Hearing He Sanliang's explanation, Li Ziyuan was stunned for a moment, and immediately guessed that the two of them had misunderstood him. Clicking on the map, Li Ziyuan smiled bitterly: "You two want to go there." Although I don't have a big belly, I'm not stingy to this extent. Since I've left it, I won't show people a face. ”

"We're old comrades-in-arms, do I have such a small belly? I'm having a headache right now about where we're going next. At present, the Huguan Independent Battalion has been unable to contact for a long time, and we can't even find the basic militia here. If we can't contact them, we won't be able to know the exact situation of the Japanese puppet army in Huguan at the moment. ”

"Without the support of intelligence, our transfer is full of unpredictability. At the same time, it is difficult to make up your mind to choose the direction of transfer. Our scouts can't get too far from Shili Ling. In addition to this situation, we cannot fully understand the enemy situation in Huguan, including the changes in the enemy situation in Huguan after the First Battle of Xiyaogou. ”

"Shili Ridge is not a place to stay for a long time, and it is inevitable that it must be transferred today. However, the enemy's situation is unclear and the enemy's movement in Huguan is unclear, so it is difficult to determine the direction of our transfer. What we need to do now is how to bring out these 2,000 people safely. ”

To be honest, Li Ziyuan is also a little confused now. This is the main area of activity of the local armed forces in Huguan, and it is also the fortress area of the Fourth Division in Huguan. Why have they already entered Shili Ridge two times, and now they can't even find a basic militia. When I came in twice, I was wearing the uniform of the Eighth Route Army of the Taihang Military Region.

Although he is still wearing an old cotton jacket, the military uniforms on his body are the same as those of the Fourth Division. The scouts sent were also plainclothes, how could they not find the local armed forces, the villagers saw that the scouts they sent were not only dodging, but even some villages ran away en masse, which made Li Ziyuan very puzzled.

In Shililing or Huguan, something must have happened before to make the people's vigilance so high. It's just that what happened here, Li Ziyuan can't guess, and he doesn't have time to guess. The most urgent task at the moment is how to choose a passage that is as safe as possible, to bring the troops out safely, and to deliver the supplies safely to the military sub-districts.

Li Ziyuan's voice fell, but Zhang Zijian said with a big grin: "Commander, you are a little too worried." In terms of our current equipment and strength, not to mention the puppet army, even if the Japanese army comes to the next brigade, we have nothing to worry about. When encountering the interception of the Japanese puppet army, it is a big deal to concentrate forces and firepower to fight over. ”

"I don't believe it, under the situation that we already have an advantage in mountain warfare, coupled with the current equipment and sufficient ammunition, we can't break through the blockade line of the little devils? Due to the limitations of mountainous terrain, even if the blockade line of the little devil mobilizes more troops, it is impossible to equip too many troops at one point. As long as you clench your fists, there is no problem in hitting them. ”

Looking at Zhang Zijian with a smug expression, Li Ziyuan frowned and said, "Lao Zhang, our current equipment is indeed up." Each squad has light machine guns, and the level of equipment of heavy machine guns is absolutely unique even in the whole military district. Even if the third battalion is still talking, one battalion is enough to equip a company of four heavy machine guns. ”

"If we leave behind all the Soviet-made light and heavy machine guns that are ready to be handed over to the military divisions, the number of machine guns in each of our battalions will even double. If nothing else, with this machine gun fire alone, there will be absolutely no problem in dealing with the Japanese puppet army. The number of light machine guns in our hands now is even greater than when our division crossed the Yellow River eastward. ”

"There was also a mountain cannon and a couple of mortars, two small twenty-millimeter guns. Grenadier canisters, a company can be equipped with four to six. Light and heavy weapons and ammunition are plentiful and we never imagined. The current strength at hand, if you add Dong Ping's company, there are 1,500 or 600 people, which can be said to be a strong soldier. ”

"On the surface, at least in the face of a compact brigade of the Japanese army, both in terms of strength and firepower have an absolute advantage. But this is only on the surface, and in fact our current combat effectiveness is extremely high. It was not even as strong as the original combat effectiveness of one and a half battalions at that time when the blockade line between Huguan and Hubei was broken. ”

"The current structure of the unit is too complicated, and the 15,600-strong unit is cultivated by three training systems. Chongqing's Central Army, the former Northwest Army's miscellaneous cards, plus our own training methods are different. The recruits trained in the three training methods are all trained according to the firepower of their own units and the experience inherited from actual operations. ”

"Lao He, you are from a miscellaneous brand in the Northwest Army, and you have the most right to speak. In addition to basic training, when it comes to tactical training, are you the same as the Central Army? I'm afraid the difference will be quite large. Can a unit that focuses on fighting with a bayonet or broadsword style have the same tactical system and later emphasis as the German advisers have trained them? ”

