Chapter 17: Expansion and Suppression of Bandits (New Book for Onlookers)
Now that the old lady has agreed, Chen Feng no longer insisted, and in his heart, he really coveted the cavalry unit in Yehelina's hands.
Soon, under the order of Yehelina, the brother-in-law Bobosha led more than 3,000 cavalry to submit to Chen Feng, causing the strength in Chen Feng's hands to skyrocket.
With more soldiers, the management became chaotic, so Chen Feng decided to reorganize all the troops in his hand. At present, the strength in Chen Feng's hands is composed of four parts, one is the Xinghe County Security Regiment, with a number of more than 2,700 people. The second part is from the Daqingshan base, with more than 2,300 people. The third part is the Chen family's nursing home and food protection team, with more than 2,800 people. The third part is the dowry brought by Yeherina, and the total number is more than 3,300 men, all cavalry.
In this way, Chen Feng now has a total of more than 11,000 troops in his hands, including more than 7,000 infantry and more than 3,000 cavalry.
There are quite a few people, but the combat effectiveness of the entire army is very limited. In terms of infantry, the weapons and equipment are good, but the vast majority of them are untrained recruits, and even if they are not recruits, they have never been on the battlefield, so it is still unknown whether they can be used.
In addition, the establishment of all the troops is chaotic, the security regiment and the Daqingshan base use the establishment of battalions, companies and platoons, the grain protection team uses the establishment of brigades, squadrons and squads, and the cavalry is more direct, simply getting a thousand-man team and a hundred-man team out.
In addition, the quality of the soldiers is low, the discipline is poor, and there are no professional officers, all of which seriously affect the combat effectiveness of the troops.
The situation was similar for the cavalry, lacking equipment, there was no unified standard weapon, except for the saber was fairly neat, there were all kinds of cavalry guns, and there were no light and heavy machine guns, let alone mortars. However, on the cavalry side, there are some professionally trained officers, probably old subordinates left behind by Yehelina's father, and the overall quality is not bad, but they are used to being horse bandits and have poor discipline.
Thinking that the war would break out in more than three months, Chen Feng was anxious. On the one hand, he asked people to buy rifles and sabers for cavalry, and on the other hand, he reorganized the troops.
The 7,000-strong infantry is exactly two infantry regiments, and according to the reorganized troop establishment, the Xinghe County Defense Command has two infantry regiments under its jurisdiction, each infantry regiment has three infantry battalions of 690 people, one machine gun battalion of 335 people, one guard company of 140 people, one mortar company of 120 people, one engineer company of 140 people, one reconnaissance company of 120 people, one baggage company of 180 people, one communication platoon of 38 people, and a field bandaging station, with a total strength of 3,100 people.
In addition, the headquarters also has a 360-man guard battalion, a 220-man special operations group, a 540-strong artillery battalion, and an 88-man command.
In terms of cavalry, Chen Feng unified all the troops into two cavalry regiments of 1,550 people, which were under the unified command of the city defense headquarters.
After the reorganization of the unit was completed, Chen Feng announced the new order for the appointment of officers: Chen Feng, commander of the urban defense headquarters, Ye Helina, deputy commander, Chen Feng (concurrently), commander of the 1st Security Regiment (concurrently), Li Wensheng, deputy regiment commander, Yang Yi, chief of staff, Li Bin, commander of the 1st Battalion, Hu Tiesheng, commander of the 2nd Battalion, Wang Hansheng, commander of the 3rd Battalion, Li Jianhua, commander of the machine gun battalion, Sun Guodong, commander of the 1st Regiment Guard Company, Zhao Tiezhu, commander of the artillery company, Wang Changsuo, commander of the engineer company, Hailiang, commander of the reconnaissance company, and Chen Daniu, commander of the baggage company.
Xu Hu, commander of the 2nd Security Regiment, Zhou Haisheng, deputy regiment commander, Liang Feng, chief of staff, Lin Yong, commander of the 1st Battalion, Chen Haitao, commander of the 2nd Battalion, Chen Bing, commander of the 3rd Battalion, Xu Lang, commander of the machine gun battalion, Niu Hu, commander of the guard company of the 2nd Regiment, Zhang Hao, commander of the artillery company, Chen Youliang, commander of the engineer company, Mo Rigen, reconnaissance company, and Wu Yanming, commander of the baggage company.
Li Deming, commander of the guard battalion of the headquarters, Xu Bao, captain of the special operations brigade, and Wen Hao, commander of the artillery battalion.
Commander-in-Chief of the Cavalry Yehelina, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Andrei, Chief of Staff Zhang Zhigang. The commander of the 1st Cavalry Regiment, Bobosha, the deputy commander of the regiment, Hairi Khan (Mongolian), and the chief of staff Li Yang. The commander of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment (Mongolian), the deputy commander of the regiment Viktor, and the chief of staff Ouyang Hai.
Of course, only a limited number of people such as Chen Feng will know the details of this reorganization plan, even those soldiers who have been reorganized. The two infantry regiments Chen Feng stationed one in the county town, and the other stationed at the Daqingshan base, and the two cavalry regiments Chen Feng were even more direct, allowing them to continue to run rampant on the grassland under the banner of the Saibei Horse Gang, but this time Chen Feng gave them the goal, the Xilin Gol grassland and the Horqin grassland controlled by the king of Germany, to train in battle, and after three months, no matter what the results of the battle, they would return to Xinghe to listen to the order.
