Chapter 65 Observing the Exercise of the Armored Division Discussing the issue of the showdown between the East and the West

In November, the first snow has just fallen in the Mongolian steppe under the Daqing Mountain, and the sky and the earth are white. But this did not hide the noise of artillery and the noise of the mechanized corps. The armored division, which had just completed supporting the local wheat harvest, was about to take part in a military exercise, and the target of the exercise, without notifying Li Wei in advance, was temporarily set up by Liu Yun and his staff headquarters.

Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He, together with Liu Yun and a team of people from their staff, have come to Baotou to test this army that has spent a lot of money to build. Also coming were Yan Boju, Li Yunhe, Li Jing, and Yang Jing.

At the wine table last night, Li Wei patted his chest and said to everyone: "Our current armored division is definitely the invincible armored division today!" ”

Li Jing was dissatisfied when she heard Li Wei say this, "Which team of ours can meet the opponent when we go out now?" ”

Li Wei knew that Li Jing was deliberately angry with him, but continued: "It's different! Our army in the past can be said to be invincible, and many battles and battles have already been explained. However, our current armored divisions have been regrouped and are no longer comparable to the armies of the past. It is definitely not child's play to say that it is invincible. ”

Yan Boju squeezed his little eyes and said, "Li Wei! It is said that the child is your own good, and you have spent a lot of effort on this team. We just want to see what kind of team you've come up with. ”

"Don't worry, Uncle Yan! I guarantee your old man's eyes will double the size of his eyes when he sees my team! Li Wei replied jokingly.

"Little rabbit, tomorrow if Lao Tzu's eyes are big, pick you out!"

The conversation between Yan Boju and Li Wei caused everyone to laugh. There are not many people who dare to make such jokes with Yan Boju in Yaogang, and Li Wei is one.

"You bastard, dare to talk to Mr. Yan like this," Chen Yufeng scolded with a smile, "Tell me about your baby now!" ”

"Yes!" Li Wei said: "The army we want to be in should be said to be piled up with silver, and if it weren't for the fact that the equipment was all produced by us, I am afraid that no country would be able to equip such an army." ”

"And yes! And the men you use are chosen from among the armies! Among the new recruits, many are college graduates and technical school students. Graduates of the Junior Military Academy, how much do you want to draw? Yang Jing interjected.

"Hey, hey!" Li Wei also felt the words when he heard it, touched his head and said with a smile, "Yes! I would like to thank all units for their strong support. I also want to thank Mr. Ouyang for giving us a lot of treasures from his junior military academy! Therefore, our contingent is not only the best equipped, but also the best quality of officers and men! As he spoke, Li Wei turned his gaze to Mrs. Zhou (Mrs. Zhou Yuji) and said, "We have just finished helping Mrs. Zhou to harvest wheat in their agricultural reclamation area, and the performance of the officers and soldiers is also very outstanding. Mrs. Zhou praised our officers and soldiers as the best. ”

Mrs. Zhou took Li Wei's words and said: "What General Li said is that the cold wave suddenly came, and we didn't finish the wheat, if it weren't for the officers and soldiers who helped to harvest it day and night. Seeing the ripe wheat freeze in the ground, the loss is great. I ask Mr. Zhang for credit for them! ”

"Good! I remembered, I want to give them credit! Zhang Zhimu said, "Liu Yun, your General Staff must remember this!" ”

Li Wei continued: "We now have two tracked artillery regiments, a tracked armored regiment, a wheeled armored regiment, a four-wheeled automobile regiment, a flat-fire artillery regiment, a ** artillery regiment, a rocket artillery regiment, an engineer regiment, a transport regiment, an armored reconnaissance battalion, a communications battalion, a delta-wing flying brigade, a regimental logistics department, and a command headquarters. ”

After Li Wei finished speaking, everyone smacked their tongues when they listened.

