Chapter 620 - The ability to maneuver to kill people
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After the death of Deputy Division Commander Luo Shaowei, the First Corps of the People's Liberation Army and the Xinjiāng Military Region established a bandit suppression command, with Wang Zhen as the commander-in-chief, Sai Fuding as the deputy commander-in-chief, and Zhang Xiqin as the chief of staff.
Immediately afterwards, the Northern Xinjiang Front Command was set up in the northern Xinjiang region, where banditry was most rampant, and the former enemy's commander-in-chief was Luo Yuanfa, commander of the Sixth Army.
Then, with the Sixth Army of the People's Liberation Army as the main force, the Second Army, the Fifth Army, and the Ninth Army were transferred to form a large army to suppress bandits, and in accordance with the operational arrangements, they divided the northern Xinjiang region into two battlefields, east and west, and simultaneously launched attacks on the bandits.
During this period, the commander-in-chief of the People's Liberation Army, Zhu Dezhi, sent a telegram to General Wang Zhen:
In addition to developing production and improving life, it is also necessary to control the means of transportation and use a large number of tanks and armored vehicles in the morning and evening, so that the bandits are afraid and dare not run amok.
At about the same time that the Duli Brigade relieved the siege of Yiwu, the People's Liberation Army's large-scale offensive began, and the mobilized troops poured in from all directions to the northern Xinjiang region, but the beginning did not go well
The anti-bandit troops are mainly infantry, with only a small number of cavalry and armored troops, while the bandits are all cavalry, and the two units are different in terms of mobility ability.
In his telegram to Commander Wang, Mr. Zhu also mentioned the need to use a large number of tanks and armored units in order to improve the mobility of the troops, but it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and although the First Field Army has made great progress, it is still the poorest among the several large field armies, not to mention the armored troops, and even the cavalry is very small, and the equipment has become a crucial factor restricting the combat effectiveness of the troops.
The soldiers of the People's Liberation Army, who were not very educated, used to set the cars on fire after they seized them, because no one would tinker with these wheeled things. It wasn't known until recently that this was a good thing, but it was too late, and the burned car turned into a pile of scrap metal.
The soldiers regretted it, when they used to fight guerrilla warfare in the big ravine, they felt that these iron guys were useless, and it was not as fast as their two feet to go around the past, and when they arrived on the great plains, they knew that the car was very effective, not only to transport soldiers but also to transport a large number of logistical materials, and someone once calculated that the transportation capacity of a car was equivalent to dozens of donkeys and carriages, and it really couldn't be done without it.
The great bandit leader Usman coerced hundreds of thousands of bandits to do evil in all directions. But the hundreds of thousands of bandits did not gather together, but scattered several large and small units, sometimes only a few hundred people robbed houses, and sometimes thousands of people could work together to make trouble, and countless bandits, large and small, made a mess.
Characteristics against bandits. The PLA units that suppressed bandits also divided their units into several units, with the regimental level as the backbone. Hunt around. However, after a period of time, the results of the anti-bandit troops were not great.
Different from the mainland, when the Eighth Route Army and the People's Liberation Army fought against their opponents in the past, they used to march with two feet to fight the world, relying on two legs to cross the mountains and mountains and walk the road, so that they could run past the wheels of the enemy's cars. In the plains, this approach will not work.
The vast Xinjiāng region has a vast territory and a large space for bandits to maneuver, which is very suitable for cavalry combat, in the Gobi steppe and desert of Yima Pingchuan. The line of sight can be seen far away, often the bandits are discovered as soon as the bandit unit emerges, and the bandits can take a variety of ways to deal with it by virtue of their extremely strong mobility ability, the PLA bandit suppression unit will rush up to fight when there are fewer people, and run away if there are more people, anyway, the PLA can't catch up, I can do what I like, so the bandits' arrogance is extremely arrogant.
After a few battles, the soldiers were angry to death, what kind of battle was this fighting, seeing that the bandits were a few miles away in front, but they couldn't catch up, and the bandits who were skilled in horsemanship were riding on horses and making all kinds of eye-popping movements to tease the bandit troops of the People's Liberation Army, as if to say, I'm here, what can you do with me?
The troops of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) entering Xinjiang are all veteran troops that have been on the battlefield for a long time, and there is no need to doubt their combat effectiveness, but no matter how capable they are, they must be able to get in touch in order to exert their might, and if they cannot catch up with the bandits, it is useless to have combat effectiveness.
Fighting a war is about grasping the initiative on the battlefield, and now it is good that the initiative is in the hands of bandits, and people can fight if they want to, and leave if they don't want to, just like the old Northwest Field Army used guerrilla tactics to deal with Hu Zongnan's zhongyāng army.
Therefore, improving the mobility of the troops in the fastest time has become the most prominent problem in the battle against bandits, and the corps and field armies know the difficulties of the front-line troops, and they have tried to allocate a large number of horses to the troops, so that the infantry can be converted into cavalry.
