As the temperature warms, the ice and snow melt and everything revives, flowers and plants poke their heads out of the soil to stretch their muscles, and animals come out of their cold dens to look for food.
However, it was precisely at this time that Wang Xuexin was most nervous.
The reason why Wang Xuexin was nervous was because everything seemed to be ready but not ready.
Although all half-track vehicles have been allocated, there are also tank battalions, and even the next twenty "Shermans" of Eagle Sauce have also been added.
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But all of this is new equipment to the Eighth Route Army, even the AK47s in the hands of the soldiers.
If there are just one or two pieces of new equipment, with the Eighth Route Army's learning ability, Wang Xuexin believes they will be able to adapt quickly.
But now there are several new pieces of equipment, which has made the army so busy that they are confused here and there with hammers and hammers.
In fact, even Wang Xuexin himself feels that it is really difficult for the soldiers to learn so many things: the combat mode of AK47, the coordination of half-track vehicles, as well as infantry-tank coordination, air-ground coordination...
All of this needs to be mastered in more than a month. It can only be said that you learn a little bit of everything but not master anything.
Wang Xuexin rushed to the steel plant two days ago to organize a drill.
The purpose of this exercise is to see the training status of several units to determine whether these three regiments have the ability to fight and penetrate.
But the result was unsatisfactory.
The marching drills were fine, and most of them were able to move forward in the correct formation, but once the battle started, chaos immediately began...
Investigating the reason, Wang Xuexin believes that it is not a training issue.
Or it can be said to be a matter of training... The Eighth Route Army soldiers have always had a fighting style of daring to be the first. Just like Li Yunlong's fiery temper, he would rush forward to grab "meat" from any enemy he encountered.
If it is pure infantry combat, there is no problem. Not only is it okay, it should even be promoted, because pure infantry combat pays more attention to morale.
But if you do this in a coordinated operation, the equipment will not be able to play its role at all.
As a result, they couldn't go down halfway through the exercise and they all crowded into a pile. Wang Xuexin called a timeout directly.
Wang Xuexin called the three group leaders together for a meeting.
Although Wang Xuexin was anxious, the three group leaders were all his seniors, especially Li Yunlong, who was his old group leader, so he had to be patient and talk things through.
"Commanders!" Wang Xuexin said: "We have all practiced tank coordinated operations, how can we still compete with tanks..."
Before Wang Xuexin could finish speaking, Kong Jie interjected: "Xiao Dongbei, what you said is wrong! In the past, we practiced infantry-tank coordination. When infantry and tanks cooperated, the infantry was slower than the tank, and the infantry also blocked the tank.
If you can’t catch bullets, there’s no problem in hiding behind tanks and moving forward. But now that we have half-tracks, why are we still hiding behind tanks?”
Li Yunlong also echoed: "You're right, I said Xiaodongbei! We can't just put the tank in front, and the half-track car can drive fast, but if we still wait for the tank to drive together, we will have to go so fast.
What to do? Besides, this half-track car is armored, equipped with a repeating rifle, and a rocket launcher. If they can kill the enemy, they don’t have to go with the tank!"
Having said that, Wang Xuexin does not necessarily require tanks to be used in the front line in all situations.
but……
Wang Xuexin helplessly put the map in front of several regiment commanders and said: "Commander Kong, Commander Li, look at the terrain. It is assumed that there are Japanese artillery towers and field fortifications in this area. In this case, half-track armored vehicles can go there
Opening from the front? Doesn’t that leave it open for the enemy to attack?”
Kong Jie and Li Yunlong stopped talking when they heard this.
A half-track is semi-enclosed, meaning it has no armor on top.
If there are enemy turrets and field fortifications ahead, the enemy can shoot down the soldiers in the half-track vehicle from a high position.
In other words, the advantages of half-track cars and even the advantages of repeating rifles cannot be reflected.
Even in the end, the Eighth Route Army was able to rely on rocket launchers to blow up the Japanese artillery towers, but only after paying heavy casualties.
Ding Wei nodded and agreed with Wang Xuexin's statement: "Xiao Dongbei is right, the turret is very difficult for a half-track car to deal with, but for a tank it's just a matter of a few shells. We can use smaller
Why choose this more tragic method if you can win faster with less casualties and at a lower cost?"
Li Yunlong was silent for a while, and then asked: "So, what about other situations? Can we let the half-track vehicle get on first? What I mean is... we used to plan to attack without tanks, but now that we have tanks,
Why can’t this work or that?”
Wang Xuexin replied: "There is a way of playing without tanks. Now of course the way of playing with tanks is different. Other situations that can be solved with tanks should be solved with tanks as much as possible. The main purpose of the speed of half-track cars is to allow
Soldiers can keep up with tanks!"
As soon as Wang Xuexin said these words, not only Li Yunlong and Kong Jie's eyes widened, but even Ding Wei was confused.
"Little Northeast!" Ding Wei said: "If this is to allow the soldiers to keep up with the tanks, wouldn't the entire vehicle be a three-wheeled vehicle? It should also be transformed into a half-track vehicle with machine guns and armor.
?”
No wonder Ding Wei was surprised.
What kind of army is the Eighth Route Army? Not long ago, they were an army with millimeters and rifles and only ten rounds of ammunition per person. Now they have half-track vehicles just for the purpose of infantry keeping up with tanks... This level of luxury is even for them, including the one in front of them.
Several group leaders dare not even think about it.
Wang Xuexin explained: "Captain Ding, if a car or a three-wheeler follows up, what should we do if the enemy's artillery fire covers us? Can cars and three-wheelers block the enemy's shrapnel? Can our troops withstand the enemy's artillery fire?"
Forward?"
Ding Wei fell silent after hearing this, because half-track armored vehicles can indeed block shrapnel.
As for the Japanese artillery shells...even tanks may not be able to withstand direct hits, and half-track armored vehicles certainly do not consider this.
Kong Jie asked curiously: "What about the machine gun? If it is just to keep up with the tank, the machine gun on the half-track car is not needed!"
Wang Xuexin answered directly: "Provide fire cover for the tanks, and also provide safety guarantee for ourselves when necessary!"
Finally, Wang Xuexin concluded: "Dear commanders, our total strength is only more than 7,000, and it is very likely that we will fight in and out of the enemy's territory. We have to save some troops and some ammunition. Only in this way can we fight quickly and efficiently."
Save yourself the trouble of knocking down the enemy’s defense line!”
Several group leaders looked at each other and then nodded silently.
Now they finally understood why Hans had to use half-track vehicles in his "blitzkrieg".