As soon as the autumn harvest ended, the 19th detachment launched a large-scale winter training.

The first battle of Erlongshan provided extremely valuable practical experience for the recruits of the 19th detachment, but in order to transform these valuable experiences into combat effectiveness, a lot of summing up is needed.

The combat effectiveness of the army is like a layer of window paper, and in many cases, the training level of the troops has actually reached the requirements, but the combat effectiveness just cannot go up, and when it comes to the battlefield, it will immediately be exposed in its original form when it comes to fighting against veterans who have been in battle for a long time, not because of poor training or poor equipment, but because of lack of experience

For example, when it comes to anti-artillery, veterans can distinguish the impact point of the bullet by listening to the sound.

When it comes to charging, for example, veterans know when to dodge and when to accelerate.

For example, in white-knuckle warfare, veterans know how to use the most simple and direct tricks to solve the opponent, while although the recruits understand this truth, in actual combat, they immediately forget the key to ordinary training.

There are some things that cannot be practiced by training alone, and they have to be summed up and discovered from actual combat.

That's why it is said that only after experiencing the test of actual combat can a new soldier grow into a veteran.

However, even with actual combat experience, recruits still need to sum up lessons in the middle of the transition to veterans

As an excellent commander and a veteran of the 19th Route Army, Xu 19 certainly knew this truth, so without waiting for the end of the autumn harvest, he instructed all regiments and battalions to carry out a large-scale summary, and the officers and soldiers spoke freely and expressed their opinions on the problems exposed in the battle of Erlongshan.

Then, Xu Shijiu planned this large-scale winter training.

The subjects of the training were also very targeted, and under the premise that the Japanese soldiers were pressing the border, they were divided into parts, jumped from the inner line to the outer line, and continued to fight.

Xu 19 knew very well that although the battle of Erlongshan was won, Little Japan would never stop there.

In less than half a month at most, small Japan will definitely make a comeback, and this time, small Japan is very likely to dispatch large troops at the level of wings or even brigades, and by that time, the 19 th detachment will face unprecedented pressure, so it is very necessary to rehearse in advance to break up the whole into pieces and jump from the inner line to the outer line.

In fact, when the autumn harvest was tense, the intelligence department received reliable information that the commander of the 14th Brigade of the 14th Brigade of Little Japan was angry with the 19th Detachment because of the death of his nephew, and threatened to give his nephew a funeral in blood.

However, Fujido's attempt to retaliate ultimately failed to materialize.

Because of the crushing defeat of the Kwantung Army in the Battle of Nomenkan this summer, the Japanese base camp agreed to Okamura Ninji's request for the Battle of Changsha in order to boost morale and at the same time continue to exert military pressure on the Nationalist Government, and the first Battle of Changsha was fought simultaneously on the fronts of northern Jiangxi, southern Hunan, and northern Hunan in early September.

In the battlefields of northern Jiangxi and southern Hunan, little Japan achieved the expected results.

However, in the main battlefield of northern Xiangbei, the Japanese army's combat operations did not go smoothly.

At the beginning of the battle, Chiang Kai-shek once again carried forward the style of "blind command", and reversed the previous attitude of fighting for every inch of land, instructing Xue Yue not to act rashly, and to preserve strength as the first priority, the implication was to let Xue Yue not fight hard with small Japan, and if necessary, he could give up Changsha, anyway, after the fire last year, Changsha has become a piece of rubble.

Obviously, after successively experiencing the defeat of the Battle of Nanchang and the Battle of Suizao, Chiang Kai-shek has gone from one extreme to the other, before the Battle of Nanchang and the Battle of Suizao, Chiang Kai-shek's brain was hot, and he strongly advocated a decisive battle with Little Japan, but after the Battle of Nanchang and the Battle of Suizao, Chiang Kai-shek was empty-hearted.

However, Xue Yue, who was already the acting commander-in-chief of the Ninth Theater, once again refused Chiang Kai-shek's instructions.

Xue Yue engaged in a Tianlu method of warfare, the general policy is to retreat to the decisive battle, to fight for the periphery, the specific measures are to turn the road into a field, transport grain up the mountain, the Tianlu method of warfare is mysterious, in fact, it is to leave a part of the army in the periphery, avoid the enemy's edge to fight a movement war, and then defend Changsha City with the main force, and then destroy the road, so that the mechanized heavy equipment of small Japan is trapped in the muddy field.

