The next day, Zheng Weiguo, Li Liangrong, commander of the 33rd Division, and Liao Yaoxiang, commander of the Armored Cavalry Division, rushed to the front line of Renqiu. Xiong Taiyu, principal of the Jizhong Military Academy, and Wang Tiehan, vice president and head of the teaching corps, also led the first section of the teaching corps to accompany them.

In view of the fact that the Japanese North China Front has drawn up an operational plan for attacking the west of the Zhulong River, there will inevitably be big and vicious battles to be fought in the future, and it is imperative to restore the combat strength of the 53rd Army. How to recover it? The soft aspect, of course, is to stimulate the fighting spirit and eliminate the fear of the enemy among the soldiers; In terms of hardware, it is necessary to replenish the troops and weapons that were lost in the early stage.

Speaking of weapons, the previous counterattack on the Pinghan Line and the battle on the north bank of the Daqing River this time were quite abundant. Although some weapons were destroyed by the Japanese during the battle, most of the heavy equipment was repaired. Parts of equipment that cannot be repaired can also be used for other equipment, and several parts are assembled into a complete gun.

Although the total strength of Jizhong is large, the old troops are all a radish and a pit, and other units cannot be dismantled! The training of recruits recruited after the battle on the Pinghan Line was insufficient. After thinking about it, Zheng Huzi endured the pain and transferred 3,000 officers and soldiers from the newly formed Military Academy Teaching Corps to supplement the 53rd Army. This unit was originally intended to be used as a model for the armies and to rebuild the 105th and 108th Divisions, but now it can only be postponed.

"Stand upright, salute!" Army Commander Zhou Fucheng, Deputy Army Commander Zhao Xiqing, and Chief of Staff Zhang Wenqing all rushed outside the barracks to greet them, as well as the guard battalion of the military headquarters, while the other troops were not alarmed.

After Zheng Weiguo returned the military salute, he asked with concern: "Quan Wu (Zhou Fucheng's character), how is the morale of the troops?" ”

Commander Zhou hurriedly said: "Report to the general seat." The soldiers all held their breath, and they all asked for battle to return to the third division to find revenge on the devil! ”

Zheng Weiguo joked: "The 63rd Wing of the enemy's infantry was annihilated, the 10th Wing was defeated, and so many heavy artillery and tanks were lost, and the little devils also want to seek revenge on us!" ”

The generals laughed when they heard this. To be honest, I didn't suffer a loss in this battle, but the three divisions were a little lost. But this is also a matter of no choice, in the face of the enemy's group advance tactics, what can be done except for a temporary retreat? Historically, the Nationalist Army engaged in a "drum-style" advance in East China, and Huaye could not only retreat again and again, giving up most of Shandong.

After taking a seat. Zheng Weiguo asked again: "The opinions and suggestions of the front-line soldiers are the most valuable. Do the fighters have any requests and opinions? ”

Deputy Army Commander Zhao Xiqing hesitated for a moment and said, "General seat, everything else is okay, but the little devil's heavy artillery and cannon are too powerful." We don't have weapons to match. You can only be beaten passively. The brothers said it was a terrible taste. ”

Zheng Weiguo took a note. said: "Well, the question of the superiority of the enemy's artillery, this is really the harsh reality that our army must face." What else? ”

"Report!" The confidential telegraph operator who accompanied him suddenly stood at the door and saluted: "Headquarters, there is an emergency telegram!" ”

Zheng Weiguoqi said: "What telegram? Let's get it first! ”

When I opened it, it was a reply from the armies in North China forwarded by the General Staff, in which Wei Lihuang and Fu Zuoyi both expressed their willingness to launch a counterattack to share the pressure faced by Jizhong. Fu Zuoyi had already identified a specific target for the attack and asked the 34th Division in Suiyuan to participate in the operation.

