As one of the first units of the People's Army, the Third Infantry Division has always enjoyed the reputation of "the main force" in the army's battle sequence. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 In particular, the 8th Regiment of the Division became famous in the Battle of Promen, and was personally awarded the "Red Bottom Tiger Head Banner" by Xiao Mubai, and was named the "White Tiger Regiment", becoming the first unit in the People's Army to receive the honorary title of regiment, and the 3rd Division became even more famous and became a well-known ace unit of the whole army.

After graduation, to be able to serve in such a unit, compared with the other students of the 14th Squadron, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and Mo Youbin are undoubtedly lucky. Because the 3rd Division is not only an ace unit, but also there are comrades they are familiar with who have fought side by side together.

Of course, compared with Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, who were constantly looking forward to a better future along the way, Huang Yuying, the commander of the Third Division, was full of accidents and all kinds of accidents in his heart at this time.

Chengdu, General Staff.

Huang Yuying came all the way to the door of the office of Jiang Fangzhen, chief of the General Staff, raised his hand and saluted, and after walking in, he found that this place he had never been to had gathered many military bigwigs at this time, including Xiao Mubai, a young leader he had never met. Seeing Xiao Mubai smiling in front of him, Huang Yuying didn't have the vigor of the first ace division leader, and only the excitement in his heart remained.

"You may be seated, Comrade Huang Yuying. Originally, President Jiang and they gave you the task today, but I happened to have nothing to do today, so I came over by the way to take a look. Xiao Mubai knew Huang Yuying, and he also remembered Huang Yuying, and he had a good impression of this brave young officer. Smiling lightly, Xiao Mubai continued: "I know that the Third Division is a very good unit, and you are also a very good officer. ”

"Thank you, Chair, for the compliment." Huang Yuying suppressed the excitement in her heart; hurriedly said.

Xiao Mubai smiled lightly, shook his hand and continued: "Of course, I didn't come here today to talk to you about this, the next thing I want to ask you is about mechanized troops. I would like to know, what do you think about mechanized warfare. Can you talk about it? ”

Mechanized warfare? Since joining the People's Army, Huang Yuying, as a senior general, has come into contact with many new military theories and has read a lot of materials on mechanized warfare, but his understanding is still a little shallow after all. Huang Yuying frowned and groaned for a while, sorted out his thoughts, and then stood up and said: "Chairman of the report, as for mechanized operations, my opinion is that during the battle, tanks and combat vehicles should be used as the assault force to first surprise the enemy's front and its deep positions, destroy its head organs, logistics and supply and transportation hubs, and then use motorized infantry and artillery to expand the results of the battle and pursue and destroy the fleeing enemy. In this way, it only takes one battle to win the battle. Of course, although the mobility, offensive and defensive capabilities of mechanized troops are much higher than those of foot infantry units, on the contrary, their dependence on logistics is correspondingly higher than that of foot infantry. Therefore, whether the logistical support is sufficient or not will be the key to influencing the situation of mechanized warfare. ”

"Oh, and what do you think about the development of army mechanization?" Xiao Mubai asked quietly.

This is a matter of knowledge and vision; if Huang Yuying had followed the League to carry out guerrilla warfare against the Qing uprising, he would definitely have scoffed at this statement, but after joining the People's Army and learning a large number of advanced military theories, he felt that mechanization was an inevitable trend in the future development of the army. The most feared thing in this world is to make comparisons, mules, horses and cars, whether they are used to transport soldiers and ammunition materials, or used to tow artillery, how efficient is self-evident, and it is obviously not difficult to choose between the two. As a high-ranking officer, Huang Yuying, who had secretly visited the tank training regiment in Mianzhu, naturally knew how powerful the tank was.

Huang Yuying stood up straight and said with a firm expression: "Chairman of the report, I think that army mechanization will be an inevitable development trend. In the case of our People's Army, we are already equipped with a large number of cars and motorcycles that we have produced ourselves, and we don't need to say more about how efficient they are compared to the mules, horses and livestock in the past. Moreover, after realizing the transformation of mechanization, I believe that our People's Army, relying on the rapid mobility ability of mechanized troops, will be able to give better play to the tactics that it is good at, such as interspersing and detouring, splitting and encircling, and so on. ”

Xiao Mubai smiled slightly, turned around and nodded to the generals sitting next to him, it was obvious that he was very satisfied with Huang Yuying's answer before. After getting the nods and approval from the generals, Xiao Mubai took out a brown paper document bag from the drawer behind the desk and said to Huang Yuying: "After research, the superiors have decided to reorganize the Third Infantry Division into an armored division, as a pilot unit for the People's Army to achieve modernization and mechanized transformation. Comrade Huang Yuying, if you have any questions, you can raise them now. ”

"Report to the chairman, there is no problem." Although Huang Yuying was a little dazed, he still resolutely expressed his attitude towards the tasks assigned by his superiors. Adapt? Armored divisions? The first step in the modernization process of the entire People's Army actually fell on the head of the Third Division, which brought countless honors to the Third Division, but also made Huang Yuying, as the division commander, feel countless pressures.

