In order to prove his point of view, Hu Lian continued to elaborate, "There are at least three advantages to the lack of one in the encirclement, one is that the enemy will not fight to the death with our army if he has the opportunity to break through and escape, and our casualties will naturally be greatly reduced; Second, when besieging the enemy, the enemy has been holding on to the field fortifications, and no matter how fierce our artillery fire is, it may not be able to kill many people, and once the enemy leaves the position and has no protection, the effect of our artillery bombardment will increase at least several times; Third, due to the neat organization of the enemy army when the enemy was on the defensive, some officers basically did not dare to surrender when they looked at the Japanese soldiers, and even if they surrendered individually, they would be killed immediately by the officers, and after the Japanese army broke through the siege, it would be severely damaged by our artillery fire, and the establishment would be disrupted, and even many Japanese troops would be left behind, so it would be much easier for us to capture prisoners. ”

"But if you can't wipe them all out, the enemy will flee back to be veterans!" , Hu Weidong frowned.

"But for the sake of total annihilation, how many veterans will our army have to sacrifice?" , Hu Lian retorted without backing, "And the enemy fled back to the defeated veterans, and our army sacrificed the defeated veterans!" ”

"It seems reasonable to say this, but if the enemy army can be annihilated in a structured way, even if the Japanese invaders rebuild their troops, without these veterans as the backbone, their combat effectiveness will not be able to rise." , Hu Weidong insisted.

"The chairman has said that the War of Resistance against Japan will be a protracted war, and in a protracted war, there is not much difference between the destruction of 10,000 enemies in a structured manner (the elimination here does not include wounded) and the elimination of 10,000 enemies in a rout war, because even if an enemy army is annihilated in an organized manner, the enemy can completely draw veterans from other units as the backbone of the rebuilding troops. Moreover, it is said that the Japanese army has a tradition that each of their divisions will leave some veterans in the country as seeds for future reconstruction, so even if we eliminate the Japanese troops in a 'systematic' manner, it will not affect their reconstruction," Hu Lian, who has always cherished his soldiers, continued to state his opinion.

"I remember, it seems that the devil has this damn tradition", Hu Weidong was about to admit his mistake, but suddenly thought of another question, "If the enemy is completely annihilated, the enemy will either die or be captured, but if you just repel the enemy, the wounded soldiers, who account for most of the casualties, may recover and return to the team!" ”

"Chief, don't change the concept, what we are discussing is obviously defeat, not repulsion!" , Hu Lian, who was a little excited, even used the new term that Hu Weidong had said to him before, "As long as there are strong mobile troops on the pursuing side, it will be difficult for even healthy enemy deserters to escape, let alone be injured?" Isn't the battle of the civil fort in history a very good example? On the contrary, in the encirclement and annihilation battle, which army can kill ten with one? ”

Hu Weidong couldn't help but nod when he heard this, and said in a deep voice, "This makes sense, but it's okay to say in mountain combat, although the devil is strong, he can't outrun our iron footboard, but in the plains, not to mention that our legion has not yet formed a cavalry (in fact, because Hu Weidong has not paid attention to cavalry), even if there is, the number of cavalry is not up, and it can't kill many enemiesAfter all, a war horse has to eat the rations of five warriors, and the combat effectiveness is not even as good as an infantry! ”

"Weishenme has to use cavalry? Why did you forget all those tanks we captured? Hu Lian grinned and said, "Judging from the armored cluster assault tactics you talked about in class before, the 81 chariots are a little less frontal combat, but they are enough for pursuit, and compared with the cavalry, the chariots can almost achieve zero casualties when pursuing." At the same time, the psychological deterrent effect of the chariot on the enemy army is much greater than that of the cavalry, once the enemy is defeated and fled, the people are already panicking, at this time our chariot suddenly appeared, I believe that many enemies will look at the wind and surrender, right? And for the enemy's broken rear troops, the armored group is also likely to break them out in one fell swoop, which is difficult for a weakly defended cavalry to do"...,

"It's very useful for armored troops to pursue, but where did we get our tank crews? I can drive, but I can only start one. Hu Weidong couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"I'll open it too, in addition, there are at least tens of thousands of ace troops in our army who are from the Central Army's ace troops anyway, there should always be a few of them who can open it, just let them be instructors for training." , Hu Lian said with a smile.

"Will you drive? When did you learn it? Hu Weidong was surprised, he knew that Hu Lian successfully escaped in the Huaihai Campaign in history, but he always thought that Hu Lian was learned by the 11th Division in the late stage of the Anti-Japanese War when he was dressed up with American weapons, and he didn't think that he would now.

"After the establishment of the combat team of the First Division of the Army, I often went to play," Hu Lian said with a smug smile.

"I see, Hu Lian was the commander of the special service battalion of the 18th Army before, and with the identity of Huangpu Sheng, it is not unusual for him to go to the chariot unit to hang out, but he can learn it by playing casually, and his understanding is really high", Hu Weidong sighed secretly.

Hu Lian followed and continued, "And in a short period of time, our chariots are mainly used to scare people, so we only need to have people who can drive cars, shoot cannons, and use periscopes, and send them to the chariot to practice a little bit.

Hu Weidong finally understood Hu Lian's intentions at this time, and asked with a smile, "You said so much, are you fighting the idea of these tanks and armored vehicles?" ”

"Hehe, I really can't hide it from you, we are ready-made armored commanders, who do you need me to use?" , Hu Lian said with a salivating face.

"Directly under the Legion Command, I command it myself, can't I? You think you're the only one who can drive a tank? Hu Weidong snorted coldly.

Hu Lian's handsome face, which had never been in shape, suddenly collapsed, "Don't bring this, you are a legion commander, and you actually compete for jobs with us, the regiment commanders and brigade commanders."

"Teasing you", Hu Weidong immediately laughed when he heard this, and the previous displeasure was swept away, in fact, now think about it, to be able to completely annihilate 6,000 Japanese troops and only more than 2,000 of their own side died, this result is not bad, you must know that in the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese army fought the Japanese permanent division, which was called a struggle

After all, he is now a general commanding more than 200,000 people, Hu Weidong quickly restrained his smile and said to Hu Lian seriously, "81 tanks and armored vehicles, barely enough for a regiment-level establishment, and if you haven't been fighting all the time now and have no time to adjust the establishment, you are now a brigade commander, and you are wronged to let you go back and become a regiment commander again?" ”

"No grievances, no grievances, this is an armored regiment!" , Hu Lian immediately shook his head like a rattle.

"That's true, but I don't want to waste talent." , Hu Weidong pondered for a moment, and said with a smile, "Forget it, let's be cheaper for you, our army has captured a lot of cars now, and after deducting those allocated to artillery, more than 200 vehicles can be freed up, and now there is a general lack of anti-armor weapons in the country, you can add steel plates, machine guns, and use them as armored vehicles, it should barely be able to make up an armored brigade, are you satisfied now?" But you have to find the armored troops and cadres yourself, and hand them over to me for signature when the list is confirmed."

Hu Lian suddenly cheered, and went out to show off proudly