Yang Zhen pointed at the map and said: "Although the enemy in Jingxian County has three divisions, their deployment is messy and they have not formed an overall defense line at all. The New Seventh Division is in Yunling, our old military headquarters, and the main force of the 144th Division is
At present, it should be on the Piling line. As for the 108th Division, it is still in the west of Jingxian County."
"These three divisions are scattered and do not even have a unified command. Judging from the previous battles, except for the 144th Division, which was more active because the division commander was detained, the other two divisions were not active. He said
To be honest, when we were on the front line of Piling, if the New 7th Division had acted actively at that time, they would have intervened from Yunling. Before taking Xingtan, we would have been even more passive."
Yang Zhen's words made everyone think deeply. After a long time, Feng Dafei said: "Political Commissar, I think this matter needs to be carefully considered. We have indeed managed the relationship with these motley crews well before. Especially...
The relationship between the 144th Division and the 108th Division was pretty good."
"But now times have changed, and no one knows whether they will add insult to injury. Even if these miscellaneous troops are no longer trusted, they will be divided and used. But no matter what, they will still receive military pay from Chongqing and accept the command of the third theater. Once their military pay is cut off
Source, they have lost their territory and it will be difficult for them to survive."
Having said this, Feng Dafei glanced at Yang Zhen hesitantly, and then said: "Political Commissar, and we are not what we used to be. The large troops have left, leaving only our small force. Will they still be like before?
No one can guarantee it. Political commissar, it’s better to be careful.”
In response to Feng Dafei's worries, Yang Zhen smiled and said: "Old Feng, you don't understand what I mean. No matter how incompetent I, Yang Zhen, am, I will never go out to build relationships with my opponents. No matter what our previous relationship was like,
So, but now we are all rivals. I will not and cannot look for trouble."
"What I mean is that we do not have many troops now, and we are also very short of ammunition. But with a small number, we have an advantage, that is, we are short and compact. We can definitely take advantage of the loopholes in the deployment of these divisions in Jing County and find a gap to exploit.
Get out. As long as we don't take the initiative to expose ourselves, I don't think those divisions will take the initiative to look for us and ask for a fight."
"I have decided to temporarily cancel the establishment of the third regiment, the special agent regiment and the teaching corps. The eight companies of combat troops currently in hand will be mixed into a regiment, with Comrade Feng Dafei as the regiment leader and Comrade Zhang Chuangchu, the political commissar of the special agent regiment.
.The former leader and political commissar of the Third Regiment served as chief of staff and director of the political department respectively."
"The troops are organized into two battalions and one directly affiliated company. As for the selection of battalion and company commanders, it is up to you to decide on your own. The troops will start reorganizing immediately and set off on time at 7 p.m. Tell the troops that they must be well fed and use all the remaining dry food on hand.
Eat. You must try to get out of the circle before midnight."
"Now I declare the operational discipline. You must reiterate it to the troops when you go back. First, you must resolutely obey orders during marching, rest, and marching. Second, you are not allowed to smoke, use flashlights at will, and don't make loud noises while marching.
Third, during action, if you encounter the enemy, you must fight out resolutely and decisively. Political workers at all levels must also do a good job in containing them and try not to fall behind."
Having said this, Yang Zhen turned to Li Mingbo behind him and said: "Teach them how to use the compass and how to identify the direction when marching at night, and give them some methods. The compass is very important for night movements.
.You are regiment leaders and political commissars, but you don’t even know how to use a compass, how can you command the battle?"
"Most of our cadres have never been to Huangpu or any military academy. Most of them have fought on the battlefield and stepped out from the dead. They have rich practical experience. It can be said that
They all graduated from the Zhan Zhan University. But that’s not the case, we don’t need to study.”
"Many of our cadres and soldiers have a poor acceptance of some new tactics and new equipment. The machine gun company commander directs machine gun operations, but his combat method is to just place a few machine guns somewhere. Where is the focus of firepower?
, I don’t know how to build a machine gun bunker.”
"During the battle, they all rush upward. They don't care where the key allocations are when allocating troops, or where the focus of firepower deployment should be. They also don't accept the use of some new equipment. They can't read maps, and they can't read a compass.
If you don’t know how to use it, your judgment on the terrain in battle depends entirely on feeling and experience.”
"I know that many of our regiment-level cadres have experienced the test of three years of guerrilla war. They fought alone for three full years far away from the main force without food and ammunition. During these three years of guerrilla war, they worked hard for production every day.
And when fighting, you don’t have much time, let alone energy, to study cultural and military courses.”
"But comrades, this doesn't work. It doesn't matter if we don't know how to do it. We have to learn. We can't be proud of being rough and uneducated. This doesn't work, comrades. Only by continuous learning can we master more ways to win the war.
Knowledge. Today, if not now, we will start learning from the use of the compass."
