed its troops like this, the volunteer army would only concentrate its forces to rush towards the tactical points of the row in front, and the puppet army would easily panic and retreat in the face of a huge gap in number. As long as the volunteer army pursued the whole way, the tactical points of the puppet army would collapse one by one like dominoes...

But with the same defense method and the same tactical key points, the volunteers will not have dominoes, but sharp teeth that can bite the enemy's flesh and blood!

"This is a battle made of blood and flesh!" Political Commissar Wu couldn't help but sigh.

Commander Pang and others also nodded heavily, knowing that although this tactic is feasible, there will definitely be a lot of casualties for the defensive forces. Because every time the US military breaks a tooth, it means that only a few pieces of "broken teeth" can be removed, and they also have to hug them with other "broken teeth" to form a new tooth waiting for the Americans to knock. So much so that the 63rd Army fought to the end, the entire army had nearly 30,000 people, and in the end, only more than 3,000 people went back alive!

During the fourth battle, we exchanged space for time, but now, the comrades of the 63rd Army are exchanging their lives for time!

"Not good!" At this time, Captain Pang suddenly frowned as if he had thought of something, and pointed to the mountainous area in the Tieyuan area on the map and said: "The defense front of this area is more than 20 kilometers, and the defense depth is more than ten kilometers. The 63rd Army dispersed its troops to such a large place, so our division..."

Although Commander Pang did not finish his words, everyone understood what he meant. The 180th Division also hoped to be able to attack inside and outside the 63rd Army and break through the encirclement and fight back to our position! But now the 63rd Army has dispersed its troops to hundreds of high grounds to garrison. Another disadvantage of dispersing its troops is that it is unable to launch a large-scale attack.

"That is to say..." Political Commissar Wu also frowned: "Even if we know that the comrades of the 63rd Army are in Tieyuan, they cannot get their support and support. They still have to fight alone. Moreover, there are a large number of US troops gathered in the Tieyuan area. If we accidentally do not, we may have plunged into their encirclement!"

I couldn't help but feel a headache when I heard this. Originally, I just knew that there were soldiers from the 63rd Army against the Americans in Tieyuan, so I wanted to take advantage of their lack of defense to attack inside and outside. This would save the 180th Division and reduce the casualties of the 63rd Army. It can be said that it was a trick of killing two birds with one stone, but who would have thought that the 63rd Army would use this method of dispersing forces to block the attack of the US Eighth Army. Now, it not only does not play any role, but it is in danger of falling into the US encirclement again...

Thinking of this, I felt as cold as if I fell into an ice cellar, I blame myself, feel guilty, and regret... I can't tell what it feels like, but in short, I hate myself, and I missed it all!

"What I mean..." Commander Zheng coughed lightly and said, "The superior ordered us to break through here, and there must be their reason. Maybe we are also part of the defense of Tieyuan. We have analyzed it just now? Tieyuan blocked a gate of the Eighth Army of the US. Its significance is significant both politically and military. In order to defend Tieyuan, the boss of Tieyuan did not hesitate to fight all the 63rd Army. So I think our 180th Division may have arranged it to intersperse to relieve Tieyuan's pressure. What I mean is... resolutely obey the orders of the superiors and cooperate with the comrades of the 63rd Army to defend Tieyuan at all costs!"

"I don't agree with this statement!" At this time, Political Commissar Wu seemed to be unable to help it. He gritted his teeth and responded: "The superiors should also consider that our division has reached a situation where the ammunition and food are exhausted. If there is no bullet, what can we fight with the Americans? What should we use to cooperate with the 63rd Army? I think we should consider it carefully. There are enemies everywhere around us and there are not many bullets. This determines that we only have one chance to fight. If we fail once, we will soon be surrounded by the enemy because of the exposure of our target, and then we will soon be wiped out because there is no bullet!"

"Yes, Commander Zheng!" Commander Pang also advised: "The most important thing now is that we don't have bullets..."

At this moment, I suddenly remembered the more than 60 vehicles of ammunition seized from the US military that had been buried in Chizhong a month ago. I couldn't help but feel happy: "Teacher Commander, Political Commissar, I, I have ammunition!"
Chapter completed!