Looking at the commander's posture of obviously wanting to get to the bottom of the matter, as well as the political commissar on the side, who was also full of curiosity, Yang Zhen smiled slightly bitterly, and said an answer that made both of them stunned: "Boss, you really didn't guess wrong, our large corps operations and some artillery tactics were really learned from the Japanese army." ”

"When we first came out of the mountain, there was not a single artillery, and later relied on a few captured artillery, as well as a few captured puppet Manchu artillerymen, little by little to set up a shelf, but in terms of comprehensive use, it was too far from qualified, in the secret warehouse of the Japanese army in Qunce Mountain, a large number of artillery pieces were captured, but in the organization and use of the artillery group, it can only be said to be unsatisfactory."

"It wasn't until we captured some Japanese artillery officers in many battles with the Japanese army that Tongguò adopted certain coercive and bribery measures, let them work for us, guide us to study as instructors, and add training at all costs, that the level of artillery use of the troops was improved little by little."

"In order to train a group of qualified artillery and artillery commanders, we used to use half of the artillery shells in our stock for training, and at that time, we were not able to make a single shell, including mortars, and we had almost no source of shells except for capture."

"As for the training of senior commanders, in addition to using the textbooks of the Frunze Military Academy of the Soviet Union and the Sixth Military University of Japan, we also use the captured Japanese senior officers as lecturers to teach us, and at the same time, we continue to organize a large number of tactical drills and exercises of various scales to continuously improve the combined combat capability of the troops and the ability of the commanders."

"Elder, we have captured a large number of Japanese officers in previous operations, although the strategic vision of the Japanese army is somewhat poor, but the tactical level is absolutely first-class, and the military theoretical literacy of officers at all levels is also quite good and solid, and we have managed to select some officers from among the Japanese officers who have been captured by us as our instructors."

"In particular, those graduates of the Japanese Sixth Military University are the focus of our selection, and the two highest-ranking Japanese officers currently serving us are two major generals of the Japanese Sixth Army, five or six of them are of the Dazuo level, and there are more than 10 officers of the Zhongzuo level, all of whom have a certain degree of combined command ability and artillery and other professional officers."

"Moreover, we took advantage of the mentality of these Japanese officers who were not really convinced to form an imaginary enemy unit composed entirely of Japanese prisoners of war, which was specially designed for us to hone the battlefield command ability of commanders at all levels, and to act as an imaginary enemy unit during some exercises."

"Only by truly fully understanding the strategy and tactics of the Japanese army can we better attack the enemy on the battlefield, this Japanese army, all weapons and equipment, are equipped in accordance with the standards of the Japanese army, but in the exercise, only empty ammunition, not bayonets, after each exercise, all weapons are collected."

"On a day-to-day basis, we have formulated strict assessment regulations and systems, and through constant exercises and assessments, these cadres have been forced to enter the state as much as possible, and they have been forced to accumulate experience and improve their military literacy through continuous exercises and sand table operations, until they have real guns and live ammunition on the exercise ground, and at the same time, they have learned war in the midst of war and increased their own capabilities little by little."

"With regard to the promotion and appointment of cadres, we do not show affection and do not take any kind of care, and if the capable are promoted and the mediocre are demoted, you will not be able to meet the assessment standards, no matter how old your previous qualifications are, and if you cannot pass the three evaluations and be dismissed on the spot, especially for military cadres, our assessment standards can even be described as harsh."

"And the most important thing is that our troops are blank in many aspects, although it is much harder to explore from scratch, but we do not have any baggage, let alone stick to the outdated experience of the past, the degree of absorbing new things, but far higher than those old armies."

"In many cases, experience and tradition are a heavy burden for an army, especially in the current situation where new equipment and new tactics are emerging one after another, some old and outdated tactics and tactics will become a drag and affect the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the troops.

"As for the tactical use of tanks and aviation, which the Japanese army is also quite conservative and does not conform to the trend of exhibition, in addition to borrowing some experience from the Soviet Union, we are more of a tactical application that we have explored ourselves through daily training and confrontation exercises."

"After the end of the war in Western Europe last year, we obtained all the operational materials of the German army on the French battlefield from the Soviet side, and according to the tank tactics of the German army on the French battlefield, we formulated some of our own tank use tactics, although they were very imperfect, but they were more in line with the exhibition of armored forces than the Soviets."

"The Soviets were too backward in the use of tank tactics, and the coordination between infantry and tanks also had quite a lot of problems, which did not conform to the characteristics of our army, so we did not adopt their tactical methods, but chose a combat method based on self-exploration and supplemented by German tactics."

"As for the training of commanders at all levels, in fact, there is no secret, that is, we are constantly conducting exercises of various scales, constantly carrying out tactical repairs, and improving the commanders' use of armored units; last winter and the first half of this year, our armored units did nothing but conduct various tactical exercises at the Fujin Comprehensive Training Base."