"I don't believe that the training of the Wang Puppet Second Front Army is exactly the same as that of the Central Army. Their main cadres are all from the old Northwest Army. Troop training is estimated to be the same as that of the Northwest Army. When we fought them before, the tactical style of this puppet army was not much different from your original 40th Army. ”

"And the tactical use of our Eighth Route Army is formulated according to our own actual situation. Fighting close combat and night combat is similar to your old Northwest Army, but it is still very different from the Central Army. At the moment, we have three fundamentally different styles from basic firepower to tactical use. ”

"In the absence of these three different styles, the combat effectiveness of our troops is now only on paper. Moreover, after receiving these seven or eight hundred prisoners of war, it is difficult for us to fully exert the combat effectiveness of these people until we have thoroughly digested them. “”

"Add in the soldiers who were born in the teaching regiment of the Wang Puppet Second Front Army before, before they have completely integrated in. The soldiers do not know the generals, the generals do not know the soldiers, and there is no tacit cooperation between them. You say how much combat strength we have now? I think that our current combat effectiveness is only 40% of what it seems on the surface. ”

"Even when we go to the battlefield, we can't unify the top and bottom and enforce the ban. What's more, with so many new fighters being expanded at once, the number and level of our military cadres are insufficient. It's easy to say that the squad leader is the platoon commander and the platoon commander is the company commander, but has their level really reached it? ”

"Brother, the combat effectiveness of an army is not just about looking at what is on paper, but also about the essence of what is real. We are now like a building built on sand, how can the foundation be stable on the ground? If the troops are not truly integrated, no matter how good the equipment is, it will not be able to play a real level of combat effectiveness. ”

"The commissar urged us to move before, and it wasn't his bluff. In fact, I also think that when we find those plainclothes agents, we should move. But the problem is that I don't dare to make the decision to transfer easily, because I am afraid that when the troops are transferred, I will run out of touch by myself. ”

"I thought that even if I bought half a day, at least let the soldiers get acquainted with each other, between the new fighters and the new collective. In this way, we can keep our forces as stable as possible, even in the face of danger. If they had been transferred at that time, the entire unit structure had not been adjusted, and the soldiers were not familiar with each other, I am afraid that they would not have been able to break up the fight. ”

"So I had to risk being exposed, and I had to buy as much time as possible for even the smallest training session. As much as possible, we should straighten out the structure of the unit and the relationship between commands, so that the soldiers can be familiar with each other at even a minimum. In order to bring everyone out safely to the greatest extent. ”

"If you have three days to train these people well, I think I can still make a difference. But the problem is that what we lack most now is time. In this case, coupled with the fact that the enemy situation is unknown, whether our transfer direction is correct or not, and whether we can avoid the Japanese puppet army brigade is very important. ”

Li Ziyuan's words fell, and after Zhang Zijian and He Sanliang glanced at each other, they immediately understood that Li Ziyuan's worry was not untargeted. They are all veterans, and they have obtained so much equipment before, and they haven't thought of these things when their heads are a little hot. But Li Ziyuan reminded him a little, but he reacted in a short period of time.

The addition of a large number of new blood has indeed greatly increased the strength of the troops. Plus these people are said to be recruits, but only for the troops. They themselves are recruits who have completed their full training, but they have not yet had time to distribute them. However, the influx of fresh blood in a short period of time is not necessarily a good thing for an army in adversity.

In particular, the two armies with almost completely different styles of operation. As a result, it is almost inevitable that the combat effectiveness of the troops will decline to a certain extent in a short period of time before these people are fully integrated into the new collective. This is especially true when the recruits who have been added in for a short period of time still occupy the majority of the troops.

Just as Li Ziyuan said, the current combat effectiveness of the troops is already quite good if it can catch up with the previous one and a half battalions. This is not the reason for the level of training, but the strangeness of each other. This point cannot be completely compensated for by the superiority in firepower alone. It takes at least a period of training, even if it's three or two days.

Even the Japanese army, which has always been strong in combat, will not send these recruits directly to the battlefield when they are replenished in large numbers after each battle. Rather, it is necessary to give them a certain amount of time to familiarize themselves with their troops. Even if it's not much, it's still too much.

The current situation of his own troops is somewhat similar to that of the Japanese army's wartime replenishment. In wartime, the Japanese army will establish a field supplementary team with new recruits who have completed full training. In the face of excessive casualties, these field supplementary units will be directly supplemented into the unit in a structured manner, so as to avoid the decline of combat effectiveness due to too many new recruits. It can also avoid the large amount of time required to train recruits.

But after all of them enter the army, they also need a short integration period, at least to get familiar with their own commanders and the veterans around them. In this way, no matter how heavy the casualties of the troops are, they can recover in a short time. The most important thing is that the recruits trained by the same training method do not need much time to integrate after they are added to the troops, which can be as long as seven or eight days, and as short as three or four days is enough.