Yan Boju's small eyes were no longer visible, "Hehe! What the fuck is this? No army can compare to you! ”

Ouyang He said: "Li Wei has asked me and Mr. Chen for instructions on this matter, and we agree with him to do this!" ”

Li Wei continued: "After I received the task of forming an armored division, I didn't know how to prepare. Once I talked with Mr. Zhang, Mr. Zhang said about the group army, and I was interested. I thought that since we want to form an army that has always been very experimental, it is better to organize it in the direction of the group army as Mr. Zhang said. Although we infantry can't get so many at once, we can get the most difficult mechanized army first. This mechanized army is really difficult to manage, whether it is organizing training or equipment maintenance, it is not a simple matter. The main thing is that we have never had such an army, and we did not know how such an army would fight in the first place. Fortunately, Uncle Chen and Mr. Ouyang were very supportive of us, so they let us explore our way out first. We're also going to do it head-on. Fortunately, we are not laymen in the war, so we have made it like this. Until now, I dare to say that if there is a real war, we can pull it up immediately, and we will definitely not fail in our mission! ”

In the past few years, Li Wei's eloquence has also been practiced well, and he is a bit like a general.

"Hey, boy, don't blow it yet, tell me how many artillery trucks you have in a regiment of artillery trucks, and how many people there are?" Yan Boju had to figure out what he was interested in.

"Good!" Li Wei said, "We are a squad of five people, one artillery car, one platoon of three squads, plus a platoon commander and one car, a total of four vehicles; Three platoons and one company, plus two cars in the company, one company has fourteen vehicles. A battalion had three companies, plus two vehicles at the battalion headquarters and one command armored car, for a total of forty-five vehicles; A regiment had three battalions, three vehicles for the guard platoon, three vehicles for the reconnaissance platoon, and five armored vehicles for the communications command. Thus, an armored regiment had a total of one hundred and forty-six artillery vehicles and armored vehicles. There are also auxiliary vehicles such as logistics guards and rescues. All the officers and men together numbered about 1,500 people. ”

"Oops!"

"It's amazing!"

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When Li Wei said this, the following discussion became a pot of porridge.

"Also, you still have that wheeled armored regiment or something, tell me about it?" Yan Boju stared at Li Wei and said.

"The tracked armored corps and the wheeled armored corps are also staffed and equipped with the same equipment. It's just that the armored vehicles they use are tracked and wheeled.

Each regiment has a regimental headquarters.

The full number of regimental headquarters was 380 people

Regimental staff: fifteen people

Regiment Logistics Department: 20 people

Regimental reconnaissance platoon: forty people

Regimental engineer platoon: forty people

Regimental communications platoon: thirty-five people

Regimental sanitary platoon: forty people

Regimental guard company: one hundred and ninety people

Each regiment had three mechanized infantry battalions.

The total number of each mechanized infantry battalion was nine hundred and five. There are sixty transport cars; 60 four-wheeled armed off-road vehicles; Eighty armored vehicles.

There are also thirty 60 mortars, fifteen 120 mortars, and twelve infantry guns.

The regiment had a total of 3,985 men.

Artillery: 10 130-caliber flat-firing guns; Sixty-zero mortars, ninety; 120 mortars, forty-five guns; Thirty-six infantry guns. 280 cars, 280 armored vehicles. Two hundred armed off-road vehicles. ”

When Li Wei said this, Zhang Zhimu said to Chen Yufeng: "Uncle Chen, Li Wei's current regiment has to catch up with the strength of the original division. Combined, far more weapons than any team we have now. ”

"Huh!" Chen Yufeng gave a rare smile and said, "This is all piled up with silver!" ”