"From the company and platoon level to the brigade level, various tactical drills are conducted two to three times a week on average, and at the same time, we have specially dispatched an infantry division, two artillery regiments, a cavalry regiment directly under the brigade, and two bomber squadrons to carry out composite exercises in cooperation with the armored forces."

"In order to make these armored units as effective as possible, we can be said to have spared no effort and cost 5,000 tons of fuel in one go, and Soviet-made tanks are oil tigers, and the fuel consumption per unit time of each tank is nearly one-third higher than that of French-made tanks.

In order to ensure sufficient training time, even if we were reluctant, we could only take out the equivalent of one-fifth of our tank oil reserves at that time for training. ”

"If it weren't for last winter, coupled with the reckless training during this period of the first half of this year, which accelerated the run-in of the troops and improved the ability of the commanders, as well as the training of a group of tank crews, without the appearance of equipment and other people, I am afraid that we are not as good as the Soviet army now."

"After all, no matter what people say, there are some old foundations, and deficiencies are insufficient, but where is the foundation, although Tukhachevsky was beheaded by the old man in Moscow, his theory of large-depth operations was abolished, and the idea of forming an independent large-scale tank force was discarded."

"As long as the quality of their commanders at all levels is improved, this theory says that they can pick it up if they pick it up, and they have a perfect military industrial system, although the number of war losses is somewhat large at the moment, as long as the various military factories that are moving east are restored and put into production, then the equipment damaged in the war can be replenished at any time, but we do not have this foundation."

"However, although we are slightly better at present, our opponents are also different, compared to the German army, which has a complete and mature concept of armor cluster use and a large number of tank and armored forces, the number of tanks of the Japanese army itself is far inferior, not to mention, the use of its tank armored vehicles is still in the thirties when it was equipped with infantry combat."

"The Japanese army overemphasizes its own characteristics, but ignores the world's military academic and equipment exhibition, in the use of tank clusters, has lagged behind the world's military theory, is also an important reason why we can achieve victory, sometimes I wonder, when we meet an opponent like the German army, can we still achieve today's results."

"Moreover, in this operation, we have also exposed some deficiencies in the ground-air coordination and the selection of breakthroughs, as well as in the aspect of in-depth development after opening the breakthrough, and we still need to continue to improve in order to form a complete set of operational concepts and systems with our own characteristics."

"In addition, we are also somewhat lacking in equipment, lack of armored personnel carriers and self-propelled guns, etc., equipment that can cooperate with tank attacks, simply relying on foot infantry to cooperate with tank combat, will reduce the offensive degree of tanks, and trucks have poor off-road ability, no armor protection, and are not suitable on the battlefield."

"This is also the reason why I would rather pay a certain price in exchange for some German tank officers captured by the Soviets when negotiating, after all, tanks are a new combat mode for us, especially the use of large-scale tank clusters, we are still a blank."

"In the case that the exhibition does not allow us to have enough time to improve our training and system, it is more appropriate to choose the Germans who have the most experience in using armored cluster operations and the most successful armored cluster tactics as our instructors."

"Elder, it's not shameful to learn from your enemies, since their military technology has merit, then why can't we use the strengths of all the people for our use, I dared to use the major general of the Japanese 6th Army to train senior command talents for us, so now we are not fighting directly with us, just a German with the title of an ally of the Japanese, why can't we use it."

Yang Zhen's words fell, the two old commanders glanced at each other, couldn't help but smile bitterly, looking at the young man in front of him, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that this guy was too bold, the Guannai troops, there are also examples of using Japanese prisoners of war as instructors, but generally only as instructors of white-knuckle warfare, or infantry tactics instructors, as for the training of senior commanders, it is more dependent on themselves.

First, there are very few people captured at the officer level, and most of them are diehards who are difficult to convert; second, the Guannai troops, which mainly engage in guerrilla warfare and mountain movement warfare, do not have such conditions, and the training of senior commanders of various units still relies on the experience accumulated over many years of war.

There is a guy like this, not only daring to use the senior officers among the Japanese prisoners of war as instructors for the training of senior commanders, but even using the Japanese prisoners of war to form a whetstone unit, and he actually dared to use the captured Japanese 6th Army Major General as the instructor for the training of the highest commanders.

Not to mention the courage of the instructors who used the prisoners of war of his own enemies as high-ranking officers, it is almost inconceivable to say how he made these die-hard Japanese officers use them for himself, in an army where death in battle is honorable, capture is shameful, and the bushido spirit of fearlessness is faith, soldiers are difficult to catch, and officers are even more difficult to catch.

What's more, there are still so many high-ranking officers, and how did he do it when the Sino-Japanese war has not yet come to a conclusion and the Japanese army still has a clear advantage on the battlefield?

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