Chapter 43 Cram School for Officers

Some of the directly subordinate institutions of the division headquarters have also moved to Chaohu, and a middle school has been set up in the new division headquarters. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The conditions are naturally not comparable to Yinping Town, but it is better than spacious, and there is a large playground, and in your spare time, you can also play boxing and run.

For the new 1st Division, including those old regiment commanders, the promotion was too fast, and the combat experience was enough, but the accumulation of theory was lacking. After arranging the reorganization, that is, the construction of the defensive position in Chaohu, and there was still a class to go to the officers' workshop in the evening, Zhang Cheng's work was full every day, and he even had to take three sips of water and make a sip.

In a word, busy!

Lao Jiang actually agreed to his reorganization plan word for word, which made him a little surprised, and he didn't delve into the reason, if he thought about this all day long, then don't do anything.

The key is to improve your own strength, have a gun in your hand, and don't panic in your heart!

Zhang Cheng's current days are to read documents, approve documents, read war reports, and criticize war reports, and then his hands are a little weak when he signs, and sometimes he has to prepare for classes and write handouts, and he has never slept before twelve o'clock.

People are a little tired, but they are still very motivated.

The number of officers in the first phase of the training was 100 people, but only five places were given to the divisional organs, five places were given to the units directly under them, then ten places were given to three brigades and one brigade, and the remaining 40 places were given to special operations battalions.

For the sake of these 100 places, it was really a head-scratcher, and before that, there were people in the special combat team, and many people in the new 1st Division directly called it a special training camp for officers.

After the decentralization of these personnel who had been stationed in the special combat unit for training, they basically became the backbone officers of each battalion and company, and they all knew exactly what kind of changes they had brought about in the special combat unit for training.

Therefore, in this officer workshop, those who have tasted the sweetness naturally know how rare the opportunity is.

The training alone has brought so much change to them, and many of them have become combat heroes and backbone officers. The career in the army soared.

Now there are higher-level workshops, and they are also formal lectures and training, and the teacher Zhang Cheng also serves as the class teacher and participates in the teaching.

Not to mention the actions of these junior officers, even the senior officers are also a little moved. If it weren't for the restriction of military ranks, many school officers would want to get involved.

"Shizai, do you really plan to speak openly about guerrilla warfare?"

"What, problem?" Zhang Chengyi raised his head, looked at Zhu Ping with some hesitation and asked.

"No, it's just that if this article is published, some of the references may be misleading?" Zhu Ping said.

"What's the misunderstanding?"

Division, are you raising this tactic too high? Zhu Ping asked.

"High, do you also think guerrilla warfare is not good?"

"It's not that no, it's just that you think too highly of guerrilla tactics, and you can't win the War of Resistance by relying on this tactic." Zhu Ping said.

"Zhu Ping, you have to understand a truth, what tactics to use is not artificially decided, but is based on the battle situation and the changes in the situation of you and me." Zhang Chengdao, "I ask you, in the area of the fall behind enemy lines. What tactics do you think should be employed? ”

"This ......" "You may think that it doesn't matter behind enemy lines, you just need to defeat the enemy on a frontal battlefield, but you are very wrong. The work behind enemy lines is closely related to the frontal war of resistance, why does the chairman of the committee emphasize that space is exchanged for time, just to give up the territory to the Japanese, and the Japanese will give you time? Zhang Cheng smiled, "The Japanese are not so stupid, they will definitely take advantage of the victory to pursue." ”

"The essence of exchanging space for time is to resist behind enemy lines, that is, guerrilla warfare, do you say it is important?" Zhang Cheng explained, "The Japanese army did not occupy a single place. It is necessary to maintain a part of the local army to maintain the local rule, as well as the security of the communication lines. The larger the space they occupy, the more troops they need. Think about it, what would happen if there were countless anti-Japanese guerrillas behind enemy lines, and they used tactics of harassment and sabotage? ”

"The Japanese army is bound to increase its strength?" "By the way, where do the troops come from?" Zhang Chengdao, "They have to maintain the suppression of us on the frontal battlefield, and they also have to maintain the stability of the occupied areas and ensure the smooth supply of materials, so there is only a continuous increase in troops. Liang, if there is smoke all over the inside, it is a two-front battle, and a few Japanese soldiers die a day, which is inconspicuous, but how many deaths in a hundred counties at the same time in a day? How many Japanese soldiers will die in a day, and how many will die in a year? ”

"Guerrilla warfare looks inconspicuous, but it can accumulate small victories into big victories, and it can also drag down the attack of the main forces of the Japanese army, and even change the Japanese army's strategy toward China; don't look at the Japanese army's current momentum, which has a great posture of destroying China, in fact, they themselves are also weak, and they are also afraid that once the whole Chinese rise up to fight, they will fall into the vast sea of all-people war, and when the time comes, it will be difficult for him to get out."

