In the fourth quarter, the show weapons died quickly

When we write about this kind of battle with the devil, we often see how heroic the Eighth Route Army is, how fierce the little devil is, etc., in fact, in most cases, it doesn't touch on the more professional level, such as what tactics are used in the battle between the two sides? Let's not talk about the little devils, I have to explain here that Yang Bangzi's heart-warming baby special training camp uses some tactics.

Yang Bangzi taught Fan Daring the whole of his hard-won "six tactical principles", here is his own experience, and there are also experiences learned from the old commanders, which can be summed up in six points: one point and two sides; Three-three system; Three situations and three ways to play; four fast and one slow; Four groups of one team; Three fierce tactics.

Let's start with the arrangement and see which combat objects and levels each tactic is applicable to. I think that the "one point and two sides" tactics are obviously prepared for the leaders at the division and regiment levels, and it is for the deployment of troops at and above the regimental level when the tactics are deployed, paying attention to the focus of an attack or defense, and the coordinated application of the two flanks and the roundabout outflanking tactics.

For example, in the case of equal forces, how to find the opponent's weakness, and then how to confuse the opponent when the troops are at a disadvantage, how to confuse the opponent, etc.; The "four groups and one team" are obviously for company and platoon cadres; The "three-three system" class is also used, and the group can also be used; Although the spirit of "three fierce" is the overall requirement for the combat team, it is absolutely implemented on the head of individual soldiers. The actions of the soldiers, such as the superiors who call the charge, you run away, and the requirements of the other "two fierce" are the same.

The content of Yang Bangzi's "six tactical principles" is very specific. For example, let's take two tricks like "three situations and three ways to play" and "four fast and one slow". The types of play have been exhausted. Its fast and slow situation has been used many times in the fight with the devil. The rest of the work is how the commander judges and identifies, and then the "number is seated" to use, so its operability is very practical and targeted.

For example, the practicality of this "tactical principle" is like the operating procedures of lathe workers and millers, you only need to look at the object to be processed, and check the clamping method and the amount of tool feed in the table to start the machine. The previous arrangement is only a rough interval positioning, and the scope of application of each tactic can be extended at least one level above and below it, just like the "continuous point" in mathematics. To the left and right of it is its contiguous "neighborhood". Therefore, these "six tactical principles" completely cover the entire set of operational tactics of a unit at least from division to individual soldier.

You said that Yang Bangzi did not think about the entire combat system thoroughly, and how good his intentions were! Moreover, the connotation of these principles is the experience of winning victories accumulated by him for more than 10 years, starting from the platoon commander to the position of commander of the regiment and army division. If you don't take detours, just do it, and if you learn to use it well, you may even deduce your own reasoning and new discoveries.

This principle is like the axioms of Euclidean geometry, the system is correct, and the theorems (relative truths) discovered at the following levels can be many. Therefore, using the method of Yang stick, theoretically a somewhat savvy peasant soldier can learn to "fire" from the bottom. Study hard and go up every day. "Clearance" upgrades, advanced layer by layer, and finally progresses to become a general with high tactical quality training (as long as he does not die young), do you say this prospect is tempting? And the treasure of the "Yang stick tutorial" that can be used to train this kind of results is not valuable?

As for the tactics above the regiment or the strategy, Yang Bangzi didn't have much effort to practice, it was all the homework of the old commanders, and his position was not his turn to have a say. Yang Bangzi's "curriculum design" ended with the division, because from the beginning of the war in 42, he was able to command the main force and local armed forces with a strength similar to that of a division.

Fan Daring, who was most influenced by him, is also his senior apprentice, and when he fights with Qing Shui Dazuo's team, from the current point of view, the use of these six principles is not bad, when it should be fast, when it should be slow, it can definitely be delayed, and then think about it carefully, why did Yang Bangzi come up with such six principles, in fact, there is only one reason, and the devil is not comparable to the firepower configuration!

The firepower of the special training battalion is the best among the combat units of the same level in the entire Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and the more than 800 soldiers are equivalent to a brigade of devils. So if you don't use your brains tactically, you will definitely die quickly!

Since our party's army is fighting with little devils, in many cases it is facing squadrons, brigades and independent mixed brigades of small devils, such as the Kuroda Wing that came last time, in fact, in terms of numbers, it is enough for an independent mixed brigade, and this time Shimizu Daisa's special operations wing is also composed of the lowest personnel of a brigade according to the number of people.