Zheng Weiguo was secretly happy in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. He casually put the telegram in his pocket, waved his hand, and said, "It's from a friendly army, let's talk about it." ”

Chief of Staff Zhang Wenqing raised a topic that surprised everyone and was somewhat new. He said: "General, I think that the current troop establishment is a bit too bloated, difficult to manage, and inconvenient to command. It's not obvious when attacking, but it's often easy to do when retreating. Most of the equipment lost by our troops in this battle was caused by mismanagement. ”

Zheng Weiguo was puzzled: "Which level do you refer to?" ”

The current establishment of the 41st Army was specially established to restrain the Japanese army. For example, at the squad level, the Japanese army called the detachment, with a total of 13 people, including one detachment leader, four machine gun crews, and eight riflemen. The main forces in central Hebei have as many as 17 people in each squad, one principal and one deputy squad leader, four machine gun crews, two grenadier crews, one junior professional shooter, and eight riflemen.

Platoons, companies, battalions, and regiments have all increased their heavy firepower and strength in the Japanese army's structure, striving not to suffer losses compared with the Japanese army at the same level among units below the regimental level. In principle, there is no enemy in me, there are many enemies, and I am strong when there are many enemies.

Chief of Staff Zhang hurriedly explained: "It is mainly reflected at the battalion and company level, and the management of the three levels of the army, division and regiment is also relatively chaotic. In addition, the heavy machine guns of each company's fire platoon were too slow to coordinate tactically with the infantry platoons. ”

Zheng Weiguo frowned slightly, and questioned: "There is a big gap between our army and the Japanese army in terms of the quality of individual soldiers. ”

Commander Zhou and Deputy Commander Zhao both glared at Chief of Staff Zhang, fortunately, the general seat didn't listen to you, otherwise wouldn't it be a big loss to cut out the firepower platoon?

Chief of Staff Zhang shrunk his neck and smiled a little embarrassedly: "I just found out this problem, and I haven't thought about how to solve it yet." ”

Division Commander Li Liangrong interjected and said, "General Seat, I think what Chief of Staff Zhang said is reasonable. The 53rd Army did not have much heavy equipment, and the problem was not prominent. As the only hoplite division in the whole group army, our division is more difficult to manage, and the problem is even more obvious! ”

The heavy equipment of the 53rd and 63rd armies was concentrated above the regimental level, with only two 82 mortars and four heavy machine guns at the battalion level, and two heavy machine guns in each company.

The 33rd Division was different, the artillery regiment directly under the division had 12 Skoda mountain guns (mountain artillery battalion), four 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, four 20-mm anti-aircraft guns, and several heavy machine guns (anti-aircraft artillery battalion); Each regiment has four to six mountain guns, six 47-mm anti-aircraft guns and four Type 94 90-mm mortars, and each battalion also has two 37 rapid-fire guns, four 82 mortars, four heavy machine guns.

Li Liangrong believes that our army's current communications equipment is only at the battalion level, and each company can only rely on its correspondents to manually convey orders and information. There are also many problems in daily management, such as clothing, food, housing and transportation. If these problems are not resolved, it will be a great constraint on our army's combat capability on the outside line.

Zheng Weiguo took the note again. said: "Well, how to strike a balance between command and management, firepower, and troops, this issue is very deep, let's discuss it later!" Then he asked, "Is there anything else that needs to be solved?" Seeing that Liao Yaoxiang lowered his head and seemed to be thinking something, he smiled and said, "Jian Chu, I see that you have been pondering for a long time, I don't know what you have learned?" ”

Liao Yaoxiang hurriedly said: "Report to the general seat, I was thinking just now about how to deal with it if the Japanese army also learned from us to use armored clusters to assault." ”

Wang Tiehan smiled: "Of course it was bombarded with artillery." We don't have so many anti-aircraft guns and rapid-fire guns in our hands, but we are not vegetarians. When necessary. Anti-aircraft artillery can also shoot flat! ”