"Sit, I understand." Zhu Ping said, "I'm just afraid that if you say it publicly, there will be people above who will have an opinion on you, after all, guerrilla warfare is a term over there, and if you respect it so much, I'm afraid it will cause criticism?" ”

"It's okay, I'm not afraid of shadows, what others like to say." Zhang Cheng didn't care, he just expounded his views from a purely military point of view, and as for the excessively high evaluation of "guerrilla warfare," let the facts speak.

Since we are going to resist the war, guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines is indispensable, and our special combat team alone is relying on our special combat team to sabotage the devil's defense behind enemy lines, after all, the number of people is limited.

Lao Jiang is now employing people, and he will not treat himself like this.

If there are more troops, there will not be enough officers, the organization will be bloated, and the combat effectiveness will decline.

Zhang Cheng's concept is rather advanced, and modern warfare is no longer about more people bullying fewer people, and a large brigade of the Japanese army dares to chase after a division of the Chinese army, which is enough to show this.

Seeing Zhang Cheng appear at the door, Luo Shiyi immediately got up: "All stand up!" ”

Zhao Bin and 100 other officers stood up in unison, stood upright, and saluted Zhang Cheng.

Zhang Cheng strode into the classroom and stood in front of the podium, and returned the military salute, and Luo Shiyi shouted again and sat down.

After the students sat down, Zhang Cheng turned around and wrote the six words "frontal combat of the large corps" on the blackboard, and then turned back to the students and said, "Today I will tell you about the frontal combat of the large corps. ”

For example, during the World War, the Eastern Front and the Western Front in Europe were both frontal battles of large corps, and their biggest feature was that the scale of the troops invested by the enemy and us was extremely large, the battle process was extremely tragic, and the attrition and casualties were extremely large, but the results were often not large."

As soon as Zhang Cheng's words fell, Zhao Bin immediately stood up and said, "Report to the chief!" ”

Zhang Chengdao: "Speak! ”

Zhao Bin said: "Is the Battle of Songhu considered a frontal battle of the large corps? ”

"Barely counted." Zhang Cheng nodded and said, "In the third stage of the Battle of Songhu, our side invested more than 70 divisions and nearly 500,000 troops, divided into three army groups on the left, center and right, and the Japanese army invested nine divisions and two other detachments, with a total strength of more than 300,000 people. ”

Zhao Bin said: "Sir, there is a point of view that in the third stage of the Battle of Songhu, if the Chinese army does not entangle with the Japanese army in the coastal area of Songhu, but retreats to the defense line of Wufu and Jiazha in great strides, it can effectively avoid the firepower of the Japanese army's superior naval guns and carrier-based aviation, and the result of the Battle of Songhu may be a different result. ”

"Well said!" Zhang Cheng threw an appreciative look at Zhao Bin and said, "However, the assumption you just made involves another cutting-edge military theory, that is, the theory of large-depth operations of the Great Corps just founded by Marshal Tukhachevsky of the Soviet Union. ”

He continued to say just now: "The theory of large-scale in-depth operations of the large corps is a theory that is opposed to the theory of frontal operations of the large corps, and the propositions of these two theories are completely different: one advocates a frontal decisive battle to defeat the enemy on the frontal front as much as possible, and the other advocates mobile operations on the vast battlefield in order to consume the enemy as much as possible, exhaust the enemy, and eventually encircle and annihilate the enemy. ”

"The results of the world war show that the results of the frontal combat of the large corps are difficult to satisfy, and neither the Entente bloc nor the Allied group can defeat the enemy from the frontal front, but whether the large corps and the large in-depth operations will necessarily be better than the large corps frontal operations has not yet been verified by actual combat for the time being, but I firmly believe that the theory of the large corps and the large in-depth operations will certainly shine in future wars, and I am very convinced of this."

Of course, Zhang Cheng's words are not nonsense, because a year later, World War II will break out in an all-round way, and the German army and the Soviet army have practiced the theory of large-scale in-depth operations of the large corps in World War II, and have achieved brilliant results, the German army almost unified Europe by virtue of the blitzkrieg evolved from the theory of large-depth operations of the large corps, and the Soviet Red Army defeated the invincible Nazi Germany by virtue of the large-scale in-depth combat theory of the large corps.

In another ten years, in China's War of Liberation, there will be a war wizard who will stand on the shoulders of the German army and the Soviet Red Army and interpret the theory of large-scale in-depth operations of the large corps to the extreme, and in the vast land of Huaihai, the People's Liberation Army with 600,000 inferior equipment will encircle and annihilate 800,000 soldiers of the National Army who are all equipped with American weapons!

Until half a century later, this case was still a classic case in the military academies of Western countries, and it would always be taken out by instructors for in-depth analysis.