In the troops of the little devils, the lowest and smallest tactical unit is called the detachment, which is equivalent to the squad of the Chinese army; The squad of the Japanese devils is a tactical detachment, which is equivalent to a platoon in the Chinese army.

The squadron in the Devil's Army is the basic tactical detachment of the Japanese Devil's Army, which is equivalent to the company in the Chinese Army; The squadron of the little devil mostly refers to the infantry squadron. The infantry squadron of the little devil is larger than the Chinese company, and generally equivalent to one and a half Chinese infantry companies. There are usually two types of establishments, and they are relatively stable.

1. Class A squadron: 205 full personnel, armament: 105 rifles, 9 light machine guns, 12 grenadiers. Strengthens 1 heavy squad, 2 heavy machine guns, 2 20mm anti-tank guns, and a baggage squad (30 rifles).

2. Type B squadron, full strength of 181 people, armament: 139 rifles, 9 light aircraft, 9 grenadiers. Squadrons that carry out combat missions alone should be strengthened: 1-2 heavy mortars or Type 92 rifle guns.

And a company of the special training battalion that confronted this squadron had basically the same number of people, more than 200 people, and the number of rifles was about the same, but there were only four light machine guns, and there were no heavy machine guns at the company level, let alone artillery, and most importantly, the ammunition base was less than half of the devil's.

The squadrons in Shimizu Daisa's special operations wing are all organized according to the implementation of special tasks, and each squadron has two infantry guns and two mortars, but the fire support at the squadron level is much stronger than Fan Daring's special training battalion! Let's look at the formation of the devil's brigade.

The Japanese brigade was a high-level tactical detachment of the Japanese army. It is equivalent to the battalion-level establishment of our army. But significantly larger than the battalions of the Chinese Army. Under normal circumstances, it can be used to strengthen business in China, and some are even equivalent to a group.

The infantry brigade in a permanent division of the little devil has 4 infantry squadrons, 1 machine gun squadron (8 heavy machine guns), and 1 brigade artillery squad (2 infantry guns);

The infantry brigade of the first-line unit of the independent mixed brigade has 4 infantry squadrons and 1 machine gun squadron with 4 to 8 heavy machine guns;

The infantry brigade of the garrison has 3 infantry squadrons and 1 machine gun squadron with 4 heavy machine guns;

The infantry brigade of the three-unit division has 4 infantry squadrons and 1 machine gun squadron and has 8 heavy machine guns.

An infantry brigade of a little devil, numbering between about 800 and 1500.

A brigade of a little devil under normal circumstances includes:

a brigade headquarters of 30 people; 4 or 3 infantry squadrons; a machine gun squadron of 174 people (sometimes reduced by a squad), a gun squad of 55 people; A transport squadron of 110 men (carts, mules and horses), if there is a wing above the brigade, then some brigades will merge their transport squadrons into a wing; Very few troops are equipped (or operationally necessary) 1 artillery squadron of 122 people; Some are also equipped with 4 squads of 24 people armed with 2 anti-tank guns, in this case. The ammunition squad is to be expanded to 39 people.

According to some information, after the outbreak of the "September 18 Incident," the permanent divisions and regiments of the Japanese army were ordered to send all brigades and regiments under their command to Northeast China to participate in the war. An infantry brigade in normal formation is composed of two infantry wings. However, because the Chinese Volunteer Army and the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army often appeared in the form of movements and guerrillas, they attacked the Japanese army out of nowhere. In order to meet the needs of the combat at that time, the little devils quickly formed this new type of combat unit with a corresponding number of people and coordination of multiple arms. "Independent" means not belonging to a division; "Mixed" refers to the combination of multiple arms, and does not focus on a single unit. There have also been cases where troops from various divisions and regiments were transferred from various divisions to form a temporary independent mixed brigade at the time of the battle, and after the battle, they were each reorganized, similar to the detachment of the little devil.

From the above account, we can understand one point: the so-called independent mixed brigade of the little devil is: not subordinate to a certain division. Multi-arms combined, brigade and regiment-level formed units that perform independent combat and campaign missions. An independent mixed brigade is an independent combat unit with multiple arms, and to put it bluntly, it is a small small devil's large division and regiment, which should be called a multi-arm composite independent brigade in Chinese terms.

