A Dream of Jinling Chapter 339 Retreat (16)

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Luo Bin didn't know why Chief of Staff Qi Rui showed a very unhappy expression. If it is because of the decline in the combat effectiveness of the retired director troops, then Chief of Staff Qi Rui can take everyone to raise objections to the front-line command. Although he didn't know what Chief of Staff Qi Rui was thinking, Luo Bin could see that the Chief of Staff had no intention of opposing retirement adjustments.

The meeting ended halfway through, and when the meeting was in the division, Luo Bin felt that this trip was really a waste of time. Returning to the division headquarters, he quickly arrived at the front to report. The enemy in the southwestern part of the 2nd Division's defense zone had some unusual movements.

The 24th Army is now stationed a little southwest of the confluence of Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. The three largest of the Great Lakes are Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, and Lake Huron, which are located like a clover in the heart of the Northeast United States. The petal to the west of this clover is Lake Superior, the petal to the east of the clover is Lake Huron, and the petal to the south of the clover is Lake Michigan. The central junction of these three blades of grass is the city of Sault Ste. Marie.

Fighting between the Chinese Liberation Army and the U.S. Federal Army has been fighting here since six months ago. With the victory of the 24th Army in the Lake Superior area to the west, the half-year battle was now over. The Liberation Army, which had originally assembled heavy troops in Sault Ste. Mary, was no longer worried about the enemy's possible onslaught from the west, and launched a counterattack against the U.S. Federal Army in the Sault Ste. Marie area, encircling about 780,000 U.S. Federal Army in one fell swoop.

After the 24th Army's great achievements, other units did not like to cooperate with this force, especially those with a deep history. "As the governor's personal guard, our department is confident that we will annihilate the enemy in the area of Sue Saint-Marie!" This is a note from the commander of the 4th Corps to the 24th Army. Since the 4th Corps was so confident, the 24th Corps was stationed in the southwest of the encirclement of the 4th Corps under the arrangement of the Front Command to guard against the enemy coming from the Chicago area.

As soon as I returned to the division headquarters, the news came. A U.S. Army, numbering about 20,000, is moving north along Lake Michigan, south of Shamrock. The U.S. Army was relatively cautious, but no matter how careful it was, it could not avoid the regular patrols of the Air Force reconnaissance planes. Luo Bin's first reaction was that the opportunity came. If the adjustment of retirement is inevitable, the 24th Army will definitely temporarily retreat to the rear for personnel replacement.

Of course, it is impossible to do only these things in the stage of readjustment, and the entire unit still has to be evaluated, trained, and trained. If you want to be sure that you can change from acting commander to division commander before that adjustment, you must have enough merit to become a division commander. Now this self-proclaimed federal army is undoubtedly fast and fat.

The standing army of the US Federal Army is no more than 100,000, and the 300,000 or 400,000 people who used to be on the front line include most of the 100,000 standing elites, as well as federal troops sent by various states. A total of three or four hundred thousand troops can be said to be the elite of the US Federal Army. Although the Yankees had already mobilized their forces at this time to recruit a considerable number of troops. However, these newly recruited units have three characteristics: lack of training, lack of officers, and lack of experience.

The 20,000 U.S. Federal Army troops heading north should be one of the new recruits. Although there were only more than 15,000 people in the second division, in the face of 20,000 inexperienced weak chickens, division commander Luo Bin was very confident. Colonel Qi Rui, chief of staff of the 24th Army, was a commander who loved siege and annihilation, although this style of combat caused the 24th Army to increase its casualties. However, this style guided every enemy unit that the 24th Army encountered was "brand new". Unable to get the experience provided by the troops that had previously fought with the 24th Army, they made the same mistakes every time. The three battles that ended after the Battle of Duluth proved this.

"My department requests to go south to be the vanguard of the whole army!" Luo Bin immediately submitted an application to the military headquarters. The Chief of Staff is the supreme commander of the Command, and unless there is a serious question that requires personal instructions from the Commander of the Army and the Political Commissar, the Chief of Staff may apply to the Front Command and then transfer the troops of a division to fight a new battle according to his authority.

Although Qi Rui was younger than Luo Bin, he couldn't help but smile when he saw Luo Bin's trick. Don't look at what the commander of the second division said, if he is really allowed to set off to his heart's content, the other two divisions will either wipe the butts of the second division when they arrive, or watch the second division swallow the results alone. Therefore, Qi Rui sent a telegram to the front headquarters, "I found that the enemy's large army was moving in the direction of Sault Saint Mary, and asked for permission for our troops to attack and annihilate." ”

The commander and political commissar of the 24th Army attended the meeting at the front headquarters, and the commander of the headquarters, Lieutenant General Luo Yongfu, smiled at the two of them: "You 50,000 people are going to swallow 20,000 people, and your appetite is getting bigger and bigger." ”

Commander Zheng Minglun immediately responded: "The 180,000 people of the Fourth Corps want to swallow 80,000 people, and their appetite is greater than ours!" ”

The leader of the Fourth Corps came out of the original Fourth Army, which was originally a subordinate of Zhang Yingchen, who had forcibly dragged Yang Xiuqing, the king of Beidong, from Wei Zedu, who was the king of Qi at the time, during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom era. According to ordinary development, this kind of army that has followed others is not qualified to claim to be the hardcore of the governor of Vizedu. However, in the Tianjing Rebellion, there were only a few guards left around Wei Zedudu, and it can be said that he galloped into the army single-handedly. More than 10,000 troops of the Fourth Army immediately came under the command of Governor Wei Zedu, not only escorting Governor Wei Zedu out of Tianjing City, but also following Governor Wei Zedu to block the gate of Tianjing City, saving many old brothers' families from Tianjing City.

