At eleven o'clock in the night, Mei Jiuling, commander of each main infantry battalion, cavalry battalion and tank battalion, came to the regiment meeting room one after another, and Xu Rui immediately announced the meeting.
Xu Rui said in a deep voice: "It has been several days since we fought against the Japanese Seventh Army. Please tell us your impressions."
"Let me say it first." As soon as Xu Rui finished speaking, Gao Chu couldn't wait to say, "Compared to the Japs we encountered before, the combat effectiveness of the Japs Seventh Army is indeed stronger, but it is not too strong.
At least it's within our tolerance. If the Japanese hadn't viciously driven the people away as hostages, Tieling would never have fallen so quickly, and all of Lao Shi's battalion wouldn't have died! Does this make sense, everyone?"
"Battle Commander Gao is right," Du Junjie said, "The Japanese Seventh Army is just like that."
Compared with the worries about gains and losses when the Japanese Seventh Army had not yet reached Fengtian City, Du Junjie seemed calm and relaxed at this time, because before fighting against the Japanese Seventh Army, he did not know how powerful his opponent was. As Chahar,
As the Chief of Staff of the Independent Regiment, he was unable to make an accurate prediction. He could not even determine how many days the Chahar Independent Regiment could hold on in Fengtian.
But now, Du Junjie has an accurate judgment on the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Seventh Army. Basically, he can confirm that as long as there is no major accident, with the strength and materials of the Chahar Independent Regiment, he can hold on in Fengtian.
Six months is no problem. In other words, there is no pressure at all to achieve the goal Xu Rui set before the war.
It is precisely because of this that Du Junjie can be calm and relaxed, and recalling the anxiety before seems like a lifetime ago.
Following Gao Chu and Du Junjie, the other infantry battalion commanders also expressed their feelings. They felt the same as Gao Chu and Du Junjie, and they all believed that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Seventh Army was stronger than the Japanese they had encountered before.
Some, but their strength is limited. If they survive, they will be no more than the Chahar Independent Regiment.
Wang Husheng finally concluded: "This means that our independent regiment is confident of holding Fengtian for six months, right?"
Third Battalion Commander Huang Shouxin said: "Basically, yes, as long as there is no major accident, there is no problem in defending Fengtian for six months."
As soon as he finished speaking, a voice suddenly sounded: "You think too simply."
When everyone heard the sound and looked back, they found that the person who poured cold water on them was actually their leader Xu Rui.
Wang Husheng said: "Old Xu, do you think that old devil Ishihara Wan'er still has some tricks up his sleeve?"
"There is no doubt about it." Xu Rui nodded and said, "If the old devil Ishihara Wan'er only had these three tools, he would not have been able to defend Chita for a whole year under the siege of more than one million Soviet Red Army troops.
Let’s not talk about it, but what about the T-34 tanks captured from the Soviet Red Army after the Japanese army won the Battle of Chita?”
"What? T-34 tank?"
"Yeah, how could you forget this?"
"Yeah, I've never seen the Japanese use T-34 tanks."
"It is entirely possible that the Japanese won the Battle of Chita, took control of the battlefield, and captured dozens or even hundreds of T-34 tanks. Where did these tanks go?"
After Xu Rui finished speaking, the conference room immediately exploded.
Without Xu Rui's reminder, the battalion commanders here really forgot about this.
Only Wang Husheng whispered: "Old Xu, maybe the Japanese didn't capture too many T-34 tanks?"
"I also hope that the Japanese did not capture too many T-34 tanks, but the problem is that this possibility is extremely small." Xu Rui shook his head and said, "According to the intelligence provided by the Soviet army, the Soviet Far East Front has two large clusters in the east and west.
Equipped with at least twelve tank divisions, that is to say, there are at least more than 3,000 tanks!"
After a pause, Xu Rui continued: "We might as well make an assumption. Assume that half of the Soviet army's more than 3,000 tanks were destroyed by the Japanese during the battle. Then there will be at least more than 1,500 tanks left. But now,
Zhukov only has less than two tank divisions left in his hands, which means that the Japanese have captured at least thousands of T-34 tanks!"
"Thousands of T-34 tanks?!" Wang Husheng couldn't help but gasped.
The dozen or so battalion commanders present at the meeting also looked at each other in confusion. If this were the case, there would be big trouble.
Du Junjie said in a deep voice: "Commander, if the Japs really captured thousands of T-34 tanks, why haven't any of them appeared outside Fengtian City until now?"
Xu Rui said: "If I'm not wrong, there are only two reasons. First, the old devil Ishihara Wanji is holding back his big move. First, he uses Type 95 and Type 97 tanks to paralyze us, and wait for us to gradually adapt.
After understanding the strength of Type 95 and Type 97, if we suddenly throw in T-34 tanks, we will be caught off guard!"
"I'll go!" Wang Husheng wiped his forehead and said solemnly, "The old devil is really insidious."
"However, I think this is not the main reason." Xu Rui waved his hand and said, "The main reason is that the T-34 tank uses a diesel engine, while the Japanese Type 95 tanks and Type 97 tanks use diesel engines.
