Chapter 216 Military Instruction Team Begins Classes
Under Zhou Weihan's order, the heads of each regiment and some of their subordinate battalion commanders and company commanders quickly gathered at Yamawang Mountain as the first batch of students of the military training team.
In a small house in Yamawang Mountain, the military training team has started classes.
Zhou Weihan stood on the podium, with his back to a simple blackboard, looking around at the forty people sitting upright at the bottom of the stage.
"Some of you here are already group leaders, and the rest are also the backbone of the detachment. Otherwise, I wouldn't let you come as the first batch of students, and let you come to my place to listen to my lectures. Don't you think it's a little bit...
Are you impatient?" Zhou Weihan said.
As soon as Zhou Weihan finished speaking, everyone below had smiles on their faces, but they did not dare to laugh out loud.
"Zhai Lingyuan, you graduated from Yan University and studied in the 29th Army Corps. You are more than enough to teach us!" Wu Qin is Zhou Weihan's junior student at Yan University. He followed Zhou Weihan from the 29th Army through the 22nd Regiment and the New Second Regiment.
, and now the independent detachment knows Zhou Weihan well.
Zhou Weihan had a straight face, broke off a piece of chalk, threw it over, and cursed at the same time: "You damn thing, you talk too much, just stand and listen!"
"Yes!" Wu Qinteng immediately took possession of him, very cooperative with Zhou Weihan's murderous behavior.
"Our teaching team's course lasts for eight days. It is said that I will teach the class. In fact, you have been in the army for a long time and have experienced a lot of big battles and small battles. This is a process of integrating your experience. This process is not mine.
I can tell it alone, but at some point you all have to have representatives come up and talk about your own experiences in leading troops and commanding experience!" Zhou Weihan pointed at Jing Dagang and others and said.
Jing Dagang had a bitter look on his face. He had no problem asking him to lead the troops in the war, but it was a bit embarrassing to speak on stage.
"Wang Yigong and Zhang Hao, one of you is a regiment commander and the other is a battalion commander. They both graduated from Huangpu. The positional warfare of the national army is still remarkable!"
"Today I will say a sentence, know yourself and the enemy, and you will never be in danger in a hundred battles. This means that if you have a thorough understanding of your own situation and the enemy's situation, the battle will not fail. This sentence comes from "The Art of War: Planning and Attack Chapter" by Sun Tzu, and it is applicable to ancient and modern times.
All wars between China and foreign countries, and will never go out of style!"
"Knowledge is the premise and foundation of war. If you don't understand the enemy's situation and fight in a confused manner, even if you win, it will be a miserable victory. You will not give full play to your own advantages and attack the enemy's disadvantages!"
“Knowing requires ‘omniscient’ and ‘detailed knowledge’”
"In a narrow sense, "knowing the enemy and knowing yourself" includes knowing our own army and knowing the enemy's army."
"But understood in a broad sense, it should include all war-related information, such as the enemy's and our own troops, celestial phenomena and climate, natural terrain conditions, brother troops and reinforcements, etc."
"Understanding the enemy's situation is the first priority, but grasping other situations is also indispensable.
For example, the enemy's number, strength, weapons and equipment. If the enemy has deployed defenses, you need to know the enemy's firepower and equipment.
You must know the habits and styles of the enemy's generals, so that you can make overall plans and wait for opportunities to weaken the enemy's forces within the enemy."
"Secondly, understand your own situation. Simply put, know your strengths and weaknesses, which company of yours is suitable for using sharp knives, and which company is for blocking operations.
Understand the combat style of your subordinates, know them well and make good use of them, and put them in the right place. There are so many companies under our independent detachment, so it is impossible for every company commander to have the same combat style!"
"Take the formation of a commando team by a regiment as an example. Why did I let Xin Tiebing be the commando captain? Because I saw it when he was a company commander in the competition between the three regiments long ago. At that time, the two companies
When fighting with a bayonet, Xin Tiebing is not only ruthless, but also good at discovering the opponent's weaknesses, and reacts quickly, leading his men to charge forward with the opponent's weaknesses in mind."
"At that time, the one selected by Li Yunlong's new regiment to fight with the bayonet was not weak in overall strength, but so what, Xin Tiebing took advantage of the opportunity and was always at a disadvantage! This was still a competition between brother troops, and his men kept their guard up. Really
To the battlefield..."
"Xin Tiebing's commando team performed very well this time. The soldiers dared to fight and fight hard. The commando team was like a sharp knife, tearing apart the defense line of the 97th Army in one fell swoop!"
Xin Tiebing, now the chief of staff of a regiment, was sitting below. Hearing what Zhou Weihan said, he was obviously a little embarrassed.
"Now let me analyze the Battle of Tainan as a whole!"
"Why does our Eighth Route Army fight this battle? Even this battle is specifically against the 97th Army?"
