Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1172 Drills
As the temperature warms and the ice and snow melt, everything recovers. Flowers and plants poke their heads out of the soil to stretch their muscles and bones, and animals come out of their shelters to look for food.

However, it was precisely at this time that Wang Xuexin was most nervous.

The reason why Wang Xuexin is nervous is because everything seems to be ready but not ready.

Although all the half-track vehicles have been allocated in place, there is also a tank battalion, and even Yingjiang's follow-up [-] "Shermans" have also been added.

But all of this is new equipment for the Eighth Route Army, even the AK47 in the hands of the soldiers.

If it's just one or two pieces of new equipment, with the learning ability of the Eighth Route Army, Wang Xuexin believes that they will be able to adapt quickly.

But now there are several new pieces of equipment in one brain, which makes the troops dizzy with a hammer here and there during this period of time.

In fact, even Wang Xuexin himself felt that it was really difficult for the soldiers to learn so many things: the combat mode of the AK47, the coordination of half-track vehicles, as well as the coordination of infantry and tanks, and the coordination of air and ground...

All of this needs to be mastered within more than a month. It can only be said that I have learned a little bit of everything but can't learn everything well.

Wang Xuexin rushed to the steel factory two days ago to organize a drill.

This exercise is to see the training situation of several troops to determine whether the three regiments have the ability to intersect.

But the results were less than satisfactory.

The rehearsal marches are okay, most of them can advance in the correct formation, but once the battle starts, it will start to be chaotic...

The reason, Wang Xuexin thinks it is not a problem of training.

Or it can be said to be a matter of training... The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army have always had a fighting style of daring to fight for the first place, just like Li Yunlong's fiery temper, rushing forward to "eat meat" one by one when encountering any enemy.

If it is pure infantry combat, this is not a problem, not only is it no problem, it should even be advocated, because pure infantry combat pays more attention to morale.

But if you do this in coordinated operations, then you won't be able to play the role of equipment 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 regiment leaders together for a meeting.

Although Wang Xuexin was anxious, these three regiment leaders were all his predecessors, especially Li Yunlong was his old regiment leader, so he had to be patient and talk about it.

"Regimental leaders!" Wang Xuexin said, "We have all practiced tank cooperative combat, so how can we fight against tanks..."

Before Wang Xuexin could finish speaking, Kong Jie interjected: "Xiao Dongbei, what you said is not right! We used to practice infantry-tank coordination, but now when infantry is slower than tanks, infantry also block No bullets, it’s okay to hide behind the tank and move forward. But now we are all half-track cars, and we still hide behind the tank?”

Li Yunlong also echoed: "That's right, I said Xiaodongbei! Let's not just put the tank in front, the half-track car drives fast, if we still wait for the tank to drive together, then we still need to go so fast What to do? Besides, this half-track vehicle is armored and has a repeating rifle, and there are also rocket launchers. If they can deal with the enemy, they don’t have to go with the tank!”

That being said, Wang Xuexin doesn't necessarily require tanks to play the front line on any occasion.

but……

Reluctantly, Wang Xuexin put the map in front of several regiment leaders, and said, "Commander Kong and Li, look at the terrain. It is assumed that there are gun towers and field fortifications of devils in this area. In this case, half-track armored vehicles can go there. Open forward? Isn’t that open for the enemy to fight?”

Kong Jie and Li Yunlong stopped talking once they heard this.

Halftracks are semi-closed, that is, they have no armor on top.

If there are enemy turrets and field fortifications ahead, the enemy can condescendingly shoot and kill the soldiers in the half-track vehicles.

In other words, the advantages of half-track vehicles and even the advantages of repeating rifles cannot be reflected.

Even in the end, the Eighth Route Army could rely on rocket launchers to blow up the devil's artillery building, but it was only after suffering heavy casualties.

Ding Wei nodded to express his agreement with Wang Xuexin: "Xiao Dongbei is right. A gun tower is a difficult thing for a half-track vehicle, but it is a matter of a few shells for a tank. We can use smaller The casualties are less and the price is faster, why choose this more tragic way?"

Li Yunlong was silent for a while, and then asked again: "So, what about other situations? Can we let the half-track vehicles get on first? I mean...we used to plan to attack without tanks, but now we have tanks. Why can’t this work and that can’t work!”

Wang Xuexin replied: "Without tanks, there is no way to fight without tanks. Of course, the way to fight with tanks is different now. 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 vehicles is to let Soldiers can keep up with tanks!"

When Wang Xuexin said this, not only Li Yunlong and Kong Jie's eyes widened, but even Ding Wei didn't understand.

"Little Northeast!" Ding Wei said, "If this is to allow the soldiers to keep up with the tanks, wouldn't it be a whole car, three wheels and so on? It's also 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 a unit with only ten rounds of ammunition per capita with millet and rifles, but now they have built half-track vehicles for the purpose of infantry keeping up with tanks... This level of luxury is not even for them, including the one in front of them. The group leaders didn't even dare to think about it.

Wang Xuexin explained: "Commander Ding, if this is followed by a car or a three-wheeler, what should we do if the devil's artillery fire covers it? Can the car and the three-wheeler block the shrapnel from the devil? Our troops can withstand the enemy's artillery fire. Forward?"

Ding Wei fell silent after hearing this, because the half-track armored vehicle can indeed block shrapnel.

As for the devil's shells... Even tanks may not be able to withstand direct hits, and half-track armored vehicles certainly don't consider this.

Kong Jie asked curiously again: "What about the machine gun? If it's just to keep up with the tank, the machine gun on the half-track vehicle won't be needed!"

Wang Xuexin answered directly: "Provide fire cover for tanks, and provide security for ourselves when necessary!"

Finally, Wang Xuexin concluded: "Commanders, our total strength is only more than 7000 people, and it is very likely that we will fight deep into the enemy. We have to save some troops and ammunition. Only in this way can we fight quickly and save money." Destroy the enemy's line of defense!"

The group leaders looked at each other, then nodded silently.

Now they finally understood why Hans had to use a half-track vehicle in his "blitzkrieg".

(End of this chapter)