Bright Sword: Rebirth of Kong Jie

After Ding Wei said this, Li Yunlong immediately wilted. Well, he failed to show off and was attacked instead. The coverage rate of helmet soldiers in his new second regiment was barely 13%.

However, the coverage rate of Ding Wei’s new regiment’s helmeted soldiers has reached 20%.

How does this compare?

It can't be compared!

Looking at the devastated Li Yunlong, Ding Wei felt extremely proud.

Old Li, Old Li, it's rare that you have come to this day.

But the two of them looked at each other, and suddenly remembered that they were still competing with each other, and the person in charge, Kong Jie, hadn't spoken yet!

Elite helmet soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.

This concept was proposed by Kong Jie, and the independent regiment was the first to start building steel helmet soldiers, including how to arrange the specific size of the steel helmet soldiers.

How many soldiers should a squad or platoon have, what weapons should they be equipped with, and what kind of firepower configuration should be arranged all start from independence and initiative.

Then the various regiments of the 386th Brigade followed suit.

Including the entire 129th Division, and even some of the Hebei Military Region, South Hebei Military Region, and Shanxi-Suiyuan Military Region that heard the news also learned to build similar steel helmet soldiers.

At a meeting at headquarters.

Kong Jie even proposed a strategic principle for troops to quickly improve their combat effectiveness:

"The strong will lead the strong, and ultimately lead the overall growth and development of the troops!"

What do you mean?

"Our Eighth Route Army has always been fighting behind enemy lines, isolated and without support, with relatively backward equipment and scarce ammunition. Therefore, even some of the main regiments have equipment levels far inferior to those of the Japanese and the Central Army.

Therefore, in actual combat, the Japanese army can often defeat the larger force with the smaller one. With the same troop size, we basically cannot be the opponent of the Japanese.

Even in an ambush, we dispatched several times more troops to ambush the Japs, but after the battle, our casualties were often greater than those of the Japanese army.

I think the other reason is that our overall equipment is too far behind that of the Japanese.

The main reason is that we lack elite troops who can specifically attack the Japanese army."

In this regard, Kong Jie gave an example: "In the past, our troops were poorly equipped and had a shortage of ammunition. In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, we eliminated the Japanese troops in ambushes.

The equipment and ammunition of an entire brigade are often concentrated and handed over to a main force regiment for use in order to fully unleash the combat effectiveness of the main force regiment.

A regiment would often gather its equipment and ammunition and hand it over to a battalion for combat.

A battalion concentrates its firepower on a company, the principle is similar.

Why do you want to do this?

Because we have found in actual combat that when the disparity in equipment is too great, distributing limited equipment to more soldiers will lead to a shortage of firepower, causing the overall combat effectiveness to decline.

This is why the artillery of the troops, including machine guns, are often concentrated to form a machine gun unit or artillery unit for concentrated use.

This is similar to the concept of our military construction. "

"The strong first will lead the strong later!"

Kong Jie's voice was deafening, "Building an elite combat company in a battalion can even defeat the Japanese army with equal forces.

Building an elite combat battalion within a regiment can even defeat the Japanese with equal forces.

A brigade also builds such an elite combat regiment, and a division also builds such an elite combat brigade.

This is like the ancient cold weapons, why do they all have the sharpest blade or tip?

This elite combat unit is regarded as the cutting edge of the overall force.

Be the first to tear a gap in the Japanese defense.

This can be used as a flaw to allow the main force to launch an offensive quickly.

I think this is a more modern combat mode.

As this elite combat force becomes increasingly powerful and rapidly expands, the captured equipment, weapons and resources can be evenly distributed among other conventional forces.

In this way, the elite can drive the development of the main force, and the strong can drive the strong to develop, and ultimately achieve the growth of the entire force."

After Kong Jie said this, all the cadres participating in the meeting fell silent, thinking about the logic of Kong Jie's words.

Kong Jie was quite confident that his theory of developing the army by starting with the strong to lead the strong later would definitely be accepted by the headquarters.

Just kidding!

He was standing on the shoulders of giants, and he adapted this concept with the help of the absolutely correct guidance of reform and opening up, which is to let the rich lead the poor.

In fact, it is also very useful in the construction and development of the army.

Concentrate the equipment and resources of the troops to take the lead in building an elite force.

Then, this elite force will be used to quickly drive the growth and development of other conventional forces.

