407: Three Cadre Army?
"The Russian army has found our weakness, how can this battle be fought? I propose that the plan for a decisive battle at Borja be cancelled, and that the troops be ordered to advance to ten kilometers of Borgia's outer defensive line, and that an attack on Borja be launched before dawn tomorrow, and that the enemy's artillery positions be taken before dawn to clear all obstacles for the follow-up troops. www.biquge.info"With the information sent back by the reconnaissance unit, Huang Jianbin immediately became anxious.
"Lao Huang, don't be in such a hurry, things are not as bad as you imagined." Li Yunchang smiled and waved his hand, as if he was not worried about the Russian artillery at all.
"Not in a hurry? I said, why is your heart so big? We are a new army, the first time on the battlefield, before making a decision, we must be more safe, you don't always think that we are armored troops, whether it is attack or defense is much stronger than the infantry, do not put the enemy in your eyes, to be honest, now you feel the temper of the armored troops? Do you dare to pat yourself on the chest and stomach and promise that by doing this, you can ensure that the enemy's artillery will not be able to hit our tanks? Huang Jianbin became anxious, couldn't help but increase his tone, and said loudly to Li Yunchang.
Looking at Li Yunchang's painless expression, Huang Jianbin couldn't wait to step forward and bite him, why did this product dig like this? Is it a donkey?
"Lao Li, just listen to me, let's fight this battle safely, and find a suitable opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the Russian army. Besides, the terrain here is not suitable for a decisive battle at all, our tank regiment can't spread out at all, and there are hills everywhere, sitting in the tank maybe you can't even see the situation from a kilometer away, do you want the tank to just climb a small dirt slope and be killed directly by a single shot? Huang Jianbin continued to persuade.
"Lao Huang, it's still the same sentence, now for a decisive battle, all the advantages are on our side, the later the decisive battle is carried out, the more unfavorable it will be for us, think about it, if we attack Chita and fight a decisive battle with the enemy, then our logistics and transportation line will need to run nearly 400 kilometers more.
Yes, the train can go directly to Chita, but can you guarantee that we will be able to completely destroy all the enemies once and for all? What if the Russians, taking advantage of the absence of our main forces, destroyed the railway line? At that time, we will not be able to deliver supplies, but the troops are engaged in a decisive battle and need a large amount of supplies, what will happen at that time?
Lao Huang, we are in the enemy's territory, there are enemies everywhere, maybe when the time comes, the people in this vicinity will be able to cut down the railway, every time a train is departed, let's arrange a team of sappers in front of us to wait for the railway to be repaired?
If we go by land, will we have enough capacity? Not to mention anything else, I'm afraid it's very difficult just to ensure that our 103rd Division is safe, not to mention that there are still eight divisions of infantry, what will happen when the time comes?
I know that you are considering this matter from the position of our 103rd Division, but if we want to fight longer and achieve greater results, we have to take those eight divisions into account. So, we have to find a way to gather the scattered Russian troops together, and then concentrate on extermination.
Now that the Russian army has deployed more troops here than our intelligence estimates, no one knows how many troops the Russians have deployed, we are already very passive, should we be even more passive? Li Yunchang painstakingly explained why he had to fight a decisive battle in Borja.
In the final analysis, it is still a lack of logistics capacity, if they have enough trucks to ensure logistics supplies, then Li Yunchang will be so anxious? When the time comes, it will be nothing more than to establish a few more logistics bases and send more troops to garrison there.
The train can't be used, it's a big deal to spend a little more time transporting it by truck, anyway, there are too many trucks to use up, whatever you want, you can go to planing the railway, and if you have the ability, you can also come and plane all the roads.
But now they do not have this condition, and with the baggage capacity of the 103rd Division, they can only ensure that the combat of troops within 400 kilometers will not be affected, and if they exceed 400 kilometers, then everything is difficult to say.
As for the infantry, this distance is closer, and the infantry needs to build a logistics base every 200 kilometers, of course, it does not mean that the logistics base is open at the same time, but when the infantry exceeds the logistics base by about 270 kilometers, then the logistics base will have to move forward by 200 kilometers.
Although it may seem cumbersome, this ensures that the baggage team will be able to deliver supplies to the troops within two days of departing from the logistics base. If it takes a little longer, if there are some problems along the way, then the troops on the front line will wait to run out of ammunition and food.
Of course, if the number of trucks is doubled, or even halved, the armored division will be able to ensure that operations within 600 kilometers will not be affected, and the infantry will be able to ensure 400 kilometers.
