Chapter 574: Organizing Assault Forces (Page 1/1)

It was noon, and the artillery that cooperated with the attack of the teaching brigade, the infantry of the 200th Division, and the baggage soldiers were now in full swing of preparations.

The atmosphere of the battle, the fiery lingering on the field.

Here, Zhang Wei also began to personally handle and organize the assault troops on the Luotang Heights, teaching all the officers and men of the brigade to change queues near the command post, prepare weapons and equipment, listen to the command of Zhang Wei and the squadron leaders, allocate troops, arrange platoon formations, and on the field, the platoon commanders of each squad answered orders one after another, and together with Zhang Wei, they counted the current platoon strength of each squad and platoon of the teaching brigade and reported the number of equipment.

The staff officers of the command post of the 200th Division also came to observe and coordinate the troops directly under the 200th Division to cooperate with the teaching brigade.

The ammunition replenished by the 200th Division was carried down by the baggage soldiers of the 200th Division, and the staff officers of the 200th Division and He Kun, the platoon commander of the baggage platoon of the Teaching Brigade, counted the ammunition on the side, and prepared to unpack and distribute it anytime and anywhere.

Beside Zhang Wei, there were several officers and sergeants sent by the mountain artillery company and the field artillery company to contact them, and the task of coordinating with the artillery, Zhang Wei was handed over to Qiu Wei to be responsible, Qiu Wei and Zhang Wei went through the Lanfeng Zhu Campaign, and Qiu Wei was already familiar with the infantry and artillery coordination methods and the use of signal flares used by Zhang Wei.

The scene was very lively, the infantry attack grouping, the coordination of the artillery and the infantry of the teaching brigade, and the ammunition replenishment work of the 200th Division to the teaching brigade were in full swing, and the commander of the command post, Zhang Zhige, chief of staff of the 200th Division, and others were even more busy.

First of all, Zhang Wei believed that the number of troops attacking the Luotang Heights must not be excessive, otherwise with the density of the Japanese army's firepower, it would inevitably give people heads, so Zhang Wei finally decided not to pull all the three infantry squadrons of the teaching brigade up, but to take two of the three.

Because if the three infantry squadrons of the teaching brigade were all pulled up, it would be about the same strength as an infantry battalion of the Manchurian Nationalist Army, and it would still be a great loss to the Japanese army's cross-fire network, so the pure infantry combat units used for the offensive were about two infantry squadrons, as well as an engineer platoon.

The assault force, organized by the teaching brigade, should be of moderate size and extremely capable, more similar to the formation of a small "assault group tactical unit."

When the 598th Regiment attacked the Luotang Heights, the 150-millimeter heavy artillery and mountain artillery of the German Army fought very fiercely, but as soon as the infantry reached the high ground, there was no fire support, and the infantry of the 598th Regiment had insufficient firepower at all, and there were no heavy machine guns (of course, the water-cooled 24 type of the 200th Division was indeed a bit laborious to pull up), there were no mortars that attacked with the infantry, only grenadiers and grenades, and there was a serious lack of accompanying firepower.

Although there are not many people in this assault force, it is necessary to increase the density of firepower, appropriately compress the troops, and increase the firepower as much as possible, so that each soldier can get more fire support, and everyone can get more artillery fire support and machine gun fire support.

In addition to the two guns of the mortar platoon of the heavy firepower squadron, Zhang Wei is also preparing to borrow two 82 mortar squads from the mortar battalion of the 200th Division, making up four artillery squads, and the total number of equipment of one mortar company will be assigned to the command of Dong Erli, the mortar platoon commander.

Heavy machine guns, ZB37 is very light, Zhang Wei also plans to bring a platoon, three heavy machine guns, in addition to these conventional equipment, Zhang Wei has never forgotten the 37 battle anti-artillery company seconded by Division Commander Dai from the army's anti-artillery battery.

The Japanese defense on the Luotang Heights has a variety of hidden cross-machine gun firepower, as well as a lot of light and dark fortresses, machine gun positions accumulated by sandbags, to deal with these civil fortifications with some defensive capabilities, curved mortars, it is difficult to quickly solve them, at this time the direct fire is very important, the mortar can not be knocked out for half a day, with the 37 battle anti-aircraft guns fired twice, you can solve most of the machine gun civil fortifications and fire points.

In short, Zhang Wei decided on the formation of the assault unit of the teaching brigade in line with the idea of moderate strength and fierce firepower, and two infantry squadrons and an elite engineer platoon were the main force of the combat infantry, and the firearms were four 82-millimeter mortars of the 20-year-old type, three Czech-made ZB37 heavy machine guns, and one 37-millimeter combat defense gun.

In total, the combat infantry of less than one infantry battalion is equipped with the mortar firepower that only the infantry regiment of the national army has under normal circumstances (a mortar company is four-gun system), and the heavy machine gun firepower of almost an infantry battalion, because the brigade is taught a light and fast ZB37 heavy machine gun, and the combat effectiveness of three ZB37 is no worse than the six Type 24 water-cooled heavy machine guns of the machine gun company of the infantry battalion of the National Army, so the strength of three ZB37s can almost be equivalent to six Type 24 heavy machine guns.

The assault unit is also equipped with the flat-firing firepower of 37-mm anti-aircraft guns, which can only be reluctantly allocated at the division level, four 82-mm mortars, three lightweight air-cooled heavy machine guns, and one 37-mm anti-aircraft gun, waiting for two squadrons and one platoon of infantry, supplemented by the blasting canisters of the engineer platoon and the grenadiers and grenades in the hands of the infantry.

On the battlefield preparation ground, Zhang Wei conveyed the final marshalling order to the squadron leaders.

"Qiu Wei's squadron, as well as Lao Zheng's third squadron, follow me, He Jinhai's engineer platoon is also up, Shaoyan and Mu Chao are all staying, take the remaining troops, the machine gun platoon of the heavy fire squadron will be transferred up, Dong Erli's kid's mortar platoon will follow us, and the whole brigade will send these brothers up. In addition to the brothers in this brigade, I also have to borrow two 82 mortar squads from friendly forces, and another 37 anti-artillery squad, and the brethren who attack the high ground. Zhang Wei said.

The squadron leader of the second squadron was anxious all of a sudden, and shouted with a red face: "Captain, why can't we go to the second squadron?" ”

Among the three infantry squadrons, Qiu Wei's first squadron and Zheng Yiqun's third squadron were all pulled up, but Mu Chao's second squadron was not pulled up to fight, and Mu Chao, who had always been arrogant, was directly unhappy.

Zhang Wei didn't let the second squadron go up, naturally he had his own considerations, to compress the attack force, so he only went on two infantry squadrons, as for why not let the second squadron go up, Zhang Wei was saved to temper Zheng Yiqun and the third squadron, after the third squadron started the war in southern Guinan, rarely served as the main force, to participate in the main attack task, Zhang Wei felt that he should treat everyone equally, Zheng Yiqun, an officer, was not as good as Qiu Wei and Mu Chao in talent and personality, Zhang Wei made up his mind to hone him more.

Therefore, Zhang Weicai transferred Qiu Wei's first squadron, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, and Zheng Yiqun's third squadron, which had less experience in tough battles.

Qiu Wei was exquisite, estimated Zhang Wei's thoughts, and explained to Mu Chao on the side.

"This battle can't be all over, Lao Mu, you can rest for a while and take care of your home!"

Seeing this, Mu Chao pulled his skin for a while, and in the end, although he was a little reluctant, he could only carry out the order.

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