The initial independent mixed brigade consisted of the brigade headquarters, five independent infantry brigades, brigade artillery teams (2-3 squadrons of field artillery or mountain artillery), brigade and regiment engineering teams, brigade and regiment communication teams, and other units, with a total strength of about 5,000 people. However, both in terms of firepower and mobility are not ideal, and it is purely based on static garrison tasks, and the little devils quickly improve it.

After the "July 7 Incident" in 1937, in order to meet the needs of expanding the war of aggression against China, especially after the war, our party's troops launched a more extensive guerrilla warfare and movement in the occupied areas than in the northeast. In order to capture and combat such mobile and flexible anti-Japanese forces, at the same time, because of China's large strategic depth, mountainous terrain, and water network, the Japanese army's heavy divisions and regiments were sometimes unable to play their role, and the little devils formed a large number of independent mixed brigades and regiments to be used in various battlefields.

In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the little devils formed a total of more than 100 independent mixed brigades. There are two types of preparations: large and small:

The small independent mixed brigade has five infantry brigades and one artillery team, communications team, engineer team, and baggage team, with a total number of about 5,000 people. The infantry brigade has 3 infantry squadrons and 1 machine gun squadron (4 heavy machine guns), and the artillery brigade has 1 mountain artillery squadron and 2 field artillery squadrons.

The large infantry brigade of the independent mixed brigade consisted of 4 infantry squadrons, 1 machine gun squadron and 1 infantry artillery squadron, with a number of 1,100 to 1,500 men. The artillery of the brigade and regiment has 6 field guns and 12 mountain guns, and at the same time, its engineers and baggage units have also been expanded, equipped with 1,800 military horses, and the total strength of its brigade and regiment can reach more than 8,000 people, and it is equipped with 4,050 infantry guns, 120 grenadiers, 120 light machine guns, 30 heavy machine guns, 10 flat-fire guns, 20 mountain guns, and 12 field guns. Therefore, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, some independent mixed brigades were quickly promoted to divisions.

It was only after carefully studying the coordinated operations of multiple arms that Shimizu Daizo eliminated some unnecessary units and strengthened the artillery and ammunition he carried, so that he formed his special operations wing, with an establishment of 3,500 people, but the number of artillery pieces was as large as that of a normal brigade!

How can a special training battalion with only eight mortars compare with the Shimizu Wing, which has more than 40 artillery pieces of various calibers? If it's just a show of weapons and a hard fight with devils, it's really going to die fast!

Think about the Kuroda United, if it weren't for Yang Bangzi and the old blind man forming a commando team, and the soldiers used their lives to blow up the devil's artillery in a night attack, it would not have been possible to have such a smooth pursuit battle later.

At first, Fan Daring thought that relying on the supporting firepower on the heights on both sides could help the garrison of the Tuliangzi line, but he didn't expect that the troops on the highlands hit by the devil's suppressed artillery fire couldn't even raise their heads, so what could they do to support the battle below. In other words, after witnessing a few attacks by devils on the high ground on the west side, Fan Daring realized that there was something wrong with his defense system!

It was entirely by the bloody battles of the soldiers that he was able to block the ground attack of the devils, and Fan boldly found that every time the devils put into the attack, only one squadron of troops, if the devils used more than two squadrons, with the support of such powerful artillery fire, Tuliangzi would not be able to hold it, didn't the commander of the Japanese army see this?

It was almost noon, the artillery bombardment of the devils on the opposite side stopped, and the ground troops also retreated to the north of the slope, it seemed that they were going back for lunch, Fan Daring finally breathed a sigh of relief, he wanted to move the reserve just now, and in one morning, the company that served as a frontal blocker was almost exhausted!

At this time, there was a faint roar from the southeast, it was from the sky, not good! Devil's plane! Fan Daring immediately ordered to blow the air defense horn! He himself hid in a depression under a large rock and poked his head out to look at the sky.

There were a lot of planes, but they didn't hover over the big beach, but flew straight north, and after another ten minutes, there was a faint muffled sound from the north, and on the high and low mountains, puffs of black smoke rose in the sky! (To be continued......)