But the problem with all of this is that they don't have enough trucks, so logistics are the main reason for slowing down the rapid advance of the troops.
Wang Sirui wants to launch a blitzkrieg, if you look at it in the short term, then he has succeeded, in just two days, the troops have advanced more than 100 kilometers, and they are about to hit Borgia.
But in the long run, he failed, because after taking Borja, he had to stop and wait for supplies, and the supply was too far away? Not far at all, in Manchuria, more than a hundred kilometers away, they had no other way than train transportation, so it was indeed a blitzkrieg, but it was a deformed blitzkrieg.
With the current industrial system, it is not enough to support Wang Sirui to fight a perfect blitzkrieg, let alone cause the trend of the whole world.
"Well, since what you say makes sense, then I ask you, what are you going to do with those Russian artillery? According to the situation reported now, the Russians have arranged a total of five artillery positions near Borja, and the largest artillery position has at least 100 artillery pieces, and the total number of artillery pieces in these artillery positions is almost 300, which is more than our tanks. Huang Jianbin said angrily, he couldn't talk about Li Yunchang, although he understood Li Yunchang's thoughts very well, but it was not suitable for now.
"Three hundred?" Li Yunchang was startled and wondered.
"Do you think it's thirty?" Huang Jianbin is a little angry, and you don't even ask about the other party's situation, just pat your thigh and decide? Is there anyone you command?
"Nearly 300 artillery pieces, if you add the dozens of artillery pieces that were destroyed by us before, that is, more than 300 artillery pieces, according to the current establishment of the Russian army, an artillery division has 118 artillery pieces, and if there are really so many artillery pieces here, then it must be all the artillery of the three artillery divisions.
There is only one artillery division in one basic army of the Russian army, is there three basic armies here? According to the calculation that there are 15,000 people in an infantry division, then there are nearly 60,000 people in a backbone army (three infantry divisions, 32 companies in a cavalry division, and 14 companies in an artillery division), and a total of 180,000 Russian troops are here? Li Yunchang wondered.
The artillery divisions of the Russian army will not act alone, where the artillery divisions are, their entire army is there, and the artillery divisions are always at the rear of the entire army, although the artillery divisions will also be disassembled and used, but most of the time they are still used as cluster artillery.
"I think the Russians may have strengthened the artillery units here, three basic armies, which are more troops than the Far Eastern Army." Huang Jianbin questioned a little, he didn't think about this problem, but he couldn't believe that it was true, if the Russians deployed three backbone armies here, what would it mean? Even if you think with your feet, you can guess the intentions of the Russians.
"No, the Russians are chaotic, that is, the number of each division may differ by several thousand, and there may indeed be three backbone armies here, but the total number should not be 180,000, it should be between 100,000 and 150,000." Li Yunchang confirmed.
"How do I always feel unlikely? The Russians have transferred all their forces to this side, what to do in the north? ”
"The backbone army is a direct army under the central government of Tsarist Russia, if the intelligence on the front line is not wrong, then I can be sure that there are indeed three backbone armies here, they belong to the central government of Tsarist Russia, and the Russian Far East Army we are familiar with is actually a backbone army and a local army, and as far as I know, the Russians now seem to have only twelve backbone armies (six backbone armies when it was formed in 1905, the plot needs, plus the development of so many years, and the intelligence sent to Tsarist Russia by the French, Appropriately and reasonably add some. )。 Li Yunchang was imprisoned in Beiping and Zhongjing for more than a year, and during that time, Li Yunchang read a lot of information about Russia.
Huang Jianbin has always been in the army, and there are almost no channels to pay attention to these materials, so many generals in the army are not very clear about what the establishment of the Russian army means. I don't even know that there is a big gap between each division of the Russian army, it is possible that you will encounter an infantry division of 10,000 people, but next time, you may meet a Russian division of 15,000 or even more people.
Of course, Li Yunchang's guess is not all correct, at least, the guess of the three backbone armies is wrong, in fact, there are only two backbone armies here plus part of the Siberian Army, but all the artillery in the area is concentrated, so this kind of illusion is created.
But in fact, the impact is not great, and Li Yunchang still guessed correctly in terms of the total number of people.
With more than 100,000 people and nearly 300 artillery pieces, this is indeed not something that he can fight against with a 103rd Division, no matter how strong Li Yunchang's confidence is, he does not dare to swell it so much.
"Order the troops, rest for a day tomorrow, and at the same time inform the command of our analysis, and apply for the mobilization of an artillery division to come and support." However, Li Yunchang still did not dispel the idea of a decisive battle in Borgia. (To be continued.) )