Age of Rebirth

Chapter 760 The determination to take risks

After the formation of the Heavy Armored Field Corps directly under the Independent Division, Tang Qiuli carried out the first pre-case, and the large corps pulled it out urgently at night, with no other intention than to see that after the comprehensive deployment of various arms, the synthetic corps suddenly received an order, The ability to drive long distances to intended targets at night.

As a result, Tang Qiuli was greatly disappointed and furious. The result of this long-distance march at night can only be described as chaos, which is the most appropriate. Some brigades found out after dawn that the brigade headquarters only had a part of the troops, and they communicated through the radio, and they turned out to be running behind other troops.

Tang Qiuli was very annoyed by this chaos, and Chang Feng, the chief of staff of the corps, was also very upset. Originally, it was the chief of staff's job to organize troop training and arrange the marching sequence of troops, but now it has become like this. He felt that it was his dereliction of duty, and looking at the teacher's gloomy face, Chang Feng, who had always been strict with himself, felt even more complacent, and felt quite uncomfortable following Tang Qiuli.

Tang Qiuli just stood on the side of the road without saying a word. After a while, a group of cavalry passed by, and after a while, another group of tanks, followed by a long line of artillery vehicles, among which were trucks of mechanized infantrymen. Looking at the marching ranks in the past, you can tell that this is by no means a formed unit. [

It wasn't until after three o'clock in the afternoon that all the troops arrived at the designated positions, which was nearly nine hours later than Tang Qiuli's scheduled time. When the brigade commanders were covered in mud and water, they hurried to the regiment headquarters At that time, Tang Qiuli had already sat in the tent with a sullen face, waiting for the generals to arrive.

From the degree of chaos in their own troops to seeing the division commander standing by the roadside with a gloomy face, these brigade commanders knew that the division commander was absolutely dissatisfied with this march, not only the division commander, but also themselves. Soldiers, they usually have a lot of training. As an independent division, the veteran field brigade, the training intensity and required subjects of the corps directly under the corps are much higher than the training intensity of other corps. These brigade commanders also strictly demand themselves. To set an example.

But these [-] people, with cars and guns, will run for hundreds of miles with one order, and there is no time to prepare, let alone those soldiers, even the brigade commander, himself, is also in a daze. After reading the order , Check the map, get in the car and leave, I am embarrassed to mention the appearance of losing the armor and removing the armor.

It is certain that the commander is dissatisfied, and he will not be able to run away after a violent training. When the brigade commanders entered the command tent, they lost the usual high-spirited momentum, let alone the natural kindness when seeing the commander. , a little shy, and winked at each other, reminding each other not to get into trouble.

Looking at these brigade commanders, Tang Qiuli almost slipped into the command tent, and sat as far back as possible one by one. He was so different from the usual aura of Lao Tzu's No. [-] in the world, he was so angry that he wanted to laugh. The seniors are covered in mud and water, and the uniforms of the major generals are also covered with dust and scratched a few times. Knowing that this night, they have also suffered a lot. In order to gather troops, they have run more than ordinary soldiers.

When the words came to their lips, they swallowed them down. The brigade commanders lowered their heads. For a while, there were crows and sparrows in the tent. They peeked at the commander with an expression on his face, and then at the chief of staff standing behind the commander, who also showed no expression. Chang Feng, feeling more and more oppressive in the atmosphere, a violent storm is unavoidable, prepared to bear Tang Qiuli's thunderous wrath.

Unexpectedly, when the brigade commanders were secretly guessing, Tang Qiuli only said one sentence: "All the troops return to their original stations, count the losses of this pulling exercise, and report to the chief of staff." He left the command tent without returning, and Chang Feng hurriedly followed him out. Is this the end?The brigade commanders looked at each other, feeling uncomfortable. If the teacher loses his temper, everyone will feel better. But now, everyone's heart feels like a heavy stone.

The troops pulled back to the Beiping Nanyuan garrison, and when they passed by other corps garrisons, the soldiers directly under the corps no longer had the complacent mentality they usually have, especially those troops who lost their way, from commanders to ordinary soldiers, they felt that This is a fire, when did you lose such a person, yes, more than 20 troops, crowded in one direction, that chaos, or at night, it looks almost the same, and it is not surprising that it is wrong.

Tang Qiuli, who returned to Beiping first, did not hold a meeting immediately, and called Chang Feng to the headquarters. The two were locked up in the room for a day, and no one knew what they were researching?The entire corps directly under it was bored in such an atmosphere. In the evening, after receiving the order, the commanders at all levels should write down the process of the long-distance pulling at night and the existing problems, and hand them over to the staff office. Those who write the materials, from the company commander to the brigade commander, from the commanders of various combat auxiliary departments, to the various functional departments of the Corps, are required to complete them within one day.