"Well, I'll give you an order later. You should rush back to the unit as soon as possible and work with the political commissar to do a good job in all aspects of the troops. All kinds of equipment required by the armored division will be allocated to you by the General Armament Department very quickly. You take these materials with you, take them back and take a closer look, and hopefully in half a year, we will be able to see the first armored unit of the People's Army. Xiao Mubai nodded, and while speaking, he handed Huang Yuying the kraft paper document bag with top secret printed in his hand.

"Yes, Chairman! Guaranteed completion of the task. ”

The formation of armored troops was actually an idea that Xiao Mubai had a long time ago. Previously, due to the constraints of experience, technology, and lack of industrial development, this plan had to be put on hold for the time being. However, in the next two years, after Xiao Mubai's large amount of capital and investment in black technology, the industrial construction under the rule of the autonomous government has made great progress, and aviation, machinery, steel, shipbuilding, chemical industry, coal, and textiles have all been built from scratch. What China used to have, now it's much bigger; What China didn't have before, now it has. The industrial construction of more than two years has not only increased the basic industrial strength of the autonomous government, but also changed the situation of incomplete industrial layout under the autonomous government. With such an autonomous government supported by supporting industrial facilities, everything from airplanes, tanks, and locomotives to screws, nails, and steel pipes could not be produced by itself.

The vigorous development of industry has naturally also led to the construction and development of transportation, agricultural production, national defense and military affairs, and has provided sufficient confidence for the construction of Xiao Mubai's restarted armored forces.

On the way back to the army, Huang Yuying, who was sitting in the car, did not speak. If Xiao Mubai only announced a decision in the previous conversation, then the order issued by the General Staff later undoubtedly substantiated this decision, and he was very satisfied in front of Xiao Mubai at that time, but at this time he was extremely headache. Waiting for him to take over the reorganization of the unit is not only the tank regiment that had been trained for half a year that he had secretly visited in Mianzhu before, a considerable number of driving, maintenance, and support personnel, but also the most sensitive, cumbersome and complicated personnel issues involving the entire Third Division.

In addition to a large amount of advanced equipment, an armored division naturally needs a large number of soldiers and officers with extremely high cultural quality and tactical literacy. Obviously, the Third Division did not have a large number of officers and men who could meet such conditions. In this way, in order to solve such a problem, it is inevitable to transfer a group of officers and men from outside and a group of officers and men from within; not to mention the whole process, it is very difficult to face those brothers who have been on the battlefield together.

Rubbing his swollen head, Huang Yuying, who no longer thought about it, simply opened the document handed over to him by Xiao Mubai. In the document, Xiao Mubai described the organization and training mode of the KPA's armored units in the future. The standard establishment is three tank regiments, one motorized infantry regiment, one self-propelled artillery regiment, one air defense regiment, division headquarters, and directly under the jurisdiction of the engineer battalion, reconnaissance battalion, repair battalion, transport battalion, etc. The tank regiment consisted of three tank battalions, one motorized infantry battalion, one self-propelled artillery battalion, and several direct companies. The standard establishment of a motorized rifle regiment consists of three motorized infantry battalions, a tank battalion, a self-propelled artillery battalion, and several direct companies. Basically, the armored units of the KPA are tanks equipped with tank battalions and motorized rifle battalions as the smallest single unit.

Of course, the current equipment of the armored forces of the People's Army is naturally mainly T12 light tanks, armored vehicles, automobiles, motorcycles, etc., and at most it is a light armored division. Although such a unit cannot be compared with the armored forces of a few decades later, in this era, it is completely capable of sweeping the existence of infantry units of the same level.

After reading the documents roughly, Huang Yuying already had a preliminary impression of the armored division that was about to be reorganized. Although the front-line combat strength of the Third Division will be greatly reduced after the mechanized transformation and more manpower will inevitably be used in logistical support and technical services, the combat effectiveness of the troops will certainly make a qualitative leap, and the future of the Third Division is indeed worth looking forward to by virtue of the rapid mobility capability and super offensive and defensive capabilities of the mechanized troops.

Thinking of Huang Yuying here, the corners of his mouth inadvertently turned upwards after thinking of several other ace divisions who also made great achievements in the battle sequence of the People's Army.