Chapter 694: Intense Preparations
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Li Yong didn't expect that his braggart and big words really played a role, and the Duli Brigade was not at risk of being laid off for the time being, but this was all temporary, and who could say it well in the future.
After returning to Dihua, the Duli Brigade calmed down, and it was enough for a small group of bandits to have local armed forces in various places to deal with, and the main combat force had nothing to do.
Li Yong, who was idle, thought carefully for a few days, no wonder the superiors would let the troops engage in reclamation, there was no way, the first corps that entered Xinjiang, the twenty-second corps of the uprising, and the reorganized Fifth Army, together were two or three hundred thousand troops, so many men and horses, the daily consumption was really a large number, with the production capacity of xinjiāng at that time, it was really difficult to feed so many troops, so most of the supplies had to be transported from the mainland, but the mainland was far away from xinjiāng. One back and forth, the cost is too great.
However, this is not what Li Yong has to consider, what is Li Yong going to do? It is necessary to pay close attention to training troops to engage in war readiness, according to the time calculation, the Korean War is about to break out, and in a few months, the 13th Corps of Siye will enter the DPRK to participate in the war, although the Duli Brigade is located in Xinjiāng, and the northeast frontier defense is too far away, but the world is impermanent, who can know what the superiors think, and the 19th Corps of the First Field will not also enter the DPRK in the later period.
Political commissar Wang Chengde also quietly approached Li Yong and asked him what the so-called near and far planning means? Why didn't he, who was the political commissar, know at all, Li Yong just smirked and sued Wang Chengde, it was all forced out by the commander at that time, don't say no, don't say that our Duli Brigade may not be made by the chief, a xinjiāng can't use so many regular troops at all.
Why Li Yong didn't say in detail, but Wang Chengde is so smart, if you think about it carefully, you can guess the matter, and Lao Wang is also in a cold sweat. Dayong, this kid is too bold and dares to say anything.
With Commander Wang's order, things were indeed much easier, and from the next day, the logistics department of the corps began to carry out a large-scale supply of the Duli Brigade, and food, ammunition, clothing, and oil, including the most difficult anti-aircraft machine gun shells, were all sent over, and it took two days to replenish enough supplies consumed by the Duli Brigade for so many days. It can also be seen from this that raising a troop is not an easy task.
A few days later, more than 600 soldiers transferred from the Second Army also arrived, and the Duli Brigade was jubilant again, because some of them were old acquaintances. It didn't matter what kind of transfer it was, but a part of it was drawn from the three main divisions of the Second Army and given to the Duli Brigade. It can be regarded as a personnel transfer in the army. It's just that the Duli Brigade always goes out to carry out missions alone, and the stations are not together, giving people the feeling of being in another unit.
Speaking of the personnel transfer of the Second Army, there is another episode, more than 600 people is not a small number, Commander Guo Peng and Political Commissar Wang Enmao asked everyone to sign up on the principle of voluntariness, but what they didn't expect was. The number of people who signed up far exceeded the number required by the Duli Brigade, they were all people in the army, and everyone knew that the Duli Brigade was a cattle, not only fighting a great war. Logistics is also rich in oil, and weapons and equipment are even more incapable of other troops, and such troops are fools who do not want to go.
Just because of this, I heard that the division commanders of several other main divisions still have opinions (except for the Fourth Division, because the Fourth Division and the Duli Brigade are one family), and several division commanders and political commissars said that after such a play is sung, it is as if we are all poor eggs when the Duli Brigade is sung.
But no matter what, the personnel are all in place, Li Yong and Wang Chengde distributed these more than 600 people, the key units are undoubtedly the engineer and repair company, after the replenishment of the Duli brigade of the engineer and repair troops are more than 500 people, although it is still called a company, but the scale is enough to be equivalent to a battalion of other troops, which is enough for cattle.
Xiao Cheng, the company commander of the engineer company, and the company commander of the repair company, San Niu smiled, these two boys were very afraid that others would not know that they were rich, and when they saw people, they said in the vernacular, don't look at them as company commanders, they are also company commanders at the battalion commander level, plus a large number of equipment transferred, the strength of the engineer unit of the Duli brigade has increased several times.
According to Li Yong's request, what the Duli Brigade is missing now is the problem of the tank battalion, the fuel for tanks and armored vehicles has been replenished in place, and there is no place to dig for these various types of spare parts, and Commander Wang also instructed the logistics unit of the Corps to go to the interior to request transportation, but because the distance is too far, it is obvious that there is no way to transport it for a while and a half.