After everyone discussed for a while, Li Wei said: "Our four-wheeled automobile corps is mainly a regiment specially formed by drawing on our previous experience in using four-wheel drive off-road vehicles. The number of people is the same as that of the armored regiment, and the equipment is the same, except for the replacement of armored vehicles with four-wheel drive. In addition, our flat-firing artillery regiments are equipped with 130-caliber flat-firing guns, ** artillery regiments, equipped with our newly developed 152** guns, each regiment has a total of four battalions, each battalion is equipped with 24 guns, and the whole regiment is equipped with 72 guns. We also have a rocket artillery regiment. The rocket artillery battery is 4 guns, 16 guns per battalion and 48 guns per regiment. Each gun is the latest 32-barreled 122-caliber rocket launcher. This rocket artillery has been tested in combat and is very powerful. A regiment can fire 1536 *** in one salvo. Enemies in the coverage area are difficult to survive. ”

"I said, boy, your team, not to mention the ammunition consumed, even the gasoline and diesel consumed is also terrible?" Yan Boju asked.

"Yan Bo is right, this army is piled up with silver, and it will be raised with a large amount of silver. But he's our killer. My idea is that in the future, if we roll out roads and railways all over the country, we won't need to feed too many troops. In normal times, just leave some border guards and soldiers to stand guard, we keep a few such troops in the north, south, east and west, where there is something to move quickly, move closer there, and solve the battle with a heavy blow, it may be better to have a better effect! In addition, our regiments are now grouped and trained in this way, and in wartime, they can also break the formation and use each branch of the army as needed. For example, artillery carts and armored vehicles can be combined to attack together. You can also use artillery trucks to attack with infantry, which will be even more effective! ”

Seeing that Li Wei was very thoughtful, Zhang Zhimu was also very happy, "Okay! We are happy to hear what our General Li said. Tomorrow we'll take a closer look at what you're doing! ”

"Hey, hey! Let's see if it's worth it for all the money we have spent? Yan Boju said with a smile.

Liu Yun gave him the task of this junior disciple only this morning. However, Li Wei was also very good, so he didn't even read it, so he handed over the task book to his staff officer.

Li Jing deliberately said: "Hey, Li Wei, you don't even look at the task book, do you think that if you make a fool of yourself, you will shirk your responsibility?" ”

"Humph! I don't want to compete with them? Li Wei said confidently.

Today, the first task was to set up 30,000 defenders on a hillside north of the training ground, and to build a strong castle and camp. They wanted to capture this camp as soon as possible and annihilate the defending enemy.

After Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng and others took their seats on the viewing platform, many photojournalists followed the army into action. This time, in accordance with Ouyang He's request, the photojournalists wanted to comprehensively record the entire process of the military operation, and a delta-wing aircraft also flew into the air with a photojournalist.

As soon as the "battle" began, the commander of the armored division assigned tasks to the artillery on the basis of the situation detected by the delta wing.

The artillery carried out a detailed division of labor according to the situation of each artillery type. Flat-fire artillery focuses on attacking the enemy, castle fortifications, and ** artillery uses the advantages of curved projectiles to focus on bombarding targets in the enemy's walled city.

The artillery regiment sent a battalion of artillery trucks, closely coordinated with the artillery, and after the artillery tore open the mouth of the enemy's camp, one side of the gun fired, the other side rushed into the camp, and a tracked armored battalion followed the gun truck to attack the inside of the camp. Rushing into the camp, the armored infantry dismounted and under the cover of vehicle-mounted artillery and machine guns, surrounded and suppressed the defenders in the camp.

Some of the remnants of the enemy fled on horseback, and the four-wheel drive car soldiers chased after them. In the end, all the defending enemies were annihilated.

The whole battle was tense and intense, and the whole process was captured by many cameras in the air and on the ground.

Congratulations to this wonderful battle, including Chen Yufeng, who has always been unsmiling!

Although this scene is a drill, everyone is no stranger to fighting, and they all know that this team will fight like this in the future. This is how any enemy holds the camp and ends up like that.

The next day, Liu Yun and the others set up a subject of encountering tens of thousands of enemies on the Gobi, which was an encounter battle.

The armored division reacted quickly, immediately stabilized its position, sent wheeled armored vehicles to detour to the two flanks, and after outflanking in place, the artillery covered the current enemy, the artillery vehicles attacked, and the armored vehicles surrounded and attacked. Four-wheeled buggy pursues remnants of enemies everywhere.

