Bright Sword: Rebirth of Kong Jie

In order to implement the plan of building a mechanized combat force, Kong Jie went to the headquarters in person.

Kong Jie is no longer the same person as before.

Especially in the past two years, it is no exaggeration to say that he has made outstanding military achievements. As the commander of an independent detachment, his arrival aroused the curiosity of the deputy commander-in-chief and the deputy chief of general staff.

Kong Jie didn't say anything more and went straight to the point, directly proposing the idea of ​​building a mechanized combat force in the independent detachment.

"But, sir, building a mechanized combat force certainly requires mechanized combat vehicles. We don't have enough resources to produce so many tanks, armored vehicles and cars.

But we must find a way to build our own tanks for the Eighth Route Army.

I was thinking about whether I could modify and produce some vehicles based on some bicycles, motorcycles, cars captured from the Japanese, and even damaged armored vehicles captured from the Japanese.

Then we will gradually accumulate and build our own mechanized combat force."

In this regard, as the leaders and pioneers of the Eighth Route Army, the deputy commander-in-chief and the deputy chief of general staff had outstanding military vision and were naturally well aware that the development of the troops would inevitably undergo a process of transformation from traditional infantry to mechanized combat forces.

The Japs' military strength was not that large compared to the vast occupied areas. Why were they able to firmly control the major occupied areas?

It was the Japanese army's mechanized combat advantage that was relied upon.

With the help of convenient transportation lines and more than a dozen vehicles, the Japanese could deploy more than a squadron of troops to any area in the occupied territory at an extremely fast speed.

This is something the Eighth Route Army could never do.

It can even be said that the traditional cavalry units are the only special mobile combat units that the Eighth Route Army can think of.

Even in the entire Taihang base area, the only mobile combat forces the Eighth Route Army had were some cavalry units.

Moreover, most of them are the size of small cavalry companies.

At most, some cavalry battalions.

As for mechanized combat forces?

Most of the Eighth Route Army cadres dared not even think about it.

The Deputy Chief of General Staff then asked the same question as Ding Wei and Li Yunlong.

"Our troops are in the battlefield behind enemy lines, where the enemy situation is complicated, we are isolated and helpless, and we lack a military industrial base. Let alone mechanized combat vehicles, even traditional rifles, machine guns and artillery are pitifully scarce.

Kong Jie, as the saying goes, take one step at a time. Isn't it unrealistic to think about running if you haven't even learned to walk?

In this situation, wouldn't it be putting the cart before the horse to just think about developing mechanized combat forces?

Moreover, our Taihang region is mostly mountainous, rugged and difficult to travel, and our Eighth Route Army's battlefields are mainly in mountainous areas to fight mobile warfare with the Japanese. Guerrilla warfare is probably not suitable for the deployment of mechanized combat troops."

This is an indisputable fact.

Even the enemy's mechanized combat advantage would be greatly reduced once they entered the Eighth Route Army base and entered the rugged mountains.

No matter how powerful the Japanese tanks, armored vehicles and cars are, they can't cross mountains and rivers at will, right?

This is also the important reason why the Japanese, even though they had absolute advantages in equipment and mechanized combat, were still helpless against the Eighth Route Army troops hiding in the mountains.

Kong Jie nodded, he was naturally aware of this.

But he had his own idea: "The Taihang area is mostly mountainous, which is indeed not suitable for the deployment of our mechanized combat troops. What if it is in a vast area suitable for the deployment of mechanized combat troops?"