Waiting for the main force of Little Japan to enter the preset battlefield between Dongting Cave and Mufu Mountain, and at the same time mobilize peripheral troops, and cooperate with the main force in Changsha City to launch a centripetal attack on Little Japan, Xue Yue set up a big chess game in northern Xiangbei, and it was like setting up a furnace, wanting to refine the main force of Okamura Ningji's llll.

Okamura Ningji and Xue Yue can be described as chess opponents, strategically, Okamura Ningji is better than Xue Yue, but tactically, Xue Yue is obviously more powerful than Okamura Ningji, in the face of Xue Yue's Heavenly Furnace Tactics, Okamura Ningji has not many methods, and the Japanese army in the northern Hunan battlefield soon fell into a dilemma.

After careful consideration, Okamura Ninji believed that even if he continued to advance and lead Changsha, it would be impossible to achieve the tactical intention formulated before the war, so he decisively issued an order to retreat, and at the same time, in order to meet the national army that took advantage of the counterattack, Okamura Ninji transferred all the field troops under his command that could be mobilized to the front line.

At this time, the 14th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, which was responsible for guarding the entire southern Anhui Province, could not act rashly.

It is under this premise that Fujitang Gaoying's attempt to bloody Longkou County came to naught.

However, the fact that Fujido Takaei's attempt failed this time did not mean that he had dispelled his thoughts.

When the main force of Okamura Ninji's Eleventh Army is safely withdrawn, and when the front of the Chinese and Japanese armies is stabilized again, Fujido Takaei will definitely set his sights on Longkou again.

Therefore, this large-scale winter military training is directly related to the life and death of the 19th detachment

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After a whole winter of drills, the combat effectiveness of the regiments of the 19 th detachment has been markedly improved.

Of course, these improvements are still on paper and have to be tested again.

However, Xu 19 is confident that in the future battle, the 19th Detachment will no longer be the original 19th Detachment, and he does not dare to say that it is comparable to the 19th Brigade before the Battle of Songhu, but at least it has a fight with the 19th Brigade in the Battle of De'an.

However, there are still unsatisfactory aspects.

Xu 19 attended the summary meeting of the L Regiment, not because of the excellent performance of the L Regiment, but because the L Regiment performed the worst in this large-scale military exercise.

The reason why the L regiment did not perform well was that Li Zihan, the regiment commander, should bear the greatest responsibility.

In fact, Li Zihan has an instinctive resistance to the tactics adopted by the 19th detachment, because this set of tactics is clearly learned from the Communist Party, it is said that Li Zihan is not from the Central Military Academy, let alone from Huangpu, but his prejudice against the Communist Party is deep-rooted, even deeper than that of Lu Jianbang, who was born in the Central Military Academy.

Li Zihan had a prejudice against the sparrow tactics, and this was bound to affect the officers under him, and this led to the fact that the officers and men of the L Regiment were not thorough in carrying out the tactics, and they often made absurd and unconventional tactics during the exercises, and the results of the large-scale training were also reduced.

Xu Shijiu saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, thinking that it was necessary to have a good talk with Li Zihan.

"Zihan, I don't care what kind of prejudice you have about the Communist Party, but this can't be a reason for you to resist the sparrow tactics, whether it is a dog skin plaster or not, as long as you can pull out the pus, it is a good plaster, the same reason, no matter what tactics, as long as they can help us win the battle, it is a good tactic, and it is worth emulating

"Yes, the Communist Party is dirty, but that doesn't mean they're useless.

"Don't you think there is a reason why the Communist Party has been entangled with the Nationalist army in Jiangxi and northern Shaanxi for ten years, and the Nationalist Government has poured all the power of the country into it, but has never been able to exterminate the Communist army? Don't you think that the reason why the Communist Party has been able to repeatedly thwart the encirclement and suppression of the national army is not because of proper tactics? ”

"Also, it has been more than two years since the Sino-Japanese War broke out in an all-round way, and the results of several large-scale battles have proved that the Nationalist Government's set of hard-hitting tactics is not advisable, which will only consume our precious troops in vain, and the sparrow tactics adopted by the Communist Party have caused great trouble to the Japanese army.

In the face of Xu Shijiu's series of interrogations, Li Zihan was speechless, and he admitted that he was indeed a little arrogant.

Xu Nineteen sighed, and said earnestly: "Zihan, your comprehension is actually good, at least in the Nineteenth Detachment, I haven't seen anyone better than yours, if you can get rid of the influence of personal likes and dislikes on you, you will enter another higher level, as an excellent commander, you should not be swayed by your emotions." ”

Li Zihan was silent, but his head that was held high just now drooped.

"Think about it." Xu Shijiu patted Li Zihan on the shoulder, turned around and walked out of the regiment headquarters.