Although Wang Xuexin has not directly participated in the training of tank troops, he has always paid attention to the progress in this area.
The way is to summarize the experience through reports.
Like other units, the tank battalion will organize a report meeting after completing training every day.
This method is very effective, because summarizing every day will save you and your comrades from taking many detours...
Meetings during this period were not as formal as in modern times. Commanders and soldiers conducted profound criticism and self-criticism of their own training, and then singled out those things that were not done well in the training and put them on the table for discussion.
This made Marcus sigh that the Eighth Route Army's progress in just a few days of training could even catch up with Yingjiang's results in a few months.
However, Wang Xuexin believes that this is at least partly due to battlefield pressure.
Although Yingjiang soldiers also have battlefield pressure, for example, in the North African battlefield, the sun never sets and Yingjiang has complete control of the air. For example, in the Pacific battlefield, Yingjiang has absolute advantages in sea control and air superiority.
But the basic role of the Eagle Sauce Tank is to harvest the lives of enemy infantry after being sent to the battlefield.
Fighting enemy tanks? That’s what aviation is for!
The Eighth Route Army was different.
The Eighth Route Army still had partial air supremacy at this time, and there were not enough fighter planes to bomb every tank. Therefore, the tanks of the Eighth Route Army were likely to encounter Japanese tanks, and they might even be new types of tanks.
This is also the main reason why Wang Xuexin requires tank soldiers to be able to "shoot while moving".
Just imagine, on the battlefield, if the Japanese tanks have to stop when shooting, but the "Sherman" of the Eighth Route Army can keep changing positions while firing, what advantage will that have?
What makes Wang Xuexin gratified is that the training of tank soldiers is not limited to tanks. They also actively participate in coordination with infantry, artillery and even aviation.
This is Gangzi's idea.
Gangzi has been a tank soldier for some time now, and he can be said to be a veritable veteran. He knows very well that if tanks are to exert their maximum combat effectiveness, they must cooperate with other arms.
Infantry can keep the tank safe and provide it with targets and vision.
Aviation can quickly clear insurmountable obstacles for tanks or strike first at enemy armored units.
Artillery can suppress enemy artillery and reduce tanks' losses in indiscriminate artillery bombardments.
But of course, the Eighth Route Army had no artillery.
The artillery mentioned by Gangzi is actually an idea given by Wang Xuexin before: mounting the rocket launcher on a half-track car.
This surprised Wang Xuexin. He did not expect that tank soldiers like Gangzi would improve so quickly and be able to draw inferences from one example.
But later Wang Xuexin realized that this was just a trivial matter. Li Yunlong was also actively organizing collaborative training between half-track vehicles and tanks.
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Li Yunlong even had the consciousness to fight a "blitzkrieg".
He said to Zhao Gang: "Old Zhao, I don't think we can fight like this! Although the coordination and cooperation of various arms in Hans's 'blitzkrieg' are very important, do you know what these coordination and cooperation are based on?"
"Based on what?" Zhao Gang asked puzzledly.
"Intelligence and special forces!" Li Yunlong analyzed: "'Blitzkrieg' means to be fast, but if you don't know anything about the enemy's intelligence, blindly fighting quickly will definitely cause problems, because you don't know the enemy's intelligence.
Where is the weak point? You might just hit the steel plate with one kick. Wouldn’t that make you die too slowly?”
Zhao Gang felt it made sense when he heard this, but he thought about it and replied: "This is simple, our intelligence officers are everywhere, let them inquire about information, and in addition, send reconnaissance troops around before the war!"
Li Yunlong nodded and said: "I thought so too. This is not a big problem for us. But this special forces..."
"What's so difficult about the special forces?" Zhao Gang replied: "Don't we have a reconnaissance company? Wouldn't it be enough to use the reconnaissance company as a special forces force?"
"Alas, Old Zhao!" Li Yunlong glanced at Zhao Gang with a look that hated iron and steel, and took the "Blitzkrieg" materials from the headquarters from the table and said: "The books you asked for from the headquarters are all on your own."
Not looking anywhere?"
"This..." Zhao Gang was a little embarrassed.
He has actually seen this information, but as a political worker, he sees things differently from a combat commander.
What Zhao Gang saw more was the organization and discipline of the battle. As for the secrets of strategy and tactics... It wasn't that he didn't understand, but he didn't have the sensitivity in this aspect, and he didn't find any clue after looking at it.
Li Yunlong is different. What he sees is how a battle is conducted, coordinated, coordinated, etc.
Zhao Gang didn't dare to answer because he was a little embarrassed.
He usually used these words to scold Li Yunlong. Unexpectedly, he was scolded by Li Yunlong today.
Li Yunlong didn't notice this, otherwise he would have laughed three times happily in his heart: "You, Zhao Gang, are here too!"
Li Yunlong explained while flipping through the information: "Look, what are Hans's special forces? Their special forces have been training for several years, learned to speak fluent English, sneaked into the Empire's defense zone, and then returned.
A large number of airborne troops parachuted directly to the enemy's rear to seize important bridges, ammunition depots and transportation hubs!"
After Li Yunlong flipped through the information, he handed it to Zhao Gang, and then analyzed: "If we don't fight like this, the 'blitzkrieg' will not work. First, these special forces may obtain more valuable and timely intelligence. Second, bridges, transportation
The hinge is a guarantee that tanks and half-track vehicles can pass through, and the ammunition depot can replenish fuel, ammunition and supplies for the troops to reduce the pressure on logistics. But we have nothing. If we want to fight a 'blitzkrieg' like Hans, we only have these conditions.
Afraid……"
As he spoke, Li Yunlong shook his head worriedly.
After hearing this, Zhao Gang suddenly realized, and secretly thought that this Li Yunlong was really different, and what he said made sense.
"So..." Zhao Gang asked, "Do you have a solution?"
Li Yunlong replied: "Fortunately, the 'blitzkrieg' we are going to fight is not far from the defense line. I estimate that the 'blitzkrieg' Xiaodongbei is going to fight is to penetrate dozens of miles deep into the Japanese defense line like the last time we fought against the Japanese mechanized troops. If this is the case,
A little distance... the logistical supplies can still barely sustain it. Let's make preparations in advance by infiltrating the regular troops into the guerrillas in the enemy-controlled areas, so it can be done!"
Zhao Gang nodded and replied: "This is the only thing we can do!"
What Li Yunlong didn't expect was that what Wang Xuexin was going to fight this time was not a short-range "blitzkrieg", but a veritable long-range "blitzkrieg". Like Hans, he used mechanized troops to tear apart the enemy's defense line and go around to the enemy's rear to attack them.
Supply lines, and even deep operations to encircle the Japanese.
Therefore, Wang Xuexin will really encounter the problems mentioned by Li Yunlong.