Liao Yaoxiang shook his head and said: "I am afraid that it is difficult to deal with the armored clusters that come at high speed with the flat-firing artillery alone, and even in positional warfare, it will have at least three times the numerical advantage." Li Liangrong, in the early morning of the 14th, you watched the assault of our armored regiment, didn't the Japanese army also have rapid-fire guns. But the result? ”

Li Liangrong was stunned. Excused: "That's because the Japanese army is defenseless!" ”

Liao Yaoxiang retorted: "No. How can an army in a fighting state be said to be defenseless? It's just that they didn't expect us to send so many tanks. I remember that the Japanese army has received anti-tank training, and if we suddenly face a surprise attack by a tank cluster, I am afraid that the performance will not be as good as theirs! ”

I saw that everyone was a little unconvinced. He broke out another piece of shocking news, saying: "I think that if the Japanese army gathers two or three tank regiments, it will be able to fight from Baoding to Cangzhou and cross our base area within one day!" ”

Li Liangrong was a little unhappy and said, "Hey, what are you talking about?" I reminded you of that armored cluster assault tactic! Do you want to pull out the Lu and try it, I really didn't pay attention to your broken tanks! ”

Liao Yaoxiang smiled and said, "Don't worry, your credit is indispensable there." But if you really want to fight, your 33rd Division is not a one. ”

Seeing that the more the two of them talked, the more angry they became, Zheng Weiguo coughed and reprimanded: "Hey, don't quarrel!" We're not here to see you two bickering today! He said to Liao Yaoxiang again: "Jianchu, talk about your opinion!" ”

Liao Yaoxiang hurriedly said: "Yes, the main seat." I think there are three major shortcomings of anti-aircraft artillery: first, our army mostly uses horse-drawn guns, and their maneuverability is insufficient; secondly, the protective performance is insufficient, and the shield can cope with some stray bullets and bomb fragments at most; There is also a third point, the attack power is insufficient, if it cannot hurt the vital point, it is difficult to destroy the tank with several shots. ”

These three shortcomings lead to three major inconveniences when dealing with tanks. First, it is difficult to judge the specific attack route of the tank, so you can only wait and wait; secondly, it is inconvenient to mobilize, and once a certain place is broken through by enemy tanks, it is difficult to remedy reinforcements; Third, it is inconvenient to retreat, and the target is exposed with a single shot, and it is easy to attract a counterattack from enemy tanks. ”

Principal Xiong liked to study these tactical issues the most, and hurriedly asked, "Jianchu, how do you think we should deal with it?" ”

Liao Yaoxiang said: "It is nothing more than to start from three aspects: equipment, tactics and structure. In terms of equipment, I recommend introducing armor-piercing shells, anti-tank guns, anti-tank mines and grenades. If it is difficult to satisfy, cluster grenades are also an option not to borrow, and with anti-tank trenches, at least in defense should not be a problem. Tactically, soldiers were trained to recognize the weaknesses of the tank and overcome the fear of tanks. In terms of formation, hehe, the general seat, I want to add another anti-armor regiment in the armored cavalry division sequence! ”

Li Liangrong couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "Okay, I was waiting for the head seat here!" Boss, can't you be cheap This kid, it's an armored regiment and an anti-armored regiment, and he takes advantage of both sides! ”

Liao Yaoxiang said proudly: "But apart from the general seat, who of you else understands armored tactics and anti-armor tactics?" ”

Everyone was speechless and rolled their eyes together.

Zheng Weiguo thought that it would be good to put the armored regiment and the anti-armored regiment together, so that they could sharpen each other and improve the technical and tactical level of both sides. So he smiled at Liao Yaoxiang and said, "Well, I can promise you this condition, but you have to practice hard, and I will see results in a month at most!" ”

Liao Yaoxiang was overjoyed, and hurriedly got up and saluted: "Thank you for the cultivation of the general seat, Yaoxiang will do his best to serve the party and the state!" As he spoke, he glanced at Li Liangrong as if demonstrating, which made the old senior of this issue cry and laugh.