With such merits, the Fourth Army regarded itself as the governor of the city, and everyone could not say anything. Now the Fourth Corps, with the Fourth Army as the core, is trying to swallow up the 80,000 U.S. Federal Army troops in the Sue Ste. Marie area, and no one wants to compete with them.

"We will transfer the 55th Army to the position of the 24th Army temporarily, and your 24th Army will fight well." Lieutenant General Luo Yongfu can only temporarily balance the situation. On one side is the old army, and on the other side is the new talent, and he can't completely favor one over the other. However, the 55th Army is quite pitiful, although the merit book naturally has their achievements in perfecting the front and not giving the enemy a chance to take advantage of it, but compared with the Fourth Corps, which is immersed in eating a lot of meat, and the 24th Army, which is generally passing through the battlefield, the 55th Army is probably a passerby.

Division Commander Luo Bin did not have the shadow of the 55th Army in his heart at all, and he immediately started to act after receiving the departure order. Since the U.S. Federal Army on the other side had no experience, Division Commander Luo Bin adopted the extremely traditional method of motorized infantry. Instead of running from a distance, he ran into the enemy.

The commander of the vanguard was Shi Qian, the deputy commander of the regiment, and Shi Dakai's youngest son sat in the front of a three-wheeled car, and there was a long train of three-wheeled motorcycles and three trucks on the road. The motorized troops were so arrogant that four platoons of troops dared to rush into the face of the vanguard of 20,000 enemy troops.

The enemy's vanguard was cavalry, and before the cavalry could shoot with their cavalry guns, the three-wheeled team stopped, and three members of each vehicle jumped down and used the three-wheeled as cover, and the dense bullets inflicted many casualties on the opposing American cavalry. As a last resort, the cavalry immediately turned around and ran. The three-wheeled troops then began to pursue, and the two riders calmly attacked the riders who fell behind with their rifles. The brave of the cavalry lowered their speed and tried to return fire, but the motorized infantry was not that kind of rookie, and as soon as they saw the enemy's movement, the shooters immediately fired at the enemy who reduced their speed. Reduced speed meant easier hits, and the brave men proved their loyalty to the United States of America with their lives, and the practice of the law of practice makes perfect in war.

Those who dare to stop are killed early, and those who dare not stop only die later. Motorcyclists and their riders became more and more proficient in cooperating, and their shooting accuracy was far beyond that of the bumpy cavalry on horseback. Even if the cavalry did their best to retreat, they fell off their horses one by one on the way back. The motorists drove the cavalry all the way back to the vanguard formation.

When the infantry saw the enemy coming to charge in the face, their first reaction was to stop and set up their positions. Just as they were doing this, trucks arrived with troops. Got out of the truck not only infantry, but also mortars and 37 guns. These accompanying firepower did not care about the shells, and it was a fierce fire against the American vanguard infantry. The smoke, dirt, and stones from the shells flew sideways, and the shrapnel flew everywhere, and the American vanguard suffered many casualties. In the panicked expressions of the American infantry, the vanguard slapped its ass and left.

Shi Qian, the deputy commander of the regiment, did not return the same way, and the American rookie unit had a feature, and Shi Qian encountered it several times. Once encountering an unexpected, head-on, strong blow, their first reaction is to stop. Send out a reconnaissance team around to try and figure out what's going on.

The 24th Army had sent troops to hunt down these American reconnaissance units with all their might. Later, at the military democratic meeting of the military department, Shi Qian proposed to build yì. The troops looked for a slightly farther road and used mobile forces to carry out a large outflanking. No matter how many reconnaissance troops the enemy sent, their main forces remained in place. The 24th Army was to annihilate the enemy's main forces, not the enemy's scouts.

Now Deputy Regiment Commander Shi Qian was sitting in the car body with a rifle, and the motorcycle driver was walking on a road that had been marked a long time ago. Shi Qian recalled the words of Chief of Staff Qi Rui.

"I heard a senior say many years ago that the army relies on construction. I didn't understand it at the time, I thought it was enough to have orders and commands in the army. What does this construction mean? At that time, I thought that construction was about building factories and engaging in production, and if logistics wanted to provide more equipment to the troops, it would require better technology and production level, so construction probably meant strengthening the construction of the military industry. Now I understand that the army needs to be built. Without construction, there is no way for an army to win every battle by relying only on orders and commands. ”

Shi Qian agrees with the idea of combining construction with the combat capability of the army, and the commanders of the motorized infantry are not surprised. The motorized infantry has come to this day, not because it is just to give these former infantry or cavalry some new equipment and tell them how to use the new equipment. It only takes command and command for the troops to learn to use the equipment, but for the troops to give full play to the advantages brought by the equipment in battle, and for the troops to advance in the face of the enemy's heavy artillery fire, it is necessary for the army itself to have the desire to defeat the enemy and destroy the enemy.

The motorcycle was running, which made Deputy Head Shi Qian feel that the oncoming wind was very refreshing. He fought very heartily in the battle just now, and he was full of pride, and Deputy Commander Shi Qian didn't even think that he was actually killing his own kind.