This war wizard is General Li Yu, Li Yu's greatest contribution to the theory of large in-depth operations of the large corps, that is, creatively gave another definition of interspersed clusters, before Li Yu, interspersed clusters can only be played by tank groups or motorized infantry clusters, but Li Yu has proved that infantry can also be used as interspersed clusters!

Li Yu's contribution has lowered the threshold for large-scale in-depth operations of the large corps, and has given the theory of large-scale in-depth operations of the large corps a broader prospect.

It was precisely by virtue of Li Yu's practice of large-scale and in-depth combat that on the Korean battlefield three years later, the Chinese People's Volunteers frantically interspersed with an army, a division, or even a regiment, and the United Nations troops led by the United States were often defeated like a mountain and formed into a formation and annihilated, especially the South Korean Army, which often surrounded and annihilated entire divisions and divisions.

Although the US military has no combat examples of being encircled and annihilated above the battalion level, that is because they have the ability to provide logistical support against the sky.

Zhang Cheng quickly retracted his thoughts and said: "The theory of frontal operations of the large corps is not new, you will slowly understand it after keeping it, and today I will briefly tell you about the theory of the large in-depth operations of the large corps." ”

Hearing that Zhang Cheng was going to give a lecture on the cutting-edge theory of large-scale in-depth operations of the Great Corps, more than 100 officers immediately opened their notebooks, and more than 200 pairs of burning eyes were also focused on Zhang Cheng.

Zhang Cheng turned around and wrote the words "assault" and "interspersed" on the blackboard.

After writing, Zhang Cheng turned back and explained: "The theory of assault and the theory of interspersing are the two most critical components of the theory of large-depth operations of the large corps. ”

"The interspersing of assault clusters is like a sharp knife piercing the heart of the enemy, as long as it is inserted to a certain depth, it will definitely hurt the enemy's heart, and the enemy will definitely die and collapse, this is beyond doubt."

"However, after the collapse of the enemy, it does not mean that the battle is over."

"If we can't encircle the enemy in time, annihilate the enemy, and wait for the enemy to gather up the rout, we will soon be able to launch a counterattack, and if the enemy's commander is calm enough and clever enough, it is easy to defeat or even encircle our pursuing troops in turn, and a victory will most likely become a defeat."

"This involves another theory, interspersed theories!"

"Why should there be interspersed with large corps and large in-depth operations?"

"Because there is no intersperse, there is no encirclement!"

Zhang Cheng's class lasted for two hours, and the students were still unsatisfied, but Zhang Cheng and they had no time, the Battle of Xuzhou had already started, and they had to send these officers back to the army.

Zhang Cheng returned to the division headquarters, and Gao Zhisong asked in a low voice: "Division sitting, do you really think that large-depth operations will become the mainstream of the future battlefield?" ”

"Of course." Zhang Chengdao, "The method of large-depth combat will definitely become the mainstream. ”

Of course, Zhang Cheng has no doubt about this point, and the upcoming outbreak of World War II will prove his judgment.

Gao Zhisong nodded silently, if this is the case, then it is not in vain for them to work hard to teach this group of students the theory of large-depth combat in depth, even if they are not at the level for the time being, they can't practice such a combat theory, but who is sure that they will not go to a higher level in the future?

Gao Zhisong firmly believed that China would definitely win the war against Japan, but after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, China would not necessarily enter an era of peace, and he preferred to believe that there would definitely be a civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

Of course, the premise is that they have to survive the brutal war of resistance against Japan.

Zhang Cheng also said: "However, at present, the theory of large-depth operations is still only at the theoretical level, and moreover, the theory of large-depth operations is not applicable to operations against Japan, at least not for a short period of time. ”

"Not good." Gao Zhisong shook his head and smiled bitterly, "There are so many things, I don't know where to start." ”

As early as the period of the Great Revolution, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army creatively practiced movement warfare in Jinggangshan and achieved good combat results.

However, even at that time, there had not been a systematic exposition of movement warfare, that is to say, movement warfare had not yet been raised to the level of theory, and the Eighth Route Army had only written a few pamphlets introducing movement warfare, and Gao Zhisong was not a military theorist, and it was difficult to imagine how difficult it was to sum up the basic theory of movement warfare through these pamphlets.

Gao Zhisong smiled bitterly: "At first, I really didn't think there was anything great about sports warfare, and I thought that this is just running?" If you can fight, you can fight, if you can't fight, you will run, run around the mountains with the enemy, wait until the enemy is tired of running, and then turn around and hit him, but when I analyze it deeply, I found that it is not like that at all. ”

"Then you can summarize slowly, it's your business anyway." Zhang Chengdao, "I have to go over to train the special combat team, they only learn a little bit of skin, and they all think that Lao Tzu is the best in the world." ”