This is a pretty viable theory!

Sure enough, after the final meeting discussion.

The general manager personally decided that Kong Jie's theory of building and developing a strong army by leading the strong later has great potential.

The boss even asked Kong Jie to write a detailed report on this.

Afterwards, the headquarters submitted the document report to the highest command in Yan'an.

Soon, Yan'an issued instructions:

I fully agree with Comrade Kong Jie's concept of military development that the strong first lead the strong later, and call on all major bases, military regions, and military sub-districts to learn from this development theory and put it into practice in the development of the troops and the growth of the bases.

back to the front.

When Ding Wei looked at Kong Jie and asked, "Old Kong, the background of Old Li and I has been completely exposed, and you haven't said anything yet. Your independent regiment was the first to create steel helmet soldiers.

What is the coverage so far?"

Hear the words.

Li Yunlong also pricked up his ears quickly, as if to say, "Just tell me what you want me to do so I can give up."

Kong Jie smiled and said modestly, "It's a bit embarrassing to say this, but our independent regiment was the first to start building steel helmet soldiers, but due to limited resources, the coverage rate is only 25% so far.

It's just a little bit more than Lao Ding and your new group!"

"Well, it is indeed only a little more, just 5% more!"

As Ding Wei was talking, he suddenly thought of something, his face changed, and he cursed:

"Fuck you, Lao Kong, are you kidding me?

Although the coverage rate of helmeted soldiers in your independent regiment is only 25%, it seems to be 5% more than that of our new regiment.

But your independent group has a large base!

The total strength of the regiment has exceeded 4000 people, right?

It’s almost as many troops as our entire brigade had in previous years, based on a 25% coverage rate of helmeted soldiers.

How many steel helmet soldiers are there?

Wow, a full 1000 people.

That’s nearly twice as many as the number of Lao Li’s and my steel helmet soldiers combined!”

Li Yunlong rolled his eyes, feeling devastated and completely giving up.

"Damn it, I can't drink this wine. It tastes pretty good on normal days, but why does it taste so bad in my stomach?"

Kong Jie smiled and comforted the two old comrades: "Lao Li, Lao Ding, look at what you are saying. The three of us old comrades used to sleep on the same kang.

I can't wait to wear a pair of pants.

Who are we following?

And we are the iron triangle.

There is also a specially formed united triangular stable defense system, which can be said to be a win-win situation for all and a loss for all.

The strength of our independent regiment also means the strength of your New First and New Second Regiments. This is a happy thing. Why are you so depressed? "

"Come on, let's stop talking about this, let's go, old comrade!"

Several broken bowls with chips on them collided with each other.

After the toasts.

Everyone also talked about the base defense battle against the Japanese 3rd Mixed Brigade and the 9th Mixed Brigade two weeks ago.

Li Yunlong was the first to express his opinion. He punched the dining table, shaking it. "Damn it, this time our three regiments joined forces and successfully repelled the Japanese attack, and even severely damaged the Japanese Third Mixed Brigade and the Ninth Mixed Brigade.

They also wiped out more than 5000 Japanese troops and more than 1000 puppet troops, and captured more than 400 Japanese and puppet troops.

Compared with previous battles, this is an unprecedented victory.

But I still don't feel happy enough.

Why do you think this is so? "

Kong Jie took over the conversation and said: "The reason is very simple. Although we wiped out more than 5000 Japanese troops, my independent regiment suffered more than 800 casualties, Lao Ding's New First Regiment suffered more than 400 casualties, and Lao Li's New Second Regiment suffered more than 600 casualties.

Nearly 2000 comrades!

A force close to that of a regular main force regiment was wiped out in this way.

Although we repelled the attack of the Japanese and puppet troops.

But at best it can be considered a tragic victory.

Moreover, the Japanese army took the initiative to launch an attack on our base. We occupied a favorable terrain and even had favorable people. We also made preparations in advance, relied on the solid defense system of the base, and had three regiments fighting together.

There is also a solid triangle defense system.

In the end, it still resulted in such heavy casualties?

Why? "

Kong Jie's question hit the key point. All the old comrades, including several political commissars, who were originally peeling peanuts and drinking wine, stopped what they did.

Everyone's eyes were on him.

