The first temporary middle school of Lu'an, the camphor tree is thick and verdant, the breeze blows, the fragrance is inhaled, and the side is dotted with the blooming moon season and white crystal chrysanthemum from time to time, a beautiful campus scenery, but on the road leading to the auditorium from the school gate, there are soldiers erected every more than ten meters, the beautiful campus, and the serious guards show that today's is different.

A large group of soldiers came to the side of the road, these are the 107th Division company commanders and above officers, they did not come here to hold a victory party with the school, the division commander Xu Ming is going to hold a thorough army reorganization review meeting in the spacious auditorium here, to sort out and rectify the problems that have arisen in the two Mingguang battles.

During this time, the soldiers were on vacation, but Xu Ming and the staff office and officers above the battalion commander were not idle, and this review plan covered all the problems of the troops from the formation of Huainan to the second battle of Mingguang.

Xu Ming first made an opening remark, "I know that some people are puzzled, didn't the battle be won? Will it be long before you do it? But I would like to say that there is no immutable opponent, and there is no tactic that can always win, and if we do not change and rectify, the defeat of the enemy now will come to us in the near future! ”

Xu Ming grouped these issues into broad categories.

The first is the issue of fortifications, which played an extremely important role in the fact that the 107th Division was able to completely stop the Japanese army, and the Military Commission even sent a telegram to all theaters, asking other troops to refer to the "Xu Ming-style trench method" when constructing fortifications. But in this way, there is still much room for improvement.

"The construction of the bunker is too large, the largest bunker can hold more than 100 people, and now it is found that it is completely unnecessary, the data show that most of the casualties of the Japanese army were killed and wounded by our army's small bunkers, and the captured battle details and the 13th Division's combat log and other documents show that the small bunkers and even individual bunkers of two or three people concealed caused great difficulties to the Japanese army, and the number of fortifications is not allowed to exceed 20 people in the future unless specifically requested."

"There are not enough communication trenches, and before the war, I felt like everyone else that there were a lot, but as soon as the Japanese planes and heavy artillery blockade were made, our reinforcements could not go up to .......

"The fortifications are not camouflaged enough, especially the anti-air camouflage, and all future camouflage must be the first consideration of the anti-air camouflage."

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The second problem is the skill of the soldiers, and the artillery is useless except to be used as a bait; When the soldiers were stabbing at the Japanese army, an important mistake was that the first move was too violent, once the Japanese army avoided it, the counterattack was very deadly, and the captured Japanese army's battle report said mercilessly: "Although the army in front of the army is brave and tenacious, the assassination education is extremely non-standardized." "This is a very objective assessment.

The soldier's mentality in shooting is also problematic, and he is very impatient when he tries to kill the enemy in an assassination battle, and some soldiers shoot from a long distance, which not only exposes their own position, but also wastes a lot of ammunition.

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These problems belong to the problems of individual soldiers' skills, and it is not difficult to find them, but they are not easy to rectify, and Xu Ming can only gradually strengthen them in training and exercise confrontation.

Xu Ming said that he was tired, and Zhang Shaofang continued, "The third problem is the problem of troop liaison, and using dogs to contact cannot completely solve the problem. When the ambush was carried out in two corners, the various units were fighting in various places, and the communications battalion only played the role of informing the news at most, and did not link the various units. In the next stage of the training exercise, the communications unit will repeatedly practice the guarantee of communication under the fire line, the rescue of the line, the coordination of signals, and the communication support for night combat.

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"The fourth problem is the issue of officers, this question is mixed, our officers are very good, from the division commander to the below are all on the front line of command, the battalion commander is even on the line of fire, the problem now is that our officers are too casualties, what to do after the officers are casualties? Once the commander of the unit is killed or wounded, the combat strength of the unit will immediately drop greatly. The company commander was killed or wounded, the deputy company commander often could not control the troops, only half of the combat strength was left, the deputy company commander was also killed or wounded, and the troops collapsed immediately! The offense runs back, and the defense can't hold it! In the future, officers must appoint battlefield agents, and ensure that the agents can control the troops. ”……

Rigorous arguments, bloody facts, and data-based supporting materials, everyone listened attentively, and there was a sound of note-taking and brushing underneath. Xu Ming never regarded his subordinates as a tool to carry out orders, he not only demanded, but also often told them the reason for the request, which often convinced the subordinates.

