Guangyuan is originally a mountainous county with many mountains and little land. In order to find a place for nearly two thousand soldiers to conduct exercises, the senior leaders of the independent regiment put a lot of effort into it.
Finally, a suitable location was found in a dry valley twenty-five miles away from the base of the Independent Regiment. The valley, which is seven to eight miles long and nearly eight hundred meters wide, can just accommodate the training troops.
After Liu Lang returned from overseas, he signed a military order. The Independence Regiment transferred 1,500 people from the escort teams of various villages in Guangyuan, and assigned disabled veterans from each village as instructors. 1,100 of these 1,500 people were organized according to the Japanese infantry brigade.
A blue army.
This Blue Army is the opponent arranged by Liu Lang for the Independent Regiment. It is a force formed purely to imitate the Japanese army. In order to more truly reflect the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, this Blue Army is not only organized using the Japanese infantry brigade, but also uses weapons and ammunition.
Purely Japanese equipment, even the military uniforms are wearing Japanese military uniforms. This is difficult for the escort members to accept. After hearing the news, at least half of them gave up their jobs and wanted to go home, even if each person had 20 yuan per month.
No more extra allowances.
It was the regiment deputy Zhang Ruhao who took action and explained to them a good deal of truth. He told them that they were not allowed to wear these yellow leather clothes to fight against the little devils, but that they should accompany the infantry battalions of the independent regiment to train and let them fight against the little devils.
.And promised them that as long as they practice well, if the formal exercise can defeat the regular army of the Independent Regiment, then when the Independent Regiment recruits soldiers, they will give priority to the recruitment from among their thousands of numbers. Even if they still don’t want to do it, don’t be fooled when they go back.
The escort team is here.
All kinds of "coercion and inducement" forced these more than a thousand people to stay. With regiment deputy Zhang Ruhao as the captain of the Blue Army, five deputy companies were drawn from the four infantry battalions to serve as the Blue Army's commanders.
The squadron leader, a total of 4 infantry squadrons and a machine gun squadron, draws a deputy company from the artillery battalion to serve as the artillery squadron leader of the Blue Army. All squad leaders are served by instructors drawn from the recruit battalion, and the squad leaders are retired veterans from each village who are physically fit.
The person in better condition will take charge.
Not only is the organization of the Blue Army exactly the same as that of the Japanese infantry brigade, but all tactical requirements must be the same as those of the Japanese army. Even when shouting battle commands, they are required to be completed in Japanese. Their station is near the river valley, under the command of the regiment deputy Zhang Ruhao.
After hard training, the entire Blue Army trained hard for nearly three months before they finally formed their combat effectiveness.
If the Japanese with a Sichuan accent when shouting the battle command did not reveal that they were a group of Chinese soldiers, at first glance, they would be a Japanese infantry brigade.
The Independent Regiment does not care about new recruits or veterans. Except for the more than 200 people who participated in the Songhu Anti-Japanese War two years ago and fought against the Japanese invaders in the Songhu area, the rest of them basically have no experience in field battles with the Japanese invaders on the plains.
Although these elites at the Great Wall fought hard against the Japanese invaders, the battle at the Great Wall focused on mountain defense at the beginning. By the time they pursued the Eighth Division, the opponent no longer had artillery, and our own artillery fire had a huge advantage, so
It doesn't count as having fought in the plains with the Japanese aggressors, especially when the troops were slightly weaker and there was no support from our own artillery.
Although Liu Lang would have made his subordinates armed to the teeth before 37 years ago, what if there is no fire support? Can't the independent regiment fight? It must not. According to Liu Lang's idea, the independent regiment must be trained to
Even with only light weapons, they can compete with the Japanese army. Because no one can guarantee that the Independent Regiment will be able to obtain effective supplies in the battle of the Grand Army. Liu Lang even thought of the protracted battle after the battle. The soldiers of the Independent Regiment
We must learn the experience of fighting the Japanese army with "firewood sticks".
The Red Army, which didn't even have a few mortars, did exactly this, and they did it for eight years. Even the regular army of the government was far inferior to the Japanese army in terms of weapons.
Therefore, the four infantry battalions of the independent regiment, no matter which battalion they were, did not receive artillery support from the artillery battalion, and the fire support platoon of the infantry company was not allowed to go into battle. What they could use were Czech-made light machine guns and weapons from the regiment headquarters.
The Maxim heavy machine gun was lifted out of the warehouse, and all new weapons were not used.
There were no MG42s, no mountain guns, mortars were reduced to the same level as those of the Central Army, and the firepower of each infantry battalion was instantly reduced to one-third of its previous level.
On the other hand, on the Blue Army side, all firepower configuration is based on the standard Japanese infantry brigade. A machine gun squadron has a total of 12 Type 92 heavy machine guns, a 50-man artillery squad has two Type 92 infantry cannons, and a squadron has three infantry squads.
However, Liu Lang made some changes when the Blue Army imitated the Japanese squad, and did not organize it according to the current Japanese squad. According to the current Japanese squad, a squad has two light machine guns and two sets of grenade launchers.
