Although he has always been quite confident about the combat effectiveness of the anti-alliance alliance as a veteran. But Wang Deyao is not crazy like Ichiki Kiyoshi, who thinks that his own regiment can challenge the entire Linxi battlefield with hundreds of tanks.
, the anti-alliance group of heavy artillery. He only had the relatively limited capital of these two regiments in his hands, and he didn't want to be wasted.
If these two regiments were wiped out, the entire northern wing of the Linxi battlefield entrusted to him by the headquarters would be undefendable, which would actually be equivalent to collapse. So he is not so crazy to use all his strength.
Investing in a bet. Although he is not willing to stick to it, Wang Deyao has always maintained the necessary sobriety in his mind.
But this time, Ichiki Kiyoshi split his marching order from the brigade to the squadron, but it happened to take advantage of Wang Deyao's wish, making him feel that the fighter he had been looking for had arrived. To deal with the Japanese troops at the regiment or brigade level
, he didn’t have many troops at hand, and he was afraid of being stuck. But he still thought he would have no problem dealing with one or two squadrons.
Coupled with the information coming from the front about the losses suffered by the 28th Regiment during the daytime air raid, he felt that he was still profitable. A man who had actually been beaten to a half-crippled condition was now fighting with
The Japanese army unit marching for the formation of the squadron, this is not the fat meat that I have been looking forward to, what else can it be? Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared. If you don't bite off a piece of meat at this time, how long are you waiting for?
In fact, we have to say that Wang Deyao is a very bold guy. Facing a reorganized division of the Japanese army, although there is relatively favorable terrain to take advantage of, the two regiments in his hands are newly formed troops and are seriously lacking.
Practical experience.
Except for most of the cadres and some veterans who are the backbone of the battle, most of the soldiers can be said to be fresh recruits who have never participated in the war. Although the veterans have no combat effectiveness, they have no combat experience.
Recruits still make up the majority.
Under such circumstances, this guy actually dared to leave only two battalions of troops in front of two Japanese regiments, and mobilized all the troops with them. Even with powerful ground and air fire support, it has to be said that
It is a kind of risk. Once the regiment in his hand is attracted by the target he has chosen, and the Japanese troops in the other two directions are speeding up their march, I am afraid that his entire defense line is in danger of collapse.
But this guy did just that. After learning that the marching sequence of the 28th Regiment was more fragmented than the other two Japanese armies, Wang Deyao took the only regiment in his hand without any hesitation.
The troops immediately divided into two groups and rushed towards the direction of the 28th Regiment. They quickly deployed three mutually supporting ambush circles on the marching route of the 28th Regiment.
But in his opinion, as long as he seizes the opportunity, there is no problem in making a time difference and pulling some sheep. He believes that as long as he goes in and out quickly, he should not lose everything. In this battle, in
Wang Deyao seems that the key lies in the word "quick". As long as he grasps this key, he can succeed.
Wang Deyao actually dared to do this, and it was not because he had no confidence at all. The regiment in his hands was indeed a new regiment. Although the soldiers in the army had indeed completed full training, most of them had not participated in combat. However,
The company and above cadres of this regiment, including the three battalion commanders, are all promoted by outstanding company commanders selected by the old army. Not to mention extremely rich practical experience, and they are all the kind of guys who dare to fight and fight hard.
At least one of the three platoon commanders in each company was promoted from a veteran. The remaining two student officers who had just graduated from the Military Region Instruction Team were appointed as the deputy platoon commanders of the platoon commanders, and the three squad leaders were all
Veterans. Every combat squad has at least one veteran as its backbone.
In other words, the meat of this regiment is new, but the skeleton is still the same. In this way of bringing in the new with the old, as long as it has experienced one or two battles, the army will soon mature. With the old bringing in the new,
This is the tradition of the Anti-Japanese Alliance to form new troops. A certain number of veterans are incorporated into the new troops to speed up the formation of the new troops' combat effectiveness.
If we simply take the troops formed by new cadres and recruits and put them directly on the battlefield, it is not called training and training the troops, but it is called sending the recruits to die. The two regiments currently in Wang Deyao's hands are exactly this kind of troops. The troops are new troops.
, but in fact it is bringing in the new with the old.
Moreover, before these two regiments were airlifted to the Linxi battlefield, considering the situation that they might face here, the headquarters also specially allocated 500 people from the wounded who had just been discharged from the hospital to these two regiments as the backbone.
and the use of mobile power. These two regiments are actually two strengthened regiments. Although the equipment is not as good as that of the old army, it is actually not much worse.
Although it was not equipped with automatic rifles, general-purpose machine guns and other automatic weapons, after Wang Deyao took over, he ordered 24 Type 92 heavy machine guns from the weapons captured by Wang Guangyu on the Linxi battlefield. When he arrived,
, in line with the principle of not returning empty-handed, we also insisted on obtaining the twelve water-cooled Soviet-made Maxim machine guns that were in reserve from the headquarters logistics department and captured in the Hailar Battle.
Thirty-six heavy machine guns, he organized four heavy machine gun companies, which are specially used in important directions. As an army now, heavy machine guns are the most basic configuration. No matter how poor this army is, the heavy machine guns will at least
Equipped with some and used as the main supporting firepower at the battalion level.
However, if thirty-six heavy machine guns are used in clusters, their power will be absolutely extraordinary and comparable to that of an ordinary heavy machine gun company. You must know that even the Japanese army only has seventy-two heavy machine guns in a division.