In addition to solving the problem, Xu Ming also intends to adjust the establishment, mainly for the combat establishment of the grassroots, at that time, the first common use of the German Weimar Army before the establishment, the squad is divided into a shooting group and an assault group, the former serves as a fire cover, generally 4-5 people, the latter serves as a civil war, generally 8-9 people, this kind of establishment is very advanced, but Xu Ming found many problems in practical application: neither the shooting group nor the assault group can maximize the efficiency of the mechanism, For example, an assault group of 8-9 people can only play the role of 4-5 people, and a shooting group of 4-5 people can only play the role of 2-3 people.

Why is this happening? Xu Ming found out the reason: Compared with the Germans, the quality and degree of the Chinese soldiers and the squad leaders and deputy squad leaders at the grassroots level were relatively low, especially the lack of initiative and creative consciousness, and the excessive establishment could not give full play to the role of each person. He used the exercise to make a test, an attack, 8-9 people can complete the assault mission, 4-5 people can generally complete the mission; Similarly, a shooting group of 4-5 people can basically complete the task with 2-3 people.

Xu Ming's countermeasure was to set up a "corps" below the squad level, with the captain being a senior soldier and two soldiers under his jurisdiction, so that there would be 3-5 "corps" under the squad to give full play to the effectiveness of the smallest combat unit.

Xu Ming demanded that these problems and adjustment of the establishment must be rectified in mid-June, and the following people felt embarrassed, Zhang Shaofang frowned at the meeting and said, "Division, one and a half months is too short, the Military Commission has given us half a year to rectify, it is better to limit it to half a year, and divide it into three phases of rectification." ”

The chief of staff's point of view was unanimously agreed, Xu Ming looked at it, almost no one objected, he couldn't find a reason to refute for a while, 6 months of time is very tight, some belong to skill issues, such as the infantry's bayonet, the general technology is not good, the mentality is too hasty, from the statistics of the captured Japanese army security department data, the exchange rate of the bayonet between the two sides is 1:7, which can be changed in a few months, and 1 year may not be enough.

Xu Ming saw that the normal reasons could no longer convince others, so he simply threw out an irresponsible judgment, "The Military Commission has always said well, give us half a year, if the front line is in an emergency, all the troops will be filled, my personal judgment, we may have to enter the war before mid-June, we must make pre-war preparations before this." ”

This statement is not without any basis, the Military Commission originally wanted to transfer the 107th Division out of the 5th Theater and go to Hengyang to rest and recuperate, but Li Pinxian forcibly stayed, Li Pinxian's original plan was to use it as a strategic reserve, so as not to have such a strong force at a critical time, but this gave the generals and colonels of the 107th Division the feeling that they were indeed likely to participate in the war in the near future.

Everyone was silent, Xu Ming's prediction of the current situation had always convinced them, if they really wanted to fight in mid-June, the problem was not solved, and it would greatly affect the operation, and the three regiment commanders also stood up and said one by one that they would resolutely complete the task.

Subsequently, the troops began intense training and rectification, and once a week an exercise was held, and Fujimakura Hua (the former Japanese army Junior Satsu Fujisawa Konosuke) also organized a confrontation against the background of the Japanese army, which greatly enhanced the actual combat nature of the exercise.

On a small dirt slope, under the cover of smoke * shells, a group of soldiers divided into groups charged towards the hill under the cover of each other, and behind the infantry, there were coordinated sappers.

The attacking troops broke through almost on the bullet impact point, and the remaining firing points were destroyed one after another by mortar and engineer demolition groups, and they were preparing to develop in depth when they saw that their positions were about to be captured. Suddenly, an artillery shell hit from his rear, and it was falling beside the troops chasing the opponent, and a platoon commander was stunned for a moment, only to think that he should be "killed" now, with the shell as the center, the soldiers within a radius of 15 meters had to lie down helplessly, indicating "sacrifice".

"Damn, there's something wrong with the last link again!" Xu Ming angrily shoved the binoculars into the guards' hands and walked briskly back to the headquarters.