Chen Feng has his own ideas about cavalry combat, although he doesn't know much about the tactics of cavalry, but he knows that the tactics of Yeherina and those White Russian officers who fled into China with Yeherina's father are seriously outdated, and in the face of well-equipped Japanese troops, cavalry launching a group charge is no different from looking for death.
Cavalry Chen Feng did not fancy his impact power, but his mobility ability. Chen Feng's request to Yehelina and the entire cavalry unit was that the cavalry on the horse and the infantry on the horse must be proficient in everything. Moreover, the cavalry units must be equipped with machine guns, so Chen Feng specially transferred 100 light and heavy machine guns from the arsenal to equip the cavalry units, but due to the serious shortage of horse guns, there was still a big gap in the equipment of the two cavalry regiments.
Although Chen Feng has no weapons and equipment here, but someone has it, Chen Feng knows that now King De, Li Shouxin and Wang Ying, these dogs, traitors, and traitors, have colluded with Little Japan, and the Japanese have supported them with a large number of weapons and equipment in order to support these traitors, the most important of which is the 38-type cavalry gun.
The "38 type" mounted gun is used on horseback, with a short design, a total length of 966 cm, a weight of 3.34 kg, and a caliber of 6.5 mm. The performance can only be regarded as average, and it belongs to the guns that have been eliminated by the Japanese cavalry.
Due to the fact that the Type 38 rifle was equipped with the standard "Type 30" bayonet, the center of gravity was changed, and the hit rate was low. At a distance of up to 500 meters, the accuracy of shooting is the same as that of the "Type 38" rifle, and at a distance of 1000 meters, the bullet load is only 15%. For this reason, in the 41st year of the Meiji era (1909), the Japanese army designed and produced the "44 type" mounted gun in the 44th year of the Meiji era (1912) on the basis of the "38 type" mounted gun and referring to the retractable spear of the Italian rifle.
Chen Feng knew very well that if he wanted to mix in the land of Saibei, he would have to fight with these bastards sooner or later, and it was still a good choice to take advantage of the fact that these bastards were unprepared to hit a few suffocations, and the cavalry regiment really needed to test Chen Feng's tactical ideas through battle.
As for the infantry, Chen Feng was not idle, the big battle was about to start, and it was probably too late to train the troops step by step, so Chen Feng aimed at the large and small bandit dens in the defense area.
According to the information collected by Chen Feng during this time, there are 79 bandits of all sizes in Xinghe County, one or twenty small ones, and several hundred people. Although each strand is under the banner of doing the right thing for heaven, there are actually not many chivalrous bandits, and it is already good not to kill or hurt people when they are in a good mood, and they are all thugs who do nothing evil when they are in a bad mood, so Chen Feng has no psychological burden at all to train these people.
Besides, the war is coming, and it is necessary to clean the house before facing the enemy, otherwise it will not be beautiful to have a fire in the backyard at that time.
On April 10, Chen Feng issued an operational order against all bandit dreadlocks in his jurisdiction. The 1st and 2nd Security Corps attacked at the same time in the name of the Security Corps, with the county seat as the center and radiating to all sides.
Chen Feng demanded that the 1st and 2nd Security Regiments draw up detailed operational plans regardless of whether they are big or small, and that the bandits can be absorbed as much as possible, and those who cannot be incorporated will be eliminated on the spot.
Erlong Mountain. The Hall of Justice.
"Big boss, big boss, no, no, no, the security team called, the security team called," a small minion ran in in a panic and reported.
"Little Liuzi, what kind of fucking system do you have, don't you sincerely lose your uncle's face?" A man with a scar on his face scolded angrily.
"The big boss, it's the security team calling, go and take a look!"
"You said that the security team called, who led the team, how many people, is it the main force of the security group?" Erlongshan's big boss Erscara hurriedly asked.
"I didn't see the big boss clearly, the flag only said Xinghe County Security Corps, nothing else, I don't know who led the team in Ludao, there are a lot of people, all over the mountains, and a few thousand people." The little minion said with a pale face.
"Fart, dare to say nonsense that Lao Tzu tore you up, can Lao Tzu of the security regiment in the county town know what to do, at most a thousand people, is it still called a security group for a few thousand people, it must be the little hairy baby of the Chen family who called, let the brothers gather, and Lao Tzu beat these bastards"
"Yes"
Sumu Mountain. The lair of the bandit nine-tailed fox.
"Brother, the officers and soldiers have surrounded the mountain!" A woman in a power suit with clear eyebrows ran in from outside and said.
In the wooden attic at the top of the mountain, a rough-looking man asked in a deep voice: "Who is surrounding our Sumu Mountain, and how many people are there?" ”
"It's the county's security corps, numbering a thousand people, and I can see that they have set up small steel cannons, and they may attack us at any time."
"Gather the brothers immediately, and I'll meet these soft bears"
"Yes"
In the next month, there were fighting everywhere, guns were being fired everywhere, bandits were eliminated every day, and prisoners were escorted back to the county seat every day.
By the end of May, all the bandits in the area under its jurisdiction had been wiped out by Chen Feng's security regiment, and in this crackdown on bandits, more than 80 bandit armies were eliminated, more than 4,320 bandits were eliminated, more than 800 people were killed, more than 3,000 people were captured, and a large number of gold, silver, jewelry, weapons and equipment were seized, and of course, some food, and the results were brilliant.
As a result of this anti-bandit operation, the troops not only captured a great deal of them, but more importantly, through large and small battles, the momentum of the entire unit was brought out, almost all the fighters had been on the battlefield, and the special combat units were even more frequently dispatched, and their strength was markedly enhanced.