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Chapter 301: The Combat Armored Command School

At this point, Wang Ziyang looked at the truck accompanying the infantry and continued: "In addition to the bloated establishment, which brings inconvenience to the command, there is another thing that I think the head of the headquarters should also consider. Our armored brigade The attached infantry regiment is a motorized infantry regiment and uses ordinary trucks."

"These trucks basically have no off-road capabilities and can only march along the road. However, when used in complex terrain, they can only follow the old method on foot. Although the performance of American-made trucks is excellent, they are still unable to travel off-road. They are equipped with It can be used by infantry, but it cannot meet the needs of troops who need to cooperate with tank troops anytime and anywhere."

"Even when fighting on flat terrain, these trucks cannot directly participate in the battle because they have no protection. When the tanks are moving at high speed on the battlefield, it is difficult for the foot infantry to keep up. In order to take care of the infantry's traveling speed, the tanks even To slow down the assault speed, we lose the advantages of tank protection and mobility. In this case, our tanks can easily become targets of enemy anti-tank artillery."

"No. 1, although the Japanese anti-tank artillery cannot penetrate our tank armor from a certain distance, it is not completely impossible to penetrate. Once under complex terrain, the Japanese army adopts a close-range ambush to specifically target It is not impossible to shoot at the weak points of our tanks and penetrate or even destroy them."

"In order to avoid the enemy's anti-tank firepower, tanks cannot reduce their speed too low whether they are marching or attacking. However, this can easily lead to a disconnect between the infantry and the tanks during the attack, while the tanks are attacking. When a position is equipped with anti-tank firepower, it cannot do without the support of infantry."

"Especially when facing an opponent like the Japanese army that is both tenacious and not afraid of death, without the cooperation of the infantry, even if we can capture the Japanese position, our losses will be quite large. No. 1, we were in Linxi Almost none of the battle-damaged tanks in the internal battles were lost to Japanese anti-tank firepower. Most of them were lost to the Japanese infantry's meat-munition offensive and a small amount of Japanese artillery fire that was indiscriminately covered."

"A large part of the reason for this situation is that the infantry cannot keep up with the impact speed of the tanks. The tanks have rushed into the Japanese position, but the infantry is still chasing behind. As you said, tanks and infantry are not the same. It’s a relationship where no one is dependent on the other, but it’s a relationship of mutual collaboration, and no one can do without the other.”

"It would be great if we had an armored vehicle that is armored like a tank and can carry infantry to coordinate tank attacks like a truck. By the way, it would be like the semi-armored vehicle you gave us when the German army fought against Britain and France on the Western Front. Although the armor of a tracked vehicle can only withstand small arms attacks and shrapnel, it is at least much better than an ordinary truck that has no protection at all, and we don’t have to worry about the infantry keeping up with the speed of the tanks."

"On the 1st, you once said at the founding meeting of the Armored Forces that tanks without infantry cover can only be iron coffins, but if the infantry regiment is allowed to ride in ordinary trucks equipped with tanks to launch an attack, it will be a massacre of the infantry, and even a crooked weapon. A light machine gun can turn a truck into a hornet's nest, and a grenade can destroy a truck. If a truck is destroyed, we will lose at least one infantry squad."

"Judging from the fact that we are still mainly Japanese infantry in the battle, we urgently need a light infantry-carrying armored vehicle that can cooperate with tanks in combat. Compared with the Soviet-made BA series armored vehicles currently used by the army, I personally feel that it has to bear more Combat missions can definitely be undertaken by BT fast tanks."

"Compared to the wheeled BA series armored vehicles with weak armor and poor off-road capabilities, the BT series tanks are better than these armored vehicles in terms of protection and travel speed. So I personally feel that we can use it on hand. Some BA armored vehicles have been modified into armored personnel carriers with certain combat capabilities, or we can develop a tracked armored personnel carrier ourselves based on such armored vehicles."

"Our military industry has made great progress in the past two years. We have designed and produced a variety of new artillery such as new anti-aircraft guns and new small-caliber direct-aiming artillery, as well as automatic rifles, general-purpose machine guns and other new light weapons. I think that in the existing We still have the ability to develop an armored personnel carrier on the basis of Soviet-made tanks or Japanese Type 97 tanks, or use BA armored vehicles to develop a wheeled armored personnel carrier."

Yang Zhen listened very carefully to Wang Ziyang's suggestions. As for his previous thoughts, although the deputy brigade commander did not understand the painstaking efforts he had set up in this organization, it was already very good that he could see this, which showed that His vision is still very broad and is not limited to himself and the Japanese army.

Although he is just a deputy brigade commander in charge of equipment repair, maintenance and logistics, he has a very broad mind and thinks about problems very carefully. He does not limit his thinking to a certain range. This person thinks very long-term. I also know how to think about things.

What he said is correct. A combined armored division or tank division with more than 300 tanks and armored vehicles is indeed organized into two tank regiments or armored regiments in addition to its directly affiliated troops. A brigade like the Anti-Japanese Alliance only has one tank regiment, equipped with 300 tanks. The armored vehicles are indeed too large. This is probably the largest tank regiment in the world.

