Chapter 113: Fierce Battle of Chahar
Shi Shi'an is now a major general, and it is obviously inappropriate to serve as the regiment commander again, and there are still a lot of things in the brigade headquarters, and he is always in the 14th regiment as a deputy brigade commander, what is this like. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
After transferring Shi Shi'an back to the brigade headquarters, Li Han can really only be responsible for formulating a big plan in the future, and Shi Shi'an and Gao Jian will do the specific implementation, and he can also spare more time to do other things.
At the same time, in order to help the newly formed 16 th Regiment build up its combat effectiveness in the fastest possible time, Li Han transferred some veterans from the 14 th and 15 th regiments as the basis for the expansion of the 16 th Regiment.
In order not to affect the combat effectiveness of the 14 th and 15 th regiments, Li Han added the supplementary battalions to two regiments, and the soldiers of the supplementary battalions were originally trained according to the standards of field troops, and they also experienced this major battle, and they were no worse than the infantry battalions of the two main regiments.
"Brigade seat, although our establishment has been expanded, our strength has not increased, and after this war, our regiment has suffered great losses in both personnel and weapons and equipment, and these problems need to be solved as soon as possible."
After Shi Shi'an was no longer the head of the regiment, Wang Dazhu became the oldest of the three regiment commanders, although he himself had only been the regiment leader for a month or two, but he took the lead of the big brother.
"You don't have to worry too much about weapons and equipment, I will solve this matter, your main job now is to recruit troops and complete the troops according to the original establishment."
Speaking of weapons, Li Han also has a headache, the second batch of arms he bought last time has arrived, but he originally planned to wait until the second batch of arms arrives, and he can still save one or two thousand rifles in case of emergency, but now he doesn't even have enough one Mauser rifle for everyone.
"After everyone goes back, we must complete the establishment as quickly as possible, this time the devil suffered a big loss in Chahar, and he will definitely not give up, so we must restore our combat effectiveness as soon as possible, so that we can go to the front line to fight the devil at any time."
In the end, Li Han said with a serious face.
"Yes, Brigade!"
After the meeting, Li Han came to the reconnaissance battalion again, and after the supplementary battalion was split, only the reconnaissance battalion, the cavalry battalion, and the guard company were left in the units directly under the brigade headquarters, plus an artillery battalion.
There are still more than 400 people left in the reconnaissance battalion, 520 in the cavalry battalion, 13 in the guard company, and 800 in the artillery battalion, all of which add up to nearly 2,000 people.
"Chief of Staff, how's our recruitment going?"
Gao Jianzai has always been in charge of recruitment, and Shi Shi'an is more concerned about military matters, such as the training, equipment, and morale of the troops, and is also responsible for coordinating the cooperation between the regiments.
"It went very well, and the people in Chahar all over the country had a good impression of our 145th Brigade and were very cooperative with our recruitment work.
At present, we have set up recruitment points in Zhangbei, Xuanhua, Wanquan, Zhangjiakou and other places, and the total number of recruits recruited in various places has exceeded 1,000. ”
Speaking of recruitment, Gao Jian's face showed a proud expression, although the final claim of the Battle of Duolun was that it was obtained by the leadership of the Allied Army Headquarters, but in the area around Recha, the popularity of their brigade was still very high.
As a result, not only did the recruitment work proceed smoothly, but the scope of recruitment was also expanded, and half of the Chahar province was hit.
"Yes, by the way, just now the Allied Army Headquarters called, and they also gave us a thousand additional soldiers, all of whom are from the Volunteers, and the Volunteers came out of the same unit as you, and you are responsible for this matter."
Li Han didn't expect Feng Lianqin to speak quite usefully, not only helping him win four Soviet-made field guns of 76 caliber, but also winning 1,000 additional troops for him.
Although these may not be anything to Feng Lianqin, for Li Han, they have saved a lot of money, and just four field guns are worth more than 100,000 oceans.
"Now we are not short of soldiers, but the weapons are a little troublesome, and the weapons equipped by the troops include Japanese weapons, German weapons and just obtained Soviet weapons, which is not conducive to the logistics supply of the troops."
Shi Shi'an frowned slightly, although he had just accepted the things of the brigade headquarters, but more important things such as weapons and equipment were of course the first things he knew.
Don't look at the weapons and ammunition they have captured after this battle, but the number of troops has also increased a lot, the key is that they are only a brigade-level unit, and they use three rifles of different calibers, which brings too much pressure to logistics.
"I also know this, but this is not something that can be solved in a short time, so let's make do with it for now, it's better to have a gun than no gun. Of course, logistical pressures are also to be taken into account.
In this way, the 16th Regiment will equip all of them with Japanese weapons, and the 14th and 15th Regiments with all German weapons.
At present, the Soviet machinery has only a few cannons, all of which are equipped to the artillery battalion, and the artillery battalion has suffered a lot of losses this time, half of the artillery has been blown up by the devil's plane, and the artillery battalion is originally directly under the brigade headquarters, and a few of us can solve it if there is anything. ”
Li Han is not going to buy a Mauser rifle, this guy is too expensive, and now it has almost risen to a hundred oceans, although Li Han has saved more than one million oceans now, but it is only enough to buy 10,000 rifles.
