Chapter seven hundred and thirteenth future generations do not forget, the teacher of the previous life
What made Yang Zhen a little bit dumbfounded at the time was that those few guns that were originally installed on the pickup truck drove him in embarrassment for hundreds of kilometers. If the local terrain was not complicated, almost the whole team that went to perform the mission would have been The destroyed twin-mounted 14mm anti-aircraft machine gun was still the Type 58 that China used to support the opponent out of some strategic need.
Although he was embarrassed that time by this machine gun produced in his own country, Yang Zhen deeply fell in love with this antique weapon that was completely retired for the Chinese Army. It was used on the ground. The huge power displayed during the battle, especially its shooting ability at a large elevation angle and ultra-long range during mountain combat, is extremely appreciated.
This is also the reason why Yang Zhen had to create this kind of weapon. In addition to its simple structure, huge power, and multi-purpose use suitable for the current situation of his army, this weapon is too impressive for Yang Zhen, but this Yang Zhen will not say these words no matter what.
After sighing in his heart and stroking this classic machine gun, Yang Zhen felt a little regretful, but he also knew that although he had not achieved the quadruple-mounted machine gun he had in mind, compared to the somewhat bulky quadruple-mounted anti-aircraft machine gun , the obviously lighter double-mounted weapon is more suitable for the troops below the regiment that are scheduled to be equipped with this weapon. Currently, they lack mobile tools and still rely on animal power as the main means of transportation.
After last summer's operation, in order to ensure the opening of operations with mainland China in the coming year, Yang Zhen, after studying with Li Yanping and Guo Bingxun, carried out a drastic reform of the entire military region's organization and the organization of each department. Not only did the brigade The establishment was changed to division, and the logistics department was refined and quantified.
In addition to deploying a considerable number of elite troops and generals to enrich the logistics department, the logistics structure of each column, each division, and even each infantry regiment was also determined based on the current situation and future plans of the army's increasing firepower and increasing reliance on logistics. Considerable adjustments have been made,
Although after the arrival of the American trucks, coupled with the original Soviet-made trucks and the nearly a thousand Japanese-style trucks seized in the autumn of last year and last summer, the army's current vehicle configuration is extremely sufficient, on the one hand, due to the amount of gasoline, The demand cannot always be met. Another reason is the lack of a sufficient number of maintenance personnel.
And in Yang Zhen's view, under the current situation, facing the same relatively poor mobility, in addition to railway transportation, more people also rely on bipedal marching. In addition to the equipment of each division's baggage regiment, In addition to more than a hundred trucks, the Japanese army relied more on animal power to ensure logistics supplies. There was no need to convert all the troops to motorized vehicles.
According to Yang Zhen's plan, each division of each column will be equipped with a car battalion of 300 trucks, and the artillery regiments of each division, under the current situation that artillery is still mainly animal-drawn, will still be equipped with their own A car company, specially used to transport supplementary artillery shells,
In this way, while retaining some trucks as reserves, the number of vehicles allocated to each infantry regiment will not be too many. According to the current gasoline supply capacity of the military region, each infantry regiment can only be equipped with one A row of about thirty to fifty cars,
In fact, it is not that the number of cars is not enough. Judging from the current number of field troops and the number of cars in hand, it can still meet the configuration of four field columns. However, in addition to the number of cars, there are other reasons that restrict the troops from using motorcycles. the trend of cultural development,
The current situation of relying entirely on imported gasoline and the insufficient number of car drivers and maintenance technicians is also a serious factor restricting all motorization of the Anti-Japanese War. Although driving a car is easier than driving an airplane or a tank, it takes time to train a large number of drivers, and even more The most important thing is maintenance technicians, which also take time to train.
Based on the estimation of the ammunition demand after the troops are equipped with new weapons, Yang Feizhen requested that the vehicle platoons of each infantry regiment invest more transportation capacity in ammunition and baggage transportation to ensure that units operating at the regiment level can carry out as much as possible during combat. It is possible to carry as much ammunition as possible, and all gaps in the remaining transportation capacity will be solved by using the animal power supply that has been completely restored in the base area.
Prioritizing ammunition and putting food and other materials in a relatively secondary position is also a last resort choice. After all, under the premise that the entire army's light weapons are about to be automated, the consumption of ammunition is the previous use of old-fashioned bolt-action Rifles are incomparable,
The firepower intensity of the automatic rifles that are about to be replaced can be described as vastly different from before, but the consumption of ammunition is also unmatched before, and can even be described as ten times. When necessary, food It can be seized from enemy-occupied areas, but the troops' ammunition cannot be replenished by seizure.
Yang Zhen did not want to see what later generations would know. During the Liberation War, the Japanese troops were equipped with a large number of American-made weapons with fast firing rates, but because their ability to carry ammunition did not change, their continuous combat capabilities did not improve, but actually declined. Ammunition After they are all exhausted, they can only rely on limited airdrops for supplies. Once the airdrops cannot keep up, the troops who lack the determination to die will have no choice but to surrender.
