Chapter 46: More than a Pig (1)
There is a piece of information as a foundation, and the next atmosphere is a little better, the new guy is not only doing business, but also has two brushes in military strategic intelligence, so at least such teammates will not pit.
It's easy to talk about when the conversation box opens, and the topics between soldiers are enemies, equipment, and comradeship, and there are a few things to talk about around these.
First of all, the Japanese army is different from the national government, and they are different from the triangular division or the square division of the national government that most countries use, they are a four-unit system. A division has two brigades, a brigade has two infantry wings, a standard wing has an establishment of 3,800 people, an infantry wing has three infantry brigades, and a standard brigade has an establishment of 1,100 people; A brigade consists of four infantry squadrons (one squadron with between 194 and 250 men), a 174-man machine gun squadron (12 heavy machine guns, but some have only 8), and a 55-man brigade gun squad (two 70-mm Type 92 infantry guns); The infantry squadron has three infantry squads (between 50 and 70 in size), one machine gun detachment (two light machine guns), one grenadier detachment (two grenadiers) and two rifle detachments. The detachment is the basic unit of the Japanese army, but in the conventional tactics of the Japanese army, the detachment is rarely used as an independent unit, and its smallest campaign execution unit is the squad.
Of course, the above data is only a measurement standard, and the actual number of troops still depends on the face, and the elite of the A division is naturally well equipped and has a large number of people, while the garrison division is not well armed and the personnel are not satisfied. In the war of aggression against China, due to combat attrition and at the same time, the Japanese army felt that the four-wing division was inconvenient to move, so it came up with two kinds of formations: three-unit division and independent mixed brigade (in the author's opinion, the Japanese in World War II were quite chaotic from beginning to end).
"The Japanese army's division is not only far superior to ours in numbers, but also has stronger weapons and equipment than ours, which is really difficult to deal with!" It's one thing not to be afraid to fight, it's another thing to fight. It's not a good idea to let your subordinates pile heads.
"Nowadays, in addition to the limited purchase of equipment, we can only work on the training of soldiers." Huo Yuzhang understands that strengthening training is the only thing that can be done in this situation.
Training? That's what he said, but Peng Shan shook his head, high-intensity training is linked to the belly, what kind of training is there if you can't eat enough, there is not enough material to support the soldier's belly, how can you have the conditions to carry out high-intensity training? Semi-starvation and malnutrition can be fatal to increase the amount of training in such a state.
"What is Guohui's best strategy to defeat the enemy?" Huo Yuzhang's attitude towards Wen Hui is better now, at least this person still knows the importance of intelligence.
What can I see! Wen Hui smiled bitterly, if you don't change the government's financial situation, this is a dead circle. The country's poverty, the lack of food and training of the soldiers became one of the factors in the defeat of the war, and in turn, the disadvantage of the war made the country's finances more difficult and difficult to manage. Unless there is a large-scale strengthening of technical equipment.
"At the moment, we can only rely on the soldiers." Wen Hui said it more tactfully, and he didn't have time to make changes at this time, so let's fight the number on the battlefield.
Alas! Peng Shan sighed, the joy of receiving the new equipment had long since disappeared, and while they were still cheering for the purchase of German weapons, the enemy had already taken the lead in all directions. Glancing at the information on the information, Peng Shan shook his head, he was powerless!
What caused everyone's sad face at the banquet was Wen Hui's "gift", which introduced the training situation and basic tactics of the Japanese army, and what was in front of everyone was an unsolvable problem, and history has also confirmed this.
Here I want to give the Japanese Army a little "anyway", now when it comes to the Japanese Army red deer, most people will think of "onboard (also known as pig stud / long live) charge", "jade broken bushido spirit", "suicide attack" and other impressions, most of the Japanese soldiers in film and television literature will only hold the 38 big cover, squeak up and send them to death (no way, Nogi Noshinori's pig rush tactics are too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people), and then squatting in the trenches to wait for a wave of firepower of the National/Communist defenders to take away a lot...... Fighting with such a rotten army, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has been fought for eight years, is it because our ancestors are too incompetent or are the Japanese devils cheating?
Of course, this is not to deny these impressions, the above definition is completely in line with the army red deer, but these descriptions are not comprehensive, this group of red deer is not just long live the Pig Tu, on the contrary, they are a troop with excellent soldier quality, the Pig Tu and Bushido are only part of the Japanese Army, but definitely not all!
Seeing this, some people must say, if they are excellent, why did the Japanese lose so badly in the hands of the Soviet Union and the United States. Technical equipment can effectively make up for the gap in the quality of soldiers, the Soviets in the battle of Nomenkan (Khalkhin River Valley), the artillery, light and heavy machine guns, and armored forces on both sides are not at all a level, and the two troops with equipment generation difference are fighting, and the result is obvious, and the quality of soldiers at this time does not play a big role; Under such a gap, the Japanese still dared to launch a pig assault charge, saying that the commanders were stupid and arrogant, and that the soldiers were indifferent to life and death, and did not look at the results, and that they at least did not dare to attack in the face of a strong enemy, and that their equipment was inferior to that of men, but the soldiers' fighting will was very strong, and this is proof that the merits of the soldiers cannot be completely denied just because they are enemies.
As for the Americans, the Japanese were defeated by the Navy and Air Force in the Pacific. Looking through the data, we can find that in the vast majority of battles in which the US military did not thoroughly grasp the superiority of the sea and air, its marines rarely won the battle, and most of them were defeated and completely destroyed. The Americans can see this clearly and speak clearly - the decisive victory is at sea. The best evidence of this is the Hollywood films that reflect the Pacific War, if the Japanese Army were easy to deal with, the Americans would not have filmed the land battle part of the island so badly, and this is still a situation of sea and air support.