"When I get to Jiangbei, I will work out a systematic learning method. I suggest that the army should conduct rotation training for cadres above the regiment level. If this happens again, I will not be able to use the compass, and I will just rely on my feelings when fighting. As a regiment
It is absolutely unacceptable that the battalion commander cannot even do the most basic drawings. As long as I am in the position of political commissar even for a day, I will not allow this phenomenon to occur."
"As commanders at all levels, we hold the lives of soldiers in our hands. It is not terrible to be short of guns and ammunition. We can find ways to take it from the enemy. But if there is also a lack of something in our heads, we as commanders must master it.
If we have something, then we must use the lives of our soldiers to save it."
"Although learning these things now may be just a matter of sharpening your weapons in your eyes. But I think sharpening is better than not sharpening. Those of you who are commanders, especially military commanders, learn more knowledge. We are on the battlefield.
You can save a lot of costs that could have been avoided.”
When Yang Zhen said this, several cadres felt somewhat embarrassed. Seeing that several people were blushing, Yang Zhen could only smile bitterly and shake his head. He also felt that his words were a bit harsh. This place is not his own.
There are nearly 100 regiment leaders in the old army. They are all veterans who were brought up by themselves. Let alone scolding them, even giving them a few kicks, those cadres would not dare to give a shit.
However, the size of the New Fourth Army is far from being compared with that of our own old troops. The total number of cadres at the regiment level is simply not enough. Compared with our own army, the number of regiment-level cadres in the combat troops is even smaller. These people are all old revolutionaries.
They all have deep qualifications. Especially those cadres who participated in the Long March. Many of them were regiment-level or even division-level cadres when they were in the Red Army. Their qualifications are far above mine. What I said today is indeed a bit serious.
But some words, to put it lightly, have no effect at all. No matter how senior they are or how old they are, there are some things that should be said. If not said, what is lost is the troops, the blood and lives of the soldiers. As a commander
Members, not even a single detail can be considered, how many bones of people, how many tears of orphans and widows will be used to make up for it.
After arriving in southern Anhui, Yang Zhen felt that the military literacy of cadres who had experienced the Long March was better than that of cadres who had fought guerrilla warfare for three years. The reason was simple. During the Long March, the central government did not give up on setting up military cadre schools.
The cadre regiment of the front army and the Red Army University after the merger were all specially established to train cadres.
Although it is difficult to say clearly how high the teaching quality is during mobile operations. This is because these military and political schools that train cadres often have to participate in wars themselves and even have to make great sacrifices. Moreover, they march and fight all day long.
It’s also difficult to calm down and study. But having these experiences is better than nothing. It’s just that what they learn is too far from what they want.
Yang Zhen knows that these cadres are all people who have been tested for a long time and have a firm will. They fight their way out of the battlefield step by step from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. They will not frown when facing any enemy on the battlefield, let alone
There is no retreat or timidity. These people who survived ten years of civil war are the best in this army.
However, due to the influence of his background, his cultural level and military skills are far behind. On the battlefield, as a commander, you cannot win by relying on bravery alone. Although the central government established the Anti-Japanese University, it was specially used to train
Military and political cadres. However, they are subject to the current situation of the division of various base areas, the continuous expansion and development of the army, and the environment of constant fighting.
The Anti-Japanese University simply cannot meet the army's needs for cadres, especially military cadres. This has also resulted in a large gap in qualified military cadres for the troops in various base areas, especially the grassroots troops. Coupled with its own teaching level limitations, it has
Compared with Yang Zhen's requirements, the military cadres in various base areas fell far behind.
In the private words of Li Mingbo, who accompanied Yang Zhen to teach at the Anti-Japanese University every day when he was in Yan'an, the level of political education is very high, much higher than the level of the Anti-Japanese League. But the level of military education is, at best, our regiment-level education
The level of the team. Although Yang Zhen severely punished Li Mingbo because of these words, in private, he had to admit that the level of Kangda at this time was far different from what he had imagined.
Of course, Yang Zhen took it for granted that the Anti-Japanese University at this time should be at least equivalent to the National Defense University in later generations. Only later did he realize that it was not the same thing at all. Of course, there were no airplanes, no tanks, or even artillery.
It is indeed difficult for a center that has no specialized personnel to command similar operations to teach mechanized combined warfare to large corps.
Not to mention the rudimentary Anti-Japanese University, even the Army University of the Nationalist Government’s Military Commissar does not have this capability. This Anti-Japanese University mainly teaches guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines that is suitable for the current development of the Eighteenth Army. As for large corps operations, at present the army still has
If you don't have the ability to fight, there is no need to teach these.
However, it is a real problem that the command ability of the military cadres at the grassroots level needs to be strengthened. Rich experience in actual combat does not mean that the tactical theory is also strong. As the leaders of the grassroots military cadres, military cadres at all levels need to deploy troops and deploy firepower.