On the second day, the entire garrison directly under the regiment can be seen everywhere, frowning and thinking, or writing hard. From the captain to the major general, everyone is working hard, and it has become a big examination room. Other troops, come here The people in charge were surprised and asked the soldiers to ask why.

In the evening, tens of thousands of materials were sent to Tang Qiuli after they were summed up by the staff office. Problems arose, mainly in several aspects. The first was the communication problem. A lot of information interference, coupled with the same code words for communication between the various units, it is impossible to figure out which unit is calling.

The second is the problem of communication equipment. The walkie-talkie is only equipped to the battalion level, and there is no company platoon level. The battalion headquarters can only grasp the nearest troops. At the regimental level, in the past, independent divisions marched or marched with the brigade as the basic unit. Now there are more than 20 people, so many tanks and cars, crowded together, and chaos cannot be avoided.

Finally, and most importantly, the army has never had such a large-scale night-time long-distance marching precedent, lack of training, backward means of communication, did not set up instruction sentries at each fork, and did not form a unified and effective marching command system for large corps. Coupled with the unfamiliarity of the terrain, confusion arose.

There are still many problems mentioned. There is no prior training. This is the main problem, and it is also the reason why Tang Qiuli did not hold a meeting immediately. The large corps marched long distances at night with predetermined targets. Even in later generations, it is a very complicated organization. The big action involves many details.

It's not that Tang Qiuli is ignorant of these problems, but he doesn't have much time to train the troops step by step. The Kwantung Army will first launch a large-scale offensive in the western Liaoning area. In more than two months, he will fight a battle whose outcome is uncertain, and the troops will be pulled up like this. It is a joke with the lives of the soldiers.

The Japanese do not have much time for themselves, but what they have to face is an opponent whose equipment and training level are several times higher than their own. This behemoth has been established for more than 20 years, and its industrial base and comprehensive national strength surpassed that of China at that time. The Republic of China does not know how many times more. To be honest, Tang Qiuli's action, which has not been disclosed to anyone so far, has a lot of risky elements in it.

The opponent he chose is the Soviet Union, and the focus area is the independent foreign countries backed by the Soviet Union. Tang Qiuli made such a decision after comprehensively analyzing all international and domestic situations. Today's Republic of China , Anyone who knows his decision will call him a lunatic and suicidal.

But Tang Qiuli has his own reasons. After Stalin’s large-scale purge of counter-revolutionaries in [-], the Soviet Union’s experienced and commanding military generals were almost killed. The Soviet army was dominated by political workers. These Soviet decisions Supporters and believers are good at internal anti-revolutionary and class struggle, and they are also experts at boosting the morale of soldiers. When it comes to commanding and fighting, they are basically laymen among laymen.

Also, the war in Europe has not yet broken out, Germany and the Soviet Union have not yet formed an Axis power, and the Germans have not yet fully exposed their ambitions to attack and occupy the Siberia region of the Soviet Union to support the German Army to defeat the Soviet Union. The military strength in the Far East is not the [-] divisions at the peak. If the Soviet-German war breaks out, with the strength and strength of the Soviet Union in the Far East, Tang Qiuli will have the courage to provoke troubles. [

The most important thing is the issue of diplomacy. The Soviet Union deliberately provoked the independence of foreign countries, focusing on the strategic position of foreign countries. Stalin's greedy ambitions for Chinese territory, especially the northeast territory, are comparable to * ** People are more than enough, they dream of turning the Northeast into Yellow Russia and bringing it into the territory of the Soviet Union.

And cutting off the foreign countries from the Chinese territory was the first step of Stalin's plan. The geographical location of the foreign countries was like a drawn bow. When the Soviets controlled the foreign countries, it became a shooting A sharp arrow aimed at the hinterland of Pingjin in North China, the Pingjin area, was directly exposed to the threat of Soviet force. On the contrary, the foreign army was a sharp arrow aimed at the Siberia region of the Soviet Union. How could Tang Qiuli not fight for it?

Taking advantage of the fact that the Soviet Union's control over foreign affairs had not reached its peak, the Republic of China did not recognize the fact that foreign affairs were independent. The Kwantung Army and the Japanese were busy licking their wounds. During the large-scale attack, Tang Qiuli sent troops into the Outer Arms. The timing was right. The heavy armored corps he formed was to face the Soviet First Far East Special Army, and its main force was stationed in the Outer Arms.

Tang Qiuli still has a plan. The unique geographical location of the foreign army is also a main direction for him to send troops when he regains the Northeast land. It can divide the Kwantung Army in the Northeast into mutual geographically and strategically. The two parts are not connected, so outsiders have to enter, no matter how big the risk is, Tang Qiuli will not change his determination.

(To be continued)