Chapter 178 Defense Deployment
Just as the officers and soldiers of the 367th Regiment were busy changing their clothes, the heads of each battalion and company were summoned by Zhong Yi to the regiment headquarters to arrange the subsequent defensive deployment.
Zhong Yi's regiment headquarters is located in the Central News Agency behind the Central Bank headquarters.
It was too late to make sand tables temporarily, so I could only use a map instead.
As for the map, Guo Qi has a detailed map of the ready-made Nanjing City!
Zhong Yi asked someone to hang the map on the wall, then pointed to the map and said to more than a dozen battalions, the company commander: "Looking at the map, Nanjing City is very large, with more than 2,000 people from our 367th Regiment, it is impossible to defend the entire Nanjing City! Therefore, there must be some choices and some important areas must be guarded in a targeted manner!"
While saying that, Zhong Yi took a pencil and drew a large circle on the map.
As an instructor at the Central Military Academy, Zhu Liangcheng has lived in Nanjing for several years, so he is very familiar with Nanjing.
Zhu Liangcheng looked closely and saw that the area drawn by Zhong Yi was between Taiping Road, Xuanwu Road and Zhongshan North Road, backed by the city wall and Xuanwu Lake, so he basically only needed to defend against attacks in three directions.
Another thing is that the area drawn by Zhong Yi is the central urban area of Nanjing. Most of the buildings in the area are solid buildings of reinforced concrete buildings like the Central Bank headquarters building! Among them, Nanjing Railway Station, Central Bank headquarters building, Bank of China headquarters building and Central News Agency building are the most sturdy!
Zhong Yi took a pen and went on to the drawing area, and continued: "This is the area we want to defend, and the Central Bank headquarters building, the railway station and the Bank of China headquarters building are the core support of the entire defense line! In other words, the peripheral blocks can be lost, but these three buildings are absolutely not allowed to be lost!"
In urban street fighting, there are actually not many strategies and tactics, they are fighting for each commanding heights and buildings!
Whoever controls the main buildings in the city will basically control the city. Therefore, as long as the 367th Regiment can firmly guard the area with Nanjing Railway Station, the Central Bank Building and the Bank of China as the core, it will basically guard Nanjing!
If the Japanese cannot occupy this triangular area, even if they control large urban areas on the periphery, it will be useless!
After pausing, Zhong Yi specifically emphasized his tone: "If one of these three buildings is lost, it means that our entire defense line will collapse, and the Nanjing defense battle will be completely declared to be a failure! If Nanjing is completely lost and waiting for the end of our 367th Regiment, I believe I don't need to say more, that is... death!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several battalion commanders present stood up to ask for battle.
Sun Zhi, the commander of the 1st Independent Battalion, said: "Rangzhou, our camp guards the railway station!"
Chen Yaoting, the battalion commander of the 7th Independent Battalion, said: "Round, we guard the Central Bank Building!"
The 2nd Battalion Commander He Ajiu also stood up and said, "Room, we guard the Bank of China Building!"
The 1st battalion commander Chu Gangchang was slowing down half a beat. Seeing that all three buildings were snatched away, he was immediately unhappy and said angrily: "I'm angry with your mother, the train station is from our 1st battalion, who dares to snatch it from our 1st battalion?"
Sun Zhi was furious when he heard this and said, "Chu Manzi, do you really think I'm easy to mess with?"
"I care if your surname is Sun is easy to mess with?" Chu Gangchang said arrogantly, "Anyway, this combat mission must be chosen by our 1st battalion first. If our 1st battalion is left, we can get the 2nd battalion and the 3rd battalion, and then you can get the 1st battalion independent. If you dare to steal us, will you rebel?"
Now He Ajiu and Yang Chen are not happy.
"What do you mean by Chu Manzi? Are your 1st battalion amazing?"
"The 1st Battalion is just a number, and it doesn't mean that your battalion has the strongest combat power!"
Seeing that several battalion commanders were about to quarrel again, Zhong Yi said angrily: "Shut up!"
The battalion commanders then shut up obediently. Facing Zhong Yi, the Chu Gangfang didn't dare to explode the thorns now.
Not only because Zhong Yi is now the leader of the 367th Regiment appointed by Chairman Jiang himself, but also because Zhong Yi led their 367th Regiment to win too many victories along the way!
This is how the soldiers are. Whoever has the ability can lead them to win battles will be submissive!
Through a series of victories, Zhong Yi's prestige in the 367th Regiment has been completely erected!
"Why are you quarreling? I really think the three core positions are so easy to defend?" Zhong Yi and Leng Jun's eyes swept across the faces of the five battalion commanders one by one, and then said to the Chu Gangfang, "As you wish, the 1st Battalion is responsible for the train station, but Lao Chu, please listen to me. Don't complain to me when the fight comes. If you don't defend for three days, I won't replace you!"
"Call out? That's impossible!" Chu Bangchang said, "In the dictionary of our 1st battalion, there is no such thing as suffering!"
"Okay, ambitious!" Zhong Yi said with a snorting, "I hope you can still be so tough after the Japanese launch an attack!"
After pausing, Zhong Yi said to Sun Zhi again: "Battlefield Commander Sun, you independently guard the Bank of China Building! The treatment is the same as the 1st Battalion. If you don't guard for three days, don't think about going down and rest!"
"Yes!" Sun Zhi stood at attention, "No problem!"
Zhong Yi said to He Ajiu again: "Ajiu, your second battalion guards the Central Bank Building. Considering that behind your defense zone is the city wall and outside the city wall is Xuanwu Lake, the defense pressure will be relatively lighter, but you should not underestimate the enemy's carelessness, because the Central Bank building is stockpiling a large amount of our military supplies, and no mistakes are allowed!"
"Yes!" He Ajiu replied straightforwardly, "The 2nd Battalion guarantees to complete the mission!"
Zhong Yi's eyes finally fell on Chen Yaoting and Yang Chen's faces, and he said in a deep voice: "The Independent 7th Battalion and 3rd Battalion are temporarily reserved, but you should not be idle either. You must use all the opportunities and time to repair fortifications, especially build as much side firepower as possible!"
The 5 main battalions of the 367th Regiment, the 3rd battalion with the Special Battalion of the Tax Police Corps as the team, and the Independent 7th Battalion with the Gui Army as the foundation, are undoubtedly the strongest combat effectiveness. It is precisely because of this that Zhong Yi kept these two battalions by his side and temporarily acted as a reserve team in case of counterattacks when necessary.
"Yes!" Chen Yaoting and Yang Chen said in unison.
Zhong Yi's eyes fell on Chen Luyuan again, and he said, "Old Chen, your logistics department is not easy to do. You must ensure that there is hot water and hot soup rice 24 hours a day!"
"Yes!" Chen Luyuan stood at attention.
Zhong Yi's eyes finally fell on Zhu Liangcheng and said, "Old Zhu, your reconnaissance company has the most difficult task!"
"I understand!" Zhu Liangcheng focused his attention and continued, "Where is danger, there will be a reconnaissance company!"
"Just understand!" Zhong Yi nodded and continued, "Okay, it's getting late, so go and do it!"
Chapter completed!