This is not a problem, we still have time to wait, although I don't know what the superior means, but from the analysis of the personnel and materials transferred, the Duli brigade should not be at risk of being dismantled, the reason is very simple, if the superior is determined to cut a unit, it will not replenish the personnel and equipment of this unit.
During this period, the Duli Brigade carried out large-scale military training activities, and the training was very targeted, mainly in soil work.
Including political commissar Wang Chengde, everyone does not quite understand the approach of brigade commander Li Yong, training is training, the troops, it must be trained, but why focus on practicing a single subject, dealing with trenches, bunkers and anti-artillery holes all day long, what does the brigade commander mean? Why do you find ways to let the soldiers practice digging anti-artillery holes, and you still need to dig anti-artillery holes to fight bandits? Do bandits have heavy artillery?
Although they did not understand, the soldiers were still meticulous in their execution, and everyone thought that the brigade commander must be useful in doing so, which was also an old habit that had been cultivated over the years.
Why should the troops focus on earthwork? In fact, Li Yong was doing the work of preventing problems before they happen, and what he was afraid of was that one day his superiors suddenly ordered the Duli Brigade to go to the front line in North Korea, and it was not a bad thing to make more preparations.
Practice, practice, training all day long, and the bandits did not let everyone breathe a sigh of relief after the bandits, and the cadres and fighters of the Duli Brigade emptied a small mountain near the station, just to practice the soldiers' ability to work in the earth.
Why? This is because on the Korean battlefield, the US military has always advocated winning wars with firepower, with tanks and heavy artillery on the ground and carrier-based fighters of the army and navy in the sky, and the firepower of the US military is dozens of times that of the volunteers of the same level of troops.
To say a simple example, if an infantry company of the Volunteer Army is defending a position, and attacking an infantry company of the US Army, a company of the Volunteer Army only has more than 100 rifles and a small number of light and heavy machine guns and grenades, and maybe there are one or two mortars with few shells (the supply cannot keep up), and when the infantry company of the US Army is attacking, an infantry captain can command a heavy howitzer company, a tank company, and a fighter-bomber squadron in addition to his own company. In this way, the attack firepower of a company of the US army is many times that of our volunteer guard company, and it cannot be calculated, because it is not an order of magnitude.
Heavy artillery covers the bombing, tank guns shoot directly at the target, and fighter-bombers throw napalm down on their heads, this is the steel tactics of the US military, you must know that napalm can form a high-temperature flame flow of more than 2,000 degrees, and it is difficult for life to survive under napalm.
In a cruel environment, what did the volunteers rely on to fight the US army? By the planes of the Volunteer Army? By those short-legged (insufficient range) MiGs? You must know that even at the peak of the Volunteer Air Force, a so-called MiG corridor was only opened up on the transportation line in the rear, and the troops at the forefront could only fight with their opponents with bombs on their heads.
If your own plane is unreliable, what should you do? By those poor anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns in small numbers? Obviously, it is even worse, the limited anti-aircraft artillery fire of the Volunteer Army has to protect the bridges and passes, and the troops on the front line cannot be counted on at all, so how can the Volunteer Army withstand the wanton bombardment of the combined ground-air firepower?
The secret lies in the soil work ability of the volunteers, the vast majority of the soldiers of the volunteers are peasants, and they have a natural sense of familiarity with digging ditches and holes, and since the beginning of the Red Army, whether it is against the Japanese or the Kuomintang, the firepower of the PLA is at a disadvantage, so in order to win the battle, in order to reduce casualties, the PLA troops are extremely picky about the terrain and terrain of the battle, and they have also developed the habit of digging fortifications first in every battle, which is the biggest secret that the volunteers can confront the US army, relying on tunnels.
The tunnel tactics were developed in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and were carried forward in the Korean War, which was also the result of being forced out by the cruel environment.
While the Duli Brigade was intensively preparing for war in the great northwest border of the motherland, the Korean Peninsula, which is close to China's northeastern border, was full of war clouds.
The total area of the Korean Peninsula is about 220,000 square kilometers, and the population at that time was 25 million.
After the beginning of the Cold War, the north and south of Korea were each controlled by two opposing camps, and they also formed their own national defense forces, and Kim Il Sung, who grew up in Jilin, China, was supported by Stalin at that time and liberated the northern part of the peninsula in the name of the Korean detachment of the Soviet Red Army, and then, in order to expand his own power, the Korean delegation of the North Korean zhèngfu, which was less than a month earlier than the founding of New China, came to China to ask for support.
Taking into account the international environment and the Comintern family at that time, New China transferred all the Korean cadres and fighters in the Siye Army to Kim Il Sung.
Siye's troops are too big, one hundred thousand troops, some of them are veterans of the Korean nationality who have been tested by war for a long time.