The Japanese Army in World War II was a first-class and powerful but very deformed army, and its strength was different from that of any other first-class power. The strength of the Soviet, German, American, and British armies is all-round, from individual soldier quality to strategy and tactics, from military equipment to logistical supplies, each of which has its own merits. The Japanese Army has a terrible strategy but strong tactics, and a terrible equipment but a very good way to use it; In addition, the Japanese army, especially the Japanese army before 1943, had the world's number one strength far superior to the Western powers - the basic tactics of infantry. Under the same logistical conditions, without the support of armored troops and other arms, in any kind of terrain conditions, the Japanese infantry can defeat any army of the same number, and their individual combat ability is really strong.
The Japanese army was taught by the European continent, but on the basis of the teacher, it developed its own characteristics according to local conditions. It can be said that this student was very successful in "stealing teachers", and they integrated the tactics of the other party instead of copying them, and summed up a set of their own tactics from it.
All soldiers who fought in the early stages of World War II were required to have at least 11 months of military training. The first five months of this year's military training are recruit training, which includes queues, assassination, target shooting and pulling; During this period, there must be at least one five-day camping exercise under severe winter conditions to train the soldiers' endurance in the cold and their ability to fight at night.
The next two months will be a regular training in the comprehensive quality of individual soldiers, emphasizing operational coordination at the squad (platoon) and squadron (company) levels. In this period, there must be more than 30km of marching endurance training every day, and the instructor shall control the proportion of forced marches, but not less than 5km of forced marches per day.
The next month will be a combat training at the brigade (battalion or company) level. At this time, the target shooting performance of the recruits has stabilized, and the basic requirement is that they should shoot 10 shots and 800 rings at 400 meters; This month, the recruits begin field shooting training, swimming training and intensive assassination training. In addition to this, there is a daily march of 40 km.
In the next two months, we will engage in brigade (battalion) and wing (regiment) level combat coordination, advanced tactical maneuvers and firing line maneuvers, which is the later crawling and rolling of the turtle army (the Japanese army and the turtle army are a different kind of teacher-student relationship).
After this training, in addition to having excellent individual skills, most of the ordinary Japanese soldiers can have a very clear understanding of the larger battle situation, these are the Japanese veterans that people often say, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers trained in this way in the early stage of the war is very strong, which is why the Japanese army can often maintain its combat strength under the condition of losing its commander.
Now that the training is over, let's see the results. Mobility ability, the ability of devil soldiers to continue combat marching is about 50km per day, plus limited boat and vehicle assistance, their combat mobility ability can reach more than 100km per day on average. Forced marches can reach more than 80 kilometers a day and can fight for another six hours that day, which can last about a month.
What is this concept? Generally, the ability of the national government troops to march continuously is about 35 to 45 kilometers per day, and the forced march can reach about 60 kilometers a day. In short, the Japanese army has always had a clear advantage over the national army in terms of mobility, which determines the situation of the national army being passively attacked in most situations.
Then I have to mention the "student" of the turtle army, the turtle army's ability to continue combat and march is between 80 kilometers, and the ability to force the march is above this! It's terrifying, but there's nothing surprising, if it weren't for this, the main force of the turtle army would have been wiped out by the devils, and outrunning the opponent is a prerequisite for guerrilla strategy. Although the turtle army is so able to run, it still paid a painful price in the War of Resistance, it can be said that the devil is the "teacher" and whetstone of the turtle army, today's PLA comes from the turtle army, and the turtle army was trained in the war of blood and fire with the elite troops of the Japanese army, as the tuition of blood and life is not less paid, the training system of the turtle army is actually a lot of "credit" (laughs). In the later stage of the Anti-Japanese War, the turtle army almost became a copy of the Japanese army's excellent skills and tactics, strict discipline, and tacit command and coordination, but the national army was still the same national army, and then in the civil war, Jiang bald his head tasted the sharpness of the turtle saber, which is why the Korean volunteers can outrun the wheels of the Americans with iron feet.
Cough! Talking about the level of Japanese red deer, in addition to pig protrusion, their marksmanship is also a topic that many people repeatedly mention.
The Japanese soldiers can hit the soldiers who observe at the mouth of the city wall from 800 meters away, and their first hit rate can reach more than 80%; When traveling to a distance of 400 meters, it can quickly hit a stationary target with only a small part of the body exposed, and the hit rate can reach 80%; Shoot machine gun shooters or moving targets from 200 to 100 meters away with a hit rate of up to 70% (this is when the enemy has a certain amount of suppressive fire); Within 50 meters, all targets were fired at stops and stops, and the first hit rate was above 90%. Friends who are good at learning probability can calculate how many shots can reach a 95% hit rate, and how many casualties can be caused by 150 rounds of ammunition carried by each Japanese soldier. Generally on the Chinese battlefield, when the Japanese army has the advantage of suppressive firepower, on average, each soldier of the Japanese assault squad can shoot 3 to 25 Chinese defenders during the charge, and often a small group of Japanese troops can cause huge trouble to the defenders.
Put yourself in your shoes, on the battlefield, your own position is overwhelmed by the enemy's firepower, the suppressive fire on the position is dumbfounded by the enemy one by one, and the enemy is approaching step by step, how many people can hold on without being defeated?