"Because from the beginning, our army's strategy of struggle has been to 'use contradictions, win over the majority, attack the minority, and defeat them one by one.'"
"So what is the situation of the enemy forces in Tainan? Pang Bingxun's troops are restrained by our 344th Brigade and the Third Column of Death and Death and cannot advance northward.
Sun Dianying's New Fifth Army and Lu Zhonglin's troops are afraid of our army's strength or want to preserve it, and are wavering and waiting.
However, Zhu Huaibing's tribe was far away from the main force of Tainan's stubborn army, protruding out of the Wushe area, and was in an isolated position.
That’s why our Eighth Route Army launched an offensive against Zhu Huaibing’s Ninety-seventh Army!”
Zhou Weihan paused for a moment and then said: "The above is the understanding and insight into the enemy's internal situation. This is knowledge!"
"Let's talk about what we know about the 97th Army as a separate combat unit!"
"Our Eighth Route Army's intelligence work is very detailed. Before the battle began, we had a rough understanding of the number of people, weapons and equipment of the 97th Army, and even collected most of the information on the enemy's middle and high-ranking officers."
"The night before the battle started, I sent Dong Jiang's reconnaissance company and brought back a detailed plan of the enemy's troop deployment and firepower layout!"
“Our army’s offensive deployment includes: first, our independent detachment and the 386th Brigade on the northern front, which are divided into three routes from north to south to attack; second, the enemy’s right rear has the approaching detachment 22 and 25 regiment to attack its flank;
Third, the enemy's left rear has the Jizhong Garrison Brigade crossing the Zhang River to the north to prevent Zhu Huaibing's troops from breaking out to the west and south; fourth, on the south bank of the Zhang River, our army also has brother troops of the independent guerrilla detachment, along the Zhang River
He deployed a second blocking position."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Why did the head of the headquarters dare to arrange it like this, and why did he let my independent detachment act as the middle column? You should think about these!"
"With such a detailed battle plan, how can the 97th Army be undefeated? To put it bluntly, our army knows the situation of the soldiers at the bottom of the 97th Army better than Zhu Huaibing!"
"After talking about our Eighth Route Army, let's talk about the Ninety-seventh Army."
"If Zhu Huaibing really understood the strength of the 97th Army, he would not have allowed the troops to be deployed around seven or eight towns along the line. The defense line would have been extended, and the troops would have been dispersed, poking holes one at a time.
Of course, if he really shrinks his troops and waits for reinforcements, I can only say that he understands his own situation and knows that he cannot fight head-on with our Eighth Route Army. But he does not understand the situation of his reinforcements. He can wait.
Reinforcements?”
"Both sides have always known that a war is coming, but does Zhu Huaibing know when our Eighth Route Army will launch an attack? Does he know how many troops will participate? Does he know that the Jizhong Garrison Brigade went to block his retreat before the battle started? Obviously he doesn't know
!”
"Zhu Huaibing was a blind man in Tainan. He didn't know anything. He even dared to send the 281st Regiment out of the defensive position after being captured by our independent detachment in Yuquan Ridge, and was even wiped out!"
"All the above are just knowledge. I don't ask you to look to the head of the headquarters to strategize and gain insights into the enemy's situation, but don't become a fool like Zhu Huaibing!"
After Zhou Weihan finished speaking, everyone present laughed.
"Now let me compare it with the specific combat examples of our independent detachment!"
"Wang Yigong, when your four regiments attacked Shidu Town, why did you surround three and one was missing?" Zhou Weihan asked.
"Detachment leader, before attacking Shidu Town, the soldiers of the reconnaissance company conducted a detailed investigation on it and knew that the people in the town were puppet troops and their approximate number."
"Later, I conducted a personal investigation and found that the records of the puppet troops in the town were really scattered. It was easy for our troops to defeat them with the force at that time, but it was very difficult to completely annihilate the puppet troops!"
"If we are surrounded on all sides, the puppet troops who have no intention of fighting will be trapped in a fight. Therefore, I did not organize troops to attack at one city gate. Instead, I asked the troops to set up an ambush position four or five miles away from the city gate!"
"There must be people in the puppet army who can see through my plan, but I believe that most people will not give up the chance to survive. The puppet army that broke through defeated a small force I deliberately arranged, and took advantage of its arrogance to underestimate the enemy.
The army successfully entered the ambush position I arranged!" Wang Yigong gave a summary report on the situation in Shidu Town.
"Well, very good, this is one aspect of knowing yourself and your enemy!" Zhou Weihan praised.
Then Zhou Weihan turned to look at Jing Dagang: "The Heijiakou blockade buried an unsatisfied Japanese brigade alive. If we really block a Japanese brigade, it would be a good thing if you lose more than half of your troops, right?"
"The Heijiakou blocking battle fully demonstrated the need to understand the terrain and geological characteristics and make full use of its soft soil, rather than simply taking advantage of its narrow exit and setting up blocking positions outside its exit!"