Future generations will not forget that the divisions of the past have tried their best to enhance the mobile combat capabilities of the troops as conditions permit, especially the supplementary capabilities of the grassroots troops. Yang Zhen spent a lot of time, but in the supply of gasoline Always stuck in the hands of others, and the troops always had insufficient food to eat, Yang Zhen could only resort to a combination of cars and animal power.
In addition to a certain number of vehicles assigned to the regiment-level troops to ensure the carrying of ammunition, the rest of the regiments and battalions are equipped with various caliber mortars, recoilless rifles, anti-aircraft machine guns, infantry guns and associated basic ammunition, which mainly rely on animal power To carry or tow,
To this end, the military region has specially formed a transportation company of 100 pack horses and 70 carts for each infantry regiment, and each battalion is equipped with a transportation platoon of 70 pack horses. These animal transport units are specially used in When marching, it is used to transport various infantry belonging to the regiment and battalion. They cannot carry recoilless guns, 82, 60 mortars, regiment's 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine guns, battalion's 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns, and carry ammunition,
In order to reduce the fatigue of the troops when marching and fighting as much as possible, enhance the mobility of the troops and extend the self-sustainability of the troops as much as possible to avoid insufficient ammunition on the battlefield. In this case, horses can be used to pull or dismantle the troops. Double-mounted anti-aircraft machine guns that can be transported on packs are significantly more maneuverable than quadruple-mounted guns that can only be towed by trucks. They are more suitable for the current situation of the army, especially for regiment-level troops with predetermined equipment.
Moreover, for the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the configuration of this logistics transport vehicle is only equipped for the four main columns. For local troops, there is no automobile company at the regiment level, and each military division only has one equipped with thirty automobiles. The automobile platoon is used as a mobile vehicle. As for the ** regiments, garrison regiments and basic regiments under each military division, all transportation vehicles are uniformly equipped with horses or carts.
After all, it is much better to have the number of horses and the supply of horse feed that can meet the needs based on the local area itself than to replenish cars and gasoline in the foreseeable future. Although this limits the mobility of the troops to a certain extent, it does not affect too much. big,
Moreover, when necessary, each field column can not only rely on railway transportation, but also receive assistance from six automobile regiments belonging to the three branches of the Logistics Department, all of which are equipped with American-made trucks with excellent performance. According to each With a car regiment equipped with 700 cars, one regiment can transport an entire division in one go.
In order to ensure the forward delivery of materials to the rear during wartime, at Yang Zhen's request, the Logistics Department established three secondary divisions according to the planned combat directions. In addition to the two automobile regiments under the headquarters, each Each branch has jurisdiction over two ** automobile regiments and three animal transport detachments, as well as one engineering corps and one railway corps each.
These troops are specially formed to transfer materials to the combat areas they are responsible for during wartime. They are also responsible for repairing battle-damaged roads and railways during wartime, and for large-scale mobile mobilization of troops. Used when the line is destroyed,
According to Yang Zhen's planning requirements, all materials in the base area can be transferred from the rear material warehouse to any field warehouse on the front line at any time within thirty-six hours. When regiment-level troops are mobilized across theaters, they can be transferred when necessary. Under certain circumstances, one must have the ability to reach all combat areas within thirty-six hours.
Although the mobilization of troops at the division level is required to adopt a mobile combination of roads and railways, Yang Zhen also proposed that the newly formed Military Transportation Department of the Logistics Department should be able to carry out operations even if the railway line is destroyed. When mobilizing operations at the division level, we must be able to ensure that the troops of a division rely entirely on road vehicle transportation and cooperate with each division's own automobile units to transport all the troops of a division to the destination designated by the superior within seventy-two hours. combat area,
In order to meet Yang Zhen's request as much as possible, the Logistics Department, with the cooperation of the Political Department, mobilized a large number of people to participate in the emergency repair of roads and railways damaged in the battle before last year's battle was over. At the same time, certain adjustments were made to its own organization without affecting the operations of the troops.
In addition to the original departments, according to the current situation, a group of elite soldiers and generals were also mobilized to form a new military transportation department, highway and railway emergency repair department, material planning department, and Nenjiang, Mudanjiang and Dong'an to be responsible for the three areas respectively. A logistics branch that supplies supplies for each combat direction,
At the same time, before Yang Zhenlin went to northern Shaanxi, after studying the original three automobile regiments, six automobile regiments and nine animal transport detachments were formed based on the American trucks received. When Yang Zhen returned, Before the Northeast, these troops had been formed.
However, under the situation of constant shortage of gasoline, daily transportation relies more on railways and animal power, and the number of cars dispatched is not too many. Except for several large-scale exercises, the two car groups of each branch,
Under normal circumstances, only one battalion is used to save precious gasoline for use in wartime.