When commenting on this battle, Zhang Zhimu put forward a different opinion, "I think you have performed well on the whole. However, there is one thing I would like to point out is that although your weapons are already powerful, your ideological realm is not big enough. Where your guns don't move, they can already hit twenty kilometers away, your tracked vehicles can break through any obstacles, and wheeled vehicles can go very far. But the battlefield in your hearts is still only as big as your eyes can see, at most as big as you can see with a telescope. I think when you encounter an enemy, you have to eat them out of your confidence. The enemy's team may be pulled out very far, a dozen kilometers or twenty kilometers is not too far, and our focus should be on such a large area. In the event of an enemy, your troops on both flanks should be more concealed, and you should have radio stations to communicate with each other. The encirclement should be larger. It's very normal that you can't destroy the enemy in one day, then we can have two days, or even a few days. You can't just focus on the present. In a word, commanders must have a vision that is compatible with the weapons in your hands. ”

Zhang Zhimu's words made Li Wei and several of his generals a little embarrassed.

Ouyang He said: "Mr. Zhang's words are right on your question. Otherwise, you think you're great! Of course, for an ordinary army, it would be very good if the battle could be fought like this. But you can't! You are our sharpest knives, the sharpest blades we use to kill our enemies as soon as we strike. We will study this kind of problem with you. The new army and new equipment need to be matched with the new tactics, and they cannot be achieved overnight. See the problem and do not be discouraged. ”

They had in-depth discussions on how armored divisions should be used in the future, how armored divisions should be deployed to fight with infantry in the future, and how the country needs to build several such armies in the future. Everyone feels that the group army is the direction of army building in the future.

However, Yan Boju asked, "Zhimu!" We're almost all over the country, is it necessary to spend so much money on this? ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Uncle Yan is a good question. I'm going to give you a heads-up today. We in Nanyang will solve it very quickly. There will be no big battles in the country. But do you think that our enemies, those Xiyi people, can give up? Next year we must complete the task of seizing the mouth of the Black Sea. At that time, it is likely that the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire will turn against us. Will those Francis, British, French, Red-haired, Little Franco, etc., unite against us? We are now in contact with them not only at sea, but also on land. For them, we are not people to reach or not to touch, we are people they have to face seriously. It is the people who pose a powerful threat to them. In such a situation, the possibility of them joining forces against us is too great! So we must be prepared for a big war between East and West. We will most likely face millions of enemies! ”

Zhang Zhimu's words silenced everyone.

After a while, Chen Yufeng wanted to speak, "I see! We can't wait for them to join forces to fight us, we should take the initiative and light the war in front of their door. Defeat them thoroughly! ”

"Yes!"

"Yes, yes!"

"yes!"

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Chen Yufeng's words were unanimously supported by everyone.

"Huh!" Zhang Zhimu also smiled and said, "This is why, we want to seize the mouth of the Black Sea next year, and we will sail our warship into the Black Sea." We have access to the Black Sea, and our naval warships can get supply support when they enter the Black Sea. At the same time, we can also get strong support from naval guns at sea on the shore. ”

In this way, the issue of discussion is extended. From the sea route to the land route to attack the entire West, political tactics and so on were discussed. Both strategic and tactical issues were discussed. There are both technical problems in the siege and tactical problems in the attack.

Zhang Zhimu likes this very much, that is, when everyone discusses problems, they don't pay too much attention to their positions, what do they think. The atmosphere of equality makes everyone very relaxed and willing to express their opinions. Liu Yun: The staff officers of the General Staff Department took notes on everyone's opinions. After the meeting, they will summarize and sort out these opinions in different categories. It will be discussed again then. Some important topics will also be circulated to senior generals throughout the army.

Just when everyone was about to leave Baotou, they received a telegram from Lu Chengxiang that he had arrived in Moscow with people.