Quite. Not counting the original eighteen heavy machine guns of the two regiments in Wang Deyao's hands, these thirty-six heavy machine guns alone were equivalent to the heavy machine gun configuration of half a division of the Japanese army.
After doing this, although there is still some gap between these two regiments and the old army. Mainly there is still a certain gap in artillery equipment and infantry firepower. But in terms of ordinary infantry support firepower, it is better. Especially in terms of the number of machine guns.
, even higher than the average old army.
Because considering that the headquarters currently has a relatively large reserve of old rifles and machine guns handed over to Jiangbei, seized on the battlefield, and collected through other means for the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the reserves of new weapons, especially general-purpose machine guns, are relatively small.
Much less. Moreover, a considerable part of the ammunition is about to expire and will have to be scrapped if not used.
And considering the use of captured Japanese ammunition, captured Japanese weapons also accounted for a considerable part of the weapons transported to the pass. Although the Anti-Japanese Alliance transferred most of the 79-caliber weapons supported by Jiangbei to the troops inside the pass,
But currently there is still a considerable amount of reserves in the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
In particular, the number of non-mainstream French-caliber weapons in the Guan Guan is quite large. After the Battle of Hylar, the number of Soviet-made light weapons in hand is also quite large. These caliber weapons are all non-mainstream calibers on the battlefield in the Guan Guan.
Even if they are handed over to the internal forces, it is relatively difficult to replenish ammunition. Therefore, these weapons have always been used as reserve weapons by the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
Moreover, most of the new regiments were upgraded from local troops plus new regiments. According to the current configuration of light weapons of the Anti-Japanese Federation, the troops under the secondary military regions, except for the independent brigades directly under the military regions, generally do not have new weapons.
Automatic rifles and squad machine guns. Most of them still use old-fashioned light and heavy machine guns.
Even the independent brigades directly under each secondary military region are not equipped with general-purpose machine guns, 14mm machine guns and 23mm anti-aircraft guns. General-purpose machine guns are generally replaced by French, Polish or Japanese heavy machine guns, and 14mm anti-aircraft guns
Anti-aircraft weapons such as machine guns and 23mm anti-aircraft guns are still equipped with 20mm high-level and flat dual-purpose guns.
However, all light weapons have been replaced with automatic rifles and squad machine guns, and there are also some recoilless rifles and heavy mortars in the establishment. The reason why not all of them have been replaced is that in addition to the fact that the weapons in stock cannot be wasted, there are also some
Taking into account the reserves of ammunition and the current production of new general-purpose machine guns, there are still certain shortcomings in ensuring that the main force can be reloaded and a certain amount of reserves need to be retained. Therefore, local troops have different organizational structures, and the speed and configuration of reloading are also different.
different.
The most important thing is that as local troops, these military region troops were scheduled to change their uniforms in the second wave. Moreover, when they took over the main force to confront the Japanese and puppet troops, in order to maintain secrecy as much as possible, they did not all change their uniforms. As for the divisions
There is not much need to change all the troops and newly formed regiments.
It is for this reason that these new regiments, which have been upgraded from the original divisional troops plus new regiments, have not yet had time to install new weapons. They still use the Polish-made and French-made rifle machine guns transferred from the Soviet Union. Each regiment has
There is no anti-aircraft artillery battery, only an improved Deshka 12mm anti-aircraft machine gun company transferred from the Soviet Union.
However, although the equipment cannot be compared with the old army, especially in the artillery weapons and soldier structure, the gap is large. But the real combat effectiveness is far from what the Kwantung Army imagined. At least in terms of real combat effectiveness, it is not as good as Chongqing on the Guanci Civil War battlefield.
Those few ace soldiers.
Moreover, under the unique political education of our army, they do not lack blood, and even have a high enthusiasm for fighting. And compared to the veterans who have been through the war for a long time, these recruits who have not really tasted the fire of war are even more excited.
After this battle, they will truly mature after being tested by the fire of war.
It was precisely with this confidence that Wang Deyao decided to take a gamble when there were not many artillery units under his management. Although the heavy artillery transferred from the headquarters was directly commanded by Qiu Jintang, the deputy chief of staff of the artillery who arrived with him, he could
Ask for support when needed, but he does not have the authority to directly command and mobilize.
For Wang Deyao, who was accustomed to marching and fighting at night during the old Anti-Japanese War, although there was a certain shortage of heavy firearms, it was not a big deal. In his opinion, night is the best cover. The key issue
It was a fighter plane that found an opening for him to attack. After the 28th Regiment began to take action as a squadron, Wang Deyao made up his mind to give these guys a hard punch.
Although there is strong ground and air fire support, the battle situation in Aruhorqin Banner is indeed very stressful for Wang Deyao. But in his view, pressure is also equal to opportunity and motivation. And the relative disadvantage in terms of military strength
, does not mean that the military strength is weak.
Comparing the strength of the Japanese army with that of the Japanese army, excluding the baggage regiments and engineer regiments, the ratio of infantry actually used in combat is only three to two. The Japanese army does have a certain advantage in strength, but it is not too obvious. And
Compared to the Seventh Division, he believed that he and his men were better at night fighting.
Moreover, behind him, there is superior ground and air fire support. To a certain extent, this further offsets the Japanese army's advantage in military strength. As long as he seizes the opportunity, looks for loopholes in the Japanese army's deployment, and finds opportunities to eat part of the Japanese army, he can still
He is very confident. He believes that although there is a certain risk, the risk is still within the range that he can bear.