However, the reason why we considered this at the beginning is certainly related to the fact that the actual number of tanks and armored vehicles is insufficient, and the idea of ​​concentrating troops and equipment as much as possible in the main assault direction, but this reason is only part of it, and it is definitely not comprehensive.

The reason why the current large-scale tank regiment is established is also related to the status of the two armored brigades currently concentrated on the battlefield in Western Manchuria, and this is the most important reason, because under Yang Zhen's consideration Among them, these two armored brigades are equivalent to the armored command schools of the entire army, and are places where command cadres are trained for the armored brigades of the entire army.

The establishment of these two armored brigades is so large that they are used as the main assault force on the battlefield in Western Manchuria to accumulate experience in large-scale tank operations, so as to use this actual combat test and assessment of a group of military experts with outstanding command capabilities. commander to prepare for future expansion.

This battle was the first large-scale attack since the expansion of the armored forces. For Yang Zhen, he considered it very carefully, because all the current commanders of the tank troops were converted from infantry, artillery, and even cavalry. These people commanded the original old troops. There is no problem if you can command a company, a battalion, or even a regiment, but whether you can command a tank company or a tank battalion in combat is another matter.

Most of them followed the requirements of the Anti-Japanese League for tank troop commanders. Although they also learned command tactics, tank driving, new tactics, tactics, and simple maintenance, due to time constraints, most of them only completed one year. Short-term training, real combat command, only three months of professional command training in the military region's advanced training class.

Moreover, except for some basic textbooks from the Soviet Union, most of the teaching materials used were compiled by Yang Zhen himself based on the German military's combat examples on the European battlefield and the use of tanks. Although they followed the trend, it did not mean that These cadres, who had only received crash course training, truly mastered the use of tank tactics.

Although the backbone of them had experienced last year's autumn battle and even fought quite well in Korea, the number of tanks at that time was not there, and the level of synthesis was not as high as it is now. As the saying goes, the situation is one moment, another moment, so there is no After careful consideration, Yang Zhen decided to have fewer institutional buildings and more intensive ones.

According to Yang Zhen's plan, after the battle is over, the two brigades will be expanded into two armored divisions with two tank regiments each. At the same time, the original independent tank regiments will be used, plus the newly arrived tanks, and then Create two armored divisions and three mechanized divisions.

At least it must be achieved that in addition to the situation where the headquarters retains at least one armored division as a reserve force, each column can be equipped with an armored division according to the terrain and enemy situation of the combat area during wartime, or it can have an armored division under its jurisdiction. Mechanized infantry division of twenty tanks.

In other words, in Yang Zhen's plan, the two armored brigades, which currently account for 70% of the tanks and armored vehicles of the entire Anti-Japanese Alliance in Western Manchuria, are to serve as the backbone for the expansion of unopened armored forces. It is a combat-oriented tank and armored force command school that tests the abilities of commanders at all levels through actual combat and selects senior military command talents.

Otherwise, in addition to this first brigade and the second armored brigade commanded by Chen Hanzhang, those fighting in other directions used former legal and Polish tanks, and even captured Japanese tanks, plus a small number of independent tanks formed by Soviet tanks and armored vehicles. The group does not have such a large establishment.

For independent tank regiments in other directions, a regiment, including tanks and armored vehicles, has more than 60 vehicles. There are only three regiments. One of the independent tank regiments is still used by the tank training base for tank training and maintenance. It is built using vehicles for personnel training.

As for the fact that according to his expansion plan, even the captured Japanese tanks in the Anti-Japanese Alliance cannot meet his needs, Yang Zhen is not worried. Although the Americans have suddenly stopped the supply of military supplies to the Anti-Alliance, Weapons and equipment were even prohibited from entering the Anti-Japanese War.

But Yang Zhen can be sure that in two months at most, the Americans themselves will rush to find him. According to his memory, the Americans began to provide weapons, equipment and military supplies to the Soviet Union two months later, and At this time, it had been less than four months since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Judging from the information he has received so far, the Japanese army has mobilized at least five divisions from home, the battlefield in Guannei, Hainan Island, Taiwan and Vietnam, including the reorganized Second Division and the Fifth Division. Such a veteran division of the Japanese army.

Even the hated Fourth Division had been transferred from Shanghai to Hainan Island at this time. Although the desire of these Osaka soldiers to fight was extremely low, the Americans did not know this information. They only knew Yes, this is a veteran division of the Japanese army.

In addition to these five infantry divisions, according to the Japanese army's subsequent combat plan, they will at least mobilize four newly formed divisions and four tank regiments to the already formed Southern Army, and according to Judging from the intelligence received so far, the 18th Division within the Kwantung Army will soon be transferred to Vietnam after this battle.

At the same time, the main force of its naval aviation force, as well as a considerable part of the army aviation force deployed in the Guannei battlefield, were also transferred to these three places. Although the number of so-called heavy bombers is slightly insufficient, the number of light shore-based aviation forces is very large. The most critical thing is The Japanese navy also concentrated a group of ships for landing in Hainan and Vietnam.


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