The Third Expeditionary Army has three independent brigades and six Category A defense divisions. The headquarters reorganized the former Central Army based on the combat strength of each department and divided it into Category A and Category B. Category A adopts a three-three organization
, that is, one army has three divisions, one division has three brigades, one brigade has three regiments, and so on. Type B is a two-two system, that is, one army has two divisions, one division has two brigades, and one brigade has
It has two regiments under its jurisdiction. The independent brigade is a complement to these two systems and adopts a one-four system, that is, one brigade has four regiments under its jurisdiction, and each regiment has four battalions under its jurisdiction...
If he is a time traveler, when he gets the list of senior generals of the Third Expeditionary Army, he will definitely be shocked. Because if you pick any name at random, they are all famous anti-Japanese generals under the Central Army system of that time and space. Dai Anlan, Zheng Dongguo,
Zhang Lingfu...
The Third Expeditionary Army has three armies, namely the Sixth Expeditionary Army, the Seventh Expeditionary Army, and the Ninth Expeditionary Army. Zheng Dongguo is the commander of the Sixth Army, and Dai Anlan is the commander of the Seventh Army. As for Zhang Lingfu
, is the commander of the First Division of the National Defense Forces.
The time when the Third Expeditionary Army counterattacked Pyay was three hours after the Battle of Guadalcanal began. The time was four o'clock in the morning local time. This was the first actual combat since the formation of the Third Expeditionary Army. In the words of Sun Liren:
This battle is a small test for the high command after reorganizing our army. Only with a vivid victory can we be worthy of our hard training during this period and worthy of the high command's trust.
When the former Central Army accepted the reorganization, the direct descendants of Chiang Kai-shek, such as Sun Liren, would of course have all kinds of negative thoughts. It is not that they still wanted to be loyal to Chiang Kai-shek, but similar experiences had made them understand that once the emperor has
The courtiers also have the understanding of success and failure. Moreover, they still want to serve the country, so they feel very conflicted and don't know what they should do is the best choice.
"Let's see and then talk," this was the true inner thought of many people at that time.
When the reorganization began, what they imagined did not happen. Many officers from the former Central Army system were promoted or simply asked to retire. However, in the eyes of orthodox soldiers like Sun Liren, these people were just wearing military uniforms.
They were people who were just waiting to die, so they did not use their inner bottom line. And then, when the brand-new student army standard weapons were issued to them, they began to take this reorganization seriously. They would have
This psychological change is naturally due to the fact that the mind has developed the concept that the reason why the Xuebing Army is bound to win every day is not that the soldiers of the Xuebing Army must be better than the Central Army, but that the Xuebing Army has
The performance far exceeds that of the Japanese army's weapons and equipment. So, does the fact that the headquarters armed them with the same specifications mean that Ouyang Yun did not mean to discriminate against the former Central Army? This is indeed a reorganization in the strict sense. Wait until they have
When they had the opportunity to get to the bottom of the matter, they were asked to participate in the officer's short training course. This naturally aroused their strong resentment. In Luo Zhuoying's words: When I was fighting, these kids were still wearing crotchless pants. What qualifications did they have?
Give us a lecture? Of course, because the military power has not been reduced, with the mentality of letting things go, Luo Zhuoying, Sun Liren and others still entered the short training class and accepted the "
lesson".
After half a day of class, while having dinner in the cafeteria, the former generals of the Central Army gathered together. Many of them looked disapproving: What a joke! How many times have they asked us to lead troops to fight? How many battlefields have they been to?
Another half day passed, and when everyone got together again in the evening, there were no more people saying weird things. But those with solid theoretical knowledge, such as Sun Liren, even brought their textbooks into the cafeteria.
Without it, what the young soldiers were taught that afternoon were all things they had never been exposed to before, and this cannot be compensated by rich practical experience. "Mechanized combat, infantry and artillery coordination, land and air coordination, humanized management...
…" These new terms made the eyes of these battlefield veterans shine, but they suddenly found themselves falling behind.
As the class progressed, they realized that the Xue Bing Army’s victory was not just dependent on advanced equipment. It turned out that it was supported by a solid set of combat theories. In general, the Xue Bing Army’s victory
It is no accident that we can achieve today's results in the war against Japan.
It turned out that they thought that as long as their troops had the weapons and equipment of the Xuebing Army, it would be easy to achieve the same results as the Xuebing Army. But now, they understood that outside of war, the Xuebing Army also did other things in peacetime.
So much work.
As a soldier and a passionate man, who is not competitive? What the young men in the Xuebing Army can do, why can’t we old soldiers do it? We must not only do it, but also be better than the Xuebing Army
Those young people who have done this have done better - this idea has begun to take root in Sun Liren and the others. Now, the opportunity has come for them to report their results to the headquarters.
At about 3:30 in the morning, on the Pyai front line, Sun Liren called the commander of the reconnaissance unit. After confirming again that the Japanese army on the opposite side was not prepared, he called a meeting of front-line officers and said concisely: "Brothers, this was something that no one could have imagined before, right?
In a battle of the same scale, there are more than 200 heavy artillery and more than 500 tanks that can be used! Brothers, what reason do we have for not winning the battle? This battle is a small test for the headquarters to reorganize our army.
, I think that winning is not a perfect answer, only annihilating the Japanese and Nanyang monkeys on the opposite side can be considered a pass. Brothers, are you confident?"
Everyone roared in unison: "Yes!"
Zhang Lingfu said: "Chief Commander, just wait! Our First Division will definitely live up to its reputation as the sharp sword of the three armies."
In the previous exercises, Zhang Lingfu's First Division of the National Defense Force was named the sharp knife unit of the Third Expeditionary Army by Sun Liren because it repeatedly won the first place in the group. Since it was a sharp knife unit, after the combat mission was issued, Zhang Lingfu asked his unit to serve as the vanguard. Sun Liren
He agreed to his request, so Zhang Lingfu expressed himself like this.
Two signal bombs, one red and one green, rose into the sky. Immediately, a muffled thunderous sound sounded twenty kilometers east of the Japanese defense line of Pyai. Then, the Japanese defense line of Pyai was obscured by a continuous fireball.
In order to catch the Japanese army by surprise, Sun Liren made sufficient preparations in advance. Therefore, once his artillery unit started to attack, there was no test firing, and hundreds of artillery shells were directed at the Japanese fortifications and positions.
The sound of artillery fire sounded. In the mountains and fields less than two kilometers away from the Japanese defense line, Zhang Lingfu opened the safety of the Wei Qing assault rifle, tightened the helmet on his head, then picked up the stopwatch, looked at it, and said: "Give the order, quarter of an hour."
From now on, charge on time!"
"Yes!" the signal soldier responded, and then began to contact various brigade headquarters.