Chapter 656: Mixed
The troops of the First Corps have been fighting on the Wanjialing battlefield for nearly a week, and the consumption of materials and ammunition is astronomical.
Pick up a handful of dirt on the battlefield and you'll find a few bullet casings, as well as rotting flesh and bones that have been mixed into the dirt.
Although the 106th Division is not the elite division of the devil, its combat effectiveness is still so strong that it makes people palpitate compared to the Chinese army.
Even the Devil's reinforcements have undergone rigorous military training, and the bullets consumed by each of them during training are probably not as many Chinese officers and soldiers as they die in battle.
Compared with the well-trained devil soldiers, the training of officers and soldiers of the Chinese army is insignificant, and most of them put down their hoes from the fields and put on military uniforms to become soldiers.
The war is tense, how can there be time to train, most of them are directly pulled to the battlefield to participate in the battle, besides, there is a shortage of bullets on the front line, and bullets are very expensive, not to mention taking out bullets for recruits to spoil.
Of course, it is not that the Chinese commanders do not care about the training of officers and soldiers, first, the country is weak and cannot afford to purchase a large number of ammunition for them to train, and second, since the beginning of the war, they have been fighting almost every day.
Countless officers and soldiers are killed every day on the front line, and in the face of aggressive devil troops, there is no time to train new recruits.
It is precisely because of many reasons that many of the recruits who have been replenished to the army have died before they have even touched their guns and fired a single bullet, which is also the main reason for the high number of casualties.
Fortunately, there are thousands of hot-blooded men in China, although the weapons and equipment are backward, but they also make the little devils pay a heavy price with their flesh and blood.
This time, nearly seven new forces of more than 100,000 troops surrounded the 106th Division of the Devils in Wanjialing, and they were about to be completely annihilated.
For this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to annihilate the enemy, the Ninth Theater also emptied its family funds and dispatched artillery, grenades, and bullets of all calibers to the front-line participating troops.
"If you don't succeed this time, you will be benevolent, if you can't win this battle and can't deter the devils, my first corps will not have a single bullet to block the devils' next attack......"
General Xue Yue, commander of the First Corps, said this at the pre-war mobilization meeting.
The Chinese army is short of supplies and ammunition, often only enough for one battle, which is why after a battle, no matter whether they win or lose, they have to quickly withdraw from the battlefield because they are out of ammunition.
"Each officer and soldier is given fifty rounds of ammunition, five grenades, and one thousand rounds of ammunition for each light machine gun, and must either win or ......lose before the bullets run out."
Yang Ling and the others also received the last batch of ammunition from the quartermaster of the division headquarters, and this batch of ammunition will be the last ammunition they can receive in this battle.
Ammunition is being distributed to all companies and squads, and the staff officers and handymen of the regimental headquarters are also moving in and out, busily packing up their things.
This time the general offensive will be an all-or-nothing battle, and if it wins, it will be an unprecedented victory.
If it fails, the Chinese army, which has run out of ammunition, will be chased and attacked by several elite divisions of devils on the periphery, and they will be crushed for thousands of miles as before.
It was precisely because this was a gambling attack that both the division headquarters and the brigade headquarters had moved forward and commanded from the front.
And Yang Ling, a regimental-level command center, all the miscellaneous personnel who can hold guns will be incorporated into the combat company to participate in the attack, so the regiment headquarters has also temporarily stopped operating, and the regimental headquarters personnel have been mixed and delegated to the battalion and company level to directly participate in the battle.
"At present, all companies and platoons of our regiment have suffered relatively large losses in the early battle, and some platoons even have only one squad of men left, in order not to affect the general offensive operation this time, except for the death squads, the companies and platoons with large losses have temporarily mixed and unified operations......
Yang Ling and they were a reinforced regiment with nearly 3,000 people, but they fought hard with the little devils in Changling for a week and suffered heavy losses.
For example, less than half of the nearly 1,000 officers and men of Chen Ming's second battalion are still left, and although the numbers of each company and platoon are still there, there is a serious shortage of soldiers.
In order to strengthen the combat effectiveness and at the same time to facilitate the command, Yang Ling deliberately gathered the officers and men in the regiment who could still fight before the general attack and reorganized them.
Neither the staff officers in the regiment nor the battalion company commanders had any objections to Yang Ling's decision, after all, although the mixed organization seemed to be a reduced establishment, its combat effectiveness had been enhanced.
"Junko, before the official appointment, you will act as the commander of the first battalion."
Yang Ling looked at the deputy battalion commander of the first battalion, who was sitting on the ammunition and wiping his pistol, and was silent, and Shunzi ordered.
Lu Xing killed a wing captain of the devil and transferred him to the 306th Regiment as the deputy commander, so the battalion commander was vacant.
"Yes!" Junko hurriedly stood up and saluted, which can be regarded as officially taking office.
Shunzi has been fighting all the way from the reconnaissance platoon commander to the present, and has fought several bloody battles with devils, relying on real ability, so he acted as the commander of the first battalion, and everyone was convinced.
Yang Ling continued: "I will split a part of the special service company, heavy machine gun company, and grenadier company directly under the regiment into your battalion, and mix them with the remaining brothers in your battalion to form two reinforced companies."
In this way, although the first battalion has changed from three companies to two, these two companies have been strengthened, not only with two more heavy machine guns, but also with several grenadiers, and the firepower will be greatly increased.
"The second battalion commander is the same, the miscellaneous personnel of the regimental headquarters and a platoon of the special service company will be added to your battalion, and you will be mixed into two reinforced companies, and I will transfer five more light machine guns to you."
"The brothers who can still fight in the three battalions and the rest of the regimental headquarters are mixed into three reinforced companies......"
Yang Ling split and supplemented the special service company, heavy machine gun company, and grenadier company directly under the regiment into the battalion to enhance their strength and facilitate command.
After Yang Ling's temporary reorganization, the entire regiment had no directly subordinate troops, and the officers and men who could still fight in the original 12 companies of the regiment and some of the regimental headquarters were directly mixed into seven reinforced combat companies.
In addition, nearly 400 elite people drawn from each company and platoon will form a separate death squad, which will be led by Liu Yidao, the commander of the third battalion, and cooperate with the death squad in the friendly regiment to attack the core position of the devil and be responsible for offensive and defensive breakthroughs.
Yang Ling's regiment now has only seven reinforced combat companies left, with the acting first battalion commander Shunzi commanding two, the second battalion commander Chen Ming commanding two, and Yang Ling himself commanding three.
"Do you have any questions?"
After Yang Ling announced the mixed plan, he opened his mouth to ask the battalion and company commanders who had gathered around.
"Nope." All the people answered in unison.
"Then go down and prepare." Yang Ling didn't talk too much nonsense, and directly asked them to hurry up and get familiar with the troops.
When the battalion and company commanders all turned around and left, Yang Ling went to mobilize the daredevils non-stop.
Yang Ling walked into the rear trench where the daredevils had assembled, and there was silence in the trench, and the ragged brothers were leaning against the trench wall, some sharpening their knives and some wiping their guns.
Although they were 80 percent sure of encircling and annihilating the Songpu Division this time, they were still facing great danger as the daredevils who were charging forward.
"Tuanza!"
"Tuanza ......"
Seeing Yang Ling coming, the officers and soldiers of the death squad all got up one after another and saluted Yang Ling, the old commander.
"Sit down, sit down."
Yang Ling patted the brothers on the shoulders as he walked forward, seriously trying to remember their smoky and blackened faces.