Because of the difference in gasoline engines, the Japs have insufficient diesel reserves, so the T-34 tanks captured from the Soviet Red Army have not been able to be put into battle. However, more than half a month has passed now, and the Japs should have raised enough
Diesel."
Wang Husheng said solemnly: "In other words, the T-34 tanks captured by the Japanese will soon join the war, right?"
"That's right, if nothing else happens, the T-34 tanks captured by the Japanese will soon join the competition." Xu Rui nodded and said, "But don't worry too much. What the Japanese captured from the Soviet army is the T-34 tank."
The -34A tank, rather than the B-type tank equipped by our tank battalion, is slightly inferior in terms of armor and main gun caliber. More importantly, the T-34A tank does not have an on-board radio, so the efficiency of coordinated operations is very low.
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Wang Husheng shook his head and said: "But that is also a T-34 tank. Its armor protection is by no means comparable to the Type 95 light tank or the Type 97 medium tank of the Japs. Unless it is the 60 rocket launcher that we have the largest number of equipment,
Launch an initiation attack, otherwise it will be difficult to penetrate its armor, and you will be in big trouble now."
Xu Rui said: "Old Wang, you are right, so we must strengthen the counterattack at night. We must use the counterattack at night as much as possible to kill the enemy's active forces, and we must not just be passively beaten and watch the little enemy perform their best.
The advantages of military strength and weapons, right?”
After a pause, Xu Rui said to Du Junjie: "Ajie, tell everyone the results of the deduction done by your staff department before."
"Okay." Du Junjie nodded, then stood up and strode to the large map of the three eastern provinces hanging on the wall, pointed at the map and said, "This morning, our staff modified the map of the enemy and the enemy in accordance with the instructions of the regiment commander.
With elements from both sides, a comprehensive war game was conducted again on Fengtian’s defensive battle.”
Wang Husheng, Leng Tiefeng and a dozen battalion commanders immediately pricked up their ears.
After a pause, Du Junjie continued: "First of all, let's make a rough estimate of the strength of the Japanese Seventh Army. Based on the existing information, we can know that the Seventh Army has seven infantry divisions, two tank divisions plus
A first infantry regiment, taking into account the losses in the Battle of Chita, has a total strength of at most 150,000!"
"When the Japanese have a strength of 150,000, no matter what happens in the three eastern provinces, even if all fifteen divisions of the puppet Manchukuo National Army rebel, even if civilian armed forces emerge on a large scale in the three eastern provinces, Ishihara Wanji, an old Japanese, will
It is completely manageable, because he only needs to leave 50,000 infantry, and cooperate with the absolutely superior tank division, which is enough to form a crushing advantage over our Chahar Independent Regiment, and then Ishihara Kanji can mobilize at least 100,000
The infantry is used to suppress the puppet army and civilian armed forces anyway. The combat effectiveness of the puppet army and civilian armed forces will never be able to withstand the suppression of a hundred thousand Japanese regular troops."
"What's more, these 100,000 Japanese regular troops are the Seventh Army that came back from the Chita battlefield!"
"However, when the Seventh Army loses more than 50,000 troops, and when Ishihara Kanji only has 100,000 troops left, the situation in the three eastern provinces will reach a turning point, because with 50,000 Japanese soldiers, if we want to fully control the eastern provinces,
It will probably be very difficult to suppress the puppet troops and the surging civilian armed forces in the three provinces at the same time."
"And if the devils cannot suppress the puppet army and civilian armed forces in a short period of time, then the puppet army and civilian armed forces will in turn threaten the devil's logistics supply line, and as time goes by, the puppet army and civilian armed forces will
Their combat experience will increase rapidly, their combat effectiveness will also increase rapidly, and the situation of the Japanese will quickly deteriorate."
After a pause, Du Junjie said in a more serious tone: "According to the war games conducted by our staff department, in just one month, the Japanese Seventh Army will be in a desperate situation of running out of ammunition and food! By then, the Japanese Seventh Army will not even be able to
There is no chance of retreating to Harbin or Lushun, and they will be destroyed in the vast sea of people's war!"
Gao Chu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said excitedly: "In other words, as long as we eliminate 50,000 Japanese in street fighting, the Fengtian defense war will reach a turning point? Even the entire three eastern provinces will be recovered?"
"There is no need to kill fifty thousand!" Du Junjie said, "Because in the previous defensive battle at Tieling, at least two thousand infantry soldiers were killed by the Japs. In addition to the street fighting in the previous few days, at least three thousand Japs were killed."
There are many people, that is to say, we have already eliminated at least more than 5,000 Japanese, so we only need to eliminate 45,000 more, which is almost enough!"
Xu Rui finally went on to say: "More than 45,000 Japs need to be eliminated. It seems like a lot, but if it is broken down into three battlefields in the north, west and east, each battlefield only needs to eliminate 15,000 Japs, and then it is divided into five times.
In each battle, we only need to eliminate more than 3,000 Japanese, so the pressure will be much less, right?"