At this time, it was seen that the captured war horses were useful, and the organs at all levels were mobilizing with all their might, sending the remaining horses to the front-line troops that needed them most, and the cadres of the rear organs handed over the horses, and even those cavalry communicators handed over their war horses to the combat troops, and the cavalry correspondents were about to become infantry correspondents, but even if they were so fully mobilized, the gap in the war horses was still too large, and it was impossible to change all the troops into cavalry, and in addition, the cavalry was not said to be able to change. Warriors who were accustomed to foot combat also had to learn how to ride horses, and riding horses could not be learned in a day or two.
Commander Luo Yuanfa, the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, had no choice but to equip a small number of troops with a limited number of horses, and changed several infantry regiments with a certain base of horses into cavalry regiments.
With a few cavalry regiments, the tactics of Commander Luo Yuanfa have also changed to a certain extent, although our cavalry ability is not good, but it is still possible to entangle the bandits, as long as these few fast cavalry regiments can entangle the bandits, and the follow-up large troops will surround it again, and the bandits will be finished.
The horses were available, and the methods were good, but then new difficulties appeared, and one regiment of bandit suppression troops almost caused a big problem.
The soldiers of this regiment are all Han soldiers who have just entered Xinjiang, and the horses have just been allocated, and the soldiers' kung fu on horseback is only limited to being able to ride, and they are not familiar with the geographical location and climate environment, so they have not encountered a single bandit for more than ten consecutive days.
The task given to them by the commander of Luo Yuanfa is to directly eliminate a few bandits, and when they encounter a bandit brigade, they will be entangled, and then wait for the large army to come up to encircle and annihilate, but the soldiers have worked hard and run a lot of unjust roads, and they have not seen a single bandit.
The PLA troops who had been killed in the war had a strong sense of honor, and they were very afraid of falling behind others in the battle, so in a hurry, the regiment commander only brought a map and a compass to pull the whole regiment into the hinterland of the desert.
The desert is a very terrible place, but it is not as bad as the plains and oases, the environment in the desert is harsh, the climate can change, if you can't find a place to replenish drinking water, let alone suppress bandits, it is not easy to get out alive, but the soldiers of this regiment rushed into it in a daze.
The regiment commander and the soldiers all thought that it was nothing, that it was enough to have a map, who could know every place where the war was fought, and that it was completely possible to fight by looking at the map.
First of all, the accuracy of the maps used by the soldiers is doubtful, and the terrain in the desert is constantly changing, and under the action of wind and sand, some of the sand dunes used as markers are moving every year, and the map drawn in the first year is likely to be different from the original terrain in the second year, and it is dangerous to run blindly without a guide.
At dusk on this day, the troops were camping, the cooking squad set up a cauldron to cook on the fire, and the soldiers whose buttocks were about to be turned in half together provoked and crooked scolding their mothers.
They are all traditional old infantry troops, and they become cavalry after sleeping for a night, and the superiors have issued a war horse to each person, according to the original old troops, this is already a very luxurious thing, but luxury is enough luxury, but the soldiers' riding skills can not be practiced in a day or two, the whole regiment of people and horses in line with the old tradition of not being afraid of hardship and not afraid of death, playing with their lives to practice horseback riding, a few days down, it is considered to be able to sit on horseback, but it is only a matter of running and not falling off the horse, and it is far from riding a war horse skillfully.
The meal was ready, but before a few bites could be eaten, the reconnaissance company came over to report that there was a dark shadow moving on the sand dunes not too far to the southeast, and it was estimated that it was a group of bandits.
Since there is a banditry, they will attack immediately, and as soon as the assembly whistle is blown, the soldiers rub their numb buttocks and get on their horses, and pounce on the bandits with all their strength.
The soldiers were in a hurry, and finally saw such a group of bandits, saying that they could not let them run away, and the tents used for camping were gone, and some soldiers even threw away their coats, in order to catch this group of bandits as much as possible.
The scouts were right, and it was a group of bandits under the head of the bandit Usman, led by Usman's nephew, Habuli Bari, who was wriggling on the dunes.
Habuli Bari was also a well-known bandit under Usman, skilled in horsemanship, brave and good at fighting, and was one of the leaders of the younger generation of Usman's armed forces, second only to Usman's daughter Iriel and son Sheldman.
The characteristic of the family-style armed forces is that they are in the hands of people they trust, and as Usman's nephew, Habuli Bari meets the conditions for leading a soldier.
The wolf-like Habuli Bari saw the advancing troops of the People's Liberation Army from afar, and this guy unhurriedly commanded the troops to shoot on the sand dunes, regardless of whether they could hit the PLA or not, and shot on horseback.
The bandits were basically equipped with rifles, and hundreds of rifles of hundreds of bandits fired indiscriminately at the troops rushing at the PLA, and they did not see that they did not enter the effective range of the rifles.
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