But in fact, after the all-out war began, the Japanese army made organizational changes to the infantry squad in order to strengthen the attack power of the grassroots units. The light machine guns were assigned to the squad, but the grenade launchers were strengthened, forming a
A grenade squad with three grenade teams.
Therefore, the Blue Army team is organized into three infantry squads and one grenade squad, including three light machine guns and three grenade teams.
Now, from brigade-level firepower to squadron-level firepower or squad-level firepower, the Blue Army is above the independent regiment infantry battalion, and whether it is Chi Dakui's battalion with more than 700 people or Cheng Yuanshan's battalion with only more than 490 people
The Bayonet Battalion, Zhou Shiyu's Death Battalion, and Li Guobin's Panshi Battalion all had to deal with the Blue Army's attack alone.
What's even more egregious is that the company-level officers of other services who serve as referees for the exercise will more or less favor the Blue Army. For example, if a mortar hits an area 40 meters in front of that side's firepower point, they will basically judge it as a failure.
The opponent is killed. After all, this is a drill. You can't really hit the opponent with one shot.
But this distance all depends on how the referees judge it. Often the Blue Army grenades are fired until they are still fifty meters away. The firepower point of the participating troops of the independent group is over, and the machine gunners can only withdraw with the machine guns.
The position was declared dead because the machine gun was also "blown up". On the other hand, on the Blue Army's side, if you don't fire two shots at the same position in succession, the referee bird on the Blue Army's position will not criticize you.
According to them, God knows if you can shoot so accurately in actual combat? What if your level is like that? Among them, the commander of a certain artillery battalion who is the deputy chief referee and did not participate in the performance is the most arrogant.
If the mortars of the participating units of the independent regiment are slightly farther from the Blue Army's firepower point than what he considers to be the ideal distance, the mortar position on the opposite side will be deemed to have been destroyed by infantry artillery.
Damn it, the artillery was not accurate and I could fire the next shot, so I was sentenced to death like this. It is simply unreasonable. But a certain artillery battalion commander didn't even bother to explain. In his awesome words, artillery is nothing like infantry.
Either way, if you can't blow up others at once, it's their turn for others to blow you up. Do you think the little devil's infantry artillery is a vegetarian in actual combat? It's not a permanent fortification. One shot will make you fly into the sky.
The battalion-level officers of the independent regiment were so angry that they vomited blood, but there was nothing they could do. Of course they knew that behind this must be the instruction of the regimental commander. Otherwise, how dare those guys give them eye drops so nakedly? Three
Not to mention the newly promoted infantry battalion commander, Chi Dakuna is a serious lieutenant colonel, one of the cores of the independent regiment, and Liu Tuanzuo's first confidant.
He can yell at his mother on the battlefield and make a fool of himself.
The firepower is not as good, the number of people is not as good, and it is also a drill. You can't play with the independent regiment-style Saburo who bites off half of your ear if you poke me in the belly. Anyone who is hit by a blank bullet will be sentenced to death. There is no chance at all.
A desperate chance. Of course, and referee Chi Guoguo's favoritism to steal the spotlight, the four independent regiment infantry battalions were defeated by the Blue Army's attack without any suspense.
Chi Dakui's battalion, which persisted the longest, only persisted for one day and one night. It finally organized and prepared for a night attack, but the blue army on the opposite side used Chinese-style traps to trap nearly two platoons in. Under the command of Zhang Ruhao
Next, there are two squadrons waiting for Chi Dakui to come. This is the move that the Chinese army is most accustomed to. When the flares lit up over a company participating in the night attack, the two platoons at the front were directly fired by the referee.
The group decision was negative, and only the two platoons that were dozens of meters behind were able to evacuate.
When half of the men were lost in the battle, even if Chi Dakui wanted to persist, he had no chance. Liu Lang, who was watching the battle, directly sentenced the first battalion to lose. According to him, more than 300 people were no longer enough to resist the more than 800 "Japanese invaders"
"Continue to attack, especially when the opponent will send additional aircraft and heavy artillery to join the battle.
One battalion with a strength of more than 700 men was like this, not to mention the other three small battalions with less than 500 men. In just one day, half of them were lost in battle, and they were also kicked out of the battlefield by Liu Lang.
The month-long competition of the independent regiment ended with the defeat of all four main infantry battalions of the independent regiment.
The victorious Blue Army members were awarded ten pieces of gold each, and were given the honor of five days off. They were also awarded a new uniform of the independent regiment, which was not worthy of military rank. This greatly excited the members of more than a thousand village guards, even though they did not have military ranks.
, but this almost means that they have become reserve soldiers of the independent regiment. As long as the number is expanded, they will definitely be selected.
You know, according to the practice of the national army, an integrated regiment has a mobile organization of 1,500 strong men.
The four smug battalion commanders were all disgraced. On the night after all the exercises, they gathered in Liu Tuanzuo's regimental office.