Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 960 Drills
In addition, there are engineering machinery. Kono Shinta thinks there should be at least a few bulldozers, right?Armored bulldozers are not required, and the requirements for a few ordinary bulldozers are not too much, right?
In fact, armored bulldozers should be required, because in "blitzkrieg", bulldozers often have to go to the front line to open the way. Doing so is easy to be ambushed by the enemy, especially the enemy's snipers.

Armored bulldozers can solve this problem very well, at least not so that the driver will be less and less.

However, the reality is that the imperial army can't even find a few ordinary bulldozers.

Neiji Okamura's answer was: "Mr. Kono, we actually don't need bulldozers, because any work similar to road construction can be handed over to the Chinese people!"

It's not that the empire doesn't have bulldozers, they just didn't use them in China due to cost considerations.

Because to them, the common people of China...or not the common people, are free labor in their eyes.

Bulldozers also require repairs, maintenance, and use up valuable fuel as they work.

China's labor force doesn't need anything. If you can die of starvation and exhaustion, you can have one less mouth to eat, so why use a bulldozer?
Kono was a little speechless about this, and he replied helplessly: "Your Excellency, our troops are transported by sidecar motorcycles. Although we can use Chinese people, can we take them forward together? In addition, we need How many people does it take to achieve the efficiency of a bulldozer?"

Okamura Ningji instantly understood what Kono Shinta meant.

"It's not difficult!" Neiji Okamura said, "We can convert armored vehicles into several bulldozers!"

"No, Your Excellency General!" Shinta Kono said, "We can't use armored vehicles to convert bulldozers, because they are all wheeled armored vehicles!"

Kono knew too well about the equipment of the empire, and he knew that the two main armored vehicles used by the empire at this time were wheeled.

Although the wheeled armored vehicle has the advantages of fast speed, its disadvantages are also obvious: the off-road performance is not strong, the grip is not good, and the thrust is seriously insufficient...

Although Shinta Kono did not know the thrust of the engine of the wheeled armored vehicle in detail, he knew it without checking.

Because wheeled armored vehicles usually do not need a large-thrust engine, it is almost enough to run on the road as long as it can push its own weight in principle.

In this case, if you equip a wheeled armored vehicle with a bulldozer blade and let it bulldoze... I'm afraid it won't be able to push anything even if the wheels are idling behind.

"What we need is a tractor!" Shinta Kono said: "A large-thrust, crawler-type tractor can only be effective if it is converted into a bulldozer. But of course, we also have requirements for its speed, at least it can't be slower than the 95 Qingzhan!"

Then Kono Shinta turned his attention to Neiji Okamura.

Neiji Okamura pondered for a while, then nodded and said: "We have such tractors, but in Manchuria, I will send a few over immediately!"

Shinta Kono added: "There are also drivers. More drivers should be dispatched, at least three times the number of tractors!"

Neiji Okamura was taken aback for a moment, and then he immediately understood that this kind of bulldozer has no armor protection, so he can only use the life of the tractor driver to pile it up.

In addition, there is a pontoon bridge for crossing the river, which cannot move with the troops due to its weight... The imperial army does not have this kind of transportation capacity.

So Shinta Kono could only consider airdrops.

However, the empire's airdrop capability did not meet the requirements, so it could only adopt the method of multiple airdrops in batches, and the pontoon bridge was collected and protected by the mainland advance team that sneaked into the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army.

These are small things, because there are always some alternative solutions, although the solutions are not perfect.

Kono Shinta thinks that the most serious thing is actually the dullness of the imperial commanders...or it can be said that it is the difference in combat style.

Hans' commanders, even the middle and lower level commanders, have a certain level of education and quite good commanding ability. In other words, they can stand alone and command independently.

Imperial officers can also stand alone and command independently, but they and Commander Hans' "stand alone" are two different concepts.

Hans' "stand alone" refers to being able to adapt to changes in the battlefield situation. They know what choices to make at critical moments that are beneficial to the overall strategy, and they have quite strong initiative, enthusiasm, and autonomy.

The imperial officers' "stand alone" is to act completely according to the orders of their superiors. Even if the battlefield situation changes, they will unswervingly implement it.

Although there is nothing wrong with this, soldiers should obey orders, but this way of obediently obeying orders can already be described as "stiff", and it is completely incompatible with the flexibility of "Blitzkrieg". is the opposite.

For example, during the exercise, Shinta Kono gave an order: "There is no battle plan for this battle. Our goal is to get to point A as quickly as possible. Some emergencies will occur during this period. You can play by ear!"

Kono Shinta's original intention was to artificially create some "emergencies" to cultivate the resilience of these officers.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he turned around, these officers gathered together to formulate a marching plan. This marching plan was even detailed to which team was responsible for grabbing food along the way to replenish troops...

Kono really knows that this is fatal.

Because the more detailed the combat plan is, the easier it is to be disrupted. Once disrupted, it is equivalent to having no plan, or even worse than having no plan.

Sure enough, subsequent exercises also verified this point.

Before the "emergencies" artificially set by Kono Shinta, the imperial army didn't know how to respond, but blindly chose to "attack", "fight", and "eliminate" when encountering the enemy...

When Shinta Kono reprimanded them and ordered the troops to bypass, these commanders also responded with a vow: "Please give me one hour, and I promise to destroy the target! Our imperial soldiers will never back down in front of the enemy! "

Kono Mata was speechless, but helpless.

Because he knows that this is a long-standing issue of the military's education of officers.

As the so-called "frozen three feet is not a day's cold", these things are deeply rooted in the bones of the imperial army, and they call them "bushido spirit", "military soul" and "honor".

Therefore, this cannot be changed in a day or two. Even if one or two troops are forcibly changed by order, a considerable part of them will be out of control after the scattered marches.

Kono Shinta can only hope that his drills during this period of time can make these officers more flexible.

At least don't spend your time foolishly fighting the intercepting troops and trying to destroy them when you're deep into the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army!

(End of this chapter)