Zheng Weiguo nodded with satisfaction, and then instructed: "The tactical ideas and regulations accumulated in peacetime must be recorded, and in the future, we will strive to form at least one combat defense battalion under each military subdivision and division-level unit." ”

Everyone was very happy when they heard this, and they must know that the 53rd Army and the 63rd Army now have only one combat defense artillery battalion. It was clearly not enough in the face of a possible tank raid by the Japanese army.

Zheng Weiguo asked, "Is there anything else to ask?" If not, let's discuss these questions together! As he spoke, he lit up his notes, on which three points were written, one was how to deal with the Japanese army's artillery superiority; second, the establishment and management of troops; The third is the question of how to deal with the Japanese armored forces.

Seeing that everyone was a little reserved, Principal Xiong smiled and said, "Chief, chiefs, let me tell you my opinion first......

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Jizhong 3rd Division, Yongqing County, Longhuzhuang. While Zheng Huzi and the others were meeting to discuss military issues, the Special Service Brigade, the Blue Eagle Force, and the Women's Soldier Team each quietly bypassed the Japanese blockade. They were ordered to go to Wawu Xinzhuang Village, Longhuzhuang Township, to find the command organ of the Third Division.

"Report to the captain, there is a small group of Japanese soldiers found in Qiaojiaying Village in front. Seems to be looking for something. A Special Services Brigade scout in civilian clothes hurried back to report.

Special operations captain Gao Erpao frowned slightly. Hurriedly asked, "Can you get around?" ”

The scout shook his head and said, "No, you can't get around!" There are more than three miles of road from Qiaojiaying to Wawu Xinzhuang Village, even if the devil doesn't pay attention to it, as long as there is a little devil on the way to take a look here, it will be exposed! ”

Gao Ercang asked again: "How many troops does the enemy have?" How is the equipment? ”

The scout hurriedly replied, "It's a standard squad." About fifty or sixty people. Three machine guns, three grenadiers. ”

Liu Zhongxing, the leader of the Blue Eagle squad, suggested: "Old Gao, I don't think the enemy has many troops. Why don't we disguise ourselves as Japanese soldiers and puppet soldiers, and then use a surprise attack to kill this gang of devils? ”

Ni Chunni, the leader of the women's team, agreed: "Okay! You attack from the front, and our female soldiers can go around to the back of the village to catch the enemy by surprise! ”

"No way!" Gao Ercang objected: "Now this area is full of devils, and it is easy to expose it when the gunshots go out." ”

Ni Chunni said unconvinced: "Then what do you say?" ”

Gao Erpao smiled at Ni Chunni: "I have a way, but I have to ask for your cooperation." ”

An hour later, in Qiaojiaying Village, several Japanese soldiers suddenly ran over and shouted: "Hey, go, go, grab a few flower girls in the courtyard of the village, big yo xi!" As he spoke, he took the lead and ran forward.

The Japanese soldiers, who were searching inside and outside the village, smiled at each other, and immediately followed in a swarm, their faces full of obscene looks, and some even threw their weapons aside. According to the memoirs of Japanese soldiers, there were almost no Japanese soldiers who did not like the "flower girl". No matter how tiring the march was or how hard the battle was, as soon as they heard that there were women, they immediately flocked to it.

Only this time they hit the evil side. A few minutes later, the abandoned canal at the head of the village was littered with the corpses of Japanese soldiers. The captain of the second high artillery looked at it and waved his hand: "Bury it deeper, and the blood stains in the courtyard must also be cleaned up, so as not to cause trouble to the villagers." The scouts looked around to see if there were any fellows. ”

It didn't take long for the scout to find an old man from the village and introduced: "Captain, this is Qiao Sanye, who belongs to this village." He said he had seen the fighting in Wawu Xinzhuang village the night before. ”