However, a unit must not be all infantry with rifles, he also has to buy mountain artillery, field artillery, mortars, light and heavy machine guns, etc., in addition to these weapons, there are also all kinds of military equipment, all of which must be purchased from outside.
"Why is it that the more money, the more the less it can spend?"
Li Han always has this strange question in his heart, when he was a company commander in the past, all his assets were more than 20 yuan of military salary.
After seizing 100,000 oceans from the one-eyed dragon, he paid several months of military salaries at one time, and then bought guns and guns for several months without spending them all, and now he is hundreds of thousands of millions in his account at every turn, but the money is not enough to spend.
And although the Mauser rifle is better than the little devil's 38 big cover, it can't completely crush the 38 big cover like the American Garland semi-automatic rifle.
Unable to equip semi-automatic rifles and unable to equip Mauser rifles, Li Han turned his attention to the Mauser G98 rifle, which had been retired in Germany.
Although the G98 is not as good as the official rifle, it is still a little better than the little devil's 38 big cover, and the fiasco of World War I led to a large number of G98 rifles that were eliminated before Germany was equipped with the troops.
However, this matter is not in a hurry for the time being, he has just received the second batch of Mauser rifles, a large number of Japanese-made weapons have been captured, and the ammunition reserves are enough to support him to fight a general battle, so Li Han's main goal now is to train the troops so that they can go to the battlefield to resist Japan at any time.
After several battles, Li Han felt that the submachine gun played a particularly large role when breaking through the enemy's position.
Every time the devil was fully prepared and waited to fight with the fighters with bayonets, but what was ushered in was a burst of submachine gun fire, not only the devils would suffer heavy losses, but the position was also easily opened by the fighters.
So Li Han planned to equip each regiment with a submachine gun company, which was specially used to break through the devil's position. For this reason, Li Han divided more than 700 submachine guns that had just arrived.
The 14th and 15th regiments had already been equipped with some submachine guns before, and Li Han only made up for their losses this time, so that each regiment had 400 submachine guns, and the 16th regiment also received 400 submachine guns.
Li Han let the three regiment commanders decide for themselves how to use it, but at least ensure that each regiment has a submachine gun company of 200 people.
Just when Li Han was working hard to reorganize the army in Zhangbei County, the Eighth Division of the Devils also set off, and tens of thousands of heavily armed devil soldiers slaughtered towards Chahar with great momentum.
As the vanguard of this expedition against Chahar, more than 4,000 people of the 4th Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army had already arrived in Duolun County and engaged in fierce battles with the troops of the two divisions of the Duolun Alliance.
Fortunately, the Allied army has made full preparations this time, although the cavalry brigade of the devil is strong, but the first batch of the Allied army to enter the battle has two divisions.
These two divisions are different from the other miscellaneous cards that have been recruited, they are Feng Yuxiang's descendants, with nearly 20,000 people, and there is one division of troops in Baochang, Guyuan, and Kangbao, which can reinforce Duolun at any time.
At this time, Li Han had also recruited more than 3,000 recruits here, plus the 1,000 supplementary soldiers provided by the Allied Army, there were 4,000 people, and now the 14th and 15th were fully staffed.
In order to cope with the upcoming war situation, Li Han replenished all the men of the Volunteer Army to the 14th and 15th regiments, so that, together with the supplementary battalions, the proportion of veterans in the two regiments was as high as 70%, which basically did not affect the combat effectiveness of the troops.
It's just that in this way, the 16th Regiment is basically a new recruit. However, there were also more than 800 veterans from four companies transferred from the other two regiments, and the officers were basically transferred from the other two regiments.
At present, what has not been replenished is the direct unit of the brigade headquarters, but fortunately, the artillery battalion has been replenished with four field guns, and its strength has recovered a lot.
The 145th Brigade was busy expanding its army and training troops in Zhangbei, but the battle situation on the Duolun side was not optimistic.
Although the Allies succeeded in holding back the Japanese 4th Brigade at Duolun, they suffered heavy casualties. Don't look at the fourth brigade of the little devil is only a cavalry brigade, but the fourth brigade of the cavalry has all the weapons that the devil's infantry brigade should have.
The cavalry brigades of the Japanese army generally have two cavalry wings, a cavalry artillery wing, and an armored convoy with a total of more than 5,600 soldiers, equipped with more than 5,500 military horses, more than 3,700 rifles, a machine gun squadron, and a field artillery brigade.
Although the 4th Brigade was a little smaller in number and did not have an armored convoy, their artillery was reinforced by an artillery brigade by the Kwantung Army Command.
Therefore, the 4th Cavalry Brigade had two brigades, 12 mountain guns and 12 field guns, which was twice as many artillery as the two divisions of the Allied Army in terms of the number of cannons alone.