Kong Jie slowly said: "The reason is actually very simple. I believe everyone has noticed that we were able to severely damage the Japanese Army's 3rd Mixed Brigade and 9th Mixed Brigade, and even wiped out 5,000 to 6,000 Japanese and puppet troops.

The main results were achieved right from the beginning.

The Japanese attacked rashly and fell into our ambush. They did not expect that our hidden firepower would be so strong.

When we were ambushing, we used a large number of unscrupulous artillery and gas tanks to fire at the enemy, completely stunning them.

This also doomed the Japanese Army's 3rd and 9th Mixed Brigades to failure."

“But we have to admit that the Japanese’s military quality is indeed impeccable. Even when they were ambushed in an unfavorable terrain, the Japanese reacted very quickly.

We attacked from multiple directions, following the old tradition, dividing and encircling the main force of the Japanese army in multiple sections.

The final encirclement and annihilation operation did not go smoothly.

Because those Japanese soldiers who had come to their senses quickly used the surrounding hills to build field fortifications, and held their ground with their sophisticated equipment and superior artillery fire.

Although we have completely surrounded the Japanese on the hilltop.

But the subsequent attack was not smooth.

The company launched several fierce attacks, all of which were repelled by the Japanese army.

We also suffered heavy casualties.

Take our independent regiment for example. There was a group of Japanese soldiers with only a squadron's strength who were trapped on a hill by us.

A battalion of 500 soldiers from our independent regiment pushed forward and fought fiercely for half an hour, suffering more than 200 casualties but still failing to capture the position.

Can you tell me what's going on?"

Kong Jie's voice rose a few notches.

"It is precisely because we set up a defensive formation against the Japanese army and built fortifications in a frontal assault, which is completely different from the ambush, mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare that we are good at.

Our troops are by no means lacking in the ability to conduct ambush and mobile warfare.

However, they faced an offensive and defensive battle in which the Japanese army was fully prepared.

However, we are very lacking in experience in offensive operations.

In addition, the troops lacked barreled artillery for attacking tough targets, which were the reasons that led to the failure of our attack.

In the end, the Japanese held their ground and consumed a lot of manpower from our three regiments, then took the opportunity to break out, and we really didn't manage to stop them.

This is exactly our biggest shortcoming in this battle with the Japanese army!"

"Yes!"

Ding Wei was very emotional about this, "Since our Eighth Route Army was reorganized from the Red Army, it was initially weak, with only a few tens of thousands of troops, and was in a battlefield behind enemy lines with complex enemy conditions and severe situations.

Let alone attacking the Japanese army, it was good enough to be able to protect ourselves, so the Japanese often launched large-scale raids against our base again and again.

We are passively conducting counter-raid operations.

The battlefield is easier to deal with in a mountainous environment. We can use the terrain to launch a series of tactics such as guerrilla warfare, mobile warfare, ambush warfare, and sparrow warfare.

But after all, they did not have enough equipment and strength to engage in face-to-face offensive and defensive battles or positional warfare with the Japanese.

As for actively attacking the Japanese army, it included attacking the field fortifications built by the Japanese army, and even attacking the county towns and townships heavily guarded by the Japanese army.

This is extremely rare for our Eighth Route Army, so our troops are very lacking in experience in offensive operations.

The most remarkable aspect of the siege was the attack on some strongholds, artillery towers and bunkers built by the Japanese army.

But this is completely different from the Japanese army's carefully constructed field fortifications and the tall city defense fortifications. "

“So this time, after the Japanese quickly built field fortifications on various high ground and hilltops, we were stunned.

Subsequent combat casualties increased rapidly.

In the end, we were unable to completely wipe out this group of Japanese and puppet troops!"

Li Yunlong was a pragmatic man, and he immediately cursed and said, "After all this talk, what should we do?"

Kong Jie said: "There is no other way. You can't become a fat man in one bite. You still have to take one step at a time.

The key is to find a way to thoroughly upgrade the equipment level of our troops.

In addition, military training should be strengthened.

Perhaps when the time is right, we can completely reverse the offensive and defensive situation with the Japanese army, and even take the initiative to attack some of the Japanese counties and towns, and slowly accumulate experience in attacking them."

"As for the current urgent matter!"

Kong Jie said straight to the point: "Comrades, a new round of storm is likely to begin soon. We must be ready to welcome the next round of large-scale sweeps launched by the Japanese army at any time!"