Bright Sword: Rebirth of Kong Jie

Kong Jie's remarks once again brought great surprise to Ding Wei. Ding Wei immediately expressed his desire to have further discussions on how to vigorously develop underground tactics in the Ji-Central Military Region.

He looked excited, and even his breathing became rapid.

Ding Wei, who had led troops in the Hebei-Central Military Region, understood too well the anti-Japanese pressure on the Hebei-Central troops.

"We can't delay. We must hurry up and pass this underground tactic to the Jizhong base as soon as possible. With the help of this underground tactic, our Jizhong troops will not be chased around by the Japanese devils."

Kong Jie naturally did not hesitate to tell everything he knew about the tunnel tactics, which was recorded by the clerk who also participated in the meeting.

In fact, Kong Jie called Ding Wei over this time and proposed the underground tactics in front of Ding Wei, especially the application of underground tactics in the Ji-Zhong Military Region.

This is what I am considering.

According to the original historical trajectory, the Ji-Central Military Region began to vigorously develop underground tactics during the May 1st mopping-up operation launched by the Japanese against the Ji-Central Military Region.

But that situation is too passive.

The price paid was the blood and lives of countless soldiers.

The underground tactics could be implemented in the Hebei-Central Military Region one day earlier.

This will certainly help to avoid casualties among the Hebei-Central troops to a large extent.

The outcome of the Japanese May Day raid could be rewritten.

The three old comrades spent nearly two hours discussing how to use the underground tactics in the Ji Zhong base area, and agreed that the three of them would work together to write a corresponding combat plan and submit it to the headquarters.

The headquarters contacted the Ji-Central Military Region to vigorously develop underground tactics.

Then we return to the topic of how to use three groups to form a triangle defense system.

Let’s follow Kong Jie’s suggestion.

The three regiments built solid internal defensive fortifications in their respective bases.

At the same time, the three regiments established stable and hidden rapid transportation channels between each other, forming an overall defense system as the northern gateway of the Taihang base.

It formed an absolute natural barrier for the Japanese army to reach the Taihang base.

Don’t let the Japanese go beyond the line!

The three old comrades were so eager to propose the plan of building a triangular defense system, and they tacitly expressed that they would seize the time to carry it out after returning to the base.

There is no other reason.

This time, the Eighth Route Army first destroyed the Yamazaki Battalion of the Japanese Army on the Lijiaopo Heights, and the Independent Regiment and the New 113st Regiment directly wiped out the Japanese reinforcements of the th Regiment in the base area.

The Japanese, who already hated the Independent Regiment to the core, would launch a retaliatory sweep against the Independent Regiment at any time once they had prepared supplies and prepared their troops.

As old comrades, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei would naturally not sit idly by and watch the independent regiment perish.

Especially this time their three regiments fought together.

Li Yunlong led the New 2nd Regiment at the Lijiaopo Heights and, with the help of artillery reinforcements provided by Kong Jie, successfully defeated the Yamazaki Battalion and once again became famous in North China.

Ding Wei led the main force of the New 113st Regiment to cooperate with the Independent Regiment to completely wipe out the Japanese th Regiment.

Agree to establish a reputation.

Since the trouble was caused by the three regiments together, facing the retaliation of the Japanese army, the three old comrades should naturally stand together and share the responsibility.

This is the friendship between men, the friendship between comrades-in-arms!

As for the specific work within the regiment, in addition to building defensive fortifications, Kong Jie further transformed the independent regiment.

On the one hand, the size of the force has further expanded to more than 3800 people.

The organization is still composed of three battalions for the time being, but each battalion has received special equipment enhancements and troop size enhancements, reaching the size of a specially reinforced battalion.

Even in terms of troop size, the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment was no less powerful than the corresponding Japanese field regiment.

The Japanese have always boasted that they are invincible at the same level. Isn't it because the Japanese have a great advantage in terms of troop size when compared to the Chinese military's various levels of organization?

For example, the Japanese squad had 54 to 72 people.

The corresponding Chinese army platoon only has about 32 people.

A Japanese squadron had about 200 soldiers, while a corresponding Chinese company often had only more than 100 people.

This secretly took advantage of about 100 people.

When it comes to the Japanese army battalion, it is even more outrageous. A fully-strength field battalion of the devil has a strength of about 1100 people.

The Eighth Route Army's regular combat battalions with three to five hundred people were considered reinforced battalions.

Plus the disadvantage in equipment.

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By the time the Japanese army regiment was fully equipped and staffed, its strength was around 3800 people. The regular combat regiments of the Eighth Route Army, even the old main force regiments like the 386st and 771nd Regiments of the 772th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army that were included in the combat sequence of the National Army, had a strength of no more than 2000 people.

The regular main force regiments of the Eighth Route Army, such as the original Independent Regiment and the New 1st Regiment, had only a thousand people.

Even on the Nationalist side, a main force regiment of the Central Army had only more than 2000 troops.

Therefore, the size of the troops is obviously smaller than that of the corresponding Japanese troops.

This also created a phenomenon that on the Sino-Japanese battlefield, the Japanese army could often suppress the Chinese army when they had the same organization.

The Japanese battalion was able to easily defeat the main battalion of the Chinese army.

The Japanese regiment easily crushed the main force of the Chinese army.

Some elite Japanese army regiments, such as the Sakata Regiment, even directly defeated two divisions of the Central Army in the Battle of Xinkou.

What a huge gap in military strength between the two sides!

This is not only because the Japanese army had a great advantage in manpower under the same organization, but also because the Japanese had an advantage in equipment and the overall quality of their soldiers were obviously better than those of the Chinese army.

and so……

In order to deal with this situation, Kong Jie adjusted the troop structure of the independent regiment. The team of more than 3800 people was still divided into three infantry battalions, but the strength of each battalion increased to about 800 people.

A force of 800 men.

It was already the Eighth Route Army period, and in order to cope with the complex anti-Japanese environment and reduce the logistical pressure on the troops, the size of the small regiments was reduced.

At a certain period, the combat regiments of the Eighth Route Army were divided into small regiments and large regiments.

The small regiment had only about 800 soldiers.

The strength of a large regiment would exceed a thousand people, or even reach more than 2000.

In addition, Kong Jie specially created many special operations forces directly under the regiment.

For example, the special forces company directly under the regiment - on the one hand, it collected relevant intelligence about the Japanese army for the regiment headquarters, and on the other hand, it was also responsible for the security of the regiment headquarters.

This kind of organization is not unique to independent regiments.

In the brigade headquarters and division headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, there are corresponding special forces companies or special forces battalions.

The headquarters also has a special forces regiment directly under its jurisdiction.

The leader of the special forces regiment is Captain Ou. Most of the members of the regiment are veterans who have experienced the Long March. They have extremely strong combat effectiveness and their equipment level is also top-notch among the Eighth Route Army troops.

After all, they were responsible for the security of the Eighth Route Army headquarters.