Gao Ercang was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Third Master Qiao, do you see where the team from Xinzhuang Village broke through?" ”

Qiao Sanye asked rhetorically, "You are also Commander Duan's soldiers?" ”

Gao Ercang was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and explained: "We belong directly to the group army, and like Commander Duan, we are under the command of Commander-in-Chief Zheng. ”

Qiao Sanye suddenly said: "Oh, it turned out to be Zheng Huzi's soldiers!" Alas, it's a pity that you came one step late, Xinzhuang Village was surrounded by little devils with three layers inside and three layers outside, and it didn't stand out in the middle of the night! ”

Gao Erpao's face turned dark, and he questioned: "Could it be that they broke through from somewhere else, and your old man didn't see it!" ”

Qiao Sanye waved his hand and said, "No!" The old man could see it clearly. ”

Gao Ercang asked again: "Then have you been captured by the Japanese army?" ”

Qiao Sanye touched his tears, and suddenly cried: "The entire village has been flattened by the devils killed by the heavens, where can I still find the living?" ”

The second artillery was not sad, and they lowered their heads to mourn for their comrades.

Ni Chunni comforted softly: "Third Grandpa, don't be sad, we will avenge Commander Duan and them!" ”

"When people are gone, what's the use of revenge?" Qiao Sanye trembled his lips and said while crying: "The three sons of the old man, the eldest son is farming at home, and he was caught by the little devil as a coolie yesterday, and he didn't know how, so he was killed by the little devil, woo; The second son joined the national army, and later followed the commander to defect to the Japanese, but was killed by Commander Duan's men; The third son followed Commander Duan, thinking that it was the right way, but he thought, woo, does this God still give our croppers a way to live? Woohoo......"

When everyone heard each other, they didn't know what to say. It's such a world, what else can be said? Liu Zhongxing, who was still the most educated, stepped forward to persuade a few words, saying: "Uncle, these tragedies are all brought by little devils, if we don't drive the Japanese out of China for a day, we won't want to have a good life!" ”

They then went to the village of Wawu Xinzhuang to try to find the remains of the martyrs. To their surprise, they searched inside and outside the village, but did not find a few bodies.

Liu Zhongxing looked around and guessed: "There are a lot of footprints and traces of rummaging here, I suspect that the Japanese army has come to inspect them, could it be that they have collected all the remains?" ”

Ni Chunni sneered: "Cut, the little devil will be so kind? ”

Gao Ercang squatted down and took a closer look, and said suspiciously: "Look at the shoe prints, they are indeed Japanese-style military boots!" But have you noticed that it's too clean? ”

Ni Chunni looked at the broken bricks and rubble all over the ground and the blackened ruins, and said stupidly: "It's still clean here?" ”

Gao Ercang explained: "Isn't it strange that an artillery bombardment of this magnitude will definitely blow people to pieces, but there are no stumps or flesh here?" ”

Liu Zhongxing patted his head and suddenly realized: "Not bad! There are a whole number of soldiers in the guard battalion, and so many ordinary people, and thousands of people who should have left something if they were martyred here, but there is nothing here except some bloodstains. It is clear that the people had been evacuated at the time of the shelling. It's just that they are surrounded by little devils, how did they evacuate? ”

Ni Chunni said excitedly: "Will it go from the tunnel?" ”

Gao Erpao shook his head and said, "Didn't the staff say it in the telegram?" Yongqing's side was too close to the enemy-occupied area, and the mass work was not well mobilized, and many ordinary people were reluctant to dig tunnels. Commander Duan said in a telegram at the time that a few families in the village had dug tunnels, and none of them could lead to the outside of the village. ”

A few people guessed and wondered, puzzled. At this moment, a guard suddenly came running to report: "Oh no, Japanese troops have been found in the northeast!" ”

"Report, Japanese troops have also been found in the south, and they are coming at us!"

"Captain, we also found little devils in the west!"

"Oops, we're surrounded by little devils!" (To be continued......)

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